The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-02
BEAVER.
Sale of Fort Cameron.-A Bit of
Government Folly.
A Burglary in the Quiet Burg
Correspondence HExAEr.

Tomorrow the final sale which
terminates the government occu-
pancy OF the lands lying immedi-
ately east of Beaver City, takes
place. On that occasion all the
buildings, without reserve, will be
sold to the highest bidder for cash.
The probabilities are that they will
bring but little, as no one has any
title to the ground when the gov
eminent vacates. The post trader
is the only civilian who has any i'm
provements on the land, and he of
course would have the first right
to preempt or homestead; but he has
not done so, and whether he will or
not is an unsettled question. Mean
time who wants to buy stone
buildings and not own the ground
upon which they stand-eYen if,
as is probable, the former can be
got for less than the price of quar-
rying and hauling the rock? hear
there is movement on foot look
ing to the purchase of the whole
concern to be used in eleemosynarY
capacity for the southern part of the
Territory; and while this would I'M
doubtedly be the best use to which
the structures could be put, how
about the great first foundation
upon which they stand ? The houses
are really capacious, substantial
and to some extent elegant, but
without the soil upon which they
are erected, they would prove
castles en- ESpGgnG to the
purchaser, who would, with
q title to the buildings
only, finds his bargain a dear one at
any price. They. cost hundreds of
thousands, and the government will
do we'll if it realizes 1 per cent. upon
its investments-but what Of that ?
It must needs be that sacrifices
come, and so long as Uncle Sam is
the loser nobody cares cent.
Beaver is again stirred to its
depths. If this kind of thing gets
to be periodical, the town will be-
come so much like other places that
a stranger coming here will not
realize that he is out of the world.
This time the cause of eoRlmotion
is real burglary, committed on
Friday evening. About'7 o'clock or
$50 some person or persons entered
the house of one Collier during his
absence, and broke open box. con-
tanning $615 in gold coin, getting
away with every cent of it. The
money was the earnings and savings
of six years of hard toll, and the I'M
fortunate loser is naturally quite
Respondent. Three arrests have
been made, but the evidence so far
is slight, and what will come out of
it no one can tell just now. The
general belief is that at least one,
and perhaps every one, of the par
ties arrested is either guilty or in
possession of guilty knowledge; but
general belief can't be used in court
Late arrivals and new departures
continue, Notwithstanding the fact
that the towns attractiveRess Of il
ever had any is decidedly on the
Wane. Among the former is Henry
Smell, of your city, this being his
first visit toEthe great rival of the
metropolis in which heconducts his
soap factuory; he says there is not
much difference between Salt Lake
and Beaver, but seems deeply CRATE
| full for that little. Among the latter
class is Mr.. S. N. Simpson, formerly
of Frisco, who came here some
months ago, and embarked in the
drug business. He has had enough
Of Beaver. and proposes visiting rel
atives in Pennsylvania, after which
| he will locate in Salt Lake. Any
body that knows him will send him
| to you with hearty Communications
for he is truly good fellow.
Six gin mills and 1 800 people il
our exhibit.
Beaver, April 20. K.