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UTAH

Her Cities, Towns and Resources,

TOGETHER WITH A CONDENSED BUT COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF HER FINANCIAL,

COMMERCIAL, MANUFACTURING, MINING AND AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES.

I IKK EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ADVANTAGES.

HER PROGRESS AND POPULATION IN THE PAST,

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Library,

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Utah Territory 1 to 6

Utah Mining, etc 7 to •_':.

The Building Stones of Utah, by H. L. A. Culmer. 25 to 27

Salt Lake City 2* m ::••

Real Estate, by C. E. Wantland 40 to 41

Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, by H. V. Meloy 41 to 4:t A Review of the Commerce and Industries of

Utah, by Fred Simon 43 to 44

Sketches of prominent Business Houses, Capitalists,

Professionals and Officials of Salt Lake City . 4.5 to 150

Odgen City i:.l to i:>x

Manufactures in Utah, by D. I). Jones l.Vt

Bench and Bar of Odgen City 198

Provo City 209 to 21 1

Logan City 214 to 21">

Brigham City 22" i to 221

Park City 227

Lehi 227

Nephi

Spanish Fork 228

GBNERAL INDBX

TO PROMINENT BUSINESS HOUSES, CAPITALISTS, PROFESSIONALS AND

OFFICIALS OF SALT LAKE CITY.

American Natural Gas Company 55

Armstrong, T. C., Jr f,9

Asper, Win. & Company 72

All Hallow's College 77

Arbogast Confectionery Company 81

Auerbach, F. Bros 98

Angell Lumber Company 99

Alliance Mining Company, The 108

Alama Mining and Milling Company 114

Anglo-American Shirt Factory 1:10

Armstrong & Denny, Attorneys 132

Anderson, Hon. Thos. 1 1:1:',

Allen. C. E., County Clerk i:'.s

Armstrong, S. P., Attorney 148

Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Company 45

Burton Gardner Company. The 56

Ball. S. F. & Company 58

Bowring, W. D 60

Barratt Bros 106

Bishop, F. M Ill

Brown's Marble Works Ill

Beck's Hot Springs 1 1:,

Buckhorn Gold and Silver Mining Compaiu 1 15

Benson, Wendell '. ll'.i

Bullion-Beck Mine 121

Bennett, Marshall & Bradley, Attorneys 1:12

Han. h. Hon. G. \V l:(4

i:..oth. Hon. 11. F 1:!7

I'.i'.oks, Chas. P., Surveyor ...

Hurt, Andrew J., Sheriff

Booth & Gray. Attorneys

Bailey, T. C., Attorney

140

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14H 149

Clawson, Spencer & Company 47

Culmer, G. K. & Bros

Cullen Hotel 56

Continental Hotel .77

Clark. Henry F

Clift House

Clift House Wine Room.

Crow. C. H

Chute & Hicks.

66

70

71

Commercial National Bank 98

Christy, Mrs. H 98

Cannon, Geo. M 99

Carthey & Dumbeck

Cutler, John C. & IJro in'

California Brewery

Chambers, R. C

Con way & Simmons

Chisholm. W. W

Caine. Hon. John I

(-'lute, F.. K.. i ity assessor and collector

Coad & Coad, attorneys . .

Cromer. W. H., attorney

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Dinwoodey Furniture Company t".

Davis, Howe & Company .".7

Dunford Shoe Company— George, The 67

DeBruhl, W. J .' n*

Dunford & Ellerbeck, Doctors 80

Driscoll & Company H2

Dale. L. H 95

Dyer, Frank H 107

Dahon Gold Mining & Milling Company 119

Danner, J. K., Attorney 144

Eichnot. D. C., Attorney 1:15

Empire Steam Laundry Company 79

EVWU.& D ' 81

Evans. M. R 81

Excelsior Bakei \ 84

Eardly, J.i-. \V II::

Enterprise Hotel 12.:

Electric Ice Cream Parlors 126

Farrell. J. \V. & Company 68

Fritz, ("Our Frit/") ' 72

Folletl, Dr. C. A

Fuller & Young 102

i & McQuarrie 7*

i inswold. Dr. Hector 84

(,ainck \ Holmes

(label, The Tailor 88

( leant, I leber J. \ Company

Grant Bros. Company 90

Greeley Mining Company. The In;

Groesbeck. Nicholas \ S.m 1

Greenman, I Ion. John \V l.'tM

Hughes, Fruit & Produce Comp.mx '<'.>

Hees.h \ Fllerbc.U ... .... 64

II. mix , Vomit; ..V Company 72

Hospital of the Holy Cross, The 7.'.

Happx Hour Dental Companx ... ~-2

Hai VIA . \V. |. \ Coinpaiix

Harrington, 1 lonnelly & Newell !'l

Hanson, I

Hanson Produce Company, The Ift't

Hampton \ Jones 106

Harkncss. Martin K 112

Hinman. |. H ll.'l

Hunter. II .... Mil

Hall. W. C.. City Attorney |:W

Hai. Ix. ( I. II.. i , ,1,11. ilman 146

Haim samnan I'.o.u.l 1'ulilic Works. . 147

Hardy. L. (',.. Cmintv Tax Collector.... 149

Inter Mountain. Abstract Company, The 77

I. \. L. Stables

(ones, R. M Jennings & Caine.

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INDEX.

Jenkins,]. W. & Sons.... James Uavid & Company.

Joslin & Park

Jacobs, J. G

Judd, Hon. J. W

Knutsford Hotel

Klipple, Phil

Keysor, Dr. J. B

Keiller, David T

Kullak, Louis F

Lowe, George A

London Tailoring Company, The.

Lynberg, Fred G

Leaver, Conrad & Company

Leeka, Dr. Daniel C

Livingston, Chas T

Lawrence, H. W

Lett, H.C. & Son

Lombard Investment Company...

Lippman, Joseph L., Librarian

Lee & Post, Attorneys

63 78 86 109 148

62 74

' 81 105 122

63 51

as

91 97 105 111 114 123 188 145

60 63 72 75 82 83 83

101

108 110 116 130 137 148 148 149 150

144

48 70

Olson's Bakery & Confectionery Store 127

51 56 60 61 97 106 112 145 147

Morgan Hotel

Model Steam Bakery, The

Mason & Company

Madsen, P. W

Morris, Elias

McKinnon Horse Collar Manufacturing Company, The.

McCornick & Company

McElwee, Pierce & Goddard £ Western School Furnish- ing Company

Mingo Smelting Company

McAllister, D. H

Midland Investment Company, The

Mountain Ice & Cold Storage Company, The

Moyer, Hon. Geo. W

Markham, S. S., Attorney

Merritt, S. A., Attorney

Marshall & Royle, Attorneys

Murphy, Walter, Attorney

Norrell, Hon. A. G

Neder & Cleland

Natural Mineral Water Company, The

Pursell's Livery

Parson's Book Store

Pittman, E.I

Pacific Lumber & Building Company .

Parker £ Depue

Peoples' Eq. Co-op

Platt, F. & Company

Powers, Hon. Orlando W

Pendleton, A. J., Councilman

Roberts & Nelden 73

Rowe, Morris, Sumrnerhays Company 90

Robinson, L. P 91

Rogers & Company 95

Reading, John 96

Rief, A .- 105

Rice, Geo. Arthur 118

Reilly & Kane 118

Rigby Bros 123

Rawlins £ Critchlow, Attorneys 136

Richards & Moyle, Attorneys 142

Rhodes, L. R 149

Simon, Fred 120-21

Simon Bros 65

Solomon Bros 129

Salt Lake Abstract, Title, Guaranty £ Trust Company. . 68

Silver Bros 69

Scott, Geo. M. & Company 71

St. Elmo Hotel 51

Spafford, W. H. H 74

St. Mary's Academy 76

Salt Lake Soap Company 77

Security Abstract Company, The 78

Salt Lake City Brewing Company 79

Sorrcnson £ Carlquist 80

Sells & Company 80

Sherlock Knitting Company i. . 84

Sadler, Henry 86

Salt Lake Business College 87

Salt Lake Silk Factory 87

Spencer-Bywater Company, The 87

Salt Lake Music Company 88

Salt Lake Dental Depot , 88

Steele, E 89

Salt Lake City Foundry & Manufacturing Company 92

Shipler, J. W 94

Salt Lake Eq. Co-op. Institution 96

Salt Lake Hardware Company 96

Sierra Nevada Lumber Company 98

Shelly & Burckhartt 101

Sears & Jeremy Company 101

Salt Lake Plumbing Company 103

Salt Lake Stables 104

Saratoga Farm 110

Spencer & Lynch 110

Salt Lake Meat Company 112

Sutherland, Hon. J. G 133

Sells, Hon. Elijah 136

Senior, Edwin W., Attorney 137

Scott, Geo. M., Mayor 139

Stephens £ Schroeder, Attorneys.. .'. 139

Templeton Hotel 61

Taylor, Romney £ Armstrong Company 63

Tolhtirst, Dr. C. E 80

Telephone Livery 88

Thomas, R. K 92

Tuckett, H. A,, Candy Company 98

Taylor, Joseph Wm 99

Teasdel, S. P... 112

Thompson £ Wiegel 123

Treweek, Nicholas 126

Taylor Bros 126

Thomas, Gov. A. L 131

Utah Paint & Oil Company 67

Utah Plumbing Supply Company, The 68

Unitah Hotel 77

LTtah Cracker Factory 78

LItah Book £ Stationery Company 84

Utah Nursery Company 84

Utah Undertaking Company 85

Union Pacific Hotel 96

Varian, Hon. C. S 132

Valley-Tan Laboratory, The 46

Van Home, Wm. G., Attorney 147

Valentine,-C. O. & Company 100

Valley House, The 129

Watson Bros 55

White & Sons Company 57

Walker House, The 59

Walker Bros. £ Fyler Company , 64

Wallace £ Company 83

Warner M. Rush, Manager 85

Warren, F. E., Mercantile Company 86

Warm Springs 89

West Lake & Midway Inprovement Company 97

Watts, J. H 99

Ware, W. E 104

Whitehead, L. S 105

Williams, Geo. W 108

Wantland, C. E 109

Woodmansee, Joseph 109

Weeks, Charles B 122

White, Mathew 127

Woodman, James F 128

Williams, A. L 130

Walden, J. B., city treasurer , 141

Williams, Jas. A., Attorney 143

Whittemore, C. O., Attorney 146

Young Bros. Company 74

Young, D. C 97

Young, H. & Company 103

Young, John M., City Marshal 140

Zion's Co-Operative Mercantile Instituion 49

Zion Savings Bank 94

Zane, Hon. Chas. S 131

Zane £ Putnam, Attorneys 144

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INDEX.

PROMINENT BUSINESS HOUSES, PROFESSIONALS AND

OFFICIALS OF OGDEN.

Allen. Alvern MB

Allison, Edward M.. Jr., Attorney 202

Broom Hotel 164

Becraft, L. H. & Company 181

Hurt. S. J. & Bros 189

Bond, H . M. & Company 192

Belnap, <;. R 194

Hi-hop. Hon. A. C 200

Barratt, Col. Percival J 207

Corey Bros. & Company 159

Clark, VV. M .' 180

Calvert, Jas. A 189

Condon. Dr. A. S 193

Chicago Meat Market 19ft

Collins, John H 196

Chapman House 1!">

Consolidated Lumber & Milling Company 197

Driver, Jesse J 169

Doyle & Halverson 1 7 J

Dee, Thos. D 184

Driver, Wm. & Son 190

Ellis, D. W.. 169

Eklund.C. A 17:;

Evans. David, Attorney I-::

Fanner-' .\ Mrrchants' Hank 168

Fife. Win. \V 170

Felshaw, Dr. K. M 17.'.

Kir-i National Hank 17*

Farr. W. & Co 178

Fitzgerald. T. 1C 179

Gibson & Smurthwaite M

Graham, |. M. \ Son 195

Gilbert. Morton V 2i>o

Hendcrshot, Abstract Company, The 159

Huffman. C. H 164

H.ni-on, 0 17'.»

Hunter. Ralph I' I*.

HotH Lincoln 195

Hoffman. Miss Edith I'.t*

Henderson, H. I'., Attorney 201

Idaho Lumber Company 170

lunc lion City Cornice Works IWI

(ones & Lewis 167

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cnkins, Washington I -I

ones, r.i-o. W 1*{

Kay, W. & Company I7'.i

Kelly, Ille & Company I!)::

Kuhn & Bro 195

Kiesel, Fred J. it Company P.»;

Klinkenbeard, Miss E, J. & Sister r>-

Kiinhall, Jas. N.. Attorney 205

.undy. Roht. C Ml

,edwidec. Jos. I1 197

.eonard, <). R ., Attorney

.arkin Undertaking Company I -I

.ichcnfeld Bros l*'>

MI Null, J. W. \ Company.

Man...,. Mr- I .11 ..........

Mi Mam-, John ............

Miner, Hon. Ja-. \

W. I.., Attorney.

••till), T. J

( l^-ilrn Ali-trai I < outturn o^den Miln.irv Academy. ( >Kden Academy ..........

164 160 188

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Olsen, E. A

Ogden Milling & Elevator Company. Ogdcn Steam Laundry Company

Plymouth Rock Loan \ Saving- A— n< iation.

Parker, Doxey \ Eastman

Putnam, A. W

Peyton. W. L. P., Attorney

Patton, A. B., Attorney

Reed, E. A..

Reed Hotel

Reed Hotel Livery

Richards, Hon. C. C

Rolapp, H. H., Attorney

Sacred Heart Academy

Stephens. J. A

Stafford. Miller & Company

Short, B. M :

Shurtliff. H. W

Spencer, H. H

Smith, Ransford, Attorney

Smith, H. W., Attorney. .'.

Thomas Bros

Turner, Wm. H., Mayor

Tyler, John G

Utah Loan & Trust Company

Whitaker, S. T..

Wi-dcll, W. B

Watson, John

Wallace, L. H

Wallace, Joseph

Woodmansce, Chas

Williams. Wm K

Wollstcin, T. & Co

PROVO CITY

Booth. |ohn E., Mayor

mi Roller Flour Mills. . . .

Kirsi National Bank

Haven aiiip A Clark

Hotel Roberts

M-iiiir. I 'lia^. D

Noon, A. A

Smoot, A. O

LOGAN CITY.

n City M. \ M. Association

I a i tlr MI. Tim-. B

I .luards, J. R

I 1 1 -I National Bank

Lo^an Hniisr

l.anjj. Albert

Murd»i k. Rolirrt

Rub, Rich .K Wairiim. Alton. •

sit wart, Hon. |. /

'I'll. ii her lirn-. Hanking Coinpam

BRIGIIAM CITY.

HriKham ( it\ Mrr< anlili- \ Maniit.i' liiiin^ A - •" i.ilnin

i iiin Sim k \ Mercantile Compwi)

Hr.x. K \

Compton, A. W . .

llnr-li-v. Win. .\ Son-

|i •ii-cn. linn. |. M

Johnson, I Inn I . P

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Snow, Aptwue Locenn

Slum. AlphOBM M . . . . ...

L79 188

).;:; W8 174

206

It^i Ml 188

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186

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191

177

168

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818

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VIII

Utah Tcrri-tbr^.

Its resources,

, ai?d prosperity.

PROBABLY no western commonwealth affords such fascination to the traveler, such attrac- tion for the settler, such allurements for the investor, or such satisfaction to the health- seeker as Utah Territory. It has been, not inaptly, called the Switzerland of America, and while there are no Jungfraus or Mont Blancs whose brows are bathed in perpetual snow, there are, nevertheless ]ic;iks almost as lofty, whose abrupt ascendency from the valleys clothes them with a sphynx-like rug- gedness that makes them majestic in their grandeur.

The area of Utah was acquired by the United States from Mexico in 1848, under the provisions of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, although it was first settled up by Brigham Young, July 24, 1847. It was organized as a Territory by act of Congress in 1850, and at that period it comprised all that section of country lying between the eastern boundary of California and the western border of the Great Plains. Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming were subsequently carved out of its area, reducing it to its present limits. It now has an area of 84,870 square miles, or 52,601,600 acres.

Geographically, Utah is situated between the par-

allels of 37 and 42 degrees north latitude, and the meridians of 109 and 114 degrees west of Greenwich. It, is on the same parallels as Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Corea.

Utah belongs to the great plateau of the Rocky Mountains, its valleys being elevated from 2, TOO to 7,000 feet above sea-level, while its mountain peaks reach a height of 12,000 to 13,500 feet.

One-half the Territory is on the western side of the Wasatch Mountains and within what is called the Great Basin. Most of the inhabited portion of Utah lies at the western base of the Wasatch range and on the eastern side of the Great Basin. The Wasatch Mount- ains enter the Territory on the north at about the mid- dle, extend nearly due south, until near the southern boundary, where they turn to the westward and pass out into Nevada, forming in Utah the letter ".I." Their average height will not fall far below 10,000 feet above the sea.

Nearly east of Salt Lake City the Uintah mount- ains, still loftier than the Wasatch, abut on them and run eastward until they pass out of the Territory.

The eastern part of the Territory is drained by the Rio Colorado and its tributaries.

West of the Wasatch the drainage is into the lakes and sinks which have no outlet, the largest of which is Great Salt Lake, with an elevation of 4,260 feet, a shore line of 350 miles, and an area of about 3,500 square

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miles. Three rivers, the Bear, Weber and Jordan, empty their waters into the Great Salt Sea.

In Utah agriculture is dependent almost entirely upon irrigation. The system of cultivating the soil is to start canals at the mouths of the canons, where dams are built. These canals are run from the canons out upon the more level grounds of the valleys, and there subdivided into branch canals, and these are again divid- ed into laterals leading to every farm, so long as there is water to be distributed. Each field has little furrows a foot or more apart and parallel with each other. Into these furrows the water is turned. Each farm has the right to use the water so many hours once a week or oftencr, or less frequently, depending upon the season and the supply. Many large and expensive canals have been constructed in Utah for the purpose of redeeming the arid lands, the most recent ones being the Bear River Canal, in Northern Utah, and a canal in southern Utah. The latter was built by the enterprising citi/m, William II. Rowe and his associates, and thereby they have successfully brought under cultivation a large sec- tion of Utah's most fertile land.

During the year 1890 there were 423,364 acres of land under cultivation in Utah, and there were 735,226 acres under irrigating ditches.

The larger part of the 52,601,000 acres in Utah is barren and mountainous and cannot be tilled. Nearly one-fourth of this area has been surveyed. The United States Land office, since March, 1869, has disposed of 21,887,642 acres of public lands.

It has been estimated by competent experts that by utilizing all the available streams during the irrigating season 2,304,000 acres can be redeemed.

In September, 1890, an Irrigation Congress, at which delegates were present from all parts of the arid region, met in Salt Lake City. They memorialized Congress to give national assistance to the cause of irrigation. Should their petition be granted, a great impetus will be given the reclamation of these lands in Utah, and many new settlements will spring into existence.

There are twenty-five counties in the Territory. A brief description of them may not be out of place at thin point.

Beaver County, which has a population of 3,340, is located on the western side and a little south of the r of the Territory. It has 6,558 acres under cul- tivation.

Box Elder County, with a population of 7,642, has 96,177 acres under cultivation. The county includes the greater portion of the Great Salt Lake and is located in the northwestern corner of the Territory. Dry farming is successful there because the soil retains the moisture for a long time. The Bear River Canal ii in this county.

Cache County has a population of 16,600. It is in the northern part of Utah. The general elevation of the land under cultivation u about 6,000 feet, and iu wheat

crop is the largest in the Territory. It cultivates 54,301 acres.

Davis County has 6,469 inhabitants. It lies between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake, and extends from the canon of the Weber River, on the north, nearly to Salt Lake City. It cultivates 23, 1 60 acres.

Emery County lies east of tin- center of the Territory. It has a population of 4,866 and cultivates 14,363 acres.

<;.-irfield County has a population of 2,457. It lies in the southern part of Utah and cultivates 1,716 acres.

<ir:ind County was carved out of Emery County and extends from the Colorado line to Green River, on the west. It has a population of .~>41, and lias 1,461 acres under cultivation.

Iron County has 2,68:i inhabitants. It is located in the southwestern part of the Territory below Heaver County and cultivates l.v_'3 acres.

Juab County, with a population of 5,582, is located in the center of the western side of the Territory. It cultivates !>,489 acres.

Kane County is on the extreme southern border of the Territory adjoining Arizona. Its population is 1,685 and it has 1,087 acres under cultivation.

Millard County extends from the mountain ranges of the central part of the Territory westward to Nevada. It has 4,033 inhabitants and cultivates 8,l;Vj n

Morgan County is in northern Utah, lying east of Davis County. It has 5,fi:;:t acres under cultivation and a population of 1,780.

Piute County lies north of Garfield County. It has 2,842 inhabitants and cultivates 7,779 acres.

Rich County is in the northeastern corner of Utah, adjoining Idaho and Wyoming. It has a population of 1,627, and cultivates 16,726 acres.

Salt Lake County is southeast of the Great Salt Lake and lies between the summit of the Wasatch mountains, on the east, and theOquirrh mountains, on the west. It has a population of 58,457 and a cultivated area of 80,665 acres.

San Juan County lies adjacent to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, in the southeastern corner of the Territory. Its population is 3<!5, and it cultivates 809 acres.

San Pete County, which is in the center of Utah, is the nu M MMitherly of the chain of thickly settled coun- ties which, beginning with Cache Cnunty on the north, extends in a generally northern and southern direction. It ha- a population of i:t,l 10, and has under cultivation 47,li:i acn-c. Only one county excels it in agricultural production.

. ier County is in the central part of the Territory and has 8,1 18 acres under cultivation. Its population ii 6,199.

Summit County is in the northeastern part of Utah. It* population is 7,733, and it cultivate* 14,508 a.

Tooele County, situated southwest of the Great Salt Lake, including the greater part of the desert of the

same name, has a population of 3,700, and cultivates 7,524 acres.

Uintah County is located in the northeastern corner of the Territory, adjoining Wyoming and Colorado. It has a population of 2,292, and cultivates 8,960 acres.

Utah County is south of Salt Lake County and ex- tends from the summit of the Wasatch mountains westward to the Oquirrh range. It cultivates 40,195 acres and has a population of 23,416. It is the leading agricultural county in the Territory.

Wasatch County is east of Utah County. It culti- vates 10,824 acres and has a population of 4,627.

Washington County is in the southwestern corner of Utah and has a population of 4,009 and an area under cultivation of 4,203 acres.

Weber County is in northern Utah. It has a popu- lation of 23,005 and a cultivated area of 22,450 acres.

UTK INDIAN CAMP ON TIIK IIKSKKVATION NEAR SALT LAKE CITY.

In 1850 the total population of Utah was 11,380; in 1860, 40,273; in 1870, 86,786; in 1880, 143,963; in 1890, 207,905; and in 1891, 215,000. The growth of the past two years has been very marked.

The assessed valuation of the taxable property of the Territory in 1891 was $121,000,000, while the rev- enue for all Territorial purposes was $600,000.

There are thirty-eight cities incorporated under special laws, with an assessed value of taxable property amounting to $84,476,000, and a municipal indebtedness of only $1,278,000.

There are seven cities or towns incorporated under the general law, with an assessed valuation of taxable property amounting to $1,088,000, and a municipal indebtedness of $16,000.

Few States in the Union can show such a remarka- bly healthy condition of the finances of its cities.

The principal industries of Utah are mining, agri- culture, sheep and cattle raising, and manufacturing.

The number of mining camps in the Territory is large and the mineral found embraces almost every known variety. The chief mineral products are silver and lead, which are found associated in the same ores.

Silver was first found in Utah in 1857, but little systematic work was done in the way of mining until after the advent of the Union Pacific Railway in 1869. The deposits of the precious metals all belong to the earlier geological ages, with the exception of a few small outcrops in southern Utah.

One of the three most important mineral belts of Utah runs from the Uintah mountains on the east, through Park City and Alta, in the Wasatch, thence crosses the Salt Lake Valley to the Oquirrh mountains on the west at Bingham, the original point of discovery of mines in Utah, then turns a little northward, crossing diagonally through the Aqui mountains and thence out on the desert. This belt contains the most productive mines in Utah. The leading mines are the Ontario, Daly, Crescent, etc., of Park City, and the Old Tele- graph, Jordan, Lead Mine, Yosemite, etc., of Bingham,

whose total output runs far into many millions of dol' lars.

The second mineral belt in Utah also begins in the Wasatch mountains, in the vicinity of Mt. Nebo, and runs a little north of west, reaching its climax in the extension of the Oquirrh range at Tintic. Thence it passes through various ranges till it goes out of the Territory at Deep Creek, which is destined to be one of the greatest mining camps of Utah.

The great mines at present in this belt are at Tintic. The Mammoth, Bullion-Beok, Eureka Hill, Centennial, etc., have produced many millions.

The third belt is located some two hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, beginning at Marysvale and Beaver, running a little north of west through various ranges, reaching its climax at Frisco, where the Great Horn Silver mine is located. The belt extends west- ward from there to the boundary of the Territory.

Near the southern part of the Territory, on the rim of the Basin, is a very unique mineral deposit in sand- stone of the triassic or later date. The ore is chiefly chloride of silver found in reefs of sandstone.

The eastern part of the Territory, being of a very recent geological age, is almost destitute of precious metals. The region embraces one-third of the Terri- tory and includes all that part east of the Wasatch mountains, including the Uintah mountains. There is a limited area near the eastern end of these latter mountains where there are some valuable copper mines. This great region of eastern Utah is pre-eminently a coal region.

The mining industry has taken on new life in Utah

and many mines wliich had been abandoned are now being worked. New districts are being constantly dis- covered, the latest being those of Dugway and Fish Springs in the Deep Creek country and the La Plata, north of Ogden.

Utah ranks third in the production of lead and fifth in silver in the United States.

The total output of the mines from the beginning is about $180,000,000.

During the year 1891 the mines produced $16,198,- 066.81 in gold, silver, copper and lead, and ten mines paid dividends amounting to $3," 18,

Elsewhere in this work the mines of 1'tah are dealt with more specifically.

t'tali is bountifully supplied with coal-fields. The coal belts enter Utah near Kvunston, Wyoming, and run east and thence south for a distance of seven or eight hundred miles. It is estimated that there are 15,000 square miles of bituminous coal land in I'tah and of such thickness as to supply the whole United States for centuries. A valuable feature of the coal- fields lies in their proximity to the mineral deposits, both iron and the precious metals.

During 1890 the four coal mines of the Territory produced 355,000 tons of coal.

Considerable Wyoming coal is used in Utah. A tine quality of coke is manufactured from the Castle Kale coal, and is extensively used in the Utah smelters.

The asphalts of Utah are not only the purest in the world but are found in magnificent abundance. As- phaltum, which takes tin- name of gilsonite and uintite in I 'tah, is found in the northeast part of the Territory just east of the Uintah Indian reservation. Other fine deposits exist in the I'ncompahgre Ute reservation, a short distance fn>m the Colorado state line.

< >/okeritc or mineral wax-is found near Thistle, Utah.

(iyp-um i- found in extensive <|iiantities near Nephi, in .lu. ili County, and i- used largely in the manufacture of plaster.

:i' nt is also manufactured on a large scale from native minerals.

Lithographic stone is found near Santaqtiin, Utah County, and in other localities in the Territory.

Of liinc-tniic I'tah has a surfeit. Much of it is converted into lime, while some of it is used as flux for hfBMM.

(Jr.inite is hewn out of the large boulders at Wasatch, a station on the KiolJrande \\i--t.-rn railroad, not far from Salt Lake City. It is used fm- building purpo-es and Hclgian block* for paving.

A'hite, variegated and mottled marble has been found in many place*, but. for lack of machinery, it has not lii-eii ulili/ed to :my extent.

There i- al«o much -late in the Territory.

Utah excel* in the quality of her Hand-tune. It in found in inexhaustible quantities, and ranges from almost a blood-red to pure white.

The sulphur deposits at Cove Creek extend over a large area, but the depth of the deposit is not known. The sulphur taken from the mines is 98 per cent. pure. There are also extensive deposits in Beaver County. These sulphur mines are the only ones in the United States, and when fully operated and developed will be able to supply a large extent of country.

Ores of iron, magnetite, red, brown, ochrous and fibrous hematite ore, arc found all over the Territory. The great deposits, however, are in Iron County, and occur thickly in the form of massive outbur- fissures in granite, from Cedar City to the Santa Clara. a belt five to ten miles wide and sixty long. These ledges, which carry from sixty to seventy per cent, of metallic iron, very pure, are from twenty-five to seventy-five feet thick. Distance from rail and mar- ket, and the high price of labor, have prevented the iitili/ation of this storehouse of iron.

Near Salina, Sevier County, there are deposits of almost pure rock salt found in the mountains. The manufacture of salt around the (Jreat Salt Lake has long been a great industry. During 1S01 there were har- voted 104,000 tons, of which 71,000 were sold. For many years the method of manufacture was simple. On the borders of the lake, the water of which contains 17 per cent, of salt, there are many lagoons. The rise of the water in the winter season filled these lagoons, tin- heat of the summer's sun evaporated the water, and tin- salt which remained was shoveled up and made ready for the market. Now these lagoons an- tilled by pumps. some of which raise a million gallons of the saline waters in ten hours. Much of this water is used by tin- silver mills, and for dairy and table purpo-c-. Utah supplies the entire west with salt.

In addition to the minerals named 1'tah has a salt- petre bed, antimony, quicksilver, arsenic, /.inc. asbcsto-, and in fact every mineral found in the West except tin. Besides this it has quite a complement of gems, includ- ing topaz, garnets, chalcedony, amethyst, etc.

In December, 1391, natural gas was discovered in large quantities, within a few miles of Salt Lake City, on the -hores of the Cn-at Salt Lake. Sufficient devel- opments have been made to insure it- permanency, but within a short distance of win-re the gas was found it is known that gas from this same underground reservoir has been used for lighting ami heal ing purpose- fur the pait seven years. Three OOBlpaaia* hart i'iii.-1-lv I-,,,, organized to bore for gas, and their operation having already proved successful the result for I'tah in (In- direction of material pro-pciity will equal, if it doc- not what has happened in Ka-l«-ni localities where similar <i I have been made. The cheap fuel

will tend to bring all wc-lcrn -melting and general manufacturing enterprise- into tin- Territory, and pop illation and bu-inesft will grow apace.

While I'tah's mineral product in 1800 averaged between $11,000,000 and $18,000,000, her agricultural

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output amounted to $8,310,000. The products included •wheat, oats, corn, barley, rye, lucerne, hay, potatoes, beets, cotton and fruits.

The average yield per acre of the cereals, when com- pared with the other States and Territories, places Utah far in the lead, showing that better results can be obtained from the irrigation system than from depend- ing on rains, as the Eastern farmers do.

For instance, there were 22 bushels of wheat raised to the acre throughout the Territory, while the average throughout the United States was only 14 bushels.

The following figures for the year 1890 are from the Territorial Statistician's report:

PRODUCTS.	ACRES.	QUANTITY.	AVERAGE TO ACRE.	VALUE.
Wheat	110,114	2,409,451 bu.	22 bu.	81,927,563.20
Oats	32,763	1 132,218 bu.	34 bu.	532,142.46
Corn	8,776	165,067 bu.	19 bu.	118,848.24
Barley	7,358	212,546 bu.	29 bu.	106,273.00
Rye	3,759	45,204 bu.	12 bu.	27,574.44
Lucerne	101,729	306,100 ton	3 ton	2,715,107.00
Hay	80,647	12(1,572 ton	liS?, ton	1,637,367.76
Potatoes ..	7,S45	935,874 bu.	119 bu.	496,013.22
Beets	87	21,726 bu.	248 bu.	7,604.10
Cotton	7	4,200 Ibs.	600 Ibs.	462.00
Orchards	5,275	8,246,062 Ibs.	1.563 Ibs.	206,151.55
Vineyards Other Products ( Vegetable) . .	265 2,597	565,560 Ibs. 16,688,841 Ibs.	2,134 Ibe. 6,426 Ibs.	33,933.60 500,665.23
Totals...,	361,222			88,300,705.80

The products of the farm for 1890 are given in the following table:

PRODUCTS.	QUANTITY.	VALUE.
Wine, gallons	31,886	$ 28,697.40
Cider, gallons	61,368	21,478.80
Vinegar, gallons	27,907	6,976.75
Sorghum, gallons	57,600	37,440.00
Butter, pounds	1,817,447	323,303.23
Cheese, pounds	247,875	37,181.25
Honey, pounds	854,387	76,894.83
Dried Apples, pounds	197,167	11,830.02
Dried Peaches, pounds	178,593	19,645.23
Dried Apricots, pounds	11,895	1,486.88
Dried Plume, pounds	6,731	841.38
Dried Pears, pounds	9,921	992.10
Wool, pounds	7,451,252	1,229,456.58
Total Value		81,796,224.45

The quality and value of the wool clip are steadily improving.

The cattle and sheep industries in Utah are in a thriving condition, and the grazing ranges are covered with thcso valuable possessions.

The following table gives the figures for 1890:

KIND.	NUMBER.	VALUE.
Milch cows	52,066	8 1,561.980.00
Cattle	237,458	3,561,870.00
Horses .	80,602	4,030,100.00
Mules	2,571	192,825.00
Asses	Ml S	12,720.00
Sheep	1.310,021	2,947,547.25
Goats	1,508	3,770.00
Swine, over 6 months old	20,411	163,288.00
Total Value		812,474,100.25

Utah has always encouraged home manufactures, and almost every industrial concern that has been begun and operated on conservative business principles has been a success.

In 1890 there were 310 industrial concerns in the Territory, employing 3,274 hands, and paid $1,597,- 177 in wages during the year, with a plant valued at $3,215,511, an annual product valued at $5,836,103, and a capital invested of $4,405,881.

These 310 industrial concerns manufactured ale, bed springs, boilers, books, boots and shoes, beer, bricks, brooms, carpets, cheese, cement, cigars, clothes racks, crackers, cotton goods, flour, furniture, gas and electric light, harness, ice, iron cornice, iron moulding, knit goods, lumber, overalls, paper, paper boxes, refrigera- tors, rope, salt, soda water, leather, tinware, wagons, woolen goods, show cases, silk, soap, tents and awnings, trunks, confectionery, fruit canning, etc.

In Utah County there has been recently erected one of the largest sugar manufactories in the United States, equipped with machinery of American manufacture costing $500,000. Sugar is now being made there from the beet root and a ready market is found for the entire product.

Extensive stock yards are now being erected a few miles north of Salt Lake City, and packing houses and preserved meat establishments are promised industries of the near future.

Glass works, large potteries, potato starch factories, evaporating establishments and many other industries that would pay large returns on the investment are only awaiting capital.

Commercially Utah stands par excellence among the business men of the country. The failures are few and far between and the merchants are looked upon as being careful, shrewd and conservative.

There were in 1890 in the Territory 1,722 stores, with an invested capital of $20,000,000, making annual sales amounting to $45,600,000, and employing 8,000 men, who were paid $4,900,000.

There are large co-operative stores in almost every county and the business they do annually goes up into the millions.

There are thirty-seven banks in the Territory. They had on June 30, 1891, a combined capital of $5,148,- 231.78 and deposits amounting to $8,355,684.00.

The Territory has 1,500 miles of broad and narrow gauge railroad tracks which reach all the cities of any size, run through the fertile valleys and ascend the lofty mountains to fetch the ores to market. Much valuable country has not yet been reached by the iron monster, especially in the southern and western portions of the Territory. There are many projected lines, and while some construction has recently been done, it is as noth- ing to what the necessities and growth of the Territory will demand in the next few years.

A road from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, which

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will go through the Deep Creek country, has been talked of for several years, and the people of Utah generally predict an era of great prosperity whenever capital shall see fit to enter upon the project. The mines in the Deep Creek country are low grade and with present shipping facilities mining scarcely pay^.

Utah has an excellent free school law, and the school attendance is now so large as to crowd the buildings beyond their capacity. There are, besides the public schools, many excellent mission schools throughout the Territory, supported by the various denominations. The Territory supports a well-equipped institution of learning known as the Deseret University, and the standard of education is being yearly advanced.

There are churches for all shades of religious belief, and nowhere in the country are they better attended.

The Territory takes care of its deaf and dumb, its MI-. mi-, and its wayward boys and girls, in buildings especially constructed and adapted for these purposes.

An Agricultural College has also been established and a State Library organized.

Capitol grounds have been chosen in Salt Lake City, which have already been beautified, and in the near future a building worthy of the Territory will be erected.

" In the Salt Lake basin the air is dry, pure, elastic, transparent and bracing; and the temperature compares favorably, in respect to equability, with that of any part of the Unitec) States. The climate maintains a happy medium between the rigors of the region of the great fresh water lakes of the northwest and the eternal sum-

mer heats of Florida and Southern California, and this fact makes it both healthy and agreeable. The normal winter has thirty to forty days of moderately cold weather, with enough snow for a week or two of sleigh- ing. The planting season begins in February. Then- is comparative exemption from the changeable weather and raw winds of spring in the mirth and east. Only in one month out of five does the range in temperature exceed fifty degrees. The sun shines perpetually, the air is invigorating, the rapid radiation assures cool nights. But no words or meteorological statistics can convey an adequate idea of the charm of the climate, which con- tinues to grow upon one no matter how long a resident.

Hardly any form of disease originates in Utah, while upon many diseases contracted elsewhere simple residence and use of the thermal waters in Utah and Great Salt Lake in the bathing season, are more bene- ficial than ordinary medical treatment. There is no malaria; asthma is impossible."

Utah, with its unparalleled climatic advantages, fer- tile valleys, weird, majestic, rugged canon scenery, its numerous chemical and thermal springs, its wonder- ful salt lake, its magnificent mineral wealth, and its boundless resources, is to-day the most prosper- ous and most noted section in the Rocky Mountain region.

With a homogeneous people all working to the same purpose, with all her citizens inscribing on their banner: " Utah — our first and holiest love! " the possibilities for this Territory are limitless, and the future bright indeed.

Utah Mining.

OUTPUT TO DATE.

FROM the beginning of mining in Utah in 1871 to the close of 1891, twenty years, the total output of silver, gold, lead and copper, rating silver at its coining value, as the U. S. Mint offi- cers do, and lead and copper at their average yearly price in New York, is in round numbers $180,000,000 in value.

OUTPUT OF 189O-91.

The output of 1890, as ascertained and published by Mr. Dooly, agent of Wells, Fargo & Co., at Salt Lake is as follows, save that silver is here rated at its coining value, and the other metals at seaboard prices, and lead bullion counted as refined lead after deducting five per cent, for loss in refining:

966,708 Ibs. copper, He. per Ib. .. .. $ 133,939

65,105,587 Ibs. refined lead, at 4ic. per Ib -.. 2,766,987

8,105,586 ozs. silver, at 81.29. 10,533,605

33,851 ozs. gold, at 820.67.. 699,684

Total value - - 814,134,215

Statement for 1891 is not yet made up, but the out- put being known to have increased considei'ably over that of the previous year, it is deemed safe to put it at $16,000,000.

DIVIDENDS OF 1 89O.

Mines earned dividends in 1890 as follows:

Bullion-Beck, at Tintic 8375,000

Eureka-Hill, " 250,000

Centennial-Eureka," - 150,000

Mammoth, " 560,000

Horn Silver, at Frieco - 200,000

Mayfleld, at Big Cottonwood — 18,001)

Daly, at Park City - 450,000

Ontario, " ..900,000

Total $2,903,000

Dividends for 1891 will be at least $2,500,000. The first two mines in the table are owned by close corpora- tions whose earnings are not published. These are given upon the best information obtainable. Utah mines have paid in dividends to date about $22,500,000.

Piute counties. There is, in fact, no county in the Territory where the prospector has not left his foot- prints. Wherever, in Utah, there are mountains, min- eral indications are not wanting, and valuable minerals are likely to be found in time in paying veins or depos- its. Ores of good quality are known to exist in many of the isolated ridges which break the face of the desert in Western Utah, but mining in that section still awaits the construction of railroads. The main producing dis- "rict of the Wasatch Range lies on the heads of the Cot- tonwoods and of the American Fork, within sight of Salt Lake City, and over the ridge eastward, where the waters find their way into the Weber and Provo rivers.

Northward from this locality no mine* of importance had been found until within a few months, when a dis- trict called La Plata, on the summit of the Wasatch Range between Ogden and Logan, was organized, con- taining strong ledges of ores rich in lead, but rather low in silver. Time will be required to demonstrate the importance of this new district.

Southward, 200 miles, near the heads of the Sevier River, eastward of the town of Beaver, there is a dis- trict called Marysvale which has been almost abandoned the past eighteen years.

During the year 1891 promising veins of milling gold rock were opened in the district, a mill was erected and in November began to run. Meantime the Rio Grande Western has built a branch road from Thistle Station to Salina, about 87 miles. This will probably soon be continued to Joseph, above Monroe, the latter being about 20 miles below the Marysvale mines. The road spoken of leaves the Sevier and crosses the Pah- vant Range via Clear Creek and Cove Creek into the Basin.

Mines are found on both slopes of the Oquirrh Range, from Great Salt Lake southward nearly 100 miles, as at Stockton, Dry Canon, Ophir, Bingham and Tintic. All these localities are connected with Salt Lake City by rail. The mines of Beaver County are at Frisco and about Milford, the terminus at present of the U. P. Railway. The mines of Washington County occur in a sandstone reef which extends along and near the base of the Wasatch for 100 miles.

WHERE THE MINES ARE.

The mines wrought at present are mainly in Beaver, Juab, Summit, Salt Lake, Tooele and Washington coun- ties. The northern mines lie on the same parallel in Tooele, Salt Lake and Summit counties. The mines of Juab County are eighty or ninety miles south of these. Beaver County is 200 miles and Washington County 300 miles south of Salt Lake City. Mines were wrought to some extent in Wasatch, Weber, Box Elder and

BEAVER COUNTY.

Beaver County contains four or five parallel ranges or ridges, striking north and south, all of them mineral- bearing. A single chimney of ore in a contact along the east base of Grampian Mountain (Horn Silver Mine) turned out 90 tons of ore a day for four years, realizing to its owners more than $13,000,000, $4,000,000 of which was disbursed in dividends. After this enormons output the mine had three or four hard years, bat is again doing well. Ore bodies were opened in 1890 in new ground on different levels. Shipments for that

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year were 19,477 tons, which sold in the Salt Lake market for $335,009. Average value of the ore was $18.26 per ton; average cost per ton was, for extraction, $3.50; dead work, CO cento; surface work, 85 cents; sup- plies, $1.30; total cost per ton, $6.25. At the end of the year the mine had $269,787 in its treasury, and the own- ers expected a better year than last year, and in this they have not been disappointed.

The product of the mines for 1891 has equaled that of 1890, and the profit, about $200,000, has been as great. There is not much doing around Frisco at pres- ent, aside from the operations of the Horn Silver.

In Star District tlie Talisman and Stewart have been penetrated to a horizon below that of the pinches and faults which confound and discourage the miner in this district at a distance of about 100 feet from the surface of the ground. Between 300 and 400 feet down they have three or four feet of very good ore. From Mr. A. G Campbell's mines, and from several others^ small ship- ments are occasionally made. The ores are generally of a rather high grade.

The facilities for mining in Heaver County are very good. The country is dry in the summer, but there is -utticient water, wood and timber for mining pur poses, and operations are not obstructed by snow or cold in the winter. The ores are carried from the mine dumps by wagon and rail to the Salt Lake smelters at about $7 per ton. The mines are easy of access. Provisions and supplies are cheap and abundant, and good labor is obtainable at fair rates of compensation. There can be no doubt that extensive exploitation and operation in this county would very greatly increase its output.

JUAB COUNTY, T1NTIC.

Tintic is the principal mining district of Juab ('..iinty. It is in, or on, the western slope of the <>>|iiirrh Range, which here rises perhaps 2,000 feet .il...\c the general level of the country, making the abso- lute altitude 0,000 to 7,000 feet. One goes there from Salt Lake, about seventy miles, via Lehi, on the U. P. Railway. The Rio (Jrande Western has just com- pleted a branch to Tinlie from Springville, going in via IInm:ins\ ille to Kunka, swinging round Eureka Hill

past the Man >th shaft and tlie hi-; in.n mine back of

Silver City.

The district has been worked more or less for twenty yean. Within the last year or two the impres- sion has grown steadily that there in no better mining district in the Tinted Slates. The mines occur in a series of ore channels, with n<> defined l...im.l.m. -. hut following a generally definable course, striking north and south — in fact, in a belt of limestone about two miles wide, lyin-_' between i|iiarl/ite on the west and erupthe ro.ks on tlie east. Alltk«gMlOgittlM<l min- rralogic.tl feature* of the vicinity are well marked and

clear for a distance of three or four miles along the strike of the belt, and here is where the great produc- tive mines -.in-. North and south these guide posts of the miner are more or less masked, and there has been less encouragement to prospecting. There is little doubt, however, in the minds of good judges, that iriv.u mines will be found in this lime bell :is far north and south as the quartzite and porphyry banks of the chan- nel extend. There is as little doubt that the ores will be found to extend a half mile or more in depth, at least down to the level of I" tali Lake, perhaps 2,000 feet below, where water may be expected, and the ores likely change to sulphides.

The ore deposits are as a rule large, easily mined, and of a high grade. The Hullion.He.-k, Kureka-Hill, Cen- tennial-Eiiri'ka, ('risinon-.Manimoth, and a few others are the principal mines, all heavy producers and divi- dend-payers, but aside from these little prospecting has been done. A small number of claims have been pat- ented; a few more are held by location. For miles in each direction the country is practically virgin ground.

Owing to the low altitude the winter snows depart early, leaving the ground parched and dry. Vegetation is very scant, and timber for mining purposes has to be brought from other parls.

The mines are not troubled with water, but rather with the lack of it, for even those mines which have reached a depth of nearly a thousand feet have none excepting what is brought there by human effort and ingenuity. Most of the water for all kinds of uses is derived from springs, which seem to be <juite numer- ous in certain places, but their flow is not strong, and they are already taxed to nearly their full capacity.

As the population of Eureka and the various other camps is steadily increasing and more mines are being opened every year, the question of water supply can- not be far distant, for when the section receives the attention it surely merits the few local springs will be far inadequate. I'.ut t'tah Lake, being distant only a few miles, maybe counted upon to supply the mean-: the end can be easily found.

t'utput is all that counts in mining, and the leading mines can he delected by amount of on- *hippc<l in ism-, given in the following table, to. wit. •

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I'.ulli'in IWk Kureku-llill Mammoth Dragon (iron) Centennial- Kur*k»

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Keystone .Itilinn Lane Northern Spy Tecora

.v group.. . Sm>l««m group

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7- ..... ,.39,500

i;,iirio

group

1,700

7:- 550

M

±21 I'.W 116 100

Governor 103

Undine 88

21

Ruby

North Star. Hungarian . Park . .

Rust Dragon

South Mammoth

Diamond district

Martha Washington.

19 18 15 15 12 10 10

Total 75,907

Shipments for 1891 are not yet made up, but it is known that they considerably exceed those for 1890, and more mines have had ores to ship.

There is a chloridizing mill of ten stamps in the dis- trict, which is not much used, and a leaching mill of 30 or 60 stamps has been rigged up during the past year from old dismantled mills. This mill is mainly employed in working up old mine dumps. Most of the ores are dry ores — carrying not more than 12 or 15 per cent, of lead — and they are sold to the smelters and carried to Salt Lake or Denver for reduction.

The Eureka-Hill and the Bullion-Beck are very well equipped for deep and heavy work. Both of these mines have reached their llth or 12th level. The Mam- moth, Centennial-Eureka, Keystone, German, Northern Spy, Eagle, and other groups have steam hoists, pumps, etc., and are fairly equipped. Most of them have had their years " in the wilderness." The Eureka-Hill has had eight years of steady production, in which it has sold about 100,000 tons of probably $50 ore. Its profits have not been far from $2,000,000. The Bullion-Beck has earned, net, in the past three years, probably more than $1,000,000. Neither of these companies publish their dividends.

The Centennial-Eureka has a long stretch of the mar- velous ore channel. Oaring the five years previous to 1890 but 1,365 tons of ore were taken out. In 1890, the output was 3,667 tons, which sold for about $550,- .000; and the past year, without pushing, the ore sales were about $400,000.

The Mammoth had paid thirteen dividends, summing up $210,000, down to the first day of 1890. In that year they paid $560,000.

The Genuine group, the Eagle group, Northern Spy, the Godiva group, the Yorkville, the Madera Consolid- ated, the Marion Consolidated, the Plutus, the Sioux group, the Snowflake, the Governor, the Iron Blossom, the Wolf, the Cave, the Hungarian, the British, Cop- peropolis, the Undine, the Sunbeam, the Treasure, the Tesora, the Turk, the Eastern and Daisy, the Hard Winter, the Belcher Consolidated, a group of eight claims, the Lucky Boy, the Alamo, the Golden Ray, a group of six claims, the Isona, the Retribution, and many more "too numerous to mention," are being brought forward year by year to the same stage as the foregoing.

Many of these Tintic mines, and not the least, the

mines about Diamond, have immense outcrops, nearly covering the full surface area. The ore is found [in bunches and chimneys; greater depth will surely show concentration in large bodies. Experience has demon- strated that these mines as a rule need only to be opened and wrought to become profitable.

The Dragon or Tintic iron mine ships 6,050 tons of fluxing iron ore to the smelters near Salt Lake City every year.

George Arthur Rice & Co. operate a sampling mill at Eureka.

DEL MONTE DISTRICT.

This district is four miles north of Eureka. The railroad passes within four miles of the mines, which are immense bodies of lead ore, carrying about three ounces of silver per ton and a large percentage of iron. The more these mines are exploited the larger and cleaner appears to be the ore; 1,200 feet of openings have been made in ore which is from 10 to 45 feet in thickness.

WEST TINTIC.

This district is in Tooele County, but one goes there from Eureka, the capital town of the Tintic mines, and hence mention of it is made here. It is a twenty-eight mile drive from Eureka to Rockwell's ranch on Cherry Creek, and about five miles farther to the mines. The mineral belt is very wide, the country low, smooth hills. Amongst the mines of consequence are the Silver Star, the Scotia, the Midgley, the North- western, the Little Chief, the Stonewall Jackson, the 88, the Virginia, the Brunswick, the Grand Cross, the Trib- une, the Flying Dutchman, and many others.

THE DESERT.

Fifteen miles west of Rockwell's (on Cherry Creek) a bold and rugged granite mountain rises out of the desert, and this is called Desert Mining District. On the west end of this mountain occur valuable copper mines, the ores, rich in copper, carrying gold and silver also.

There is Desert Mountain, fourteen miles north of the granite mountain spoken of, and the Oasis, the Columbia and the Drumm mining districts in the same region. "There is ore enough here in sight now," says an intelligent correspondent, "to tax the carrying capacity of any single-track railroad. A road could be run out here from Salt Lake via Ophir, Eureka, West Tintic and the districts mentioned to North Dugway, Clifton and on to Deep Creek, passing through mines for nearly every mile of the way, and with sufficient water; mines that will never make much stir in the min- ing world, either,' until such a railroad sha,ll be run."

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SUMMIT COUNTY.

The mining field which begins on the heads of the Cottonwoods and of American Fork, within sight of Salt Lake City, and extends ten miles over the first ridge of the Wasatch, eastward, is thrown by the wind- ing mountain crests which culminate in that vicinity into four counties. The more important, however, are known as Uintah Mining District, in Summit County, and as Blue Ledge Mining District, in Wasatch County. These are in reality one district divided by a geograph- ical county line to which mineral veins pay no attention.

PARK CITY.

A town of 5,000 inhabitants, connected with Salt Lake by the Union Pacific, and also by the Utah Cen- tral, is the mining town of the district. It is an incor- porated town, has a city government, fire department, watei works and all the appurtenances, jail, bank, hotel, churches, schools, opera house, Masons, Oddfellows, etc., of a city. The streets have been worked and graded and drained till they are very good. The absolnte'alti- tude of Main street at the hotel is about 7,500 feet above the sea.

Three or four gulches join each other at the head of Main street, and a little above, and up these, rising in two miles 2,000 feet, are the mines. The Mackintosh sampling mill is at the lower end of this street, near the depots. The Crescent concentrating and sampling mill and smelter, and the Marsac (Daly) thirty-stamp chlor- idizing mill, are in the town, while the Ontario forty- stamp chloridizing mill stands at the head of the main street. The Ontario mine is a mile and a half up Ontario Gulch, south of the mill.

THE ONTARIO AND OTHER GREAT MINI

The Ontario vein for 4,600 feet on its course is owned by the Ontario Silver Mining Company; for 1,500 feet next westward by the Daly Mining Company; the next 2,800 feet, going westward, is owned by men inter- ested in these two companies. Here the Anchor Min- ing Company takes the vein for 12,688 feet. From tli<> Ontario, westward, the ground gains in altitude, so that the sixth Ontario level is the Daly eighth, and t)u> Anchor seventeenth. The Anchor Company sank a shaft to its twelfth level, cross-cutting the vein, and drove in a drain tunnel 6,600 feet, intersecting the shaft on the twelfth level. The Ontario sixth level drain tunnel isextended through the Ontario and Daly ground. an<l it* fifteenth level drain tunnel, three miles long from Proso Valley to Ontario Shaft No. 2, is about half completed. Extended along the vein to the Anchor it would be nearly five miles long, and take the Ain-li"1' water to the twenty-seventh level. If the Anchor ha* the Ontario or an equivalent parallel vein, then tin- vein

is about 9,000 feet long; and if the vein extends through the Anchor ground it is 20,000 feet long. There is good reason to suppose that it continues westward to the Cottonwood mines, and that it strikes eastward throutrh Blue Ledge District via McIIenry Gulch for about two miles, making in all six or seven miles, throughout which, with intervals of barren ground, of course, it may reasonably be Expected to be fertile. It is now claimed that the district has four or five parallel veins.

The Ontario mine is the leading mine in extent of operations, in cost of plant, in output and dividends. There are upwards of thirty miles of openings in the mine, and about 160,600 cubic yards have been sloped out to get the (in round numbers) $27,000,000 which the mine has produced. The mill and mine plant cost 2,700,000, and mine and mill give direct employment

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to between 400 and 500 men at an average wage of $100 per month, and indirect employment to a great many more. During the year 1 800 the output was 36,- 985 tons of (dry) ore.of which 23,892 tons were milled, and 12,093 tons sold to smelters. The gross sura re- ceived for the product of this ore was $1,742,084, out of which $900,000 was paid in dividends, making the total monthly dividends paid, to the end of 1890, 1,75; aggregating $1 1,525,000.

Disbursements of 1890 were as follows:

Pay roll and aalarie*... $686.000.00

Cordwood 84,180.75

Lumberaml timber . ... 86,649.50

Coal (from Ooalnlle) 81,794.22

Salt 29,682.83

Carting (Salt Lake foundries) 12,867.10

lieef and vegetable*

Hauling and sampling ore ... 66,868.10

Sundries, r><>wd.«r, nil, machinery, oandlea, groceries,

N. Y A S. F. office. 810,828.64

Dividends (12, of $75,000 each) 900,000.00

Total .

.$'2.017,066.06

This will give an idea of the cost of mining, and how distributed.

The exoMfl of dislmrsemenU above receipt* is drawn,

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of course, from surplus account. Of these items, the first eight, amounting to $806,731.52, and part of the ninth and tenth items, were expended in Utah. Of the $12,000,000, Salt Lake value, produced in 1890 by the mines of Utah, it is safe to say that three-fourths were expended in Utah.

The Ontario kept up its usual rate of production in 1891; and the dividends paid carry the number to 187, aggregating $12,425,000. The mine has still a great amount of opened but unstoped ground above the 10th level. The selling price of the shares is from $40 to '$44; there are 150,000 shares, par $100: holders have come to repose trust in them as if they were United States bonds. The mine has passed the monthly divi- dend of 50 cents a share but about six months, when No. 2 hoist was burned down, in fourteen years. No one familiar with it doubts that this will continue fif- teen or twenty years longer.

The Daly mine raised 23,870 tons of (dry) ore in

UALY MILLING AND HOISTING WORKS.

1890, 20,795 tons of which were milled by the Russell process of leaching, and 2,351 tons were sold to the smelters. Sale of the proceeds of this ore brought the company $834,818, of which $450,000 was paid in divi- dends, making 46 dividends pail by the mine since the mill started in February, 1886, aggregating $1,762,- 500. During the year the working shaft was sunk to the 10th level, and a second working shaft was started east of the old one, which has been sunk to the Ontario 6th level drain tunnel. The Russell leaching process has been substituted in the Marsac (Daly) mill for the amalgamating process, it having been established that it does better work at less cost and with a much less expensive plant, both in first cost and maintenance. The usual rate of production was maintained during

1891, and $450,000 was paid in dividends.

The Anchor property is a group of claims 1,200 feet in width by 12,538 feet long, beginning near the west end of the Daly and running west, comprising the old

Utah and White Pine properties, and many other con- tiguous claims. The drain tunnel above mentioned cut a vein 18 to 70 feet in thickness of (mainly) concen- trating ore. The company have a mill which will dress 130 tons of crude ore down into about 40 tons of con- centrates per day. The mill cost nearly $40,000. The mine output in nine months of 1891 was 26,860 tons crude ore, which made 7,686 tons of concentrates. Con- centrating costs 93 cents per ton; hauling, 78 cents; aver- age wages, $2.61 per day; total cost of mining, concentrat- ing, sampling, and delivering on cars, $7.08 per ton of crude ore. Large chambers have been cut out, the openings exposing more and more ore.

The Daly West ground is a group of claims about 2,000 feet wide by 3,000 feet long, joining the Daly on the west and the Anchor ground in part on the north. Tt belongs to the owners of the Ontario and the Daly, and to John J. Daly, and can be cheaply drained and exploited and laid off properly for ore extraction through or by means of the workings in those mines. A working shaft was start- ed upon the property in 1891, and it is understood to be the intention of the owners to proceed to the opening and working of the mine.

The Woodside Company own eight claims in Woodside Gulch, out of which they took $444,000 in 1889. In 1890 a working shaft was sunk 500 feet, a good hoist put on, and the second and fifth levels opened; enough ore was extracted — about 670 tons — to pay expenses. Dur- ing the past season the vein was cut at still greater depth by a tunnel, and the output, while not so great as in 1889, was satisfactory.

The Northland— Nevada, or the May- flower, according as pending litigation shall be decided — comprises a group of claims near the Woodside, out of which, in a contact between lime and quartzite, the owners extracted 1,560 tons of ore in 1889, and 2,629 tons in 1890, when they were enjoined pending the settlement of title, and obliged to close down. The body of ore in dispute is regarded as one of the best and most promising in the district.

The Massachusetts (old Empire), comprising twenty claims, lies about one mile west of the original Ontario ground. It is well equipped, and_ the main working shaft has reached the sixth level. A fork, at least, of the Ontario vein is believed to run through this ground.

The Alliance (old Sampson) is a group of eight claims, immediately east of Pinyon Hill, on a line west with the original Ontario and Massachusetts; the Daly and Anchor diverge to the southwest. It is at the head of Webster and Walker Gulch, and much higher in altitude than the Massachusetts. The vein is in

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limestone, is 15 feet thick, and strikes through Pinyon Hill southwesterly a mile or more, the Crescent and the Apex each owning a part of it. The working shaft is intersected by the Hanauer tunnel at a depth of 520 feet. This tnnnel has been extended beyond the shaft on the vein (as a level) to the end line of the property and to a connection with the Crescent working incline for the benefit of the Crescent Company. Meantime a drain tunnel has been driven into the vein at a point 1,002 feet below the Hanauer tunnel. This, called the Alliance tunnel, is 5,37*2 feet long to the point where it strikes the vein, 830 feet west of the east end line of the property. Crosscutting and running west in the vein shows the vein to vary in width from 20 to 40 feet; to pitch about 15 degrees from the vertical; to be in limestone still; and to be filled with quartz, brecciated lime, clay, talc, iron, and manganese, with occasional bunches of ore. The tunnel has been driven west on the vein several hundred feet. It was excavated on contract at $18 a foot. The property is a steady though not (as yet) heavy shipper.

The Crescent property comprises about 90 acres, the ore occurring in a channel 30 rods wide and a quarter of a mile long, falling off to the northwest with the face of the hill and about 100 feet below the surface. This ore sheet crops out in the eastern face of Pinyon Hill, which is on that side a ledge about 400 feet high, and thin veins or fissures come occasionally to the surface from the ore body on the northwestern slope of the hill. Probably 100,000 tons of ore have been extracted and sold from this ore body, realizing to mine and smelter $1,500,000 — $15 per ton — and many thousands of tons of concentrating ore yet remain in the mine and on the various dumps. Dividends amounting to $228,020 have been paid.

The Sampson (or Alliance) vein cuts across the head of the property, and is reached at a depth of about 400 feet by a 1,700-foot tunnel run in from the northwest. Upon this vein, which is here 50 feet wide, at the inner end of the tunnel, machinery has been placed, and a working incline sunk to the Hanauer tunnel, 400 feet. This saves pumping and gives 400 feet of dry sloping back. The ore in this vein is scattered; fi\ tons are concentrated into one. The output of the mine in firit-class ore and concentrates is about 6,000 tons a year, the grots value of which is not far from $40 a ton. The company have a concentrating and sampling mill, 5 miles of tramway between mine and mill, with an average grade of 400 feet per mile, boarding and lodging houses, etc. The property is regarded ax in bettt-r r<>ii<liti<>ti than ever before.

Amongst propertied upon which a good deal of work ha* been done with more or less encouraging result*, but which have not M yet become steady and large producer*, may be mentioned the Apex, the Creole, the Deer Valley Consolidated, the Constellation, the < {olden Eagle, the Whitehead, the Putnam, the

Meears Consolidated, the Roaring Lion, the Jupiter, the Silver Key, the Silver King, the New York, the Lucky Bill, the Comstock, the Xiem, the Steele, the Dolberg, the West Ontario, the Black Diamond and Nimrod, the Rosebud, the Reed, the Kerr, the Hoyt, the Park City, the Lundin and Anderson, the Roseamp and Glen, the Denhuff, the Creole No. 2, the Typo, the Kentucky, and the Hughes and Bogan. To these and many others the Park City Record calls attention as offering induce- ments to would-be investors in mining.

Besides these there are hundreds of promising pros- pects scattered all over these hills from the Cotton- woods to Provo River, and from Deer Valley nearly to Midway, a district containing fifty square miles. The country is wet and the drift heavy, making the devel- opment of prospects into paying mines slow work. Very little capital on the outside has ever gone into the district. It has had to depend upon its output for the means of increasing its output. Yet it may be truly said that there is no district in the entire mining section which offers greater inducements to capital to engage in mining than this.

The Park City Sampling Mill, owned by Mr. Rich- ard Mackintosh, of Salt Lake, samples about 30,000 tons of ore yearly from these mines.

The yearly output of the district is about 75,000 tons of ore, worth something like $4,000,000 at Salt Lake. About 45,000 tons of ore are milled yearly by the Ontario and the Daly (Marsac) Mills.

WA8ATCH COUNTY.

Blue Ledge District lies on the eastern slope of the div- ide between the Provo and the Weber, and is in Wasatch County. The Glencoe is at present the leading or most promising mine in the district. It consists of a group of six or eight claims. In the old workings there was a strong continuous vein for 300 feet, but the ore was of low grade and carried too much zinc. An adit tunnel has been driven in 150 feet below the old workings, proving the vein to be much stronger and the ores richer and less base than on the level above. The com- pany have the past season constructed a large concen- trating mill, and tin- mine lias become a regular shipper of ore. The properly is about two miles a little south of east of the Ontario.

Tliere is valuable property in M. Henry <4uloh — to- wit, the Wilson & Barrett, the Lowell, the Mr Henry, the Hawkeye, the Moulder; and southward of the gulch the Free Silver, the Wasateh, and many others. All these are groups of from two to a dozen claims, and on some of them much heavy and expensive development work has been done. The McIIenry was worked under lease the past season, and several small shipment* of high grade ore were made.

Work in tins vicinity is for the most part suspended, however, pending the excavation of a drain tunnel, the

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superabundance of water in the ground having ex- hausted the operators. The 15th-level Ontario drain tunnel is well abreast of these properties now, and a thousand feet below them. A branch 2,000 feet long would drain them and permit their exploitation. Good judges do not doubt that there are great mines on McHenry Gulch, but the ground is broken and thrown about by eruptive dykes, and ore in paying bodies, if it exists, probably lies deep like the Consolidated Virginia bonanza.

UTAH COUNTY

A spur of the Wasatch striking eastwaroi and then northward forms the line in this locality between Sum- mit, Wagatch and Utah Counties, and also between Uintah, Snake Creek, and Blue Ledge districts, the latter in Wasatch, Snake Creek in Utah County Headquarters of all these districts, it will be un- derstood, is Park City. The mines in Snake Creek are about eight miles from Park City over a high divide, yet it is the best way out at present.

The Southern Tier has been opened to a depth of 500 feet, and some shipments of 150-ounce ore have been made. Amongst other groups of claims upon which considerable work has been done are the Newell, the Steamboat, and the Levigneur claims. The formation is mixed and pretty badly broken and tumbled up on the surface. Nevertheless the miners are developing regular and continuous veins, which produce very good ore. There are copper lodes and ledges of marble; and at Midway, on the Provo River, in plain sight from the mines and not far away, there are hot springs and quite an area of the "formation" which in many places these hot springs deposit. With a railroad on the Provo River, Snake Creek will be heard of to some purpose in the mining world.

A GREAT MINING FIELD.

Before completing the review of Utah County mines, the reader may as well return to Salt Lake City, and take a general glimpse of the field. About thirty miles east of Salt Lake City, the counties of Salt Lake, Utah, Wasatch and Summit corner at the apex of Clayton's peak, in the heart of one of Utah's great mining fields. This field is from fifty to one hundred square miles in area; its absolute altitude is from 7,000 to 11,000 feet, and, it is extremely rugged. It is here that the Wasatch range is the highest and most massive. The formation is quartzite and lime, held up on granite shoulders. Much of it has been gouged and worn away by erosive agencies. From its culmination the water flows in all directions — Ameri- can Fork, Little and Big Cottonwood, and Mill Creek westward, and small unnamed streams south, north and east, into the Provo and the Weber. The western limb of it is accessible only via the streams named from

Salt Lake Valley. The eastern limb is reached by the Union Pacific from Echo on the Weber, and also by the Utah Central, directly over the Wasatch, through Par- ley's Canon and Parley's Park. A rail and tramway run to Alta at the head of Little Cottonwood from Brigham Junction, which is ten miles south of Salt Lake City. A good wagon road runs up American Fork, starting from the town of American Fork, which is about thirty miles south of Salt Lake City, to the Miller mine, probably 11,000 feet above the sea; and a wagon road also runs up Big Cottonwood to the lakes, and, crossing the divide, down Thayne's Canon to Parley's Park and Park City. The mines pay no attention to divides, although these are the boundary lines of counties and mining districts.

The palmy days of the Cottonwoods and of Ameri- can Fork passed away a decade since, with the exhaus- tion of the surface bonanzas of such famous mines as the Emma, Flagstaff, Joab Lawrence, Miller, Prince of Wales, Reed <fc Benson, etc. Work has never ceased altogether, however, although it has ceased on hundreds of prospects, and on scores of mines. This is due to the same incidents that everywhere embarrass mining — lack of means being the principal. It takes a mine to make a mine, the Spaniards say, and it is true. Some of our greatest mines would be as dead and unknown as any of the 1,500 patented mines of Utah had they not at an early stage passed into the hands of men of ample means, men able to put in a good deal of money before they took any out. There ought to be 200 pro- ducing mines on the Cottonwoods and American Fork, and some day there will be. Some accidental strike will recall attention to this mining ground, so accessible from the valley; men will again flock in there; work will be resumed on properties partially developed by men full of pluck and with means, and also on the merest prospect holes; and more money will, in the future, come down these streams in a year than is taken at present from all the mines of Utah. Fifty mines might be named in the district that need nothing but exploitation to become profitable producers. And there are four times fifty more, probably equally meritorious, which were never worked enough to be known. There are about a dozen which are worked in a small way, and send out a little ore every season.

On the eastern side of the field a rich company early became engaged in mining, and so there has been no abandonment, although this company's was for years the only productive property in Summit County. The Ontario mine was discovered by the merest accident, the turning of a loose cobble-stone of ore in the bushes on the side of Ontario Gulch. A narrow little trench a few feet long was found to be full of rich ore, and the "find" was sold to Hearst, Chambers & Haggin for $30,000. The Ontario Silver Mining Company was organized and a great deal of money expended in mill and mining plant and development before any ore of

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consequence was taken out. The reader of these pages has already some idea of what has been done since. If, as we are assured by the superintendent, the mill has three more years' work above the tenth level, it will have been seventeen years exhausting the mine to that level. At the same rate, with the long drain tunnel completed and taking the water from the fifteenth level, there are eight and a half years' work between the tenth and fifteenth levels; and, if the formation continues and the vein retains sufficient fertility, it may be worked by pumps to the twenty-fifth level seventeen years more, or in all forty-two and a half years. Dividends of $900,000 a year have been so long paid, that, as has been said, they are looked for as confidently as the payment of interest on Govern- ment bonds. Forty years of life for such a mine means the wresting from that fissure of $75,000,000, and the payment of $40,000,000 in dividends. Yet one year the ore ran down to $67 per ton, and one-fourth of the mine was offered for $1175,000 and after examination declined. And yet again, notwith- standing the fact that the first ore taken from the little trench spoken of sold in Salt Lake for $245 a ton, the chances are ten to one that if the owners had not had unlimited means, this unequaled mine, which was naturally a water geyser, would have been abandoned the same as the Davenport, or the Wellington, or the McHenry, or the Hawkeye, or the Lowell were, and as the Crescent, the Woodside, the Wasatch, and a hundred other Utah mines at one time or other have been.

The Daly is a continuation of the Ontario westward, and it took four years of outlay to work this mine up to the dividend- -;.i.. Blind tunnels were run into the banks of the gulches, and a shaft put down 500 feet, and levels and cross- drifts run, pumps set and compressors and hoisting plant put on, and a mill built; and long after that, when dividends had begun, a considerable interest in it was offered for sale at the rate of $200,000 for the whole. Its total dividends are now nearly ten times $200,000, and its life bids fair to extend side by side with that of its foster father, the Ontario.

There are mines still west of the Daly and east of the Ontario, and alongside of both, doubtless as good as they are It is a wonderful district, full of prospect holes, of tunnels and adits and shafts stopped just short of fruition. There was the Woodside, abandoned for eight years, then taken up .mil proved a bonanza, and that has revived a whole group ol mine- in the vicinity, and in other localities, and thoroughly broken up the superstition that there was but one mine or ore vein in the district. The Anchor, the Alliance, the Crescent, the Apex, and at least a score of groups within three miles of Park < it\ . need nothing but judicious working to make great mines of them.

AMERICAN FORK.

With all the other mining districts of Utah. Aim-in an Fork, ha* experienced a resurrection within the past two years. I In i anon road, cut out by the breaking of a reservoir d.un and generally out of rrp.ur from long disuse, has been thoroughly reconstructed. From 100 to 200 men have been kept busy in

he m ines cleaning out and re-timbering old shafts, tunnels rifts and winzes, preparatory to further exploitation or the extraction of ore. . Arrangements have been made to establish a very large ore-leaching works at American Fork town, at the mouth of the stream and also on the Union Pacific Railway.

Amongst the mines on which work has been resumed are the North Star; the mines of the American Fork Company, known as the Flora, New Idea, Osborn, Osborn No. 2, Wild Dutch- man, Wild Dutchman Extension, Security; the mines of the Treasure Consolidated Company, to-wit: Treasure, N't-mo. Dolphin, Oliver; the Milkmaid, the Kalamazoo, the Pittsburgh, the Chicago, the Superior, and the Silver Bell group. All these and many others make a good showing. From most of them shipments are occasionally made during the progress of mere development work. With the whole creek from Deer Creek to Miller Hill, one hive of humming industry, scores of mines, whose names are forgotten, and hundreds of discoveries will be brought under tribute.

SALT LAKE COUNTY— BIG COTTONWOOD.

The mines of Salt Lake County are at Bingham Canon in the ( )i|iiirrh, and on the Cottonwoods in the Wasatch, both connect- ed with the Jordan smelters and with Salt Lake City by rail and trainway. Concerning the mines of Little Cottonwood, it may be said that the output of the past season was considerably in excess of that of the last few years. The developments in the Kinnia and the Flagstaff are more encouraging than at any- time in the past decade. As much can be said of the City Rock, of the Chicago and Superior, of the Montezuma, of the Jack Mines; other shippers are the Highland Chief, the Toledo dump, the Golconda, the Hoboken, the Toledo, the Vallejo, the Peruvian, and the King. Some work is going on in the Wellington, the Oxford and Geneva, and a number of new prospects have been opened up, which are very promising.

LITTLE COTTONWOOD.

This district has a number of good mines, while there are many prospects that would become paying properties if suf- ficient capital and energy were applied to their development.

The Maxfield is the leading mine in the matter of output .nut dividends.

The Reed and Benson in early times turned out $300,000, but the ore pipes, which were followed, made such labyrinthine workings that at a depth of about 'tOQ feet work ceased in the mine, and a tunnel was driven 2,200 feet on a level 500 feet be- low the lowest of the old workings. In this tunnel the old high grade ore has been recently struck in -.mall quantity, and it is believed that this will lead to the ore pipes abandoned 500 cet above, when the prosperous days of old, like health after long illness, if not like youth after it is passed, w ill return to the mine and its persevering o» •

' Mlicr mines of the distrii t. »lm h an- being developed, are the Congo, the (juccn ltes~. thciiip-v I'.l.iu. the old St. Louis Tunnel propertv. the I'IIIH e of W.ilc "lie milling was

done on Ke -it < I', .ik ami on S< ott Hill.

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BINGHAM CANYON.

We are now through with our review of the great min- eral field east of Salt Lake City in the tops of the Wasatch. The scene is transferred to the Oquirrh Range west of Jordan Valley, or to that part of it known either as Bingham Canon or West Mountain District, being so much of the eastern face of the range as has been cut into a fan-shaped series of ravines and ridges by the melting snows which find their way out through Bingham Creek. The town of Bing- ham, strung along the gulch at the entrance of Carr Fork, where the gorge is deepest, is about 26 miles southwest of Salt Lake City by rail. In the seventies the bed and sides of the gulch were burrowed, tunneled and sluiced in many places as gold placers, and the end of gold placer mining in the gulch has not yet come, if, indeed, the beginning has. The great stream of lead silver ores which has flowed out of the canon to the Jordan smelters for 20 years, and which is now swelling in volume, will be our first theme. In the earlier years the output was extraordinary, but when the oxidized ores of the surface had been mainly used up, the output fell off to a point much below what it is at present, and for the past few- years it has steadily 'ncreased. The great ore channel of the district strikes northeasterly from the summit of the range (Oquirrh) about three miles to the valley, crossing upper Bing- ham, Bear, Yosemite, and Copper Gulches. Below Bear Gulch its course is cut off from the range by Bingham Cafton; the exposure is to the south, and the ground is comparatively dry. The Brooklyn, the Yosemite, the Yosemite No. 2, the Miner's Dream, the Wasatch, and the Lead mines are on this part of the great ledge or zone.

The Brooklyn comprises several locations adjoining the Old Telegraph on the northeast. The hoisting works and concen- trating mill are in Yosemite Gulch, 300 to 400 feet lower than the divide between it and Bear Gulch. The main incline is on the quartzite footwall, and pitches northwesterly at an angle of 45 degrees. Fifteen levels have been opened along the foot, aggregating in length about four miles. The ore makes in pipes or chimneys 100 to 150 feet long on the course of the ledge, and from 2 to 12 and 20 feet thick. These chimneys or pipes go down with slight change on the whole, either in dimensions or character of contents. The ores are galena, carbonates, and sulphates, 60 per cent, requiring concentration to bring it to shipping grade, to-wit — 10 ounces silver and 50 per cent lead. Concentration is by jigs and tables, and costs 75 cents to $1 per ton. Three hundred to 600 tons are shipped per month by the Brooklyn, and have been the past seven years. The vein is regular and well defined on the footwall side. The hanging wall, a lime shale, is much less easily lo- cated, and is believed to be 400 feet from the footwall.

The formation is complicated by the existence of the Yosem- ite, comprising several locations, on a vein very like the Brooklyn, parallel, pitching perhaps 20 per cent, less, and 400 to 500 feet toward the hanging country, on which the winkings are extensive both in depth and lineally, although leM i \irnsive than the workings of the Brooklyn. The works are in Yosemite Gulch; the concentrating mill three miles below,

in Butterfield Canon. The ground rises each way from Yosem- ite Gulch, and a great deal of it is still unexploited. Water was struck in the working incline on the 6th level, and the ore became pyritous, but down near the 8th level it changed to galena carrying 16 ounces and upwards of silver. The Brook- lyn also struck water in one of its ore pipes on the 12th level, but the lean iron pyrites which came in thereupon gave place to galena between the 13th and 14th levels. The Brooklyn and Yosemite are now owned by the Lead Co., and their ores are run down to the Lead Concentrating Mill on the railway, near the mouth of the canon, over a gravity tramway about five miles in length.

In Copper Gulch, half a mile further east, and 200 or HOO feet lower, these two veins are known and worked as the Lead and the Yosemite No. 2, and as the Wasatch and the Miner's Dream, respectively. They have the same general characteristics and yield the same kind and quality of ores as the Yosemite and the Brooklyn. The workings in the Lead have reached a depth of 1,000 feet. The Wasatch and the Miner's Dream are opened by an incline to the depth of 600 feet, the Yosemite No. 2 by a shaft to the thirteenth level.

West of the Brooklyn and the Yosemite, in the Old Tele- graph on Bear Gulch, where the exposure is to the northward, these two veins, if such they are, seem to have become one. The clean marketable ore on this property, which is a consoli- dation of twenty one locations, reached in places a width of nearly 200 feet, and the lean iron pyrites upon which the oxi- dized ores bottomed at the level of the bed of the gulch — here and above the true water level — is estimated at three millions to five millions of tons. Out of the ridges bordering Bear Gulch 60,000 to 70,000 tons of oxidized ores, which sold for $1,5000,00, have been taken.

Still west of the Old Telegraph, in the Spanish, the mineral- ized zone is 600 feet wide, the ore making in pipes and kidneys of all shapes and dimensions, but with a certain regularity of strike and dip. On the surface there was a vast body of oxi- dized ores.

The Jordan lies next west. At its intersection with the South Galena and the Utah the oxidized ores of the surface worked out a hundred thousand tons, worth $2,000,000, and there now lies in the same vicinity a million tons of $20 quartz, in which gold and silver are so combined that no way has yet been found to work it without a loss of most of the one or the other metal. Four hundred thousand tons of similar material, bearing $8 and upwards per ton in gold and about the same in silver, constitute a hillside above the bed of Carr Fork on the Stewart property, half or three-fourths of a mile north of the Jordan, believed by competent geologists to be part of the same deposit. On all this upper part of the mineral belt the snow-fall is heavy, it melts slowly, sinking instead of running off, and the ground appears to be full of water clear up to the surface drainage. At all events, the surface drainage is the line of division between oxidized and base ores.

The Jordan, the Spanish and the Old Telegraph, were par- alyzed for years by the exhaustion of their oxidized ores; but as methods have improved work has been resumed, and their output is yearly increasing, shipments comprising remnants of

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surface carbonates, generally, requiring concentration, and galena, more or less mixed with iron pyrites, which has to be roasted and in much of it the pyrites dressed out. All these mines have concentrating mills, in which, by a careful adjust- ment of jigs, screens and tables, determined or regulated by experimenting, galena and iron pyrites are obtained as sep- arate products, cheaply and without great loss. The latter generally carries a fair proportion of the silver and has a value as fluxing material.

