The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-07

CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.


day.
Great Salt Lake has risen one inch
In the last two weeks, and Captain Bar
raft says it Will continue to rise until
the last OF June.
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The five lime lsilns east of the city
are turning out $50 bushels per day,
the product bringing % cents per bush
el delivered in town. In carload lots
the price is 20 cents.
Fish Commissioner John Sharp this
week shipped $4,000 trout fry to Ameri-
can Fork for distribution I'm the neigh
boring mountain streams, and shipped
TO Ogden 100000 trout fry for distribu-
ton in the -.:Tl county streams.
With words OF praise for the work of
the organization. the final trowel of
mortar was applied 10 the cornerstone
of the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton building on the old city hall cor
ner Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Judges
endowment of $4,000 made it possible
to proceed with the work of building.
While Colonel and Mrs. Holmes were
making their round the world tour.
the colonel made careful notes as they
went along. These notes he is now
writing out and celebrating, and thinks
Of having the same printed for private
distribution among his friends.
The straw hat market is now fully
open and prices are such as will suit |
most any one. They are ranging from /
- cents to 50. and for Paalamas prices |
range from SO to $50. Panama hats do |
sell in the large cities as high as $3.50 /
each, but it is not everyone who is in |
dulging in that style of goods.
a circular from the war department
establishes the proud fact that the
Twelfth infantry, until recently at Fort
Douglas. holds the rifle, carbine and
pistol craftsmanship record for the en-
tire army. Fort Douglas was second
on record for target firing as military
post. The Third infantry carried off
second honors.
L. NJ. Earl of the Salisbury company
is I'm the city on business from st.
Anthony Ida. He is full of enthus-
asm over the showing made by the st.
Anthony country and its prospects for
future development. He will return to
the north in few days.
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u. c. lacking, general manager of
the Utah Copper company came in
from Colorado the other day. He will
probably complete arrangements for the
enlargement of the company's Bing-
ham mill before returning to the Cen
tennial state.
1t is reported from Denver that the
Moffat road will have it's own terminal I
at Denver. probably on the site of the
old city water plant, on lower Fifteenth :
street. near Platte river. An official of
Il Il
rails viii be laid into Denver by June
]. and that the property for the site of
the terminal will come into possession
Of the road by May 10.
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II. J.. A. Culmer has been down to his h
Kyune quarries with a view to getting n
them open as soon as possible and the is
railroad management is asked to repair p
the switches and sideings connecting n
with the main tracks. The contractor p
of the federal building is sadly in need 81
of stone and wishes the railroad people r.
would hurry things up at the quarries HI
so that shipments can be made. W
A committee consisting of Mrs Jo- SC
seph Gilbert, Mrs. E. f. Snyder and fo
Mrs. George Rose began work this week m
in behalf Of the Union Label league la
They visit labor organizations in an al
to use only such goods as bear the q
union label. The committee was an
pointed by the National Woman's Union
Label league and while the movement
IS new in this city, the women declare o.
they are going TO push work until every
article entering the home Of union
man is properly stamped. ps
Salt Lake is TO have a new hotel. The
bid Ford hotel on West First South. =.
which has had as many ups and downs 81
Is an elevator, has been leased by Les
er D, Freed. the furniture dealer. and
fred Wood, the well known hotel man De
{ win be completely remodeled and ele- In
,antly furnished, and viii open on June
under the name of the Southern. -
which name is commemorative of St. ~
1ouis' greatest year and greatest hotel
Wis
= l Nellty-nEe thousand dollars worth sit
he eastern manufacturers by the Bell
telephone company for use in this city ;It,
lone. The company will build a line 70,
rom the Cactus mine to Newhouse. in
'eaver county, and W. c. Mcbride. a =
ervice expert has been brought here 90
rom Chicago to perfect improvements M
ere. ~
There is considerable comment among ]
respective visitors to the Worlds Fair zoI
7garding the rates put in by the rail- thi
Dads. Locally it is felt that as usual
ne west is getting the worst of it," \
IS the general expression that a sin for
lie fare plus 81 should prevail instead mo
Plus 80, as is the case. In any case
is maintained that the rates are out y
lgeous as compared with those made ha.
Y eastern roads. w
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Brigham City was lighted by 100
'ot torch of natural gas recently, and
he Illumination bids fair to be con- hor
nued for an indefinite length Of time.
ne source of supply came from a bore
the knudson Bros. property. about Fra
llf mile west and a little south of spl,
e center Of the town. 1t was sunk in
e center of a meadow for water for v
ock and irrigation purposes. At a ext
'pth OF 2l0 feet dry gas was encoun- his
red in such quantities that the cast
IS mad 10 be drawn When a match NJ
as applied to it to ascertain whether hav
would burn. there was a loud report will
ID roar. accompanied by flash OF
me which shot more than 100 feet d
to the air.. phy
. Kni
W NJ. O'Brien of Keith-O' Brien and
u. Watts Of the Utah Construction NJ
nlpany have returned from a trip to moN
Q Isthmus of Panama. They went the,
ere TO obtain facts and data that
luld permit them to bid intellirentlv NJ
certain parts Of the canal work. ew,
the result they viii bid for nine nesC
les of the difficult construction. The to
nltary conditions down there are Salt
ghtful. according TO the prospective
lders. In fact, the only work that Sc