Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-04
PARK CITY.
Resume Of the Business and Mineral
Output Of This Great Camp
for 1886.
FIourishing Condition Of the Churches
Schools and Secret Societies.
A Bright Outlook for Increased Pros
perity During the Year 1885.

Park City of to-day is not the Park Git
of few years ago. Its history has BEEF
written and rewritten. The public ha
been toasted with stories of lawlessnes
and crime, till the place has reputation
not the best, for good moral standing
The blood and thunder proclivities o
many of the old-timers have been writer
and told in the most thrilling and horri
BILE manner, and in writing sketch o
the place everyone seems to delight il
hunting up old tales and describing the
town of few years ago; but, in this
letter, we do not intend tofollow the gen.
eral rule; the "dead past can bury its
Dead" and we will only have to do with
the Park City Of the last year.
The LIST of January, 1885, began new
era for Park City. 1t was the first new
year of its Incorporation, and the
city officers were determined that
the city should be governed; that
drunkenness and disorder should
give place to peace and sobriety; that
the lost reputation of the place should be
regained; in short, that Park City should
be city in all that the word implies, and
that no place in Utah should lay more
just claim to that name. How well this
has been done, only those who have seen
the change can know. Old toughs who
have been away for a couple OF years, re-
turn at times, gaze up and down the
streets, look at the boarded sidewalks,
steal a glance at the starred police, shake
their heads in despair, and only by a
mighty effort can restrain themselves
from weeping at such change. They do
not stay long, for the atmosphere of the
campis not conducive to the good health
of such characters. At present E. Kim
ball is mayor, Frank E. James, police
justice, and James T. Kescil city marshal,
and under their administration the town
has not its equal in Utah for peace and
good order.
THE PROSPERITY OF 1885.
The last year has been one of unusual
activity in business and mining matters;
the town has increased nearly one-fourlh
in size; the health has been very good
and everything has thrived prosperously.
But little sickness has occurred, princi-
pally among grown persons and chiefly
confined to throat diseases, only two
cases of diphtheria have been recorded
during the year and there has been no
epidemic. Throwing out the gamblers
who, weary of life, shuttle off by taking
poison, the death rate of Park City is one
of the lowest in the country for town of
its size.
Although "hard times' has been the
cry nearly all over the country the past
year, it has not been heard in Park City.
The fact alone that 100000 has passed
through the Park City Postoffice, sent
away to distant ones during the past year,
shows the prosperous condition of the
camp. Our postoffice does greater bust
ness than any other in Utah excepting
that of Salt Lake, and if the books Of the
Office could speak, they would refute the
charges made against the miners that all
their hard-earned wages are thrown over
the bar or dropped at the gaming table.
This is done to some extent, but many
and many dollar is sent away to
loved ones at home. Many miners there
are in Park City who, with every pick
stroke, think of their little ones far away,
how their little mouths are to be fed, and
the thought adds strength to the brawny
arms, and the pick more vigorously tears
down the precious mineral; and some
have aged mothers and loving sisters de-
pendent upon them for their daily bread
so from all these the dollars are sent
away-amounting to an average of nearly
$500 daily. The miner may be "char-
acter." as it is termed, but beneath his
canvas coat is something that is always
touched by another's misfortunes. No
class of men will more readily or more
willingly come to the assistance of an
unfortunate, or contribute more liber-
ally to worthy cause than will the
miners.
CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.