The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-06
Code of laws and history of the Grand

Salt Lake City, published by the
! Chamber of Commerce, 1883.
SALT LAKE HERALD, November 4th
1888
Salt Lake Daily Tribune, November
4th. 1883.
The Deserst EUeoing NeOs, November
Sd. 1888.
The Salt Lake Times, November Sd,
1888.
The Provo american, November ID,
1883.
The Park City Record, November Sd,
1888.
Ogden Standard. November 4th. 1888.
Utah Daily Union, November 81,
1888.
Ogden Argus, November Sd, 1888.
Inter Mountain Merchant, description
and scenery Of Ogden.
GazAtte of railroads in California, Ne
vada and Utah.
Certified list of officials, ordinances
and statutes of Ogden.
Original call of meeting to consider
the depot question, circulated by E, a.
McDaoiels. August 81, 1888.
Rostsr Of Del Monte Commandery,
No. 2, K. T., of Ogden.
Journal of Grand Lodge Knights Of
Pvthias. Fifth Annual Session.
Poem of DR.. A S. Condor.
Silver coins of 1888.
Specimen of $4,000 ore from the 600
foot level of the Ontario mine, st Park
City.
THE STONE SEALED.
Next came the ceremony of sealing
the stone. The copper box mentioned
above was placed in the hollow rock by
Grand Treasurer Sol Siegel, tie
space around it was filled in
with cement. and as the Og-
den Brass Band played an anthe en-,
the corner stone was lowered, leveled,
squared and pl1mbed respectively by
the proper Masonic official. The cere-
mony was accorded grand honors by
the entire assemblage of masons, and
after the stone had been pronounced
sound and trusty and well and truly
laid by Grand Master Paul, and after
some further ceremonies, the Ogden
band played lively air.
Then Grand Marshal Haynes made
the formal announcement of the sue
cessful laying of the stone. following
which the Sixteenth Infantry Band
played Victory"
THE GRAFTON
by Grand Orator Williams, which was
in every respect mastery ad-
dress here followed. The speaker
took position on the wall rear
the corner stone, and spoke in
clear and loud voice. Following is the
speech verbatim:
The laying OF this corner stone assures US
of the early erection OF a structure without
which the first transcontinental railway is
incomplete. A little less than a score of
years has passed since, within the Territory
of Utah, in sight of where we are now as
sembled, upon the summit of yonder prom
Ontory, was performed, with memorable
cerem 0nieS, the laying of the last rail and
driving the last spike which consummate ted
great national enterprise Which connected
the Atlantic and Paci with iron bands,
made neighbors of our citizens, though re-
siding 5000 miles apart, and rendered more
indisS0luble
THE UNION OF THESE STATES.
Long before the connection of the Union
and Central Pacific Railways was made, it
became inevitable that Ogden City, by rea-
son of its favorable location, must be the
point Of permanent junction of these two
great highways, The completion OF
realization of the dream of the great nsVi-
gator Ct tie fifteenth century.
The western passage to Asia was then tor
the first time practical fact
When Columbus undertook his first
voyage across the Atlantic, the passage to
known. The tabled wealth Of the Far East
fired the Imagination of that bold ex
p1orer, sustained his hopes, and PROMPTED.
that untiring effort which eliminated IN
giving
A NEW WORLD
to civilization. Possessed Of the rarest he
roism, and relying on the theory of the
ealths rotundity, with that confidence
which belongs to scientific research and
knowledge, the dangers of an untried
voyage were to his ardent mind reduced'to
q minimum, and first of mank md, he con.
ceived the idea fof reaching India by ives
tern passage. He thought he had done SO;
the islands he discovered he called the West
Indies, and died in the belief that those
new lands were part of Cathay. The dis
covery of new continent and the per
manent planting of European cOlonists
along its eastern coast, filed up the gap of
centuries and absorbed the thoughts and
efforts, not only of the countrymen OF Co
lumbus and the subjects of bis royal patrons
but of all the civilized peoples of Europe, to
the exclusion of that idea which had been
his
CHEF INCENTIVE AND GUIDING STAR.
But as time passes on the wilderness is
subdued, the homes of civilized men sue
coed the fugitive habitations of the savage,
forest and plain are tracked, mountains are
explored, and the whole continent becomes
familiar ground
Ali these conditions, however, are not
enough, the methods of locomotion on land
fCN iVNrN rfa n mo lyn VF1Ns
Bile But with these great discoveries and
development of the material world. came
an awakening of mans inventive faculties !
At length George Stephenson lived, the
locomotive engine was perfected, and the
possibilities of railway traffic realized.
Then it was that that enlightened states
man, Thomas d. Benton, from his p ace in
the Senate of the United States. pointed to-
ward the setting sun and exclaimed, this is
indeed the way to India!
Much public discussion of the question of
the practicability of the construction and
operation of railway from the Missouri
D; 70 nd ho