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Show 18 THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC The same week that ground was broken, the second Catholic mission in Utah was given by Fathers Walter Elliot and A. L. Rosecrans in Salt Lake City, and Fathers W- - J Dwyer and A. B. Brady gave one at the same time in Ophir. These priests were members of the Paulist community. The appeal made for funds for a new school was liberally responded to by the people of Salt Lake. During July and August the Sifters also visited the mining camps and smelters and received considerable help from the miners. Three months after breaking ground the school was opened, although the building was not completely finished. Early in September 1875, after the opening of the school, a delegation under the leadership of Fred Meyers, Superintendent of the Flagstaff Smelter of Sandy, and Marcus Daly, Superintendent of the Walker Brothers Mines on Lion Hill and the Poorman mine at Ophir, waited on Father Scanlan to see about a Sisters Hospital. This had been promised to those who contributed to the new school. Two Sisters of the Holy Cross Order, Sisters Holy Cross and Bartholomew, arrived in Salt Lake in October 1875. On the 22nd, humbly, unostentatiously, and full of the spirit of the Good Master, they began work in a rented building on Fifth East Street between South Temple and First South Streets. In their unpretentious abode their labor of love was preeminently successful. Father Scanlan had as his assistant the Reverend Father Lawrence Breslin, who came to Salt Lake in the fall of 1873 and remained about one year. Father Breslin died on November 27th, 1890. As soon as Father Scanlan had arranged for the religious and educational welfare of the Catholics in Salt Lake City he directed his attention to the needs of his flock in Ogden. He began the erection of a church there in 1876 and sang the first High Mass therein in the following year. The educational needs of the Catholics of Ogden then became the object of Father Scanlans endeavors, and in the year 1879 a Sisters school known as Sacred Heart Academy was opened by him under the direction of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. In 1876 the fame of Silver Reef, because of its rich ore deposits, was becoming widespread. Before the discovery of silver ore, it was an unattractive desert in the southern part of the state and about seventeen miles from St. George where the first Mormon temple was erected. After the discovery of the mines, men flocked there from all parts of the states of Utah and Nevada. It was called Silver Reef from the geological formation of the hills. Coming within the jurisdiction of Father Scanlans large parish, he visited the place in 1877, making the round trip of one thousand miles from Salt Lake and back on horseback. In the trip were included Frisco, Fort Cameron and many other smaller mining camps. He was absent five months, returning to Salt Lake in 0 ctober. Being pleased with the future prospects of the place, he sent Father Kiely, who in 1874 had come from San Francisco to help him, on a visit to. the Reef in 1878. Father Kiely returned in October of the same year and reported that among the miners and other residents of the place were many Catholics who were prepared to build a church and wished F ather Scanlan to revisit them. Immediately the good Father made preparations for his second visit, leaving Salt Lake in November of that year. After reaching his destination, a large lot was soon secured and on January 1st a subscription list for a new Church was opened. In less than four months a neat, commodious, frame church was completed. The first service, a Missa Cantata, was celebrated on Easter Sunday of 1879; the Church, blessed on the same day, was dedicated to St. John. j The next year Father Scanlan solicited subscriptions from the miners and built St. Johns Hospital where the sick and wounded men of the camp were cared for by three Sisters of the Holy Cross. In 1879, while Father Scanlan was engaged in erecting the church and hospital at Silver Reef, an invitation was extended him by the Mormon authorities of St. George to hold serv- - |