As has been stated, the deepest workings in the Brooklyn and the Yosemite seem to indicate that the pyritous zone is less than 200 feet thick, galena predominating below, a galena twice as rich in silver as the surface carbonates and sulphates. If this prove to be the fact it will lead to deeper workings on the upper part of the belt, where the ores appear to be in practically unlimited quantity. Hut if the pyrites persist to the deep, the future of the district must mainly depend upon the utilization in some manner of the low grade pyritous ores. To accomplish this, cheap and perfect ore-dressing, saving of all the contents of value, cheaper transportation, cheaper fuel, and cheaper labor than are available at present, are indispen- sable conditions.

During the past year the district shared with other Utah districts the new activity in mining. More prospecting was done than usual, and a number of good "finds" were made in hitherto unopened claims. About 200 new locations were made.

A number of groups of claims in Upper Bingham was pur- chased by the Niagara Company, organized and managed by- Mr. P. A. H. Franklin. These purchases include the following: namely, the Indiana, the Miller, Idaho, Accident, Silver Plume, Red Cloud, Dead Thing, the Utah group of five claims, the Spanish, Black Hawk, Bonnie Blue Flag, Murphy. Crescent. Canby, Climax, Ajax, Defiance, Union, Lady Franklin, Quaker City, Live Pine, St. Marks, Mack S., Alameda, Austin Ray, Red Cap, Henrietta, Red Warrior, Portland, Sturgis. Safe- Guard. Rupert, Oquillc, Dartmouth, Bullion, Ben Bolt, Nia- gara, Palon, Dickerman, Ohio, and perhaps half a dozen more. Many of these claims have given up great quantities of ore, and in many of them there are large bodies of ore in sight. Old openings have been cleared out and re-timbered and new works begun, notably a new working shaft in the heart of the ground, and a tunnel for drainage and working purpose* under-running the property for half a mile, from 350 to 1,300 below the surface. A concentrating mill, capacity 120 tons per day, has been got together and is in operation. A very [large hoarding and lodging house has been built, and other J D supplied. In pur-

chasing th. .md initiating the new work. jj!nn.m«i t»

MOO.OOO has been expended. Altogether, it is a vast mining property, containing, no doubt, millions nf ton- ot ore- that with means and skill and pluck maybe profitably exit and rcdiicrcl. Hut the . ..TIi(..in\ m.i\ h.nc-to put in a ilr.il more- moricx in preparatory work before- tin \ . .in take out the ores to the best advantage, and it will not do for them to cut off the supply because of every' flurry in the -to. k .-\ changes. This enterprise i- bn •-peculation. It • .in

be made, according to its management, one of the most profit- able mines in the world, and of very great benefit to the dis- trict and the Territory, or one of the most noted failures amongst mining enterprises.

Amongst other mines in Bingham which are now worked under lease or by their owners are the Old Telegraph, the Jordan, the South Galena, the Winamuck & Dixon, the Buckeye, the Lucky Boy, the Silver Gauntlet, the Neptune, the Live Yankee, the Monitor, the Highland, the York, the Petro, the Minnie, the Leonard, the Agnes, the Pisa, the Mary, the Morning Star, the Last Chance, the Frisco, the Nast, the Stew- arts 1 and 2, the Big Giant, the Little Cottonwood, the Samp- son, etc. It is not worth while to try and give an idea of the amount and nature of the openings on these mines, or of their conditions and prospects. It would but confuse the reader. The total output of the district is between 85,000 and 40,000 tons of ore per year.

The mines of the district seem, in general, to be steadily ' improving, both in product and promise. None of them has been explored to any depth below water level. Most of them are worked by lessees, depend upon their product for develop- ment, and even for plant, and are necessarily worked with the greatest care and economy. Could this district and this is equally true of all our mining district- command means by assessment to outfit and open their mines systematically, a- the Comstock mines could and did for tweni tah mining

would enter upon a new era, and our output would be doubled twice over.

TOOELE COUNTY— RUSH YAI l.I.Y DIVISION. A stub railway, part of the Union Pacific -system, runs from Salt Lake City west, passing round the end of theOquirrh I via the lake shore, and bearing southward to within a mile or two of Stockton, so far the only mining town of Tooele County. It is 10 or 12 miles south of Great Salt Lake, and about 4<> miles from Salt Lake City. The mineral belt, beginning at Stock- ton, strikes southerly along the foothills of the western slope of the Oquirrh Range, a little diagonally with the range it-elf, throwing it up toward the summit further south, as at Dry- Canon, Ophir and I.ewiston. The belt is a mile or more in width. There appear to be two -\-ietn- of veins .it Stockton. one striking east and west, in which the main ore bodies make, the other north and south, thinner, less persistent, and appar- ently feeders. The formation is <|iiart/ite and lime, underlaid b\ svenitc. Granitic porphyrv dikes cross and disturb the veins. The gangue is oxide of iron. (|ii.im. -path ami The ore is galena and carbonate free from base HIM.. very desirable as a flux for dryer ores. I In on- m.ikr- m well- defined pipes or chimneys, of which there may he five or six in the • i thousand Inn VvelisTOO

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.iboiil Stni kton. and the bu-inc— and its returns are -teadilv

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from 5,000 to 10,000 tons a year. Most of the mines are worked under lease. The Honerine is perhaps the leading mine at Stockton. Formerly it earned dividends, but in the past year work upon it was slack. An adit tunnel, 3,000 feet long, was deemed necessary to its further economical working; the company started this tunnel in 1888, but soon ceased work. Lately the work has been resumed. The mine is a bedded vein in magnesian limestone, crossed by dikes of porphyry and a series of thin fissure veins. It is equipped with steam hoist and is opened to the water level, about 800 feet, by working incline and levels 100 feet apart. Only 3 per cent, of the ore is shipped as mined; this is 64 per cent, lead and contains 34 ounces silver per ton and a little gold. Ninety-seven tons out of a hundred are run through jigs at a cost of one dollar per ton, and dressed down to 26 tons of concentrates, which is 53 per cent, lead and contains 23 ounces silver per ton and one dollar in gold.

DRY CANON.

At Dry Canon leasers and part owners are exploiting and extracting ore of good quality from a group of claims con- sisting of the Brooklyn, Elgin, Belfast, and Trade Wind. The owner of Mono has a tunnel which will strike the ledge at the depth of 1,200 feet, driven in 1,750 feet, nearly to its objective point. The Mono turned out a good deal of exceedingly rich ore from its surface bonanza, but it has long laid idle. The owners of the Hoistead, having settled some questions as to title, have resumed work on that valuable property.

OPHIR.

At Ophir there is a resurrection from the dead. The Ophir Hill mining Company own the Miners' Delight, literally a mountain of low grade ore, to concentrate which they have completed a mill capable of handling 150 tons a day. A hoist has been put up on the mine, operated by com- pressed air from the mill, which is 650 feet below the mill. The air is carried up in pipes and the ore dropped down on a tramway, a distance of 2,300 feet. The mine is an old one; it has long been worked under lease, and is not in very good shape. Righted up, it is expected to last the life of a gener- ation.

The Utah Gem is a contact between lime and slate shale, about 12 feet ' thick, fed by a series of stringers from the footwall country. The ore makes in pipes, and can be selected to a very high grade. Mr. L. E. Holden, the owner, has put on a 10-stamp mill, and the last year milled 1,000 tons, saving 70 per cent, of the 25 ounces of silver in the rock; and shipped to market 150 tons of 140-ounce ore. There will be increased activity this year and a much larger output.

The Monarch and Northern Light, long dormant on account of litigation, have become regular shippers of high-grade ore. The vein is large, dips to the southwest about 30 degrees, and is opened to a depth of 900 feet. The ore in the Monarch is a milling ore; in the Northern Light, a lead carbonate contain- ing chloride.

The Buckhorn group has passed into the hands of a com-

pany, and is to be systematically worked. It shipped about 1,000 tons of ore the past year. The company intend to erect a new concentrating mill near the town of Ophir, the old mill on the hill being no good.

Besides these properties there are the North Star, with a 12- foot vein of ore; the Gladstone, the Chance, the Forest Group, all eligibly located, and, with scores and hundreds of others, awaiting the application of capital to make them contributors to the wealth of the whole country.

The lack of railway transportation is the only drawback to the prosperity of Ophir, and south along the range through either Boulder or Twelve-mile Pass, to Eureka, Silver City and then due west through West Tintic, Desert, Death Canon, Dugway, Fish Springs, Clifton and Deep Creek, there are mines to be served (at intervals) the entire distance. These mines will remain dead as they are now until money can be obtained to open them. The money will come with the rail- way, and it will not go far in advance of the railway after low grade ores.

Undoubtedly the Union Pacific Co. should extend the Stockton line along the west base of the Oquirrh to the vicinity of Tintic, and then build west as per above itinerary. Should they do so they would have all the business between Salt Lake City .and Deep Creek within a year or two that a first-class line could do. Beyond Deep Creek, the Union Pacific Com- pany is aware, from its own investigation, that a railway would have all it could do, almost from the day of its opening. It is the stretch between Salt Lake City and Nevada of which the Company is doubtful. The capacity of this stretch of country to develop railroad business, if the route above suggested be taken, has no doubt been underestimated by even the most persistent promoters of a railway to the Deep Creek border.

PIUTE COUNTY— MARYSVALE.

This is the mining town of Piute County. It is 17 miles above Monroe, on the Sevier, about 30 miles from Salina, the nearest railway station. This was one of the first min- ing districts organized in Utah, and nearly 20 years ago wagon trains of Marysvale ores were not an unusual sight in Salt Lake City. Distance from railroads proved too much for it, however, and for many years the district was all but abandoned. A few persevering men stuck through lone- some times, and now are receiving their reward. Within the past year two or three gold mines have been opened and mills put on, and at this writing they are making their first trial runs on the quartz. One of the veins is described as porphyritic granite, very large, and having a stratum of very rich milling rock 3 to 8 feet wide. The absolute altitude of this mine is 9,000 feet above sea. Another one of. these veins is white quartz, which will mill $20 per ton, 25 feet wide. The Homestake and Webster was the leading mine in the olden time. It is a very strong vein of low grade ore. Amongst the noted mines, old and new, are the Apex, the Angel, the Holder- man, the Star, the No You Don't, the Hidden Treasure, the Pearl and the Hard Cash, the Gold Belt, the Gold Belt Exten- sion, the Giles, the Giles Extension, the Alma, the Triangle, the Plata da Mina, the Deer Trail, the Crystal, the Clyde, the

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Copper Belt, the Crown Point. A good deal of work has been done on these mines through the years of waiting, and occas- ional shipments of ores show the latter to be of good quality. A writer on the ground has this to say: " The district needs mills, reduction works, and, more than

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all else, a railroad. Here are such facilities for development as are afforded by no other district in the Territory. Wood, not only firewood, but the best of timber and of nut pine and mahogany for charcoal, is on every claim. Wood for timber- ing is delivered at the mine for $2 a cord. Lumber is cheap, with a saw mill in every canon. Here is water and here are waterfalls furnishing a power that would turn every spindle in Lowell and Fall River, and this power is going to waste. Here, in the wide valley, are acres and acres of hay and grain that need a market. Here are vegetable gardens and young orchards, and the grassy hills are covered with live stock. The cost of living is a mere bagatelle compared with that in Tintic and Pioche. The winters are short and are much milder than in Salt Lake or Utah Valleys. The deep, rugged and heavily-timbered cafions, with roaring brooks and pictur- esque cascades, remind one of the beautiful California camps that lie high up in the Sierra, on the head-waters of the Ameri- can, Yuba and Feather Rivers. And the precious metals are here. Some of the prospects are certain to develop into rich mines, while other prospects are as sure to prove valueless. Prospecting is only in its infancy. Bullion and Cottonwood Cart- ons have been examined in a superficial manner, and the claims that have been located give every indication of vast mineral wealth, but Beaver Canon, just north of Bullion, and the nigged gulches of Baldy give the miner, who thoroughly understands his business, every inducement to prospect, and the lucky men who come first will do more than make a mere 'grub- stake.' With good ore in sight and the permanent character of a lode determined, capital will not need a second invitation to assist in developing the latent resources of the Marysvalc mining ramp."

WASHINGTON COUNTY- SILVER RF.KF.

The zone of silver-bearing sandstone which crops out in the reef in Washington County is from ten to one hundred feet thick; it conforms to the stratification, dips fifteen or twenty degrees from the horizontal, is overlaid by day shale and red sandstone and underlaid by white sandstone. With- in this zone the pay-rock occurs in well-marked bodies of shoots, usually small in dimensions, but sometimes extend- ing from sixty to two hundred feet on the strike, and from one hundred to three hundred feet on the dip of the forma lion. These bodies • may be separated by barren

ground; oftcncr they arc connected by irregular stringers of pay-rork. With the exception of where it is associated with the silicified remains of organii matter reeds, rushes, trunks and leaves of trees— (he pay-rock is plain sand-

unilistingiiishahle by the eye from tin- i>rdin.ir\ in of the reef. The silver is mainly in the form of . h!»rnlr. .mil the rork contains on the average twenty oun< cs per ton, HO per rent, of whii h is obtained by wet crushing and pan amalgam. i lion with salt and bliicstonc. It iseasily crushed, aS-stamp mill

reducing thirty to forty tons in twenty-four hours. Total cost of mining and milling is about #l:i per ton. The Christy and the Stormont Companies, which divide between them the best of the ground so far as known, have with fifteen stain; pans, in proportion, taken out 5,000,000 ounces of fine silver in the past twelve years.

These companies both closed down a year or two since, and many of the miners left for other parts. Messrs. \\"oolle\, Lund & Judd leased the properties, and the past veai IK i.l K N I ounces of silver were taken out. The condition of the mines is said to be improving.

OVER THE LINES— PIOCHE.

Pioche is reached to best advantage from the terminus of the Union Pacific at Milford, and so is Osceola, the former south, the latter west, of Milford, in Nevada. At Pioche work on the mines during the past two or three years was more in the line of development — of opening ore bodies, and in other ways preparing for steady shipments, than in sloping or mak- ing a showing in the way of output. The Pioche and the Yuba Companies were consolidated, as the Pioche Consolidat- ed. They own several large groups of mines, comprising most all the old producers of note- the Raymond & l-.K. Meadow Valley, Maieppa, Newark, American Flag, Hillside, and Day- together with a number of newly dis. mercd mines

Half Moon. Mendha, and Onondaga. The Company have expended half a million dollars in the purchase ami dc\elop- ment of mines, in surface improvement and reduction winks. and in ore reduction. A second 50-ton furnace was built the past season and made a successful run. The ores are well adapted to smelting. With the Union Pacific extended from Milford, the district would be as livclv and populous as in the palmy days of the Raymond \ Kly and the Meadow Valley.

As soon as the railroad reaches 1'ioche the Salt Lake Smelt- ing interests will be greatly benefited by the superior fluxing ores of that region. The lime ores especially are an import- ant feature, as that is the character of flux in ores now lacking in Utah. A regular supply of this ore would »avc the quarry- ing and smelting of barren limestone in Salt Lake, and then' by cheapen smelting and help keep nrcs there for treatment that are at present being shipped east. This lime ore exists at I'ini he in apparently inexhaustible quantities. Prof. < .. \V. Mavnard estimates tl '.I the lime fluxing ore

in the Day mine .it -I *•_'.( *» I tons. The ore is a minerali/ed limestone, being about two-thirds carbonate of lime, with the remaining one-third made up mostly of oxides of iron and manganese. It contains only :t per .int. -ilu a, and < amcs about '•': prr i i MI. lead and twenty ounces silver per ton.

OSCEOLA.

The Osceola Gravel Company early in 1«90 completed their ditch. It is l**f miles long, anil has a i apa. it\ <.| -J^m mmcis MI. he-., or 40,000,000 gallons per Jl hours. The ditch has a fall of Ifi feet per mile. The old did h. brought from tin- opposite side of Wheeler's Peak, is about 17 miles long, and has a capacity of about 2,000 inches. The twodidlic- ring water in the same gulch furnish a great sup

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ply. Washing begins in March and continues to December. In operation two monitors are run at a time, there being two nine-inch and one seven-inch. Fifteen men are employed during the season in the mine. This gravel bar has been pros- pected over hundreds of acres, and estimated to average 17 cents gold per cubic yard, but in operating it has run as high as 27. In starting, the gravel was thin, but going upward gained in depth until the face of the bank is now 92 feet high. Water is sent against this bank under a pressure of the mon- itors of 225 feet. The bed-rock flume or sluiceway is four feet wide and four feet deep, and runs full most of the time. This is about 300 feet long. The old ditch supplies power for operating a 2,000-candle power electric dynamo to furnish light for the workmen at night, and then this water goes back into the ditch to help wash out the gold. The company does not give out the results of its work. A $2,000 nugget, recently unearthed, the Company was not disposed to hide under a bushel, and it was exhibited in Salt Lake.

ORE PRODUCTS OF 1890.

The output of ore and concentrates for the year, by counties, is as follows:

Counties. Tons.

Beaver.. 21,100

Jaab - - 89,857

Summit (44,867 tons milled) 76,518

Utah 300

SaltLako . - 36,062

Tooele (Third Term, Mine, 1,000) 5,219

Washington (milled)... -- 1,600

Total 210,654

Six thousand tons of iron were shipped from Tintic for flux- ing purposes.

The output of 1891 is not yet made up, but it is estimated to considerably exceed that of 1890.

COST OF MINING AND MILLING.

This varies greatly with circumstances. At the Ontario it is something less than $30 per ton; at the Daly it is given at §26; at the Horn Silver in 1883-84 it was about $26. These figures in- clude all cost for the year, maintenance of plant, dead work, in- cidental expense, but not, of course, original cost of plant and opening of the mine. At Silver Reef, cost of mining and milling is jU.'i to $15. The mass of Utah low grade ores requires concen- tration, but this costs only about $1 per ton. For every ton of concentrates, however, three tons of ores must be mined and car- ried to the concentrator. Bingham and Stockton and Ophir are the low grade districts; Park city also in part. Part of the low grade ores have to be roasted, the lumps in out-of-door heaps, the line in rcverberatory or revolving roasters. The ores milled at the Ontario and Daly have to be roasted and chloridized, while the dry ores of Tintic must pay heavy working charges. The figures given are the cost figures of mines varying widely as to location, natural conditions as dimensions of vein or ore bodies, water, distance from market, etc.— grade and nature of ores, appliances and processes of reduction. But doubtless $30 per ton amply covers the cost of extraction and reduction of all Utah ores.

SAMPLING AND SMELTING.

There are 13 sampling mills in Utah — one at the Horn Sil- ver mine, one at Milford, one at Tintic, five at Sandy and vicin- ity, three at Park City, and one in Salt Lake. Together they sampled in 1891 about 150,000 tons of ore. Ordinarily, only the fifth or tenth sack of a lot of ore is sampled, and the cost is $1 per ton for the whole of it. Where the whole is sampled, the charge is $4 per ton. The sampler crushes the ore to the size of peas, thoroughly mixes, and sends sealed packages to the assayers, upon whose certificates it is bought and sold.

In the Jordan valley, six to twelve miles south of Salt Lake City, on the railroads, are the Utah smelters, four or five dif- ferent concerns, comprising about a dozen stacks. Those in blast at present are the Germania, three stacks, three revolving roasters and one large reverberatory ; the Hanauer,4 stacks and 5 roasters; the Mingo, 4 stacks and 5 reverberatories; the three plants valued at $500,000. Together they keep 7 or 8 stacks pretty steadily in blast, and employ about 350 men at an aver- age wage of $65 per month. Their output for the year 1890 was as follows:

WORKS.	TONS.	OUICOKS.
Bullion.	Kef. Lead.	Cop. Matte.	Gold.	Silver.
Hummer	4,120 3,612 5,037	'"2,941 '	397 30t 265	4,170 8,728 12,881	710,250 418,526 1,261,986
Mingo Totals
12,769	2,941	966	20,885	2,390,772

The Mingo used materials as follow: Ore, matte, flue-dust and slag smelted, 46,903 tons:

Iron ore, 3,874.4 tons, cost _______ ...................... .... $17.434.80

Scrap iron, 639.7 " " .. ..... . ...................... 8,955.80

Limestone, 10,387 " " ..... . ................... --- 18,177.25

FUEL:—

Coke and charcoal, 10,784 tons, cost ......................... $116,748.29

Coal and slack, 4,»73.5 " " ....... .... 16,649.27

LABOR:—

................................................ . .......... .. 65,000.00

$242,965.41

At the rate of $5.18 per ton of ores smelted, and $3.93 per ton of all the materials smelted, these figures in 1887 were respectively $8.70. and $5.70. There has consequently been a re- duction in cost of smelting, between 1887 and 1890, of 30 to 40 per cent. Valuing the bullion at $50 a ton, the gold at $20 an ounce.the silver at $1.05 an ounce, and the copper matte at 10 cents per pound, the ore run through by the Mingo contained $40 a ton.

About one-fourth of the Utah ores were shipped out of the Territory for reduction. There is a good opening at Salt Lake for a great smelting works.

The output of these smelters has averaged about the same as above for the past 10 or 15 years. It will not vary greatly from it, either way, for 1891.

RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS, 1891,

For the first eleven months of 1891 receipts of ores and bul- lion at Salt Lake were: Of ores, $4,554,786; of bullion, $4,873,- 253; of both, $9,428,039. Shipments of minerals out from Salt

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Lake were: of bullion, 698 cars, weight, 22,165,717 Ibs.; of re- lined lead, 189 cars, weight, 5,233,665 Ibs.; of copper matte, 68 <.ir-. weight, -..',607,830 Ibs.; of silver lead ores, 3,119 cars, weight, 123.649,574 Ibs.; total, 4,074 cars, weight 153,656,7 Ibs.

The output of the Ontario for the eleven months was $1,556,- 556.94; of the Daly, $564,474.29.

Mining in Q«ntr&l.

In the following statements of product, the year 1890 is necessarily considered, the figures for 1891 not yet being made up. The output for 1891 will not materially differ from that of 1890, however.

COAL.

Utah contains a great variety of minerals besides those involved in silver mining, to-wit: Silver, gold, lead and copper. Coal occurs on both fronts of the Wasatch, and of the High Plateaus almost the entire length of the Territory. The coal measures underlie an area of many thousand square miles; probably 2,000 that are available. At all events, there is enough to meet any possible demand for generations. We should be mining four times as much as we are but that the Union Pacific largely supplies Utah from Wyoming.

The Pleasant Valley Company mined in 1890 at Scofield and at Castle Gate, both within 115 miles of Salt Lake City, on the line of the Rio Grande Western, 224,487 tons; and made at Castle Gate, where they have put in 80 coke ovens, 7,778 tons of coke. The latter is sold to the Salt Lake smelters at $8.60 per ton. This coke has not, as yet, quite the requisite tough- ness, at least for iron smelting; but they are studying it and experimenting with it, and will no doubt overcome this defect in time.

The Union Pacific own coal mines in Pleasant Valley (Sco- field), from which in 1890 they mined- of commercial coal, 88,000 tons, and probably as much more for their own use; making in all about 200,000 tons.

The Home Coal Company raised and sold in 1890 from their own mines on the Weber, near Coalville, 35,206 tons, and the Chalk Creek Company, from mines also near Coalville, raised and sold 1,200 tons in 1890; making a total output of about 460,000 tons; worth, at the mines, $2 per ton. Salt Lake City consumed 88,400 tons.

SUNDRY MINERALS.

There are deposits of brimstone near the mouth of Cove Creek, about thirlv mile* cast of Black Rock Station, on the Union Pacific Railway. This deposit is supposed to be pr.n tu-ally inexhaustible. There is a deposit at Milliard, another about twelve miles from Frisco, and still other*.

Ninety miles from Juab Station, on the I'nion I'ncihi Kail way, up the Sevier River, at a place called Antimony, deposit-, of antimony ores were formerly worked. Such as could be reduced without i <>m ciiirnting were exhausted, in the con- strurtion of rum minting works costly mistakes were made; the company's money gave out and work ceased. The anti-

mony turned out was of extraordinary purity, and with railway facilities operations may be resumed. There are said to be available deposits of antimony ores in other parts of the Terri- tory, especially in Boxclder Canon.

Quicksilver ores are found at Marysvale, and also at Lewis- ton. Bismuth occurs in Beaver County, east of Milford, and also in spots in some of the mines of Tintic. Copper ores are found at Bingham, at Tintic, in North Star, near Frisco, on the Cottonwoods, in Lucin District. Boxelder County, at Deep Creek, all over the Territory in fact.

IKON ORES.

Iron ores are found about Ogden, in Morgan, Boxelder, Cache, Salt Lake, Tooele, Juab, and Iron Counties. The iron mines above VVillard furnished ores for fluxing purposes in early times. For many years 6,000 to 12,000 tons have been vearly drawn from Tintic by the smelters for fluxing silicious ores. The deposits in Iron County, about 300 miles south of Salt Lake City, are amongst the noted deposits of the world ; at least, they are so considered by authorities on the subject.

They are scattered about irt a belt two miles wide by sixteen miles long, in number about 50, and with very little work done on them show about three million tons of ore in sight. Twenty- three samples taken by an iron expert, known to the writer, showed upon analysis an average of 65.98 per rent, metallic iron, .042 per cent, phosphorus, no trace of titanic acid, prac- tically no copper, and a residue, mostly silica, of 3.6 per cent. In some of the samples there was a little carbonate of lime and also manganese. Following are the best samples so far as absence of phosphorus is concerned:

ORE IN 8IOBT.	Met Iron.	Phocphonu.	ll.-i.ill...
lOOxH feet	•7.2	.too	2.1
85,714 ton* .	•J	.01*	45
U'K-M tnll-	BJ	.041	u
- Ml t.. ti-	M.1	.044	I.I
ll. IJ- I.-TI-	R2.S	.005	6.8
1.5K.MV toni	•J	.OSS	M
S1.MA ton*	..'...-,	.OH	U
71.471 I..H-	B2	.011	p
34.246 tool	87.1	JM	4.1

These figures need no comment.

SALT DEPOSITS.

Deposits of rock salt, some of them quite pure, are found N'ephi, on Salt t'ieek,.ind also near S.ilm.i. and in other localities. It is useful in its crude state for feeding slock, chloro- diiing silver ores, and may be refined and put to all kinds of use. Great Salt Lake is an inexhaustible storehouse of . t.m mon salt, and, the chemists say. of a variety of sulphates, berates and bromides, from which may IK- manufactured salt cake, epsom and glauhrr salts, soda ash. bi-carbonate of soda, caustic soda, and sal-soda.

HYDRO-CARBONS

• 'MIIOIIS and \.ilu.ilile hydro-carbons arc found in the I mtati -White Basin, anil about the Pleasant V.illev Divide.

\ ipanv »nh he.i«l.|n.irters at I1. V. Junction is mining

for ozokerite (paraffinc). So far the mineral has not been found in large quantity. U occur* in seams, bunches and

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stringers, where the material has been caught when in a vola- tile state and held till it condensed into a solid.

Gilsonite or Uintahite occurs in the bad lands of the lower Duchesne and the lower White, in veins or lodes striking straight through the sandstone formation, standing vertically, thirty inches to twenty feet thick, clean, black, and, when first broken, lustrous as jet. It is 99^ per cent, asphalt, with the oils dried out. Most of the known veins are on the Indian Reservations, but one of them has been set off by Act of Congress, and is owned and wrought by a St. Louis company. It is used, as yet mainly for varnishes, but it is expected that more extended use will be found for it.

On the Green River and eastward, asphalt, and oil with an asphalt base, exude in places and form deposits said to be not unlike the asphalt lake at Trinidad. Prof. Newberry is of the opinion that this is a petroleum region. Petroleum, he main- tains, is derived from the spontaneous distillation of hydro- carbons, and as the Colorado group east of the Wasatch con- sists of bituminous shales 1,500 to 2,500 feet thick, gas and oil springs are to be expected. The gilsonite and the ozokerite Prof. Newberry refers to this distillation. It is probable, he says, that these residual products of the liquid hydro-carbons evolved from the shales, as well as petroleum, will become important items of export from this region.

A kindred substance to these, which Prof. Blake, of New Haven, names " Wurtzilite," has been found about the divide between the Strawberry and the Price, close up to the Wasatch Range. Before it could be located, and its extent ascertained, it was discovered that it was mainly on the Indian Reservation, and prospectors were warned away. It is of no use to the Indians, neither is the extremely high and broken country where it is found. The latter should be restored to the public domain, so that the arts may have the benefit of this material if it can be used. Its mode of occurrence is somewhat like that of ozokerite, but is more plentiful.

stone, and, it may be added, the best of clay, except kaolin, at their doors, so to speak. Lithographic stone of good quality, marbles, gypsum, slate, the materials for the manu- facture of glass and of Portland cement, rock rich in asphalt, limestone for building and for fluxing ores — these materials are found in many places in the Territory. A gypsum mill near Nephi is sending plaster to various points on the Pacific Coast. Salt is made and gathered on the shelving shores of Great Salt Lake and supplies the chloridizing silver mills of Utah, Montana, Idaho, and part of Nevada. Natural gas is struck by wells anywhere on the shores of Great Salt Lake; in Corinne, Ogden, Salt Lake City, and between them. Companies are boring to the deep at Ogden and Salt Lake City to find it under pressure and inexhaustible. A com- pany is boring for oil on Green River, and meeting with encouraging signs.

BUILDING STONE.

Structural, fertilizing, and abrasive materials of every variety, and adapted to all uses, are found all over Utah, and generally convenient to the valleys where the people live. A number of stone quafries have recently been opened. The Diamond, Kyune and Castle Stone Company worked quarries of brown sandstone at Diamond, and of gray sandstone at Kyune, and at Castle Gate, all on the line of the Rio Grande Western. Their shipments for 1890 were 1,293 cars. Twenty cars went to Seattle, Wash., 20 cars to Logan, 15 cars to Milford, 4 cars to Nephi, 154 cars to Ogden; Salt Lake City used the remainder, 1,080 cars. Cubes of these stones, tested at the Illinois State University, cracked— -the gray Kyune stone under a ten-minute pressure of 16,000 pounds per square inch, and broke under the same of 20,800 pounds; the brown Diamond stone cracked under a pressure of 30,000 pounds, and broke under a pressure of 34,550 pounds. Twelve cubic feet of these two kinds of stone weigh one ton. Excel- lent foundation and dimension stone is brought into Salt Lake City from the adjoining canons and from Parley's Park. All the larger towns of the Territory find the best of building

Appendix to Mining in Utah.

[NOTE. — The writer is indebted to the New Year's Salt Lake Tribune for the following statements.]

Tintic Ore Shipments for 1891.

Mines. Tons.

Bullion-Beck & Champion 28,«85

Eureka Hill.__ 19,400

Caroline 7,«00

Mammoth, first-class. __ tt,550

Mammoth, second-class 8,000

Centennial Enreka 8,478

Dragon Iron _ . 18,000

Gemini 8,000

Treasure 570

Sioux gronp 500

Northern Spy - 530

South Swansea 190

Sunbeam 142

Swansea.. ._ 117

Undine .. 105

North Star 82

Gum Drop 47

Brooklyn 40

Tesora 39

Butcher Boy ._ 8«

Governor 80

Martha Washington 28

Gray Bock... 88

Silver Spar 28

Estella... 17

Cleveland 12

Rising Sun 10

Primrose »

Eagle 7

Lucky Star 6

Amazon _ 4

Showers 8

Silver Moon 8

Alaska 8

Excelsior 8

Joe Daly 8

Park... 2

Golden Star 1

King James _ 1

Sundry lots 91

Total 82,400

Kinghain Ore Shipments, Tear 1891.

Mines. Tons.

Old Jordan & South Galena Mining Co 80,000

Brooklyn Lead Company... 9,500

York... 7,429

Petro___ 5,984

Old Telegraph 4,729

Highland _ 8,127

Sampson 8,000

Yosemite No. 2__ 2,358

Yosemit* No. 1 .1,281

Benton 770

Rough and Ready... 685

Spanish 679

Lucky Boy __ _ 500

Stewart 315

Lexington 267

Tiawankie 222

McAllister 210

Nast 215

Peabody 186

Live Pine 180

Peterson 154

Niagara 182

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Krkman 170

H«! Warrior... 1W

M 102

h LartChanoe ill

Wella.... ll.i

Hatnro .. 108

Kxcelrior 98

tfcatn 98

North Chief W

Sundown... 88

AlBX «

me 57

La«t Chance 44

Live Yankee 54

American Flag .... M

Thonua PelU 55

I t»h Concentrate ... 95

U 41 50

Burrowe 41

W.Wataon 4t

u 41 SI

Vespmoan . ^ 40

• Shield 37

89

AiuMin .;.............; n

KKirriew 10

Brink.

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22

li.-rmania ....................................... 20

Ka«l" Bird ...................................... 21

Ashton .......................................... »

r. M. n .... w

KMT IS

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Harnplea....

Steamboat.

Hart

Markham

Anderson..

M..rn-

Hick..

li'u Hi. .11 H.-IIM- '

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IVUware...

l.ippoto

Montfzuroa

Kip

15 15

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14 11

18 12

10 9 9

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Him.lr) Hiimll lot* and oreo rru»h«xl

Total ton* 74,800

Ophir, Hi\ Canon, and Storkton Ore Shipments, 1M)1.

u.,.. .. Tons.

r),.l,ir Hill Mining Company 8.094

Sorth-rn I.i«hl

Bullion

Bunkfr Hill

Ka»t Argent ............................. 18

Iron 8Uw ............. .. ........................ 18

Ophir ............................................ 14

Total ........................................ 10.145

LITTLE OOTTOMWOOD OBI SHIPMENTS IK 1891.

.Win**. Klaicstaff Kmma

«'ii> Rock.

HrantA

Toledo

TOM. (150 (50 .. 2V) 170 SO 25 15

_________ ............ ______

M.-Kny and Revolution ...................... 15

....T. .......................... 12

Peruvian ................ .' ........................ 10

Johniion ... 7

......... 4

.

M..!tke ........................................... 4

-ih.-rCliff ............... .......... S

Rough and Beady ................................. 2

Total ......................................... 1,547

Big Cottonwood ore shipments for 1891, mainly from the Maxwell mine, were 1,200 tons.

I'ark City Ore Output, 1H91.

Ores shipped to smelters, tons,

Ores Drilled l>y the Ontario and the Marsac mills

Total, ......... 96,906

Shipments of ore from Frisco and Milford, Beaver County, mainly from the Horn Silver mini', were •_••_', 1 IK) ton-.

At Silver Reef, the Barhee mill ran 50 days, and the Christie mill 40 days, IT men employed at each. Three to four them s- and tons from tlte Thompson & McNally, California, I.a-t Chance, Buckeye, Neutral, Tecumseh, Stormy King, and I . c il>. were milled, producing 49,540 ounces of >ilver, and $450 worth of matte.

The Dixie Mining Co. took out .'{."ill ton* of lii-t i'l.t-> rosier ore from their property in the Heaver Dam Mountain, IS mile-- southeast of St. < leorge. They put up a Mnall >ta< k at St. ('•corge and ran out alxnit 100 tons of bullion, 90 fine. The ore shipped sells for #1.75 per unit.

Total Output of Ore, 1S91.

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Bnckhom

MciHii.lcr Ili.l.l.MiTn Tip I ..p Kiithih Janoarr.

IHtlricU.

ParkCitj

Tintio 8X.400

Binicluun .

Prince

Slorkton

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44

IliK CotU.nw.Kid 1,550

MarynTale 975

Sprinm «HO

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WELLS, FARGO & CO.'S STATEMENT OF THE MINERAL PRODUCT OF UTAH IN 1891.

..« I" lli.lri- land Plaom

N«« Pmdoet Hun. and IU~ Hollion CaalMM Orai 8blpp«d

ToUto

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•.170.000

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RECAPITULATION.

1,836,080 pound B Copper at 5VJ cents per pound ...$ 100,983.30

6,170,000 pounds Refined Lead at 4 cents per pound _•___ 248,800.00

80,856,528 pounds Unrefined Lead at $60 per ton 2,410 64)5 84

8,915,228 ounces fine Silver at $0.9854 per ounce 8,759,208.59

96,160 ounces Fine Gold at $20 per ounce _ 723,200.00

Total Export Value 1... __ f 12,240,885.78

Computing the Gold and Silver at their Mint valuation, and other metals at their value at the seaboard, it would increase the value of th product to $16,198,086.81.

MINERAL SHIPMENTS, 1891.
MONTH.	Bullion.	Ores.	Lead.	Matte.
No. Oars.	Weight	No. Cars.	Weight.	No. Cars.	Weight.	No. Cars.	Weight.
January	62 53 48 41 49 44 37 79 60 95 ISO 104	2,100,648 1,712,321 1,618,518 1,361,436 1,630,773 1,416,070 1.192,381 2,541,848 1,741,012 2,904,196 4,046,516 3,216,630	109 262 244 385 377 229 303 374 233 309 244 250	4,357,440 10,466,984 11,471,976 14,267,520 14,823,556 9,470,085 11,763,010 14,697,094 9,189,110 12,868,635 10,274,280 9,916,178	20 15 11 32 20 14 16 IS 26 20 2 1	540,458 405,846 270,445 878,797 539,973 376,195 435,826 351,383 824,493 558,613 54,580 26,888	7 5 8 11 2 1 6 4 4 16 4 14	227,850 212,100 310,780 431,580 71,900 25,750 248,800 168,700 138,340 589,070 183.000 587,037
February .
March
April ..
May
June
July
August ... ...
September.
November
December
Totals	802	25,412,327	3,319	133,565,848	190	5,261,484	82	3,294,857

MINING DIVIDENDS, 1891.

flame of Company. Amount.

Ontario $ 900,000

Duly 450,00(1

Centennial-Enreka 330.000

Mammoth 280,000

The Tintic Range branch of the R. G. W. Ry. from Spring- ville on the main line, to Eureka, Tintic.39.7 miles, was opened for business New Year's Day, 1892.

Horn Silver

Maxfield _ Yosemite No. 2 . Fetro . . . Eureka Hill... Hnllion-Beck...

200,000 311,000 30,000 17,000 250,000 425,000

$2.918,000

LA PLATA DISTRICT.

H. V. Westover, manager of the Red Jacket mine at La Plata, came in about the middle of December with a carload of Red Jacket ore. They have out 200 tons on the dump. He says the outlook in general is encouraging.

A new strike is reported from the Queen of the Hills, which consists of two feet of solid galena. A shipment will be made from this mine in a short time.

The La Plata hoisting works are in place and the engines are at work. A shaft has been sunk on this property for a dis- tance of sixty feet, and now they are starting to drift for the vein.

The vein of the Sundown mine is three feet wide and has been stripped for a long distance. The ore on an average runs 70 per cent, in lead and about 10 ounces in silver to the ton.

There are about 175 men in camp and about sixty log cabins. It is expected that both the road to Logan and the one to Og- den will be kept open.

Two hundred and fifty tons of ore have been received from the district at the smelters.

It will be noticed in above summary of ore output that Marysvale shipped or milled 975 tons; Fish Springs and Dugway, 680 and 250 tons respectively; and Victoria, Uintah county, 150 tons. These are practically new districts.

There is every reason to suppose that 1892 will see a score of districts out in the Deep Creek country connected with Suit Lake City by railway.

TWO TYPICAL UTAH MINES.

The total output of the Ontario from the starting of the new mill, February 1, 1877, to the end of 1891— fifteen years— was 377,637 tons (dry) of ore, out of which was obtained 26,162,379.99 ounces of fine silver; and for this silver the company received §26,268,345.88, a fraction of a cent over SI per ounce. As the bullion was sold as produced each month, this is as fair an average of the price obtainable for silver during the last fifteen years as it is possible to obtain. Out of the money received, the company paid up to January 1, 1892— this date— 187 monthly dividends of 50 cents per share aggregating §12,425,000. Of these 187 dividends, sixty-four were paid on 100,000 shares, 123 were paid on 150,000 shares. The stock was increased by 50,000 shares to pay for new ground in 1881 or 1880. The average yield per dry ton was $72.06. It would be hard to say correctly what percentage of moisture should be added to ascertain the number of tons of ore as raised out of the mines, but probably about 15.

ONTARIO DIVIDENDS, No. 1 TO 187.

1877 No 1 to 18... 900,000

1878 No. 19 to 39... 1050000

1879 No. 40 to 51 600000

1880 No. 52 to 63 600,000

1881 No; 64 to 75... 875000

1882 No. 76 to 87... 900000

1883 No. 88 to 90.... " 225,000

1884 No. 91 to 102. 900,000

1885 No. 103 to 115... 975000

1886 No. 116 to 127 .. 900 000

1887 No. 128 to 139 900,000

1888 No. 140to 151 900000

1889 No. 152 to 163 . 900 000 18110 No. 164 to 175 900 000 1891 No. 176 to 187 '""".'"".. 900,000

Total ...$12,425,000

The total output of the Daly silver mine, an extension west- ward of the Ontario, from January 1, 1885, when it began to produce, down to the end of 1891, was 150,194 net tons, from which was obtained 6,778,381.87 ounces of fine silver. This sil- ver sold for $6,262,884.69. Out of this money fifty-eight div-

idends have been paid, aggregating $2,212,500. The average yield was $42.:<0 per dry ton. The Daly has produced to date li.Mi:, ounces of gold, which was counted in the general product

DALY DIVIDENDS No. 1 TO

1887 No. 1 to»... ...$ 175,000

1888 No. 10 to 22... .... 487.900

ue0No. atoM 490,000

WWNo. ttto48.... 450.000

WWNo. 47U.58 490.000

Total .t2.H2.500

REVIEW OF MINING, 1891.

The year just closed marked a season of progress and unusual production in nearly all the mining districts of Utah. That great district surrounding Park City still keeps in the lead, not only in production, but also in the amount of im- provements made, the number of men employed, and all else which goes to build up a large, prosperous community. The year marked there more extensive development in the line of new works than ever before; new hoisting plants have been placed on the Daly and Anchor, both of which are of the largest and best class; a concentrator on theGlencoe, new hoists on the West Daly and Meers groups, along with very active work in developing the ground with -.hafts. Not only with these improvements already put in and the work commenced in the year 1891 were the mines unusually prosperous, but there were arrangements made which mean active work on some properties not mentioned in the general review of the district.

Unusual interest was taken in the Tintic the past year. Although it is an old camp, its growth had not been commensu- rate with its merits. It took years to find that the rich surface deposits were not all that was good in the lodes. When these surface deposits were worked down to the pyrites or "white iron," further sinking was stopped, and it has been the work of the past year or two to demonstrate that there is mineral in pay- ing quantities and qualities below this iron stratum, and many- old claims will soon become shippers. In the meantime, Tin- tic is" spreading out, through having a new district called North Tintic joined to it. While the addition of machinery to Tintic was small during the year, the meritsof the camp became so well weighed by expert examination as to cause the building of another railway into the camp, thus doubling up the ship- ping facilities and giving a healthy competition. The great number of people visiting the district and becoming interested in it~ properties is destined to make Tintu grow more rapidly this year than ever, and its towns of Kurcka. Mammoth and Silver will increase in strength, while there may spring up one or two new places within the district. These sicnes of prog- ress have inspired the rchabitation of West Tintic. which has lain dormant and deserted for fifteen or more years. So it was with old Lewiston. or < '.imp Floyd, where the hills arc made again tocrho with the sound of pick and I. last, .md gold is being extracted and sent to market.

Itismmri like a dream to enter old mines win. h h.uclam idle for a do/en or more years, clean out the debris, re timln-r the tunnels and shafts, cautiously probe around old stopcs-and up ores only hidden by the slimes and drippings in. iilent to these underground workings. That kind of experience wa* entered into by many the past year in West Mountain (Hing-

ham) district, until most of these old properties have either be- come producers or are in a fair way to become such w ithin the next few months. Hingham was never more prosperous than it has been the past year, and the future is certainly bright for the district. Deep mining has proved that the mineral holds UN own with depth, and the companies are preparing to con- tinue downward. The most remarkable record of the year is in the large number of new mines developed and which have paid from the grass-roots down, especially at the head of Carr Fork, a part of the district long neglected. The general output of the district was considerably retarded by litigation, and yet it ».i- greatly in excess of previous years.

The situation in the two Cottonwoods has greatly improved. There was some excitement last summer about mineral in the foothills between the two Cottonwoods, and quite a number of locations were made. Several open cuts and short tunnels tapped quartz ledges, but as yet not enough mineral has been found to warrant any excitement. It is thought, however, that when the ledges are cut deep enough to find them in plare there may be gold and silver enough to pay for putting in reduction works.

Stockton, Ophir, and Dry Canon quite doubled their output in 1891 as compared with that of the three or four next previous years.

Among the most interesting discoveries of the year were those in the Onaqui range, where it is crossed by Johnson's Pass, and in some of the other ranges, on the way to the I u < |> Creek discoveries, made subsequent to those most exciting of all developments at Dugway and Fish Springs.

THE DEEP CREEK COUNTRY.

Of which the last two named districts are a part, is so exten- sive, so rich in mineral and such an interesting and profit- able prospective field to be reached by a railway, that the proposed line thither has been the subject of great dis- i ussion among the people of this < itv. It docs seem as it the building of a railroad from here into that country cannot be long delayed, and that it must be one of the achievements .if !-!»•_'. for The Tribune to record in its next annual. That will give an impetus to mining, both in Utah and over the line into Nevada, such as we have not seen in the past.

There is another interesting situation in the southern country. The developments made by the Dixie Mining Company down in Washington county opened up a great copper mine, which paid expenses in shipping copper ore of high percentage, ami in smelting at St. George, and turning out ninety tons of < bullion. A railroad down that wav would open up large mines in that distrn t. and if < ontinucd westward to the ili-m. t in Nevada which Hon. A. G. Campbell is developing, there would he added a large tonagc of ores which would come to this cm. Then the iron mines on the route in I'tiih ought to h.ur -H. h a road reach them.

The revival of Marysvalc distm t and lite organi/atum .,( Gold Mountain distrii t are two important events of the p.iM year. Of course this happened too late in the season to admit of the output being very large, but there was enough pn p.n atmn to warrant lively times there next summer, ami a In .n y ..input of mineral for the present year.

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La Plata, at the north, drew hundreds of prospectors after the finding of ore there in August, and this led to important discoveries and the opening of quite a number of mines. The whole country, from Ogden, Brigham City and Logan clear over to the Rear Lake valley, is being prospected, and many ledges are found, chiefly of galena and carbonates, running low in silver, while on the east side of the range is copper galena and carbonates of lead.

Utah iron deposits attract considerable attention and some of the big mines should form the basis for extensive iron man- ufactories.

The coal output is all the time increasing, and new mines are getting ready to open when the owners are assured of trans- portation. The coal measures are so great in Utah as to be practically unlimited.

The mining, shipping and uses of asphaltum is growing into a large industry. New discoveries are being made, and mines opened to such an extent as to insure an almost inexhaustible supply, and tests are constantly being made to arrive at the best mixtures in processes for paving, and the various uses asphaltum can be put to.

The reduction works for silver, lead and gold ores are keep- ing step with the progress of mining in Utah, and will continue to do so. Certainly the mining situation is in a prosperous and hopeful condition in this Territory.

THt Building Stones of Utah.

MARBLES.

The day will yet come when the native marbles of Utah will ' be in popular use, and take theirf place among the principal structural materials of the Territory. Beds of marble of vastly different color and character exist in many parts of the Territory. A beautiful gray marble is found at a point remote from the railway in the southern part of Millard county, in the neighbor- hood of some of the large coal measures. This deposit is at a considerable altitude and approachable only by difficult roads, and it may perhaps be many years before it is developed and its product brought into market. Near Nephi, in lu.ib county, is a very beautiful magnesian marble of purest white and crystalline luster; but it is only found in small pieces, the mass being badly fissured; otherwise, it is beau- tiful enough for sculptural purposes.

An enormous bed of black and white marble has recently been developed in one of the side cafions of the American Fork. A comparatively small amount of work has revealed a reef 100 feet wide and about 60 feet in height. For archi- tectural purposes, the appearance of this marble, as well as its strength, is well adapted. There is no limit to its quantity, and, although the point at which it is produced is somewhat difficult of access at present, it may be made much easier should this marble get into the market. Several buildings in Utah county have already been embellished with this stone.

In Hobble-creek Canon, near Springville, in Utah county exists a deposit of exceedingly beautiful geodic marble of a

soft and tender brown, susceptible of a fine polish and suitable for the highest offices to which marble is ever put, except that of sculpture. It is so handsome that it would be suitable for table ornaments and the finest inlaid work, the symmetrical curves of the geodes forming beautiful concentric arcs and seg- ments throughout the mass. This deposit consists of a perpen- dicular cliff which has been cut through by the canon stream, and enormous boulders of the marble have fallen from the face of the cliff and almost blocked the water-course. It is within four miles of the Union, Pacific Railway, and will undoubtedly find its way into popular appreciation and com- plete development.

The largest and most important marble deposit in the Ter- ritory is the great property of the Wasatch Marble Company, crossing a summit of the Wasatch Mountains between the head of Big Cottonwood and Provo Valley. This extraordinary deposit exceeds in size any other that has been worked in the United States. It is probably 400 feet thick, and several miles across, well bedded and of purest white. It will be brought to market down Snake Creek Canon, and at present would have to be carried by wagon ten miles to the nearest pro- jected railway, and about twenty miles to Park City, the near- est point to which a railway has yet been built. Even with this expense, it is quite feasible to load this marble and ship it east at the prices which marble brings there at present, and it will be possible in future years to land this marble in the city at so low a price by the carload, that it may be used for building purposes. This greatest marble field is owned by an incorporated company. A few thousand dollars have been spent in opening up the property, but the magnitude of the enterprise became so apparent with that expenditure, that it was thought best not to attempt the business of quarrying this marble until sufficient means had been accumulated by the owners to carry on the business on a large scale.

Many other marble deposits exist in the Territory, some promising ones near Brigham City and some still better in Blacksmith's Fork Canon in Cache Valley.

The Logan Temple is built with handsome marble, mottled gray and brown, though being in the rough, its beauty is not revealed.

LIMESTONES.

In San-pete county, there exists a magnificent deposit of a beautiful cream-white oolitic limestone. It ranges through the hills to the east of Manti and has been used in the con- struction of many buildings in the valley towns, a notable instance being the great Manti Temple with its enormous ter- races and stone barricades. A limited quantity of this stone has been brought to Salt Lake City for the ornamentation of residences and business blocks. It is easy to the tool, espe- cially when first quarried, but becomes harder on exposure to the atmosphere. It is one of the most beautiful building stones in the Territory.

A stone resembling the oolite mentioned above in appear- ance, but really quite different in its nature, is quarried near Hoytsville in Summit county. It also is of a creamadithMen.-

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is ;i handsome appearance wherever used. Itcing nearer to Salt Lake City it ran be brought tliere more economii ally than that from the South.

Some twenty miles south of the Hoytsville quarries there exists >till another deposit of < ream-white building stone, dif- fering, however, in its character, to any of the others. It is a tra\ertme similar to the stone of whirh Anrient Rome is built, :.nd is formed by the deposition of calcareous matter from :tets of the mineral springs so abundant in 1'rovo Valley K i- -omething in the nature of a geyserite, but is not so hard nor so crystalline in its texture. It ranges in color from snowy •vhite in its largest masses to a brownish drab, which is the color that it takes in its shallower places. It is only the lighter colors that have sufficient strength to adapt them for building purpo

Limestone suitable for building purposes is to be found without great intervals along the entire \Vasatch Range from one end of the Territory to the other, but it is not all equally •.!>Ie. One of the best deposits is m Dairy Fork near Spanish Fork Canon, consisting of a reef of the finest mag- nesian limestone, well adapted for trimmings of every kind of building.

Another deposit of oolitic limestone exists in the \Vasatrh. north of Cache Valley. The beds are eleven miles in extent. and the stone ranges in color from white through various - to blue.

SLATES.

Valuable slate beds have been found on the islands of the < "treat Salt Lake, and in several other places in Utah. Prob- nbly the very best deposit is the serpentine in the hills back of Provo, which have been operated to some extent, and ship- ments have been made to the east. This stone is in quality suitable for the manufacture of table-tops, mantle-pieces, and nearly every other purpose for which slate is used. It is quite handsome, of a rich dark-green, mottled with red, and in many other

GRANITE.

Wherever the \Va»at< h Range rca. he- .in elevation of 1 1,000 feet, the summit- are almost invariably gran it ii , and the < anons that < lit the range at these points almost mvan.ililv expose splendid MI.I--CS .if a -pi-< ic- of granite, notablv Little CottnnwrMid Canon, in the ncighliorhood of Mt. \ebo. .mil

Ml. Italdv al Marvs\ale. Tin •ntams a ;

proportion of feldspar than belongs to pure granite, but while I. ii king the crushing strength of the true gr.iii exceedingly strong and suitable for the < onstrui turn of the largest buildings in our midst. It also \\.t- the advam being extremely <••< following Ihr chips .mil

wedge- with wondcrfi:! .i< • nr.n \ anil . inhering triilv to tin- blow of the hammer. I- or this reason, it has been found not v) well adapted to the making of street blocking, bc< .- proves softer than that used in eastern ritics.aml will n>^ »o well. It is of this granite that the famous Temple in Salt Lake City it convructcd.

1'RF.ciors STON

This topic would not be complete without referen of the more extraordinary deposits of stone which the Terri- torv | esSCS. In the neighborhood of (Ireen River, a few- miles south of the K. < ',. \V. Railwav, is found large Imulders of chalcedony scattered over a plain of several thousand hen cut. are exceedingly beautiful.

and some of them are so large that table-tops and mantle- pieces- could be made from them without piecing. In variety and color they range from carnelian. which is bright red, through grays, and browns and greens and sometim< colors mingled in one boulder. Some fifty miles south and west of this place is a reef of jasper variegated and beauti- fully marked, susceptible of a tine polish and promises to furnish the means for a lucrative industry.

Some thirty miles west of Sevier Lake, in Millard County, have been found great quantities of " Rocky Mountain dia- monds "lying broadcast in a desert country of the most for- bidding appearance, and attracting attention, towards sunset, by their brilliant and dazzling reflection. It is by me. these reflections that they are found, as they are so pure and clear and white, that they are difficult to find when close by. and it is done by one person stopping when he sees a sparkle, and sending some one else to locate it and tind the stone. In this way, two persons have filled a pint flask with these t. in less than a day.

SANDSTONES.

The sandstones of LTtah are held in great regard, not only by the people at home, who use them freely, but by builders • thousands of miles away who are steady customers for the products of our quarries.

A large proportion of the Rocky Mountains of Utah is composed of sandstone ranging from that of a soft and ' texture, to a tine and exceedingly hard variety that is almo-t a quartzitc. But although the sandstone area of the mountains probably hundreds of miles, it must not In- supposed that it is all suitable for building purposes. ( In the inntr.iry.it is only after i .nisi, I, t.ilili -e.in h that deposits have been discovered worthy ot operation, and these have bci ome. by this tin,. nidinglv valu.i'

Due of the oldest and best known of llie-e deposits, is that iii.ii lott llougl.is on the outskirts of Salt Lake Cilv. u hn h has been in operation for manv ve.iis .mil lias supplied , p. in of the Mime of which the ntv is built. It is ;i pink -.mil stone, of good grain and quality bin absolutely without natural i Ic.ivagc, requiring to lie i ut on all six - -. h < ubc. It

has, then-fore, been largely rcplai cd In the newly •• quarries of the Mountain Stone Ci.mp.mv at Simlcrville. I'.irk City, whose i|ii,irric- produi e stone of a similar appearan. e. but being self bedded and in larg. brought to market to better advantage than that of Red Untie.

ilcd.

The Mountan ••mpanv shipped, la

from these .manic.- at the rate of about 40 carloads per week.

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They are splendid ^quarries, of a kind to produce dimension stone of any size. Were it required.they could take out stones 100 feet long by 20 feet wide, and two feet thick, without a flaw. The stone is extremely strong, and though kind to the tools is quite hard. It is excellently adapted for foundation work, heavy piers and culverts, but not so well suited for ornament- ing fronts of buildings because of its hardness in carving or cutting.

Three or four miles north of these quarries are some others being operated by the Metropolitan Stone Company, whose products are something similiar but somewhat lamified, and of a lighter color. There are other sandstone quarries in Parley's Canon, and in Weber Canon near Croydon, besides deposits of more or less importance in Provo Valley, in Santa- quin Canon, and in several of the southern counties.

One of the most magnificent sandstones to be found in any country, and one which has been greatly admired in our public and private buildings, is the free Diamond sandstone, of a rich dark-red, quarried on an extensive scale near Thistle in Spanish Fork Canon. This stone can be cut and carved with great ease, and always with a rich and beautiful effect. There is a steady demand for it as far east as Kansas City and Chicago, and to the northwest as far as Portland and Wash- ington Territory. Some of the finest buildings in Helena, Mont., have been constructed of it. Although so handsome for the fronts of buildings, its crushing resistance is not suffi- cient to recommend it for foundations, 'as it loses a portion of

its strength when wet or moist; but it is nevertheless, one of the most serviceable sandstones that any country can produce.

Another stone having much the same texture as the Dia- mond but of a steel-gray hue, is the very popular Kyune, quarried on the line of the R. G. W. Railway, near the head of Price River, about twenty miles east of the summit of the Wasatch Mountains. When first quarried, this stone has a faint heliotrope tinge, which it soon loses and becomes a deli- cate gray. It also increases in hardness, and after a short time, resists the weather very well. It takes the most delicate carving very easily, and taken all together, is the most popu- lar sandstone that we have. It is complementary in color to the diamond stone, and the two work together with splendid effect. These two quarries are operated by one company, who keep them going nearly all the year round, employing a force of men, and doing a great swinging business.

Parties identified with the Mountain Stone Company are opening up a quarry adjoining that of the Kyune, which promises to equal it in every respect. At the latest report this company was purchasing improved machinery for the system- atic development of these new quarries with a view to large export business.

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Salt Lake City.

The Capital and Metropolis of Utah.

KALK a century is but a short time in the life of a common-wealth, and yet within that period won- derful changes have been made. Nowhere in this broad land is this fact more wonderfully im- pressed upon one, than when standing upon the ridges of the magnificent \Va-ati h Range, he looks down upon the beautiful city which has risen beside the great Salt Lake.

,i--urance of an importance conspicuous and potential, to which the efforts of contemporaries have been unceasingly directed for many decail.

Only forty-live years ;i-o. the entire counm wa- an unopened and almost ina< ce-sihle wildcrne— , thousands of miles from c ivili/ation. Hut through the indomitable pei se- verance of the hardy pioneer-, supplemented by the well-

M-W i m VM. < ol MV III II. HIM,,

It was in July. 1*47. that the pioneers of I'lah first looked upon the valley which border- upon this great inland sea. Aside from the omnipresent grandeur of the mountain scenery there was little there to attract the eye or charm the senses] On every side stretched a drc.irv waste of sage-brush and cacti, broiling beneath the rays of the -ummer's -tin Hut within a pcrnxl « ompar.itivcK brief, Salt l.akc( itv has been transformed from .1 front >• nl into a bustling, thriving

village, into a prosperous pro^n --n e < onntry town, into a magnificently appointed munu ip.ility. and tli.it city to-day glorying in the sublime promise of it- propheln mfan< y. gncs

directed industry and ceaseless labors of -u> • ceding gener atiiMi-. the wilderneM has been made to blossom as the rose. Situated in tin- heart of a vallc\ . the beauty of which can only •n|>.ircil to the thrift and ho-pitahty of the people gathered there, pm-pi nt\ ha- made the < it\ an abiding place, and run- wild in the -un-hinc of a never ending season. •: iture has i m wiled iiitu ttn~ x alley the most charm- ing and -ub-t.iiiiial of In r • nntnliutions. Surrounded by mountain- -tmeil witli i-\li.ni-tle-s wealth, watered by rivers tli.it run uantiiri in ihe • •• ns and

fountains that leap (mm their shady hiding-places and go

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loitering along babbling sweet music, as they flow, gratefully shaded at convenient intervals and possessing manifold auxiliaries for development and progress, is the success of Salt Lake City to be wondered at? Would it not rather be surprising if the contrary were true? Would it not rather be surprising if the city, from its location and the character of its inhabitants, had failed to become the base of operations for a complete and comprehensive system of industries, for efficient and invaluable systems of transporation, for financial, commer- cial and manufacturing systems, and for scholastic, charitable and religious organizations inspired by emulative energy and sustained by their intrinsic worth as also by the substantial acknowledgments of an appreciating public?

Standing upon the capital grounds, 150 feet above the city, immersed in its daily routine of business occupations, one gazes upon the fairest type of Alpine scenery, to be seen

the city as one of the most artistically laid out and perman- ently constructed of any in the land. Nothing has been left undone in the behalf that will enhance the values of properties or add to the beauty of the landscape. In other departments of endeavor the situation is unchanged. Schools are liberally maintained, in which are provided courses of study adapted to the requirements of a service designed to furnish practical knowledge to the most humble of students. The curriculum embraces studies ranging from those of a primary character to the most advanced, attention being especially directed to mathematics, the sciences, etc., with other branches of equally inestimable value, preparatory to successful encounter in the varied walks of life. In addition to the public schools, estab- lished by an act of the Territorial legislature at the session of 1889-90, there are a large number of denominational schools, and other-jnstitutions of learning which furnish adequate facili-

TEMPLE 8QUAKE LAKE SALT CITY.

between Cape Cod and the Golden Gate. A dozen miles away the great Salt Lake glistens in the sunlight. At one's feet lie factories, smelters, foundries and other evidences of mechanical progress, numerously interspersed with banks, public 'buildings, hotels, places of amusement, private resi- dences, churches, schools and other additional proofs of the wealth and refinement thereat centered. The city is laid out with an eye to beauty and originality of design, nowhere else duplicated west of the Missouri River. In the original survey of the city, the streets were reckoned from Temple Square, and save in names, have since conformed to pioneer metes and bounds, being five times the width, with the blocks cut thereby ten times the dimensions of those of modern cities. Recognizing the necessity of water-courses, the founders of Salt Lake City tapped the mountain streams, and through every thoroughfare, avenue and boulevard courses, the spark- ling waters of the Wasatch water-shed.

Architecturally speaking, the improvements completed and in contemplation or progress, emphasize the claim made for

ties for similar purposes, and which will be mentioned further on. The cultivation of the religious system has ever been suc- cessfully conducted in Salt Lake City, and the history of the Man of Nazareth from the Manger to Gethsemune, to Calvary, has been rehearsed to communicants of every creed, while his teaching and his example have been inculcated from pulpits of nearly every Christian denomination. Socially, the city is pre- eminently fortunate, while the fields of art, literature, the press, finance, commerce, trade, manufactures, etc., are assiduously cultivated in a spirit, emulative and progressive.

That the climate of Salt Lake City is in many respects not surpassed by that of many inland localities, experience and scientific investigation have established. Both east and west of the city the climate is said to be more severe. Extremes,of heat and cold are rarely observable, and so equable is the tem- perature during nearly every month that the seasons seem to drift into one another imperceptibly. In summer the days are cool, and nowhere can be found a more delightfully pleasant evening in that season than at Salt Lake City. Indian summer

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i- prolonged until late in November, and during tin- tinuance of the w inter solstice there arc never more than thirty or forty days of weather that might be described as moderately cold, the raw winds of spring, indigenous to the north and east, are of exceptional occurrences, while tornadoes, cyclones and other eruptions of nature, from which scarcely any portion of the country is entirely exempt, are unknown. The cits i- said to have an average of 277 fair days in the year. In the remaining eighty-eight days there are verv lew in which the sun does not shine a part of the day. The records of the signal service office for fourteen years indicate the existence during that period of fifty full cloudy days per year, or about one •.lav per week. This almost perpetual sunshine, the superb drive-, inviting parks, delightful resorts and balmy air attract people out of doors, and in the enjoyment of such plea-uic- good health is injured. Hardly any form of disease, it maybe

iar with tli' - that the natural resources availal.

ile-tineil to make Salt Lake I'ity the inter-mountain metropo- lis, < If minerals there are gold, siKer. iron. lead, copper, sulphur, coal, mica, soda, plumbago, antimony, petroleum, graphite, salt, /inc and others, and where the same have Keen developed bounteous returns have resulted. The soil and climate aie aUn adapted, specially >o to the cultivation of fruits and cereal-, while the cost of production is claimed to be materially less than in the states and territories adjoining. " In the matter of garden and tield products anil ten:; clime fruits " ded.ncs a w liter on the subject: " the productix c- t the Salt Lake Valley is without a rival, and the demand for these products < omcs from every part of the I'nued S- Continuing, he relates that: "The wheat of I'tah is admitted to be the best Hour maker known. It has been shipped to California and sold at a good piotit in the face of the •

LION \\\> IIKMIIM H"l SI s. S\l I l.\h) (in.

>aid. originates in I'tah. while upon m.inv diseases originating elsewhere, re-iden. e is often ni" d than ordinary med

i. al tr.-atmi-nt. \lal.ir ,i,gcr to the locality, and almost

, omplaiiit to which humamtv is sub|e( t is icdiiccd to a imnimiiin In the < lunatic foN < s in In- loiind here, and n i- i.ipidlv ar<|umng an extended reputation as a health • \. . nrding !•• late statist,. •- the mean temperature is (|ti.

III.IMIIIIIIII. '.IT. I

m.ioiiiiiin. 1.7 dl i.ingc. '.Hl.C. d.

• in fall is slated .il !•

of the wind. -V.! miles per hour ; average humid r< cnl;

. e monthU range of temperature. -47..'' degrees, and the average daily range. 'Jo i

Jr>« £i>v/iror)mer)t of Salt CaK? <?ity.

;si,l,|v lends I,, the promotion of tin

growth, to the be.mlN of its lo. alion. to the enri. hment of its inhabitant- and m the inspiring of unlH.undcd « onliiletii e in its future. In fa- I. it i-unnii • de.l b\ those f.imil

evcelleiK ' as a wheat I torn

another ai ( omit it is learned that in tin \(,n I--'.' .William ( ,il,bv. w ho then ( onducled a farm on the outskirts of the city i. used a crop of wheat averaging eighty bushels p. Imeril an \-IK iiltural National pn

|,,, ,|,e I.,, med Slates. Oihel

I art ci|uall\ piodui live, while vegetables and tniits ol

the nio-l ili-bi ions and dchi ate chaiaitei glow almost spoil

i-lv. Of late ve.iis sto, k raising has cea-ed to bean

expeiimcnt and bei nine an e-i.iblishcd I.K t. Hois, - |,.t diati.

all stand. lid bred, through whose

.1 dams ,,( .i( know siipenoiitv arc num. -o are il"

•le. swine and -heep. The latter mi- ni more than ten millions of dollars and the \ alue of the annual wool i lip mllliglv K'

.-e.l. tin- i.iuscof Salt I aki < lt\ pios|,eiit\ is dm- in the main to the abiindani e of nalni.il in the

< mint r \ adiai cut whn h h.ne alli.n t(d not alone the "I"--

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and speculator, but the merchant, the manufacturer and the investor. To these should be added its importance as a health resort to which come the geologist, the botanist and the army of tourists which annually gather here, and to other causes as potent as they are interesting.

Jf?e /T\ur?icjpal Qouerr;mi?r)t.

Prior to the fifties the city presumably was without any regularly constituted municipal government. During that de- cade, however, the growth of the present metropolis necessitated re-organization and the employment of means for the proper conduct of public affairs. In 1851, J. M. Grant was elected to the mayoralty, and since that date the executive authority of the city has been vested in a mayor, the legislative department being within the juris- diction of a board of aldermen, chosen at stated periods, whose prerogatives include all powers necessary to the framing and enforcement of ordinances, the remaining city officials being either elective or appoint- ive, and charged with duties incident to the management of trusts committed to then-

is supplied with a full complement of apparatus embracing steam engines of the Silsby pattern, chemical engines, hose carts, hook and ladder trucks, with hose and other appliances, indispensable to an adequate and efficient service. The depart- ment is also supplied with the Gaynor fire alarm system.

5t?e police D(?part/i\^rpt.

The department of police embraces thirty-five men, twenty- five of whom officiate as patrolmen and maintain order over an area of more than ten square miles, a condition of affairs that speaks volumes for a city in which one policeman to every two thousand inhabitants, is deemed sufficient,

5f?e pin? Department.

Under the pioneer regime, fires were of rare occurrence outside their legitimate uses, and a few buckets of water

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EAGLE GATE.

The city contains twenty-eight alarm boxes and the equipment is made up of all known means for successful operation, in addition to twenty-eight miles of wire, and 322 hydrants. In the year 1891, there occurred 102 fires in the city, entailing a total loss of 885,175, upon which there was an insurance of about 873,000. The value of the department is attested by the low rate of insurance, and its running expenses do not exceed 835,000 per annum.

Departm^rpt of Streets.

An ordinance providing for the paving of streets took effect May 15, 1889, and the city now has nearly fifteen or twenty miles of well-paved thoroughfares, ten' miles of which were completed in 1891, at a cost of SN'HX) per mile. The work, which is con- structed either of stone, cement or asphal- tum large quantities .of the latter material being found in the immediate vicinity, will be continued during the current year.

•r.

BRIG HAM YOUNG '« GRAVE.

sufficed to extinguish the " incipient conflagration" before it had exceeded the limits usually accorded it by the busy housewife. The present department is described as "one of the most com- plete in the country. " It includes twenty-eight members, and

Seu;erac}e Depart/r\er;t.

Three years ago arrangements were com- pleted for the introduction of a sewerage system. The preliminaries disposed of, work was commenced and prosecuted with such diligence, that thus far eighteen miles of sewer pipes from six inches to two feet in diameter have been laid according to the best approved scientific demand, and the expenditure made for this public improve- ment have met the approval of all classes of citizens. The system is the best obtain- able and further conduces to the good health for which the city is famous.

U/ater

The claim is deservedly made that Salt Lake City is one of the bestjighted cities in the country. Gas and electric lights

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are the agencies employed. < -treel intersection being illumi- nated with an electric light of two thousand candle power, elevated at a height of twenty feet above the ground; arc and incandescent lights are also used in the business houses and residences. The water supply is almost unlimited; reser- voirs are located at various eligible points fed from the City, Kmigra- tion and Parleys creeks in phe- nomenal supply, from whirl) clear sparkling water free from injurious impurities is distributed to con- sumers in all parts of the city through eighty-five miles of water mains. In addition to these sources of supply artesian wells have been or will be sunk in the near future, flowing both salt and sulphur water, thus materially adding to the nat- ural water power that will be avail- able for various uses.

The press of Salt Lake City- indicates the enterprise and char- acter of the inhabitants. At the present date there are four papers issued daily: — the Tribune, Repub- lican; Herald, Democratic, both morning publications; the Times and the DeseretEvening\ews, both afternoon papers. The weeklies embrace the Utah Frer Press, the Salt Lake . /rftrr/VVrand Western \\'ffkl\, besides bi-monthlies, mon- thlies and i|iiarterlies, chief among which are two papers published in the Swedish language, the tir<;it Salt l.akfr, Juvenile /natnifti'r, ./.<.'''• ll'i'itiiin'f A.i/V/;- ll'i'unin'x Journal, Ih, .V,>, ;,/r ,;»<//'>./ mat it' Reporter. /'errv'a .\tiigazimf. 7i////V/i.'. ' < (I,-////; tiii l,i n , Hotel Kf/ti<iter. the Sanitarium /// , <// l\f«>t(/:\M\ the .!</-'<<, <iff. papeis .ue \\i-ll i ondui leil li\ edi! ho rank high in the profession and have proved pntent far tors m the promotion of the bn- i i.d and moral mterests of the i itv uni'.er the wise and diseriminating mriuem e even ised by lUron and William llvdf of the //,/,!///. Judge -.Iwm and

Mr. Nelson of the I iihnn,-. (.' . \\ . I'enrose and Mi. Ni< hoNon ol the . Mr. Iffl of the />»,.. and other-. The lointh estate h.is ! to .1 position IH M i |ii<- vioiis|\ .n < oided journalists in the

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territory, and has given an additional and irresistible impulse to progress and development never before attempted.

El^mosypary Institutions ar>d J-lospitals.

Charities are administered with a liberal hand in Salt Lake City, and besides the private beneficial organizations sustained by donations from church societies and private individuals, the city contains three hospitals, St. Mark's, Deseret and The Hospital of the HolyCross.all supported by public contributions. The Industrial Christian Home, recently opened under the auspices of the Women's Industrial Christian Home Associa- tion of Utah, is one of the latest acquisitions. It was organized under the provisions of an act of Congress, and is designed to assist women and their children of tender age, who feel them- selves'vvronged'and 'oppressed by polygamy. A magnificent

handled during the year. The gross receipts for the same period were $126,299.23. The force employed consists of 18 carriers in addition to the postmaster and his assistants. Xinety-two letter boxes are distributed about the city; mail is delivered in the business district four times and collected six times per diem, and the service is efficient and prompt.

5t?e public; Buildir?$s.

The public buildings of Salt Lake City are many of them noted for the beauty and elegance of their architectural designs and proportions, as also for the high order of merit which has characterized their construction and equipment. In addition to the churches, hotels, exposition building, etc., brief mention of which has been made, there are the Temple, the Gardo House, the W. S. McCormick Bank building, the Dooley postoffice

WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL CHRISTIAN HOME.

building has been erected, and besides affording a pleasant home, provides instruction in various branches of self-support- ing industry to those who avail themselves of the association's hospitalities.

The secret societies consist of Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pithias, Elks, Ancient Order of United Workingmen, Foresters, Grand Army of the Republic, railroad aid associ- ations and labor and building societies. Each controls a roster of membership exceptionally large, and the greatest good to the greatest number is the purpose kept steadily in view.

post-Office.

The post-office is located in the Dooley building, and the amount of business transacted for the year last past indicated a very considerable increase over that of 1890. In 1891 there were $284,070.62 in money orders issued and $850,66:123 paid; 39,400 registered letters received and 19,000 dispatched, 19,200 pieces of mail matter in transit, or a total of 103,400 pieces

block, the City Hall and County Court House, now in progress of erection, and a large number of private residences. The McCormick Bank building is constructed of dressed Kyune stone, and the Dooley block of red sandstone quarried in the vicinity of the city. The city and county building in Wash- ington Square, when completed,"will be one of the most elab- orate 7structures in the West. The style of architecture is Romanesque. Its dimensions will be 272x156 feet and four stories high. The four corner pavilions will each be 120 feet in height, while that of the center tower will be 250 feet. The lat- ter will be surmounted by a figure representing Columbia, the corner pavilions being decorated with figures representing Liberty, Justice, etc. Kyune stone and brick compose the materials of which it will be built, and the cost of same will approximate half a million of dollars. The Ontario hotel is to be completed during the current year. The foundations are laid and work upon the superstructure will soon be renewed. Its estimated cost is quoted at one million of dol- lars, and when ready for occupation, it will excel in architec-

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tural attractions the- famous Palace hotel of San Francisco. Edifices that an expected to materialize in a short time include the Capitol building, to cost three millions, the Keeley Institute, the Saltair Company's hotel at 'Jarhcld Beach, a large number of public buildings and private homes, together with manufacturing and other establishments, involving the expenditure of million* of money and still further increasing the advancement of a city that is already in the van of improvement.

Public

Salt Lake City is well supplied with public parks, complete in all their attractions and upon which improvements are con- stantly being made. These include Tenth Ward Square, Washington Square, Pioneer Square, 1'niversity Square and

HON. F. 8. HICHAKDS' KK.HIDK.Ni I

Liberty Park. The latter, i onsisting of a tract of 110 handsomely landscaped and tilted up with an abundance of improvements that delight the eve and augment the value of the resort itself.

Schools.

The basis of the educational system of Salt Lake City is

the pubhi si hools, graded from primary to high school, in

which promotion from the sulmrdinate to the superior depart-

ments is dependent upon the pioin lenry of the candidate.

I'p to a re< i-nt date then- wire twenty-two district schools in

the i ity. e.n h under separate management; latterly, ho

they have been plac ed under the jurisdn lion of a Board of

I'.ilin ation i omposed nt.iiivc cm/ens. wlio ailmmister

the trust with a lidebt\ tMirn of deleiinin.ition to make them

institutions in fai t as well .1^ m name. Notwithstanding diffi-

i ulties em ountered new biiililings w en • nbt.nni-d. and the re MI Its

thus far attained have Ix-cn gratifying ill the ' -•. A»

si. tied, : "t instriii lion is that taught in cities

hiHils II.M- • -blished, with the routine

of whi< h all arc familiar. A high s< hool dcp.irtnicnl has .dsn

•i.iiigur.ilc'l. whi< h is on a par with • .i-li inn .il

institute in the iountr\. Il i- provided with .1 i orps of fixe

lipped with all mic--ai\ apparatus, in

addition to a complete and well sele< ted library. The course

occupies three years, and the enrollment is upward of one hundred students. In the schools proper there are p.ti teach- ers employed, with a total enrollment of about 7,100 pupils and a daily a\crage attendance of say 5,000. The annual cost of maintaining the schools is about $150,000, including salaries, supplies, etc. Arrangements are now in pro- 1 ess f,,r the enlargement of facilities in this department of public endcaxot . and the sum of $600,000, appropriated for the purpose, will be expended before the dawn of another year.

The denominational schools embrace the 1'niversity of I )eseret incorporated in ISM* and accessible to matriculants of both sexes over fourteen \earsof age. The course is com- prehensive and thorough, and the different departments are well equipped with apparatus for illustration and practical work. A department of mining has recently been added and it also contains a school for deaf mutes, a library of more than ten thousand volumes, an art gallery and other auxili- aries of substantial and invaluable merit. All Hallows college founded in l*xi is supported by the Catholics and has alreaiK attained to prominence not mote -m prising than deserved. The course includes three departments, preparatory, commercial and legiate. and an efficient corps of sixteen teachers is employed. St. Mary's Academy for girls, to which l>o\s between the ages of six and eight are likewise admitted, is also under the control of the Catholic de- nomination. It was opened in Is7(>and has been pios pered abundantly. Twenty teachers are employed .ind spei ial attention is devoted to music, the arts, and languages. A course of book-keeping, short- hand and stenogiaplu has been introduced into the curriculum and gymnastics and calisthenics, are im- portant features of the institution. St. Josephs' school for boys is a valuable adjunct to the course nl education likewise maintained by the Catholics. Salt Lake Academy dirci ted by the Congrcgational- ists was established in 1*7*, the purpose of the trustees being to found an academy after the plan of New Kngland high schools. It is supported by Con- gregational churches all over the country and is free to all pupils for a nominal consideration. The usual bram lies are taught here and a course of man- ual training has been recently introduced. Salt Lake Seminary represents the educational inteiests of the Methodist church. It was established in ls'7n and its career lias sin, e shown a steady growth. The ionises. five in number, are: College prepar.itmx. scientific, academic, commercial and normal, together with grammar and ordinary grades. It is designed at an early day to add a department of stenography. Collegiate Institute, controlled by tin Ptcshx Iciian i him h. -uppK s four i ouisi-s, vj/: AI ademii . grammar, intermediate and primary, and no pains have been spared to maintain a high reputation for wholesome moral training, good discipline and thorough work. Among those remaining an- St. Mark ss, hool for boys. St. Mark's school for girls and Rowland Hall, a hoarding s, hool for gnK. a! trolled b\ the 1 pi-, opal faith, together w ith i oinnien ial i ol leges, kmdergatten si hools. manual training s, hools. et- affording unsurpassed opportunities for the acquisition of an education in Salt Lai I he iit\ is also supplied with

libraries, there being in addition to those i ited. a i in ulatinj; hhi.iM managed b\ the M.ISOIIH older, (hat of the Odd lows, the 1 irem.in s I ihrar\. Salt l.aki In- libraiv. tin

.netsitv I ibr.iM. law Libr.it> and a number of under takings nf a similar < liar.u tei under the dim lion of lo< a I

organizati"

In addition to the Mormon Temple and the twenty-two ward churches of that sect, nearly every religious denomination is represented, and many are provided with houses of worship. These include St. Mark's and St. Paul, Episcopal, both of which are fine structures, the same society conducting services in St. Peter's church, near Warm Springs; three Methodist-Episco- pal churches; the First Presbyterian and Westminster Presby- terian churches, the First Baptist, the Swedish Lutheran church, the Scandinavian church, the First Congregational church, the African M. E. church, the Christian church, the Catholic cathedral and the Josephites, a congregation reorgan- ized by members of the Mormon faith. The Hebrew society possesses a large congregation, for the accommodation of which, a fine synagogue is nearing completion, and the Y. M. C.'A. and Salvation Army each control a numerous following engaged in effective work.

