| Show YEAR Of ADVANCEMENT I fo FOR THE JUNCTION CITY Ogden and Weber County Are Able to Present a Fine Record Enormous Proportions of Railroad rrafficGrowth of Ogden and Her IndustriesNotable Events of the Year f This has been p prosperous year for Ogden Occupying as it does a position of Importance to traffic from ocean to ocean the city is placed in close touch with all the activities of the countrY and Its commercial and Industrial in t rests are immediately influenced by T those of the nation at large Consequently Conse-quently Ogden has shared In full measure meas-ure the quickened prosperity of the entire country But more important still Is the continued con-tinued steady growth of the home industries in-dustries the development of known local resources and the discovery of Dew ones Ogden citizens pave come to have a deep and abidIng faith In their city ns an Industrial and distributing center cen-ter and in the year 1899 all things have combined in strengthening this faith The rich agricultural regions of Weber and adjacent counties tributary to the city have yielded rich harvests and shared in the general prosperity of the year Horticulture flourished flocks and herds throve and mines developed during the past season to a greater extent ex-tent than In any previous year The business of the raIlroads centering here was doubled not only as regards transcontinental business but local business as well Banks loan agencle real estate firms and similar institutions institu-tions have experIenced a proportionate Increase in their business volume The population of the city has materially ma-terially Increased and houses are in greater demand than at any time since theperiod known as the boom There 15 hardly a vacant house for rent anywhere any-where In the city Schools and churches have shared in the general upbulTdIng of the city and county Qgden haAan almost ideal site The Weber river flows from a canyon the mouth of which Is about six miles south of Ogden canyon and skIrting along the western limits joins the Ogden Og-den river thus forming a rough letter V the point being within the city limits lim-Its The ground on which the city is bullded slopes gradually westward from the mountains base InsurIng good drainage while the two rivers b > sides several smaller streams supply ample water of the purest kind for all purposes The location of the place has given rise to one of its greatest sources of prosperit The canyons cut through the mountain ranges made it the objective ob-jective point for railroads en route across the continent while the local features and abundant resources make it a natural commercIal center for the Intermountain country Such are some of the general condItions condI-tions whIch have been at work In the steady growth of a prosperous com munltJ Weber county In which Ogden is situated though one of the smallest in 1 area has a varied topograp which gives rise to varied industries Its eastern east-ern portion is mountainous with fertile 0 valleys here and there From the base i of the Vas tch range on the west the land slopes gradually to the Great Salt lake Two of the largest mountain I streams In Utah the Weber and Ogden rivers flow from the canyons of the same name and form a junction within I the western limits of the city Thus the county has all kinds of country mountains plains hills rivers and lake The citizen of Ogden can leave his modern mod-ern city and in at most a few hours may be In the wild rugged reeesses of mountains or at the shore of Utahs dead sea Ogden and Weber canyons are famous for scenic attractions and there are I scores of noel and picturesque scenes within an hours access of the city RAILROAD TERMINAL By imagining a train of passenger cars extendIng from Omaha to Ogden R distance of 1032 miles an Idea is ob I tamed of the volume of passenger business busi-ness going through the Ogden depot During the year 96452 passenger cars came and went through the depot yards and allowing fiftysix feet to the car most of the standard Pullmans are sevent five and the new standard coaches are sixtythe figures show that I it extended in one train the cars would occupy 1023 mlles of track If baggage I mall and express cars with locomotives were added the train would reach well I 1 r out towards San Francisco Passen I gers aggregating 289356Dneary 3 1000OO traveled in those cars If those t people could be placed in line four feet apart the line would extend 2192 miles I The figures are not mere speculations but are based on carefully prepared I StLtIsti9s lIr George Kerr the depot master has a complete record of the arrival and departure of passenger I traIn with the number of cars From long experience and careful tests he is able to make computations showing thQ average number of passengersper car Of the passengers about 50000 rode only between Salt Lake and Ogden In looking for the causes for the more than doubling of the passenger traffie as compared with last year the movement move-ment of troops to Cuba and the PhilippInes Philip-pInes must be considered I During the year 3989000 pieces of baggage were handled in the baggage room of the Union depot The Union r depot employees on an average number seventyfive men and their wages average av-erage S5 per month The Southern Pacific owns the controlling con-trolling interest in the