History of Salt Lake City, Part 152

Author: Tullidge, Edward Wheelock
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Star printing company
Number of Pages: 1194

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Under the superintendence of Doctor Park, the school was reorganized on a new and more extensive basis, including in its curriculum of studies, scientific and classical instruction. The school opened for the reception of students March 8th, 1869. Five courses of studies were provided ; namely, preparatory, com- mercial, normal, scientific and classical. The school opened with encouraging patronage, the number of students amounting to two hundred and twenty-three during the first year, or rather for a semester of two terms, ending in July. This patronage was divided chiefly among the preparatory, the commercial and the scientific courses. The classical course received but a limited patronage, being too advanced in general, for any preparation found among the students, and the business of teaching had not attained sufficient prominence as a profession, or a permanent or profitable calling, to encourage many to make it an object of special training.

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APPENDIX.

The University had nearly five hundred volumes of books. Though these were not select nor standard in their character, yet they served as a nucleus of a library. To this collection, Doctor Park added his private library, consisting of two thousand standard and miscellaneous works, which, together with those of the University, at the beginning of the academic year, in the fall of 1869, were made accessible to the students of the University.

The private cabinet of Dr. Park was also placed at the service of the institu- tion and proved a valuable adjunct to illustration in the department of science.

At the beginning of the second year, a model school, as it was called, was organized with the double purpose of supplying a graded course of study, that might fit pupils for entering the more advanced courses in the institution, and to afford the means of exhibiting the best methods of teaching, discipline and classification in connection with the normal course of the University. The model school was divided into three departments, a primary, intermediate, and acad- emic, having three grades each. It proved to be a valuable adjunct to the University.

The number of students was more than doubled the second year, aggregating 546, of whom 307 were males and 239 females. At this time a literary society, the Delta Phi, was organized among the students, having for its object a theoreti- cal and practical training of its members in oratory, debate, declamation, com- position, parliamentary rules and order. Also a literary journal was published this year by the students, named the College Lantern.

During the third academic year, 1870-1, the number of students of the Uni- versity had increased to 5So' with a slight excess of females.

On the 15th of September, 1876, the school was removed from the building it had occupied since 1867, known as the Council House, to a building in the Seventeenth Ward, of the city, known as the Union Academy building, where it continued till the fall of 1884.

The normal department of the University, established in 1875, immediately grew into popular favor and became in every way a success. Thirty-six graduates received diplomas the first year. In I879, a successful effort was made to re-es- tablish a graded or model school under the auspices of the University, in connec- tion with this department.

At the session of the Legislature in 1879-So, an effort was made by the chan- cellor and board of regents to secure an appropriation with which to purchase suitable grounds, and to erect thereon a building for University purposes. The effort was partly successful, and the sum of $20,000, was appropriated for the ob- jects named. This amount being scarcely more than sufficient to purchase the nec- essary grounds, an appeal was made to the municipal council of Salt Lake City for aid in this direction. The result was a generous donation to the institution for University purposes of the finest public square in the city.

The appropriation from the Legislature, or the greater part of it, was imme- diately expended towards the erection of the new building, which it raised to the height of the basement story. It was confidently expected that an amount suffi- cient to complete the building would be appropriated by the Legislature at its next session in ISSI 2, but a bill for that purpose failed to receive the Governor's

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approval. By loans and voluntary contributions from citizens, a sufficient amount was raised to erect the entire walls and roof the building in, and to prepare two rooms in it to accommodate a large class of students during the winter of 1883-4. It was again hopefully expected that a legislative appropriation would come to the relief of the institution in 1883.4, and not only reimburse those citizens who had so generously contributed to aid the institution, but to provide a sufficient fund to complete the structure. Executive disapproval, however, of a bill for that pur- pose again left the school without its much needed support. A portion of the new building, however, was put in a condition to be occupied by the school at the beginning of the academic year, 1884-5.

HOT SPRINGS.

The Hot Springs, situated four miles from Salt Lake City, is probably the most wonderful spring in the world on account of its medicinal qualities. It is the essence of mineral water itself. The spring furnishes three hundred gallons per minute. It oozes out of a bluff of rocks and runs thence into the Hot Springs Like, which is a beautiful sheet of water, three-quarters of amile in width by two miles in length, averaging a depth of three feet; and it is well stocked with fish. The lake is a distance of about two hundred yards from the spring, and a little nearer the D. & R. G. and Utah Central railroads, as well as the county road leading from Salt Lake City to the northern country.

