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Show TE U U l T 0 II I A L NEWS. Somo Interesting' Figuros from tha Sta-tiatioal Sta-tiatioal Report of Wobr County Other Mew3 from Ogdtn. CDli LETTER FROM PABK CITY. InterBStiiiic Hows Note s from Logan with Brii-f Ii"in! fr-iia Prcvo, K.iphi aud Oth.-. r i'-.!."iti)-i.il Poiine. I)-, in.'., f). ,!. .'i. Piata interest ruii.iriii'S t-i itu I'Oine e cry (lav. fcv-v-i -irii'Li :;le i-eini; P'.lhk oil !ne vur-! vur-! ; -lu!iii ami tin; work (if develop-i-. ii; 'u vt- oh. J'Iim lt;. Creek sia-;e line l-i iiein.; liiteil ii in rini(l niliiliuj,' i id, l n,:!l.i! daily trips over tlm new ruMd wliiuli will coon 1m compU'ted. A report is in circulation that Me"ickr of Suit Lake lias made an assay for tome i;den party, which gavo ?2:!.(M) per Inn. Mininc men arc oin almoHt on-ry d.iy and when thoy return they M.y nothini; against thu camp except I hat it iiei'di development. tvral newspaper nieu, representing the press of i lie country, have taken up claims ami forgot that the editors were waut- . ... lffc , the rlicf society of Weber county will convene in general quarterly conference confer-ence at the tabcrnaclo on Thursday the loth at 10 o'clock a. rn. The young Indies mutual improvement associations associa-tions will convene on Friday and the primary associations on Saturday. Charles Rogue of West Weber full from a threshing machine on Thursday. He slipped from the footboard and foil under the drive wheels of the cylinder. The machine was stopped inmediately an. 1 llogue was brought out with only oiiij bruised leg. The Ogden City band and the several labor unions of Ogdnn will take a liio Craiule t-peci.il at .1." a. in. ..Monday for ;-alt Lake, This is the present ar-rangemmit ar-rangemmit for all who desire to sulci. su-lci. d the celebration of Labor day in Salt Lake City. J. 1'. LeJwidge, count' clerk, issued one marriage, license yesterday. Orson Wad.sii'orlli and Carria (iwillain of I Hooper, w ere the contracting parties. W. A. L. Thurstou, commanding Lincoln division No, 2, Knights of Pythias, announces a meoting at the armory this evening. The real estate transfers yesterday footed up ifKI.IHia. All the nales were inside property. Kleven transactions were recorded. The Order of liailway Conductors had 0110 ot the largest excursions of the season to the Hot Springs yesterday. James Wallace, editor the Prove- Dis-pdliii. Dis-pdliii. was a visitor at the Junction city yesterday. E.I). Sutton, gave a delightf:,f. 2!rd party Wednesday evening. ' The Anchor ikde are drifj ifor the well-hole iu the up-raise'nnJlrork-iug three shift s. Le Compte it (iiles are working tha Jlcllenry aud tukiug out considerable ore. The Park City scfifiol will begin next Tuesday, Sept 8th. LOO AN. Siii'l'tt V";mi! to Tim Timft. ' L'jcam, Sept. 5. Mr. Beck of the Bullion-Back company came to Logan last evening. Ha left for tuo La Plata mining camp this morning. Some of the citizens of llyrum have boea trying to persuade the county court to abandon the old Blacksmith's Fork read, aud nave people traveling from the north to the canou climb over the Jlyruin bench, which will lengthen the distance from Mill villa to tho mouth of the canon one mile, beside be-side traveling up aud down hill, whereas, where-as, if the road remains where it U at present and has been for the last 30 years, it is level, aud with very little labor will be a beautiful carriage road, Mr. F.rickson of Logan, who has spent twenty-two month in Sweden proselyting, returned home last evening even-ing in good spirits. A child was bom to his wife shortly after bis departure, and died at the age of 6 months. It has not yet been ascertained why ruary amounting to $."00. In return the Union Pacdic Railway company proposes to give bonds, bearing 5 per ceut interest, and will make a standard guage of said Sanpete Valley railway and extend it to Manti in thirty days, and