| Show C A BEGHTOL OGDEN C A Beghtol wholesale and retail jeweler of Ogden has been In business for the past twenty years two years 0 which In Ogden succeeding Wallace Wal-lace Schramm The business has been Increasing continually and during dur-ing the past year Mr Boghtol In S the wholesale business carrying canYlnf a general line of watches diamonds jcwelry clocks silverware cut glnss tools and materials The firm has a I complete plant for grinding lenses to prescription The firm also does an extensive manufacturing business es pecially the making of Elk emblems Mr Beghtol keeps one traveling man constantly on the road covering Utah Idaho and part of yorlnG covering S abundant and wood and water without with-out limit I Is the Intention of the company to have mills operating as soon as they can build them which will crush 1000 tons of ore per day These properties In Nevada lie In the rich and almost virgin mineral belt of the northern part of the State about sixty miles north of Deeth Tho fact that tho best mining experts ex-perts of the East examined the property prop-erty thoroughly and reported it as one of the best prospects they had ever seen and that upon this recommendation recom-mendation unlimited capital Is at the command of the company and that a mill Is I being put up and that the stock of the company is not for sale Indicates that the company has a bonanza bo-nanza and means to make the best of U Another prospect with a flattering outlook Is that of the Carbonate Hill ind Carbonate Gem properties In reher canyon These properties have been worked for several years and are one of the many that would now pay handsomely with facilities for handling the ore The product is lead and silver ver verThe King Solomon mines north of Ogden and just east of the Hot Springs owned by Don Magulre are also numbered among the promising properties of the county I Is a gold proposition and the ore shows a steadily Increasing value The Willrird Hill and La Plata districts dis-tricts have been about at a standstill for the past year Work has gone steadily on In many of the prospects but nothing has been developed S S EXPRESS Tho Wells FFIKO and Pacific Express Ex-press companies arc doing a correspondingly corre-spondingly large business The In creaje of the past year over that nf 10CO Is about 10 per cent which would moan an aggregate business of 504000 As to an Idea of what the railroads mean to Ogclen tho following table as oecurauly l given as possible will be interesting I gives each company vvlthTne total number of men employed and the aggregate of the payroll per month Southern Pacific Si0 < > men 75000 Union Pacific end O S L 475 men 12icO Rio Grnndo Western 163 men USJO VHs Viirgo and Pacific Kxpross i6 i mon 3750 Ogden Union Railway and Depot company g mqn C375 Total 1571 men 112725 From this t It will be seen that the railroads are annually paying out In Ogden the enormous total of 1712700 The business done by the joint car Inspector In-spector Js J the best criterion of the magnitude mag-nitude of the railway traific The records rec-ords of Superintendent A J Gllson show a total of freight wheels of 2652 661 passenger wheels 2D3520 or a total to-tal of 29KT181 wheels This Is an increase In-crease of SL000 freight and 9168 passenger passen-ger wheels ow 1900 or a total Increase of 91165 wheels The total lat year was 2855016 COUNTY TREASURER The records of the County Treasurers office show that Weber county is very healthy financially Itg t assessed valuation valu-ation is approximately 511390000 which at a levy of 33J6 mills dves a net revenue of 310000 This with receipts re-ceipts from fees tax sale redemptions and miscellaneous sources brings up the grand total to about 400000 annually nually I RECORDERS OFFICE A record oC the business of the Coun Sr5 ty Recorder for the year will be Interesting Inter-esting There barS < bten filed a total of 2537 instruments of all kinds as against 2206 last year Of these 1050 were deeds of transfer aggregating 1219Si3 There were 291 mortgages on Weber couny property filed for record amounting to 470017 There have also been mortgages to the amount of 5250000 filed on railroad I and other corporate property and 2 250000 of such released S NEW BUSINESS CONCERNS I As nn indication of the corn mercia I advancement of Weber county let us I glance at the iccords of County Clerl c Ilolllngsworth During the year there were filed new corporations with an l aggregate capital of about 7500000 Ulntah Canning Co 15 C O Wcstcin Savings llnvcstment Co iuiH > 0 Henrietta Mining Co llotmo Oydou Sewer Pipe and Clay Co II < t Ogden Waterworks Co lUWO Overland Mining and Milling Co 1UQJ j Gold Mountain iluto Mining Co 6ow Ogden Con Alining and Milling Co 37C00 lJIIIS 350 Pleasant Mew FruitGrowers association as-sociation J2COO Fossil Oil Co iu000 i JBvanston Mining and