The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-18
April IS, 1890
The City in Brief.

The machinery for the old Farr wooden mill
has been purchased and will soon be put in
operation
Business of great importance will be consid-
cred by the city council at the regular weekly
meeting this evening.
The cadets at the military academy have re-
ce1ved their new guns and feel as proud OF them
as a boy with sore toe.
Alderman Preshaw being absent at Provo
city, his place in the municipal court is being
ably TILED by Alderman Whalen.
Nebraska corn fed meats are now on sale in
half dozen OF Ogden's markets, and they meet
with ready sale. The beef comes from the
Phil Armour company.
Rev. Franklin, who is at the head Of the
smelter project was in the city yesterday look
ing after his interests The assurance is given
fall.
Interested parties here claim to have received
favorable news in regard to the Pacific Short
Line. They say that work will really be COM
menced on this end of the line and some track
laid this year.
There will be grand rosette ball held in the
Third ward meeting house next Tuesday even
Ing, he 22d inst, for which numerous invitations
have been sent out. The best of music will be
furnished and the price OF tickets has been
fixed at IS cents.
There is no truth in the statement made by
the Commercial that the session of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows which closed Wednesday,
was the first session of grand lodge ever held
In Ogden. The same order held its grand lodge
SESSION mere several years ago.
Ogden now has three private and three ma
tional banks. and is TO have another one with a
capital of S300.009 Three or four more banks
with large capital could find profitable and
safe employment for all their money, because
this city IS bound TO 60 ahead at rapid rate.
The mercants' police patrol has split up. The
former chief, Van Luven claims to have dis
charged the two men who were acting under
him, while they say that they left him volun-
tarily because his authority as an oficer had
been revoked by the mayor. G. w. NJ Verge
md John L. Watts, the two men alluded to,
have gone into the watching business on their
OWN hook
Nearly every one, with the possible exception
pr the tenants now occupying the old Jennings
building on the corner OF Washington avenue
End pwenty-fourth streets, hopes that the Utah
Loan and Trust company viii be able to make
such a showing, when their equity case comes
before Judge Henderson, as Will justify him in
putting the building into the possession OF the
owners. If such thing shall happen it will not
be long before the old building Will be RACED TO
the ground 10 give place TO the most magnif-
cent building in Utah.
If there be any good reason why the large
business blocks in this city should not be cut
up by having streets cut through them north
and south and east and west, it has never been
advanced by any of the DIRECTORS TO the scheme
Yet there are DIRECTORS, and some of them are
the very ones who would reap the greatest ben
cit from the carrying out OF the project 1t is
possible, under the new law, in cities Of this
class to fore inconsistent directors to public
Improvements 10 submit to the popular will
and The law Will be invoked whenever necessary
Already there is a scarcity of building ma
teriai of certain kinds such as foundation stone
brick, lath and finishing lumber of some descrip
TONS Considerable forces of men are quarryine
the stone and preparing for burning brick bui
ii is more than probable that no matter how
much effort the stone, lumber and brick meI
may make, there will be no surplus of either Of
those kinds of building material this year. It is
asserted that finishing lumber can be laid down
in Ogden from Chicago much cheaper than it car
be bought of the local dealers. If this be true
IL shows that there is a chance for men of cap
ital TO go into the business here and sell a.
prices that will shut out foreign competitors
An electric railroad company has been OF
ganized with nominal capital of S1,O00O0O. ans
an application will be made to the city council
at its meeting tonight for franchise. Thi!
company is composed of large number of The
wealthiest and most enterprising citizens O
Ogden, who mean business and should receive
every encouragement Competition in stree
car travel is very much needed here The ont
line now running is ali right, so far as it goes
but it does not cover streets enough nor furnish
the needed facilities for reaching the mos
populous parts of the city. The old line il
extended northward and will pass through ont
of the loyeliest suburbs of Ogden. The nov
line will probably be extended to the lake
where a summer resort viii be located. Tn.
motive power of the new n will be supplied
by the Ogden Power company.