The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
YEAR OF ADVANCEMENT
FOR The JUNCTION CITY
Ogden and Weber County Are Able to Present a
Fine Record.
Enormous Proportions Railroad Trac-GrOwth of Ogden
and Her Industries-N0table Events of the Year.

This has been prosperous year for
Ogden. Occupying as it does a position
of Importance TO traffic from ocean to
ocean, the city is placed in close touch
with all the activities of the country
and its commercial and industrial in
terests are Immediately influenced by
those of the nation at large. Conse-
Quentiy, Ogden has shared in full meas
ure the quickened prosperity of the
entire country.
But more important still is the con-
tinued steady growth of the home in
dustries; the development of known
local resources and the discovery of
new ones.
Ogden citizens have come to have
deep and abiding faith in their city
as an industrial and distributing CEN
ter and in the year 1899 all things have
combined in Strengthening this faith.
The rich agricultural regions of Weber
and adjacent counties tributary TO the
city have yielded rich harvests and
shared in the general prosperity of
the year. Horticulture flourished; fiockS
and herds throve and mines developed
during the past season to a greater ex
tent than in any previous year. The
business of the railroads centering
here was doubled, not only as regards
transcontinental business, but local
business as well. Banks, loan agencies,
real estate firms and similar institu-
tions have experienced a proportionate
increase in their business volume.
The population of the city has ma
terially increased and houses are in
greater demand than at any time since
the, period known as the boom" There
is hardly a vacant house for rent any
where in the city. Schools and churches
have shared in the general upbuiIding
of the city and county.
Ogden has an almost ideal site. The
Weber river flows from a canyon the
mouth of which is about six miles
south of Ogden canyon, and skirting
along the western limits, joins the Og-
den river, thus forming a rough letter
V, the point being within the city linn
its. The ground on which the city is
builded slopes gradually westward
from the mountains base, inSuring
good drainage, while the two rivers, be-
sides several smaller streams, supply
ample water of the purest kind for all
purposes.
The location of the place has given
rise to one of its greatest sources of
prosperity. The canyons cut through
the mountain ranges made it the OBJ
jective point for railroads en- route
across the continent, while the local
features and abundant resources make
1t a natural commercial center for the
intermountain country.
Such are some of the general condi-
tions which have been at work in the
steady growth of a prosperous COM
munity.
Weber county, in which Ogden is
situated, though one of the smallest in
area, has a varied topography which
gives rise to varied industries. Its east
ern portion is mountainous, with fertile
valleys here and there. From the base
of the Wasatch range on the west the
land slopes gradually TO the Great Salt
lake. Two of the largest mountain
streams in Utah, the Weber and Ogden
rivers. flow from the canyons of the
same name and form a junction within
the western limits of the city. Thus
the county has all kinds of country
mountains, plains hills, rivers and lake.
The citizen of Ogden can leave his mod
ern city and in at most a few hours
may be in the wild, rugged recesses of
mountains or at the shore of Utah's
dead sea.
Ogden and Weber canyons are famous
for scenic attractions and there are
scores of novel and picturesque scenes
within an hours access of the city.
RAILROAD TERMINAL.
BY imagining a train of passenger
cars extending from Omaha to ogden,
a distance of 1882 miles, an idea is OBJ
tanned OF the volume of passenger bust
ness going through the Ogden depot.
During the year, 96.452 passenger cars
came and went through The depot yards
and allowing fifty-Six feet to the car
most of the standard Pullmans are
seventy-five and the new standard
coaches are siXty-the figures show that
If extended in one train the cars would
occupy 1,023 miles of track If baggage.
mail and express cars, with locomotives.
were added, the train would reach well
out towards San Francisco. Passen-