Show I 1 I 1 1 t ogden its i h ebeo ties of an Oakland cr I 1 the readers of tile HERALD will remember remembert that bat about three weeks since mr air A W bishop of oakland california paid a visit to thia this city dur during hia 1118 ilay sta he was the bucat aest of hon P W H emerson while while here of course he took look in our fast growing 0 wi n g ci city ty and visited the ca capital ajr and other places of interest mr bishop is editor of the oakland tribune and tince kince hia his return has published some pencil n c sketches of what he saw in V utah 1 chief of which is a description of ogden city like some ether other vis visitors mr air bishop has made af a few ew errors 2 but he has said nothing 1 vict vicious i ious neither has he said anything ng with a desire to criminate the people I 1 here t f mr bishop sa says 3 the lar large e I 1 valley kin in which 9 ogden gd 6 is located locate 5 IS is called indiscriminately ogden and weber valley and slopes from the wasatch mountains to salt lake the above ere are errors ogden ia is located at the western base of the wasatch mountains is in salt lake valley and is twelve miles east of salt lake ogden valley ia is distinct from that of salt lake and is about ten miles east of ogden cit city ita its altitude is greater groter than that of this valley weber valley is distinct from both the others and ia is in morgan county and is reached through through weber canyon 0 ogden d en and ogden valley are bo both t in weber county foilb following wing ii what our friend mr bishop says dour d our rapi rapidly adly growing c city ity I 1 fourteen years a ago 0 I 1 was a arssen on one of the birst birst through oer over laud trains it was only two weeks after the grat great railroad wedding had taken place which united the east fast and the west th e atlantic and the pacific in matrimonial bonds of iron and steel riveted together by the golden spike which wag was driven homo at 0 cioci pm on the day of bf A may ay 1869 at promontory point amid the acclamations ofa of a whole na tion for the blow which drove home that spike sent the electric hash of announcement to every prominent city and town throughout the land the rejoicing upon that occasion the accomplishment of a work so near and dear to tho li hearts arts of all californians is still fresh in tho memories lemories of all it was the accomplishment ot 0 an enterprise long hoped for long childhoods thild prayed ayed for the uniting of bur our eastern childhoods hoods homes with tha homes olour of our adoption oa on the shores of the thai golden pacific at that time lime prom antory point was the terminus of the central and union pacific roa roads d and continued euch such for some time tinie but blut by negotiations between the two compan companies lei the fer A was changed to td ogden fifel fifty two alleg east eist of promontory in n 1869 sr kiheri hen bypassed i passed throna through or by this place it was sl simply i tu a mormon settlement and a way wa station othe union pacific railroad Eail road fourteen years ears have w woven oven into tho the past and with those years ogden has hns grown into a flourishing city of oer over inhabitants instead of the terminus of two fail railroads roads arilis become beconi etho tho focus of bf flye its character acter is iss slowly lowy but surely changing fronc front mormon to Gentile II 11 is lal beautifully and most for favorably ably located 1 beneath the frowning battlements of the wasatch which bounds it immediately upon the east on the extreme borders a fertile ana and valley two pats by tha the borders of the city weber and the Ogden the Tho ogden is a i smaller stream cutting its way through the wasatch range its waters cold and limpid passing directly through the city and emptying into the weber the weber kiver river comes down ahto ab canyon of the came same name circling the city and emptying into great salt lake take some five or orsia six milea miles west est of the city the laie valley alley called indiscriminately and weber valley elopes frond the basa base of the Wasat cli mountains to great salt lake andis and Is dotted and hamlets of 0 f the cormona Mor mona the pity lias has an gle elevation of feet above thesa the sea leyel mule tha the ech frodi to feet above gomels the level fivel of the city the s being g nearby fee feel above the sea level and covered wit with snow t that bat an on ahe highest peak boing eternal tire very much that of VA virginia city th the e days are baim warm and the tile nights cool a as s in abe ba lower elevations eleya tiona of sierra nevada levith the same earne dry atmo sphere and with something of the te 11 oi of the atmosphere of Vi vireinia rainia city the I 1 lie city la Is second in slad in in tho the territory ai and rid ia is being wei well built with bargad which will make pleasant driving when 4 a proper proper system of grading a and nd macadamizing ia is adopted t there are some very fine structures and one of the finest ia is three ethree gitary story brick hotel which will compare favorably in elegance of furnishing as well acl at ah construction to any in in san fan francisco and superior to any in oakland ogden ia 4 the capital of ty I 1 and the point where is held the united states district court presided over by jud judges e 11 emerson who alto also hof holds ds terms of court at provo in the bouthern ii portion of the Terri territory tor N his residence bein inthis this city N water wl ater for irrigation and all other purposes is furnished in abundance taken froni ogden iziver which in sw colland col cold dand and pure as the streams stream 8 flowing from tho shefra nevada living water also runs alone along the bides of many odthe of ho street which roust murit bo cooling and exhilarating in tho the summer time there are no gas works the city being illuminated by electrical lamps which Is also intended to be introduced into public build idge and residences as well the city ia is embowered empowered ered in scrubber sh shrubbery rubber T and shade trees every street being lined ned w with ith cot cottonwoods cotton woods boxelder box elder an andi d other varieties fruit trees clarl thrive ve weh well and it cannot approach oak land in floral wealth nevertheless I 1 there is iq much attention paid to th these ISO beauties of nature the cold coland and frosts and winter prevent nl the raising of flowers of tender out of doore BO so that it can never compare in floral beauty to obrown our own favored oak land eulali hU lali 11 A northern thern railroad has made inside ogden the center 0 of f trade for a largo large section of territory lying td the north and northwest and the mer mere chants carry large larv stocks pf af goods f having an extensive wl lole sale trade are three banks bank two national nation a 4 andone and one private which doa do starke arue business ap it t la Is a go good od point ford capitali eap capital ids to invest tia 10 0 ka DW security can bo be made in la lai rge sums I 1 ten percent per cent ho bo mortgage mort gago tax to pay and in smaller sums atone per cent per month |