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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

following business was transacted:
Number of money orders issued. 12,01S
Amount yO,104
Number of money orders paid. 10,S01
Amount observation-disclosures. S151, lSo
This is a material increase over 1897.
The difference in the amount Of money
orders issued and that paid, over $4,000.
is significant.
The number of registered transact
tions was as follows:
Received for local distribution - $50
Dispatched from Ogden to other
OffceS ---..--.......-...... 4, 432
In the thorough registry division of
this office there were handled Isl, 672
registered letters. The absolute Secur-
ity of this branch of the postal service
is atteSted by the fact that of this
immense number of pieces handled.
not one has been lost. Every safeguard
is thrown around the registry business,
making it a perfect system for the
cheap transmission of valuable mail
The ordinary mail coming into and
going from Ogden has been much heav-
Ter than any previous year, taxing Post
master Islaub and his efficient corps Of
clerks to their utmost in its handling.
The number of mails received daily
is seventeen, and the same dispatched.
Ogden has two mails east and west
daily, two to points south of Salt Lake,
five mails to and from Salt Lake daily
and one north, while the principal point
in Cache Valley have two mails daily
Weber county points are now all sup
piled with a daily mail.
The local service is all that can ba
desired The office has been enlarged
and remodeled, being equipped with all
model postal facilities for the handling
of the increased business.
The Office has a force of eight car
rierS and seven clerks. George II. Is
laub is the postmaster
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chemical engine, one Grand Rapids
hose-wagon. with 1.2O0-foot capacity;
one seventy-five-foot Arrow aerial
truck There is also a steamer engine
and a hose-wagon in reserve.
The property at the Five Points sta
ton consists of a hand-engine, hose
reel, StiIlman truck and Sullivan swing
ing harness. The property is all in
good condition. During the year a num-
Der of improvements have been made
One new horse was secured, and the
stall floors have been replaced by
block paving. Two and one-haf miles
of copper wire have been laid in re-
pairing and extending the alarm sys-
tenn There are at present 104 fire by
drants.
During the year there were seventy
four fires, of which number twenty
eight were in frame buildings, twenty
four in brick or adobe and forty-two
were brush or rubbish fires. The chem
ical was used to extinguiSh seventeen
and water to eXtinguish thirty-seven.
Eight hundred and fourteen gallons of
chemical was used. $3.50 feet of hose
laid, and sos feet of ladders placed. In
answering calls, the number of miles
Travelled was 671. The amount of in
surance involved in the fires was
1920, 1872. The amount of insurance paid
was $S,402.96, and the loss of unin-
sured property amounted to IS, 500.e9.
No serious accidents happened to any
of the firemen during the year.
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The industrial and commercial status
OF Ogden is suggested by the popular
terms by which the city is known.
THE Ogden Gateway and the juno
ton City" aptly indicate the important
position or Weber county'S capital,
just as the Queen City" suggests her
beauty and influence.
Ia the year 1898 over 800 600 passen-
gers went through the Union depot
grounds Of Ogden. That one fact IS
suggestive Of countless other facts ana
conditions which give to Ogden her
standing as commercial ana lnauS-
trial center. The city'S position geo
graphically and the lay of the land IN
its Immediate neighborhood make her
2 natural distributing center for 10
calities lying to all points of the coni-
pass. The figures mean that the CITY
has on an average a floating popula-
ton every day which is greater lhan
its regular population of 10000. To one
familiar with the course of travel, the
size Of the passenger traffic shows the
commercial and industrial Importance
of Ogden in many other ways.
Other attendant facts Ct equal i'm
portancc may be brought forward to
show the Importance of the city rs Il
shipping center : heavy passenger
traffic is but Il corollary to the main
proposition OF a heavy freight traffic,
and figures proportionately large may
be quoted TO show the Importance Og-
den holds in regard TO the postal sys
TEN, the express companies and all
common carriers of national import
tance in their scope.
Incidentally, these conditions spring
from the fact of the city being a rail
road center, but this in turn is due to
facts in nature. The geological agen-
cieS which cut the natural passage
ways through the mountains to the
east and heaped this site for the city
near the northern shore of the Great
Salt lake, determined the Importance
of Ogden as center of transcontInen-
tai traffic. The conditions were laid
in nature, and railroads but utilize
them. incidentally, nature did much
iii other ways To make the site OF Og-
den beautiful and convenient. The
ogden and the Weber rivers eulerge
from canyons, the mouths of wnIcl- are
separated by a span of about Sven
miles. These rivers cut throug.. the
foothills and join waters just III the
western edge of the city. The COM
bined stream then flows on through Il
fruitful section 10 the Great salt lake.
Thus The stream forms a huge letter
', and between the arms OF the W
is located the greater part OF the city
o. Ogden. y system of natural. drain
age, almost perfect, is thus secured,
ana, supplemented by artificial sys-
tens. does much to bring the health
record OF the city far above that of
other cities Of its size less favorably
situated
Nature, too, insured an abundance
OF pure water Tor the city, while
breczes from the west bring the health
giving atmosphere from The lake. or
from the east the invigorating air of
cool, pine-ciad mountains. Around the
site in all directions fertile binds are
distributed, ano To show briefly how
these and other manifold advantages
have been utilized Viii be the purpose
of this Now Years re.ieN of progress
~ Ogden ana Weber county.
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.izette Miller, Mary Kirwan, Alice Ma