The facilities for bathing in the Hot Springs baths are superior to any in the West. There is a plunge bath 30 by 75 feet, erected with commodious dress- ing rooms. There is also a large private plunge bath, 40 by So, with twelve private plunges, 10 by 10, with nicely furnished dressing rooms connecting with the plunges. These are in constant use for ladies, families and invalids ; and be- sides these there are a great number of top baths.

The hotel accommodations are first class in every respect, and, no doubt, in a short time, it will be constantly crowded with visitors to these already famous baths; and invalids from all parts of the world will find, for awhile, a restful home at Beck's hotel, with restoration of health and prolongation of life, through the medicinal virtues of his Hot Springs baths. Already wonderful cures have been effected by bathing in and drinking of these waters, especially in rheumatism, paralysis, kidney complaints and skin diseases.

The bottling of the water is one of the great features of the Hot Springs es- tablishment. The finest bottling machinery in Salt Lake City has been put in a very commodious building, at the Hot Springs, for the bottling of the mineral waters in the shape of a seltzer and Hot Springs' ginger ale, as well as soda water, sarsaparilla and various kinds of mineral water, which supersedes in quality any mineral waters that have been put upon the market. As far as Beck's bottled preparations of the Hot Springs waters have been tried, they meet with universal approval, and orders are being sent in daily from all directions East and West. Thus prepared, the waters are very palatable as a beverage, both as a table water and for medicinal purposes.

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Up in the hills, half a mile from Beck's Hot Springs establishment, there is a beautiful cold spring, which is piped down to the bath, furnishing delicious fresh water, cold as ice.

The whole grounds of the Hot Springs is a natural pleasure resort, provided with every facility for recreation and health. Six flowing wells have already been struck and are used to irrigate lawns and shade trees, which have been planted out by the thousands. On the lake there are a number of row and sail boats, which add to the picturesque view of the scene and surroundings, and give variety and zest to the pleasures and revivification sought by visitors to this already famous su- burban resort of our city.

And connected with Beck's establishment proper, besides the accomodations already named, there are commodious shades erected with dancing floors for dancing and excursion parties. On the premises are a bar room, lunch stand, bil- liard tables and refreshment arrangements in general.

For accommodation of visitors to the Springs a livery stable has been opened at Salt Lake City especially for the Hot Springs traffic, and a line of coaches, buggies and carriages are running every hour of the day regularly to and from the Springs at twenty-five cents the round trip. The regular trains to and from the city also stop at the Springs.

Taking into consideration the wild nature of the surroundings of those Springs six months ago, when Mr. John Beck purchased the property, a wonder has been wrought. A city has already been started, and a vast amount of money has been spent in improvements. This place will be the coming sanitarium of the West ; for no doubt the Hot Springs is destined to become one of the principal resorts of America, on account of its altitude and the wonderful Salt Lake, which is situated only four miles from the Springs, from which a canal to the lake has been opened for boarders at Beck's Hot Springs hotel.

That which has been accomplished at the Hot Springs location, in the short space of these six months, by Mr. Beck and his aids, greatly interests the public in the prospective growth and permanent fame of the place. It is evident that our enteprising citizen is infusing into this Hot Springs adventure, similar expan- sive ideas and purposes that have made him one of the foremost in the mining operations of our Territory. He has designed a large number of cottages fot families visiting these Springs for their health ; and they are now in process of erection. A large hotel, on the latest improved style, will also be erected on an elevated piece of ground, which will afford a grand view of the Great Salt Lake and the surrounding country. Thus is the prospect daily expanding ; and the Hot Springs pleasure resort bids fair to be known far and near, not only for itf healing waters and its revivifying influences generally, but as a beautiful suburban village of the parent "City of the Great Salt Lake."

APPENDIX.

THE UNION NATIONAL BANK.

