The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-31
OGDEN LETTER.
Especial Correspondence to The Inter
mountain Catholic0

Tme of moisture received in average
Years. and in and around Ogden more
perhaps than anywhere else IN 7 tan
the showers of May have maze thS
valley to bloom as a garden.
Everywhere the rich green wraps the
rolling hill and the level valley Ms
foothills are gay with pink, Whlle d ,l
yellow flowers. The lawns In the cry
are bright as they were never KNOW
before to be, and every garden anu
orchard is teeming with flowery prom
Uses of the largest fruit crops ever
gathered in old Weber. Just now the
city is wearing the holiday expression
of the days when spring is merging
into summer. Today and yesterday
with warm sunshine, every square yard
of the city parks is so much beauty
and the humming bees are busy gather
! ing in the wintry stores from a mil
lion blossoms, and the cool breeze is
laden with the perfume of rose, violets
| and lilacs.
The city Itself is passing through the
| busiest season known for years and
yet carpenters, masons and pIasterers
say that toward autumn it will be
much buster than now. The city ia
! theirs have very wisely concluded to
go forward with street paving, and
! even now as [ write Mr.. O'Niell has q
| large force of men at work near Cray
| dali preparing red sandstone for curb
! ing, and the shipment of asphaltum to
| this city will begin within a few days.
| The railroad building toward the lake
! goes bravely forward. despite the bad
weather that has controlled for ten
| days past. Track laying is now under
way, and by June / the track will be
completed to the little round mountain
at the lake side, fourteen miles from
| Ogden, at which point barges and yes
sells are to be built for use in transport
tation of railway material for construc-
ton of the causeway. That fourteen
| miles from Ogden to the lake shore is
without question the richest from an
agricultural standpoint of any in the
state of Utah. The entire distance is
made up of series of orchards, gar
dens, farms and rich pasture lands.
found nowhere else in Utah. The soil
is a rich black loan, and for this there
is an abundance of water for irriga-
ton. This region comprises an area of
about 40 square miles, and contains
more prosperity in the way of small
farms, gardens and orchards than one
would meet in the same area west of
the Rocky mountains. The water for
irrigatfng this vast acreage comes di-
large canal owned by the Pioneer Pow
er company at Ogden. No wonder that
the future traveller crossing the great
lake by rail and hurrying across this
rich district will call Utah the glory
of the earth.
Our Hot Springs railway line is now
running the distance from Ogden to the
Hot Springs park, about eight miles.
Trains run each way three times daily,
and from Montana, Idaho. Nevada,
Wyoming and Nebraska there comes
at present an exceedingly good patron
age. Railway traffic over the lines
centering in this city carries up to the
same time as during the past three
years. and in some lines of business it
is even better.
For the month of May school and
churchwOrk is progressing nicely at
Sacred Heart academy, and also at St.
Joseph's school. the closing labors for
the last half of the scholastic year TAX
ing up the time of teacher and pupil,
and the closing exercises promise to be
of the usual high standards common
in this institution.
At st. Joseph's new church work
goes bravely on, the metal work in the
interior is fast approaching completion.
The stained glass windows will go in
next and the decorative work to follow,
so that in few months the structure
will be ready for occupancy. Our con-
gregation increases in numbers from
week to week and it is well for us that
we are having built a new place of
worship for with the old building it is
very difficult to find room for more
than one-half of our people. The large
front window of st. Joseph's church is !
to be given by the ladies of the society |
of the Sacred Heart Their method is !
this, that the lady at the head of each |
band undertakes some method of rails !
ing given sum of money amongst her |
friends for this purpose. Some even |
ings ago Mrs, Don Mcguire gave an /
evening at the Catholic nall and from |
the proceeds of her needle art work and |
at the door, realized SIPS.
Mrs. T. D. Ryan, Mrs Mi'Ier, Mrs. |
Phalan and Mrs. Reed will follow each ]
in turn with the members of their
bands in some personal effort by which :
to collect a part of the funds 2oces>
sary to complete the purchase of this
Trinity Sunday saw our church at
first mass filled to an unusual degree,
there being of boys and girls sixty five
TO receive first communion and during
the present week the confirulat ton class
will receive the holy sacrament of con-
frmation. Turning from local affairs
to the world at distance for this
nolth of May we are left to cnntem-
plate the contrast. most especially with |
regard to the disturbed islands of the
West midas, where death has come
with terrors as never before on earth |
since 1t was the habitation of n,nn |
Thirty thousand human beings called
INTO eternity in the face of scenes that
human pen can never describS. The
of a city so complete that
lot three remain to tell the tale and
wen as we write these lines the death
ialing storms of flood and fire are do
ng their awful work in that most beau
iful part of the western world for
rom the island of st. Vincent to the
Western confines of Guatemala on the I
main land there is a destruction of
ands and homes and wailing for the
lead.
April and May have been conspicu-
us in human history for the record of
leath, personal history records the
eath of one man during April over in
south Africa about whose demise We
nay aptly quite the words of Mare
Antony over the dead body of Caesar,
where he says:
The evil that men do in their life
ives after them and good is often IN
erred with their bones" and it is to
re feared that such is destined to be
he condition is relating to the life !
nd works of Cecil Rhodes, the great ;
old blooded manipulation of South At
lea. He was truly great after the
manner of Englishmen, but the usual
God fortune that attended the aver
ge Anglo Saxon land grabber and pi- {
ate of the early days did not attend
he last years of Cecil Rhodes life.
nasmuch as he was not permitted to
We to enjoy wealth or honors that his