The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

year 1880. under the successive man
agement of Peery, Teasdel and Sears,
the promises of the beginning culmi
mated in the erection of that grand building
which 1873 feet in length by 100 in width, of
three stories and a basement is equal to
all surrounding improvements at this pre-
sent date, and may not be surpassed for
years to come The business continues
as is known (under the present management
of Mr.. John Watson) to steadily increase,
and this under competitive struggle more
intense than elsewhere in this favored ter
ritory. The estimated sales of this branch
from an average stock of $780, 900, is about
one million dollars per annum, and indeed
more accommodation is yet required for its
storage, for the comfort of its purchasers,
and for it's employees.
While this central Ogden branch filed
admirably the needs of its location, there
was large stretch of northern territory
which it could not cover; Cache county,
Utah, and Bear Lake county, Idaho, with
their thrifty settlements and increasing
population, demanded the consideration of
the parent directorate, and Logan the
Queen city of the north, in the heart of
Cache county, was selected as another cen
tire from which was destined to radiate, the
lines of trade and mercantile necessity, to a
great community; one already measurably
sustaining z. G. M. l., yet looking to it for
more ample protection, and that conven-
fence of location and supply, which would
surely have been speedily filed by others.
Cooperative partnership had already
paved the way for an appreciation of its ad
yantages, for under the SUPPLEMENTARY
of Apostle E. T. Benson and the genera
management of Moses Thatcherssit had be-
come quite power in directing the trade
of Cache: but President Brigham Young
urging consolidation with q. @. M. l. gave
to business matters that feature of unity,
which meant not only strength, but such
development and promise, as, while at the
instant appearing far in advance of neces-
sity and of the times, has yet in the long
run, fully demonstrated the shrewdness
and far reaching tactics and policy, of
those esteemed leaders, whose works will
long outlive them, and tell of their sagacity,
their forethought, and their inspiration.
There was a more sublime faith exhib-
tied than a mere worldly one, in the future
of Cache and northern Utah; when in 1874
the foundation of rock building of four
stories, and S0xS1 feet on the ground was
laid; the old village quietude was for ever
broken, and as the massive walls rose to
the view of the settlements north and
south, dreams of progress doubtless were
prolific in the hearts of many, who had
helped to redeem that fertile valley, and
made it their adopted home.
From the seven years SUPPLEMENTARY
of Moses Thatcher, through the admins
tration of R. S. Watson, Farr, Sanders and
others, this Logan branch of 2. G. M. I.
has pursued its transformations way, carry
ing a widely assorted.stock of goods.valued
at quarter of million, while It's annual
sales aggregate s75O,OO0, and it is to day
shipping the produce of the county
through a circuit only bounded by the coast
westward, but running inland through
these entire intermountaln territories max
ing it as an ever present blessing to the
people, without suspicion or disguise.
Other outposts of supply have been
opened from time to time as wisdom seemed
to suggest, such as Soda Springs station,