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 170 iLinehioQ City of [.lie V/e^h. j 
 
 Its Advantages as a TWcinufacturing and lousiness G^nteP. 
 
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 The Junction Q'ltXf >^ VV)est, 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET PUBLISHED FOE THE 
 Ogden ©hambbi^ op ©ommei^ge, 
 
 — «• I?Y E. A. McDANIEL, •*— 
 
 EDITOR AND PROrKIKrDK I'F THE 
 
 filler' Mmmiahz Merchant. 
 OGDEN CITY, _ _ - UTAH. 
 
 OGDEN CITY. 
 
 eGDEN CITY ha.s been well 
 termed the ■'Junction City." 
 
 '^-' It is the 
 
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 ^ wes tern 
 
 I terminus 
 of the Union 
 PaciHc Rail- 
 way; the east- 
 ern terminus 
 of the Central 
 Pacific Rail- 
 way; northei'n 
 t e r m i n u s of 
 the Utah Cen- 
 tral Railway; 
 southern ter- 
 minus of the 
 
 Utah & Northern Railway ; and 
 western terminus of the Denver & 
 Rio Grande Western Railway. It 
 is the greatest railroad center in 
 Jtali; the jiidicial seat of Weber 
 County and the second city in 
 size and commercial importance 
 in the Territory, and has an esti- 
 mated population of 10,000 peo- 
 ple. 
 
 Its founder was Captain James 
 Brown, of the Mormon Battalion, 
 
 who purchased, June 6, 1S48, a 
 
 tract of land from an Indian 
 trader, named Miles M. Goodyear; 
 the land on which Ogden City is 
 now situated. It was a grant to 
 Goodyear from the Spanish Gov- 
 ernment, and the purchase by 
 Brown was made prior to the 
 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by 
 which the territory of which Utah 
 is a part, was ceded to the United 
 States. 
 
 This section covered a tract of 
 land commencing at the north of 
 Weber Cailon and following the 
 
 day it will be one of the most im- 
 portant business centers of the 
 Great North West; ' already it 
 has become a very important 
 wholesale market and as the 
 years go by it is constantly gain- 
 ing ground. ^ 3 — - 
 The city is pleasantly located, 
 its streets are broad and straight, 
 its water supply is abundant and 
 pure, being brought in pipes from 
 tlie Ogden River out of the canon 
 just east of the city. The streets 
 are well lighted with electric 
 
 VIEW Ob' 0(;DEN KROiM THE KEXCH. 
 
 base of the mountains north to 
 the Hot Springs; thence yvest to 
 Salt Lake; thence south along the 
 shore of the Lake to a point op- 
 posite Weber Canon; thence east 
 to the beginning. This land was 
 then uncultivated and the price 
 paid was $B000. The City of Og- 
 den is now the second city of 
 Utah as regards population and 
 importance. Its railroad c(jn- 
 nections and favorable location 
 make it certain that at no distant 
 
 lights, tlie cli- 
 mate is heal- 
 thy, and the 
 scenery on all 
 sides is grand 
 and imposing; 
 the Wasatch 
 range of moun 
 tains aiake a 
 Ijeautif ul Ijack 
 ground on the 
 east, and the 
 Great Salt 
 Lake stretch- 
 es away to the 
 west and northwest. 
 
 The Ogden River, which flows 
 through the northern portion of 
 the city, will some day furnish 
 the power for almost any num- 
 ber of factories of all kinds. 
 These together with the iron 
 works already estal)lished, and 
 the R. R. shops which will soon 
 be an absolute necessity, will' 
 make the city an important man- 
 ufacturing center. 
 The public buildings are all 
 
OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 substantial, and as the citj' in- 
 creases in size and importance 
 owing to the favorable location 
 of the piil)lic grounds, the public 
 buildings will of necessity have 
 to lie grand and imposing. 
 
 The hotel accommodations of 
 the city are first class; in fact, the 
 principal hotel is, without doubt, 
 the finest hotel in the Territory. 
 Ogden is well sui>plied with 
 churches, having one Catholic, 
 one Episcopal, one Presbyterian, 
 one Methodist, one Baptist, and 
 the Latter-Day Saints have a 
 Tabernacle and several ward 
 meeting houses, while those of 
 a donl)ting state of mind have 
 an Agnostic Hall. Each of the 
 churches, except the Baptist, 
 has a Mission school under its 
 management or superintended 
 by competent teachers, most of 
 them giving instruction in the 
 common branches, while some 
 give attention to the higher 
 branches of education. The 
 Sisters' (Catholic) school is a 
 fine and commndiotis liuilding, 
 managed with that accuracy 
 peculiar to their society. The 
 Ogden Academy has just been 
 erected by the New West Edu- 
 cational Commi-ssion. This is 
 the largest and most commo- 
 dious school building in the 
 Territory, and it will soon be 
 one of the leading educational 
 institutions in the west. 
 
 The city has a large Central 
 school building and several ward 
 school houses under the control 
 of school trustees of the city. 
 
 The secret and charitable so- 
 cieties established in Ogden are 
 a Masonic Lodge, Chapter and 
 Commandery, Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of 
 United AVorknien, Knights of 
 Pythias, one each of ]\oyal Arca- 
 num and Conductors' Brother- 
 
 hood, with a strong membership 
 in John A. Dix Post, No. 3, Grand 
 Army of the Republic. 
 
 The railroad lines now termi- 
 nating here have commenced the 
 erection of a magnificent Union 
 Passenger Depot, and are arrang- 
 ing for extensive freight depots 
 which are to be pushed to comple- 
 tion, at an outlay of from $400,000 
 to ,$.")00,000, thus settling beyond 
 dispute that Ogden is to be the 
 great railroad center of the inter- 
 mountain regions. Its advantages 
 
 their children have educational 
 and social advantages. While the 
 surrounding States and Territor- 
 ies were suffering from intense 
 cold during the winter, of 'SG-7, at 
 Ogden the thermometer only once 
 touched 12 degrees above zero, 
 while most of the time during 
 the winter for the past fifteen 
 years it has seldom reached zero. 
 The dryness of the atmosphere, 
 tempered down by the influence 
 of the great inland sea, make it 
 the most desirable place to win- 
 
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 M\1N SIKKM'. I.OOklNi; SOI,! 11. 
 
 — climatic, educational and so- 
 cial — as a place of residence are 
 very desirable, and are already 
 attracting the attention of stock 
 and mining men from the sur- 
 rounding country and Territories, 
 as well as capitalists from a dis- 
 tance, to invest in real estate, not 
 only for investment, but to make 
 homes for themselves where their 
 families can indidge in luxuries of 
 fresh fruits and vegetal.iles, and 
 
 ter in this latitude. The sum- 
 mers are warm but seldom un- 
 comfortably hot, the nights be- 
 ing cool and refreshing. To 
 those who are continually push- 
 ing to California for health, we 
 would say, stop a year in the 
 Salt Lake Valley and we venture 
 the assertion that you will be so 
 much improved in health and 
 pleased with the seasons that you 
 will become permanent residents. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 UTAH FOR HEALTH. 
 
 VERY pretty story is told 
 in the Norse mythology, 
 and as near as T can re- 
 member it rnns as follows : 
 
 Balder, the god of the snmmer 
 sunlight, abode among the clouds 
 in a royal asgai'd, ate of ambro- 
 sial food, and drank the nectar 
 of immortality. His father was 
 Odin, the progenitor of kings 
 and the fountain-head of poetiy, 
 painting, and song. Balder was 
 the puiicye of gods, who protected 
 him from threatened peril or im- 
 pending evil. It fell on a day 
 that he wandered from home 
 without his invisible armor, and 
 treacherous Lopter, father of the 
 Fenris-wolf, sought to take his 
 life. This could be done only by 
 Hi ceptivej^'«e.s',se. Lopter there- 
 fore, put a spray of the gentile 
 lu'cstletoe into the hand of Hoder, 
 \\ lio was blind, and bade him 
 Cast it toward the spot on which 
 Balder was standing; when lo! 
 the harmless sprig changed into a 
 javelin and Balder was slain. At 
 this the gods were struck with a 
 speechless horror and funereal 
 clouds hung over the earth and 
 hid the face of the sun, to symbol 
 their mourning. Then Hermod, 
 his brother, volunteered to ride 
 into the dominion of Death 
 (something like Orphens in the 
 Greek mythology) to ransom the 
 well-beloved son of Odin. Nine 
 days and nights he rode his val- 
 liant steed, Sleipnir, through Nor- 
 wegian bogs, challenging venom- 
 ous toads and with his steel corse- 
 let warding off the Ygdrasil ser- 
 pent, till he was come to the 
 mouth of the pit. Here Hermod 
 made known his errand and told 
 of the great world bowed down 
 with grief, and how it refused to 
 be comforted. Death replied that 
 
 ENTRANCK TO OGDEN CANON, 
 
 he must have some proof of this 
 unusual manifestation, and that 
 if all things on the earth — the 
 living as well as the lifeless — the 
 plumes on forest trees, and the 
 mighty sea — the valleys that lay 
 in the warm embrace of the sun, 
 and the spangled hills — and every 
 fish that breasted the ocean, and 
 the birds^that floated through the 
 
 great deep of heaven — would 
 weep, then should Balder be given 
 back. And Thor beat the clouds 
 with his hammer and Odin 
 moved the hearts of all things 
 else, till the earth was a carnival 
 of sorrow. 
 
 Of course this is only a pleas- 
 ant myth that has come down to 
 us through the classic folk-lore of 
 
OGDEX, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 the North; but, nevertheless, it 
 most IjeaiitifuUy illustrates the 
 grandeur of that self-sacrificing 
 devotion which goes into the 
 grave to materialize a vanished 
 loved one. Though it be a fable 
 
 ^reep— if the vanishing soul could 
 be brought back to brighten the 
 gloom hovering over the fireside. 
 And they would fain lie down 
 with the worm if this bitter, bit- 
 ter cup might only pass away. 
 
 I Al.l.S IN WHKEl.EK'o C.\NON 
 
 visits to the babbling spring well' 
 
 ing out of the leaning hillsides — 
 
 ridi with the breath of clover 
 
 and redolent of sunshine. In the 
 
 morning the sick one puts out a 
 
 thin hand to meet your greeting 
 
 and says: "i am better now, and 
 
 to-morrow I shall be well again. 
 
 But the noon brings deeper roses 
 
 to the cheeks, and unearthly 
 
 splendor to the brilliant eyes; 
 
 and the fiuttering breath goes 
 
 out with the twilight, and no 
 
 morning will ever come. 
 
 Such a brief synopsis of more 
 than one-seventh of all the death- 
 beds in the world, and it will be 
 no wonder if the reader contem- 
 plate the above figures with a 
 shudder of incrc liility. Bat it is 
 nevertheless a fact and I repeat, 
 that more than one-seventh of 
 the hunnm family die of lung 
 nuilady. So you see that the vic- 
 tims of consumption are scat- 
 
 we love it because it tells tiie 
 story of a fading form Itrought 
 back from the realm of shade 
 and re-hal)ilitated among the 
 scenes of its former conquests. 
 The ringing gauntlet has a music 
 soft as a mother's lullal)y, but 
 cheering with bold melody the 
 valley of denth. It sets the star 
 of Hope above the shadows that 
 hang over the tomb and twines 
 its uninviting portal with gar- 
 lands of atfection more endureing 
 than the ivy and sweeter than 
 frankincense. How many time-' 
 have I seen kindred and friends 
 in mute sorrow around a pros- 
 trate form whose restless siiirit 
 was about to pass over into the 
 realm of shadow and nothingness! 
 And so have you, my reader. And 
 we have heard them say a thou- 
 sand times, plain as the dumb 
 eloquence of woe could speak, 
 that if their hearts were the 
 world, then should all things in it 
 
 I.AULV MOUNIN.; ON OGDEX RIVER. 
 
 Of all death-beds,the consump- 
 tive's is the most pitiful, but the 
 least to be regretted, because, 
 though the end is inevitable.each 
 day brings added hope, and pain- 
 
 tered over the earth as thiidv as 
 '•Autumn leaves in Valambro- 
 sia," but not our dies of that fell dis- 
 r<ise in this favored nrjion. In a 
 practice here of twelve to four 
 
 (ay brings atmeu uupt-, .hk. i-i.i. f—- , pvten- 
 
 le/s dre Jus of coming health.and teen years more oi less exten 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 sive, I have never seen a case of 
 consumption that I thought orig- 
 inated here, and I have made dil- 
 igent inquiry among my medi- 
 cal brethren, and I believe their 
 experience is like my ow^n. A 
 residence here will restore to 
 natural tone lungs already de- 
 veloping tuberculosis; but the 
 system must not be too much 
 broken nor the vital powers too 
 much depressed, for lungs already 
 
 life; for the higher one ascends, 
 the more attenuated those ele- 
 ments become, and the more 
 eagerly the instinctive faculty 
 reaches out for them. This in- 
 creased activity adds to the de- 
 velopment of the lungs and the 
 walls of the chest for much the 
 same reason that the olacksmith's 
 hand that wields the hammer is 
 larger and stronger than the one 
 that does not. 
 
 the pressure, for they are but ru- 
 dimentary compared with what 
 they must be to live in this at- 
 tenuated air. It is only by the 
 inhal)itation of the oxygen and 
 some other minor elements found 
 in the air that combustion is 
 maintained and animal life sup- 
 ported; and this is found in pro- 
 portion to the hight. In other 
 words, the horse can live only 
 by receiving a given quantity 
 
 destroyed have no more power to 
 grow again than an amputated 
 finger has to rel)uik1 its several 
 organism. I suppose that the in- 
 creased altitude above sea level 
 has something to do with 
 strengthening the lungs as well 
 as the muscles that envelope 
 them. At this hight one has to 
 breathe deeper and more rapidly 
 in order to get from the air the 
 nutrative qualities that maintain 
 
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 It is well understood by hoi-se 
 owners that a horse cannot keep 
 up a long continued effort on the 
 turf here without fatigue, until 
 his lungs become thoroughly in- 
 ured to the atmospheric fuel that 
 there undergoes combustion foi" 
 the purpose of keeping the heart 
 up to its prodigious high-pressure 
 movement. Why? because the 
 air cells will not contain suffi- 
 cient air, nor their walls support 
 
 of oxygen, and in this high al- 
 titude he has to work over a 
 larger quantity of air in order to 
 obtain it. '"Where there is a will 
 there is a way,"' however, and a 
 horse coming from a lower plane 
 into this higher one, instinctively 
 feels that he mud have more air, 
 he sets himself about getting it. 
 The nostrils dilate and the vital 
 current is pumped into them un- 
 til they look like funnels of blood, 
 
OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 the windpipe expands, the lungs 
 distend with each inspiration un- 
 til tlio tianks heave and every 
 muscle in the hody quivers with 
 the strain. How manyan owner 
 of a fast horse thinks of this 
 when his noble bi'ute is finishing 
 a phenominal mile on courage 
 alone? If he would but wait a 
 year until the lung cells and 
 their partitions, together with 
 the outci- wrapping of muscles, 
 become larger, thicker and 
 stronger, to retain the out-pres- 
 sure or weight, has been removed 
 by this increased height — then 
 could a horse trot a mile at the 
 top of liis speed with as little dis- 
 tress as an engine could go the 
 same distance. This is precisely 
 true of man. The reader will re- 
 meml)er (if he were not born 
 here) that when he first came in- 
 to this elevation, how frequently 
 he had to sit down to recover 
 fioni the fatigue incident to ihis 
 raiihod air. And if the '"claret" 
 did not sjjriiig from his nose he 
 
 OGUKN C.-^iNON NEAR ELliClKlC I.ICHT WORKS. 
 
 these blood-channels become hy- muscular cells that go to make 
 pertrophied, or thi(d<ened, l>y the n^) its structure, and these How- 
 increased uses to which they are ing down by the natural law of 
 put, like the hand that swings the gravitation, into the little air- 
 hammer already allud- 
 ed to. The prospector 
 will tell you that a very 
 little fire will serve to 
 boil the water in his 
 kettle, but to cook the 
 dinner it is quite an- 
 other thing. To do this 
 he must tie down the 
 cover to retain the heat. 
 Another factor in the 
 development of healthy 
 lung-action is the ab- 
 sem*e of moisture in the 
 air. The little cells, 
 that everywhere indent 
 the lung substance, are 
 lined with an exceeding- 
 ly delicate membrane 
 which !)ecomes irritat- 
 ed with the raspings 
 of air, the particles 
 of which ai'e wedged 
 apart by the coar.ser 
 
 \V.\I1CI<I-'.\I.I. CANON. 
 
 pockets of the lungs, soon clog 
 and fill them tooverfiowing. Dis- 
 ease is the inevital)le consequence 
 and death the final panacea. 
 Now, there is not much rainfall 
 here during the summer months, 
 and the soil, from its peculiar 
 composition, soon drinks up what 
 redundant moisture is not evap- 
 orated; while a breeze is con- 
 stantly passing down from the 
 cold snow region of the moun- 
 tains like a river through the 
 ocean, to fill tne vacuum always 
 present in the warm aii'-cham- 
 l)ers of the valley, keeping the at- 
 mosphere at all times pure and 
 bracing, 
 
 I have not attempted to give 
 any fine-spun theories of my own, 
 nor sought to weave them to- 
 
 was in luck. These hemorrhages chemical constituents of water, 
 
 take place because the air is not The result is that quantities of 
 
 heavy enough to hold the blood mucous more or less abundant, 
 
 in its vessels, but in a short time are generated in _the sensitive gether with glittering verbiage to 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 bewilder the~reader; but I have 
 tried to tell a simple story made 
 up of accepted facts, most at 
 least, known to the world from 
 the days of Hypocrites; and I 
 wish that I had more time and 
 ability to devote to this charm- 
 ing subject, for at every step in 
 this boundless field of investiga- 
 tion one meets with constant and 
 agreeable surprises. Since a 
 Committee of the Chamber of 
 
 fhthisis pulmonalis, or consumption 
 not one dies from such a disease 
 originaiing here. 
 
 Now we are come to speak of 
 that foster-sister of Consumption 
 and full twin-sister of Misery — 
 Asthma — whether humoral or 
 dry. After being in this climate 
 a year, if one will continue to re- 
 main, all the distressing phe- 
 nomena common to asthma will 
 disappear never to come back 
 
 even as his ancient progenitor 
 did when God breathed into his 
 nostrils and he became a living 
 soul. The sunken eye with its 
 black areola and far-away ex- 
 pression so common in this dis- 
 tressing disease will have its old- 
 time look of inspiration come 
 back again and be in very fact 
 the window of a happy soul. 
 The heart will bear its increased 
 burden with delight, and the 
 
 Commerce requested me to pre- 
 pare this paper for them, T have 
 had no time to consult authori- 
 ties, but have written "oil hand" 
 from memory. But whatever be 
 the basis of speculation in this 
 matter, or whether the reasons 
 that I have advanced be assaila- 
 ble or not, the eternal truth re- 
 mains, and is indisputable, that 
 while more than one seventli of the 
 human race die annually with 
 
 WAIN STREET. LOOKING NORTH. 
 
 but in guise of some ugly night- 
 mare to remind the robust man 
 of the horrid dreams that haunt- 
 ed the long hours of his invalid 
 night. The doughy, i)atulous face 
 will give place to the rosy cheek 
 and nourishing blood will pour 
 into them from its recent con- 
 flict with the air in healthy 
 lungs, and the once frail man will 
 stand erect on his feet clothed 
 with the full majesty of health, 
 
 sick room will lose that frightful 
 sound of a strangling victim. 
 The lungs will expand with the 
 pressure of God's unshackled aii*, 
 while every artery will throb with 
 pure blood, ambitious to churn 
 tlirough all its labyrinthine ways 
 to the very toes. As I before in- 
 timated, this recovery is sure to 
 remain only so long as the pa- 
 tient remains here, for candor 
 compels me to say that I have 
 
8 
 
 OfiDEX, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 known many instances of relapse 
 on moving out of this rountiy. 
 This change from disease to 
 liealth does not seem to depend 
 so much on the climatic condi- 
 tions already explained as upon 
 a peculiar element in the air, 
 which has been given the name 
 of ozone {whatever tliat may l)e, 
 for 1 do not know, and a good 
 many better than I am are in the 
 same boat.) 
 
 Tt is not the object of this 
 writer to mislead the public in 
 regard to the climate of Ugden 
 City and Weber County. Utah, as 
 a health-resort; nor to seek by 
 
 have been broken on the cruel 
 wheel of want or l)nrnt out bj' 
 the tires of dissipation, or in 
 
 1 KI-.Sl;\ n-.KIAN LHLkC H. 
 
 the loose verbiage of an irr 
 sponsible chaidatan to praise 
 more than a life-long res- 
 idence here will justify; 
 therefore. T say that all mor- 
 bid conditions will by no 
 means mend here, and there 
 are some diseases that not 
 only develop pernicious con- 
 ditions, but these rapidly 
 augment until death comes 
 to close the scene. T have 
 no doubt but one far gone 
 with consumption or asth- 
 ma, one whose vital forces 
 
 e- 
 it 
 
 empt; I allude to rahiefi, or hyd- 
 rophobia. So far as T know there 
 has never been a case reported, 
 although we have vastly more 
 dogs than we need, and having 
 the usual weakness of their kind, 
 they quari'el among themselves 
 and rip the beggar's heel just the 
 same as thej' do anywhere else. 
 (The beggar sometimes gets 
 angry, but he does not go mad.) 
 If one be bit by his favorite 
 spaniel he pays no more atten- 
 tion to it than the pain demands. 
 I >liall not attempt to fornaulate 
 a theory on the singular relation- 
 sbip between a man's heel and 
 
 COXGRKG \T10NAL CHUKCH. 
 
 BAPTIST CHUKCH. 
 
 battling long with either of 
 
 these merciless maladies, would 
 
 lianlly survive even a few months 
 
 of this pampering air. The system 
 
 cannot stand the strain of disci- 
 pline necessary to accomplish the 
 
 end sought. Let one in a tol(>r- 
 
 alily good coiidition. l)ut who feels 
 
 that he has the taint of these 
 
 cruel scourges burning in his 
 
 veins, come out here, and in a 
 
 few months the old neighbors, 
 
 accustomed to liis former hagganl 
 
 appearance, would not know him. 
 Let me call your attention to 
 
 another frightful malady from the bite of his dog in this neck o' 
 
 which this favored region is ex. tlie woods: for the fact is I haven't 
 
 any theory, though it is a 
 pleasant contemi)lation to 
 know that if the dog will 
 only survive his attack on 
 the tramp, the tramp will 
 thrive without inconveni- 
 ence. 
 
 And now we come to an- 
 other remarkable phenome- 
 non not generally known. 
 I suppo.se that all plieuome- 
 na are remarkable, but this 
 EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ouo Is a Httlo out of the 
 
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 9 
 
 common of even strange things. 
 We have no sunstroke or coup de 
 sole!!. May be people make a 
 living here without having to 
 work hard enough to heat their 
 blood sufficiently to produce this 
 morbid condition. May be — but 
 no matter, men are never struck 
 down here by the sun's rays the 
 same as they are elsewhere, ow- 
 ing, perhaps, to the conditions 
 favorable to ready evaporation 
 spoken of elsewhere. This re- 
 lieves the blood of its increased 
 heat, which theorem is based on 
 the same proposition that the 
 bottom of a boiling kettle is al- 
 ways cool. 
 
 hand, weave their thick cables 
 among the trees to trip the un- 
 wary traveler, as they are said to 
 
 MF.THODIST CHURCH. 
 
 Venomous reptiles and poison- 
 ous insects, such as make life a 
 l)urden in the Southern and 
 Middle State.s, do not find this a 
 healthy climate. Sometimes one 
 finds an innocent little bug as a 
 lied companion, but it is so sel- 
 dom that he would not be lone- 
 some without it, and it is re- 
 garded more as a social visitor 
 or a vara avis, or a souvenir, than 
 an interloper. But fieas do not 
 swarm out of the earth as I have 
 seen them around Los Angeles; 
 nor do spiders, large as a baby's 
 
 MORMON T.^BERNACLE. 
 
 do in Arizona, South America, 
 and the Hawaiian Islands. The 
 "rattler" is seldom found out- 
 side his haunts in the mountains. 
 St. Patrick may have pul)lished 
 his uk(.ii<o forbidding him this 
 beautiful retreat reserved for the 
 delightful habitation of man; I 
 do not know. But true it is that 
 in the harvest field, where such 
 accidents are most common else- 
 where, the meditations of the 
 hired num are not disturbed by 
 the hiss of the deadly adder nor 
 the rattle of his snakeship; (es- 
 pecially if the man leave his jug 
 at home.) But I fear that the 
 reader has found this paper al- 
 ready too tediously long, and as 
 a line has to be drawn somewhere 
 I will draw it at " snakes," and so 
 conclude this imperfect mono- 
 graph on Ogden City, as a natural 
 sanitariuu). 
 
 APPRECIATION. 
 
 1. A case of Phthisis Pulmonis, 
 or Tuberculosis, or Consumption, 
 as a primary of idiopathic disease 
 has never been known here. 
 
