The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-06
AMERICAN FORK AFFAIRS.
The Alpine Road to Salt Lake-The CASTILLO
Hot Springs-General Notes.

The Alpine road to Salt Lake will shorten
the distance between this city and Salt
Lake city ten or more miles. The construc-
ton of this road is being done entirely by
the citizens of Alpine. The expense of
building this road is considerable and the
people of that section feel as if they should
have some aid from neighboring towns and
especially American Fork. This cutoff
will be of considerable benefit to the en-
tire county, and we would suggest that
their call for aid be responded to generously
by our people.
John Chadwick had very narrow
escape from severe bodily injuries. if not
instant death. on Wednesday. He was up
in the American Fork canon and when near
the Miller Hill his team fell and rolled
down the steep embankment, some 100
feet, carrying with them the wagon and its
occupant. The wagon was smashed and
its contents scattered upon the hillside.
Fortunately, MIR. Chadwick and the horses
escaped with only few slight bruises. MIR.
Chadwick returned to town yesterday to
look for another wagon. He says he Can
now appreciate the feeling of McGinty in
his downward course.
While hunting near Springville one day
this week, Robert Crompton shot very
large deer. Being on foot he could moi
pack 1t, and finally concluded to go tC
camp and get one of the horses to bring
the deer in. He found it gone and the
fresh tracks of a mountain lion. Mr..
Crompton said that the lion probably
needed that veniso more than he did, an(
so took no step to recover it.
Mr.. 7. A. Lee is kept busy. He has jus
turned over to the plasterers 17x32 dwell
ing he has been building for John Roberts
and has commenced work on another resi-
dence the same size for MIR. Stephen Baker
| He will soon commence work on L shaped
house for John Chapman. The size Of on
| of the wings will be 16x30, and the othe
16x25. He tells US be has also several othe
| buildings in contemplation which he will
build just as soon as he has completed tn
houses mentioned above. The main diff
Guilty he and all other builders haYe to con
| tend against now is the scarcity of building
material. 1t seems to be almost an ute
| impossibility for the lumber dealers t.
keep up with their orders.
Last Sunday Judge John Peters visite
the CASTILLO hot springs in Spanish For
| canon. He says that it is one of the bes
bathing resorts in the territory and tina
the water is just right for bathers thi
time Of the year. The springs are al
housed so that after taking bath in tn
warm water there is no danger Of catch
ing cold. He is thinking of getting up a
excursion from American Fork to thes
springs and is now making arrangement
with the officials of the Rio Grande West
ern. By getting an early dinner and tax
ing the noon train the excursionists will b
enabled to to visit the springs and hav
ample time to take bath and rest them
selves before returning on the $3.50 train
Mr.. Peters informs US that if suitable al
rangements can be made with the railroa
he can secure large number of excul
sionists who will be pleased with the OF
portunity to visit these springs.-Ind
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