| Show IPAT PRESENT 4 AND FUTURE OF OGDEN t A A S ogdan forty years ago was a hamlet the greater part of alie present business section covered with tulo grass or divided by meandering streams from springs A few years later the kiyage was made the junction of two great railroad and links in a transcontinental thereafter year by year importance has attached to the place until now ogden city 13 recognized as one commercial of tho most enterprising centers of the west with a destiny of great possibilities in the early spring when the trapper ind the pioneer tiller of the soil settled on the banka of tho weber and og acu rivers on the site of hie present city of ogdan they were attracted to abo spot by its natural advantages and pristine beauty they were realizing their dreams of earths garben spot and under tle sheltering cloak of mighty mountains that like great sentinels kept the vigil of abo night and protected them from he blasts of aeolus and the storms of jupiter they pitched their tents where tho swept down from on high to invigorate and a balsam was wafred wafted from the fragrant wild flowers of vala and dale as from vallombrosa no place in all this land has biad nature do more for it than ogden great cliffs and towering pinnacles add the picturesque tur esque beauty of the background of mountains and through them at some time in the prime vial pas rent anil cut great gorges in anticipation of tho comina of man with his multitudinous wants sparkling streams of pur lesac water were made to ripple through these deep canyons canyons which werft later to bo utilized as seems elined by the ingenious railroad engineer and architect pa swaya for tho steam monsters that now go roaring through the defiles making the sundered bills resound with deepest intonations on the west slope of the wasatch caage and at the confluence of two beautiful is the city of off to the north and to the west and bouth are vast stretches of rich valley land which in the spring time in their carpet of green are a sight most captivating shimmering in the sunlight liway beyond and to the west ia the wonderful dead sea of america which is being dby the undaunted irresistible all railroad builder so here 1 edit cry ov 1 aglenn deeo W t valley r vera and lakes combining to give an environment is almost idealistic and certainly unexcelled that is why ogdan lien are bt cheit nicci a to orgden frutti nebraska a fw years ago ing fot a alice to lacato a tid when questioned chy aboy bought out thi lown related h ow they h ad a tripi iT a hose thione had him far annl wide his opinion of all iho itice he had seen alio ninab beautiful in and lo 10 ans arod utah pat lias pointed tp a destiny most cheering with nil natural advantages the jimr had to come when others would acknowledge its preeminent pre eminent fitness to be a commercial center whore railroads lail roads were to build their headquarters and locate terminal facilities where jobbers were to lay the foundations for great business institutions where industrial pursuits of manifold kind were to be established where prosperity wae bound to abide and make happy the homes of ita citizens ogden was incorporated city inthe seventies its growth at first was plow but between and 1892 great building activity was on and magnificent structures were built and extensive industrial du plants were planned many of which materialized but the panic years coming on the lethargy that halted business in evary part of alie land was felt in this city with the result that a backward movement was able until 1897 ince when new life lias been given ogdan and today her prosperity was nevera as great or jica future moro promising the census of 1890 showed inhabitants the last enumeration that of laoo gave a population of but einck then a marked growth has taken place and the city now has over people the scarcity of houses for berit though building has been in progress throughout thecia the cit and the complete occupation of the big rooming blocks and hotels indicating an influx of hundreds of strangers within the past two years ogden is fortunate in the diversity of industries which eusta iii its inhabitants the railroads let loose golden shower of wealth upon the the arrival of pay cars over alio bouth arn pacific union padna oregon short line and denver ilio grande the trainmen who make their homes iri og dan are the have the proportion of an anny and each month distribute through the channels of trade a vitalizing of dollars which gives to business a toning up that is absent in purely agricultural sections then are the canneries where a bultitude finds employment and tho goods from go out to neighboring territory even to the atlantic states and across the ocean and labing baca new raone a 1300 laign is on one atty company id banners alone i the creameries crea meries of this valley produce the butter product is ly the cars taic and butter gnaden ait guests a jar bunth ns 1 that is another atif revenue v kiich the other s that produce wraith hape ewell the of collur rolling into ogden i the export pare apples plums and all kinta of fruit finding ready for alie panic berries are shipped ot carioad car joad celery ay iy an arial ari pl hay and genii aio william glasmann mayor W J critchlow recorder robert moyas treasurer albert howell municipal judge mrs baltic brown auditor johne bagley city attorney sup the outside the jobbing houses arc the most yx in large tarri tary 1 a bigger busine thab similar institutions in the country tricy of men and won n and to the cites pro to future can measure her possibilities arc assurances su of growt li there arc natural resources enough to war MW rani a ail fhe anro an fn a fair acy of but alie nuy lc far beyond tha fondest arcanie of ff acal aci nci 1 tuero mho alone can make offles aari Joua city in anh and keen prompt iliin to action 3 ll 11 harraman Harrl man alic genius of ali southern pacific union pacilio and ore poll short line hae alie work ol 01 reconstructing ahn iiii lii western roade and terminal improve and shop extensions are in order lie cannot escape the importance of ogden as a tenter of hs railroad interests recognize its filas caan of central repair ana cw of he three systems WW control two of ahi li already have temi inal facilities for repair work at tilie point plans arc already out for enlargement of alic southern pacific shops and it is boft cd that active extension voik will com finenco soon after alie firt of alie year the enlarged departments 0 o civo eni to doehle alie bumber of mechanics and iligir assistants at present employed ant eren with the southern pacific shops doubled there still will be an urgent necessity for far larger plants in which to meet alio llio in repair work of the rolling ethele of not only union pacific and oregon short line roads once led to rome so also I 1 all western central overland do now ant in the future utilize ibe gateways with which nature has ogdan taci por jaal through abc aay A hy arc an of ogdene su afi anu they foresi glit of tho magnatta magn atea to build in oden with i to hcrman ancy and adequacy oo 00 bat twenty thirty fifty spare heibe will continue to a transcontinental railroad center of evarl increasing importance theeo dejute in agdens favor arc readily seen blyeven the cawal disinterested observer and this fact leads alio ogden citizen to believe alint such men have not failed equally impressed and to bavo long sineo decreed that ogden euch central shops aa its merit meaning employment io of skilled workmen and adding to flip cites industrial du life a bee hive of mechanical activity |
