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Show i Review of Oflden's April Roseate Horoscope of the Railroad City St. Joseph's Artistic Windows Win-dows and Their Donors. (Special Correspondence.) The month of April in Ogden has been up to this (the 21st) an uneventful unevent-ful period, aside from the bustle cre-! cre-! ated by - the building of the Ogden-Lucin Ogden-Lucin cut-off. There is not much to j create excitement. Everyone is busy with personal affairs, and the year's work may be said to be now over. More private residences will be built in Ogden during 1902 than any year in its history. Already many of them are under way and the same may be said of the improvements in the business quarter of the city. Now that the railroad question is settled set-tled for all time, manufacturing companies com-panies from the middle and far eastern states are coming to Ogden and buy ing sites for warehouses, with the fixed intention of making this the distributing distribut-ing point for their goods for Utah, Nevada. Ne-vada. Wyoming and Idaho. The local wholesale dealers are. also enlarging their capacity and smelter men are visiting vis-iting our city at present with the intention in-tention of making Ogden the site of extensive reduction works. Hotels, clothing stores and outfitting establishments establish-ments of our city are doing an excellent excel-lent business. Since Ogden has grown to be a labor mart a stranger going clown Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street would imagine himself in Genoa or Athens so many and so noisy are the legions of Greek and Italian Ital-ian that line the sidewalk. These men are here to work in the service of the Southern Pacific and- Union Pacific railroad lines, engaged of course in the work of reconstruction. Every day that now passes proves more and more j the magnitude of the work that this great transcontinental line is performing, perform-ing, and the improvement now under way proves the -aim that these companies com-panies entertain of the future work of their lines. The grade from Ogden to the lake shore, twelve miles, west from Ogden, Is about completed . and ' within three weeks the track will be in place along from Ogden to the water front, and the 200 carloads of tough fir and cedar pillars pil-lars will be hurried to the lake shore where the great causeway will be started. MINING .OPERATIONS. It now seems that all of this great work of building the - causeway and trestle work across the lake will be done under the direct supervision of the Southern Pacific engineers. . Mr. Hood is the man on whom this . re-8ponsibi!ity re-8ponsibi!ity will rest; and well may any modern engineer-be proud of such an undertaking, as .it will stand for centuries. to. come as- ode of the great and bold engineering feats of this age. ! 4 The very late spring opening has , somewhat retarded the working of mining properties near Ogden. The El- - dorado and Prince of India properties A are the only mines now working near h the city, but at La Plata, twenty-two miles to the northeast Dr. Withee is working about fifteen men on the Sil-ver Sil-ver Head mines of that camp. This year of 1002 will doubtless see more J work done in the three mineral moun-. tains near Ogden than ever before. i This is a strange old world, at best, ( 4 that we live in. Men here in Utah will - run off to Cape Nome. Dawson. Siberia. I Manchuria, South Africa and Cape : Horn, to work mines that are frequently of doubtful merit whilst here in Utah there are in sight of Ogden mines that are likely to rival the Sierra do Pasco that Utah men are now trying to take out of the dumps. But whilst men in Utah go elsewhere to mine, men from -f New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Michigan come into the Wasatch range and cast their lot on hitherto unknown , properties, and in the teeth of our own . I citizens begin work on what was , hitherto unknown to our own people. The work of paving a considerable j part of our business streets in Ogden will begin within the next sixty days and continue until cold weather again - sets in. The greater part of that work -f will quite likely be performed by our doughty citizen. Colonel J. P. O'Neill. MORE GOOD FORTUNE. , It was said by men of the olden time that messengers of good fortune never - came alone when they visited aggrega- -f tions of mankind, and so it seems to . be with thf n-noH luck nf Omlun that . . the cut-off is now under way. Two or three new railway enterprises promise to pay tribute to our city. One of these now talked of within a very small circle cir-cle (the members of which know more of coming events than the members of any other body of men on tho Pacific coast), is a road to run from Ogden to the northwest, reaching the coast at a point between San Francisco and Portland. Port-land. Thin road is now practically completed com-pleted as far as the Hot Springs, nine miles out of Ogden, and passenger trains will run on schedule time after May 1. Another road, the building of which is much discussed in the same private circle, is a line from Ogden south through Utah, going down the Virgin river to the Colorado river, crossing thence to the gold and sliver mines at Mineral park. Arizona, thence across to the Big Sandy, crossing the plains of the Wassayampa to Phoenix, and thence to Benson and on