The Union National Bank is the natural outgrowth of the once familiar bank of Walker Brothers. In the early days of Utah's history many banks were opened from time to time, and in the course of events one after another closed from the chief fact that the originators were not actual residents of the Territory; while they had certain business to watch and care for, their real homes and interests were outside of the Territory, and the natural result was that the banks started by men who were not thoroughly identified and their whole interests centered in Salt Lake and the various enterprises of the Territory, when the time came they silently folded their tents and stole away. The conditions were different, how- ever, with men whose aims were to found a home and to become first and fore- most in all of the pursuits and enterprises of a growing country, and developing its resources; men who were not afraid to risk their capital, expend their energies in the opening up of the industries of this vast domain of our country. Such men were the founders of the house of Walker Brothers.

From a mercantile business they branched into a private banking business, also put in capital in a liberal and lavish manner, for the development of Utah's greatest wealth, the mines; and, as is well known, they first made it possible to work the mines of Utah by opening up a market in a foreign country for the first ores extracted in quantities, at a time when there were no reduction works for silver- lead ores in the United States. After a successful business career of a quarter of a century the house of Walker Brothers, including their immense business of bank- ing, mining and mercantile and its various branches, concluded to wind up and go into liquidation and divide up their capital. Ambition and the natural aim of mankind, however, to be doing something, was not yet dampened in the breasts of some of the members of the firm and a desire to perpetuate a business laid on so sure a foundation caused some of them to organize a National Bank, with ample capi- tal ; hence it is seen that while the Union National Bank is comparatively a new institution, organized February 19th, 1885, under the National Banking Act, yet its foundation was commenced twenty-seven years ago, when the Territory was young, far away from civilization, and it may be said that the growth of the Ter- ritory and of the subject in hand went side by side.

In fact such is history, whether applied to animate or inanimate subjects. An institution like the Union National Bank, having such deep root, is sure of suc- cess and commends itself silently and surely to all. When the bank was contem- plated, not only financial strength was considered, but science and mechanical skill was brought to bear to make it safe against the common enemies of all moneyed institutions, and that is, burglars and thieves. The result was the erec- tion of immense Safe Deposit and Bank Vaults for the use of all who desire to avail themselves of a place to deposit their money and valuables. Hundreds of boxes of various sizes and suited to the wants of the poorest and richest, wherein to de- posit their treasures in safety and known only to themselves. These vaults were

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built at great expense and are absolutely fire and burglar proof, seventy-five tons of iron and steel alone being used in the construction, besides a vast quantity of brick and cement to make the same fire proof. There are none safer or built on more scientific principles than these vaults in the United States; not only the vaults but the banking rooms are models of beauty and a gratification to any one to look at.

The Union National, while new in name is old in growth, and ranks with its sister banks throughout the country and enjoys its merited share of patronage, not only locally but abroad, and also being the United States Depository for its funds in the Territory of Utah. The accompanying plate, showing the exterior, gives some idea of the massiveness and construction of the vaults, and to be thoroughly appreciated it must be seen and examined. The people will appreciate these safety deposit vaults in time and use them for the storage of notes, bonds, mortgages, wills and other papers as well as diamonds, jewelry and valuables of all kinds.

The Union National Bank has a capital, fully paid, of $200,000. It trans- acts a general banking business, and solicits accounts of banks, bankers, manu- facturing firms, merchants and private individuals. It receives collections upon all accessible points, and the returns are promptly made as directed. It gives special attention to the sales of ore and bullion.

Its correspondents are :

New York, Importers' and Traders' National Bank; Chicago, First National Bank ; Omaha, Omaha National Bank, Commercial National Bank; Denver, Ger- man National Bank; Helena, First National Bank; Butte City, First National Bank ; San Francisco, Bank of California; St. Louis, State Savings Association.

It draws exchange on all the leading cities of Europe, including London, Dublin, Edinburg, Glasgow, Paris, Havre, Bordeaux, Boulogne, Genoa, Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, Florence, Milan, Naples, Venice, Antwerp, Brussels, Luxum- bourg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Christiania, Bergen, Stavanger, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malme, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, Wien, Trieste, Prague, Carlsbad, Cadiz, Madrid, Seville, Lisbon and Oporto, besides all the German States.

Officers : Joseph R. Walker, president ; Matthew H. Walker, vice-presi- dent ; Benjamin G. Raybould, cashier.