 2. Asthma has never been 
 developed here, but, on the con- 
 trary, when one comes here al- 
 ready stricken with it a quick, 
 suriH-ising and almost spontan- 
 eous cure is effected. 
 
 3. Lungs, weak from whatever 
 cause, grow rapidly strong again; 
 and the morbid conditions of 
 them change to healthy function 
 so rapidly that the patient can 
 hardly comprehend it. 
 
 4. There has never been a case 
 of simon-pure sun-stroke for any 
 chronicler to record in the history 
 of any of these settlements. 
 
 5. There has never been a re- 
 corded or observed instance of a 
 
 CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 dog "running mad" or the vic- 
 tim of his bite being seized with 
 hydrophobia. 
 
 6. Venomous reptiles are en- 
 tirely unknown here, except the 
 rattlers, which are extremely 
 rare, and confine themselves to 
 mountain locations and are al- 
 most inaccessible to man or do- 
 mestic animals. 
 
 A. S. Condon, M. D. 
 
 \_Repnbluhid from Ihc columns of the Ogden 
 Herald:\ 
 
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 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST: 
 
 OUR INLAND SEA. 
 
 GREAT SAl/r LAKE lias long 
 I)een a curiosity that lias puz- 
 zled the minds of those who 
 have mado it a study. Whether 
 it was formerly a i)art of the 
 ocean, or whether it is the result 
 of volcanic action is not known. 
 Next to the Dead Sea it contains 
 more salt to the gallon than any 
 other body of water on fhc face 
 of tlie earth. 
 
 rule does not always hold good 
 however, for it has been observed 
 that when the snow and rain was 
 less than usual, the evaporation 
 would be in excess of the supplj% 
 and when two or three dry years 
 follow in succession, the water 
 becomes more salt, and the sur- 
 face of the Lake decreases at the 
 rate of 75 or 100 square miles a 
 year. When wo have heavy snow 
 in the winter, and a heavy rain- 
 fall in tlH> snriiiL;-. witli occasional 
 
 Doctor Smart of the U. S. Armj% 
 in 1S77. He found an imperial 
 gallon to contain nearly twenty- 
 four and a half ounces of saline 
 matter, amounting to nearly four- 
 teen per cent: 
 
 Common Salt 11,735 
 
 Carboniite of Lime oit; 
 
 Sulphate of Lime 073 
 
 Epsom Salts 1.123 
 
 Chloride of Maguesia 843 
 
 Percentage of Solids I3.7<t() 
 
 Water Hr).2in 
 
 1(X).000 
 One hundred grains of the dry 
 soliil matter contained: 
 
 AHON'K IHK CI.Ol US, l-_.\sr oh OG.lES. 
 
 It has a [leculiar effect upon 
 the climate of this valley. The 
 temi:)erature during the winter 
 scarcely ever reaches zero, and 
 while it is very warm at times 
 during the summer, we are never 
 subjected to long seasons of ex- 
 treme hot weather. The Lake 
 breezes always insure cool nights 
 and refreshing sleep. The air is 
 so extremely dry that the water 
 in the Lake evaporates very fast. 
 During tlie winter and sj)ring, an 
 immense amount of water flows 
 into the Lake, causing it to rise 
 from one to two feet, and if it 
 was not for this evaporation the 
 Lake would grow larger every 
 year. On an average, about as 
 much water evaporates during 
 the summer as flows in durin<£ 
 the winter and spring. This 
 
 rain through -lune and 
 •Inly, the evaporation 
 does not equal the sup- 
 ply, and the water in 
 the Lake rises and falls, 
 th(> difference between 
 high and low water be- 
 ing about eight feet. 
 
 It compares with oth- 
 er Itodies of salt water 
 about as follows: 
 
 Water. Solids. 
 
 Atlantic- Ocean 96.5 3.5 
 
 Mediterranean 96.2 3.8 
 
 Dead Sea 76.0 24.0 
 
 Great Salt Lake 86.0 14.0 
 
 And in specific gravity distilled 
 water being unity: 
 
 ( )cean water 1.020 
 
 Head Sea 1.1 if, 
 
 Great Salt Lake 1.107 
 
 The following is an analysis of 
 
 LOLU W.\TER CANON. 
 
 Common Salt 85.089 
 
 Carbonate of Lime 117 
 
 Sulphate of Lime 531 
 
 Epsom Salts 8.145 
 
 Chloride of Magnesia 6.118 
 
 lCt).000 
 
 The Lake is fast becoming 
 popular for sea bathing; the 
 water is so buoyant that it is im- 
 possible to sink, and anyone can 
 switn in it. P(>ople who have 
 
 the water of the Lake made bv tried all of the famous sea bath' 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 11 
 
 iug resorts in the world, say that 
 they have never found anything 
 to equal it. One can remain in 
 the water from one to six hours 
 without being exhausted or feel- 
 ing any bad effects from it. 
 
 Captain Paul Boyton, who 
 sjient several weeks in this Ter- 
 ritory in 1886, says that he never 
 has found a body of water to 
 equal it. He came near losing 
 his life in attempting to cross 
 
 than alive, and although he is a 
 brave man, money could not in- 
 duce him to again go upon the 
 Lake during a storm. 
 
 Several elegant bathing resorts 
 have been built on the shores of 
 the Lake during the last two 
 years, and thousands of people 
 take a dip in the briny sea during 
 the bathing season, Tourists are 
 delighted and they tell their 
 friends to be sure and take a 
 
 IRON KING. 
 
 ONE of our leading industrial 
 men said the other day: 
 "What would you think if I 
 were to say to you that in Alaska 
 they have whole mountains of 
 iron ore, which, when smelted, 
 will produce pigs of cast iron so 
 malleable that they can be beaten 
 out into thin plates, and then 
 polished like the finest steel ? 
 
 OGDKN CANON LOOKINc; WKST, GREAT SALT LAKK IN THE DISTANCE. 
 
 to Church Island from Garfield 
 beach, a distance of only a few 
 miles, during a storm. He would 
 not have feared to round the most 
 dangerous point on the Atlantic 
 Coast in such a storm,but he could 
 do nothing in the waters of the 
 Great Salt Lake on this occasion; 
 the waves struck against him like 
 lead, and he was knocked about 
 like a piece of cork, and at last 
 he was washed ashore more dead 
 
 bath in the Lake if they come 
 this way during the bathing sea- 
 son. All along the shore elegant 
 places for summer residences 
 are to be found, and in a few 
 years hundreds of homes will be 
 built, and people east and west 
 will spend the hot months away 
 from the toil and care of business, 
 and regain health and strength 
 by bathing in our inland sea, and 
 breathing our pure mountain air. 
 
 " Wouldn't you say that the 
 quicker we could run a railroad 
 into that country to bring out 
 some of the iron possessing such 
 wonderful properties, the better 
 for all our industrial pursuits in 
 which this staunch metal is .so 
 great a factor ? 
 
 "I think you would. Well, 
 this kind of iron exists. It exists 
 in quantities so vast that if the 
 number of tons were stated, the 
 
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 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 amount would be beyond the 
 comprehension of an ordinary 
 mind. The ore is easy of treat- 
 ment, and, when the metal is 
 cast into pig, one of the pigs can 
 be ]>ent and broken, and a piece 
 of it laid on an anvil and ham- 
 mered, without l)eing cracked or 
 splintered, into a thin plate. It 
 actually beats all the .stories of 
 malleability that ever I read or 
 heard outside of those related of 
 gold, which of course, can be 
 beaten into leaf. 
 
 " Don't you think that in pos- 
 sessing such a wonderful re- 
 source, Alaska has something 
 
 tains existed in Alaska, or within 
 the Antarctic circle, or on the 
 moon, all the railway companies, 
 and all the smelting men, and all 
 the iron workers in the country 
 would be scheming and planning 
 to build a road to reach the iron 
 fields: and forming coiupanii^s to 
 erect smelters and iron works 
 there." 
 
 Another gentleman, who de- 
 votes some of his time to scien- 
 tific pursuits, said: 
 
 •' Let me tell you. sir. that if by 
 some natural or legal obstacle all 
 importation of iron goods into 
 this country had lieeii stopped 
 
 UNION DKIOI. 
 
 better than her silver mines, or 
 her seal fisheries ? Because this 
 resource is practically inexhaust- 
 ible. It could supply the world 
 with iron for a thousand years to 
 come. 
 
 " I have said that iron ore pos- 
 sessing these properties does 
 exist. This is true; but not in 
 Alaska, so far as I know. It 
 exists here, at our very doors, 
 within half an hour's ride of the 
 great railway junction in Ogden. 
 And probably that is the reason 
 why so few of us know anything 
 about it. If these iron moun- 
 
 fifteen yeai's ago, Utah in general 
 and Ogden in particular would 
 have been the greatest manufac- 
 turing center of iron and steel 
 goods in the whole world. Kven 
 if we had not been able to bring 
 in skilled labor, nor experienced 
 furnace builders and iron workers, 
 we still could have accomplished 
 this work. It might have been 
 necessary for us to go back and 
 begin in tht^ primitive fashion, as 
 men began countless ages ago, 
 when they first learned to ex- 
 tract the ore from the mountains 
 and roast it to get the helpful 
 
 metal. Prehistoric man was the 
 worker in iron. He threw lumps 
 of ore into a fire of wood or char- 
 coal, and after the ore was in 
 whole or in part reduced, he 
 hammered the mass of spongy 
 metal, thus formed, into such 
 shapes as suited his untutored 
 fancy, and were possible under 
 his unskilled hands. And if we 
 had been obliged to adopt this 
 plan, we could have compassed 
 the experience of a score of cen- 
 turies within two or three years 
 in this fast moving stage, and by 
 this time the products of our 
 mills would have rankeil among 
 the highest in the world. 
 
 ■• The great wonder to me has 
 been that we have wilfully failed 
 to take advantage of our circum- 
 stances simply because we were 
 not forced to take advantage of 
 them. There is scarcely an arti- 
 cle manufac^^ured from iron in 
 any of its forms which could nol 
 be produced here, it only the 
 men of ex[)er'ence and ca[)ital 
 would, locate at this [loiut, and 
 give their attention to this sub- 
 ject. Fortune stands ready to 
 shower her blessings upcui tbe 
 enterprising man who inaugur- 
 ates this industrial. 
 
 We read not long since of t'ar- 
 negie, the iron king; who, in a 
 brief time, has nnide himself a 
 prince in the royal family of the 
 industrialists, by means of this 
 very metal, iron. 
 
 " For one, I stand ready to 
 take of my hat to the man who 
 will make himself, right here in 
 Ogden, the iron king of America. 
 He can do it by having a large 
 stock of grit and experience, and 
 a moderate stock of capital." 
 
 Another, a scholarly man, said: 
 
 '■ In my estimation, iron is the 
 noblest of metals; and I regret 
 that so little is thought of it in 
 this land, and that we have in the 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 13 
 
 past utterly refused to claim its 
 acquaintanceship, although it 
 has waited patiently at our doors 
 for recognition. Lycurgus 
 
 avowed only a practical reason 
 for banishing gold and silver 
 money from Sparta, and using 
 nothing but iron for coin; but in 
 my admiration for iron, I ascribe 
 to the great law-giver a poetical 
 feeling in making his decree. To 
 others, iron may be homely — too 
 
 down for $1.50 to |2 per ton. 
 The ore is extremely rich, and 
 yet easily worked. There are 
 several kinds of ore, each having 
 peculiar quality; but of each 
 there is enough to supply a 
 score of furnaces through all 
 time to come. Some of these 
 ores are in demand for fluxing 
 purposes. We have recently 
 seen a letter from the office of 
 one of the principal smelters at 
 
 he said that prehistoric man cast 
 his ore into a fire and drew it 
 forth, half-heated, to pound it 
 into useful shapes. 
 
 The quality and quantity of 
 the iron ores around Ogden are 
 such that any iron worker who 
 may examine the question can- 
 not avoid a feeling of enthusiasm. 
 
 The low lands of Ogden are 
 productive of natural gas. It is 
 the opinion of our industrial 
 
 plain to excite affectionate re- 
 gard; but I confess myself its 
 ardent devotee, and I think as 
 much of Lycurgus for this one 
 act, as for all his other reforms 
 combined." 
 
 It is true that Ogden has with- 
 in easy reach inexhaustible quun- 
 tities of iron ore. At any point 
 within the city limits where 
 works might be established, the 
 best grades of ore can be laid 
 
 U. iLlKN CANUN, LOOKING EASl'. 
 
 Butte, agreeing to purchase any 
 quantity of ore which may be 
 shipped from a certain mine at 
 Ogden, and to pay therefore $5.50 
 per ton. Negotiations are now 
 on foot to secure a railway freight 
 rate which will enable the mine 
 owners to begin shipment. 
 
 Another mine assays 57 per 
 cent of pure iron. This must be 
 the class of ore to which our 
 scientific friend referred when 
 
 men that sufficient gas could be 
 brought up from a number of 
 wells, and united in one pipe, to 
 answer for all smelting purposes. 
 The gas w^orks will give a consider- 
 able quantity of coke. In addition. 
 Pleasant Valley slack, which is 
 very cheap in this market, can be 
 used with admirable success. 
 
 Water power is to be had sim- 
 ply for the asking. 
 
 Convenient locations upon 
 
u 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 which to erect necessary works, 
 can be obtained at nominal prices. 
 
 The deniand for iron in this re- 
 gion is very great. Tlie ojiportii- 
 nity for the establisliniont oi 
 foundries to use the product of 
 iron smelters could not be better. 
 
 While foundries in the East 
 are crowded beyond their capaci- 
 ty in cerinin lines of 
 manufacture, the West 
 must wait for its needed 
 supplies. And this thing 
 must continue year af- 
 ter year, indefinitely, 
 unless we learn to use 
 the bounties provided 
 by nature for our con- 
 venience and wealth. 
 
 Iron works were once 
 established in Ogden ; 
 but, through misman- 
 agement, legal chican- 
 ery, and possibly some- 
 thing not far removed 
 from dishonesty, the 
 stockholders were bled 
 to death and the works 
 — right in the dawn of 
 a mighty success— were 
 abandoned. 
 
 Local capitalists who 
 know the advantages to 
 be derived from iron 
 works here have always 
 hesitated since that day 
 to put their money in 
 such an enterprise; be- 
 cause they would be, in 
 the main, dependent 
 upon strangers for the manage- 
 ment of an afiair of the kind; 
 because few men here are sup- 
 posed to have a practical under- 
 standing of the subject. 
 
 But this question only needs a 
 little examination on the part of 
 any man acquainted with the iron 
 industry to convince him, if he 
 be a reasonable person, that the 
 finest opportunity of the age ex- 
 ists here to-day. 
 
 Some (quantities of iron have 
 been produced here from the ores 
 within easy reach. 
 
 In one instance two ores were 
 Idended, and car wheels were 
 made from the product. They 
 were sent to San Francisco, tested 
 there, and put immediately into 
 use. The firm which handled 
 
 WEHKR COUNTV COURT HOUbK. 
 
 them down at the Bay said that 
 they were made from the best 
 iron f(n' this purpose to ])e found 
 in the known world; they ha<l an 
 especial toughness, and yet light- 
 ness, which could not be paralled 
 by the product of any other iron 
 region. This firm issued its order 
 for an unlimited quantity of car 
 wheels and other goods; but the 
 order never received attention, 
 for the causes heretofore stated. 
 
 Stoves were successfully made. 
 The incident related in the 
 opening of this article about the 
 malleability of cast iron is not 
 exaggerated. It is a positive fact 
 that the pig of the cast iron_made 
 without especial care from the 
 l)lended ores of this region, can 
 be hammered into a plowshare or 
 a pruning hook. 
 
 We are informed that 
 a gentleman is here 
 from the East who in- 
 tends to esta])lish works 
 on a mammoth scale at 
 this point. He was to 
 have begun operations 
 earlier than this time; 
 but ill health has pre- 
 vented, and it is barely 
 possible that his per- 
 sonal misfortune may 
 liecome a permanent 
 community disaster; be- 
 cause he cannot proceed 
 until he recovers his 
 wonted strength and 
 energy. He is l)acked 
 l)y unlimited capital: 
 and he recognizes the 
 advantages and neces- 
 sities of iron works at 
 Ogden. the natural cent- 
 er of the inter-mountain 
 region. 
 
 Even with tlie estab- 
 lishment which he pro- 
 poses to make here, the 
 field cannot be filled. 
 We are located at a 
 [)oint which enables producers 
 and manufacturers to ship easily 
 to any spot on the civilized glolio. 
 The constant railroad budding in 
 this region creates a demand for 
 rails and spikes enough to keep 
 mighty mills in operation. 
 
 Capitalists are cordially invited 
 to give this matter investigation. 
 It is no impracticable scheme: 
 but it is such an opportunity as 
 will appeal to the business sense 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 15 
 
 of any person having means and 
 experience in iron working, 
 
 The man who accepts this situ- 
 ation fully, and prosecutes the 
 necessary works without delay, 
 will in very truth become the 
 Iron King of the West. 
 
 F. J. Cannon, 
 
 Editor Oi;den Herald. 
 
 unsurveyed, and hence not in 
 market, but can be taken under 
 squatters' rights. Lands which 
 were considered worthless five 
 years ago are now sought after, 
 since dry farming — raising crops 
 without irrigation — has become 
 common, and artesian wells have 
 become practicable in many arid 
 
 A PRACTICAL MAN. 
 
 UTAH'S LANDS 
 
 ZTHE REPORT of 
 v5/ the United States 
 Land office in Salt 
 Lake City, for the year 
 ending June 20, 18S7, 
 shows that up to that 
 date, there had been 
 surveyed inUtah, lands 
 to the aggregate of 
 II. ()y(),7Sl acres. Since 
 that date contracts 
 have been let, and the 
 work of making sur- 
 veys either completed, 
 or now in progress, or 
 soon to be done, to the 
 amountof about 1,118,- 
 300 acres more. Among 
 the lands to be sur- 
 veyed and brought into 
 uiarket soon are four 
 military reservations 
 which the army have 
 abandoned and the 
 lands of which are to 
 be added to the public 
 domain and placed on 
 sale. These approxi- 
 mate the following number of 
 acres: 
 
 Crittenden 207,000 acres 
 
 Thornburg 23,000 " 
 
 Cameron 22 400 " 
 
 RushLake .'.■ lo.'ooo " 
 
 OGllKN RIVKK. 
 
 localities. Lands are being en- 
 tered to such an extent as to keep 
 the Land Office in Salt Lake City 
 well employed. 
 
 Total 262,400 " 
 
 Of the nearly thirteen million 
 acres of land surveyed, and in 
 progress of survey by the Govern- 
 ment, probably not much over 
 one half has been disposed of, so 
 there remains very much land 
 
 Ogden is to have a new $30,000 
 city hall. Architects are now at 
 work on the plans. 
 
 Our wholesale merchants have 
 had a prosperous season so far. 
 Business has steadily increased 
 since September. 
 
 KA Y eastern friend, I want to 
 / \ give you a little plain Amer- 
 ican common sense talk. If 
 you are a manufacturer let me 
 present to you an unvarnished 
 statement of facts. 
 
 Suppose your line is woolen 
 goods and your loca- 
 tion is in the Atlantic 
 region. You first invest 
 an enormous capital in 
 a plant: then another 
 enormous amount in a 
 stock of raw material; 
 then another enor- 
 mous amount in the 
 labor necessary to pro- 
 duce the finished goods 
 — all these expendi- 
 tures before you can 
 hope for returns. You 
 are subjected constant- 
 ly to the danger of 
 strikes and anarchistic 
 efforts to disorganize 
 social and commercial 
 prosperity. The vast 
 " corners " accom- 
 plished, often by un- 
 scrupulous men and 
 speculative dealers, 
 keep your business in a 
 constant state of com- 
 parative uncertainty; 
 and despite all the en- 
 ergy which you pos- 
 sess, you know that 
 very often you meet 
 with disheartening reverses. At 
 the best, the return upon your 
 investment is nowhere near ade- 
 quate to the amount involved and 
 the risk taken. 
 
 I want now to show you how 
 you can avoid throwing money 
 away for needless expenses in 
 your business; and how you can 
 save that money to yourself and 
 the poor purchaser of your goods. 
 The City of Ogden, the second 
 
16 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTIO]S^ CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 town in wealth, population and 
 importance in Utah, and the 
 greatest railroad and industrial 
 center of that Territory and of 
 the entii'e inter-raountain region, 
 offers an opening which you are 
 recreant to your own interests if 
 you do not accept. This city 
 possesses ten thousand inhabit- 
 ants. It has cheap lands and 
 factories. Its water power can 
 only be compared to that which 
 would be afforded by Niagara, if 
 that stuiicndous cataract could 
 be controlled. The city is the 
 center of an immense region of 
 supjily of raw material and de- 
 mand for finished goods. And 
 yet we, the wool-growers of this 
 region, bale our wool here in all 
 its virgin dirt, and ship it to Bos- 
 ton at an actual expense for wool 
 carriage of five cents a pound — 
 paying for dirt the same freight 
 as for wool. Vou Iniy the wool 
 from third hands, paying an item 
 of advance upon the price in each 
 case. Then you manufacture it 
 into such goods as we need in 
 this region, where nearly all the 
 clotlies used by men are of a pure 
 wool. You sell to jobbers who 
 ship these goods to us, and we 
 buy them from third hands, at an 
 enormous freight, i)aying an item 
 of advance upon Hie price in each 
 case. 
 
 Why can we not form a com- 
 bination to enrich each other? I 
 would like, of course, to get a 
 better price for my wool; but I 
 assert boldly — and I speak from 
 my class when I say — that we 
 would pref(n- to sell to factories 
 located here, without gaining a 
 cent on present prices, than to 
 sell to dealers who would ship 
 the wool abroad, to the eventual 
 detriment of our countrj^ 
 
 These are some of the very 
 simple facts concerning wool. 1 
 am surprised_;that they have not 
 
 been recognized and taken ad- 
 vantage of long ago by eastern 
 manufacturers. 
 
 This .same line of argument ap- 
 plies to you if you are a manu- 
 facturer of iron, glass, leather 
 goods, or almost any other class 
 of fabrics or machinery. 
 
 WOOLGROWER. 
 
 SACRED HEART ACADEMY 
 
 ZTinS institution is under the 
 V--^ direction of the Sisters of the 
 Holy Cross, and is situated in 
 one of the finest localities of 
 Ogden. The buildings are hand- 
 
 III Aui ACArihAn . 
 
 .some and commodious, and in 
 every way well suited for educa- 
 tional purposes and contain spec- 
 ial advantages for the physical 
 health and comfort of the pupils. 
 The salubrity of the fresh air and 
 mountain breezes from the Wa- 
 satch range under whose shadows 
 it stands, makes it a vei'ital)le 
 sanitarium. The foundation of 
 these buildings was lai<l by Ixiglit 
 Kevcrend Bishop Scanlan (then 
 Father Scanlan,) in 1878, and 
 was formally opened the same 
 year by a staff of seven Sisters, 
 with a roll call of forty pupils. 
 The sisters offer the advantage of 
 a thorough education to young 
 
 ladies entrusted to their care, 
 sparing no pains to promote the 
 best moral influence, as well as 
 the health and happiness of their 
 pupils, "mens sana in corpore 
 sano" being one of their mottos. 
 As the hope of reward sweetens 
 labor, crowns of honor, gold and 
 silver medals and other premi- 
 ums are among the numy incen- 
 tives made use of to emulate 
 study and lady-like deportment 
 among the students. Pupils of 
 all denominations are received, 
 and whilst the utmost care is 
 taken in the religious instruction 
 of the children of Catholic parents 
 there is no interference 
 with the religious opin- 
 ions of those of a differ- 
 ent belief,but for the sake 
 of good dicipline how- 
 ever, all are required to 
 attend public and religi- 
 ous exerci.ses. No wonder 
 the fame of the Academy 
 has .spread far beyond 
 Utah, and to-day there 
 ■ are seventeen Sisters ac- 
 
 [f!nn::;i;;:ii;dJv.^-'-*|^^^|^^^_^ structiou of .sixty l)oaril- 
 ers from the Territories 
 and States of the Pacific 
 Coast, and one hundred 
 and thirty day pupils. The schol- 
 astic year is divided into two 
 sessions of five months eacli. 
 The first session commences on 
 the first Monday in September 
 and ends on the last of January. 
 The second session commences 
 on the first day of February and 
 ends the latter part of June. 
 Pupils are I'eceived at all times 
 during the year. The curriculum 
 of studies comprises languages, 
 music, painting, drawing, sewing 
 plain and fancy, and in fact all the 
 solid and ornamental require- 
 ments which make the perfect 
 lady. This institution is one of 
 which Ogden is justly proud. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 17 
 
 THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. 
 
 T^HE Central School, as its 
 v5^ name indicates, is situated, 
 geographically and in the 
 matter of population, very near 
 the center of the rapidly-growing 
 city of Ogden. 
 
 As a public school building it 
 stands pre-eminently artistic in 
 design and noble in structure. 
 
