| Show local and other matters FLOM ais DAILY MAY 2 president young and party president B young and party left 11 nephi on their way south bouth this morning lower this thia morn morning ling the weber river biver had falen fallen fifteen inches and the utah central new iron bridge vas was considered safe dam the dam on red bed lutte butte creek of the camp douglas hater vater works haaf haar been carried away by the high water the verdure the fine soaking rain on satur Batur saturday day evening has helped the garden things they are coming on apace and the trees are pushing out their leaves leavea rapidly change of Location The western union telf telegraph graph office is biow now in the new now bank block below the post office having opened in the new and commodious quarters this morning water pipes workmen areen are engaged lay laying ing from the water main to the townsend souse house a service bervice P pipe ipe so thab thai the hotel botel will be supplied p liedwith with the aqueous fluid from t he waterworks water works within a few fox days gulls these birds are unusually numerous this season probably as much so aa as at anytime any time tined their they dev devoured the devastating cricket crickets ss and when they were nying hying about all aff over this valley galley appointments for john W barneson Barne nebraska to bele be receiver of public moneys beaver land and district utah charles charies IL boward of michigan to be register of the land and office beaver ian lan land d district brict utah washington star scar stars apte 25 sunset crossing we have seen a letter from brother amos I 1 lu iju cha cus dated at sunset crossing arizona ariere april ath wll wil where ere brother lot smith and company are making a settlement the breth brethren rell reli were busy clearing land putting seeds in the ground alid and doing other necessary labor thirty nive five acres of wheat had already been sowa sown at date of the communication the whereabouts information is wanted of the whereabouts of richard sanders was wab a member of the mormon battalion and remained ned in Cali call california forMa any in format iod iori th thau that at cabbe can ean be given of him er or a any y of his children will be thane thankfully ft uly received by his aged parents 3 moses 11 and am amanda anda sanders address st george vash ington county utah ter territory california and nevada papers please copy copper ore from the south from bishop E D woolley Vo olley we learned today to ilay that forty two thousand pounds of copper ore from the 1114 grand gulch mine and purchased by the nirm firm pf af B Q G woolley robert bobert C Q lund and thornas thpmas judd of sh george was vas recently shipped from that city eivy v by wells fargo d co and is expected d to deac reach h this city eity about the ath at IA dinst to see their prients ends tomor tomor to td mor row brother william spicer and brother thomas a C griggs leae for england to which country they go on a visit to see their relatives and friends brother spicer left his native country twenty years ago for utah and in panning parting with his friends he informed them that if he lived twenty years he would at the end of that time pay them a visit and he goes tomorrow to morrow to redeem that promise erom prom south we ve had a visit this morning rooming from mr richard bentley of st george who arrived from that place last evening we are informed by him that tho the farm crops are nearly all in and there being no room for douht doubt about the plentiful supply of water the prospects for a bountiful yield are splendid the crops all tile the way why up from the far south aiso also look very promising an extensive mining field is opening up in the southern region in fact everywhere thereabout therea there bolit about the ground and rocks are impregnated more or less with metallic substances TI there lere have been several new mew discover discoveries lesof of copper minea mines annor in northern the n arizona near the grand gulch mining cos cole claim this i company recently shipped five tons of copper bullion and eighteen tons of ore which wll will arrive liere here this week the grand gulch m mine ine lne la is very extensive and the ore remarkably rich actually yielding 95 93 per cent of pure copper the ore being free from any other kind of metal and therefore efow very tery easily smelt smelted ed we are informed that it I 1 Is the only mine of the same character inthe in the united states but that there ia a 8 similar one in south america the grand gulch company ate are re of capital tp tg so large an interest I 1 procure suitable smelting smelling sm elting works ac and presents an opportunity for profitable investment to enterprising men of means THE FLOOD SUBSIDED yesterday ay we publia published lied acom A a communication muni cation from A tax payer on the subject of the inundation of the lower part of or the city by the high water wader jn in which that correspondent suggested as one cause that there there has not been more than eighteen or twenty inc inches es of w water ater running through the roper ditch when it might have taken 18 much again agala 11 having malted mailed the them ditch alluded to this morning we are lire prepared pared to state that the correspondent was in error on that point