Show ANOTHER dllAlkR S 1 Leading Business us < it Ogden The Junctions Eutuie Passing along Main Street ori the westside west-side the attentloiiof the pedestrian is arrested about halfway between Fourth and Fifth Streets by the neat and attractive at-tractive appearance of the front of an elegant brick building A glanqe inside soon demonstrates the fact that the building is used as a drug store The floor which is neatly covered with linoleum lin-oleum the handsome show cases containing con-taining perfumeries toilet articles pluh and other fancy dressing crises jewel cases and divers other articles the neatlvarranged shelves containing drugs and medicines the general appearance ap-pearance of thrift and industry and the obliging manner of the busy attendants attend-ants at once impress the observer with the idea that this is one of the representative houses of the city And impression dear reaaer is not a false one The proprietors of this place are Win Driver Son The firm is an old and reliable one whi e its members are among the foremost in every matter of enterprise and ambition that go so far toward making a city or country prosperous The building whi h they occupy is a substantial brick s jucture 26x95 feet ground dimensions and is three stores high with a basement under the whole This gives an area of floor nearly 1000 vsquare leet and investigating the p ir poses to which this amount of room is devoted we very soon ascertain that the firm is a large and extensive wholesale whole-sale one whose influence extei th to all points of this intermountain region Leaving the front part of the buildintr which is used as a retail drug store we arrive in the counting room of the firm after passing through a room con taming tam-ing numerous barrels of liquor cases of Imported beer and other articles f licjuid refreshments After a few moments mo-ments chat with the senior member of the firm Mr Wm Driver wLo is a member of the present City Council I and a very pleasant and agreeable pen tleman we step onto the new and improved i im-proved elevator which this firm has recently re-cently had put into their building to enable them to expedite their rapidly growing business and which we mentioned men-tioned in these columns recently and ascend to the realms above to explore the contents of the capacious storerooms store-rooms On the second floor we see long tiers of cases ntaining the latest and most reliable patent medicines and proprietary articles Hocked up within a short distance of the high ceiling After taking an extended ex-tended walk through the various compartments com-partments on this floor we ascend to i the next floor and 5ill behold cases I unon cases of goods piled high upon the centre of the building and along the waUs Our curiosity as to the contents of the upper floors being satisfied we descend by the elevator to the cellar underneath Lquors wines cigars paints and oils of every description besides be-sides other articles of commerce such I as varnishes brushes etc are stored here awaiting shipment out of the city bv one of the various lines of railroad that centre here A ain we find ourselves our-selves on the ground fir and venture the remark that the firms business busi-ness interests are much more extensive ex-tensive than we had contemplated or even conceived Yes air replied the bead of the house we have a very fair trade in our line We have one of the finest sto ks of goods in the Territory arfdiin jour special lines we doanimmtnse wholesale as Veil as aj large retail business What are our special 81 Oh wholf sale drugs patent medicins paints oils varnishes and biuahes besides the finest domestic jind < imlorted WIlles and cigars Judging from the large amounts of these goods carded in sfogkfwejyere compelled to admit that the firms trade must indeed be extensive Besides he business carriedonin this city the gentlemen coinprisinglhis firm have fpund Ogden a very good point from which fb branch out and foreseeing that this wilt always be a commercial centre for the sur SOUnoTugiterritorythy have established branch houses at Ijrogan Utah and lontpelier Idaho They have the agency or4henofthTof thenow famous Soda Springs water whi < hTFjsolfl by them at all of theit houses bike all otlier business men with whom we have hd fhe pleasure of conversation lately Messrs Wm Driver Son havehigh anticipations of the brightness of mt densf utuxeias a commercial city jThe natural advantages are here l andit Is1 only a question of time when her representative t sentative business men will succeed jn making of iher a booming business town |