HISTORY
The Standard, Ogden City,
Utah
Sunday Morning, January 1, 1888
Ogden is the chief city of
Northern Utah. Her permanent population is 10,000 souls. Her
wealth is from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.
More than three-fourths of her
people live in their own homes. There is no record of any tax deed for
property in this City or County during their forty years of
settlement.
She is the greatest railway
junction between the River and the Coast. She has six railways - The
Union Pacific, connecting with the East; The Central Pacific connecting
with the tide water in the West; The Denver Rio Grande, connecting with
the great South and Southeast; The Utah and Northern, connecting with
the North and Northwest; The Utah Central, connecting with
Central and Southern Utah; The Ogden and Syracuse, connecting with the
salt fields and pleasure resorts on Great Salt Lake.
Odgen does more shipping than
any other city in Utah. She is the central market of the
inter-mountain region for fruit, produce, meal and game; also for
lumber, brick, groceries, furniture, drugs, and many articles of general
merchandise.
Odgen has three national
banks. The United States District Court for the First Judicial
District of Utah sits here. She has fine water works, owned by the
City. She has street car lines. She has more and better
grist mills than any other city in this region. She has electric
light works. She has gas works. Plans have been accepted for a new
City Hall. She has superb water power. She makes fine
pressed brick and ships them everywhere. She makes pottery,
brooms, shoes, woolen goods, sash and doors, iron ware and many other
articles. She was stone quarries and iron and coal mines at her
door.
Transcribed by Nancy Piper