company and John S Noble is its president W J Sheal its secretary A new fast mall train was put on by the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific making three fast passenger trains daily between Omaha and Chicago Chi-cago About 1500 of the workingmen of Ogden Og-den are employed on or about the railroads rail-roads During the year the working forces of ali the roads have been increased in-creased and furthermore employees have worked overtime to such an extent ex-tent that the sum total disbursed to these wageearners haS been much greater than the Increase iI nurnberof men would imply The stead disbursement of the wages each month by the Tarious paycan keeps money in circulation and brings about a healthy condition or business I Ogden is distInctly a city of wage earners and of homes Southern Pacific The Southern Pacific ranks first I among the roads In number of employees em-ployees This road has been taxed tits t-its utmost to handle passengers and freight during the year There were 3635 freight cars westbound In 1898 but In 1899 there were 4301 an increase of about 5000 The freight cars eastbound east-bound in 98 were 31960 and In 99 31256 a balance in favor of last year as regards the mere number of cars However How-ever by reason of the great crush of business this year many through cars were returned cast over the southern route and moreover the eastbound cars were loaded 100 per cent healer this last year than the preceding year and the westbound 50 per cent heavier I hence the eastern business was nearly I double that of 1898 and the westbound increased by half I The employees of the road in Ogden are classed as follows Freight office and sheds 88 superintendents ofilce and sheds 22 engine men 120 conl ductors and brakemen ISO switchmen 20 shopmen 300 Total 730 John S Noble is superintendent of this divIsion V J Shealy chief clerk of the Southern Pacific office Tom Rowland chief dispatcher and E lr Luckett master mechanic Union Pacific The Union Pacific connecting Ogden with Omaha Denver and the east employ em-ploy nearly 400 men In Ogden and the Oregon Short Line sixty distributed amongst the various departments ml follows Oregon Short Line 60 machine ma-chine shops 50 bridge building 40 train service 15 freight of1ice and sheds 90 switching 35 Total 450 Tle Union Pacific and Oregon Shorn Line have a jolntoffiee In charge of George H Corse During 99 about 150 000 tons of freight were handled in about 144000 cars the Increase In number num-ber of cars being 24014 over last year Rio Grande Western The Rio Grande Western has its western west-ern terminal in Ogden and its business showed a proportionate increase with other lines for the year The tonnage of through freight brought In amounted to 316529 tons and the outgoing freight 54695 t ns All classes of business show an Increase of at least 30 per cent over 1898 The road has 135 men in Ogden The YellsFarg company and the Rio I AL 1 11iw r + p = 4 + 4 3g NEW BEStDENC OP MAYOR M S BROWMING 27th AND WASH + C INGTON 4 I 0 I IiIlI i r Grande Western each have express offices of-fices in the Union depot building The express employees number twenty three and the volume of business for 1899 was about 300000 an increase of about 5 per cent Railroad Improvements The Southern Pacific company Is engaged I en-gaged in preparations for extenslve improvements im-provements A cutoff is to be constructed con-structed across the arm of Great Salt lake necessitating one of the largest trestles in the world This will cut out the present high grades about Promontory Promon-tory hill and will bring the road into Ogden directly from the west shortening shorten-ing the distance fifty miles This If one of the most important vents in the hIstory of Ogden railroad building Engineers En-gIneers are already laying out the work and leading officials assert positively that the cutoff Is to be commenced the coming season The Southern Paclfi will also make important Improvements in the way of yards and shop facilities The Union Pacific has been shortening shorten-ing its line and lessening grades east of Ogden The Improvements are still in progress A double track Qver this line is according to recent dispatches soon to be constructed The Rio Grande Western has during the year added considerably to Its yard tracks and contemplates further improvements im-provements I The Qregon Short Line also did con I slderabe In the why of building sidetracks side-tracks during the year The surveys of the route to Ogden by the Burlington and the Chicago r Northwestern have rcently been renewed re-newed THROUGH FREIGHT BUSINESS The number of wheels on cars with freight billed through Ogden during the year 1899 aggregated over 2500000 I These figures do not include cars which capItal stock 150000 Deposits 557527Sp Utah National PresIdentoJ Eo Dooly Vice Presldentk G Campbell CashlerW F Alam Capital stock 100000 Deposits 56092989 Ogden Stat Bak PresidentH C Bigelow Ca2hlerA P BIgelow Capital stock 100000 Deposits 501600 Commerci a iona1 PresidentJ W Guthrie Vice PresidentA K He Wood CashierTo D Ryan Capital stock 100000 Deposits 38554004 Utah Loan 1e Trust Company I PresldenlN C Fly garc Vice PresldentJ Watson CashierThomas J Stevens Capital stock 200000 DeposIts 115000 OGDEN SAVINGS BANK PresidentDavId Eccles Viee PresidentJoseph Clark