The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-28
PARK CITY PICKINGS.
A Sad Accident in the Union
Pacific Depot.
THE SNOW STILL PILING HIGH.
La Grippe's Victims-"Only Poor Miners
Wife"-The Karr Benefit-General
Mining News.

Mr.. .. c. Lockhart, assessor and collec-
tor of Summit county, will check up with
the county clerk this coming week for the
year 1889, and glance at the books re
veals some interesting facts as to assessed
valuations in Summit county. The total
assessed valuation of the county is 50, 157,
922.52. The total tax levied and collected
was S29, "a including the county, terri
tor1al, territorial school taxes and special
district school taxes. The rate of the
county and territorial taxes together was
per cent. The collections for 1889 were
better than for the preceding year. The
main line of the Union Pacific was as
sessed at $1,000 per mile, including road
bed, side tracks and right-of-way. Build
lngs and improvements, lands, ETC., are
assessed separately. The Echo & Park
City, on the same basis, is assessed at
$500 per mile. The total taxes paid by
the Union Pacific in the county for the
year were So, S45.25. The property of the
Ontario Mining company was assessed at
S2S5, 1000 and that of the DAILY company at
Sl5o,OO The Ontario paid 81, $50 taxes and
the DAILY 81, $50, the DAILY having a spec
lal school tax of % of i per cent to paw
which the On tario had not. The Western
Union Telegraph company's property was
assessed at s.. 634 per mile, and that of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company
at 81, 2S6 per mile. The valuations, as far
as possible, were made on the basis of so
per cent of the actual value but on the
whole would not probably exceed 40 per
cent.
HE HAD LA GRIPPE.
We met a friend the other day almost
hurled r1olf ato
You've had it, ehs" we got the following:
Yes, amid Imb just endjoyig the fuddy
pard OF Id dow. By eyes wader dill / can'd
see, amid by doze, Oh By doze by dozel |
do dothi'g bud blow! blow blow! Tagke
care of yourself amid don'd ged id. Dthe
symbtoms"- but that was enough We
had urgent business elsewhere. The dis
ease itself is more to be preferred than
rehearsal of the SYMPTOMS" The victims
who feel like the above are legion
''oNLY POOR MINERS WIFE,,
In all communities are found those who
Will disagree, and unfortunately Park CITY
is not different from other places in that
respect. Two women in the Park recently
quarreled over some difficulty that arose
between them. One was the wife of a
miner, the other of a man who makes his
living without coming in actual contact
with the pick and shovel, hammer and
vi III. LII IuGlI 6ACIl6Q QeDdUG the laSt-
mentioned, feeling, no doubt that the for
mer had overstepped the bounds of caste
oy oelng IN her presence, let alone presum-
ing TO question with her, cried out: And
what are you, pray!" and tauntingly
added, "only poor miners wife, ''Only
poor miners wife, yet within her
breast existed courage which she who
tainted her could only dream of-for it
requires the highest moral courage be a
miners wife" Added to her household
and family cares, she has, daily, the horri-
Die PROBABILITY OF the support of herself
and children being thrown upon he shout |
derS Every farewell KISS of the miner
husband but reminds MS wife that he NAV
return corpse. torn and bleeding from |
some horrib accident, mai gled by blast, |
crushed by cave, or muyilated beyond |
recognition by III TO the DO tom Of some |
raise or shaft. If not so ser.ous, lie may |
return cripple, with a leg b OXEN or foot |
crushed by falling rock; the blow of |
hammer has miscarried, and a crushed |
ha Id is tue result; flying piece |
OF steel from the point of a pick |
or the pead of drill has put out |
an eye, or some other of the many |
dangers to which he is exposed has befal en- |
MN. Every time the door closes and the |
husband is off to work, she cannot but think |
that before the shift is over she may be |
widow and her little ones fatherless, left |
alone TO ngnt the world and its battles. |
Such thoughts, such CONCENTRATIONS. are |
not calculated to make the life of the |
IN ner's wife, happy one and ''her every |
moment JOY" Yet she is cheerful and |
exerts every effort to make home pleasant |
and comfortable and to Danish from her |
mind the terrible dread of what is almost |
certain to happen. Could she, who |
tainted the miners wife" be made to |
live her life for one week, nothing but
words of praise would ever again pass her
ups. She would realize that among those
to be honored for their love. devotion and |
courage, the miners wife, deserves a
high place To all womankind to whom
''only poor miners wife" applies, we say,
'tAn honor
THE KARI BENEFIT.