| Show THE QUEEN OF CACHE A Birdseye View ot Logan antHer ant-Her Surroundings MORE DEPOT FACILITIES NEEDED I The Agricultural College Grounds New Meeting HouseA Banker Has a Scene ° I love Yon1 Your correspondent and some others among them a gentleman lately returnee from Oregon and Washington territory took in the city and its surroundings a few mornings ago Passing through the < northwest part of the city where stately frame buildings and neatly arranged grounds have taken the places of the old country cow sheds and unseemly corrals to the extent of making one lose his bearings bear-ings for the want of familiar landmarks we left the city limits to come immediately immedi-ately upon the wheat fields that are a part of the thousands of acres that make Cache county the granary of Utah Here and directly north of Logan is mile after mile of weedless cultivated laud nearly every acre of which has a water right and is accessible to water Here is raised at average of thirtylive bushels of grain oran or-an acre Going some two miles and keeping keep-ing northwest we pass the grain land and we have the hay fields of Logan and Benson Ben-son ward Here chiefly is where tho many thousand tons of hay is grown that feeds not only Logans but many of Salt Lakes and Idahos livery horses and cattle Here too will number a hundred or more limpid springs that ought to inspire such piscatorial ambition the owners as would furnish three Logans with the finest quality qual-ity of the finny tribe Retracing our road to town we follow the railroad and we seethe see-the least prepossessing part of it That part which should be the most inviting to the stranger is the only part whicl has not some potent redeeming feature and the eye sore and disgrace to this part that which proves the greatest detriment to Logan in turning away the monied stranger the feature that he sees first and that discourages him most is the Logan depot de-pot How long shall a longsuffering people peo-ple be compelled to put up with an enlarged box car for a freight house waiting room and office Seemingly just as long as a monopoly road has all the say and fails to recognize a people to whom it mostly owes its existence From here a few blocks takes us to what was only a few years ago the southwest fields of Logan but what is now a fenced builtup and inhabited part of town A mile further on and tho former open distant hay fields are now near and handy fenced pastures Going from here up the south streets of former Logan we pass on the south what is now the Sixth and Seventh wards the two most beautiful beauti-ful though not so well built up wards in Logan The road now leads us up the Temple dugway Arriving at the top of the first of a succession of level benches above the city and we are on the temple grounds from where we have a view of Loganone of the most beautiful of growing grow-ing cities From here we look down into the little valley of the river bed where the Seventh ward has sprung from one dense clump of willows in the last seven years Traveling along the bench we find ourselves in the once indigent and uncouth un-couth Fifth ward the yet to be aristocratic ward of town A little over a mile northeast north-east of the temple is the brow of the second bluff the extension of which is two miles of the most level country a diversity of gravelly and loamy soil at a height that i commands a view of nearly every nook corner and town in tho whole of beautiful Cache From here Providence shows every street belonging to it running north and south and as it is even nearer than some parts of Logan looks what it eventually eventu-ally must becomeone of Logans wards Nearly every house can be seen of Millville Hyrum Wcilsvillc Mention and Newton Paradise Clarkston Smithfield and Hyde Park are distinctly seen Hichmond and Franklin are hidden only by a little bluff Ninetythree acres of the choicest part of this bench is what Logan city and Cache ounty have appropriated and what has been accepted by the Agricultural college board as the farm of the Agricultural college col-lege On the edge of this bluff is a small and the only eminence on this flat bench and this has been selected as the site of the college building The building will face the west The part that is now to be put up is the south wing It will he near N street running north and south and be a little to the south of the centre of Seventh stivot so that the main building I when it is put up will i be iu the exact centre of Seventh I street and as the street will terminal I there the building will be unobstructed from view and will therefore make even amore a-more commanding appearance From tin building west iu a radius of a few rods ism is-m fall of some fifty feet or more As ever part of the land is accessible to water should the college ever want to erect nw ilnuc works it has ample water power at its command Taken altogether more ap prupriate county a more beautiful city or a spot where natureso lavishly offers everv facility for an agricultural college could not have been found in Utah or perhaps the United States GENERAL NOTES The plans for the Fourth ward meeting house are expected daily from Salt Lake Hyrum Wahlstrom who has charge of the musical department of the B Y college col-lege has been been confined to his bed for weeks with a gathering or abscess on his right thigh The grand ball and concert gotten up in the interest of William H Smart formerly one of the faculty of the B Y college and who starts for Palestine on the 30th inst will occur on Monday evening next An attractive programme is prepared and a huge time is expected One of Logans private bankers went into the barber shop yesterday to change some money When leaving in a hurry be forgot a pile of eight JO gold pieces lying on the sofa Ordinary course of business made a demand in a few hours but our Croesus memory was not so long as his list of debts and failed to remind him what he had done with the money Uneasiness grew to anxiety anxiety to alarm and after hours or excited search alarm settled down to a pitiful despair He was returning return-ing home in this pitiful condition when he called at the barber shop and related his misfortune Without more ado the genial Lainoreaux handed him his money The reaction was too much Tears sprang to his eyes and in broken accents and a foreign for-eign brogue he exclaimed All I can do is to express dat hove OU1 Locux April 218S9 |
