The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-29
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
The Flow of Natural Gas Con.
tinues Steady.
MORE COTTAGES TO BE BUILT.
In the District COurt-Real Estate Transfers
Some More Wholesale Houses
General News.
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OGDEN. September y.
Dr. a. Z. Manders who is now in Denver
on real estate business is expected homo
the first of the week ,--- e..i}.
The flow of gas from the well at the cor
aer of Wall avenue and Twenty-ninth
street is steadily increasing.
The Rio Grande Western friends Of
Engineer Frank Selgrath, OF Salt Lake,
= Ntarn with pleasure of his promotion 70 the
Y Sition Of travelling engineer.
<11if there is city of its size in the country
which presents a more business like aspect
than does Ogden on Saturday afternoons,
we would like to know whereit IS r. --
G. .. Coray, an assayer, has recently
opened an office over the Western Union
telegraph Office. A really good assayer Is
Just what we want, US our mining interests
Increase. a-t--
In our yesterdays item in regard to the
rich find at Brigham city, we notice an
error. The second strike spoken of was
quicksilver and not silver, which will run
from four TO five hundred dollars to the
ton.
Upon the completion of the new bank
building, which will receive the First Ma
tonal bank, about January l, the Coop.
will occupy the rooms thus vacated as a
part of their establishment, thus making an
attractive entrance on the corner.
A H Nelson's handsome residence, cor
2er of Twenty-third street and Adams
avenue, is nearly completed. The grounds
and sidewalk are being graded. The cor
aer so long left uncared will now present a
me appearance. The building has cost
about four thousand dollars
W. f. Thompson has returned to Denver
after completing arrangements for building
some six or eight cottages on his recent
purchase of forty acres formerly known as
the Griffith orchard These houses
which will be Of the most modern archltec-
ture will be offered for sale on the install
ment plan which has been adopted so sue
cessfully in Denver and elsewhere. Work
viii be commenced at once.
Washington avenue, Twenty fourth and
Tyyenty-fifth streets are so closely packed
With teams that it is almost impossible to
drive through these thoroughfares faster
than walk, and pedestrians find it exceed
ingly uncomfortable at the crossings. In at
least half dozen places in the central part
If the city, the streets and sidewalks are
argely taken up by building material and
teams employed in their excavations, thus
adding to the general confusion. The
farmers are now anXiOusly inquiring for
some place in which to leave their teams. as
one place after another has been yielded up
% the encroachments of new buildings.
Colonel a. H. Swan, the stalwart street
railway pusher, informs US that the Hot
Springs railroad will be built as soon as
the company have decided which route is
the most feasible from Five Points north
ward The North Ogden route was at first
selected, but the route via Harrisville is
being surveyed and seems to offer less OBJ
struction than the other. In all probability
whichever route pays the most bonus Will
yet IL. 1t will certainly increase the value
Of property greatly wherever the road
passes. Trains will run as often as is re
Iuired to accommodate the public which it
IS likely viii be every half hour, and will
commence at ) 30 d. m, and running till
midnight. This Will give parties in the
city a chance to spend the night at the
springs. returning in time for business in
lie morning.