Show EXCHANGES daniel P thomas of smithfield while cutting a tree in smithfield canyon met with a painful though not ser boua accident in proceeding with his work he found it necessary to hew in an awkward position and in striking a heavy blow the axe glanced from the frozen wood and struck the top of his foot cutting a huge gash ho pluckily crawled down the mountain while his brother joseph H thomas went for a hois the injured man was bronert to logan and dr ormsby d essed the wound and found it necessary to take a number of stitches the bone leading from the great toe into the foot was en severed but the prospect is that the wound will quickly heal the tabernacle at moroni utah has just been furnished by its citizens with a full duoto of seats modeled after those in the large hall in the temple they are beautiful substantial and comfortable in the ephriam utah council meeting on monday last the city fathers voted that the council borrow 2000 to aid them with the money now on hand in buying the depot grounds for the rio grande vestern railway mt pleasant has given about manti will give some 2000 and ephriam will probably give in all the new depot at milford is being constructed very slowly the building material is said to be all on the ground but there seems to be no hurry whatever with the workmen meanwhile all freight coming to the terminus is ruthlessly jammed up in freight cars to await the consignee or his agent the disie country has the appearance of taking a new start in company with the hon R C lund sir morris the other day paid a visit to the great big washington field dam one of the moat undertakings of southern Us h looked upon in fact ag one of the arc idest achievements of the southern when completed along with its tributary canal it will furnish irrigating fluid for over 1200 acres i of additional land mr morris counted in his visit twenty two teams and about forty men with a full railroad graders outfit crowding the work to its utmost capacity he was informed by superintendent mcfarlane that the working force would be more than doubled this week and president lund with the directors is crowding matters to a completion before the setting in of tho rainy season the approximate cost of the dam is of course a large boarding hauae and other necessary et betras for the convenience of the working force arb upon the ground of course tins will give quite an impetus to farming in the extreme south the snow brothers have purchased a complete new roller mill of the very finest pattern obtainable and the machinery for the ame weighing upwards of fourteen tons is now ahping loaded up at milford for for transportation south etonian Uto nian attorney W M mccarta McCar tv of provo is here attending court mr mccarty says that there are upwards of eighteen professional lawyers resident in the garden city and that they all have plenty to do in fact legal business is so brisk in our judicial district that these eighteen deci p les of blackstone hardly fill the demand for every week or so three or four legal gentlemen find it remunerative to come down from salt lake city to attend court at provo whose bar by the way counts among its members some of the mast brilliant legal minds n the tt this large amount of word for lawyers which we must remember is not always actual litigation in the first district indicates if anything at all a period of great cial activity throughout that section ot country onion quite a rich strike was made this week in granite district about ten miles west of beaver reea griffiths and sons where engaged in doing a little prospecting when they discovered rich surface indications and proceeding to sink upon them speedily uncovered a very large body ol 01 galena and grey carbonate ore the edge though large was well defined and is a true fissure being exhibited directly across the county formation of blue lime and spar the discoverers have named the new find the jolly welsh boys and are now down on a shaft something over 12 feet deep the ore in which has materially increased in richness with the depth attained it is almost needless to say that the griffith boys are greatly elated over their dis covery which they are now proceeding to thoroughly exploit |