The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
AMONG THE CRAGS.
The Railway Work Being Done
Near Park City.
A DOUBLING THOMAS DOUBTS NOT.
News Notes From Park City-The Electric
Light Plant-The Satisfaction Given
Facts and Figures.

TWIN STRINGS. Summit County, Utah,
July 23.-[Special Correspondence of TIL
HERALD. Everything in railway circles
is booming in this part of the country
The average person has no conception Of
what is going on in railway sense out
here. That which is to make of Salt Lake
the greatest inland city on the continent
is now being born by the great railway
lines which are soon to enter the gates OF
the metropolis. While we are at home in
our beautiful city, it is pleasure for US tc
pick up our daily papers and read of the
great railway schemes which are matching
for the benefit Of Salt Lake. We read
them, l say, with pleasure, but there is in
variably that amidst it all which we are
slow to believe, and accordingly make due
allowance for considerable of this class OF
literature which we think will never come
TO pass. When at home we are inclined to
think that the ever rustling reporters of
our great and enterpriSing daily-THE
HERALD-are sometimes led astray by the
glowing tales pictured to them by railway
officials.
We need but to leave home and come out
here to the scene of action to be thoroughly
convinced of what THE HERALD has been
telling US for long time past. All the
doubts ever held by so many roads entering
our gates in the near future has been re-
moved since my visit to this part of Sum
nit county. Throwing a saddle on horse
was part of my programme this morning,
and one hours ride brought me to the head
of Silver Greek CANON, where l was sur
prised to lind fifteen teams and more than
that number of men busily engaged in max
ing the dirt fly which will be the cause of
bringing the
WYOMING, SALT LAKE & CALIFORNIA
into the commercial centre of the west
Salt Lake. At the head of the above men
toned canon, your correspondent was in
formed that within thirty days the grading
would be completed to Park city.
This company is using so much of the
Utah Eastern road bed as is practicable,
and will run almost in the same direction
as did that little road, p sSing Kimball's
Park house and on to the home of the
Ontario.
The main line will run north of Kimball's
Park house, shoot off to the west, enter
Emigration canon and swoop down into
Salt Lake, all of which, when finished, will
be very practicable route.
While the Wyoming, Salt Lake & Cali
fornia people have this squad of graders
working towards Park city, they also have
corps of engineers working down Silver
Greek canon, in exactly the opposite direc'
ton, laying out the lines as fast as possible
toward Chalk creek.
PARK CITY PARAGRAPHS.
Charley Glitch. who has been foreman OF
the Crescent for so many years, has
severed his connection with that company
and is now with the WOodside.
Your correspondent paid visit to the
works of the Park City Light and Heating
company, who run the Edison system. The
wires of this company extend to Empire
CANON, where the Union cOncentratOr is
Illuminated. They furnish 600 lights in all,
and are so far ahead of Salt Lake that the
lights are not put out until daylight. This
company's interests are all under the care
full management of William Grant. A
great many residences in the Park are
lighted by this system, and in order tc
show how cheaply the service can be fur
nished, Mr.. Grant favored the writer with
the following price list Of from one to ten
lamps:
FOURTH CLAss-RESIDENCE SERVICE.