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Show on Sixth East street. The building was brilliantly illuminated with electric lights, and there was a good attendance of the fair SCX. i The Social Evening club gave the opening ball last evening in Prof. Younger a new hall on Market street. Ixdow Third South, between be-tween West Temple and Main streets. The nianrment of the Deseret hospital will give a bail in the Theater ou the evening even-ing of the 20th. THE CONDUIT DA3I. j EIGHTY MEN AND TWENTY TEAMS ARE EMPLOYED. A Splendid Spring struck While Digging tho Foundation. "Yhich Vill Increase llie Flow of Water Fully SO Ier Cent Tlnsiness Xotes. i The contractors on Parley's Canon conduit arc working ua the dam cud expect to have ii comjdeted iu three weeks or less. In digging dig-ging the foundation for this dam, a spring of water was struck which will increase the natural fUpply fully one fourth over that iio'v running in the creek. The flow- from the spring is o strous; that a steam pump has to be kept iruiuy nialit and day to keep the water down ?o as to make it possible to continue con-tinue the work of buiiiliirx the dam. City Engineer Porcintw, estimates that suliicient water will he ohtuined from this spring- to till a fuiirta six inch main. The Si:$ar Factory. KAcrythiuy at the Lchi suyar factory has hcc: rumiin.sf smoothly this week aud there lias been no stoppage for any cause, aud the f-liipments amount to about fifteen tons a day. Oaly a few of the farmers have finished fin-ished harvesting their beets and it will he the i;'.!t-r part of the tnontii before all are iluy. In trie event of cold weather coming fin, the beets will be put in pits in the fields until they can lie delivered at the factory. street Kiihvay Improvements. Some rather extensive improvements have been made by the talt Lake Street Railway company at the power house and shops located lo-cated on Second East street. The most important im-portant of these is the new car barn now nearly finished, which has an eighty foot j front and is in one place .'120 feet deep and will have ft capacity lor housing 75 cars. TUis is l uiit of iron with only just eHoutrh wood for a frame work. Another addition is tlie now machine sbops, where all the re-pai; re-pai; iucc of the cars and machinery will be done. Then there is a new paint shop and a carpenter shop fitted with steam saws and other reetnt patou'.s in that class of machinery. A Isinifactiiiers Convention. At a met ting of the board of directors of the chambi r of commerce, held last night, it was deeid d to call a convention of all the manufacturers i.i the city on next Thursday evening. The idea is to get them together to see if rucaus cannot be devised lure.xtend-ing lure.xtend-ing the scope of their business and to secure for them more extensive? markets, aud also to see if the number of manufacturing enterprises enter-prises in the city cannot be increased. At the same meeting steps will doubtless be taken to organize a territorial board of trade. The chamber is now communicating with the different commercial bodies on the subject, and without an exception they are favuraole to the scheme. City and County Kuililins' Foundations. .V contract for the railroad iron to be used in the foundation.- of the city and county building, was given to the Colorado Coal c Iron company yesterday, amounting to 1G0 tons. The architects aud the contractor have found a much more favorable ground fur the 1'oumlatiou than they anticipated they would, it being a hard clay instead of mud and (juieksait-t as they expected it would be. This has enabled them to get along with the i work ipiite rapidiy aud tue bottom course i of coin rote will be laid ready for the foot wails by next Monday, night. To get this foundation it was not f.mud necessary to dig beiow- the shalio'.v excavations made on the surface, except for tile tower, for which tin excavation will be dug sixteen inclie.i deeper than those for the outside walls of the building. The foundation footings for the main part of tiie building will he nme feet six inches w Me, on the bottom. The'-e will be secured by two parallel railroad irons "s;id on tliern cross rails will be iaid tr, o feet upart. and these will he crossed agsin by four nmrc rails running lengthwise: length-wise: these will then all be ril'.eu in wiih concrete on '.. liieh the nir.i'! stone foundations founda-tions will res!, there are about sixty men employ ed in doing this work and they are milling good headway. The drain commencing on Eighth South street has been finished up to the square and is mi. iv being dug around the site of the building where it will be eight feet deep. This has done more than wes expected of it and has now nearly freed all that part of the city of it 6 surface water. W hen the ditch had reached a depth cf six feet it was running run-ning two.t hire's full, but this flow has been considerably diminished am! is now only half what il was the first pa"t of the week. i Covt'stone Gosip. Kihty mc:i nurl twenty teams are working on th- dam for Parley's canon conduit. (.'.! dealer-? ?;ny tb"ir liasiness is picking ., Slid that tliey acll a-rui,cu as two lu-ids in a Millie dny. .1. A. Kennedy made r utile yesterday - of lots y and U), bio'.-k 1. in J efferson . street addition ad-dition to il. -f. O-hoi n ffr J A illidrn E! -.ke purciiascd lots IT, is and j !io-k 4, Lake View subdivision yster-j yster-j dny i-f Siinvn Bmof.-ru-er, payin.tf 8'itX) for the three. " The Itiek-r'ointinz of the Dooly huildiiitj has he-: i nearly completed, and it is intcntlea tn have U ready for the. plasterers in ten days at the most. There w ill he a competing line of street car service to Fort DonhK vr;tiii;i thirtj-da thirtj-da s, the Kapid Transit peoph- expectirijr to hai; their tjra'ieli eoinpleted within that time. AMUSEMENTS. "Sinbad'' was greeted by the same crowded crowd-ed Louse last ninht. There was not a vacant seat in the hounc. and the appiausc was as long and enthusiastic as on the previous eveuiiiir. The advance sales indicate that every seat in the theater will be filled for the remainder of the engagement. The Young Ladies' Aid society is to give a craud tall on the evening of the IStli in Younger's new hall on Market street. This ball in in aid of the fund which these young women are maintaining for the carrying out of the worthiest objects in the line of local charities. Washington Camp, No. "., P. O. S. of A., continues its lecture course this evening in tho (-"iadstone block with a lecture from Rev. AV. M. Lane of fc't. Paul's churbh, on "The Dangers Threatening Our Country." The Denhalter band gave a promenade concert last evening in the Exposition hall |