The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
# farm products. hay. butter. eggs and

of farm products. hay, butter, eggs and
poultry for sale
Adamsville, nine miles west, with a
population OF 200, chiefly Welsh. raises
what grain is needed for breadEtuff
and usually has plenty of hay to sell
at Milford and Frisco. For years the
settlers have found ready employment
in the mines of Lincoln, Bradshaw.
Shauntie and Frisco districts during
the winter season.
Mirersville, twenty miles west and
in the northeast corner of the great
inhabitants. The old Lincoln lead
mines, a few miles north of the town,
was the magnet that drew the settlers
here from Parowan in 1858 and 1859.
From the early SOS up TO within the
last seven years. before so many en-
croachments had been made on their
second right to the waters Of Beaver
river by the increased fencing Of lands
above, the people of Minersville enjoyed
more of prosperity than it has in the
recent past Some of the best and pur-
est of molasses was made. from sugar
cane here grown, which yielded equal
TO that in any land in Dixie, and the
fruit crops, particularly peaches, were
OF an excellent quality and a source of
large revenue.
Minersville has an ample brick meet
IFS llOQSCs SCllOOl HOUSES, SOOQ
residences and four stores. The Dot
sons, Lessings, Banks, Meningitis
and Eyres still reside there, but Du-
paix, the Rollins and several of the
Walkers and Marshals have removed
to better pastures and water accomo-
dationS.
Milford. with a population of 500 to
400, is the junction of the Oregon Short
Line where IL branches off TO Frisco.
1t is a lively railroad town, with good
depot, a half dozen stores. as many
good hotels and only one saloon. Be
fore the extension of the Utah & Pa
cific Milford did lively business in the
freighting line to De Lamar and Pr
oche. That being transferred to IVA
da, the next profitable traffic for the
stores is the April sheep shearing. But
Milford has always had many good
friends and help from the miners and
mines in the north, west and south,
and has been the purchasing depot for
their provisions and mining supplies.
Should some mining company built a
smelter or reduction works there and
run it permanently Milford would soon
have population of 1000 or 5000, and
become one of the liveliest towns in the
state; its mining resources fully war
rant such an enterprise.
Frisco is where A. G.. Campbell, By
ram Ryan and Matt Cullen made their
first wealth. Here one of the Robin
sons of lower Corn Creek, year or so
before the discovery, burned charcoal
for the Shauntie smelter on the head
and breast of that vast deposit, and
at the bottom of the kiln saw streaks
Of something bright, but knew not
what it was. Frisco has a population
of about 500. with two good stores and
Sackett's hotel. Twenty-Five to thirty
saloons used to flourish there, but now
there are only three. One hundred and
twenty-five to $50 miners and other
employees are regularly on the payroll
Of the Horn Silver Mining company,
and If all its ores were but treated and
put into bullion in this county the To-
cal benefit would be greatly increased.
The Prominent Citizens and Officers.
William Hurst, county and district
clerk, is a capable and efficient officer,
serving his second term; John w.
Christian, county attorney, a stalwart
Democrat and all round useful man,
has passed his 18th milestone. Sheriff
John H. Barton is among the best that
ever filled the position in this county,
ana chairman of selectmen, Peter S.
Martin, Is careful guardian of the
treasury. His right-hand man is DR..
George III. Fennemore, a business and
cosmopolitan executive. George S.
jameson of Minersville is leader in
public affairs. Miss Effie Mathews, re-
corder, is a bright, affable lady. Will
liam NJ. Low, treasurer, is capable,
careful bookkeeper and successful
stock-raiser w. II. Farnsworth, su-
perintendent of schools, is dignified
polished gentleman. ]. Frank Tolton,
and eX-member of the legis-
lature, is an all round good clerk,
man of experience and successful fam
lily merchant. State Senator R. r.
Tanner, a good Democrat, a bright pol
itician, can go and cut and bring home
a big load of wood any day in winter.
Hon. John r. Murdoch, representative,
made his record forty years ago on the
plains among hundreds of distinguished
in carrying the mails and
express from Leavenworth, Mo-, TO
Salt Lake, and in conducting trains of
Saints from the frontier to
Utah. Jim Puffer, the mountaineer,
who trapped and hunted with Kit Car
son and Joe Walker in the '40s in Cali
fornia, still lives here. He is pretty
hale and hearty. but rheumatism has
taken away much of his elasticity. yet
at times his eye flashes and brightens
when reciting experiences of pioneer
days.