 When compared to buildings 
 used for similar purposes, in the 
 
 The best and most attractive 
 structures of all communities 
 should be their educational insti- 
 tutions; and as Ogden has per- 
 formed this duty well, words of 
 commendation are appropriate. 
 
 The building contains four 
 large recitation rooms, two on 
 each floor— the building being- 
 two stories, of brick — with wide 
 halls between, and some five 
 small rooms, one of which is used 
 as a library, containing several 
 
 the common branches, and intro- 
 duces higher studies, when de- 
 manded. The present higher 
 studies are rhetoric,' mental and 
 moral philosophy, civil govern- 
 ment and political ethics, physi- 
 ology, physical geography, book- 
 keeping and general history. A 
 normal class is also instructed 
 in the theory of teaching. Vocal 
 music is taught in all the depart- 
 ments. 
 The immediate environments 
 of the building cannot be sur- 
 passed in the Territories. A 
 large and commodious yard, 
 well shaded, affording a fine 
 ground for recreation, is in the 
 rear, while the front is Ogden's 
 pride, in the matter of lawns, 
 with its beds of variegated 
 flowers, making, from early 
 spring to the frosts of autumn, 
 one of the lovliest spots in our 
 beautiful city, exercising a re- 
 fining influence upon teacher 
 and pupil, and causing the 
 tourist, as he passes, to stop 
 and admire. 
 
 OGDEN ACADEMY. 
 
 Hh.H SCHOOL. 
 
 Territory, it is a monumental 
 edifice, erected to the honor of 
 the progressive minds that con- 
 ceived it, and the generous pub- 
 lic spirit of the men who fur- 
 nished the means to execute the 
 conception. At the same time 
 no people deserve special praise 
 for erecting good school houses. 
 This is one of the great moral 
 obligations that rests upon all 
 civilized men. It is a duty, and 
 they should only be commended 
 for performing duty. 
 
 hundred volumes, and the others 
 for recitation and other purposes. 
 
 The seating capacity will ac- 
 commodate 400 pupils. The 
 rooms are large, well seated, 
 lighted and heated, with good 
 ventilation: and also supplied 
 with maps, charts, globes etc. 
 
 At present the course of study 
 comprehends four departments, 
 Academic (two parts), Grammar, 
 and Intermediate. 
 
 The course of instruction com- 
 pletes the advanced studies of 
 
 M OT a more desirable loca- 
 / N tion can be found in all 
 the beautiful city of Og- 
 den than was chosen by the 
 New West Education Commis- 
 sion, on the corner of Fifth and 
 Spring streets for Ogden Academy. 
 The building is of brick, two 
 stories and basement. On the 
 first floor are four large school 
 rooms, with ample halls and cloak 
 rooms; on the second floor, one 
 school room, a library, and a 
 hall with a seating capacity of 
 over six hundred. All the rooms 
 are arranged according to the 
 most approved methods for 
 school purposes. In the base- 
 ment are the furnaces, a labora- 
 
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 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 tory, and rooms for gymnasium 
 and other similar purposes. The 
 heating and ventilation have 
 received careful attention, and 
 arc practically perfect. 
 
 The course of study has been 
 carefully prepared and includes 
 those branches usually taught in 
 Eastern academies, fitting pupils 
 for college. Beside the academic 
 department there is a graded 
 course of study beginning with a 
 primary class, and continuing 
 through the intermediate and 
 grammar grades. A kindergar- 
 ten department will be organized 
 
 fit them for the duties and re- 
 sponsibilities of matui-e years. 
 Those who trust pupils to this 
 institution may feel assured that 
 no pains will be spared to train 
 them to good habits and to help 
 them to establish good characters. 
 A boarding house for pupils 
 will be opened whenever there is 
 a demand for it. Pupils wishing 
 such accommodations will be 
 under the immediate and con- 
 stant care of the faculty, who will 
 provide for their comfort and 
 good conduct, and will exercise a 
 parental watchfulness over them. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF JUDGE P. H. EMERSON. 
 
 when the funds of the society 
 will permit. The teachers have 
 all had long experience in East- 
 ern schools, and bring to their 
 work here the ripe culture of 
 years of successful school work. 
 The aini of the Academy is to 
 develop intellectual, moral and 
 spiritual strength by means of a 
 thorough and symmetrical edu- 
 cation under Christian influences. 
 The conduct of the pupils is the 
 constant care of the teachers who 
 strive to inspii-e them with a 
 true and noble ambition, and to 
 
 SCHOOL OF THE GOOD 
 SHEPHERD. 
 
 rZOR the purpose of giving a 
 1 Christian education to chil- 
 dren of all denominations 
 the present building was erected 
 by the Episcoijal Church, and 
 opened in the latter part of 1877. 
 It is a brick structure of two 
 stories, containing three class 
 rooms, located on the corner of 
 Young and Fourth streets. The 
 school opened on the first Monday 
 in last September with an enroll- 
 
 ment of 92 pupils, which number 
 has steadily increased until at 
 present there are over 140 names 
 on the books of the school. For 
 the first term of four months there 
 has been an average attendance 
 of over 90 per cent. The princi- 
 pal of the school has in several 
 cases been compelled to refuse 
 admission to new pupils from 
 want of accomodation, as the 
 seating accomodations are now 
 crowded to their utmost capacity 
 consistent with health. 
 
 The price of tuition in the 
 Higher Department, which is 
 taught by Prof. A. C. Newill, is 
 $2 per month, of the Intermedi- 
 ate Department, taught by Miss 
 A. Sweet, is $1.50 per month, and 
 of the Primaiy Department, 
 taught by Miss Mable Cross, is $1 
 per month. These tuition rates 
 are entirely inadequate to sup- 
 port the school, as the revenue of 
 the school from these sources 
 only covers 50 per cent, of the 
 expenses. In order to be able to 
 conduct the school as it should 
 be conducted, the school is de- 
 pendent on the donation of an- 
 nual scholarships of $40, which 
 are given by Sunday Schools and 
 generous individuals in the East 
 who appreciate the sacredness 
 and importance of this mission- 
 ary work. The course of study 
 pursued in the school is modeled 
 closely after the courses of study 
 adopted in the best Eastern pub- 
 lic schools, and all pupils before 
 graduating can obtain a good 
 High School education from "The 
 School of the Good Sheperd." As 
 proof of this it may be mentioned 
 that one pupil recently matricu- 
 lated at Yale, and another at St. 
 Stephen College, New York, im- 
 mediately after leaving this 
 school. The keen interest taken 
 by parents in the welfare of the 
 
ITS MAJSrUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 19 
 
 school, and the ever increasing 
 number of applications for admis- 
 sion are the best proofs of the 
 school's success, and strenuous 
 efforts will in the near future be 
 put forth to accommodate all pu- 
 pils who may wish to enjoy the 
 privilege of attending the school. 
 
 students' progress. The strictest 
 disciplinary tactics are practiced 
 throughout the school. The 
 school year is divided into four 
 terms of ten weeks each. A short 
 vacation is given at the end of 
 each term and also the usual holi- 
 day vacation and legal days. 
 
 teachers are enabled to report 
 good and regular attendance. 
 
 This school seems to be on a 
 fair road toward a healthy school 
 and it is hoped the patrons and 
 people will give it the patronage 
 it justly merits. 
 
 OUR SCENERY. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF L. B. ADAMS. 
 
 ONE of the most desirable 
 things in life is to live where 
 there are beautiful surround- 
 ings. Beautiful scenery is almost 
 always pictured with mountains, 
 lakes, rivers and trees. Places 
 that have these are selected as 
 resorts the world over. It is be- 
 cause of these qualities that the 
 Ogden scenery is so noted. 
 
 The city of Ogden is located 
 about three miles west of the 
 base of the Wasatch mountains, 
 and seven miles northeast of the 
 Great Salt Lake. The Wasatch 
 
 OGDEN SEMINARY. 
 
 ^THE Ogden Seminary, Method- 
 v2^ ist School, is at present, in 
 charge of L. M. Gillilan and 
 wife. The school, proper, has two 
 departments besides an Industrial 
 school and Instrumental Music. 
 In the two departments every 
 thing from the rudiments to pre- 
 paratory collegiate studies, such 
 as higher mathematics, latin, 
 greek, elementary science, etc., 
 are taught. In the higher de- 
 partment special attention is 
 given always to the underlying 
 principles of the subject under 
 consideration ; familiar topics are 
 discussed, and in all the principle 
 of education, educo is followed 
 and students drawn o?/Hnstead of 
 stuffed with facts such as are 
 only intended for encyclopedias. 
 Test examinations are held at the 
 end of every term to give parents 
 and guardians some idea of the 
 
 RESIDENCE OF J. C. ARMSTRONG. 
 
 Improvements on the school 
 premises and new regulations in 
 all have been inaugurated during 
 the year and everything seems to 
 be cared for and looked after. 
 
 Improvement in attendance is 
 also noticeable and now the 
 
 range comes nearly to the Lake 
 on the north, and form a semi- 
 circle around Ogden, then south 
 parallel with the Lake. The sage 
 brush plains thus enclosed are 
 rapidly being planted with tl-^es. 
 Canons enter this semicircle of 
 
20 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 mountains, giving a circulation 
 of air. Ogden River comes in 
 through the mountains east of 
 the city and enters the Lake. Sev- 
 eral miles south, the Weber River 
 enters the valley and joins the 
 Ogden about a mile below the city. 
 A view of the valley and city, 
 
 tains around Ogden as they see 
 them from the depot, but they 
 cannot in passing through, get 
 an idea of the real grandeur of 
 the situation. 
 
 Ogden Canon is one of the pret- 
 tiest in the Territory; the scenery 
 there is varied and is so grand as 
 
 CLIMATIC. 
 
 KKSliaCNCE OF H. O. HAKKNESS. 
 
 ZTlIE following editorial from 
 v2/ the Salt Lake Trilnnic gives 
 tiie facts in regard to our 
 climate exactly as they are: 
 
 A gentleman went from the 
 East last fall to California and 
 spent the winter in Los .\ngeles. 
 He had weak lungs, and sought 
 the soft air which is loaded with 
 the incense of orange blossoms, 
 for a poultice for his lungs. But 
 lie found another enemy there. 
 The excessive humidity of the air 
 had its elTect. aiid when the inun 
 liassed through here, he was all 
 twisted up with rheuuiatisiu and 
 suifering greatly. He was ad- 
 vised to remain here and try the 
 I lot Springs or the Warm Springs, 
 and was proinispd that in three 
 weeks he should l)e all right. We 
 hold his case as typical of what 
 is to be. As men have to leave 
 Los Angeles and come here to 
 
 from the mountains, is one which 
 cannot be excelled for grandeur 
 anywhere. It presents to the 
 view a complete map of all the 
 streets, buildings and improve- 
 ments, of the fields and groves, of 
 the five railroads centering here, 
 of the Great Salt Lake with its 
 promontory and its mountain 
 islands, and of the various set- 
 tlements in the valley. 
 
 A boulevard is to be built east 
 from the northern part of the 
 city to the mountains southward 
 back of the city. At the base of 
 the mountains where this boule- 
 vard goes the valley and city is 
 presented as a view the like of 
 which few cities can boast. 
 
 Few ti-avelei-s ever see Ogden 
 in passing through. Salt Lake 
 City, being the most historic in 
 the Territories, is sought more by 
 visitors. They admire the moun- 
 
 i: I 11 i| \i I 1 iF P. I. HAUKATT. 
 
 to cause those who visit to wish 
 to repeat their visit often. Many 
 travelers who have been in the 
 wildest scenery of America and 
 Europe, after passing through 
 this caiion, have made the state- 
 ment, that it is the prettiest 
 canon they ever saw. 
 
 shake off the effects of that clim- 
 ate, so we suspect the boom, 
 which has been the property of 
 Los Angeles, will, like the sick 
 man, gravitate here in due time. 
 When it comes to selling climate 
 by the front foot, we have a cor- 
 ner on the market. We expect 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 21 
 
 to be able, within a few days, to 
 lay before The Tribune readers 
 the proofs, from a high scientific 
 source that the climate of Og- 
 den is better for persons who 
 have diseased or weak lungs than 
 Los Angeles itself, while for a 
 dozen other complaints that 
 afflict ]50or humanity, the advan- 
 tages are all with us. Again, the 
 effect of the climate of Southern 
 California is prostrating; men 
 
 yearly to and fro across the con- 
 tinent, compare notes, they be- 
 gin to understand this fact, and 
 the result will surely be that the 
 tide will, after a little, begin to 
 set this way. The Nation has 
 become so tremendous, that there 
 are now some thousands of peo- 
 ple who annually go to seek 
 places of recreation, both from 
 the winter's cold and summer's 
 heat. Of the class we shall catch 
 
 BUILD A HOME. 
 
 pnEN of 
 
 aIz thatt 
 
 )f wealth are learning 
 3 the real pleasure of life 
 is not in money getting, but 
 that it is the enjoyment of the 
 things that money can provide. 
 All perfect homes are the joy of 
 those who make them, be they 
 grand or humble. If a man possess 
 wealth, he is foolish if he does not 
 build himself a home where he can" 
 
 lose their energy there. Men 
 Avho went there years ago, are 
 now, while perfectly healthy, 
 content to let the world wag. 
 The climate has given them a 
 dry rot, and they simply "dream 
 the hours away." The air here 
 is a perpetual tonic, and the rule 
 is that men continue to work to 
 the end, and die with the hai-ness 
 on. As the hundreds and thou- 
 sands of people who [oscillate 
 
 KISIDENCE OF F. }. KDSKL. 
 
 more and more, until before very 
 long there will be an exodus this 
 way. What are we doing to 
 make the place attractive for 
 their coming? 
 
 The Utah Canning Factory of 
 this city will be enlarged next 
 season so that it will require most 
 all of the fruit raised in this 
 vicinity to supply the establish- 
 ment. 
 
 with his family enjoy the choic- 
 est blessings of life. If he is able 
 it is not necessary that his home 
 should be confined to any partic- 
 ular place of abode but he can 
 have two or more residences and 
 thus pass the different seasons in 
 different localities. If he loves 
 society and wishes to have his 
 family enjoy every social advan- 
 tage possible, it is natural and 
 proper that he should have a res- 
 
22 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 idence in some flourishing city, 
 where he can enjoy all the pleas- 
 ures of the social worhl during 
 the winter months. When the 
 summer comes it is fashion to 
 rush to a summer resort where it 
 is over crowded and any thing but 
 pleasant and agreeable. How 
 much better it is to have a sum- 
 mer residence in some healthy 
 locality where health, rest and 
 pleasure go together. Such a 
 
 to go to some summer hotel and 
 crowd into small, inconvenient 
 rooms. 
 
 There is no place in the United 
 States better adapted to the 
 building of such homes than in 
 the immediate vicinity of this 
 city. Land is cheap, fruit and 
 vegetables, such as can be pro- 
 duced no where else, grow in 
 abundance, the air is pure and 
 bracing, the scenery grand and 
 
 STONE AND MARBLE. 
 
 
 RKSIDENCE OK HON. I„ W. SHl.UTl.l l-'l-'. 
 
 residence will soon l)ecoine as 
 much a home to the family as 
 the old homestead where the lit- 
 tle ones were born and raised, 
 and it will alford the owner more 
 real pleasure, and that at less ex- 
 pense, than he co ild possibly 
 enjoy at any public summer 
 resort. 
 
 People who can aiSord it are 
 fast learning that it is much 
 more pleasant to spend the sum- 
 mer months at their own home 
 in some good locality than it is 
 
 imposing, the climate equal to 
 and far superior to that of most 
 all other localities — in fact, we 
 have every thing that goes to 
 make life enjoyable. 
 
 The sea bathing in Great Salt 
 Lake, mentioned in another ar- 
 ticle, is far superior to any sea 
 bathing in the world. 
 
 People who have a desire to 
 build a pleasant home in such a 
 locality, will find, upon investi- 
 gation, that nothing in the above 
 is over drawn. 
 
 7JTAH can supply the world 
 K^ with fine building stone, so 
 great are its quarries. The 
 Denver and Rio Grande Western 
 is filling a contract for 500 car 
 loads of red sandstone to be de- 
 livered at Kansas City, and for 
 ID' 10 car loads more at Denver. 
 This stone is taken from a quar- 
 ry near the road in Spanish Fork 
 Canon, where it is easily ex- 
 tracted and loaded. This stone 
 possesses the important quali- 
 ties of being easily worked in- 
 to any form desired, and of 
 having a fine texture and 
 pleading shades of color. The 
 front of the Cullcn Hotel build- 
 ing in Salt Lake cit}% a five- 
 story structure, is of this stone. 
 Besides the contracts men- 
 tioned, the railway company 
 have home and outside demand 
 for the stone, and they are 
 sending out from three to six 
 car loads per day. Graj^ sand- 
 stone of good quality is quar- 
 ried in the same vicinity, and 
 near there is also an immense 
 mass of mottled or serpentine 
 marble, which polishes nicely, 
 and is so variegated and beau- 
 tiful, that it is destined to 
 come into demand for various 
 classes of ornamental work. 
 There ai-e so many varieties 
 of marble in Utah that works 
 ought to be started in this city 
 to convert marble into slabs and 
 blocks, and also into finished 
 work. With such a factory here 
 it would be possible to erect mar- 
 ble houses almost as cheaply as 
 brick. This class of manufac- 
 ture offers good inducements for 
 the investment of capital either 
 in this city or at some of the va- 
 rious quarries. H in this city, 
 many varieties of mai'ble and 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 23 
 
 sandstones could be collected 
 here, and thus would give such 
 a factory a varied stock for the 
 market, vphich, besides supplying 
 the home market, would find de- 
 mands both East and West. 
 Granite should be included in 
 such stone works. There are 
 
 and possibly more, in the canon 
 where natural dams exist. The 
 cost of putting in dams at these 
 places compared with the ex- 
 penditure necessary to secure a 
 head on some streams would be 
 insignificant. At all of these 
 places the entire river could be 
 
 RESIDENXE OF HON. D. H. PEERY. 
 
 ous farmer to fructify his fields, 
 orchards and gardens. "Yes," 
 continued the gentleman, ''Og- 
 den River is a wonderful stream, 
 and the amount of power it can 
 be made to furnish is beyond cal- 
 culation." 
 
 The road from Ogden to Hunts- 
 ville is built through the canon 
 through which Ogden River 
 passes. The distance through the 
 caiion is seven miles. The dis- 
 tance from Ogden to Huntsville 
 is twelve miles. Huntsville is 
 600 feet higher than Ogden is. It 
 is estimated by experts that the 
 fall of the river between the 
 head of the canon and its mouth, 
 is from 450 to 500 feet. This 
 gives to the river a very swift 
 current and an abundance of mo- 
 tive power, which,as stated above, 
 can easily be utilized. At the 
 lower end of the canon is the 
 greatest fall. Here in places it 
 averages 250 feet to the mile, and 
 
 many quarries of granite suitable 
 for monuments and other pur- 
 poses, while the slate deposits in 
 the islands in the great lake 
 ought to be brought into use 
 through being sawn into the 
 many articles for which it is ap- 
 plicable. 
 
 WATER POWER. 
 
 PROMINENT gentleman of 
 this city who has traveled 
 considerably in the United 
 States, says Ogden River affords 
 better facilities for utilizing its 
 force than any stream he has ever 
 seen. It is possible to utilize the 
 whole of the water in a great many 
 places and return it into the ri^-er. 
 Not a drop of water need be waited 
 anywhere; consequently irrigat- 
 ing interests need not suffer. 
 There are three or four points. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF MAJOR V. M. C. SILVA. 
 
 turned through to advantage. 
 Every drop could be made to do 
 work at each jpoint and then 
 could continue its course on to 
 the broad acres of the industri- 
 
 there is always sufficient water 
 to furnish any quantity of power. 
 A grade of 160 feet to a mile, 
 which it will be seen is far below 
 what actually exists in some 
 
24 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 places, will give 20 feet fall in 
 eveiy 40 rods. The number of 
 l^laces where such a fall could 
 easily be obtained is large, hence 
 it is hardly possible to estimate 
 the quantity of i)ower the river 
 
 been found in flowing wells and 
 comes up with the water. With 
 the proper arrangements for col- 
 lecting it in a gasometer, it has 
 been found that the supply is 
 constant and regular. Several 
 
 PF.ERV & MACK'S MILL. 
 
 really would furnish, since the 
 water could be used over and 
 over again at different points 
 from the head to the mouth of 
 the canon. A fall of twenty feet 
 in one-eighth of a mile is more 
 than sufficient to run any of t he 
 turbine wheels now in use, and 
 would develop an unlimited 
 quantity of yiower.—Oj^j^ii //era/,/. 
 
 NATURAL GAS. 
 
 CZ*^* many natural gas wells have 
 ($J lieen struck in this city dur- 
 ing the past year and a half 
 while boring for flowing wells, 
 that the prevailing opinion is that 
 by going deep enough gas in large 
 quantities can be obtained. The 
 gas that has been struck so far has 
 
 parties have utilized this gas for 
 lighting and heating purposes, 
 and it gives good satisfaction. A 
 number of gentlemen have form- 
 ed a comi)any for the purpose of 
 boring for gas in this city, 
 and they have asked the City 
 Council to give them every en- 
 couragement possible. Owing to 
 a recent act of Congress which 
 prevents Territorial Legislatures 
 or any legislative body in a Ter- 
 ritorj' from granting exclusive 
 rights for any purpose, the Coun- 
 cil is not able to grant that por- 
 tion of the request, but what it 
 has the power to do will be done. 
 It is the intention to bore down 
 at least 2000 feet with a large 
 drill, and the projectors confi- 
 dently expect to strike gas in 
 
 large quantities. A lot of the 
 latest improved machinery is to 
 be ordered from the East, and 
 work is to be commenced just as 
 soon as possible. 
 
 SOUND SENSE. 
 
 ZTlIE following report, prepared 
 ^^ by the Chamber of Commerce 
 Committee on Agriculture, 
 states so many facts in just the 
 right way. that it is given a place 
 in this work. It is not the inten- 
 tion that the people East and 
 West, who read this book should 
 be given to understand that every 
 thing here is so near perfec- 
 tion that there is no room for im- 
 provement. The advice given to 
 our farmers may .serve to give 
 some one who is in soardi of a 
 
 BROWNINC BROS'. ARMORV. 
 
 desirable location to go into the 
 business of farming, some de- 
 sirable information in regard to 
 this part of the country. For it is 
 to be supposed that prospective 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 settlers desire to know something 
 of the disadvantages as well as 
 the advantages possessed by a 
 particnlar locality. 
 
 The Ogden Chamber of Com- 
 merce, thi'ough its Committee on 
 Agriculture, recommends that the 
 following suggestions be care- 
 fully studied by all interested: 
 
 Where now one car of potatoes 
 
 H. L. GRIFFIN. WHOLESALE PROnUCE. 
 
 is raised there should be fifty or 
 a hundred, for in seasons when 
 there is a great demand, we can 
 obtain contracts for large quan- 
 tities easier and at better figures 
 than for small quantities; and 
 again, much can be gained in the 
 matter of freight rates where we 
 can guarantee to ship a great 
 number of cars in a season. The 
 manner of putting up our pota- 
 toes for market is a subject of 
 great importance. Only one kind 
 should be planted in the same 
 hill, row or patch, and care 
 should be used in selecting the 
 best varieties, such as Goodrich, 
 Peerless, Early Rose, etc. Then 
 when sacking for market, be sure 
 and put up large, well assorted 
 goods, and only one kind in a 
 sack. Have sacks well-filled, so 
 
 that the packages will pres nt a 
 neat appearance. Clean sacks 
 should be used. Any article will 
 sell to a much better advantage 
 in an attractive package than in 
 a slovenly one. 
 
 Some may say that if we raise 
 so many potatoes, and there hap- 
 pens to be a light demand, they 
 will be a dead loss to them; but 
 we say not necessari- 
 ly so, for in that case 
 they can be used for 
 feed. This will result 
 in increasing our live 
 stock and furnishing 
 material for such es- 
 tablishments as pack- 
 ing houses. We do 
 not px'oduce enough 
 to bate our markets. 
 Dealers who are 
 acquainted with the 
 trade of the past few 
 years will tell you 
 that the trade of Utah 
 consumes many car- 
 loads of (late winter) 
 cabbage, imported 
 from California every season. 
 The same is true of onions. We 
 know of markets all through the 
 East where many carloads of 
 bot'i these articles could he 
 placed at highly remunerative 
 figures if we had them in the 
 country. We say to the farmers, 
 "Wake Up," and make yourselves 
 independent, if not rich. You 
 have the country, the climate and 
 the soil, and can get the markets. 
 For two reasons it will pay 
 growers to put out numerous 
 orchards of peaches, plums, pears, 
 apples, cherries and so fourth. In 
 the first place, this is one of the 
 best producing sections of the 
 United States for them, and sec- 
 ondly, we have the best markets. 
 The flavor and size of our fruits, 
 when they are properly selected 
 
 and cared for, are equal, if not 
 superior to any grown in Califor- 
 nia. They bring higher prices in 
 the Eastern markets than the lat- 
 ter, owing to the fact that we can 
 get them there three to four days 
 fresher. Being one thousand 
 miles nearer, we ha.ve very much 
 the advantage over them in al- 
 most the entire market. They 
 supply Denver, Omaha, Chicago, 
 St. Louis,and intermediate points; 
 also to some extent,New Orlean.s, 
 Philadelphia and New York. The 
 fruits are transported to these 
 points in special fast fruit trains 
 at a very low rate. 
 