Lizette Miller, Mary Kirwan, Alice Ma
guire.
Broom's Bench-Laura c. Moench-
Chipp-Laura Kirkpatrick.
West Ogden-Nami Tracy.
City Hall-Mrs. NJ. r. HarcomDe.
Nettie FITZGERALD.
SACRED HEART ACADEMY.
The Sacred Heart academy, though a
Catholic institution, managed by the
Sisters of the Holy Cross is gen.
orally patronized by all cree1s. The
school building is valued at about SlOO,-
600, and is one of the best equipped and
thorough schools TO be found aT.y-
where. 1t receives only girls as pupils,
and pupils may board at the academy
under the direct care of the 81 >ters-
The aim of the school is to develop all
the faculties physical. mental and
moral, and to instill true cuItu-e. Be
sides the usual branc lcs, the schoe
has advantages for advanced study in
music, painting and decorative work.
Advanced instruction is given in all
lines, amounting almost to college
work The school is situated on high
ground, in the eastern portion of the
city, and is one of the notable build
ings of the city. Many pupils come
from surrounding states.
ST. Joseph's School for Boys is a
fiourishing institution, under the same
management as the Sacred Heart acad-
envy, the pupils being young boys.
WEBER STAKE ACADEMY.
Weber Stake academy is a sectarian
school of the Church of Jesus Christ of
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Some Of the school buildings more re-
Gently constructed are models of con-
venience. Among these are the Grant,
| Madison and Washington schools.
The introduction of a commercial
course in the high school is among the
improvements of the year. The course
was started as an experiment. and hai
already been shown to be a success.
and viii doubtless be continued as a
permanent feature.
The teachers of the schools IN the
city are as follows, the principal being
named first:
High school-Professor r. b. Lewis.
George A Eaton, John f. Engle. A. E..
Wilson, Mamie 7. Moffett, Margaret b.
Martin, Hermon II. Severn. Jacob e.
Tuckerman, Q. J. Stillwell.
Washington. M. Bishop. Ola Bar
ker, Edith Gourlay, Roscoe NJ. Breed
en-, Ella c. Ballard. Emma Couch.
Emma Nelson, IVA Thomas.
Central-F. r. Christensen. Martha
Burton. Mrs. Sara L. Randall. Il. j..
Cain, Cecilia Ceilings. Gertrude l..
Kellar, Eugene d. Smith. Hattie
Hinchcliffe, Mrs. T. r. Mcguire. Ce-
leste Conroy.
Grant-Samuel T. Doxey. Joel J.
Harris, Nettie Mckay Mrs. w. II.
Meal, NJ. June Pierce. Florence Little
Richey. Lottie B. Foulger. Lille Pin
gree, Dora Snow. L. l.. Irwin. j. b.
Miller.
Mound Fort-George L. Wade. Josie
Seaman, Clara Eldredge, Mrs. Eta
Deubler, Daisy L. Stone. Jennie S.
Hank Pearl Richards.
Five Points-William n. Peterson,
Lois Z. Pierce, May Hartog. Lillian
Shaw. Virginia Higginbotham.
Madison-Daniel H. Adams. Fannie
Steler, Mrs. Lizzie II. Coray. Mrs. Mag
gle Outcalt, Mrs. o. J. Stilwell. Mary
r Mcguire, Rose Steler. Sallie E. Pet
erson, Maude Lucas. Maude M. Lewis.
Grayce G. McGonagle, j. B. Miller.
Twenty-second street-Mrs. j. S Ca
hill. Matte E. Fisher
Quincy-W S. Wallace. Mrs. Jose
phine Hirst, Mildred F. Rogers. Minnie
Bagley.
Emerson-Mrs. Marian Burton. Lulu
Mitchell, Lila JoSt. -
Pingree-George P. McCabe. Mrs.
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Latter-day Saints, under the direction
of l.. T. Moench, principal. The school
has a roomy, convenient building and
a corps of able teachers, who give in
struction in all branches. Particular
attention is given to theological in
struction and preparation for Sunday
school work.
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
The Intermountain Business college
is a private school, founded and de-
velOped into a flourishing institution by
Professor ]. y. Smith. AL! branches of
a practical commercial education are
taught. The school has an increased
enrolment this year, and has in the
past graduated 10 pupils. The prin-
cipal claims that $50 of these are in
responsible positions
ADJUSTMENTS.
Ogden has one of the largest. and best
opera houses in the west-the Grand
Opera House. 1t seats 1905 people, and
has all modern improvements. Joseph
Clark is manager and Walter Clark is
assistant manager.
Each of the five wards has an amuse-
ment hall, with a stage, for amateur
theatricals.
The Union Opera House is a. popular
place for dancing parties and the like
In the way Of summer health resorts
the county of Weber is especially for
tunate. The magnificent boulevard up
Ogden canyon is pronounced one of the
finest mountain roads in the country
Thousands of campers go up into the
cool canyons n summer. The Utah
Hot Springs, Malan's, Wilson's Her
mitage and WinSlow'S are well-knoWn
resorts tributary to Ogden.
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OGDEN PoSToFFICE.
Gratifying Increase of Business Done
During 1898.

