The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

! the west. Mile after mile of streets,
drives and boulevards have been laid out
and many blocks OF sidewalks have been
laid out and old streets graded and
/ Weber river and the other over Ogden
river, and several wooden bridges have
been constructed and paid for. Three new
parks have been laid out, sown to grass,
planted with trees and otherwise beauti-
fed. During the present administration
the bonded Indebtedness has been in
creased from SEQ, 600 to Sis. 900, includ-
ing $50, eco issue just authorized by the
city council, the proceeds of which Will
be devoted to the funding of the outstand-
ing claims aga nst the city. Out of the
amount derived through the sale of bonds
many much-needed and magnificent pub
lie improvements have been made. The
money has been wisely expended. Ogden
never had more progressive mayor and
city council than those just retiring from
Office, and should the incoming admins
tration do as well and erect as many mon
uments to Ogden's growth and general
prosperity the people may well feel salts
fed.
CITY OFFICIALS.
The gentlemen who have had charge of
municipal affairs for the past two years
are:
William H. Turner, Mayor.
MANS, II. H. Spencer, M. N. Graves,
Allison, jr., J. r. Elliott, Frank j. Can
non and James A. Calvert.
The gentlemen who will take their
seats on January LIST, and conduct the city
government for 1898, were elected on a
platform of financial reform, yet they
promise to keep up the work of public
Improvement commenced by the admin
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proyements in the various departments OF
the city are contemplated, and will be
carried out next year. Negotiations are
now pending for the purchase of addl-
tional cemetery and park lands, but the
present council has decided to leave the
final settlement of the question to its sue
cesSor in Office.
PUBLIC ANDiPRIvATE IMPROVEMENTS.
Great progress has been made during
the year just drawing to a close in the
way OF public and private improvement,
chief among which has been the securing
OF several factories and manufacturing
establishments. With the opening of
1889, a factory was practically unknown
in Ogden. There are now located within
the city limits over thirty, including one
of the largest fruit canneries in the
west, and a tin stamping plant
which will supply the market of
the entire inter mountain country
during the coming year with tin cans and
all kinds Of tin ware. The works are
now employing fifty men night and day.
This industry is one long needed and
gives promiseof expanding into magnifi-
cent proportions. Other manufacturing
enterprises are on the tapis and will GER
tainly be established in the Junction City
before the new year has advanced many
months.
COMMERCIAL CENTER.
For good reasons certain points become
great commercial center.
Ali such places are terminals of lines of
transportation. No way station ever be-
came an Omaha or a San Francisco.
Ogden is the terminal railway center
between Denver and the Pacific. IL now
has five distinct railway systems and five
ira OK terminals. AS trains are made up,
eight railroads end here.
A law OF Congress fixes the western
terminus of the Union Pacific system
here. The same law made Omaha its
eastern terminus.
The result there has been, Omaha, and
eight or ten other railroads and terminals.
Ogden. Today five distinct tracks enter
this city. Eight separate train systems
are operated to and from this place daily,
over 4, 4S1 miles of direct trackage, not
including branches. Below is an exhibit
of the eight lines of train service origin
ating at Ogden, including trunk lines
and distances to principal objective
points.