 What we raise has all to be 
 shipped out by express, as there 
 is not enough at any time to load 
 a car. We have to confine our 
 market for these kinds of fruits 
 to small towns in our vicinity, 
 and when they are supplied, ship 
 
 K. J. KKLSEL S: CO. 
 
 to Denver and other small points, 
 paying $3.00 per hundred, while 
 California fruits are carried there 
 for $1.10, a difference of nearly 
 forty cents per twenty pound 
 box, or two cents a pound. 
 Several fruit houses in each of 
 
II 
 
 2G 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 the large centers above named, 
 receive throe to four cars of fruit 
 per week during the season. 
 Just as soon as we have care- 
 fully selected fruit enough to 
 
 the encoui'agement for putting 
 out large quantities of thoni, how- 
 ever, as for puttingoutthe larger 
 fruit, as they have to be shipped 
 by express to thinly settled dis- 
 
 \V.\1. 1)KI\KK ,<: SONS IJRUc; STORK. 
 
 load by the car, we can have all 
 that trade that wo want and re- 
 ceive better figures for it than we 
 do now. 
 
 We heartily recommend you to 
 give this matter immediate and 
 serious attention. We believe 
 there is more money to Ite made 
 in growing fruits here than in 
 any other part of the United 
 States. 
 
 Strawberries,raspberries, black- 
 berries, etc., do well here, and 
 the choicest of them, well packed, 
 find ready market. There is not 
 
 tricts. There aro now about as 
 many black and raspberry vines 
 in bearing as our nuirket de- 
 mands, unless we can make it 
 profitable to dry them in large 
 quantities. We believe it would 
 pay you to investigate this mat- 
 ter, as dealers here annually im- 
 port many hundreds of [)ouuds at 
 from ten to twenty cents. 
 
 Two much care cannot be 
 taken in packing those fruits. 
 How many dealers can testify as 
 to the manner in which our ber- 
 ries are often put up! After pur- 
 
 chase, they frequently find what 
 appears to be a marketable lot, 
 upon removing the top layer, 
 composed chiefly of small, sour, 
 unripe fruit. Again, a shipper 
 sends out to a distant market a 
 lot of fruit which has been pur- 
 chased as first-class. After a 
 time his customer returns a state- 
 ment tluit the berries were so 
 poor tliat they could n(jt be dis- 
 posed of at any pi'ice, and states 
 that if nothing better can be had 
 not to send any more. 
 
 Whether berries, ])eaches or 
 other fruits, only the same rii)e- 
 noss should l)e put togotiuM' in a 
 package. Ripe and hard fruit 
 will not carry well together. The 
 hard mashes into the ripe. 
 
 From the best information we 
 can get, our local nurseries can 
 give you l)ottor trees and shrubs 
 for this altitude than foreign es- 
 tablishments. We therefore ad- 
 
 SIDNEY STEVENS' BUSINESS BLO.K. 
 
 vise parties to consult them be- 
 fore planting, as they hnve made 
 that subject a study. 
 
 In the matter of grain, we 
 would impress u[)on farmers the 
 necessity of getting the best va- 
 riety of seed, and freeing it from 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 27 
 
 all foreign seeds. Plant in rich 
 soil. Do not plant wheat too 
 many times on the same patch of 
 land. You will find it very ben- 
 eficial to change seed wheat 
 every two j^ears at least, and, in 
 doing so, do not get your next 
 door neighbor's, but go off a few 
 miles for it. When you plant in 
 lower valleys, try and get seed 
 raised m the uplands. You will 
 find it a great improvement in 
 your next year's crop. In our 
 opinion much of our smutty 
 wheat is caused from planting on 
 poor land, and the same seed year 
 after year. There is no reason 
 why our wheat for its flour- 
 making properties may not be- 
 come famous all over the United 
 States, and reach the Atlantic 
 and the Pacific. We have as good 
 mills as Minneapolis, and no lo- 
 cality has better water power. 
 The demand for our grain is 
 
 markets at home. It would then 
 pay to erect elevators, which 
 would greatly reduce the cost of 
 handling. In relation to barley, 
 we have to say that orders can 
 be obtained much easier for fifty 
 or a hundred car lots thn n for five 
 cars, and at much better figures. 
 There is seldom a season when 
 we have oats sufiioient to meet 
 our demands. Stringent meas- 
 ures should be taken to destroy 
 
 C. L. FEKKLES' IlRlUi SIOKE. 
 
 far in excess of the supply. If 
 we would raise a thousand bush- 
 els to where we now raise one 
 hundred we could command trade 
 with the world, because we could 
 load ships with flour and wheat, 
 and furnish large consuming 
 
 five to butter, we would recom- 
 mend that every farmer have a 
 clean, cool, well-aired place for 
 milk, and churn while the cream 
 is sweet. Liverpool salt should 
 be used, and the butter well 
 worked, wrapped in clean but- 
 ter cloth and marketed while 
 fresh. When put up for shipping 
 every roll should be of the same 
 size and color, and the box clean. 
 We cannot too strongly urge 
 
 UTAH PRODUCE AND COMMISSION CO'S BOILOIXG. 
 
 wild oats, and more care used 
 when they are threshed to keep 
 them clean. 
 
 Our poultry, butter and egg 
 business can be made much more 
 remunerative than it is now by 
 observing proper precautions. 
 Merchants and shippers of this 
 city and Territory have met with 
 heavy losses on account of eggs 
 being brought in stale and not 
 properly assorted. Much care 
 should be taken to have them 
 clean when marketed, and not 
 more than eight days old. Rela- 
 
 the necessity of carefully select- 
 ing all goods put up for shipping. 
 It is a well-known fact that the 
 prices received more than repay 
 the extra trouble for selecting. 
 We give the above remarks with 
 the hope they will be of use to 
 you, and thus help to build up 
 the country. We have been asked 
 to write these recommendations 
 by numbers of our business men 
 who are daily receiving letters 
 from markets in all directions, 
 and are thus in a position to 
 know what is needed. 
 
28 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 /^HE following interesting ex- 
 \2) tracts are from a very full 
 and complete report made to 
 the Ogden Chamber of Commerce 
 by the committee on manufacture. 
 After calling attention to the 
 fact that it was a hard matter to 
 collect reliable facts, the report 
 says: 
 
 2nd. We recommend that the 
 Chamber of Commerce <'onsider 
 
 plumper, and weigh n)ore than 
 they do after being shipped alive 
 1500 miles or more and slaugh- 
 tered at other points. We have 
 all the facilities, and more than 
 at other points, hence this busi- 
 ness can be carried on here better 
 than at any other point, this 
 being the terminus of five 
 roads. That would furnish 
 good market on the line of 
 road for hotels, etc., in 
 to our local market 
 
 rail- 
 us a 
 rail- 
 
 addition 
 and the 
 
 the advisability of forming a com- 
 pany for slaughtering and refrig- 
 erating cattle, sheep* and hogs. 
 There is, tributary to Ogden, a 
 large area of country that fur- 
 nishes 100,000 head of beef and 
 as many mutton, annually, which 
 are shipped alive, at present, to 
 the East and West. A car will 
 hold 17 head of live stock, and 
 45 head dressed. The animals 
 are worth more by 1 or 2 cents a 
 pound, killed in Ogden; are 
 
 markets of the East and AVest. 
 In connection could be run a 
 canning, potting and curing es- 
 tablishment for the canning and 
 potting of beef, and for the cur- 
 ing of beef, pork, hams, etc. 
 
 Such an organization would 
 bring to Ogden a vast amount of 
 trade, as the people who ship 
 their cattle here would naturally 
 bank trade, and stop over with 
 us, opening a field of enterprise 
 to our merchants. 
 
 The killing of .«;tock in Ogden 
 would leave the hides and offal 
 here, which would be an impetus 
 to manufactures. We have 
 l)lenty of salt to cure the hides, 
 and it would furnish employment 
 to tan and manufacture the 
 leather into boots, shoes and 
 harness. The grease could be 
 made into soap, the hoofs into 
 glue. The farmers would raise 
 more hogs and take their pay in 
 cui'ed meat and lard, in fact such 
 an establishment once started 
 would find employment for more 
 than 100 men in the manufacture 
 of goods which at i)resent we 
 import, while we give away the 
 offal and only receive payment 
 for the bare meat. 
 
 ii^ ¥ ^ JjJ Jp 
 
 5th — We draw your attention 
 to the Salt Lake interests. Sea 
 water evaporating leaves 4 per 
 cent, impure. English rock salt 
 as mined is H per cent, impure. 
 We suggest the appointment of 
 a committee especially to inquire 
 into the method of purifying 
 salt, for the purpose of using the 
 salt manufactured in Utah for 
 [lickling and curing meat.s, and 
 foi' exportation in competi- 
 tion with Liverpool salt for pre- 
 serving butter and for use as 
 table salt; and to ascertain 
 whether it is possible to purify, 
 or remove all imiiurities from 
 rtah salt, as it takes perfectly 
 pure salt for the preservation and 
 curing of meats and buttei'. 
 
 (Jth— Li the organization of 
 companies to pursue the business 
 of slaughtering cattle, sheep and 
 hogs, the famers should co-oper- 
 ate and sustain, as they could 
 convert the grain that they sell 
 at 1 cent per lb., and the potatoes 
 that they sell at A cent per lb., 
 into meat that will not cost them 
 one tenth of the freight to send 
 
 II 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 29 
 
 to market, besides suppling the 
 home consumption. It will help 
 them to keep their farms from 
 being worn out bj' supplying 
 them with fertilizers. The meat 
 cured will net from 10 to 25 cents 
 per lb., while the freight cannot 
 
 over-double the price of the raw 
 product. 
 
 9th — In Wyoming, Utah, Idaho 
 and Montana 100 cars of glass are 
 used annually, we suggest a 
 special committee to inquire 
 
 
 yJf^S'.e.^viS^ 
 
 TROUT POOL, OGDEN CANON. 
 
 whether window glass can or 
 cannot be manufactured in Og- 
 den. All the material is found 
 in Utah and there is a factory 
 for making glassware and bottles 
 in successful operation in Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 10th — We invite your consider- 
 ation to the fact that out of the 
 7,000,000 pounds of wool raised 
 in Utah, 6,000,000 pounds are ex- 
 ported, and we import our woolen 
 goods, while it has been demon- 
 strated by the woolen mills in 
 Provo that the manufacture of 
 woolens can be made a success 
 in this Territory. 
 
 11th — In conclusion, we would 
 state that Ogden possesses the 
 key, and holds the situation as 
 the commercial and manufactur- 
 ing center for Utah, Idaho, parts 
 of Wyoming and Nevada. We 
 have enough of power running 
 to waste to manufacture all the 
 goods needed in those States and 
 Territories; we are the center of 
 this whole commercial region, and 
 we have the terminus of the five 
 largest railroads here; and any 
 industry that we may go into or 
 any goods that we can manufac- 
 ture, we are in the center of the 
 market, and can ship to its des- 
 tination without re-shipment. 
 We are not depending on favors 
 from one or two roads to make 
 us, for we have them all, and if 
 one does not the other will. 
 
 But let Ogden once start one or 
 two of the manufacturing indus- 
 tries we have enumerated and 
 the railroads will be begging for 
 the freights and favors of the 
 merchants and manufacturers of 
 Ogden, with more clamor than 
 Ogden has ever exhibited for the 
 depots. When two or three of 
 these industries are operated, 
 Ogden will not need to ask for a 
 depot; it will be put here too quick. 
 
30 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 SYRACUSE. 
 
 islands which it contains, large Forty-six teachers were employed 
 
 Q YRACUSE is the name of the 
 (g^ new Imthing resort on the 
 northeastern shore of CJreat 
 Salt Lake at the terminus of the 
 Ogden and Syracuse railroad. The 
 new resort was opened to the pub- 
 lic on the 4th of July last, since 
 which time it has been growing 
 in popularity every day. With 
 the exception of Garfield Beach, 
 it has the best beach of any re- 
 sort on the Lake and it is only a 
 question when it will be one of 
 the best summer resorts to be 
 found in the western country. 
 The land near Syracuse is very 
 fertile and there is an abundance 
 of fresh water for irrigating pur- 
 poses. In this particular it is 
 ahead of any of the other resorts 
 because it is possible to have one 
 of the finest parks in the United 
 States here on this fertile land. 
 The management is in enterpris- 
 ing hands and it is the intention 
 that no expense shall he spared to 
 make this one of the greatest 
 health and pleasure resorts in the 
 country. Next season the through 
 trains from the East on the Union 
 Pacific will 1)0 run down to the 
 T^ake from this city so as to give 
 through passengers a chance to 
 take a bath in the great inland 
 sea before continuing their jour- 
 ney West. Every convenience 
 that it has been possible to pro- 
 vide in the short time since it was 
 first decided to ])uild the resort, 
 has been provided and now large 
 numbers of our citizens run down 
 to the Lake almost every daj' 
 during the week and enjoy a bath 
 in the briny deep. 
 
 There is no sea bathing in the 
 world to ecpial the f treat Salt 
 Lake, and in less than five years 
 dozens of resorts will be estab- 
 lished along its shores and on the 
 
 substantial steamers will make 
 regular trips from one resort to 
 another for the accommodation 
 of the thousand tourists who will 
 riock to Utah during the summer 
 months. Elegant summer resi- 
 dences will be built, and the 
 broken in health and the over- 
 worked wnll find health and 
 rest, while breathing the pure air 
 of the mountains, and bathing in 
 the Lake. When all this comes 
 to pass, Syracuse will be one of 
 the principal resorts, noted far 
 and near for being the greatest 
 health and pleasure resort in the 
 country. 
 
 DISTRICT SCHOOLS. 
 
 in the thirty-four schools of 
 Weber County, at an average 
 salary to males of $52.45, and to 
 fenniles, §80.70. To pay them, 
 the districts expended $15,772.65, 
 an increase over last year of 
 S1,52S.45: of this amount the sum 
 of $'.M')05.40 was paid to males, and 
 §<),1<)7.1() to females. The cur- 
 rent expenses of running the 
 schools, exclusive of teachers' 
 sal ary, was $1,611.14 in 1 887, as 
 against $1,621.22 in 1S86. 
 
 The schools were in session on 
 an average, three terms and one- 
 fourth, or 154 days, eight districts 
 having schools in session the 
 whole year; three for three terms 
 and one-half: five for, three terms: 
 two for two terms: and two for 
 
 HE District schools-are sup — one term each. 
 
 '*c:v ported Ijy a yearly Territorial 
 appn^jriation, by local tax- 
 ation and by tuition. 
 
 The Territorial approi)riation 
 is derived from a general Terri- 
 torial tax. The school law pro- 
 vides that a local tax may be 
 levied in any district, notexceed- 
 2 per cent, per annum. A tax of 
 .jf per cent may be levied by the 
 trustees without consulting the 
 taxpayei's; any amount above 
 that mu.st be levied by consent of 
 the tax payers, at a meeting 
 called for that i)urpose. Free 
 schools may thus be had in any 
 district where the tax-payers are 
 disposed to levy a tax sufficiently 
 large for that purpose. Several 
 districts in Weber County have, 
 therefore, free schools. 
 
 There are twenty districts in 
 the count}^ each directed by a 
 board of three trustees. 
 
 The total value of school prop- 
 erty, according to the report of 
 the sui)erintendent for 1S87, was 
 $77,36)3.30, which is $4,674.65 in 
 excess of the value in 1SS6. 
 
 There was a total school popu- 
 lation of 4,320, out of which 
 number 2,267 are boys, and 2,062 
 girls. Out of number 824 are 
 children of non-Mormon parenis. 
 and 3,505 children of Mormon 
 parents. 
 
 The enrollment was 3.290, or 
 seventy-five per cent., but the av- 
 erage daily attendance was 1,684, 
 oi- thirty-nine per cent., to which 
 may l)e added seventy-seven 
 under school age, and 130 over 
 eighteen years, who were enrolled. 
 The actual cost, therefore, for 
 teachers' salaries for each child 
 actually attending was $0.36, and 
 for all expenses, $14.32. 
 
 The total revenue was $29,- 
 321.59. The amount received 
 from district taxes was $ 10, 1 20.41 ; 
 from Territorial appropriation, 
 $8,054.00: from tuition, $5,643.01; 
 and the remainder from other 
 sources. The total sum of $54,- 
 123.09 was exjiended for school 
 pui-poses during the ye'ar. 
 
 Teachers associatir,nsand insti- 
 tutes are held, WQfjkly, monthly, 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 31 
 
 and yearly, respectively. The 
 latest and best methods of teach- 
 ing are employed by the teachers. 
 Music is receiving due attention 
 in many of the schools. The 
 buildings, and furnishings of the 
 Weber County schools compare 
 favorably with any in the Terri- 
 tory. 
 
 The following table, taken 
 from the annual report of Super- 
 tendent Edward H. Anderson, 
 gives a fair idea of the growth 
 of the public schools in Weber 
 County. 
 
 1867. 1877 1887. 
 
 Value of School Property $31.9 )0.00 $77,363.30 
 
 Total paid to Teachers... $5,322.8) $ C,2G2 Oi $15,772 65 
 
 Local Taxes Raised $1,075.70 $ 2.014 65 $10,129.41 
 
 School Population 1,422 2,876 4 477 
 
 Total ChlldrenenroUed.. 955 1,794 3.299 
 
 No. of Schools 18 21 34 
 
 THE SLAUGHTERING 
 BUSINESS. 
 
 C(^OME one who has plenty of 
 (^ money with which he wishes 
 to make more can do so by 
 building a big .slaughtering house 
 in this city and creating a 
 market here for cattle and sheep. 
 It is only a question of time 
 when there will have to be a mar- 
 ket established some where in 
 this inter-mountain region for 
 the cattle and sheep that roam 
 over the hills and valleys. It is 
 much easier and less expen.sive 
 to send beef to eastern and west- 
 ern markets in refrigerator cars 
 than it is to ship the live cattle 
 in stock cars such a great dis- 
 tance. Thousands of tons of ice 
 can be put up in this city every 
 winter if necessary, and with 
 plenty of ice and the right kind 
 of cars the business is an assured 
 success from the start, a,.s the cat- 
 tle could he slaughtered at any 
 time and the dressed beef could 
 be packed in the cars and sent 
 direct to Chicago or San Fran- 
 cisco, where it would arrive as 
 
 fresh as the day it was placed on 
 board. Ogden is just the place to 
 locate such an establishment, be- 
 cause of its unexcelled railroad 
 facilities. Any one who desires 
 to start such a business would 
 undoubtedly receive assistance 
 from the U. P. and C. P. in some 
 form or other. For instance the 
 U. P. would in all probability 
 agree to haul all the ice necessary 
 to be used from Evanston free of 
 charge. Ice can as a general 
 thing be procured in this city, but 
 as it can always be had at Evan- 
 ston, and as the quality is the 
 very best, it might be well to ar- 
 range to get all the ice from that 
 point. The railroads would also 
 arrange to keep ice along the 
 road to replenish the cars if nec- 
 essary. The roads could well 
 afford to encourage such an enter- 
 prise in every way possible, be- 
 cause it would furnish them with 
 a great deal of business. The 
 cattle would have to be shipped 
 into this market from the sur- 
 rounding country and the dressed 
 meat would be seat out. 
 
 There can be no question about 
 the success of such an enterprise, 
 because good meat is always in 
 demand in any eastern or western 
 market. And all that is neces- 
 sary is to arrange for getting it 
 there, and there will be no trouble 
 about sales or profits; and then 
 again there is always plenty of 
 feed in this vicinity, so that cat- 
 tle sent in here from a distance 
 can l)e fed for a week or so if it 
 is necessary to place them in good 
 condition for killing. 
 
 The hides and tallow will pay 
 all the expense of running such 
 an establishment, and the horiis 
 and feet can be utilized for dif- 
 ferent purposes, so that taking all 
 together there is good reason to 
 believe that there is a chance to 
 
 make plenty of money after the 
 business is once started. 
 
 The Chamber of Commerce 
 will assist any one who desires to 
 give it a trial in securing a loca- 
 tion for the necessary yards and 
 buildings. 
 
 AGRICULTURE. 
 
 pNEOPLE do not farm in Utah 
 Q.--^ like they do in other parts 
 
 * of the United States. As a 
 general thing the farms are small 
 but owing to the almost unequaled 
 productiveness of the soil a farm 
 of a few acres will produce as 
 much as a very large farm in 
 Iowa, Illinois or any other of the 
 great agricultural States. 
 
 The following interesting facts 
 are gathered from a circular pre- 
 pared by the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railway. They are per- 
 fectly reliable. 
 
 Fair Utah wheat ranks with the 
 best No. 2 Red, which is the high- 
 est grade appearing in most of the 
 Eastern markets. Our choicest 
 qualities, raised under the most 
 favorable conditions, are a unique 
 product with scarcely an equal in 
 America. A number of points in 
 Colorado, especially Denver, are 
 already Iniyers of our wheat this 
 year, while some shipments have 
 been made to Kansas Cit5^ En- 
 quires are also being made from 
 California. Utah wheat has a 
 brighter, larger kernel than that 
 of the East, and though no hand- 
 somer than that of California, it 
 is firmer and its nutriment more 
 concentrated. 
 
 We have known parties who 
 are keeping up work horses, to 
 pay 25 to 30 per cent, more for 
 Utah oats of ordinary quality than 
 for a fair grade of Eastern. This 
 was a couple of years ago when 
 cut rates of freight permitted the 
 
32 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 bringing in of Eastern oats. 
 Nothing more conclusive can be 
 said of tlie real value of our oats 
 than this, which after all, only 
 represents current opinion among 
 those who have tried both. 
 Utah oats, therefore, command a 
 stiff price and parties looking 
 here for a supplj^ should under- 
 stand that in return for the com- 
 paratively high figure asked, the 
 real feeding powei' of our grain 
 is proportionately high. Utah 
 oats have ranged in price during 
 recent years from 1^ to 1| cents 
 per pound on cars. 
 
 In 18S.J our Ijrewing barley was 
 exported in great quantities to 
 St. Louis, Milwaukee. California 
 and other points, where it invar- 
 ibly graded as fully up to the 
 best Canadian brewing. Utah 
 barley beer is advertised all over 
 the Union, and signifies the 
 highest attainable degree of 
 merit. It is the use of this bar- 
 ley which gives Utah beer so 
 high a standard. Indeed our 
 white clul) brewing barley will 
 hold its own anywhere as a 
 strictly fancy product. Besides 
 this grade Utah has for sale about 
 a million pounds of mixed feed 
 barley. 
 
 There is a few cars of rye an- 
 nually offered here at a figure 
 usually ranging over one cent 
 per pound. The quality is superb 
 and the yield fair. 
 
 Utah does not pose as a corn 
 country, and rarely has any for 
 export. The hot sultry nights 
 which corn requires are not 
 characteristic of our climate. 
 East of the Wasatch Mountains, 
 however, along the line of the 
 Denver & Rio Grande Western, 
 (specially at (ireen River, it is 
 likely that corn growing will 
 prove a considerable industry. 
 
 A special providence seems to 
 
 have I'eserved this Territory for 
 the cultivation of lucerne, often 
 called alfalfa, which the farming 
 people of Utah have learned to 
 look ui)on as one of the greatest 
 blessings tliat has yet been 
 vouchsafed them. The best crops 
 come from lands thatcannot well 
 be plowed because of their rough 
 character. Excellent results 
 have been had by merely clear- 
 ing off the brush and casting the 
 seed over such ground. It takes 
 longer to get a good start and 
 irrigation is more difficult than 
 if the ground were stirred up 
 but it thrives lietter in the end. 
 Lucern will do well even on 
 ground that is too steep for a 
 mowing machine, if only suffi- 
 cient water can be got on it to 
 give it a start. Its avei'age 
 growth is about three feet though 
 we have known it to reach over 
 six feet when left for seed. A 
 serious drought may spoil the crop 
 for the time being, but the follow- 
 ing 3'ear it will come up as good 
 as ever. 
 
 Utah is, par excellence the 
 country for lucern seed and from 
 300 to 400 tons are exported an- 
 nually at prices varying from 
 seven to eleven cents per pound. 
 
 We raise some red and white 
 clover seed, liut hav(> little left 
 beyond our own needs for export. 
 
 The Utah potato has a repu- 
 tation for excellence all over 
 America and even in Great Brit- 
 ain. Other climes have trie<l in 
 vain to match our product, but 
 the attempt seems futile. For 
 many years great quantities have 
 been exported from this Terri- 
 tory, and it looks as if we shall 
 continue to do so for all time to 
 come. We have seen a lot of six- 
 teen bushels that went through- 
 out twelve potatoes to the bushel. 
 The king of the Eai-ly, Peerless 
 
 and Compton's Surprise yield in 
 favored localities about 400 bush- 
 els to the acre. With high cul- 
 tivation we have heard of 1,000 
 bushels being raised to the 
 acre. Utah ahso has a fine rep- 
 utation for carrots, which often 
 yield of good quality as much as 
 1,200 bushels to the acre; also for 
 onions, turnips, parsnips, radishes, 
 etc. Beets thrive astonishingly 
 well, and far-seeing men tell that 
 one day, the large tracts of low 
 lying, 1)ut now un watered lands 
 on the western side of this val- 
 ley and elsewhere, will be under 
 cultivation to the sugar beet for 
 the manufacture of sugar. 
 
