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Show CACHE VALLEY IN CHRISTMAS NEWS Little Space Devoted to North Country. . Clipping of Matters of Particular Interest. In the follow lug Tub Hki'Uhmuax presents clippings and references to vatlous articles In thcChrlstmasXews likely to prove of particular Interest to our readers. Tills extaordlnary Issue of the News Is full of exceedingly exceeding-ly interesting Information from front to back cover, In fact there Is so much of it that readers will but scan the larger portion, and In a brief way we endeavor to draw attention to Individual In-dividual things of interest locally. The space devoted to Logan and Cache Vally Is considerably less than two pages, of which more than one half Is display advertising. In the article descriptive of this city, the News gives us credit for three miles of new sidewalk laid this year, an addition ad-dition to the couit house, and tells about the O. S. L. loop to the south. The Cache Commercial Club conies In for a few words, the Hrlgham Young College's new building and the A. C. of U.'s restoration of 'the burned building comes in for a little more. Cuts of these two buildings accompany the articles". The Cache Knitting Works, Thatcher Music Co. and A. C. of V. have, display ads, and the Lo gan Knitting Factory has a write up. All this is (V) quite wonderful for such an important portion of the state. The Sheep. "Approximately the number of sheep sheared Ip Utah tills reason was 2,0()0,tHH), with average llecces of six pounds. Taking the average price of wool to be IS cents throughout, this would net the Utah woolgiowers the handsome sum of ', 1(50,000, practically every cent of which was spent In tills state." The Arizona Strip. Congressman Howell contributes a lengthy article oh "The Arizona Strip and What Utahns Would do With it." This Is the slice of Ari.ona territory which Mr. Howell has been seeking to have added to L'tah, and the article fiom his pen contains Ills reasons why this strip should becorre a part of i l'tali territory. Congressman Howell has been over the territory and speaks from liist-hand knowledge of the situation. sit-uation. In connection with tho article arti-cle appears an excellent likeness of tho writer. Logan Marble. The gentleman who came to Logan to wrlte.or tills city and valley found that a marble company is a recent or-ganUatlon or-ganUatlon arid devotes a half-solumn to statements In icgard to the marble product and prospects of tho company. com-pany. Any of these statements might have been made to the writer by somo enthusiast here, but onu paragraph at least must havo been the writer's own observation and this is necessarily necessar-ily of greater interest. lie says: "An exticmely valuable quality of the marbles found heie of different colors is their susceptibility to u re-maikablvhigh re-maikablvhigh polish. In a marble 1 yard in Logan is a gravestone of black marblo from these beds, wiilch has been so highly polished, oven with inadequate in-adequate appliances, that Its surfaco is a perfect mirror, at which a man might shave himself. In the stato capltolatSt. Paul, a truly magnlli-cent magnlli-cent structure Is a room lined with marblo so Highly polished that the guide calls special attention to it; but its surfaco Is Inferior to that of this monument." |