The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-25

time for most of the lads on the NOR
row resulted, but the affair was soon
settled.
1t seems hardly possible that but As
years ago Ogden was such a place
a collection of log houses within a
small walled fort, but such it was.
The Weber county of today COM
pared with the Weber county of that
day is a metropolis such as none of
the then inhabitants could have
dreamed of.
Today Ogden is a city with railroads,
extending in all directions from it,
with telegraph lines connecting it with
the main centers of the country.
Churches and school buildings are now
here almost as many in number as
were the log cabins of those days. 1t
has every facility and source of wealth
to make it a great city, and since the
last Christmas there has come to il
the gigantic power plant enterprise.
This enterprise is destined to make
greater changes in Ogden during the
ensuing five years than did all other
agencies during the past half century.
A year ago almost none of the work
had been done toward creating the
great power plant, but now the day
is not far distant when 10000 horse
power viii be generated by the waters
of Ogden river, and by the time an
other Christmas is here the capacity of
the plant will doubtless be double that
figure. A transmission line for send
ing light, heat and power from this
city to southern cities is all but COM
pleted. Think of the changes which
even during the past year have been
wrought by this one enterprise Masses
of solid rock have been upheaved;
chasms have been SPAWNED, tunnels
bored and a route for the river formed
hundreds of feet above it's present bed.
Ages of geological forces were neces-
sary to cut its way down to its pres
ent level, yet almost since last Christ
mas this great change has been
wrought. Nearly mile of steel pipe
through which man can walk up
right has been laid, and about five
miles of wooden pipe with steel bands.
A commodious power house has been
built for the reception of the most i'm
proved modern machinery and electrical
devices. The attention of the civilized
world has been attracted to Ogden's
great power plant, of which
nature formed the foundation
when the great natural reser-
canyon, and to the utilization of which
has been devoted some of the ablest
talent of science and finance. To con-
lecture what changes will be wrought
in Ogden before Christmas so years
hence. With the start now made it is
absolutely certain that vast industrial
changes and advancements will be
made. Cheap power is a mighty
source of wealth and cheap power will
be here. New farms and new factories
will furnish work and wealth. New
industries will be developed and new
products will be made, while new roads
will be builded to carry them out to
the markets of the world. Men will
seek the same things that their faith
ers have sought, and may be do the
same things. but on scale so much
larger and grander than their fathers
could ever have realized when less
than so Christmases ago they lived in
the small walled fort with forests or
desert about them. AS the Christmases
go by new schools and new churches
will be builded and in all things in
tellectual and spiritual, people will keep
pace with the great industrial develop
ment. Though at times it may have
seemed otherwise people have done this
ever since the first Christmas Utah
people at all events have done it and
men do the same things that their
fathers have done as the Christmases
go by.