Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-02 | Page 7 | May Number Farmhouses

MAY NUMBER FARMHOUSES. OGDEN, Sept. 1 As the result of a plan which Is being backed by the Real Estate Dealers association of this city, the Weber county commissioners are being be-ing urged to provide for the naming of county roads and the numbering of the houses In Hie country districts. Tho scheme, while a novel one, s pointed out by the real estate men as one. which Is replete with good points. Their plan Is to assign 1000 numbers to each mile of road, using the odd numbers num-bers on the west or south side of the highway and the even numbers on the east and north side, such as is done In the city. The county courthouse, or. In the case of this city, the heart of the business district, would be usd as the central point of starting place of all numbers, num-bers, . , . According to this plan the number of a house In the country would indicate clearly Its exact distance from the courthouse. court-house. It is demonstrated that a house at No. 57S0 Ogden canyon road would be located just five and three-fourths miles from the courthouse on the principal highway to the east. The plan, It Is shown would be equally effective In all directions. In cases where a road has no name which is familiar ;o the general ijubllc, It Is recommended that the residents resi-dents circulate a petition providing an appropriate name. .... Considered unofficially by the members of the board, the commissioners are said to look upon tho plan with favor. It would mean that the country district could be covered by -a stranger just as pasllv as he covers the city by the aid of a 'directory and it would be possible to include hundreds of additional names In the present editions of the city dl- ( rectory. j