CashlerJames Pingree Capita stock i5000 Deposits 30237213 MANUPAGTUBES lIanufacturIngenterprises have been slowly butThirely developing In Ogden until at present there are numerous lines of goodS made not only for home consumption but also for exportation There are four flouring mIlls of Ogden Og-den and the Ogden Milling Elevator company furnishes h good share of the breadstutrs for China and the Sand wish Islands This company has three mills the Phoenix Advance and River dale with an aggregate capacity of 400 4 j + + + + + 0 E ° Z 1IjI ¼ 1 air 4 POUR OP OGDENS LEADING CITIZENS + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1 + + + + + + 4 + were not transferred from one road to another The wheelage account carefully kept of all such cars makes It posslbe to know exactly not only the number of cars but the number of wheels which rumbled over the rails In the transfer yards during the year There are four roads with transfer terminals ter-minals in Ogden and hence 3ojolnt car inspectors ofIlce if maintained in the yards tQ inspect ali cars The employees em-ployees of this office receive from each of four roads pro rata according to the number of wheels handled by that road The exact number of through can = handled during the year in the yards up to Dec It was 30248 and the number num-ber of wheels 2421984 This was an excess ex-cess In the number of cars over the number for the same period last year of 4966G For the entire year the excess ex-cess will show at least 50000 increase I Toward the close of the year the in crease wassteady ds shOWn the following statement taken from the records of the joint office January 28OGO February 24519 March 2650 April 2664 May 20482 JUne 22196 July 2584 August 2869 September 32208 October 32541 November 3408 December estimated 34087 Total number of through freight cars 36835 TRADE CONDITIONS The volume of wholesale trade In Og den during the past year showed an Increase of at least 2000000 over thQ prevIous year In 1898 according to the best data obtainable something like 7 000010 and in the year just closed business aggregating at least 9000000 was done by the different wholesale houses of this city Retail concerns to the number of about seventy do business In Ogden and the employees In this line number between 2100 and 2200 Retail business during the year was excellent In all lines BANKING INSTITUTIONS There are seven banking Institutions af Ogden capitalize for the total sum of 725000 Thc aggregate deposits up to Dec 15 were nearly 2500000 During the year 1899 the deposits of each showed marked increase keeping pace with the c1ts general business volume The f6flowingthbws the sound financIal standing of Ogdens banking concerns First National PresldentDaYid Eccles Vice PresIdentT1lomas D Dee CashlClJames PIngree 1 t barrels per day The company makes steady monthly shipments to Honolulu and China During the year just closed about 10000000 pounds in mill stuffs tfJ were Lurned out Peer Bros mill has a capacity of about 100 barrels of flour per day The I proprietors market much of their output out-put in Ogden and neighboring cities i The mill is run by electrlcpower The Ogden Candy company is rapidly coming to the front as onffcf the lead log confectionery establishments In the west The factory has been enlarged during the past year and fitted with the most modern machinery and is now turning out more than three tons ot candy per day Including all grades from cheap mixed to the select grades Thirtythree people are employed In the factory and three salesmen represent repre-sent it on the road Its trade territory now covers three states and the output out-put barely supplies the demand Ar n + po Ion o 0 I double the capacity of the plant The company is composed of D W Shupe and Will Williams anffh J I The monumental works ot Mitchell Bros has a steam stone sawing machine ma-chine and does a prosperous business at the corner of Twentyfirst street and Wall avenue The Becker Brewing company is one of the leading manufacturing establishments estab-lishments of Ogden During the year about 7000 in improvements have been added Including a back pressure machine The concern has never en joyed a more prosperous year than the past and the output now exceids 900 barrels per month G L Becker is president of the company and J S Becker secretary The company employs em-ploys twenty menThe men-The Ogden box factory 19 also com Ing to the front among Ogden manufacturing manu-facturing concerns The company employs em-ploys about forty hands and the output out-put for the past season exceeded 500000 berry cups and 250000 grape baskets J J Olsen ana E Co Olsen are proprietors proprie-tors of the concern Among the recent additions to Og dens manufacturing Interests is the George A Craig Soap company This concern turns out about 1000 boxes of soap per month and employs five men The product Is sold throughout Utah Wyoming and Idaho The Utah Vinegar PIckle works bas grown to considerable proportions durIng dur-Ing the past year During the season just closed about 500 tons of cucumbers cabbage cauliflower and horseradish were consumed the plant turning out about six cars of pickles and three cars ot inegal per month bsides sauer ot kraut cider and table delicacies Edward Ed-ward Bichsel Is proprietor of the concern con-cern which employs twelve menThe