The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03


take place early in June.
What is true of the Agricultural col
lege is likewise true of the Brigham
Young college. This latter has a rich
endowment of lands and money and it
also receives something every year
from the Mormon church. On its rolls
are somewhere in the neighbOrhood of
400 students, who come from all over
this and other states to gather wisdom
and to learn to impart it. The college
buildings present an imposing appear
ance, standing, as they do, in the midst
of a wide expanse of well-kept lawn.
The B. Y. is said to have one of the
very finest college gymnasiums in the
entire country. Every modern appliance
is to be found there and, judging by APP
pearances, most of the students use
them, for they are a healthy, robust
looking lot of young men and women.
But, although the colleges, and the
floating population they bring, contrf-
butte a large proportion of the prosper
ity of Logan, the town would still be
prosperous if they weren't here. The
natural advantages are so many that
the place couldn't go backward if it
tried. Nobody in Logan. however, is
lying awake at night trying to figure
out some way to do the crab act.
Logan's Resources.
Logan is as sure to go forward as the
sun is to shine and the days to succeed
one another. With a water power suffi
cient to operate half the factories in
the state, the only wonder to outsiders
is that more capitalists have not taken
advantage Of it to build workshops
there. 1t is estimated that properly
harnessed, the Logan river contains
100000 horsepower.
This is being utilized to some extent
by the grist mills. the electric light
works and other enterprises, but there
is lots of power going to waste.
One thing that is seen in Logan rare
ly seen elsewhere is the use of waste
power. In the southeastern end of the
city is chain Of grist mills. The first
takes the water from the river to turn
its big wheels. The next uses the wat
er after it comes out of the f1ume of the
first, and so it goes down the line. The
old story so dear to the heart of the
man or woman who desires to point a
moral: "Oh, the wheel will never turn
with the water that is passed. is here
given the lie. It is true that the same
water doesn't turn the same mill twice.
but it turns other mills, and the desired
result is accomplished.
Logan canyon, where the electric
power houses are located, is one of the
prettiest stretches of scenery in the
state. AS is the case with the grist
mills. the electric light companies,
which are now practically consolidated,
use water power. Their power costs
them almost nothing and as their ma
chimes, or part of them, are running
! every hour in the twenty the ap-
4 parent prOfigacy Of the people in burn
| ing lights in the day time is explained.
] &c nf n Txrflf to off
It also accounts for the fact that at
/ 2 or o'clock in the morning, when
ninety-nine out of every 100 people in
/ Logan are in bed, a glance at the
streets would indicate that everything
was running full blast. Window lights
are burning in the stores and offices
electroliers are doing business at theil
| full capacity and the illumination is
universal. Still, when the stranger Ia
boring under the delusion, that things
are open, tries to get in, he finds thai
the doors are locked and the proprietOrs
and clerks at home asleep.
Among the many blessing that LogaI
people have to be thankful for in com
mon with the people of Cache valley
is a plentiful and never falling supply
of pure water. It comes out of tn,
mountains in hundreds of ice colo
streams that merge themselves int
the river and furnish culinary and irri
cation water for LOganites and thos
from whom they draw support. Their
is water here for twice or three time
the population, and even now the coun
ty is about as thickly populated as an,
in the state with the exceptions of We
Der and Salt Lake, and possibly Utah.
OF the towns multiplicity of interest
much might be written. They may b
/ summarized. however by the statemen
that this city of not more than $50
people has four grist mills. several say
mills. two brickyards. ten blacksmith
shops, three printing houses, includin
. two excellent tTi-weekly papers. tn
Journal and Nation, a well-equippe
opera house, a tabernacle capable O
seating 4,500 people, an implement fac
tory, two breweries and other establish
ments of a character calculated t
: promote the growth of the town.
There are not many saloons in LogaT
, probably fewer than in any other tow
in the state, when population is take
into consideration. The police fore
consists of the marshal and two meI
one of whom is on duty during the da
and part of the night, and the other o
: duty all night. The night policema
told me that there had never been
crime committed in Logan during tn
last five or ten years but that the Grim
5 inal had been brought to Justice H
added that little law breaking was ir
/ dulged in, this being a self-evider
I truth, when 1 saw half the popuIatiO
t become excited over the arrest of
lonesome drunk.
E Lynching of Benson
1 But Logan has not ALWAYS been