The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-02
PARK CITY PICKINGS.
What Col. Ferry Says on the
Water Franchise Question.
SNOW PILED MOUNTAINS HIGH.
Cruelty to Children-HOOdlUns and Their
Antics-Mines and Mining-A Water
Supply for Salt Lake.

town JnlS week.
J. L. Osborne spent few days in Salt
Lake this week.
f. G. Lyngberg was in town from Salt
Lake on Wednesday.
No attractions are booked at the Park
opera house this coming month.
Alderman e. Kimball is still detained IN
Salt Lake on account of the sickness of his
children.
No bullion or sulphide shipments were
made this week from either thelOntario or
DAILY mills.
The county court meets liz Coalville next
Monday. Nothing important is expected
TO come up.
Getch s. Campbell, the Crescent leasers.
viii have a $50 ton shipment ready by the |
first of the week.
j. NJ. Easton, the popular representative
of Tootle, Hosea & Co, of St. Joe, spent a
couple Of days in the Park this week.
Hon. q. p Ferry returned to Salt Lake
Wednesday to take his place in the Legisla-
lature Mr. w. Y. Rice accompanied him
TO the city.
A stand pipe for the use of U. P. engines
has been put in at the depot. The old
tank was two miles from the Park, and de-
lays have been caused by its being so far
away.
The Alliance tunnel is now in $500 feet
and contractor Judge says everything is
progressing nicely. Only 1,600 feet re
mains to be driven on this tunnel, and the
work will be finished.
A large number of Parkites are invest
! ing their surplus cash in Zion's realty and
few are talking of going down to enter
-'the business actively as agents. For such
we have only best wishes for success.
A change has been made in the working
force at the Anchor, w. S. Wright resign
ing and his place being filled by James Nc
Ginty, an able and experienced miner, who
recently arrived in the Park from Cali
fornia. MIR Felix NJ. Reilly viii be night
foreman.
The Creole No. 2 is daily looking better
and since the new find last week, sixty
five tons of low grade ore has been taken
out A hundred ton lot will be made up
and concentrated at the Crescent concen-
TRAITOR The vein is eighteen inches thick
and gives every indication of permanency.
a great deal more snow has fallen re-
Gently than disappeared in the January
pleasant weather. An enormous quantity
is now piled up in the mountains, seem
ingly enough to ufiood all the valleys Of
Utah, when melted. No one need have any
fear that there will be any scarcity of water
during the coming summer.
Sheriff I. L. Weber took the Dudler
burglars from the Coalville Jail to the pen
itentiary last Friday. The prisoners were
desperate men and the jail was not safe
place for them. They were kept in irons
all the time, but they found no difficulty in
getting free from them, and guard was
necessary to control them.
Vanderbilt's famous saying, 1.-The public
be damned" put in choicer language. found
expression in the city council meeting last
week when the water question was being
discussed. 1t may happen that the petit
ho,- .,
chance to be dictated to by either the
public or municipal corporation
An informal meeting of the city council
was held at the city hall Thursday night to
discuss the water franchise question. -Four
members were present, but nothing definite
was decided upon. On account of the
absence of Aldermen Kimball and Thomp-
son the special meeting to consider the
question was not called by Mayor Newell.
''Uncle Toms Cabin was played to
crowded house Friday night, with the
usual bloodhounds, donkoys, Topsys, ETC.,
and seemed to give general satisfaction.
The advertised parade was not given on
account of delayed trail and many little
ones were disappointed, having stood on
the streets and at the depot for hours wait
ing to see the hounds and the donkeys.
The ore shipments this week were enor-
nous, the total from all properties through
Mackintosh's sampler reaching 244S. $3.50
pounds, or l,224 tons. Over half of the
amount was shipped by the Ontario The
different lots are as follows: Ontario,
1,47S,95O pounds; DAILY, 320,7 pounds
Maytlower, 467, 500 pounds; Woodside,
115, 900 pounds. Total, 2,443 800 pounds.
The ball to be given on St. Patrick's day
for the benefit of Mrs. Murphy promises
TO be grand affair, judging from the ar
engagements being made. The needy ones
have been well cared for in the Park this
winter, and the different benefits have
been well patronized, but there is no doubt
but that the st. Patrick ball will be the
event of the season among the charitable
efforts.
Kimbal Bros. are harvesting their ice
crop and large quantities are being brought
into town and stored for private use This
ice is brought from the Inch of b. S. Kim
. ball in Parley's Park, and is of good
quality. A company viii be organized to
enlarge the ponds, put up extensive ice
houses and supply the Salt Lake market.
Improperly IS on the line of the Salt Lake
q Eastern and would no doubt be very
successful.
At the Ontario, DAILY, Anchor, Crescent,
Noodside and Alliance, everything is run
ming along as smoothly as usual and moth
ing new is reported. The Crescent and
Alliance are almost covered up with snow
and almost inaccessible. AT the Anchor.
neling. The WooGside is getting out lis
usual shipments and the Ontario and DAILY
are still TO the front, with heavy ship
ments,
The Cemstock property was closed down
Friday for short time. The ground has
been pretty thoroughly prospected and
nothing more can be done until machinery
is put in and the contemplated shaft sunk
TINS Will be done as soon as the weather
will hermit. In the two cross -s,5tc 1.-tr, ~,
Gently from the face of the tunnel ore of a
Y fair grade has been encountered. The faces
of the drifts are IN quartz, streaked with
fine ore, but not in sufficient quantities for
shipment. Estimates have been made foi
a fine plantNof mining machinery and when
in place the ComstSck viii be one CT the
Parks leading properties.
The water franchise and Col. NJ. NJ
Ferry's talk before the council last weeb
was the absorbing topic of conversation
during the present week. The territorial
statutes gives the city the right TO ssfS
the rate TO be charged by water companies. y
but the colonel declared that he and ms as
sooiates did not intend 10 be dictated TO l.
the matter Of rates by the public or the ma
nicipal corporaUlon- In The face OF the
statute this seems pretty strong language
especially as TO the municipal corporation
Popular opinion is for the city's furnishing
4 its own water supply and granting nc fran
chises for that purpose TO private corpora
tons, and we believe that the ''muncipa
corporation win sustain the verdict Of tn,
public in the matter.
On Thursday, one Of the coolest day
Of the winter when strong and hardy mel
were not comfortable without heavy coats
gloves, ETC., children could be seen on th,
streets, poorly clad, shivering and crying
from cold. One little fellow in particular
not more than live wears of age. with no