Directors : Joseph R. Walker, Samuel S. Walker, Matthew H. Walker, Ben- jamin Raybould, Morton J. Cheesman, Joseph R. Walker, Jr.

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THE DESERET NATIONAL BANK.

The bank known now under the above denomination commenced business May 9, 1869 as the banking firm of Hooper, Eldredge & Co. The firm was composed of William H. Hooper, Horace S. Eldredge and Lewis S. Hills ; and it started with a paid up capital of $40,000. On the first of September 1871, the firm of Hooper, Eldredge & Co. was succeeded by the Bank of Deseret, organized under the Territorial laws with $100,000 capital stock and a Board of Directors as follows :

Brigham Young, (President) ; William H. Hooper, Horace S. Eldredge, (Vice-President) ; William Jennings, John Sharp, Faramorz Little, Lewis S. Hills, (Cashier).

On November 1st, 1872, the Bank of Deseret was succeeded by the Deseret National Bank organized under the National Bank act of the U. S., with a capital stock of $200,000. The officers and board of directors were the same as in the old organization. April Ist, 1873, Brigham Young resigned the Presidency of the Bank, retaining his Directorship. He was succeeded in the presidency by William H. Hooper. On the ist of January, 1878, George Q. Cannon, was elected Director to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brigham Young. Jan- uary 13th, 1880, Nicholas Groesbeck was elected Director to succeed the Hon, George Q. Cannon, who was absent from the Territory filling his public duties as the Utah Delegate to Congress.

Wm. H. Hooper died December 30th, 1882, and was succeeded by Horace S. Eldredge as president. January 15th, 1886, William Jennings died, and he was succeeded by Feramorz Little as vice-president.

The present Board and officers are-

Directors : Horace S. Eldredge, president; Feramorz Little, vice-president; John Sharp; Wm. W. Riter; J. A. Groesbeck; L. S. Hills, Cashier; J. T. Little, Assistant Cashier.

The Deseret National Bank was U. S. Depository from 1881 to 1886.

Financial statement :

Capital, $200,000 ; Surplus Fund, $200,000. Deposits average $1,000,000. Dividends 5 per cent. per quarter.

There is no necessity to dwell lengthily upon the financial stability of the Deseret National Bank nor upon the efficiency of its Directors and Executive department. The names of the Directors and officers personally represent probably three million dollars of capital, for none of the men are speculators and their means are nearly as valuable as ready money. This banking institution of Zion, therefore, may be esteemed as one of the solidest in the United States. So far as its name-Deseret National Bank-signifies, it represents the Mormon community.

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APPENDIX.

THE ONTARIO MINE.

The Ontario Mine was discovered by Herman Budden. Budden was an Austrian by birth, was in his youth a sailor, and, following the crowd, he found himself at last in California. He exchanged the changing billows of the sea for the unchanging billows of the mountains. As a miner he roamed over the hills of the Golden State and the Silver State for years, and at last found himself in Utah about the year 1872, drawn, doubtless, by the tales of the great Emma and by the rumors of other marvellously rich finds in the Territory. He drifted to Parley's Park and for a long time roamed the hills in that vicinity without success. One day, returning from a barren prospecting jaunt, his eye caught a knob of rock that jutted out from some croppings. He stopped and with his prospect pick broke off a splinter from the knob and passed on. But when a little way off the thought struck him that the rock where he broke it had a mineral lock ; so he returned and made a closer examination, which more and more impressed him, and there, on that 19th day of July, 1872, he located 1500 by 200 feet of ground and christened it "The Ontario." Going to camp he told his partners- all miners have partners-that he believed he had found "something worth sink- ing upon," and next morning they went to work. This was the preliminary work on the great mine. The humble prospectors were working on the crest of a sil- ver vault which contained millions of treasure, but their eyes were darkened, for only a small portion was to be for them. When they had sunk six feet, the orebody holding out and widening, they offered the prospect for $5,000. There were no purchasers, so the work was continued, and, as the prospect showed better and better, they continued to advance the price until Al. Guiwits and others were drawn to it and secured a fifteen days' bond on the property for $30,000-that is its owners gave a writing that if Guiwits within fifteen days from that date paid them the sum of $30,000 they agreed to deed the property. At this time the ledge was stripped one hundred and ten feet in length and was sunk in places to the depth of eight feet. Before this, however, Mr. Marcus Daly-now the bonanza king of Montana-who had seen the prospect had told Mr. Geo. Hearst of San Francisco -now Senator Hearst-who at the time happened to be in Utah, that he ought to go out and see the Ontario, that it seemed to him "a good looking prospect." Hearst visited the claim, which was then opened only by a cut six feet long and three feet deep, took some specimens and went to Salt Lake City. At that time R. C. Chambers, who was managing the Webster and Bully Boy mines in Marys- vale District, in the interest of Hearst and himself, went up to Salt Lake to meet his partner, and Hearst mentioned to him that he had better look at " that little thing" called the " Ontario" at Parley's Park. Chambers did look and his prac- ticed eye at a glance took in the possibilities of the find. He began quiet nego- tiations for a purchase, but in the meantime it was discovered that he was the friend of Geo Hearst, and the owners at once raised the price so high that Cham - bers retired from the field. But he never relinquished his purpose. He picked

