The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
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| BRIGHAM CITY, April 3.--Most of
the people hereabouts are busy as bees
preparing their gardens. orchards and
farms and getting ready to go to the
Salt Lake conference
A considerable acreage of new land
on the hillside southeast of Brigham is
being broken up this spring, and the
sagebrush which has occupied this land
for years. almost without molestation,
is being dug up and consigned to the
flames. In a few months these new
tracts will take on a green covering of
lucern, grain or other profitable vegeta-
ton. The productiveness of even our
apparently lifeless and stony hills is
quite wonderful. They yield immense
crops of grain when irrigated and two
good crops of lucern without irriga-
ton. 1t looks as if before very many
years elapse, farming and gardening in
Utah will be carried almost to the
hilltops
Material is still being hauled to the
tabernacle grounds to be used in it's re-
construction. Considerable interest has
lately been aroused over where the
building committee, J. B. McMaster.
James Nelson and A A. Jonsen, shall
purchase the lumber and timber neces-
sary for the work. Between $4,000 and
1000 feet are required. Some wish to
send to Oregon or other distant places
for it, while quite a strong element ia
vcrs giving the home people a chance
to take this lumber right out of the
neighboring hills There are plenty of
saw mills there, no end of good timber,
and if, as the men claim, they can fur
nish as suitable material, they think
they ought to secure the. contract.
A peculiar tale comes through an au-
thentic source from Corinne in rela-
ton to the death of the late A. E.
Barnes, a prominent citizen of that
city. 1t seems he was out milking his
cow The animal became somewhat I'M
ruly, whereupon Mr.. Barnes picked up
his milk stool and damned it at the
brute. 1t struck her on the udder, but
as it slipped through the mans hands
a silver ran into one of his fingers. The
sore that resulted was at intervals
picked with an old needle and cut into
with a knife. Finally, blood poisoning
set in, and in time the gentleman died.
Now comes the story that the udder of
the unruly COW caked at the spot where
the milk stool struck it, The milk got
bad, but was fed to her little baby by
Mrs. J. T. Pitt, who had not detected
anything wrong with it. Finally, it is
claimed, the Pitt baby actually died
from the effects of this bad milk. Thus
it would appear that two lives were
lost simply from the common, every
day occurrence of fiinging a milk stool
at an unruly cow.
A number of relatives of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. L. Ensign, two old citizens of this
place. have been collecting in Brigham
this week from Cache valley and other
parts to engage in the celebration of
hirth e
birthday was also celebrated at the
same time and place. 1t proved to be
a big social gathering and all had a
grand time.
Considerable talk is being INDUCED in
of late in reference to the mine pros
poets of the various mining localities in
Box Elder county. Activity is being
displayed at the various claims north
of eown at Willard and in the western
part of the county. AS soon as the
roads are opened up through the mount
aims several parties are ready to pro-
coed eastward toward La Plata, where
they will begin immediate development
cf many promising claims in various
parts of that section. The prospects
are that no inconsiderable amount of
work will be done at these places dur
ing the approaching summer.
Tomorrow, the Republicans of this
ham city for the purpose of sending del
egates to the proposed convention at
Salt Lake. OF course all of our local
Repubs are for silver-all Utonians are
but we wonder where they expect to
find national silver Republicans to
run for president and vice-president
Getting them will be like hunting for
needles in hay stack.
Today a large number of Brigham
people went down to attend conference. |
Another large delegation will go down
tomorrow.
Nearly all of the district schools of
Brigham city will be out for the sea-
son inside of a month. Several have
already closed their doors. There are !
about an even one thousand school
children in Brigham, a large percentage |
OF which attend school the greater part !
of the school year.
The firenen were out yesterday after
noon in their handsome helmets and |
rubber coats, drilling. Their practice
attracted a large crowd of people. The |
boys are no snides at the work, as
some of the recent fires in Brigham |
have proven to the entire satisfaction |
of the big majority of the people.