The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-24
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Big Preparations at the Bath
ing Resorts.
A ROUTE FOR THE s. Pv.R RI.
held-Train Schedules For To-day
General and Personal

HE Beaver GtOnidn says the mos
feasible route for the Sanpete VALLEY
Railway extension will be to pass th,
following settlements: after ieayinl
Manu, pass Gunnlson, Salina, Richfield
Joseph City, come up Clear peek, pas
the sulphur Mines near Cove Creek
the1c on TO Beaver, Parowan, Cedar
Iron City, Silver Reef and st. George
The vast mineral wealth of the coun-
try Will De alone sufficient inducemen'
to warrant this route being taken. We
iay aside ell consideration of the vas
amount of freight carried through
these places. the travelling T ffic. ex-
press and postal facilities. TIE peop.
OF these settlements should hold out UC
the S. P V. K. 4. Company whatever
inducements are within their reach &c
bring the line through the place.
named. Without railroad in this dan
we are financially dead and practical J
turied. F"
CHEAP THREE DAYS EXCURSION FROM THF
SOUTH.
The coming Smoot, Brown &
Peters excursion from SAnpete. Ju3b
and Utah Counties to Garfield Beach,
which comes off on the 9th inst prem
ises 10 be ore of the largest of the sea-
son. The boys are just the right sort
to make it huge success.
On July 9th the Salt Lake e. Fort
Douglas will run trains to Fort Doug as
asfollows: Leave the city at 10, I.25
and 40 pm and Z 55 am. Returning
arrive at 8.45, 2.20 and $50 o m. and
10 30 am. The train arriving at 2 80
M. Will connect with the D. & r. G..
bathing train for Lake Park.
LAKE PARK offers numerous attrac-
Il ms to the pleasure seeker to-day.
| The programme was published in
foil on Sunday. The regatta promises
to be one of the most interesting events
of the day. The Salt Lake Rowing
Club give an exhibition on the streets
this afternoon.
FIVE hundred people were out with the
southern excursion On Sunday and
Monday. They were Distributed all
along the line of the Utah Central.
Some few will return this evening, the
others remaining until the expiration of
their tickets.
a PARTY of msn are now at work,
locating line of railway, from Eagle
Rock, Idaho, to the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. They have progressed
about as far as ReXburg. 1t is rumored
IN that section that work of construc-
ton will soon begin.
THE car Mauch Chunk has been ten
deIed by the Utah & Nevada to all the
old pioneers who desire to go to Gar
field B ach this afternoon, without
money and without price. The car will
be attached to the 2.45 train going out.
GRANT Bros. run buses from both
depots to the White House, Cullen,
Continental. Cliff House, Valley
House, st. Elmo and Spencer House.
Fine turnouts for tourists.
Telephone Oil.
The Utah Central Office CLOSED at
noon Yesterday. 1t will not reopen
before tomorrow morning.
j. E MCCLURE, of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul, left for the east last
eY9LiDg.
PIONEER DAY AT GARFIELD.
"Shou'd auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
In the days of auld lang syne."
The forty first anniversary of the
ttiement of Salt Lake Valley will be
celebrated at Garfield Beach In fitting
style.
The pion err MILFORD Woodruff who is
at this writing the President of the
Mormon Church, in his diary thus de-
scri' es heir second days ex plorations,
Tuesday, July 81, 1847: 1--WE again
started on our exploring expedition.
All the members of the
quorum Of The Twelve belong
ing to the Pioneers. eight in
number, were of the company. Six
others of the brethren, including Bran
nan, OF San Francisco, were with US.
We started for the purpose OF visiting
the Great Salt Lake and mountains on
the west of the valley. We travelled |
TWO miles W st from the Temple Block,
nd came to the outlet of Utah Lake;
thence fourteen miles to the west
mountain, and found that the land was
not so fertile as on the east side. We
toUk our dinner at the fresh water pool,
and then rode six miles to large rock
on the shore of the Great Salt Lake,
which we named Black Rock where we
al halted and Dathcd in the salt water.
No person could sink in it, but would
roll and float on its surface like dry
log. We concluded that the Great Salt
Lake was one of the wonders OF the
world"
1t IS ntGlng ana proper InaI lorty obe
years after this event, the old pioneers,
their descendants and friends should
celebrate on nearly the same spot
where Great Salt Lake was declared
lone of the wonders of the world" Iu-
stead of driving out by team or hors :
back. as your fore fathers did the Utah
& Nevada will run eight trains and
land We at the Beach in forty minutes.
Instead of finding lonesome, desolate
spot, you will ind one of tie most COM
plete bathing resorts IN the world,
thronged with its thousand daily Wis
itors.
The programme for the day will in.
clude bathing, boating, dancing, and all
the smusements aud sports of the day.
T, g famous Garfield Beach brass band
will be on hand the entire day and
evening, and during the evening the
place will be lighted bv hundreds of
lamps and Chinese lanterns.
The train schedule for Pioneer Day viii
be as follows: Leave Salt Lake City, To-
s 20, lao, a. m, 2 IS. 445, 45 and IS p m.
Retur ing, arrive in Salt Lake City, 923
a m, 155, 345, 25. 8.e0 10.15f nd II. 40 am,
morning of the 18th.
Street cars will make close connec-