men-The Enterprise Clay company is at present Installing a lot of new machh1 erl at Its plant corner of TwentY ninth street and Pacific avenue The capital stock was Increased from 15000 to 30000 two months ago and a new kiln heating plant clay shed and coal house with other improvements aggre gatlng with the machinery about 10000 Were put In during the year The company manufactures sewer pipe and other clay products The capacity ca-pacity ot the plant has been trebled for next seasons run John Smith is president pres-ident and R B Lewis secretary During the year the Ogden Pottery company was organized with John S Smith president and R P Hunter see I retary The company manufactures alII kinds of common potterY and Is equIpped for making the finer grades as I the trade warrants Its plant L3 located at 232 Twenty first street I There ae three canning factorIes In Ogden besides one at Hooper The seasons I SEa-sons output was about OCOO casES With one excetitton the factories put I up only I tomatces The Utah Canning company produced I about 50COO cases using about 310100 tons of tomatoes for which they paid i per ton About 600 acres of tomatoes were contracted for hut owing to a short crop and scarelt of cans we output out-put was light but still onethird greater than last year The Utah Canning company employs f50 hand and markets Its product In Utah And adjoining states About 50 in improvements were put in during the year Thomas D Dee Is preslden and E W Matson secretary of the com pan The Salt Lake Valley Canning com I pan has a capacity of about 20000 cases yearly This factory a1s3 puts up fruits William Craig is manager of this f4ctor A Co 1cKinneys factory puts out about iCOO yearly WESTERN UNION The Western Union bas a relay office in Ogden aU messages between San Francisco and Omaha being rEQeLted here AU Salt Lake messages are re aYed here also northern business and outhern business as far as 5risco Utah i During 1899 three wires were added I to the Salt Lake service making eight in ali The office Is in charge of J B T1ford and employs twentscven hands nlnetee being operators TELEPHONE The Rock Mountain Bell TeeJhOIle company has an office In Ogden connecting con-necting with the principal cities or Utah andldaho During the year do en Urfly new system ortnstrument9anl a new switch board the latter alone costing 2000 were put hi WC Cross man 19 in charge tit the local omce which has abouttwe1ve employees The Ogden Messenger company has just established a system In the city under a franchise granted by the city council Alex Leatham is manager of the company The Western Union company Is also about to put In a system OGDEN SCHOOL SYSTEM The public schools of Ogden are quietly quiet-ly but surely improving from every standpoint The curriculum has been revised from year to year until teday the essentials are being pushed clearly clear-ly and strongly to the front with the incidental work grouped under a few I headn The routine ot the school Is being simplified and the work of the l children is being improved The theory being put in practice by the board and Superintendent Allison is that a child needs the opportunity and training that will give him poise skill strength The courses in the High school have j bden changed and improved As the curriculum now stands It presents 301 classical a scientific an English a commercial and an English commercial course all four year courses with the exception of the commercial course which is a two years course Professor Geerge A Eaton A B Pa D Harvard Har-vard succeeded Professor T B Lewis deceased as principal Mr Clarence Crandall B A Stanford has charge of the work In physics and chemistry 1 Miss Emilie Bannister was engaged as I Instructor in German and Irs Belle i Salmon Ross Instructs In elocution and I I physical culture The people of Ogden I enjoy the reputation that this school I has established Its faculty is made up of graduates from the best institutions r of learning in the land r Nearly every year the hoard of educa tion has erected new buildings to accommodate I ac-commodate Increased attendance During i Dur-ing the past year an addition of four I rooms was added to the Mound Fort school at a cost of 3000 besides the High slhool was remodeled to accommodate accom-modate the large number of new pupils Out ora graduating class at ISO from the grammar schools 135 entered as freshmen In the High school A new sanitary plant was placed in the Grant school In fact all of the buildings received a general overhaulIng overhaul-Ing and repairing during th year They are today in excellent condition There are 5390 children in Ogden between be-tween the ages of 6 and 18 Of this number 4212 are enrolled There Is an attendance at the High school of 309 The cost per capita is slightly over 618 A large number of children come into un scnuois crum raizroaa towns ann I t mt nr IIfe from towns adjacent People move Into the city and claim a resIdence in order to partake of the excellent school advantages ad-vantages The board of education and its officers offi-cers feel encuraged and satisfied wIth the work at the schools in general The personnel of the board and officers is as follows Thomas D Dee president Dr R S Joyce vice president John Scowcroft Valentine Gideon and John G EUls Wlllittm Allison superintendent E S Rolapp clerk and