move their shops and round house from Juab to jS'ephi, making Nepiii tho end of a division. A committee of three was appointed for each of the followioa towns: iephi, Fountain Green, Moroni and Chester to open subscription lists and raise the required amount. Ah the speakers expressed ex-pressed a willingness to help raise tho money as the railway was iudispenia-ble iudispenia-ble to all concerned. This move will put new life into the people- aud will bo a great benefit financially and otherwise, as the I'.io (iraude Western railway has gradually taken the passenger and treight traffic from the Union Pacific; hence busiuess here is falling oil' very fast, so much to that one firm, Shriver it Bro., has moved to Tiutic, others are consolidating consolidat-ing aud Foot's hotel and a restaurant have closed. : Territorial New Nnlwi. The Utah Sugar company have opened their new hotel near tha sugar factory. Nora Marsh of Alpine, was badly injured in-jured the other day by being thrown from a horse. Alpine is talking about water works and propeses to pipe from a spring iu Wordsworth canon. Lehi is fairly running over with fruit. Look on every side aud trots laden with their luscious fruit meets the gae. There is so much fruit that it is impossible impos-sible for people to take care of it alb and much will go to waste. A man in He her has just received a letter from a friend in tiie Mormon colony col-ony at Chihuahua, Mexico, iu which Le says: "Times are very dull here. J, I V . Young has not made any payments j vet and money has been very scarce. ! Wheat and corn will ha very dear here before another harvest. j iug copy. Ine liliio hint mine is reported re-ported to assay $100 iu gold aud J3 in fcilvui'. This claim is ownad by Willis Booth and other parties from Brigham City. About forty locations are being worked and each one pays better as tlm tunneling goes on. The Heller mine has reached a depth of twenty feet and a four foot veiu of copper and silver ore is exposed. The statistical report of Weber county for ix'.IO gives the following totals: Population, 'The stores number 1 SO, villi a capital of '.', 187,700, employ 8."i0 hands, who receive -HK5.575 in wages. Tiie sales of these mercantile mercan-tile institutions amounted to !,"((, m 1 5 in ls;iO. There are IU industrial concern-, cinpoiyiiig los hands, wiio receive re-ceive ?'J70,.V.il) iu wages annually. Tho value, nl the industrial plants is given fit oiel.-lOO. with a capital of iViii.tMlO invested. in-vested. Raw material alucd at :;;!7,-Ritl. :;;!7,-Ritl. with an annual product of 500. 'i liu brick product fcr lsou was ;)0,SIHI,00:). A horse power eipial to tii!0 js employed iu iuiliistrail concerns. Number of acres under cultivation iu IW-O, i'-'.-KiO. of which 17,001 acres were irrigated. The farm products were: W heat. 5 1 HO acres v.'ilh a vieid of (i.SI'O.lUO pouuds, oau, 21-1'.) acres produced 2.1U3.2K7 pounds; barley, ,M neres with a yield of r-S'.',7-':! pou'ids; corn, i7 acres produced pro-duced 77'.OPt pounds; rye. Vis ores with a viold of -101,-lMl pounds. Th-.re were !7 1 ."i neres in all'alia which produced pro-duced 00, -s I , !00 poinidn of hay. The-wild The-wild hay crop of 10. -0 neres p-oduced !l 0-1'.' lill'l pound.. 1" potatoes Hot acres produced !, l'-'!l, i;,0 pounds. The orchards cover sp.l acres and xavo a yield of b!0,4,0 pon.ids. 'I here were tiiirteeu acres in vineyards wnieli produced SH.-'oO pounds. The ,'i:;7 hives of bees produced .V.i.ToO pounds of hooev. Oilier farm products were 4S0 gallons of wine. SiS-VI callous of cider. s0 gallons of vi'iegar. 'JT-'iO sial-lonsof sial-lonsof sorgliuie. s'l"0 pounds of biit'.r. nnd Kl.oSO pounds of cticese. The jieo-ii!e jieo-ii!e own o.noii milch cows, and '.'