Annually is Salt Lake City attaining to more conspicuous importance as a financial center. Its location, the site of the city as an industrial and commercial emporium, the facilities afforded by the banks for business transactions, the ready aid furnished by them in times of extraordinary demand and other causes conspire to make the city all that is claimed for it in this connection. The total banking capital is, in round num- bers, $3,500,000.00, with a total surplus of $640,000, and undi- vided profits aggregating $187,000. The city has the American National, Deseret National, Commercial National, Bank of Commerce, Deseret Savings, National Bank Republic, State Bank of Utah, Union National, Utah Commercial and Savings, Utah National, Utah Title Insurance and Trust Company, /ion Savings and Trust Company, Wells, Fargo & Co., Mc- Cormick & Co., T. L. Jones & Co., and Cyrus L. Hawley, besides other institutions which enjoy an enviable reputation

This historic structure, so intimately asso- ciated with the earliest settlement and subse- quent history of Utah, is rapidly approaching completion, the ceremonies of laying the cap- stone having been arranged for April 6, IS'.CJ, just thirty-nine years from the date of the equally impressive ceremony of laying the corner stone. The temple is built entirely of granite obtained in the quarries of Little Cottonwood canon, the interior being finished according to ornate designs. The top floor is set apart for thij purpose of an assembly room with a rapacity of seating an audience of about one thousand. The three floors remaining are di- vided into rooms of varying sizes. Five of the towers will be surmounted by spires, while the sixth, the central eastern tower, will be. crowned with a bronze figure of the angel Gabriel, the east and west central tower spires with small horizontal figures of angels. The building will be perfectly heated and venti- lated, lighted by electricity and supplied with elevators and all modern conveniences. When completed the structure will represent an outlay approximating thtvr million five hundred thousand dollars.

Paolo by Shipler.

private

The superb climate and advantages of soil and produc- tions render Salt Lake City one of the most delightful points for residence purposes to be found in the West, a fact con- clusively demonstrated by the number and elegance of the private residences distributed throughout the city. No special style of architecture has been observed in their erection and • ii •!•( nation, nor has any special portion of the city been appro- priated to their occupation. But the streets are at intervals lined with handsome homes, situated in the midst of lawns, surrounded by the foliage of trees, the air redolent with the perfume of the choicest exotics and with many other attrac- tions that speak of the taste and refinement, as also of the wealth and enterprise of residents. The conformation of the territory upon which the city has been built is peculiarly adapted to the location of residences which rise one above the other upon terraces, thus furnishing an unobstructed view to occupants.

MB. W. S. MoCOKMlCK'S RESIDENCE.

in the monetary world. They are members of the clearing house, and several of the banks are equipped with safety deposit vaults.

<?a/np Dowflaj.

To the east, a distance of about three miles, and overlook- ing the capital city of Utah, (soon to be a state) is Camp Doug- las, the representative of the United States in the west. Situated in the midst of fields and orchards, Camp Douglas, wiht its orderly and soldierly arrangements, is of itself an attraction. Trains and street cars run frequently between the city and the post, and a birds-eye view of the former from the latter is almost unequaled. The quarters are built of red sandstone, quarried in Red Butte Canon, near by, and the grounds are planted with trees, vines, etc., giving to the scene an appear- ance both beautiful and picturesquely rural. Efforts are being made to secure an appropriation from congress for the purpose of beautifying that portion of the reservation lying between the fort proper, and the city. If such action is favorably deter, mined upon, a park of 1,000 acres will he laid out, one of the most beautiful in the United States, and commanding a view which for grandeur cannot be excelled at home or abroad.

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Side resorts.

The city and vicinityjis unsurpassed as a health resort, and a rich field is furnished for the seeker after pleasure in the abundance of mountain and bathing places easily accessible. Among the former are City Creek Canon, seven miles above the city; Ensign Peak, directly to the rear of the city, from the summit of which an unobstructed view of Salt Lake City and the surrounding country for miles in every direction can be obtained; Emigration and Parley's Canons, lately coming into prominence, the resort at the head of Big Cottonwood, 8,000 feet above the level of the sea; American Fork Canon, which opens into Utah Valley, and a number of others equally attrac- tive and efficacious from a sanitary standpoint. (iartield Beach, eighteen miles west of the city on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, is reached by the Union Pacific railroad, and is becoming one of the most noted bathing resorts in the world. The improvements consist of a hotel, bathing houses, a dancing pavilion, restaurants and private club houses. During the season a grand concert is given every afternoon in

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OAKKIKLI) HKACH "N THK (iKKVT 8AI.T LAKK

the pavilion, a sacred concert Sunday evening and a reception and ball Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. Beck's Hot Springs, three miles from the center of the city in a northerly direction, accessible by electric and railway cars, is admitted to be one of the finest bathing resorts in Utah, pos- sessing all necessary accommodations for the convenience of patrons, im hiding hotels, private baths, swimming pools for gentlemen and ladies, and other equipments comprehi and elegant. The new Kcclcy Institute is to be built at the Springs, and plans for a large hotel .in no» under i onsidera- tinn. White Sulphur Springs are situated one mile from the Temple and ran be reached by street cars. It has ten private plunges for ladies and gentlemen. The springs flow in a sirring stream from beneath a perpendicular rock and have a temperature of \'& degrees r ahrenheit. Bathing at White Sulphur has been found to he benefit tal to vie tuns of < atarrh. rheumatism and other diseases. The diversity ami excellence of the resorts and baths in and about Salt Lake City, in short, beggar description. Their real value to the city can not be iicd as sources of attraction to strangers, of benefit to invalids and of wealth to those by whom they arc owned and operated. The resorts about Salt Lake City will annually be- come more and more valuable.

fHotels arjd places of /Imujemept.

The lintels and places of amusement of Salt Lake City are well known and popular because of their absolute merit. Many of the former, in respect to their accommodations, appointments, luxurious furnishings, adequate conveniences i ui.fint- and service are not surpassed by any of a similar char- acter in cities of more indentions and greater opportunities. To use :i well-worn aphorism the hoteN arc well kept, and add to the reputation and attractions of the city as elegant homes for tourists and travelers. Among these are the Knutsford, one of the most magnificent in all respects west of New York or Chicago, completed and opened last spring, at the corner of State and Third South streets; Continental, corner of I'emple and Kirst South; Cullen, on West Second South near Main; Templeton, corner of Main and Brigham; Metro- politan, West Temple and Third South; Walker House, Main street; Union Pacific, near I'nion Pacific Depot: C.'lift House, Main and Third South; St. Klmo, third South and Main, and many others. To these should be added a number of European hotels and elegant boarding houses all of which are handsomely maintained.

Salt Lake City has been declared to be one of the most desirable amusement centers between the Missouri and the Pacific, in some respects rivaling Omaha and San Kran- ciseo. As a consequence, this city is continually entertained by musical, operatic or dramatic combinations of the superior order, an eloquent and conclusive acknowledgment of the taste and refinement of the citi/etis. At present, accommo- dations are not sufficient in volume to meet the requirements of OCCMions, bill their absence will be supplied in improve- ments now in progress and within a Comparatively brief peiiod, temples devoted to the displav s of histiionic and lyric art will be among the most splendidly designed and magnificently appointed and decorated of any in the land. Salt Lake Theater, eie< ted by the late Brigham Young

about l-i'.'.i 7" i- .1 nodious structure, conveniently

arranged and rich and attractive in make-up and appe.uam c. It's the resort of a most aristocratic patronage and has a M-.U ing capaeitv of I. sou and upward; Wonderland, a unique and original medley of light acts. etc.. the Dc~cicl Museum having mi exhibitnn a tine c ollec tion of minerals, ores and fossils tic. in I 'lah. stuffed birds and animals, native and foreign, curiosities and curios, relics of the early occupation of t'tah. ci with other resorts highly reputable and much in favor. At the •i.ic le. music ales are given at brief intervals. The organ, which erijovs a national reputation, and a chorus ot from :'im to ."IK i Miues.iie paitiiiilai objei ts of admiration.

U/tjolejale ar>d Jobblr><} Jrade.

The wholesale and jobbing trade of Salt Lake City is yet in its infancy. In ice ent years .1 tapid ad\ am c has been made in both dirce nuns, anil to el.iv the demands levied upon mer- chants and jobbers ate only equalled 1>\ their capac it\ to supply- Sonic c I. inn, even now, that the largest jobbing trade between Denver .end San r i.mc isc o is clone at Sail lake I Uv. w hem c dealers and consumers in Southern Idaho. Northern A I tab. Ncv.nl.i. \Y\niinng. Northern Colorado, Montana and point-, more lemote obtain their sloe Us .met supplies. The biisinc •" in \~\i\ • .1 that of the M'. n pie v mns by about

ntnctv live pei c i nt. and amounted in v allies to figures approx- imating two millions of dollars.

Ihi rettil ttOltl "I the MM me hide every line of c ommi r cial business, and many of them in sue. architecturally, cap.u itv for the < ai- :.i. k. c •qiiipim lit-, c onveniene cs and qual

ity of wares, merit the encomiums passed upon them as being

of a superior character. They enjoy a large trade, employ a correspondingly large force and are operated by those for whose convenience and patronage they were established.

The Stock Exchange organized in 1890, for the purpose of affording opportunities for the sale of mining and other stocks is in the enjoyment of a prosperous career. The sales for 1891, aggregated 4,083,415 shares of a cash value of nearly one million dollars. The same may be said of the Chamber of Commerce established in April 18S7.

/T\arjufac,turii7$.

Manufacturing industries we,re established, though to a limit- ed extent, in Salt Lake City at an early day. With the progress of years this branch of the public service was annually ren- dered more important and self-sustaining, until now it has

hosiery, artificial ice, dairy products, rough and smoothed lum- ber, leather, lime and cement, lead pipe, patent medicines, wrapping paper, paper bags, boxes and mailing tubes, pre- serves and pickles, rope, rubber stamps, table and fancy salts, beet sugar, ales and beer, soda and mineral waters, show rases, galvanized iron and copper cornices, glass, hats and caps, iron and asphaltum, paints, soap, shoe polish, tin-ware, trunks and traveling bags, vinegar, wash-boards, whips, wood carving, yeast powder and washing soda, land plaster and plaster paris, hats and straw goods, crockery, matches, nails, cutlery, pumps and one silk factory. Most of these are operated upon a small scale, and though prosperous, are in need of additional capital, thus offering inducements for men of wealth and enterprise to locate and make investments with assurances of almost immedi- ate and substantial returns. There is also a field here for skilled labor and as the compensation is liberal, while rents and the cost of living are comparatively low, there can be no ques-

1'hoto by Bhipler.

become one of the most potent, if not indeed the most valuable of the ventures undertaken. The city's position, together with the fostering care of enterprising business men, have brought about such results, and the consensus of opinion is that within a comparatively brief period, Salt Lake City will take position of one of the most prosperous centers in the West. Statistics of a recent date are not available, but according to the reports of R.Ci. Dunn & Co. for 1890, the capital invested that year in busi- ness, exclusive of banking, real estate and buildings, approxi- mated $10,1 KM 1,00(1, of which, a by no means inconsiderable proportion was employed for manufacturing purposes, giving employment to an army of skilled workmen, to whom thousands of dollars were paid in wages, and producing an annual output approximating millions of dollars in value. These embrace every conceivable variety of productions which are distributed over the neighboring states and territories to the enrichment of both the factor and the consumer. Among the products for which Salt Lake City is specially noted, are boots and shoes, burned and pressed brick, carriages and wagons, carpets, cigars, burial cases, wire fences, harness, sadlery and collars,

MR. HENRY SADLER'S RESIDENCE.

tion that the accession of this class of artisans will be attended with profit to themselves, as also to the interests of the city and country.

Jraosportatior)

No single agency has contributed more powerfully to the building up of Salt Lake City than the very complete and desirable transportation facilities at hand. Not only have they accomplished much in the behalf mentioned, but for the future, in that they afford unequalled opportunities for expan- sion, for constant accessions to the population, improvements in the city and correspondingly low rents, invitations for the location of industries, mercantile undertakings, residents, etc. as persuasive as they are necessary. The city is connected with all parts of the United States by lines of railway that stretch out in every direction. New York and the East as also San Francisco and points on the Pacific coast are reached via the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Utah Central and Rio Grande Western systems, while the Utah & Northern and

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.11 Short Line roads furnish expeditious communication with Oregon, Washington. Idaho and Montana. llc-idcs these tin- Burlington and Missouri. Chicago and Northwestern, Mil- waukee and St. 1'aul, Rock Island and 1'acitic, Chicago and Al-

•. :rhi>on, Topeka ami Santa Fe are extending their m fields of operation thitherward with the Iea-t possible delay, tranches of the roads centering in Salt Lake have been con-

I'riniii 1.) Shiplcr. KisiuicNctH or OUT. A. L. THOJUX AMU MB. <'L IWM ».

structed to Tintir. one of the most prominent mining towns m rritory; the Utah and Nevada has been extended to (iar- tielil I'.eai-h and Tooelc. with a supplemental line known as the l.ilin 1'ark I ilv branch running to the 1'ark Citv mining di-tili t. Little I ottonwood canon and the mines at Cingham i.mvon have been made tributary to the city by the Km (irande Western, and cither points contiguous and remote will be drawn nearer to Salt Lake ("itv in the near future. Among the prnspei ts determined upon is a road to the 1 '• - (ountiv. one of the rii liest

mineral distric Is in the world; the I'tah. Ne vada and California to run from I'rovo through the rich southern country to the borders of I tali; a road is also to be built from I'rovo to 1'ark (itv M.I I'rovo canon, connecting with lines for the cii • from the citv lo Sol

laire Beach on the Great Salt Lake. Tin

Salt Lake and Hot Springs road, in i (instruction, has been completed to ( i ntcrvillc and i- now in operation to that point. In !-''! the avcra. I in the tt.iltii of the roads

running into Salt Lake (itv was about twentv pi-i <

In the month of April. l»'.«i. the ( ilv granted (or thc< (instruction of two lines of '.. In- opci.itcd bv elei Iru itv. Siri( e then tiflv miles ol track hav i • bi en i inn plelcd. and tw. I with < .11

r.piipiiieiit, of tin mo-t m. «lt in and liiMirious -upplv a serin e not surpassed l>\ thai of an\ i it\ in the Uinti d xt.iies "I he .it\ . ont.nii one hundred miles of street railway, radiating in all lions and furm-hcd the \erv higl .if l.i. ilit

rapid transit. It might h. • •) that the Mibje. t of infra-

mural transport. ilion h.is IM-I-II ttidclv disi iissril bv . apitahsts and i Hi/ens of Sail Lake ( ilv. and every determination is mam

to meet all |Mis-ihle requirements of an cxpcdilin' thorough s( rv H e. Additions will IK- made to that at present in use, and improvements Mill IK- inlrodui id as rapidly as needed.

Uijior) Stock Yards.

The Union Stock Yards C omp.inv was organised n October, 1890, the stock being subscribed for by leading capitalists and < iti/ens of Salt Lake City, ( Imaha and other western points. A tract of land containing being a portion of what

is known as the old Cooper farm, was purchased and prepara- tions entered upon for improving the same. For some months subsequent, however, a com- bination of cause- prevented the inauguration of .u live operation, finally, it was decided to issue bonds to the extent of jCid.lnKI, to run live \ears with six per cent, interest, with the pro- . eeds of which, work could be comment ed.

This was accordingly done, and OB the first of

last January, the bonds were disposed of to the Kansas (itv Stock Yards ( 'oinpany. Up to a

• date the improvements were of limited dimensions, but work will be prosecuted to a siiecessful finality without delay. Tlio-c con- templated embrace an exchange building, M.I bles for the accMiimodation of stock, railway tracks, hay and feed barns, cattle scales, water- works, etc.. with even other known impmve ment requisite to a complete and -ati-f.u liny

• . In addition to these, the handlci- of dressed meats at Salt Lake I ity and elsewhere, have made proposals to the stock \ard» . "in pan\ for the building upon the grounds of

extensive plant- for the slaughter and packing of cattle, sheep and hogs; for the erection of tanneries and wool semiring establishments, and for the manufacture of leather from hides and skins of all -oils bv chemical process A large amount of capital is now being expended in the pre- liminary work and the sati-fai ton shape in which the project now i-. is the subject of enthusia-tic congratulation. The v. mi- will be located in I )av is county, in communication with point-

MIIS .11 NMM N, I

.1 VM--I bv the Km (,r.mdi \\e-tetn.the Inioi. I'.i. itn . .mil Hot Spring- loads, and their connecting

lines.

t omp.inv was iiu orporated

•I. with a . apilal ol *.\IH»M««I. for the purpose of dev eloping natural gas dis< overed in the regions north and

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west of Salt Lake City. Preliminaries having been considered for the lease of what is known as the "Great Basin," an area of 12,000 acres, including the portion of the Great Lake between the Antelope, Oquirrh, Farmington and Wasatch Faults. Work was commenced near Farmington, and early in December, 1891, gas was tapped at a depth of 550 feet. It burst forth with such volume as to be heard for over a mile distant, and becoming ignited, until extinguished through the combined labors of the residents of the neighborhood, burned with a degree of fury indescribable. Since that date two additional wells have been sunk with successful results, and more are in progress of construction. The company has obtained a franchise grant- ing it the right of way to construct gas mains through the streets of Salt Lake City for the purpose of supplying gas for heat, fuel and motive power. The future of natural gas in Salt Lake City is of course impossible of a sat- isfactory solution at this time. Those who are versed in the sciences, however, and have dr- voted no inconsiderable investigation to this recent outburst of nature.so to speak, are of the opinion that wherever it can be made availa- ble it will not only flow for an indefinite period, but with increasing volume. If such conclusions are realized this interest adds one more to the resources of Salt Lake, and will resolve the city into one of the greatest be- tween the oceans.

to 857,965,668. The transfers of real estate for the year repre- sented a total valuation of nearly twenty millions of dollars. In the matter of rents, there was an increasingly steady demand for residences, business blocks, manufactories and manufacturing sites at figures that assures to holders and investors a splendid interest on their money. The country tributary to the city has been prospered almost beyond prece- dent and the benefit to the city has been corresponding. The

Jl?e puture.

The city now contains a population of nearly sixty thousand. Its history ha-, not been altogether free from vicissitudes, nor fraught with experiences altogether sunny. Yet bright memo- ries blossom out of the shadowy past, glorifying and beautifying its dimness, and tinting the years to come with colors of never ending fascination. No city in the United States possesses greater possibilities. The year l*!ll witnessed an improve- ment over the business of 1*90. The total transactions of the clearinghouse aggregated more than 180,000,000. The volume of business in commercial, transportation, manufacturing, jobbing and trade lines generally was gratifyingly encouraging, while the assessed valuation of property advanced from 854,353,000

GABD HOUSE, SALT LAKE CITY.

assets of the city amount to 8104,396,198.82 with liabilities aggregating 81,050,000, borrowed on bonds in various sums, dating from 1888, for the purpose of permanent improvement and for which two per cent, per annum is paid.

The future of Salt Lake City is no longer problematical. Taking the past as a criterion, the conclusion is irresistible that a greater growth and more perfect and general develop- ment is coming. What, if anything, is needed to promote their speedy arrival is capital. To those who contemplate a change of base, either for residence or business pur- poses, the city offers unsurpassed inducements. The monied man who seeks new fields of enterprise for the investment of his resources will be welcomed, and the householder, the laborer, the student, the professional man and the artist will be greeted with a hospitality as universal as it is sincere.

REAL, ESTATE.

A desert region. A handful of religionists seeking 11 new home. An oasis in the "Great American Desert." A Trans- continental Railway. An attractive stopping place for tourists

tn investigate a peculiar region and the wonderful (ireat Salt Lake. A quiet city growing slowly. A few land specu- atore bringing in new minify. A few strangers investigating HIH! l>eginning to appreciate the wonderful advantages of the land-locked Empire, and the combination of resources and attractions of the peculiar city. .1 xmtden increase in land values. A great awakening among home people and a great influx of live men from the surrounding States and Territories. A great city being built up with massive buildings, Klectric cars, beautiful homes, new railroads, a new appreciation of great mineral springs, the Great Salt Lake, mountain resorts and the advantages of the city as a sanitarium. Splendid mineral developments in regions directly tributary to the city. Gradual extension of commercial relations, (ireat stock yards and packing houses; natural gas- supplying light for the homes and fuel for hundreds of factories. Magnificent hotels. The tourist resort of the West. The most prosperous and attractive city of its size in the New World. Such is the story of Salt Lake City. Its real estate his- uni'iue and surprising. The few transactions in early days consisted chiefly in trading cows or horses for city lots. Any- body could own almost a farm within the city limit'*.

In 1887 a few speculators foreseeing a great future for the city, and realizing that prices were ridiculously low, began to invest in real estate. The first buyers came from ( 'olorado and Iowa.

Many came to investigate, but only a few had the nerve to invest — the few who had watched the growth of other rn cities not so favorably situated as Bait Lake City. J/V/«. i alone was needed to work the change.

With 18K8 the great awakening came. The combination was too great to remain unappreciated longer. A Chamber of Commerce bad been organized just before and itx good work was quickly recognized. Southern California WBS enjoying its "boom." I'uget Sound cities were springing up at a lively rate. Spokane ami Denver were prosperous. The conditions were right for Salt Lake City to advance, and a mighty step forward was taken. New men and new mum ;/ came from all directions. An before, many came to investigate. Some believed, but many who did not investigate fully were discouraged b\ tin* sneers of the bears and fossils, and passed on to other placer.

•• You. hut tin I, run -iii-.tn •>••• II:' /dir,"and looking backward to 1888 we are not surprised that many who came did not remain. Then our own Mining men Inking millions from 1'tah's hills - were Bend ing their money toother points for investment. With only a partial accp-iiiiiitiince and friendship between the mer- chant* and factional tight* being the rale rather than the exception, business men did not impress strangers favor- ably.

In other places politics and religion were kept away from H relations; here they seemed to be a part of the very existence of (be people and entered into and soured every in life.

The progren* and the changes linoe 1887 have been remark- able. A better feeling has grown up between the classes. A Hpirit of enterprise ba* taken the place of apathy. Ami our mining king* are keeping their money at home. ilev. .loping dome enterpriser new building*, car linen, fiictoricM, etc. Public- improvement in the i-ity haw- kept up with hind values and we have to-dny a • I* t'.'MHio with a good sewerage

,. H water synleiu owned by the .-it>. and valuable onough t<> offnet the en' ' ndehtedness) OW mile* of

ur line«, paving well under way, many mile* of

mdewalk*. the Ixwt hotels tietween Omaha and San Kran.-is-co and in fart nil the advantages an. I facilities of a Metropolitan

With the remarkable advancement of the city, tin- region tributary ha* been enjoying a splendid growth. The spirit • •( progre** ha* taken hold of the people. Immense irrigHting work* and manufacturing institutions have been complete! mid many more are under way. Immense sums are being expended in the development of new mining districts and all classes arc now engaged in the mining industry. A large amount i* being expended in the improvement of the bathing

resorts, Sulphur Springs, railroad work, etc., and, on every road we see the results of the splendid work started by the energy and money of a few speculators in 1887 in Salt Lake City. Money did it and money will continue to force progress in t'tah with such rapidity that the" Utah problem" will soon be a thing of the past. The man who hesitates to invest now in Utah or to investigate the claims of Salt Lake City, should study the power of money as illustrated in the developments of the past three years.

5alt Cak,e (?ity F^eal Estate

Is on a solid basis. The panic which has, during the past twelve months, prostrated all business, has had a less depress- ing effect here than in other western cities. This statement is verified often by the investigations of investors who are interested in many of the western cities. A good portion of our unimproved city land is owned by non-residents — men abundantly able to hold and improve Iheir property, many of whom intend to close out their business at other" places "and make their permanent homes here. The whole town, there- fore, is not " for sale " as has been said of so many western cities. Salt Lake City is both an "Old" and "New" town. with the advantages of both.

In comparing prices of particular classes of property in different cities, it in difficult, of course, to state values with absolute fairness and accuracy as circumstances and conditions vary to such a great extent. It is safe to claim as true the statements of the many who investigate and who assert tluit. considering the present conditions, and the pros- pects for the future, real estate valuations in Salt Lake City are very much tm</< r the ruling prices in other western cities. Many western cities being built upon the plains, or upon low hills, all directions are available for building sites. In Salt Lake City the area is not so great. Only two directions are available for desirable residence pur- poses, and from one to two and a half miles from the centre the mountains interfere with the street extensions. Choice residence property in the older portions of the city, within H few minutes' ride from the centre, is worth from $50 to $150 per front foot. Splendid building lots, with advantages of city water and electric car service (and suburban lots within Bftoeo minutes' ride), can be secured at prices ranging from $200 to * 1,500 per lot.

Business property

Is held at reasonable prices when compared with the values in other cities, wlieie lniMiiefs districts aie not necessarily con- titie.1 UK in Salt Lake City, with it* wide streets (132 feet) and its large ten-acre blocks.

( )ur b**t luiNiness property is worth from $.">00 to 31,500 per front foot, second-class business locations being held at from $200 to $fiOO per foot. Many fine building sites, which will soon be valuable for retail business purposes, can be secured now at from $250 to $400 per foot.

Ituilding lots, to accommodate factory operatives, are worth 1 100 to MOO «Mk

I.andH for manufacturing purposes, with railroad trackage facilities-, can lie suppli.-d at reasonable prict s. and manufac- turing Institution* seeking new I. .cations ar-> able here to find favorable sites at very low prices, and oftentimes free of chn .

It IH believed that at the present time

Salt CaKe <;ity Offers to tl>e Ipueator

Home seeker and invalid great, r inducements than can be found elsewhere. Combinations win. and Si.lt Luke City pos- •MSM the combination of Wealth and Health, which in list be appreciated lor IS''J the progress of the city will be very groat. The wonderful discovery recently of

Datura! Qaj

I* alone infflcient to double the population. The inducements to manufacturers are now *o great that attention will be directed quickly and large plant* located in the near future.

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A new field is now open to Man ufactures and the luter Mountain reg- ion, so rich in raw mater- ials, will soon be noted for the variety of its factor- ies and the advantages of home industries.

UQior? 5to<;K Yards Qompapy,

In which Omaha and Kansas City Capitalists are interested, has ex- pended large sums and the results of the opera- tions of this company are not appreciated yet. Per- sons acquainted with the growth of cities in In- diana and Ohio due solely to Natural Gas, and to the growth of Omaha and other cities owing to the Stock Yards and Packing houses, will real- ize that this combination must surely force Salt Lake City ahead rapidly in 1892 and 1893.

PIS a gty of H°m<?5

Salt Lake is gaining in population rapidly. Here are the homes of the men who direct the mining. stock and commercial en- terprises of the great Basin region between tht Rocky Mountains and thf Sierra Nevada. Many per sons from the surround- ing states are securing their home sites as Salt Lake City is the place where they will finalh live and educate their children.

CHAMBKK OF COMMERCE: BUILDING.

f\s a Summer

As the objective point for all new railroads pushing to the West, it merits the attention of enterprising people who may be look- ing for new locations. It is the Metropolis of a re- gion the resources of which are just beginning to be appreciated and which will surely surprise the inquirer. In Utah alone the resources are sufficient, when fairly de- veloped, to support many good cities.

The progress of Utah for 1892, must be rapid. The wonderful strikes in the Mining Camps, the extension of irrigating systems, the increase of the products of the ran- ges, the new railroad building now assured, to open a new Transcontin- ental route, and the ef- forts now being made to spread to the world the advantages of the cli- mate, will certainly repro- duce here the great ex- pansion so noticeable in Colorado during 1889, 1890 and 1891.

Utal? U/ar>t8 (i\opey

To assist in developing her wonderful resources. Profitable investments can be made in many branches of business as well an in City Real Es- tate and Range lands.

Our own people have not sufficient capital to engage in thework of de- velopment to the extent resources warrant.

It will be safe, and with

Thousands are attracted to Salt Lake. Many come to see and decide to remain.

'•The climate suits us," they say. Salt Lake City with its wonderful lake and mountain's is the natural

Money is wanted from the outside, ordinary oare in placing capital, large profits can be secured.

Our prospects are bright, we ask a careful investigation of our claims, feeling sure that the attractions which have drawn so many new people to Zion since 1887 are great enough to draw many more during 1892.

5um.rn.er

of

U/i?8t.

Its climate and attractions now are sufficient to justify a population of 100,000.

As the great Commercial Center between Denver and Sau Francisco, its business must increase gradually and rapidly.

Tt)e

Was organized April 6th, 1887, by the election of tbe following officers: President, W. S. McCornick; First Vice-President, S. I'. Teasdel; Second Vice- President. F. W. Jennings; Secre- tary, Hugh Wallace; Treasurer, T. R. Jones. Directors: W. H. Remington, W. S. McComick, S. P. Teasdel, F. W.Jennings, Jas. Glendenning, J. C. Conklin, Fred. Auerbacb, H. L. A. Culmer, M. H. Wiilker, A. Hanauer, Geo. A. Lowe.

At the close of the year 1891, tbe Chamber was officered as follows: President, Fred. Simon; First Vice-President, Jno. W. Donnellan; Second Vice-President, Heber M. Wells; Treas- urer, Geo. M. Downey; Secretary, H. V. Meloy. Directors: Fred. Simon, Jno. W. Donuellan, Heber M. Welle, C. E. Want-

of (pmm^rcc

land, Spencer Clawson, Harvey Hardy, David James, S. W Morrison, Wm. H. Shearman, W. H. Irvine, T. G. Webber At the annual election held in January, 1892, Col. Jno. W. Don- nellan was elected president and 8. W. bears was chosen its secretary.

To those who are unacquainted with tbe history and growth of Salt Lake City it may be well to say, that at the time of the organization of tbe Chamber of Commerce there was great need for its existence. It is a coincidence worthy of note, that contemporaneously with its existence (from 1887 to 1891), Salt Lake City enjoyed her greatest growth. For the first time in the city's history— under the benign influence of the Cham-

her the hitherto cross-purposes of the pnblic- spirited and progressive business men were re- conciled, united and concentrated, to do service for the general good.

Whenever the good and true men of any com- munity forget petty personal differences, and throw their combined strength into measures and schemes for the general advancement, fortune seems to smile on their endeavors.

The pluck and energy of the live men of Chicngo have made the World's Colnmbiim K\ position on the Lake shore a possibility. Who will say at this time, that Chicago will Dot reap a most bountiful harvest as a result of her inde- fatigable zeal for the success of this gigantic un- faftaUag ? Who will say that she will not add largely to her accumulated wealth for every dollar expended in its interest ': A conservative esti- mate will readily place the ratio of Salt Lake City's benefit for every dollar expended by the Chamber since its organization, as twenty to one; and that as a direct result of the efforts of that organization.

It is true that the work of the Chamber, in the past, has been seen most in the channels of advertising. Through its efforts some few facts and figures relative to the mining and agricul- tural achievements in these mountains and valleys, or some pen or brush paintings descrip- tive of their wealth and beauty, have found their way into almost every hamlet throughout the length and breadth <>f this broad land. The fame of Utah and the Valley of the Jordan, the fertility of her soil, and the great mineral wealth of her mighty mountains, only partly concealed by their overshadowing grandeur, have now be- come proverbial.

This advertising was necessary, and it has been most fruitful. Up to the time of the commence- ment of the work of the Chamber, nothing was known of this vast region aside from the fnct that it was the stronghold of Mormonism. At the present time information concerning Halt Lake City in particular, and Utah in general, is sought after from every purt of the United States. Those who are seeking new places in which to recuperate their failing health or shattered fortune*, or to invest their surplus capital, turn

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toward tin* nio»t promising vtllty. To the mind of the I I i.iiil . r it «•• ttretmnif I hut the not Id rhonld know K.nwlhing of tie great ailvantiigra of this great

iuter-monutain country. What they have written has been well \viit ten; but every day the country unfolds new and grander attraction*, anil greater resources thun the most enthusiastic ever dreamed of. iiml they U-gm to see how feeble and inadf<|iiate were their most glow- ing contributions. In conjunction with this extrtiMve advertising, iind following closely upon its heels, has come the more substantial work of the Chamber. AH jet, to n great extent, tin* city i- in the formative state, iind new ijupHtionH of public policy are constantly taken up and ably handled l.y the Chuinlier. The detail work is there- fore very extensive, and can scarcely lie appreciated by the commun- ity. Th» ('hnmlxT has !>een slow in encouraging .|uestional.l.- tnanu farturing enterprises, and IIKB thus navfd the public much money in ill advised honuM**. from which other Western cities have suffered greatly. To Ixma tide and reputable manufHctiiring enterprise*, how- ever, the Chamber IIIIH given MihMnntial and valuable aid.

It may be said of HUH coiuimiinty. that t i o manufacturing

enterprises appem ing within its bolder* that i.re not pnj 11 g and grow ing into permanent instil utioim. Among the movements now on foot, mid largely throng), the ii'Hiicncc of Ihe CliHiiiter. are the I '. . i Creek railway project, the Union Sdx'U Yards and I'arking Mouse project, a HjNteiniitic contioversy with Hit railri'ads looking to HII nd- jiiHlnient of the freight ami trmif| orlation rati s to HI .1 fn in Salt Lake 1'ny.Bnd the prepatation of a bill for pn •henlalimi to t he next legis bit ii re. rout em | >li> ting a n-Msioii if (he Suit l.i.ki- Cii\ Charter.

Of the I rmlwiij projei-t tl e Clu.i ; . cinllj solicit

oils, MS to its inn.. I therein IN to I.e found the key which will unlock the iieoret of Halt Lake City's future mid r>-rta n mpn mncy an the ,. n-inl cei, ler of thin entire iiiter-iiioniiliiiri regn n \ committee has now in hand meatnres for rawing $HiO,0()0 or fctTO.lCO to aid in the ...ni-tnicln.il of the n a.l. with .leci. Lilly gin'.] f nucreos.

The I'm. n si. . . \: .t.U i.nil Packing lloiife linihlings ure DOW under count ruction, mid only matters of detail are delaying their early opening for tmsinets.

The freight and transportation omlr aliio asmiming

definite iihspe, and pfimanent rrsnlls ire expected to follow in tbo early part of Vi liefor* promodiDg in this important

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work, the Chamber thought it advisable to procure the sub- scription of enough money monthly to cover the expense of employing a competent and able commissioner to direct the movements of the Transportation Bureau, and to provide for all incidental expenses. This has been accomplished and the work will begin after January 1st, 1892. Many more effective measures, of more or less importance, have been diligently prosecuted by this organization, and it is now looked upon as the best institution for general good in the city. It has a mem- bership of over three hundred, comprising the most active and influential business men of the city, and the handsome build- ing, a cut of which appears in this work, is an enduring monu- ment to the push and enterprise of the live and progressive men of Salt Lake City. The chamber is the pride of all citi- zens, and its fame, like that of Salt Lake City, has extended far beyond the confines of its field of action. The recent lucky and all-important strike of natural gas, withiu twelve miles of the city, promising an inexhaustible supply of cheap light, heat and power, establishes the fact beyond question, that Salt Lake City is about to enter upon a period of unparalleled prosperity. It is within the possibilities that such a growth will immediately begin as will place her, in a phenomenally short ti 3 e, among the greatest cities in the United States. It is now held as a certainty, that the Chamber of Commerce will have its bands full during the coming summer in locating and providing for some of the .largest manufacturers which have

ever turned their eyes to the vast country west of the Mississippi river. Already, as this article is being written, the Secretary is besieged with a voluminous correspondence pertaining to these gas strikes, and strong prospecting companies are being organ- ized daily. Experts in gas are slipping in and out of the city, and the wires are kept; hot between Salt Lake City and points in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

The work for the Chamber of Commerce for 1892 is con- templated on lines for the furtherance of new railroads, the establishment of new freight rates and new factories, and the increase in home consumption of home productions. How important a part natural gas will play, in rendering easy this work, can scarcely be calculated.

of th? (pmm?rc? and Industries of Utah.

From the very beginning of the settlement of this Territory, the conditions surrounding it, whether observed from a politi- cal or social standpoint, were different from those which gener- ally connected themselves with the people who settled the other territories of this western country.

Leaving their settlements in the East on account of real or imagined persecutions and sufferings endured, that state of affairs, which, for many years, existed and characterized the Mormon people as decidedly differing from the balance of the people of this country was bound to develop, and could not help but have its influence upon commercial and industrial pursuits.

Indeed, so intense was the religious feeling of this people, (hat all other issues were either used as means of building up their religious power, or else relegated into the background as secondary considerations.

Within a short time after the pioneers had settled in this valley, we find them engaged in various industrial pursuits, and while the products were more or less of a crude nature, they answered the purpose intended, and obviated the neces- sity of the importing of goods from either the eastern or western markets.

Sugar was extracted from sorghum, woolen mills estab- lished, which produced cloths, blankets and knit goods. Wagons and plows of a fair make were manufactured, and many other articles were prc.l need, useful either on the farm or in the homes of the people. Where the means to purchase woolen cloths were lacking, the homespun product was con- sumed in the making up of clothing. The manufacture of boots and shoes became quite an industry at an early date, and many of our wealthiest men made their first start in life in the pursuit of these industries.

A Dumber of mercantile houses established themselves, which, from time to time, brought train loads of goods across the plains and disposed of them to the people, taking in exchange such products of the farm as were raised by the people in the different valleys.

For many years money was a scarce or unknown article, and not until the mines iu Montana and Idaho were discovered, was there any visible increase noticeable in the wealth of the people of Utah.

With the opening of these mines began an era of prosperity which laid the foundation of much of the wealth accumulated by the residents of this city and Territory.

With all this, the starting of mercantile concerns was delayed, and only in exceptional instances was the contrary the rule.

With the bviilding, however, of the Union and Central Pacific roads, a change came over this Territory, which, begin- ning in 18f>!t, rapidly changed the programme which had characterized its earlier history. Mining industries were inaug- urated, and manufacturing and mercantile endeavors received a new impetus.

One of the first mines developed was the Emma mine, which was sold for over $5,000,000 in England, and from that moment on n steady influx of settlers took place, which has continued to this day.

The commerce of this Territory was also retarded owing to the insufficient facilities, but after the coming of the railroads the population continued to increase, and a number of wealth- producing mines were developed. Commerce and manufactur- ing industries did not, however, progress in the same propor- tion, and we find the city, while surrounded by unlimited resources, making but little progress, resulting in a stagnation of business, which reached its climax iu 1886. Keal estate depreciated from twenty-five to fifty per cent., until a sale, whenever it was consumated, was looked upon as an extraor- dinary event, to be recorded by the different papers of the city.

A large commercial company had been organized, called the Z. C. M. I., at the head of which was placed the President of the Mormon church.

This institution absorbed, to a great extent, the small estab- lishments, and for many years supplied the outside settlements with such wares and merchandise as were consumed by the people. Under such conditions smaller business houses found it up-hill work to gain a foot-hold in this city, and we therefore find but few new firms starting up during the succeeding years. Such firms as made the attempt from time to time, found them- selves obliged to discontinue after a trial of a shorter or longer period. While the Z. C. M. I. is still a powerful organization, presided over by the President of the Mormon church, it has, to the greatest possible extent, fallen in line with the balance of the business houses established here, and can to-day be ranked amongst the largest conservative houses of the country. Under the management of Mr. T. G. Webber, as superinten- dent of the business part, and Mr. W. H. Rowe, superintending the manufacturing plant, a model business is carried on, aggregating over $6,000,000 annually, and giving employment to many hundreds of people.

A number of thinking men, realizing that something had to be done to change the prevailing depression, conceived the idea of starting the Chamber of Commerce, which should have for its prime and main object the developing of trade, and the establishing of various industries for the manufacture of articles wanted by the people. In the constitution and by-laws of the organization, an article was inserted prohibiting the dis- cussion of politics or religion in the Chamber of Commerce. The intention was to unite all factions, irrespective of creed or party, for the common good, and a special committee was appointed for the purpose of obtaining members. The movement was at first regarded by many of the leading Mormons with considerable suspicion. But as soon as a number of liberal- minded Mormons realized that the Chamber of Commerce had been started in good faith, with but that one aim in view — to develop the commercial resources of the Territory — these men became the most ardent and zealous workers, and are to-day to

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be found among the most energetic members of the Chamber of Commerce.

One of the first to grasp the situation, was the late Francis Cope1 (ieneral Freight and Passenger Agent of the Utah Cen- tral rnilro-i.1. who, himself, worked day anil night to accomplish iU establishment. He made the remark to the writer of this article, thai he fully realized what this work meant, but if the Mormon church could not continue to grow and prosper in the same manner as other churches advanced, he was satisfied to see it go down, as it could not then be recognized as a church containing the principles necessary for its future prosperity.

Within a year after the Chamber of Commerce was started an exposition oar was sent out containing an exhibit of the mining and industrial products of this Territory. The car was sent all over the country, as far eastward as Syracuse, N. Y., and was the means of attracting thousands of people, who became investors and residents of this city and Territory.

The city doubled its population in three years, and in the last city election, two years ago, gave the gentiles complete control of the municipal government The same result had been achieved in the city of Ogden about one year earlier, and the masses of the Mormon people fell into line and joined in the march of progress; and, let it be said to their credit, that once this policy was adopted, it was carried out with a zeal and energy noticeable in various directions.

M;,ny industries have been established within the past three years. In a pamphlet just issued by the Chamber of Commerce, dwelling upon the industries of Salt Liake City, we find the following manufactories represented: Boiler and machine shops: manufactories of engines and locomotives; mining and milling machines; brass foundry; three extensive brewery plants; the Z. C. M. I. factory, which produced during the year 1891 114,000 pair of boots and shoes and 10.0(10 dozen overalls: a large plant for the manufacture of fire-brick, water and sewer-pipe, grates and mantels; a large pressed-brick plant; a plant producing all grades of brooms, whisk-brooms and brushes; carriage anil wagon works; three large candy fac- tories; four cigar factories; two cracker factories, producing eighty-two varieties of crackers; five stone-cutting plants; three large flouring mills; several large plants manufacturing sad- dles and harness; two ice and cold-storage plants; six plat ing mills and ten lumber yards; three tanneries; one large cement plant; lead pipe and tinware manufactories; mineral paints; a large plant manufacturing wire, hair and wool mattresses; a paper mill; canning and pickle factories; paper boxes and paper bags. Doe of the largest industries just developed is the salt industry, receiving its inexhaustible supply from the Great Halt Lake. The product is now shipped in car and train loads all over the United States.

The Lehi Sugar Works deserve more than a passing men- tion. The works have a capacity for crushing :f.n tons of beeta per day, and produced in one run, over a million pounds of •IBM

Two soda and mineral water plants; a large show-case and

cornice factory; two soap factories, producing both common and toilet soaps; a weaving establishment, producing table- cloths, towels, etc.; three tent and awning factories; three trunk factories; a wash-board manufacturing establishment. which produced 1.000 dozen in 18111; two vinegar plants; a manufactory of yeast powder and washing soda. The I leseret and Provo Woolen Mills produce a very superior grade of blankets, flannels, dress goods, cassimeres ami knit goods. The product of these two mills aggregates $250,000 annually. The goods are shipped all over the United States, and have an established reputation for superior quality and honesty of make. Various other industries have been started in other parts of the Territory, of which the writer has no record.

The general depression of the money market during the past year, left its impression upon the city and Territory; as it occurred at a time when large sums of money were being required for building and manufacturing purposes. With all these drawbacks, very few failures have occurred, and real rst.'ite maintained its valuation in spite of the depression.

With the beginning of this year, this city is entering upon a new era of prosperity of which the signs are apparent in many different directions. The discovery of natural gas within a few miles of this city, and possibly right in the very heart of it. suggests thoughts of almost illimitable scope. With such resources at onr very doors, what can prevent making this city the largest commercial and industrial center in the Wet-tV Surrounded by smelting and manufacturing plants, giving employment to many thousands of people, new outlets will be found for commerce in a northward and southward direction for a distance of many hundreds of miles.

It must be conceded that what political agitation and strife was not able to accomplish, was achieved by peaceful and progressive measures. The barriers, which, for many years. divided the people, are disappearing. Rapidly the people of Utah are recognizing the fact that if they wish to enjoy happi- ness, pence and prosperity, they must fall in line with the bal- ance of the sixty-five millions of people who make up this great and glorious nation. When this is accomplished, it will again have been demonstrated that commerce is the strongest revolu- tionary power, that it accomplishes by peaceful conquest and by peaceful means, what neither the dungeon, the fagot ,.r the sword is able to achieve.

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I In- accompanying p.i'^i ^ .in- devoted to l>rirf, but reliable and complete ( -MI far .1-. tin ^.iiuc lias IK-CD ), sketches of tlic industries and agenda tc. \\hich tin- prosperity, shown t<> -.lay aCTOH tin-

femtoiy of Utah, and the progresdve cities within her jurisdiction is in measure ,ilu 1 h< tacts

nnd figures cited li.iv I,, , -n obtained from sources presumably correit. .m<l neither desire nor diligciu e h.is been spared to make them acceptable to those for whose information they ha\e been nnl I.M \\h-is, •

indulgence and liberality the publisher of'feis Ins ^ratelul acknowledgments.

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Hauna, Hunger & Co. of Kansas City, Mo., have a reputation of long standing all over this western country, but not until recently have they given Utah special attention. Their repre- sentative S.V. Shelp came out here November,1890,and soon after opened offices and sample rooms in the Constitution building. They have since been enjoying a largely increased business. Mr. Shelp continues to study the wants and pleasure of the

HENRY DINWOODEY FURNITURE COMPANY.

The commercial history of Salt Lake City discloses no bus- iness house which can advance so many claims to public favor and notice as that of the Henry Dinwoodey Furniture Company, located 37, 39, 41 and 43 W. First South Street, occupying as it does to-day, the most con- spicuous position among the best and strongest establish- ments in every branch of trade in the city, not only on account of the magnitude of ita business and the far- reaching influence of its tran- sactions, but for its honor- able record throughout thirty-four years of the city's history.

The founder of this mam- moth establishment is Mr. Henry Dinwoodey, who began business on a very small scale in 1857, prob- ably never hoping to re- alize the extent of the op- erations that now character- ize the firm. In the early history of his business career Mr. Dinwoodey made his own chairs, hauling the tim- ber from the mountains for the purpose. His trade was then, of course, confined to Salt Lake, but it now ex- tends throughout Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyo- ming, with an annual busi- ness of half a million. The average amount of stock car- ried is $200,000, and embraces some of the most elegant and costly goods ever seen in Eastern emporiums of like character.

The building and grounds occupy a space 62x115 feet, six stories in height, with a warehouse 40xlOU in the rear, three stories high. Hands to the numb er of seventy-five are constantly employed in the establishment, and the pay-roll is one of the largest in the city. The firm has re- cently been incorporated un- der the laws of the Territory, with Henry Diuwoodey, President; J. A. Jennings, Vice-President; H. M. Din- woodey, Manager, and Wm. R. Wallace, Secretary and Treasurer. The members of this firm are old residents of Utah, some of them haying resided here for over thirty- five years, and are among the most respected and sub- stantial citizens and busi- ness men of the entire Terri- tory. The phenomenal suc- cess of the firm is certainly an indication of what pluck and perseverance, backed by integrity and honor, can ac- complish in this modern age.

HENRY DINWOODEY FURNITURE [.COMPANY. BUBNHAM, HANNA, HUNGER & COMPANY.

One by one the large eastern establishments are realizing that Salt Lake City is rapidly becoming a most important cen- ter for commercial operations. In view of this fact, and (he unquestionable future of Utah and her surroundings, many of them have opened branch offices in her limits. Burnham,

trade. In addition to the extensive line of dry goods and notions carried by Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co., they show a very complete line of furnishing goods, shirts, pants,overall6, etc., of their own manufacture. Tnis department has received special attention, and is deserving a well earned reputation, its business operations being especially large, extending_to West- ern Colorado and far north as Montana.

THE VALLEY-TAN LABORATORY.

The history of proprietary or patent medicines, as they are termed, discloses a wonderful number of different brands throughout the world. Many of these preparations possess valuable medical qualities, while other*, arc worthless, if not pos- itively detrimental. A good patent medicine or family rem- edy, however, is deserving of mention, and the editors of this work fe«-l inclined, from the well-known merit and excel- lence of its preparations, to give

the Valley Tan or V. T. R. Lalioratory of Mr. ( '. K. Johnson,

located at ">4 and .">•> S. Went Temple, an extended notice in

theee paves. This enterprising manufactory is essentially a

home institution in every sense of the word. It deals in and

manufactures bome-rnade medicines for family use. taking

advantage of the many valuable remedies growing at our

very doors, and combining them all with the good rem-

edies of the known world, to pro-

duce an effective and useful whole.

The composition of the various .remedies was chietly the result of

the life-long labors of Mr. Joseph

K. Johnson, the father of the pre-

ent proprietor. The Laboratory

was put in operation some six

years ago. l>y ('. K. Johnson, ami

its success has been a phenomena!

one in the history of enterprises of

this clnss.

The preparations of the La I >ora-

tnry are designated as "Valley-Tan

Remedies." and the "V. T. K."

trade mark which appear- at Die

head of this article IN very familiar

throughout the west. An analysis

of the V.T. H. trade mark appearsat

the bottom of this article, and will

be found well worth a perusal, from

the fact that it IB unique and shows !• nceof much thought nnd care

for detail, which in a marked fea-

ture in all Mr. Johnson's affaire.

The principal preparation* of the

Laboratory at the pr.-sent writing

are:

JobMon'a Oil of Science. V T.

K I oiigli < ordiil. Jofaovoo'l <iin-

L—r. Kol-Kura V T. I!.

,.er S\riip, V T. K. Kye 8

( ..mpoun.l ll.meset |']||H.'\ . T I.1

Liniiiipnt. Johnson's Kssenoe »f

Life, Johnson's Pea-

Corn '

Tunic, \ 'I'. 1:. Worii nria. (JoHNHON), Jobnuo-D'i

Wm« i if Wormwood. Johnson's Juniper Tonic. Johnson's 1'ills.

V. T. I: Lun,: Troches and other articles such as Elixirs, *. Tinctures. .

The excellence of these medicines are amply eiompliti- the iiiiineriitu Uwtimonialn that Mr Johneon has received and nh*i by the gold medal*, diploiiiH*, etc., awarded him at the

ili.rnil Fairs.

Joaeph }•'.. Johnson. the di- •] inventor of these

vultintile remedied, wan born i -k State in ]H17. \t

• very early age he manifested a di-.p... iti,,,i t<, f.illow th>- and l>eg»n to study the nature of rei mid theory of disease* as well as he could in so early I ''nllciwing thin up, he gathered herlis, roots and barks and c, ,m pounded them fur Deighbor* and friends, and waa among the flrnt to ir-tethe evil enWt of minernl poisons and endeavor to find vegetable xubntanreB po*iM>ming the benefits without the damage* attending them

II- wa« paaaionately fund of pi. ml* and (lower*, both for

I remedial qualities l!y hm discovery some ton

or twehe new varieties <if plants have been added to thel.

of the I rated Mat. M. four of which were named after him b>

-.merit Cntiiiiihl- .l,....| many

rmpwtii a remarkable roan. Ho was of a niving di~|xn«ition

I. ut nlway* ha<l an object in . • deeert

bloMom M the roae." Me sought always to develop new terri-

tory, and was ever among the advance guard of the Daniel Koone type of pioneers, who set their faces toward the lam) of the Betting Bun. Whenever a railroad caught up with him he pulled np stakes and moved forward.

In 1H48 he emigrated to Nebraska, where he established large supply stores for furnishing and outfitting the overland emigrants to California. He also embarked on the sea of jour- nalism and was editor and proprietor ,,f the first paper printed on Nebraska soil. Heedited and published the Oni'ilm Amur.

Ill it fix l!in/li,\! ' I 'il;t Oriirli-. the 11".

Hinjli and the Uuntmtan'i AVAo. He was also postmaster at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for -everal years and assisted largely in the development of that State as well as Nebraska, lie made a visit to this territory in lH."il and was very much impressed with the future prospects of Utah, and returned home with the intention of moving tint as soon a.s circumstances would per- mit. Me returned in isill and established a home at Spring Lake Villa when Utah was still "Deseret" ami published the

'rucle. He moved on vard to St. George in where he remained until 1H82. He here published th«

, Tim' x and Ct»l< I'uiiiiilui/ixt, during all of which time he commmded the confidence and respect of all. lu IKS-J. in company with other members of bis family, he removed to Temple, Arizona, at which place he died the same year. Before his death he gave to his sou. Mr. ( '. E. Johnson, who had been his con- stant companion and co-laborer all bis life until within a few months of his death, all his recipes, formu- las, etc.. with the desire that they should be manufactured and placed upon the market in proper shape. With t he establishment of the V. T. K. Laboratory. Mr. C. K. Johnson infused uew life, and inaugurated many changes in the method of pre- paring the medicines by which more elegant preparations reunited. The labels, wrappers, circulars, etc.. were all made in uew and neat designs, the printing being done in Mr. Johnson's own V.T. K. printing oth'ce wheretwo presses are kept busy all the time, the otlice being uder the more immedi- ate oare of Mr. (!. W. Johnson, a brother tit the. proprietor. New moulds for the special V. T. I;, bottles were made, new engravings, e c..wereohtained,and a uniformity never before alt. lined in the history of the remedies is the result.

There is one thing which Mr. Johnson desires especially to in- form the public, and that is the fact that the Valley-Tan Remedies are not intended to take the place of a physician, but rather as an aid to him. For inst.-ince. take lh.> V. T. K. Cough Cor- dial. If there is any need of a preparation to ea«e a rough in connection with nui/ disease, instead of writing a preset i p. lion for a s|iecial mixture, tin- cough cordial is already pre pared, is always the same, and. being sold at all stores, is easily obtained It 0*11 I. e In ken at the same time with other medicines .-.nd does not interfere with its action. All the V. T. K. prepar- arethe same. They will never do any harm under any circiimstanoea. .It is a sad fm-t that human nature is BO suspicious of any thing produced at home, and mm y people are -11 not give home piodticcd articles a

Irixl. For this reaium many pet- n s have hesitated to test the virluewof the Valley Tan- • . w ho have

tried them have been So pica-cd «ith the result that they them always at hand thereafter. Should any of the H of this book who lime not already done BO. feel like trying any of the remtxlies, Mr. Johns. m will lie pleased to fur- nish them free samples for the pur|M*e To use Mr. Johnson's

own words: "If I can only get | p!e to try them, or even to look

ut them, they will bi< pMMM I «m sure, and feel like eticour aging a home enterp: -\ aie put up in an good style

and a- m-ciasiiof imported artioMa,

are mu- 1. heller adapted ' -f the various disease* aa

•u the mountain regions Ihan those lirnnght from •urn.

iluatedin a large building HIM-"

where a numU'rof |»>nion« are I putting up the reme-

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ilies, the preparing of the same being done by Mr. Johnson only.

Mr. Charles E. Johnson, better known as "Charlie" Johnson, the proprietor of this interesting and valuable home industry, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but has resided in Utah prac- tically all his life. "My dear little mother walked across the plains — from Omaha to Utah" — says Mr. Johnson, "and I often contrast her dreary and perilous journey with the journeys over the same ground to-day, especially when I hear some lady friend remark "we had a dreadfully tiresome journey (via 1'iilliuan palace sleeper)." He is thoroughly identified with Utah in all its interests in a practical manner, and is a man of business abilities, is enterprising and liberal in all business mutters, and is destined to rank among the most proiuiuent commercial aud manufacturing men of the country. In the establishment and operation of this industry he has con- tributed materially to the commercial and manufacturing prosperity of tbe city, as his industry is especially a home one. The value of such a plant to the city cannot be computed in dollars and cents.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the Salt Lake Chamber of Com merce, is an equal partner with Mr. P." P. Piatt, Jr., in the successful firm of druggists known at- Johnson, Pratt & Co.. who have the largest wholesale mid retail drug house m Salt Lake City, and also ;> partner with Mr. Hy rum Saiusbury in the leiuliug photo- graphic firm of "S. A J. "(S a i u 8 b u r y i Johnson). Socially he is recognized as a kindly spoken and cultured gentleman. He is very fond of music and a patron of ill I legitimate amusements, and is very popular in con- sequence therof. In all the walks of life he is the same genial gentleman, with always a emiug to- words "the under dog in the tight." With these charac- teristics there is no reason to doubt that Mr. Johnson will, in the near future, be numbered among the most honored and successful business men of tbe land. "There are seven Johnson boys," says Mr. Johnson— "rang- ing fmm my own age downward, so that

there are strong chances that the Valley-Tan Remedies will for many years be manufactured by tin1 Johnsons, _

arise again in brighter glory. Light and heat are LIFE; Darkness and cold— DEATH! The seed dies in the cold soil unless the sprout soon reaches the warmth and light of THE SUN! Every thought of it is sublime!

THE OAK WREATH is an emblem of long life. The Oak tree is looked upon as attaining the greatest age of any- thing we speak of as being alive.

THE LAUREL WREATH an emblem of victory. Man ob- tains a victory inexpressible when he has learned to "speak no ill, but lenient be to other's failings as his own." Are you, reader, in possession of this wreath of laurel?

THE SHIELD — an emblem of protection; its application as boundless as time and space.

THE RIBBON OF LOVE which binds firmer than chains of steel. Dynasties are swayed by it.

THE MOTTO— VIRTUS SEMPER VIRDIS "Virtue is ever-bright, or ever-green."

THE SOUND SYMBOLS, V. T. R. are the initials of, the

ANALYSIS OF THE "VALLEY-TAN" TBADK MARK.

'I'M K ( 1 1 ;( !LK— when complete, represents the unending circle of time— without beginning or end. Tbe circle is a symbol of beauty. It is a symbol of The Earth, and of everything above, below, around, about or upon it.

lin I!K()KK\ CIRCLE typifies the mortal existence. Man cometh up in the morning and goeth down in the evening of life. Whence and where, who shall truly tell ?

Tin. Sl'X is the giver of all life. It is emblematic of every other thing that mankind comprehends. Its glory typifies the Glory of Him we call God. Its daily appearance and disappearance illustrates the brevity of human life; and

8PENCKU, CLAWSON & COMPANY, WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.

words VALLEY-TAN REMEDIES. Combinations of the sub- lime and ridiculous are made from them iu almost endless numbers.

THE TRADE MARK in its entirety makes a neat and tasty design by which our friends may instantly recognize the preparations emanating from the "VALLEY-TAN" or "V. T. li." Laboratory. We shall never permit a poor article to go out, bearing the V. T. R. Trade mark.

SPENCER, CLAWSON & COMPANY.

Salt Lake City naturally being a great distributing point for a larger and vast section of this western country, it is no wonder that she stands justly celebrated for the magnitude and

disappearance illustrates me urevuy m miujtiu m<r, ouu — •- — r, " . • « • u i . .... i

what more beautiful comparison than the one which leads extent of her trade, and the enterprise of her merchants and to the thought that we die and lay our bodies down to bnsitess men. In every branch of trade the city can boast of

representative business houses which will compare favorably with other cities having a mnch larger population. With reference to commercial affairs, however, it is the wholesale dry goods business which mnst always occupy the most promi- nent position as promoting moat materially the mercantile importance of a community, ami in our endeavor to make on these pagee some lasting and historical record of those firms and commerical enterprises, which have mainly contributed to the importance and standing that Salt Lake City now holds in the mercantile world, we find none more worthy of special consider.. in. n. than that which beads this article. This enter- prise was established over bine years ago by Spencer Clawaon, and has had a remarkabl) inccessful trade since its inception. The house carries a $.>0,000 stock of dry goods, the magnitude. and excellence of which would be difficult to rival in any store in the country. The enterprise is located in a large and com- modious four-story building 75x100 feet in dimensions, admira- bly arranged for tte rapid transaction of its immense businee*. The tirht Moor is devoted to staple goods, while fancy articles occupy the other three floors. Ten assis- tants are employed in the industry, and several traveling representa- tives, are constantly on the road, Tho trade of the firm covers the Ter- ritoryof Utah and Soiitlie'rn Idaho ami its annual sales foot up the handsome sum of £4)0,- <m The stock is the ii.o-t complete in all its linen that could be imagined, and tii.' varied assortment from which to select, leaves nodoiiM of . the ability of the bouse to suit ami ac- commodate the trade generally.

The members of the tinu. Spencer Claweon and Orson Rogers, are among the best and most widely known men of theTeiritory. They "are native* to the manor lx>rn " ami grew up with the country without having to emigrate, in order to follow Horin-e • •!>•« Hihice literally

M (' I a wso n, the f.. under of this mum moth enterprise, IK-CU- pi**> a pontii-n in the commercial and finan- cial circles of Suit Lake, that reHects high honor ii|ion hi* abilities and in tegrity lie in a director in the State Itank of l't»h. treasurer of the Bngham Young Trust Company, the combined capital of which 1,1,,, .'int. to i. UK million dollars, mid n director ,,f the Chamber nmerc*. Aim director in the I'tah Sugar Co., a new and important concern in this Territory. In addition to these important trm<tn he is largely interested and prominently iden- Aith many other industries that have a particular effect nnd U-iiring upon the growth and pr.t-p.-nty of his native city

Socially he enjoy* the esteem and eoiitldenre nf tl ntir.-

mity. In all Salt I^ake there IH probably no man more

nnuerrally res|*cted and nmre highly regarded limn S|»-i r

ClawsoD. At the last regular ninnii-ipal election Mr. Clnwuon wa* elecUd a member of the board of public work*.

Mr. lingers in iilwi a gentleman of prominence in both the • MS unit sorisl spheres of life, and baa a reputation for in- tegrity and honor that hus never been tarnubed by any act "f hin. All in all, tbe firm is essentially • strong one. from tl

have or could occupy more prominent positions or have aided more to elevate and extend the trade and reputation of the city of Zion than Spencer Clawson and Orson Rogers.

. I i; ,

that lU members po*MM a thorough knowledge of their busi

i and are therefore able to tnoMMfallv meet ami all compMition from whatever nmro*. A*

PHIL NEDER & GEO. M. CLELAND.

This valuable and well equipped establishment plays a prom- inent part among the industrial forces of the city. The con- cern wasorigmally established four years ago by Mr. Phil Neder. The present firm succeeded to the business in tbe beginning of tbe last year. The firm occupy a convenient and commodious two-story structure 88x1(10 feet dimensions in which are em- ployed twenty-five men engaged in the manufacture of wagon*. carriages and other vehicles. The firm also build all kinds

of vehicles to order and do a general blacksmith- ing, trimming and paint- ing business at 158 \V. First SonthSt.TheN. A (.'. carriage and wagon works have a lart,re capital invested in tin ir business and enjoy an increasing annual trade, their custom being de- rived principally from Utah. Mr. Phil Neder is a practical mechanic in the line of iron work and devotes most of his attention to this branch of tbe business. Mr. Geo. M. Cleland is one of the finest carriage builders iu the land and personally superin- tends all work in that line. He is a native of New England while Mr. Neder bails from Ohio. Tbe latter has been a resident of Salt Lake for twenty-one years, and is one of tbe beat known business men in the city. The manu- facturing facilities of the firm are complete, em- bracing all tbe latest improvements applica- ble to tbe business, and every convenience that can be brought to bear to facilitate or improve productions. Skilful ami experienced artisan* only, are employed and the work turned out at this establishment com- mands a wide preference in trade, on account of it* excellent character snd reasonable priced. All orders are tilled with promptness, and despatch and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. Tbe enterprise M one of considerable magnitude and exercises a moat potent influence for good upon the general welfare and prosperity of the community. The proprietors are gentlemen of high reputation. Mr. Cleland was for many yean connected with tbe Rrewster Carriage Company who are manufacturer* and builders of the finest carriage* in the w.,rld. and was with this film when it received the gold medal at tbe Paris Kxpocition for the U Ht diwplny of gocds. He w** also with Minks * Johnson for home tune, who are known a* the largest carriai:>' ImilderH in (he New Kiiglaml States, and are successor* to \\'O.H|H Uros. who ranked among the greatest manufacturer* in the country. With In- practical knowledge and skill in the carriage- making line it may U- predicted » itn n degree of oertaiiuty that the I'nion Carnage and Wagon Works will continue to grow and in tbe near future, be one of the Urgent nnd most mi corns fill institutions of tbe kind in tbe •

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ZION'S CO-OPERATIVE MERCANTILE INSTITUTION.

Standing prominently at the head of the great commercial houses of Salt Lake, is the Extensive and Veteran Establish- ment that forms the heading of this sketch. This great insti- tution has claims upon the attention of the reviewer of the business interests of Salt Lake that are paramount to all others by reason of its magnitude and the influence it has had and still has in developing the rescources of Utah and advancing the commercial interests of Salt Lake. The high character earned by twenty years of honorable business enterprise, the great resources and facilities accumulated and acquired during that time, the experience of the wants of the trade, gained by a long observation of its requirements, and the energy, business ability and liberality, that characterize all oper- ations of the house, command for it the most conspicuous and honored position among all the mercantile institutions of Utah. This great es- tablishment was founded on the plane of broad, liberal ideas with the view of bringing the cost of the necessities of life down to a basis of reasonable prices. There is an old maxim com- monly current in trade of " Live and Let Live." This corporation, how- ever, thought that they could improve upon this old saying and adopted the motto of " Live and Help to Live," and that the same has been a decided improvement thousands of the people of Utah testify to-day in broad and uumistaken terms. The institution to-day stands head and shoulders above every other line of business in the territory in magnitude and popu- larity. The organization was origin- ally effected with a capital stock of 1500,000, the stock-holders comprising the most influential men of Salt Lake. The city was then nothing but a village but the wants of its people were many and the supply was limited. Money was scarce and articles of necessity were dear. These public spirited men realized that something had to be done to relieve the pressure upon the people. They banded themselves and their capital together and paid half-a- million dollars in cash to establish the enterprise and buy goods. By this means the necessities were pur- chased at a lower figure than could be obtained on the credit system, and the consumer received the benefit of low prices. I'rior to the establishment of this enterprise, the pioneers of '47 had blazed the way to civilization and progress to a large extent by the open- ing of stores and mercantile houses, some of which are institutions of con- siderable magnitude, and amply able to supply the people with all necessary goods in time of fair crops and al- though there was at no time in the history of the settlement of Salt Lake, any immexliate danger of a famine, the country was sparsely settled. Cultivation of the soil was limited, transportation facilities were of a primitive nature, and the vast house served to allay any arisen in the minds of the pople ity of the necessities of life and

establishment in Salt Lake the company has reached out the powerful arms and located branches at Ogden, Provo, Logan Utah and Idaho Falls, Id., all of whom transact an enormous bus- iness annually. The institution is located in a large and magnifi- cent iron front, 3-story and basement building, 100x318 feet, and containing in all 12,000 square feet. The factory is a four-story and basement structure 50x165, and provided with four boilers of eighty-horse power each, and two engines of 100-horse power. The factory has a capacity of 500 pair of boots and shoes, and fifty dozen overalls daily. The drug department is separate from the main establishment and is 30x120 feet in dimensions, and filled with the largest and best selected stock to be found anywhere in the country. An elevator of the most modern construction, which costs $5,000, runs the main establishment

/ION'S CO-OPERATIVE MERCANTILE INSTITUTION.

establishment of this fears that may have regarding the scare- infused new vigor

ItV %JL I in- JJ^UOOOIUIWSJ "* ».»~ .— a»J»MW~ — J 1

and life into the hearts of all by plaacing Salt Lake and her population beyond the possibilities of want. The progress ( this institutionhas been remarkable. Inch by inch, and step by step, it has ascended the ladder of commercial fame until now with a stock of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and with annual sales of over four million dollars, its stockholders can look down from the high pedestals of mercan- tile Superiority upon the grand and beautiful work which their great enterprise has accomplished. In addition to the 1

huge

and runs to all departments except the drug store, thus facili- tating the transaction of business, and providing for the com- fort of patrons. The establishment supplies nearly, if not all the necessities of life, and a majority of the luxuries also, and is the most complete in all its details and arrangements that could be conceived. Every department is perfect in itself and presided over by competent chiefs with an able corps of assis- tants. In this vast institution is employed three hundred men and women, and the pay-roll amounts annually to nearly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The (twenty-second) an- nual statement of April 1, 1891, set forth by this corporation shows the resources of the earne to be $2.311.940.78, with total cash receipts for the year of $4,688,E93.E9. Adividtndof

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three per cent, is [declared quarterly and paid.'to tbe^stock- holders.

The officers of the corporation are: Wilford Woodruff, President; Motes Thatcher, Vice- President; T. O. Webber, Secretary, and A. W. Carlson, Treasurer, all of whom are among the most prominent and best known men in the Terri- tory. The Board of Directors consists of such n.tluential men as Oeo. Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith. II. .1. Grand, John Sharp, Oeo. Romney, J. It. Winder, H. Pinwoodey, P. T. Farnsworth, .1 K. Barnes, W. H. Rowe, and John II. Smith. Several of these gentlemen have held the highest positions within the gift of the people of the city, and one of them has represented for many years the people of Utah in the halls of the National

The General Superintendent of this vast business, Mr. T. O. Webber, is a quiet, unassuming gentleman, calm and placid amid all tie bnstle and excitement incident to the daily trans- action of such an enormous business, is polite alike to patrons and his subordinates, and possesses all the characteristics that distinguish a real gentle- man from the ordinary class of men. That he is a man of marked abil- ity in the commercial and financial community is plainly attested by the successful management of this immense corpor- ation. Mr. Webber is also prominently identified with a number of other substantial institutions in the city, being a director of the /ion Savings Hank and Trust Company, Home Life, and Home l-'ire Insurance Com- panies, and President of the Benefit Building Society. In the manage- ment of the business Mr. Webber is ably assisted by Mr. W. H. Howe, who is a man of great com- mercial ability, promi- nently and well-known all over the Territory, and ia a director in the State Hank, and ISeuelit lluild- ing Society.

Taken in its entirety the /. C. M . I- presents a combination of capital and stock, and a galaxy of such prominent officers and directors, as to place it upon the highest ped- estal of commercial fame, entitling it to rank among the highest and wealt h 11*1 organizations that exist ii [H>n the broad face of the Globe. Its Stockholders are to be found all through ('tali, Nevada, and other Western States and Territories. Some are also to be found in New York ami the New England States, and its fame as a great institution baa gone abroad in all ths land.

. H. & J.

I IHiMXS i. \\t l:Hr II - ; • /. ( . M.I.

B. M . JONES.

Among the practical inventions of the age — and second in importance • «rs— are those known a« Kleclric Light-

ing, the Klerlnc Railway and Klwtrio Tranmniision of Power. These stand side by side among scientific improvements and discoveries with the Electric Telegraph, the Klectric Tele- phone, the Osnerating and Application of Steam and other great trophies which genius has wrested from nature's store*

bowk

Without going into detail* as to the peculiarities of these to every branch of human industry will mark Jones I- useful systems, the editor of this work beg* leave to submit. Supply Hour* as on* snotigtbe leading commercial enterprises

Jones, to whom Salt Lake City is largely indebted for her local passenger traffic over the systems of electric railways through the various streets of the city, aggregating more than sixty miles.

1 Mr. Jones is the leading contractor for the construction of electric street railways, electric light and power plants, com- plete in all departments.

To him is due the credit for the excellent workings of the Central Edison Station lit Laramie, Wyoming ; also at Evim- ston, Wyoming; at -Park City, Utah; tin- Kdison Light at Salt Lake City; the Isolated Edit-on Station in the Union Depot at Ogden, and other small installations, together with the Electric Railway at But te City, Montana, and a portion of the Klectric Railway at Helena, Montana.

All of the above electrical installations, including the roads

of both Salt Lake Street Railway Companies, have been done

under R. M. Jones' personal directions, and under contracts

from the several local companies directly with him.

Mr. Jones has been in Salt Lake only about two years, but

is a thoroughly west- ern man, and ia re- cognized as a practical mechanic of su perior abi 1- ity, the successful work- ing of all the fore-meu- 1 plants furnishing BullK'ient evidence of the

(Statement.

His field of operations covers a large territory and is constantly extend- ing. In addition to his business as contractor for construction — and as a necessary adjunct there to — he has installed him- self in the massive Hooper Block,. 25 East First Smith street, where, in a room 30x100 feet, with basement, he is carrying the most completedisplsy of electrical supplies west of Chicago, and is fully prepared to meet all de- mands upon him at rut, • more favorable than can be had elsewhere. His stock of motors ami gen- erators, from twent> -live down to quarter horse power ia ample for all current demands; and his stock of bare copper and insulated wire of all sizes iiinl kinds required in railway and electric light c:inst diction and repairs i wires of

high iiiFiilation for hoiise- wiring purposes. His dis- play of electroliers and combination fixtures, also the finest glass- waref or lixt lire trimmings ie of the best, and in complete variety. He also carries in Mock a complete line of bouse

supplies and electrical test instruments of the highest grade

manufactured.

He has in the last few months obtained U. S. patents • .'s' InMilating Crossing, Junes' Trolley Line nml Feed Wire, Circuit Breaker, and Jones' Trolley, all of which inven- tions were necesritim fiiggtsted in the sucreuful prorrrutit n of his work, no like appliances liavii g been furmrheil l.y other inventors that fully met the requirements of the service.

success of the venture in a general electric lupply estab lishment of such pro) ortions in Salt Luke to m< el the demands of tlie wide range tributary to this gteat inter mountain, mid continent city, in already (insured.

Tbs evergrowing demand for applications of electric » to everv branch of human industry will mark Jones' Electric

tor the information of its readers, •

to Mr. R. M. of SaJt LakeC.u

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THE LONDON TAILORING COMPANY.

The special branches of commercial industry pursued by the dealers in merchant tailoring goods and kindred supplies are of such importance, and withal, are BO conducive and neces- sary to the industrial advancement of the community as to be deserving of special mention. Among the firms prominently engaged in this line of trade is the London Tailoring Company, located in elegant and commodious quarters at 53 West Second South Street. They occupy as a sales and show-room a space 18x60, and have five rooms as a work-shop, in which twenty-two skilled workmen are constantly employed. The company is an incorporated one with a capital of $15,000. The officers are: M. M. Allan, President and Treasurer; A. E. Bean, Vice-Pres- ident and Manager, and J. W. Heywood, Secretary. The bus- iness of the company has prospered to such a large extent that it will soon be necessary to increase the capital stock and em- ploy additional workmen. The company has a patronage all over Utah and Idaho, and the work turned out has a just and enviable reputation for excellence. They carry a fine line of domestic and imported goods, which they make up at very reasonable prices. Mr. M. M. Allan, President and Treasurer, is an ex- pert in the merchant tailoring business. He became one of the part- ners of this concern in August, 1891, and his ex- perience in the clothing business makes him a valuable acquisition to the company.

Mr. Allan was born in Texas, and removed in early life to Kentucky. From thence he went to Kansas City and conduc- ted a collection agency, known as the H. H. Craig Law A Collection Agency, of which he was manager and proprietor.

Under his able super- vision the business rapidly increased to such proportions that it was soon necessary to estab- lish branch offices in St. Joe, Omaha and Denver. Mr. Allan remained at the head of the above institu- tion for six years, when he became identified with larg£ wholesale clothing houses of Chicago, and was, for a longtime, their representative in various parts of the West. He came to Salt Lake City in the spring of 1891.

During Mr. Allan's sojourn in Kansas City he formed a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and pained a very popular place auiong them.

Mr. Bean, the manager and vice-president, is also a skilled man in his profession, and for many, years carried on a large establishment of his own in Kansas City. He is thoroughly practical and devotes his personal attention to all the details of the business.

The secretary, Mr. Heywood, is an active business man, of good address, intelligent, and easy in conversation, both of a business and social nature.

guests can live at a moderate expense is the St. Elmo, 271 to 279 Maine St. Cor. Third South. The house was founded in 1884, the present proprietors taking charge in 1889. It has had a remarkable run of success ever since its opening. The hotel is a three story brick structure 100x75 feet in dimension. All their rooms are large and well ventilated and iupplied with all the modern conveniences for comfort. The house has also one large parlor which was fitted up with a special adaption to the wants of guests. The hostelry is conducted on the European plan, a large restaurant being one of the important auxili- aries of the same, where the public can be supplied with choice edibles at reasonable rates. The proprietors of this establish- ment, Messrs. P. Elmendorff & Co. hail from Colorado and have been residents of Utah for two years. They are thoroughly practical men in all the duties that pertain to their avocation, and enjoy in consequence the full confidence and esteem of the traveling public. In all the public places of entertainment in Salt Lake, where generous accommodations are afforded the St. Elmo Hotel occupies a leading position and is justly

entitled to the partronage which is so liberally be- stowed upon it. The genial landlords are ever ready to welcome those lesiring to stop with them and always take great pleasure in supplying the wants of patrons.

Photo by 8. & 3.

WM. H. HOWE, Asst. Supt. Z. C. M. I.

ST. ELMO HOTEL.

The hotel business of any city is in a large measure depend- ent upon the traveling public for success and good hotel accom- modations are therefore in great demand in consequence. Among a number of good hotels in Salt Lake City at which

PURSELL'S LIVERY & BOARD- ING STABLES.

There is no class of business in which the people of a city take more pride than a first-class livery stable, where, when- ever their friends come to visit them, thev can find a suitable outfit that for style, safety and speed is not surpassed any- where. Such a place is the one under discussion, located at 39 W. Second South street, or telephone No. 39. It is in the busi- ness portion of the city, is well arranged and first- class in every respect. Horses, carriages, bug- gies, and saddle horses are ready day and night for the service of its pat- rons. The enterprise was inaugurated three years ago by Mr. J. N. Pursell, and has had a very liberal patronage since its incep- tion. He occupies a large and commodious build- ing 30x200 feet in dimen- sions, with a capacity of stabling one hundred head of horses. He keeps some of the finest drivers and saddle horses that ever cut dirt on the soil of Utah, and no better horses are to be found in any other livery establishment in the Territory. His buggies and carriages are of the best make and modern con- struction, and he has them in abundance. He makes a specialty of keeping fine drivers and saddle horses, while his turnouts are acknowledged to be equal to any in the city, and in many cases superior. Mr. Pursell is an lowan by birth, and in 1866 went to Montana where for two years he was engaged in min- ing and ranching with various success. Subsequently he re- moved to Utah and settled at Corrinne where he engaged in the livery business for several years. Afterwards he returned to his native state where he remained until 1888, when he came to Salt Lake and embarked in his present business, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Pursell is an industrious, enter- prising citizen. Those desiring good rigs should not fail to visit his stables, where they will meet with courteous attention and reasonable rates.