James F Burton treasurer COUNTY SCHOOLS The school system of Ogden is separate sepa-rate from that of the rest of the county coun-ty The progress of this outside school system has been uniformly upward and higher professional training is being constantly required of teachers LeadIng educators of the state address I the instructors frequently in connection I connec-tion with the Institute work Institute meetings are held twice each months and the large attendance during the year showed much zeal in the work There are 3151 children ot schaDI age lit the county an Increase of nineteen over last years record Salaries paid teachers during the year 1899 aggregate aggre-gate 1736560 men teachers receivIng 100335 of the amount There are fortyeight teachers employed em-ployed steadily with perhaps half a dozen extra during winter months Tho cost per pupil of education in the count according to the last report was 910 There are tweltytour school distrlctsand thirtytwo schoolhouses school-houses Improvements during the year It y f + 4 + + = 4 + 4 4 PARitY BUSINESS BLOCK EREGTED IN 1S99 + included a fine new tworoom brick hou5 erected In UIntah at a cost of about 1500 substantial improvements at Roy and North Ogden The county school tax In 99 was 2 mills Each district dis-trict levied a local tax In addition i New houses will likely be constructed I during the coming year at Warren and I I West Weber W B Wilson is the ef ficlent county superintendent of schools Other Schools The Weber Stake academy is a sec tarian school under the direction of r leadIng luttterclay samts INOt amy high school and collegiate work is taught but branches giving Instruction I in Sunday school work and theological training ie provided L F Moench is principal The Sacred Heart academy is conducted I con-ducted by Sisters of the Holy Cross in a large and fine building erected for the purpose facing Twent fifth above Monroe avenue The school is for girls onlY and besides common and high school branches all kinds ot fancy and art work are in the curriculum The school has dormitories and pupils from surrounding states are there in considerable I con-siderable numbers to be educated St Jcsephs school for boys under the same management is also a flour Ishing institutlQn The Intermountain Business college conducted by Professor J A Smith has a large attendance and Is prospering prosper-Ing in Its seventh year l CHURCHES The principal religious denominations are represented in Weber count the Mormon church of Jesus ChrIst of LaL terda Saints predominating having about 12000 membersin full standing The Mormons have a complete church organization with all their auxiliary societies in a state of healthy activity Places of worship of this denomination are In each ward and precinct in the county and In each of these is a flourishing flour-ishing Sunday school primary associations associa-tions rEjllef societies Young Mens Mutual Mu-tual Improvement association and Young Ladles Mutual Improvement association The stake officers are L W Shurtliff president C F Middle ton and N C Flygare counselors The bishops of the Ogden wards are First D H Ensign Second Robert lcQuarrie Third Balnard White Fourth E T Wooley Fifth Thomas J Stevens In September of the past year there was held a most successful fair at the tabernacle grounds and building Over 7000 was raised completely clearing off the Indebtedness on the building and furnIshing funds for about J00 worth of improvements which Include a new heating and ventilating plant now In place St Josephs Catholic church Ogden Is presided over by Rev P M Cush nahan The constantly growing congregation con-gregation has found the church on TwentYfifth street Inadequate to its needs and during the year work on anew a-new one located at the corner of Adams avenue and Twentyfifth street has been going on This church La about half completed and is to be ot red and gray stone and will cost In the npihborhnod of 87500 York on the I structure Is progressing rapidly and It should be ready for dedication by midsummer The First Baptist church located on Grant avenue mldway between Twen tyfourth and Twentythird Streets Is under the p1Stbrate of Rev W G Evans The Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal locat d on the corner of Grant avenue and Twentyfourth street is one of the prettiest ehureh buildings found anywhere in the country coun-try It Is of gray stOne with fine interior in-terior finlshlngs Rev W E Iaison is the rector I The First Methodist Is a brick church I capable of seating about 1000 people i It has one of the finest pipe organs In the west Rev J W Taylor is pastor I of a arge congregation The Congregational church which was without a pastor during last year recently secured the services ot Rev I E I Goshen and under the leaderehip is fast comma to the front In all lines n m of church tcUvIty The First Presbyterian church located locat-ed on tie corner of Adams and TWen tyfourth street has a large enrollment of members At present the hurch is without a pastor but the vacancy is but temporary as a call is shortly to be issued I The Lutherans have a coSO church building corner of Twentyfirst and Jefferson avenue There Is no regular pastor but services are kept up The Christian Scientists meet regularly regu-larly and have an earnest followIng of about thirty members