.1, t. p produced llVc-iH pounds of wool. Miss K. V. Stanford fives notice that I PARK CITY. Xjiri'iill ('nnrtllMldcricfito Tilt Tiiars, Pakk Crrr, Sept. 4. James Sweat, an employee of tiie Crescent concentrator, concen-trator, was injured Tuesday night. He tried to remove a belt with a shovel, The blade of the shovel struck him on tiie head. The school census for Park City district dis-trict has beeu completed, it is as follows: fol-lows: Children of non-morinon par-cuts par-cuts boys 37S, girls IJOO, total 7.'"; children of mormon parents boys 25, i girls 14 total total number of children chil-dren of school age in tho district 764. The number of children atlouding the district school is il.".); private school no school Sufi. Last year the num-j num-j tier of children was 715, making a gain I this year of 4D. The total number of ! children enrolled on the Ontario ceu ! sus report this year was 1 HI; a gain of ! 'M over last year. The Alliance lias laid off a few men while the machinery is being repaired. Work in the faca of the drift has been stopped. An upraise is being run bp-sides bp-sides a cross-cut, and it is expected that I ore i-hiprnouts will commence in a short time. John W. Ceiger, express agent for the Union Pacific, left this morning for his old home ia Htivlinginn, Iowa. O. S . Jenkins will rill his position until ho return:!. Mr. (loiger's sistr, Mrs. j Chsa. Shields accompanied him. 1 The tunnel at the Silver Key is in CM j feet. A vein of second class ore was j cut, about live feet iu width on Sat ir-j ir-j dav last, it goes l per cent lead and I eight ounces silver, and has a largo I per cent of pyrites of iron. Mr. and M's. W. V. K'oa entertained a in. oilier of ii ii-nas on Saturday eveu-in, eveu-in, in honor of Alius Zane and Miss Lawrence of Salt Lake. Progressive ! pedro w:is the order of the euenmg. Jack Pope has the contract to build the lialy Vst boarding house. He will commence work .11 once and w,ll have the building completed iu twelve days. Tlie lawn tea given by Mrs. A. B. Richardson. Thursday, afternuon to her lady friends, was a very pleasant affair. af-fair. Mr. aud Mrs. W. David. Mr. and Mrs. it takes forty-five minutes longer for th? passenger train to travel from Og-den Og-den to Logan than from Logan to Og-don. Og-don. The men engaged in making the new road between La Plata and Mineral Point, discovered a lead of galena, which, according to rumor, is as good as any yet found in the district. Mr. Hobinson of the law firm of Robinson Rob-inson & Watters, returned to Logan on last evening's train, after a three weeks' absence in the east visiting relatives. rela-tives. Mr. Fernstrom of the Sii'etUah Herald, Salt Like City, is in Logan. FKOVO. Harriot Correttponffrnce to The Tinvft. Pkovo, Aug. 4. Klder George Marshall, Mar-shall, who has been engaged in missionary mis-sionary work in Lancashire, Kugland, for over two years past is in the city. He returns to his home in Miuersville, Beaver county, this evening. Mr. Alonzo Haw3, of Vernal, arrived ar-rived in this city last evening, and brings very favorable reports from the Ashley country, where many of Provo'g people have settled. Crops are better there than ever before The new mines and tho military post. Fori Duchesne, furnishes good markets for the farmer's products, and gives work to freighters freight-ers and laborers, snd makes all business brisk. A corespondent from Fillmore says that Justice James King, on Saturday, had a dillic dty with James Doyle Huntsman over an estray matter. Huntsman brought bis 'juirt down briskly on King's, bead, splitting his hat and nose at tl e semo time. The hat is Kittened, bat the nose Ic.oks irreparable. Jiidite Veile charged Doyle $1.50 for the damage. , .Eriu, Xkimii, Sept. 4. An important meeting meet-ing was held last night at tiie court bouse in Nephi by tiie business men and prominent eiliens of Nephi, Fountain Green, Moroni and Chester, to take into consideration tho advisability advisabil-ity of lifliiK the indebtedness of the Sanpete Valley railway. which has been. "incurred since " last, ' |