The year 1898 shows a healthy in
crease over previous business.
The business done at the Ogden post
office for the year 1898 is evidence that
Ogden's permanency as a commercial
center is established. Each depart
ment shows an increase of business
done, the receipts reaching the boom
year at which time the business jump
ed from ST. 900 to SIG, 0O0
The following figures indicate the
steady but certain growth of Ogden
postal business, which is accepted as
evidence of city's stability. The re-
ceipts from the sale OF postage stamps
for 1898, as compared with those of the
two previous years is as follows:
In 1896. S23. ESQ az
In 1897 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 25,071 90
In 1898 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1858 90
In the money order department the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
0GDEN'S GREAT ADVANCE
TN MATERIAL FEATURES
Junction City Of Utah Enjoying An Era of Far
reaching Temporal Prosperity.
Town Is Metropolitan and Has All the Qualities Of the Most
Progressive Communities.

Hewitt, assistant chief; A. Rogers,
captain; n. T. Moore, electrician; d..
Dee, ]. E. Mcintosh, c M. Dee, E. c..
West, C. A. Malan, A. B. Garfield, E..
E. Barton, besides Housewatch Day
and Substitutes H. J. Chapple and H.
Taylor. There are also twenty-three
men in the Five Points department,
who are well drilled and equipped with
a hand engine. The apparatus at the
central station includes one Champion
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baggage room all convenient. and COM
modious. The depot is one Of the finest
and largest between Omaha and San
Francisco. George Kerr, the depot
master, has held the place many years.
He is courteous and methOdioal. and is
generally known to the travelling pub
| lie.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
The Southern Pacific has it's eastern
terminals in Ogden. and this company
holds the controlling interest in the
Ogden Union Depot company. John
W. Noble, the division superintendent
of the Southern Pacific, is president of
the Depot company, and w. j. Shealy.
his chief clerk, is its secretary.
In the year 1888 32,042 cars east-bound
were handled, and 36.045 west-bound,
by the Southern Pacific.
Extensive machine and repair shops
are also located here, employing about
800 men. The capacity Of these shops
has been about doubled during the
year by the removal here Of the shop
and machinery formerly located at
Terrace.
L. P. AND o. S. L.
The Union Pacific and the Oregon
Short Line joint freight Office in ogden
is in charge of George II. Corse. and
the business is an extensive one In
companies 1885 cars of freight, the
tonnage being 1885, TAG, 719 pounds. OF
the Ogden business. the Union Pacific
and Short Line handled 1882 carloads.
in and out.
RIO GRANDE WESTERN.
c. G. Nikirk represents the Rio
Grande Western as general agent in
Ogden. The year has been one of ex-
ceptionally heavy business the num-
Der of cars handled being $500 in 1898.
This company also has a valuable gas
plant, and supplies Pintsch gas TO all
the other roads.
The number of employees of the var
ious railroad interests in Ogden is COM
puted as follows:
Union Railway & Depot company 67
Southern Pacific (train servicel 4S0
Southern Pacific (shops) $3.50. 800
Union Pacific and Oregon Short
Line -.-. oVV
Rio Grande Western (gas planO.. Is
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Street Railway

