The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-30
THE QUEEN OF CACHE
A BirdSeye View OF Logan and
Her Surroundings.
MORE DEPOT FACILITIES NEEDED.
The Agricultural College GrOunds-A New
Meeting House-A Banker Has Scene
81 Love You"

Your correspondent anu SOulc OIuGGS.
among them a gentleman lately returned
from Oregon and Washington territory,
took in the city and its surroundings a
few mornings ago. Passing through the
northwest part of the city where stately
frame buildings and neatly arranged
grounds have taken the places of the ''old
country" COW sheds and unseemly cOr'als
to the extent Of making one lose his bear
ings for the want of familiar landmarks,
we left the city limits to come immedi-
ately upon the wheat fields that are part
of the thousands of acres that make Cache
county the granary Of Utah. Here and
directly north of Logan is mile after mile
of NEEDLESS, cultivated land, nearly every
acre of which has a water right and is
accessible to water Here is raised an
average of thirty-five bushels of grain on
an acre. Going some two miles, and keep
ing northwest, we pass the grain land and
we have the hay fields of Logan and Ben
son ward. Here chiefly is where the many
thousand tons of hay is grown that feeds
not only LOgan's but many Of Salt Lakes
and Idaho's livery horses and cattle. |
Here, too, viii number a hundred or more
limpid springs that ought to inspire such |
piscatorial ambition in the owners as would |
ity Of the tinny tribe. Retracing our road |
to town, we follow the railroad, and we see !
the least prepOssesSing part of it. That |
part which should be the most inviting to |
the stranger is the only part which has not |
some potent redeeming feature, and the |
eye sore and disgrace to this part: that |
which proves the greatest detriment to |
Logan in turning away the mOnied |
stranger, the feature that he sees first and |
that discOurages him most is the Logan de |
pot. How long shall a lOng-suffering PEG !
pie be compelled to put up with an enlarged
box car for a freight house. waiting room
and office! Seemingly, Just as long as |
monopoly road has all the say and fails to |
recognize people to whom it mostly owes
its existence. From here few blocks |
takes us to what was only few years ago
the southwest fields of Logan, but what is |
now fenced, built-up and inhabited part
of town. A mile further on and the former
open, distant hay fields are now near and
handy fenced pastures. Going from here
up the south streets of former Logan, we
pass on the south what is now the Sixth
and Seventh wards, the two most beauti- |
full, though not so well built up. wards in |
Logan. The road now leads us up the !
Temple dugway. Arriving at the top of
the first of a succession of level ''benches'' |
above the city and we are on the temple |
grounds from where we have a view of |
LOgan-One of the most beautiful of grow |
ing cities. From here we look down into
the little valley of the river bed where |
the Seventh ward has sprung from one
dense clump of willows in the last seven
years. Travelling along the bench we find |
ourselves in the once INDECENT and I'M |
couth Fifth ward, the yet to be aristocratic |
ward of town. A little over a mile north |
east of the temple is the brow of the second |
bluff, the extension of which is two miles |
of the most level country, a diversity of
gravelly and loamy soil at a height that
commands view of nearly every nook !
corner and town in the whole of beautiful
Cache. From here Providence shows
every street belonging to it running north
and south, and, as ii is even nearer than
some parts Of Logan, looks what it eventu- |
ally must becOmc-One Of LOgan'S wards |
Nearly every house can be seen of AIillville |
Hyrum, Weilsville, Mendon. and Newton |
Paradise, Charleston, Smithfield and Hyde |
Park are distinctly seen. Richmond and |
Franklin are hidden only by little bluff |
Ninety acres OF the choicest part Of |
this bench is what Logan city and Cache |
county have appropriated and what has |
been accepted by the Agricultural college |
board as the farm of the Agricultural col |
lege On the edge Of this bluff is small |
and the only eminence on this fat bench |
and this has been selected as the site Of the |
college building. The building will face |
the west. The part that is now to be put up |
IS the south wing. 1t will be near \ street |
running north and south. and be q little to |
the south Of the centre of Seventh street |
so that the main building, when it is put up /
viii be in the exact centre OF Seventh |
street. and. as the street viii terminate
there, the building win be unObstructed !
from view and viii, therefore. make even a |
more commanding appearance. From the /
building west, In a radius Of a few rods. is |
a fail of some fifty feet or more. As every !
part Of the land IS accessible to water |
should the college ever want to erect ma |
chine works. It has ample water power at |
its command. Taken altogether a more APP |
prOpriate county, a more beautiful city. or !
a spot where nature so laviShly offers every
facility for an agricultural college could |
not have been found in Utah, or, perhaps |
the United States.
GENERAL NOTES.
The plans for the Fourth ward meeting
house are expected daily from Salt Lake.
Hyrum WahlstrOm, who has charge of
the musical department of the b. Y. col |
lege, has been been confined to his bed for
weeks with a gathering or abscess on his |
right thigh.
The grand ball and concert gotten up in
the interest of William H. Smart, formerly
one of the faculty of the B. Y. college and |
who starts for Palestine on the Both inst,
will occur on Monday evening next. An
huge time is expected.
One of Logan's private bankers went |
into the barber shop yesterday to change |
some money. When leaving IN hurry he |
forgot pile of eight so gold pieces lying |
on the sofa. Ordinary course of business |
made demand in a few hours, but our
Croesus' memory was not so long as his list !
of debts, and failed to remind him what he |
had done with the money. Uneasiness !
grew to anxiety, anxiety to alarm and after
hours OF excited search, alarm settled
down to pitiful despair. He was return |
ing home in this pitiful condition when he !
called at the barber shop and related his
misfortune. Without more ado the genial
Lam0reauX handed him his money. The
reaction was too much. Tears sprang to
his eyes, and in broken accents and for
eign brogue. he exclaimed: IAN | can do is
10 express dat love you
LOGAN, April q, 1882