The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-29
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
A Mild Form of Mining Fever
at Brigham City.
THE PEACH CROP is ABUNDANT.
Improvements and Progress the Watchword-
The Box Elder Building and Loan As
sociation-0ther Items.

| A mild degree of mining fever is in town.
| Prospectors are searching the hills, Some
good specimens have been found.
| Surveyors are busy along the Utah &
| Northern railroad.
Ole Jensen spoke in the tabernacle Sun
day, and told us of some OF his experience
in the Land of the Midnight Sun"
! The abundance of peaches this year keeps
the inhabitants of Brigham very busy at
present, more so this stormy weather, for
+! if it happens to rain on them during the
time they are spread out for drying, they
become dark and not as salable.
The people across the river must be very
anxious to get their portion of the canal.
! Papers in the court house show that they
offer Mr.. Boutwell, about every other block
in Corinne. In consideration of this he is
to bring the water to the town.
| Mr.. Roche is one of the favored ones. 1t
appears that the canal man will have to
pay him a nice little sum for the right of
way through his land. Figures show this
sum to be large enough TO start any com
mon person in business.
Anderson Brothers had to knock the
bottom out of their store in order to make
room for their fall goods.
C. B. Olson delivered lecture on the
first principles of the gospel in the Third
ward meeting house Sunday evening.
The tax collectors are kept busy relieving
the people of their surplus cash.
The Box Elder Building, Benefit and
Loan association have filed their papers of
incorporation with the county clerk. They
are Incorporated for twenty-five years,
with capital of 100000, divided into 900
shares of 800 each. The directors are:
Nels Petersen, David p. Burt, E. A. Box,
j. D. Peters, John F. Merrill, r. H. Jones,
j. &. Nielsen, p. p. Siggard and William
Wrighton.
Some of the Bear Lake people think the
fruit peddlers from this valley are getting
away with too much Bear Lake cash, so
they come over here TO peddle cheese and
fish. Mr.. Tippets and Mr.. Rich have just
been over with each Il load of cheese. The
the latter went as far south as Salt Lake
county.
Mr.. John P. Holmgren, accompanied by
Miss Mary c. Jensen, of Bear River city.
called at the court house to-day, to pay his
taxes. While the collector was making
out the receipt the young couple strayed to
the other side of the fence and spoke in a
whisper to Jonah Matthias. That gentle
man made out another paper for them,
when the happy couple left on their way to
Logan.
What is the matter with the Ogden post
q
couple Of books and a letter to friend III
Ogden Two months ago. The letter has
Just been received but the books have gone
where. Echo answers, ''WhereE"
L. D. Jones, Esq, of Samaria, Idaho,
came into town the other day with load
of grain. He also brought along a sample
of his fine colts. He will go as far as
Ogden and expects to exchange grain and
colt and return with cash and family
carriage.
a gentleman down from Collinston says
the men who went up TO work on the
canal, are leaving about as fast as they
came short time ago. Some of them are
more in u hurry to get away than they
We're to get there. They came On foot but
now when they leave they get away with
the farmers horses.
O. G. Snow is sending letters TO the
various bishops in the county enquiring
for men to work on the canal. No doubt
it has been ascertained that tramps and
buns are not the kind of men wanted for
such hard work, but the hard workngmen
residing in Utah is the kind they need.
The Corinne Mill, Canal and Stock COM
pany don't believe in paying taxes on their
sheep in more than one county the same
year. They were assessed in Box Elder
county, Utah, this spring and have paid the
taxes here. They now learn that one tax
collector in Idaho is trying to collect taxes
on the sheep up there. He would have at
tached and taken them from the herder but
that individual must have been Il second
counsin to a cowboy, as he stood the
revenue man off with shotgun.
Our county clerk has his share of mar
rage business to ill out. Yesterday
young couple called to see him on particu-
lar business for certain necessary papers.
This couple certainly had the advantage
over Edgar Snow and Miss Mayne, as
neither of them were compelled to obtain
their parents consent. The gentleman was
sixty eight, and the blushing bride just
sixty three years old. They realized
that this life is short, so they
were looking through the court
house for some obliging person who
would pronounce them man and wife.
They asked the clerk to do so, but he de-
clined with thanks. Two or three other
persons were appealed to with the same re
suit. They were referred to NJ l.. En-
sign, the justice Of the peace, and we viii
hope they found him, and that he sent
them away rejoicing.
BRIGHAM CITY, U. T., Sept p.