Show BRILL ANTI the shielia record r ogden city PROGRESS su D lift P phenomenally few failures GRAND PROSPECTS I 1 inducement offered to intending int investors coety TY OF A fine field for real estate owners and mercantile investors 4 of lh the counties of utah territory weber county is ODO one of the amal smallest lest but weber county makee up in quality what it lacks in in quantity within its confine confines are some of the moat most fertile lands 0 in this part oj of the country rei res dents of weber haye bayo secured all the available land and ill iti fertility has been bew made to add richness rich nesa and stability to the county all the land is secured and held by indue indus arious substantial citizens whoso enterprise and energy have made weber county the most successful and lavi inviting ting of all her territorial sister sisters around ogden city weber county revolves vee ogden is indeed the lite hub of an eief eve moving wheel of business and the in teresta cofone are ore almost identical with the other in 1848 this portion of country wag was taken up by captain brown during the 39 years which have passed since then weber county has made a record which cannot be equalled equal led by any place outside of utah and which is unexcelled by any other county in utah her business failures have been fewer foreclosures ot of mortgages and executions cut ions have beer fless frequent than in any other place of which there is record furthermore the first tax sale in ogden city or weber county has yet to bo ba recorded this is a statement almost incredible to many it is nevertheless true and speaks volumes for the business bui inese integrity and solidity of the citizens of ogden city and weber bounty it is a state of affidi affairs rs which exists nowhere else outside of utah and it ie is doubtful if other counties of utah at least those with the sarno same population in n a given area equal that of weber county it Is s appa arent then that weber coun ty 6 growth and increase of wealth has been steady and sure what applies to weber county is of course equally applicable to ogden city the failure in but busi ness in in the busy capital of weber have been insignificant when their number and magnitude are compared with those of other cities of similar growth and age larger cities with a greater population may have sprang up in places but it is questionable if their pio greas has been so enduring and free from financial disasters as ogden has since 1848 the duto dato of the first settlers arrival in weber county her population has increased to about souls this estimate may bo be a lib it tie below the actual number but for the present it is a fair one the estimated valuation of a all 11 the property in weber county ia is about out of the cumber number of residents reel dente in weber county given above 00 are residents of ogden city and they owin property in the ei city ty which fis valued at from nine to ten million dollars A very large number ef of the citizens probably 40 per cent of the whole are ara real reaf estate owners it I 1 ie s a well known fact that a greater number of tho the people of utah as a whole own the homes in which they live than tan an be found in any other state or territory all this goes to show that the improvements made hero havo bare been permanent ind and have been of a nature which very every man makes when he be intends to 0 o tay in in any particular place if therefore there can be no no fear in regard to the future permanency of ogden city E each ach place tributary Q to it and wl within thin the county of bf which it i is q the capital is i equally i bial and the prospects are universally gratifying ae As previously elated stated there is no tax sale on the records of weber county the records show a total of only 25 sales of real estate under foreclosures and executions during a period of nearly forty years the amount of money which these represent is nn an average of the highest amount involved i la in any foreclosure was r this ia a record of ivsich ogden city aal ani weber county may way justly be proud it shows a substantial u ai stale state of at affia T A ire a aclid id business busi nesa comm unity and successful finan ciering from her natural and anti acquired advantages ogden has become a great business busl neca centen ever since the railroads came to ogden in 1869 1860 commercial activity has inc increased re ased the amount of business done hero here in comparison ot 0 the city is astonishing and ogden mer chants do comparatively a greater amount of business than those of salt lake city they have etrig aled onward and upward the greatest barrier to choir success being discrimination anthe 4 part of the railroads but with energy and pluck wh ichard shing J ogden business men thid this ob obstacle bacle A was manfully and the commercial interests of tho Junction City were firmly established till now a period has been reached when above referred to will leave to be discontinued oar our merchants have obtained sufficient strength to assert their cla make them serves heard by those railroaded rail roade who if they wish to continue continua to receive receive the patronage of ogden business men must discontinue an outrageous course of discrimination against the city in favo favoron f of other places 7 the territory covered by ogden merchants to find a mr market lt for their goods ie is more extensive than that entered by any salt L lake a ke merchant far up into the north in ever every y portor of td idaho abo in montana to wyoming and colorado colerado on afie the east and into new mexico and arizona on the buil i in ne i tada vada and even california on the ecat the shipments of ogden merchants arc are sent ogden indeed ha has the key to com commercial mercill progress in the intermountain inter mountain region with the tho bu sineta transacted here notwithstanding the enormous amount of merchandising carried on the buti business nees failures have bave been remarkably few the commercial and county records disclose only eleven failures during forty years this ia is ft A record of business success which few if any towns outside ogden can boat of in three of these failures the amount of lite liabilities ia unknown I 1 the ho lutna al amount in eight cases is Is an li average of it IL is fair to assume that the total of all liabilities in all the failures made in ogan n doe snot exceed it is doubtful if any other city can show euch such a record it plainly shows that business inte interests rOtS in ogden are not ephemeral that the town is not ilot of mushroom growth and that every man with som 0 capital with an abundance of busi ness enterprise can bo be successful here there is no other city in the west which can show such a record and can olter such facilities as ogden can here ie Is the homo home of the mechanic the abode ot of the merchant the haven of the manufacturer the elysium of the health seeker ogden ia is a permanent city she has bas been built to endure her foundations for future hive been laid broad and deep b by y tha untiring fing energy and unflagging industry indu etry of her citizens the rock rocks on which her coming prosperity will be reared retired have been cemented with ba baseness siness integrity and when n the superstructure euper structure of ogdene boom is is completed thero there will bo be no greater city in the intermountain inter mountain region ogden ie is the city of this i part of this great country com commercially me industry industrially bally and in every other way the ho must be preeminent pre pro eminent her ad are bre pining recognized on every hand the signs are encouraging cou raging the boom ie is coming this way fit it must ogden because no other place can give it good and kind treatment |