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G F. CULMER & BROS

The growth of any city depends in a large degree upon the character and extent of her business houses, and the quality and amount of energy and vitality of the men controlling the same. No city in the world ever rose to a position of commer- cial superiority that did not owe the credit of such position to the men within her limits. A broad and liberal use of the talent that God has so generously vouchsafed to man is the

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only way in which a city ran ever Attain to mercantile pros- perity and greatness. Narrow minded men never accomplished anything for the good of a country. A ten cent piece is so big with them that they cannot see a dollar behind it. It is the grand, noble i thought ful business mao, with a full sense of the powers within him and a trusting confidence in the future of the city of hid choice, that pushes her onward ami upward the ladder of fame and grandeur until the top round i« reached. Success is the guerdon for which all men toil, and although they often labor

on, comparatively in the dark, without one ray of light to illu- minate the semi-darkness of commercial poverty; yet to men who have the pluck and pertinacity to hold on, there will come ere long, the bright golden sunshine of prosperity and they will gather a harvest of shining dollars and better still, per- petuate a monnmeut of honorable enterprise and gratitude in t lie hearts of mankind. There are some grand enterprises in Salt Luke. Enterprises that reflect credit upon tli>' city, and that redound to the honor of the originators and projectors. There are bright intelligent business men within her territory that have, with a full faith in her future, not only invested their money in commercial pursuits, but iu addition, have erected costly and magnificent blocks which stand as a substantial guarantee of their confidence in the community which they have selected as a home. Such men as these, are the ones who Imilii up a city. They exemplify the old adage that "actions speak louder than words" to its fullest extent and are the most influential factors, in all combinations that go to make up a great city. The gentlemen composing the firm, which beads this article, are men that Salt Lake City nun well be proud of, and are types of the order that we have des- cribed above. Their business is one of the largest and most extensive of any character whatever in all the city. In addi- tion to being wholesale and retail dealers in paints, oils, var- nishes, window glass, and art glass, they are manufacturers of

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mirrors and show case*, and workers in art and stained glass. They carry a stock of ftJO.OOO and send goods to Malm. \V\»in- ing, Colorado, Montana and Nevada, their annual sales amount - ing to fliOO.OOO. They have a large three-story Imck factor} and store on Commercial avenue where sixteen skilled workmen are constantly employed in t urningont goods.the excellent i|iuili- tie* of which, lilLVelMM.n pul>licl\ ncknowled all over the wect- t-rii coiintr}. in a solid and nulwtantial manner. The} nunilwr of traveling men on the road, and the firm transm-tn the largest nnsincsH in its line of any other enterprise in t lie Territory. In addition to the alxne liiisines« the Culmer Hn*. are owners and prnpni'torsof the \Veotern ' * .rks.uliich

manufacture galvanized iron work of ••• . «T\ description. One special feature of thin manilfncture U-mg improved metallic sky-lights, which are taking the lead above all others in Salt Lake I 'it\. In this <!••; art input they employ twent} -fix* work- man and do the Urgent IHIMIU-M. of tins character in all the WMt They are mlso inter. *(.•.! in and are tlw practical o» IHTK of "The WamUih Asphaltiiin Comp»ny's" mines sitiiHtc.1 in

th«t Wamtrli .MoiintniiiH. the deposits of which are tli ih

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Western States and Territories, and are engaged at present in filling extensive contracts for paving the streets of Salt Lake City.

They are also the principal owners in the Wasatch Marble Quarries, which comprise a phenomenal deposit of excellent white marble, but which is at present top remote from trans- portation to be utilized, though it will in the near future be placed upon the market. They are also editors and proprietors of "The Journal of Commerce" a publication devoted to the mining, wholesale, financial and manufacturing interests of Utah. This paper is regularly mailed to the Boards of Trade and financial institutions throughout the United States, and has accomplished a wonderful powpr of good in showing the advantages possessed by this great Territory. The brothers are the owners of the handsome Calmer Block on 1st South

street which is recog- nized as an architectural beauty of the finest va- riety. It is a massive and elaborate structure five stories in height, and built of brick and stone. The elegant store room of this building is oc- cupied by the great dry goods house of K. K. Thomas, while the ninety-two offices above are occupied by lawyers, doctors, and real estate men. This building is fitted up with steam heaters of the most modern pattern, supplied with a safe and rapid passenger elevator, equipped with electric lights, and is in all re- spects a modern building. They also own the Culmer- Ken nett block a flue three-story structure on 1st South near Main street. This building is occupied by various lines of business and is a credit in its mode of construction and finish to the city, and a standing monument to the enterprise of its owners. Among the recent important and promising operations of the Culmer Bros, is the development and energetic working of the pure gum asphaltuni mines at 1'ariette in Eastern Utah, owned and controlled by tbe.Salt Lake Gilsonite Company, of which the Culmer Bros, are principal stockholders. The material as taken from these mines runs over 99 per cent, pure, being the purest hydro-carbon produced in the world. An analy- sis shows it to contain elements as follows:

Carbon 78.00

Hydrogen — - 11.00

Oxygen... 8.00

Nitrogen.. - 2.40

Ash.. — — .40

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The vein is several miles long, being a perpendicular fissure about two feet in width. The depth is unknown, but it cuts through a country rock of dull yellow sandstone of horizontal stratification. The article is variously known in science as intahite, gilsonite and grahamite. but it is in reality simply and absolutely pure asphaltum, jet black and brittle and wholly soluble in turpentine and benzine. The material is shipped from Price Station on Rio Grande Western to all points in the United States where it is a staple in demand for the manufac- ture of black japans and asphaltum varnishes.

The Mountain Stone Company of which G. F. Culmer is Pres- ident, and H. L. A. Culmer, Secretary and Treasurer, operates four quarries of sandstone, about thirty miles from Salt Lake mid on the line of the Utah Central Railway. The active management of this enterprise is in the hands of Mr. W. H. Jonnings. The stone is of pink and white formation and is admirably adapted for flagging purposes, a large quantity of which has already been put down on the streets of Salt Lake. The product of the White stone quarry resembles in a very- great degree that of the Fort Collins. Colorado stone, but is superior in many respects to the same. All the stone pro- duced from these quarries is dense in character even in frac- ture, and exceedingly strong and kind to the tool. The flagging of the future, in Salt Lake will no doubt be largely composed of this material as the merits of these quarries are coming into more favorable notice every day. The company employ from ninety to one hundred men in their various^ operations, and the output averages five cars per day. The Culmer

Bros, and M,r. W. H. Jennings are also operating a quarry of very fine soft steel gray sandstone at Kyune on the R. G. W. road which is said to be of excellent character by all who have examined it. They are also engaged in developing and opera- ting coal mines, and clay deposits, with good results. The brothers have spent a great deal of time and money in develop- ing the possibilites for the manufacture of Carbonate of Soda, from the sulphates of soda deposited in large quantities every winter on the shores of the great Salt Lake. The results of theseexperiments have proven the entire feasibility of the enter- prise, but the magnitude of the undertaking is such that it will require the investment of several hundred thousand dollars, and they are not yi-t prepared to devote their time and means to the development of this one of Utah's most important resources. The Ciilmer Bros, are gentlemen of unusual business ability, possessed of characteristics of unquestionable honor and liber- ality, which coupled with their well known enterprise have gained for them the respect of the community and confidence of the trade. Such establishments and such men give reputa- tion to a city, and add materially to her progress and pros- perity. Mr. Wm. H. Culmer is a native of England and came to the United States in 1867 and one year later landed in Salt Lake City, where he has ever since resided. Mr. Culmer served as an apprentice for five years in learning the carpenter and painters' trade and is a practical man in both lines. In 1878, he entered the service of G. F. Culmer & Co. wholesale grocers, as saleman, a position he held for six years, when he became a member of the present firm, taking the road in its interests, being the first traveling salesman that ever went out in the interests of a Salt Lake house.

In 1885 he became manager of the several industrial enter- prises in which the firm was interested, and is at present general manager of the paint, oil and window glass department and of the factory. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a director in the Wasatoh Asphalt Company. He is a man of recognized business abilities and a gentleman, highly esteemed and regarded in social circles.

Mr. H. L. A. Culmer was born near Canterbury, England, and came to America in 1867, and in 1868 arrived in Salt Lake, which he has ever since made his home. In 1872 he became connected with the wholesale grocery firm of Culmer & Com- pany, with whom be remained five years. This line of business not being suited to his taste he left it and engaged in the print- ing and publishing business, pursuing the same for five years. During this time be issued the first Directory and Gazetteer of Utah ever published, and which proved of great benefit to the entire Territory. He also edited and published the Utah Miner, a journal devoted to the mining interests of the Terri- tory, and subsequently started the Journal of Commerce, of which he is still the editor. In 1881 he was admitted into part- nership with the present firm, of which he has been one of its most active members ever since. Mr. Culmer is also an artist of some reputation, having several times taken the first prize at the Territorial Fair for best painting in oil of Utah scenery, and also first prize in water colors. He aleo has a fine reputa- tion as a descriptive writer, and is highly thought of in the social spheres of life. Mr. Culmer is now a director in the National Bank of the Republic.

Taken in all its entirety, individually and collectively, the firm is one of the strongest in the West, and has done as much, if not more than any other concern in all Salt Lake in advanc- ing her interests and in developing the resources of the Terri- tory, and is deserving of all the commendation we can give it.

Mr. G. P. Culmer,. the head member of the firm, is well known throughout Utah as an enterprising and go-a-head citi- zen as well as a sound and able business man. It is through his superior judgment and keen executive guidance that all the various interests and departures of the firm have been brought to a successful issue and established on a firm and profitable bssis. Mr. G. F. Cnlmer has been prominently identified with the commercial and industrial development of Utah for the past twenty-five years, and has aided very materially in the general work of advancement.

He is president of the Wasatch Asphaltum Company ; pres- ident of the Mountain Stone Company and director in the Salt Lake Foundry and Manufacturing Company; also director in the Salt Lake Soap Company. In all of these large and impor- tant companies he takes an active part, and his valuable service and counsel, in their proper direction and manipulation, is esteemed and appreciated by all co-officials.

Mr. Culmer also has a thorough knowledge of both .the prac- tical and scientific principles entering into the mechanical arts. He is an expert on steam power and appliances, and also elec- tricity, and his advice and suggestions are widely sought after and relied upon by the people of this community.

JENNINGS & CAINE.

Kire insurance is one of the industries carefully looked after in Salt Lake and vicinity. Competition has estab- lished favorable rates, and the leading companies of the Union and of Knglaud, as well, are repre- sented here. A large share of these have as agents, Jennings A Came, whose insurance of fire is a strong factor in local business affairs. The agency was established in 1890 by Isaac Jennings and Joseph E. Caine. The firm represents six corn-

California, with a capital of $600,000, assets of 81,284,679. A very large insurance business has been done in the few montlis in which the new agency has been in operation. Mr. Jen- nings is in the stock raising business and is also interested in mining. He has a herd of 4.0110 head. He is a director in the Mammoth Mining Co., of Tintic, and the Yampa at ]iiiii;hiim. He went into the cattle business at the age of fifteen years and has been in it for eighten years. His total shipments will IM about 6dO steers this year.

Mr. C'aine, though he does not pose as a capitalist, controls

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Mth ii pm,|ii|, capital of ftfjO.OOO and ameU ? WMtorn A«inn»ru-»». of I ..rout... with n |.i-i.l u|, eapitul of ('<i*i.- iNOand aaM>ta amounting to fl.Mni.nui; i),.. Anirm'an. of New- ark. V .1 . with mMi amta of WWfM and • rarplun of SI. «>4.HM and the •K.fna.f.f Iltirtford, n mpitalof «4»0,000 MMU to th« «xt«nt of $lf),4.'.7,4!>7. and a •urpliu of »H.ma,77f.,and the

mi. I nmniignfl a niimlmr of tho Inrgmt |>r<i|xTtieH in Kail Lake !!•• anil IIIH wife own it half interiHt in tin- Hooper Kiiilding anil in tin- 1 >y»r HuiMing. HII,| in addition to theM Mr. Crniiie luui tin. i-tirti- './.in. /,. nianaueiniMit i.f otln-r proper- tiMaggregHtint; over half a million dollar* in vain*. He in anon of II..., .l..|,n T. Caine, the present delegate to CongreM from I 'I,,!,.

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AMERICAN NATURAL GAS COMPANY.

In speaking of the early Mormon settlers, and speculating as to their reasons for selecting this particular spot out of the endless stretch of country then uninhabited and at their com- mand, it has often been remarked, that here, they found gathered together within one small radius, a combination of resources and latent wealth, embracing almost everything of value, contributory to the requirements and sustenance of man. That this supposition is well founded is conclusively authen- ticated by the fact that the Tenitory of Utah does contain almost every element of intrinsic worth that is universally sought after.

Recent discoveries and developments, however, establish the existence of certain natural resources, located contiguous to our largest centers of population that were never thought of, or even suggested to thote early pioneers. Tbeee new discov- eries consist in a natural production of such vast importance to our growth and welfare as to practically revolutionize the source of supply of an indispensable adjunct to the advance- ment of civilization, viz.: light and fuel; and this promised revolution comes to us in the form of natural gas. which exists at a reasonable depth in inexhaustible quanti- ties midway between Ogdeu and Salt Lake City. The tests, ex- periments and develop- ments are thus far most gratifying, and make the appropriation of the gas for practical use in both cities a feasible undertaking.

Kvidences of the existence of natural gas in the vicinity have been noticed for a long time, and it has even been used in a small way by near-by residents, but not until Prof. VVrn. Lay, a geological ex- pert from Oil City, Penn., visited this sec- tion and pronounced, after making careful observations, the lay of the country and the iudicatious to be almost identical with the famous oil and gas fields of Pennsylvania had any serious interest been taken.

Following this re- port, however, a com- pany was organized and incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Utali for the purpose of getting control of the iaad and makiugf urther investigations, and it was not long before the AMERICAN NATIONAL

correctness of Professor Lay's predictions was fully verified.

This company, under the title, American Natural Gas Com- pany, now owns and controls about 6,tOO seres of land situated north and west of Salt Lake City, about eight miles distant, extending to the shores of the Great Salt Lake, and including that portion of the Lake between the Antelope, Oquirrh, Farm- iogton and Wasatch Faults.

The geological structure is all that could be desired, and the surface indications show over twenty-five distinct flows of gas.

A well nearly 600 feet in depth has already been bored, from which there is a free flow of dry gas with a pressure of 150 pounds. This well has been sunk merely for the purpose of supplying sufficient fuel to operate the machinery used in boring another large ten-inch well, to go down 2,000 feet, or whatever distance is required in order to strike the Trenton

This new well will produce sufficient gas to supply both Salt Lake City and Ogdeu with cheap lisht and fuel for all purposes, and for many years to come. Besides the incalcu- lable benefit accruing to both cities consequent upon the introduction of light and fuel in such a cheap and convenient form a great stimulus will be given to the manufacturing in- dustry, offering unexcelled induct ments to those wishing to engage in the manufacturing busiresp, not only in the cities above named, but at any point along the pipe line conducting the gas to them. What, a boom this new and valuable agent for the supply of fuel in any quantity will be to the Territory of Utah, with her immense and varied stores of wealth, it seems impossible to estimate. She is uoted for the extent and rich- ness of her deposits of gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead, iron and other precious metals, to say nothing of the exhaustless quan- tity of sulphur, alum, borax, arsenic, titanium, alabaster, onyx and other valuable stones. The immense iron deposits alone demand a cheap fuel. Iron can here be delivered at the reduc- tion works for at least twenty per cent, less than in most sec- tions of the East, and an analysis shows it to be a superior

quality.

The American Nat- ural Gas Company itself, proposes erecting a large chemical works in the near future to supply cheap chemicals for the refining of bul- lion, and with the advent of this new in- stitution the refining of all the bullion in the in- termountain country is destened to take place in this vicinity, where cheap chemicals and fuel are to be had.

It will probably be a question of but a few months, judging from the vigorous and energetic manner in which the company is at present pushing oper- ations, before the citi- zens of Salt Lake City will know of the merits of natural gas as a fuel product by actual test and usage.

The company is com- posed of some of our wealthiest and most en- terprising men, aud no time or money will be spared in the prosecu- tion of the work. Mr. James F. Woodman, the President, is well-known as a man who never de- lays in the carrying out of his undertakings,and > is quick to invest capital when his superior jndg ment tells him that the project is a feasible one. Mr. Henry L. Driver is also a desira-

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nected with such an important and vital enterprise. He is known to the people of Salt Lake as one of our leading and prosperous business men. He is energetic and well-to-do, and has at heart the interests of what he believes will be the great- est lift the Territory has ever had, and devotes much of his personal attention to the work, watching its progress with keenest interest.

Mr. P. L. Schmidt, Superintendent and Manager, is a most valuable man to thia enterprise, having formerly had much experience in other gas-fields.

WATSON BROTHERS.

No place of any size is fully supplied with the necessities of civilization without such works as the above, and in the com- pilation of this work the editors would have been derelict in

their duty, bad they neglected or omitted to mention the same. To build np a great city re<|iiiree enterprises of every legiti- mate nature. Each and every one has a bearing in the shaping and building up of great interests. None of them is without inrlueuce ami prestige. ' >f the numerous enterprises in the west, engaged in business as the above, none has obtained a wider rangeof usefulness and higher reputation than the estab- lishment of the Watson Bros. The business was inaugurated nearly a quarter of a century ago. and step by step has climbed up the ladder of prosperity until Uje top round is almost in wight. The enterprise occupies three large yards where from fifty to eighty men are employed, while traveling representa- tives bring in large orders from I'tnu, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The firm are builders and contractors ; dealer* in tombstones, monuments, plaster, center pieces, and wholesale marble dealers, and make a specialty of marble, iron and slate mantels, marble, sandstone and tile hearths. A visit to the yards of this firm revealed a ecene of busy activity that is diffi- cult to describe. Scores of busy and skilled mechanics were applying the chisel, hammer and other tools in shaping the rough stone into beautiful and costly monuments to the memory of dear loved ones who had crossed the river Styx and are now waiting upon the other shore for those they left behind. Monuments large and small, monuments costly, and others at moderate cost, were seen in endless profusion. Many of them were finished and were fine specimens of the handiwork of man and a tribute to the skill and progress of the artist in this modern age of advancement. The manager of this enterprise, Mr. Joe. M. Watson, is a practical mechanic-, a thorough master of the art and avocation he follows, ami by many years experience has fully qualified himself for all th« duties and details of the business. The marble and stone work is under the management of Mr. S. M. Barrett, who is also a practical man and skilled mechanic. He personally superin- tends all the details of the work and has demonstrated bis effi- • •lency by the excellence of the work turned out. The archi- tectural department is under the direction of that young and rising artist, Mr. I;. Bowman, who is also in charge of the extensive stoueyards on the line of the Hio Grande Western Itailway. He is an energetic young gentleman, prompt and reliable in all his business transactions, and highly esteemed in social circles.

The firm of Watson Bros, has the confidence of the public to an unlimited extent and is deserving of the large patronage so generously accorded it.

THE BURTON-GARDNER COMPANY.

In H r-a reful review of each important branch of trade in the <-it> of Halt Lake,* none will lx« found to be of more importance than the lumber business. In a populous and growing section of tin- country snob as this city is, there are no branches of trade that command more attention, and patronage than that of the company which heads this article. The lumber industry offers to the pa blio such articles as are iudit-pensibl.-, an.! >ii consequence meets with a ready rmtronnge. The Burton (iardner Company WHS incorporated on Felmrirv I, Ixs7. with 11 capital Mock ,»f $21 H 1,0111) for the purpose of dealing in lumber and the manufacture of combination fence, SBH!I. doom. blimlH and nil kimlii of mill work. The officers are \V S liurton, President; W.C. Burton. Manager, and Oeo. K. IV.lt. Secretary. r«'tor> IxMird comprises W. S. Burton, I. <J ll»r.lv. ( ). II ll.,r,l>. I. \V Weil-r. IMiiu. Morrm. H . I >inwiN,dey nnd W.C.

I'.iirtnn Tl ompany does business through I'tah. Montana.

Idaho and Colorado, and transacts an annual business of $280,000. I >eH of this plant niimU-r sixty, and tlie

pay-roll is very large in consequence. The factorv and yards and main office are located on the corner of Kighth South im.l State Koid and are very commodious an. I convenient. Ti,.. plant covers two and one-half acres of ground, and the planing mill in a large structure of two stories, • portion of which is of frame JiixU) f«.j ,,, dimensions, while another part of the building in a brick structure 40xfiO feet in dimensions, thus making the largest Moor surface of any similar institution in UM Territory

The mill is supplied with all the modern machinery neoes- Mry for the rapid transaction of th>- immense business enjoyed by the company. The corporation in noted for the eioelient management with which it is conduct*. I. and has a refutation for honesty and integrity of purpose that is not excelled by any oilier similar institution of it* kind in the country The com- pany exercises a powerful inHuenoe for gixnl upon the ootnmu-

•i tin- matter of pitwperily and general welfare I erntory, and m an industry that in justly deserving of all the patronage that can be •ooordsd it.

HOTEL CULLEN.

Among the many fine hotels in Salt Lake which, by a career of popularity and generous patronage, have become part and parcel of the city itself, the "Cullen" is well worthy of an extended notice in the pages of this work. The present host, Mr.S. C. Kwing, opened the house to the public in Octolier. 1887, and by his uniform courtesy and attention to guests has made the "Cullen" a favorite with the traveling public. This popular hostelry is a magnificent five-story brick building. T.'ix'JiK) feet dimensions, and provided with all the modern appli- ances for safety and comfort. It has one hundred sleeping rooms with a capacity of one hundred and fifty guests, a dining room capable of seating one hundred and twenty-live people, and two large elegant parlors. Iuaddition.it has a splendid bar, bath and reading rooms, and in fact all the conveniences in keeping with the first-class character of the modern hotel. The entire building is heated by steam and lighted by electric- ity A forty-horse power engine furnishes the power for eleva- tor, beating and laundry purposes, and there is water on every floor. All of the rooms are in direct communication with the oflice by means of electric wires and buttons, thus insuring

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prompt attention to calls and rapid fulfillment thereof. The menu of the house is unsurpassed by any hotel west of the Missouri river and this side of the Pacific rout. The table is constantly supplied with all of the best substantial in the market, and all the delicacies and luxuries in their respective seasons. The culinary department is presided over by some of the best chefs in the country, while the dining room attendants are trained and practiced employes, who are very polite and attentive to the wants and comfort of guests. The hotel employs a force of forty-eight persons, all of whom, from clerk down to bell-boy, are courteous and obliging to all who are fortunate enough to be domiciled beneath its roof. The land- lord, Mr. Kwing, is an old experienced hotel man, having been in the business in Salt Lake'for eighteen years, and is known from Maine to California ax one of the most genial, pleasant and iiecomodating hosts in all the limd. Possessing a large experience he is thoroughly practical in his line, ami can always be found in perfect accord with the wants nn.l demands of the traveling public. Under his proprietorship the • Cullen" is recognized as a favorite stopping place by all who \isit Salt Lake, either on business or pleasure, as they are always made to feel at home within its walls. Taken in its entirety, th-re is no better place at which to put up in Salt Luke than the. "Cullen."

C. H. PARSONS' BOOK STORE.

In every community there are men whose iictmlj , enterprise and strong business talents bring them into prominence— men in whose hands a branch of business, is built up and manNged with such skill that it assume* a prominent position in the mercantile affairs of acity. Hnch a gentleman and such » bus - DM* M that of Mr. C. H. Parsons at I'.i S. Mam St. II.. estab Imbed bis present enterprise in Salt Lake in I1-*! an. I by pru.l ent management, ami a thorough and practical koOWMdfVof the business, the same has Iteen brought to its present large Hii.l growing proportions. Mr. Parsons occupies two Moors of

•»nt building where I arnes • stock of an average of

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and all articles usually found in a first .'Imw store of this char acter. lie also keeps on hand the latest standard periodicals and newspapers. He transacts both a wholesale ami retail trade and doe* an annual business of $<'i(l,l<Kl. He sells gixxls throughout Washington. Nevada, I'tah. Idaho. Wyoming. MOD-

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tana, Arizona and New Mexico and is gradually pushing his operations into other fields and pastures new. Mr. Parsons is & native of Iowa, but has been a resident of Utah for ten years and is thoroughly identified with the interests of the city he hi\8 chosen for his home and the pursuit of his business. He is an active business man of high standing in commercial circles and a gentleman of sterling worth. Promptness and reliability are leading characteristics and he is deserving of unlimited patronage.

Mr. Parsons has been very active in all work for the advance- ment of Utah, a worker in the liberal party from the first aud rejoices in the progress due to its efforts. He has been one of the It aders in church, Sunday school, Y. M. C. A. and Y. P. S. C. E. work. The success of the Y. M. C. A. is due to his efforts more than to any other one man. He was its secretary the first year and labored constantly for its upbuilding. He is the secretary of the Utah Y. P. S. C. E. Union, and of the Utah S. S. Association and the rapid advancement of these causes is also largely due to his untiring activity.

He is ever ready to assist by personal effort and financial aid, whatever tends to upbuild, uplift, and advance the best interests of the city and territory.

THE CONTINENTAL.

An important item of information for the visitor to Salt Lake City, whether he comes from adjoining parts of the country or Territory, or from a farther field, is where he can find comfortable accommodations during his sojourn in the city — where, in short, he will be made to feel most at home. Salt Lake City has no lack of first-class holsteries, where the visitor, tourist or business man can find comfortable accommodations, and among these are the Continental Hotel , which is first-class in all its arrange- ments and appoint- ments. It is cen- trally located, be- ing within one block of the post- office, and main business center of the city, one block from the Taber- nacle and Temple Square, and with electric lines pass- ing it in all direct- ions. This hotel has lately been re- fitted throughout by the present pro- prietor, Mr. M. H. lieardsley, who has taken great pains to ensure the highest degree of comfort for his guests. The hotel is a large brick structure, 75x200 feet in di- mensions, has 115 sleeping rooms and a capacity of 150 people. The dining room is large, airy and light, and seats 135 persons. A large and elegant parlor furnishes additional pleasure to patrons, and a fine bar and billiard room is attached to the house where the thirsty can regale themselves with choice li- quid refreshments, and where lovers of the scientific game of billiards can handle the cue and punch the ivory to their hearts' content. The house is lighted by gas and electricity. Water on every floor, and all the rooms provided with the most ap- proved modern electrical appliances conducive to convenience and comfort. The hotel has a force of forty-five employes who are trained hands in the business, and attentive to the patrons in all their various departments. The proprietor, Mr. M. H. Beardsley, is an old and popular hotel man, being formerly of the Palmer House at Green River, Utah. He is regarded by the traveling men who have been so fortunate as to partake of his hospitality, as one of the most genial, pleasant and accommo- dating landlords in the country. Under his able management, the Continental is receiving a large share of the public patron- age, and as long as he remains at the head of it, will continue to be a favorite hostelry with ' the visitor to Salt Lake City.

Another feature of the hotel is the admirable arrangement for families, of which a large number have taken up regular homes there. Special rates are made for this class of patrons, and that such rates are satisfactory, is evidenced from the num- ber who call the Continental their home.

WHITE & SONS COMPANY.

Among the representative commercial enterprises of Salt Lake, that of the well known firm of White & Sons Company occupy a position of deserved prominence, and is entitled by reason of its magnitude, and the great part it has played in the commercial progress of the city, no less than by its extensive operations, to a prominent position in this volume. Identified with the trade and commerce of the city for a period of fifteen years it has gained a commercial standing second to none.

The business was founded in 1876 by Wm. White and has had a successful trade ever since its inception. The enterprise was incorporated in 1889 with a capital stock of $ 100,000 with Wm. White, president; J. C. Heywood, secretary, and John H. White, general manager, who, together with' the following named gentlemen, Wm. L. White, David H. White, and Ben- jamin B. Heywood, make the board of directors. The company are wholesale butchers and cattle dealers and the enterprise is the largest of its character in the territory. To give the public an idea of the magnitude of the trade of this concern it is only necessary to state that they have 1250,000 invested in the same and nearly one hundred men on its pay roll. The com- pany owns its own ranches, one of which comprises 80,000 acres and raises its own cattle for the markets. Last year they slaughtered the enormous number of 10,000 head of cattle, 25,000 sheep, and 5,000 hogs, and the annual sales reached the princely sum of a million and a quarter dollars. They are also heavy shippers of live stock and annually send train loads of choice cattle and sheep to the Omaha and Chicago markets. Out on the range their interests are upwards of 10,000 cattle and 40,000 sheep, to take care of same a large number of men receive constant employment. The excellent quality of the meat furnished by this establishment is testified to by all of the local butchers and thousands of people of Salt Lake City and

Utah generally. The company in addition to the larger capital in- vested in its ranches and cattle are, heavy owners of realty in Salt Lake and have deeds on record calling for some of the finest busi- ness and residence property within her limits. The enter- prise taken in its entirely is one of the wealthiest cor- porations in Utah and the advantages that Salt Lake has

THE CONTINENTAL,

derived from this remarkable industry are many in character, wonderful in extentand powerful factors in the advancement of its growth, and the development of its resources. The officers and directors of the company are all prominent men in the com- mercial and social circles of Utah gentlemen of noted integrity, and liberal in all their transactions with the world. The manager, Mr. John H. White, a son of the founder of this great industry, is a young man, comparatively, in the prime of vigorous manhood and possesses commercial abilities of a very high order. Under his able management the concern is rapidly increasing its business, and the amount of the annual sale this year will be largely in excess of that of 1890. Mr. White haa a thorough practical knowledge of his pursuit, is a gentlemen of broad business views, liberal and charitable to a fault.

DAVIS, HOWE & CO.

This extensive and long established industry has made its mark on the progressive growth of the city to a greater extent, perhaps, than any other manufacturing establishment in Salt [jake. It was inaugurated in 1871 by Nathan Davis and sons, and succeeded two years after by the present company. Ever since the enterprise was established it has been regarded as one of the most important of the territory. The works are located on First West Street and occupy a space of ground, 212 feet front and running back to a distance of six to ten rods. The building, occupied as the new chair shop, is a substantial two-story structure, 40 by 80 feet in dimensions, and fitted up

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with the beet machinery that modem invention can supply. The products of the works embrace wrought and cast-iron work, machinery, water jackets, slag pots and carriages, bullion mi >ulils, tuyeres, car wheels, axles and brass work of every description. The work of mining machinery is made a spe- cialty by the company, and its reputation for excellence in this line, and all other manufactures, is one of the most enviable in all the territory. Many of the most successful mining enter- prises of the country use the hoisting works, mills and other products of this plant, which have established each a reputation, as to secure, unsolicited extensive orders for machinery from the mining camps all over the western country. The proprie- tors of this important industry are A. \V. Davis, A. Howe and John K. Miller, all old residents nf I 'tali, iiml thoroughly iden- tified with the interests of the city and territory. All of the gentlemen have untarnished records as manufacturers and citi- zens, and are recognized as progressive, public-spirited men, and are very popular in the community. They have a large and long experience in their business and give its smallest details their careful attention. The works have au immense trade, built up upon the merits of their production. They are deserving of the success that has attended their efforts, and worthy of all the patronage that may be accorded them in the future.

J. W. FARRELL & CO.

The commercial and mercantile industries of Salt Lake City as they are presented to our view at present show in many lines of trade and departments of manufacture a growth and development that must necessarily be very gratifying to her bnsi ness men. This growth means an increase of the city'* population, the building of new residences and magnificent

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J. W. KAKKKI.I..

•tore house* and a more active trade in supplying the every day wants of additional people. And it also means new and in- creased wealth to plumbers and gas fitter*. The name of a representative bouse in thin line heads this sketoh. and we pro- pose to give a brief account of its hii<t»ry in . .,i,i,.-.-ti..n with the indimtriMi ..f II,- ' !• was founded in IHHIl t,y .F. \V Karrell in, -I rapidly developed into on. of the leading establish menU of I'tab. The firm does a general gns fitting, plumbing, steam ln-atitig and ventilating business and make a a|M<riiilt\ -if dme well* pany in also agent- for the celebrated !(•

hot water beaters which DM a material •• for giving

perfect satisfaction. The comfort and happineMtand th- health al*> in niHny casee depend Upon its heating, drainage Mini ven- tilating qualities, and if tl»e«M» are perfect exorbitant d>«-t..r l.ill« are avoided. The lloynlon heater in perfect in tta work- ings ami given up by the moot competent judges to be the best in the Und. It lias been tried and tested for years and ac- knowlrdffed to lead them all in superiority. The firm carries an average stock of 116.1100 and does an annual business of 1100,000. Tbe immense bosinesn requires • force of thirty em-

ployes who are kept constantly busy. The enterprise was established by Mr. Parrel! who is a native of New Jersey. Mr. Farrell emigrated to California twenty years ago where he remained about eight years and from thence went to Salt Lake City where he has since continuously reside.!. The premises occupied by the plant is a large and commodious building and in all respects well arranged for the purpose.

Mr. Furrell is a thoroughly practical man, with a full know] edge i if the various details of tin- liiiKiness, superintending all its minnti:r. He possesses all the characteristics of au Eastern man, thrift, energy determination and enterprise, and is i.li-ntilie.l in a most positive manner with all the interests of Salt Lake City.

8. F. BALL & CO.

The iiiiijority.of the human race are fond of the sweet things of this life. This aptly applies not only to the young but to all ages and sexes. This taste for sweet things also extends to all nations, and the manufacture of candies and confections has in consequence assumed large proportions. A number of enter- prises of this character are in operation in Salt Lake, promi- nent among them being the firm of Mall & Co. who run the popular Globe Cafe at 24 Main Street. These gentlemen are refreshment contractors, and pastry cooks of a high reputation. They are dealers and manufacturers of ice cream, candies and cakes, furnish every description of confectionery on short notice, get up suppers to order, and furnish ornamented wedding cakes in any style. The establishment was started in 1889, and the gentleman have had a very successful run of business ever since. In addition to the stock mentioned they have a large and varied assortment of wedding ornaments for rental purposes in connection with wedding suppers and banquets. The firm occupies the first story ami ImseiiMiit of acommodious building •J'J\l~i<i feet in dimensions, in which is employed H force of twenty assistants. A large engine and boiler supply the necessary power for operating tin- plant. The firm has already built up an annual trade of $5(i.(HK) and sells goods throughout Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. The members of the firm. Messrs. x K Hall and H. A. Tucket are prominent and able business men and stand high in the commercial community. The later has been a candidate for councilman and is well known in politics He is also highly esteemed in social circles, being an accomplished music-inn, and occasionally leads the great Tabernacle choir.

M r. Ball is an accomplished exponent of the culinary art and ranks as the peer of any in the country in the profession. He has been instructor of the t'nity Chili cooking school, composed of the leading soc-iety ladies of Salt Lake. His services in this direction have been highly complimented and as a caterer he has few equals and no superiors in the country.

HENRY F. CLARK.

Among the many industries that contribute to tint advance ment and development of the commercial interests of Salt Lake City, in a very marked and material degree, is the merchant tailoring establishment of Mr. ll.-nry !•'. Clark, at No (','" State Street, which was founded in 1SNO. A steady application to the business, together with a thorough knowledge t-f all its details baa brought Mr. Clark many customers who are his patron* still, and will, in all probability, remain such for an indefinite period. Mr. Clark has always pursued a liberal policy with customers, and by this means has made many friends who patroiii/e him to a large extent. At IHK house will be found all styles of the very U--t foreign and domestic (.-nods, which he makes up at reasonable prices, and in the very latest -Ule Mr Clark is a practical and skilled artist in his line, mid in order to secure the best fits, he personally takes all measures, and gives the details of the work his direct supervis- ion and attention. HIM advantages and experience enable him to offer inducement* to i-imtoiiierH that cannot be excelled by •her eshiMiHhment in the cit>, and he numbers, in oonse-

que a" hi- patron-, some of the lending business men and

prominent citizens of Salt Lake. His word can always In- implicitly -i-hed upon an to the quality of goods, but his large and increiu-ing trade in sufficient ami stronger eviden. we could give us to the merit and popularity of hi« e nterpriFe. The gentleman makes Hints from Si~> to #"."> acconimg to qual- ity and IrimingH and guarantee* HHlinfartioii in e\ery caw. He is a native of Kngland but has reside. I in 1'tah for eighteen years, and mav. therefore, lie ranked among the old settlers. tegarded as an honorable, enterprising and liberal nier ohant, who has prosecuted a sueeesufnl business through the. ,ate channel* of c«t r'd is fully entitled to the

confidence and esteem in which he is held by the public.

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THE WALKER HOUSE.

AB the main commercial point in the Territory, Salt Lake City commands a position that imperatively calls for first-class accommodations of large capacity, and under able management. IL this regard the city will be found in all respects capable of maintaining a reputation equal to that of any leading city of the country, being in the possession of several houses unsurpassed in their appointments and the excellence of their supervision; all of which tends greatly to increase the comfort of guests and visitors. In confirmation of these assertions, it is only necessary to refer to the well known Walker House, under the management of that prince of hotel keepers, the genial and accommodating Major Erb. This popular hostelry was refitted and reopened by the Major in 1877 at a cost of 8 13,000, and from the fact that the Walker House is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and from the great Northern Lakes to the Quit of Mexico, deserves extended recognition in this work. The hotel is a handsome four-story brick edifice, is conducted on the European plan, contains 110 sleeping rooms, with a capacity of 130 guests, two large parlors, diningroom, reading, bath, bar and billiard rooms and all the necessary appur- tenances and conven- iences tending to the comfort of patrons. The rooms are sup- plied with all the latest electrical appli- ances, thus insuring quick communication with the office, and therefore the rapid supplying of the wants of guests. The entire building, which is 85x131) feet in dimen- sions, is lighted by > gas and electricity anil ' heated by steam. An improved modern hydraulic elevator fur- nishes the power to I carry guests to and . from their rooms, with : ease, safety and dis- i patch, and fifty-rive employes minister to their wants. The features of this hotel which go to make up its high reputation fire not of a fastidious character, catering ex- clusively to the simu- lated taste, but everything in hotel life essential to comfort and Inxuryhas been employed in its equip- ment And Arrangement. Major Erb, the pro- prietor, is a represen- tative specimen of the

traditional, "mine host." lie is oneof the most pleasant and accommodating hotel men in the United States, and those who stop with him once never fail to patronize him again when visiting Salt Lake City. The Major has been in the hotel busi- ness ever since he reached the age of twenty-four years and is therefore a practical man in all respects. Twenty-three ago he ran a hotel in Quincy, 111., coming from there to Utah two years later and taking charge of the depot hotel in Ogden, which he ran successfully for six years. That life as a hotel- keeper is made pleasant and "something worth living for " to the Major is evidenced from the fact that when he began the business he weighed only 145 pounds, but now pulls down the scales to the 245-pound notch. The Major is an ideal land- lord and deserving of the popularity and patronage that is so freely and liberally accorded him. During the past season the house has been completely renovated, and on October 1st, 1891, was opened as a first-class European hotel. Two large, fine restaurants are run in connection with the hotel. The table

and cuisine is the very best the market affords, and the trade is of the very highest class people among the citizens of Salt Lake and traveling public.

The Walker House is at present altogether the most popular and desirable stopping place in the city, and under Major Erb's able and efficient management is destined to remain so.

THE WALKEK HOUSE.

HUGHES FRUIT AND PRODUCE CO.

The fruit, produce and commission business has, of late years, assumed large proportions throughout the entire country and is now, in fact, one of the most important industries in the land. The dealer in this line of commodities supplies the peo- ple with many of the necessities of life, and therefore occupies a prominent position in the busy marts of trade. Salt Lake has several houses of this character, among which, that are deserving of mention in this work is that of the Hughes Fruit and Produce Co.,whose office and warehouse is located at 114 W. First South Street, or telephone 542. It was inaugurated by Messrs. Hughes & Carpenter, in the beginning of the pres- ent year. S u b a e - quently, Mr. Hughes purchased the interest of Mr. Carpenter and succeeded to the entire business. Mr. Hughes is an extensive, strictly wholesale, dealer in fruits, produce and game, and makes a specialty of handling fine creamery butter, eggs, poultry, Cali- fornia and Utah fruits and vegetables, of which he has always on hand a fresh and bountiful supply. The enterprise is conveni- ently located in a large commodious building wnd basement, 25 by 1 20 feet in dimensions, with a large warehouse on the railroad tracks for the storage of goods. Mr. Hughes in the short time that he has been engaged in business in Salt Lake has built up a very large trade, which extends through Utah, Montana, Idaho and Colorado. Mr. Hughes is agent for Boyd <fe Der vines, celebrated fruit packers, of River- side, California, also sole agents for the Prussing Vinegar Com- pany, of Chicago, for this territory, and agent of the Co- operative Fruit Com- pany, of New Castle, California. From these packers and dealers he receives the best line of fruits that the Golden State can produce. He makes a specialty of handling California and Utah fruits, vegetables, in car-load lots. Mr. Hughes is a native of California but left there about eleven years ago, and went to St. Louis where he was employed two ytars as United States Quartermaster's agent, after which he went to Kansas as agent for the Adams Express Company with whom he remained four years. After- wards he went to Trinidad, Colorado, as agent forthe Denver & Rio Grande Express Company, but owing to the altitude of that place, his health became impaired, and he resigned going to Kansas again, where he engaged for some time in the whole- sale business of shipping eggs and poultry. He finally dis- posed of his business, however, and came to Ogden in May, 1890, and formed a co-partnership in the Midland Produce Company of that city, and was manager of the same for one year when he came to Salt Lake and started his present enter- prise.

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E. I. PITTMAN.

The jewelry business in Salt Lake City is admirably repre- sented by Mr. K. I. Pittman, located at 221 South Main Street. Mr. I'ittmiiii is a highly proficient jeweler. He has every facility at his command for turning out the very best class of

popular with the traveling public, enjoying a large patronage in consequence. The house is centrally located, contains 100 sleeping rooms with a capacity of 250 guests. The dining room is large and commodious, seating 100 people. The building proper is 58x130 feet, a five-story brick structure, lighted by electricity, steam beat and water on every floor, and electric bells connecting with every room. A fine large airy parlor af- fords much comfort and convenience for the guests. An ele- gant billiard parlor, bar, barber and bath rooms are attached to the hotel, and conducted under the management of the house. The hotel is supplied in a liberal and generous manner, with all the substantial, as well as the delicacies of the season being served up daily to its guests.

The proprietor, Mr. J. H. Clark, is an old hotel man of twenty years' experience and is one of the most genial hosts to be met with from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.

The manager, Mr. K. Mulford, has also bad a large and viirii-d experience in the hotel business, and possesses the faculty of making all his guests feel perfectly at home. Under such management, the Morgan is very popular and gaining daily in favor with the public.

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work.

In his well appointed work-room, will be found every convenience and utensil known to the jewelry business. Watches, clocks and jewelry are repaired promptly and satis- factorily, special attention being paid to this branch of the business by Mr. Pittman in person.

The store is handsomely furnished and fitted np with every modern appliance that can add to the at- tractiveness of the display of rare and costly goods with which it is replete. The stock is varied, comprehensive and carefully selected for it* intrinsic viilue, and the beauty of its workmanship and liniHli.

Mr. Pittman recently came from l-'.nms. Texas, where he has been engaged in the jewelry business forseveral years. He served H long und thorough apprenticeship at the basiness, and has acquired a perfect knowl- edge of his trade through years of arduous practice and study, of the watch-maker's, jeweler's and engraver's art.

Mr. Pitt man carries a $10,000 stock of .li.inr.ii.l-. watches, clocks, jewelry, silver itn. I plated ware, spectacles, eta, and can furnish any article or perform any class of work that comes within the province of the jeweler. He is also an expert engraver, and his work in thin cli;,-.-ti.,n is noted for beauty of design and perfection of tininh.

Mr. rittmari has located in Salt Lake City within the past year, and has already established a desirable reputation as an ex- cellent business man and esteemed

MORGAN HOTEL.

I lew of thu mewl intermit ing feature* aod enterprise* of Suit Iwike City «,,ni,| be incomplete witlimil n dewrii>ti»n »f her principal hot* In, and among thene. the Morgan, located at 141 W. Kirrt South Ht.

••• one of the leading positions, being in all rrsuvcU. among the most modern nnd BpleLely fitted up and brst equipped in nii.M. Tli IN house was ooljr opened May 1st, 18U1 . but has already become very

W. D. BOWRING.

The business of a green grocer is one of considerable magni- tnde in any large city, and is a very desirable enterprise to have in any community. Among those engaged in industries of this character in Salt Lake City, is W. D. liowring, dealer in fruits, vegetables and poultry lit '2>'< S. Main street. Although the <^entleman has only been in business in the city for five years he has already built up a large trade and num- bers his regular customers by the score. One reason of this is t hut he is a practical man in his line having bad eight years experience in the same before starting, on his own hook. Another reason of his success is that he carries a tine and large stock of vegetables and fruits in season and makes a specialty of poultry. In addition to these articles, he carries a varied line of canned goods, and a fine stock of tobacco and cigars. Mr. Itowringisa native of Utah and has consequently grown np with the country. He is well known in the country ns an able business man and is highly esteemed and regarded by all.

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HOTEL TEMPLETON.

To properly conduct a hotel is an art with which few are familiar. Its requirements are far more exacting than those unfamiliar with the business are wont to suppose. No other calling, we are bold to assert, necessitates as broad an under- standing of human nature. It administers to the susceptible side of humanity. It deals with the sordid, the acrimonious, the fastidious and the prudish. It caters to the interminable shades of tastes, and endeavors to gratify the palates of every individual who seeks its hospitality. In fact, it strives to pro- vide homes satisfactory to myriads of home seekers. Those who have the care of any single household, who are expected merely to please and study the work of the family circle, do not, by any means, rind the task an easy one, but when they perform their work well they are always spoken of as excellent house-heepers. But if they were asked to preside over hun- dreds of homes, assume the culinary responsibilities, furnish airy and light sleeping rooms, as well as to look after the bag- gage and personal effects of each member, we are afraid the hampering burdens would well nigh distract their mind and exhaust their patience. But this is precisely what every good hotel is called upon to do. Who can estimate the breadth of conception or degree of executive ability, characteristic of the proprietor of a first-class hotel? Modern conveniences go far toward reducing labor and providing for the comfort of guests, but withal, the vital function of a hotel rests upon its management, and the public are to be congrat- ulated upon their good fortune in having at their disposal such a well kept and appointed hotel as the Hotel Templeton, of Salt Lake City. This popular hostelry was opened to the public in November, 1890, by the Central Hotel Company, a corporation composed of D. C. Young, President; G. M. Cannon, Vice-President ; A. C. Young, secretary; Alonzo Young, Manager. The board of directors con- sists of the three first named gentlemen to- gether with L. G. Hardy, and Geo. H. Hardy. The hotel occupies a magnificent six-story brick structure, centrally located just across the street from the famous TempleSquare.and guests are afforded grand views from all the windows. The hotel is of modern design and furnishings, the par- lors especially beingsplen- did specimens of the up- holster's and decorator's handiwork. It has seventy rooms with accommodations foroue hundred and twenty- five guests if necessary. An elegant reading room, together with barber shop and bath room are to be enjoyed at this hotel, while the rooms are provided with electric appliances and elec- tric lights, that add much to the comfort and convenience of the guests. The elevator is constructed upon the most modern approved plan and is rapid and safe. The rooms are all models of elegance and good taste, elaborately furnished in new material of latest designs. The culinary department is pre- sided over by some of the finest cooks the continent can pro- duce, the table is supplied with the most choice via' ds that can be obtained and every attention is paid to the comfort of guests. One important feature of this hotel and one most conducive to comfort and pleasure is the fact that the dining room is on the top Moor, and the rooms, parlors, reading rooms, etc., are free from any odor that emanates from the culinery department. Another feature of this arrangement is the mag- nificent view that the guest has while eating his meal. Prom the dining room of the Templeton, one of the most grand views ot the city and valley can be obtained, thus combining the pic-

turesque with the substantial at one and the same time. This fact occasions food for conversation among guests thus pro- longing the time for meals and giving a greater zest thereto in the enjoyment of the same and greatly aiding nature in its work of digestion. This hotel is patronized by the best class of people from all over the world, and many expressions of praise of the hotel and its management have been heard from travelers who were so fortunate as to be entertained beneath its roof. The management of this hotel is very popular with the traveling public and exceedingly courteous and attentive to the wants and comforts of guests.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

THE PACIFIC LUMBER & BUILDING COMPANY.

The lumber and building interests of any community occupy a prominent position in the rank of important factors that go to make up the commercial supremacy of a city. The interests mentioned involve the investment of a large amount of capital and the consequent employment of a great many men and the involving of a large pay-roll, the proceeds of which are largely distributed among families, and in turn, circulated among the merchants and business men of the community in which the industry is located. The Pacific Lumber & Building Com- pany is one of the most valuable industries of Salt Lake, and

adds very largely to her material prosperity. The company is an incorpora- ted one,with Martin Qarn, President; Joseph Jensen, Vice-President, and W. L. Hansen, Secretary and Treasurer. The business of the company is: whole- sale and retail dealers in lumber, coal, contractors' supplies, and manufac- turers of doors, windows, sash, blinds, wood-carv- ing and architects' mater- ials. That the institution is a solid one may be in- ferred from the following list of directors, com- prising some of the best and most favorably known business men in the Ter- ritory: George Crismon, Hyrum Jensen, Christo- pher Alston, N. J.Hansen, J. R. Wilson, W. O. Ell- ridge, Owen S. Hardy, Lorenzo S. Clark and Jacob Garn.

The plant of the cor- poration covers four acres of ground, with a planing- mill two stories in height and 70x90 feet in dimen- sions. The company has recently placed in their planing-mill the latest improved Dr. Goehr- iuggo geometrical mould- ing machine 6x18 feet, weighing 18,000 pounds, being the only machine of its kind in use in the western country, and is in consequence, prepared to furnish geometrical mould- ings, carved mouldings, etc., for banks, hotels, public buildings and private residences in any quantity and variety. The motive power of this mill is two boilers of 50-horse-power each, driven by a Corliss engine of the most approved modern construction. The coal office, general office, lecture rooms, library and tenements occupy 500 feet frontage on Eleventh East Street, and 157 feet on Twelfth South Street.

The company carries an average stock of 875,000, and is transacting an annual business of about the same amount, which, however, has lately been steadily increasing. In the transaction of this vast business twenty- five men are employed and the industry thus affords support to a large number of people. The trade of this firm extends throughout Utah, and the transactions in consequence will compnre favorably with any institution in the Territory. The Pacific Lumber & Build- ing Company, together with the officers and directors, make a strong combination, and one that competitors will find difficult to emulate.

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THE KNUTSFOHD HOTEL.

Although Salt Lake City is yet in its infancy the impor- tance ami magnitude of some of her institutions and building. exceed by far, some of her older and more pretentious rivals. In one respect, at Iwst, she is the superior even of Huch rivals, and that is in the character and nature of her hotels. Perhaps no better ill nut rat ion of Utah enterprise, opulence and genius, is afforded than by an inspection »r the new magnificent structure which was opened to the public, June, 1891. It is undoubtedly the finest, largest nod most elegantly appointed hotel of any city between the Missouri Kiver and the 1'iicilic Ocean, and it may truthfully be said that the height of human ingenuity and skill in this particular line of enterprise was reached when the Knutsford Motel was com- pleted. The poet says "A thing of beanty is a joy forever." and this saying can never be better exempiititd than in view- ing this massive and elegant structure, towering to a height of

main entrance that leads from the office to the second floor where are situated the reading and writing rooms, parlors, banquet, ordinaries, and dining rooms. On this floor is a broad promenade extending around the interior of the building, and being under the same sky-light as the office it commands a full view of the rotunda. The ordinaries are striking illustrations of what beautiful things nrt can produce. being large, airy rooms and finished np in the nkill and perfec- tion of the modern artist. The building itself is practically fire- proof, and thoroughly ventilated throughout the entire ntnic lure. The sanitary features are perfect, special attention hav- ing been directed to this important matter. The dining room is a model of beauty in elegance, being finished in white with terra cotta decorations, while the floor is laid in mosaic tilings. The ceiling is very high, extending the depth of two floors, while the windows ««re unique in design and elegant in their appointments, consisting of stained cathedral glass which gives a t«ne of beauty and richness to the appiirtmeut that would be ditllcnlt to excel. The hotel is supplied with three engines.

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•even ntoriea, with iU beautiful walls of grey granit. in the golden •untight of the garden spot of the world. Tin- mammoth hotel paJaoe waa erected by a stock company at a coat of $7tt).<m It i. }:\2 by !.!•_• r....i. six .tones and baae- BBeot, with a four ••lory annex, !& l>> liXI feet. It is const rm-ted of irniy granite and contain* 2WI room* fur gnenU, either single or etmnite. of whirh •eveiity-rlve are furni- .egaiit

bath room*. In •ihlitum i» ihm, every Moor i* provided will,

• bath rooms, a convenience DO modern hotel ahonld lie withont Tin- building him four ptibln- ar.d fifty private parlorc, •iMmat dining rooflM, ordinance, l>Hi,<|iiet, bar, reading aud

.' room, aim barber abop and newa room, anil in fact. •II IheonoTMiiMioM that modem ioi«no> and meohmiical (kill oonld iDTent and onn- « office I* a beautiful wurk ••!

art, beiog flniched in wbiU nn.l adorned with Urra-cottn ration* and oxMuiic tiling of the latMt denign* and pat- ttrna in modrrn art. The great atair-uape in a maa •ive and impoviiig v\i.rk of man'* skill and ing.

oonatructnl of the fln«et marble, and facing tbe

one fnr eluctrii1 |nir|ioseH, one for elevators, and the other for the laundry.

I'liM kili'hen, Mining rcMinm, pantrieB, help's dining rxKima and sleeping ii|>iirtnienlN. and all the heat and lighting appli aDOM. are attnatod in the foiir-htory annex, separate from Ilie buililing lint i-.iii!:fi-trd by a ooverecf paaenge-wiiy.

All the furnii*liingH of I he hotel are rich and in keeping with the character "f Hie Htrnctim*. The furniture, niherware,

carpeU, etc., are elegant in det-igu. rirh u m-tnn-i n-:, and

rrprewnt an outlay of 1100,000, The Kuutuford throughout IK » veritable palace and it would aeem thea<Mi»>or |,. ir,.,-i,nn ha« lieen reached in iU con»ttii<-tion nud rurniKhincN The leaaei •OdpnprMof of the hotel is Mr. <i S llolmo*. the former proprietor of the Continental. HIM! one of the most widely m d (Nipuhir hotel men in the entir nintrj. The trav- eling men nil n«enr by him nnd under such favoriihle manage- •ogether with the grard char«i'ter . f the h..fel. it hna and will donbtlefw continue to have the cream of public patronage in Shit lMk.. (

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J. W. JENKINS & SONS.

The immense quantities of harness and saddlery goods used in the United States invest the industry of manufacturing these products with an importance that places it at once among the great branches of trade and commerce. An enter- prising and reliable institution engaged in this line of busi- ness is the establishment of J. W. Jenkins &• Sons, located at 76 East Second South street, which was founded in 1855 by J. W. Jenkins, Sr., now deceased, and was succeeded by J. W., C. 1L, and S. J. Jenkins. This is the largest house in its line in Salt Lake City, and we presume the oldest in this section of the country. Their trade extends throughout Utah, Idaho,

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Wyoming, Montana, etc. They occupy a building 47x60 feet, arranged with due regard to the convenience of their cus- tomers as well as the eighteen men whom they employ. They are manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in harness and saddlery hardware. The grade of goods turned from this establishment maintains a high reputation for general excel- lence, and in consequence there is a steady demand throughout the entire West for its products. The trade of this house today will run over $50,000 per annum and is constantly in- creasing.

The personnel of the firm, J. W., C. H., and S. J. Jenkins, are gentlemen who have followed this business all their lives, and of courpe are thoroughly conversant with it, and are held iu high esteem by the community for their sterling business methods and many social qualities. They are gentlemen whose names are linked inseparably with Salt Lake City and her future greatness. The cut shown above gives some idea of the premises occupied. All grades and styles of articles pertaining to horse equipments are manufactured to order.

They also make tents, awnings and wagon covers, etc., which are made by hand, all work guaranteed to be durable and give entire satisfaction. Strong material and thorough workmanship are always embodied in the work turned out by this concern, and a trial will convince patrons that they are skilled and reliable manufacturers.

TAYLOR, ROMNEY, ARMSTRONG CO.

In a write-up of the industries of the city, it is the object and aim of the editors of this work, to incorporate all those establishments that contribute in a material way to the pros- perity of Salt Lake. Standing conspicuously in the ranks of the old pioneer firms that have aided to such a wonderful degree in the development of the city, is the one that heads this article. The industry was founded in 1869, and incorporated in 1887. The firm are manufacturers, contractors and builders, also dealers in all kinds of building material and building hardware. The plant occupies two acres of ground, which is the property of the company, and employs sixty men in the transaction of its immense business. A forty-horsepower engine, of the most approved modern pattern, is used in the planing mills and sash and door factory, which is a two-story structure, 50 by 120 feet, where the manufacturing of sash and doors is carried on daily on a large scale. The officers of the company are (!. H. Taylor, president and assistant manager; K. Armstrong, vice-president; Qeo. Bomney, manager, and G. E. Romney, secretary and treasurer. The directory board

comprises the above gentlemen, with the addition of W. H. Armstrong, and Heber J. Bomuey. They are all men of com- mercial ability and very prominent in the mercantile commun- ity. The industry they represent is of great value to the city, and is one that reflects credit upon the numerous manufactur- ing establishments with which Salt Lake City abounds.

GEORGE A. LOWE.

The irrigated farm lands of the Jordan valley and of the other sections of Utah produce abundant crops. The farmers here are iu a much more prosperous condition than those of the states lying to the east of the mountains, being independent of the climatic conditions so important in that region. Accord- ingly they are in a position to ask for and get the best auxiliaries to the pursuit of their avocation. The farm machinery sold in this section is of the most improved pattern and the demand being at all times especially brisk, the estab- lishment of a big business in agricultural implements iu this quarter depends only on the merit of the goods offered. The house of George A. Lowe has evidently succeeded in winning the confidence of the farming community, for the business car- ried on by it is heavy enough to call for the congratulations of any. This house was established in Corinne, Utah, in 1870 and removed to Salt Lake in 1874. The concern carries a full line of all kinds of farming machinery, wagons, carriages and buggies and caters to every branch of the trade. The amount of capital invested is about 8200,000, and on this basis a business .of .$500,000 a year is easily transacted in the territory alone. Thirty employes are kept busy at the Salt Lake and Ogden houses, and from this place a business is carried out over the boundaries of Utah and into Southern Idaho and adjacent states. In Salt Lake the plant occupies four buildings for offices, salesrooms and storage quarters, the ground area being 125 by 350 feet. On this ground sheds are maintained for wagons and other stock, and the finest display of carriages and buggies that could be desired is to be found. Aside from the business of dealer in agricultural implements Mr. Lowe carries a heavy realty traffic, and owns and occupies one of the most attractive residences in the city. His business relations are with the heaviest financiers in the territory, and he is generally looked upon as a solid citizen and an acquisi- tion to the city's traffic promotion. He has, amoug the other special lines represented, the general agency for Peter Schutt- ler's wagons, which from certain especial points are better adapted to the peculiar conditions of inter-mountain farming than most of those offered for the approval of the agriculturist in this section. The houses which he represents here with wares are of established reputation in the east, and he is doing a great deal to extend that high consideration in this region.

THE MODEL STEAM BAKERY.

Within the past five years a most important revelation in the details of modern science has been the means of opening up and developing resources that are of incomparable value to the growth and prosperity of any new community. The establish- ment that heads this article is the only steam bakery in the Territory, and is of great benefit to the city from many points of view. The institution, though only founded in January last, already transacts a business at the rate of $50,000 per annum. The trade of the concern already extends to the adjoining cities and towns and is increasing in volume daily. The plant occupies a space 100x150 feet in dimensions, and is supplied with the most approved machinery, the boilers and engines especially being adapted to a heavy run of business, and the transaction of the same with ease, rapidity and dispatch. The capacity of the bakery is five tons of flour, or 1,100 loaves of bread daily. They also do an extensive business in the manufacture of pastry, the reputation of which has attained such an excellent charac- ter that many new orders are constantly being sent in for their choice brands in this line. The proprietors, Messrs. John P. Meyer and Leo Eardman, are both natives of Germany, and have only resided in Utah a little less than one year. They are men of enterprise and great integrity of character, and will doubtless erelong attain a high rank in the manufacturing industries of of Salt Lake and the Territory of Utah. Their establishment is located on Ninth East, between Fifth and Sixth South streets, where the owners will be pleased to see any one desiring to be shown one of the most complete plants in the West. In order to obtain and hold the trade of the country, they use none but the finest of high grade flour, which is of itself a guarantee of the pre-eminent excellence of their manufactures. In the bus- iness they employ continuously from eight to ten skilled bakers who are thorough adepts in their profession and posted in all its details.

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Mr. Hughes is a good business man in every respect, bnt is especially adapted to the line he has chosen on account of bin excellent judgment and thorough knowledge of the wants of the trade. That he is a man held in high esteem in commer- cial and financial circles, it is only necessary to say that his business card bears on its face as references, the American National Bank and Express companies of Salt Lake: C. M. Condon, banker. Oswego, Kansas; K. ' >. Deming. president First National Bank, < Mwego; Terrell Bros., Chit-ago; \VellB Bros., Coffeyville, Kansas. In addition to his high business qualifications and financial standing, he is a gentleman of excellent social qualities and is liked and respected by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.

WALKER BROS. AND FYLER COMPANY.

The business enterprise, prosperity and solidity of a eit > . are in a large measure indicated by the extent and character of its eommerical houses. The great dry-gooda houses of the country with their co-relative branches of trade, have exercised a powerful in Hnence upon the welfare »f the communities in which they ure situated. and the old. wealthy, and successful establishments have became familiar, bv trade and repntation in all sections of the land. The history of Salt Lake ( 'it y, though she is still in her youth presents many facts of great interest to the student of mercantile history. While its posi- tion in one of the richest fertile valleysof the world gave it iinuHiial inkim tages, men of ability were needed to promote and accelerate development of its resources. Theordin ary merchant develops talents ami '{Utilities in the lint- of his own trade. but the requirements of grow ink' cities fortunately bring to the front men of himineM genius, who not only evidence abili- ties in their own business I iy that supreme test suc- cess, but aid by th.- wide range of their capacity and mental <-ali- ber the general prosperity ami success of tln>ir f.-l Iowa, and the wealth ami reputation of their city

.It Lake has been cm inently fortunate in the possession of citizenx of this elevated stamp, hut to no i*t of imlivnluals doe* thisapply with morn force or distinguish with

more unassuming men thiin tli» m.-ml>en«of the grout .lr> i."""l- housetbesnbjeotof this article. I h>- Wnlk.-r I iro' hers started their present enterpriseon asnm -ind that thebosi-

DMC has grown to snch enormous pto|M>rtioaa axil now possesses, IK .In.- to the enterprise, push and activity of the... .

resent firm eoDninling of M. II. \Valk«-r, President: I. I; Walker. Vice-Prssident;.l. I: Walker, Jr., Secretary and H \ Manager, was organized an. I im-orp"ru'.'.l in I-.M. Th,. average •mount of stork rarrn-l IH j?jm.iiiHl. with an minimi Illinium* of g.VKi.K"! The company sm ploy •• fore* of forty male and fort) live female clerk* and assistant*, and it» trade

IH throughout I'tah. Idaho, Montana, Colorado, W»om ing ami Nevada. The company ooctlpie* an elegant i.ew liri.-k i.nil.liiik.-. Mom- r., ..',,.• - ,x|i;:, feet, winch was erected especially for the aconmmoiUtion and convenience of its large trad, •trnctnre i» • handsome one, and a finer or moreoomraodioim bnsineM borne especially adapted to the dry goods trnde would be difBclnt to find in all the land. The buildiug is heated by

steam from an engine and boilers of the most approved mod- ern construction, while the entire edifice from cellar to dome is lighted by electricity. The building is literally a veritable dry- goods palace and well worth a visit of inspection by those who love to view an extensive and first-class dry-goods house. While it is not the province of this work to indulge in exces- sive praise of any single establishment, in this instance we feel that we are not deviating from our rule by asserting, that while no establishment in the city has achieved a more respectable position commercially, not one has been conducted upon a basis more conservative, honorable and liberal, or managed with a more enterprising and progressive policy than the Walker Bros, and Fyler Company and that no men stand higher in the estimation of their fellow men than the members of the same.

HEESCH & ELLERBECK.

It <s our intention to incorporate in onr review of the imlust ries and progress of Salt Lake, notices of those business

houses and enterprises which by reason of their long duration and the scale and magnitude of their transactions are termed "representative;" hence in this con nee tion. the staunch old firm of Heesch .V Ellerbeek whose office and business is on E*st First South St. between Main and State, deserves special at- tention. Established in 1875 it has by pluck, energy and enterprise, coupled with fair and honorable dealing, ob- tained a front rank among the commercial inetitu tions of the city. The business of the firm is that of Plumbers, < !as. Steam Fitter* and dealers in Steam Heaters, (ias fixtures and Plumber's Supplies. They also Immlle Annunciators, Burglar Alarms and Elec- trical Lighting Appli- ances. They carry one of the largest stocks in the West ami employ a for.v of forty men. Their annual sales amount to • Hland are constantly increasing in volumes' very year. They occupy an elegant two-story building which in i.lmii ;i lily arrange.! for Hie busi- ness and filled with the Ix-Nt and most approved modern htyle of Design and make Forty f»et of the front part of the I. nild- ing in reserved for the of flee and display room.

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where rome of the most handsome andelegantgoo.1- in theline of plumbing fixtures and electrical appliances, ever seen in any house greet the eye on every -1.1.- Th- exhibit of this nrra has attracted universal attention in the city, and is well worth a vinit hy those who have not lieen fortunate enough to Me It. The basement is used for machinery and the storage of heavy Ti«meas. the firm makes a specialty

of fine plnmhiMk- HI all its details and -MM.- of th.«ir work c«n beceen in the tlnewt residence* of the city. Among tliewlH-ing the Mansions of Itoy.l Park, the ji-wnli-r. VT. S. McCornick, th- l;.,i,k.-r. P. I. William*, rapt. Paul ami T. <». Webbers of the / < ' W I . and iimny others, they also did the work in the Pr.^r-tw building, winch is considered bj experts to be a

remarkable pi.-< f mechanical skill and perfect in all its

magnitude. Mr. lleenoh was the first mechanic to do Military plumbing in Salt Lake, and no little credit IH due him there- fore M good work in tin* line contributes largely to the health. and prosperity of the people of any city, and at the time he

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introduced the same, Salt Lake City was woefully in need of just such work. He is one of the most experienced and practical men in this line that could be found in all the land and is constantly studying the health with a view to practical and substantial improvements. Both Mr. Heesch and Ellerbeck are old residents of the city, and are deeply inter- ested in the prosperity of thecity of their adoption. The magni- tude of their business operations and the character of the

Washington, Nevada and Wyoming, resulting in the large sales annually, as mentioned before in this sketch.

One great specialty of the firm is its dressmaking depart- ment, where a large force of experienced cutters and fitters are constantly at work in filling the orders that daily come in. This department is one of the most complete in its line in the country, and perfect work is the consequence.

The proprietors of this mammoth establishment, Messrs.

same have been substantial factors in the growth and develop- „ j6 Pr°P™etors of th

merit of Salt Lake, and this together with their hiuh standing red and kouis Simon, are natives of Germany, and have

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long residence, and larger experience have placed them in the front ranks of commercial establishments, where it is to be hoped they may long continue in their present prosperity.

SIMON BKOS.

Ideas and customs which satisfied the tastes and require- ments of a century ago, would appear incongruous in these days of progress and enlightenment. Vast changes have taken place, and phenomenal improvements have been made. The heroic colonist of 1785, were he to be suddenly resurrected ' and placed in one of our met- ropolitan centers, would be as much dazed as was Rip Van Winkle when awaken- ing from his sleep in the Cat- skills. In the matter of changes and improvements, there is probably no more striking illustration than that produced among the votaries of fashion in the ranks of the fair sex of the world. The ladies in these modern times vie with each other in the matter of elegant and tasty decorations, and strive to reach the acme of perfection in all that pertains to the beautifying of woman. A beautiful woman is one of the prettiest sights of God's handiwork, and when adorned and beautified by the work of art, becomes one of those irresistible sweet creatures to whom man de- lights to render homage and devotion. A woman is never well dressed if the head orna- ment bo deficient, and to the milliner, as much, if not more, is due the credit when the verdict of the public is. that "there goes a well dressed woman." In this line of dress there are con- stant improvements beine made, and as customs and fashions change, the mil-

resided in Utah for the past twenty-two years. They are active, enterprising and energetic mercantile men, heartily and thor- oughly identified, with the best interests of the city of their adoption, and stand high in the estimation of both the commer- cial and social world. As an evidence of such esteem it may be cited that Mr. Fred Simon is the President of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, for which position he was selected on account of his superior business qualifications, his sterling integrity and strict honesty of purpose in all the walks of life. Taking all these attributes into consideration, there is no doubt but that a bright and happy future awaits this firm in the com- mercial word, and that it will not be long until it has attained the highest degree of success which it so justly merits.

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SIMON BliOS.. WHOLE8ALE;MILLINKRY AND DRY GOODS.

liner must keep pace with the spirit of the age and cater to the needs and requirements of the public demand. In order to do this the milliner must possess good taste, a keen discrim- inating taste in the selection of stock, and must also have an eye 1o the beautiful as well. A firm possessing these qualifica- tions in an eminent degree is doing business in Salt Lake City to-day, and its success mainly, has been due that the members thereof are men who understand their business. The Messrs. Simon Bros, have been engaged in the wholesale millinery and ladies' furnishings in Salt Lake since 1880, and have built up one of the finest trades that seldom falls to the lot of a mer- chant. The average stock carried is $100,000, and the volume of trade reaches annually to the magnificent sum of $'20(1,000. The firm employs twenty male and fifteen female assistants, making a grand total of thirty-five employes. The establish- ment has splendid quarters for its business, occupying a three- story brick structure 60x100 feet in dimensions conveniently arranged for the requirements of trade. Steam power is used for heating and elevating purposes. The firm manufactures its own millinery, in which it employs from ten to fifteen skilled

SOLOMON BROTHERS.

Few of the business houses of Salt Lake can advance PO many claims to public notice and favor as the one whose name stands at the head of this article. The age of this, the high standing which it has always maintained in the mercantile world, the great reputation it bears all over the West, as well as the magnitude of its business operations.all unite to render it eminently deserving of the highest commendation in the pages of a work devoted to an impartial presentation of the advant- ages of Salt Lake in a commercial and industrial point of view. This house has had a most creditable history and prosperous career. For more than twenty years the Solomon Bros., Alfred and James, have been engaged in the business of whole- sale dealers and manufacturers of boots and shoes at 70 S. East Temple street. In that time they have built up one of the finest trades of any house in the city. They occupy a commodious two-story building for a factory and sale-room which is filled with choice goods in their line. The factory gives to forty hands who are constantly employed. Their

artists, and that the goods made are popular, is evident from pay-roll in consequence amounts to a large sum annually and the fact that its trade extends through Utah, Idaho, Montana, is one of the largest of any house in the city. They carry ail

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average stock of $25,000 and their annual sales ranee from $60,000 to $75.000. They sell goods throughout Utah, Nevada. Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, ami Arizona, and their trade is constantly increasing, as the character of the goods turned oat by the firm is of such an excellent quality as to be constantly in demand all over the wide range of ter- ritory in which they are sold. The Solomon Brothers came to s ilt Lake with the pioneers of 1847, and have been continuous residents ever since. When they landed on the present site of Salt Lake City, Mr. James Solomon bad wealth to the amount of just one penny, which he still retains in memory of old times. He says, to use his own language, "I rub it when I get short and my courage comes back again." He can now however count bis dollars instead of pennies all of which he has earned by hard labor and diligence through thirty-four years of steady application to business. Alfred Solomon is a Bishop of the Mormon church in the twenty-second ward, and has always been one of the most prominent members of the same. The youngest of the brothers was marshal and chief of police of the city for four years. Up to the advent of the Liberal party into power, last year, and during all his official career he was an honest conscientious man, and a gallant officer. He is uni- versally esteemed and respected by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance, and recognized as a man of ability in commercial circles. Both the brothers are largely interested in readily consisting of business property in the city and farms adjacent thereto. Most of these farms are worth large sums of money, the brothers having been offered from $500 to 81,000 per acre for the same. They however refused the offer, believ- ing that Salt Lake and Utah has a wonderful future before them,* and are therefore willing to trust for greater rewards when the development of the city and Territory shall be more fully accom- plished. The Solomon brothers are public- spirited, liberal and enter- prising gentlemen, stand- ing deservedly high, both as merchants and citizens. Asa firm they add greatly to the building up of the city's interest and deserve classification among the leading commercial and industrial enterprises of Salt Lake and Utah.

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CLIFT HOUSE.

(n enumerating the business enterprises of cities due attention must, of course.be given to thoce establishments which

IH for the comfort ami MDnoiMUM of the public, mid to no class of instill lions does this apply more forcibly than hotels iiml tii.-ir proprietor*. All cities pride themselves on having popular hostelries where visitors can be entertained with com fort and made to feel at home. There is no city probably in the entire west that has so many favorite hotels and landlords as Salt Lake. Among these popular institutions the ('lift House take* rank with them nil. Although onlv a two dollar-a -day house, itaappertainments, conveniences and menu are first -clam in all respects. The house was newly furniiihed nml reopened in ls«7 by the present proprietor, Andrew ('. liriien, of whom it can I* said, he IH among the nxwt popular landlord* to !>•• friurnl in the whole country. The h;>tel i* centrally located, ainl conilii"tn.l on the American plan. Hi* a three-story brick building, nil tinted on the corner of Main ami Third South •-. and impraatM the beln.l.i.-r at once with its neat and home-like appearance. It ban *i\ty-two sleeping rooms and IIHH a capacity for accommodating 150 guest*. The dining room is large, seating one hundred |..«.|.l.- and presided over by atten- tiv.. an. I obliging waiter*. A line bar-roorn i* also connected with the hoiiM>, also an elegant .m.l cnmraodioii* parlor and numerous adjuncts for the convenience of patrons. hoiine in hghUxl by gas ami electricity, wit'

'I.H.r. and all the room* are supplied with electric anniincm torn inHtiring prompt attention to call*. The hotel has n force of men anil women who are attentive to their duties, and obliging uriil p<ihte to gfieMN. The proprietor ha* aimed to

- his hon*e a plennant one at which to stop by providing his patrons with all the comforts of a home-like nature, and baa

succeeded admirably as a glance at the hotel register will show A large number of families have their homes at this house, many of whom have been there for years, thus proving (•(inclu- sively that the untiring efforts of the proprietor to please are duly appreciated. The Clift is a strong favorite with all classes of the traveling public and especially n> with the traveling salesmen and theatrical people who patronize the house to ;i greater extent than any other in Salt Lake City, which fact is due to the abundantly supplied table, the cleanly kept rooms and the uniformly kind and courteous treatment they enjoy while stopping at this house. Mr. Brixen is deservedly popular with the actor's profession, which he so admires, as is attested by the fact that the office and reading room of the Clift are adorned with large pictures of many of the great celebrities nicely framed. In conclusion it is but justly meet and proper, that a fair share of praise be awarded to the estimable wife of Mr. Hrixen who is a lady of tine business sagacity and excellent social and intellectual qualifications. To her advice and judgment Mr. Brixeu has often deferred, the wisdom of such a course being developed in the events that followed. The world would be much better off if men possessing companions of such abilities as Mrs. Brixen has developed would consult with them oftener on business affairs. A woman is naturally of a quick and perceptive nature, and many a man might have prospered and been saved from financial ruin had he placed confidence in his wife's judgment and confided his troubles to her before it was too late. Be it said that Mr. Brixen with the aid of his ex- cellent wife who has been as devoted to their interests as be himself, is at this early day the proud possessor of a fortune which does not fall short of 3 100,000. Not a bad showing from a start made on a borrowed capital of 8200 eleven years ago.

CLIFT HOUSE WINE ROOM.

A neat and attractive w me room in not only an ornament to any city, but au absolute necessity in any community that pre tends to metropolitan

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A well regulated resort of this character isalways certain to be liberally ronized from the fact that gentlemen always c" where they are well treated. Amcng the many sample rooms in the country, the subject of this sketch is undoubtedly the finest in all Sal't Lake. Mr. C II I halter, the proprietor, carries in stock none but the best brands of wines, liquors and cigars, the variety of which is of a very extensive character. The room occupied is large and commodious and fitted up with all the modern elegance of metropolitan style. The establish- ment although only inaugurated by Mr. Deuhalter in IS.HI, has become very popular with the public, and the business will compare very favorably with that of any in its line in Utah. One reason for this is the excellent quality of the goods carried

and an ither is that the treatment a >rded all patrons i* of the

•nt lem inly character. Mr. Denballor is formerly from

^ I. mi-. Mi iri.andhas been a resident ofS.lt Lake for

thirt-en years. He is also largely int«re*t.-.l in the sHlt Lake S , la Water Company, one of the largest concern* lietween Chicago and San Francisco. Hois a practical man m all lu- business affairs ami a „•,•!. d-mm, with whom it i* a pleasure to meet. Mea*rs. Wm. Beat and Wm. Orey. the two gentlemen who cater to the want* of the public, are men who thoroughly understand their busmen* and are always polite an. I attentive to all patrons. They are skilful mixers of all these delicious drinks which the human anatomy craves, and ran be depended upon to give you just what you call Tor. The ('lift II wme ro .m is in all reapsota a novel one, and deserving of the large popularity it enjoys.

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THE GEORGE DUNFORD SHOE COMPANY.

One of the oldest and most important mercantile houses of Salt Lake City is the boot and shoe business founded in 1854 by Geo. Dunford, and certain it is that no house of like charac- ter is more favorably known or enjoys a more wide-spread rep- utation throughout Utah. Mr. Dunford came to Zion in 1854, and, with a small stock of merchandise, opened a general store, and being a careful, industrious business man, prospered as the city grew, until its population had multiplied several times, and the trade that he had acquired had increased to that extent which justifies a change from a stock of general merchandise to the exclusive line of boots and shoes, and for which Mr. I )nnf ord was so admirably suited. From the time the change was made he became a leader in that particular branch of mer- chandise, carrying at all times a fine and varied assortment of boots, shoes, slippers and rubber goods of every grade, from the most popular and celebrated brands of foot-wear to the cheaper, so that it has been known far and near that the house of Geo. Dun- ford was the place to get just what you want. No similar institution has maintained a better reputation for honor- able and square dealing, and no better testimon- ial of which fact can be offered to the public than that this house has flourished from ite inception, and its busi- ness has not only stead- ily increased propor- tionately with the growth of the city, but has for its customers to- day, patrons who dealt with the house twenty- rive years ago. A more complete .line of every- thing known in ladies', men's or children's shoes, from the heaviest brogan for men, to the shoe that will tit the tiniest lady's foot, in all sizes of the best material and latest approved style, cannot be found outside of this well- known and reliable house.

The Geo. Dunford Shoe Company was recently incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000, and its ollicers are .Lorenzo Snow, Jr., President; A. K. Snow, Vice- President; (ieo. F. (iibbs, Secretary and Treasurer, and 101 iza Snow Dunford, Super- intendent, and since which time, for the accommodation of

which he thought would redound to the welfare of the city and Territory. We present on this page a very true likeness of Mr. Dunford as he usually appeared in every day life.

OEO. DUNFOKD, DECEASED.

its large business, moved to the elegant and commodious prem- ises it now occupies at No. 14 East First Stieet, where every convenience and facility for the rapid transaction of business and the comfort of its customers are enjoyed. It is but befitting that due notice should be given in this sketch to the founder of the business we have just described. Mr. George Dunford, now deceased, having breathed his last on February 17, 1891, the result of an accidental injury received at his place of busi- ness previously, was born December 15, 1822, at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He was upwards of thirty y«ars of age when he came to Salt Lake City, and since which time has ranked and been recognized as one of the country's most solid, enterprising and worthy citizens. His friends were always numerous, and especially among the old-timers, who experi- enced, in common with him, the ups and downs incident to Western life in early days. He was always a prominent man in business affairs, taking great interest in any action

UTAH PAINT AND OIL COMPANY.

