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Show SALT LAKE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. tji.r rriior Folk of Missouri and staff are to visit the Portland fair some time ibis month. The governor will ttnp over in Salt Lake to visit with his cousin. Walter B. Wingale, who resides re-sides at the corner of Second and P Ft reels. Local liverymen say that the tourist traflic has been so heavy this summer that the multiplication of the automo- : bile has apparently had no effect on the livery business. The beautiful James Sharp home on Kast Biigham street has just been sold to Colonel E. A. Wall for a sum said to be $25,000. The deal was made through E. B. Wicks. This is considered consid-ered one of the most beautiful places on Brigham street, although the house is not modern. It is a large brick structure of the old style, and in its day was one of the show places of the city. It has a south and east exposure and is immediately east of the new First Presbyterian church. Roy Daniels, the young man in Provo who drew the first number in ihe Uintah reservation lottery, has located lo-cated his claim near the junction of the Duchesne and Strawberry rivers on the line of the proposed Moffat railroad, rail-road, twenty-five miles west and five miles south of Fort Duchesne. The young man is not chasing after mineral wealth, but has selected "what I . he considers will in time make a valu able farm. It is not improbable that congress will grant prospective Uintah land settlers an extension of time in which to establish their residence in case ihoie appears to be a pressing need of sue; an extension because of lack of earl irrigation facilities. There is no doubt in the minds of the majority of ihose who intend to settle in the reserve re-serve and who hold "high numbers" that relief is needed, and to these assurance as-surance has been given that the Utah delegation will strive to have congress pass a measure providing for whatever extension may be required. "Rex," the fine old St. Bernard dog that belonged to the family of the late Sam Levy, and for many years a conspicuous con-spicuous figure on the streets of Salt Iake City, has departed this life, leaving leav-ing hundreds of sorrowing: friends. "Rex" was by many pronounced the finest specimen of his breed ever in Salt Lake City. He was of immense size and easily won the "weight prize" offered by the Press club at the time of the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" parade in 1903. At that time "Rex" weighed -45 pounds. f Whether the obstructionists like it I or not. Salt Lake is growing and will grow still more, and as population conies in the newcomers will find conditions con-ditions calculated to make them glad tii stay. One little indication marks the progress of the city better than anything else: the bank clearings of Salt Lake for the week ending last Saturday Sat-urday showed an increase over the same week of 1 !04 amounting to 72.5 per cent a greater increase than is shown by any other city in the United States. The other weekly statements I for August showed a gain of 70 per cent. 51.5. 84.3 and 79.3 per cent over the same dates last year a most extraordinary extra-ordinary showing, equalled by no other community of the same size and by few Iof larger population. The gain is all the more extraordinary because it is all legitimate, little of it due to speculative specu-lative transfers of money and it in-eludes in-eludes no unusual payments. |