| Show 1 MS FROM LOGAN Doings in the Queen City of the North THE RATE OF TAXATION LOWERED The Bottom Lands Flooded Judge header sons Decision Peculiar Find An Electric Railway LOGA May 24 1890 Special telegram to THE HEUALU The bottom lands southwest south-west of Logan resemble a good sized lake thickly sprinkled with islands and the water is still rising though it cannot go much higher nor Some hOuses are completely com-pletely cut off from the mainland and while the damage does not appear considerable consid-erable it is nevertheless more than tho losers looked for All the streams in the valley are swollen and in many places have overrun their banks threatening bridges and even roads unless subsidence shall i 1 come without great delay Tho decision of Judge Henderson authorizing author-izing the city to pay Thatcher Brothers the amount sued for is generally satisfactory satisfac-tory and to none more so than the city officials themselves since they can now do what ought to be done and have the law to stand upou The pressure upon them to heedlessly pay the claims right or wrong was very great but was not listened to und the wisdom of such a course is now apparent ap-parent The judge hold that the city was legally right and its action proper but equity dewanded a return of the money improperly obtained and used and this will now of course be complied with Tne finishing touches are being put upon the natcbcr Opera house and it is expected ex-pected Uia the initial performance will beg be-g en at an early date The place is a regular reg-ular nulls bijou and will hold about eight hundred people Trains on tho Utah Northern arc well filled particularly the through ones Lopm alone contributes many thousand L dollars to the road every month r The city council is having regular and special sessions rightalonjr and though the sittings are protracted till along toward the solemn hour of midnight there is always al-ways unfinished business This goes to show how briskly our city is marching to the front A franchise was granted to an electric strict < < cur company on Wednesday night with the special reservation that two miles of track must be laid and cars running within eighteen months This means that work is to be commenced at once T G Webber superintendent of Z C M 1 came up from Salt Lake Thursday and spent a couple of days looking around and Into the affairs of the branch institution institu-tion here The faculty and pupils of the Brigham Young college enjoyed a memorable commencement com-mencement day on Friday The exercises at tho college in the morning at the taber wacle in the afternoon and the ball at the r Reese opera house in the evening wero all largely attended and everybody was nannv At u special meeting of the city council on Thursday evening the rate of taxation for the fiscal year was lowered from iyz per cent as it was last year to 5 per cent The assessable value of properly was raised a little over 51500000 or aoout 95 per cent over last year so that notwithstanding notwith-standing the reduction the revenue will be increased to the extent of about fifteen hundred dollars The assessment is still largely below the actual valuation however how-ever but the present government is disposed dis-posed to be as easy with the tax payers as the law will permit The police court once almost a burden to the city is now a source of revenue some thing taking place within its portals nearly every day The cause of this is not an increase in-crease of crime but the enforcement of the ordinances These latter are to be revised and compiled at once Robert Murdock is excavating for a line brick block to be three stories high and abatement a-batement on Second street On Tnursday one of the workmen struck a peculiar find it being a nest containing a great number of petrified eggs several feet below the surface and directly under the roots of a tree The shells wero very brittle on Teaching the air and a slight touch would A crush them The yolk had shriveled up to a small size was as hard as a ock and deftly hardled would rattle around in Its covering like a dice in a box Presumably the eggs were those of some sea fowl perhaps per-haps several of them laid there when the Great Salt Lake held sway over this part of the territory and may have been lying in their subterranean bed a thousand years or more TilE HEKVLD correspondent obtained L ob-tained one and is trying to keep it More delightful weather never visited this most beautiful valley It is neither too hot nor too cold but an enjoyable medium At such a time and under such circumstances Logan is richly entitled to her designation of Queen City of tho north Leo Clawson one of the proprietors of the Logan house and wife have gone to Salt Lake on a visit |