into Mexico, through which territory it will run until un-til it reached tide water at Gu3'ma: thus connecting Ogden with the Gulf of California and opening this northern country to the trade of Sonora, Arizona and southern Utah. Of all the roads now talked of. this will become the one whose route lies through an Eldorado. The smelting works' of Utah over this line will receive re-ceive millions of dollars' worth of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc ores from Ltah and Arizona and Mexican mines, and the citrous fruit and other products prod-ucts of the semi-tropics will be exchanged ex-changed for the flour, butter, grain and manufactured goods of our northern regions. The passenger who wants to visit Chihuahua. Durango, Sonora or Arizona from Montana, Idaho or Utah, will not have to go 1,500 miles out of his way to gain his destination. The- northern and southern gap must be filled, and it is fortunate th i work is now being considered. As I am letting out secrets in this case. I will cut short. As I sit at my desk writing this letter, let-ter, northern Utah is wrapped in the folds of an early spring storm half rain, half snow jn the valleys and soft, heavy snow in the mountain. It began last night, and it is not unlikely that it will continue for three days Southern Idaho and the northern ranges of this state will be much benefited ben-efited with this storm when it is over The warm weather that ushers in spring will be upon us, and the last l contingent of larks and robins will arrive with mirth and music. The spring and summer of 1902 will appear in their wanton glory. ST. JOSEPH'S PARISH. In matters appertaining to St. Joseph Jo-seph s parish in Ogden, everything is moving along nicely. Work, on the interior in-terior of the new church is being carried car-ried ahead in a very satisfactory manner. man-ner. The ceiling and wainscotting is completed and the plastering of the walls almost completed. Some days ago Father Cushnahan called together the members of the congregation to meet in the new church. The purpose of this meeting was to show them ths on- 1.-ti. the high altar. This magnificent stained glass window is now in place and represents rep-resents the crucifixion in beautiful colors. col-ors. It is a real work of art, the product prod-uct of the Ford Brothers of Chicago. The window itself was donated by Father Cushnahan. From among the ladies present at this meeting, subscriptions sub-scriptions were taken sufficient to place all of the windows on the east and west sides of the church. The high window above the south entrance will be placed by the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. To digress for a moment. I will here state that the lady members of the Sacred Heart league have for the past three months labored very hard to obtain ob-tain funds for the payment of this window. win-dow. Society work of different kinds has been performed in order to create a fund for- the above purpose. At present pres-ent a large part of the needed funds for the purchase of this window are in the treasury. To fully award honor where honor is due in this matter of memorial windows, win-dows, the following persons and societies socie-ties each donated a window: On the west side of the church, one window given by the children's society of the Holy Angels. Mr. Henry McLaughlin donated a window, Mrs. Thomas Ke-ough, Ke-ough, Miss Healy, Ancient Order of Hibernians. Mrs. Laughrin and Mrs. Hastings and Mr. Thomas Smythe n u ... .ij. .... . siuu a winaow was given by each of the following persons- St Aloyslus Boys' society, Mrs. Don Ma-puire. Ma-puire. Mrs. T. D. Ryan, Mrs. George HT. Matson, Mrs. Thomas Fitzgerald Mr. D. A. Smythe and Miss May Conroy. Con-roy. In the baptistry and other parts of the church the smaller windows are being donated by different members of the parish. The work upon these windows win-dows is of a high order in material and finish, the subjects being full figure and the decorating equaling anything found west of Chicago. The autumn of 1902 will doubtless see this edifice ready for occupation, as ail work is being pushed forward as rapidly rap-idly as financial conditions will allow The pupils at the Sacred Heart academy acad-emy are now engaged in preparatory work for closing the season. The year's attendance has been very good and the coming year promises much for this excellent institution. The month of April in this year of our Lord 1902 finds St. Joseph's parish much increased in members beyond what it was in April. 1901. The new families hail from California, Nevada Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois. Most of those coming are here to prepare permanent homes, and the incoming of these, together with families fam-ilies of other religious denominations have added much to the value of reai estate beyond what it was one vear ago. - As I' draw this letter to a close, the cold, drizzling rain continues its murmur mur-mur amid the budding trees and its patter on the roof doubtless foretells a storm reaching far to north and south making glad the hearts of Idaho and Utah farmers and stockgrowers Yet It. saddens the souls of thousands of poor fellows who, with pack animals I and-saddle horses, or by wagon are following the' beck of wily Fortune Into the wilderness around Thunder mountain, moun-tain, Idaho. DON.11AGUIRE |