The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25

has quite number of manufactures at
present, but not as many as the de mand re I
quires.
Ogden's real estate increases in valua-
ton to remarkable degree each succeed
ing year and during 1891 the increase has
been fully one hundred per cent. The ag-
gregate sales during the past year amount
to nearly S10,000,000, making monthly
business during real estate activity OF
about 100000. The city's growth dur
ing the last four or five years has been
phenomenal both in regard to population
and public and private improvements, and
! friends returning to the best country on
earth after an absence of from one TO four
years, or even as many months, scarcely
know the Queen city, and always express
much surprise at her rapid strides towards
metropoitanism. This is made noticeable
from the fact that where once stood little
one, two and three story buildings, stately
five, six and seven story structures rear
their heads, from which a person may
gaze with rapture on scenery unrivalled by
any in the world. Even the famed Yosem-
tie Valley presents no such beauty as can
be seen by ascending to the roof of some of
Ogden's highest piles. Nearly so, 100000
has been expended in buildings during the
last year, not including the structures
commenced and not completed during 1890. |
In addition to this there are numerous new
blocks to be built the plans being now in
the hands of the architects. The corpora
ton intends to erect large number of
municipal buildings during the coming
season, besides completing as rapidly as
practicable those now proposed and under
way. Within the next two years Ogden
will be as we'll, if not better, supplied with
. city and county structures as any city in
the territory.
The city of Ogden has done much in the
way of public improvements. Nearly
= twenty miles of pavement have been laid,
and the amount is being continually in
creased; roads, streets and driveways
without number have been graded and
macadamized; three parks have been laid
off aud planted with trees, grass and
flowers, furnishing ample room for pleas
ant strolls and recreation during the
heated summer months; sewerage sys-
tenn second to none in the West has been
put in at al enormous expense; two
systems of electric lights furnish the light
= ing for the city; the fire department, under
J splendid management and aided by a lib
a eral city council, has been built up until it
a is second to none in the territory; nearly
twenty miles of electric street rail-
ways have been put in operation at an
outlay of nearly 81, 100000, making one of
the finest systems in the United States
J ample provision has been made for the
public schools, which under municipal con-
troll have been so improved and increased
as to make the system one of unusual
excellence and system of water works,
conceded by experts to be one of the best
in the world, has been added to the already
overfowing list. In addition to what the
Rcity has already done for the schools, it has
y voted to issue 100000 worth of bonds fol
the erection of more schoolhouses. Ogder
is the seat of the new Utah Wesleyan Uni
versity, and also Of the Sacred Hear
I Academy.
y Ogden has seven banking institutions
Il whose credit is unassailable and second t,
4 none. With few exceptions the banks owl
Fl the buildings in which they do business
- and the Utah Loan and Trust company ha
just completed a five story cut stone build
ing which is credit to the city and will
forever prove a monument to the enter
10 prise ard public spirtedness of the com
.s pany, which embraces among its stock
y holders men well and honorably known il
VI nearly all the walks OF life. The city.
. banking house clearings frequently react
- the respectable amount Of $500, 900 week
The junction City may almost be terme
0D the city of churches. Every denominatio
known in this country has building there
S'1 many of which compare most favorabl
~ with those of the largest eastern cities
49, The UNCONVENTIONAL schools, of which Their
are a great number, are all we'll attended
% the students coming from all parts of tn
49,, country. Even California furnishes he
~ quota, notwiths landing the fact that tn
-"' schools of that state are sometimes hel
. up as models of perfection.
Secret societies flourish in Ogden; Their
are thirteen lodges, all of which are in yer
flourishing condition. The Knights o
Pythias, Pythian Sisters, Masons, A. @
W., Sons of ST. George, Forresters, P.
4 S. of A., National Union, brotherhood O
y Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood @
\ Railway Firemen and Order of Railwa,
Il Conductors hold regular sessions. Som
Il of the societies own buildings and all hav
v splendid quarters, centrally located.
For a city of her size Ogden is fairly we
J supplied with newspapers which the cit
| zens and business men patronize abundant
ly. making it possible for the various con
panies to enlarge their plants as tho occ
sion requires. The Standard regales il
readers with Republican matter, while til
Euening Mail propounds good old Jefferson
ian doctrine. The Western Knight is tt
organ of the Knight of Pythias. Othe
weekly and monthly periodicals are pu
lished in the city by societies, schools ar
denominations.
AS is the case in all Utah cities al
towns, the citizens of Ogden, with few e