The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25

damus suits attendant thereupon. |
repeat, with emph- ISIS, that Ogden is a
first class city. By the kindness Of
Providence and other exclusive in
habitants of this place. l have Teen
permitted to live here some years, and
therefore my judgment should be taken
in preference to his EIcellency's.
Very few readers OF The HERALD are
aware that Ogden has seven railroads,
with several more ouilding.
Ogden is the queen city of the noun
tains; that is another startling ass err
ton which will attract attention by its
novelty-but is no less true than
strange.
Without waiting to comment upon
each wonder which shall present, [
will now proceed in a cold, unimpas-
stoned, Judicial and mathematical way
to enumerate a few of the singular
advantages which this City possesses,
and which are certain to make her all
that her fondesJ admirers believe her
destined to be.
Ogden has nearly twelve thousand
people. This is not singular advant-
age probably. but rather a plural or
multitudinous one. The last census
reported practically ten thousand peo-
pie in Ogden; but since that time the
good stoTkS and the grandmas and the
family physicians have been at work,
and besides we have approached much
nearer to election time-all of which
aggregated facts will account for the
marked increase. 1t will be observed
that I enumerated the railroads before
l did the inhabitants. We regard them
as being of quite as much present i'm
poTtance, and at the rate they are pro-
crossing they will soon be numerically
equal to our present population.
Ogden City has two rivers, neither OF
which is naYigable. But there is an
abundant water supply from both for
drinking purposes; and that is the
most aggravating thing which we can
say TO Salt Lake people, whose parched
lips appeal vainly through all the sum :
mer months for anything more clearly
liquid than beer. We have but one
brewery here as result of the excel
lence Of the water supply.
Ogden has three national banks and
one loan and trust company.
Ogden has a milling and -four COM
bination. The farmer knows this to
his joy, and the four-consumer also.
Ogden has the finest hotel buildin g
in Utah-eXcept one.
Ogden has more wholesale produce
and commission houses and does more
shipping of produce than any other
city in the Territories.
Ogden pays $1,000 600 year to the
railroad companies.
Ogden pays something less than
81, 600 900 year to her local newspa-
pers
Ogden has the best brass brand in the
Territory.
Ogden has natural gas. Cali puns
are barred by municipal ordinance,
which, by the way, is the one ordinance
Of this city which has not vet been
tested in the courts.) This gas has
been used successfully for fuel and il
Illuminating purposes. Experienced well
borers will agree to find gas by boring
from one to three hundred feet anV
place in the city.
Ogden had iron works, and will have
them again. The men who scoffed at
our union depot are not willing now to
bet any hats that this assertion is false.
While these works were operated, the
furnaces ran out pigs of iron of such
astonishing character that a descrip-
ton of its quality will read like fairy
tale. 1 am quoting now the cold