In writing a descriptive review of the commercial resources and advantages of Salt Lake, and in mentioning the various enterprises which have materially aided in building up a great city, and developing the resources of the territory, there is no establishment more deserving of mention and praise than the Utah Paint and Oil Company which was founded in 1888, by Coombs, Hamlin & Keate and succeeded and incorporated by the present firm in 1889. Guided by a business policy founded upon the most honorable basis of mercantile integrity, it is not surprising that they now occupy a position among the most

prominent e s t a b 1 i sh- ments in the city and enjoy a custom and trade that extends throughout all the surrounding country. The Utah Paint and Oil Company is a wholesale and retail dealer in paints of all kinds, wall paper, oils of every de- scription,mouldings and painters' supplies. They are also house decorators in which line they have quite a repu- tation as artists of unex- ceptionable ability, They carry a stock of 86,000 and do a business of 830,000 per annum. They employ from twenty-five to thirty hands and have com- modious store and stock rooms separate and aparo from each other. The officers of the company are S. J. Coombs, mana- ger and superintendent; W. J. Jones, cashier and secretary. The board of directors comprises these two gentlemen, and David and A. Coombs, Lorenzo Cracroft and J. H. Ham- lin. All of these gentle- men are well known business men of Salt Lake and are recognized as subtantial and enter- prising men who have the best interests of the city at heart and have done much to promote the same. The Mana- ger and Superintendent, Mr. S. J. Coombs is a gentleman of unusual always been a strong of Salt Lake, and with the same together with

experience in his line, and has supporter of the commercial interests practically and thoroughly identified His experience and rare good judgment his high business qualifications aptly fit him for the position he holds. Mr. Jones, the cashier and secretary, is a native of England and came to the United States when he was only five years of age. He settled in Utah in 1868 and has followed the painting business ever since. When the present organization was formed he was engaged in an enterprise of his own but went in with the company as cashier and secretary, a position he holds with honor to himself an d a credit to the company. He is a man of large commercial abilities and a gentleman very highly regarded in the social walks of life. This house is located at 111 East First South Street.

THE UTAH PLUMBING SUPPLY CO.

In connection with the building interests of this great sec- tion, there is no branch of industry that exercises so potent an influence upon the general welfare of the community as that in which the above company is engpged. The great magni- tude, too, of this establishment and its extensive ramifications is a great factor in the commercial prosperity of Salt Lake, and entitled to careful consideration in this work. This institu- tion commenced business on January 1st, of this year, with a grand capital of $11)0,000. The company are jobbers and wholesale dealers in plumbing, gas fitting, and steam goods. They are also heavy manufacturers of lead pipe, having pur- chased the plant of the old Germania Smelting Company which has a large daily capacity. Owing to the great demand for lead pipes, on account of the water main extensions of the city, the company has been supplying a ton per day for sev- eral months. The business of the company since the start has increased wonderfully, or to be exact, at the rate of 50 per cent, per mouth. This, however, in nut to be wondered at when the fact is taken into consideration that they have the largest stock, and the beet facilities for the rapid transaction of business of any firm, company or corpora- tion, in their line, west of the Mis- souri River. The institution occu- pies an extensive building, 70 by 15H feet in dimensions, which is a model one for the purposes it is used, being conveniently arranged and ideal in all respects. A cement Hour furnishes a solid receptacle for the heavy goods used by the firm. They keep staple goods only, and their stock of Plumbers' and Stearafltters' supplies are complete from beginning to end. They sell to the trade exclusively, and in addition to a heavy local trade send Urge quantities of goods to Idaho, Wyoming and Western Colorado, and do an annual busi- ness of large proportions. The officers of this mammoth industry are David \V. James, President; .!.(». Midgeley, Vioe-President; J. < '. Heescb, Treasurer, and J. \V. Karrell, Secretary. The directory Ixmrd comprises the above named gentlemen with the addition of Mr. It. Morrison. All are old resi- dents HIM) prominent citizens of Utah with the exception of Mr. .Morrison who recently came to the city from Colorado. The entire establishment is under the man- agement of Mr. K. U. Slim-limit,"- who wan selected for this important position on account of his superior qualification pertaining to all the details of

he disposes of to the trade only. His specialty is in storing goods from eastern bouses and distributing them in carload lota. His territory covers Utah and Idaho, and he enjoys a large annual trade which is constantly increasing in extent and volume. He is a thoroughly practical man in his line, a man of splendid business qualifications, broad and liberal in his views and transactions with his fellow men, and a pleasant gentleman socially. He is a representative commercial man m all respects, and has aided very materially during his six years of active business in Salt Lake in building up and developing its commercial interests.

THE SALT LAKE ABSTRACT, TITLE, GUARANTY AND TRUST COMPANY.

The value of a reliable abstracting company to a community where so much real estate changes hands as in Salt Lake, can- not be over-estimated. The value also of such an enterprise is doubly assured when such a company guarantees and insures an abstract to be correct, holding itself liable for any and all mistakes that may be made by it. The Salt Lake Abstract Title Guaranty k Trust Co., '2.<'i~> S. Main street, is one of this character and has an excellent reputation for correctness and reliability in all its transactions with the public. It was organized and began business in February, 1889, and was sub- sequently incorporated in September of the same year with Jos. H. Smith, Prest., E. X. (tenter, Secretary, and J. \V. Neff, Man- and Treasurer. Then again at the annual meeting for IH'Jl the officers were re-elected as follows: Joe. H. Smith 1'res. James I. Xeff, Vice- Pres. and Ed. K. ( ientar. Secretary. The pany has elegant quarters, very handsomely titted up and provided with one of the finest vaults in the country. The

IIIKSU/r LAKK AI'.M KM I llll. I '.I \K\NM AND TKUHT COMPANY.

the business. He is a

thoroughly practical man in his line, a gentleman of acknow- ledged mercantile ability, and highly esteemed in social circles. The officers and manager Iwing known as prompt and relinl.le mercantile men, no enterprise can offer better inducements or give closer attention to the accomplishment of any matters in their line entrusted to them. All occupy high social positions, and take an active part, both by word and deed, in ill thing* pertaining t/> the best interest* of il,.. city and the Territory.

W. J. DeBRUHL.

The value to • community of mich an enterprise as the above cnnnot be over-estimated, and is certainly deserving of notice in mi «xtei,dei| review of t ml iiml mercantile- indiis-

trieeof Salt Lake City. Mr. W. .1. DrHrulilrtarted in business in tins.-,:, n I ->H6 an a manufacturer's agent, shipping, storage an<l MBBMoB merchant. The gentleman represents Home of the I*-*! flrnm in thr Kurt, unong whom are Arlmrkle Itro*

w York ; (Vr»«l Milling Company. '

;•>. Iowa ; United SUtrH Sugar H^Huery, \Ynukrgan. III.; King A l,nnil>. Chicago, Church A Co.. New York: T \

snider l>reeerTing Company, Cincinnati. Mr Ivltnihl has a large two-dory warrhoiiiu-. which in tilled with choice good* from the varion* manufacturers which h« represents and which

vaults are of the IMelu.ld Safe i ompany construction and con- sists of two chambers in which there me HID boxes which rent from $T> to *ii5 per year. A visit to tin. otlice will at once dem- onstrate that the company is up to itseyen in Uiisinefx. RB fifteen skilled assistants are U> be seen nt their respective de*kn, all busily at work. The company has a cash capital of SKm.iXM) mnl OOM ft general abstracting business, furnishing and guar- anteeing titles, eerves in the capacity of nilministrators, guar- dians, executors of wills and takes charge of papers in , -.-r, .» The im-nilx-rii of HIP ( ompany are all resident* of Salt Luke with the exception of the president. Mr. .loHpph II. Smith, who is theellicient anil able county clerk and recorder of Arrapahoe County. ( 'nlonnlo. Mr. < ipnter, the necretary, is a native of Ohio and in a gentleman of ex| i- Hie lino of his a voca-

tion, and u man of rerognizt .1 lun-inwn abilities. The maiiiiger anil treasurer. Mr. N'i-tT, hulls from I 'eniisv Ivania and WHS •••d for his present position on ncrount of his Mipen..r i|unlilIcatioiiH for the ««nie. He is * gentlemnn almi of high nifinl qunlitien and in nnivenmlly esteemed liy all who know him. By jmlicioim management, strict attention to l.nsiriewi.

allll nlnl'illlite.l llltei;ilt\. t he Cl Ullpnil J hits HliTi eiied 111 Illllhl-

ing up a I>ii8ine«i that IH highly Hatinfurtory to its im-mlx-m and their entHbliHhment ranks among lhi> tirst in itn line in the

Wrat. Tb«'> iir tirel> worthy of public confidence and

•atoem. and merit the trim measure of bnnneaa •OOOMB.

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T. C. ARMSTRONG, Jr.

Numbered among the growing industries of Salt Lake City; those that are alike important to the city's growth and the set- tlement of the wide stretch of agricultural land for which it forms the distributing point, will be found the hay, grain, seed and general commission business.

T. C. ARMSTRONG, JH , COMMISSION HOUSE.

Utah is a wonderfully productive teirilory. Its fertile land is suitable for raising every farm product known to a temper- ate climate, and the quantity of hay, grain, and other feed raised within its borders is enormous.

The establishment of T. C. Armstrong, Wholesale Jobber in hay, grain, seed, flour, feed, etc., at 472 and 474 W. Second South Street, is an institution well able to take care of this branch of Industry in Salt Lake City. Mr. Armstrong con- ducts the largest and most widely known business of this char- acter in the territory. He commenced business in 1875, and now occupies a large three-story block, 78 by 33, located in the heart of the city, Mr. Armstrong handles his business on an immense scale, and has unrivaled facilities for the efficient handling and storage and heavy consignments.

The extensive arrangements made by Mr. Armstrong with all the producers throughout the territory enables him to offer to the trade such advantages and inducements as few other houses can duplicate.

Hay, grain, flour, grass and garden seeds, feed, etc., are leading specialties, and immense quantities of these products pass through this establishment.

T. C. ARMSTRONG, JK.

Mr. Armstrong's trade extends over a vast territory, and his plan of business is familiarly known to all the local merchants throughout Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada and Utah. From the very start it acquired a widespread and enviable reputation, which has been maintained ever since.

Mr. Armstrong came to Salt Lake City in 1856, and has built himself up gradually to a position of influence and responsibility in the community. He is a straightforward business man, sagacious and enterprising.

Independent of his business relations with the wholesale jobbing trade throughout the country, Mr. Armstrong is inter- ested in public and educational matters in Salt Lake City, hav-

ing been a member of the school board until his term expired in 1891. He is also a hearty supporter of fraternal organiza- tions, being Sr. Grand Chancelor of the Knights of Pythias, for the territory of Utah. He is regarded by every one who has the pleasure of his acquaintance, as a man of integrity and high business qualifications. He has been one of the most faithful and successful workers for Pythianism in this jurisdic- tion, both in the subordinate, grand and supreme lodges.

Politically Mr. Armstrong has been a staunch member of the Liberal party, and has been such for the past fifteen years. His effective work in all public spirited movements has been felt and acknowledged by the community, and has invariably met with its hearty approbation.

SILVER BROS.

Of all the occupations engaging the industrious application of human thought, energy and endeavor, there is none of more importance than that of the scientifically skilled ma- chinist. The machinist is one, who, educated in the laws and principles of mechanics, has the genius and skill to apply them so as to produce practical results in the shape of machinery. Salt Lake has several flourishing establishments in this line, and among the leading ones is the firm of Silver Bros., pro- prietors of machine shop, iron and brass foundry. Their plant occupies a space of 5x13} rods, with an entrance to the premises of Hx6i rods. They manufacture castings of all kinds, and have facilities for turning out work weighing as high as seven tons. They transact a large business for the breweries and do a goodly portion of the work for the electric railway com- panies. They also make castings for buildings, and wrought iron work as well. They furnished all the iron work for the Hotel Templeton, iron and steel work of the Chamber of Commerce building, and the Morgan Hotel. They also sup- plied the Utah Loan and Trust Company, building at Ogden with the iron and steel work, the columns of which weighed four tons nine hundred pounds each, and are now finishing the McCormick block, which will be the largest in the city when completed, with the necessary iron materials used in its construction. The plant is a very extensive one, employing fifty-two men, making the annual pay-roll of this enterprise one of the largest in the Territory. The amount of annual business transacted ranges from $(>U,000 to $75,000, and is con- stantly increasing. The industry is one of the most important in Salt Lake, aiding largely and materially in the work of her development and growth, and the magnitude to which this enterprise will extend in the future and the value of the same to the city and Territory, is beyond the immeasurable fields of imagination. Within seven years it has grown from an es- tablishment that gave employment to eight men, to one that now furnishes work for fifty to sixty men the year round, and the means by which 200 to 300 people are annually supported The plant is essentially a home industry, whose value to this community cannot be estimated; it should be fostered and encouraged to the fullest extent.

Builders and contractors should never send a dollar abroad for material or work so long as there is an iron foundry in Salt Lake, possessing the facilities for executing good work that this does. Joseph A., Hyrum A. and John A. Silver ere the proprie- tors and owners of this great plant, and are all active, energetic men in the prime of life.

We do not consider it amiss to state in this connection, that the early life of these gentlemen was one beset with adversity, for when they arrived in this couutry, they were in modest cir- cumstances and by a system of proper economy, only were they enabled to supply themselves with the necessary capital to commence their present business and to accomplish which they labored for fifteen years in the mines and on the rail- roads of Utah. John A. Silver held the position of Assistant Master Mechanic with the Union Pacific road for nine years and during that period, Joseph and Hyrum were occupied as foreman in the machine shops of the same. It was after leav- ing the employ of the Union Pacific, that they purchased their present business, then in its infancy, from their father, Wm. .T. Silver, who founded it. The venerable gentleman is a native of London, still living at a hearty and ripe old age. He is one of the finest mechanical engineers in the country, a number one draughtsman and a prominent member of the American Me- chanical Engineers Society. The boys have reason to be proud of their sire, and the latter contemplates with pride and gratifi- cation, the achievement of his sons, who have accomplished much. There are no more active business men in the city, nor any imbued with a greater confidence in the future possibilities of the Territory.

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THE NATURAL MINERAL WATER COMPANY.

The works of nature are marvelous and beyond the handi- work of man. The Great Creator of all things, when he formed this beautiful earth invested and adorned it with all the glory and magnificence that a master mind could suggest. The mountain*, hills, valleys, dales, rivers, oceans and seas are per- petual reminders of the power of God and everlasting monu- ments of the skies and grandeur of our heavenly architect. Man with all his ingenuity, backed l>y the wonderful develop- ments of modern science and intellectual progress, has never been able to produce anything so beautiful as the natural wonders of the world. The physicians of modern times, rein- forced by all the paraphernalia of science, and the schools of learning have been taught lessons of wisdom from the healing streams of nature. The uncultured and untutored Indian, who, Dot many years ago, roamed over the broad domains of the West, with tierce and vindictive passions swaying bis soul and mind, discovered and partook of the life-giving waters to boun- tifully provided by the Father of all things in the creation of the world. Way up in ragged Idaho, surrounded by mount- ain- < if perpetual snow, and yet where the wild flowers bloom and shed their fragrance iu the bright golden summer days flows a spring that is an eternal reminder of the power of the Almighty Creator, and one of the beauties of nature. Over a mile above the level of the sea, the sparkling, gurgling waters of the " Idanha " Hash and scintilate under the golden rays of a sun that shines out iu all its gorgeous splendor from the cloudless sky of Idaho. Here, surrounded by all the glories of nature, the aborigines quaffed the nectar of health-giving waters before the heel of the white man had ever trod the shores of the new world. Here the famous I 'once De Leon in his search, centuries ago, for the fountain of perpetual youth, might have exclaimed " Eureka," " I've found it," had but his footsteps been guided in the right direction. For ages and centimes these springs remained in their mountain home un- known mid undiscovered by civilized man. The great "Path tinder," John C. Fremont, was probably the first white man to taste the waters of these now celebrated Soda Springs, an account of which is given in his ollicial reports. Then the great exodus of brave and hardy people from the east began in 1845. They banded themselves together and like resistless torrent these brave pioneers passed over the West toward the land of the Set- ling Sun. and the development of the country was practically begnn. When the hand of brave men and women, worn and weary from their tramp through the miles of sandy and deso- l.ii.- plains that span the distance from the Missouri I liver, on the '24th day of .IuU. IxlT. landed in the . I ordan Valley, and founded the present great citv of Salt Lake, the sun of civiliza tn. n ro«e over the western hills never to again set except iu a blaze of glory at the end of time. Some of these hardy men visited Idaho and discovered these now famous Soda Springs.

• -"light the news back to Brigham Young, the heail of the Mormon church, and he in company with a number of the

inn! ilignitaries of the church visited the springs to tee for themselves of the wonderful properties of which they had been told the waters possessed. The great apostle was so impressed at what he witnessed and tasted that be called hisfol- IHWITH around him, and thereon bended knees and unco\ered heads, In*, in the nain- of I iod he invoked blessings for all time DM, ii|nin its sparkling waters. Whether or nottheinvo- catioii was heard, none but the All-l'owcrfiil one knows, but the wor.lM df llul; Writ tend,..* UN that < Jod aniwereth prayer, and certain it is that from that time down to the present day, thousands of people all over this broad land have had occasion t. . thank <••••' for the miraculous relief and cures these waters have afforded them.

These springs are in groups as the illustrations will show, are situated in I'rigliHin C<mnt\. Idaho, in a depression of the Wasalch Mountain-, sixty miles east n i. and U-n

hours rule from Salt Lake ('it v An analysis of the wutrre re- veals its properties as follows: the presence of In •rarlxmat* of

l>i-«arbi>nate of potath, ohlondl ••' -• hum ami potash, sulphate of magnesia, lime, alumina, silica, carbonate of iron, free carbonic acid gas, and a number of other health-giving ingre- dient*. The water* are a sovereign remedy for nil imn • indigestion, kidney trouble. Itright'a disease, diabetes, dropsy, and a thousand kindred ills that tbe human flesh is heir In nual use doe* away with the appetite for spiritu..ux -«, and the day is not probably far distant when 1 1,.

.t boon to the drunkard and a powerful f .. • cause

.rougbout the breadth anil length of themorld.

n. at« where these springs are situated is delightful. The summer days are warm but not excessively so, but the nights are so cool that blanket* are required the year mm.. I I '.•• sp..t is a romantic one, and together with the healing waters,

is a place that makes life worth living for. The Water Company have already erected a mammoth hotel there and are doing their utmost to make it the most famous summer resort in the world. With all the natural advantages it possesses the facili- ties for transportation, being reached by the Oregon Short Line and Utah A Northern railway companies, it is destined to be- come a rival to the great Spas of Europe.

The present Soda Springs Company was organized January G, 1887, and a series of scientific and mechanical tests were made with a view of ascertaining if the water could be bottled and still retain itsexcellence and medical properties. After an extensive and lengthy experiment the secret was discovered, and the water was soon on sale in all the towns of the surround- ing country, until it is sold from here to New York and British Columbia, and south to San Diego. The officers of the company are Fred Pabst of the famous Milwaukee brewing company, President; W. A. Clark, Vice- President; Theodore Schausen, Treasurer, and W. ,T. Mclutyre, Secretary and Manager. The directors consist of the above named gentlemen with the addition of \\'m. M. Bradley, of the law firm of Bennett, Marshall <fr Bradley, and Fred J. Kieesell, a prominent merchant of the Territory. The capital stock of the organization is JH1 inn I the principal office is in this city. The officers and directors, with the exception of the president, are all prominent men of Salt Lake and Ogden, and comprise some of the wealthiest men in the Territory. The manager. M duty re, is a native of the Sunny South, having been born iu Louisiana. He may, however, be considered a western man as be has been out in this region of the country for twenty years or more. He is a man of recognized business qualifications and is a typical type of the true southern gentleman in every re- spect. The company is to be congratulated on their acquisi- tion of Mr. Mclntyre as manager, as he is in every way fitted for the position, and is undoubtedly the right man iu the right place. He is a firm and enthusiastic believer in the efficacies of the waters he represents, and takes great pleas- ure in showing and explaining the same to visitors. A call on him at the elegant quarters of the company in the Hooker Block, will be one of pleasure and interest to any one, as he will be pleased to see all who may desire to test for them- selves the many curative properties and advantages possessed by the waters of the celebrated " Ivanha" Soda Springs of Idaho.

C. H. CROW.

One of the industries of Salt Lake City which exercises a most favorable influence upon her commercial prosperity is the 1 mini-SB business. Prominent among the firms engaged in Ihe line of business is C. !!'''•. nlmaaa manufacturer of sad- dles and harness at .">* Kast First Street South, has a reputa- tion for excellency of work and material that cannot be sur- passed. Mr. Crow started iu business in Salt Lake Citv in 1 SCI, ami has been inactive mercantile life ever since. This enterprise was first started as Seeyrniller and Crow, and afler- wardsas Crow A- Bowing. In IMT'.I, Mr. Crow purchased the interest and goodwill of his partner, and has ever since run the business in his own name. The gentleman does both a job- bing and retail business and enjoys a large trade extending hroiigh I 'tah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Mr. Crow has three sons working with him and this in connection with his other employes gives him a competent force of practical workmen. The gentleman is a imtive of Kngland but has been a resident of I'tah since IM.V.'. Mr. Crow is a practical man in his traai- neas, having learned bis trade in England where he worked four \earx at the I tench as an apprentice. His old indenture as an apprentice, written on parchment, and dating way back 1*17 he him had framed and hung in his establishment as an evidence that he thoroughly learned lux avocation. He in jnxtlj very proud of the xiime and would not part with it under liny consideration. In 1SM he left home and went to Birmingham. Knglnnd, where he first IH-K.-UI his long and mic r as a harness maker. In IK".'.' he cast his for- tunes in Salt Lake and ha* Iwen rmineiitly succe+sfnl ever i from the Dweit Agricultural and

Manufacturing Society a diploma for the iMfst heavy har- ness, which was a recognition of his merits as a practical man in bislr

Mr. Crow has been prominently identified with all the oom- il interest x of Salt Lake for many years, and has been hon- ored by his fellow-citirens by a seat in the dtj com.cii in the early lnxtoi\ of the citv He IHB i-elf-made man, conscientious in

all in* denting*, and believes that a strict ndherei •

golden rule is a good principle to follow in all the transac- tions of life.

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GEO. M. SCOTT & CO.

many institutions for which 'Salt Lake is noted, stands the veteran establishment of Geo. M. Scott & Co. founded in 1871

nfThe hardware trade is confessedly one of the greatest fac- and which after twenty years of an honorable business career, tors in the rapid and astonishing development of this City and stands out prominently as one of the best and most favorably Territory, and the growth and progress of the leading houses known houses in the Western country. The establishment in that line are of general interest. Prominent among the was originally operated, by Messrs. Scott & Dunham, but later,

.GEO.M. SCOTT & CO., HAKDWAKK.

on became incorporated with Geo. M. Scott, President; Jas. I ilendinning, Vice President, & II. 8. Rumfield, Secretary. It deals heavily in hardware metals, stoves, tinware, mill find- ings, miners' and blacksmiths' tools, etc.. and is agent for the J)odge Wood Pulley, Roebling's Steel Wire Rope, Vacuum Cylinder and Engine Oils, Hercules Powder, Atlas Engines &

Boilers, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Scales and ''Jefferson Horse Whim, Blake Pumps— in fact the Company handle anything and everything in the line of Hardware and Carriages, a stock of mammoth proportions. The premises occupied consist of a massive four-story brick and stone building 25x100 feet in dimensions, admirably arranged for the business, which furn-

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ishes employment to twenty five people and supplies the demands of a trade extending throughout I'tah. Idaho, Wyom- ing and Montana, with annual sales amounting to a large sum. The officers of the Company are men of prominence in the commercial world and indentitied with the interests of Salt Lake. The President, Mr. Qeo. M. Scott, is one of the most active and enterprising of men— a man withal of the most sterling integrity, and personally popular. He is the present Mayor, having been selected as the standard bearer of the Liberal party, and a gentleman held in high public and social esteem by the people.

"OUR FRITZ."

It requires a variety of enterprises and different industries, to make up a metropolitan city, ami nowhere on the face of the globe is this more thoroughly demonstrated, than in Salt Lake. Four years ago, an honeet ( ierman, possessing all the natural characteristics of the thrift of his nation, landed in the city and immediately began to cast around for something to engage in that would not only be of pecuniary advantage to himself but also to supply a long- felt waut. The name of this gentle- man is Kritz 1 In pen or as he is commonly known in Salt Lake "Our Fritz." Twenty years ago Frit/ left his native laud and emigrated to the United States, settling in Wjoniing where be engaged in the hotel business, in which he was very suc- cessful. Fritz however was of a roving disposition and in foil- sequence of this he decided to view more of the wild and wooly West, las the eastern press has been in the habit of terming the Itocky Mountain Region), and he therefore pulled up the tent pins of his hostelry :iiul «n tin- wings of the iron horse Hew towards the land of the Setting Sun, with the result that he alighted in Salt Lake and thankful that his lines has been cast in such a pleasant place. His establishment on Commercial avenue comprises a sample wine room and restaurant which is conducted upon the most approved plan of security, comfort and reasonable rates. Fritz is an ideal landlord and to this end has fitted up as an auxiliary to his house, a Ladies' dining ami wine room, where the fair sex can he refreshed with the snbstuntialH ami luxuries of life free from the gaze of the sterner sex. Tliis department of his establishment is conducted in tirst-class style, and ie strictly in accordance with the rules of propriety that govern the entire business. In the transac- tion of his vast patronage. " Frit/. " employs twelve assistants, and does an annual business of 86<>,UOO. He thoroughly understands the art of catering to the public, and is highly deserving of the popular esteem in which he is regarded by all who have patronized his houw.

MASON & CO.

Any thing that pertains to the building interestsare necoes- Biinly potent factors in the growth and prosperity of auy com- munity and well worth being mentioned at considerable length in a work of this character. The enterprise that heads tins article is one of the largest of its nature in the western country. <i incorporated institution and carries an average stock of from SH.-I.IK m to $!Ni,iuo. The company wan originally fiiiiTi.ii-. I in IH7H hy II. P Mason, who is the Manager and Treasurer of tin- industry. The other otlicers are IJoyd I'ark, President; Frank L. King. Secretary. The business of the company is that of wholesale and retail dealers in lumlier. doors, windows, blinds, glass, nails, rustic ceiling T and 1 1 Mooring. liitliH, shingles, F.ast liiko doorn and finish, cherry, Mack ualnut, butternut, liinlseye maple and sycamore. They also saw ami dress lumber to order, and carry on an immense buftinew in the line of goods enumerated. The office and yards on Temple street cover an area of lit I rods. They nlno have a large planing mill with another lumln>r yard connected there- with near the union depot where, a .Hi-horse jiower engine furnishes the motive power for running the improved modern machinery with which the null is supplied. The entire husi ness of the company necessitates the employment «f forty assistants and a consequent large pay-roll annually. Their trade covers and extends over the states and territories of Utah, Idahn. \V\oming mid Nevada and reaches the enormous •um of $I.V'.' INI annually 'I'd- active mciuli»rs of the firm are Messrs. MSMMI * King who am sntisti. •! that the* are conduct- ing one of the heaviest industries of the Territory um I that

is of great value in the opening ami developing of the territor- ial reaoouroes. It is junt mich enterprises as these that are worth in the expanding, and aiding in the material growth .• than can I- computed in round dollars and cents ana the city and Territory generally are to congratulated mi the acquisition of such a valuable plant and extension industry.

WILLIAM ASPER & CO.

The lumber business is one of the many industries that con- tribute in no small degree to the prosperity and welfare of any city, and especially is this case in Salt Lake where so many public and private buildings are constantly in process of erection. The firm that heads this article inaugurated their lumber enterprise only two years ago, but have been en. in contracting and building for thirteen years in the city, and have probably erected as many houses in Salt Lake as any set of men within her limits. It was this firm that executed the carpenter and wood work of Ziou's Savings Itauk building. Constitution building. Deaf and Mute Institute, the.lnven- ile Instruction building, as well as many_ other promi- nent public and business structures and line residences. They carry a large stock of lumber of all descriptions, including sash, doors, frames and building material geuer ally, and do an immense business. They sell lumber all over the Territory and have a large contract business in the city. They have a sash, door and frame factory located in a two-story brick structure 54x60 feet in dimensions at 1.11 \V. North Temple street, where skilled workmen are constantly turning out fine work, with the aid of the most modern machinery. Their yards occupy a space of 5x20 rods, with an entrance to the same of three to six rods. They employ from forty to fifty men in their vast business and their pay-roll is in consequence one of large dimensions. The factory has a splendid reputation for the excellence of the work turned out, and a great demand for its material is the result. The firm consists of William Asper and William and Mathew Noald, all prominent and well known citizens of the city. Mr. Asper hails from Pennsylvania but has resided here for twenty-five years. The Messrs. Noald are natives to the manor born and fully identified with all the interests of I'tah. The gentlemen are all comparatively young and possess all those keen, resolute business qualifications that stamp the successful commercial man of the period. They have an unblemished reputation for honesty and fair dealing, and are highly esteemed by all who know them.

HARDY, YOUNG & CO

One of the great institutions in every fity is the general mere-hunts' store where all aud sundry of the necessaries, con- veniences and comforts of life, are to be had under the same roof. Indeed, measured by the proportion of the population which it reaches, and whose wants are supplied from its varied stock, one might say without fear of successful contradiction, that the store where general merchandise is sold, " Leads them all." Certainly no other branch of basiness has so many or so ciiiistanl patrons. Staples or articles of necessity control the markets of the world, other commodities are merely auxiliar- ies, simply incidental, while the staples are the essentials. ( >ne of the most prominent firms engaged in this line of business in Salt Lake City is that of Hardy. Young A Co.. in South Main St.. who Matted in the general merchandise busi- ness in 188 I he enterprise was first started by L. C.. .V ( >. II Hardy, but there are now associated with these gentlemen Messrs. F.lins Morris and Alon/.o Young, all of whom are na- tives of I'tah. with the exception of Mr. Morris, who was boru in Ki. gland hut h»s been a resident of Salt Lake for a nnnilier of years. The tirni carries a general stock of merchandise in: eluding a full line of dry goods, boots, shoes, and groceries, ami its trade iflchietlv derived fr.-m the territory. The average amount ,.f stock carried is S4I.1.IMNI Hnd an annual business of SHO.IHMI is transacted. The Mini occupies an elegant storeroom and basement in the new Constitution building anil employ ten assistants. The store is centrally located, in large, comniod ions and well lightc d and is neat and perfect in all ita interior arrnigements. The basement is provided with cement Moor*, and is used fm Muring gooils.

The individual members of the firm are all prominent men in the commercial and social hisd r> of I tali. They Hie li\e business men, conducting their attain* on the most elevated plane of commercial honor and integrity, ami are deservedly

reckoned among the best representative hiiHimws m if the

whole community Mr. L<t. Hardy is the present collector of Salt Lake City which jiosition he has held fin four years, w ith cn-dit l<i himself and honor to the people who elected him. Mr. (>. II. Hardy is a memlx-r of the city council, Imving been I to that position at the last election, a good nuijority evidencing the popularity and esteem in which he is held !•> UM people.

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ROBERTS & NELDEN.

From no Bource can clearer, more comprehensive or more reliable knowledge o f the country's development be obtained than from the record of business tran sactions and successes. This is especi- ally true with regard to the West, and there are many illus- trations of this to be found in Salt Lake. The retail houses have contribu- ted much to- ward the pros- perity of this city, and among them there is none more prominent in this respect than the house of Roberts & Nelden, whole- sale and retail dealersin drugs. This enterprise was established about 1883 by Messrs. Roberts & Neldeu, the latter however purchasing the interests of the former in March 1891, though business is still continued un- der the name of the old firm. This house car- ries a very large stock of drugs, chemicals etc., and transacts a heavy business, the trade, prin- cipally whole- sale , being throughout Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wy- oming, Eastern Nevada and Western Color- ado, and footing up $10(1,0(10 an- nually. They occupy a large and commodi- ous three story and basement

rear, brick building, together with a ware-house in the filled with one of the most extensive lines of drugs of the purest qualities in the West.

Mr. Nelden is a practical druggist of twenty-rive years experi- ence and has been a resident of Utah for twelve years. He devotee his personal attention to all the details of his immense business, and employs none but experienced and skillful phar- macists as assistants. He is a native of New Jersey and for a

ROBERTS * NELDEN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DKUGGIST8.

number of years was engaged in business at Phillipsburgh in that State. He is an active enterprising man, of recognized commercial abilities; is broad and liberal in his transactions, and has the confidence of all with whom he does business. He is highly esteemed in social circles and his facilities for doing business as also his superior qualifications for its management are unsurpassed, while hie experience and business sagacity cannot be excelled.

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YOUNG BROS. COMPANY.

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ments hare of late years been made in the construction of musical i n a t r u - mente, superior art, skill and science, b a v i n g been brought to bear in their manu- facture. Salt Lake City is liberally supplied with es- tablishments for the sale of musical instruments and other accessor! e s of harmony, i n - eluding the latest

CHASE PIANOS. vooal and instru-

mental arrangements I n this connection, the attention of readers is directed to the firm of Young Bros. Co., at No. 38 Main street. This house was originally established in 1880, by Royal B. and J. O. Young, and M. W. I'riitt, under the name of You ng Bros. I n 1886, however, the firm was incorporated under the name of Young Bros. Company, by Royal B. Yonng,Joe. O. Young, M. W. Pratt, M. P. Young, K. Young, J. F. Young and U. Young. The company carries a large and varied stock of musical in- struments, of the best make and description, including the celebrated Chase Bros., Howard, and Jacobs Bros, pianos; the I'acard and Clengh, and the Warren make of organs. The Domestic and Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines are kept in stock also. The company occupies two floors of a large and well arranged building; give employment to eight salesmen and assistants, and do a business annually increasing and ex- tending throughout I 'tah, Idaho and Wyoming. The members of the company are natives of Utah, having been born in Salt Lake City, well known in the commercial community, enjoying an enviable reputation for fair dealing and strict integrity, and much esteemed in mercantile and social circles.

moved to this city where he has ever since resided. Mr. Klipple is an active, enterprising business' man, thoroughly practical in all the details of his line, and fully identified with the interests of Utah and Salt Luke. He in a sociable and agreeable gentleman, and has the confidence and esteem of all who know him.

PHIL. KLIPPLE.

The value of manufactories, especially to inland cities, can- not be over-estimated. In fact, no town situated away from navigable streams can ever hope to attain commercial greatness except through the aid of manufacturing enterprises. They are essential and important auxiliaries to the prosperity and growth of any city, anil without them a town will never rise be- yond the dignity and importance of a second or third-class city. Happily for Halt Lake she has, within her limits, a large nnmber of manufacturing plants, which are potent factors in her remarkable growth and progressive advancement. Promi- nent among such industries is that of Phil. Klipple, manufac turer and repairer of wagons, carriages and vehicles of all de- scriptions, located at NOB. 144 to 148 West Second South street. He also makes mining can and safety hooks and carries on 8 general blacksmithing business. He has a large local trade and also receives many orders from adjacent towns and cities. His enterprise u located in a large two-story brick structure 53x63 in dimensions, with an iron wing adjoining of three stories in height and 25x4 > feet in dimensions. He employs from fifteen to twenty bauds and has a reputation for turning ont some of the beet and finest work in all the Territory. Mr. Klipple started his enterprise eight years ago and has been so successful that he contemplates in the near future the erection mud operation of a plant that wilt be one of the largest of its character in the West. The industry lie now presides over is essentially a home enterprise in every respect, and a* such is receiving, and deserving of a most liberal patronage. Home plants should, above all others, be encouraged and supported, as every dollar, almost, expended with them in again placed in direct circulation among the merchants and busine** im-n. tlnm keeping a large volume of money from (wing sent east.

The owner and proprietor, of this plant, Mr Khpplr. is forty-one years of age and was born in \Viwnnsin nii<l removed when very young with folks to California, and finally came to Utah in hi* early manhood eighteen yean ago, settling in the beautiful and enterprising little town of Online. In this place he resided aome five or six yeara, when- he was a prominent citizen and ollicml. He was a member of the town council at Orinne for several yearn, a position be filled with credit. He afterwards re-

CHUTE & HICKS.

In a review of the industries and enterprises of Salt Lake City, there are many brain-lies of business that, while they are classified under no general head, yet are deserving of mention from the fact they are im- portant factors in the material pros- perity of the city-. The commission and brokerage business, in which Messrs. Chute & Hicks are en- gaged, is of this class of Industrie- and plays an important part in the material growth ami prosperity of the city. The gentlemen are also manufacturers agents for the cele- brated national cash register the sale of which has been almost un- precedented. The business was founded by James A. Chute and Wm. M. Hicks, and although confined to the Territory the transactions involve $40,000 per annum. Mr. James A. Chute is a native of the Pine Tree State, and was educated in Xewbnry- port, Mass., and has been a resi- dent of Salt Lake for the past five years. He came here from Lincoln, Nebraska, and hns made an unexceptional record as abu§i- ness man and social gentleman. Mr. W. M. Hicks has been a resident of Salt Lake for about live years and in that time has developed business talents of a high order and is a valuable acquisition to the commercial interests of the city. The business that the gentlemen represent is an important one as regards the best interests of the city and Ter- ritory, and is largely instrumental in developing many of the prominent industries.

W. H. H. SPAFPORD & CO.

There are many large Real Kstate. mine and property owners in Salt Lake City, that as enterprising men, are eutitled to the high place they occupy in the esteem of their fellow cili/ens, on account of the work they have done toward advancing this City and Territory. Among those who occupy such a position there are none more deserving than the firm whose name appears at the head of this sketch.

The firm was established about two years ago. and is com- posed of Hon. W. II. II. Spafford, and Mr. ('has. B. Jack. The former is a Councilman of this City, and the latter a prominent attorney. They have invested $100,000 in their business and their trade extends throughout the entire City. < .unity and Territory: while together with eastern capitalists they have large investments in mines throughout the southern part of the Territory and especially in Iron County where they have in one bed. fully l,(HK1,(KHi carloads of Magnetic Ore in tight, ami in the aame neighborhood they have a 70ft. vein of Red Hematite Ore which is used in tin- manufacture of Mineral paint. Mr. Spafford has travelled extensively through the Iron Ore pro- ducing countries, and says there is not a state or territory in the Union which produce* Iron Ore equal in quality and quant- ity to Utah, and that as soon an the ore producing district* are supplied with some railroad facilities that there is no other country who oan compete with the output of the Utah mines, anil when this occurs, which will be in the near future, there will be an investment of labor, a sternly out-put of i.rc, and in return a stream of capital, pouring into the Territory.

P. W. MADSEN.

Of successes in the business world earned by the exercise of sound judgment, thorough tact and indomitable energy, there is no more eminent ex- ample in Salt Lake than P. W. Madsen who is now at the head of one of the largest furniture establishments west of the Missouri River. The trade of this house of great magnitude has been built up within fifteen yeare. High commercial character, discriminating judgment and executive ability are possessed by Mr. Madsen in a marked degree, and combined with a careful consideration of the needs of the public, has made the establish- ment over which he presides a recognized synonym for all that is popular, progressive and honest. The house was established in 1877. He now owns and* occupies a large three story and basement building, 48x200 feet; also utilizing premises 40x 100 feet in the Hooper block for the purposes of a warehouse. 1 le carries an extensive line of Moquet, Velvet, Brussels and Ingrain carpets, aggregating thousands of dollars in value; also every description of furniture in all grades, which he sells at prices within the reach of the most modest of patrons. In the matter of curtains and draperies he carries a superb stock, and his varie- ties of wall paper embrace the latest and most fashionable patterns. The amount of capital in- vested is quoted at 840.00(1 and over. 1 le employs thirteen assistants; does both a wholesale and retail trade locally and in all the towns and citjies of the Territory, the business annually amonntf ing to * 120,000.

lu the employ of Mr. Madsen are M. P. Mad- sen, head clerk, and R. Michelsen, head book- keeper, bright and active employes, most highly psteemed by their employer on account of their ability and commercial worth. Mr. Madsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He settled in Salt Lake in 1875, embarking in his present busi- ness two years later. He is one of the most prom- inent and favorably known men of the Territory, and has always participated in any worthy project formulated for the advancement of the material interests of the city. He is president of the Utah Stove & Hardware company; vice president of the Utah Commercial and Savings Bank; president of the Western Shoe & Dry Goods company; director in <!rant Bros. Livery Co. and Benefit Building society; also interested directly and in- directly in a number of other undertakings pro- motive of great good to the city. His honorable deportment in all the relations of life command the confidence and respect of all who know him. < His career furnishes one of the most noted ex- amples of success in the commercial history of Salt Lake, a success, too, that is a triumphant demonstration of the opportunities offered by the _ city and Territory.

THE HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY CROSS.

This is one of Salt Lake's grandest institutions. It is situ- ated on First South between Tenth and Eleventh East streets. It is in charge of the Sister Superior.

It was established in Oct. 1875, under the supervision of the Right Rev. Bishop Scanlan. The present building which was erected for them was completed and occupied by them in 1882. The Sisters of the Holy Cross instituted this establishment and it is now managed by them. The hospital corps consists of Sister Superior, Managing Director; Drs. Fowler and Pinker- ton, physicians and surgeons, assisted by Drs. Meecham and Meyer, as medical staff. Sixteen Sisters of the Holy Cross, and five men as nurses, insuring moet skilled, kindly and effective service. Most of the patronage of this establishment comes from this Territory, though many patients come

from the neighboring states. The ground occupied comprises 10 acres. The main building is 80x165 feet and four stories high constructed of brick and containing 34 private rooms and 6 wards, 4 of these wards accommodate 16 patients each, the other two contain 5 beds each. Their office and operating rooms are complete and all the modern and most approved appliances, for comfort and convenience are found there. The private rooms are furnished elegantly and the larger ones have a cosy and handsome little parlor attached to them, which is a great thing for convalescents, or patients whose friends wish to spend some time with them. In fact this part of the hospital reminds one more of a first-class hotel than a public hospital. The institution can only take care of one hundred and fifty patients now but is to be greatly enlarged next year. These patient, toiling, holy, women are doing a great and noble work here, as elsewhere wherever they are, and many poor fellows from all over this country will rise up and call them blessed.

ST. MARY'S ACADEMY.

Among the many educational establishments of Salt Lake City is St. Mary's Academy. Established in 1875 and governed by a Lady Superior of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, owning for its parent the well-known St. Mary's Academy, of Notre Dame, Indiana, and is situated on First street West, be- tween First and Second South streets, thus being within an easy distance of the several railroad depots in the city.

The buildings of the academy are both large and commodious, and the sanitary arrangements perfect They are of brick 200x100 feet, the main building three stories and basement; the

the same number of day pupils, making a total of 300, with ample accomodntions for more.

These pupils are taught by a very efficient staff of teachers, twenty in all. The course of study embraces all branches necessary to constitute a first-class education; including algebra, geometry, atsronomy, philosophy, lo^c, rhetoric, history and general literature. Bookkeeping and general busi- ness transactions are especially attended to. Students are expected when they enter the academy to take the regular academic musical and art courses, unless otherwise provided for by their parents. French and (terman are taught by

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8T. MAKYH ACADKMY.

others, two stories, the ceilings running from sixteen to thirteen and one-half feet. Every provision is made for the protection of the health of the inmate*, a large infirmary being upon the grounds, in which the patients obtain the best of care and attention. The resource* of this establishment, however, are but seldom called upon. I iood, healthy and substantial food, well prepared and regularly served, together with snch invigor- ating exercise* as calisthenics, game* and country walks, go very 'ar toward preserving, if indeed, not enforcing good health. The precautions taken against fire are admirable. There is also an outside stairway to seonre safe exit in case of accident

The academy, as its name implies, is principally intended for the instruction of Roman Catholic pupil*, but pupils of all other denominations are received and token care of equally as well, there being at present in the academy about 160 boarder* and

Sisters, natives of France and ( iermany, respectively, and (lie department of music is exceedingly well adapted. It in in a separate building provided with pianos, double net ion luirp. organs and other instruments. Students in vocal music are also given careful attention. In the art school, pupils are afforded every opportunity for displaying their talents.

Sewing, both plain and fancy, is also taught in the Academy, and a feature of the routine is the weekly com- petitive examination at which prices and medals are awarded. There are also annual and semi-annual examinations and many means successfully employed to promote a spirit of application and healthy emulation. The institution contains an excellent library of well selected books, and other features of superior rxcullemw. Pupils are received at any time during the year, tti>-ir term commencing with the date of their entrance, and half fare permiU are secured for pupils inside the Territory.

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ALL HALLOW'S COLLEGE.

Utah's educational institutions are by no means be- hind the times, young as the development in other branches may be in the Territory. Prominent among these is All Hallow'p College, established in 1886, by Bishop Scanlan, of the Diocese of Salt Lake, who, how- ever, transferred the school to the Society of the Marist Fathers in 1889. It has a capacity of one hund- red boarders ; many day pupils can likewise be accom- modated. The college occupies a lot of ground 54x110 feet in dimensions, the building being a four- story edifice constructed of brick, with ground for recreation over 2(iO feet square, well equipped with gymnasium appliances. The institution is provided with a faculty of compe- tent instructors, and places within easy reach of par- ents in Utah the means of furnishing their children with a thorough practical and classical education, while keeping them at home; nor is the religious element essen- tial to a proper education lacking. The academic year, beginning on the first Monday in September and clos- ing about June 20, is divided into two terms, the latter term beginning in February, and the various depart- ments are under the immediate supervision of the fathers. Terms are reasonable and the results highly satisfactory. For further particulars call or send for the annual catalogue of this college which contains full information regarding the studies, general regulations, terms, outfits required, course, etc., pursued by the same.

UINTAH HOTEL.

There is no surer index of the business of a city than the extent and character of its hotel accommodations. Estimating Halt Luke City upon this basis one can arrive at some correct

idea of her growth and

progress. One of these in the van of popularity is the Uintah, presided over by French & Sow- ers. The Uintah is cou- ductid on the Euro- pean plan, one of the finest restaurants in the Territory being con- nected therewith. The premises occupied con- sist of a handsome four story brick structure conveniently located, containing fifty sleep- ing rooms, furnished in the most elegant and recherche style, sup- plied with electric lights and all the mod- ern conveniences for the comfort of guests. The furnishings are en- tirely new, and one fea- ture that commends itself is the elegant suites of rooms p r o - vided especially for the class of patronage to which it caters. The hotel is specially for families who prefer boarding to keeping house, and seven of the best families in the city are domiciled beneath its roof.

Mr. E. E. French, one of the proprietors, was formerly a trav- eling man, representing a large house in St. Joseph, Missouri, for thirteen years. He is well known to the traveling public, with whom he is a universal favorite. His partner, Mr. Or. L>. Sowers, is one of the oldest and most popular landlords in the west, being the former proprietor of the McOlure ttoui Canon City, Colorado. Both gentlemen may be described as ideal " Mine host," and will make the Uintah one of the most popular hostelries in the west. The Uintah is located at 18th and Commercial streets. ___

SALT LAKE SOAP CO.

Particularly deserving of favorable mention, not only for its enterprise, but also for the importance of the business in which it is engaged and for the volume of trade which it commands, is the large and enterprising soap manufacturing establishment of the Salt Lake Soap Co., the largest of the kind in the terri- tory. The enterprise was inaugurated a little over two yea

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ALL HALLOW8 COLLEGE.

ago, but so immediate was the recognition extended it by the public, and so rapid was the consequent increase of its trade, that now the establishment is recognized as a representative concern all through the west, and enjoys a prominence shared by few, if any, of its kind in the country. The transactions show a uniform gain each year over those of the year previous, and amounts at present to $75,000 per annum, the trade cover- ing the territories of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. The manufactory is located in North Salt Lake in a two-story structure especially adapted for the business. The appliances, apparatus and machinery in use are all of the latest and most improved pattern, and twelve handb are employed in the works. The company manufactures the celebrated brands of " White Rose," "Olive Queen," "Nickle Ous" and "Hard Water" soaps, and such favorites are these brands with the public, that nearly every grocery store in the west handles the same. The factory turns out large quantities daily and increased capacity will soon be necessary to supply the demand. The company is an incorporated one with W. H. Kemiugton, president; Jno. H. White, vice-president; G. F. Culmer, treasurer; Ansel N. Badger, secretary and virtual manager of the business. All of the gentlemen are men of prominence in the city, thoroughly identified wilh the interests of Salt Lake and recognized as gentlemen of ability in the mercantile community.

THE INTER-MOUNTAIN ABSTRACT COMPANY.

When an investor desires to put money in real estate there are two things to be considered. First, the money; second, he must be assured that the title to the property is perfect. The Inter- Mountain Abstract Company, occupying rooms 55, 56 and 57, Commercial Block, was formed in 1889, by J. T. Stringer, one of the best known business men in the city, and Mr. Atterbury, for the protection of investors. Mr. Stringer is still connected with the firm in the capacity of president, with L. C. Grossman, vice president and manager, and A. J . Van Anda, sec- retary and treasurer. All are gentlemen of business ability, experience and integrity, and the firm's approval of title is a guaranty of its condition for purposes of investment or pur- chase. They do an immense business throughout Salt Lake City and county, as also in the Territory; employ three experts, and large force of clerks, and their dealings are characterized by promptness and reasonable charges. The individual mem- bers of this firm are too well known to need any special men- tion, but incidentally it may be said that Mr. Stringer is one of the foremost real estate men in Salt Lake City, while Mr. Grossman, the vice president, is connected with a number of the leading financial institutions of the Territory, and Mr. Van Anda, one of the best known men of Utah, is also identified with the leading interests of the city and county. The firm, in addition to abstracts, do a general real estate business and en- joy a large clientage. They own and control several of the val- uable city additions, h ave plenty of acreage, and a large list of city properties, being also interested in mining, and possessing unsur- passed facilities for obtaining bargains in that line. As a firm they are rated high, and hare the reputation of doing everything on strictly business principles.

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DAVID JAMES & CO.

One bright example of marked and well merited suc- cess in any important line of business is furnished l>y t In- firm of David James A Co., its name being a synonym throughout the Territory for reliability, thorough ac- i|uuintauce with the busi- ness, and every quality cat- ciliated to commend it to public favor.

The enterprise was founded in lH7:t by David James and F. A. Mitchell. In 1*76, Mr. James pur- chased the interest of M i t c 1 1 ell and was sole proprietor until 1884, when he ad- mitted as partners, D. W. and H. G. James, and W. H. Schluter. In January, 1891, it was incorporated, with David James. President; I). W. James, Vice-president, and Wm. H. Schlnter, Secretary and Treasurer. The Board of Directory consists of 1 >avid James, II. ' James, Wm. H. Schluter, I). W. James, William .lames, < .1. Higson and C. J. I >angerfield. The company carries an average stock of 850,000, and the annual business transacted is of great magnitude. In addition to the business of plumbers. tinners, gas and steam fitters, the company is an importer and dealer in gas chandeliers, plumbing materials, pipe and fitting, hot water and steam heating supplies, tin and iron roofing, galvanized iron cornice, guttering, and rubber hose, being also agents for the celebrated Kumsey force and lift pumps, and make a specialty of drive well supplier Special attention is also given to defective plumbing. The establishment is well located in a large two-story and basement building, at C>7 S. Main street, and fifty-four hands are employed, making its pay roll one of the largest in the city, while the com- pany's trade extends throughout 'Utah and Idaho, mid is increasing in volume rapidly. The gentlemen com- prising the company are men of large and varied experience in the commercial world, largely identified with the interests of I'tab, and among its most active, enterprising and brainy busi- ness men, of large social qualities and held in high rcnra iind esteem by the many friends and acquaintances made during tlifir long resilience in Stilt Luke City. Competent, reliable and trustworthy in all business matters, the enterprise is worthy of the large patronage it enjoys.

OA8SER Si M'QUARRIE

Among toe many establish- ments in this city that take the rank of lead- ers in their re- spective lines is the one whose name brads this article. They do a general liv erv anil feed bus- inetsat IBKStiit.- street, and keep in their house a •ompleto and ••Uvuit line cf hnggics. <• a r

riagra Mid flu* driving Ix.rre*, M well as gmtfd naddle animal*. I i -••. al*» receive bnrw* lo board and take the best of care of The personnel of tbe firm, Meisrs. O. (lasser A W Me </unrrie. are keen, • UMUVM men, enjoying tbe confl-

dooce and rm| ect of tu» community, and have gained an en- viable utanding in the world of trad* and cr. .lit. a position only

. rd on a basis of ulrict integrity and bone»t rt-p. They furnish tbe people of thin vicinity with un* xrell. .1 liver; •ccotnn.»'li.ti..iiK. mid are prepared to respond to calls at any boar of tbe day <>r night. Tlwjr have an especially flu* line ..f gentl* borani for ladi«*, as well M spirited animals for those who wish tbOTQ.

UTAH CRACKER FACTORY.

In the history of all cities of any magnitude, the manufac- turing industries have formed an important factor in the development and prosperity of the same. In a review, there- fore, of any city a large share of attention should be paid to this branch of industry by historical writers. To this end, the editors of this work have devoted considerable time and space,

believing that these institu- tions well merit such treat- ment. Among the many and numerous manufactories in Salt Lake City, the Utah ( 'packer Factory takesafront rank, both as to the quality of goods turned out and in the volume of its business transactions. It commenced operations seventeen years ago, but in 1886 the plant was purchased by the pres- ent owners, Geo. lluslerand Henry and \V. It. Wallace, by whom it has since been operated. Tbe premises oc- cupied comprise a large building, Hxl'l'i feet in dimensions, fitted up with all the conveniences necessary for its work, and supplied with modern machinery of the most approved pattern. It has a capacity of thirty barrels per day, and employs fourteen men and eight women and girls. The manufactures include all all kinds of cakes and crackers, the reputation of which for ex- cellence extends throughout I'tah, Idaho. Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada, and at the late Utah Territorial Fair these goods were awarded the highest premium for excel- lence and quality. A specialty is made of t he celebrated " Silver Brand" of crackers and biscuits, which are considered house- bold necessities in every place they have been introduced. Another specialty is the system and style of packing goods, when requested by patrons, in square, glass-front cans, nicely painted in different colors, or in handsome, oval plate glass front, beautifully japanned in colors and lettered. A large stock of glass show tops for cracker boxes is carried by the firm, which are desirable articles for the retailer to have, as they show off the goods to great ad vantage and at the same time keep tbem moist and fresh. Mr. Hnsler is a native of (iermany, but has resided in Salt Lake for twenty-nine years. The mem bers of the Company are all prominent in tbe commercial and mercantile community of Utah and Salt Lake, and well and favorably known throughout the Territory. They have con- tributed largely of their time and means and been instrumental to a considerable extent in materially advancing the prosperity of tbe city. They are sociable and pleasant gentlemen in the walks of private life and number their friends by tin- hundred. Tbe manager of the plant, Mr. Henry Wallace, is an able In mi ness man, and to bis energy and discretion and fine commercial qualifications is due much the success that the factory has commanded.

THE SECURITY ABSTRACT COMPANY.

One of the leading and most thoroughly reliable firms enagaged in the real estate business is the Security Alwtract Company of Salt Lake City, occupying office.* in the Deseret National Bank building. Tbe firm began operations in 1889, and conducts a general abstract business that to-day average! more than fJn.iMi a year. The officers of tbe company are: K. S. Kicharda, president ; Tho*. (J. Webber, vice-president, and .1. C. Jensen, secretary and treasurer, prominent men of the city. President Kichards held the position of Speaker of tin- last General Assembly of the Territorial Legislature. He IH a lawyer, capitalist and nmn of large ability in the commercial and financial community. The directory con silt* , -hard*. Tli.*. li. \VebU-r. X. W. Clayton, Klinx

A Smith. M I I'nmmingK, Daniel Hamer. James H. Moyle, ('has. C. Uicharda and A. W. Carlson. The secretary and treasurer, Mr. Jensen, has been engaged in the alwtract bum- nemi for a number of ;eiu«, m which he acquired an .-\peri. nee admirably qualifying him for the duties of hi* responsible position M.-a.l; application to business, thorough acquaint- ance with the city and county, and their complete line of abstract records, enable them to accommodate all applicant* with promptness, r.-liubilitv and at a moderate cost The abstracts furnished are guaranteed and certified to as being correct in every particular, and therefore to lie relied upon in the pun-hating of real i

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SALT LAKE CITY BREWING CO.

The great popularity of the amber-hued beverage of the " Faderland " among all classes and nationalities, is the best evidence of its generous appreciation and its ability to fill the wants of the public for a health-giving and invigorating drink. In Germany, where for centuries the knowledge and practice of brewing beer has descended from generation to generation, it is held in the highest estimation by the people, and is regarded as an indispensable adjunct to the every day wants of all classes of society. Notwithstanding the fact that the first knowledge of the brewing of beer had its inception in the principalities of the old world, the honor of having perfected and improved its standard to the present high grade of excellence has been

ness air such as is seldom witnessed in the west. The capacity of the plant is three hundred barrels per day, and the present amount of the annual business is 25,000 barrels, the trade extending through Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. One of the two ice machines, of seventy ton capacity per twenty- four hours, is used for the special purpose of frosting the pipes in the cellar, thus keeping the same perfectly cool and the beer stowed in the cellars is in consequence kept almost to the freez- ing point. The plant also manufactures its own electric lights, every house on the premises being brilliantly illuminated by the powerful dynamos with which the same is supplied. The bottling works are contained in a huge two-story structure con- structed of rock and brick and supplied with all the conven- iences for the rapid facilitation of business. In this great

SALT LAKK CITY HHKWINO CO.

reserved to America. There iifb many mammoth brewing establishments throughout the country, but Salt Lake has one that is a pride to any city. We refer to the Salt Lake City Brewing Company, the immense plant of which, at 471 to 481 l()th East street, was founded in 1871, and incorporated July, 1884. The plant covers rive acres of ground and consists of the main building, a substantial four-story brick and stone struc- ture, 108x150 feet in dimensions, with a brew house 42x96 feet, two-stories and iron clad. The plant also embraces an ice house 25x80 feet, two-stories in height, and a burn 33x56 feet, also two one half stories, with a capacity of stabling fifteen head of horses. The entire plant is run by a battery of powerful engines, aggregating one hundred horse-power capacity, while the neccessary appliances for conducting this mammoth indus- tery is of the most approved modern construction, and the entire establishment is a model of neatness, presenting a bnsi-

enterprise there are employed thirty-rive men, and a large pay- roll is the consequence. The institution is the largest of its kind in the Territory and is of great value to the city from a commercial point of view. The officers are : M. Cullen, presi- dent ; Jacob Uloritz, vice-president, treasurer and general man- ager and Robert J. Deighton, secretary. They are all solid sub- stantial citizens of Salt Lake and deeply interested in every thing that pertains to the welfare of the city and Territory. They are men of wealth and influence and deserving of all the prosperity that can attend them.

EMPIRE STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY.

An enterprise, though of recent origin in Salt Lake, has already assumed unusual prominence in the general make-up of the commercial industries of the city. The Empire Steam Laundry, which heads this article, was formed by the selection

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of Henry W. Uoscber, president; Don Ferguson, vioe-president; with II. V. Utto, secretary and treasurer, and does a large bus- iness. The establishment occupies a three-story building, •-J-'ixHK) feet in dimensions, fully and handsomely equipped, in which thirty or more assistants find employment, and by their exercise of care and skill, have extended the reputation of the enterprise for the excellence of work turned out, pay ing special attention to hotel and restaurant supplies, of which they have a large patronage. The proprietors are natives of Nt-w York and Ohio, and possess not only thrift, push and enterprise, but an intimate acquaintance with all the details of their line of business. They are recognized as enterprising and public spirited citizens of extended influence and high standing in the community.

SORENSEN & CARLQUIST.

A great commercial house doing business over an extended territory belongs quite as much to its thousands of patrons as to the city where it may chance to be located. The natural inference following the assumption is, that the patrons of the house which beads this article would like to know something of its history. It is surprising, even in the light of the rapid

growth of Salt Lake and the development, of its trade, that a house of so large interests and con- trolling so important and extended a trade, could have grown up within the comparative brief space of ten years, but such is the fact. The firm of Sorensen & Carlquist was founded in 1881 by John P. Sorensen and C. A. Carlquist. They carry on a general furniture , business, keeping in stock a tine line of carpets, cur- tains, spring beds, mir- rors, pictures, baby car- riages, and all other

tablishmeut. They occupy neat aud commodious quarters at No. 'it West First S.mth Street, their building Iwing a three story and basement structure, admirably arranged for the rapid transaction of the large business which the firm enjoys. They carry a complete •took and do an annual bimineM of 980,000, em- ploving twelve assistants, ana consequently have a heavy pay roll, thereby furnishing many people with the means of sup- port The trade of the firm extend* throughout I tali and Idaho, and new field, will probably be enterrd in the near future The hone* ha* had a remarkably successful career ever since it* inoep-

and is deservedly popular with the public. "^SiC"^"

• •awm for this i-

tbe busim-. 1ST.

upon strictly legitimate commercial principle*, and the pro- prietors are thoroughly experienced men in their line of bnsi pen*. They believe in the old motto of •• live HIM! let In - in ooDMqarnov. put no fancy prices upon their goods. Mr HoreMen i* • native of Denmark, coming h>-re from Australia twenty ye«r* ago. He is a man of excellent business talent*. and i* thoroughly practical in all hi* undertakings. He i* a

ntan withal in all the essential* ntoeseary in tbesnooeae-

.nduct of hu.ineMi affair*, nnd i* very greatly e*t«emed by a large n»ii.l»-r of personal friends

Curl jiiist was born in Sweden, but has bwil a rmident of Salt Lake for fourteen years, and i* a very able commercial man. He i* regarded very highly in mercantile circle*, and i* H prominent man in all matter* pertaining to the interest* of

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DUNFORD & ELLERBECK.

The dental firm of Dnuford .t Ellerbeck is composed of A. H. Dunford and Geo. Kllerljeck, both of whom are thoroughly practical in all the details of the profession. Dr. Dunford is forty -two years of age, a native of England, and for over a quar- ter of a century has practiced dentistry in Suit Lake <'it\. He is in fact the pioneer dentist of Salt Lake, having crossed the plains with his porents to this <-ity in 1856, returning the year following to St. Louis, where he remained until 1864, when he again came to Salt Lake, and where he has since resided. The doctor is largely interested in enterprises that go to make up the substantial growth and prosperity of the city, and a large owner of im- proved nnd unimproved city and country properties.

I >r. Geo. Ellerbeck, his partner, is a young man, twenty-four years of age and a native of Salt Lake. He graduated at the Philadelphia Dental College, with the honors of his class, aud has been in active practice for eight years. He is a well-known member of the Phienix Club of Salt Lake, largely interested in her realty, and also has valuable interests in the Deep Creek mines.

In the transaction of the large business naturally accruing to so popular a tirm, the employment of assistance is necessary. Drs. H. W. Richards and Thatcher, officiate in that capacity. and are invaluable on account of their skill aud knowledge of the business.

The firm is among the best in the West. They occupy three rooms fitted up with all the modern appliances for the speedy transaction of business, but as rapid increase of patronage necessitates more and commodious quarters, the firm will in the near future move into the new McCornick block, corner I ir-t South and Main streets, where all the necessary conveniences incident to the business can be secured.

SELLS & COMPANY.

Among the business establishments which have done much to advance the material wealth, the prosperity aud repu- tation of Salt Lake, and which, therefore, are eminently deserv- ing of particular mention in a work of this character, few stand higher than that of Sells A- Co., wholesale and retail dealers in all kinds of lumber, with office, and yards at Inland I.VJW. Firft street. The enterprise was started in 1881 by Hon. Klijah Sells, who was formerly connected with the tirm of Mat-on A Sells. Subsequently Mr. Tucker was taken into the tirm. The otlire of the company is a commodious structure. ISxl'Ml feet in dimensions, while the yards cover a space of thirty rods square. They carry a stock ranging from $'25,00(1 to SNI.IHNI, composing cedar, redwood, pine, shingles, doors, blinds, mould HIITS. T. «V (i. flooring, rustic siding, laths and windows. They employ eight men and do an annual business of 87.1.11 it i. The individual members of the firm are Jnmes Tucker, H. M. Sells nnd Klijah Sells. The latter, Hon. Elijah Sells, is Secretary of the Territory and one of the most popular men in the entire West. Mr. Tucket is a heavy capitalist, and largely interested in cattle, saw-mills, stores ami mines throughout the Territory. Mr. A.Johnson, the foreman, is a practical man in the business, and a faithful and industrionsemploye. Tin- gem-nil character- istics of this establishment for financial solvency ami a thor oiigh conception of the business in which the firm is engaged, together with a high standard of commercial honor, would • credit upon any community, and makes the untar- nished record of over thirteen years a source of private an.) public satisfaction.

DR. C. E. TOLHURST.

In the human anatomy there are no parts of it whir)

greater oomfoi I or cause nmreii nvem e and pain than the

teeth. Kvery person's teeth should have constant attention, not only li> t hone claiming to be dentists, but In flu >se known to he

accomplished and who enjoy the contid-n ',f t he public. Such

a gentleman i* l>r. ('. I-'.. Tolhur-t. lie is a native of < Miio. a graduate of the Western IVntial t ollege of St. l^ollis. Missouri, HII. I first liegaii the priirti .f his profession in 1*7*. remain- ing thus oc.-upi.-d in St. Louis for nbout live \ear8, thence removing to Salt Lake about 1883. He was Secretary of the IIH liental Society, and is a member an. I one of the ablest omcidld in the Dental Society of Salt Luke. II.- i_ active in politic*, and has been snrr»«».ful in his practice m suit Idtke, due absolutely to bis professional skill and also to his excellent qualities as a social factor.

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S. D. EVANS.

S. D. Evans, undertaker and embalmer, owes his suc- cess in business quite as much to his estimable character, re- fined nature and the court- eous deportment of his man- ners, as to the more com- monly accepted business qualities supposed to assure success in life. His line of metallic caskets, burial cases, and rates are selected with K rent care, and are among the largest and most complete of any similar house in the country. He occupies two floors of a com- modious building at 214 State street and employs two assistants. There is prob- ably no undertaker of the present day that would have the audacity to ask the pat- ronage of the public without thoroughly understanding the art of embalming. In this Mr. Kvans, having availed himself of every advantage in the acqui- sition of this difficult science, is prepared to furnish the bene- fits of his skill with the assurance of the same being satisfact- ory in every respect. He is a graduate of the United States college of embalming of New York City, the most modern and thorough institution of its character in the United States, and the only undertaker in the city who has attended a regular college, or can exhibit his diploma in proof thereof. His hearses are among the finest in Salt Lake and his assistants are all trained men. Altogether, Mr. Evans may be said to be, by character, attaininents, and in his well-ordered establish- ment, exceptionally well calculated to serve the public in the line he has chosen.

M. R. EVANS.

Salt Like City shows numerous instances of successful men because of their enterprising and progressive mercantile ability. Prominent among these and worthy of special mention, is the house of M. R. Kvans, dealers in guns, sporting goods, etc. Mr. Evans established himself in business here several years ago, and has thriven in a remarkable manner; in fact to such an extent as to rank him among the foremost merchants in his line in the Territory. He carries a very large line of fine goods, of superior make and quality, consisting of guns, pistols, ammunition, fishing tackle, sporting goods, cutlery and notions, caligraph writing machines, paper, ribbons and carbons; also handling cigars and tobaccos of the best brands. The estab- lishment occupies commodious and comfortable quarters, em- ploys a number of assistants, and is in the receipt of a most healthy and continuous trade. Mr. Evans is a New Yorker by birth, but has resided in Utah for twenty years and is favorably known throughout the territory; is one of the most enterprising citizens, with a thorough practical knowledge and experience, coupled with energy and legitimate business principles, a com- bination that has gained for him an honorable position among the mercantile and commercial men throughout the entire West.

DR. J. B. KEYSOR.

I >r. J. 15. Keysor, whose operating parlors occupy suites two iiiul three, Auerbach building, enjoys a widespread and invalu- able reputation in the line of dentistry, both for his professional achievements and his personal worth. He is a native of Utah, and. upon the completion of his collegiate career, began a study of the art in which he has since become an accomplished master. He makes a specialty of filling, the designing and fitting of false teeth and othe- features of the science, and now enjoyH a practice so large and constantly increasing in- extent and importance, as to necessitate the employment of skilled and experienced assistants in bis management. Ladies and gentlemen in need of the services of an expert and conscieu- tioiiH practitioner are recommended to advise with Dr. Keysor. His charges are as reasonable as they can be made consistent with first-class work, and his work is always of the very best character and description.

ARBOGAST CONFECTIONERY COMPANY.

The Arbogast Confectionery Company, started in 1873 for the manufacture of ice-cream and confections, has been a suc- cess from its inception, the business increasing so rapidly that in the beginning of 1891, it was deemed to incorporate the same, with George Arbogast, President and Treasurer; and L. L. Baumgarten, Secretary. The company has a large and ample capital with which to carry on its vast and extensive operations, and employs the same to the fullest advantage.

In connection with the main office, at 108 Main street, the company has a large and commodious ice-cream parlor, occu- pying two floors, the first being used for the serving of the delicacy and confections to the numerous customers; the sec- ond floor as a dining ordinary. Both are fitted up in modern style, with elegant furniture and draperies, where one can enjoy a delicious plate of ice-cream and other delicacies amid pleasant surroundings. The factory, situated at 48 East First South St., is a two story and basement building, 20x100 feet di-

GEO. AUHOGAST

mensions. The basement is used as the location of the bake ovens, where the fancy cakes are made; also as an engine and boiler room, and for the manufacture of candy. On the first floor is an ice-cream and coffee parlor, elegantly fitted up, a novel feature being the Dayton fan, pendant from the ceil- ing, driven by electricity. When in motion the room is kept perfectly cool and otherwise insuring comfort to pat- rons. The second story is devoted entirely to the manufact- ure of candy. The enterprise employs twenty-five people, and the monthly pay-roll is one of the largest in the city. The firm does a large annual trade, sending goods to Idaho, Colo- rado and Wyoming, in addition to its equally large local trade. Mr. Arbogast is a native of Massachusetts, having been born in Boston, but has resided in Salt Lake City for twenty-one years; is thoroughly identified with the best interests of his adopted home, and is ever ready to do anything in his power to advance its welfare. He is one of the best known men in and out of business circles, and under such favorable auspices as he now enjoys, a brilliant commercial future is predicted for him. He is the owner of a ranch seven miles from the city, on the road to Ogden, consisting of 120 acres, which he is pre- paring to use for purposes of a vineyard, being satisfied that Utah can raise as many pounds of grapes to the acre as Cali- fornia and of a superior flavor. Mr. Arbogast has done more to build up Salt Lake, according to his means, than any man within her limits, and is in all respects an active, enterprising " hustler," who believes in making hay while the sun shines. He is, in short, a man in every respect entitled to, and com- mands the admiration of the men who love to see pluck and en- terprise meet its just reward.

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HAPPY HOUR DENTAL PARLORS

Among the first-class dental establishments in Salt Lake City where the pnbliccan be assured of good work, is the Happy Hour Dental I'arlors at No. 2124 State Street. They are under the management of Dr. M. X. Back, who is a native of Mich- igan, forty-five years of age, and who has been seventeen years in active practice. He first located in Charles City, Iowa, thence removing to Kansas, whence after remaining some time he decided to settle in Salt Lake City. In his practice Dr. Buck is ably assisted by his wife and Miss Nettie Weaverling, both of whom are not only thorough adepts in the profession, but are among the limited number of lady practitioners under- standing the details of the art. Mrs. Buck is a native of Wis- consin. She began the practice in Kansas ten >ears ago, and is regarded as a skillful and experienced operator. Miss \\Vav erling also began her practical experience in dentistry in Kansas about the same time, and is very proficient in the in the business. She is a native of the State of Pennsylvania. The Doctor also has an able and valuable assistant in the person of D. R. Romani, of the city laboratory operated in connection with the parlors, and although a separate institution is of well- known importance. Dr. Romami is a native of Ohio, and has been practicing dentistry for the past fifteen years. About one year ago he located his laboratory in this city, and employs an able corps of assistants. He makes a specialty of crown and bridge work, and directs the only industry of its kind between Chicago and San Francisco.

Among the successful operations practiced at these parlors is that known to the profession as "Implantation," otherwise replacement of a tooth, one of the most difficult operations known to modern dentistry. Dr. Buck has built up a large patronage. The parlors are deserving of all that can be said of them, and the efficiency of the work is beyond question.

ELIA3 MORRIS.

In the advantages possessed by a city, there are certainly none of more importance than establishments connected with the building interests. In this line of manufac- ture, Mr. Elian Morris has no superior, as his yards turn ont a ijiiality of lire brick that cannot be excelled. He started his enterprise in 1H69 and has built np a very large and successful business. In addition to the manu- facture of fire brick, abeetine stone and water pipes are in- cluded in the output of the plant, in large quantities. Mr.

KLIA8 MORRIS.

Morris if also • heavy dmler in Portland cement, mantels, grata and monumental work, which can be seen at his largo and commodious store room. v. -Jl and 23 West South Tempi* street. The brick yards are located in the southern part of, the city, where about 400,000 fire brick and large

quantities of abestine stone and water pipes are annually manufactured.

Mr. Morris has resided in Salt Lake for forty years and is widely known all over the Territory. He is a thorough busi- ness man. fully alive to the interests of the city, an.l m.U all in his power to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the same. He is a man of spotless integrity, a cultured gentleman, and has been a member of the city council, where he served the people as a faithful, honest and conscientious official.

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ARNOLD OIAUQUE.

He is the possessor of a patent for a new pattern of mosaic, tile for flooring public buildings, wainscoting and ceilings etc., of which a fine line of goods are carried in stock. I n.li-r his able management the enterprise enjoys a trade that is annually increasing. In addition to the above he is the owner and proprietor of the Pioneer Patent Roller Mills, which have a reputation all over the Territory for the excellence of their Hour, and as an institution that has aided very largely in <le\ ,-lnp ing the wonderful resources of Utah. The manager for Mr. Morris. . \rnol, 1 ( ;iaii'|iie by name, has been in the former's em- ploy for more than twenty years, and is a practical man in all the details of bin business. Mr. Morris employs • large force of experienced hands in hi* several lines of production and pays a correspondingly large sum in wages each year. Mr. Morns is also one of the promoters of the sugar factory at lyvhi and is doing much to foster that most valuable industry in that Territory.

W. J. HARVEY & CO.

The banking firm of W. J. Harvey & Co., composed of \\ •'. Harvey and Hewitt B. Lowe was organized for <he l>iir|MMM> of lining a general business in real estate, mines, WMMiritie*, banking and investment, with its office in tln-Knuti- for. I II.. (..] Tin. gentlemen are supplied with ample capita! and make a specially of repm«Mitiiig the investment nf era capital in Utah. The company oocnpies large and com- modious qusrters as above designated, where every facility an. I all pomihle information regarding the business they represent, is H (Ton led. Mr. Harvey wan for a iinniW of > ear*, manager and trust officer of the Salt I*ke Abstra. I I ill.. ( Miarantee and Trim! < oiupiuiv. and Mr. Lowe baa been engaged in the real estate business in Salt I ...''<•• < ily for H niimU'r of years pant. Both are gentlemen of much finciancial ability, and eminent uncial i|iiahncHlioiiN. and though thetirni IIHN only been in existence but a comparative brief (..•• i.«l it hnx built up an immense business. Possessing enviable qualities and neces- sary attributes, the gentlemen composing the firm are bound to attain a high rank in commercial and financial circle*.

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THE McKINNON HOUSE COLLAR MANU- FACTURING COMPANY.

Salt Lake within the last twelve months has added to its long list of en- terprising cit- izens a num- ber of busi- n e s s men whose acqui- sition is a credit to any commu n i t y- These are of the people that give the upbuilding of a city sub- stantial sup- port, and make desirable citizens. As a fitting illustration of the foregoing sentiment, the proprietor of the McKinnon Horse Collar Manufacturing Co., of this city, may be cited. The company was organized in April, 1891, by M. D. McKinnon, a man thoroughly experienced iu the manufacturing of horse collars, having been in the business over twenty-five years. He came to Salt Lake City from San Francisco, where he had charge at different times of the L. D. Stone & Co. manufactur- ing works, and Hart Saddlery Co., the latter being the largest and oldest established concern of the kind on the Pacific coast.

The company's headquarters are located at No. 311 West Sscond street, occupying a large two-story brick building 24x50 feet in dimensions, and the grades of goods turned out are superior to anything of the kind in this part of the country.

The first Btory of the factory building is occupied exclus- ively by the collar manufacturing department. The second story is devoted to the manufacture of sweat-pads and is quite an important part of the business. This department alone gives employment to fifteen girls, and twenty-five horse collar hands, whose combined work resolves the establishment into a hive of industry. Mr. McKinnon came to Salt Lake City fully determined to take the lead in supplying the trade in his special line of business, and the active manner in which he has applied himself to his work, has caught the good will of the public, who are in turn showing their appreciation of a superior article by liberal patronage.

DR. C. A. FOLLETT.

During recent years the various professional lines in Salt Lake City have received frequent additions, and no other one line has this fact become more noticeable than in that of Dentistry. Among those who have located in Salt Lake City in the practice of that profession no one has attained to more prominence, nor secured a more generous share of the public patronage than Dr. Follett. He is a native of Minnesota, and has been practicing for about eight years with gratifying success, the unvarying reward of a complete knowledge of his profes- sion and diligence in securing its promotion. He first began to practice at San Jose, Cal., where he remained about six years. Prompted, however, by the reports of business, beautiful climate, and wonderful advantages possessed by Salt Lake City and Ctah, he decided to remove hither. After a careful inspec- tion of the ad vantages offered else where he located in Salt Lake City earlyin January, 1891, opening an office at 554 East Second Street South. Soon afterward he was joined by his family, and has since resided here, annually extending his field of labor and annually growing more and more enthusiastic regarding the resources and advantages of the City and Territory.

WALLACE & CO.

It is conceded by everyone who has ever visited Salt Lake that the city can justly lay claim to some of the largest and best equipped merchant tailoring houses in the 'country. Among these the firm of Wallace & Co. occupies a position of prominence second to none in the country. The business was established by Mr. Kob't Wallace in 1890, and the success at- tained has been of a most pleasing character, both in a finan- cial and fashionable point of view. He has been connected

with the fine tailoring trade of the east for a great many years and understands the business thoroughly, employing a cutter of marked ability and the best skilled workmen only, in his es- tablishment, of whom he has fifty constantly at work. His stock of goods is of the finest description and best grades, being a large importer and handling this character of goods only. He guarantees to give perfect satisfaction, and from the large trade that he now enjoys, which is constantly increasing, there is no doubt but that he succeeds to an unlimited extent. Mr. Wallace is a native of Canada, where he learned his trade. He is an excellent business man, a gentleman of high social qualities and greatly esteemed by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.

McCORNICK & CO.

One of the strongest and most prosperous private banks in the west, holding a high position in financial circles, and in the confidence of the public, exercising a wholesome and valuable influence in all departments of business, and performing most useful and inportant functions in all matters of finance, is that of McCornick & Co. private bankers, founded in 1873 by W. S. McCornick. The company is largely engaged in all trans- actions appertaining to a general banking business, such as discounts, deposits, loans, collections, the purchase and sale of domestic and foreign exchange, ores and bullions, and its busi- ness extends over all the civilized world. The bank has com-

W. S. MoCOHNICK, PEKS. MC€OBNICK BANKING Co.

fortable quarters, the property of the company, employs a force of eleven assistants and the volume of its business is increasing so rapidly that they are now erecting one of the finest office buildings west of the Rocky Mountains, which the firm expect to occupy early next year.

The long residence of Mr. McCornick in Salt Lake, and hie successful financial career, together with his high character as an experienced financier at the head of the institution, com- mands the confidence of the public to such an extent as to include as clients of the bank, some of the heaviest firms in Salt Lake City. Of his enterprise it is not necessary for us to speak, as he is so well and most favorably known and spoken of throughout financial circles, and has been, and still is practi- cally identified with the best interests of the city of his adop- tion.

FRED G. LYNGBERG.

In a history of the growth and prosperity of Salt Lake City the retail grocery trade, must, in commercial affairs, always occupy a prominent position as a branch of mercantile pursuit, and contributes in no small degree to the commercial impor-

tance of the city. ID connection with this line of business the bouse of Fred O. Lyngberg deserves especial mention, not only on account of tbe age of the enterprise, but of its high stand- ing in the business community. It was founded by Mr. Lyng- berg in 1873, and by a systematic course of honorable and fair dealings with the public, he is now in the enjoyment of an extensive — profitable trade. He occupies a commodious and conveniently arranged two-story building at 56 Hast First Street South, equipped with all modern facilities, including telephone service, and carries a large stock of staple and fancy groceries. He also bandies a most desirable line of fruits, veg- etables etc., and game, fish and oysters in season. He supplies many of the leading families of the city, and has a very exten- sive and liberal patronage. Mr. Lyngberg is an "old timer" of Utah, having resided here for thirty years, and is consequently well known throughout the Territory, having formerly been engaged in the mining bnsines. He is an honorable, straight- forward business man, of recognized commercial abilities, and a pleasant and agreeable gentleman in both the business and social spheres of life.

