Show LOGAN J A Stroll About This Progressive Town LOSAN Jan 13 1850 Editors Herald The first thing that strikes the visitors attention at Logan is the massive building known as the Logan Temple i is n fine structure and instead of impoverishing the people t build it it has created a demand for labor and has put 1 who bad a desire to work in a condition to build comfortable houses for themselves The next curiosity to be noticed is the absenco of whisky and beer saloons not a single one in the place end as 1 consequence the money that is often spent for intoxicating bever age is now used in making comfortable com-fortable homes and in providing good clothing The United Order baa been tha means of making 1 marked improve ment in ins mecunical line that private individuals could not have accomplished I dropped in to seethe see-the foundry making castings for the bottoms of railroad stoves and the way they managed things would be a credit to older establishments The United Order has put steam saw mills into the callous where they turn out large quantities of white and red pine lumber which employs a arcat many teams in stocking und hauling away the lumber There are planing mills that work up the lumber into all manner of finishing material collaga siding moulding cornice brackets etc This company also carries on the manufacture and retail sale of furniture but they havn to keep on hand aIr a-Ir e stock of imported goods to meet the demand for that style which sorry to say 13 in greater demand than homo made This is a great trammel to business as it draws oIl the cash that ought to be kept in circulation cir-culation in the place It would be to the interest of every one to patron iza the home mado wares which areas are-as neat und comfortable and much better put together I The Logan Leader is well patronized patron-ized by the town everyone feeling it a duty to patronize home and local papers in preference to imported ones Yon have seen ere this an account of the accident on the railroad and the reported cases of freezing etc Mr Martineau was going a few days ago to survey a portion of the new canal from tho Logan River which wits described sometime ago The upper bench which it is destined des-tined to water will be divide out in lots of five and ten acres to eupply a place for orchards and corn and cane plantation aa it will be more suitable suit-able for such than the lower land The apple worm baa done some damage here but not to such an extent ex-tent as in Salt Lake Valley The railroad finds employment for a great many men and pays them well for their labor The people are in good health and spirits and manifest a decided progressive pro-gressive spirit not to be matched in any ether town in which I have bccn W M COWLEY |