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Show TEHIUTOIilAL NEWS. MANTI FREPARINC TO LAUCH AT ALL FUTURE FLOODS. A Gate to Divide the "Waters to te Erected At a. Cost of $4000 Items of Interest Gatlitretl From Every Point in the Territory of Utah. ' , Special Correspondence of The Times. Maxti, Oct. 20. The numerous destructive destruc-tive floods in the past three years hare alarmed the citizens of the temple city. A committee recently appointed has been investigating in-vestigating the causes, and trying to discover dis-cover means lor preventing any further damages by future floods. It is proposed to erect a flood gate to divide the waters. This w ill cost ai 'out $4000. The gate will separate the waters nhove the city aud prevent any further destructive floods in the city. The committee reports that in their opinion the floods in the past three years have been occasioned oc-casioned by the bheep eatintr the under growth in "the mountains. Efforts will ho made to prevent the ranging of sheep on the mountains in the vicinity of the city. It.. L. Bybce i slowly sinking and his friends thiiik that death is only a question of a few hours. Ho is the man who was cnught in a circular saw and almost fwn Minder Rome time ago. Under the skillful "treatment of surgeons he had so much improved im-proved that hopes of his recovery were entertained. en-tertained. At the time of the accident hi entire shoulder and side were separated from the body and lay away several inches from 1 he head. NOTES FROM LOGAN. The barn and stockyards of Jacob Fuhri-liiun, Fuhri-liiun, at Providence, were destroyed . by lire, entailing a loss, of The average shipments of grain from Cache valley for the past two weeks is said to be f went-ears daily. The bulk of this grain is. from the vicinity of Richmond and VVellsville; and nlso a considerable quantity from the west Fide of the valley. Smithtield, Franklin and Mendon are reported holding their wheat. Logan has i cased to be a shipping ship-ping point of any considerable importance o far as grain is concerned that is, as com-pared com-pared with other localities aud population. The hoisting works for the La liata arrived t Logan on Thursday. It started for the, mines Monday. The developments of the last forty-eight hours in mining matters are irioro gratifying than any that have occurcd in' e La L'Wa was discovered. The Ijdjan X at inn says: "What is the no ed of having large herds of sheep and droves of TBioe continually passing tlirou;rh the trior-MiahfareR trior-MiahfareR of Losan? They raise a .great dust ani blockade tint highways and arc in fin t a nuisanci'. An ordinance; and a dollar or two spent in posting up a few sicrns at the fnain entrances to town would obviate the whole matter. Our smaller neighboring towns have Mich regulations, and even the, little village .f Ogden has prohibited the nuisance. Why not I he city of Logan? The report of Hce Inspector L. P. 8wend-on 8wend-on shows s;V hives inspected and one foul brood discovered. i i SPANISH FORK. At tlie meeting of the city council Friday night Ihe most -important business was the report of the committee on streets and alleys, v hich rei onimi nded (hat Main street be traded the entire length and that the water ditches be flumed. The council was unanimous unani-mous in deciding that this was a much needed need-ed improvement, and the report was udopfed. t ouncilor Snell then moved that the commit, com-mit, e proceed at once to accomplish this work. Some talk was indulged in a to the probable eo.,(. The street being; almost a natural levei grade it. was deemed that SI,. fifHl would put the street in very good shppe. The matter will be further dif.cutbed next meeting. NEWS FROM OGDEN. A man 'named ('. K. H. Young, v bile walking walk-ing along ,'i h. r. t-outb o Twenty. fonrth, mar the We her river bridge on Sup.ffay about noon, found the body of ; man. The body was so ba lly decomposed that the features v. e o not iccKgniahlc. - ' : New , from BrigUam .says: Last work j 'Mose"' Jensen o(lliis city made a rich 1 p'.-iUfe Tf fne-lrn.-tuut.aiiiAfl.utli of Devil's iate, aiout ten mileti from Hrighain. Monday Mon-day hi- brought, to town some tine galena and silve'r specimens. Some of the rich rock has been sent to Butte fur as.-av. When several mining enpitali.-ts caught sight of these samples, they became at once, excited, offer ing to advance considerable money to push the new discovery. Mt, Pleasant l umbermen. The Mt. Plear ant Pimink! says: "The fall of mow in the mountains during the past few weks.h:is been sufficient to prevent the haulin of log, to the various miil, thus fctoppjf ig them from work for a time. A largeamount of lumber has already been faweil and i.- now being hauled in and piled in the different yards in town, from where the greater portion of it will be retailed out, some being shipped to northern . poiuts. The lumber biiMne:s of Mt. Flcy ,ant has n-, n-, slimed large proportions during the la.-1 rive or ten years, and is fast becoming one of her most remunerative resources. The mountains moun-tains west of town are covered with vast forests for-ests which only await the touch of the lumberman's lum-berman's axe to be transformed into different differ-ent classes of lumber, giving employment to a large number of laborers and teams, benefitting, bene-fitting, to a certain extent, the entire community." com-munity." Territorial Notes. There is gr- at mourning in Nephi over the death of Parnell in England. The Emiyn is printed with turned rules. Ogden's canning factory is a great success. suc-cess. Five, hundred thousand cans of tonia. toes have beei, put up, and 15,000 -kegs of pickles are preserved. A prospector named King found a 200 pound piece ot" float in Cottonwood canon, front h of Marys vale, last Satiirdry, that is valued at 3 p r pound in gold. Thousands of bushels of fruit, still hang ripening on the trees in Krigham City. The whiter apples are fat reaching maturity. The vast quantities of peaches, plums and apples raised in Brigham th-s year are rea'.ly ineonetivuble The yield has been so great that it is feared next year's crop will be comparatively light. Hundreds of tons of fruits and vegetables have been shipped to foreign markets during the past months, and thousands of pounds canned or dried for home consumption. |