EXCELSIOR BAKERY.

A well regulated bakery is a desirable industry to have in any community. In fact it is one of those indispensable enter- prises of public necessity. The people must have bread, and when they can get a good wholesome article without the trouble of preparing it themselves they are fortunate indeed. Among the establishments of Salt Lake that makes a feature of superior skill in this line the Excelsior liakery takes the lead. It was founded eighteen years ago by Mr. Kdward Scrace, and has always been a favorite with the public of Salt Lake. The manufacturer makes bread, cakes, and crackers, carrying also a full line of can goods, teas, coffees, nuts, bot- tled champagne cider, candies, soda water and root beer. The industry occupies a commodious two-story building, at No. In Main street, employs five operators and assistants, carries a large stock and does an extensive toml boriness. Mr. Scrace is a native of England and learned his trade in New York ( 'ity. many years ago. He has been a resident of Utah for thirty years, is a thoroughly practical man in his line, and fully iden- tified with the best interests of Salt Lake.

UTAH BOOK AND STATIONERY COMPANY.

Such enterprise as characterizes some of the business bouses of the city of Bait Lake is not exceeded by those of any other city in tbe Union. Conspicuous among these public spirited and enterprising firms, whose efforts to secure and retain trade have been rewarded l>y gratifying success, may l>e mentioned the Utah Book and Stationery Company, and under that name incorporated, with I >. M McAllister, president; Hon. S. V. ItirhardH. vice-president, and J. L. Perkes, secret nry and treasurer. The directors' iKiurd comprises Hun. Klias \. Smith,.). L. Harrows. l>. \V. and (i. S. McAllister, natives of Utah, with tbe exception of the president, who was born in Scotland, but has resided in Salt Lake for twenty-eight years. The establishment carries a large and varied stock of I oiks, stationary, periodicals, toys, dolls, novelties, for schools, students, architects, and type-writers. Globe tiling cabinets. Mormon chnrcli works, albums and school books. Tl • {Miration occupy a large and commodious salesroom lit T'J Minn *trett, employing ten assistants, and do a business extending throughout I 'tab and a portion of Idaho, the annual sales amounting to between $60,i«KI and ?7.r>,IN«. The firm is con-

1 on» of the most reliable and solvent in tin untry. it*

officer* urn! directors being well known in the commercial and professional circles of the Territory

HECTOR ORI8WOLD.

Dr. Hector Oriswold, one of the leading dentists of Salt Lake City, highly merits the high clax* of patronage be receives* He is S native of Winroiimn iiml during Ins professional <

iK' ..-..•• a period of 15 yearn, has demonstrated fully I i« claim* to the confidence repoted in hi* ability by a constantly increasing clientele. He nr»t *ln<li»l medicir.e after leaving College, bat soon took a fane; to dentistry and devoir. I lux energies in that dirtction. I'pi.n receiving hi* diploma be located at St. I 'mi I. where he met with gratifying luccee*. The inhospitable climate of that tection. hots ever, persuaded him to remove elsewhere, sad be finally decult.1 to locate, in thin city. lie took up his residence 8J yesrs ago, sod bss sine* Identified

himself with Salt Lake City and Utah Territory including among his patrons and friends the best people, among whom himself and wife are esteemed as a valuable acquisition to the society of /ion. He makes a specialty of dentistry in all its branches, and his work is of a superior order, always giving satisfaction.

SHERLOCK KNITTING CO.

Improved facilities are the true indices of progress, and the most intelligent manifestation of the onward march of civiliza- tion. Evidences of enterprise by a com- munity in projecting modern improve- ments, and carrying them out, are the best criterioim by which to estimate the enter- prise of its citizens and their appreciation of the modern ideas of progress. The in- stitution whose name appears at the head of this sketch is located at 25 W. I'nst South Street, and is of the character just enumerated and one of the most enterpris- ing of its kind in the Territory. It was founded in lK7i>, by Geo. A. Luke, who was succeeded by J no. K. Sherlock the present proprietor, in 1880. The plant has twenty ma- chines, with a capacity of twenty dozen hosiery daily. Sixteen experienced hands are employed and the minimi business transacted reaches the

ueatsumof from $15,( KH) t.. .-ji I.IK ,11. The estab-

lisbment occupies a commodious three-story building, conven- iently fitted up for the immense business of the same, and manu- factnresa complete Hue of ladies', gents' and children's hosiery, in silk, wool and cotton. All of tbe goods are made of the l*-st yarns and are fur superior to any goods of this character in the market. They are guaranteed to be equal to hand knitting, and for wearing qualities, they have no equal, a trial of 'the. same only being necessary to a conviction of tliisfact. The company also manufactures a full line of ladies' hand crochet skirts, children's machine skirts, ladies' jackets, wool mitts, silk mit- tens, children's wool mitts, ladies' wool vests ami pants, men's vests and pants, mitts and gloves, men's Imckskin gloves, kid iiml dogskin gloves, ladies' and children's knit leggings, boys' wool mitts, silk and wool wristlets or culTs. They also keep on hand a full line of yarns, consisting of ini|M>rted and .; tic Saxony, split zephyr, four-fold zephyr, eight-fold zephyr. Angora, Saxons, ( iermantown. Shetland wool. Shetlaini (ierman knitting worsted. Knglish fanoy mixed. Spanish and I tah yarns of all grades and best makes, which the proprietor guarantees to sell cheaper than any house in the West. Mr. Sherlock is also agent for the celebrated I. amb family knitting machines, tbe only machine in the world that will knit all kimls and si/.es of hosiery, mittens, glove*, etc.

Mr. Sherlock is a i. alive ,,f < )|MI>, but has been a continuous resident of I'tah since iNi'.i. He is a civil and mechanical en- gineer by profession ami for two years was chief ••ngii.. the I tn h A Northern railroad. He is a nephew of 'I lock, the great Ohio and Mississippi riser steamboat • who is known the world over, and is justly proud of so distin- guished a relative. As a business man the career of Mr. Sher- lock needs no comment from the editor of this woik. His abilities and untarnished reputation are widely known mid tec ognized. His works, enterprise and general usefulness speak for him in teims xnllicientis stroi g and convincing, and entitle him to the fullest esteem and consideration of the commiiinls.

UTAH NURSERY CO.

< >i ..... f the largtf.1 enterprise*, invoking tin-outlay i f a large capital,!* that of the 1'liih Nuts, rs ( . n puns . winch can a general nms- > implos fn m liflun i..

thirty mm in their business, at a monthly expense for wages of IB.iHio. and sell gocxls through, ut I ti.b. Mai o, Montunn, \Vnshiiigf< n, Nevada aid I'oli puny was incor-

ponted ID June, 1887, with a capital of r.'niro tie present

• are: J. A. (iiohue, I'residint; I'. II .surer;

is, Secretary : and ^ ' Harnes*,

tors, all men of pic mit.ei . .• ai.d n tii.i i . •• m the city and ten id try. ni.d whon' i ntet prin- isejertil g a gt« at n II in lire ii| i n 'owth ai. 1 1 i s, when 10

insged ss the Utso Num \ - . m ti.ecom-

mernal twcrid •soiree of giest financial l«i.< tit to II •• piojectois and th«- public.

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M. BUSH WARNER, Manager.

In the compilation of a work of this character the insurance interests of Salt Lake deserve considerable attention. Among the many agents engaged in such enterprises in Salt Lake, none are more deserving of an extended notice in the pages of tl'is work than Mr. Rush Warner, the general manager for Utah ot the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, having his offices in Progress Building. This agency was established in 1889, and in the two years that Mr. Warner, has been in control, has' been remarkably successful. In 1890 Mr.

manager of the Gunnison Improvement Company for three years, in the development of coal mines, and subsequently organized the Grand Kiver, Land and Live Stock Company of which he was selected as president and general manager. He finally sold out his interest in this organization and came to Salt Lake, where for the first six months of his residence, he represented the New York Life. The Equitable Life Company, however, recognizing in Mr. Warner a val- uable man, offered.rhim a life contract with them on such advantageous terms, that he accepted the same and became their general manager for this Territory, and to whose inter-

EQU1TABLE LIFE ASSURANCE BUILDING, NEW YORK.

Warner's agency wrote up policies to the Bmountof $1,'2GO,OCO, and from present indications it is expected that the amount for IH1C2 will reach 12,000,000. There are twelve agents in Utah for this company, under the control and direction of Mr. War- ner, all of whom are considered among the best insurance men in the West. The Equitable Life is one of the largest life inBurance organizations in the world, and has been doing bus- innHH for thirty one years.during which it bas made phenomenal progress, the iiBfwts having increased from $162,618 in 1860 to 81Ht,'24:VM4in ]«»].

Few investors realize the fact that money deposited with a reliable and well managed life insurance company, in the pur- chase of insurance, is profitable from a business stnud point; yet such a fact bus been plainly demonstrated many times, atd examples might be mentioned if space permitted it. The com- pany that Mr. Warner represents is too well known to need any eulogy, as it lias a national and world wide reputation for relia- bility and strength.

Mr. Warner was born in Pennsylvania, and has been engaged in the insurance business for twenty-five years. He was Presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company for many years and in 1880 located in Colorado, where he engaged in mining and stock operations in Gunnieon County. He was

ests he devotes his entire time and attention. Mr. Warner is a reliable and energetic gentleman of maiked business capacity and manages the affairs of his company with ability and intelligence.

UTAH UNDERTAKING CO.

This undertaking company was incorporated on June 22nd, 1891, with T. C. Armstrong, Jr., President; C. W. Boyd, Vice- president; T. E. Harris, the present coroner, Treasurer, and J. C. Boss, Secretary. The company is located at 317 South Main street, and carry a large and complete stock of the latest and most artistic designs in caskets, coffins and funeral requisites. The premises are provided with a spacious and richly furnished funeral parlor arranged with special reference to the conduct of funeral services, etc. All the members of the company are well and favorably known, many of the stock- holders being old residents in the city. They are leading and representative business men, masters of the profession to which they are devoted, and citizens who enjoy the public confidence and esteem.

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HENRY SADLER .

It \a with much pleasure that we call the attention of our readers to the well known, old established and popular wholesale liqnor bouse of Mr. Henry Sadler.

Mr. Sadler occupies a substantial three-story brick building on South Main street, between 2nd and 3rd Sooth street, the dimen- sions of which are -l\ lint feet, the first II «>r being used as a Bales- room, the second as a bottling room, and the third as store room.

Mr. Sadler was born in Kiigliind. uud came to this country as a young man. He was en- gaged in the whole- sale dry goods business, in New York C'ity for about four years, but being an energetic and pushing business man he soon saw the brilli- ant future for the Great West and came hither. He has resided in Salt Lake City Hb.mt thirty- two years where lit* 1ms made a name for him- self as an industrious energetic honorable cit- izen, highly deserving of the success which ha» attended him throughout his busi- ness career. He car- ries a full line of the best brands of wines and liquors making a specialty of <>ldCn>w, Hermitage, Oscar Pep- per and Yellowstone. His business represent* mi investment of 3±V 000 and be does an aver- age trails iinmiiilly of alxuit SlfiO.OOO, extend ing throughout the Ter- ritory of t'tah mid the States of Idaho. Colorado and Wyom- ing, re ,( u i i i n g the employment of seven assistants. Hiscel- lars and wine vault* f»re stored with the choicest brands of linurlioii. rye and Monongahela whiskieB nnd with w the most delicate shades, while his stocks of cigars. nm.li> up of impor'e.l, ooniestic mill Key West, are unnurpasi>eil in iin. I .|ualit\. Mm terms are libers! and his transactions are noted for their i-.jiiity and fair dealing.

ucterize their dealings with the public and the trade to which they cater. They give employment to a large force of skilled workmen and do a business steadily increasing in volume and importance.

The enterprise is essentially a home industry, and receives the substantial recognition from citizens and residents merited

by the public spirit dis- played in its establish- ment as also in the con- duct of. its operations.

I.) -Shi|.|..r.

Mil. IIK.Ml^ SM'I.I I:

JOSLIN & PARK.

•lervis Joel in and lioyd Park, composing jewelry firm of Joslin & Park formed a co-partnership twenty-nine years ago for the purpose of carrying on the business in which they have since been suc- cessfully engaged, and through all the nps and downs of a mercantile life have held fast together to finally emerge trium- phantly into the bright sunshine of financial prosperity. They began operating in Denver, and in 1871 opened a branch house in Salt Lake, and Mr. Boyd 1'ark in charge. The success of the linn has been remarkable ami the present volume of business transacted is large. The firm carries a stock of diamonds, watches, jewelry, silver- war.-, etc.. ranging in value from $7,r>.0(Ml to S100,(HK) and does an an- nual wholesale nnd re- tail business of gSO.t.iNi. theirtrade being through- out the Northwest chiefly in ("tab. Wyoming. Idaho. Nevada and Montana.

They occupy elegant and commodious accom- modations nnd employ eleven clerks, salesmen. etc., also traveling rep- resentatives. The junior member of the firm is a

native of Scotland, but has been a resident of I'tah for twenty years, and u practical mechanic, having learned his trade in Tio\. New York, commencing lit the l>ench in IK.*:!. Both

himself and partner liav ntrihilted very largely, by their

push, enterprise ami activity in developing the resources of Utah, and Salt Lake City in particular.

OARRICK & HOLMES, Boiler Makers.

Iwtter evidence of the substantial prosperity of Salt I .*k* City is apparent than in the fact that her manufactures are mteoMMfnUjr competing with thof e of the Kast in almost •very line; hence, any review of the city's progress and indns try, would be incomplete without making mention of the enter- prises and manufacturing establishments which are justly en- litle.l to mention. Of three the tirm of (iarnck.v Holme*, nt the rear of 149 West Temple stre.-t. although, but two years established, in conspicuously prominent in iU special line of Immnrm. The liiifx of manufacture em- brace toteam boilers, water jackets, iron water links, smoke stack*, etc.; also doing all kinds of sheet iron work and conduct- ing sn extensive repair busmen* Their motto '•({rasoniihlc price* mid good work." has been closely adhered to. nnd has been the mean* of building up a trade that extends all over the Territory in every direction, throughout which Messrs. Alexander (lurrick nnd Hmiinel Holme*, cotnpnNing the tirm. are well known nnd highly mtveancd, Dot alow fi>r their urlintic skill, but for toe honorable bosiMM methods which char-

F. E. WARREN MERCANTILE CO.

Among the .,l,lest nnd most reliable hoaxes deserving of Rpeuinl mention in a u..rl< of this nature is the I'. K. W.irren

Mercant.l. '••,! at N, s ,,nd Street South

Tbeoompany was in. -.,rp.. rated in 1H81, at Cheyenne, Wyo- ming, uith a' capital of 91. MM NX >, and now are the most ex ten - Hive dealers in their line in this section of the country They operate six honse* in all, located at Halt l.nke City. Cheyenne, . I'.righam. I«>gan nnd I. -nd give employment

to aboii- li«> men to carry on th.-ir business, which will run over SiV'.UM) per annum In their stock will be found thecel- I Steinwnv \ Sons. ' Inckering * Sons, Decker * Son, Kmib. ha*«ACo.. I'.ver-tt. ami Kischer piauoK.

beddea many others, and ))»• Stor> A Clark and A. II. Chase organs, all standard instruments. In fact, their stock is so complete that tl • .,i>le.l to furnish a person with any

musical iiistrumei.i inanufacturfil in this c..untry or in Kunipe. ' the tirm m Preside'! I I U • ,-n. present, I nite.1 State* Senator for Wyoming: K M. Warren, vice presi- dent; W. P. Gannett, secretary and treasurer gen

tlemen too well and favorably known to require any extended notice, and who are esteemed among the most enterpris- ing and conservative business men whose names are linked insep- arably with those of the leading men of this Territory. The Salt -bake house is under the able management of Mr E N Jen- sta 8'in thfs i -an Wh° ^ ^^ ieg'°ns of friends during his

SALT LAKE BUSINESS COLLEGE.

The cause of education has shown great progress through- out this vast country during the past quarter of a century. The different States have vied with each other in perfecting their systems in all the de- partments of learning, classical, scientific and business.

The Salt Lake Business Col- lege, under the control of Prof. J. W. Jameson and Nat. B. Johnston, was established dur- ing 1889, under rules and reg- ulations especially adapted for the acquiringof a thorough and practical business education, and that have met with the full approbation of patrons. Edu- cators are progressive men of intelligence. Having the ex- perience of the best of instruct- ors to study, and observant of the changes and wants of to- day, they adopt the best features of instruction of the past and embrace any new plan, principle or theory calculated to advance the interests of the pupil. Such has been and is the policy adopted by the Salt Lake

Business College and its accomplished managers—a policy that has redounded to the advantage of all the leading busi- ness houses, banks, insurance companies, manufacturing establishments, 'railway offices and other avocations of life requiring the services of assistants, competent and reliable.

The curriculum of the Salt Lake Business College embraces bookkeeping, commercial law, arithmetic, correspondence, pen- manship, business requirements and other branches required to battle with the practical side ot iife. Four teachers, among the best in the country, are employed and no pains are spared to completely and effectively equip the student with a comprehensive knowledge of his profession. The commercial room is 22x80 feet in dimensions and fitted up with all the appointments and appliances necessary for the requirements of the service, and the class room, 18x24, is equally as well arranged.

The college can accomodate comfortably one hundred and twenty pupils. Graduates of this college since it was founded, evidence the high order of merit requisite to the securing of a diploma.

The proprietors of the Salt Lake Business College entered their profession in California graduating from one of the finest instutions of learning in that State. Their system of instruc- tion is that known as the Ellis system, employed in the Eureka Academy aud Business College and the San Fran- cisco Business College, in which these gentlemen are in- terested.

Professors Johnston uud Jameson are practical bookkeepers, having had several years experience as accountants before entering into business college work and are eminently qualified. The institution has gained an enviable reputation since its establishment, and is in every respect deserving of the con- tinued patronage of the public.

SALT LAKE SILK FACTORY.

The value of manufactories to any city is difficult to esti- mate. Their inliuence is marked and should be appreciated in the highest degree. Salt Lake is the location of a number of industries that rank with the best in the land, and among them the Silk Manufacturingestablishment of John Lyle, located at 54 S. West Temple St., stands preeminent. J.L.Chalmers founded

SALT LAKE CITY BUSINESS COLLKCK.

the enterprise in 1881, for the manufacture of silk products, such as handkerchiefs, ribbons, dress goods.etc. He was succeeded by Mr. Lyle and the industry has had a remarkable run of suc- cesses since the latter took charge in 1891. His plant is the most perfect and complete of any in the West having one plain and three Jacquard looms, with approved working and winding appliances, together with all other necessary parapher- nalia for the successful carrying on of the business. Mr. Lyle manufactures several thousand handkerchiefs per year, and does a business of some $500 or StiOO per month. The thread used in the factory was originally imported from China and Japan, but is now obtained from New York. Among the unique designs of handkerchiefs manufactured is one with the Temple, Assembly Hall and Tabernacle, woven in the corner, un- equalled as souvenirs with visitors to Salt Lake and the public. He also manufactures silk book-marks with a portrait of Brig- ham Young, likewise valuable as a memento of a visit to the City of Zion. Mr. Lyle has been a resident of Salt Lake for three years and is one of its best and most favorably known business men. His establishment is a credit to the city it is aiding very materially in the development of, and is deserving of the most liberal patronage.

THE SPENCEB-BYWATEE COMPANY.

Few establishments in Salt Lake City deserve more favor- able notice than the Spencer-Bywater company, manufacturers of cornices, tin, copper and sheet iron work of every descrip- tion, etc., and the most complete lines west of the Missouri river. The enterprise was inaugurated about three years ago by Messrs. Spencer aud Bywater, and was incorporated in Jan- uary, 1891, with M. Spencer, president, H. J. Bywater, treas- urer; F. W. Stair; secretary; and 8. A. Marks and Oliver Hodg- son, directors. Its trade is almost purely local, and when this fact is considered it will demonstrate to what a degree of pop- ularity the company has attained in the large annual showing of the business done. The premises occupied, at 17 and 19 West South Temple street, are large and conven- iently arranged, and the stock carried embraces a large line of "Peninsular" and "Gem City" stoves and ranges; also hot air furnaces of the "Peninsular" brand; the Richardson &

Boy n km furnace, gasoline stoves, and general house furnishing goods of every description in its line. The company makes a specialty of tin aud sheet iron work, and does a wholesale job- bing trade in tin plate, galvanized sheet iron, etc. They give employment to fifteen bands, and do an annual business of ••? 1<N),IN)0. The members of the company aremen of push and enterprise, and have contributed very liberally of time, means and energy io advancing the commercial, mercantile ami industrial interests of Halt Lake City. Mr. Murk Spencer, manager of the company, occupies a very prominent position in the ranks of the commercial men of the t ireat West.

SALT LAKE MUSIC CO.

We take pleasure in calling the attention of the public and especially the music loving portion of it. to the complete and elegant stock of musical instruments parried by tin- Salt Lake Music Co., located at •>•_' W. Second South St., where the Company occupies commodious premises for the accommo- dation ofits large stock aud the comfortable and easy trans- action of its rapidly increasing business. This house is the agent for the well and deservedly popular Shaw Piano and Newman ISroa' Organs for each of which it enjoys a large trade.

SHAW I'l \N»

The DOOM was established in Salt IjikeCit;. in IHS;» mm hit* Miiececded not only in supplying a large number of the finest homes of the City with favorite brands of pianos and organs, but DM placed tli>-m in cultured homes all over Utah, Mali<> and Wyoming. Thin store is also the headquarters for all kinds of musical merchandise and keep* constantly on hand the largest stock and numt popular make of pianos aud organs in theCity.

In addition to thoMi already mentioned. I his ( 'ompany is

'or the Si-liai-fer I'lnnii, an itmtrument noted fur excellence

ii.l tlnixli. ami which nieritH the universal praise

• H| it The Kice Hm/.e I'liiiio, al"o hniiilled by thin firm,

will be foiiii.l no less meritorious ami i« rapidly i*oming into

favor in nil parts of the coi •

The tiiiNinenH of the Halt Lake Music Co. in umler the management of Mmsni.ii. M. Smith and < \V r,r,.Ai, both of whom hare established a reputation for conducting the affairs of their house according • lumimw* principle*. Cus-

tomers never fail to r*omv* every attention and the beet of treatment In consequent* of tb«4r approved bnainea* method* they have built up a trade quotod at from «.10.i»ti to & |wr annum.

The well-merited saoomw of this establishment IN hut the . intuit of the indomitable energy and enterprise of the gentlemea who conduct it

SALT LAKE DENTAL DEPOT.

The dental institutions in Salt Lake have always kept pace with the improvements of modern science. Conspicuous among these is the Suit Lake Dental Depot. oriciualK f« by Drs. Chapman, Whytocker and Tripp. Dr. Whytocker, however, withdrew and Drs. Chapman and Tripp, the present proprietors, succeeded to the business. The institution ore. elegant quarters in the Opera House block, fitted up with all modern appliances for the rapid and convenient practice of the profession. They also contain a depot of supp]\ of dental instruments and appliances in which the firm has a capital of $7.< M)O invested, the annual trade of which amounts to Sil.imn. They employ two skilled assistants, and their trade is lar^'i- in I'taii, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and a portion of Colorado. Both of the gentlemen are practitioners of many- years' experience and include among their patrons the leading citizens of Salt Lake, to whom they refer with prido as to the character of work they perform. There are no more reliable and skilled professionals in the territory' than Drs. Chapman and Tripp, and they are justly deserving of the large measure of success to which they have attained in the city.

The assistants in the Dental Depot are Mr. Hugh A. Why- tocker, a native of Scotland and a practitioner of four yeare experience, and Mr. Lester Kiggs, born in t'tah, and in actual practice one year. Both gentlemen are skilled in tln-ir pro- fession and valuable assistants to the firm by which they are employed. '

GABEL THE TAILOR, SALT LAKE CITY.

Success in any enterprise depends to a very large extent upon the intelligent proficiency, thorough understanding and practical knowledge of the undertaking. There is probably no brauch of business that requires skill and general knowledge of all details than that of merchant tailoring of late years. The busi- ness has been practically reduced to a science, and many great improvements have been inaugurated, both in the style ami cut of garments. Modern tailoring establishments of the country receive most liberal patronage from the fact that the American people know and believe that it pays to be "well dressed." Among the establishments in Salt Lake City that has gained an enviable reputation for the excellence of it« materials and the superiority, its fits and make-ups, is that of (ialiel, "the Tailor," at 65 West Second South Street, a branch house of the well-known San Francisco enterprise bearing the same name. Mr. II. H. (iabel opened his main house in the latter city seven years ago, aud since that time has established branch industries in Denver, Colorado: Los Angeles, San Jose, Sacramento. Port- land. Oregon, and Salt Lake City. The house here is in charge of Mr. S. T. Ferry, a practical man of many years experience. He carries one of the largest and most complete stocks ever seen in the West, and makes suits from $15 up, guaranteeing satisfaction in every case. The enterprise in located in elegant and commodious quarters and given employment to a force of sixteen experienced and accomplished operators. Mr. gives his special attention to the details of the Imsinew, and by bis long experience is enabled to offer superior inducements to patrons, making it a point to not let a suit leave the establish- ment that is not satisfactory in all its details, and in consequence has among his patrons some of the best citizens. Those dmr- ing stylish garments at reasonable prices will find at the house of ( label, "the Tailor," all that can be required in this line.

TELEPHONE LIVERY AND FEED STABLES.

There are few living in this city who are not more or lees familiar with the Telephone l.nery and Feed Stables. Poasi- I'ly there is not another source in the various walks of ,-n\ life, from winch there is drawn in the aggregate so much pleasure, comfort and convenience, as from the well equipped livery stable. And among this class of institutions, none nre moi,. deserving of prominent mentioning tlmn the al«ive. located at 167 SI . .ml owned h\ Sawyer and Kavaney. It was

established a little over a year ago by Mr. William C. Sawyer, an. I i« provided with all the modern com enien, -en. While in the matter of e.|uipuient, there can bo found a stock of fine I uiggicH mid carriage, and elegant driving homes, as well a* i -a. Idle animals, and all patron me this establishment will find in attendance polite and attentive driven, grooms, etc. llonw>«i taken to board will receive the beat of care. The propnetom. Mr. W. C. Sawyer ami I .nney, who are

i rteoim, genial gentlemen, honorable and fair in nil their

tranMction«. l,y clew attention to the requirement* of their Mperial line of business, they have saoosedrd in huililinu up the extensive patronage they now enjoy, and have gained toe esteem and good will of the public.

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WABM SPRINGS.

Of late years it has been demonstrated that among the great springs of the West there were some that possessed curative p roperties of a beneficial order. Tradition has it that in the years agone when superstition enveloped the land, the aborigines of this country discovered and took of the medicinal qualities of the waters of which this sketch is the subject. The springs are located on the corner of 2d West and 7th North, and easily accessible by electric cars which pass to and fro at brief intervals. The property covers ten acres of ground upon which there has been erected a two-story building 112x176 feet in dimen- sions; provided with a 40 horse-power engine, that supplies all the motive force necessary; also for heating the premises, and other pur- poses. The Turkish baths, the main feat- ures of the enterprise, are of a character that on trial commend themselves to all. The old bath house is a one-story, concrete struc- ture, 40x75 feet in dimensions, containing twenty tubs on the most approved modern pattern. The swimming pool ie in the main building, and covers an area of 55x60 feet, the average depth of which is five and one- half feet. There is also a bath house espec- ially reserved as a swimming pool for boys, which has a depth of four feet only, thus insuring against ordinary accidents. In addition to these there are ten private plunge rooms for ladies, each 12x12 feet, with pools having a depth of four feet, and five private plunge rooms for gentlemen, 12x12 feet, and four and one-half feet in depth. The waters are naturally warm, and, as before stated, celebrated for their curative properties when applied to such cases as rheumatism, gout, dyspepsia, indigestion, catarrh of the stomache and head, etc. An analysis by Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, of Boston, shows:

Carbonate of lime ..... 0.240—1280

Peroxide of iron... - 0040—6208

Chlorine - 3454—18421

Zinc - 0545-2907

Soda"."." - - 2877-15344

Magnesia - 0370—2073

Sulphuric acid - 0703-3748

Three fluid ounces of the water, on an evaporation of entire dryness in a platina capsule, give 8.25 grains of solid, dry saline matter. The waters of the springs are slightly charged with hydro-sulphuric acid gas, and possess the valuable prop- erties belonging to saline sulphur springs. The average tem- perature of the springs is laid down at 110° F.. while the temperature of the baths is from 100° to 108° F., and are considered a great beautifier of the complexion; also a sovereign remedy for the removal of tan, freckles, etc., the curative properties, imparting to the skin a bright and smooth surface, give a white and velvety appearance, thus making them a favorite resort for ladies.

The proprietors, Henry Barnes and Edward Byrne, are both gentlemen of high business qualifications, and men of excellent judgment in the pursuit in which they are engaged. Mr. Barnes is a native of New York, but has been a resident of Utah for twenty years, and is one of her prominent and respected citizens, fully alive to the best interests of Salt Lake City and Utah. Col. Byrne is a native of Ireland, but came to Utah as an officer of the United States army over twenty years ago. Upward of a year since he became a citizen and located permanently in Salt Lake. He is an accomplished gentleman, commercially and socially, and is highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. The indus- try that these gentlemen represent is among the most potent factors in the development of Utah, and exercises an influence important and far reaching.

r HEBER J. GRANT & CO.

Regarding the importance and amount of the insurance business transacted in Salt Lake City, but few outside of the general agency offices have the slightest idea of the rapid ad- vancement and progress made by and in the insurance busi- ness carried on here. The numerous different branches of this important business and the reasonable rates charged for first- class protection both of life and property affords advantages not only invaluable, but within the reach of all. The agency of

Heber J. Grant &Co.,60 Main St., dates its establishment back fifteen years, and the ability of the gentlemen composing the com- pany, not less than the solvency and reliability of the companies they represent b ave secured for the firm n line of risks not Riirnnss-

ed in amount by any agency in the entire West. Their business is general insurance, the negotiation of loans of money for use in Utah, Idaho and elsewhere, etc.

They represent the following standard companies: Insurance Company of North America, of Philadelphia, $8,731,250; Home Insurance Company of New York, $8,931,159; German Ameri- can Insurance Company of New York, $5,544,346; Hartford Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, $6,142,454; Phoenix Insur- ance Company, of Hartford, $5,305,004; Pennsylvania Fire Insur- ance Company, of Philadelphia, $ 3,329,935; American Fire Insur. ance Company, of Philadelphia, $2,642,669; Niagara Fire Insur- ance Company, of New York, $2,490,654 ; Westchester Fire Insur- ance Company, of New York, 81,521,706; Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, $1,393,311; Liverpool & Lon- don & Globe Insurance Company, of Liverpool, $43,387,000; Home Fire Insurance Company of Utah, $300,000. The latter company is essentially a home institution and one in which the people of Salt Lake City take a just pride. It is most liberally patronized on this account, as also on account of its reliability and liberal policy. The firm represents several large Eastern companies, and as already stated, loans money in large amounts throughout the Territory. The enterprise has been incorpo- rated with Heber J. Grant, president; Richard W. Young, vice- president, and Horace G. Whitney, secretary and treasurer. The directory consists of Heber J. Grant, J. F. Grant, Wm. H. Rowe, Elias A. Smith, Richard W. Young, J. F. Wells, Leonard G. Hardy, Horace G. Whitney and Charles S. Burton, all prominent men in the social, political, commercial, and finan- cial history of Salt Lake City, and taking an active part in all matters pertaining to the best interests of the city and terri- tory. Mr. J. F. Grant, the general manager, possesses in an unusual degree all qualifications and characteristics requisite to successful conduct of affairs in this line of business, combin- ing enterprise, activity, prudence, sound judgment, and keen business tact. The firm employs a large force of clerks and as- sistants, and the business is phenomenally prosperous.

E. STEELE— I. X. L. STABLES.

The I. X. L. Stables, owned and operated by Mr. E. Steele are widely known and as universally popular among admirers of blooded horses, high mettled racers, rapid roadsters, etc., as they are among citizens who exact elegant service and equip- age. They are located on South Main street, between Third and Fourth and are in all features exceptionally well appointed and equipped. The stock is of the best character and descrip- tion; the carriages, buggies and vehicles generally of the most fashionable pattern, and responses to the public prompt and reliable. Mr. Steele established the enterprise about three years ago, and by his attention to business, and honorable dealing, has secured to the Fame an almpst endlef s patronage

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B. F. GUAM

with a stabling capacity for 300 head of horses. It is constructed of brick, is two stories high, and arranged with all the conveniences necessary to the easy and rapid transaction of the immense busi- ness carried on under its direction. The company has 125 head of horses, 28 carriages, 28 baggies, 9 transfer wagons and 8 omnibuses. To take care of so large an invoice of valuable properties and attend to the prompt transfer of baggage, requires a force of 43 men and a consequent pay-roll of large di- mensions. The company has some of the finest "rigs" in the West, and teams are furnished on short notice, while transfer business is carried on in a systematic man- ner with rarely a mistake ever being made in the smallest particular. In the conduct of this mammoth enterprise an enormous amount of capital is invested, and the daily expenses are heavy. Notwith- standing all this, however, the company is on a paying basis, due in a large manner to the able, |H,|,tilar and efficient manner in

GRANT BROS. COMPANY.

Equally important with the leading enterprises which give reputation to a city for progressive spirit, and commercial and manufacturing facilities, are all establishments which conduce to the con- venience of the community. With the growth of population in Salt Lake, has come an increase in the demand for livery teams, carriages and transfer wagons, and the business has assume^ great proportions in consequence. The (Irani Bros. Transfer Company was founded in by a corporation under the name of (irant Bros. Company, for the purpose of transacting a general livery and transfer business. The ollicere are Heber .1. (inint, president; Elias A. Smith, secretary iiuil treasurer, and li. F. Grant, manager. The establishment is the largest of its kind in the cil.v, occupying a building 100x330 feet in dimensions,

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ROWE. MORRIS, SUMMERHAY8 COMPANY.

of the many institutions that contribute to the prosperity of Salt I jtk.« is the Uowe, Morris, Summerhays Company. The corporation manufactures and handles leather, also dealing in hides, wool, deer and sheep pelts, furs, etc. Th«-\ occupy a large four-story Imildini; at Noa. HI und «8 South Third \Vt*t street, one-half block south of I'. I'. d»|Mit, Hit- tannery I icing nitimti>d mi Fourth North, between First and Hecon.l \V,«t streets, and is a large and conveniently arranged structure. The mUrpriae ia successor to .1. W. Snmmernays It Company, and was originally founded in 1888. Th« bnamess was incorporated in May last, and baa sine* largely increased-

J. M. c, I:\NI.

which the manager, Mr. Grant conducts operations connected with the undertaking. He is a man of keen business abilities, fully qualified for the position he linh's. and an affable, polite gen- tleman. The remaining officers of the company are prominent men in the city, and pioneers of Utah. The president, Heber J. Grant. has occupied the highest official position within the gift of the people of Salt Lake City, and is a gentleman universally esteemed and respected thoroughout the entire Territory. The secretary and treasurer, Mr. Elias A. Smith, is connected with a large number of commercial and financial in- stitutidiiH; is amanof large capital, and practically identified with all the interests of Salt Lake City.

The reader's attention is called to the fine engraving of the hand- some passenger "Raymond Coach" on the back cover of this publica- tion. It was built to accommodate large parties of excursionists and tourists, and is usually drawn by nix to eight fine horses.

J. F. GRANT.

They purchase hides, wool, pelts and furs through Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada aud Arizona and dispose of them in all the principal markets of the country. They do a heavy busi- ness that is annually improving, and employ a force of twenty-four hands. The officers of the corporation are: W. H. Bowe, president; R. Morris, vice- president and treasurer; Geo. R. Emery, secretary, and J W. Summer- hays, manager. They are thorough business men and prominent in the Territory. Their enterprise is an im- portant one in the matter of de- veloping the resources of the country; also as regards the amount of money involved in the business. The value of such institutions to a community is difiicult to compute, but is of a nature to be appreciated by all who have the interests of Salt Lake and Utah at heart.

L. P. ROBINSON.

Professional men above all classes of people are required to perfect them- selves in order to meet that success which all men strive to attain. This is as true in the practice of law as in the practice of medicine, but there is another agent in administering to the sick that is quite as important as the physician himself, the druggist, who must be equally if not more careful, aud thoroughly understand his busi- ness. The druggists of Salt Lake in this connection are beyond criticism. Prominent among them is the well- known pharmacy of L. P. Robinson, located at number 347 Southwest Temple St. Mr. Robinson began busi- ness in his present location in January 1891 , and the large trade he has already established speaks well for his popu- larity and the confidence the public place in him as a reliable and trust- worthy chemist. His stock is new, and constantly replenished, when nec- essary, in order to keep on hand drugs of the highest virtue. The premises occupied consist of a building 18x45 feet in dimensions, constructed of brick, and presents altogether a very handsome appearance. Mr. Rob-

GKANT BKO8. CO. — TKAN8FER AND LIVEKY.

inson is a graduate of the Ontario College of Pharmacy, also Trustee Fidelity Lodge of Odd Fellows. His annual business foots up fifteen thousand dollars and over.

HARRINGTON, DONNELLY & NEWELL.

The steady advance in values in Salt Lake property has resulted in showing the city what an active and energetic coterie of real estate men can do to develop a country hereto- fore unknown to land buyers for speculation. Among the most actively employed in this field of usefulness have been the members of the firm of Harrington, Donnelly & Newell, located at 9 West Second South street. Aside from a general real estate business these gentlemen have several special induce- ments for investment, among which rises prominently an addition to the city bearing the firm name. "Harrington, Don- nelly & Xewell's Addition," lies on Second West street; and Hellevue Park addition, another held by the firm, is located on Tenth South and Ninth lOast streets. Electric lines pass both additions, bringing the property into almost immediate con- nection with the city proper. The lots offered in these two tracts are especially desirable for residence purposes, all being high, sightly and well drained. The streets are already graded, and a number of healthy trees are growing along the thorough- fares, having been set aa a promotion of the other natural beauties of the land. Already a number of home-seekers have availed themselves of the especial inducements offered to build

houses on the lots they have purchased, and many very invit- ing structures have been erected for the owners' occupancy. The firm also holds a large amount of first-class mining prop- erty, situated in the rich Fish Springs and Cotton wood dis- tricts. There are three claims in the former district which are known to be valuable, but which have not yet been developed. The assay shows six ounces of silver and a small percentage of lead. The ore from which this assay was made was taken from the surface with a hammer. In Mill Creek the company owns the "Huron," and in Cottonwood, the "Rex" and " Indus." The " Huron " has a tunnel in 200 feet, and a shaft seventy-rive feet down. Its assays vary from six to forty ounces of silver, and has a well developed vein six feet wide, which is growing richer as the work progresses. On the " Indus," assays show 150 ounces of silver and sixty per cent, of lead. The " Rex " shows forty ounces of silver and fifty per cent, of lead. All these claims are especially promising, and a very slight outlay for development will make good money for a speculator.

LEAVER, CONRAD & CO.

Among the many industries for which Salt Lake is noted the lumber interests occupy a foremost position. One of the lead- ing enterprises of this character in Salt Lake City is that owned, and operated by Leaver, Conrad & Co., located at 255 West South Temple Street, and though but recently established

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carries one of the largest and most complete lines of^rough and planed Inmber in the country, and does an annual business quoted at 8100,000 in value. The trade of the firm extends through Utah and Idaho, requiring the expenditure of large sums and the employment of ten assistants. The members of the firm are natives of Utah. Mr. Leaver was for a number of years connected •with Mason & Co., in the same business, bis partner, Mr. H. S. Young, being at present the assistant cashier of the Deseret Bank. The firm is an exceptionally strong one, and entitled to the fullest confidence of the public.

R. K. THOMAS, DRY GOODS.

R. K. THOMAS.

In every city, aa a rule, the dry goods business holds ttie ranking poeitio i in mercantile affairs. Of the houses thus

engaged in Salt Lake City none occupy a more prominent posi- tion, with reference to the amount of stock carried, extent of business transacted or con- venience of premises occupied, and none is superior in the high standard of commercial honor i upon which its operations are I based, than the retail dry goods, S boot and shoe establishments I of H. K. Thomas, founded in • 1886. Throughout the history of this well-known and popular house it has ever maintained the characteristics of energy, mer- cantile integrity and enterpris- ing and intelligent ability man- ifested at its inception, and as the years have passed it has gained added value for the lib- eral and enlightened policy tbat has always made it prominent. If The building occupied by Mr. Thomas is 44x86 feet in dimen- sions, with a large basement for the storage of goods, and the store is a model of perfection in its interior arrangements, the various lines of go..ds carried by the bouse having departments of themselves, presided over by affable and polite assistants. In addition to the stock of dry-goods, boots and shoes, Mr. Thomas carries a full and assorted lin« of children's clothing and gents' furnishings, both of which are considered by competent judges as among the best in the city. It may be added that all these departments of the house are heavily stocked and ably directed, while the trade, which annually amounts to thousands of dol- lars in value, is steadily extending and increasing, requiring the employment of a force of twenty clerks, subordinates and sales- men to successfully handle. Mr. Thomas is a native of England, but has resided in Salt Lake City ever since 18C3. He is one of the oldest and most highly esteemed residents of the Territory, and the ability be has displayed in the building up of his immense business is the subject of frequent remark.

DRI8COLL & CO.

Messrs. Driscoll & Co., real estate and loan agtnts at 43 K. Second South Street, began operations in Salt Lake in 1887, and by successfully placing risks and loans have become a rep- resentative firm in these Hoes. They do a very large business, tbeirsalesof realty last year amounting to over 8100,000,nudthey probably placed loans equal in volume to that of any other firm. They are dealers in city, farm, ranch and mining properties and loan agents for Kastern capitalists. The members of the firm are Con. Driscoll unit ('apt. A. T Kiley. Ixith well known bus- iness men. Mr. Drisooll came to Salt Lake eighteen years ago and engaged in the mining and milling industry. He was also the amalgamator of the Ontario and Madonna \ alley mini H at Piocbe, Nevada, for a number of years, and is interested in a number of promising mines throughout the Weet. His trans- actions are characterized by energy, ability and liberality.

Captain Kiley was born in Ilirmingham. Knglnnd, and immigrated with IMH parents to the United States in 1H40, set- tling in St. I -mis. Mo., where his father engsged in the busi- ness of furnishing supplier for the river steamers, Captain Kiley commencing bis biuineas career at tbat time. In the big tire" of 1849 their establishment was totally destroyed, entailing a lose of over $K>U,000 and virtually brenking them np in busineM. In 1866, the Captain came to t'Ub, remaining two years, thenoe removing to St. Jo, MiMonri, where he re-

mained until 1861, when he became a resident of Omaha and embarked in the furniture business, in which he was engaged successfully for eight years. In 1869 he started for Utah as a passenger on the first through train to Taylor's Mills, thence by stage the balance of the journey. He immediately opened np a large furniture establishment in Salt Lake City, which he conducted very successfully until 1888-9, when he sold out and engaged in the real estate and loan business. In 1870 Captain Kiley was superintendent of the St. Mark's cathedral, an edi- fice that will cost $100,000 when completed. He is a man of recognized ability in the mercantile world, and his long resi- dence of twenty-two years in Salt Lake has given him an experience that aptly fits him for the business he is now en- gaged in. His knowledge of real estate values is very exten- sive and he has aided vary materially in building up the city in which he is ranked among the most enterprising public men. He is a typical gentleman of the old school and highly esteemed by his hundreds of friends.

SALT LAKE CITY FOUNDRY AND MANUFAC TURING COMPANY.

The manufacturing interests of Salt Lake, while being exceedingly diversified in character, are of far greater magni- tude than is generally supposed by a majority of its people. The enterprise of the Salt Lake Foundry and Manufacturing Company, located at 133 S. West Third street, is an illustration in point, and as one of the most extensive establishments in its line of operations in this section of the West, is a particularly apt subject for comment. The company was organized in 1879 and incorporated in 1885, with D. L. Davis, president ; .). 11. White, secretary and treasurer, and Eli A. Folland, superin- tendent. They are manufacturers of engines, boilers, mining and milling machinery, iron and brass castings, the last two articles being made to order in any desired style and shape. They are also sole manufacturers for the celebrated Horse's Friend sulky plow, which has a wide reputation for excellence all over the country. The foundry occupies a large building G(ix2()0 feet in dimensions, and the machinery, consisting of an engine of fifteen horse-power and other necessary1 appliances, is all of the latest and most improved pattern. From thirty to forty hands are constantly employed, making the pay-roll one of no inconsiderable proportions. The company sells goods principally in Utah and Idaho, but expect in the near future to cover more territory. The superintendent, Mr. Follaud, is an active, energetic business man, thoroughly conversant with all the details and requirements of the business. With facilities of the best possible character and extensive in detail and arrangement, they are prepared to supply the trade promptly with goods in their line of the best quality and on most reasonable terms. With a stainless business policy, of the most liberal and enterprising character, they deservedly hold the high position accorded them in commercial and manufac- turing circles, and a continuation of a prosperity so well merited.

J. HANSEN.

In the various professional lines Salt Lake City bis an ample share of the best in the land. In the list of architects that add to the honor and glory of her world-wide fame are many who would reflect credit upon any country. Conspicuous among these is the gentleman of whom this article is the sub- ject. Mr. Hanseu is n young man, thirty-two years of nge, and is a native of Copenhagen, Denmark. He received a classical inn! |iriietirul education in the art aead- llerlin and

Vienna, where be learned all the rudiments of architecture and of the principles that insure success. For twelve years be practiced his avocation in the old country, and then, believing tlmt the New World offered more sulwtnntial inducements to the nnibitioiiH young man, he emigrated to the United States. landing iu New York, thence removing to Chicago, and finally t.. Salt Idike, where he arrived'flve >eara ago and where be has enjoyed a remarkable success. Among the many buildings and residences which have been constructed according to IUH plan* anil under his supervision, are the Culnier block, the Wilson and Busby building, the K. K. Thomim Ihrw-Mory terrace I. uil. ling, No. 40 School Hixtriot e.liti.-e, Cnliner .V Kennett block, and the residence* of 8. H. Cannon, one of the linestin the city; K. O. Jonrn. C. II. I/en/e, M. S. CuniiuiiiKK Brown and others. Mr. llnnsen is one of the Imglitei.! young young men in his profession in rtidi.und is withnl n gentleman of sterling qualities. In politico of a nntioiml order he ii a prominent democrat, but a liberal, lonilly. He in married, bu mi intereiiliiig family, and is a valuable acquisition to the city, I «.th socially and in other particulars.

COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK.

The Commercial National is one of the most important financial institutions in Salt Lake City. It has been in opera- tion two years, yet has met with uniform success and prosper- ity, and has the reputation of being one of the best managed monetary concerns in the western part of the United States, commanding an extensive line of deposits and doing a large discount business. It occupies gro.'ind fl°or °f an elegant six- sto-y stone building, the most magn'fice°t.and costly structure in the city. The interior of the bank ls fitted UP m 8rand style, the appointments and ar- rangements being exceptionally convenient, attractive and sub- stantial. The officers and direc- tors of the Commercial National Bank are men that in some ca- pacity are connected with almost every extensive enterprise that has grown up in the city. The following well known gentlemen are the present officers of the in- stitution : Geo. M. Downey, presi- dent; W. P. Noble, vice-president; Thos. Marshall, 2d vice-president John W. Donnellan, cashier. A general banking business is con- ducted in loans, discounts, deposits and exchanges on all the important points in the United States and Europe. All departments of the business is carried upon a policy of the highest commercial stand- ing. Its liberal, yet conservative, methods are such as to merit the confidence, esteem and considera- tion of the public. It would be difficult to select a more desirable set of officials than those now at the head of this bank. In influ- ence, judgment and manipulation of financial affairs they are all that their patrons could wish for. The president of the institution, Mr. Geo.M. Downey, is a gentleman of unusual experience in such mat- ters, and stands at the head of the banking business in Salt Lake City. Col. John W. Dounellan, cashier, is well fitted for his posi- tion. Independent of his duties as cashier of so important a con- cern as the Commercial National Bank, he is infiuentially identi- fied with several leading business enterprises and public move- ments, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of Sail Lake City, treasurer of the Stock Exchange, regent of the University of Deseret and presi- dent of the Salt Lake Rapid Transit Co. He is also treasurer of the f Pacific Invest- ment Co., secretary and treasurer of the Bock Spring Coal Co., treasurer and director of the World's Fair Transit Co., and sec- retary and treasurer of the Commercial Block Association.

Col. Uonnellan came to Wyoming in 1867, and in 1869 was elected Territorial Treasurer. Subsequently he engaged in the banking business in Wyoming and tbe State of Colorado, having been Cashier of the Laramie National Bank at Lara- mie, Wyoming, and vice-president of the First National Bank at Rock Springs.

Col. Donnellan acquired his title by serving three and one- half years as Colonel in the United States Volunteers. Alto- gether his career has been a remarkable one, fraught with valuable experience, which preeminently fits him for the posi- tion he now occupies as cashier of the Commercial National Bank of Salt Lake City.

Col. Donnellan is a public spirited man, always ready and willing to encourage and support every project of importance to the city's welfare and those with whom he is associated. Under his able management the interests of the bank and its patrons are carefully looked after, and his judgment and supe- rior executive ability give him the support of all who are inter- ested in the bank's future prosperity.

Col. Donnellan is to be congratulated upon his great success so honorably achieved and so permanently retained.

The following is a statement of the affairs of this bank at the close of business July 9, 1891:

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK, OF SALT LAKE CITY.

At Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah, at the close of business, July 9th, 1891.

COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK.

HESOrjHCES.

Loans and discounts .

Overdrafts, secured and unsecured...

U. 8. bonds to secure circulation

Stocks, securities, claims, etc

Due from approved reserve egentfr f 4f»,;r_'2.1(.t

Due from other National banks 45,412.11

Banking house, furniture and natures

Current expenses and taxes paid

Premiums on U. 8. bends

Checks and other cash items l,24o.4h

Exchanjies for clearinghouse . - 4,,ri:c.7i2

Billsof other banks 2'6?°-°°

Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents. . h4.'J)

Specie .-.. - -- 58,936.70

Redemption fund with U. 8. treasurer (5 per cent, of circulation) --

$415,561.08 22,5111.91 60,000.00 14,6BB.fi9

91,934.30

69,225.73

250.85

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65,449.08 2,250.00

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LIABILITIES.

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12,000.00

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4.047.05

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J. W. SHIPLER.

The progress that has been made within recent years ID the art of photography is nothing short of marvelous. The meth- ods, the apparatus, and even the manner of posing, nil are vir- tually revolutionized by (he march of progress, and methods ami improvements closely approaching perfection are now employed. In no photographing establishment is this more strik- ingly illustrated than in the gallery of Mr. J. W.Shipler, in the Hooper Block, this city. Coming here from Montana about one

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year ago, Mr. Hbipler has built up a business already acknowl- edged to be one of the finest in the territory. The high order of work done, the uniform satisfaction rendered to his patrons, together with the unmistakable business capacity, energy and sound judgment which characterize* the management of his de- servedly popular establishment, have been the chief featnres contributing to the positive and permanent success that he en- joys to day. Mr. Slnpler lias elegant rooms in the magnificent Hooper Block, which are swiftly and easily accessible by the fine elevator in the building. Ilia rooms and studio are fitted np expressly for the business, and are models of beauty and ele- gaooe. .Mr. Shi pier was the first artist to introduce into Hull Lake what is known ss the satin finish on photograph* This process make* • picture perfect in every respect, and i- cided improvement upon the old albumen method. Mr. Ship- W has s beautiful souvenir of Salt Lake City, consisting "' twelve favorite scenes exeonted in blue tint and which are sim- ply perfect in their line. The gentleman is a native of Penn- sylvania, but has been in the western country for seventeen years or more, and i* therefore no tenderfoot. He IH very much of a gentleman in all his business as well as social walks, and is very popular witb all who have the pleasure of his •oquaint-

ZION'S SAVINGS BANK.

N» financial institution in the hintory of this city bus been more intimately connected with tl.. <>f thin commit

•r has had a more uniformly uticoemfiil or |.r. .-.(..••. ,n.. career than the one which stands at the bead of this article. It has a large capital and commands an extensive line of deposit*. Thin great financial enterprise wasestahlishrd in 1-7 . by Itng- ham Young, on • capital of SM),0(>n, which has now increased to

i K), and during the entire period of its existence has been regarded as one of the best managed monetary concerns in the United States. It does a general banking business and has correspondents all over the world. The bunk has elegant quar- ters in a magnificent six-story aud basement stone and brick structures, situated on the corner of Main and Hrigham

streets, one of the best business corners in the city. The first story of the building occupied by the bank is of gray stone, while the remaining stories are of a tine ijimlity »f brick appropriately trimmed with stone. The entire structure is nn architectural beauty, both in desigu and finish. * >ver the entrance to the institution which presents a massive and substantial appeii ranee, the words "/ion's Savings Bank aud Trust Co." is artistically cut in the solid stone. The interior arrangements and appointments are exceptionally convenient, attractive and substantial. Among the officers and directors at the present time will be found names closely identified with the history of Salt Lake in her progress and prosperity and the advancement aud development of her business interests, and manufacturing and commercial resources.

In connection with a general banking business the institu- tion has a savings department the feature of which is both uni'ine and novel, and commends itself to the public at once upon a lucid explanation. Many people are Iwkward in the matter of bringing small deposits to a bank, and to obviate this dilticnlty, 1 1 le officials of /ion's Savings Hank, have hail a number of miniature savings banks const ructed which theyloan todeposi tors to take home with them. These banks are nickel-plated on brass, provided with combination locks, aud are highly ornamental and convenient. They lend you one of these auxiliary bank* on depositing three dollars for insuring its return, for which they give v" " passbook, crediting you with the amount and allowing interest on the same. T!i>-\ k.-ptl..- key to the combination of the auxiliary bank, an that it can only be opened bv taking it to olliriiils. when the amount it contains is credited to you on your pass-book. By this means small deposits are encouraged at home, as the little bank is convenient ami the 1 mud and backward need have no hesitancy in dropping their small change into it Ml si/es coin or paper money ,-;m be placed in the auxiliary bank. By this arrange- ment many a person has been induced to save, and habits of economy and thrift formal and encouraged. The officers of Zion's Savings Bank and Trust i ompain are Wilford Wood- ruff, president ; Oeo. «,». Cannon, vice-president: Thus. («. Wwblwr. cashier ; and It. II. S.-hettler, assistant cashier The board of director* consists of \Viir..rd Woodruff . Qw. (1 Os*.

no,,. .1.*. K. Smith. .Tame* luck. Tin*, li Wel.U.r. August M ' ;,i,ii..n. l,e,-rmidc Young, George Reynolds and 11. It. Clawson, presenting some of the brightest name* in the gnlaxy

In concluding this sketch of 01 f Suit Lake's

greatest financial institutions, no higher or greater tribute can be paid to it, and the officers and management, than the fact that it does an annual hiiwnessofoTerf3.l»»MHl<i, demonstrating (••inclusively the great confidence in which it is regarded by the the public.

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L. H. DALE.

Salt Lake City is the happy possessor of one of that class of en- terprises that must needs have a thinking and enterpr ising peo- ple to cater to, and a populous community as a mart —

AN ARCHITECTURAL SHEET METAL WORKS,

with all its branches; with sanitary plumb- ing, steam, hot water and hot-air beating, ventilation , gas fittin g, brass goods, supplies, gas and combination fixtures, electric wir- ing, pumps and pump- sinking material, etc., etc. :

The well-known house of L. H. Dale has been established in this city for several years; while it is com- paratively new yet it is a popular institution. Mr. Dale is but thirty years of age, and is thoroughly conversant with his business, having been in business and contracting work since nineteen years of age. The magnitude of his business can be understood when the reader is informed of the fact that during the past season he furnished employment to thirty or forty men in its different branches. Mr. Dale has just moved his stock into his large new building, 35x150 feet, and is prepared to do a larger busi- ness than ever before, to manufacture and handle work with a great deal more satisfaction and on much shorter notice.

He is also well equipped with the most improved machinery requisite for his business in all the different departments. Judg- ing from the working of the machinery in the sheet metal works department, and the beautiful and difficult hammered work in copper braes, zinc, and galvanised iron this establishment has turned out, he is prepared to make anything in sheet metal that may be needed for any building.

On entering the commodious new building of Mr. Dale you first enter the exhibit and sales room, which is tastefully arranged with all manner of plumbing, gas and electric goods, with an elegant assortment of fixtures set up, showing the working of each of the many magnificent designs in bath tubs, water-closets, open lavatories, etc., with an endless stock of gas and electric fixtures. Next comes the

L. H. DALE.

large business in Salt Lake City and county, but throughout Utah, Wyoming and Idaho.

Next comes the plumbing, steam and gas-fitting shop, with, seemingly, as conveniently arranged racks, bins, and benches, and the larger and well-stored decking, suspended from the ceilings, on the left, with a large and endless variety of earthen- ware, asonecould wish toselect from, well filled to overflowing compartments with car loads of wrought and oast iron pipe in endless variety, sizes, shapes, etc. The two thousand dollar fitting bins are well filled with all kinds of fittings. Next to this shop is the sheet metal works, with the necessary ma- chinery, and with many stacks of all kinds of sheet iron, copper, brass, zinc, and all grades of tin plate, from the I. C. charcoal roofing up to and including the wellknown old method N.& G. Taylor and others just as good brands of old style terns. Mr. Dale is prepared and is making a more substantial work in the sheet metal line than has ever been built in this part of the country before. He will not turn out a job of work without it is well bossed and anchored. He makes a specialty of skylight and ventilator work, as well as all kinds of tin work and hot air heating. Mr. Dale has built up and is maintaining a nice jobbing, or wholesale trade. This point being so far from the manufacturers of the various kinds of goods in his line, he buys all his goods in car lots, and is furnishing everything in his line to the trade at prices that they can afford to deal with him. The stock of

HARVESTING MACHINERY AND CHAMPION REPAIRS

is from the well-known firm of Amos Whiteley & Co., of Spring- field, Ohio, of which he is the sole western agent. He carries a full and complete stock of Whiteley solid steel mowers and binders ; also a full stock of Whiteley and Champion machine repairs. These machines, consisting. of mowers and binders, have a world- wide reputation, and are known for their excel- lence to every farmer throughout the world, as thousands of them are sold annually. This company has more than $ 12,- 000,000 invested in the manufacture of their harvesting machin- ery at Springfield, Ohio. The above company is the only har- vesting machine company that build their entire machines from the ground up, viz : mining, their own ore, shipping it on their own railroad to their own factories, and making everything for their own machine in every particular. This manufacturing establishment is the largest one of its kind in the world. Mr. Dale furnishes all necessary repairs for all their machines, and also for all the

OLD CHAMPION MACHINES,

for the western country, and being a thorough practical man in his business, has never failed to give satisfaction. Mr. Dale is a live, pushing and energetic business man, and deserves much credit for his enterprise and the trade he has established ; not only does he receive great credit, but the people of our city and tributary country fully realize and appreciate the importance of such a manufacturing and wholesale establish- ment.

WHITELEY HOLIDISTEEL MOWER. HARVESTING MACHINE AND REPAIR ROOM,

with a thirty thousand dollar stock, which is much larger and better arranged than has ever been in this country before. *•» Mr. Dale has spared no pains or expense to make this part of the building convenient and attractive. He not only does a

ROGERS & COMPANY.

In writing a review of the commercial in- terests of Salt Lake City, there are many en- terprises that come under notice at are speciahlly worthy of mention. In this con- nection it is proper to state that there is no more potent factor in the material advancement of the commercial interests of a city than a well regulated and first-class grocery house. The house of Rogers & Company is pre-eminently one of this class. These gentlemen are all bright, active, enterprising young men ; and after seven years of a successful business career are in a position to understand the wants of the trade. The establishment was originally founded in 1884, by A. Rogers, Jr.. and the firm was afterward succeded by A. Rogers, Jr., J. B. Rogers, and Jas. Rogers, the father, who had been in active business life in Salt Lake City for more than twenty-five years, retiring to enjoy in ease the fruits of a successful business career. Mr. Rogers, Sr., is a native of Scotland, and one of the "old timers," and, although retired from active participation in business life, is largely interested in a number of enterprises that; aid very materially in the development of the resources of the territory.

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His BODS are worthy successors, and have demonstrated their ability as business men by the successful operation of one of the largest establishments of its character in the city. They are located in an elegant building in the business portion of the city, and in its arrangement is universally conceded to be handsome and adaptive. The firm carries an average stock, valued at $15,01)0, consisting of a general assortment of fancy groceries and table delicacies, etc., etc. This feature of their business is especially appreciated by the public, and has been the means of bringing Rogers A Company the best and finest trade in the city. Kight assistants are employed, from four to six wagons are constantly in operation, and they do an annual business of over $150,000. The members of all the tirra ore enterprising, liberal and progressive business men, gentlemen of unimpeachable character and worthy of all the pat- ronage they are receiving. In all the city of Salt Lak e. there is no firm that stands higher in the estimation of the public than that of Rogers A- Company.

UNION PACIFIC HOTEL.

The City of Suit Lake certainly commands a position essen- tially calling for first-class hotel accommodations of large capacity and intelligent management. The house of which this article is the subject, the Union Pacific Hotel, was but recently opened to the public by Mr. B. F. Wbittemore, an old hotel man of many years' experience. The house, situated opposite U. P. depot, is a four-story brick structure, 75x100 feet in dimensions, supplied with a 40-borse power engine used for heating and elevator purposes, and is conducted upon both

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the American and Knropean plans. It has ninety-four sl< -eping room* with a capacity to accommodate two hundred i the dining room Mating one hundred and fifty guests, the entire establishment being Intnl... I by .•],-,•( ri.-ily and gas, heated throughout )>y steam, and water on every floor. Th- table is supplied with all the market affords and the service is of the very best. In the «*mntrnrtiiMi of this edifice, the best architectural designs were employed, including the latest im- proved fashion in a eii|x>la from which Salt Lake, the entire valley. eU>, may be viewed. Another pleasing feature of the Imilii. .live woods used in its decoration

ttMMCond tl"<>r wip««ially being tUHff&tH& for its orna- m-ntHtiotiH in Spanish omlar, Ihe third floor in Oregon yellow ' « high |M>liHh, anil the fourth floor in white nth oil pfiliitli. Tli" ln.tt>| floor* are laid in ("ftliforniit red-wood and the reception rooma, bar room, billiard p«>m. .rksofart. Mr. Wliitlemore liegan the Imtfl I.IIM em in Kan Fran • ''. and ha* nine* b«en continually en-

gaged in the name line. He i* a j>opuhir Innillnril nntl in ably assisted by hto wife. »i... laic..* it ui-.ii hunwlf to Me that all guests are made comfortable; nn.l ••• her influence and ability to due much of the success that be has achieve<L

JOHN READING.

In every city there are individual examples of men whose large connection with its business pursuits, whose prominence in all matters of public enterprise, and whose record for integ- rity, energy and industry, made them object of note, not alone in their homes, but wherever an exalted commercial reputation is recognized and respected.

Few men at present engaged in business in Salt Lake City, have been longer associated with its mercantile interests than John Reading. Coming to the city from England thirty-seven years ago he can justly l>e considered, one of the pioneers of the Territory. In 18(54 he embarked in his present occupation of florist and seedsman, and by diligence and perseverance, coupled with strict integrity of purpose, he has built up one of the largest trades in his line the western country can boast of. The buildings and grounds necessary to carry on his business occupy a space of 22x50 rods, corner Second East and Second South streets, and include a large hot house, heated by steam and furnishing employment to fifteen hands, being also supplied with all modern appliances, including elec- tric light and other machinery necessary for the successful operation of the same. The grounds of Mr. Reading, laid out in elegant, symmetric design, are models of beauty and perfection in all the details to which they are adapted. All varieties of flowers and plants are propagated and seeds of every descirp- tion are kept constantly on hand to supply the trade. The con- cern also has a four acre block devoted to the cultivation of flowers and eeeds, at Centerville, Davis County, thirteen miles north of the city, and one half miles east of the U. 1'. railroad. This is under the charge of his son, W. H. Reading, and is a model in beauty and design. The trade extends to Montana and Idaho, and is increasing in volume yearly. Mr. Reading has a branch salesroom under the Utah National bank, and is ably assisted in his business by his two sons, \V. H. and C. J. Reading, both of whom are recognized as men of ability in their line.

SALT LAKE EQUITABLE CO-OPERATIVE INSTITUTION.

The Salt Lake Equitable Co-operative Institution, for the purpose of engaging in general merchandising, was incorporated in IS'.HI, and began business in October of the same year, with Mr. Langton, president; Thomas H. Nott, vice-president, the directors being: Marcus Metz, Juo. Scofield Sr.. and Francis T. Bailey, all old operators. The capital stock of the corporation is $ 100,000. They carry a general stock of merchandise, and the enterprise has already proved a b*on to the people of Salt Lake and Utah. The institution operates by an original plan, that of selling goods at low prices and allowing a rebate of five per cent, on all cash purchases. This system was inaugurated with a view to benefit customers paying cash. It has proved to be very successful, and has saved the consumers many dollars. The pnmpanv occupy a two-story Imilding, 2fxl40 feet in dimeiimous, atSOana '-V West First S\ South, ami employ fourteen assist- ants. Their trade amounts from $12,000 to $14,000 per month, and extends pretty well through the entire Territory.

Mr. Lnngton, the president and superintendent, came to

I 'tul. in 1881, and eight years ago founded the /ion's Benefit Building Society, a society that has prospered and thriven to a n-miirkable degree. He was also the first man to inaugurate

I 1 iff. | ni table co-operative system in this community. Mr. Kiing Ion m a firm believer in the success and great future in store for Salt l,»kf. and is naturally interested in every good project Tor her benefit. He is broad and liberal in bis views, a public- spirited business man, and has the confidence and esteem of the community. In hia business he is ably assist*-.! l>y Mr. N..tt, recognized as a man of large commercial iil.ilitn-t. and an enter- prising citizen and gentleman. Mr. Nott IK an experienced ami thoroughly practical mini in Inn line, having for nineteen years Ixwn iu charge of the grocery department of S I'. Teandell, the oldest honM in the Territory, and consequently well ant) amply qualified for the position he now holds.

SALT LAKE HARDWARE CO.

There is probably no one branch of trade more important in its relation*, influence and bearing upon the commerce of a city than the hardware bintinras. The generic term hardware includes all the unclassified nianufnctnreH of iron ami There are no distinct specialties in thin market and the van. .11- imliiHtrieH and ilcmHndit of thf trade are fully supplied by the pnt.-rpnw of the Sail Luke Hardware Co..' at VJ and 41 \V Second South Street. 'The Mo<-k carried is wonderfiil.com- plete, including every article entering into the general hard- wan trade, both heavy and shelf, made in the beet Eastern and

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foreign factories and sold at the lowest prices. Of the firms dealing in hardware in this section none occupy a more promi- nent position or conduct their business with more enterprise and intelligence. The present company is a successor to Jas. T. Clasby; it was incorporated in 1889, and with its ample facil- ities and resources, together with an excellent business capacity, hiid an immediate and marked success, resulting in a trade wiiich is steadily increasing each year. The company's place of business is conveniently located and consists of a building 30x247 feet in dimensions, containing 16,000 square feet of floor surface, filled with a stock valued at $60,000, embracing mis- cellaneous articles entering into the trade, general hardware for all purposes, builders' and mechanics' tools, miners' and contractors' supplies, guns, pistols, ammunition, fishing tackle, sporting goods and house furnishing hardware; also stoves, ranges, tin and granite ware. A specialty is made of tin, sheet iron und copper work, furnace work and sanitary plumbing. In the prosecution of the business of the company sixteen assist- ants are employed, including traveling salesman, who can serve a large and prosperous trade in Utah, Idaho, Montana.Wyoming, Nevada and Colorado, amounting in the aggregate to nearly •3 200,000 per annum. The officers of the company are J.T. Clasby, president, and B. F. ISauer, secretary, who represent and control not only one of the largest establishments of its character in the West, but one that compares favorably with any in the country; standing in the front rank of business houses in re- gard to the quantity of its stock, extent of its transactions, and in the enterprising, energetic and systematic business habits and capacity displayed in its management. The gentlemen comprising the company are men of sterling integrity, noted for their business qualifications and for their unquestioned re- liability in all the walks of life.

D. C. YOUNG.

Greece and Home in their palmy days awarded the greatest dignities and honors to those who excelled in painting, sculpture and architecture. The Moors were credited with being a peo- ple of unusual refinement and specimens of their architecture, which etill exist, claim the admiration of lovers of the beautiful.

The character of the public and private buildings of a city is a test of the civilization, refinement and enterprise of the people. Among the list of accomplished architects in Salt Lake, I). C. Youug occupies a leading position. He is an ex- perienced and able man in his line, having pursued his pro- fession for ten years. He graduated at the College of Engineer- ing, Troy, X. Y.. in 1879, and followed civil engineering for two years, but abandoned it to engage in the profession of an archi- tect, and though but thirty-six years of age, he has designed a number of noted building in the city and Territory, among them being the Hotel Templeton, universally recognized as an architectural beauty in every respect. He also designed the lirigham Young academy at Provo, the Brigham Young college at Logan, and the church building at Paris, Idaho, in what is known as the Hear Lake Stake of Zion. At present he is the supervising architect of the magnificent temple building, which has occupied nearly all his attention during the past four years. He is the architect for the Mormon church, and devotes con- siderable time to the designing of churches, schools, and other buildings for the Mormon people. His business extends all throughout the Territory of Idaho and elsewhere, and his repu- tation as ao artist in his line is unexcelled in any portion of the west. The very fact that he was selected to supervise the work of the grand and massive temple structure is public acknowl- edgement of his abilities, and a compliment to his integrity as a man. Those in need of the services of a first-class architect will find him in the person of Mr. Young, and they will also find a gentleman with whom it is a pleasure to transact busi- ness.

WEST LAKH & MIDWAY IMPROVEMENT CO.

Among the institutions that contribute in a large measure to the general prosperity of Salt Lake City there is none more worthy of notice than the West Lake & Midway Improvement Company, of which E. L. Crow is president, and A. M. Wood, secretary. The business of the enterprise is the investment in realty for non-residents, the buying and selling of real estate, bonds, securities and other first-class negotiable paper. The company also handles large property interests of its own, among such being the West Lake and Midway additions, situ- ated on the Hues of the Union Pacific and Motor railway com- panies, and containing 340 acres. Many modern improvements

have been made on this desirable property, such as the sinking of artesian wells, graded boulevards, streets and alleys, eto. The additions are building up rapidly on account of the value of the property, the same being within easy reaching distance of the business portion of the city, with two lines of railway passing the same, the cars of which are run at short intervals, two electric car lines building through these properties, and to the further fact that the tract is in every way very choice property as residence sites. Over 2,500 lots have been sold the past year, on the majority of which buildings have been erect- ed or planned'for construction. The company offers most lib- eral and advantageous inducements and guarantee to make terms satisfactory to all who may call on them with a desire to invest. The gentlemen at the head of the company are men of broad, comprehensive views, at the same time having the interests of the city and territory at heart. The company is a strong one and fully entitled to the confidence of the public.

PARKER & DEPUE.

The lumber business as much if not more than any other, admits of limitless opportunities for the exercise of judgment in buying, and as close buying enables a dealer to meet cur- rent prices and still retain a margin of profit, the merchant that is on the alert in this respect is bound to gain and hold his full share of patronage. Salt Lake City has in the firm of Parker & Depne, with office and yard at corner of Second South and Third West streets, lumber dealers who are not only highly successful in business, and keep in stock all kinds and grades of lumber, but are prompt in filling orders. Their long and diversified experience enables them to take advantage of the rise and fall in prices and supply the lumber demand of this city and territory with dispatch and satisfaction.

Parker & Depue is an incorporated company, with F. L. Parker, president, and D. A. Depue, secretary and treasurer. The capital stock is stated at 836,000, and annual business, which amounts to over 8100,000, is constantly increasing. The trade in all parts of Utah is sup- plied from their yards, where may be found a complete stock of hard woods such as walnut, oak, ash, cherry, gum, sycamore ete., as well as a large quantity of common lumber, and a full stock of rustic siding, T. and G. flooring, lath, shingles, East, lake doors and finish, blocks, etc. Imported and Ameri can cements and building papers may also be procured of this firm; in fact every thing that comes within the province of the lumber dealer is always in stock. Mr. Parker is originally from Abilene, Kan., and familiar with the business in detail, while Mr. Depue has had five years' experience in the handling of lumber and lumber products, and is a young man, enterpris- ing and of progressive ideas, with a thorough business edu- cation.

Mr. Kelsey.the senior member of the firm, has been engaged in the lumbering trade for the past ten years, and ranks high in the estimation of all who know him.

The firm is noted for its liberal terms, low prices and hon- orable business methods.

DR. DANIEL C. LEEKA.

The practitioners of the city in their character reflect the general worth of the community. Salt Lake City may lay claim to being fortune and merited deserts in this respect, as the professions are represented by energetic, able and con- scientious men of the younger school. In the dental field a name prominently identified with success is that of Dr. D. C. Leeka, who has made wonderful progress in the practice of his chosen profession. Dr. Leeka was born in Indiana, twenty-three years ago. His early education was derived from a preceptor in Cincinnati, after which he studied dentistry and was admit- ted to practice in 1885. During his career he has been associated with Dr. De Johns, of Cincinnati, and with Dr. D wight Danville, Illinois, and has during the term of his service in Salt Lake City been in a general dental practice, and receiving the full- est recognition and patronage. His parlors are conveniently located at 26 West Second South street, and are tastefully fur- nished, while his work is and has been uniformly satisfactory. The gentleman is still unmarried and in the practice of his pro- fession has thus far found it unnecessary to appeal to political or fraternal affiliation to aid him in furthering the business in which merit has already firmly established. He is thoroughly acquainted with all branches of his chosen art, from the lowest to the highest, and the hosts of friends he has made since com- ing here rsjoice at his success.

H. A. TUCKETT.

The manufacture of candies and confections has in the past few years assumed wonderful proportions; in fact, has become one of the chief industries of the nation. In Suit Lake there are several industries of this kind, but the 11. A Tucket t Candy Co. is the largest in the territory. It was in- corporated in 1889, although the house has been in operation for ten years, and deals in candies, nuts, figs, dates, confec- tions, paper bags, twine, etc., also being sole agents for Fritz Brae, fine cigars. The establishment manufactures for the trade only, and does a business covering the Territories and States of t'tuli, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Colorado. The machinery of the plant is driven by an engine of 20- horse power, while the equipments and appointments of the plant itself are full, complete and appli- cable. The premises occupied at 850 E. 1st South, are 30x100 feet in dimensions, and with improvements completed will cover an area of 10x20 rods. A force of forty-two experienced and expert operatives are em- ployed and the annual business is quoted at $150,000. The officers are: H. A. Tuckett, president; Bird Murphy, vice president, and Chas. Livingston, secretary and treasurer, all men of acknowledged business abil- ity and prominent in the City. Mr. Tnckett, originally from St. Louis, has resided in Utah for thirty-seven years and may there- fore be justly regarded as one of Salt Lake's pioneers. Messrs. Livingston and Murphy were born in Salt Lake City and are deeply interested in all that appertains to her welfare.

The company has secured a tract of land near the P. K. K. depot, upon which it is erecting a new five story brick factory, a portion of which is already completed. This improvement on the part of the company is made necessary by the steady increase of business, and will prove an ornament to that portion of the city, as also a monument to the enterprise of its promoters and builders.

F. AUERBACH BROS.

The establishment of K. Auerbach Bros, is a leading one in the dry-goods trade, and has been brought to a high standard in all its departments. It was founded in 1864, by Messrs. I H & S. H. Auerbach, the present proprietors, on a comparatively small scale, which has increased to such an extent that the house at the present time handles an average stock of $!2>">o,()0o, and does an annual business of over $500,000, their trade cov-

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SIERRA NEVADA LUMBER CO.

The lumber industries of Utah, and especially of Salt Lake City, are among the many influential factors that go to make up it* progress and development. The Sierra Nevada Lumber Company is one of the "pioneer" industries in Salt Lake, having been established in 1871, and incorporated in 1887 with the present management. The average amount of stock carried range* from $50,000 to $75,000 and the annual amount of busi- ness transacted toots up the enormous sum of $350,000. The number of men employed is thirty-five and the trade of the company extends through Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming. The plant occupies three hundred and fifty square rods, and is opposite the U. P. freight depot. The office and lumber yard face the depot, with the planing mill and another yard in rear facing on West South Temple street, thereby making an "L." A forty hone-power engine furnishes the motive power for run- ning the mill, which ia supplied with all the most modern approved machinery. The company carries a large and com- plete line of lumber, laths, shingles, doors, windows, blinds, mouldings, frames, wood pumps; walnut, oak, aah. cherry and Spanish cedar woods. They also make a specialty of stair luul. 1- ing, mantels, store fronts, counters in hard or soft woods, and do mill work to order in all its branches. The officers <>f the corporation are: T U Jones, president, and S. .1. Lynn, superin- tendent, secretary and treasurer. The president, Mr. Jones, in one of the most prominent financial and commercial men in the city, being the well-known banker and connected with various enterprise* of a character to promote the beet interests of the city. Theraperiiitenileut, Mr. Lynn, is a man occupying a leading position among the ImnneM men of Utah and : nected with a number of imluMtrien that are of much influence in promoting and building up the country. He is a practical man in the line of hm avocation and thoroughly understands all the details of the same. He is highly esteemed Mid regarded by all who know him; is a silent partner in Jnnen A- ( o.'s bank, iin. I. in connection with Mr. .loin*, proprietor of the Nevada Lumber Company, also the property on which it is situated.

eriug the territories of Utah, Idaho, and parts of Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. The establishment is located at 1 It to 148 Main St., in a large three-story brick structure, 44xl!K) feet, and is occupied entirely by the firm for the transaction of its enormous trade. In the prosecution of the business fifty em- ployes are constantly engaged.

The Auerbach Bros, are natives of Germany, but have been citizens of this country for many years, and are men of great business ability and force of character. Mr. F. II Auerbach is one of the regents of the Deseret University, and one of the best known men in the Territory. The Anerbach Bros., although yet in the prime of vigorous manhood, have made a record of business success, and gained a position second to none among the men of commerce in the city of their adoption, iiml who furnish an encouraging example to those who are but entering on the straggle of life. The commercial history of Salt Lake has produced but few examples of success so marked and substantial as that furnished by their career, ami among the enterprises representing the vigor ami life of t'tah's com- mercial industries this one is of the most distinctive character.

MBS. H. CHRISTY.

For the benefit of our lady readers, we will introduce this estimable lady, who occupies an important position in her pro- fession, being riH-ngnized as tin* leading fashionable milliner of this city, located at 81 West First South street. Her patronage is very extensive among the wealthy class of the city, who are not slow to recognize true merit She sees to it that the ladies of Salt Lake are enabled to dress in the latest styles which appear in the fashionable centers of the Kast Her stock also comprises a line of less e\i- -IIM\« goods, yet Hiich IIH are in perfect tasU», and which are demanded liy those who do not wish the more costly iim>orte<l goods. She also carne«i a tine line of rihltons. feathers, flowers, shapes and trim- mings of all kinds at prices that make eren her competitor* marvel.

I'.nongh has been said to convince our lady readers that i: they are in need of fashionable wearing apparel they should ceJl upon Mrs. Christy. They will find her a lady of culture and refinement, whose every effort is directed toward the main- taining for her establishment the reputation as leader.

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J. H. WATTS.

