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Show oo OGDEN PROSPECTS FOR THE YEAR 1914. There was much building in Ogdon last year; there are bright prospects that as much new construction will be carried on this year. One of our prosperous citizens contemplates con-templates the erection oC a structure that in architectural beauty and in size will be the show place of the city. The building will be his monument monu-ment In brick and stone and much ot the stone will be marble. On Twenty-fourth street another large building is to displace a num ber of one-story houses. A manufacturing concern is to build a plant in which 125 people will find employment. The Ogden Packing & Provieion company has had plans passed on by tho meat Inspection bureau of the United Statea department of agriculture, agricul-ture, which call for new buildings that will double the capacity of tho packing pack-ing plant on West Twenty-fourth street. A new theater is to be erected at B coat of over $200,000. The Southern Pacific company has made arrangements to add to the shops, bo that the capacity will be doubled. That work should start without delay. The Harriman roads are now work ing on the freight yards, adding many miles or tracks and modernizing the whole yard system The Utah Light & Railway compa ny is pushing Its electric car line north from a point a short distance below Farmlngton to Ogden. and the new intcrurban will require terminal property in the heart of the city, which will call for a pretentious structure. The Ogden Rapid Transit company is to make extenslvo improvements. The Scowcrofts are enlarging their factory and expect to have over 250 employes In that department before the end of the year. One of the members of the company has said that It was not beyond a possibility that they eventually would have 500 persons employed in the manufacture of overalls and other clothing. Ogden, during the year, should be connected by trolley line with Logan Land reclamation is proceeding north of Ogdon, by which water logged and alkali impregnated soilF are being made fertile. Not less than 00,000 acres of such land Is open to reclamation along the lino of the Og den Rapid Transit between this city and Brigham. Once placed under cultivation, 20.000 population would be added to this part of Utah. The South Fork reservoir should be storing water, thereby increasing the irrigated area in this county to such proportions as to prove a great stimulus to business of every kind. These Improvements, and many more, should make Ogden not less prosperous in 1914 than it was in 1913. oo |