The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-15

|, SALT LAKE
CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.

The hearns mansion will be finished
In two weeks, so the chief decorator
says. But the senator and his family
viii not occupy it until fall, so that
there is no immediate hurry to furnish
it, and this may not be done until late
in the summer.
Colonel Matt Dougherty has been up
in the Wyoming oil fields, and says
that the recent very cold weather up
there has curtailed operations by freez-
ing up the water supplies so that but
little was available for use in engine
boilers However. the weather has
moderated there, as well as here, and
well boring is once more getting into
full swing.
The precipitation for January, 1902.
was generally deficient, but most de-
cidedly so over the northern portion of
the state, according to the report of
the weather bureau. Nearly all of it
was in the form of snow. The snow,
especially that which fell during the
latter part of the MONTH was very dry
and fine, and will not make nearly the
usual amount of water.
The supreme court has rendered its
decision in the case Of the Salt Lake
City Water & Electrical Power COM
pany and Joseph Geoghegan, receiver,
VS.. Salt Lake City and Amanda Can
non. affirming the action of the lower
court in allowing plaintiff to connect
its fume with the city's canal, upon
furnishing a bond in the sum of $4,000,
pending the determination of the con-
demnation proceedings brought by
Them against the city.
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A special to the Los Angeles Times
from New York says:
The contract for a joint survey
through the disputed territory in Ne
vada has been signed by the presidents
of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake road and the Utah, Nevada and
California Railway company.
When the above dispatch was shown
to T. Z. Gibbon. Esq. in Los Angeles,
he said the contract had just arrived.
1T came today said Mr.. Gibbon. 1T
is signed by w. A. Clark, president of
the Salt Lake road. and Judge Cornish.
vice president of the Hartman road.
The contract not only puts an end to
one of the biggest litigations begun of
late in this country, but is a grand
thing for the Salt Lake line and Los
Angeles. 1t eXpedites the completion
of the Salt Lake road by two years and
saves us a million dollars. to say the
least"
The rivalry between ogden and Salt
Lake has ceased and the former
city gains its point through the |
proposed Southern Pacific cutoff |
across the lake. Salt Lake was de- |
feated and ogden is correspondingly |
happy.
Colonel T. G.. Weber and other |
prominent business men remarked the |
other day that. after all, the action of |
the s. p. in deciding in favor of the |
lake cutoff would not injure Salt Lake /
City, and if it would help Ogden in any |
way no one in Salt Lake would object. |
The colonel observed that conversation |
with the engineers of the Southern Pa |
cific convinced him that the lake |
scheme had been decided on favorably !
for some time past, and nothing could |
stop it. The plan was really decided on
by the late Coils p. Huntington, and
the engineers answered objections as to
overcoming the distractions of nature
that after wrestling with the swamps !
and water in Mississippi, the floods in
southern Arizona and California, and
the rocky Businesses of the Rockies and
the sSierras, the problems presented by
Great Salt lake did not occasion much
apprehension. Colonel Weber re-
marked that Salt Lake would continue
to grow right along and inside of ten
years he looked to see this a city of
over 10000 inhabitants. The advent of
the Clark road will be a tremendous
lift for the town, and that the road is
a sure go is now a settled thing. There
is plenty of money for it, and Senator
Clark does not have to go into the
market to seek the sale of single
bond.