The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25

existing values considered.
EDUCATIONAL.
Logan bids fair to be the leading educa-
tional centre of the territory. 1t has two
well supported colleges attended By stu
dents from all parts of the territory and
from adjacent states, and good sy stem of
district schools. The completion of the
Woodruff district school building near the
centre of the city on College street, will
make more thorough grading possible.
The Brigham Young college is thriving
and progressive institution with hand
some endowment left by its founder. 1t
has about two hundred and fifty students
in attendance. The regular course of study
extends through four years, including
three years each of German and Latin, ex-
detrimental physics, theoretical and analyt-
ical chemistry, elementary and higher
mathematics, geology, mineralogy, botany
and the allied sciences and English litera-
ture, mental science, etc. In some of the
branches this institute is achieving raSu-
tation for imparting the most direct and
thorough instruction obtainable anywhere
in the territory. Much favorable comment
is heard among the people of Logan and
particularly among students, in regard to
the thorough and skillful manner in which
the instruction is given. Prof. j. H. Paul
is president of the faculty and is assisted
by eight teachers. A feature of the college
work is the instruction In theology, the
principles of the gospel as understood by
the church of Latter-day Saints forming
the basis of discipline.
The Agricultural college is a territorla
institution and also receives aid from the
general government. 1t has, therefore,
ample funds, and its magnificent buildings
are prominent feature of the landscape
from every direction. The agricultural
college has wide range of study, covering
particularly those subjects that have
directly or indirectly bearing upon agri-
culture. Mechanical training and practical
work are noteworthy features of this insti-
tuition. The well-equipped workshops, in
teresting museum, extensive library, etc,
are naturally the subjects of just pride on
the part of the people of Logan. The teach
ers in the agricultural college are special
ists Prof'J. w. Sanborn, M. A, is the
president, and though the college has been
in operation but one year prior to the
present, there are some $50 students now
in attendance. The government expert
ment station is located at the college, The
work done at this institution attracts wide
spread attention, and there can be no doubt
of its future greatness.
MINERAL.
Until August last few ever imagined that
] %, bo., Ilc,- ! H. e
eral environments. Since that time mineral
indications have been found in such GUAM
titles as to brighten many with the very
abundance. That mineral was known to
exist goes without saying Years ago
woodhaulers were in the habit of bring
ing from the mountains with them galena
carrying such heavy percentage of lead
that it could be run out in blacksmith's
forge and bullets made of it. Some eight
or ten years ago mines were opened in
Blacksmith Fork canon, but were prac-
tically abandoned In the late develop
ments OF the past sixty days abandoned
shafts have been found one of them over 100
feet deep, in Logan canon. 1t is quite pos
sible that the earlier teachings of promi-
nent citizens, that the better industry was
occupancy of the land and the possession
Of it, had much TO do in discouraging pros
pecting, but there seems also to have been
a general discredit among the people of
finding mines in this section.
1t is singular, however, how little it took
to change the current of public credit and
how little time it took to effect the change
when the event TRANSFERRED.
The Garfield mine, situated almost on the
summit of the range dividing Cache and
Box Elder counties at the southeast end of
Cache county, had also been worked and
abandoned. This was, in the main, the ex-
tent of the mining that had taken place in
the valley.
a sheepherder riding horse over the
rolling Mills few miles north of the divide
between Weber and Cache counties ex-
posed piece of galena. The spot was To-
Gated; the discoverer and his partner came
to Logan and a piece of galena was exhib-
tied with the remark that they had mo
need to have that assayed.'' This was the
beginning of the La Plata discoveries and
the spot on which it was found became the
La Plata shaft. The news spread fast and
in less than thirty days there were as many
as 500 persons in the district and the loca-
lions were as numerous almost as the rocks
in the vicinity.
The effect of this excitement was to
awaken recollections among old timers, of
what they had found themselves in former
days in the caflons. Citizens of the valley,
after the great rush to LaPlata had sub
sided, visited other points and it is doubt
tul if any person who had eyes educated
to see, came back from a three days visit
without finding something that bore ur-
mistakable evidences Of mineral
Naturally enough, and especially as the
Ogden papers began to claim the discover
les as within the reach of Ogden and
tributary to her, the public at large was
disposed to the belief that the whole thing
was but 'bocm blow" and for time it