The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-25
SALT LAKE
CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.

Logan is to have a condensed milk
factory.
Pioneer square is to be opened to the
public as a park on July a
Local dry goods men are still appre-
hensive over the continued stlffness IN
the prices of textile fabrics, particular
1y as there is a scarcity in raw cotton.
However. it is hoped that when the new
crop comes along there will be fall IN
prices Of the manufactured goods.
The pear crop of Brigham City and
vicinity is practically a failure, ana
what is worse. nearly every pear tree
in every orchard, both young and old,
is so seriously affected with blight that
pear growing is believed to be doomed.
The number of breakfast foods con-
tinues 10 increase. and local grocery
men despair of any curtalfment. WIFI
in the last week agents OF rev ana ull
trieds have been sowing Droadcasl
specimen packages in the residence
quarter to be followed up later Dy
: agents to push the sale Of the goods.
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All the leading groceries and meat
markets in the southeastern part Oh the
city will close on Fridays at 2 p. m.
According to a decision given by
Judge w. c. Hail. a gambling debt Is
not a legal obligation in this state ana
: cannot be collected by legal procedure
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The Godbe-Pitts drug store, at the
corner of Main and First South streets,
the oldest in Salt Lake, has been SOLD
to John T. Treasurer and Joseph young
of Rock Springs, Wyo. The purchasers
!, civ TNOCEnCCiOn- taking the 4
business from July 1.
The level of Great Salt lake has gone |
down three inches in the past half |
month. For more than a month past
the water has been receding at th's !
alarming rate, and the present lnulca-
fions are that the rate will be main
tanned. if not increased, for two or
three months longer.
Utah millers have combined and ad-
vanced the price of flour 10 cents
hundred. increasing the retail price OF
Utah high patent of all makes from
$3.50 to $2.75 per hundred.
The Keith-O'Brien company has in
augurated new plan whereby its store
will close on every Friday at o'clock
during the summer months. Last Fri
day was Keith-O'Brien day at Saltair
and a large number of clerks were at
the lake.
Staff Captain David Miller of the Sal
walton Army. commanding officer Of
the social relief operations in this city,
will renovate the Workingmen's hotel
80 Franklin avenue, put in an entire
new outfit Of bedding, a shower bath,
fumigation plant and increase the
sleeping capacity from sixty to 100.
r-n- - So hafr1
ganized to conform to the general plan
throughout the army, so that cast-ofL
clothing, old furniture, etc, which may
be given will be utilized for the benefit
of the poor without pauperizing them
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The Salt Lake & Suburban Railway
company will commence the actual
Of forty miles of trolley
line between this city, Mill Creek, San
dy and the smelters at Bingham juno /
ton and Murray, to cost $l,2OO,OOe,
within sixty days. The entire road will
be completed within one year from the z
date the work is commenced, and the /
viii establish half-hour and
hourly service between these points.
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J. c. Leary Of the executive commit
tee of the International Livestock eN-
position in an afternoon daily details
the decline of the cattle business in
Utah and the steady thinning out OF |
tie vast herds that at one time thrived
on the ranges. According to Mr..
Leary's statement, there are several I
causes that have tended to ruin the v
business in this state. Among these are il
the increase of the sheep on the ranges
and the consequent denudation Of the
ranges. Droughts of duration Of sew S
sral years have also contributed to this, "
lnd the breaking up Of the ranges into D
small farms have combined to put
What was at one time one Of the great
Est businesses in the state well toward E,
he background. 9