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Show FRISCO. (Contributed.) Early In August, 1S76, Father Scanlan left Salt Lake City for Beaver to perform per-form the marriage ceremony of Dennis Kyan and Mary C. Rasch, which took place in that little town Aug. 7. 1S76. The following day he left for Frisco, staying in Minersville over night and reaching Frisco on the Sth. This was the first visit of a priest to the place. The following Sunday services were held. Frisco was then in its infancy. There were but few houses. The population popu-lation consisted of prospectors and those who were employed in the Horn Silver, which had been purchased a jOiort time before that date by A. G. Campbell. Matthew Cullen, Denis Ryan and 11. Byron. The nearest railroad point was Juab. Having remained one week he returned to Salt Lake. SILVER REEF. The next visit was in 177 when en route to Silver Reef. He remained only a few days, holding services on Sunday and proceeding' the next day on horse back to Silver Reef. In June, 1S78, Father Kicly on his way to Silver Reef, went first to Frisco, where he stayed for two weeks, collected funds for the Sacred Heart Academy. Ogden, which was then in course of erection. In December De-cember of the same year Father Scanlan Scan-lan went to Beaver, and on the 19th of that month married Matthew Culler and Emma J. Thompson. As on a simi- j lar occasion he. before proceeding tT Silver Reef, which was his destination, destina-tion, first went to Frisco, held services on Sunday and thence by stage to Silver Sil-ver Reef. In 1S79 and 1SS0 Friwo was visited by a priest from Salt Lake twice each year. Towards the beginning of 1880 many Catholic families had settled jn the district. In November of that year Very Rev. L. Scanlan during his visit was approached by some members mem-bers of his congregation, who promised him substantia! aid if he would build a church and Fend them a resident priest. Encouraged by good will shown at the usual Sunday services, he told his people that he intended remaining with them for some' months, and would, jn accordance with the expressed wish of some of his- present congregation, build a church and send them a permanent perma-nent pastor. Nearly all present showed their willingness to co-operate in the good work, by signing their names to a subscription list. A large lot was S secured, and the erection of the church began, at the commencement of 1881. FIRST MASS CELEBRATED. A nice frame building 50x30 feet with two rooms in the rear for the future pastor was completed and opened for public service on Quingagesema Sunday Sun-day of the same year. Its completion marked a new era for the Catholics of Frisco. In May Very Rev. L. Scanlan returned to Salt Lake, and Rev. P. M. Sm it'll took charge of the new mission. mis-sion. After six months he resigned his charge, and returned to -San Francisco. Francis-co. His place was taken by Rev. P. M. Cushnahan, who remained till November. Novem-ber. After the withdrawal of Father Cushnahan no permanent priest was appointed to the place, being visited from Salt Lake, the priest remaining two or three mdnths. according to the demands of the people. Since the closing clos-ing down of the smelters, and some of the mines, the population of Frisco has been gradually decreasing and for the past few years only one or two Catholic families have been there. At present it is visited only when some urgent call is sent to Salt Lake. EUREKA. Long before the connecting link of the Oregon Short Line from Lehi Junction to Ironton was built, Tintic was visited by a Catholic priest. Early in De- cember. 1S73 Father Scanlan went by ! stage from Lehi to Camp Floyd where I he remained over Sunday holding services. ser-vices. From Camp Floyd he staged it to Diamond, holding services there; also in Silver City and Eureka. In the baptismal bap-tismal record are registered five baptisms bap-tisms at Tintic by Father Scanlan dated December 9. 1S73. These are Dennis Den-nis Sullivan Veronica S. M. Brown, Victor E., Alphonsus R. and- Pearl M. Ether. At this early period but few members of the Church were in the district. Silver City, Diamond and Eureka Eu-reka gave ample evidence 'that prospecting pros-pecting was done, for the hills surrounding sur-rounding those places were dotted with holes made by the miners pick. A LOG CABIN VILLAGE. In the little ' village with their high sounding and suggestive names were only a few log cabins. In one of these cabins with his blankets on the floor. Father Scanlan rested for three weeks, returning to Salt Lake on the eve of Christmas. The growth of Tintic from 1S73 to 1880 though gradual, was very slow, hence no priest visited the place till 1RS0. At this time Eureka, the principal place in the district, had developed de-veloped into a fair-sized mining camp and arrangements were made for regular regu-lar services every three months. In 1S84 a number of families had settled in the town of Eureka. They wanted, and asked that a resident priest be sent there. FATHER KILEY TAKES CHARGE. In September of the following year Father Kiley was sent to take charge of the place. There being no town-site, town-site, and all unoccupied land being free for settlers, he selected 'the. site on which the present Church and school are located. The land being subsequently subsequent-ly patented by mine-owners was purchased pur-chased from them, and deeds made out in regular form to the Ordinary of the diocese. After locating the Church and school site a collection for a new-Church new-Church was taken up. All gave according accord-ing to their means, and the work of erection began in the latter part of November. No-vember. The Church was completed j on Christmas eve, and the first services ser-vices were held on Christmas day. 1S85. In January, 1SS6. a school was- opened in the Church by William J. Bogan, who also taught night school, which was largely patronized by the miners and other citizens of the place. The school continued until October of the same year. VISIT OF THE BISHOP. In the spring of 1S91 Bishop Scanlan made an official visit to Eureka, having for his object the reopening of the school. Seeing that the Church could not accommodate the Catholic children of the place, he decided on erecting a new building for school purposes. In this new nroiect the citizens all glad ly co-operated. After the encouragement encourage-ment received, he commenced in May the construction of his future school, which was completed in August of the same year, and in Septernber, 1891, four Sisters of the Holy Cross commenced their first school term. Rev. P. Dono-hoe, Dono-hoe, rector of the place, was indefatigable indefat-igable in his efforts to provide a good school for the children of his congregation, congrega-tion, and has ince 1S91 encouraged it in every way possible. Fully realizing the force of. the text "Nisi Dominus , aedificaverit domum, in vanum labar- averunt quiaedificant earn," he has Been j in the past eight years the fruits of his Bishop's labors and his own co-operation blessed by God and can with pleasure pleas-ure look back on the good results accomplished. ac-complished. Father Donohoe holds services ser-vices occasionally in Mammoth, which is connected by railroad with Eureka, with the big mines. Mammoth may in the near future have a Church where regular services could be held. |