Utah is preeminently a mining country. Agriculture is an established industry, but it is from mining that the most speedy und substantial returns are expected. In such a state of affairs, it is wise to consider the facilities employed in the development of mining and mining industries. Among the enterprises organized for the purposes indicated is the Tintic Mining and Milling Company, represented in Salt Lake by the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, located at 9 West 2ad South street. The company was incorporated in 1890, with the following officers : President, 0. N. Kae ; Vice-Presi- dent, J. P. Sears ; Treasurer, J. H. Watts ; Secretary, J. H. Bowdle, and who, with J. H. McGhan, from the board of direc- tors. Tne capital stock was fixed at 700,000 shares of 81 each. The property owned and operated by the company is situated in Silver City, Juab county, in the Tmtic mining district, and has been worked for a dozen years. Since the company took possession it has sunk a shaft 117 feet ; another shaft fifty feet down has been worked by former owners, from which ship- ments have been made, amounting to $27,000 in value. The company has invested in a steam power hoist, and employs twenty to twenty-five men, the average pay-roll being $2,000 a month. The character of the ore removed is porphyry which will assay 14.450. A shipment was made in 1890, to the Mingo smelter, which showed 8 per cent, lead and 67.1 ounces of silver, with .13 ounces of gold. A second shipment showed 3.5 per cent, of lead, 96.3 ounces of silver, and the same amount of gold as in the preceding consignment. This property is valuable for working and the company finds it pays to keep things moving, the output being abundantly commensurate with the cost of operation, leaving a handsome percentage for profit. Utah mines are good property and the Tintic district is known to miners everywhere as particularly rich and consist- ent in its output with the number of good paying mines con- stantly increasing over those which have been worked out. It is a country where the investment of a very little money is bound to result well, if placed in the hands of an established industry. The grade of ore coming from the Tintic Mining and Milling Company's property will be seen to be very good; in fact much superior to the majority of mines which are being operated as certain enrichers of stockholders, even now.

T. J. ANGELL LUMBER COMPANY.

In all cities noted for enterprise and progress in commercial affairs and growth in population, there are no more efficient and substantial contributors toward those desirable ends than branches of industry connected with the building interest. Through their enterprise, exertions and the practical knowledge of the proprietors, cities are built, adorned and made attractive. In growing cities like Salt Lake men who are conversant with lumber business, practically acquainted with its details, and withal, energetic, determined and industrious, are valuable acquisitions to its trade and aids to its progress. Such men are the members of the T. J. Angell Lumber Company, possessing, as they do, a practical knowledge of the business in all its depart- ments, a knowledge acquired by long connection with the Lumber trade of Salt Lake City. The business was started in 1889, by A ngell Bros., the present firm succeeding them in September, 1891. The grounds occupied at 625 State St., are 129x165 feet in dimensions, on which are located their office and yards. The stock carried is valued about $20,000, and includes all kinds of lumber, laths, shingles, fence posts, etc. They also carry a full line of builders' hardware. Their trade extends all over Utah, and foots up the handsome sum of 880,000 per annum, a good showing for a firm which has been in business but two years. Fifteen hands are kept constantly busy receiving, delivering and shipping. Socially and in busi- ness affairs these gentlemen well deserve the respect accorded them. Possessing the qualities which go to make up cultured intelligence and honorable business men— character and repu- tation— it could not be otherwise.

GEO. M. CANNON.

Among those operative industries which contribute most directly to the prosperity of growing cities and towns, there are none whose influence and energy are more worthy of recognition than those of the dealer in real estate. Prominent among the busir.ees men of this class in Salt Lake stands Mr. Geo. M. Cannon, who began operations in 1886 in company with his brother, John M. Cannon. The latter, however, shortly after the formation of the firm, entered the law depart-

ment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he graduated, and is now one of the rising young attorneys of bait Lake, and interested with his brother in the ownership of some valuable realty in that city, Mr. G. M. Cannon, in addition to handling real estate on commission, being a large realty owner himself. He is the principal owner of Forest Dale addition to Salt Lake, one of the finest suburb tracts of land in the West, and the largest addition southeast of Liberty Park. Together with his association, Mr. Cannon was instrumental in securing the extension of the lines of the rapid transit company to tl addition, the contract with the railway company requiring the latter to build their track to Mr. Cannon's property, and furnish a continuous service at a minumum rate of fare for twenty years, the latter paying therefor a bonus of $21,000 to the railroad company. Northeast of this property and on the same line of railway lies the Perkins Boulevard addition, also owned by Mr. Cannon, and of which he has already disposed of a large number of lots, the sales from the same amounting to 875,- 000 in six months. These additions are admirably located, and are among the most desirable properties in the city for residence purposes. They are situated high and dry above the level of the surrounding tracts, covered in many cases with beautiful shad< trees convenient and accessible to business by means of the Kapid Transit railway, and destined to be a favorite dwelling place for the home loving people of Salt Lake. He also loans eastern capital and is well known throughout the Territory as a safe reli- able man with whom to do business. He was County Recorder for six years and during his term of office acquainted himself with locations, titles and values, a knowledge of which has been very useful to him in his present business. Mr. Cannon has the esteem and confidence of the business men and citizens o Salt Lake, and his judgment on real estate and other invest ments, is considered sound.

CABTHEY & DUMBECK.

Simultaneous with the erection of many new and costly buildings now going up in Salt Lake City, the various lines of business brought into play in their construction and equip- ment are being established and perfected. As this development continues and the buildings are constructed higher and hud- dled closer together, the necessity for improved sanitary arrangements, water supply, heating apparatus, etc., is redoubled. The past few years have witnessed wonderful strides in the direction of a better sanitary system for populous cities, and the men whose business it is to make provision for the removal of refuse in buildings constructed according to modern ideas must adopt and be prepared to include the latest improved arrangements for this purpose.

Salt Lake City is building a splendid foundation in this respect. All of her largest and best buildings are being fitted with every available improvement designed for comfort or con- venience, and the plumber is an important factor in securing this end.

The firm of Carthey & Dumbeck is among the foremost in its line, and provided with plumbers and steam-fitters able to perform their work as thoroughly and satisfactorily as any concern of the kind in the United States. The firm, some time since succeeded to the business of Igo & Carthey, long estab- lished in Salt Lake City, and maintain the highest reputation for skill and reliability.

They are located at No. 302 South West Temple street, occupying a building 16x42, with a warehouse to the rear 20x25 feet in dimensions and well equipped.

The gentlemen composing the firm are skilled workmen, thoroughly experienced, and fully prepared to execute contracts requiring the exercise of professional skill and first-class work.

During the past year their business amounted to more than $25,000, emphasizing their reputation as faithful and responsi- ble artisans, deserving of the full measure of confidence they enjoy, and their ability to respond to requisitions made upon their services promptly and satisfactorily.

JOSEPH WM. TAYLOR. .

The natural desire is strong in the hearts of loving friends and relatives to pay the last sad tribute of love and respect to the dear departed in as gentle, appropriate and refined manner as possible, the final details of which are generally left to the un- dertaker. In the City of Salt Lake there is no man better qualified to fill this position than Joseph Wm. Taylor, under- taker and embalmer. Mr. Taylor has had an experience of twenty-seven years in the business, and is therefore amply

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qualified for all the peculiar requirements of the same. His stablishnient occupies a two-story brick building at 21 and 23 South West Temple Street, provided with all conveniences, including telephone service, and his business extends to all points in Utah and Idaho. His stock is large and varied, and his line of metallic caskets, burial cases, shrouds and robes is second to none in the West. His hearses are among the most elegant in the city; his assistants are well trained, polite and respectful, and the establishment is complete in all its details

and merit in the mercantile ranks, and is highly regarded and esteemed by an extensive circle of friends -throughout the city and Territory.

C. O. VALENTINE & CO.

Prominent among the new enterprises of Salt Lake C'itv the irm of \ Hlentine A Co., wholesale and retail dealers in'lish oysters, fruits, game, etc., occupy a leading position. The firm has a convenient and well-equipped building, No. 54 Market

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of the sucee** Mr. Taylor ha* achieved is due to hi* estimable character, refine*! nature and oourteoui deportment a* also hi* bnsine** qualification*. As wonld naturally be inferred Mr. Taylor'* refined ta*te* incline him to the *el and purchase of the highest grade* of good* in hi* line, at the *am« time keeping cheaper bnt well-chosen good* for *nch of « patron* a* cannot afford to indulge their more expensive

No undertaker of the present day would flunk of Hiking the patronage of the puhlir without the ability to nerve them with It £'°*f •Ppr"T<%<1 •»«' •cientiflc prooM* of embalming. Mr. Taylor having availed himself of every advantage in the aoquiMtion of thin ditlicHlt science in prepared to give the public tbe benefit of hm (kill with the a**uranoe of nalmfurtory result*. H* WM horn in Halt Lake City. i. . gentleman well and faror- •bly known all over lit* Territory, a man of recognized worth

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Row, West First South Street, and keep a constant supply of fresh good* on hand. They receive daily fresh oysters from Baltimore and New York, extensively handling the celebrated "Crown" mill "Slnel.r brand*, pronounced by epicure* to be of a very sujHTior quality1 They receive flab fresh from the lake* and *t reams of California and Wi*oon*in, and are in daily receipt c.f all kinds of game and fruit in season, a specialty iwing made of the beet good*. Hy this means they bare Imilt up a large and inoifMing trade, and will, in lhc'ne«r future, o|wn H bnaoh •fUbliabBMOl at UK-li-n. Mr. Valentine is from WIM -onwn. while Mr. Sears claims Ohio as hi* native

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which they minister. They are men of enterprise and energy, and po*ee**all tbe qualification* indispensable to success in ooounercuu life.

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SHELLEY & BURCKHARTT.

The Messrs. Shelley ABurckhartt have opened up one of the most unique show rooms in the country, at 221 South Main sfreet. The apartment is 22x60 feet in size, with every con- venience and equipment for an advantageous display ot their respective lines. Their business is collecting and disposing of the most beautiful, rare, and wonderful specimens of quartz, mineral petrifactions, jewels, furs and curios ; also manufactur- ing them into tasteful, and attractive articles. 1 1 has been difficult at times to convince many visitors that gems and stones of variegated beauty and great value were indigenous to Utah. But this is being gradually overcome and not only do the gems and precious stones further on described astonish, but the birds, skins, and furs, exhibited by the firm are sources of wonder and admiration. One of the wall adornments is said be among the finest specimens of grizzly bear skins ever exhib- ited. It measures nine feet by six one half feet and is in a state of perfect preservation. It was taken from one of the largest bears ever killed in Utah. Its dead weight was 1,420 lt)s., at the time of its capture in the Diamond mountains. Perhaps the most curious and unique as well as beautiful con- binations of art and nature in their collections, is a feather or bird-skin robe, the production of natives of Patagonia, South America, and containing in its wonderful make up, the skius of over three hundred birds. It was brought here at great expense and it is said to be the only one of the kind in the United States. They also have a large display of beautiful and costly furs both native and imported, and their jewelry cases are replete with gems and jewels, the beauty of which together with the reasonable terms upon which they can be purchased are matters of surprise. The rocky mountain agate in every variety, highly polished and made into a thousand elegant and useful articles, the onyx with all its beautiful shade and tints, is found there, its highly polished faces resolved into things of beauty to prove a joy to many forever.

The Utah topaz may be found in many stores in the city but Messrs. Shelley & Burckhartt appear to have been for- tunate in obtaining a most beautiful assortment of these prec- ious gems. They are of unusual size and in every known tint. The ruby, another of Utah's gems, so plentiful that it is said " they can be shoveled up out of the creekbeds," can be found possessing beautiful colors and well cut, in this house of gems . Garnets of great size and value are also kept in stock and although no pearls are known to have been grown in Utah, a fine quality of crystal, resembling the genuine diamond so nearly that only the experienced lapidary can distinguish them, is obtainable. In addition to these Shelley & Burckhartt, carry a superior collection of Utah diamonds and invoices of another gem beauty that the great " Rockies " boast of, emerald, aquamarine. This is prized very highly, especially by ladies,|on account of its diamond-like quality of retaining its bril- liancy by lamp light; they are mostly in green shades, but some times of a beautiful blue. The sapphire, the ancient name of which was "llyacinthus,"on account of its resembling the beautiful blue of that Hower, is also to be found, together with the carbuncle, perhaps one of the most brilliant of gems, it belongs to the same family as the garnet, the "pyrope," and is found among the jewels of kings and queens. Their collections are very fascinating, not only naked gems but the ingenious work exhibited in the very numerous vari- ety of articles they are worked into. One very pretty thing is the pure spar of carbonate or pure sulphite of lime, made up into necklaces, paper knives, jewel boxes, etc; the agate sar- donyx and onyx, made into jewel boxes, penholders and other beautiful and useful things that one must see to fully appre- ciate and believe.

The Messrs. Shelley & Burckhartt are gentlemen accomp- lished in the profession in which they have many years expe- rience. Their collection is complete and their business methods inspire confidence and admiration.

SEARS & JEREMY CO.

With the rapid growth and increase of population in Utah, the business of flour, produce and grain, has largely increased throughout the Territory, and the transactions of some firms engaged in this line of trade, are enormous in volume, especi- ally is this the case in Salt Lake, in proof of which it is only nec- essary to cite the public to the firm of Sears & Jeremy Com- pany, wholesale and retail dealers in flour, produce, grain, seeds and provisions. The enterprise is one of the oldest in its character in the city, having been founded fourteen years ago by Mr. Isaac Sears, becoming incorporated in 1891,

with Isaac Seaars, president and manager ; C. H. Spence r vice-president ; Thos. E. Jeremy, treasurer, and O. E. Silver- wood, secretary. The above gentlemen, together with Isaac M. Wardell and Ethan J. Jeremy, comprise the board of direc- tors, all of whom are old residents, and well and favorably known throughout the Territory. The office and salesroom of the company are at No. 60, First South West street, while their larger warehouse is located near the railroad track. The cor- poration, besides handling large shipments of grain, hay and gar- den seeds annually, are agents for the Ogden Mill and Elevator flour, said to be the finest in the market. The company has a capital stock of 850,000 and does an annual business of $250,- 000, which is an enormous sum for one firm, when the fact is taken into consideration that their trade is confined to Utah alone. All the officers and directors, are prominent men in the city, the treasurer, Mr. Thos. E. Jeremy, having formerly been a member of the city council. Both the latter and the presi- dent, Mr. Sears, are largely interested in sheep raising; also in other enterprises that tend to develop the country, and are thorough enterprising business men, having the welfare of their city always in view. In all respects the members of this corporation have achieved an elevated position and are worthy representatives of the commercial interests of Salt Lake.

MeELWEE, PIERCE & GODDARD AND WEST- ERN SCHOOL FURNISHING CO.

" Necessity," it is said, " is the mother of invention," and "demand the regulator of trade." And when the Territory of Utah and the surrounding states and territories began to be thickly settled, the people, recognizing the value of fine educa- tional facilities, commenced at once to organize and equip with all the latest facilities numerous schools, until now, as will be seen by reference to the statistics on the schools of Utah, that it possesses the largest, most numerous, and successful schools of any State in the Union of equal size or number of inhabit- ants. In 1880, A. M. NcElwee, realizing the demand and necessity of a business house which made a specialty of these lines, became the founder of the respective firms whose names head this article ; since that time the enterprise has steadily increased. The firm is at present composed of A. M. McElwee, W. S. Pierce and B. Goddard, and is located at 510 and 511 Constitution building, where they occupy two large and com- modious rooms, one of which is used as an office and the other as a store and salesroom. They employ fiteen traveling sales- men, and do an annual business of 840,000 throughout the Ter- ritories and States of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Men tana, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. The business represents an investment of $10,000, and the special lines are Yaggy's geographical and anatomical studies, object lessons, school desks and school appurtenances. The object lessons were first used in the instruction of the kindergarten and child's studies, but, after no inconsiderable discussion, they were adopted as the best and only true methods of learning by professors and teachers in public and private schools, and are now used in instructing all students, from the youngest to the oldest.

Mr. McElwee was formerly principal of the public schools of Montana, and for many years a leading merchant of that State. Mr. Pierce was formerly a mine owner, and is now largely interested in mining property of Utah, and Mr. God- dard, formerly connected with the Brigham Young Academy, of Provo, has been a school teacher for many years, in which profession he is a gentleman of acknowledged abilities.

The Western School Furnishing Company is operated in connection with the business of McElwee, Pierce & Goddard, under the direction of members of that firm, as also of Prof. G. M. A. Parker, who has been in the business many years, during which he has been employed as salesman and manager for some of the largest furniture and school supply houses in the country. The firm make a specialty of the Orion school desk and all kinds of school and church furniture, from the smallest to the largest and most commodious appurtenances, and the business extends throughout the same territory as that of McElwee, Pierce & Goddard.

The firm, as a whole, is an exceptionally strong one, fully entitled to the public confidence and esteem its members enjoy in both their business and social life.

The importance of a large commercial institution to any city cannot be'bver-estimated, and the industry under consid- eration is one valuable to the city in general, and a most potent factor in the development of the welfare and resources of Utah.

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COWHTlTI'TlnN HI II.l'IV*.

JOHN C. CUTLER & BRO.

Commerce, merchandizing or trade, by whichever title c oe may Beleot to designate it, is as old us the commencement of

civilization. When it

began is unknown: Trade was first divided into generic systems during the fifteenth oen- tury by the Venetians, whose commerce em- ! braced the whole world, as then known, and , since that time com- mercial houses have come to be divided into I two great classes, those which deal in staples, and those which deal in mere luxuries. .\t the head of the former class stand those which provide and deal in arti- cles constantly used for public consumption. I'rominent among such dealers in Halt Lake ( 'it> . is the firm of .lohn C. Cutler A- Bro., at No. :«i Old Constitution Build- ing. These gentlemen have been agents for the Provo Woolen Mills for the past seventeen years, and in that time have built up a trade averag- ing $200,000 to 9250,000 annually, extending throughout the entire country west of Chicago, and giving employment to a force of experienced and accomplished salesmen, clerks, etc. A stock valued at a figure approximating #75,000, is kept con- stantly »n hand, including flannels, liudseys, yarns, cloths, repellents, hosiery, men's underwear, overshirts and other woolen goods, etc., products, as stated, of the celebrated

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firm eaniM on a large tailoring bnmn«M, in wnJefa men's suits are made to order frum I'rovo cloth eirhmively. In thm department twenty experienced operative*, all of them skilled artist* in their trade, are employed, *nd make np suit* from the meet elaborate design* known to the art of fa*hioi> In the knitting department, in which the manufacture of boee ia

carried on. thirty skilled hands, all ladies, except the foreman, are employed. The gentlemen composing the tirm have been residents of Utah since their youth, and are among the most prominent business men of the community, Mr. John C. Cutler

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being one of the directors of the Deseret National Bank. They are identified with the interests of Salt Lake City in a large degree, and universally recognized as men of superior ability and commercial worth.

FULLER & YOUNG.

The business of Real Estate and Insurance is an important factor in the material prosperity of any community ami the trained and responsible agent occupies an important position. It is necessary to the safe and satisfactory transaction of busi- ness that he be a man of good judgment, liberal views, impreg- nable integrity and probity of character. The firm of Fuller & Young was organized in INT.'i. ami is consequently the pioneer tirm in its line in Salt Lake. Although there has been a number of changes in the firm since its inauguration, the senior member, Mr. Fuller, has alwuys remained with it, and has been known prominently in inany'of the large realty trans- notions of the committee. The firm at present is com posed of Wm. Kuller and Heber Young, the latter being a son of the I«U Brifhaai Young. They occupy convenient and comfort- . !>le quarters at 110 Main Street, where they employ a force of five assistants Their business is principally of a local character and they handle some of the most available and desirable propertifi in Salt l>ake, also representing a large Dumber Of insurance oompanies conspicuously celebrated fur their solvency. lil>ernl rates and the prompt adjustment of lOMM. among which are the Manhattan I,ife. Hvea. Palatine.

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•ate, Knoxville and Hritish American lire r.,mpmn.*. They 00 a large I,UMIII*H and eiijm a well-earned reputation in businewi, flnancinl and insurance circles throughout the \\ . • Mr. Fuller was born in London, Kngland, but has virtually grown up with the city and territory, having resided here for "ne yearn. II. the moet prominent men in the

•it\ on all matters pertaining to the interest* and welfare of Salt Lake, and • gentleman of sterling integrity and furos of ehara.-t.T. Mr. Young was lx>rn in XIIUV.H,. I'll., (ml accom- panied bis father to t'tah in early life II ! he firm in

WO. and by untiring energy and a steady application of |,ril- hant liiiHineM talenti be is known to potato*, IIHS inrreurd the DMUMM to a large extent, lie i* a gentleman of many sterling qtultUM an.l umvernally rwpeotfd and admiml by a very large and kaOMOtU] circle of citi/^ns and residents.

The firm ia one of the strongest and most reliable in the W«et, and prompt in all it* engagMnenU.

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CALIFORNIA BREWERY.

In this age of adulterations, when, in almost everything one eats or drinks, or wears, there is a mixture of the pure with the impure, and the genuine with the counterfeit, it is needless to say that good beer, made wholly from hops and free from every other foreign substance, is sometimes difficult to obtain. Hap- pily for the people of Salt Lake, there is an enterprise within her limits (the California Brewery) that, for more than a quar- ter of a century, has supplied them with a healthful, pure beverage, manufactured principally from the products of Utah's fertile fields. Twenty-seven years ago Mr. Henry Wag- ener started the enterprise in this city, adopting a high standard of excellence in respect to his products, a standard he has constantly maintained and improved, and which now enjoys a reputation for purity of ingredients (among which is the mountain water that flows direct from the springs to the brew- ery)and health-giving properties extending throughout the West. The plant is located in Emigration Canon, occupying a tract of 152 acres, forty-two acres of which are taken up by the brewery proper and its requisite auxiliaries. The capacity of the plant is eighty barrels per day, and it turns out at present 8,000 bar- rels per annum. It is fully equipped with the latest approved machinery, provided with the necessary appliances for the manufacture of pure, • wholesome beer, and employs forty experienced assistants. A large trade is also supplied from the bottling department, and car load lots of export bottled beer are daily shipped to different points in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.

The brewery proper is a solid, substantial four-story brick structure 80x180 feet in dimensions. A forty-horse power engine furnishes the motive power employed, and aa stated, the other machinery is of the latest pattern, including improved mechanical devices for the manufacture of ice necessary to the business, the supply being stored in three ice houses, with a total capacity of 8,000 tons.

The facilities for the rapid transportation of goods are also of the best character, the Utah Central railway having laid a track direct to its doors. In connection with this, it may be proper and interesting to state that Mr. Wagener has, at great expense, fitted up a beautiful and pleasant resort, called " Wagoner's Grove," where parties desiring to spend a few pleasant hours 'neath the cool shade of magnificent trees, or within cosy buildings, and sip the fresh and foaming nectar, or delight the appetite with delicious edibles amid delightful surroundings, can do so undisturbed and untrammeled by the dictates of fashionable society, or the noise and confusion inci- dent to large gatherings. Here, away from the heat and dust of the city, the good man of the house, surrounded by his family, can pass a pleasant and refreshing hour and thence return to his business duties invigorated. The trains of the Utah Central road run direct to the grounds, making four trips Sundays and holidays. Mr. Wagener, the propri- etor of this mammoth enterprise, is a native of Germany, and has resided in Salt Lake since 1864. He is prominent in com- mercial circles, and is recognized as a gentleman of high bus- iness qualifications. He is also an honored member of the Knights Templar and the Odd Fellows organizations.

Associated with Mr. Wagener as office manager, is Mr. Morris Sommer, formerly chief clerk of the I louse of Represen- tatives of Colorado, and for years connected with the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company.

The business offices of this institution are located at G4 East First South street, and 17 and 19 Second South, where all orders should be addressed.

SALT LAKE PLUMBING COMPANY.

The business of plumbing is one of the industries without which no city could prosper to any extent. It is really one of the necessities of the hour, and a very important auxiliary to the successful growth and prosperity of any community, especially where the elements of progression prevail. An enter- prise, therefore, of the character of the Salt Lake Plumbing Company is one of the indispensable institutions of a great commercial city. The Company began business in November, 1890, and has been very successful in building up a large trade. ' The Company makes a specialty of sanitary plumbingand gives prompt attention to all kinds of jobbing. The establishment is located at <>6 East Second South Street, iu a commodious two- story building 15x1*1 feet in dimensions, carries a stock valued at $4,000; employs fifty assistants, and does an annual business of $40,000. The field of operation covers Utah only, and when this fact is taken into consideration the volume of

trade that they enjoy is consequently more than creditable to the enterprise and workmanship displayed. The Company carries none but the best goods of modern style and employs the most experienced workmen only, which in a large measure accounts for the excellent reputation it bears. The members ' of the Company are W. G. Collett, C. M. Freer and W. p'Merrill, all young men and prominent in the commercial circles of the city. Mr. W. G. Collett, the business manager of the enterprise, is prominently identified with the political inter- ests of the Territory, and for two years ending in August, 1891, was a member of the Legislature. He is a man of remarkable executive ability, and a gentleman withal who is esteemed and honored in all the business, social and political walks of life.

The industry is one of the most reliable and responsible of its nature in the Territory, and the reputation of its members for strict integrity and liberal ideas is not only proverbial, but a source of great pride and satisfaction to the gentlemen and their friends.

THE HANSON PRODUCE CO.

There are few business enterprises that have the capacity for wider range and scope than the produce and commission business. Few persons are aware of the fact that to carry on this line of trade with success a higher amount of business knowledge is more essential than in the ordinary branches of trade. Success in the commission business requires activity and energy, and keen business tact. Among the firms in Salt Lake City that are considered the most prominent and influ- ential in this trade is The Hanson Produce Company, which does a general commission and produce business at 65 South West Temple Street. The company began operations in 1889, and has been very successful from its inception. It has a cap- ital amply sufficient for its undertaking, and possessing a com- prehensive knowledge of the requirements and responsibilities, together with the straightforward manner of transacting busi- ness is a sufficient guarantee of continued success. The firm is composed of F. W. and E. B. Hanson, and the enterprise oc- cupies a large two-story and basement building, in a conven- ient location for its business. From eight to ten assistants are employed and the trade extends through Utah, Idaho, Colo- rado and Wyoming, the annual sales amounting to an enor- mons sum. The firm also has a large house in Denver, whose office is at 1613 1615 Market Street, which transacts annually a business that cannot be excelled in its line in the western country. The firm handles California and Utah fruits and vegetables in season, are agents for the celebrated " Diamond " brand of creamery butter, owners of the popular brands of " Diadem," " Ayrshire " and " Cascade " creamery butter, and AA and BB fruits; general western agents for the famous "Gold Nugget "oleo and " Crown " brand full cream cheese. They are wholesale dealers in butter, eggs, cheese, salt, smoked fish, foreign and domestic fruits, and handle hams and other cured meats, for which they receive large orders almost daily. The Salt Lake house is in charge of Mr. F. W. Hanson, while his brother manages the Denver establishment. Through long experience in the business in which they are engaged, a thor- ough knowledge of every detail and a high reputation for in- tegrity and fair dealing, this firm is justly entitled to the con- fidence in which it is held by the trade.

H. YOUNG & CO.

A first-class jewelry establishment is one of the most attrac- tive and elegant industries of a community. Especially is this the case when the parties conducting the same are known to be practical men in every respect. The institution that heads this article, the house of H. Young & Company, was founded in 1880, and has enjoyed a successful career of eleven years. The company is composed of H. Young and W. C. Staines, both old citizens and favorably known as men of ability in their line. They occupy commodious premises at 110 Main street, and carry complete stocks, including a full invoice of jewelry and watches of the latest and most approved style, together with diamonds and other precious stones, ster- ling silverware, silver-plated ware, etc. The firm makes a specialty of repairing jewelry and watches, and, in this line, has gained a reputation for excellence fully attested by the large and growing business conducted, requiring the assistance of five experienced operatives, specially selected because of their superior skill.

All work and all goods offered by the house is warranted to be of the character and quality represented, and the high stand- ing of the gentlemen, both iu business and social circles, is a conclusive guarantee of reliability in all matters pertaining to the business.

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SALT LAKE STABLES.

For twenty-two years the property known as the Salt Lake Stables, No. 226 South Main street, has been known to every resident of Salt Lake as the leading place of . business of its kind in this country. Abrmt a year ago, Henry and .1. W. Carrigan, better known as Car- rigan Bros., took charge of the place and since that time have caused its reputation to become so extended that the common expression among those who want to hire a single horse or team is, " Let's go down to Carrigans'." The firm have about

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thirty horses of their own and keep only the best stock. I known conveyance from the dainty plmetnn to the staple Mir rey, can be found there and the only mm of the owners is to please their patrons. They employ a large force of men un.i •re amply prepared for any demands that may be made upon them. The premises are ampl-. tin- buUdingbeinf[ 90x150 feet and one and one half stories in lu«ight. I h.-> .lo n Hpleudid business in boarding borne* and at their stables all the best «t.N-k nf • no be found. Tin- brothers are old

residents of Utah Territory and nn- thorough horramen. Mr. .1. \V. Ciirngan is the owner of the celebrated horse I. Jay H. with a record of 2:25i as a stallion, and is also the owner of several other tine animals.

I'.nth gentlemen are extensive real eotnt. OWIHTH, and are gentlemen who have train an eminence in tin- world of trade ami credit only achieved upon a basis of -IM.-I integrity, and honest representation. They have the b>- n tli«- i-it\,

and present a picture of the famons I. Jay. S. with pedigree to

It'. 111 J :;o hut. including .loBephiiw, 2:1'.' ',, and Fre<! ,2:2(i',i. In Varnnld'B Blarkhawk ; 1st .l»m ltelle,by Weber's Tom 1'lniml.: 2nd dam, tin- ('lmrlrn Ki>nt mare, the dam of Kysdyk's Hambletonian. lli> IH vor\ HtyliHh, very •psadjr, nd a sure foal-getter; has a three-year old record of 2-41 ; a four-year old record of 2:.'!7 ' ,, and a five-year old record of2:.'«>. in the tiTHi heat of a race, which in no mensnr.- of Inn speed, he having Hhowii .|imrtern in 34JV sec., 11 2:1* gnit. Me nhoulil tn.t in ."Jo. ||JN rix-ord for l-'.M i-. 2 JV ,. He is a perfect k'" ; no race I. MI l-.ni; for him. I have the

utmcmt .•onti.l.-ii.'e in l.i- alulity to Hire speed, ss all his colts are flne-gaited ant! handsome. None have yet been trained, but all show natural speed.

W. E. WARE.

<MI; th<- list of accomplished architects in Snlt Lake,

Ware stands as one of the most conspicuous. Although

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was soon recognized, and his progress has been rapid and solid. Mr. Ware has made designs for residences a specialty, and some of the finest houses in Salt Lake have been erected according to his formulated plans. He began his career as an architect in Denver some four years ago, and, while a resident of that city, designed the St. George Terrace, a building con- structed of red and gray sandstone, and declared to be one of the finest, architecturally and otherwise, in the West. He also superintended the construction of the Laramie, Wyoming, chemical works, a magnificent structure that cost over S150,- 000, and other noted edifices. Mr. Ware is a native of Massa- chusetts, and is a young man of decided abilities in his profession, as also a gentleman of high social qualifications, and is known to be an important member of the community, not only as an, artist, but as a citizen who has aided, in no small degree, the development and advancement of his adopted home. His office is in tha magnificent Hooper block, on East First South street.

L. S. WHITEHEAD.

Among the industries of Salt Lake that go to make up a sum total of the greatness to which she is rapidly approaching in the matter of commercial superiority, there are some, though not generally considered by the public as having any direct bearing on the prosperity of the city, that are nevertheless potent factors in the roles of convenience and general prosper-

ity. Prominent among such establishments is the one owned and controlled by L. S. Whitehead, mattress manufacturer, etc. The business was founded by Mr. Whitehead to supply a long felt want, and that the public appreciates the convenience he has afforded by his enterprise and industry is shown in the large and increasing patronage that he is enjoying. Mr. White- head does a general business of manufacturing mattresses, steam carpet cleaning and renovating feathers, etc. He occupies a large and commodious building provided with an engine of ten horse-power which operates the modern machin- ery necessary for the rapid transaction of his immense business. He employs seven assistants and his payroll will amount to 83,000 annually. He is the proprietor of the only industry of its kind in Salt Lake and does a satisfactory business. Mr. Whitehead has been a resident of Utah for ten years and is one of Salt Lake's most representative business men, of broad and liberal views and fully indentified with the best interests of the city of his adoption. J

A. REIF.

It is gratifying to note the advancement made in modern architecture during the past century; to note the changes from the cumbersome old designs of the 18th to the more ornate of the 19th. And when one stops to consider the reasons why such conditions exist, the conclusion arrived at is similar to that reached in every other improvement. It is expressed in the word Education. There is in Salt Lake City a man, Mr. A. Keif, who is deserving of more than an ordinary amount of approval. Decided upon the position he would occupy at an early age and keeping that thought uppermost has devoted a lifetime of study to the profession, with the result that he is now at the head of the army of men who constitute his class. Professor Reif is 40 years of age and was born in Germany.

He received his training in the Polytechnic Institute of the Empire and began his active career there 19 years ago by accepting the position of teacher of Engineering and Architect- ural Drawing. After following this important position for five years, during which time his time was divided between two of the leading academies, he went to Belgium. He has since resided in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago, afterward going to San Diego, California, where he lived for five years. In 1889 he was attracted by the increase in build- ing in Salt Lake City and came hither. His record here has been a history of remarkable professional achievements, the Hopper Block, Clayton Block, Fair Building and the Auerbach Building having been erected under his supervision. He was superintendent for Architect Kletting for a year and some of the finest of that gentleman's work was done under his man- agement. Prior to coming here he erected four of the finest business blocks in San Diego. Prominent builders, contrac- tors, artists, etc., commend his services in the declaration that Mr. Reif is one of the leading architects in the country. He ie a member of the Odd Fellows and is married. In politics he is a democrat. His studio is at 69 West First South Street.

DAVID^T. KEILLEB.

Mr. David T. Keiller, architect and superintendent, is one of the leading men in his profession in Utah. He was educated to the profession of an architect, but recently ac- cepted the position of chief engineer of the Oquirrh Water and Land Company, of Salt Lake, and is now giving that po- sition his exclusive attention.

He was born in Scotland in 1848 and studied in an institu- tion in Perth. He practiced in his native country for a year and then came to America. This was 28 years ago. He began in New York City, but later moved to Cleveland; thence to Kansas City and Denver, coming to Salt Lake about two years ago. That he is a competent man is evidenced by the fact that for 10 years he held the position of chief draughtsman in the department of docks of New York City, and resigned to bet- ter his condition. Since that time he has erected some very fine structures, among them the David Dow warehouse in Brook- lyn, N. Y., a splendid structure, the residence of David Dow on the Hudapn, and other Eastern houses of magnitude. He superintended the construction and also designed the plans of the mammoth sugar factory at Lehi, costing $400,000, and as- sisted in the design of the successful plan of the new city and county building in Salt Lake City. In 1883 he was chief engineer of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & St. Louis Rail- road, and in 1889 held a similar position with the Kansas, Texas & Mexico, with headquarters at Lawrence, Kansas. He is a member of the Order of Elks, Masons, Scottish Clan, Odd Fellows and Royal Arcanum. He is married, and with his family resides in this city. He built at one time and success- fully ran three theaters in Kansas City and Denver, the Mid- land of Kansas City and the Denver and Kansas City museums,

Of late years he has devoted his time exclusively to the practice of his profession. He is greatly interested in Caledon- an matters, is a leading member of the Caledonian society, and while living in Kansas City was for four years president of the club of that place.

MR. CHARLES LIVINGSTON.

Probably no city of the United States, during its early growth, has been favored with such a sturdy, enterprising class of men as has Salt Lake City. The life of Mr. Charles Livingston, furnishes an eleoquent illustration of what can be accomplished by the exercise of enterprise, energy and sterling integrity. He is fifty-six years of age, and a native of Scotland. He came to America thirty-six years ago, and has since had an extremely eventful experience. Since taking up his abode in Salt Lake City, Mr. Livingston has risen high in the estima- tion and good will of his fellow citizens, making for himself an enviable record, as a philanthropic and public spirited man. For ten years he held the position of supervisor of public streets, in addition to which he has held at various times other important municipal offices, invariably acquitting himself, in the performance of his duties, to the entire satisfaction of his electors and fellow associates. He has also figured prominently in the mining interests of this section, and has loaned valuable assistance in the developing and opening up of new and promi- sing mining districts, being a firm beliver in the unexcelled richness of Utah's mineral resources. Among other mining investments, he holds a large interest in the famous Cotton-

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wood mining district. He expresses himself as being confi- v dent that the greatest and most valuable mines of our Terri- tory are yet to be discovered, and his surpassing judgment in such matters gives a great deal of weight to the prediction.

At present Mr. Livingston is superintendent of the Temple block, under the direction of D. C. Young, architect, having entire charge of the construction, and various other improve- ments. In this capacity Mr. Livingston succeeds Mr. James Movie, now deceased. When completed the Temple block will be one of Salt Lake's largest and most magnificent struc- tures, one that will add greatly to the metropolitan appearance the city is fast gaining. Some idea of the important and res- ponsible position Mr. Livingston holds as superintendent of the Temple block may be formed, from the fact that one hundred and twenty- five men consisting of stone masons, stonecutters, carpenters,plnmbers, plasterers and electricians, as well as a large number of common laborers, are regularly employed on the work.

Altogether Mr. Livingston's career has been one of which he may justly pride himself, and feel that through all his sig- nal success and prosperity he can lay claim to the warm friend- ship of all whose respect and good will are worth having.

PEOPLE'S EQUITABLE CO-OP.

The comparatively brief period that an establishment will advance to a leading position, when backed by well-directed energy, combined with high character, is nowhere better illus- trated than in the history of The People's Equitable Co-oper- ative Institution. The enterprise was incorporated and opened for business in 1888, with a stock of $40,000; to-day the annual business reaches to the sum of $100,000. The es- tablishment occupies a three-story building, 35 x 165 feet in dimensions, and employs from fifteen to twenty assistants. The officers of the company are : Oliver Hodgson, president; S. J.

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Hndberry, vice-president; Joseph Anderson, secretary and treasurer, and Herbert J. Foulger, manager. There is also a board of directors who are consulted (in all matters of import- •nos concerning the undertaking. The company carry on a gen- eral merchandise store, and the system of business is radically different from other commercial nouses in that the patrons r««- oeive one-thinl ..f the profit*, the stockholder* retaining the balance. Each purchaser in given • rebate check on every arti- cle bought, and at the end of the fiscal year when the dividend* are declared, these tickets are presented and their holder- rsoeive, pro rat*, one-third of the snme. That the system is a popular on* is demonstrated by the fact that the trade is constantly increasing, and that all patrons express them- selves as highly plnwisd with the result of the plan adopted.

The president of the company is a prominent man in com- mercial circles, being a msmbsr of the HsJt Lake Building Com-

pany, and a capitalist of note in the financial world. The manager, Mr. Foulger, is a gentleman of high business abilities, having formerly been connected with several large commercial houses in Salt Lake. He was first with Ziou's Co-op. Mercan- tile Institution, afterwards taking charge of the Twentieth Ward Co-operative Store, and in November, 1890, assuming sole management of the People's Equitable, being selected on account of his eminent fitness for the position. His manage- ment of the business has been signally successful and his career has been marked by a quality of commercial and financial ad- ministration highly deserving of the universal commendation it receives.

HAMPTON & JONES.

This firm is located in the Constitution building, room 240, and, although organized only a short time ago, has been more than successful, and is accomplishing much good in the devel- opment of the city. It is composed of B. Y. Hampton and N. Y. Jones, and makes investments for non-residents, negotiates the sale of territorial, municipal, corporation and school bonds, besides transacting a general real estate and loan business, with results that were exceptionally large last year. They handle business, residence and acreage properties, in which, from their long residence in Salt Lake, and their thorough knowledge of values, acquaintance with the country, etc., they are prepared to offer superior inducements to purchasers. Special mention must be made of their judgment in such matters, which, owing to their experience, is of inestimable value in the purchase of realty, not only to citizens, but to prospective investors from a distance.

Mr. Hampton has been a resident of Salt Lake since 1855, and is one of the best known men in Utah. For a number of years he was license collector for the city, and also held the position of deputy sheriff. Indeed, he has, for the past twenty years, filled reRponsible official positions iu the city and county to the satisfaction of large and exacting constituencies. He is a gentleman of superior business abilities, and regarded as a very able man by the commercial community.

Mr. Jones has been a resident of Salt Lake for forty years, many years of which he served as tax collector, and is known and respected by the entire community.

BARHATT BROTHERS.

There can be no more unmistakable indication of the cul- ture of Salt Lake people than the way in which they combine good taste, comfort and elegance iu the fnrnimbinff of their homes. In doing so, they have found ready assistance in the art intic and especially well selected stock of the Messrs. Barratt Brothers from which to make choice. This firm has been in oneness since 1864, hence is classed among the pioneers. Pre- vious to the completion of the overland roads (the U. P and C. 1'. i, they, like the other large concerns, carried a stock of merchandise, invoicing generally over $100,01X1, and consisting largely of staple groceries and dry goods. After the comple- tion of the railroads, there was a disposition to elimsify l>nsi ness and this firm decided upon furniture an a specialty. Bus- iness ability, combined with their standing in the community mid a thorough knowledge of its wants, has developed 11 mir- oessful business and a permanent lodgment in the confidence

• if the people. They are manufacturers and wholesale and re- tail dealers in all kinds of furniture, and carry a complete stock of some $40,600 and transact an annual business varying from $75,000 to • 100,000. Their trade extends through Utah, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. The front salesrooms of the firm, consisting of two stories, are 2.Fixi:«) feet; are cen- trally located on the main street and in the handsomest block in the city, and although crowded to their utmost are rendered

uve by the artistic character of the goods and the taste displayed in their arrangement. They have in addition two buQdingl in the rear, one 80x100, two-story, and one :•• These are used for storage, nuuinfa'-timiig '""' M show rooms f«r Die more common and staple goods. Home fifteen men are employed and business is steadily increasing. The firm is

• •ompoWd of C. It. ami I. M. Harratt, natives of Maryland. Necessarily their long residence and close connection with the commercial and general business of the city an<! Territory has made them prominent Mr. C. R. Barratt was postmaster for three years under President Cleveland's administration. I M Harratt is the present (lame and Fish Commissioner for IT tab,

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and is highly esteemed as an able and efficient officer. Through- out their long residence and business career, notwithstanding dark days and dull seasons, the brothers have never doubted the ultimate result. The location of the city, its surround-1' ings and the abundance of the resources of the immense terri- tory tributary, assured (they believed) not only a solid and considerable commercial center, but a beautiful city of most attractive homes. Their faith in the future, their consistent and honorable course, both as citizens and business men, is recognized and appreciated by the community in which they are so well and favorably known.

F. H. DYER.

A history of Utah's representative men that would omit to review the business career and public services of Hon. Frank H. Dyer would be inadequate and in- complete. Whether as Marshall of the territory in the most trying times of its history; whether acting with the liberal party or enlisted in the cause of democracy; or whether engaged in bus- iness enterprises, he has always been a conspic- uous figure and ac- knowledged leader. With rare executive qualities and a genius for diplomacy he ap- proached every question with caution and courte- ous respect for the rights and feelings of others, but having once made up his mind he sup- ported his conclusions with unselfish fidelity and fearless courage. Born in Yazoo County, Miss., Sept. 5th, 1854, he it still in his prime. His father died in the Civil War and his mother taught school for a liv- ing. When but a mere lad Frank Dyer was left on his own resources and worked on a farm to earn money to school himself. At sixteen years of age he was made Deputy Sheriff of this County, which office he filled three and one-half years. He next bought the Yazoo Democrat and

fought a fearless and brilliant Jbattle for democracy, and being a high spirited son of the South, intrepid and impetuous, he conducted his newspaper in a way that left no question as to how he stood on any question, and the people never forgot the Yazoo Democrat and its dashing young editor. Arriving in Utah sixteen years ago he worked in a mine at $2 per day until he earned the means to engage in heavy freighting at which he made considerable money. At this time he built the Crescent mine tramway, a daring undertaking. He was appointed U. S. Marshall of the Territory by President Cleveland in April 1886, and as reliable an authority as the Salt Lake Tribune said at that time that he went into the office without an enemy in the world. As soon as Mr. Harrison qualified, Mr. Dyer filed his letter of resignation, believing in the Jacksonian theory, "To the victor belongs the spoils." But the request was not acted upon until after he had served a term of three years and one month. Notwithstanding that there were 1000 mormons con- victed of polygamy during his term, seven or eight times more than under all the Marshalls that preceded and followed him, yet he left the office with the good will of every one.

Under an act of Congress he was appointed Receiver of the church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints and held property be-

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longing to that organization valued at over a million dollars. In December he was elected chairman of the Central Democratic Club, and was re-elected to the same position in 1891. When a member of the liberal party he was given the responsible position of chairman of the Territorial campaign committee which he held until he believed it had accomplished its work. In all the councils of the democratic party, Mr. Dyer's judgment has had great weight. It was he who first saw that the time had come for a division on national party lines, and when the history of the organization of the democratic party hi Utah, and the disbandment of the people's party comes to be written, the fine diplomacy and political sagacity of Frank H. Dyer will be better understood and his great public service to the people of

this Territory more fully appreciated.

Brilliant and efficient as has been his politi- cal career, his business qualities and hearty sup- port of public enterprise have also attracted to him the respect and con- fidence of his fellow- citizens and made him universally popular. When the city was poor ly lighted Mr. Dyer pur- chased a controlling in- terest in the Salt Lake Gas Company and since that time no less than $50,000 have been ex- p e n d e d in improve- ments. He is also at the head of and one of the principal owners of the Salt Lake Power Light and Heating Co., one of the most enterprising and complete electric light plants in the west- ern country, over $300,- 000 having been expend- ed in equipping the works with the best modern dynamos and other apparatus and in the extension of the sys- tem over the city. The plant now supplies 500 arc lamps and 6,000 in- candescent lights.

Among the improve- ments of a public na- ture which reflect Mr. Dyer's enterprise is Com- mercial street, he hav- ing projected many of the finest business blocks on that avenue. . It was to his push and untiring energy that this street was the first paved of any in the city.

Mr. Dyer's personality is a study, as his temperament is fiery and intrepid; yet he is genial and always considerate of the rights of others and ever ready to extend a helping hand to any worthy enterprise. He is made of the quality of men who make cities.

THE GREELEY MINING COMPANY.

The mining interests of Utah are destined to be the most important factors in her material growth and development. Among the many substantial companies working the rich mineral deposits of Utah is the Greeley Mining Company, hav- ing a capital of $2,500,000, a stock company with five hundred thousand shares divided into $5 each. The officers are Edwin Rush ton, president; A. F. Spayde, vice-president; J. C. Thom- son, treasurer, and 0. B. Weeks, secretary. The directory board comprises the above named gentlemen with the addition of W. H. Thompson and E. J. Rushton. They are men of prominence and rated among the most enterprising and pro- gressive in the Territory. They are all more or less connected with other mining companies of Utah, and some of them are

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officials of similar organizations of which Salt Lake is the head- quarters. The property of the company is situated in the south fork of the Little Cot ton wood Mining District and is 1300x1500 feet in size. A tunnel 72 feet in length, with cross cuts of 60 and 12 feet each, has been run in the mine, developing a vein of four feet, which assays 17 per cent lead, 241 6-KK) silver and $31.00 in gold to the ton. The company proposes to fully develop the claim, and to this end will spare no time or means in the accomplishment thereof. The mine is contiguous to large sampling and reduction works, with an abundance of fuel near by, and all indications are, therefore, favorable for the rapid developing of claims that promise to be of the best paying description in the West. The president, Mr. Rushton, has been in Utah since 1852, and during that time has prin- cipally been engaged in railroad construction. He is now in- his 67th year, but is hale, hearty and vigorous, and regarded as one of her most enterprising citizens. Mr. C. B. Weeks, the active secretary of the company, is connected with the Dalton, the Mary and Galena companies in an ofllcial capacity, and is also deeply interested in a financial way in their success. He is regarded as one of the brightest men in Utah on mining matters and his opinion on the same is eagerly sought after.

GEORGE W. WILLIAMS.

Born on a farm, near Kbensburg, Pa., Qeo. Wallace Williams, spent the earlier years of his life in plowing stone, cutting briars and killing black snakes. He received a fair education at the ' Little Bed School House," always standing at the head of his classes. At eighteen he taught the school from which he had graduated, and during the following year attended a private school conducted by a Mr. Chapman, a man standing in

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the first rank of Pennsylvania edncatore of his day. The next year be went to Kansas and after teaching school for a term, returned to Ohio, to accept the position of chief bookkeeper and aMUrtant cannier in the Partner*' Saving Bank, at Lima. In 187H, he was elected City Civil Kngineer of Dint city, which position IIB creditably filled for two terms. During this time, nis HtndioiiH habit* led him to read law and be was admitted to tliH bar in a claa* of which Mini. M.-l. Slmw, Ntnte Senator, in Ohio, and Mr. W. K. Hackedorn, chief attorney of the Lake Kn» A Western railway company, were member*. During IIJH rwktonoe at Lima, he filled tin- position of l)<>puty Probate Judge to Judge I/. M M>-ily, a brother-in-law of Calvin H. Brio*. Krom Lima, Mr. William* went to Chicago and became a mem- ber of the firm of W. It William* A Co., stock broken, and member* of the Hoard of Trade. We next find the Rnhieot of our sketch In New York city, manager of th» Bryant Literary I'nion, with an nffloe in th«t Krening ',1'nnt building, and later on, the editor of the platform department of tlit. linily Slur. lin again returned to ( 'hi<-ng» and became the t raveling onrrw- pondaot of the Trtiwne. Later he become the city editor of

the Toledo Evening Newt, during which period he led the fight against the Standard Oil Company. It was largely through nis efforts that the city was authorized to construct an independent pipe line. Two years ago he came to Salt Lake City, as the special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune and Omaha Bee, arriving at Salt Lake City in the exciting times of the February 1890, election. Liking the climate and the people, Mr. Williams concluded to remain in Utah and accepted a position in the Salt Lake Herald. For a brief season he filled the chair of city editor, of the Evening Times. On the sale of the Logan Jour- nal to a stock company Mr. Williams was made its editor. Al- ways an original thinker and quick to grasp the right side of every question, on the passage of the Teller bill, Mr. Williams got out an extra edition of the Journal giving its enthusiastic support to the Statehood bill, claiming it a democratic victory and thus stealing a march on the Republican press. The Jour- nal, under his direction, has attracted considerable attention from the press and politicians of the territory.

MINGO SMELTING COMPANY.

The marvelous growth and increasing prosperity of the Terri- tory of Utah during the past few years have been of snch a nature as to excite the admiration and attention not only of the United States, but of all that portion of the land across the sea which maintains business relations with this republic. The "cattle on a thousand hills," vast tracts of timber, healthful resorts, unexcelled agricultural resources, salubrity of the climate, etc., combine to make Utah a leader in the ranks of the States and Territories, but there is one point that should not be overlooked, and that is the fact that her commercial standing is due to the advancement and development of her mining industry. The hardy miner is of the men who have assisted in accomplishing the grand result, while the men who by judicious investment of capital in smelting works, made it possible for the producer to market the otherwise useless ores. Thirteen years ago the Mingo Smelting Works was inaugurated, and it is due to the men who embarked in the movement that the minee of Utah are enabled to produce as they do, and that Salt Lake City is enabled to occupy the position she does at this time. President J. E. Schwartz, Vice-President Robert Wardrop of Pittsburgh, William Reid, secretary, F. H. Officer, treasurer, and W. J. B. Walker, superintendent, are the men to whom Salt Lake, as a city, and the miners of Utah; yes, Nevada also, owe so much. With confidence in the future they invested, and now the smoke of the furnaces at Sandy, south of the city, marks the spot where each year $ 1,800,000 worth of minerals are produced from clay and rock and resolved into bricks of yellow gold and ban of silver. They have 8500,000 invested and handle 200 tons of ores each day, a task requiring the constant employ- ment of 175 men. The bullion produced is shipped to Pitte- hurg where it is disposed of. Their great mill has a capacity of 200 tons per day, and in a very short time, it is expected, it will be running at it's full capacity, the business of smelting being steadily on the increase. The smelter is one of the chief sources of revenue for Utah. In payment for the precious metals shipped daily from it there returns from the East a steady stream of bright dollars, all of which are added to the wealth of common people. Too much cannot !«• said regarding the importance of this industry, but the reader will readily glean fromwhat has been said the magnitude of that branch of the interest which has made I'tnh truly great. The offices of the firm are in Rooms 5, 6 and 7 Commercial lilock, Salt Lake.

THE ALLIANCE MINING COMPANY.

This company, incorporated in 1889, is a re-incorporation of the old and well-known Sampson Company of 1874. The pro- |M>rty comprise* nine claims with a surface or area of 22 acres. It is situated contiguous to Park Oity, in the Uintah mining district, Summit County, Utah, near that wonderful producer tli- "Ontario" and "Daley" mines. The company baa ex- pended alxuit $68,0011 on th» pro|n<rty in Hit- construction of tunnel*, the sinking of shaft*, etc. The longest tunnel i* M.lMMi feet in, and cut* the vein at a depth <>f l.'jno r,M>t from the surface. The tunnel measure* 7 fent in height. 4 fis-t in the clear at cup, and f> feet at sill. A llume has also been cut in 1 • •• (MI, i, .-I rj inche*de«pby 24 inched wide, ami a 17 inch gauge iron track ran* the full length; the flow of water in tin- flume measure* 12,000 gallons per minute. Tin- company operates power derricks throughout the mine*, and employ* 4.1 men on an average, with a monthly expenditure of $10,000. The .lirec ton and offioen are a* follows: A. Hammer, President; N. Treweek, rice- president; Jaa.Glendenning, treasurer and *nn- erint." < '. Chamber*, J. O. Daily, M. K. I'arsona, D.

C. MoLanghlan, director*.

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J. G. JACOBS.

Transactions in realty are growing in importance all over the western country, and shrewd, intelligent men are at the head of the business. The necessity of having a man that is capable in the negotiations between buyers and sellers of real estate is obvious. Of this type are those engaged in the bus- iness in Salt Lake, and among them is J. G. Jacobs. Although a comparatively recent arrival, Mr. Jacobs having been a res- ident of Utah for about two years, he has, by strict attention to his avocation, attracted a profitable and lucrative patronage. He has property on his books valued at 8205,000, and the annual sales foot up somewhere from $ 75,000 to 880,000. His specialty is the buying and selling real estate, and making investments for eastern buyers, and he has handled a great amount of Utah property very successfully. Among some of the many properties that he controls are, the Garden City, Plat "C," Westlaketown, Peach Grove, Arcadia, Wahoo and Grand View additions. Street car lines lead to all these, and the latter are considered; among the most desirable residence

C. E. WANTLAND.

A casual observer can form no adequate conception of the important part the active, reliable and enterprising real estate dealer performs in the growth and development of a city or country. No city or territory, however rich in natural re sources, ever augmented its wealth or increased its population to any considerable extent, unaided by the effective and valua- ble services of enterprising, go-ahead men devoted to the spe- cial work of buying and selling real estate, establishing values and otherwise stimulating and arousing citizens to the great improvements it lays within their power to make.

Salt Lake City has enjoyed this healthy growth perhaps more than any other town or city in the Territory, and among those who have taken a prominent and active part in its re- cent affairs is Mr. C. E. Wantland, land agent of the Union Pacific railroad for Utah and Wyoming. Mr. Wantland came to Salt Lake City in 1867 from Omaha, Neb., where he acted as chief clerk of the land office department of the U. P. railroad. Beaching this tcity early in the moviment which has in three

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property in all the city. They are beautifully located, easily reached and very popular with the building public. Mr. Jacobs will be pleased at any time to furnish any information desired in regard to these sites. He is thoroughly posted in real estate matters, and very pleasant to meet with, either in a social or business way. He is vice-president and general man- ager of the West Side Rapid Transit Railway Company, and handles the finances of the road. The lines of this company reach the suburban towns, and are of great value to the public, being first-class in every respect and, together with the rolling stock and cost of operation, represent an investment of a large amount of capital. The company has ten miles of road m active operation, and is now busily engaged in extending its lines to the Great Salt Lake, which, when completed, will prove of great convenience and value to the public. The esti- mated cost of this extension is placed at $'250,000. Mr. Jacobs is also president of the Golden Breeze Mining and Milling Company of Idaho, a corporation which has developed some rich properties, situated in the gold belt region of Logan county, Idaho, carrying immense bodies of quartz, upon which the most scientific assays have shown gold in paying quantities. He is president of the Moute Christo Mining and Milling Com- pany in Beaver county, Utah, upon the property of which a five-stamp mill has been operating for three years. The assays from this mine show 320 ounces of silver to the ton. Mr. Jacobs is also a director and treasurer of the Salt Lake Pickle Company, a new organization recently perfected in this city, and composed entirely of its business men and supported by home capital. The gentleman occupies the position of director, and is largely interested in the Salt Lake City West Side Association, an organization formed for dealing in realty.

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years transformed Salt Lake from a place of a few thousand inhabitants to a metropolitan center of 55,000 people, he at once began operations and has been actively engaged in hand- ling real estate during that period. In addition to a large amount of city property, Mr. Wantland deals in acre property on a very large scale. All the Union Pacific railroad lands in Utah and Wyoming are iu his charge and this in itself is a large and important branch of his business. Besides this, he is an influential director and energetic worker in the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and aids and supports all movements of that enterprising body calculated to upbuild the city and ad- vance its best interests. He is an enthusiastic believer in the great future of Salt Lake City as a commercial and industrial center of vast importance, as well as the leading health resort of the West. In short, he is confident that the entire inter-mountain region is yet to pass through its greatest period of development and prosperity.

JOSEPH WOODMANSEE.

Mr. Joseph Woodmansee came to Utah in pioneer days, locating in what has since become the future metropolis of the Territory thirty-eight years ago, and from that date has been one of the most powerful and unselfish factors in promoting the growth of the city, as also the development of the resources of Utah. He has long 'been one of the leading dealers in real estate, owner of mines, mining claims, etc., and enjoys an envi- able reputation for reliability and sterling integrity in all the relations of life. Many of the wealthiest men of the city have profited by investments made at his suggestion and upon

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whose judgment and familiar knowledge of values they relied. For years he has bandied city, residence and suburban prop- erties, owning a list of the prettieet and most convenient and desirable locations in the city. Among these may be mentioned the beautiful " Bellmont," " Windsor Place," and " Kast Lawn" sob-divisions, situated within the corporate limits and within a short ride of the central portion of the city. All these tracts are located on street-car lines in active and successful opera- tion. He also handles business property and his opinion in re- spect to the purchase of that character of property is accepted as final. Mr. VYoodmansee has given much time to prospecting and developing the mineral resources of Utah, in which he is largely interested, being one of the principal owners of a num- ber of valuable mines and claims, in many of the important mining districts. He is also president of the Zion Hill Mining Company, a corporation with $ 1,500,000 capital stock, divided into one hundred thousand shares. The company's mines are located in the Ophir district. They were discovered in the early days, and their development first directed the attention of the outside world to the rich mineral deposits of this section. They are very valuable aud a source of unceasing revenue to their owners. Within a short time, or since these claims were acquired by the Xiou Hill Company, the shipments of ore ob- tained therefrom approximated $75,000 in value. In the discharge of his duties as president and manager, Mr. Woodman- see is assisted by Edward Daggett, vice-president; J. Wood- mansee, jr., treasurer, and L. U. Hills, secretary.

Mr. Woodmansee is largely interested in other mining prop- erties, being half-owner of the famous " Sun Beam " mine located in the productive Tintic district of Utah, and is closely identified with the advancement and welfare of the city and Territory he has been so largely instrumental in the develop- ment of.

D. H. MCALLISTER.

D. H. McAllister was born and educated in this city and was engaged for several years in the carriage manufacturing business, making it a great success. Latterly he has devoted most of bis time to mining and real estate with gratifying

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HUM loaded at 206 s ,.iti, Maine street, whew he occupies commodkms offioM and own* and control* floe bum- MM, M well a* Roma of the most beautiful residence, proper- tie* in Salt Lake. In addition to this he is owner of u product- ive mine situated in W«*t Mountain .Mining; I' on which he has expended large amount H in develop- ing, and which has panned oat . MtinfacWily. II- has sunk a shaft 3S feet, and has completed about 75 feot of tunnel, from which ore has been obtained in places ex- hibiting gold and silver, bearing •|iinrt/, averaging in value •boat $160 per too. This property is situated only two mile*

from a railroad, with down haul, and owing to its freedom from overflow, can be operated at very low cost. This mine prom- ises large returns on further development. The McAllister & Lilley is another property he owns in Tooela Co., on which has been expended some S'2,000 in development of a cross-cut exposing the ledge which shows up a fine character of ore, car- rying gold and silver and averaging $300 per ton. There has been a number of rich strikes in this section and the property promisee to be one of the "great discoveries." It is some nine miles from railroad and otherwise situated so that the expense of working it is comparably small. Mr. McAllister is also a large owner in the famous York Mine of liiugham, one of the heavy producers of that wonderful mining section of the West, that has been paying now steadily for thirty years; but the "York" will be mentioned on another page.

SARATOGA FARM.

Almost every man has a keen liking for some particular business, which, being a favorite, engages his time and atten- tion without growing tedious or irksome. But as a rule a cer- tain amount of wealth must be acquired in the laborious walks of life, before any special enterprise can be carried on, combin- ing profit with pleasure.

The celebrated Saratoga Farm, located on the west side of Utah Lake, and directly west of the Jordan river, is not only a model institution of its kind, but is a source of much pride and satisfaction to its owner, Mr. John Beck, of Salt Lake City. From any standpoint there is probably no tract of land in the entire Territory of such intrinsic value. The Tin- tic branch of the Union Pacific railroad runs within one mile of the farm, and Lehi City, Utah county, is but five miles distant. From the admirable location of this land, its proximity to the great Utah Lake and the fact that over twenty warm springs well up in various places, together with the beautiful and une- qualled mountain scenery ptretching away in every direction, some idea of its inestimable value as a coming sanitarium and summer resort may be formed. It ie now used for stock rais- ing and general fanning, but its multitudinous advantages for a popular resort make it preeminently desirable for such a pur- pose, and Mr. lleck has decided to organize a stock company for the purpose of making extensive improvements and con- verting it into a great sanitarium and mountain home, where the wealthy traveler, the tourist and the health seeker can come and find every feature contributory to comfort and pleasure.

The water from these numerous warm springs is now util- ized for irrigating the land, which is capable of raising almost any product known to a temperate climate. Fruit in endleos variety is grown on the place, and a large number of fine stock cattle find abundant nourishment in the rich and nutritious grasses that grow in profusion on every hand. An incubator of sufficient capacity to hatch 6,000 eggs, and supplied with heat from the boiling spring, has been constructed, and it has proved an important and profitable undertaking.

The farm contains in all 1,000 acres. It will soon be con- nected with Lehi and also by steamer with Provo and sur- rounding settlements, furnishing an unequalled opportunity for investment. The water from the numerous warm springs is unexcelled tor bathing and contains remedial properties of a high order. It is located in the heart of u well settled fanning section and is easy of access, r.uildinn material is close at hand and fuel and water can be obtained in abundance.

Mr. Heck showed great foresight and judgment in securing po*oe**iqn of this piece of land, aud is in consequence able to offer capitalists who may wish to join him in his proposed en- terprise, a safe and profitable venture.

SPENCER & LYNCH.

Among the many house* in the city engaged in the retail iMNit mill shoe trade, the firm of Spencer A Lynch, 160 South Main street, stands as a representative one. These gentlemen U-gan l>!iHineM in 1H83, and by strict attention to the same, couple.! with an excellent stock of goods, have built up a large MI.. I profitable trade. The firm occupies two floors of a com- modious building i"i \1IHI feet, aud employ a force of fifteen AMisUnta. The stock of good* carried is large and van. .1 in it» character and tln> ciintonicr has in consequence a Urge vnri- eelect from. The average amount of Mock carried is 1 and the annual sale* reach the handsome sum of $75,- 000, although their trade is largely local, l»»ing confined almost excliiHively t.. S;,lt Luke and it* *urroundingH. The (inn is composed of Jno. D. Spencer and H. H. Lynch, and both of tbe*e gentlemen have developed great burin*** ability in the

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building up of so extensive and prosperous a trade as they now enjoy. Thoroughly identified with the progressive spirit of the day, and possessed of the essential requisites of sound judg- ment and prudence in all business transactions, they present the strongest claims to popular favor in the department of trade in which they are engaged. The gentlemen occupy a front rank in the commercial community, and in the near future will be numbered among the foremost merchants of the west.

F. M. BISHOP.

Insurance, no matter of what class, has become a necessary part of the expenses to be yearly met by men in all lines of business, and he who neglects to properly protect his property has no adequate conception of judicious business principles. This universal necessity has created substantial corporations, backed by the wealthiest and most responsible men of the country, to make provision for this department of commercial enterprise. All the leading companies have local agents es- t»Mished in Salt Lake City, and those that have chosen Mr. F.

nected with several important corporations, foremost among which is the Midland Investment Co., in which he was an officer and took an active part until recently, when hie growing insurance enterprise demanded his entire time and attention.

H. W. LAWRENCE.

" Realty is the basis of all security," and the basis of security in real estate transactions is found in the knowledge and probity of those through whom they are conducted. In the purchase of real estate or the taking of a mortgage, all prudent men secure the services of an agent who is competent to investigate and decide upon questions connected therewith, as also a man who enjoys an established reputation for honesty and integrity.

In view of these facts there is probably no man in the Ter- ritory possessing more of these attributes and qualifications than H. W. Lawrence, whose office is at the corner of West South First and South West Temple streets. The gentleman has been a continuous resident of Utah for thirty-seven years,

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H. W. LA WHENCE.

M. Bishop as their representative are numbered among the principal companies of the world. Each has been long estab- lished and is on a sound and substantial basis, having assets reaching up into the millions.

Mr. Bishop is general agent in this section for the following well known companies : Manhattan Life Ins. Co., N. Y., assets $12,318,935.46 ; Standard Accident Ins. Co., Detroit, assets 89,- 000,000 ; Pacific Coast Live Stock Owners Mutual Protective Association; Insurance Company of North America, assets 88, 951,518 ; Traders, assets $1,406,406 ; Spring Garden, assets 81,361,275 ; United Firemen's, assets $1,072,351 ; New York- Underwriter's, assets $3,726,344; Southern California, assets $354,189 ; Denver, assets 8333,385; a grand total of over $30,- 000,000 being represented by these companies, under one agency.

Mr. Bishop has a high standing with all the companies that have wisely selected him as their representative and a well deserved reputation among the citizens of Salt Lake as a highly capable, straightforward business man, honorable in all his dealings and at once liberal and conservative in his busi- ness methods. The class of insurance he secures is the very best to be had and the policies issued are satisfactory both to the public and the companies whose interests he so ably sub- serves. Policies are issued on all reasonable risks, and losses are adjusted and paid promptly.

Mr. Bishop has made Salt Lake City his home for over twenty years and is regarded as one of its most active and bright business men. Of pleasant manners and amiable dispo- sition, he is respected and esteemed by all with whom he comes in contact. Independent of his insurance business, he is con-

an assurance to the public that he is perfectly familiar with all matters pertaining to the real estate interests of Salt Lake City and of the Territory in general, and has acquired the universal confidence of citizens and residents.

In addition to the real estate business, Mr. Lawrence is agent for several well known fire insurance companies, among them being the " Royal," of Liverpool, England, one of the most substantial and reliable corporations of its kind in the world. He also deals extensively in mining property and stocks, buying and selling the same as opportunity occurs, giving employment to an adequate force of assistants, and dis- posing of a large, prosperous business annually.

Mr. Lawrence began business thirty-one years ago, and, by a systematic course, in which honesty and integrity, coupled with good judgment and pluck have been the most potent factors in his success, has scored a very pronounced victory in the confidence of the public, and elevated him to the position of one of the most influential men in the Territory. Such men as Mr. Lawrence are invaluable in the development and pros- perity of a new country.

BROWN'S MARBLE WORKS.

The Brown Marble Works were established along in 1891, and have experienced a remarkably successful career. The firm transacts a general business in the manufacture of com- modities of foreign and domestic marble and granite, including monuments, headstones, tablets, etc., and carry a general stock, the excellence of which is unequaled in the Territory. Four

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skilled workman are employed, and the trade extends through- out Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming.

The proprietor, Mr. Brown, has resided in Salt Lake nines 1878, coming here from Chicago. He learned his trade in Kng- lami, and is folly competent to contract for, and perform all business in a satisfactory manner. The establishment that he represents is the only one in the city that transacts business of an exclusive monumental character, so to speak, and the de- signs and monuments executed under Mr. Brown's direction have been models of their kind. The establishment on account of the excellent work tamed out, has secured the recognition and patronage of the leading and representative citizens of Utah and the States adjoining.

SALT LAKE MEAT CO.

In reviewing the commercial and manufacturing interests' and advantages of the city of Salt Lake, one is confronted by many enterprises, especially worthy of extended notice and consideration. It is a fact, and one worthy of appreciation by readers, that in this, the thriving and progressive metropolis of the Territory, are located many establishments whose exten- sive proportions and large operations would reflect credit upon the large cities in the country. One of these representa- tive enterprises in its special line is the Salt Lake Meat Com- pany, at corner Third South and Fifth West streets, of which Messrs. August Boland and W. T Satnpwn, are the enterpris- ing proprietors. In 1890, these gentlemen began their busi- ness in Halt Lake, and the remarkable success that has attended their efforts is a most gratifying evidence of their wisdom and forethought. They have now as completely equipped and model an establishment of the kind as can be found on the entire coast The salesrooms are large and commodious, being 100x100 feet in dimension and two-stories in height, in which they have a cold storage room 16x50 feet, for the storage of their fresh meats, the temperature of which is kept at forty degrees Fahrenheit. The plant of the slaughter-house covers an area of five acres, where in addition to the slaughter-house, tenement houses, etc., they have a large cold storage ware- house, with a capacity of storing two hundred beeves and six hundred sheep daily, making it the largest in the Territory, and one of the largest in the western country. The capital invested in this gigantic enterprise is $100.000 while their annual sales reach the handsome sum of #500,000, all of which is sold in Utah except the live stock, which is shipped to Kansas City and Omaha, in carload lots. Twenty five men are em- ployed in the various branches of the business. Their trade is exclusively wholesale, and besides the large amount of fresh meat always on hand, they carry a heavy stock of all kinds of dried meats, pigs feet, and tripe in barrels, half barrels, quarter barrels and in tin canes of from thirty to fifty pounds, all of which are of the best brands known in the market. The pro- prietors of this important enterprise are gentlemen of unusual buiiness ability and intelligence ; just in the prime of vigorous manhood, and have proven themselves among the most enter- prising and substantial of the citizens of this community. Their establishment is a credit to the city, an honor to them- selves, and an important factor in the advancement and promo- tion of the trade and commerce of Salt Lake City.

S. P. TEASDEL.

In reviewing the commercial and manufacturing interests and advantages of Salt Lake City, one is confronted by many enterprises especially worthy of extended notice and oonsider- utiori. It i* a fact, and one worthy of appreciation by readers, that in this, the thriving and progressive metropolis of ti,.. 'IVrntory, are located many establishments whose extensive i and large operations, would reflect credit upon the largest citiee in the country. One of these representative enterprise* is that of S. I'. Teaadel, importer, jobber and retail dealer of dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, clothing, hata, caps, hardware and ijneensware. The industry is isa"l'K>n»er," liuving ii-.'ii iimiiKurnled twenty-one years ago. Mr. Teaadel occupies an elegant 'i -story building, H6xl&0 feet in dimensions admirably arranged in throo different departments of four •tores, separate and ilmtinct. but all under the same roof and conveniently connoted with each other. On* dfJMttBMOlil devoted exclusively to dry goods and notionx; another to gro- ceries, hardware and queenaware, and the third to clothing, boots and shoes. He carries an immense stock, varying from 175,000 to $100,000, and employs a force of thirty men. The ..•i.. .,M,' »f annual hiuineea tranacted is of great magnitude, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Teaadel

was born in England but has been a resident of Utah for thirty-five years and is one of the most prominent and highly respected citzens of Salt Lake. He was a member of the city council for two terms, a position he filled with great ability, with credit to himself, and honoi to the people of the ward he represented. He is thoroughly identified with the beat inter- ests of the home of his adoption, and is recognized as a man of large and active business qualifications. His establishment is a credit to the city, an honor to himself, and an important fac- tor in the advancement and promotion of the trade and com- merce of Salt Lake. Combining, as he does, all the depart- ments of his house with careful prudent and intelligent man- agement and fair and liberal dealing, he has a sure foundation laid for a success in the future as great and enduring as has been achieved in the past, and is a worthy representative of of the important business interest to which his energies are devoted.

MARTIN K. HARKNESS.

The successful miner, meaning by that the man who not only understands the details of work at the mines, but who knows how to organize companies, interest capital, buy and sell meritorious mining properties, etc., is deserving of great credit and recognition as a man of talent and unrelenting per- severance. This principle is admirably exemplified in the life as Mr. M. K. Harkness, whose career from the very first has been marked by toil, capability and firm determination. He was born in 1830, in the state of Massachusetts, and when but nineteen years of age started West on his way to California, where he engaged in the mining business. He had by nature the quality of " perseverance" described as uncompromising, and when the storms of disappointment and adversity came upon him he was firm and unwavering. Mr. Harkness re- mained in California until 1870, at which date the mineral re- sources of Utah were coming to be generally known, and he moved hither. Since coming to Utah he has proved himself one of the most energetic and prosperous mining men of the Territory, having also superintended and been interested in many of the best mines of this section of the country. II. • is known as an experienced and sagacious mining expert, and many wealthy investors are indebted to Mr. Harkness for the thousands upon thousands of dollars they have made through his advice and superior judgment.

Mr. Harknees is at present general manager of the Frederick and Crown I'rinoe Mining and Tunneling Co., one of the largest corporations of the kind in the Territory, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, or 100,000 shares at $10 per share. Ita mines are situated in the Little Cottonwood mining district, Salt Lake county, Utah, the property consisting altogether of eighteen claims, some of which are patented. Above $300,000 have al- ready been expended in development. $(10,000 have been taken from one shaft of levels sunk 436 feet. From this shaft drifts have also been run, one 100 feet east and another 100 feet west, iiinl from the base of the mountain a tunnel has been built cross-cutting the vein 1,900 feet from the mouth of the tunnel. Very little prospecting has been done at the cross-cut, the tunnel having U-en run 4,000 feet.together with ilaterals.a total distance of more than this amount The immediate prospecte are prom- ising beyond dispute, and under the management of Mr. Hark- neas will crystallize into substantial realities with the least pos- sible delay.

F. PLATT CO.

Oneof the industries of Salt Lake City that forms an impor- tant item in the sum total of her commerce is the manufacture of harness, saddlery, etc., and lines of goods therewith connected. There are but few branches of manufacture -especially in the western country whose product* are so universally used and, consequently, in such stead v demand. The establishment of the I . I Matt Co., 147 and 149 First Bast State road, is one of the oldest and most complete to be found west of the Missouri river. It \riu< founded in 1852 by F. Platt who began business on a small capital, but was prosperous from the Bret and has since increased his trade to such large proportions Unit it « »v found necessary early in 1801 to merge the business into a cor- iMirntion. Tlmi waa accomplished and officers chosen as fol- lows: F. B. I'latt. president; O. I1. Arnold, Jr., vice-president; .1. i ' I Matt, secretary and treasurer.

The company owns and occupies its own building, a three- story brick store, with the varied and complete lines of gnoda} to b» seen only in nil first clans establishment*. The company are manufacturer* and joblwrsof harness, saddlery, whip. mike a specialty of stock saddle*, of which they make aud

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handle the best lines in the market. They give employment to fourteen Operatives besides a large force of salesmen and travelers, and do an im- , mense business annually J in all parts of Utah, Colo- rado, Wjoming, Montana | and Nevada.

The members of the company are natives of Salt Lake and identified with the interests of the city since early youth. The president, F. B. Platt, has been in the business ever since he was sixteen years of age. He is the active manager, and a gentleman of marked ability in the commercial community. The vice- president, F. P. Arnold, is also a prominent man in mercantile circles, and tbe assistant superintendent of the Salt Lake City Railroad C'ompany, while the secretary and treasurer, J. C. Platt, is a young man of developed business talents.

U«ed by courtesy of A. F. Kisser 4 Co., Chicago.

JAMES W. EARDLY.

Occupying a leading and important position as an influen- tial representative of the lumber interests of Salt Lake City and Utah Territory, James W. Eardly is not only esteemed by the ^rade to which he ministers, but by the commercial, finan- cial and manufacturing circles in all portions of the West. His remarkable and deserved success is due to the patient, un- tiring, personal attention he gave to the details of his business,

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as also to the sterling integrity and liberal methods he has always manifested in its administratioo.

His yards occupy an extended area of territory, located at 44 East South Fourth Street, between Main and State Streets, and are stored with the largest lines and best qualities of lum- ber and lumber products. The premises also contain a sub-

stantially built and well-equipped workshop, in which all patterns of combination fence are manufactured, Mr. Eardly making a specialty of these appliances, in which he does a large trade. He carries complete stocks of hard and soft lum- ber, including selected grades of Truckee, California, redwood, also handling wooden building materials, embracing joists, flooring, sills, doors, sash and blinds, with other articles adapted to the trade and all its requirements.

Mr. Eardly was married early in life to Miss Adella W., the accomplished daughter of Bishop Woolley of Salt Lake, tbe fruit of which union is four children. He is a gentleman of do- mestic tastes, and his home circle has been deecribed as " the abode of endless happiness."

In addition to his lumber interests, Mr. Eardly is the owner of a stock farm in the Cache valley. In his business and social relations he is most delightfully situated, and in the varied walks of life an object of universal respect and commendable comment.

MR. J. H. HINMAN.

Among the prominent citizens of Salt Lake who have gained popularity as enterprising and public-spirited men will be found Mr. J. H. Hinman, superintendent of the County Infirmary. Mr. Hinman has made this city his home for the past ten years and has been actively engaged in many of the important enter- prises and public movements since that time. He was appointed to fill the position he now occupies in October 1891 , previous to which he was an officeHn the Midland Investment Company, and still retains an interest in the extensive mining and real estate properties it owns and controls. While acting in the capacity of treasurer for the company^he took ai.leading part

J. H. HINMiN, Supt. County Infirmary.

and deep interest in all its various projects. He was one of tbe most energetic workers in this important corporation and aided very materially in advancing it to the high position it occupies among the many real estate and investment companies of the city.

Since entering upon the grave duties of his present incum- bency, his superior fitness for such a position and the persever- ing manner in which he endeavors to meet the requirements of the place, has been repeatedly demonstrated and felt to the general good.

The superintendence of this institution has never been filled more ably or more satisfactorily, and in consequence Mr. Hin- man will, no doubt, be retained to watch over the interests of the County Infirmary for many years to come, or until his faith- fulness and ability call him to a higher position in the affairs of the people.

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H. C. LETT & SON.

Among the new men and firms engaged in real estate business in Salt Lake, there are none more deserving of attention than that of H. C. Lett & Son. This firm has been extensive opera- tors since 1889. It is pre-eminently representative in Salt Luke where it is considered authority on real estate matters in the Territory. The members] are earnest, persistent workers in the development of the resources of the country, and enjoy the unbounded confidence and esteem of a very extended and in- fluential constituency. As financiers they are cautious and conservative, and their business has grown to be one of the most extensive in Utah, their transactions during the past two years, involving more than a half million dollars, of which large investments of capital from the East were made by them in Salt Lake City and vicinity. They occupy a suite of ele- gant offices in the Commercial National Hank building, that (through the courtesy of the firm) are also used by the

H. C. MOT, President the Krai E«t«t» Exchange.

Iteal Estate Exchange as a place of meeting. Mr. 11. C. L»tt, the head of the enterprise, was born in eastern Ohio, near Cleveland, in 1834. When fifteen years of age be removed to Illinois, where he taught school and alternately clerked in a store for several years. From there he emigrated to Lavette county, Kansas, and engaged in the merchandise business un- til the breaking out of the civil war, when he removed to Nebraska, settling in Brownsville and dividing his time be- tween mercantile pursuits and the construction of railroad*. While a r.*ident there he was elected premdent of the Midland A Pacific, and tin- Brownsville. Kearney A Pacific railroad". holding these positions for six years with credit to himself and profit to the company, lie subsequently removed to Lincoln; thence to Denver to accept the position of superintendent of the (tone department of the Union Pacific road, the duties of which important position he discharged to the entire satisfac- tion of the company for over six years. Mr. Lett was the first man to start what in known as the "Great Stone Industry of the liocky .Mountains."

