The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-07
ANOTHER CHAPTER.
Leading Business Houses of Ogden
The functions Future.

The functions Future.
Passing along Main Street on the west
side the attention of the pedestrian is
arrested about half way between Fourth
and Fifth Streets by the neat and at
tractlVe appearance of the front of an
elegant brick building. A glance inside
soon demonstrates the fact that the
building is used as drug store. The
floor, which is neatly covered with lin
oleum; the handsome show cases, con
tanning perfumeries, toilet articles,
plush and other fancy dressing cases,
jewel cases and divers other articles
the arranged shelves, containing
drugs and medicines; the general APP
pearance of thrift and industry and the
obliging manner of the busy attend
ants, at once impress the observer
with the idea that this is one
of the representative houses of the
city. And this impression, dear reauer,
Is not false one. The prOprietnrs of
this place are VIM Driver & Son. The
firm is an old and reliable one, viii its
members are among the foremost in
every matter of enterprise and ambition
that go so far toward making city or
country prosperous.
The building whiC b they occupy is
substantial brick s ructure, 26x9j feet,
ground dimensions, and is three stories
high with basement under the whole.
This gives an area of floor nearly 1000
square feet; and investigating the par
poses to which this amount of room is
devoted, we very soon ascertain that
the firm is large and extensive whole.
sale one, whose influence exteI d to
all points of this inter-mountain region.
Leaving the front part of the building,
which is used as a retail drug store, we
arrive in the counting room of the firm,
after passing through room contain
ing numerous barrels of liquor, cases of
imported beer and other articles f
liquid refreshments. After a few mo-
ments chat with the senior member of
the firm, Mr.. VIM. Driver, who is a
member of the present City Council,
and a very pleasant and agreeable gen
tleman, we step onto the new and i'm
proved elevator which this firm has re-
Gently had put into their building to
enable them to expedite their rapidly
growing business, and which we men
toned in these columns recently, and
ascend to the realms above" to explore
the contents OF the capacious store
rooms. On the second floor we see
long tiers of cases ntaining the
latest and most reliable patent
medicines and proprietary articles,
stocked up within a short distance of
the high ceiling. After taking an ex-
tended walk through the various COM
partments on this floor we ascend to
the next floor and still behold cases
uUOn cases OF goods piled high upon the
centre of the building and along the
walls. Our curiosity as to the contents
of the upper floors being satisfied, we
descend by the elevator, to the cellar
underneath. Liquors, wines, cigars,
paints and oils of every description be
sides other articles of commerce such
as varnishes, brushes. etc are stored
here awaiting shipment out of the city
bv one of the various lines of railroad
that centre here. AGAIN we fnd our
selves on the ground flo II and venture
the remark that the firms bust
ness interests are much more ex-
tensive than we had contemplated
or even conceived. Yes sir,
replied the head of the house, I'VE have
a very fair trade in our line We have
one of the finest stocks of goods IL the
Territory, and in our special lines we
do an immense wholesale as well as a
large retail business. What are our
special 81 Oh, Wholesale drugs patent
medicines, paints, oils, varnIshes and
brushes. besides the finest domestic and
imported wines and Cigarsp Judging
from the large amounts of these goods
carried in stock, we were compelled to
admit that the firms trade must indeed
be extensive Besides he business
carried on in this city, the gentlemen
comprising this firm, have found Ogden
very good point from which to branch
out, and foreseeing that this viii! ALWAYS
be. a commercial centre for the sur
rounding Territory they have established
branch houses at Logan, Utah, and
montpelier, Idaho. They have the
agency for the north Of the now famous
Soda Springs water, which is sold by
| them at all of their houses. like all
other business men with whom We have
had the pleasure of conversation lately,
Messrs. VIM. Driver & Son have high
anficipations of the brightness of Og-
den's future as a commercial city. The
natural advantages are here, and it is
only a question of time when her repre-
sentative business men will succeed. in
making of her booming business town.