Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

warehouses and residences in all parts
| OF the city. Among the residences
completed during the year are; the
| palatial home of James Pingree. the
three elegant residences on Eccles
| avenue and many more comfortable
and convo,nlent dwellings. Principal
among the buildings yet under con-
struction. are the ogden theater. which
is erected on the site of the old
Utahna thcater. costing between $50.
900 and $4,000 and which will be used
for Cort, and klaw & Erlinger pro-
ductlons; the Dee memorial hospital
at Harrison avenue and Twenty-fourth
street costing over 100000. erected In
memory of the late Judge Thomas d.
Dee by the Dee estate; the freight
depot of the Hartman lines at tho
intersection OF Wall avenue and
Twenty-fourth street. costing upwards
of 100000. During the year the own
crs of the Grand Opera house remodel
ed this building at an expenditure of
about $S5,000 and leased II to the Or
pheum Theater company for q period
of years.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
During the year over two miles of
asphaltum street paving has been
added In tho business districts and
many miles of cement sidewalks have
been laid. An immense viaduct. con-
structed of the finest bridge steel with
concrete bases, has been built across
the railroad tracks on Twenty-fourth n
street from Wall avenue to the Weber
river, a distance of over 5000 feet This
permits the residents of the large agri-
cultural districts lying Immediately
west of Ogden, to enter the city with
out the danger OF crossing the scores
of railroad tracks In the Ogden yards
and Is n hcnoAf IN hn It.-
in general. Many extensive improve
ments have been made In the great
railroad shops and yards and the
union passenger depot has been COM
pletely remodeled and enlarged. F'ive
now passenger tracks have been added
to the dozen already in use at the
west of the Union depot and the entiro
passenger yard, over quarter of a
mile in length, has been laid In ce-
ment- This immense space will soon
be covered with sheds to protect the
travelling public, as well as the many
employees, from the inclement weather
STREET CAR FACILITIES.
The Ogden Rapid Transit company,
the street railway company of the city,
has made some very notable improve
ments and extensions during the pasr
IL months. OF these, the line through
Ogden's famous canyon is foremost
This line is a good plece OF railway
engineering. Concrete abutments.
steel bridges and trestlos form a largo
part of the roadbed which hugs the
cliffs and crags OF the beautiful noun
tain gorge. The Ogden Rapid Tran
SIT company, by running Its cars
through the canyon, has made 1t pos
sible for tourists waiting over for their
trains. to make this trip, as only ono
hours time Is required for the entire
run to the Hermitage and return Dur
ing the winter the canyon line will DO
extended into Ogden valley, where sew.
eral thriving towns are located Farm
products from tho valley can be easily
transported, by means of the inter-
urban line to Ogden.
Other important extensions are the
line to the Utah Hot Springs, 10 miles
north of the city and the Plain City
line, distance OF about II miles north
west from the city. Both of these lines
run through fine agricultural districts
and the benefit to the city. as we'll as
TO the country districts, can hardly be
estimated. The extension on Wall
avenue, a distance of over a mile, is
another important addition to the rail-
way lines I'm the city and il Is the
means of rapidly building up that part
OF the town. Many other improve
ments are planned for the coming year
UTAH LIGHT AND RAILWAY.
During the year. the Utah Light G.
Railway company has made many i'm
provements on the gas system The
old mains have been taken up and new
ones have taken their place. The sys-
TEN has been extended into many new
districts and by the early part OF next
! spring, the company expects to have
1 nj n oil
dence districts. Upwards of $4,000 has
| been spent this year In these improve
ments and by constructing n new gas
plant, which it expects to do within