Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-08
VISIT TO GOLD CITY.
Description OF "lllil Street" and tho
Buildings Upon Il.
BOra EXIST MAINLY IN FANCY.
More Excitement Than Material, 70.
the Prospects for Gold Develop.
menl are Very Good.

A News reporter visited Glid CITY
yesterday afternoon and found O few
Interested people on the ground, and
while "inkilg In the tow1,n a wagon
l0sd of furniture, lumber, boddlng,otc.,
belonging to Mcssrs Rogers & How.
croft, drove up "Main street." anu tho
gentlemen named Immediately 30. 10
work, Efo; unharncsslnx their team,
ehovolius the eight or ton inches OF
suow ii0m taglr lot, Nc. o, preparatory
g. building lIeir house. The toamslgr
iusis,ei that the iisl thing 10 pat up
was the r.0vu, Ia orIlf tuat good
steak might 10 cooked, "a, be folt that
IBIS appetite had increased immensely
by tao rli from town.
This was done and Uotoro the replf.
ter left piece u ground about 1890
bad been olpatc1. Hu was inlorlui
thn, this was the site iJr the Gold Cty
chop house, which would bu opened
tomorrow with "city meals" o. %
cents each, the place 10 bo "0pon dag
aud night" a rod OF two north of
this prospective cLop house is q store
about 2iK3s feet, which hiss jus, been
opened by ST. II. T.. Basslord vino
he's quite a stock 10 merchandise aud
ealu ne had done a good business uut.
ing tho ten days his place hai lurn
opened. A TOW rods still iusluer north
.H.N.
Fern, which was opened last SUNDAY,
and which, as IL usual IN such CAMPO,
has done lively business. This
liquor house j. only a tent 30 Tar, but it
b. expected q building Will DO erected
on the spot dufing the next few dayH.
South Of these places De- tue home OF
MT. lomelson, wutre no auI his fam.
iiy have resided fra long time pa1i,
aud who has sold his farm Of 100
acres 10 the syndicate who are "builI.
lug" the much advertised "Gold
CITY," The price paid Tor Il was stated
by i've men who surrounded tho re-.
porter giving tho purchase figures "a
tollows: $40 per acre; $3.50 per acre;
II 500 for me whole piece, aud 500
lof acre" respectively. Askoi ur t.
how may lOta had been sold, the mum
her given was ~ widely different and
contradictory rs tho above figures,
ranging oil tue way from ten TO eiguty.
/ but this selling price IL definitely liked
/ at 500 per lot The siLe o. tlrso lots Z,
on "Maiu 5lteot,D IL 2AKl95 feet
lgngthwise east aud west.
Gold Ciiy II from a quarter 10 half a
mile west n the two workings, which
uro situated on tho mountain side, be-
/ tween Little Willow auI Little Cotton.
wood canyon. These nre named the
New State and the Gold Dollar. he.
Sides these there are several smaller
/ prospects, TO tho north aud south. A
/ tunnel 10 bcing driven from the south
/ 90 strike the tuuuel above named. or
courso there are trails through tue
euow all over the mountain side and
leading even 10 the very top u tue
! lDttigat peak overlooking Gold cay,
| thousands Of feet high. More claims
/ were alakUi Oh yesterday by the au-
yultifuuH pfOspuct0u.
10 Il remarkable, now that @ llt.le
/ gold has UUuu FUND, how many pgf-
/ sons claim 10 have known OF lbs exist.
uucu There for years anu years past.
Men werD telling Il this knowledge
/ yesterday Afternoon, and one who has
/ herdcl eagUp over those very hil.H, has
| picked up quartz, quartzite, galenl,
rocks chuck iull Of oal0ridr, tts., ytc.
| But neither he nor any OF 500 others
/ had taken up claim, nor even DO.
a prospect hole. AlOlhur class Of hope
/ iui individuals could la their hiUds
SEQ great city, p0puiuus, prosperous
ami wealthy, with gold paved streets
ami other iunumerADle evidences OF
like character.
IL Was near rundown when the neyf-
| payer man left the new city, aud on
| his way down no met another wagon
/ load Of lumber " hiuh hAI been Obliged
| 10 stop, as the team hal given out,
/ right ~ sight OF tho "COming own. -
| THIS made about the nth LOAD VI ma.
| ,erlEl Tor building up the city and ono
| load Of coal that had arrived no far.
/ The iJwnslte n u pleasantly located
piece Of land and Malu street, which
runs north Snu south, n permanently
dodica ed TO remain NJ now surveyor,
Will cut directly through Mr.. romnu-
SOME lOs hOupe, though perhaps this
/ humble hnbilauOu may Do allowed to
remain Us LANDMARK II what was
once furtils and productive farm
turned into a city OF gold.
Tue roads leading 10 the now city
are now very muddy aud consequently
hard on teams, but She best route ia tho
ono running south from the bottom Of
/ the nil west OF the ButtlUrvtlle ward
house aud keeping 10 tho west OF tho
/ Granite meeting house about u quarter
~ mile, then following up tue hill
slutheast, which is q steady Rise right
on to the toWusite.
The distance by road 80 u little over
| fifteen miles from tho Eagle Gate In
salt Lake CITY, and lies due east from
sandy. Farmers In the vicinity arc
| already alter contracts TO supply tho
camp with such produce US they have
on nand, ana there will be no lack OF
these things /! the metal Cwhite or
Yellow 10 bu. forthcoming " pay iOg
lhem.