 There is no reason why the 
 cultivation of peanuts should not 
 take its place as one of our fore- 
 most root products. It has been 
 clearly demonstrated that our 
 climate and soil are especially 
 favorable to their growth, and 
 every attempt that has been 
 made which was only on an ex- 
 perimental scale, has borne out 
 this idea. 
 
 Of green stuffs we annually ex- 
 port large (piantities of cabbage, 
 caulifiower and celery, the latter 
 growing exceptionally fine. 
 
 South of Utah Lake, and in 
 various other localities, are 
 grounds suitable for the growth 
 of flax, which is native to our 
 soil, and would pay well for cul- 
 tivation. 
 
 Hops are also native to Utah, 
 its trailing vines literally over- 
 running every other kind of fo- 
 liage in many of our canons. The 
 picking of wild hops has yielded 
 considerable of pin money to the 
 country people, and Nature could 
 not tell in plainer words that 
 this is pre-eminently a region fa- 
 vorable to their cultivation. 
 
 The same causes which give ex- 
 cellence to the grain and vege- 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 33 
 
 tables of Utah also stamp her or- 
 chard products with a high caste. 
 Fresh fruits are exported in con- 
 siderable quantities, and wher- 
 ever sent take the highest place 
 and command the readiest sale. 
 In general terms, the superior 
 characteristics are firmness, 
 beauty, and above all, fine flavor. 
 Utah peaches are shipped, 
 wrapped and unwrapped, in 
 boxes about twenty pounds each, 
 and find a ready market in Colo- 
 rado and Idaho. Our peach trees 
 thrive best on light loam and 
 gravely soil. 
 
 The apple is now generally ac- 
 knowledged to be more free from 
 worms (codling moth) than for 
 some years previous, and thou- 
 sands of boxes have been shipped. 
 East and North by parties in Og- 
 den. Salt Lake, Provo, Spring- 
 ville and other places. It is prob- 
 able that each succeeding year 
 will see our apples freer from 
 worms and that in a few years 
 they will have disappeared alto- 
 gether. By papering the apples 
 and shipping in refrigerator cars 
 they may safely be transported 
 long distances late in the fall. 
 Green apples are a staple product 
 of the Territory, and notwith- 
 standing the heavy shipments 
 made, the demand last season 
 was not equal to the supply. 
 
 There are many fine plums 
 raised in Utah; the growth of 
 plums last season fell much short 
 of our usual quantity, and we 
 were far from supplying the de- 
 mand. 
 
 There is a sure demand for 
 more Utah pears than have yet 
 been produced. There is a lack 
 chiefly of early varieties of which 
 we have few beside the Bar-tlett. 
 Growers have paid over much at- 
 tention to winter pears, which 
 ripen too late to secure favor- 
 
 able sale. They now realize the 
 fact, and it is likely that future 
 years will find a better supply of 
 earlier kinds. The Utah pear is 
 an extremely rich fruit. 
 
 In most seasons, Utah has a 
 good crop of apricots for export, 
 and cherries in limited supply, 
 while grapes are in good quantity 
 but at points favorable for ship- 
 ping are not as handsome as those 
 from California. In Southern 
 Utah they raise beautiful grapes 
 of fine rich flavor, the average 
 yeild per acre being 6,260 pounds, 
 according to the latest data. 
 Strawberries and raspberries are 
 both native to Utah, as is the red 
 and black currant. Under culti- 
 vation the yield is very large and 
 of surpassing quality. 
 
 Such is the wide reputation 
 which'Utah enjoys for the excel- 
 lence of her dried fruits that they 
 command a fancy price through- 
 out the entire United States. In 
 competition with the best Ten- 
 nessee they bring in Chicago and 
 other cities, from two to three 
 times the price. The cause of 
 course, is primarily the excellent 
 qualitj' of our fruits v>'ith its rich 
 flavor, but we owe to the peculiar- 
 ity of our climate the ability to 
 sun-dry with such success. A 
 third reason is the singular ra- 
 pidity with which moisture evap- 
 orates in this region, enabling the 
 drying process to take place rap- 
 idly in the day-time, while the 
 absence of dew, prevents the 
 back-sets during the night. 
 Fruits dried by artificial pi-oces- 
 ses lose part of their virtues, and 
 it is doubtful whether much of 
 it would be done were other cli- 
 mates as favorable as our own 
 to sun-drying. Thus it is that 
 Utah sun-dried fruits occupy a 
 place by themselves in the mar- 
 ket of America. A fancy article, 
 
 that has never yet been produced 
 here in anything like the quanti- 
 ty that could be sold, is the Utah 
 peeled peach. There is noth- 
 ing like it for fine flavor any- 
 where. It keeps well and com- 
 mands twice or thrice the figure's 
 of the unpeeled. The apricots 
 dried here invariably find a ready 
 market, it being an exceptional 
 year when they are not cleared 
 out before Christmas. The price 
 always ranks high and the fruit 
 is a general favorite. Atten- 
 tion is now being turned 
 to the German prune for 
 drying purposes, and these will 
 probably be kept separate. The 
 time is at hand when these will 
 take the place of those imported, 
 and in a few years, exports are 
 sure to follow. 
 
 Very few dried pears so far 
 come to market. A very limited 
 supply of nectarines have been 
 brought in and quickly sold at a 
 high price. This fruit is so fine 
 in appearance and so rich in 
 pulpy substance that its drying 
 should be encouraged. 
 
 A novel product, which first oc- 
 casions surprise and that finds 
 great favor wherever introduced, 
 is the dry ground cherry. This 
 fruit is native here, and has not 
 yet been cultivated, to bur knowl- 
 edge. It grows only too freely 
 for the farmers, however, as it 
 spreads with great vigor. When 
 scalded and dried, the fruit is of 
 a beautiful golden color, mak- 
 ing excellent pies, sauce and pre- 
 serves. 
 
 The ease with which a well can 
 be driven and flowing water se- 
 cured in the valleys of this Terri- 
 tory has given a new impetus to 
 farming and made lands availa- 
 ble that have heretofore been 
 considered beyond cultivation. 
 
34 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 NATURAL CAS GEOLOGY. 
 
 /C. HE following article by J. S. 
 ^<2) Mcintosh, in the Salt Lake 
 I'l-ihune, is on a question of 
 consi«leral)le present interest: 
 
 The general geological condi- 
 tions upon which the occurrence 
 of natural gas seems to depend, 
 from a consideration of facts ob- 
 tained by a long and practical ex- 
 perience in the oil business are: 
 (1) The porosity of sandstone 
 either in the Triassic or Jurassic 
 formation. (2) Tlie extent to 
 which the strata above and be- 
 low the gas bearing rock are 
 cracked. (3) The relative pro- 
 pox'tion of water, oil and gas con- 
 tained in the gas-bearing rock. 
 (4) The pressure under which 
 the gas exists before being tapped 
 by wells. 
 
 Kind reader, do not misunder- 
 stand me. I do not claim to 
 know all the conditions of im- 
 portance bearing upon the prob- 
 lem as to the generation of natu- 
 ral gas. But, from a diligent and 
 careful observation of twenty-five 
 years, have found that sandstone 
 of a porous nature produced the 
 best gas wells; which is found in 
 the oil country of Pennsylvania, 
 as well as in the Western coun- 
 try. Yet the origin of natural 
 gas has an important bearing up- 
 on economic geology. It is be- 
 lieved we are in possession of 
 some data to throw some light 
 on this interesting question of 
 the cause of natural gas. Yet it 
 is inconceivable to permit a com- 
 plete explanation. However, I 
 deem it necessary that some 
 statement should be made in or- 
 der to more thoroughly under- 
 stand tlie conditions upon which 
 its origin seems to depend. It 
 would appear to some people that 
 natural gas is closely related to 
 
 petroleum, and that their origin 
 is due to the same cause — that is 
 the decomposition of animal and 
 vegetable life. It is generally 
 believed that gas is not indigen- 
 ous to the rock from which it is 
 obtained, but comes from the de- 
 composition of life forms which 
 wei'e entrapped in underlying 
 strata. It is also conceded by 
 professional men, that gas is gen- 
 erated from carbonic substance. 
 This may lie a fact, yet I propose 
 to show that natural gas exists in 
 different countries (vhere there 
 are no carbonic formations. For 
 instance: we have an abundance 
 of gas in Canada, East Indies and 
 in different States in this Union, 
 where carbonic formations are 
 not known. We have also found 
 gas where petroleum is not 
 known to exist. That the ab- 
 sence of oil or coal in our Trias- 
 sic formation east of the oil re- 
 gion in Pennsylvania, is ex- 
 plained Ify the cracking of the 
 rocks. A survey of the outcrop- 
 ping rocks and the dry wells, 
 show that the Triassic or gas- 
 bearing rocks extends far beyond 
 the limits of the area of the re- 
 gion in which any traces of gas 
 have been found. The general 
 structural geology of gas regions 
 is simple: The rocks lie nearly 
 horizontal, dipping slightly to 
 the southwest. An appreciation 
 of the intensity of the dips may 
 be had from the following figures: 
 From the city of Bradford, 7'2 
 miles, in an air line southeast of 
 the city of Erie, the rock dips on 
 an average of 14 feet to the mile. 
 From the city of Pittsburg, a dis- 
 tance of 70 miles, the average dip 
 per mile is 20 feet. The maxi- 
 mum dip of Bradford oil region 
 from surveys of 1S7'.), was <)0 feet 
 per mile. I claim the dip of gas- 
 bearing rock has an important 
 
 bearing upon tlie occurrence of 
 gas. Yet it is not believed that 
 gas wells can be located indepen- 
 dently on what ha*' been formu- 
 lated as the anticlinal theory: 
 however, the greatest gas wells 
 of Pennsylvania are found on 
 those greate.st anticlinal posi- 
 tions. Mr. J. F. Carll. assistant 
 geologist of the oil regions of 
 Pennsylvania, claims (and I ac- 
 cede with his views) that gas 
 wells should be located on anti- 
 clinals, because gas is lighter 
 than water or oil. and should 
 seek the biggest reservoir jirem- 
 ises; a sandstone rock containing 
 oil. water or gas or only water 
 and gas in such proportions that 
 the fluids may stratify themselves 
 as freely as they would in an 
 open tank under air, the water at 
 the lower lever and the gas at the 
 higher. It is proved by experi- 
 ence of over twenty-five years 
 that no profitable oil or gas well 
 can be obtained in the upper 
 Devonian strata unless a good 
 sand rock reservoir is found. 
 
 It is generally expected, and 
 justly, that the oil and gas-mak- 
 ing material was' deposited before 
 and perhaps in some cases with 
 the sand rock, not after 
 it; that the tendency is 
 oil and gas when generated is up- 
 wards. Therefore, the two pri- 
 mary conditions to be sought are, 
 gas-producing materials and sand 
 rock reservoirs to hold the pro- 
 ducts. It is a well-known fact 
 that all oil and gas-bearing rock 
 are sedimentary; that they are 
 composed of materials derived 
 from older rocks, the disinte- 
 grated particles of which have 
 been sifted, a.ssorteil and depos- 
 ited in stratified layers by the 
 action of water. 
 
 We do not need to go back to 
 Pennsylvania or Canada fgr an 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 35 
 
 explanation on natural gas or oil; 
 we can find those old sediment- 
 ary and fossilated rocks right in 
 Utah and "Wyoming, overlaid by 
 sand rock; we have oil and gas in 
 this country in abundance, if we 
 only had energy enough to sink 
 for it. 
 
 We have oil and gas north of 
 Rawlins, Wyo.; we have gas in 
 Green River, Wyo. 
 
 We have oil and gas in abund- 
 ance in Fossil, Wyo., and we 
 have gas right here in Salt Lake 
 City, although not in abundance 
 at jn-esent, but by sinking down 
 deeper I would almost guarantee 
 that we would find the desired 
 fluid in as great a quantity as in 
 Pittsburg, or in any other part of 
 the world, for we have the oil 
 and gas-bearing rock much 
 nearer the surface in this coun- 
 try than it is in the East, and it 
 would cost much less to sink for 
 it than in the East. 
 
 Let me here give you a brief de- 
 scription of the Geological Sur- 
 vey of this western country. In 
 parts of this country we have 
 what is called the Dacota group 
 of rocks, which varies in thick- 
 ness from 1500 to 3000 feet. This 
 group of rocks is composed of 
 blue, black, and reddish shale, in- 
 termixed with strata of a very 
 close white sandstone varying in 
 thickness from five to twenty 
 feet, which contains fresh water. 
 Underlying the Dacota group,and 
 in many sections of the country, 
 is found cropping out what is 
 called the Triassic formations of 
 rock, which is composed of strata 
 of sandstone, conglomerate and 
 limestone rock. The Triassic for- 
 mation of rocks produce oil, water 
 and gas, and is about 500 feet in 
 thickness. Underlying the Tri- 
 assic rocks is what is termed Ju- 
 rassic rock, composed of red sand- 
 
 stone and red fire clay exclusively, 
 and varies from 110 to 1700 feet. 
 Underlying the Jurassic rock 
 comes a very porous gray sand 
 rock, in which oil and gas have 
 been found in abundance in Wy- 
 oming Territory. The pressure 
 of gas has not been tested, but 
 when found, it threw oil and 
 water sixty-five feet high. Those 
 wells are all on an anticlinal. 
 The rock dips in this section of 
 Wyoming al)out 300 feet per 
 mile. My anticlinal theory may 
 be fanciful, but through a careful 
 watch of the different formations, 
 and the dip of rocks, I have never 
 found oil or gas where the rocks 
 lay perfectly horizontal (and I 
 have sunk wells in various parts 
 of the world.) 
 
 Professor J. P. Lesley (geolo- 
 gist), in an address delivered in 
 Pittsburg before the Institute of 
 Mining Engineers, February 17th 
 last, in referring to the anticlinal 
 theory, says: '"Location of anti- 
 clinal lines in the Pittsburg gas 
 region has become popular, pro- 
 duced by a theory, and the whole 
 community interested in the sub- 
 ject of natm-al gas, abide by 
 no other theory than the anti- 
 clinal theory to obtain gas." 
 
 To this I add the important 
 consideration, that the move- 
 ments of oil and water have been 
 shown by actual practice and are 
 governed entirely by the charac- 
 ter of the rock and its position. 
 
 I therefore claim that natural 
 gas is generated from the sedi- 
 mentary sandstone composed 
 from life and vegetable matter, 
 disintegrated particles of which 
 have been sifted and deposited by 
 the action of water. 
 
 I also claim we have gas-bear- 
 ing rock in and around this city, 
 and at a much less depth than in 
 the East. And the writer of this 
 
 epistle would like to see some en- 
 terprising firm take hold of this 
 problem and sink for gas, and by 
 doing so, I feel confident of their 
 success. And success means a 
 great benefit to our great and 
 noble city. It is an undisputed 
 fact that we have the best of fa- 
 cilities to make Salt Lake City 
 one of the largest and finest cit- 
 ies in the world. The surround- 
 ings of this city are equal, if not 
 better, than Chicago, Philadelphia 
 or New York. We can raise 
 grain or fruit of all descriptions. 
 We are surrounded by mountains 
 which are rich in gold, silver and 
 other precious metals. We have 
 mineral springs of all kinds, both 
 hot and cold. And then the 
 Great Salt Lake (which is right 
 at our door) a health and pleas- 
 ure-seeking resort for us all. We 
 have manufactories of different 
 kinds. And as I now say, we have 
 the finest climate in the woidd; 
 and if we only had gas in paying 
 quantities, it would not only in- 
 duce manufactories to start up in 
 our midst, but would induce 
 other enterprises which would 
 help to enhance the value of our 
 property, and bring our already 
 very attractive city to the front. 
 There is nothing in the above 
 article which will not apply with 
 equal force to the city of Ogden. 
 By reference to an article which 
 appears in another column, it 
 will be seen that natural gas 
 abounds here, and is being made 
 use of by our citizens. This ar* 
 tide is based upon scientific facts, 
 and the writer evidently under- 
 stands the nature of the question 
 he is dealing with. It is because 
 it contains so much valuable in- 
 formation of a scientific charac- 
 ter which is in every way appli- 
 cable to the city of Ogden, that it 
 is given a place in this work. 
 
36 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 THE MIRACLES OF THE 
 SEASONS. 
 
 /^HOSE people who scold about 
 vS' the weather nowadays do 
 wrong and are at best but 
 spoiled children. Did not the au- 
 tumn stretch out in sunny days 
 and starry nights week after week 
 until the farmer began to grow ap- 
 prehensive of the next season's 
 crop, and the stock men said low 
 to each other: '"Things look badly 
 for next season?" It was neces- 
 sary that springs should be re- 
 plenished in the hills, necessary 
 that the harvest of next summer 
 should be prepared for. So na- 
 ture set her pumps to work, off 
 on the Pacific. Those pumps 
 were made of sunbeams, working 
 on the warm currents of the sea, 
 and the reservoir was the drifting 
 air. Then on the laud the same 
 sunbeams made hot the earth, 
 and the heated air arose and 
 floated away. This made a vacu- 
 um, and the air from above the 
 sea rushed in and upon the val- 
 leys of Southern California and 
 discharged a part of its load of 
 moisture in drenching rain. Con- 
 tinuing, it came where the air 
 was colder on the desert in the 
 higher altitude, and much colder 
 when a mountain range was met 
 and crossed, and so from the 
 Sierras clear up the west slope 
 of the Rockies, and for a thou- 
 sand miles up aad down the fall 
 has been in snow. We can wit- 
 n'ess the outward phenomenon; 
 the savants of the past have 
 made the demonstration for us, 
 and made clear how the miracle 
 is performed, but the sublimity 
 of the process through which the 
 waters of tlie sea, cleansed of 
 their salt, are carried and de- 
 posited upon the broad backs of 
 our mountain ranges, is only a 
 
 part of the glory. Another mir- 
 acle even yet more wonderful 
 will be performed when the 
 spring and the summer return. 
 Even now tlie ^un has wheeled in 
 his course in order to work with 
 the water and the soil to per- 
 form that miracle. He will touch 
 and dissolve with his beams this 
 waste of snow; first in the val- 
 leys and then more slowly in the 
 hills; ho will cause it to vanish 
 and then caress with his warmth 
 the frozen earth and restore it to 
 life. Then the earth will realize 
 its nakedness and call up its 
 grass, kindle anew the warmth 
 in its trees, and they in turn will 
 hide their naked limbs with foli- 
 age; later the spring lilooms will 
 be awakened and following them 
 will come the glory and the full 
 fruition of the harvest. The two 
 miracles are the perfect symbols 
 of death and resurrection, and we 
 suspect that the life of the spring 
 after the death of the winter was 
 what first caused poor mortality 
 to turu its eyes upward and to 
 nurse a hope of a life beyond the 
 grave. Doubtless, too, the com- 
 ing of the sun's heat to awaken 
 the stiffened corpse of the world 
 in spring, is what originated the 
 faith of the simple Fire Worship- 
 pers of old. So when mortals 
 scold because of darkened and 
 stormy days and the starless 
 nights, they should comfort them- 
 selves with the thought that 
 these days and nights are, after 
 all, laden with mercies to the hu- 
 man race, and that they are Ijut 
 a part of a miracle which as a 
 whole, is more splendid than 
 ever poet imagined or artist 
 sketched. And the furious cold 
 is a necessary adjunct. While the 
 sunbeams were set to work in 
 the sunny valleys and upon the 
 warm southern sea, a notice 
 
 was sent to the far north where 
 Winter holds his seat that he 
 with his outriders, the wild wind 
 and the nipping frost, must be 
 here to receive the gathered 
 moisture, that he must roll the 
 snow up with his winds until 
 every depression was heaped full 
 and must then hold it with his 
 frost until it should become 
 packed and settled, and until 
 relieved of its watch by the 
 spring sun. This is now being 
 done, but mortals with dimmed 
 visions see nothing of the splen- 
 dors of the miirhty transformation 
 scenes that are going on, but 
 rather growl because it is cloudy 
 and generally disagreeable. 
 What a selfish and unreasonable 
 race of creatures we are, and 
 how narrow is the horizon in 
 which we pass our little lives. — 
 Sail Lake Trihiiiie of Jan. ■'<fli. 
 
 PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL. 
 
 ZTHE following table will give a 
 v^ good idea of the average per 
 acre of the products of the 
 soil in Utah. 
 
 Barley averages 32 bushels to 
 the acre. 
 
 Corn averages 27 bushels to the 
 acre. 
 
 Oats average 36 bushels to the 
 acre. 
 
 Wheat averages 28 bushels to 
 the acre. 
 
 Pears average 75 bushels to the 
 acre. 
 
 Peaches average 120 bushels to 
 the acre. 
 
 Plums average 165 bushels to 
 the acre. 
 
 Apricots average 145 bushels to 
 the acre. 
 
 Cherries average 75 bushels to 
 the acre. 
 
 Grapes average 6,260 pounds to 
 the acre. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADYANTAGES. 
 
 37 
 
 UTAH FARMING. 
 
 ^7\ S a usual thing farms in Utah 
 jl are small but exceedingly 
 G/ well cultivated. The farm- 
 ing population is composed almost 
 exclusively of foreign-born people 
 who for numerous reasons follow 
 old country styles of farming, 
 and generally they live in 
 small settlements or villages and 
 the farms are scattered about ad- 
 jacent to the village. 
 
 In early days this was neces- 
 sary because of danger from 
 Indians. Another reason for this, 
 now is, that the farmers of a 
 settlement or village are obliged 
 to join together for the purpose of 
 building the necessary irrigating 
 ditches and it is more convenient 
 for them to be near together. 
 Irrigation is a necessity here in 
 Utah, but fortunately there is 
 plenty of water and with a little 
 work the land that would be 
 considered worthless by any one 
 who is not familiar with the 
 country, can be made to bring 
 forth fifty and oftimes an hun- 
 dred fold. Where water is 
 plenty it is not a difficult job for 
 one man to irrigate from 25 to 
 50 acres of land and properly cul- 
 tivate it during the season. Irri- 
 gation is not such a difficult 
 thing after all; people who have 
 been used to depending on the 
 rains to bring up there grain and 
 insure an average harvest can 
 not understand how it is that 
 people who have to depend on 
 this means of watering their 
 fields can possibly raise an abun- 
 dant crop; but they do it, and as 
 a rule with less work than an 
 eastern farmer who depends upon 
 rain to make good his harvest. 
 When a Utah farmer thinks his 
 wheat needs water, he does not 
 have to depend upon the heavens 
 
 to supply it, he simply goes to the 
 irrigating ditch which runs along 
 the upper side of his field, and in 
 a short time small streams of 
 water are flowing down .through 
 the field of grain. These little 
 streams are just far enough apart 
 so that the water will soak 
 through the ground on each side 
 of the stream until all the space 
 between the streams is thor- 
 oughly saturated. When the 
 farmer thinks the grain is 
 sufficiently watered he turns 
 off the water from that 
 particular field and looks after 
 another field. 
 
 It is not very hard work to 
 attend to the water and in this 
 consists the principal work of 
 cultivation. Some one may won- 
 der how it is that the farming 
 lands lay in such a way that they 
 can be irrigated to advantage. 
 An all wise providence seems to 
 have provided for this, and to-day 
 there is scarcely a piece of land 
 that is fit for farming purposes 
 that does not slope from the 
 mountains in such a way that 
 there is no difficulty about irri- 
 gating it thoroughly. The farm- 
 ing land is to be found along the 
 base of the mountains and in the 
 plains below, but all of the land 
 slopes away from the mountains, 
 and as almost every cailon is 
 provided with a stream of fresh 
 water, it is not a very difficult 
 matter to provide water for all 
 of the farming land in the Terri- 
 tory. Several large streams flow 
 into the northern end of Great 
 Salt Lake through broad fertile 
 valleys, and the day will come 
 when irrigating ditches will be 
 built on a large scale. In one 
 valley within 30 miles of this 
 city several thousand acres of 
 laud have been idle for years, 
 waiting for some one to come 
 
 along and build a large irrigat- 
 ing ditch. 
 
 Scarcely a place can be found 
 in the Territory where the farm- 
 ing land is not so situated that 
 plenty of water can be obtained 
 for it. 
 
 A good deal of land is vacant 
 to-day and subject to the desert 
 land law, or it can be purchased 
 by settlers. 
 
 The expense of constructing 
 irrigating ditches is more than 
 compensated for by the satisfac- 
 tion which the farmer has in 
 knowing that he is not obliged 
 to depend upon rain to make his 
 crops good, that little matter he 
 regulates to suit himself. The 
 products of the soil are alluded to 
 in another article. 
 
