Show S S W BADCON OGDEN S The citizens of Ogden have In the establishment es-tablishment of S W Badcon a pharmacy phar-macy from which they can purchase every line of medicine drugs etc and feel assured of getting fresh and pure articles Mr Badron has recently purchased chased the stock of Peebles and In his new quarters occupies two floors and a large basement The store Is elaborate in every detail and is fitted throughout through-out with natural oak furniture Mr S W Badcon the proprietor is a graduate of u pharmaceutical bmtuate a phamacCULclI college cOlege of Chicago andl Is also a member of I the Druggists association of Ogden I He was born in England mid came to America when n child 2 years old and to Ogden in 1801 He has been In busi ness for five years Mr Badcon stands high In the community not comrunit only as a ont i professional man but a a citizen or enterprise and public spirit the water supply the dam can be raised If necessary to 100 feet which would give a reservoir ot 2000000000 cubic feet capacity The waters of Ogden river will likely be stored In a similar manner within the next two years Already two companies com-panies are figuring on the erection of a system of dams on the various forks of the river and one company has already al-ready filed its articles of Incorporation the South Fork Reservoir company Should all these plans materialize the amount of water thus stored would surpass comprehension It Is estimated that a system of dams that would store the waters of north south and middle forks augmented by a dam In Ogden canyon to catch the waters from Wheeler crcclc would store in the aggregate ag-gregate ter 10000000000 cubic feet of wa Another enterprise that may play an Important part In the Irrigation of northern Utah has been undertaken by Receiver Weaver of the Bear River Irrigation and Ogdch Waterworks company com-pany During last summer he filed on the waters of Bear river and Intends to ane erect a power plant between Colllnston and the mouth of the river The principal prin-cipal object Is for power purposes but the water may also be used for Irrigation Irriga-tion purposes S THE MINES S The absence of a smelter In Ogden has retarded mining in Weber county more than any other one thing The reason Is apparent There are no mines in the county containing sufficiently rich ore to make it profitable to ship but there are a number of lowgrade propositions that woud pay their owner3 handsomely could the oro ba handled In Ogden I For many years the mountains surrounding S sur-rounding the city have been carefully prospected but the result has always been the same plenty of orc but not rich enough to pay Perhaps more money has been spent In the development develop-ment of tho La Plata and Willard Hill districts than any other contiguous to Ogden but none of the many finds have proved profitable Perhaps the most promising J mining proposition for Ogden is that of the King Solomon Mining and Milling company which was Incorporated during the past year This mine Is not located In Utah but Is owned In Ogden I Is capitalized for 52000000 and the offlcerr are E J ComW president i C E Coulter vicepresident l J D Murphy secretary secre-tary Charles H Barton treasurer and A B Hayes attorney The board of directors consists of Dr E M Conroy Dr C IS Coulter John D Murphy and A B Hayes of Ogden 1 C Hunter of Fort Wayne Intl John F Rodefer S of Elwdod Ind and EmU Baur of 0 Eaton Ind I The mines of the company are located lo-cated in Nevada and Idaho number S twentytwo and are divided Into four separate groups the Idaho group near Mountalnhome being a coppergold proposition the Neada S propositon te groups being S free gold propositions These PIoposlons properties proper-ties are described as being the most wonderful aggregtlon of rich properties proper-ties discovered within the last decade tho ore bodies being practically inexhaustible inex-haustible The veins of which there are at least six are from 27 to 372 feet wide the big vein giving free gold assays as-says averaging on more than 150 assays S as-says nnd mill tests over 12 per ton The smaller veins give much larger returns On one of these Nevada properties S the company Is now erecting n mill o a capacity of fifty tons per day and it Is expected now that this mill will be ready to be put In commission by February 1st Dledrlchs Burke are S the engineers in charge of the mill and Mr Dledrlchs says the mill site Is perfect SS per-fect the ore of fine quality and p I |