Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-02-21

formation. There were two guides tc
take the visitors through the grounds
and buildings. One old man showed g
party. ] was with through, telling US
all aboot it-how they hauled stone
for the temple twenty miles by OK
teams and how 1t took forty years to
complete the temple; how they got
the timber for building the tabernacle
and the difficulties encountered in
making the pipe organ; about the lit.
tie panes of glass costing SIS cents
apiece and coal oil $40 q gallons. and
oh. SO many other things. He said he
had been there fifty-fve years and had
seen most of the things which he told
us. He explained the tithing system
and told us that there were members
of the church in Salt Lake City who
the church, which represented one
tenth of their profits. He said it was
merely a ntatter of conscience-they
could cheat the church II they wanted
to, but they were mining men who
were afNid the Lord would cover up
the oreSf they failed to give up the
fright amount-such things had been
known.
came over the trestle which
crossed the Great Salt lake and that
was one of the grandest sights | ever
saw. 1t is twenty-eight miles across,
and while you are crossing the news
agent does thriving business selling
postcards bearing picture of the road
| on the lake. | was mystiied to see
for the first few miles the water
frozen on one side of the track along
the "fill-in" and not frozen on the
other. Inquiry revealed that the frozen
water was fresh water which had run
In from the streams. This trestle cuts
off 160 miles on the route to the
coast The sea guls were an inter
esting sight to passengers. There}
were not many of them. / was told
that they nearly all migrated to the
coast in winter
The Southern Pacific crosses the
north end of the Great Salt Lake |
desert and mile after mile the ground |
vas so level that the melted snow
stood two or three inches deep.
In passing Cobre | saw the big tent |
where Mayor Mcconnell and C. l.. Peth- |
erbridge put in one cold winter night |
after waiting for train to take them |
TO Ely the early part of the winter, |
of which Mr.. Petherbridge wrote in a
letter to The Herald. The landlady |
now has a fine large hotel and uses
the tent for overflow crowds.
About half the passengers on the
train was on were bound for various |
points in Nevada-many for Ely, Cold |
field, Tonopah, Bullfrog, Reno and Car
son City, and others for place of less
er note. A number from Salt Lake |
City were bound for Rosebud and |
Loveloek, new districts near Whine |
mucca. A railroad man in the Nor |
mon capital had given up a good po-
sition and was bringing a gang OF men |
and large outfit of supplies to start |
work on his property in Rosebud. The |
new camps were all the talk. The |
conductor took my map while we were |
going through country where the |
next stop was about forty miles away, |
tricts that are coming to the front !
They are not all new, however, for 1
many of them were discovered many |
years ago, but owing to their remote |
ness, lack of transportation and smelt- |
ing facilities and scarcity of water, |
nearly all such camps were abandon |
ed except by few prospectors who |
hung on with grim determination.
Ely was just such camp as this. l
see by the White Pine News, publish |
ed there, that the paper was founded
in 1868. The conductor told me there |
were just mountains of copper ore
there" and there we're other places
just as good which we're sure to be
found within the next season or two.
Only a few days ago a 17-year-old
boy who was helping his brother-in-
law do some assessment work in one
of the new districts southwest Of Win
nemucca, climbed up on the mountain
to do little prospecting on his own
account and struck twelve-inch vein
of quartz thickly impregnated with
free gold. He grabbed a handful and
ran to show them to his brother-in-
law and the two returned to the find
and dug foot or two and then rushed
OFF to town to tell of their good for
tune. They got to town after dark
and the news soon spread and in
short time the town was almost de-
serted with a stampede to the find.
Men raced on horses and when they
reached the place they took turns dig
ging and filling their pockets with the
rock. The next day the property was
bought by Salt Lake parties, the price
reported to be $4,000. That is the