The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-08

tests of various kinds were entered
into with a vim, and notwithstanding
the fact that free beer was on tap
in several OF the saloons. not an ar
rest was made. and not symptom of
/ a street brawl was seen on the street
The procession, headed by the brass
band, paraded the streets between
and . .. II. In the procession was the
l. o. O. F., the K. of P. and the italian
lodges. Following was the Goddess of
Liberty. and Utah. on floats. A band
Z of children followed and citizens on
horseback and in carriages brought up
the rear
The crowd assembled around the lib
erty pole and listened to the reading
of the Declaration of Independence by
Rev 6. W. Rich, and the Grafton by
Judge Dusenbery.
The horse race resolved itself into
a number of exciting races. McKen-
bricks horse took first prize in the
I advertised race, Goodman's coming
second A horse from Utah county was
next Ditted against the winner, but
was left. Brown and Goodman ran two
races 10 settle which owned the better
horse and Brown won both times.
The creased pole was climbed by
three boys. the egg and spoon race ran
by little girls. and the potato race by
little boys. all Of which created con-
siderable amusement.
Thomas Adams won the prizes in
both the firemen's and miners races.
The Mercur fire department. ran a
race with company &C volunteers and
succeeded in taking the hose cart 200
yards, coupling the hose and turning
in stream of water in IS seconds.
their opponents making ii in SO sec
onds.
THE DRILLING CONTEST.
The feature of the day was the two
drilling contests. A large lime rock,
as hard as could be found in the To-
cality, was placed in position, between
the telephone office and the Union
church. The citizens covered the side
hill and shouted encouragement to
their favoriJes in the race.
The team winning first money was
from the Meicur mine. They were
William foyer and Charles Johnson,
and they succeeded in drilling a hole
1915 inches in Is minutes. Jchn Baker
and Henry Wilson, of the Geyser,
reached a depch of S67s inches and
Charles Appleby of the Golden Gate
made a hole 81 inches in depth. All
Che contestants did splendid work and
the changes Of drills, from striking TO
holding drills, were executed with
great deal of skill, particularly by the
Mercur team.
Sol Angel, of the Mercur mine, car
ried off first money in the single hand
contest. He is well muscled and was
apparently as fresh at the end of the Is
minutes as when he commenced. In
fact, he was doing more effective work
at the close than at any other time.
He showed skill as well as strength
and succeeded in drilling a hole 2S7s
inches deep.
He has accepted a challenge to drill
with a Lion Hill man, who is said 10
be cracker jack" and the contest
will probably take place in about Two
weeks.
Charles Blewett, also of the Mercur,
took second money. He is a small man
but showed that his skill was inferior
10 none of his opponents. He reached
a depth of 1874 inches.
A grand ball was given by the fire.
men and fireworks were the feature of
the evening.
FIRE AT THE GEYSER.
Quite a breeze of excitement was
caused by the whistles at the mine
giving the fire alarm. A heavy wind
was blowing at the time and as soon
as the fire was located. the citizens ran
in a body to see that 1t was eX-in-
SuiShed before getting a good start. It
proved to be the assay office at the
Geyser and Superintendent Benner had
his men pouring water on the roof and
walls of the mill, and seeing to it that
the fire did not spread. The Office.
which was a lumber affair. was totally
destroyed. The cause of the fire is I'M
known. Assayer Jones had just gone
down to the Office at the Marion mill
with his samples. and had been at
work in the upper office for some hours
before the fire occurred. There had I
been no fire in the office when ne left |
1t is supposed that in some way the /
fire had broken out in a bundle of en-
CINE waste, stuck in the office and used |
for wipfng the machinery. The loss is |
small. and as the Marion assay Office |
is complete, no inconvenience viii be
experienced.