Show WHERE THE WATER GOES there are rumblings gs ia theair 0 law suite threatened or contemplated between the various canal companies 0 valley who are taking water out of the weber nver we are told by a gentleman who has recently returned from a stay at the head waters of the weber that the at that point hi now fully as large as it ever lias been at season of the year but that below certain canals of recent construction part way down the river the flow never was so small cheso canals some of which have not been in operation more than two years have been using tho water lavishly all the bummer giving their second crop of lucern a soaking while the airet yield of the below waa burning up before any hasty litigation is instituted it would be a consistent tiling tor those concerned to send a committee up the river to and on the condition of things THE reau that the men of aden will prove lukewarm at the polls and display a lack of patriotic fervor is still worrying the salt lake tribune the roll of drains and oratory oven the ponderous eliodo mon tades of SI cDaniel threaten to prove insufficient to hold tho rants together in the contest between hatsh taxes and low license on ono land and economy and kowl order on the other COL il M said to a liberal audience in bait lake monday evening we must have a change and we will leave a change a genii anent which bis hearers applauded BO heartily that he took the hint and from the daily of july 31 THE MEW DEPOT there is Bc arcely a citizen la ogden or weber county that will cot rejoice in tho occasion which to daya festivities tivi ties are to appropriately celebrate the rejoicing may well extend throughout all northern utah for the event means to them in u proportionate degree exactly what it means to us it is shared we observe from au editorial in last evenings yens by the best citizens of like and altogether it is so full of importance to the commerce of the whole community that the territory may almost look upon it as an occasion for general congratulations and delight our enthusiasm over the mere opening of a passenger depot may not be understood by strangers or new inhabitants who are unfamiliar familar un with the past bat those who havel hed through the disappointments and misgivings of the last twenty tears will feel that this tardy recognition of their claims this realization of their hopes deserves all the commemoration we can give it ever since the day when the last rail on the trans continental road was laid at promontory and the city of ogden was axed as the point of for the lines from east and west our citizens have looked forward with patient longing to the time when station facilities should be provided adequate to the necessities of the place all these years they have waited in vain at times encouraged by promises that the needed improvements would be made at times again depressed by the announcement that no relief could be extended when ire destroyed the old rookeries rook eries which had outlived their temporary usefulness the liepe that substantial quarters mould replace the ruin took fresh and buoyant wings but frame replaced frame and the hope went down into the ashes at last foundation walls were put in where the present building stands they grew and gave promise of completion and beauty but in them the long suffering people found another disappointment work was stopped before the corner stone was reached and passengers and freight went back and forth over the ruined foundation as they had years before the foundation was made last year a fresh start was made part of the old foundation was used part removed and those who claimed to know declared that work would not now cease until the building should be completed but having been disappointed so many times many of the inhabitants shook their beads despairingly they were not to be caught by the bame kind of chaff again they would believe what their eyes should see not all that their ears might hear 13 and behold this time they were the ones to be disappointed their doubts proved groundless and aiom the day of the laying of the corner stone until now there has been no suspension of alie work ita completion is the event that ne are called apon to celebrate the renewal of the bond linking the west to the last the repetition of the promise that ogden should be the junction and terminus the reassurance that as a railroad and commercial center she never be moved out of her place moat gratefully we hail the day which emphasizes and fulfills all that we have claimed for this queen city the union depot will tell its own story to every passenger and as from this day on ita graceful spire and spacious corridors shall gaze upon and listen to the tramp of many beet and the hum of busy voices declaring the energy and welfare of this great mart it will please us all to look back to the day when wa banqueted and danced at alie christening of so eloquent a witness |