Salt Lake Herald | 1897-06-05 | Page 2 | Here and There

I HERE AND THERE I Provo Utonian Judge Colborn of the SemiCentennial commission ought to be elected a pioneer by acclamation In his speech at the theatre in Salt Lake Tuesday evening when he was urging greater Interest in and the raising of more mane for the Pioneer Jubilee he talked like a Mormon bishop of the old I school I some times took straight fromtheshoulder talk of that kind to build forts for protection from Indians school houses and meeting houses roads and canals They were always built and we believe the pioneer celebration will be successfully and enthusiastically accomplished ac-complished The frt granite block for the Brigham Young monument base arrived here yesterday yes-terday I was quarried at Granite by James Livingston and was hauled in bv J C Watson and weighed five tons Another block weighing 26 tons will be I brought In soon