The work of the Salvation Army i9 I carried on regularly In Ogden the headquarters hall being near the cor nor of Twentyfirth street and Grant avenue The local workers are under I the direction of the leaders in San Francisco captaIn Ward Is at present In charge chargeSECRET SECRET SOCIETIES The leading fraternal and benevolent societies of the country are well represented rep-resented in Ogden and during the year kept pace with the general development develop-ment of the city Each department of the railway service serv-ice 1s represented by a branch at its brotherhood and these societies are naturally very strong In Ogden The chIef orders represented In the city are Masonic Weber Lodge No6 F A M W J Shealy W M George J Kelly secretary Ogen Chapter No2 R A M J E Coolidge M Eo H P George J Kelly secretary El Monte Cbmmanclery No 2 K T > i o f < F D Bickford E C George J Kelly secretary Knights of Pythias Ogden Lodge Ko 2 Val Gideon C C James O White K of R and S Queen City No i W G Kind C C C N Custed K of R and S Uniform Rank Lincoln DivIsion No 2 A M Hodge captain R T Bur dette secretary Odd Fellows Ogden Lodge No 5 E E Harrison + u no u Canton Ogden Xo 2 p 101 A A Summer C A J Anderson clerk Ulntah Encampment Ko 5 B Opp man C P A J Andersen scribe A O U W Fidelity Lodge No3 A W Brown M W F R Christensen recorder Protection No 24 L K Higgins loL W John Greenwell recorder Silver Tent No I K 0 T M F loL Whipple C F F Bond R K Rocky Mountain Council No 637 Royal Arcanum Stanley Dee regent H A Lindley secretary Court Wasatch No2 Foresters at America T C Morris C R R O Raison secretary Weber Camp No 74 Woodmen of the World W A Galbraith C Ed Auth clerk Fraternal Union Sego Lily Circle No 18 John Driver F M O J StlUwel1 secretary Home Forum Benefit Order J H Epperson president Alice Rogers secretary sec-retary Daughters of Rebekah Queen City Xo 4 Maude Summer N G Emma Meld secretary Rathbone SIsters Mrs Charlotte Fernfund H E Co Mrs Lottie Mc Gaw H B C Ladles of the Maccabees Mrs A B Hayes C Relief Corp John A DIx Post G A R Patrick Martin C J X Allen adjutant John A Logan Post G A R J S Boreman C J rL Pres haw adjutant Railway Orders B of R T J H Wagner M II P lcCardle secretary O R C J H McCoy chief O J Smith secretary J A of M Dos Dora president Fred Well1nger secretary B of L E J Forrest chief engineer engin-eer E P Hastings secretary B of L F C W Veazef M II E Littlejohn secretary O R T L Rosenbaum president C N CUsted secretary Ladles Aid O Ii G Irs E Boyd president Mrs Ragan secretary Ladies Aid B of L E Mrs HastIngs Hast-Ings president Mrs Halstead secretary secre-tary B I S of A David Paine president presi-dent J Lynch secretary MEDICAL SOCIETIES There are two medical societies 111 Ogden the oldest being the Weber CountY Medical society which has a number of members in Salt Lake and other counties The officers for last year were K S Joyce preSwent ti J Powers vice president and S L Dick son secretary The Weber County Academy of MedIcine Med-Icine was presided over during the year b1 S L Brick president George W Baker being secretary The Ogden Surgical Medical Institute Insti-tute occupies the building formerly used by the city for a hospital the premises being leased by a number ot leading Ogden physicians The place will accommodate fifty patients and Is fitted up in comfortable and convenient fashion It is located on Twenty eighth street between Madison and Monroe avenues The officers are John Driver presIdent E lI Conroy vice president G W Perkins secretary executive committee J S Gordon C E Coulter E M Conroy The old Union Pacific hcspltlll was recently purchased by other parties who propose to establish another instItution instI-tution LIBRARIES The Public Library asosciation maintains main-tains a free reading room in the city hall fitted up with magazines newspapers news-papers and reference works Miss Grace Emerson is librarIan and the books are much used by pupils of the public schools in connectionwIth schoolwork school-work In 1899 000 volumes were added bringing the total number on the shelves up to 23i0 During the year there was tully 25 per cent greater attendance at the reading room In tiarA O U W hall there is also located a reading room maintained by the lodges which use the building POSTOFFICE Weber county has postal facilities equal to if not surpassing thOse at any other county in the state Every precinct has a sixday mall service the mall being handled at the Ogden office During 1899 the postoffice in Ogden has shown substanti Increase in vol acne and several improvements have been secured The salaries of all clerks were raised 100 PeT year The number of deliveries In the business part of the city was on Nov 1 Increased from four to seven and at the same time a 5Emldall carrier service was Inaugurated Inaugu-rated in the entire residence portion of the city excepting only the locality west of the river where one delivery per day is made A new elertrfcal canceling can-celing machine Ji S been added to the equipment of the office An extra clerk vas added to the working force at the officE during the year The average number of letters originating 111 Ogden arid handied at C the office Is a little over 1100 per day and the total weight of firstclass Og den mail matter handled per day is about seventy pounds The entire amount of matter