The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-02
OGDEN. UTAH.

OGDEN, UTAH.
Ogden hotels are now enjoying the
fruits of the return travel from the
Pacific coast and Portland and are
crowded.
Pat Healy, vice president of the
Commercial National bank, who has
been suffering at his home with a car
buncle on the back of his neck, and
whose condition was regarded as Sc
rious, is reported as being much inn
proVoG
The Tabernacle choir reached home
covered with dust and glory. They
were one and all much elated over the
success of the trip and the considera-
ton with which they were received.
Only one accident marred the pleasure
of the trip. Mrs. Otelia Parry was
leaving her berth on the way to Port
land to help woman who was i'll.
when the ladder slipped and she was
thrown to the floor, crushing her foot.
She will be unable to get about for
some time yet.
AT the Monday meeting of the city
council the matter of a substitute
franchise for the Ogden Waterworks
company came up. The new franchise
provides a number of safeguards to
the city that We're not included in the
original application OF the WaterWorks
company. 1t also has a provision for
reversion to the city of the entire
plant under certain conditions, and
also that if at any time the city should
condemn the property of the water
company the franchise shall have no
value. Another considerable is that
oh,
dismiss all the suits now pending
against the City of Ogden for unpaid
water rentals, which now amount to
about $4,000. It is generally under
stood and it has practically been an
nounced by the Ogden WaterWorkS
company that it will not be accepted
Barlow B. Wilson, Daniel S. Burch,
L. II. Murdoch and William II. Parry,
four Ogden men, who were supposed
to be amongst the luckiest of the lucky
in the drawing for chances to locate
lands in the Uintah reservation, are
returning without waiting to file on
lands. They give the most discourage
ing reports of the actual condition on
the reservation that have yet reached
this city. Burch had No. 10, Wilson
No. IS, and the others were we'll down
iii the third hundred. The party Sc
cured fine outfit and left week ago
for the reservation, intending to inspect
all the good lands and return to Yer
nal for the first days filing. Saturday
the party reached Heber City on the
return trip, and Wilson called Sheriff
Bailey over the long distance telephone.
Bailey himself had a low number and
1t was for the purpose of warning his
chief against going to the expense of
making the trip to Vernal that the
deputy telephoned. He stated that the
Indians and the water companies have
located everything there is of any
practical value on the reservation. Ac-
cordiTg to the explanation given over
the telephone by Wilson, the Indians,
in selecting their farms. have chosen
them under the advice of water COM
panies in such a way that others COM
ing III later are at the mercy of this
combination, and if there happens to be
any good land left it is in such frag-
mentary pieces that it will be useless
except to those who were in ahead of
those who had to draw Mr.. Wilson
asked that others of his friends who
were contemplating making the trip
be told of the conditions and advised
to stay away as there is nothing left
unappropriated except bluffs and hills
P. j. Moran of Salt Lake, who re-
Gently secured the contract for the
paving of Twenty fourth street, was in
Ogden Monday. City Engineer Park
Ell submitted to the council that the
work proceed at once, and this was
confirmed.
The Western Pacific work has been
let, and the Utah Construction COM
pany of ogden has the larger part
OF the contract. Few details are at
hand, but the Information is that the
Utah Construction company gets the
contract for the work from Salt Lake
to the Nevada line, distance of about
ITO miles. More important still is the
further fact that the work from Orc
vile in California east to the other Ne
vada state line goes to the same COM
pany. This latter part includes all the
Sierra Nevada mountain Work and is
some of the heaviest that has ever
been projected in the country. The
contract is regarded as the most i'm
portant let in the past decade and has
been the prize toward which several
Of the largest contracting firms in the
country have been striving for many
months.