Show As They See Us In a late issue of the Staats Zeitung a correspondent who has been recently traveling through the Territories gives I I the following pen sketch of Ogden as ho J I saw it when coming here last March from Wyoming Concluding his descrip ton of the trip through Echo canyon westward Mr E Benninghoven goes on I as follows Our train and the river which keeps rushing on by our side with loud rumbling r rum-bling are doing their best to escape the rugged scenery of the canyon and after we have passed a few tunnels we are received re-ceived by a broad valley which is even in winter rather pretty We are in the midst of a Mormon settlement in Weber 5130 feet above the level of the sea Here we see for the first time the magic sign of a place of business Holiness to the Lord and below the picture i of an eye and the letters Z C M 1 viz Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution the profits which used to flow into the pockets of the C Prophet Brigham Young Leaving the flourishing town we pass Devils Gap and Devils Gate and several other somber I som-ber mountains and holes all of which here seem to be the Devils own We cross Weber River several times and look up to the crags of the snowclad Wasatch mountains which we have just left to enter into the basin of the Great Salt Lake formerly a desert sage wilderness wilder-ness but transformed by industrious hands into a luxuriant garden We pass along the Vasatch mountains and at last reach the Western terminus of the Union J Pacific railroad Ogden the second large est city of Utah Territory This our author depicts as follows I re I has a very beautiful situation at the t foot of the Wasatch I has very wide j streets as in fact is every town I settled by Mormons On each side of the street is a ditch through which runs the clearest mountain water with which the gardens of the city are irrigated A the river and town of Veher thus the river and city of Ogden received their name from an old moun tain hunter or trapper That Weber was r most probably a German tranlator I Ogden has over 7000 8000 inhabitants and is still under the dominion of the Mormons who however are steadily ar losing in influence steadiy I Whoeer should imagine to tell from the exterior aspect of the town whether it i vT is inhabited or controled by Mormons will be disappointed for he will gee on the street neither a man with a half I I dozen women on his arms nor n woman accompanied by a bevy of children Except Ex-cept that one mercantile Mormon sign nothing can be seen indicating Mormon ism The business houses are as fine and elegant as those of any metropolis The streets and sidewalks are at least three times as wide as those of any city of equal size in the East and the whole arrangement indicates that the founders have made the election of a pretty site a chief point The business busi-ness part of the city and that which contains con-tains the residences of the aristocracy are separated by a natural high wall so that from the principal business street and from the depot one sees only a portion por-tion of the city The finest dwelling houses of the place are on the hill During Dur-ing my sojourn in Ogden I had the pleasure to see the peaks of the neighboring neigh-boring Wasatch mountains wrapped in his I smiling snow clouds over the while valley the sun of spring was I can add that the writer of the foregoing forego-ing was during his short stay in the Junction city greatly impressed with our IVY unparalleled facilities for all kinds of manufacturing enterprises and he will not be chary in his praises of our advantages advan-tages for capital investments when he rejoins his Chicago friends |