handled Is about three times the amount originating In this city The secondclass matter wsc tbut tc ars shows abut ty5 pounds per day the third and fourthclass fifty pounds The weIghIng of classified mall is anew a-new regulation and no comparIsons with last year can be made as to bulk However the money order and stamp departments show Increase in revenue anti busIness volume The numbr of money orders Issued in 1898 was 11826 This year shows a slight decrease In number but the amount C the past year up to about the mldl11e of December De-cember showed a total of 94579SO an increase of about 5000 over last year TQe amount paid up to the middle of December last showed a little over 140000 an Increase of nearly 9000 over last year A notable fact is that 45000 more Is sent Into the town by this method than Is sent out The stamp sales real revenues of the office the past year were 266 about 10000 greater than the expense of maIntaining the same Through registered packages averagIng averag-Ing 56g per day are handled at the office of-fice and local registry letters are received re-ceived to the average number of over 1000 per quarter Charles lIeigham Is postmaster George J Kelly assistant and the following fol-lowIng constitute the clerIcal force Frank Costello Bert Richey Frank Clayton M O Corey and Miss Edna ThomasSTltEET STltEET CAR SYSTEM During thl year the Ogden ElectrIc Railway company constructed two 4 + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + 1 + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ± + 4 + + + I 2 a 7 + t 4 I I4 j + w RESIDENCE OP JOBN M BROWIN 27th AND ADArits ± 4 STBEETZ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + miles of neW track including a line up Sixteenth street to Glenwood and a line down Seventeenth street to the DrivIng park and ball grounds steady employnent Is furnIshed about foty employees and 20000 disbursed in wages During the year 1326781 passengers pas-sengers were carrIed The Stem includes in-cludes a line running on Washington avenue north and south the entire length of the city and a line from the depot and two tracks to the bench residence resi-dence district up Twentyfifth and Twentysixth streets W C Weaver Is general manager and C C Adney superintendent of the system Extensive improvements In eluding new equipment of cars and a line up the canyon are In contemplation contempla-tion RESORTS Early In the 509soon after the set tlcmeI of Ogdenthe pioneers were wont to have pcnlcs and other outdoor celebrations In a beautIful grove belonging be-longing to Lorin Farr on the north bank of the Ogden river about a mile from the canyon The grove has been preserved and has been a favorite place for picnics Last season a lease on the ground was secured and Glenwood resort opened Recently a strong company com-pany was organized and leased adjacent property The place Is being converted into a lIne park with a natural lake I lawn Slower beds with places for outdoor out-door sports including baseball Money I Is being used freely to make of It one of the finest outdoor pleasure places In the west I The park will Include about forty acres Thomas D Dee is presIdent oC the development company The Utah Hot Springs although just across the line In Box Elder county are tributary to Ogden and are reached on the Oregon Short Line A motor line connects with the street car system In the summer The resort is under the management of F J Hirt and includes a hotel grove dancing pavilIon and i i the mineral vater baths i I Wllso1S Hermitage six miles up Ogden canyon Is a fine mountain resort I re-sort easily accessible During 1899 soy oral rustic cottages were put up together i to-gether with other accommodations for I campers A new hotel of logs but with a finely appointed InterIor Is to I be one of the attractions this season I and material for the same is now beIng be-Ing procured i Vlnslows Is another canyon summer resort nine miles up the can ont on-t ans Heights Is the name given to a resort In a beautiful glen directly east of the city and reached by a picturesque winding road leading up almost to the clouds that hang about Obsevato peak The Grand Opera house is under the S management of Joseph Clark It has a large and modern stage and seats h about 1680 people The place was ron Qvated during the year and about 1200 of Improvements added ELECTRIC LIGHTING The electrIc lighting of Ogden Is done principally by the Union Light Power company The lines of the company were consli1ernbl extended during the JEar and now reach nearly every portIon por-tIon of the city except West Ogden A line to this sturb to be one of the first improvements of thIs year Dur ins 1899 the company began substituting substitut-ing for the old T H system the Incandescent Incan-descent system a great saving as well ns giving better service The company is soon to change the I street scvenhseven arc lamps to tile incandescent system I The comp3Jlys business In this city for the quarter ending Nov 30 showed an Increase over the same period last year of ncarh 3000 The total figures for the 1899 quarter are 1308L93 E W Wade Is In charge of the Og j den office of the company Xhe Union Dopot company and the street car company each have lighting light-ing plants of their own FIRE DLPABTMENT The report of the National Insurance union for 18S9 rates Ogden as No1 