olaf the body of water turn turned ed in that direction having been ad large as to overflow the street along its ita banks and the gates having been I 1 taken out bodily inor Indr in orden order den der that there might be no obstruction 1 to letting jetting ai as much down the cutas cut as so far ad ag the suggestion o of dive diverting rt the waters of bed red butte and und emigration creeks to the surrounding bench betich land where water Is generally scarce or oi aven entirely absent is con cou concerned berned since tince sunday night ther there 4 lias hak been beeb as much water ru running over that I 1 patt khrt fitt from iry dry creek as the people in that part of the city can conveniently handle and bojur so large a has as been the quantity running in that direction that the cemetery has haa been damaged to some extent and greatly bendan endangered so much so that a number of men and teams leams had bad to td be bb I 1 set iet to work there by the sul sui supervisor er vIsor to con construct a devee to prevent ent further r mischief by the flooding waters we note these facts because of the Import importance ande abde of bf the matter involved the damage by the floods being of large consideration era tion and that blanie blame may baynot not be attached to parties who are doing all that can be done under the circumstances to avert calamity by the freshets fresh ets we are pleased to be wi able to state that the vaters waters have hare greatly subsided since yesterday morning and the people injured by the overflow feel encouraged yesterday morning and ath south streets were submerged for a long distance as were also the various blocks intervening but now the water has entirely receded below ath south street leaving the houses once more on dry land below that howe however very verg several dwellings are arem area still till surrounded especially that of mr wt edwin pettit in one of whose buildings the water is ii now fully a foot deep leep tiie tile railroad gm gnade grade do isso is so far repaired as to hilow allow trains topas to pass sf over uninterruptedly although several hands are still at work on it morris bevans evans brick yard is still under water and of course will not be in condition for tise use for some time although the water is rapidly settling this morning the state road boad was high and dry save in one place where the water was run ning nin gover ove r ithrom it from east enet to west and county supervisor wayman and a number of men and teams were busily engaged filling in the places which had been cut out banking up the side in spots repairing an impaired bridge and otherwise fortifying against future contingencies the hind land adjacent to the state road boad d especially th that at situated immediately east of it for a considerable sid erable distance is still under water but unless another ribe rise takes place before long it will soon settle and disappear fortunately it is mostly hay land und the people in the southwest south west corner of the city are hopeful that the worst is dast dast past but tut there must be some doubts upon that point the quantity of nn melted snow still in the mountains being immense und and only requiring the fierce rays of the sun run with ch fresh south breeze to bri bridgit bring ngit it down with an ait irresistible rush in liquid form destruction st tion in its headlong path besides the probability of rainfalls rain falls which help to swell the at zt present able abie torrents tor menta renta that leap the rocks add plow the valleys A communication just received from A Resi resl resident lerit of the dry bench states I 1 hat the surroundings of his pace of abode are no longer dry there being so great a superabundance of water in that locality at present as to cause it to cut gulches in places from six to eight feet deep the corre correspondent spon is a stickler for the happy medium in ju regard to water well as other mundane matters FROM fron wednesdays 1 DAILY bainy ITLY hiat hlat may MAT 3 city co council uncil the council last evening mayor little littie presiding in petition of allgood representing that by accident accidents he had lost one of lia bia limbs at Coa coalville Co alville iville and asking that he be permitted to carry on tho coal business in this city free oree of license referred to the mayor petition of morris and E evans vans stating that their new brickyard brick yard in the ath ward was under water and being under contract to supply fire brick asking the privilege 0 0 of bur burning n ing one kiln at their theer old y yard ard near the theatre referred to special committee on improvements with authority to act in iu the premises 4 oa on petition B Whit temores job wagon license vas was tag transferred to ralph snowball petition of dr A W V calder re presenting that he had paid for a dentists license for one year and that before beford the expiration of the term thereof the ordinance requiring ingabe the abe payment of such licence was repealed and he desired that the amount as per term be refunded to him tabled auditors Audi tors tord report for the quarter ending february 1876 was reported by the finance committee as having been examined and found correct report adopted filed the committee on claims reported the bill of the gas company portable fence with