Show the observatory at ogden while on our way to salt bait lake city we ve met while at ogden major majon wheeler wheelen elec elen who courteously escorted us to the ogden observatory and taking us through the building gave gava wave gave us quite an insight into ils ILI it workings the situation pr the build building in shows the tho good judgment of mg the Majo joranda Ma randa rauda better one could not be round found it is on a commanding part of the bench just over the weber about half a mile nille from each cadi railroad which is as near as I 1 it t could be placed without the instruments being impaired by the passing r trains the buil bull building building dinc is neatly cons constructed truet color of brick iq the stone foundation bein beld being unusually de deep epand and substantial it is divided into ahn e rooms the tile centie centle one being for eie fie equatorial instruments one wing ving fora studio and find computing room and the other for the latitudinal and longitudinal instruments these instruments aro are mounted on substantial auant ILant ial lal g granite 1 canite pillars which extend so far down in the ground that no outside jar can in the the delicate dellato dell deil ato ate instruments mounted upon them the instruments are so complicated that we barade bar har a description for two reasons we the space and t hen then in point of fact we coulat understand the scientific yet to us greek explanation by the major sufficiently well to rehash it to our readers the building though not to be completed till spring is as available now as ever for observations heretofore detroit was the nearest government point and it can readily be seen that with such a distance government surveys in the west were more or less imperfect the object though it is considered by many or to that of the signal fe L ervice bervice is radically diu elent each has am im hn function to perform in this the longitude and latitude west of the looth meridian will be so accurately gained that western surveys will hereafter have a starting C point which is practically tily illy perfect this observatory is to be the ini itil point and the permanent astronomical trono mical point west of the south meridian the chief rint point polut on the western coast it is built under the auspices of the war department and in connection with the rations now being made west of the south meridian by Geo geom 11 wheeler of the U S engineers the tile telegraph wires run out to the building and place it in immediate intercourse with all points north and south east and wet west the observatory could not bein be in better hands than maj wheelers for he be 1 is 13 not only deeply versed in sf scientific lenti matters but takes a pride in attending closely to the responsible charge corinne reporter Se potter porter oct 24 0 |