 HOT SPRINGS. 
 
 ONE of the principal health re- 
 sorts of this inter-mountain 
 country is the Hot Springs, 
 ten miles north of this city. For 
 years the waters of these springs 
 have been known to possess pecu- 
 liar medicinal properties. In early 
 days the people for miles around 
 would come and carrj^ away the 
 water in barrels and casks, and it 
 would be used as a blood purifier. 
 Some years ago* R. H. Slater, 
 purchased the springs and built 
 a commodious hotel near them, 
 and constructed pools for bathing 
 purposes; since that time the re- 
 putation of the springs has con- 
 stantly increased. The water 
 possesses all the medicinal prop- 
 erties of the famous Hot Springs 
 of Arkansas, and more; in fact, 
 some regard the water of the 
 Utah Hot Springs as far superior 
 in every way to that of the Ar- 
 kansas springs. 
 
 For rheumatic trouble nothing 
 can equal the waters of the Utah 
 
38 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 Hot Springs; although there is 
 occasionally a case where the pa- 
 tient is not benefitted, but on the 
 contrary the disease is aggra- 
 vated by the use of the water for 
 drinking or bathing purposes. 
 Such cases are rare and cannot 
 be accounted for. As a blood pu- 
 rifier the water from these springs 
 has no equal. The water is ipiite 
 salty and very warm where it 
 flows out of the ground. Even 
 after flowing through an 
 open trough for sevei'al hundred 
 feet into the enclosed pools it is 
 so hot that few people can bathe 
 in it with comfort at first. A 
 large pool has been constructed 
 outside of the building where it 
 is very pleasant to liatlie during 
 the summer time, 
 
 Although the water is salty it 
 possesses other mineral proper- 
 ties which do not make it un- 
 pleasant to drink. 
 
 With the addition of a small 
 ([uantity of iiepper a very fair 
 quality of chicken broth can lie 
 made, (it is not exacty chicken 
 broth although it is better than 
 chicken soup made by carrying a 
 live chicken through a room 
 where a kettle of water is boil- 
 ing,) and is very pleasant to 
 drink. Hundreds of people visit 
 this resort every year and it is 
 fast growing in popularity as a 
 health resort. The present pro- 
 prietor has expended a great 
 deal of money in fitting up the 
 place and is able to make his 
 guests comfortable. It is also 
 quite a pleasure resort as the 
 bathing is good early and late in 
 the season when it is too cool to 
 bathe in the Lake. 
 
 OUR ENGRAVINGS. 
 
 SA OST of the engravings in this 
 / V l)ook were made by the fam- 
 ous Moss Engraving Co. of 
 New York from photographs by 
 Adams Brothers. Any one who is 
 familiar with the scenery in the 
 vicinity of this city will recognize 
 at once that they are well execut- 
 ed, and strangers who have an eye 
 for the beautiful in nature will 
 see that they are real works of 
 art. 
 
 In selecting the subjects it was 
 very difficult to decide which of 
 the many fine scenes ought to be 
 reproduced, and when the selec- 
 tions were finally made, there still 
 remained among the number put 
 aside, dozens of scenes in every 
 way equal to the ones chosen. 
 
 The engravers evidently ap- 
 preciated the fact that the sub- 
 jects were far superior to the 
 usual run of subjects, hence the 
 superior excellence of the work. 
 Messrs. Adams Brothers are to be 
 congratulated because the en- 
 gravers have so faithfully repro- 
 duced the artistic effect of these 
 photos. 
 
 ^»^ — 
 
 METEOROLOGICAL. 
 
 FEW meteorological com- 
 parisons may be of interest 
 to people who read a work 
 of this kind. The following facts 
 and figures are perfectly reliable: 
 
 The amount of business done 
 in the postottice in this city has 
 increased twenty-five per cent in 
 the last two quarters. 
 
 
 
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 Boston, Mass 
 
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 Phliadeliiliia, Pa.. 
 
 623i.(iH4 G8.8 
 
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 81129 133 67.3 
 
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 430.9 
 
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 5,294 21.778 45.8 
 
 1.81 
 
 14.77 
 
 490.1 
 
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 7,1146 23.26:1 41.4 
 
 1.61 
 
 14.17 
 
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 ASPHALTUM FIELDS. 
 
 DOLPH BUSCH, the rich 
 lu-ewer, and a number of 
 other caiiitalists of St. 
 Louis, are developing the great 
 asiihaltum deposits of Thistle, 
 a station on the D. & E. G. W. 
 Railway in Spanish Fork Canon, 
 Utah. The company has or- 
 dered a $25,000 plant of machiu- 
 eiy in St. Louis and is now x-e- 
 ceiving bids for the erection of a 
 three-story building, 40x115 feet. 
 The asphaltum will he rendered 
 from bituminous shale, whicli is 
 soft and as heavily charged as it 
 can carry. Nature has filtered it 
 to the highest degree of purity, 
 all that is required being the 
 simple act of separation from a 
 silicious combination. This, how- 
 ever, has been considered a diffi- 
 cult process under the conditions 
 that usually prevail in such de- 
 posits, but the energetic manager 
 of the works. St. V. Le Sieur, has 
 made the asphaltum fields of this 
 region a close study for many years 
 and has greatly simplified the 
 process by which this can be ac- 
 complished. Our deposits of 
 asphaltum rank among the most 
 valuable of our native resources 
 and it is extremely gratifying to 
 have them systematically devel- 
 oped by men of brains, money 
 and energy. We have the great- 
 est confidence that they will 
 prove highly remunerative and 
 bring glory to the Territory while 
 enriching the operators. — Salt 
 Lake Journal of Commerce. 
 
 Theke i.s hardly a more inviting 
 field for enterprise than a large 
 packing establishment in Utah. 
 We send away live meat to the 
 East and bring it back again 
 when cured at the rate of thou- 
 sands of dollars annually. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 39 
 
 RAILWAY PROSPECTS. 
 
 IT is now known among the local 
 railway officials, and among 
 
 other people adinitted to the 
 confidence of the magnates, that 
 the plan proposed by President 
 Adams for the building of the 
 union depots here is as good as 
 effected. A few days will doubt- 
 less see its formal consummation. 
 
 It is also well known that work 
 upon the structure will be re- 
 sumed in the spring — as early as 
 the weather will permit men to 
 begin advantageous labor. 
 
 Further, it is known that large 
 freight warehouses and other 
 buildings and premises for the 
 convenience of the vast railway 
 interests of this city are contem- 
 plated, and will be provided as 
 rapidly as possible. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing 
 certainties there are two others 
 which must not be forgotten. 
 One is, that the slioi't line to Chi- 
 cago, is as certain as death and 
 taxes. This line, call it by what 
 name you will — Salt Lake Val- 
 ley & Eastern, for instance — will 
 be 192 miles shorter than any 
 other present route between the 
 two magnificent centers — Ogden 
 and the Garden City. When 
 built, if Chicago and Ogden con- 
 tinue to extend their boi'ders as 
 rapidly as they are doing now, 
 we may find ourselves almost in 
 the heart of that place. One of 
 the towns will simply annex the 
 other. The second of these two 
 latter certainties is that the Mis- 
 souri Pacific must and will have 
 representation in the Junction 
 City of the West; and attached 
 to this is the contributing one 
 that a feeder into the north will 
 immediately follow the appear- 
 ance of the Missouri Pacific in 
 Ogden — not more to the benefit 
 
 and pleasure of this immediate 
 locality than to the advan- 
 tage and joy of Box Elder and 
 Cache Counties, in Utah, and the 
 settlements in the southei-n part 
 of Idaho. 
 
 Altogether, no other city in the 
 country has a railway outlook 
 which begins to compare with 
 that which shows between Ogden 
 and the horizon of 1S8S. — Ogden 
 Standard. 
 
 RAILROAD FREIGHTAGE. 
 
 ZTHE following figm-es show the 
 
 v2^ amount of freight received 
 
 and forwarded from this city 
 
 during the year ending December 
 
 31, 1S87: 
 
 CENTRAL PACIFIC. 
 
 Forwarded. Beceived. 
 
 January 11,154,003 6,749,750 
 
 February 8,095,143 4.4(57,297 
 
 March 12.399,667 9,284,742 
 
 April 9,471,113 9,842,892 
 
 May 5,524,347 8,984,.357 
 
 .June 5,770,445 14,092,196 
 
 July 3,614,978 11,157,896 
 
 August 6,137,336 10,238,679 
 
 September 4,406,486 9,938,096 
 
 October 4,543,112 9,381,658 
 
 November 2,537,667 9.768,586 
 
 December 2,918,202 5,794,750 
 
 Totals 79,572,499 109,700,905 
 
 The following figures are taken 
 from a carefully prepared table 
 arranged by the Union Pacific : 
 Amount of freight received, 432," 
 253,570 pounds. Amount for- 
 warded, 90,850,795 pounds, 16,- 
 845,867 of fruit produced was for- 
 warded from this city over the 
 Union Pacific during the year. 
 
 The D. &R.G.W. has delivered 
 102,893,740 pounds of freight and 
 forwarded 85,975.600 pounds. This 
 road also forwarded 5,498,700 
 pounds of fruit and produce. 
 The above figures are taken from 
 the tonnage report prepared by 
 J. H. Bennett of the D. & R. G. 
 W. for the Salt Lake Tribune. 
 
 It will be seen that during the 
 year the merchants of Ogden 
 have received 644,847,221 pounds 
 of freight and have shipped out 
 256,398,894 pounds to their cus- 
 tomers. 
 
 A BUSINESS CENTER. 
 
 /^VERYTHING indicates that 
 \^ Ogden City is just entering 
 upon an era of unprece- 
 dented prosperity. During the 
 time of the building of the Ore- 
 gon Short Line, business was 
 more than lively in this city, and 
 many thought that it would con- 
 tinue to improve after the road 
 was completed: but as the road 
 was the next thing to a failure 
 from a business point of view, 
 the boom that was expected to 
 strike this inter-mountain region 
 as soon as it was ready for busi- 
 ness, failed to make its appear- 
 ance, business flattened out and a 
 great many firms were wrecked 
 as a result. 
 
 The experience proved to be 
 beneficient to the business inter- 
 ests of our city. Our business 
 men tore down these air castles 
 and commenced building up their 
 business on a solid foundation, 
 without depending upon outside 
 influence to insure them success. 
 
 The consequence has been that 
 our city has been gaining ground, 
 slowly but surely, for the past 
 three years, as a commercial cen- 
 ter, and now bids fair to be the 
 central wholesale market for 
 the surrounding States and Ter- 
 ritories. 
 
 In saying so much, we do not 
 mean to set Ogden up as the rival 
 of any of the neighboring cities. 
 Its location is so eminently favor- 
 able for this class of business, 
 that it is perfectly natural that it 
 
40 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 should aspire to commercial 
 lionors. 
 
 It was the favorable location 
 of Chicago which has, in connec- 
 tion with the business enterprise 
 of its citizens, made it the great 
 Inisiness center of the Northern 
 Mississippi Valley, and as Oj^den 
 has this advantage of location, 
 our business men simply intend 
 to make use of all the natural 
 advantages which it possesses, 
 in connection with their own 
 business pluck and enterprise, to 
 attain prominence in the com- 
 mercial world. 
 
 A prominent Eastern capital- 
 ist told tlic writer a short time 
 ago, that it was his opinion that 
 Ogden was bound to grow and 
 liecome a prominent manufactur- 
 ing and commercial cit.y. and 
 that it would become so natur- 
 ally because of its location. He 
 was satisfied that money, judi- 
 ciously invested in real estate in 
 city property, would pay good in- 
 terest on the amount invested. 
 
 if strangers can see the natur- 
 al advantages of our city at a 
 glance, and feel assured of its 
 future prosperit3% certainly our 
 citizens ai-e not given to vain 
 boasting when they claim that 
 the city is bound to become one 
 of the most important interior 
 busir:ess centers of the great 
 Northwest country. 
 
 The Chicago ic Northwestern 
 and C. B. it Q. and one or two 
 other railroads will certainly be 
 I'unning trains into this city in 
 less than two years, and when 
 they are open for business, one 
 of tlie natural results will l)e a 
 reduction in the rate of freight 
 both East and West, which will 
 prove beneficial to the country 
 generally, and have a strong ten- 
 dency to transfer a large portion 
 of the wholesale business which 
 
 is now enjoyed by Eastern cities, 
 west of the Rocky Mountains. 
 The building of more railroads 
 will develop the country and in- 
 crease the demand for merchan- 
 dise. When all this comes to 
 pass, then the city that is the 
 hub from whifh all these spokes 
 of commerce radiate, will grow 
 in proportion to the development 
 of the surrounding country. 
 
 UTAH SULPHUR. 
 
 flour mill stone and is ground 
 into pieces about the size of ker- 
 nels of wheat. It is then passed 
 through another stone that 
 grinds it as fine as flour, and 
 sacked ready for .shipment. On 
 an average from eight to teutons 
 is thus turned out each day, but 
 the company is prepared to put 
 up considerable more if the mar- 
 ket demands it. — Salt Lake Enter- 
 prise. 
 
 CZ OME twenty-two miles north 
 (g^ of Beaver, just south of the 
 northern boundary of Beaver 
 county, says a correspondent, we 
 turned to the east of the main 
 road, and after traveling about a 
 mile through the cedars, that are 
 very abundant in both Beaver 
 and Millard counties, we reached 
 the sulphur beds owned by Mr. 
 Dickert of Salt Lake City, and 
 Mr. Myers of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 The sulphur can be seen on the 
 surface of the earth over an area 
 of about ten acres. IIow far it 
 extends under the low hills which 
 surround the beds and the thick- 
 ness of the layer is not yet known 
 though it has been tested thirty 
 feet down. The best parts of the 
 bed yet worked turn out 90 per 
 cent of sulphur. The crude ma- 
 terial is quarried out similar to 
 the way rock is. It is then loaded 
 into a car which is drawn by a 
 mule to the smelter, about 300 
 yards distant. There it is put 
 into steam retorts which hold 
 aliout two and a half tons each. 
 About 60 pounds of steam is then 
 applied for two hours. This is 
 sufficient to melt the sulphur, 
 which is drawn off into vats and 
 allowed to cool. When hard it is 
 taken out, allowed to dry, and it 
 is taken to the mills. There it is 
 put through a stone similar to a 
 
 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 
 
 OFFICERS of the Ogden Cham- 
 ber of Commerce for the en- 
 suing year: 
 Judge P. H. Emerson, President. 
 H. S. Young, First Vice-President. 
 L. B. Adams, SecondV ice-President. 
 J. H. Knauss, Secretarij. 
 0. E. Hill, Treasurer. 
 
 directors: 
 
 James Mack, Mill Owner. 
 
 H. L. Griffin, Wholesale Pro- 
 duce. 
 
 H. S. Young, Banker. 
 
 P. H. Emerson, Lawyer. 
 
 J. C. Armstrong, Banker. 
 
 L. B. Adams, Banker. 
 
 S. M. Preshaw, Contractor and 
 Builder. 
 
 David Kay, Wholesale Produce. 
 
 Sidney Stevens, Agricultural Im- 
 plement Dealer. 
 
 J. Brinker, R. R. General Agent. 
 
 H. M. Bond. Groceries and Pro- 
 duce. 
 
 John Watson, General Merchan- 
 dise. 
 
 V. M. C. SiLVA. Hides and Wool. 
 
 On the evening of the 29th of 
 December, a vigorous thunder 
 storm rattled over the valley as 
 the result of the warm day that 
 had preceded it. How does that 
 strike you folks back East with 
 your 20 below climate for Christ- 
 mas week? 
 
ITS ]\IANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 41 
 
 DOES CAPITAL ALWAYS 
 WIN? 
 
 ZTHIS is a question which has 
 v© been ofteu answered affirm- 
 atively; indeed, we should say 
 that capital is commonly believed 
 to be the principal lever to suc- 
 cess. While we do not for a mo- 
 ment wish to place a low esti- 
 mate upon the value of ample 
 capital, we do think that in 
 many cases it is greatly over-es- 
 timated. How many people there 
 are in the world who are always 
 saying that if they had but so 
 much money they could make a 
 fortune or could work wonders. 
 These people never dream of try- 
 ing to accomplish their task by 
 steady and persistent work, but 
 sit down and wait until some 
 good and generous spirit comes 
 round and hands them the money. 
 It is needless to say that as a rule 
 they wait a long time, and of- 
 tener than not wait entirely in 
 vain for the generous spirit. If 
 these projectors of wealth would 
 be practical and endeavor to put 
 some of their theories into prac- 
 tice, much better results on the 
 average would be secured. The 
 man who sits and waits will never 
 succeed. 
 
 But is capital so necessary to a 
 young business man as is usually 
 supposed? If it were possible to 
 collect the statistics of all mer- 
 chants who commence business, 
 with the capital of each, and the 
 ultimate result of all, we verily 
 believe that the majority of the 
 most successful would be found 
 to have commenced with a com- 
 paratively small sum. If we in- 
 vestigate the history of most of 
 the successful merchants of to- 
 day, it will be found that they 
 commenced business with little 
 or no capital. 
 
 Why, it may be asked, is it that 
 we do not have so much faith in 
 one who commences with a large 
 capital ? We have faith in them, 
 providing all other things are 
 equal, but as a rule, they are not 
 equal. In the first place there is 
 a temptation, which is very sel- 
 dom resisted, to rely to much on 
 the capital and too little on the 
 energy. The man who has capi- 
 tal often lacks the merits which 
 those who are not so "lucky" pos- 
 sess. We do not deny that in the 
 hands of competent men capital 
 has large power, and is capable 
 of being used with force against 
 those who have none. At the 
 same time we think that men 
 should not place too high a value 
 upon it, thus standing in their 
 own light. If a man has some 
 capital, a good character, com- 
 bined with industry and good 
 judgment, we think that lack of 
 sufficient capital should never 
 stop him from trying to accom- 
 plish his ends. If he does try, 
 nine times out of ten he will 
 prove successful. We therefore 
 say, do not be discouraged simply 
 because you have not capital suf- 
 ficient to make business easy, but 
 try and work hard to overcome 
 the difficulty. 
 
 NOTICE. 
 
 Nothing is said in this work 
 al)Out the many different business 
 enterprises which our citizens en- 
 gage in. By reference to the 
 advertising pages any one who is 
 at all interested can find out what 
 kind of business the enterprising 
 business men of Ogden follow. 
 Long-winded business puffs are 
 not necessary in this instance, 
 because on the advertising pages 
 better and more eloquent arti- 
 cles can be found than conld pos- 
 sibly be written in any other 
 way. 
 
 ZTHE people who receive a copy 
 vS^ of this work are requested to 
 read it carefully and ponder 
 over it. It has been prepared at 
 great expense and was not des- 
 tined for the waste basket. Most 
 every one who is so fortunate as 
 to obtain a copy will appreciate it, 
 but for fear that some one who is 
 not interested in the beauties of 
 nature may get hold of a copy of 
 this work, it has occurred to its 
 that such a note as this is proper. 
 If you are not at all interested in 
 the work hand it to the next 
 person you happen to meet and 
 the chances are ten to one that 
 he or she will accept it with 
 pleasure,and thank you very much 
 for the present. 
 
 m*m . 
 
 BONANZA MINES. 
 
 T is upon true fissure veins that 
 the great mines of the world 
 have been located. Names and 
 production as follows: 
 
 Bissenna Silver Mine | 16,311,000 
 
 Santa Anna " " 21,347,000 
 
 Valanta " " 31,813,000 
 
 Parmillian " " 70,000,000 
 
 Veta Madre " " 335,945,000 
 
 Comstock " •' 410,000,000 
 
 Rio Grande " " 650,000,000 
 
 Sierra Madre" " 800,000,000 
 
 Potosi " " 1,000,000,000 
 
 GOLD AND SILVER. 
 
 Tha world's annual production 
 
 of which the United States 
 
 produces fully one-half, is at 
 
 present $200,000,000 
 
 During the last twentj-flve years 
 
 India has taken an average of 
 
 $38,000,000, and China $9,000.- 
 
 OOO.making the average yearly 
 
 absorption of silver by these 
 
 nations 47,000,000 
 
 In he arts tlie United States is 
 
 using in gold and silver $15,- 
 
 000,000 yearly, and the rest of 
 
 the world fully $35,000,000 
 
 more.making in all per annum 50,000,000 
 Counting loss and abrasion 3,000,000 
 
 We have left for the purposes 
 of coinage for the entire 
 world only $100,000,000 
 
42 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 FLOUR. 
 
 IN no class of industry, perhaps 
 Lave improvements been more 
 rapid and startling than in that 
 of manufacturing tlour. New 
 machiner}' is constantly being 
 made, and the man who will se- 
 cure the most extensive patron- 
 age must be in possession of the 
 most recent machiiaery for con- 
 verting grain and flour. 
 
 The yield of wheat in the vi- 
 cinity of Ogden every year is 
 large. The supply is ample, and 
 in addition to the large quantity 
 consumed locally, hundreds of 
 car loads are dispatched to all 
 points East, West, North and 
 South, every year. Indeed to 
 such large proportions has the 
 flouring Inisiness in Ogden groAvn, 
 the city has very aptly been 
 termed "the Minneapolis of the 
 West." 
 
 At present, Ogden has two of 
 the finest flour mills in the West- 
 ern country. These are fitted 
 with the very best machinery, 
 and they turn out an enormous 
 quantity of 1 tread stuff every 
 year. 
 
 These mills are the Eagle Mills, 
 the Phoenix Mills, and the Ad- 
 vance Mills. The former are 
 operated by steam power and the 
 latter two by water power. 
 
 The market for Ogden flour, as 
 stated above, is found in all the 
 States and Territories. Through 
 the energy and enterprise of the 
 gentlemen who control the local 
 floujfing industry, the market is 
 constantly being extended, and 
 the mills are kept running almost 
 day and night. 
 
 Another demand for flour will 
 be created when the proposed 
 cracker factory is established. It 
 will be much better for Ogden 
 people to be able to eat crackers 
 
 made at home from grain grown 
 and gi'ound close to their doors, 
 instead of having to patrouize 
 outside manufacturers whose 
 goods are made from flour pro- 
 duced elsewhere. 
 
 The flour mills of Ogden are ben- 
 eficial institutions. They are well 
 patronized and the patronage is 
 encouraging for the present sea- 
 son, and the millers are happy. 
 A few other establishments of an 
 industrial nature; as well 
 equipped and as energetically 
 managed is what Ogden needs 
 and is what Ogden will get too. — 
 OflJeii 11 era Id. 
 
 THE RAILROAD AN EDU- 
 CATOR. 
 
 p\ROF. HOGG, of Fort Worth, 
 2. y furnished some good matter 
 
 * for reflection as one sits by a 
 cheerful fire on an otherwise dis- 
 mal wintry day, such as the days 
 that have passed and those we ex- 
 pect to meet in the futui-e. His 
 little pamphlet on "The Railroad 
 as a Means of Education" ought to 
 act as a sure cure for pessimism, 
 for it conclusivelj' demonstrates 
 that we live in the best age of 
 the world, and are preparing a 
 better age for our successors to 
 live in. 
 
 As one looks upon the fir.st 
 snow of the season the mind goes 
 through all that it knows of the 
 horrors of travel in cold lands; 
 the traveler lost in the snows of 
 the Alps, and perhaps rescued by 
 those wonderful dogs of the Hos- 
 pice of St. Bernard, which played 
 so great a part in our youthful 
 visions of adventure. By the 
 happy agency of railroads the 
 frozen traveler and the wonder- 
 ful dogs are remote as those of 
 the iron-armored knights who 
 went in quest of dragons that de- 
 voured Christian maids. 
 
 A cushioned railway carriage, 
 well warmed and cosy enough to 
 sleep in, takes the traveler un- 
 der the Alps by way of the 
 Mount Cenis or St. Gothard Tun- 
 nel, in less time than it takes to 
 go from one part of the new cor- 
 porate limits of Omaha to the 
 other, and with infinitely more 
 comfort. The §25,000,000 ex- 
 pended in the construction of 
 these tunnels gave the Italian 
 and Swiss peasants twenty years 
 of experience of the blessing of 
 good wages. In our own country 
 a journey underneath the Appal- 
 achian Kange is accomplished as 
 quickly and as pleasantly as a 
 "run down town." It is no long- 
 er true that, 
 
 'MouDtains iutf rposes 
 Make enfimies of nations, which h:id else 
 Like kindred drops been miu°;led into one. 
 
 The interchange of commodi- 
 ties and thoughts is now easy be- 
 tween all civilized people. 
 
