The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
WEDNESDAY
December % 1889
The City in Brief.

citation, which has been doing business
here for the past seven years, has met with
remarkable success.
Persons who may be afflicted with the
Washington fever, will please bear in mind
that the unusual weather now prevailing
in Utah is the regular thing nine months in
the year.
THE CHRISTMAS HERALD will be on sale
at A c. Emerson's, G. B. Anthony's and
the Ogden News Depot on Twenty fourth
street. The regular carriers will deliver
orders received at the branch Office, and
will have a few copies to sell at ID
cents each
More than $1,000 was realized by the
Fifth Ward fair 1t was well managed
throughout, and no dissatisfaction was felt
or expressed by the unlucky holders of
chances in the lots and other valuable
prizes rallied for.
U. L. Davis, an employee of the Ogden
street railway company, was out driving
Saturday afternoon, when the horse took
fright near the tabernacle and started on a
run up Twenty first street. Mr.. Davis was
thrown from the buggy and struck on his
face, while the wheels passed over his back.
He received a severe cut over the left eye
and was badly Jared by the fall He was
assisted to his home on Madison avenue
and is getting along as well as could be ex-
pected.
E. a. Reed has decided to build his hotel
entirely of the diamond red sandstone The
stone win be quarried out during the wiz
ter and will be split and trimmed TO the
proper size for laying in the wall, so that
upon arrival in Ogden it viii only be neces-
sary to cut the face to make it ready for
use BY pursuing this course an ample
supply of stone will be assured for contin-
uous work on the upper stories until their
early completion.
Ogden IS to have a new fremen's hall, to
be built according TO the plans and specifi-
cations prepared by Architect d'Heme-
court and adopted by the city council at
their last meeting.
The committee on fire department of the
T city council are preparing for the steamer
which is now on the way hither They are
advertising for the purchase Of two teams,
one span of horses to weigh 400 pounds
each, and one 1900 pounds each.
1t is understood that the right Of way
difficulty heretofore existing between the
Utah Northern railway and the Boutwell,
Canal company has been settled and that
the railroad will go through Bear river
canon. Everybody hopes that the canal
will also, be built through the canon. as
contemplated, and that the alleged troubles
inside the company will not result in re-
tarding work on the big ditch.
Several large families have dubbed to-
gether and sent TO Chicago for some hosiery
such as is worn by the bellies of that citv
The object is to obviate the necessity of
having multiplicity of stockings of the
ordinary size hung up all over the house,
and even then being unable to get the
larger articles, such as rocking horses
small trains Of cars, etc. in them, when
one stocking of the common Chicago kind
will answer for large family in moderate
circumstances.
vicinity Of Ogden is peculiarly adapted to
the manufacture of brick of the finest Quail
ity for the building purposes. Some of the
pressed brick made here are only inferior
to the best made anywhere because the
process of manufacture here is inferior A
movement is on foot for the establishment
of a brick factory on large scale. when If |
is believed that the quality of building and !
sewer brick produced will not be excelled !
by any other, and that they can be sold az
such a reduction as to entirely shut ont the |
foreign article. The standard requirement. |
is that sewer brick shall not absorb more |
than 4 per cent. Of water. Nearly all tbe |
prick turned out Of the Ogden brick yards |
will fulfill that requirement. At present |
THE only trouble is that the facilities for |
manufacturing are too limited
Volume II Of Haefeli's eagerly. expected |
Gas You Like IT. has been DELAYED bv I'M |
avoidable difficulties, but it will positively |
be out IN Few days Particulars as to the |
work Mill be found in the ADVERTISING col |
umns OF this issue.
John S. Corlew, the wide-awalle solicitor
for the Union Pacific railway company in |
Ogden, accompanied by his wife and chill |
dren, win leave on Friday morning for a |
visit to his father and mother aft the old |
home in Huntington, Ind. They will be |
absent about two weeks.
Charlie Pettee, of the Union. has gone TO
Frisco TO spend the holiday season with his |
old-time friends. ,SssE9 I'll
Ogden's streets were thronged Yesterday
by people of all classes and conditions. who |
besieged the stores and kept vast army |
Of clerks busy filling their oaders for
Christmas presents. M
There was a short supply Of turkeys in
the market yesterday, but dealers did not |
advance the price, which was the same as
for the past ten years-30 cents per pound |
This department wishes its readers ana |
all the world merry Christmas.
The Utah Northern road is experiencing
a great deal Of trouble from snow along its |
lines, both in Idaho and Montana, and all |
trains on that road have been DELAYED for |
the past few days. u - = -sA Ssssi |
Whose fault was it that THE HERALD did |
not receive the regular Ogden correspond |
ence Monday night, which should have |
been published Tuesday morning? - |
n An attempt is to be made 20 start up the |
fs;on works in this city, and it ought to be |
an easy thing to dc, unless the people are |
determined to sit down, and like Micawber, |