The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-11
The City In Brief.


carrier in Ogden for 25 cents per week.
E. A. LITTLEFlELD, Manager,
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The City in Brief.
Ogden is to be connected with Logan by
telephone.
The necessity for d sewer on Twenty
fifth street is daily becoming more appar-
ent.
a tea train Of twenty cars from the west
went through Ogden yesterday, bound for
New York.
A number of prominent eastern railroad
men came in yesterday and went west over
the Central Pacific.
Captain ]. c. Anderson, of Eagle Rock,
Idaho, has come to Ogden to spend a few
days with his family and friends.
Good apples retail at a cent pound, the
best quality being a cent and a quarter and
are in demand for shipment abroad.
1t has not yet been settled whether the
motor line will go to the Utah Hot Springs
by way of Harrisonville or north Ogden.
The boys with soldier caps on their
heads, who are seen in such numbers on our
streets, reminds one of a military encamp
ment.
The city council, it is understood, will
use what money can be spared toward build
ing sewer on Twenty-tifth street to Wall
avenue.
The strike at the gravel pits on Wednes-
day resulted in the substitution of the
chain gang for the former force of en-
ployees.
1t is believed that the new city directory
soon to be issued will show that Ogden
has population Of upwards of eighteen
thousand people.
H. D. Lewis, the original discoverer of,
and now one of the principal owners Of the
IdahOan mine at Bullion, Idaho, is visiting
the Wood River country.
Four high muck-a-muck Cinnamon oc-
cupied a special car on the incoming Union
Pacific yesterday afternoon They are en-
route to the tiowery kingdom
The interest in mining is undated. New
locations are being made daily and quite an
army Of prospectOrs are roaming over and
through the Ogden mountains.
The overland freight traffic is very lively
just now. More freight is going,,east than
west. Seventeen crews on the Central
Pacific are kept busy all the time.
David Kay, one of our rustling wholesale |
merchants, has gone to southeastern Ne |
vada, to examine a promising mining prop
erty in which he has a large Tut crest.
A sea porcupine in the show window of
Emerson's book store attracts the attention
Of many passers by. 1t was captured in
the Pacific ocean, off the Oregon coast
tending strictly to business, and a change |
for the better is noticeable in the districts |
of the city which have received his atten- |
tiou.
Ogden seems to be receiving more noto- !
riety of the wrong kind than she wants or
deserves. The New York Worlds CORE |
spondeut is the latest liar TO traduce this |
city.
1t is pity that there is no law to pre-
vent the patching up of old shanties on the
principal streets of the city, as is being
done. Such work shows a sad lack of en-
terprise
Frank J. Cannon is lying dangerously i'll
with fever at Covington, Neb. Covington
Is the place where the Pacific Short Line
will cross the Missouri river to get into
Sioux city, its eastern terminus.
An average of three special raisin trains
per week are now going east from Fresno,
California. Each train consists of from
fifteen to twenty cars, the average capacity
Of the cars being about 30, 900 pounds each.
The patriotic ladies of the Woman's Re
lief corps will give an entertainment in the
Methodist church next Monday evening for
the benefit of the old veterans A sump-
tuOus reIa5t will be served for the small
sum Of % cents.
Alfred Stanford, of Egen, Idaho, brother
of our county recorder and up to within
y
visit to his former home. He is greatly
gratified at the progress and prosperity of
the junction city.
The poor policy of building union pas
senger station too small to accommodate a
growing business, receives a fresh illustra-
tion in the structure at the foot of Twenty
fifth street. So a railroad man who is
posted informs this scribe.
The Guv nor,' as given by the Second
1rDn WaAnpC6oy /
evening, drew a large appreciative audi
ence At was well presented by the com
pany, and should be again given by the
same combination Of amateurs.
Considerable annoyance was caused in
this city yesterday over the failure of tele-
phonic communication between here and
Salt Lake city, caused, as was learned, by
trouble between the electric railway wires
aad those of the telephone company. :
Rents are too high in Ogden; there is no :
doubt of that This applies to both bust :
ness and residence houses, on the bench Z
and in the lower part of the city. In some :
instances places rent for nearly as much
per month as the structure cost in the first
place.
T. r. Little, of the Mana mine, is making
for working that property
during the coming winter, and will put on q
q considerable force of men at an early day. O
Cabins and an ore house will be built right q
away, and winters supply of provisions =
laid in at once.
Frank Cook, the time printer, now Z
the boss pumper of the Five Points dairy, >
was 80 far recovered from his severe sick
ness of the past six weeks as to appear on :
the streets Of Ogden yesterday, where he b
was heartily congratulated upon his narrow C
escape from the clutches of the grim reaper. "
Twenty fifth street hill is again being re r
paired. There i 4 great deal Of work to be T
done yet before that thoroughfare will be
made what it ought to be. The street com
mittee will doubtless push the work from
now on, so as to have theroadway aud side =
walks in good condition before the storms
Of winter put stop to outdoor operations. T
w. H. Scudder and Joseph Carlson have I
a lot on the south side of Tween
Jy-ffth street, between Wall and Lincoln
avenues, and VIII al once proceed to erect
thereon a fine two story brick business
building, which viii be completed in TWO
mont $. II will take the place of one of
.he old Chinese shautes which have always
given the street such a shabby appearance. I