Milling Co WOOO Wnbuch Gold Mining Co 5U < > I Ogdeu Ininliure and Carpet Co 100WO I Hunter I investment Co H11 j DeuSumiord Slioe Co 5wO I 5U Baouk Co Con Mining and Milling IOCOO El Verde Rio Oil Co lSOOOtO Amendment Increasing to ISWWJO Courts Peak Mining and Milling Co llnlng nt 1In 25000 I I 1 B Evans A Co 0000 Amendment to Kldoiado Gold Mining Co Increase rom 10 MX to 1000000 JOQC Amendment to Ogden Implement Co Increaso from 5iiuOv to 100COO 10 C Rising Sun and Liberty Mining and Milling I Co 10000 Ogden Boilermaker Mining1 Co 2SUOO Ibex MlnlnK Co 110 Ogden Packing Co I Fox Creek Gold Mining Co l 1 Wyoming and Utili jl Co Vll Slatcrvllle CoiibOildaiod Creameries Cream-eries 10005 El tiplian OH Co BcOWO El BeJiumont Oil Co fwlW Equity Gold Mining and Milling Co 250000 Lost Lode Mining Co 201x0 South Fork Ueaeivolr Co 1WlJ 5 COUNTY IN GENERAL The county a a whole is In excellen condition The roads are In firstclass shape and are constantly undergoing repairs In the precincts of Wilson Randall Ulntoh and Warren n spput tax was voted lor the repair of the roadways The health ofliccrs have been uggiesslvo In ihuir 1 work the sanItary S san-Itary condition of the county Is at al limes in a most editable condition The county infirmary under the management man-agement of Superintendent Taylor Is I In a gratifying condition The cost oC maintenance has been greatly reduce by the oeixise of care and prud neAt ne-At the courthouse many chanres have taken place for the better Th Clerks vault which had become altogether alto-gether too small for the I rapidlyin creasing business of the office has been greatly enlarged The roof was taken out and the side walls extended upward up-ward about twelve feet permitting tho addition of a second story thus noarh doubling the capacity of the vault and new fixtures put in The Sheriffs office of-fice which was formerly on the firs floor has been removed to the basement remofl ment adjoining the jail and occupies very commodious and convenient quarters quar-ters The Treasurer now occupies as fine a feulto of rooms n there are In the building Three rooms on the north side oC the tirst floor hal been thrown together remodeled and nicely furnished fur-nished Judge Rolapp also occupies almost al-most a new home The courtroom has been renovated and repapered the Judges rostrum changed from the west end to the north side of the room and the Jury box from the north side to the position formerly occupied by the JudgeS Judge-S FINANCIAL From n financial standpoint Weber county la I In a most gratifying condi tion On January 1 grlfylng O floating debt amounted to 40000 being the j rincipal and accrued Interest on certain cer-tain promissory notes executed in 1S95 and 1S9C for the purpose of building the puroe bul cing f amous Ogden canyon driveway nnd the addition lo the courthouse and to repair the destruction caused by the llsastrous l fire which destroyed the main building The present board and County Clerk together with Hon L4 B Adams chuirmnn of the preceding board succeeded in getting through the Legislature a bill permitting the county coun-ty to fund its floating debt and in accordance ac-cordance therewith In April last bonds In i tile sum of HOOo were Issued re liiclng the Interest from S per cent on PCI the notes to f per centbonds or i say Ing l to tile county of 1200 per annum Those bonds were disposed of at a premium pre-mium of 2ino In September last Clerk Hollingsworlh acting in behalf of the County Board purchased 40000 of the gen > rallmprovement bonds Issued In 1 IS92 which was also a big saving for t the county as the money was lying Idle In i the sinking fund with no return wIh rtlrn t thereon and besides the Interest on the bonds to maturity was saved The county Is now practally upon a cash basis Heretofore It has been necessary neces-sary for holder of warrants to either cash them at a discount or hold them until the taxes were collected In November No-vember Tho Commissioners however have arranged with the county depository deposi-tory to cash all warrant at face value and hold them until the taxes were collected col-lected and present them for payment whereby the holder > suffers no discount on his claim The county has also been Involved inexpensive in-expensive litigation during the year mOlO particularly durhlt bank and fruittree cases The former action involved in-volved the validity of bank asse S ments and the latter the constitutionality constitution-ality of the fruittree Inspection law The county was victorious In both 1 cases The officials of the county arC ClerK ar-C R Hollingsworth Recorder D YElls Y-Ells Treasurer A D Chambers Assessor As-sessor J W Gibson Sheriff C E Layne Attorney Georgo Ilalverson Surveyor A F Parker Superintendent of Schools W B Wilson Commissioners Commission-ers Joseph Stanford chairman W F 5 Wilson Lyman Sheen |