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up a friend and sent him as a stranger to secure the property. In the meantime the bond to Guiwits had been given. By careful management the stranger se- cured a bond for ten days, to take effect at the expiration of Guiwits' bond, and on the 24th of August, 1872, the prospect was purchased by Hearst and Chambers for $30,000. Twelve days later Chambers, with a force of fifteen men, began work on the mine, and that work has never stopped for a moment since, and never has had any other superintendent than R. C. Chambers. The first work was to build a log cabin : the first nights superintendent and men slept under a pine tree on the ground, but never had sleep been sweeter than that which came to the super- intendent there. For just twenty years had he battled for a fortune in the West, and now he felt in every nerve of his body that the anxiety was over and that his fortune was secure. No one knows the benediction of that thought who has not. experienced it. There is enough in it to make the ground more elastic than a spring bed ; to make the stone which does duty as a pillow seem softer than down.

But while the anxiety was over, he knew that the work was but just begun. He knew that he was on the crest of a mountain 8,000 feet above the sea, that there a mining plant must be established, that a stubborn mine and evidently a wet one-for it was in quartzite and quartzite fissures are invariably great water carriers-was to be opened and worked. But his heart was light, for work never kills. It is only care of the heart-breaking kind that does that. Slowly and cau- tiously he proceeded, every new development showing a greater and greater prop- erty. In November the surveys for a patent were made and the patent secured in September, 1873. In January, 1874, under the old law, the mine was incorpor- ated in San Francisco. The capital stock was placed at $5,000,000, in 50,000 shares, with J. B. Haggin president and treasurer, Wm. Willis secretary, R. C. Chambers, superintendent, and Haggin, Hearst and others directors. No stock, however, was issued. In the meantime $180,000 had been expended upon the mine and only $41,000 had been returned from the mine from ores that had been sold. But the ore had accumulated to a great mass and many breasts of ore, ready for stoping, had been exposed, so the old McHenry mill, of 20 stamps, was leased and set in motion. The mill was a wet crushing mill, adapted only for free. milling ores. From the surface the Ontario ores have been rebellious : the mill was not adapted to its reduction ; it was moreover an old mill requiring continued repairs and all the results were unsatisfactory. After a fair trial it was given up and the Marsac Mill was leased. This was also a wet crushing mill, and not to exceed 80 per cent. of the precious metal in the ore could be saved in it. Still, in these two mills, 16,000 tons of ore were reduced and $900,000 was saved. In 1876, the mine had so greatly developed that a new incorporation was decided upon, with capital stock and shares doubled. In the meantime the Ontario had grown famous. While this work was going on the Ontario mill had been placed under construction. In the building of it every resource of the inventor, en- gineer and mechanic, D. P. Bell, assisted by the experience of the Coast, was exhausted, and the consequence is that it is still hammering away and doing as good work as any mill on the continent.

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History of Salt Lake City, Part 152

Author: Tullidge, Edward Wheelock Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Salt Lake City, Star printing company Number of Pages: 1194

Author: Tullidge, Edward Wheelock
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Star printing company
Number of Pages: 1194