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Show S Ibrigham CITY notes vjl Special to The Tribune. UT-r BRIG-HAM CITV. July 9. An unusual-3S unusual-3S lv large land deal took place here this fJK week when United States Representative tj Joseph Howell of Logan purchased all the W land nnd holdings of the Promontory t Stock company, located at Promontory and Blue crock, In Box Elder county. It I Is the intention of air. Howell to incor-Y, incor-Y, porate n company at once and then have f Uic lands appraised. The land will bo . 3ft out In lincts to suit purchasers, rho t ;lenl Involves 3G0.000 acres, nearly all of f which Is arable farming land. The Utuh-Idaho Orchard company, lo-f lo-f catcd north of Honcyville and owned t prlnclpallv by Israel llunsaker of Tloney-vlllo Tloney-vlllo and Lorenzo N. and Joseph .. Stohl of Brigham. has been disposing of h considerable of Its orchard land during this week. Eleven tracts of live acres each were disposed of by C. S. llolmqulst, the agent who has charge or the dlsposi-" dlsposi-" lion of the property. Work is progressing rapidly on the boarding house being croctcd on the ec-1 ec-1 mcnt plant site north of this city. Just ns soon as tho boarding house Is com-ul' com-ul' plcled, work will be begun on the factory building. , St The remains of 2.cls O. Hansen, eldest rtjF son of cx-Blshop Jens Hansen of the Fourth ward, were brought to this city the beginning of the woek from Oak-.3--land, Cat, where ho died In. it week. He b, was 56 years of age. nnd leaves a father UK "In this cltv. Tho remains were accom-lH,iaianled accom-lH,iaianled to this city by his sister-in-law. tJBT .-Brief services were held at the cemetery, WF; unrt intcVment took place In the family Mhx 'Plot at the cemetory. Mr- Aima jficnn. si wholesale merchant or I 'Bear River City, passed through this city - on his way to Los Angeles. At a meeting or the city council Wednesday night, the Ogden Portland " Cement company made application for electric power, which the company proposes pro-poses to use at their cement plant north of town, A great deal of power Is being used, or is contracted for. by tho Amal- gainatcd Smelter company of Ogden, and It Is possible to transfer this power from tho smelter to tho cement company. Tho mutter Is now under consideration. A building committee was created, eon-'sistlng eon-'sistlng of Mayor Blackburn, chairman; f'.Wvnn li. Eddy, John 11, Horsley and John P. Chrlstenscn. The matter of excavating ex-cavating for the new city building was reported, and M. L,. Nichols was appointed appoint-ed supervisor of tho work, which Is to be commenced immediately. A petition was received from U. C. Sl-monsen Sl-monsen In behalf of Poach day, to use certain streets and squarosr and bo granted the usual concessions, as heretofore. here-tofore. The concessions were granted Mr, SImonscn, but matter of using public pub-lic highways on Peach day was submitted lo a committee for Investigation. |