The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-11

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CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.

There viii be no increase in the
price of coal nor of coke to the people
of this city and state unless some I'M
foreseen contingency arises said E.
l.. Carpenter of the Utah Fuel COM
pany Monday. Certainly no such
change will be made from the present
rate on account of the strike in the
anthracite regions of the east. We
are too remote from the scene of the
tie-up to be in the least affected by t.
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Labor was never more plentiful and
laborers so scarce in the history of
Utah as today" said an employment
agent last week. 4 have orders from
railroad and mining companies for
more than 1000 men, but it is impossi-
bic to fill, or even partially FILL the or
ders.'
The stockholders of the z. c. NJ. 1.
are probably the first residents of Salt
Lake to receive a Christmas present.
AT a meeting of the directors of the u.
c. NJ. l. held this week, a special divi-
dend of 2 per cent was declared in ad-
dition to the regular quarterly divi-
dend. This dividend is usually de-
clared at Christmas time to take the
place of a Christmas present. The di
rectors decided that it was best to let
the stockholders have their Christmas
present a little early this year.
Contracts for the new University
club building will be let next week, and
the week following excavation is to
begin on South Temple street, east of
the Alta club building. The clubmen
propose to have one of the most COM
Portable and home-like buildings in the
country. All of the cities in the Union
of any pretensions have now universe
ty clubs, and these associations of col
lege men are found very pleasant.
A Fred Wey of the Windsor Eu-
Topean hotel left this week for the fur
allure centers of the east to purchase
the furniture for his new European
hotel the Wilson, which is being erect
ed on the site of the old Harmon block
on East Second South street. The
house will contain about IFS rooms Mr..
Wey will go to Chicago, remaining
there about two weeks, when he will
go to Grand Rapids, Mich He expects
TO be away about thirty days, and
hopes to have the house ready for the
public by the first of January.
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Local lumber dealers say that Salt
Lake is threatened with a lumber
famine. They attribute the present
shortage of supply to the forest fires
which have been raging all summer in
the northwest, and to an unprecedented
demand from the eastern states and
from the Philippines. They also say
that the railroads haven't sufficient
freight cars or engines to transport the
lumber from the mills to market.
What the man in the moon would
term total eclipse of the sun from his
viewpoint will occur about 1920 o'clock
on the night of Thursday, Oct. 16, and
viii be known to US terrestrial inhab
itants as a total eclipse of the moon. |
On that night, unless the lunar citizens /
have a better power plant to furnish |
their electric lights than Salt Lake has, |
they will very probably take the pre-
caution TO put on a special detail of
police, order the chief to close all So /
looms and take divers other means of
protecting life and property, for they |
are scheduled, SO far as we know, 10 !
pass several hours in the densest dark /
ness. In this instance the moon would (
be heaven-to local hold-ups. Scien-
lists predict that the coming eclipse !
will be the greatest astronomical event !
Of many years. 1t will be total for all
hour and a half, as against a minute
and a half of the last eclipse, when as
tronomers only had an opportunity of !
seeing it. This time all may see it
throughout the country, providing they
care to remain awake long enough.
.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the oregon Short Line was held
in the board room at the headquarters
of the railroad company here Wednes-
day noon. There were 273,414 shares
which for the most part
were voted by proxy by Vice Presi-
dents Cornish and Bancroft and Sec
rotary Millar, who We're present.
The meeting was Of the usual stereo-
typed order, and save for the substitu-
ton of the name of w. 5. Mccormick
for that of Thomas r. Jones there
were no changes in the directorate
When il is stated that the name of
w. S. Mccormick will in all probability
be voted upon for the resident direc-
torship of the Union Pacific at the
meeting here next week, and when the
fact is taken into consideration that
Mr.. Mccormick is identified with the
San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake
as director, the selection is decidedly
q significant one and shows which way
the wind is blowing.
That there has been some under
standing between the San Pedro pro-
moters and the Oregon Short Line re- !
garding the extension to southern
California has long been rumored.
In this connection it can be authori- |
tatively stated that the negotiations
viii Terminate within the near future
to the extent that there will be only /
one line through to California via i
Utah, and that the San Pedro
viii do no construction at this end of
the line, but win connect with the !
Oregon Short Line Negotiations are |
now under way looking toward the mr. |
chase by Senator Clark and his assoc
ciates of the Oregon Short Line south
Of Salt Lake, including the Tintic
branch. If there should be a hitch over |
the price an understanding has been
reached whereby the San Pedro will
lease this portion of the Oregon Short i
Line. /