The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
A HEARTY WELCOME
Royal Time of the Delegates to
the Irrigation Congress.
SEVEN MILES OF THE NEW ROAD
Pythian Rsceptton-District and Probate
Courts-A Suit AgaiGs. the r. G. W.
Arrests for Unlawful Capitalization.

II wss royal ws!oome that Ogden ten
d2reA TO The delegates to the Irrigation
Congress, who csIre to the Junction City
;roE Salt Lake By special train, about
;.ree huadred strong, yesterday morning
a. ..e3 o'S,ccS. The host was met at the
ospot BY tee reception committee, com
posed of Colonel w. Il. Harvey, +. T.
f'jttiSS:n nnd about oEe hundred citizens
in carriages. After drive about the city
:o7 shout two hours to the principal places
OF intc'est the host repaired TO tie Grand
Opera house, where al informal reception
@ss eeld.
Colonel W. =. Harvey, alter few selec-
dJns by Kc2ts military baud, introduced
NSyor ". II. Turner, who stepped for
rsr5 asa we:oolasd The delegates 10 the
sF:sg2tioE ocngrshs to Ogden. lie said in
t7HStaoc1: No doubt you have had q
Ts,f tiereanE tiGIe Curing your stay in
Titan t~rIt:S-y. Ogden has not beer ad-
Vef1sa1! as rap:h Abroad as Salt Lake City,
So tTsst mary pcrhars have come here
oc'&verte'; to toe IDEA that there is moth
M. mcea 10 Uteh territory but Salt Lake
O&v. hGs i fesl convinced from your ap-
iesrsGces thiS morning, since your drive
:'-oa; tbs City, that you feel there is some
!a4cg rn3re ID it.n The mayor THEN
sp@Ee Of the advantages of irrisa-
tiac ~ tee fertile valleys of Utah
E.tss wticb hs rendered tho freedom of
ias o.ty in behalf Of the citizens of Ogden,
10 % @;sitCcs. and only regretted that the
6aIizahs were not better prepared for en-
tectsiulEg SheIn, and that they could not
rAm3:a with us logger.
Cclaual ". IL. Harvey followed the
nlkyar. and spoke Of tho advantages Of
tiS..oL, ard to;d tha-9 CT La Plata, tho new
.nIaiOg camp. twentythree miles to the
si'rtroast et Ogden, which promises to be-
th1 Lesdville OF the Rocky mountains At
toe coasiuSlon OF MIR. Rarvey's remarks he
aIAtsi' that complimentary lunch would
Sc gwen the guests at the Reed hotel, and
Introduced Senator Emery, of Kansas, 7Yho
brought the house down in applause by
Sai ing that mot half has ever been told of
Utah" DO spoke of his splendid enter
lainment in Salt Lake, and was surprised
a. The ovation that the party with whom
lie came had been given at tho hands of the
l.ec?ie of Ogden. In his state, he said,
people had tho idea that Denver was the
and CT tho world; but when he returned to
his home be would not hold Denver in such
l-igh estimation as he had in the past Ro
believed that before the heads of the boys
Of Utah became groy, there would DC mil
lions Of people located in these mountain
valleys.
The other npcakcrs were Mr.. Slack. of
Wyoming, Carpenter of Colorado. Rinkley
o. California and Prof. Bailey of South
Dakota, all Of whom spoke in glowing
terms of Utah, and seemed pleased at the
surprise givon them in Ogden. Secretary
Gillespie, of tho Salt Lake chamber of
commerce, said it was a grand welcome
they had received, but assured the dele
gates that it was only an ordinary kind of
reception for Ogden people.
After dining at the Reed, Chief Rhodes
gave waterworks exhibition at the COR
ner of Twenty-fifth street and Washington
avenue. AT l O'Clock the special steamed
cut of the union depot and the party was
OF tor the Bear River canal country and
Logan