The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-13
HEALTHY RIVALRY
How Southern Towns Strive for
Supremacy.
THE TEMPLE CITY PROSPERS
Manti Soon to Have Waterworks Completed
A Cute Pair of Pets-Coal at
Salt Lake Prices
THE TEMPLE CITY PROSPERs

There seems to be good deal of healthy
rivalry between Manti and her sister towns
and considerable amount of poetical
staggering is INDUCED in and pet names
assumed, but Manti can never be robbed of
her solid and deserving title of ''The
Temple City," as long as the solid rock on
which this beautiful structure is built.
Her sister towns and all the country round
about have contributed handsomely TO the
building of the same, yet Manti is the proud
city in which it is located.
Manti will soon have her waterworks
completed. One tank holds 80, 900 gallons !;
and farther up the mountain is another
tank and connected by sewer pipe; still
farther up there is another spring which
will be conveyed into the tanks below.
From the lower tank, the water will be
conveyed to the city in iron pipes. The pre-
sent city council bonded the corporation
for sufficient sum to complete the work
to the edge Of town, but what the incoming
council will do cannot be known new. No
doubt the work will go straight along and
the water will be distributed all over where
IL may be needed. There will be pres
sure, of about forty pounds to the square
inch and it will be used in case of fire.
A rumor got about today that Manti was
| going to have car line, but it proved I'M
true; our friend j. }. Taylor was simply
buying up condemned ties for some COM
| pany north.
AT the Bench hotel may be seen q pair of
young mountain lions as big as an ordinary
dog. In the fall a young Nimrod was in the
canon hunting when he came across an an
imal resembling wildcat but quite young,
| so he proceeded to gather it in, when the
lloness stepped out of the brush and put in
aprotest. The youth let her have the con-
cents of his Winchester and downed her;
then appeared the other kitten, which, with
the other, he carried home in triumph. The
Gonness was skinned and the skin stuffed
and was exhibited at the reception of the
Il. @. w. and now at the Board of Trade
saloon.
The Rio Grande Western is deliverin e
Pleasant Valley coal at the depot for the
sum of 1875, while the mines south of town
charge $3.50 at the pits, but it is said to be
| somewhat inferior in quality.
The weather, so far this week, has been
very cold, but seems to be undertaking
The district schools are over full and a
number of children have to attend the
Episcopal mission school, which is said to
be well conducted.
The citizens of Manti voted a curfew act,
and it is caution how the youngsters
bolt for home when the mission bells rings
out its warning notes, though some of the
older ones seem determined that "curfew
shall not ring tonight for them.
Some talk is INDUCED in on the street
corners and on sunny storesteps IN relation
to factories, tanneries, ETC., showing thai
the people are waking up to the necessity
of home industries starting up in the com
munity; and Manti, with her natural re
sources in abundance, will do something
more than talk or it will be strange.
The people of Gunnison are working or
their reservoir below SiX-mile creek, south
of Manti, which they intend to put in gooc
repair, and an assessment of so cents pei
acre has been levied on all cultivated lanC
using the water. VACARo.
| MANTI, Feb. z.