The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-03
OGDEN'S BIG PRIZE.
The Junction City Gets the Meth
OdiSt University.
BISHOP WARREN DECIDES IT.
His Reasons For Voting That Way---The Trip
to Garden City---The Inducements
Offered.

Ogden drew the Methodist University
prizet The question of the location Of this
Institution was finally decided last evening
by Bishop Warren's casting the deciding
vote in favor of the Junction city.
Bishop Warren arrived from the west
yesterday and after being driven about
Ogden, he boarded the Utah Central and
arrived in this city at 5 pm. Dr. Tiff
escorted him to the Utah & Nevada depot
where special train for Garden city
awaited him.
on TIE TRAIN
were Bisbop Wa rem and DR.. Tiff; Director
Thomas and Secretary Holllster OF Uie
chamber Of commerce; Chaplain HaInlnCno,
Of Fort Douglas; Rev. c: L. Libby; KEY
Mr.. Franklin. w. H. Shearman, w. H.
Sbearman. Jr.. E. B. Critchlow, William
Fuller. James NJ. Kennedy, E. f. Jones
and reporters of TIE HERALD an Tribune;
Rev. MIR. jayne. Rev. j. Wesley Hill, and
5. N. Preshaw of Ogden.
THE RUN OUT
IN Garden City was made in about thirteen
minutes. At the Garden City depot Ed
Senior had a number of Surveys, and other
couyevances awaited the party. The march
was taken up and the party were shown
oven. the entire ground, taking in the differ
ent awning wells, the little groves of trees
and Sthe1 attractions Of the vicinity. Trees
thriving in the middle of an alkali patch
were looked at with open-mOuthed
wonder by the Ogdenites present and even
tnen they refused to be convinced, insist
ing that the alkai was put there for the
occasion. An American flag flew from the
residence of MIR. Senior, placed there for
the especial purpose of alay .ng Rev. j.
Wesley Hills appetite for gore.
THE PROSPECTIVE CAR LINE
could be seen in embryo, the ties having
been already laid along the principal avenue
and this feature with the handsome little
depot pavilion, Just being completed, at
tracted no little attention.
Mr.. Kennedy pointed with pride to his
ranch on the western border OF Garden
CITY. where he has thriving orchard and
other good trees, aggregatIng 5OOO IN num-
Der. and being from l to years old. To
fully convince the gentlemen that there
was 80 trouble about growing trees IN that
soil. tkey were driven to the place where
the trees were raised, and there saw line
poplars from to 4 years old, thriving like
dandelions in a lawn.
THE SITE OFFERED
comprises forty acres of level land, with a
fine grove of trees in one corner and with
q large lrrlgaunE canal running through
the middle of it.
MIR. Kennedy has offered thirty acres Of
good land Joining the Garden City plat on
the west.
MOTOR LINE.
Nfr. w. H. Sherman told a HERALD re
norter that the committee had agreed to
Law and equip line of motors between this
city and Garden City in ease the university
was located there. They Eal received assur-
ances of sufficient capital to justify them II
making this offer. Mr.. Shearman felt as
sured that if the SITE was accepted, the
motors would be running rs soon as the
building was finished.
THE PARTY RETIRED
TO the city after taking q thorough look at
tho place. and after Bishop Warren had
hesn dined at the residence of DR.. Lift, the
board Of education held an evening session
at i2Eis Hall.