Show ABOUND AROUND OGDEN pencil penell sketches of gaeu and gild id its surroundings 10 kland Tri butle in a former sketch I 1 gave art ar outline of ogden city its location and future prospects as a business point the more I 1 study its advantages yant agea the th more I 1 am impre impressed aed with the conviction of its future greatness as a business point one thing which it needs very much and which all new towns beedis need is capital with capital macy many manufacturing enterprises would be started which would do more to build up the city and make it a great center of trade than any other one ono thing good iron ore is i found in ahe ahe wasatch range which forms the eastern bo boundary andary of the city easily worked and easy of access to work this ore a smelting smelling sm elting furnace was erected a few years ago and machinery for a rolling mill purchased lack of sufficient capital has prevented active operations u up p to the present time though about one hundred tons of pig iron iron was run out last year as an experiment and proved to be of A 1 qua quality lity i the majority majori of the stock has now passed into the hands of the denver rio grande railroad company and it is anticipated that work will be resumed at an early day and the rolling mill machinery set up and put in operation tion tho the president of the iron company is is judge P H emerson tho the denver benver rio grande railroad company also own the pleasant valley coal mines which are not only extel extensive but of fine oua bality lity resembling very much the west test hartley coal they have a b branch ran ch road run running ning from rom provo to the mines and they are laying the coal down in ogden so that it is furnished retail consumers sumerset sumers sat at per ton Itis it is said to be the he best coal for fors steam producing purposes of any i in this market POWER the ogden river which has cut its ts wa way through the wasatch range and which supplies the city cit y with water irrigation and domestic uses presents a a water power ansur passed assed in the world and capable of buning running machinery for the mariu ariu leuv or ura a touti continent nent the only onty purposes lur poses for which it is now used is I 1 tit 11 running a flou floering ring mill woolen mill and some minor lumber mills the electric light company which now run their machinery by steam power tire about to change their works and employ thia this water lower now brunni runni running n to waste in op brating their wa works k for this purpose pose they have erected buildings up the ho canyon are setting their poles and will soon have the new works in operation there is a great opening for capitalists here who desire to engage in manufacturing butine 8 s as its the ogden river is a open to all who nuy duy desire to make use of its power ower no extensive dams arc are necessary as the fall is such as to require but a slight dam dain to obtain all the water necessary fur fr a hundred milla mills A word in reference to the grand and sublime handiwork landi work of nature THE OGDEN CANYON this romantic and majestic rift in n the lite mountain chain id is not excelled by either the far famed weber or echo canyons A good road runs arom rom ogden cit city through this wild weird pass of so easy emsy it grade that a earn can make the u hole distance on oil ft a rot trot everything evidences terrible convulsions of nature in the di distant past the tile strata of the rock ribbed mountains stand almost perpendicular and rise on either side from to 2000 feet almost perpendicularly and the width averages less than feet 1 for or a lung distance this m majestic a mic canyon canyon must have been clowel plowed out by some ome huge hure iceberg in the glace glacier er period briod leaving a narrow bed walled I 1 in by towering piles ot granite limestone stone and coD conglomerate for the river river to find end itsvan its way to the va valley 11 lel the entrance to the canyon ia is ab rupt bupt through a narrow gateway whose posts pierce the sky and from thence there is no diminution of the grandeur for fourteen miles wl en a high tableland is reached of of fine agricultural lands from thence eastward arc are a series of vali leys which for cereal productions arc are fd as the granary of the territory at intervals there are spots where whore tile canyon widen into valleys with a few acres of good nod laii land d where here isa saints t have wage made themselves rude it homes omo several sawmills arc are also located loca teil along alie e canyon and work up the a 8 rugby pines which sparsely cover the mountain n sides 4 into lumber the river and i its tributary creeks arc are filled with speckled trout and tl the 1 c canyon ia is n u favorite resort for tl the 1 e followers fol lowera of iscaak izaak walton aa as well ai wi tourists Q several rude hostelries are established along the canyon where a trout dinner can call be procured at lite reasonable price rice oi of fifty cents the majestic scenery the enjoyable ride the pure translucent atmosphere the trout entertainment tain ment all combined made out our vit visit to ahlo thi wonderful olid erful rift in the th wasatch range elone one long to bo be remembered ray utah th is a ERLESS TERRITORY TERRI TOny and depends upon california for nearly all the lumber used etwas it was enly only yesterday that I 1 caw saw a large train of cara can of the central pacific railroad loaded with lumber from truckee start out ov over i er the utah northern railroad for some point far north perhaps for dakota or montana until the theSie Sierra rm nevada mountains are denuded of the wealth of timber cimber which crowns their high creata crests the lumber trade between california and the rieb west of the rocky mountains and east cast of the cascades wilt wili continue of great importance when the northern pacific R aja R finished through to puget SOUA sound it will furnish an outlet for montana to the timber productions of washington territory when the TOWN OF OGDEN was laid out by the saints their prophets never dreamed thai that the saints rest was ever to be disturbed by the modem improves improve ments of the restless indefatigable yankee gentile this whole territory r tory was then a portion of mexico and the saints supposed themselves secure from gentile intrusion and gentile ways the town was therefore laid out in blocks of ten acres each lar large e enough to furnish subsistence to mint a paint with one wife provided provi ded the children did not multiply tipi 1 y too rapidly pi Y but 1 ut the ra mormon prophets who claim to have direct commus communication a with god himself failed to receive receive any intimation of what visas coming that there was to be a war with mexico that this whole country was to be ceded to the united states that the great progressive civilizing railroad was to form a network oyer the mormon zion zio n and destroy the autocracy they proposed to establish in this western basin of this continent that the yankee gentile was to come with his arts and sciences and improvements and push of enterprise and business and restless ambition but such has been the case and now they find that a great mistake was made in a do in laying out a town with ten acre blocks diat a block of I 1 half ia the size would be just as valuable and now those who are wise and can do BO are cuttin sr their blocks up running streets through ii lt and trying to make a yankee city out of the mormon settlement when the gentiles shall have gained control of the city govern ment this fault will bo be attempted apted to be corrected b by la laying ing out streets through these blocks au in the business portion arthou of if the town it never will te be down however under mormon rule As it is now there are large orchards in the center of some of the best business blocks in the city |