The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-28
DENvER's NEW CATHEDRAL.
It Will Be Erected On Capitol Hill at
Cost of From $15o,ooo toS2oo. 900.

Oeuver office. Corner Sixth Avenue and.
South Water Street
correspondence Intermountain Catholic
D~nver.- Colo, Oct. %. 1899.
Denver is TO have a new Catholic ca
tbedral. 1t will be located on CAPITOL
hin and viii cost from $15O,OOO to 5000 :
0na A beautiful site has been secured
at the corner of CoifaX and Logan ave-
nues The plot covers. eight lots. The
transfer of the property has beer. made
10 the Rev Michael F. Callahan and
the deeds have been placed on record
with the county clerk.
The eight lots are surrounded nv
trees which increase the beauty and
value Of the site. The paving taxes are
als9 paid. winch means an advantage
of fully $4,000. The parcels form \
commanding site, 125x196 feet. in one of
tbe best pOrtiOns5of the CITY The p,.ica
uaid was 5000. The gr'antors of the
property are Mrs. Isabella M. Tracy
william Orr Of Mercer county. nlin0ds
and Nellie A. WethelilI, the latter two
selling five and the former three of the
lots.
SITE OPPOSITE THE. CAPITOL,
A few months ago an apparently de-
sirable site was looked upon with favor
at ColfaX and Sherman avenues but
afterwards the ground was found to be
of such a cathedral as suggested. Hence
this site was abandoned A church as
ISOLATION will be formed to superintend
the work of construction and attend to
the receipt of subscriptions two of
WhiG2 of $4,000 each have already been
received. One of the donors resides in
the east. and at the time he gave the
money he made the cheerful remark
that he never before parted with his
money with such satisfaction. AS has
been said, the cathedral Will cost be-
tween Sl50,000 and $4,000 and will be
strictly modern.
The loan is not yet fully adjusted,
but the rest is matter of detail bound
to be closed up very shortly. The cal
thedTal parish takes in the territory
from Twenty second avenue to Eighth
avenue, or Cherry creek, and to Clark
son street. 1t also includes Montclair.
A similar church will probably be built
down town. If necessary, presumably
on lower Eighteenth or Nineteenth
streets. for the accommodation of trav
elers and the few parishioners who re-
side in the business district of the city.
REDUCING FIXED CHARGES.
Father Callahan has returned from
New York and Philadelphia, where he
succeeded in reducing the interest on
the Stout street property from to 5
per cent. The original site for the ca
thedral was on Logan avenue opposite
the Logan avenue school The church
now has title TO sixteen lots in the
block, and viii sell them and apply the |
proceeds to the erection Of the now eGi- |
fee at COlfaX and Logan avenues. The |
value of property now held by the |
Church Conservatively aggregates $780, /
600, without counting the Logan avenue |
school. The ten lots at Fifteenth and |
Stout upon which lie present cathedral |
is located, will not be sold for the pres /
emit as the interest on the debt has
been reduced and the Church can af- /
ford to hold the realty until a figure /
rejecting the true value OF property
in this vicinity can be obtained
Father Callahan returned to the city
Friday night, the day before the OPP
lion on the property just acquired ex-
piTeu. The transfer was negotiated by
James Leonard of the firm Of Leonard
d Montgomery. The abstracts were
examined by Attorney John H. Reddin.
The lots are numbered from IA to 10.
in block 300. Clements addition, and 10
and 20, in block SO, j. w. Srpftll's ad-
ditiOn.
The Sisters of the Convent of the
Good Shepherd are preparing to hold a
fair in the early part of December. All
the friends of the good Sisters in Den
yer VIII no doubt take a lively interest
in the event and make it a success in
every respect. The date and place
where the fair VIII be held viii be an
n0Unced later. Certainly the Sisters
deserve every encouragement from the
Catholics Of Denver and the Inter
I'D a.