The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-28
CAMP FLOYD IS A WONDER.
a Word-Painted Sketch of this
Magnificent District


Camp Floyd, the great mining dis
trict, today ranks foremost in the min
ing world.
It's rise and progress, while phe-
nomenally rapid, is not born of that
excitement incident to strikes made in
new district, but on the other hand,
is the legitimate result of faith and
perseverance on the part of those men
who, in the beginning. spent time and
money in opening up the treasure
vaults Of gold lying within that now
famous district.
1t can truly be said of them that
they never faltered nor turned back
from the outset, even though at times
an incredulous public was prone to
scott at and belittle efforts that were
in every way praiseworthy, and which
have now brought to the promoters
afiluance and wealth, thereby adding
to the already great resources of the
new state of Utah, a feature of righte-
Gus adornment and pleasing con-
temptation to our people as a whole
OF all this great inter-mountain re-
gion, Utah is signally favored in her
large area of fertile valleys, begirt with
well-flled streams that come down
from our grand old mountains to give
life and sustenance to the varied and
growing crops, and added to this are
ineXhauStable supplies of coal and
building stone, chief factors in the
building up and making of our new
state a manufacturing and CONNER
cial centre.
Utah asphaItum beds are of a scope
and quality such as to already COM
mand attention from those beyond the
sea, and are destined to shortly be-
come a great and distinctive industry
that will add immeasurably to our
wealth of production.
Utah will take her place among the
sisterhood of states within a few days
now, and it is recorded that in becom-
ing an integral part of the great union
of states, she will do so with a con-
seriousness of her magnificent stand
ing, and can exhibit a pardonable pride
in view of what is being daily accom-
plished. The mining industry through
out the state is picking up in pleasing
contrast to that Of any other of the
various states, and throughout the re-
vival of such a marked industry, it
has been on lines steady and practical
in every way. Such steady growth
has eliminated all fear of fictitious
values, and has placed our mining in
terests on a basis stable and secure;
a feature highly pleasing in itself, and
one that should be fostered in every
way.
To Camp Floyd and the great Mer-
cur mining district there is an all rail
route, which is a boon to the public.
and widely differs from the slow
modes of transit known to mining
camps in the past, when people had
largely or altogether to rely upon the
old fashioned stage coach. Even in
this latter day some districts that are
great in production are by no means
so favored. A trip from Salt Lake to
Mercur and return is but a pleasant
recreation, and fraught with that
pleasurable excitement attendant upon
a visit to a town that grows and
reaches out while you wait-its daily
growth is the wonder of the hour.
People from remote sections of the
country who are en- route east or west,
have learned of what, to them, are
surprising conditions in and about
Mercur, and they take a day off to go
in and observe for themselves. In
every instance they are amply repaid.
and come away filed with respect and
admiration for the live and energetic
people who are there found early and
late developing a greater Mercur.
The line of travel direct from Salt
Lake to Mercur is via the Union Pa
CHIC and the Salt Lake q Mercur rail-
roads. The distance by rail is sixty
miles. The Union Pacific train leaving
this city for the south at 7:45 a. m.
takes the passenger to Lehi juno
ton, twenty-nine miles down the
valley, where close connection is made
by the Union Pacific train on the
Eureka branch. The distance from
Lehi junction to Fairfield junction is
twenty miles, and upon arrival there
the CHEEKY brakeman will be heard to
sing out, ''Everyb body change cars for
Mercur." And every day now such
summons means that a great crowd
of people will then scramble for over
coats, gripsacks and bundle out of the
coaches with an expectant and eager
air-are they not nearing Mercur?