The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-14
NEWS FROM NEARBY
CITIES AND TOWNS.
A PoSTOFFICE ESTABLISHED AT
THE OLD MERCUR MILL.
Big Hotel in Course of Construction
Trial Trip on the Salt Lake q
Mercur RaiIway-A New School
house.

Matte Edwards mas lI4S dpPO1-A0A
as postmistress.
The Mercur company are erecting a
retort or refinery at the mill. Wnen
completed the products of the mill Will
be put into bullion instead OF oelns
shipped in cyanide.
The Salt Lake and Mercur railway
has not started the passenger coacn
to date but the car VIII be put on at
an early date. Freight traffic is IN
good shape. The camp both mere ana
at Manning is building ZIP quite
rapidly.
4 large hotel is in course Of erection
The citizens of Manning are con-
tributing for the erection OF a school-
house. There has been no district
established, but the people cannot
afford to allow the. children.s educaton
to be neglected; hence this generous
move.
The Mercu. company are paying off
their men today, making the boys
happy as consequence. Some dis
satisfaction is expressed by employees
who have families. The company
deducts % cents per day for board
from those who live at home and the
family men think this an imposition
on them.
John McFarlane, who has been suf-
fering from an injured leg. has gone to
Salt Lake city for treatment
B. W. briggs, of Pleasant Grove, is
here on business.
4 trial trip with the railway coach
goes over the road today. The people
at Manning are taking advantage OF a
free excursion between the TWO camps.
Peddlers are as plentiful as Jack
rabbits in and about Camp Floyd. The
machine fiends are abroad and the hon
est miner is posted" with them.
1t is currently rumored that the own
ers of the placer "diggins," in the Fole-
ando district, are making prepara-
tions to sink to bedrock shortly. In
dica tons point to the fact that all the
gold has settled on the bottom and in
order to reach it the surface formation
will have to be removed, all of which
goes to show that in prehistoric ages
this earth was a solid rock and that
whenever the Bible refers to 1.-THE
Rock of Ages" it no doubt means the
bed rock about to be laid bare by the
muscular exertions of the owners of
the Foleando ''diggins. ''-Malad Enter
prise.
Why cannot we have a local mail
service between Salt Lake and Eureka
via the Rio Grande Western No. g?
1t leaves Salt Lake at p. m, for
Eureka late enough to get all editions
of the evening papers. The train then
returns, leaving Eureka at Z a. m,
thus giving US an early and late mall
through the most pOpulous section of
the country. If this were established
we could mail a letter from any of the
cities covered by this service and get
reply the same day, and better still,
the service is so much surer than are
the through mails. In conforming with
the present mail system a letter mailed
Of 70 is arcS taly
TO Salt Lake and on the following day
sent to Eureka, thus a day at least is
lost. This, also, applies TO nearly ali
Utah county cities.-Springville indie
pendent.
Sam Thurman was generally recog-
nized as leader of the Democrats in the
convention. He is cautious and de-
liberate in getting into a fight but
powerful when he gets at it. Thur
man will be the choice of the Democ-
racy for Governor should Governor
West decide to accept place on the
federal bench and not become a candi-
date. Thurman is all right.-Logan
Journal.
Marriage licenses have been issued
recently by County Clerk Stohl to the
following persons:
Rasmus S. Peterson, age SO, and
Rosmina Anderson, age As, both of
Bear River city.
John Davis, age 80, and Amelia. Frees,
age IS, both of Brigham City.
Porter L. Anderson. age %. and
Antionette Cook, age IS, both of Og-
den.-Brigham Bugler.
Tuttle and company contemplate con-
siderable Improvement in addition to
the erection of an iron front, two story
m Main ba 81
house fronting on Union street will be
by large brick structure and
made into a business house The TEN.
pie city grows and will continue to
grow. Every person in the city should
assist in building up all the enterprises
worthy of building-Manti Messenger.
We understand the Union Pacific has
a surveying party at work up Grass
creek, presum ably with view of max
ing a grade for the reception of ties
on which to lay. rails. for the accom-
mediation of cars to handle traffic for
the purpose of deriving a revenue
main line. The survey is being made
for the Utah company. and work on
the grade is to be begun next week
with a good force Of men and teams.
and it will be pushed to completion as
rapidly as possible.
george ". cannon ana n. Clayton,
president and manager of the Utah
are expected to reach Coal
Vile today, the object of their visit be-
ing to look over the work being done
in Grass creek and the coppanys pro-
perty in that locality.
This looks like business, and in all
likelihood means the employment of a
large number of men, and the develop
ment of new properties. all of which
means better times for this locality.
The writer is also informed that the
Union Pacific company intend to open
up and develop their coal properties
in Grass creek this season, and have
already had men looking over their
property there with this end in view
Coalville Times.
Assistant Superintendent Garrett
O'Neill while in Coalville this week
visited the mines. and a pretty straight
rumor has it that the Union Pacific
tracks will be extended from the
Wasatch mine to the Wilson Brothers
mine, and that one of the objects of
Mr.. O'Neilrs visit was to look over
this ground for that purpose 1t is
the hope and wish of all that this will
prove to be true, and that the track
will be laid at once, for it means an
increased force of men for the Wilson
mine and direct benefit to the enter
prising owners of the mine and to
Goa lVilla Times