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Show $. 4 : SALT LAKE 3 -i 4.i ii4-f 4.4 CITY AND. NEIGHBORHOOD. J. F. Dooly has a scheme relative to Great Salt lake which may attract at-! at-! tention. It is to run a dyke between j Tromontory to Fremont island, and ' from thence to Antelope, with a con-, con-, tinuation of the same from the south loint of Antelope to the mainland near ! J the Jeremy salt works. This, it is be-lieved. be-lieved. would make a fresh water lake of the entire eastern part of the great I lake, as the rivers empty into that part of it, leaving the western section of the great body of water a salt lake. . , An official board has been appointed I to select the site for the new buildings and other improvements decided upon J for Fort Douglas. The improvements j are to cost $200,000, and will consist of ! new barracks, gun sheds, officers' . quarters and extensions of the present J buildings, so that the port will ac-, ac-, commodate easily a full regiment. , ? , Charles E. Bradd, who is at the White house from Thunder mountains, moun-tains, says the Profile, Smith and Big Creek county is better than the much i advertised Thunder mountain section. I He also states that there will be no l railroad into that country until it is j demonstrated that there is better ore jn sight than is visible at present. Mr. Bradd reports flour at Roosevelt at $8 t per sack and bacon at 40 cents per , pound. He says now that the winter snows have blocked the trails, great fairy stories may be looked for as to 1 the hidden wealth of the country, and the deeper the snow the more vivid the I stories. i i The election of school trustees on ; Wednesday resulted: First precinct, ! Byron E. Cummings; Second precinct, Morton J. Cheesman; Third precinct, j William J. Newman; Fourth precinct, Brigham S. Young; Fifth precinct, j Henry P. Henderson. In every precinct , except the First the vote was practieal-; practieal-; ! ly unanimous, there being but one can-i can-i didate. In the First, however, was one of the bitterest struggles seen in many a day. The contest was waged squarely square-ly on Mormon and non-Mormon lines, ; except that a number of non-Mormons supported Cummings because he does j not himself belong to the Mormon ; church and because of his personal popularity. Still more did not go to 1 the polls at all. A few Mormons sup ported Eyer, but the machinery of the 1 church organization was thrown opett- ' ly into the contest for Cummings. At . 1 every polling place at least one church ' official was on hand with ballots, tell- 1 ing all the Mormons to vote them for Cummings. |