reduction 0 31 and recommended that the balance be appropriated report adopted and recommendation acted upon alderman presented his report for april which sho showed wed th that at 89 cases had been beell disposed of cash finnesand nine fine sand saud and aud labor fines been assessed and collected the following bills were allowed and amounts appropriated expense bill of city marshal for april 2747 2747 chief engineer engineers s W hydes for boarding prisoners salary of city treasurer to april two and a half months salary of city attorney one month mouth salaries of city marshal and seven policemen for far april salary of jos NY burt butt janitor of city hall for april 00 50 of W E hyde waterworks water works reservoirs watchman and street lamplighter to april forty two days 84 bill of dr young for boarding four insane persons one month W salmon for coal delivered at the asylum W H allgood for at khem them the asylum IM 8 davis howe cafor co for fon hydrants and other othen supplied the waterworks water works 1972 armstrong bagley lumber waterworks water works 88 for lor trees plan pian planted t on union square miller ail aud and all I 1 L C con ondie die dle 1 for gravel for publia public str streets ta 60 salary of au supervisor and two and a half months the salary of the supervisor and was fixed at a month bill of dr B S B young for formesi medi cal services to mr wm affleck accidentally injured while at work in a waterworks water works trench 12 referred to committee oa onu claims the special committee to whom was referred tho the subject matter of the proposition of dr S B young to purchase or lease the insane asylum property recommended that the same be leased eased for 20 a mod moo month th the lessee to make the necessary repairs at his big own expense and plant trees on the grounds in place of othero other that had died report adopted adjourned till next tuesday evening at 7 ale aue bait wait ALT LAKE CITY may 3 1876 editor deseret news t 12 find in your paper of yesterday the attention of the public called toa to ton a communication from A taxpayer stating that your correspondent was in error arror in regard to the amount of water running down the roper ditch allow me to state that if it there is any depend ance an ce on a woodi goo Hoo divory ivory two foot rule role your corres cornes on ent kasnot in error as he v visited sited the pince place hia hla himself two mornings in succession lon ion and measured the water with the rule alluded to in barlou various places in the ditch and a number of others can ean testify to the same statement well the matter I 1 will tell you between the time your correspondent visited the place and the time mr local paid a visit mr hyde the city who in his official capacity knows knowis DO no man but is laboring forthe for the good of the public visited the place in question leation saw the evil and applied so the remedy by taking dihe the gates out entirely so there could be no more tam tampering g with them mr editor I 1 do not say that we should not an overflow if that had been attended to sooner but I 1 do say the evil would not have been so great I 1 do not often write to t the editor orf of a paper but when I 1 do make the attempt to endeavor to irate facts as they do exist and I 1 think it rather too bad when I 1 know I 1 haye hare the truth that it should go to the pub lie through a newspaper that I 1 have committed an error error A TAX piyen PAYER the writer of the article of yesterday alluded to in the foregoing merely spoke of existing facts ana and not of the past the gates spoken of were taken out before the last and by far the most disastrous flooding of the season and the roper ditch at st the time was filled beyond its carrying capacity I 1 a fact which tax payee payer admits how the matter stood previous to then I 1 deponent saith not 17 FROM THURSDAYS DAILY MAY mar 4 fc provo river kiver prove provo river biver 1 ia very high just now president young and party president B young and party fillmore this morn I 1 ng intend ing to stop at cove tonight to night water lowering owing to the coolness of the atmosphere the volume of water from the mountains continues low enough to be under control control south of the city cache valley from mr J H martineau just in from cache we learn that the streams of that val ley are as high now as they usually are in july in other seasons the bear bearis is over its bankland bank sand tb the snow esnow in the mountains hast hag hardly com corn fenced to melt dangerous recently a young man while digging in his big lot found a number of sticks of der buried burled in the krou ground lid rid where tl they ney hey had remah remained isid ever since the explosion it is probable that quantities of this dangerous subs bubs substance uince are yet strewn around parties finding it should be cautious about handling it dansk late juul jurl hari kan endru for den danake damske fulde Af comp ngul agul og nummer lummer kniga aar ear og maa angilea iwer saint med foige folge 50 cents i uden akke vil alive paa Li listerine sterne scriv til 0 F due ward salt lake city returned missionaries el lelder leider der E IV east cal cai ledIn bun bur this afternoon he ue returned on tuesday evening with his wife from his 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