eleven miles of tracks. one line ex-
tending the whole length of Washing
ton avenue from the city limits north
to south. There are also two other lines
covering the residence portion of the
city. Twenty-Five men employed and
have an electric plant capable of sup
plying all the power needed for its own
use and to supply other concerns.
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provements which enable them to
handle business with greater facility
and in greater quantities. The records
held by the various roads and by the
Union Depot company make it possible
to calculate with almost mathemati-
cal accuracy the volume of business of
each road during the year. Only the
past Few days has been estimated in
giving the statistical information on
which the matter is based.
TERMINAL FACILITIES.
On an average 1000 cars are handled
in the yards each day. In 1898, 25.S95
for all the roads. Allowing thirty five
passengers to the car, a generally ac-
cepted ratio, and the number of pas
sengers going through is found to be
900, 32s
The union depot and railway COM
pany employs Sixty-Seven men.
There are eleven miles of trackage
in the railway yards, which comprise
sixty-seven acres.
The union depot is a handsome struc-
ture of brick, three stories high. 216
feet in length, by seventy-four feet IN
width, and with an annex 129x50. In
this building are located the general
offices of the Southern Pacific and OF
the depot company, the Pullman Of
fees, Western Union and railroad tel
egraph offices.
The Pacific hotel and Express COM
panies have the southern end of the
depot building. The waiting rooms,
ticket offices, depot masters office and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
S3DEB'S GREAT IMPORTANCE
RAILROAD CENTER AND HAS A
BIG WHOLESALE TRADE.
City's Site Prepared By Nature-The
Place metropolitan In Every Re
spect-Its Modern Improvements.

OF the cities Of Utah, Ogden is next
TO Salt Lake City in point Of size; is
the county seat Of Weber county. and
the chief railroad center Of the inter-
mountain country, four railroad sys-
TENS having terminals here The fol-
lowing facts and figures are of interest
AMI will show the city's financial stand
ing The assessed valuation for 1898
WAS $7,55l. Ala. and the rate of taxation
Tor city purposes was : mills. The
city has bonded indebtedness TO the
amount Of 100000, and outstanding
warrants in the sum OF about $50. Coo
The expenditures for 1888 were sl09. =
GS5.52, and the receipts, $IGS, z56.72 The
receipts came from the following
sources: Taxes, S67. 962.72: licenses. $50. =
494; total, $103.456.72 The annual in
terest on the bonds outstanding
amounts to $26,360
CITY GOVERNMENT.
The following are the city's officers
for 1898:
John a. Boyle mayor: Harriet S.
Emerson. city auditor; Edward H. An
tiersoD, city recorder; Edward VI. Ali
son. jr, city attorney; Robert a.
Mcyes, city treasurer; Edmund T. HUI
lanislI, city justice of the peace. Coun-
cilmen: Thomas z. Browning. presi-
q.
Job Pingree. John Jenkins; Second
ward, J. Z. Williams, Martin Cullen;
Third ward, Myrtillo Shaw. II. L.
Jones; Fourth ward, y. L. Brewer, E.
T Moolley; Fifth ward, S. p Ash, r.
+. Browning. Appointive officers:
Chief OF police, J. Z. Davenport: chief
of fire department, OrsOn Riser: CITY
engineer. \. +. Parker; sanitary in
sDector, William Moves: sexton. W. l..
Porter; coal oil inspector, II NJ Bond;
night iailer. ". T. Critchlow: day Jail
e. and police court clerk. b. Ternes:
pound keeper, A. Peterson.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Situated, as Ogden is, at the point of
conveyance of several railroad lines,
ana with its great travelling population,
the police department is CT unusual
Importance. The plan Of a stockade,
where Migrants and others convicted
of petty offenses work out fines, has
been put to successful test in Ogden.
The prisoners are made TO break stone
and the result is found to be OF double
advantage. in that the city is acquiring
supply OF paving material at cheap
cost, and the professional Migrants and
petty offenders endeavor to steer clear
Of the city. The department as at
present organized is as follows: ]. e.
Davenport, chief of police. Officers: J.
i. Pender, detective; w. A. Brown, c.
e Layrne, D. s. Murray, Robert Shaw,
John w. Cooney and Ezra Farr. Jail
} ers: Bernard Ternes and w. f. Critch-
low
The arrests made during the year
We're between 900 and 1000.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The Ogden fire department has rec
ORD for quick and efficient work second
to none in the country. Constant and
=,
proved apparatus has brought about
this condition. The work of the men
is directed not only to the putting out
of fires, but to the preventing of them,
and in keeping the various appliances
IN repair.
The fire fighters at the principal sta
don are: Orson Riser, chief, NJ. j.
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OGDEN MANUFACTURES.
City Has Had Substantial Growth
In This Direction

