Show our logan department la plata mining company expects to reach the one hundred and fifty foot level by the first of march and have every indication of striking the main body of ore at that depth the returns from the last car e shipped hipped leaves a balance in favor of the company over and above the cost of transportation and reduction of at the reduction works they offer oner to manipulate one hundred and fifty tons a month for ten dollars per ton and pay the company the highest market price for the silver and lead in the salt lake heralds account of the republican primaries held here last saturday there were thirty five mis 1 spelled names so much for their orthography and enterprise their veracity was just as questionable they at state ate that in the first ward isaac smith who was nominated for one of the councilmen in a speech accepting the nomination promised to keep logan river within its banks this is entirely untrue mr smith made a manly speech in accepting the nomination and in the course of his hie remarks said that it if elected he should consider himself as being a councilor not tor for the republican or against the democratic party but for the people of logan irrespective of party syndicates to operate in the principal agricultural resources of cache valley appear to be the order of the day an english syndicate holds options oa on the principal flouting flou ring milli mille here bere and not only in this valley but a all 1 l through utah T territory the particulars of which TUB STAN STANDARD DAnD has already noted the only objection apparent on the face of the scheme is that it is english instead of home capital there is another scheme on foot that h has as every indication of being a big tel oteal it t Is a corporation entitled the cache valley canal co it is so little known at the county seat that your reporter could not find any one well enough posted to give full particulars con berning it lie ile learned however that the canal was to draw its water from bear river above mink creek in bear river canyon artun ning thence along the west side of cache and leaving the valley at some point dear mear the site of the bothwell canal the entire length would beat least one hundred miles it is incorporated the coa contract tract the farmer is asked to that in consideration of the companas comp anys agreement to build and maintain said canal and provide sufficient water to water the lands therein described from thel first day of april till the first day of october sober in each year the farmer agrees to give gave a first mortgage on all of bis his lan land Cander under the ditch for 10 an acre for a perpetual water right right granted him by the company and to pay an annual interest of seven per r cent on the 10 per acre until paid rb the e company further demands a sum surn not to exceed one dollar a year for each acre actually under cultivation with interest until paid at i the rate of one per cent a month the company are to be the judges of the amount of water necessary to water the land and the 1 tax will be perpetual if it they succeed in getting a mortgage on a strip each side of their canal the width of a quarter section they have a mortgage for and could doubtless be sell their option without ever striking a blow or moving a scraper full of dirt for enough to enrich the promoters of the scheme logan feb 23 13 1 1892 |