The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-12
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: SALT LAKE :
CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.

w. P. Read is in New York attending
the annual meeting of the Street Rail-
way Superintendent of America.
Another Park City mining operator
showed his faith in the future of Salt
Lake last week when John McSooiey,
foreman of the Daily West. paid s2O,110
for 2515x7212 feet of ground, with the
one-story bkuilding. 125 feet east of
Main street, on the north side of Sec
ond South. The gentleman has already
leased ii for one year for $l'SOO.
The Twelfth battery was cut in two
last Saturday at Fort Douglas, and
the second half became officially the
Twenty battery. light artillery,
Captain Cronkheit commanding. How
ever, there are so many men being
discharged for expiration of service
that it is said hardly over twenty-five
or thirty of the old men will be left in
either battery. However. new recruits
are expected along any day, and the
two commands viii be built UP to the
full strength Of $50 men each.
Senator Thomas Kearns is deeply in
ferested in the proposition TO reclaim
arid land in eastern Utah by means Of
a canal which will tap the Grand river
in western Colorado. C.. Fitch Of the
photographic department of the gov
eminent brought the matter to the sem
ators attention. and he will do all he
can to further the project.
AT the coming session of congress"
said Senator Kearns. Il will endeaVor
to secure an appropriation to cover the
cost of surveying a route for the canal.
IT is not possible to say how long the
canal will be. or how much land can
.1.,E..
made and the reports completed.
Il would like to see the work done
at the earliest possible moment, for
there is a vast area of land in the
eastern part of the state that could be
brought under cultivation by irriga-
ton. At present the waters of the
Grand river are doing little or no good
TO anybody.
LAS soon as the senate convenes I
expect to present my request for the
survey approximation. If the plan is
found to be feasible appropriations for
construction work will be asked. and
the canal built along the line that will
result in the reclamation of the Great
est possible area
Among recent visitors to the sane
tum of the Intermountain Catholic
were D. A. Sullivan. representing the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company of
Pueblo. Colo, and William ]. Kenny of
De Kalb, III. Both gentlemen left to-
gether on the train for Pueblo.
Potatoes promise to be cheaper with 1
in the next few days. The farmers are
appearing on the streets with wagon !
loads Of the tubers, which they are |
anxious to dispose of at - cents per
bushel in lots of five bushels or more. |
while the average grocer insists upon /
having 81 per bushel for all that he |
sends home to the family larder. One |
of those who had a big load on the
street recently said he would not be |
much surprised if potatoes fell to so |
cents within the next thirty days.
Notices of location on about 5000 |
acres of land between Salt Lake City |
and the Great Salt lake, We're filed in /
the office of the county recorder. The |
land is said TO be upon a valuable bed
or deposit of petroleum and other /
hydrocarbons in solid, liquid or gas
eous form and upon bed of clay, |
gravel. sand, gold and other mineral !
deposits"
.
1t now begins to look as though some
Of the eastern milling associations
would soon have big grip upon the
milling industry of Utah. and once
bine and endeavor to force such of the
Utah millers who do not favor such a
policy into line. or out of the business
1t is stated upon the most
reliable authority that 40 per cent of
the mills of Utah are now under bond
to eastern mill owners, and that the
options. in most cases. at least will
not expire until Jan l next
.
II shall certainly build an indepen-
dent smelter in Utah, said Mr. Samuel
Newhouse. This viii be to handle
the products Of my mines and some
others associated with me. And L am
the erection of plant in
Denver. This smelter viii not be run in
connection with my mining operations
in Colorado. but viii be a custom
smelter. The thing is not decided upon
definitely, and the plans are too indefi-
mite now to be discussed" 1t is re-
ported there was a stormy meeting
betwene the smelter trust directors and
Mr.. NeWhouse at Denver. The latter.
it is said, was informed that he would
not be permitted to build smelter I'M
less he would make an agreement with
the trust TO maintain prices After the
meeting Mr.. NeWhouse refused to talk
about the matter, and Simon Guggen-
helm said the plans of the trust would
not be affected by anything Mr.. New
house can do.
.
II was definitely decided at the war
department. that several companies. ;
probably battalion of the Eighteenth :
infantry, shall be stationed at Fort
Douglas upon the return of the regi-
nent to this country. The portion of
The regiment that has been in the Phil
ppines for the past two years or more
s now due at San Francisco. The COM
nander OF the Eighteenth infantry is
Colonel James NJ. Saline Lieutenant
Colonel Henry H. Adams is second in
command. Captain Munroe Mcfarland
,egimental adjutant, Captain George
w. Martin quartermaSter and Captain
)rea Hunt commissary. These are all
he officers attached to this headouar-
ers that are fixed. The battalion and
'ompany commanders and subordinate i
lfhcers VIII not be known until the
which are to go 10 Fort
Douglas are named by the commander {
IF the department.
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That All Hallows college intends Ia
1ut in first-class team was made
evident the other day when Blackburn
! weil-known eastern coach, arrived :
rom Chlcago and took charge of the i
cam. blackburn played three years
With the Chicagos and was two wears
IN the famous Denver A. c. team '
He was at one time one of the best /
Iuarterbacks in the history of the
sport and as a coach has few equals.
Senator w A. Clark. the Montana c
copper king, has located 5000 acres of /
valuable coal lands in the vicinity of
Meeteetsee on the Gray Bull river. for
y miles south Of Cody, in the Big Horn G
tountry, ana viii at once open from
sIBnt 70 twelve mines and ship the
product to Montana and other states c
n the northwest. 800 20 2