 And not only have the railwaj' 
 projectors annihilateil distance, 
 they have reduced risk to what 
 would have seemed an impossi- 
 ble minimun fifty years ago. Be- 
 tween May 10 and November 10, 
 1875, a certain line of railway 
 carried 4,955,712 passengers 
 without injury to one of them; 
 the same line carried 17,004,954 
 tons of freight and IS.^JOS.HGO 
 passengers in one year without a 
 loss of life or property. For in- 
 stance, ten thousand miles of 
 railways center in Chicago, seven 
 hundred trains enter and leave 
 its depots every day, and with 
 rarely a serious accident. The 
 same can, in effect, be said of 
 Ogden. Nor have they only 
 made travel swift and sure, they 
 have made it cheap. Seventeen 
 barrels of flour can be carried 
 from Chicago to New York at 
 the rate of one cent per mile. In 
 less than thirty hours one can 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 43 
 
 pass from the great city of the 
 West to the great city of the 
 East, warm and dry, no matter 
 how wet and cold it may be with- 
 out. Those fruits of the tropics 
 which were almost as inaccess- 
 ible to the boy of hfty years ago 
 as the jewels of Golconda, are 
 now sold for a cent at every 
 street corner. The manufacture 
 of domestic products has been so 
 stimulated by facilities of trans- 
 portation that the man of very 
 moderate means, even the ordi- 
 nary wage- worker, now furnish- 
 es his house more tastefully and 
 clothes himself more comforta- 
 bly than many a German baron 
 did a century ago. And the ap- 
 plication of steam to the process 
 of printing and the telegraph to 
 the collection of news, has placed 
 those greatest of luxuries, the 
 book and the newspaper, in the 
 rank of the most cheaply pur- 
 chased necessaries. 
 
 Nor shall those successful 
 railway managers who have ac- 
 cumulated such wealth as would 
 have seemed fabulous to our 
 fathers be condemned unheard. 
 Not only have they done good to 
 all of us by cheapening the pleas- 
 ures and needs of life while gath- 
 ering riches for themselves, but 
 they have, for the most part, 
 used their riches more benefi- 
 ciently than is generally 
 credited to them. Colonel 
 Tom Scott died worth $20,000,000, 
 and bequeathed $200,000 to col- 
 leges and hospitals at his death, 
 besides giving largely during his 
 life. The late William H. Vander- 
 bilt,albeit he was often spoken of 
 as ''the public be damned Van- 
 derbilt," gave not less than $925,- 
 000 to education and charitable 
 purposes. The gifts of the first 
 and second Vanderbilts aggre- 
 gated $1,525,000. Now the Van- 
 
 derbilt property has never been 
 estimated at more than $150,000,- 
 000, so that their gifts are in the 
 ratio of one per cent to capital. 
 Does he who is worth $10,000 gen- 
 erally leave $100 by devise to 
 public charities or colleges? Or 
 does he who is worth $100,000 
 generally leave $1,000? Do not 
 these figures show, at the least, 
 as much of charitable impulse in 
 a millionaire as in the man of 
 moderate wealth? And it must 
 be borne in mind that the 
 younger Vanderbilts have added 
 largely to the good deeds of their 
 sires. 
 
 And the late Colonel John W. 
 Garrett left $1,000,000 in six per 
 cent bonds for the use of the Bal- 
 timore Association for the relief 
 of the poor. This was probably 
 at the rate of 2A per cent of the 
 value of his estate. The gifts of 
 John Hopkins and Leland Stan- 
 ford were in still higher propor- 
 tion to the true value of their 
 properties. So that it is certain 
 that the growth of wealth has not 
 crushed out the spirit of active 
 benevolence. Men can enjoy the 
 increased comforts of life un- 
 troubled by a just suspicion that 
 the era of brotherly feeling has 
 been supplanted by one of greed. 
 The world of to-day is, morally as 
 well as materially, better than 
 that of yesterday. And the world 
 of to-morrow will be vastly bet- 
 ter than that of to-day,if the intel- 
 ligent people of to-day will exert 
 themselves and do as much to- 
 ward making it so as the too of- 
 ten and too harshly judged rail- 
 way kings have been doing. 
 
 A BURSTING BOOM, 
 
 XTHE Descret News says that the 
 v2^ Los Angeles boom, like many 
 others, has its drawbacks. 
 Recently the celebrated climate, 
 which has been selling at about 
 a thousand dollars a foot front, 
 suddenly became a little erratic 
 in its conduct, and the result was 
 that quite a section of the town 
 was blown over by the spicy 
 breezes of that favored clime. 
 Whether or not this has had any 
 effect on investments there, cer- 
 tain it is that the Evening Express 
 of that place published a list of 
 delinquent taxes, principally un- 
 der the head of "Unknown Own- 
 ers," which filled forty-four long 
 columns of finely-printed matter. 
 The said "unknown owners" are 
 notified in an editorial note that 
 unless the g,mounts due are paid 
 immediately the lots will be sold 
 for taxes. — Ogden Standard. 
 
 The Salt Lake Valley and East- 
 ern, is the name of a new railroad 
 which it is purposed shall be 
 built in the near future, already 
 a survey of the Western portion 
 of the road has been made, and 
 it is learned from reliable sources 
 that it is the intention to com- 
 mence work early May next. 
 This new road will extend from 
 this city to some point on the 
 Missouri River where it will con- 
 nect with a leading eastern road 
 and form one of its many West- 
 ern connections. 
 
 It is possible that a few errors 
 may have crept into this work, 
 regardless of the fact that the 
 utmost care has been taken from 
 the first to guard against them, 
 
 The Secretary of the Chamber 
 of Commerce, will be pleased to 
 answer all letters of inquiry, that 
 may be sent him by parties desir- 
 ing to obtain particular and 
 reliable information in regard to 
 the great and growing Territory 
 of Utah. 
 
44 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
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 DR. J. L. HETZLER, 
 POPULAR DENTIST. 
 
 All Operations in the Various Branches of 
 
 Dentistry rerfornied in the Most 
 
 Skillful Manner. 
 
 All Work Warranted. 
 
 Office, Fourth Street, - OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 J. R. BROWN, 
 VlhnlesHlB PrnducE BEaler 
 
 AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, 
 
 Dealer in all kinds of Farm Products. Butter, 
 Eggs and Poultry a Specialty. 
 
 P. O. Box 683. OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 CHAPMAN HOUSE, 
 
 (One Block from Union Depol) 
 
 Fifth Street, - - OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 W. M. CHAPMAN, Proprietor. 
 
 Finest ^1.50 to $2.00 a Day House in the City. 
 
 Street Cars Pass Every Fifteen Minutes. Carri- 
 ages to and from all Trains. 
 
 W. L. BUSWELL, 
 
 DF..\t.I£H IN 
 
 Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. 
 
 REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 
 Fourth Street, opposite Z. C. M. I., Ogden, Utah. 
 
 H. B. FORBES, 
 
 Dciilcr in all kinds of 
 
 flew ^toVB^, Tinwai'B, 
 
 NOTIONS, 
 AND SECOND-HAND (iOODS. 
 
 Fifth Street, between Main and Young, 
 OGDEN, - - - UTAH. 
 
 G. G. GRIFFITH, 
 
 Fruit Grower and Ice Packer. 
 
 AU kinds of Choice P'ruit in Season. Choice 
 Mountain Ice a Specialty. 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 C. E. PETERSON, 
 
 P'irst-Class Horseshoing a Specialty. 
 Corner Third and Main Streets, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 RICHARD WILLIAMS, 
 
 Plumber and Gas Fitter, 
 
 Water and C.as Introduced into Buildings. 
 Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
 
 Main .St., between Third & I-'ourth, Ogden, Utah. 
 
 J. THOMPSON, 
 Hardware, Tin and Copperware. 
 
 Agent for the Celebrated G.irland Stoves and Ranges, the 
 
 World's Best, and don't you forget it, for that is what 
 
 they said at the Great Fair at New Orleans. 
 
 OGDEN, 
 
 UTAH. 
 
 Fourth Street, between Young and Main. 
 
 Everything in the Line. All Work 
 Guaranteed. 
 
 C. D. HAVES, Proprietor. 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. 
 
 The Great Daily of the Intee- 
 MouNTAiN Region. 
 
 I-ARGKR CIRCULATION DAILY TH.VN Alt 
 
 OTHEK DAILIES IN UTAH TERKITORV 
 
 COMBINED. 
 
 Best Telegraphic Service. Fullest Market Reports. 
 
 Pungent Editorials on all Interesting 
 
 Topics of the Day. 
 
 Daily, by Mail, postage paid, Si.oo per month. 
 
 Weekly, three months, Si.cx); six months,Si.75 ; 
 one year, Sj.oo. 
 
 JAMES IVERSON, 
 
 I(eal Estate g Loan i^genfc 
 
 114 Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 I have for sale a large number of desirable 
 properties of all descriptions. Business property 
 from g2,ooo to §30,000. Residences from S500 
 to S7,ooo. 
 
 Also fine building lots, block)^ of land in suburbs of city, 
 and improved farms from lo to 200 acres. I am prepared to 
 offer good bargains to parties wishing io invest in Ogdcn 
 Cily or Weber County. 
 
 MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE. 
 
 To Parties outside thcTerritory in trusting Money to be 
 loaned by mc, I guarantee principal and interest. 
 Reference; Commercial National Bank. 
 
 ROYAL DANISH CONSUL FOR UTAH. 
 
 McBETH & GOODALE. 
 
 Szperiencd Plobers, Gas and Stsam Pipe Fitters. 
 
 .Satisfaction (iuaranteed. DitVicult Jobs Under- 
 taken and Completed on Short Notice. 
 
 Main .St., bet. Third & Fourth, Ogden City, Utah. 
 
 GEO. B. DOUGLAS.S, 
 EENEHflL BLACKSMITH, 
 
 Established 1855. Horseshoing a Specialty. AU kinds 
 
 of Iron Fencing and Gates made to order. General 
 
 Jobbing. Carriages, Buggies and Wagons 
 
 repaired to order. 
 
 OGDEN, .... 
 
 UTAH. 
 
 S. J. BURT & BROS., 
 
 Dry Goods, Notions, Gents' Fnmlsliini Goods, 
 
 Ladies' and Misses' Wraps, Fine Shoes, the 
 
 largest and best selected stock in the City. 
 
 Special attention paid to Mail Orders. 
 
 OGDEN, 
 
 UTAH. 
 
 EMPIRE MEAT MARKET. 
 
 Leading Wtiolesale and lietail Meat Market of Ogden Citf. 
 
 FRKSH and S;ilied Meals kept constantly on hand. All 
 kinds of Sausages a specially. Game, Fish and Poultry in 
 season. Highest prices paid for Fat Stock and Poultry. 
 Prompt attention paid to orders by mail Persons wishing 
 to secure bargains in meats will find it to their advantage to 
 call at the Empire Market before purchasing elsewhere, as 
 I will not be undersold. Fifth street, south oTRroom Hotel, 
 Ogden, Utah. P. GRILL, Proprietor. 
 
 The mechanical work on this Book was done in The 
 Tribune Jon Rooms, Salt Lake City, and is a fair specimen 
 of work done at their establishment. The Tribune Company 
 is prepared to do all kinds of Hook , Catalogue, and Mercan- 
 tile Printing at reasonable rates. Correspondence solicited 
 and prompt attention given. 
 
 W^ 06DEN K.MI'F'FIjVG Fj^CTORY. 
 LUKE & KLETTING. 
 
 Fourth Street, - - UL^DEN, UTAH. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 45 
 
 J. C. ARMSTRONG, Prest. 
 HENRY CONANT, Vice Prest. 
 
 O. E. HILL, Cashier. 
 
 W. V. HELFRICH, .\sst. Cash. 
 
 THE 
 
 CommBi'cial Wational Banl^ 
 
 OF OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Paid in Capital, $150,000. Surplus and Undivided 
 Profits, $40,000. 
 
 This Bank has the Largest Capital of any Bank in the City. 
 Unsurpassed facilities for Making Collections throughout the 
 Northwest. Correspondence invited. 
 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 
 J. C. Armstrong, 
 
 M. Buchmiller, 
 
 O. E. Hill, 
 
 Henry Conant, 
 
 Adam Patterson, 
 David Eccles. 
 
 John S. Lewis. 
 
 J. E. DOOLY, Prest. W. N. SHILLING, Vice Prest. 
 
 L. B. ADAMS, Cashier. 
 
 UTAH NATIONAL BANK, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 TJ. S. IDE^'OSITOK>Y. 
 
 CAPITAL, $100,000. SURPLUS AND UNDI- 
 VIDED PROFITS, $75,000. 
 
 Transact a General Banking Business. Foreign 
 Exchange on all the Principal Cities in Europe. 
 
 first national I^anl^, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH, 
 
 In the Z. C. M. I. Building. 
 
 Paid in Capital, $100,000. Surplus Capital, $20,000. 
 
 DIRECTORS : 
 
 H. S. Eldredge, President, F. Little, 
 D. H. Peery, Vice President, L. S. Hills, 
 John Sharp, Jas. Sharp, 
 
 D. Eccles, 
 
 R. J. Taylor, 
 
 H. S. Young, Cashier. 
 
 BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANGE 
 
 — ON — 
 
 New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Omaha, London, and 
 Principal Continental Cities. 
 
 MAKES COLLECTIONS, REMITTING PROCEEDS PROMPTLY. 
 
 Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. 
 
 FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE IN THE BANK. 
 
 J. S. LEWIS & CO., 
 
 -DEALERS IN- 
 
 lAMONDS AND FINE JEWELRY 
 
 Elgin, Waltham and Howard 
 
 irmwoMMi 
 
 MAIN STREET, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
46 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 ]BOYIaM 
 
 mm 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 
 
 PURNITURE AND CARPBTS. 
 
 We also make a Specially of Children's Carriages. We receive them in car loads and handle more 
 than any other house in the West. 
 
 We carry Window Shades and Fixtures, Cornice Poles, Turcoman, Madrass and Lace Curtains, 
 Feathers and Pillows, Mattresses, Comforters, and a complete line of first-class Household Goods. 
 
 We make a specialty of shipping, and control the trade of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho, 
 besides a large part of Nevada. 
 
 We have first-class Carpet Makers and Upholsterers, and are prepared to do first-class work. 
 
 SEND FOR OUR NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 
 
 Our Prices are always at the bottom, and honorable treatment guaranteed. 
 
 ZIOFS CO-OPEEATITE lEECAITILE IfflTUTIOI, 
 
 IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 
 
 Gknbral Merchandise. 
 
 CLOTHING, 
 
 DRY GOODS, 
 NOTIONS, 
 
 GROCERIES, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, 
 
 HARDWARE, STOVES, QUEENSWARE, 
 
 FARMING TOOLS, GLASSWARE, 
 
 BOOTS AND SHOES, 
 
 PAINTS AND OILS, 
 
 WALL PAPER, CARPETS. 
 
 Call and examine our Stock, or write for Price List. 
 
 JOHN WATSON, Manager. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 47 
 
 MKRCHANT TAILOR, 
 
 Up Stairs, Lewis Brick Building, Main Street, 
 
 P O. Bo-c 246. 
 
 OQDEN, UTAH. 
 
 ^ TKT. TXT. IF'TT 
 
 ^ 
 
 HARDWARE. 
 
 STOVES. 
 
 TI N WAR E. 
 
 BUILDERS' HARDWARE, 
 
 Carpenters' Tools, Miners' Supplies, 
 Farmers' Implements, 
 
 Nails, Etc. 
 
 Stoves and Ranges, 
 
 Richardson & Boyntov Hot Air 
 
 Heaters, and Grand Active 
 
 Wrought Steel Ranges. 
 
 HOUSE FURNISHINGS, 
 
 TIN PLATE, ETC. 
 
 MANUFACTURER OF 
 
 Tinware, Copperware, Sheet Iron 
 Ware of Every Description. 
 
 144 l^^IIT ST., 
 
 OC3-IDEIT, 
 
 TJT^HI. 
 
 I» 
 
 Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, 
 
 EENTS' FURNISHING EflnnS fiNH FflffllLY ERnCERIES. 
 
 AGENT FOR BUTTERICK PAPER PATTERNS. 
 
 AGENT FOR BALL HEALTH PRESERVING CORSET. 
 
 Mail Orders Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 
 
 oo-de:^, tjt^^h:. 
 
 
 BmMM; 
 
 I'd 
 
 BelTning & Son, and Conover Bros. Pianos, 
 
 PIANO STOOLS, MUSIC BOOKS, TABER AND NEWMAN BROS. ORGANS. 
 
 Guitars from $5.00 to $60.00; Banjos from $5.00 to $40.00; Violins from $5.00 to $100.00; Accordeons from 
 
 $1.25 to $18.00. Music Boxes, Autoharps, a General Assortment of Musical Merchandise 
 
 DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES : THE KING OF ALL ! 
 
48 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 FRKD. J. KEISBIv & CO., 
 
 FOURTH STREET, OGDEN, UTAH, 
 
 Wholesale Grocers, 
 
 CIGAR, TOBACCO AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS. 
 
 GENERAL AGENTS FOR THE 
 
 ADAMS & KEISEL SALT COMPANY OF SYRACUSE. 
 
 WESTERN AGENTS FOR THE 
 
 PHIL BEST BREWING COMPANY BOTTLED BEER. 
 
 CARRY A HEAVY STOCK OF WHTSICTES IN KENTUCKY, BOTH IN BOND AND FREE. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 49 
 
 W. KAY & CO., 
 
 WHOLESALE 
 
 piioducejFfuitandllraiil. 
 
 SPECIALTIES : 
 
 Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, Grain, Seeds, Butter, 
 
 Eggs, Cheese, Poultry, Fresh Fish and Oysters, 
 
 Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Nuts, Candies, 
 
 Crackers, Dried Fruit, and all kinds of 
 
 Domestic and Imported Fruits, Etc. 
 
 OGDEN, 
 
 UTAH. 
 
 GEO. W. HARRIS, 
 
 dontractof and Buildei'. 
 
 Plans and Specifications Furnished to 
 
 Order, and all Work Executed 
 
 in a Thorough Workman 
 
 Like Manner. 
 
 Office Opposite City Hall. 
 
 P. O. Box 833. 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 N. B. 
 
 N. B. 
 
 N. B. 
 
 ROLLIN P. SAXE, 
 
 Importer, Exporter and Commis.sion Mer- 
 chant in all kinds of 
 
 Thorougbred Live Stock. 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 T. W. JONES, 
 l^ine 'failoping 
 
 AND 
 
 MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, 
 
 Fifth Street, near Young, 
 OGDEN, - - - UTAH. 
 
 S. M. PRESHAW, 
 
 Undertaker, Funeral Director and 
 
 Embalmer. 
 
 Ogden, Utah. 
 
 E. & N. PARR, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers 
 in all kinds of 
 
 PRODUCE 
 
 WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY 
 AND POTATOES. 
 
 We make a specialty in shipping by car 
 lots to all points. 
 
 Fourth Street, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Established 18S0. 
 
 SALT LAKE BEER HALL, 
 
 Fifth Street, near Broom Hotel, 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Salt Lake CityBrewing Company's 
 
 Beer, Guinness Dublin Stout 
 
 Half and Half, on draught. 
 
 Wines, Liquors and Cigars, First 
 Quality Only. 
 
 R. J. HILL, Proprietor. 
 
 The Chamberlain House, 
 
 Fifth St., between Franklin & Wall, 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 One of the Leading Hotels of the 
 
 City. Convenient to Depot. 
 
 Rates Reasonable. 
 
 GEO. W. LASHUS, Proprietor. 
 
 Livery, Feed &Sale Stable, 
 
 Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Leave Orders at Hotel Offices. 
 
 J. M. DEE, Proprietor. 
 
 J. G. REED, 
 
 The Leading Saddler of Ogden, 
 
 Does a General Wholesale and Retail 
 Trade in everything in the Harness 
 Line, and for a Genuine Chey- 
 enne, Texas or Veralia Stock 
 Saddle are second to none. 
 
 P. O. Box 785. 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 International UnionWliite Labor Cigar Factory 
 
 L L DAVIDSON, 
 
 Eigar MannfaEturEr, 
 
 HAVANA CIGARS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 I make the Chamber of Commerce, University, 
 
 and other famous brands of Cigars. 1 also 
 
 manufacture a fine line of cheaper goods, 
 
 and can sell as cheap as Eastern 
 
 or Western Manufacturers. 
 
 Satisfaction Guaranteed. Orders Promptly 
 
 attended to. 
 
 L. L. DAVIDSON, 
 
 Fifth St., between Young lS: Main, Ogden, Utah. 
 
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 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 II 
 
 i 
 
 Wholesale FruH and Produce 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 SI^EOI^LTIES : 
 
 Figs, 
 
 Dates, 
 
 Potatoes, 
 
 Sweet Potatoes, 
 Cabbage, 
 Onions, 
 
 Lemons, 
 Oranges, 
 Grapes, 
 Apples. 
 Peaches, 
 
 Cocoannts, 
 Celery, Popcorn, 
 
 Honey, Jellies, 
 
 Cider, Dried Fruits. 
 
 Eggs, Dressed Meats, 
 
 Butter, Fish, 
 
 Game, Etc. 
 
 ED Heart Ac/demy, 
 
 OGDEN, CITY, UTAH. 
 
 Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. 
 
 The course of Study is thorough, embracing all the 
 
 Ijranches of a Solid and Accomplished 
 
 Education. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS FOR UTAH FRUIT, 
 
 Languages, General, Vocal and Drawing Lessons 
 Free of Charge. 
 
 ALL ORDERS FILLED WITH 
 
 Special Rates for two or more Members of the same 
 The Best in the Market, Family attending the Academy at 
 
 the same time. 
 AND AT THE LOWEST PRICES. 
 
 For Terms and Full Particulars, address, "The 
 
 CORRESPONDKSfCE SOLICITED AND PROMPTLY .\NSWERED. ' SistCl'S of the Holy CrOSS, Ogdcu, Utah." 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 51 
 
 F. B. HURLBUT, 
 
 I^rugs and TVledieines, 
 
 OILS AND VARNISHES, 
 
 Toilet Articles and Wall Paper. 
 
 BROOM HOTEL CORNER, - OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 THE CENTRAL HOTEL, 
 
 Fifth Street, between Young and Franklin, 
 
 oa-iDEitT, TJT^s:. 
 
 Pleasantly Located. Convenient to Depot. The 
 Leading Family Hotel in the City. 
 
 T. C. CHAMBERLAIN, 
 
 Proprietor. 
 
 J. S. HOUTZ, 
 
 (Successor to Sears & Liddle,) 
 
 IMPORTER AND DEALER IN 
 
 GEO. H. TRIBE, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 
 
 DRY GOODS, CARPETS, BOOTS & SHOES 
 
 -"AINTS rillS AND WlNFinW PlASV <^i^o<^eries and general merchandise. 
 
 FOURTH STREET. 
 
 General Dealer in Grain, Flour and Seeds. 
 
 Agent for Heath & Milltigan Go's Best 
 Prepared Paints. 
 
 MAIN street, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Wines, Liqunrs and Eigars, 
 
 MAIN STREET. 
 
 Shipping a Specialty. Orders by Mail will Receive 
 Prompt and Careful Attention, 
 
 p. H. TRIBE, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
52 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 m 
 
 OmrfMOM 
 
 S) 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEH AND JOBBER IX 
 
 Books, Statioi^ery and Toys. 
 
 -A FULL STOCK OF- 
 
 Day and Sunday School Supplies, Reward Cards and Chromes, Prize Books, "Mormon" Publications, 
 
 Fancy Goods, Games, Periodicals, Works of Art. Fiction, Science, Travel, 
 
 Biography, etc., etc., always on hand. 
 
 ANY BOOK OR PERIODICAL PUBLISHED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD PROCURED ON 
 
 APPLICATION. 
 
 Dealers supi>lied at bed-rock prices. Send for Catalogue. 
 
 A. H. CANNON, Ogden, Utah. 
 
 THOMAS ASHBY, 
 
 BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER 
 
 Keeps a Full Line Constantly on Hand. Every 
 
 I'air Warranted Cheap as Imported. 
 
 Made by Experienced Workmen. 
 
 Boots and Shoes Made to Order on Short Notice. 
 
 Prompt attention paid to Mail Orders. Send 
 
 for Price List I have to measure your foot. 
 
 Manufactory and Salesroom : 
 
 P.O. Box 856. MAIN STREET, OGDEN UTAH. 
 
 G. L. COREY & SONS, • 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES 
 
 In-uits, Nuts, Candies and Vegetables. 
 
 FOURTH STREET, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 53 
 
 THE 
 
 v\^.' "5. y' i > A il ^tk i > A 
 
 T 
 
 HiDBS, Skins and Wool, 
 
 oo-HDEisr, tjotj^^h:. 
 
 V. M. C. SILVA, Pres. and Treas. 
 J. E. HUDSON, V. Pres. 
 
 warehouses: 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 POCATELLO, IDAHO. 
 
 MARKS. GOLDSMITH & CO., 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CLOTHIERS. 
 
 Always Offer Special Inducements in the Way 
 of Low Prices. 
 
 MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING, 
 
 Suitable for the Seasons always on hand in Endless 
 
 Variety. Our Stock of Furnishing Goods is 
 
 Large and Complete. Blankets and 
 
 Quilts, Rubber Boots and Shoes, 
 
 Trunks and Valises at 
 
 Reduced Prices. 
 
 rriT 
 
 lE^. 
 
 EAGLE ROLLER MILLS, 
 
 Cash Purchasers will find it to their interest to 
 examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. 
 