The sugar factory is as yet the most
important manufacturing enterprise of
Weber county. 1t was pushed to COM
pletion during the present year and has
one of the best plants ever construct
ed. 1t is located just west of Ogden
and. a spur from the Rio Grande West
ern' and the Short Line tracks run down
to the factory. The building was COM
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RAILROADS OF OGDEN.
More Than 1900 Men Employed BY
Them Alone There.

The year has been a very prosperous
one for the railroads in Ogden. One
great factor in increasing the freight
and passenger traffic was the war
which caused the capacity of each road
10 be strained in order that men and
supplies might be handled rapidly. But
aside from all this, the heavy Yields
from agricultural, mining and stock
raising pursuits. as well as the in
crease in business generally through
the country swelled the volume of rail-
road traffic to a remarkable degree.
Then, too. the roads have continued to
perfect their system and make i'm
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oGDEN's WHOLESALE TRADE

It Reached Into the Millions In
1898.
The volume of business OF the whole
sale trade of Ogden has Deen good dur
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!; Weber Stake academy is a sectarian
school of the Church of Jesus Christ of
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.io crande western loffice and

road service) -. --......- 10
Total 49,. -. :. ;. ........ ....1.225
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-06

die, to prevent the discharge from that
side. In front of the mortar is
trough covered with a punched raw
hide screen, set at an angle of about
40 degrees from the horizontal. The
ore is dumped on the floor in front Of
the battery and shoveled on the die,
from which it is discharged to the
screen. The finer particles fall
to the floor, and are again shoveled to
the mortar. The feeder is Of Indian
origin, as is also the rockbreaker.
This is a dry crushing battery, and
YOU can imagine, writes the cores
pondent, what the dust must be. By
looking at the picture one can see
that the drop is little irregular, and
1t is probably about IL inches when
The shoes are new, with speed OF
20 per minute. The cams are OF
wood triple, and the combination is
numerical sequence, and can be figured
out easily as they have some OF them
slipped. The cam-shaft is also OF
wood, with an iron saddle, running in
a wooden bearing, which is fabricated
by stream of water controlled by the
hanging cord shown. The power is
supplied by an overshot water wheel.
Modern Machinery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-06

woman, prayer that no one heard
excepting the minister who said it and
Professor Burleigh, and then We
watched from the class room windows,
and saw the beautiful casket carried
out and put into the finest hearse in
the city; closed carriage in which
rode the one mourner and the minis
ter, followed closely behind, and that
was all. No, not quite, there were
several clusters of crimson roses lying
upon the outside of the casket. fresh,
fragrant and perfect; and just over
where should judge the small. finely
shaped hands were folded, lay three
pure white lilies
And Professor Burleigh kept his
word. He resigned his position in the
college, much to the regret of the
faculty, and established himself on an
orange ranch in southern California.
That was truly his last Subject"
May Phillips Tatro,
Glendora, California.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-06

One of the large western mine sup
ply houses has recently opened up
great store and exhibit in Mexico, and
American mining machinery builders
generally are now assiduously culti-
waiting the Mexican field with profit
to themselves and benefit to the Next
can industry. The need of American
equipment and American methods is
forcibly illustrated in the accompany
ing cut of a wooden stamp mill recent
ly erected in Mexico. The photograph
of it was furnished by correspondent
of the Engineering and Mining Jour
nal. This is a 12-stamp battery. The
stems are of 6-inch oak, 10 feet long,
and shod at the boss end with 6-inch
cube of cast iron. This shoe has a
shank extending up into the stem,
which is strapped with an iron band
to prevent splitting. What CORES
ponds to the tappet is a wooden pro-
lection or cleat, nailed to the stem,
and is not movable, making it i'm
possible to regulate the drop as the
shoes wear. The mortar is heavy
timber protected on top by a cast iron
plate, forming the die, and has neither
sides nor ends. At the bank there is
a piece Of board projecting above the