in regard to Insurance rIsks The losses during 1899 wee 45 cents per capita as against L4i per capital for Salt Lake The Ogden fire department maintaIned main-taIned Its record for efficiency durIng tha year being called out to fifty fires Improvements during the year aL the central station Include the Introduction ot new Hale hitchers to the harness equipment and the construction of macadam mac-adam pavement In front at the house One new horse was purchased anwl80G feet of new hose added to the equipment I equip-ment and two mIles of Insulated wire strung for alarm system The fifty fires Involved 103900 worth of Insured property but the paid losses amounted to but S9383 and the loss on uninsured property Is estimated at t 2087 A total oC 26904 miles were l traveled by the epartment golnb to fires 12700 feet of hose were laid There are twcnQone alarm bo3CS In j the city 103 fire hydrants and an average aver-age water Jressureof 105 pounds During Dur-ing the rears fire fighting there were f L1 t few accIdents and such as happened t merely damaged equipment wIthout In mctlng personal Injury to any serIous eten The apparatus at the central station consists of oneChakipLors chemical engine en-gine one Grand Ilapidshose wagon of 1200 feet cipaclty an aearlal ladder truck of 75foot reach and it reserve steam engine There Is also 3Jl effipient volunteer fire department at Five Polnts equipped equip-ped with n hand engine James Bar ropp has been chief of thIs organlza tlon since Its formation The officers at the central station are Orson Riser chief M J Hewett assistant chief A Rogers captain WEBER CLUE The Weber club Is fl social nd business busI-ness organization formed to promote social Intercourse among business men and to further the Interests of Ogden Numerous committees to Various Va-rious lines of advarcemqnt are maIn tamed During th year a number of Its moSt active members promoted and formed a company to manufacture clay products at the site of the lt Anderson Ander-son brIck yards near the city The new company to develop the GleaocI resort re-sort had a similar origin A special committC Is now working with a view to getting the Burlington road constructed con-structed as far as this city The club has handsomely furnIshed quarters on the fifth floor oC the Utah Loan Trust building occupying the rooms on three sides of the upper floor A restaurant is run In connection with the club The officers are Thomas D Dee president J W Abbott vIce president C H Kircher secretary A V Mcintosh treasurer These officers with C A Renry n S Joyce and F J Stevens constitute the board of directors I dI-rectors The Columbia Club The Columbia club formed in November No-vember isis by a number of unmarrIed young men had n very successful year as a social organization Reading and game rooms coetlly fitted up nr maIntained maIn-tained on the second flour of the Loan Trust building The club numbers about seentyfive members The officers offi-cers are W L Wattls president Joseph F Burton vIce president J F Grant jr secretary Hermann Kuchler financial secretary assIstants Gus Wrlkht and W G Webb Charles Hol lirngsworth treasurer James Hassett C S Crocker H R Macmillan A H Sanders Charles R HoIUngsworth Robert Robinson Fred Iassa executive execu-tive committee OGDEN COURTS Weber county together with DavIs and Morgan counties comprIses one state court distrIct the Second Hon Henry Rolapp Is judge oC thIs court During the year about 100 actions were filed with the clerk Hon Jacob S Borernan Is president of the bar aESO elation The LnIted States cIrcuit court meets In Ogden twice each year The courtroom court-room and auxiliary offices are located In the 1tah National bank building OGDEN CITY The assessed valuation of O den City property for 1899 was i5106 about threequarters of the countys wealth beIng In the city There was about 4000 collected for I the city In taxes and other revenues about 3000 Taxes yet to ber collected will sweIl the total revenues to 103120 A notable Improvement during the year was he paving of Twentyfourth street from Washington to Grant I avenues the material being macadam The cost of this work was about 9000 as much of the rock used had been br ken by prisoners In the city stockade stock-ade during the two years previous The expenditures of the prlncipal departments de-partments durin the year were Police Po-lice 1061972 fire 1191401 streets 92S310 water supply 604288 street lightinG 5248 estimated other ex enses 3000 total 11084562 The officers of 189799 were John A Bole mryor E H Anderson recorder Mrs H S EmeLCU auditor E B Allison jr city attorne Robert A Moyes treasurer Eo T HulanI justice of thO peace CouncilmenThomas E Browning presIdent of city coun il First WardJob Pingree John Jenkins Jenk-ins Second WltrdJ E Williams Martin Cullen Third Warc9Myrtillo Shaw M L Jones Fourth WardA L Brewer E T Woole Fifth TardT E Browning S P Ash dIed last spring andsucceeded by John Watson The fficerselect Mathew S Browning mayor lohn Y Bluth recorder Mrs Llzette Mlller auditor Robert Ic > yes trelsurer Herbert R Macmillan attoiney Joseph Hall justice of th peace Council for 190001 FIrst Yard William Emmett T H Carr Second WardGeorge W Jones Dr H J Powers Third WardC E Cross Joseph Parry i Par-ry I ryFourth Fourth WardChrIs Flygare A W Brawn Fifth WardH H Thomas J W Abbott |