 MAIN STREET, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 BEAR THIS FACT IN MIND, 
 
 That we are turning out some of the Choicest 
 Brands of Roller Flower ever made in the West. 
 Utah Wheat, when properly handled, makes finest 
 grade of Flour that it is possible to produce. This 
 Mill is filled with the best and latest improved 
 machinery, and is in charge of a Scientific Miller. 
 
 Correspondence solicited. All kinds of Mill 
 Products always on hand. 
 
 GEO. A. LOWE, Lessee, 
 
 Ogden, Utah. 
 
 Nelson's Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, 
 
 HALF BLOCK SOUTH OF BROOM HOTEL. 
 
 CARRIAGES FURNISHED AT ALL HOURS DAY AND NIGHT. 
 
 C. A. NELSON & CO., Proprietors. 
 
54 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 THE 
 
 ' r-jx 
 
 All p:ro])i:(,'J': ^ co;\i:m.(.s.sio.\ c 
 
 A. ROGERS, Jr., Manager. 
 
 WHOLESALE DEALERS L\ 
 
 Fruits, Produce, Eggs, Butter, Oysters, Etc. 
 
 California Fruits and Vegetables, 
 
 Verdelli, Messina and California Lenion.s, Utah Ranch Eggs, 
 
 Utah Fruits and Vegetables, Cape Cod Cranberries, 
 
 Jamaica, Florida and California Oranges, Michigan Apple Cider, 
 
 Sweet Potatoes, 
 Grain, Seeds, Etc. 
 
 JOBBER IN 
 
 IMPORTED & DOMESTIC CIGARS 
 
 AKD MANUFACTURER'S AGENT. 
 
 OC3-IDEIT, "CTT-iLH. 
 
 Branch Offices: 
 
 Cincinnati, 0., 88 Race Street. 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., 119 Pine Street. 
 
 Correspondence solicited. Strict attention paid 
 to Mail orders the sarae (Jay received, 
 
 Lumber ! 
 
 Lumber ! 
 
 Invites the Public to call and see the Largest 
 and Best Assorted Stock of 
 
 LUMBKR 
 
 Ever carried in this Market, and is prepared to fill all bills at the 
 Lowest Market Price. 
 
 I have also a large stock of Redwood, Xative Shingles, Lath, Pickets, 
 Cedar Posts, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, t;lass and Mi.\ed Paints, 
 Builders Hardware, Hnilding Paper, and all kinds of Building Material. 
 
 Call and get prices before buying elsewhere. Orders by .Mail solicited. 
 Don't fail to write for prices. I am also prepared to supply Wholesale 
 Dealers with all kinds of Dimension Lumber, Flooring, Rustic and Mould- 
 ing from my mill at Xorth Powder, Oregon. 
 
 ORDERS SOLICITED 
 
 From along the Union Pacific, Utah and Northern, and Oregon 
 Short Line Railways. 
 
 DON'T FORGET THE PLACE ! 
 Corner Fourth and Franklin Streets, • OGDFN, UTAH. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 55 
 
 H. C. TAVEY. 
 
 REESE HOWELL. 
 
 TAM \ pOWELL, 
 
 Main Street, Opposite Post Office, OGDEN, UTAH, 
 
 DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF 
 
 Dry Goods, 
 
 EENTS' FURNISHING EflnnS, 
 
 HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES AND GROCERIES. 
 
 CONSOLIDATED 
 
 IMPLEMENT COMPANY, 
 
 SUCCESSORS TO 
 
 SNOW, HOLBROOK & CO., Salt Lake. 
 NAYLOR & PIKE, Salt Lake. 
 
 BURTON, HERRICK & WHITE, Ogden, 
 SOUTHERN FORWARDING CO., Milfurd. 
 
 SOLE AGENTS FOR 
 
 TheWorll Renowaed "Cooper" U "RushM" Wapns, 
 
 CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND BUCKBOARDS. 
 
 Agents for the Celebrated Carfirs Bazar Paper Patterns for 
 
 Ladies' and Children's Wear. These Patterns are twenty 
 
 per cent. Cheaper than any other Reliable 
 
 Patterns in the Market. Send for Fiee 
 
 Catalogue of Patterns. 
 
 Our Motto is "Good Goods and Low Prices." Careful 
 attention given to Orders by Mail. Remember the Place, 
 Apposite Post Office. 
 
 McCORIVIIGK 
 
 Steel Mowers, Reapers and Binders. 
 
 Canton, Clipper and .J. I. Case Steel and Chilled 
 
 Plows, Tricycles, Sulkies, Harrows, Cultivators, 
 
 Etc., Garden Tools, Seed Drills, Fanning 
 
 Mills, Barbed Wire, Stoves, and 
 
 Wagon Material. 
 
 PLACES OF BUSINESS: 
 Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan, Milford. 
 
 ERASTUS SNOW, President, 
 
 BARNARD WHITE, Vice President, 
 
 FRANK R. SNOW, Sec'y and Treas. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 Moses Thatcher, Wm. B. Preston, 
 
 L. Holbrook, Wm. W. Burton. 
 
56 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 'lOvAlX^E OILER 
 
 -♦• 
 
 /J/V-j'® 
 
 ^ 
 
 PEERY & MACK, Proprietors, 
 
 IVjanufactur'er^ of the Finest \\Mz^ of \q\W Flourt. 
 
 FINE FLOUE, 
 CORN MEAL, 
 
 GRAHAM, 
 OAT MEAL, 
 
 BRAN, 
 
 SHORTS, 
 
 GRAIN, 
 
 FEED. 
 
 Correspondence Solicited and Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
 
 l^J^TlSr STE.EET, 
 
 OC3-IDE3Sr CIT"Y", TTTJ^H. 
 
 Ogden Academy. 
 
 Hi 
 
 gGDEN ACADEMY, under the New West 
 Education Commission, supplies the people of 
 1^ Ogden and surroundino- towns an academy 
 worthy of the name. Officered at present by four 
 teachers. Prof W. H. Rins^- being principal, careful 
 work can be done in all departments. Ogden 
 Academy building is a two-story structure of seven 
 rooms, it overlooks from its location on the bench 
 the rest of the city. Soon a boarding house will be 
 opened in connection with the school. 
 
 The well known reputation of the "New West" 
 for o-ood schools justifies the statement that first- 
 class instruction will at all times be given at this 
 institution. 
 
 For fiirther information write to the principal. 
 
 The Largest in the TErritnry, 
 
 And Beautifully Located, within a twenty minutes 
 
 walk of the Business Part of the City, are now 
 
 in Full Bearing, producing all the 
 
 Choicest Varieties of 
 
 i<^liTT0 S>^f) SS^^f^H^^ 
 
 THE CLIMATE WILL PRODUCE. 
 
 CAHOON & ROBINSON, Proprietors, 
 
 OGIDEISr, TJT^HI. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADYANTAGES. 
 
 57 
 
 P, H. EMERSON, 
 
 ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 
 
 Office over Utah National Bank, Corner Fourth 
 and Main. P. O. Box 802. 
 
 L. R. ROGERS, 
 
 ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Office, Guthrie Block, Fourth Street, between Main 
 and Young. 
 
 JAMES N. KIMBALL. 
 
 W. R. WHITK. 
 
 KIBALL & WHITE, 
 
 ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, 
 
 Fourth Street, 
 
 OGDEN, - - - UTAH. 
 
 C, C, RICHARDS & HENRY H, ROLAPP, 
 
 ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Office at County Court House. 
 
 RANSFORD SMITH. 
 
 H. W. SMITH. 
 
 SMITH & SMITH, 
 
 LAWYERS, 
 
 OGDEN, - - UTAH. 
 
 Office, Up Stairs in Commercial National Bank 
 Block, South Side Fourth Street. 
 
 A. R. HEYWOOD, 
 
 ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW HIGH ARM, LIGHT RUNNING 
 
 eiMOMM. 
 
 It has no equal for range of work, perfection of stitoh and durability. Machines sold on easy terms. 
 Liberal discount for casli. Consult y(nu- own interest and buy only the new high arm Singer, it will last 
 you longer and give you better work than any other Machine on earth. 
 
 Office, Dooly Block, Fourth Street, OGDEN, UTAH. C. L. LEAViTT, Agent. 
 
 ALFRED H. NELSON. 
 
 Oa-IDE!±T, TJT^EC. 
 
 I^eal Estate IVjattiBi' and pi^obate Bu^ine^^ a ^pecialt^. 
 
 1 have a complete set of Abstracts of Title to 
 all Lands in Weber County, which have been com- 
 piled at great labor and expense and are guaran- 
 teed to be accurate. There are many bad titles. 
 Before you buy land, or take a mortgage, procure 
 an abstract and avoid all danger of loss, 
 
 Sidney Stevens, 
 
 Sole Agent for LTtah, Idaho, South Montana, East 
 Nevada and West Wyoming for the leading 
 Machinery, Vehicles and Implements of the age, 
 consisting in part of the Deering all steel Binders, 
 Reajaers and Mowers, Stickle and Haines Headers. 
 Gaar, Scott & Co. Engines, Threshers and Saw 
 Mills. Hoosier Drill Co. Drills and Seeders. 
 Wilcox Steel Frame Steel tooth Harrows, Eagle 
 Steel Wheel hay rakes. Victor Steel lined hay 
 presses. Rock Island Sulky Gang and walking 
 Plows. Acme hay Gatherers and Rickers. The 
 leading and most reliable Buggies, Carriages, Phae- 
 tons, Sulkies, Carts, Farm and Spring Wagons. 
 Barb Wire, Iron Roofing, etc. etc. 
 
 Send and get my price list and save money. 
 Reliable agents wanted everywhere. 
 
 SIDWEY STEVENS, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
58 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 OR THE GREAT IRON SPRINGS. 
 
 Located Plight Miles North of Ogden City, Utah. 
 
 THE GREATE ST WATER CURE OF THE WORLD. 
 
 Reposinp in the bosom of the Great Salt Lake Valley, and flowing from 
 the base of the Wasatch Mountains. 
 
 These Springs have the merited reputation of being one of the wonders 
 of the world ; and seekers of pleasure and lovers of sight-seeing, as well as 
 tho.se in search ol health, will l)e amply jjaid by visiting them. 
 
 Go and try the virtues of these waters. One trial only is necessary to 
 convince the sufferer. Good hotel accommodations, livery attention shown to 
 invalids. 
 
 Nature has united her forces, and, with her marvelous powers, has 
 wrought a combination of hajipy influences which have centralized this fortu- 
 nate valley of the mountains. The grand location of these Springs with the 
 cliffs and rugged environs, is not the incentive which attracts so many thous- 
 ands from the shores of every country. Il is the balsamic waters which gush 
 forth from these Springs and pour their healing offerings into every hand thai 
 will receive them, inurmuring their promises of restoration to every ailing 
 body, and there offer to receive the burden of all bodily affliction. 
 
 It is health — the spirit and essence of all true happiness, which hundreds 
 of afflicted, who have visited these springs and been cured of the within 
 named maladies, can testily that these thermal waters have proven a I'F.R- 
 FKCT si'Kcii'ir for kiikumatism (in all its forms) iiVsn-.t'siA, constipation 
 (the scat of a score of diseases), piles leaning (in every form), syphilis, 
 catarrh, diabetes, or any urinary afi'ections, and the treatment of female 
 diseases, has proven the efficacy of these thermal waters from the vast amount 
 of iron they contain. In rebuilding since my great loss by fire my bathing 
 accommodations are second to none. 
 
 R. H. SLATER, Proprietor. 
 
 N. r!.--Address all correspondence to Tyner Postoflice, Box Elder Co., 
 Utah. These Springs are reached by the U. P. Ry., C. P. Ry., U. C. Ry., 
 D. & R. O. Ky., and U. & N. Ry., at Ogden City Junction, thence by the 
 U. & N. Ry. to these Springs. 
 
 GIESY & SPARGO, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DE.VLERS IN 
 
 ^MIB) WMlEfS, JPaHlIPJEMo 
 
 Eastern, Western and Local Daily Papers. 
 
 Correspondence solicited and satisfaction guar- 
 anteed. Mail orders i*eceive prompt attention. 
 
 Stamps taken to any amount in payment for 
 goods. 
 
 Broom Hotel, Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 BROWNING BROS., 
 
 ^e^- 
 
 168 MAIN STREET, 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 
 
 r' 
 
 Firearms, Ammunition, Fisliing Tackle, 
 
 Bicycles, Field Glas.ses, Streets' Traps. Boxing li loves, Indian Clubs, Base Ball Goods, Skates, 
 Hammocks, Eye Glasses, Foot Balls, Hunting Boots and Shoes, Tents, or anything . 
 else in the Shooting, Fishing, Camping and Sporting Line. 
 
 We have the largest stock in the West, and our Prices are lower than any. Wo also have the best 
 equipped liepair Shop in the Country, and are prepared to do all kinds of Fine Gun and Machine Work. 
 
 Large Illustrated Catalogue Free. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 5» 
 
 IjMml.'^. 
 
 H. T, 
 
 wymm; 
 
 JOBBER AND RETAIL DEALER IN 
 
 HARDWARE, STOVES AND TINWARE, 
 
 Sole Agent for Bridge, Beach & Go's Superior Stoves and Ranges; 
 
 Also, Home Comfort Wrought Iron Ranges, and the Howe 
 
 Ventilating Stoves, the best Heating Stoves on earth. 
 
 Two Doors North of Post Office, 
 
 OaDEN, UTAH. 
 
 OMO 
 
 IaO'WM 
 
 t) 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 i^gr'icultui'al ImplBraent^ 
 
 OF ALL KINDS. 
 
 Wagons, Buggies and Road Carts, Engines, 
 
 Saw Mills and Turbine Wheels, Wagon 
 
 Material, Heavy Hardware, Iron, 
 
 Steel, Barb Wire and Hardwood. 
 
 OGDE/\/ AND SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 
 
 W&MM 
 
 MMMMm 
 
 COAL AND LIME DEALERS. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF THE CORAL WHITE LIME. 
 
 Correspondence Solicited. 
 
 OOIDEIsr, TJT^HI. 
 
60 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 t^ 
 
 mm 
 
 GROCERIES, PRODUCE AND FRUITS, 
 
 Corner Main and Fourth Streets, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 LOW PRICES. PROMPT DELIVERY. GOODS AS REPRESENTED. ORDERS SOLICITED. 
 
 Mf 
 
 BARNARD WHITE, 
 
 'Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all kinds of 
 
 NATIVE AND IMPORTED LUMBER, 
 
 Corner Wall and Fourth Streets, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Doors, Sash and Blinds, Native, Oregon Cedar and California Shingles, Plain, Fancy and Square Pickets, 
 
 Oregon and Truckee Lath, Bodine Roofing, American and French Window Glass, 
 
 Builders Hardware, Building Pajier, Paints and Oils. 
 
 Manufacturer of Store Fronts. Odd sized Doors, Sash and Blinds. Planing, Re-sawing and Scroll Work. 
 
 All kinds of Mill Work a specialty. 
 
 I make Shipping a specialty. All goods packed in first-class order. Correspondence solicited. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
 61 
 
 H. M. BOND. OEO. TOLMIE. 
 
 PROPRIETORS 
 
 Harris Commkrcial Co. 
 
 'J 
 
 COMMISSION IVIERCHANTS, 
 
 WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 
 
 Utah and Qalifornia ]^ruits and Produce. 
 
 BOOTH'S OYSTERS. 
 
 Correspondence Solicited. All Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 
 Opposite Chamber of Commerce Rooms, _ _ _ OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 LYNNE NURSERIES. 
 
 Fi'uit, ^hade ^Or^namental Ti^ee^ l^i'oWn \ for ^ale. 
 
 GEO. SMUIN & CO., Proprietors. 
 North Main Street, = OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Send for Descriptive Price List. 
 
 W. G. WILSON, 
 
 MANUFACTURER OF 
 
 LOMBER, WOOD AND KINDLING, 
 
 Sawmill in Ogden Canon, Four Miles from 
 the City. 
 
 P. 0. Box 253, - - - OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 Telephone No. 23 at Mill. 
 
 Sawdust for Ice Packing alvpays on hand. 
 
 A. C. EMEESON, 
 
 JOBBER AND RETAIL DEALER IN 
 
 BOOKS AND STATIONERY, 
 
 Blank Books, Periodicals, Leather and Fancy 
 Goods, Artists' Materials, Etc. 
 
 P. 0. Box 487. 102 Main Street, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
62 
 
 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST 
 
 DAVID KAY, 
 
 WHOLESALE DEALER IN 
 
 Grain, Prodoce,Seeds, Dried Fruits, 
 
 Hay, Feed, Flour, Eggs, Salt, Etc., 
 
 IN CAR LOAD LOTS. 
 
 Lumber, Shinj^lcs, Doors, Windows, Ijuth, Fruit 
 
 and Packing Boxes, Building Paper, Window 
 
 and Plate Glass, Barb Wire, Nails, Burlap 
 
 and Seamless Bags, Centals, Twine, 
 
 Paints, Kerosene, Linseed, 
 
 Machine Oils, Etc., 
 
 OTJI^ 3VCOTTO 
 
 OOIDEH^, 
 
 TTTJ^TSl. 
 
 STOP OVER IN OGDEN. 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 
 
 Clothing for Men, Youths, Pxjys and Children ! 
 Hats and Caps for Everybody ! 
 
 Boots and Shoes of all Styles and Brands! 
 Bubcr Goods in their Season! 
 
 DRY GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTION! 
 
 Notions and Ti'immings of all Kindsl 
 
 Ladies', Misses' and Childrens' Wraps! 
 
 Standard Groceries in Great Yarieties! 
 Crockery, Lamps and Glassware! 
 
 A good place to trade as you can purchase ever\ tiling under 
 one roof, get an honest deal and prices guaranteed. 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 ADVANCE ROLLER MILLS. 
 
 BROOIVI HOTEL, 
 
 JUDGE GIBBONS, Prop., 
 
 The Broom Hotel has been refitted, ami is now 
 under the new management. 
 
 This Mill has Just been Completed and Fitted Out 
 with all of the 
 
 LATEST IMPROVED MACHINERY 
 
 And the Proprietors are Now Prepared to 
 Furnish all of the 
 
 BEST GRADES OF PATENT FLOUR 
 
 At Prices that Defy Conpetition. 
 
 THE BEST HOTEL BETWEEN OMAHA AND SAN FRANCISCO. Graham, Corn Meal, Shorts and Mill Ih'oduc-ts 
 
 of all Kinds Ahvays on Hand. 
 
 FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS. 
 
 Correspondence from a Distance Solicited. 
 
 Bar and Billiard Hall in Connection. ' Every Sack of Flouf Warranted to Give Satisfaction. 
 
 Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Etc. 
 
 JUDGE GIBBONS, Prop. 
 
 Clark & Eccles, Prop., 
 
 OGDEN CrrY, UTAH. 
 
ITS MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS ADVANTAGES. 
 
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 WM. DRIVER & SON, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, 
 
 OCS-DElsr, UT^^H. 
 
 We are Manufacturers' Agents for all the leading lines of 
 goods that we carry. Having made arrangements with all the 
 leading houses to represent them in Ogden and the surround- 
 ing country, we can offer better inducements than have been 
 offered before on the same class of goods, In many lines of 
 staple and patent medicines we buy in sufficient quantities to 
 have them delivered to us, thereby saving the great expense 
 of freight. This enables us to sell at the same prices as manX 
 of the Eastern houses. 
 
 We carry at all times a large and well assorted stock of 
 Medicines, Fancy Goods, Drugs, Toilet Articles, Druggists' 
 Sundries, etc. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Wines and 
 Liquors for Medical purposes. 
 
 Branch Houses at Logan, Utah, and Montpelier, Idaho. 
 
 Write for prices or send us a trial order. Mail orders 
 promptly attended to. 
 
 T. C. MORRIS 
 
 House, Sign, Carriage and Decorative 
 
 House Painting in the Latest Style. Paper Hanging, Plain or Decorative. 
 
 Calcimining in all Tints. Graining, all Varieties. Gilding, the 
 
 Brightest. Glazing of Every Kind. 
 
 None but Thorough Workmen Employed! 
 
 None but the Best of Material Used! 
 
 BEST PUCE IN TEE CITI TO GET A PIAII OR ORSAMEITAL 
 
 Agency for Enamel Letters for Window Signs. 
 
 SHOP, MAIN ST., OPPOSITE Z, C. M. I , 
 
 OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
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 Respectfully invite every person visiting Ogdeu to call and examine 
 
 their Immense Stock of 
 
 Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, 
 
 FURNISHING GOODS AND GROCERIES, 
 
 Truok:s, Valises, Hand Bags, Stiawl Straps, Ktc. 
 
 Which they will Sell Wholesale or Retail at Bed-rock Prices. 
 ''Competition We Defy," is their Motto. 
 
 Main Street, North of Z. C. M. I., . - - OGDEN, UTAH. 
 

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 OGDEN, THE JUNCTION CITY OF THE WEST : 
 
 HEBER J. GRANT President, J. F. GRANT, Vice President, Gr:0. T. ODEI.L, Treasurer. R. S. WELLS, Secretary. 
 
 F. M. Lyman, 
 John Henry Smith, 
 Abram Hatch, 
 
 Orson A. Woollev, 
 W. W. Riter, 
 Joseph F. Smith, 
 
 C. S. Burton, 
 J. F. Wells, 
 Geo. Romney. 
 
 THE CO-OpEpVE WAI^OW \ 1V[ACHIME GO. 
 
 SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED 
 
 MITCHELL m BAII FARM AID SPRM WAGOIS, BUGGIES AID CARTS. 
 
 John Deero and ^lolino Plow.><, Harrows, Etc., (Jale and Oliver Cliilled Plow.s, Massillion and 
 
 Buffalo Pitts Treshers, Engines and Saw Mills, (»ale and Tiger Iron Wheel Hay 
 
 Hakes, Walter A. Wood's Harvesting Machinery, Concord Harness, Etc. 
 
 P. O. Box 702, OGDEN, UTAH. 
 
 E. T. WOOLLEY, Manager Ogden Branch. 
 
 MANUFACTUEING CONFECTIONERS. 
 
 Importers and Jobbers of a General Line of Merchandise, Comprising 
 
 Dfi] (qood^ and potion^, [lati^, Boot^ and ^hoe^, 
 
 Lamp Fixtures, Tinware, Wooden and Willow Ware, Uroceries, Toys. Dolls, and a General Line 
 
 of Holiday Goods in the Season. 
 
 JOHN SCOWCROFT & SONS, 
 
 is/CJLznsr STK.EE1T, - - - - oa-TDEHsr, TJTA.ia:. 
 
The Union Pacific Railway, 
 
 OPERATING THK 
 
 UTAH AND Itf£SVADA RAILIATAY^ 
 
 Beg to announce the opening of their New Bathing and Pleasure Resort, 
 
 ^9) 
 
 On the southern shore of Great Salt Lake, a few minutes' ride from Salt Lake City. 
 
 A Magnificent Pavieion, 
 (dimensions 165x65 feet,) 
 built over the water 400 
 feet from the shore, (ap- 
 proached by a pier over 
 300 feet in length) with a 
 tower in the center over- 
 looking the Lake on all 
 sides. 
 
 Over Two Hundred Ele- 
 gant Dressing Rooms with 
 stationary wash-stands, 
 showers for rinsing off the 
 salt water of the Lake, 
 mirrors and every comfort 
 and convenience for bath- 
 ers, suggested by long 
 experience. 
 
 A Handsome Station Building (350x50 feet) of the latest improved design, with high tower in 
 the center. 
 
 ^ Grand Go"*^®''^ i" ^® Pauilion G^^i'y" ?Lf'^''"oo"' 
 
 I3at5ing guits for {^adies, Gentlemen and G'^'^'^''^"' 
 
 The Refreshment Saloon, equipped with all the appointments of a first-class establishment, where 
 the choicest refreshments will be dispensed by polite attaches. 
 
 The Restaurant and Lunch Stand, equal to any first-class hotel in the West, at 'moderate prices. 
 
 The Bathing Grounds. — This is the only bathing resort on the entire Lake Shore, having a clean 
 sandy beach, f'free from mud, rocks and offensive vegetable matter. Ladies and children may 
 bathe here with perfect safety, owing to the density of the water being so great that one may 
 float upon the surface without an effort. 
 
 The Giants' Cave (only a short distance from the beach. ~) is an additional attraction of this delight- 
 ful resort. It is an opening extending over 300 feet into the mountain side, with a ceiling from 
 10 to 75 feet in height. 
 
 Trains Run at Frequent Intervals. 
 
 FARE, SALT LAKE CITY TO GARFIELD BEACH AND RETURN, ONLY 50 CENTS. 
 
 W. W. RITER, Superintendent. S. F. FENTON, G. F. £- F. Agt. 
 
 For additional information apply to 
 
 J. S. TEBBETTS, Gen' I Pass. Agt., 
 Omaha, Neb. 
 
 E. S. LOM.^X, Ass't Gen'lFass. Agt., 
 Omaha, Neb. 
 
 J. V. PARKER, Bivts. Fass. Agt., 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
She |utf r - lloMutiiiu |§etthattt, 
 
 THK LEADING BUSINKSS JOURNAL OF THE WEST; 
 
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