The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
PROGRESS TOBE MADE
A Retrospective Peep at the
Future Of Brigham City.
WHAT MAY SURELY BE EXPECTED
Box Elder Knocked Out and Brigham CITY
Substituted-The Bear River Canal
Some Comparisons.
For THE SUNDAY HERALD

While rummaging through big stack of
HERALDs and other papers recently, my
attention was suddenly diverted to an ap-
parently new sheet to my eyes, The size.
form and general appearance of this paper
were unfamiliar. l. therefore, picked it
up. The upper portion Of the sheet was
badly torn and tatsered, but with difficulty
managed to decipher what appeared to be
the following:
BRIGHAM BUGLER, January =. 1900.
PuDllShed every Tuesday and Friday, at Brig
ham City, Utah.
scanned its columns closely, and among
many other items of interest. the follow
ing might have been seen:
RISE AND FALL OF Box ELDER. About
eighteen years ago Box Elder was born
that Is the Box Elder which died in the
VAN attempt to swallow very luscious
old morsel of indigestible food-Brigham
CITY, Its parents were a-a-man! No.
not god-a mana simple, ordinary. Sun
day-once-a-week man. He was nurtured
oy eastern mammals, and then shipped out
here to mammal US. But we wouldn't be
mammalled He couldn't snuff the high
sounding Brigham city, as it smelled too
L
1erer So this eastern mammal went
sporting with the P. o. NJ G., at Washing
ton, and scooped in as his kill, BOX Elder
T. o." to supercede Brigham. notwith-
standing Jealous protest to the contrary
from W per cent. Of the citizens OF the
pace. From the very commencement,
Brigham city and depot waged war of
determination against the hateful Box
Elder p. o. They blooded each others
noses, and threw mud at every favorable
opportunity. This turmoil continued unin
Oerruptedly Tor nearly twelve years, until
some where about 1894 On this memora
bic occasion Brigham's entire population
acting as grand harmonious whole
swelled into mighty wave, and bearing
down upon the poorly planted Box Elder.
swept 1t into the vast ocean which IL turn
tossed 1t into the Arctics. where if was
bounced upon by the greedy penguines and
aeVoured; but each bird that partook died
Immediately of the pink eye
AT THE WEE GRAND OPERA HoUsE-I,ast
night, the Brigham Home Dramatic corn.
pany presented the charming new comedy.
May kay, the Girl from Salt Lake, by
Essay Calgh. The piece went to a damned
mouse and enthusiastic audience. 1t was
prodlglous hit and the rendition speaks
volumes Tor the unsurpassed local talent |
M 1,l our city possesses. omit the in
dlVldual mention of the dramatic persona
because OF the startling effects a revelation
OF the names of several of the leading
actors would produce
THE NATURAL Gas CoMPANY.-This conn |
pany mas been granted the privilege of ex
lending its line of illumination along tbe |
entlre length of Young, Forest and Pleas |
duG sgreets When this work is completed. |
our city can boast of having twelve miles |
OIL streets lighted by the gas from the flows
Whlch are being so iudustriously worked |
at the western outskirts of the CITY.
LIE WOODEN FACTORY AND TANNERY.-
w men, oy the way, represented dead prom
erty TO the amount of thirty or forty thou
SAND dollars in 1890, did an immense bust
ness during the past summer At the
SIochnolders meeting last week. dividend |
OF ~ per cent. was declared Their u. O90 |
mead OF sheep yield abundance of wool.
ana most OF the employees are share-hoId-
ers Of the company
OTHER NOTES.
The new Box Elder Stake academy will
be completed in the spring. 1t will be one
OF the most handsomely finished buildings
IN the place and its cost will exceed $1,000. F:
Thursday night water main on North
w all street froze up and burst. Subse
quently, at this point, the water rushed
down and spouting up fifteen feet in the
ar froze into wild and Enthusiastically
SNAPPED lceberg-the admiration of the hun {
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b. =. w. and w Co has lad bnt, slipht |
trouble with their system of pipes til;s
winter, and Will make several much-needed d
extensions in the spring
The population of our fair CITY of Homes =
has doubled since 1890; now we claim a ="
census OF over six thousand
Over two hundred thousand dollars worth +
OF nome produce were shipped from Brig
ham last summer
Judge Albert Heed opened law Office in il
this CITY In the fore part of 1890. He has /;
pied MS tongue necessarily ever since. I'M
I'll last week when the Judge received in C
formation that an opulent relative in the
east mad succumbed, bequeathing him a vast C
fortune. Albert has gone. But he did not
forget his friends. Over the signature of L
Bill Nye, ir, he wired back from Laramie s
nat ne would settle all large bills when the 5
'dews drop in December" and the small
ones ne wouldn't shake a stick at even iii D
he SHOWS set in September" No offeuse Ii
meant, judge. G
The city purchased several hundred VOL
lines for the free reading room recently.
They consist of the latest works on travej.
cience, fiction, history, biography, and
,uoo- biography, etc. We now have one of q
he most complete reading rooms in the
tate. Whoop, state But there it is. 4.
lain as day-s-t-a-t-e! u
William Horsley has retired from the c
immediate supervision of the large mer s.
antlle establishment of William Horsley h
I Sons His Oldest son, Glen, will man +,
ge the business from this on. We can
onestly recommend Glenn as a good-na
ured. thorough business man of unoues-
ionable probity.
There was confederation down in the IL
bird ward lately. The only injury to life s.
eng cows tail and the singing of the y
Thlte hair of the head of small boy who y,
-as working with might and main to drive "
ne COW out of the burning shed by the aid az
the lost extremity Both will survive hi
leir sad deprivations. T
The Bear River canal is now crusted over
18th solid layer of ice, six inches thick.
his puts dead stop to the operation of
anal boats which are plying so systemat-
ally up and down the canal between OC- III
en- and Brigham. The amount of bulky
ommodities carried by this means last til
lmmer was simply enormous.
There will be grand dress ball at the ~
Zee Opera house on Valentines day. "
gorge L. Graehl, NJ w. Snow. o. n. al
tohl, jr., and H. z. Bowring form the
'mmlttee on arrangements They desire
generally understood that the new false
Jor Will be ready, and the hall will then
mfortaoly accommodate twenty sets. Id
We take pride in the ''swiftnessn of our 70
zee track on the barrens north of town. III
I'd in the heetness of some of the horse
,sh Brigham is producing. We recently -,
armed, from private source that while NJ
Snow, jr. and o. It. Pierce were exer- I'VE
sing their colts on this track, about the
tier part Of November last. Shows
epper actually made the mile in 2.15