In the development of this industry he em ployed fromfiOOto I.KIO men and turned out stonn from the quarries of < 'oloradn amounting in value to one million of dollars that was sold nil over the Western States. About three years ago he visited Salt Lake, and invested heavily in real estate. After a brief visit to Denver be finally returned to thin i-ity. where be settled permanently, established himwlf in the renl estate and loan biminnw, ami was an important factor in organ i -neent

Bait L»ke H-al Kstate Exchange, serving as president of that body for two terms, I lei* also an honored and pron member of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, a mem i the Board of Education and together with his son proprietor of the Deep Creek Stag" Line Company, the only line in existence in the West since the demise of the old "Overland" Stage Com-

puny. The firm is sole agent for "Lehman Place,'1 a suburb of the city, also for the "Dehorn, Black and Holmes," in addition which they are half owners. The firm holds titles to most o/ the properties handled by it and is prepared to offer substantial inducements to purchasers.

Mr. W. H. Lett, the junior member of the firm, was born in Kansas twenty-nine years ago. When quite young he removed with hie parents to Nebraska. He attended school at the State University in Lincoln for a number of years and began his business career in that city as paying teller of the Lincoln National Bank. He occupied that position for three years, when he resigned to accept that of assistant superintendent of the stone department of the Union Pacific Road at Denver, under his father, and remained with the company until his removal to this city. He is an active member of the Real Estate Exchange, attends to the otlice details of the firm's busi- ness, and is manager of the stage line, the sole line conveying passengers and freight into the Deep C'reek country. The Messrs. Lett are self-made men in every respect, gentlemen of undoubted business abilities, unquestioned integrity and deeply and practically interested in the welfare of Salt Lake.

ALAMA MINING AND MILLING CO.

Among the many mining companies engaged in the de- velopment of the great mineral resources of I'tah, the A lama Mining and Milling Company is prominent. It was in- corporated in 1891 with a capital stock of 81.000,000, divided into 500,000 shares, valued at 82 per share, with officers as fol lows: C. A. Ames, president; P., I. Parker, vice-president; Willis M. Ames, treasurer, and F. T. Taylor, secretary, who. together with E. L. Carpenter and W. H. Donnell, J. A. Chute, W. M. Hicks and David A. Giles, form the board of directors. The Alama mine is situated in the Mount Baldy mining district of Utah. The surface area of the claim is 1200x1500

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feet, bounded on the Sooth by the Deer Tail mine that has pro- duced to its owners over $H()0,flOO. The latter is nix mile* from Marysyale, a rich gold mining cnmp on I In- line of the extension of tln> IJ. ( •. Western Railway now in process of construction, ami which, when completed, will mnke the trans- portation facilities superior, and lessen and cheapen the coat of Hhipping the products of the mine to such an extent as to greatly increase ita value

The ore extracted from tin- Mama mine IN in character a free milling quart?., containing gold, silver and galena in g'«>d paying quantities, making a fine concentrating "re. and the company will, for the purpose of concentrating its own ores, erect suitable machinery in the near future.

The development of the mine baa been carried on to such an extent as to establish the value of the same beyond any per-

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adventure. Some S 8,000 have been expended in tunnels, drifts, etc., by which to determine the course and strength of veins as well as the location of deposits. A tunnel now being worked has been run in 400 feet, and it is estimated within 75 feet further they will strike the main veins at a perpendicular point of just 500 feet from its croppings. There is but little doubt that this mine will prove a great producer and one of the richest of Utah. Upon the completion of R. G. Western Bail- way's extension from Salina, there is no doubt but that mills, reduction works and other improvements will follow of such a character as not only to greatly aid in the development of the mines of this section, but have a tendency to improve and benefit that entire portion of Utah. It is a section greatly favored with a variety of the most valuable resources.

There are to be found wood and timber in abundance for fuel, charcoal; lumber for building and other purposes, conven- ient for shipping and to saw-mills. Water is plentiful and water-power abundant, and easily utilized. The valleys are wide and productive, affording the finest grazing in the world, while the acres and acres of hay and grain annually produced go without a market. This is pre-eminently the land of oppor- tunities and investment.

Among those who are thoroughly acquainted with the vast resources and mineral deposits of this country, none are better informed than Mr. C. A. Ames, the president of the Alama Mining Company. He was born in Peterborough, N. H., in 1839, fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Amherst College in 1861, but in the following year he en- listed in the 13th N. H. R«g. of Volunteers, from which he was honorably mustered out of service at the close of the Rebellion as Quartermaster Sergeant. He engaged in business at his old home in N. H. at the close of hostilities and so continued for a few years, representing prominent Life and Fire Insurance Go's, as General Agent for New Hampshire, but in the spring of 1870 he removed with his family to Bay City, Mich., to en- gage in the lumber and salt business with two younger brothers who had preceded him thither. He suffered severe losses by fire and thence removed to Leavenworth, Kan., where he re- mained for a number of years. During his residence there Mr. Ames became imbued with " the mining fever" then prevalent consequent upon the great finds made in Colorado, and removed to Denver. He soon became identified with the mining indus- tries in that city and did much toward the development of the " Centennial State," acquiring for himself in the meantime, .val- uable mining properties which he still owns. Prom Denver Mr. Ames came to Salt Lake City, and since "pitching his tent in Zion," has interested himself largely in mines and real estate, as well as in many other enterprises, prominent among which are the Col., Utah & Pacific Railway, of which projected line he is secretary and treasurer. Another projected line of road with which he is connected is one to run from Boise City, Idaho, to Butte, Montana. He is one of the largest owners in the Dalton Mine of this territory, and business manager in the Gold Belt Mining and Milling Co. Both these companies are incorporated. He has ever distinguished himself as a thorough business man, perfectly reliable in all his transactions and its hard to find a man more enterprising and public spirited than Mr. Ames.

ranging from two and half to seven feet. Contiguous to those pools are large and neatly fitted up dressing and suit rooms which command the admiration of all visitors on account of their comfort and convenience. The present hotel has sixteen large and elegant rooms for invalids who flock to these health- giving waters in large numbers, and who in the majority of CBt.es are greatly benefited, and in many instances cured entirely. A new hotel, however, is now in process of erection which will be ready for occupancy in a short time and which will be of ample proportions to accommodate two hundred or more guests.

The natural temperature of the waters is from 140° to 150° Fahrenheit, and before being used in the baths has to pass through a large reservoir in order to make the temperature low enough for comfort. An analysis of the waters from these Springs made by the Chief Government Chemist at Washington gave the following result:

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Chloride of Potassium 3761 grammes

Chloride of Sodium 9.5506

Chloride of Magnesium ... 1.4334

Chloride of Calcium 6957

Sulphate of Calcium 1907

Carbonate of Calcium 1262

Bi-Carbonate of Calcium 1739

Alumina .- 0090

Silica.. 0315

BECK'S HOT SPRINGS.

Among the great Sanitariums that abound in Utah, there are none, perhaps, that commands more attention from the general public, not only on account of their healing qualities, lout also by reason of the accommodations afforded visitors and invalids, than Heck's Hot Springs. The medical properties of the waters of these Springs were known to the Indiana long before the foot of the white man trod the soil of Utah, and ac- cording to history were freely indulged in by the aborigines for the cure of almost all diseases that flesh is heir to. The springs are situated in a northerly direction, three miles from the Temple and on the line of the Union Pacific. Denver & Rio Grande, and Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs Railroads, easily accessible from Salt Luke City. The property is owned by Mr. John Beck, who first opened the Springs to the public in 1885, and was succeeded in February, 1891, by the present proprietor, Mr. Lee Pratt, who makes a most successful caterer to the wants of the public. The main bath house is a commodious 1-story structure", 70x100 feet in dimensions, in which are two plunge rooms for ladies', each 14x14 feet, the gentlemen's plunge room being 80x50 feet. The new bath houee is 40x80 feet, one-story, containing twelve private plunge rocms 10x10 feet, and the average depth of the entire bath houses is four feet. Another pleasing feature of this resort is the public bathing pool for both sexes, which is 50x250 feet, with a depth

12.5871 Traces of Boric Acid and Lithia.

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Chief Chemist. February 24th, 1386.

The waters, beyond any question, posssess 'great medical properties and can safely be called one of the wonderful freaks of nature. That they are utilized daily by scopes of invalids and visitors is an evidence of their medical qualities and a sufficient recommendation of their great benefit.

BUCKKHORN GOLD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY.

The new miningcountry in the Dugway district, Tooele county, is of great value to Salt Lake and the Territory generally, as forming a new and powerful auxiliary in the matter of develop- ment. It is rapidly becoming apparent to the minds of every citizen having the interests of Utah at heart, that the mining properties are destined to cut and important figure in her future history, and that the greater speed with which the development of the same progresses, the more rapidly will the Territory assume her place in the commercial ranks of the great States of the Union. The company of which this sub- ject is the sketch was incorporated June 2, 1891, with a capital of $1,000,000, divided into 100,000 shares of $10 each. The offi- cers are S. H. Gilson, president ; J. J. Gilson, vice-president ; W. S. McCornick, treasurer, and F. W. Cleghorn, secretary. The organization was formed for the purpose of working the Buckhorn claim in the Dugway district, which was discov- ered by Mr. F. W. Cleghorn, and is a combination property of 15x1,800 feet. The work of developing the eame has been pro- gressing very satisfactorily ever since the discovery, and ship- ments of ore amounting to one hundred and fifty tons, have been made which returned in gross value the sum of 828.COO, the expense incurred on the Eame being lees than $5,000. The company has erected a forty, ton smelter which can be increased to an eighty ton capacity, and have at work seventy-five min- ers. The character of the ore extracted frcm the mine is chlc- orides and native silver in lime and porpyhry formation; also showing a email per cent, of lead.

In addition to the Buckhorn claim, the company have twenty-eight other claims situated in the eame district which show assays at grass mots running from 20 per cent, to CO per cent, lead, and from 10 to 75 ounces silver, and which will be developed as rapidly as time and means will accomplish. These properties are considered very valuable and will no doubt prove of immense benefit to the Territory.

The secretary of the company and the discoverer of thp " Buckhorn," Mr. Clephorn, is a practical aeeayer, and although a young man, has had a large experience in mining, and is fully alive to the wants and needs of the mining world. The Com- pany office is rooms 45 and 46 Wasatch building.

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THE MIDLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY.

Choice and eligibly located properties in Utah are more than ever sought after by conservative capitalists, who, in mak- ing their investments, rely in a large measure upon the advice, assistance, and superior knowledge of the leading brokers and agents. Prominent among the substantial companies domiciled in Salt Lake, the Midland Investment Company stands pre- eminent.

The company does a general real estate business, makes in- vestments for non-residents and eastern capitalists; places loans to any amount, and of the hundreds of thousands of dollars thus placed not one foreclosure has ever been made,

promising mining camps within a radius of thirty miles, and more constantly springing up. In addition, there is an abun- dance of grass, water ami wood in this section, and the soil is well adapted to agricultural purposes. Two lines of railway are now beading for this section of the country, and when com- pleted will settle the question of cheap transportation in such a manner as to build up that section at a rapid and progressive rate. The company has expended considerable time and means in developing the mineral resources of this great mining region and there is no doubt a brilliant future in store for it. The following properties are handled exclusively by this company: West Salt Lake addition: Garden City original plat one; Cham- berlain's addition; first addition to West Salt Lake; Salt Lake

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showing that they exercise the best of judgment in all cases in handling money for others. A specialty of the company is the buying and handling of property, and the making of loans for non-residents; the rule being to recommend investments only which are known to be good and are profitable. In the negotia tion of loans to any amount on real estate and improved city property extraordinary diligence is exercised, and approved aeonritiea only are accepted.

One of the large properties owned by the company is UNI acres of land, divide.i into five-acre plats, situated between the Jordan river and the Hot Springs Lake and covering the entire lake front on the west, which is detitined to tieoome valuable property in the near future. The company is also heavily in- toreated in very promising mining properties in the I >>•>•]< Creek country, and a galena and carbonate claim in Dugway, Tooele county, that assays HO per cent, lead, and from 15 to 26 ounce* in silver, averaging 20punceft of the latter. These pro- pertie* are considered exceptionally valuable, and when fully developed will doubtleM prove far richer in extent than at present claimed. In addition to these the company is vested with title to a group of ten claims in White Pine ( 'onnty, Ne- vada, known as tin- "Itlark Mountain District," the away* of the ore from which show from 7n i.. I.NCII MIUK'.'M of silver and gold. They have expended about t«f,(KX) in developing them mine* and will be rewarded with rich returns In in them in the near future, i >ther mining clmniH in which the company isin- terevted in various sections of I 'tali and Nevada give promise of greet value when they shall be fully developed. Mr. Harvey Hardy, the manager, who has bun a mining man all bis life, traveling at intervals all over this western country pn*i • the mineral r*gion», is competent to speak on nil mining mat- ter*, and as an evidence of hi* faith in the future development of that district ha* invested largely in various , HP

predict* that the I>*ep Crrck country and especially that por- tion of it located in the Illark Mountain district, will, in the near future, be one of the greatest mining camp* in An Taking Ibapah aa a center, there are no lew than twenty

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Park; Ninth East Street; Temple View;. Jefferson Street; < >regon Kace and Le Mar's additions. All of these are inside proper- ties, situated on electric car lines and considered among the most valuable and desirable tracts in the entire oity. They also make a specialty of handling business property and are prepared to make leases on some very desirable sites for build- ing purposes.

Mr. Hardy has resided in Utah for over 25 years, and is at present largely identified with all her bent interests, being an expert on mining property, his advice and judgment are aought for and appreciated by many of the large mine owners of the territory.

Mr. .1. M. Kennedy, the junior member of the firm, is an active, go. ahead young man of Salt Lake, who has raised him- self to a position of prominence in the commercial world through Ins own zealous efforts and keen businees faculties. He is a native of Pittsburgh. Penn., was educated in Itethany College and is well known in this city as a man of upright principals and sterling integrity.

H. HUNTER, M. D.

\mongthewell known ladMtefplMBgcMMM "' Salt I^ake 1 it>. distinguished alike for Ins professional achievements and hi* eminence in the field of metallurgy, is l>r. II. Hunter, lie studied medicine in Philadelphia, Pa., later matriculating at the University of Toronto i Canada', whence he tub«e<iuent)y graduated and entered upon the practice of his piofepsion. I or the pa»t fourteen rear* be has given special attention to the mineral resources of Michigan. Idaho. Colorado. Arizona, and t'tidi, urn! in pursuit of scientific investigation paiaed six years in th» I '.lack Hills. Ho is a recognized expert in the premises and Ins judgment in that connection is regarded us conclusive. He has been a resident of Salt I Jike < it> for the past seven year*, engaged in the examination of mining proper! i»s. the ptirchi-Heand rale of name. etc.. in which lie ha* scored anucoea* pronounced and highly deaerved.

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H. C. CHAMBERS.

What the successful miner must pass through during his years of toil and travel from the bottom to the top, the world at large, devoted to other pursuits, will forever remain in ignorance.

It is only men possessed of great executive ability and superior judgment, that can take the undeveloped claim, usu- ally inaccessible, and convert it into a dividend-paying mine.

least. He has today the same true heart, frank, open nature and approachable manner that was typical of him in the years of unsuccessful ventures.

Since the discovery of the Ontario, other rich claims have been located in the same vicinity, and many splendid mines put in vigorous operation. Park City has sprung up in this raining district and is now a flourishing town of some 6,000 inhabitants, devoted exclusively to working the mines in the vicinity. The Ontario alone is sufficient to support a city of

To interest capital, conduct the preliminaries and engineer this size, and with the development of other rich claims, Park

" demonstrated City is destined to grow in population and importance to

the work, requires a man of long experience and ability. The western country has many men of this stamp, who are veterans at the business and recognized as leaders and projectors of all gigantic enterprises growing out of the won- derful discoveries that have been made within the past twenty years. Probably no one among them has had a more re- markable career, or ex- hibited greater ability as a practical miner, than Mr. R. C. Chamber?, whose picture graces this page of our book. He is what may be termed an astute mine manipu- lator, for he is not only possessed of a thorough knowledge of the details of work at the mines, but has been the means of interesting more capital and establishing a greater and more widespread rep- utation for our Territory as a mineral producing country, than any other one man. He stands at the head of the corpora- tions that are uow operat- ing the largest and most profitable mines of Utah. He was prominently iden- tified with them from the start, and has proved an indispensable working factor in all their exten- sions and movements ever since. Among these are the Ontario and Daly mines at Park City, of which Mr. Chambers is general manager, the greatest mines of Utah, both in regard to the amount of ore taken out, the number of men em- ployed and the amount of capital expended in getting the mines into condition for extensive

operations. He had faced the blunt of a miner's life for years, both in California and Utah, prior to the discovery of the Ontario, on June 19th, 1872, though he was known among wealthy mine speculators, as a man of sound judgment and practical understanding, and to his advice and counsel was at- tached a great deal of importance.

The discovery of the famous Ontario, however, by one Herman liudden, was a turning point in Mr. Chambers' life. At the time he was in Southern Utah, managing the Webster and Bully Boy mines, and when the story of this new find reached his ears, he at once visited the place, took important observa- tions, and immediately associated himself with the late Senator George Hearst, of California, and other prominent capitalists, purchased the claim and commenced operations. Mr. Cham- bers' career as a wealthy man of Utah dates from that time. He made the Ontario what it is by persistent hard work and care- ful management, and it has in consequence yielded both him- self and associates millions of money.

A fact about Mr. Chambers that is worthy of note is, that his sudden accession to a place of power and influence has not changed his sterling character or generous disposition in the

a much greater city than it is at present. Some idea of the

magnitude of the Ontario mine may be formed from the fact that the monthly pay-roll amounts to 850,- 000, and that 2,000 people are supported by work at the mine and mill. In 1888, an immense drain tunnel was commenced for the purpose of tap- ping the mine at a depth of 1,500 feet, and work on this tunnel has contin- ued almost uninterrupt- edly ever since. It is now in 8,650 feet;full dis- tance to be run, 15,000 feet. The Ontario mine has already paid in divi- dends, $11,525,000, and the outlook is equally as favorable for many years to come.

The l)aly Mining Com- pany, of which Mr. Chambers is president, is now operating the Daly mine, and although it has been but a short time since ore was first taken out, $1,762,500 has been paid in dividends, and the iniue promises to be- come fully as valuable as the Ontario.

Besides these two com- panies, Mr. Chambers is prominently connected with other leading cor- porations of Utah, and is regarded by all asso- ciated in business, as a man of exceptionally broad and liberal ideas, and administrative abil- ity. His vigorous poli- cies in the prosecution of all work devolving upon him in the divers posi- tions he holds, has met the approbation and sanc-

li. c. ( HAMliKliS. tion of all directors and

co-officials, and under his

able and conscientious management the interests of each stock- holder is subserved faithfully and honorably. Public spirited movements are tendered his endorsement and support, and every new project and enterprise calculated to benefit the com- munity or prove conducive to the public welfare is aided and encouraged.

CONWAY & SIMMONS.

The firm of Conway & Simmons, dealers in teas, coffees, f pices, etc., South Third near South Main street, is composed of P. J. Conway and W. S. Simmons, and was organized and began operations about the first of April, 1890. They occupy premises 18x70 feet in dimensions, used as a sample room and for office purposes, also a commodiousand well equipped ware- house 70x96 feet, opposite the depot. They make a specialty of the manufacture of extracts, baking powders, etc., and carry large stocks of teas, mostly of their own importation ;also best grades of Mocha, Java, Maracaibo and Rio coffees, green and browned, the browning being done upon the premises, under the supervision of the firm, together with spices, delicaces, etc., in great vaiiety. They handle goods of the best quality, fill orders promptly and

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stand high with the trade to which they cater, principally the retail jobbing trade in Salt Lake City, and throughout Utah, Idaho, Montana and Colorado, aggregating more than $150,000 annually. The firm also represent in the West the houses of D. P. Winnie, dealers in twine, rope, etc., New York ; William Peck 4 Co., wholesale grocers, San Francisco; I). B. Scully, syrups, etc., Chicago; the Southern California Packing Co., lx>e Angeles; Robert Gary, molasses, rice, etc., New Orleans, and others.

Mr. P. J. Con way is a native of Wisconsin and well known in all parts of the West. Previous to his removal to Salt Lake, he was an extensive dealer in furniture, hardware, etc., at t )niaha ami North Platte, Neb., also commercially interested at other points on the "thither side of the Range." Mr. Sim- mons, the junior partner, was for years traveling salesman for Beem, Moffitt Ac Co., Kansas City, Mo.; for Carter Howley & Co., and other coffee and spice houses, and is intimately famil- iar with the requirements of the trade.

.Both gentlemen are merchants of the liberal, progressive type, and the phenomenally large demands of the trade sup- plied by them is an eloqnent acknowledgment of the pre-emi- nent position they occupy in the mercantile world.

GEORGE ARTHUR RICE.

The subject of this sketch was born in Knox County. Illinois, M an-h '24th. 1859. He accompanied his parents to Colorado in 1876, when his father engaged in mining atSunshine, in Boulder county. George A rtbnr soon after entered theState University, graduating from the Scientific department in 1882. His first

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employment was that of assayer and chemist for a mining com- pany operating a number of mine* on Battle Mountain, in Kitirle MUM?, Minler the management of Judge I). D. Holding. He afterwards opened an assay office in Leadville. In 1886 he located in (Uenwood SpringH. Colo., and established "Geo. Arthur Kirn .V < 'O.'H I'.nnk." winch afterwards culminated in the "(ilcnwixxl National Hank." His investments in real estate and the banks in Glen wood were at the nnht time, and through In- business ragacity he disposed of his real estate and banking in- terest* at the height of the doom; hence come of hisfriemlH. not no fort litiHte, railed him "lucky George." In 1SK7, he with other* ••>.!iil>ii>l,. .1 the Firiit National I'.nnk at Grand Jni nri'l in I**'' the l'ir*t Niitional Bank at Onray, Colo., of IM>||I of which bank* be is Mill president, »n«l they have in excellent flimnrinl tej.iiliition. In 1HOO he established it Kureks, I'tah. the • ' . ir Itii « A Co 'H Hank," and he is also prrnni>-nt

of that n Mil ut,'. ii. whn h in in a healthy rntdition and doing H splendid ImsinetH HIM latent venture, the sampling works at Knrekn. with an average monthly rapacity of 4.IK.O ton* of ore, IB ao enterprise of pronounced snceeM, and through his fine

engineering the Tintie branch of the Kio Grande Western railway was made possible, as it was through his personal efforts that the subscriptions were obtained necessary for its construction.

The old adage that "Nothing succeeds like succees," is veri- fied in the past history of young Rice, and though the term "lucky" is frequently applied to his schemes; yet upon closer observation all his undertakings are thoroughly investigated from every possible standpoint before investing. Cool, calcu- lating and conservative, he from the beginning seems to forecast the hidden rocks, shoals and undercurrents that are likely to wreck a craft upon any "wild cat" scheme.

Meeting his business engagements promptly, he is rather ex- acting in the obligations from others, yet he has great sympathy for those less fortunate in the race of life. In fact bis nature is BO confiding and sympathetic, like HoraceGreeley.heis likely to be imposed upon sometimes. To the personal knowledge of the writer he gave away, quite recently, in various sums to parties "dead broke" and out of employment, what amounted to as much as the yearly snlitry of some men.

A young man leaving college without a dollar, now only in his 33rd year proprietor of extensive sampling works, president of three banks aud largely interested in several prominent mining properties, is certainly rather phenomenal. Who shall say, then, contemplating his past record, that he will not, at no very distant day, accomplish the enterprise that is the acme of his ambition, and to which his untiring energies are concen- trated; that is, the building of a railroad from this city to the Pacific ( 'oast, and thus become one of the greatest benefactor? to Suit Lake and the Territory of Utah?

HEILLY & KANE.

The extent and value of Utah's coal deposits are not gen- erally known, but some of the discoveries already made, and the mines now in operation, prove conclusively that the Territory is abundantly supplied with this necessity. Messrs. Keilly -V Kane, attorneys and counsellors at law, 100 and 101 Wasatch building, are attorneys and agents for the following named coal companies, a description of the mines and claims controlled by each being given in detail: The Bee Hire Coal and Reser- voir Company, is one of Utah's ooal wonders, being situated in Kmery county, forty miles from Price, a town on the R. (). \V. I U I !., and on the line of the new. railroad survey. The ooal pro|>erty consists of eight claims of one hundred and sixty acres each. The coal does not appear to be in veina, but in "perfect mountains," and is practically inexhaustible. It is fine quality, also a good coking coal, and will soon take the place of the Connersville coke in western markets. This pro- perty lies in the midst of a good grazing and farming country, with an abundance of fine timber for mining and all purpose* required. The value of these mines may be estimated when the absence of ooal in the adjoining states and territories is considered.

The following gentlemen constitute the hoard of directors: H \V. llooten, H. A. Ferguson, M. M. Busby, Thos. Kane and L. i-ottri.ll.

The Scandanavia Coal Company. This wonderful deposit of coal lies in Muddy Creek Canon, in Emery county, Utah, ami comprises twelve claims of one hundred and sixty acres .•a.-li.of tine hard coal. It is so situated in regard to lay of country, convenience to wood and water, that it can be worked cheaply, as the veins are continuous aud thick, averaging twelve feet, also near the surface and easy of access to the R. G. \V K. R. This part of the Territory is one of the most wonderful coal regions in the world, being of vast extent near the surface, -upi-rior quality, convenient for all supplies, such as timber, water, food supplies and cheap labor. The roal is free from sulphur, lining almost entirely consumed, leaving but a very small p. r cent, of ash, and the deposits will make it possible ti. work to advantage the exhanstlefs and wonderful mountains of iron aud copper that now cannot be a* profitably worked on account of the expense of coke for smelting purposes.

The properly is owned in. -tl\ l.y Salt Lake gentlemen, sod the directors of the company are: Christopher C. Reynolds. Peter U Johnson and Angus MrKellar.

The Kmery County Coal Company. This is, perhaps, one of (he Urge*! holdings of coal in the country, consisting as it does of thirty-two rliiiniH of one hundred and sixty acres each, with an avenge depth of ten fe. t of ci a! of the finent coking qual- ;'>•'' I to that found at ConnerKville, Pennsylvania.

'I hm iiiiineiiHe tr.o-t of Ininl, forming, as it does, one oontinuoui co«l U'll. Hiirrounded by line tiiulxT.Hii abundance of water, the best of grazing land, in.. I one of the richwit agricultural sections of Utah, is well peopled with thrifty and industrious citizens.

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Nature has done everything for this section. A railroad has lately been surveyed to within twelve miles of this coal vein, and there is a good down grade from the coal beds to the railroad tracks.

The officers and directors are: John Edwards, president; John C. Robbins, -vice-president; Frank Moore, secretary; Geo. Bushy, treasurer; H. M. Fugate and Frank Henrie.

Messrs. Reilly & Kane, attorneys for these mines, can be communicated with in reference to their value and output, and will make prompt reply, giving in detail facts and figures in connection therewith, and such other information as may be valuable and desirable to capitalists and others.

WENDELL BENSON.

A career that has been as honorable as it has been success- ful is that of Wendell Benson. No man has talked less and accom- plished more. His full, round face and beam- ing eyes bespeak perfect health and an amiable disposition. But there is back of this a staunch, resolute will, a self- mastery and manly courage, a cheerful hope, admirable traits of this quiet, genial and inval- uable citizen.

Born on the rugged shores of Maine, at Fremont (Mt. Desert), Hancock county, March 25, 1857, Mr. Benson is not yet thirty-five years of age. He is the de- scendant of a race of sea-faring men, and his jolly spirits and hearty nature come to him naturally— as a child of the sea. When but a lad he conducted a country store at bis native town, but be soon tired of this and re- moved to Boston, where he engaged in the ship chandlery trade. In 1879 he became connected with C. S. Hutchings of Chicago, and remained in the World's Fnir city six years. Moving to Omaha in 1885, he open- ed a wholesale fish market, out of which he made considerable money, and, getting a little ahead in the world, he embarked in the real estate business, turning several fortunate specu- lations. In November, 1889, he came to Salt Lake City, and, after looking over the town, he set his stakes to build a hotel. He went about bis business so quietly that it was some time before the citizens fully comprehended the importance of the man or his project. It was not until the ground had bten excavated and the walls began to go up that they comprehended the fact that Mr. Benson was building, for this city, one of the best hotels in the West. The majestic monument that now adorns one of the important cor- ners of State street, and which represents an investment of nearly half a million dollars, now known to the traveling public as the " Kuutsfprd Hotel," speaks higher praise to the originator of the project than words. The far- seeing business sagacity of Mr. Benson can in no better way be illustrated than in his selection of the site for this build- ing. At that time State street was without a single important building, except the old theatre, and its future quite uncertain and undetermined. But time is rapidly vindicating the wis- dom of the choice. Mr. Benson and his partners received, as a

bonus for the location of the hotel, ground valued at $84,000, and now worth not less than $150,000.

Though born in Maine, Mr. Benson is a staunch democrat. At the early age of twenty-one, his fellow townsmen recognized his worth as a citizen by electing him selectman and overseer of the poor. Since coming to Utah, Mr. Benson has been so engrossed with business, he having superintended the construc- tion of the hotel, that he had little time to devote to politics. The democratic convention, however, in casting about for the best men, honored Mr. Benson with a nomination to the upper house of the Territorial legislature upon a ticket, which, for the high integrity and sterling character of the candidates, has seldom, if ever been equalled by any convention.

Mr. Benson takes a deep interest in the development of the city and Territory, and is now quietly promoting new enter- prises that promise as much as the Knutsford hotel, which is a

credit to its builders and an- ornament to the city.

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THE DALTON

GOLD MINING

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COMPANY.

It is an accepted fact that the mining inter- ests of any city conduce in the greatest degree to its material and per- manent welfare and Salt Lake is no exception to this rule. As this city is the central point for trade of the Territory it is but natural that all the heavy mining com- panies should be con- centrated here. Among those that bear a pro- minent part in the de- velopment of the mining resources of Utah is the Dalton Gold Mining and Milling Company, with a capital stock of $2,- 500,000, divided into 500,000 shares of five dollars each. The o ffi c e r s are: C. B. Weeks, president ; Frank K. Knox, treasurer; G. F. Dalton.vice-president ond superintendent, and (-. II. Wilbur, secretary. The property owned by the company was dis- covered by Mr. Geo. F. Dalton, after whom the mine was named, a native of Utah, where he was born in 1856. At the age of fourteen years he began to pro- spect and mine, and since that period has

canvassed the entire Territory of Utah and Nevada, meeting with encouraging success and finally culminating in the discov- ery of the Dalton mine. The Dalton claim is 1,050 x 1,500 feet in dimensions and consists of two claims, the " Hardcash" and the " Pearl," into which tunnels have been run, a vein devel- oped 300 feet in length, with a well-defined fissure, having strong crystallization. The vein rock is a lively clear quartz, showing much crystallization throughout and fissures of iron and 'talc. A shipment of ore was made recently that milled $467.00 in gold per ton ; a second shipment showed 82,055.00 gold, and a third shipment $602.00, a sure indication that the owners have "struck it rich." A Huntington mill with plates and con- centrators has been erected near the property, and is now in suc- cessful operation. These claims are situated in Bullion Canyon, close to Marysvale, and are reputed the largest gold mines in the world, and the company will spare no pains nor expense to develop this fact. Although a young man, Mr. Dalton has fully demonstrated his ability in the successes he has hitherto achieved.

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F. SIMON.

The career of Mr. F. Simon, whether reference is made to the gentleman in his capacity of private citizen, public bene- factor or business man, enthusiastic in the creation and pro- motion of means having for their object the growth and de- velopment of the city and Territory he has adopted as his home, is too well known to require exhaustive elaboration. Mr. Simon is a practical man of the world, it might be added, of the orthodox school, who was born thirty-nine years ago in the village of Thorn, and kingdom of Prussia. As he grew in years and observation, he acquired the rudiments of an educa- tion, and secured an experience that probably, more than all else, especially equipped him for the duties of life. Hejwas suc- cessful as a pupil. A student by nature, he never reached that point where he could learn no more, and his classical course at college was begun under auspices singularly feli- citous and promising. Financial reverses, however, put a per- iod to designs fond parents are wont to indulge for ambitious sons, and when but fifteen years of age young Simon landed at Castle Garden, New York, a stranger without friends and withbut little means. For two months he was subjected to hardships and privations, at the expiration of which time he obtained employment in the office of a German journalist. The work there was hard, but he never allowed the severity of the service to affect the faithful discharge of his duties and he constantly grew in favor with his employer. As a result, he soon laid by sufficient means to pay for his transportation to the West, and in 1876, he first arrived in Salt Lake City. At that date the present municipality was pretentious only to a small degree, and the surrounding country but sparsely settled. The conditions were new to Simon, and though anx- ious to accommodate himself to the circumstances, was doubt- less, not slow to realize that desideratum. He was im- pressed with the advantages apparent, and his study then was, as it has since been, how the situation could be im- proved, a problem the solution of which Mr. Simon has been largely instrumental in securing — a problem involv- ing the assimilation of business and social interests throughout the Territory has been brought to a successful issue through the employment of agencies Mr. Simon and others suggested and urged, whereby friction was avoided and harmony was promoted. It might here be stated that he has ever been opposed to the inauguration or con- tinuance of violent measures advocated from time to time by radical elements in various parts of the Terri- tory, and when a move was made to disfranchise the Mor- mon people, he opposed it with all the power at his command, and succeeded in throttling a measure that would have worked irreparable damage to the people and the Territory.

In all particulars and in all respects connected with the welfare of Utah and her people, Mr. Simon has always been one of the most influential of the pioneers in that behalf.

A generous man, he has never grown rich, and though scarcely more than independent, he has been not only the in- spiration to great enterprises, but the man through whoee liberality and public spirit they have been made to crystallize into being. The Chamber of Commerce, indeed, is said to have been of his creation, and each day since its organization has he given the undertaking a large measure of his personal at- tention.

The Utah Loan and Building Association, to-day controlling more than a quarter of a million of dollars capital, is indebted to Mr. Simon for its conception, birth and subsequent growth. For two years he filled the chair of president of the asso- ciation with results advantageous to the trust, and is at present the treasurer of what is "recognized as one of the model organizations of the country." He is also vice-president and one of the stockholders of the Salt Lake Lithographing Com- pany, and head of the firm of Simon Bros., extensive dealers in millinery goods, silks, satins, laces, bijouterie, etc.. also general agents for the Deseret Woolen Mills, and potent factors in the introduction and distribution of their products. In this field of usefulness the Simon Bros, have built up a trade BO large and extended that the capacity of the mills has been enlarged to meet the growing demands.

For a number of years Mr. Simon served as an officer of the Chamber of Commerce, but at the lest election absolutely declined a re-nomination to the presidency, consenting, how- ever, to the universal demand that he retain the chairmanship of the Bureau of Transportation to the end that the work in that direction, already begun, might be continued without interruption. The city press, at his retirement from the presidency, editorially expatiated upon his work, his official acts that were of value to the city, and eloquently voiced the

public regret manifested upon Mr. Simon's withdrawal from active participation in the affairs of the chamber. One of the first acts of the new board, upon being inducted into office, was to order the portrait of Mr. Simon to be hung in a conspic- uous place in the Exchange room of the Chamber.

The most eloquent tribute that admirers and a grateful pub- lic can address to Mr. Simon is, that he is a " self-made man, a suave, dignified and courteous gentleman, typical of the highest form of American citizenship."

BULLION-BECK MINE.

Although the mining interests of Utah, and the West gen- erally, are yet in their infancy, some valuable claims have been discovered and developed of late years, which, from the extreme richness of the ore produced, is a sure indication that the hills and mountains of Utah are teeming with precious metals, and that the day is not far distant when this Territory will be one of the grandest mining camps in all the world. Among the many valuable properties in Utah, there is none, perhaps, of greater importance to the development of the country than the Bullion-Beck mines. They are located in the Tintic mining district, where they were discovered by Mr. John Beck over twenty years ago. The products are gold, silver and lead pro- ducing ore, and have paid ten per cent, on a capital of $4,000,000 for the year 1890. The mines give employment to 500 men, and, in the latter year, the shipments from same amounted to 23,000 tons of ore. The company is provided with all conven- iences necessary to a successful operation of the property, including hoisting works, stores, boarding houses, machine shops, railroad tracks, etc., including an engine of 500-horse power capacity, and machinery and equipments of the most

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approved design and construction. The officers of the com- pany are: M. T. Thatcher, president; John Beck, vice-presi- dent; W. P. Preston, treasurer, and W. J. Bailey, secretary.

Adjoining and contiguous to the Bullion-Beck property, are a number of other rich claims, in which the same company is interested. These include the Caroline, 200 feet square, while to the north of the Beck is the claim of the Crown Point Mining Company, 1,500x200 feet in size, of which John Beck is president, and from which good paying ore is taken in large quantities. The Bullion-Beck Company also own the " Solid Muldoon Group," consisting of eight claims in the same dis- trict. The " Northern Spy " comprising six claims, is another rich property the company is interested in. Hoisting and other necessary machinery have been erected on the latter, and a large number of men are employed. Prior to the erection of the works and the placing of machinery therein, horse power

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was employed, and, with encb crude appliances, the output of the mine was valued at ? 500,000. Since the improvements were made, however, the output has largely increased, and the future prospects of this claim are very bright. The capital is $1,000,000, divided into 100,000 shares of 810 each, and the officers are: A. £. Hyde, president; John Beck, vice-president, and W. S. McCornick, treasurer.

Another valuable property owned by Mr. Beck is the Gov- ernor mine, with an area 200xl,rXK) feet and valued at $ 150,000. The property has two shafts sunk on it of 175 and 132 feet respectively, and is supplied with all the necessary buildings, machinery, etc., for successful operations.

Among other valuable interests for the development of which the public is indebted to Mr. Beck, is the Greaser, a mine adjoining the Northern Spy, the output of which, in gold, silver and copper, represents 8100,000 in value; the Hammers- ville Water Company; the Utah Asphalt and Varnish Com- pany, with a capital stock of 8*2,500,000, and property consisting of 6,060 acres of land, located in Uintah county, by T. A. Walley in 1887, and containing a vein of asphaltum over fifty feet thick, extending nearly fourteen miles. The company, of which Mr. Beck is president, T. A. Walley, vice-president and general manager; Anrelius Miner, secretary, and A. E. Hyde, treasurer, proposes to manufacture varnish, the abundance of raw material, early completion of transportation facilities and

her limits, and to himself and Mr. Hyde almost the entire credit of developing these properties are due. They are men of large and generous enterprise, and will still continue, in a greater measure than ever, to push forward to a successful issue those gigantic enterprises with which they are so closely connected, and which are valuable factors in the material growth and prosperity of the Territory.

LOUIS FRANKLIN KULLAK

was born of German and Irish parentage, on April 30, 1863, in Topeka, Kansas. His father, Hugo Knllak, WHS a carpenter and contractor. Louis F. is the eldest of three children ; went to the public schools of the then frontier town of Topeka until he was thirteen years of age, when his mother, his father hav- ing died when L. F. was only ten years old, with her family moved to California. Louis F. completed his education in the public schools and Sacred Heart College of San Francisco. After graduating, be clerked in various business houses until he entered the law office of Hon. Wm. L. Gill, of San Jose, Cal., where he ntudied law for a year and then entered the real estate and insurance business. For the past six years Mr. K. has been engaged in these lines with marked success, his opera- tions being characterized by shrewdness and good business judgment. Mr. Kullak has traveled all over the West from the

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unsurpassed quality of the asphaltum, justifying the oonclu- HIMIIH of Mr. Heck and others as to the profit to be derived therefrom. The property contains 100 overflowing wells, and the credit for the location and development of thin property IB also due to MeMn. Beck and Walley.

The Ashley Coal Oil, Qilsonite and Mineral Asphalt Com- pany ii (till another enterprise conducted by the Bullion-Beck management, under the executive administration of Mr. Beok. The industry is also located in Uintah county, gives employ- ment to a fore* of fifty men and promise of results of the most •ubiiUntial character and value to the Territory, M also to the company through whom enterprise Urn development it in

Rrogreaa. In addition to the above the company is heavily iterated in deposits of porcelain clay and white fire clay. The latter. located in Utah county, in under the immediate control of MfAxrH. John Beck and A. K. Hyde, and a company i* now ID progress of organization for the manufacture of fire- brick on a large scale. A company ha* also been formed to manufacture (-(unaware from the porcelain clay.

Mr. John Beok. by whom the Hullion-lWk property was discovered, is a native of Germany, having been born in~l-l< He has resided in and been thoroughly idnntifiml with Utah for t wenty ••even yearn, practically engaged in mining and proe- pecting. He is, perhaps, more largely interested in mining proper! if* throughout the Territory than any other man within

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Mexican line to the British possessions, and says Utah, with her untold resources, offers more inducements for the young man seeking a western home than any state or territory between the oceans. He baa erected several business blocks in the city and has always bad the interest and wellfare of Salt Lake at heart. He also owns valuable mining interests in Idaho and Big Cottonwooil in Suit Luke county. Mr. Kullak is a repre- sentative young man of I 'tali, and nil predict for him a bright future, for his influence will yet be felt in the Territory. 1 !•• m a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Stock and iieal Estate Exchange.

CHA8. B. WEEKS.

Although Mr. Chan. II. Weeks baa been in Utah a compara- tively brief while, evidences accumulate to prove that he is a valuable acquisition to the territory. He was born in Nile roimly, III., during IHifl. and received hi* education in the public schools of Chicago. Afterward he studied law with the well-known attorneys, Osborn A Thompson, of the latter city, and was admitted to the bar. For mor.. than twenty yean he practiced before the highest courts of Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and California, finally locating in Salt Lake, when his eminent qualifications soon secured for him a position of enviable prominence. Previous to locating in Utah (it might

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here be interpolated), he was the attorney of Stafford county, Kanaas, for four years, and during the civil war was a member of the union army, being captured at Harper's Ferry, but was paroled and sent to Camp Douglas until he could be exchanged. In May, 1865, he resigned with the rank of second lieutenant and resumed the discharge of his duties as a citizen.

The Mary Mining Company of Utah, with headquarters in Salt Lake, has a capital of 81,250,000 divided into shares of 250,- 000 at $5 each. The mines are situated in the Ohio mining district near Marysvale, and are among the richest in the world. Mr. Weeks was selected as the company's first secretary, and is also president of the Dalton Gold Mining Company mentioned at some length in another column of this work.

The Mary mining claim is a silver bearing quartz lode, on which developments have been made that show ore of medium grades in large quantities for the reduction of which works have already been erected on the grounds and the process of active development has been commenced in a most practical manner. Mr. Weeks is a man of fertile resources with the capacity of adapting himself to all circumstances, and the com- pany which h« represents is fortunate in having so able a man at its helm. The additional knowledge that he possesses on all law points enhances his value to the company, as also to those who are interested in the progress making in the mineral and other resources of the Territory.

THOMPSON AND WEIGEL.

The demands of modern civilization have created a taste for the luxurious and beautiful, and in consequence, a higher grade of fhe works of art are required. In no particular class is this

more'noticeable, than in the science of architect- ure. The many handsome public buildings with which Salt Lake City is adorned, speak volumes for the men who drew the plans, and although the firm of Thompson & Weigel have been in Salt Lake but two years, it has been demonstrated Jthat the members are ' artists of splendid ability. The composition of the firm is C. 8. Thompson and S. J. Weigel. Mr. Thompson is anative of C. 8. THOMPSON. Massachusetts, but has

been in the West for some

time, and came to the Territory from Garden City, Kansas, where he attained to distinguished prominence in his art. Mr. Wiegel was born in the State of New York, and came to Salt Lake from Hastings, Nebraska. His reputation as an architect of the modern school had preceded him to this city, and his services have been in constant demand ever since his advent into Utah. Among the large number of public buildings and private residences that have been erected on plans prepared by this firm are the Agricultural College at Logan, the Reed Hotel at Ogden; City Hall and Pyner, Mabien and Martin three-story block at Provo, and various others, including resi- dences and public buildings at Salt Lake. The Morlan block, Telleride building and the McKinin's block, all handsome structures that were built under their direction. They have also drawn designs for a four-story apartment house 75x90 feet, to be constructed east of the Knutsford hotel, also for a four- story structure, 70x90 feet, for E. M. Biggs, on State road, a terrace building for the same gentlemen on Main street and Sixth Street South, one for J. A. Morlan, 66 feet front, and one for J. H. Baldwin, 161 feet front; all pressed brick fronts, in same neighborhood. They are adepts in their line and can be depended upon to furnish the most desirable plans for any and all buildings. Socially they are clever gentlemen and fully identified with the interests of the city and Territory.

standing and marked reputation entitles them to mention is that Rigby Brothers, which was established a little over a year ago at 422 and 424 South West Temple street. This institution is stocked to overflowing with all kinds and grades of staple and fancy groceries, including condiments of foreign importa- tion besides country produce, cigars, tobacco, wood and willow ware. Here you can also find the choicest steaks, juiciest roasts, sweetests cutlets at prices extremely low.

Although the showing of this establishment is exceedingly creditable to the city of Salt Lake. Personally Messrs. C. 8. and Jno. Rigby are gentlemen noted for their many sterling business qualities and gentlemen possessing a host of friends and patrons.

THE ENTERPRISE HOTEL.

Among the hotels in Salt Lake City that claim distinction in the matter of popularity, the Enterprise ranks as a general favorite. It was opened in March, 1890, by the present proprietor, who has been engaged in the business for many years; is situated in the heart of the business portion of the city, it occupies a three-story building, 85x85 feet in dimen-

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There is no more important factor in the commercial and industrial growth of the city, and no more unerring index or text by which to judge of its enterprise, than the grocery and meat trade. Among the houses whose extended trade, high

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sions and contains sixty-five rooms, which have been newly furnished throughout. The house is conducted on the Euro- pean plan, and supplied with all modern conveniences for the accomodation of the public. It is well ventilated, easy of access, and the sleeping rooms are light, airy and cheerful. A first-class restaurant is connected with the house which furnishes luxurious meals at the most reasonable rates. The proprietor, Mr.^F. If. Russell, has been in Utah ever since 1869, engaged in various enterprises, such as mining, lumber, etc. As a landlord, he is popular with the traveling public, and under his management the ENTERPRISE is attaining a success that can only be measured by its capacity to accommo- date the public.

LOMBARD INVESTMENT COMPANY.

To an Eastern investor who desires a higher rate of interest than he can command on securities of a local nature, the West offers an attractive field. The Lombard Investment Company, whose office is in the Emporium Building, corner First South and Main streets, was organized ten years ago, and has recently increased its capital to $4,000,000, realized the fact that it was to their interest to open an office in this country, and that Salt Lake City was the most desirable point. The company located here in May, 1889, readv for business. It is one of the strangest and most conservative in the United States, and since its advent into the city, it has aided materially in the development of both the Territory and Salt Lake. The Lombard Company, since it began operations here has placed a very considerable sum of money on realty, not only in the city, but on improved farms through Utah and Southern Idaho. The capital is ample; applications for loans are treated with prompt attention, and money is loaned without any unnecessary" red tape" delay.

The manager of the Utah branch, Mr. W. H. Dais, has been with the company for several years.

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NICHOLAS GROESBECK AND SONS.

Among the earliest and most distinguished of the pioneers who lo- cated in Utah, and was identified with its sub- sequent progress and prosperity, was Nicholas (i. Groesbeck, deceased. Mr. Oroesbeck was born in Rensselaer Connty, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1819. In 1839 be migrated to Spring- Held, 111., where he mar- ried Miss E i z a b e t h Thompson and engaged in a general speculating business, in which he accumulated quite a snug little fortune. Feel- ing confident at this time of greater possibilities in the West, he joined a large train and party leaving Springfield, 111., for Utah, and after weary days of travel and threat- ening dangers, they reached the town of Flor- ence, Neb., whence after a fortnights sojonrn.they again proceeded on their way, arriving safely at their destination in Oc- tober, and encamping nponthe very spot where the magnificant and costly strncture built by Mr. Oroesbeck, and known as the Wasatch block, now stands. After taking up his abode in his new and beautiful land, i Mr. Groeebeck soon became deeply in- terested and took an active part in many movements and enter- prises designed to build up the country. During the winter of 1856 and

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1857 a large company was formed known as the /,. X. Co., iu the organ- isation of which Mr. Orosbeck was promin- ent, and on March *>, 1857, he started east for the purpose of making purchases for the com- pany. Upon his return in the fall of 1H57. with a heavy stock of merchan- dise, he enconntered op- position from Gen. John- ston, commanding the Nut i< mill troops at Platt's bridge. The goods were temporarily detained and iu the following spring Mr. Grpesbeck with others residing at a point north of 1'tnli county removed to the present site of Spring ville. Soon after the merchandise detained at Flatt's bridge was re- stored and Mr. Groes- beek opened a general merchandise store at Springville, which busi- ness he maintained until the spring of 1863, when he sold out his interest to N. H. Oroesbeck. his eldest son. Following its disposition, he left Utah on a specific mission t» Knrope.where he remain- ed for over a year, when he was forced to return on account of failing health, and in 1869 and l-Oi furnished capital for the development and opening up of the fam- ous Flag Staff mine, which afterwards proved to be one of the greatest producers in the Terri-

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tory, and which was sold to an English company in 1871 for half a million dollars, Mr. Groesbeck going to Europe to com- plete the negotiations. Upon his return to Salt Lake City, he

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erected the Wasatch Building and made other investments that added to the material resources and metropolitan appear- ance of the municipality.

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respectively. Each has a predilection for mining industries and their ventures and speculations thus far have been attended with uniform success and prosperity. They are heavily inter-

S. 8. (iKOESHEOK.

Mr. Groesbeck died June 29, 1884, his wife, Elizabeth Groes- beck dying on the 28th of the preceding December. His life was characterized by energy, perseverance, sterling integrity and unselfish charity; whose conduct in the relations of parent, husband and friend exemplified to the fullest limit, that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin.

The surviving eons, who are now associated together in business, under the firm name of Groesbeck Bros., are as fol- lows: Nicholas II. Groesbeck, born at Springfield, 111., in 1842; William Groesbeck, born at Springfield, 111., in 1847;

JOSEPH 8. GUOESBECK.

ested, in fact control the Victor Gold and Silver Mining Co., a corporation formed under the laws of Utah, in 1883, with a capital stock of $2,500,000, aonsistingof 1,000,000 shares, valued at $2.50 per share for the purpose of opening up and fully de- veloping what are known as the " Victor," " Red Rose" and " Brazil" claims, situated in the Tintic mining district, now known the world over for its rich fields of mineral. Mr. Wm. Groesbeck is president of the company, John Groesbeck vice- president and Hiram Groesbeck, secretary and treasurer, who with N. H. and Samuel Groesbeck form the board of directors.

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In the prospecting of these claims, they have sunk a shaft :i.~>n feet anil laid bare a vein of rich ore from 1 to 8 feet, an assay of which shows 25 per cent, lead and from 40 to 500 oz. of silver; also traces of gold. This discovery, it may be added, is an extension of the famous Mammoth mine that has yielded handsomely for years and on the same line with that of the Cen- tennial Kureka, a valuable producer. The Victor is near Silver City, and 840,000 have been expended in improving it with prospects for the future so promising, that no doubt exists bat that it will become one of the richest in the territory. The York mine in the West Mountain mining district, is the proper- ty of John Groeabeck, D. H. McAllister and W. li. Andrews being also part owners. In area it is liiHixl.xxi feet, and was discovered and patented in 1879 by James Chipman, who ex- tracted $80,000 worth of ore before parting with it to the present owners. The latter have made improvements on the ground, including the sinking of a shaft to the depth of 500 feet, from which drifts have been run in different directions, amounting in all to 2,000 feet, exposing ore in a vein from 2 to 6 feet that assays 15 oz. silver, 50 per cent, lead and 1 per cent, gold. The mine is located within two miles of the railroad, with every facility for the convenient and rapid handling of large shipments of ore.

The Messrs. Groesbeck are also officers and practically the sole owners of the mining property controlled by the Missoula Placer Mining Co., consisting of 240 acres of hydraulic placer mines, situated in (Juartz Creek, Missoula County, Montana. It was discovered in 1870, and has since been constantly worked, yielding its owners more than $500,000 in gold.

The water for the successful working of the mine is con- veyed a distance of 1,400 feet, supplying two large Humes each 2,500 feet long, 5 feet wide and proportionally deep, affording great pressure for washing the ore, as well as dumping the debris into the Missoula river near by. The mine grows richer as the work progresses and the opinion obtains that its equal as a producing placer mine has never been discovered in the mineral districts of the west. The country roundabout the mine is well watered and timbered. The company operates its own saw mill, manufacturing the lumber required for build- ings and other purposes at the mines.

The development of this mine, as well as the " Victor," the " York," and several others not mentioned herein, are due di- rectly to the enterpruing and speculative spirit of the Groes- beok Bros., who are the largest property and mine owners of Utah; men of the most solid and substantial character, and typical representatives of the class whose united work has made the West what it is today.

work and control some of the greatest dividend paying shares owned in Utah, and all of which are growing in magnitude and importance daily under his able supervision, while as vice- president of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange his services are in- dispensable. In addition to his holdings in Utah, he is preei-

NICHOLAS TREWEEK.

Utah numbers among her men of wealth and prominence, many who once occupied positions in life comparatively obscure who are now at the head of her greatest financial institutions, iiml looked up to as eminent examples of what men of ability, integrity and reliability can accompliHli. The life of Mr. Nich- olii* Treweek, vice-president of the Halt Lake Stock Exchange, is an illustration, his remarkable career having placed him in the front ranks of self-made men. Karly in life Mr. Treweek was thrown upon his own resources, and while yet a mere boy living in England, the land of his nativity, received his first experience as a miner. The surroundings, however, were such as to iiiHpirn a desire for change, and he came to America to pursue bis chosen life work, unrestrained, ami unimpeded. Since his arrival, many of the experts connected with Ins ,\.-\.-\ "pint-tit of NiiiiuN and mining industries have ooonred in Utah,

l in I tah too has his suooeM been secured and his prosperity ed Mr. Treweek not only holds extensive individual rions but is closely identified with tin- mining imliiHtry of Utah where he has for years held positions of trust mid re- sponsibility in the management and wile of xplendid mining properties, besides acting as expert for prospective purchasers who always placed implicit reliance upon lux judgment in esti- mating ciainiH. extant of deposits, etc. In litigation where •inmtions connected on the running interests have arisen. IUH testimony has been accepted as conclusive, and in private deals his Bilricf in rarely overruled. The universal confidence mani- fested in bis business aagacity. judgment, abilities and methodH has bean frequently exprnscd in his promotion to otlicial po- sition in control of very extensive'oorporate intercut*. Foremost among these ia that of vice president and general manner of :iiance mining company, president of tl • M i ' '• i.-f mining company and president of the Congo mining company. lie Kino hold* Inrge interests in the Addenda, Crescent, Apex and Clara mining companies, representative corporations that

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dent of the Altures Irrigation company incorporated for the purpose of constructing a 600 foot dam on Snake river in Cassia and Logan counties, Dakota, by which that stream will be raised thirty-seven feet, thereby rendering 100,000 acres of land as homes for at least 25,000 people. The company has a capital stock of $ 1,000,000, divided into 10,000 shares.

Mr. Treweek is yet in the prime of life, with a full measure of vital force essential to the highest achievement. A man of untlinching determination, indefatigable, constant and self- reliant, he never doubts his ability to accomplish the task be undertakes. Independent of his relations to the mining indus- try of Utah, Mr. Treweek occupies an exalted position in all the departments of life, and is esteemed not more for the pos- session of splendid abilities, than for the kindly sympathy and generous nature he possesses and manifests.

ELECTRIC ICE CREAM PARLORS.

\liout one year ago two gentlemen and a lady conceived the id.-,-, "f manufacturing ice cream by electricity. The result was the opening of the Electric Ice Cream Parlors at 64 South Main street. They employ electric power altogether in the manufacture, and do a general wholesale business, making n specialty of ice cream, also confection* for private suppers, P nl. lie banquets, etc., and the firm is quoted as among the most excellent caterers in the country.

The firm occupies a large two-story and basement build- ing, supplied with all modern appliances necessary for the rapid work required, nnd a force of seven assistants. In ad- dition to the wholesale business, the firm has elegantly fitted up reception rooms, ice cream parlors, etc., (or the conven- ience of tin- puliln-. which are most fashionable resorts. The ineinberH of the linn. .1. M. Kxntnn, Mrs. M. K. Knslon. and H. \V. llrown, have resided in Utah from seven to fourteen years and are prominent business citiiens. Mr. .1. M. Kasttin is president c.f the Kmery County Hank, at Price, Utah, and is also connected with many other enterprises throughout the Territory The indimtry managed by Mr. Eaaton's aa*o- ciates, Mrs. M. K. Kaston and H. W, Brown, is a remarkable one in many respect*.

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MATTHEW WHITE.

Matthew White was born in New York, February 16, 1834. He began business for himself in Philadelphia when 16 years old. In 1857 he constructed in New York city the largest malt house then known in this country or Europe, and continued in this business uninteruptedly for thirty-two years. He came to Great Salt Lake City August 30, 1866, as captain and sole owner, with a train of twenty-eight wagons, thirty-four men and 109 animals, making the quickest trip known from the "River" to the city, being only forty-six days; and as Govern- or Young said, as he reviewed the train standing in Main street, "that is the best looking outfit that ever came in this alley."

Mr. White had eighty- four tons of general mer- chandise and opened a wholesale store on Sec- ond South, near Main street. Business was very much depressed, being just after the close of the war, and that season over thirty steamers with goods ar- rived at Fort Benton. Mr. White returned to New York, leaving his goods with Ross & Bar- rett, taking his train back to Nebraska where he sold it. During the years '66 and '67 he made five trips across the plains, meeting all kinds of adventure, having had both feet frozen and swiming Bitter creek. He came to Utah in the autumn of 1889, to reside permanently. He purchased, from differ- ent sources over 700 acres on the east shore of the Great Salt Lake, the property now known is Saltair Beach. Mr. White has designed and had built a " Marine Villa," the most unique and complete house ever seen : square outside, octagon inside; one- story outside, two and three inside. Here he resides, having fruit trees and vegetables within the reach of the spray of the brinest sheet of water in the known world.

What "Tuxedo" is to

New Jersey and New York, or " Lennox" to the New England States, " Saltair" will be to this inter-mountain region.

During the summer of 1891, "The Saltair Beach Company." was incorporated with a capital of $260,000, Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon, president. The development began with platting one tenth of the property on the north and connected by the Sal- tair boulevard with the city in a straight, level drive-way, 132 feet wide and only thirteen miles from the lake to Main street. The Saltair Beach property extends more than two miles along the shore, and with a steam railway and an electric car line now in process of construction the transportation will be convenient and continuous.

The improvements contemplated at Saltair Beach are: a pier half a mile long, with bathing, boating and other facilities con- nected therewith; a club house and casino for resident prop- erty owners, open all the year; a hotel for tourists and sum- mer visitors, and a sanitarium, within forty acres, one third of which comprises a lake supplied by springs of hot sulphur and salt water. Invalids will find the best climatic and sani- tary position in the world with a genial, buoyant atmosphere day and night, and the most picturesque views of mountain scenery, with the full extent of the grand Inland Sea and its magnificent sunsets.

About three hundred acres of the Saltair Beach property will be set aside as a park, and lots of any size wanted will be sold for suburban residences with restriction that no fences be allowed. The Saltair property is situated on immense shale beds, and this material makes the" most perfect roads and walks that can be imagined. The Beach at Saltair is pure white oolitic sand, so smooth and hard that driving on it makes but little impression. The managing director of the Saltair Beach Company is Matthew White.

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TAYLOR BROTHERS.

In Salt Lake City one of the most trusted and highly respected firms is that of Taylor Bros., at 66 S. Main street. The firm was established in 1888, and is composed of Frank Y. and M. W. Taylor, both natives of Utah. They do a gen- eral real estate and loan business, in which they handle some of the fin- est property in the city, being also agents for the celebrated and at- tractive capitol hill property, situated around the capitol grounds, one of the most eligible building sites for residence purposes in the city. This fine body of ground occu- pies a high elevation, and has recently been granted water privileges by the extendsion of the mains thereto. Another inducement is offered by the extension of the tracks of the electric road to the property, a franchise having been granted for that pur,- pose. In addition to these the firm handle the Woodmausee and South-Belmont addi- tions, both within the city limits, near Lib- erty Park, also on the line of the electric rail- way. These properties command a fine view of the city, and are very eligible and attractive, aspecially for residence sites. They also have listed an area of valua- ble inside business property, and make a specialty of hand- ling larger pieces of property than most agents are thereby able to furnish acreage lots when so desired. They can also supply property in any quantity and at all prices to suit the will, convenience and pocket-book of investors.

Mr. M. W. Taylor was for many years city assessor and col- lector, a position he held until the election of the Liberal ticket.

Conducted as the business of Taylor Bros, is, on the broad plane of business honor, its future is assured. The gentlemen are thoroughly reliable and all business entrusted to them will be treated with judgment and promptly attended to.

CHARLES OLSEN'S BAKERY AND CONFEC- TIONERY STORE.

If there is any one thing more than another that is of im- portance to the average citizen, it is to know where to get the best the bakery affords and at moderate prices. The above is the most popular bakery in the city, where the hungry wayfarer may obtain the most wholesome of bread- stuff and delicate pastries. Mr. Olsen, the proprietor, also

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caters to balls, banquets, etc., and supplies those delicious edibles always desirable on snch occasions.

The department devoted to baking, where all the differ- ent kinds of bread and pastries are mixed and baked, is un- der the careful personal supervision of the proprietor, Mr. Chas. Olsen, who is a gentleman that has gained an emi- nence in the mercantile arena only attained by the strictest adherence to honest business principles, coupled with enter- prising yet careful business methods. He is looked upon as one of our representatives merchants.

Mr. Olsen also handles all kinds of tropical fruits and confections and soda water, etc.

JAMES F. WOODMAN

In reviewing the lives of Utah's great men, es- pecially those who have achieved distinction as successful mining spe- culators, it is with pleas- are that reference is made to the name of Mr. James F. Woodman, of Salt Lake City, and one of the wealthiest and most popular mining men in the Territory. He may well be called the pioneer miner of Utah, for that industry was yet in its infancy when he reached the Territory early in the year 1865. His successful ventures and operations in almost every mining district of importance in the Territory since that time, are well known. Not only has he brought to light, by personal pro- •peoting, some of the nchest and most exten- sive deposits, but ban been instrumental to a large degree in further- ing the development, and intensifying the interest taken by capitalists in this Territory. Mr. Wood- man's mining career be- gan in 1HU7, in the famous California gold field. 1 1 •• remained in that State for fteven years, thence removing to Virginia City, Nevada, where he met Capt J. M. Day, an explorer well known throughout the West. About 1H64 the discovery of valuable oil wells near Bear Kiver WM reported, and Mewrs. Woodman and Day left for Utah tc make investigations, but

without success, and continued on to 1'iihranagate, then thought to be a part of Utah, where betook an active pxrt in forming what ii known as Lincoln count). Neva.la, with Ililm on comity seat. Mr. WoodoUB WMted the wcon.! |iom.e ever )>uilt in the valley, following which time there has sprung up a well settled section of country. After remaining there for a time he came to Bait Lake City, but located in the Little Cot-

tonwiNHl mining ilititrict, where be discovered the fan H

Kinina mill-. » rich and extensive lodge of ore, from which million* of Collars have since been made, lie immediately sold a small interest in the cliiini to Walker Uroe., of Halt Lake City, mnl work in the mine began. He retained control of the prop wty until 1*7", when he sold the balance of his internet to Warren Hnwey for a large sum of money, and left I 'tali, only .rn, howev«r, in 1*7:.. to continue hi* mining exploit^ From tliHt tune until now Mr. Woodman has been an active and vigorous operator in all that pertains to the mining inter- act* of UUb. He is not only a large stockholder in many of the

richest and most extensively worked mines of the Territory, but holds important offices in the corporations controlling them. Besides this, be is deeply interested in a large number of undeveloped claims in various prominent districts, which promise, when work is commenced and ore taken out, to yield vast mineral treasures and fully double the present produc- tion of the Territory. He is one of the directors of the Hot Springs Kapid Transit Co.; of the Centennial Eureka Mining Co.; of the Salt Laka City Loan & Trust Co.; of the 1'ark City National Bank; also principal stockholder in the Cane Spring Gold Mining Co., and other leading enterprises which have been the means of elevating the City of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah to the advanced positions they now occupy.

It is due to the meritorious work of such men as Mr. Wood- man that Utah is no— regarded by the country at large, as the

most promising and pro- fitable place for the in- vestment of capital, and the most desirable place for settlers of all classes to locate That the im- mense and varied resour- ces known to exist within the Territory should be brought forth that their intrinsic value may be utilixed, is of vital and essential importance to the public welfare. To inaugurate the ctupeu- dotis projects and move- ments necessary to do this, requires the service and aid of men of iron energy, indomitable per- severance, sterling in- tegrity and strict busi- ness sagacity. These rare qualities have been bodied forth in the lives and efforts of the men who have accomplished the transformation the Territory has already undergone, and the men who have faithfully stood liy the Territory in the years of toil and adver- sity, are still in the fill vigor of manhood, pre- pared and willing to lead the way on to greater advancements.

W. W. CHISHOLM.

Oat of the heterogene- ous swarm that spread over the intermountain country in search of wealth during the yesrs following the gold excite- ment in California, few men have had a more successful career than W. W. Chisholm. treas- urer of the Centen- nial Ktireka Mining Company. Morn at Hazel Green, (irant county, Wisconsin, June •-'<>. 1842, he first came west in 1864, and. after a brief stay at Virginin City, removed to Utah, where IIP has since resided. One of the most active and energetic mining operator* in the Territory, hie practical experience as a trained miner enabled him to become one of the original owners of the Emma mine, a property that has attracted greater attention on the I/on. Ion Exchange than any mine in the western country, and which was afterward sold to an English syndicate for a fabulous sum. The same practical knowledge which turned a " big profit " out of t he Kmma mine, U.l Mr Climholm to conclude that tlie Tintie mining district wae destined to become one of the great mining ramps of the Weet, and good judgment to direct hi* becoming a large owner in the Centennial Kureka mine, a pro|*»rty now oonHid- er«d a veritable bonanza to itn owner*, and with hut two rival in the Territory the famous Ontario and the I'.ullion P.. ck. Mr. Chisholra's SUCMM in all other ventures has prompte

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him to develop new mines, and, to-day, he is interested in every mining camp of any importance in Utah, being actively engaged in other enterprises as well. He is president of the Cain Springs Mining Company, a director in the Sunset Mining Company, secretary and treasurer of Staker Mining Company, and vice-president of one of Salt Lake City's most reliable banking houses — the Bank of Commerce; also a director in the First National Bank of Park City, and director of the Salt Lake Valley Loan and Trust Company.

In this review of one of Utah's representative citizens, it is a pleasure to accord to W. W. Chisholm a place in the front rank of the successful miners of the (Ireat West. He is thor- oughly informed on all points pertaining to the mining industry of the country; anxious to see the country's resources fully developed, and will gladly furnish any in- formation desired by prospective investors.

THE VALLEY HOUSE.

People traveling with their families and solici- tous to secure comforta- ble quarters, upon reaching the city are more than gratified when quiet accommodations and that freedom not to be found at the larger and more public hotels of a metropolis are placed at their disposal. Those visiting Salt Lake and desirous of quarters of this kind are recom- mended to register at the Valley House, of which Geo. W. Carter is proprietor, and in the management of which he is assisted by his estimable wife, a lady who makes it a rule to take special care of the lady and children guests. That she succeeds is evidenced by the fact that a number of the best families of the city have made the Valley House their home for years. The hotel is most conveniently situated on one of the best corners in the city, oppos- ite the celebrated Mormon Tabernacle and Temple Square and affording a fine view of the magnificent buildings therein. Two lines of electric cars pass the doors and generally the bouse is first-class in every respect. The rooms are large and airy, well furnished and ventilated, and provided with every modern convenience, while the table furnishes the most toothsome of substantial and luxuries to be found in the mar- kets. The delightful situation, home-like location in the midst of a grove of trees, its charming surroundings, including well- kept lawns, cosy cottage attachments for the special conven- ience of families, and other attractive features have acquired for the Valley House an extended reputation and a patronage that is only limited by the capacity of the house itself. The clerks and attendants are polite and attentive to the wants of guests, and the genial landlord, assisted by his amiable and ac- complished wife, lend their presence and efforts to the enter- tainment and hospitality of those who are fortunate in becom- ing guests.

SOLOMON BHOTHEES.

Few of the business houses of Salt Lake can advance so many claims to public notice and favor as the one whose name stands at the head of this article. The age of this, the high standing which it has always maintained in the mercantile

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world, the great reputation it bears all over the West, as well as the magnitude of its business operations, all unite to render it eminently deserving of the highest commendation in the pages as a work devoted to an impartial presentation of the advanf- tages of Salt Lake in a commercial and industrial point of view. This house has had a most creditable history and prosperous career. For more than twenty years the Solomon Bros, Alfred and James, have been engaged in the business of wholesale dealers and manufacturers of boots and shoes at 70 South East Street. In that time they have built up one of the finest trades of any house of the city. They occupy a commodious two story building for a factory and salesroom, which is filled

with choice goods in their line. The factory gives employment to forty hands, who are constantly employed. Their pay-roll will in consequence amount to a large sum annually and is one of the largest of any house in the city. They carry an average stock of 825,000 and their annual sales range from 860,000 to $75,000. They sell goods through- out Utah, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona, and their trade is con- stantly increasing, as the character of the goods turned out by the firm are of such an ex- cellent quality as to be constantly in demand all over the wide ranches of the territory in which they are sold. The Sol- omon brothers came to Salt Lake with th« pion- eers of 1847, and have been continuous resi- dents ever since. When they landed on the pres- ent site of Salt Lake City, Mr. James Solomon had wealth to the amount of just one pen- ny, which he still retains in memory of old times. He says, to use his own language, "I rub it when I get short and my courage comes back again." He can now, however, count his dol- lars instead of pennies, all of which he has earned by hard labor and diligence through thirty-four years of steady applica- tion to business. Alfred Solomon is a Bishop of the Mormon church in the twenty-second ward, and has always been one of the most prominent members of the same. Alfred, who is the youngest of the brothers, was marshall and chief of police of the city for four years, up to the advent of the liberal party into power, last year, and during all his official career was an honest, conscientious man, and a gallant officer. He is uni- versally esteemed and respected by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance, and recognized as a man of ability in com- mercial circles. Both the brothers are largely interested in realty, consisting of business property in the city and farms adjacent thereto. Some of these farms are worth large sums of money, the brothers having been offered from $500 to $1000 per acre for the same. They however refused the offer, believing that Salt Lake and Utah have a wonderful future before them, and are therefore willing to trust for greater rewards when the development of the city and territory shall be more fully ac- complished. The Solomon brothers are public-spirited, liberal and enterprising men, standing deservedly high, both as mer- chants and citizens. As a firm they add greatly to the building up of the city's interest and deserve classification among the leading commercial and industrial enterprises of Salt Lake and Utah.

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A. L. WILLIAMS.

The subject of this sketch, A. L. Williams, was recently made the central figure of a hotly contested political campaign, and, to his credit, be it said, he came oat unscathed. While a democrat in national politics, Mr. Williams, in Utah, has acted with the liberals, ami in his adherence to the party, he has been a steady and active leader. When the local democrats organ- -z«d in IN'JO, they were anxious to secure his support, and tendered him the nomination of county collector. He re- fused the tender, how- ever, and was nominated by the liberals by ac- clamation. His popu- larity was so great that many proposed candi- dates withdrew from the field and allowed Mr. Williams the nomination for the best office at the disposal of the conven- tion, without an oppos- ing vote. The republi- cans nominated the most popular man in their party.and theMeruocrate cast about for a strong man to beat Mr. Wil- liams, and after a bitter and exciting campaign, during which the char- acter of the liberal can- didate was attacked at every point, he amply vindicated himself by forcing his assailants to make ample apology .anil by a plurality of l,Ut«7 in the city, and 560 in the county. But after his splendid triumph at the polls, he was denied the office on a legal technic- ality. His popularity, however, will no doubt lead him forward to still further conquests.

Born at Bangor, Wales, September 13, 184'.), he came to Utah in 1878, and has since been continually engaged in the coal business, in the pursuit of which he has built a trade that amounts to half a million dollars annually. He has also given substantial support to mining industries, and is interested in the development "f some valuable properties in Bingham, Dngway, an. I Clifton mining districts; president of the Union Pacific Mining Company, nt Knreka. also of the Vispatian mine in the West Mountain mining district, at Hingham. and from which has been extracted ore of the value of $8,000 per month. This latter mine gives employment to fifteen men and the average pay-roll is |:i,(«Hl per month. He is also largely interested in city and county real estate.

Mr. Williams' fine social nature and hearty geniality make him a host of friends, and for his valuable party services while a resident of Illinois, he was selected as a delegate to the national convention which nominated Samuel J. Tilden for the presidency. The liberals of Utah appreciating these good qualities elected htm to the Territorial legislature, and he par- ticipated in th« debate* upon many important bills passed by that body in the year 1800;

In bnef, Mr. Williams has the qualities of mind and heart which endear him to all that know him.

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THE MOUNTAIN ICE 8t COLD STORAGE COMPANY.

Within a comparatively recent period Mr. John Heil, Jr., a representative member of commercial circles of Salt Lake City , laid the foundation for an enterprise which has sine* been

incorporated under the name and style of " The Mountain Ice .\ Cold Storage Company," with Mr. Heil as president and Will- iam K. Mesick, secretary and treasurer. The purposes of the company are fully set forth in its corporate title, and the facil- ities and equipments necessary to a successful and prosperous

conduct of operations are complete and adapt- ive.

The premises occupied consist of two commo- dious and comprehen- sively appointed build- ings," each 150x100 feet in dimensions, and in every particular speci- ally suited to the re- quirements of the ser- vice to which they are severally devoted. The buildings are located at 864 South Third St. West, convenient to business and supplied with unsurpassed ship- ping accommodations, the office being situa- ted at 56 East Second South Street, hand- somely furnished and designed for the rapid transaction of business. The manufacturing plant is equipped with all modern machinery for the dispersion of cold.air equally through- out the storage ware- house and for the man- ufacture of ice, with a capacity for the latter of 100 tons daily. This, with the natural ice ob- tained from Parley Canon, is suflicient to meet the present de- mands. A forceof forty- five capable and exper- ienced operatives are kept steadily in the company's service, and a business of more than $100,000 is annu- ally disposed of. The plant repn'st'iits an in vestment approximating

a quarter of a million dollars, and under the management of men so universally known and esteemed as Messrs. Heil and Mveick, has attained to a ftoiit rank among the industries of rtah and the West.

ANGLO- AMERICAN SHIRT FACTORY.

The industries of Salt Lake City are fully as varied as in any city in the country, and many of them have attaint- il a magni- tude far in excess of the most sanguine anticipations of their originators. Among these, which stand forth as illustration* of ih- foregoing statement, none are more prominent tlinn the Anglo-American Shirt Manufactory, with office and factory at ti'2 and i'.:i Commercial block.

The business was establi»lipd by Mrs. (>. W. Snell. Aug. ""tli. 1H90, and at onoe attracted the attention and patronage of the most prominent citizens and business men of Salt 1 jike and the Territory, not only retaining rm-tomers who first fav- ored the institution, but rapidly acquiring new patrons. The es- tablishment occnpiesfonr large rooms in the Commercial block, and employs twenty-one ladies.who are kept constantly oecu pied

Mrs. Soell manage* the business with signal ability, giving cloee attention to the workmanship an. I lit of all articles which leave her factory. Her trade, which annually amounts to thousands of dollars, extends throughout Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Oregon.

This is the only f.ictorj (.f tins kind in the Territory, ami the success with which it has met. and its Urge and rapidly growing patronage is an evidence of the character of it* work, and the sutwfactioii accorded it

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OFFICIALS OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, COUNTY AND CITY OF SALT LAKE AND PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE SALT LAKE CITY BAR.

HON. A. L. THOMAS.

The history of a nation is nothing more than a history of the individuals composing it, and as they are characterized by loftier or lower ideals, or actuated by the spirit of ambition or indifference, so it is with the State. The history of the West is the best illustration of this fact that can be

There is no man who bears a higher or better name, and as a supporter of and contributor to the wealth and prosperity of Salt Lake and Utah, there is no one who is doing more than Governor Thomas.

HON. CHAS. S. ZANE.

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asked for. It is univer- sally acknowledged that nowhere in the world has greater, or more substantial progress been made than in the mountain region, of which Salt Lake City is the commercial and intellectual center. Her leading citizens are, for the most part, men of unequalled force of character and ability, and it is due to the sen- timent and concentra- tion here of their ener- gies, that her proud lead has been achieved and IH now maintained. We refer to Hon. A. L. Thomas, Governor of Utah, as the best in- stance of a true leader in the West that can be chosen. Governor Thomas was born in Chicago, Illinois, thirty- nine years ago, and re- ceived his education in the public schools of Pittsburg, Pennsylva- nia. He has been ident- ified with the public in- terests of Utah and oc- cupied positions of offi- cial trust ever since 1879. In that year he was chosen Secretary of the Territory and held the position for eight years. From 1887 to 1889 he was a member of the Utah Commission, and was appointed Gov- ernor in the latter year by President Harrison. Prior to this, in 1880, he was acting-Governor during one-half the term of the session of 1882. He was also Supervisor of the Census of Utah in 1880, and has, in consequence, been con- nected with the Territory in some official position for twelve years or more. Governor Thomas, in local politics, is a prom- inent Liberal, and was the leader of that great movement in 1879 when the Liberal ticket was carried by a majority of only forty-one votes. He is a man of strong force of character, firm in his convictions of right and wrong, and it is generally con- ceded that no occupant of the Governor's chair has filled it with more ability and honor to himself and advantage to the Territory than Hon. A. L. Thomas. He is largely interested in the mining industries of Utah, and is expending thousands of dollars in the development of claims in which he has heavy interests. Governor Thomas is not yet in the prime of his life, but has developed wonderful business and executive talent, and is considered one of the most astute politicians in the country. His long years of official service in the Territory, and his untiring devotion to her interests, have made him very justly popular with the masses. As the chief executive of the same he has always been honorable and conscientious in his duties, and it highly esteemed for his many sterling qualities of heart and head.

Hon. Charles S. Zane was born in Morris River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, in the year 1831, and re- moved to Sangamon County, 111., in 1850. He was educated at Mc- Kendry College.St. Clair County, and was admit- ted to the bar in the spring of 1857, by the Supreme Court of 111. In 1858, he was elected city attorney of Spring- fied, 111., and re-elected in 1860. He was also chosen for the same pos- ition in 1865. In the spring of 1861, he formed a co-partnership with that brilliant Illinois attorney, W. H. Hern- don, with whom the martyred Lincoln was associated in the law practice for many years. This partnership was continued for eight years with great success, when the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Zane entered into partnership with Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, United States Senator from Illinois, which con- tinued until 1873, when he was elected Circuit .1 udge of the Springfield, 111., Circuit, a position he filled for six years, when he was elected Cir- cuit Judge of the fifth district, that state. This position he held until 1884, when he was ap- pointed Chief Justice of the Territory of Utah by President Arthur, filling that office with great credit until 1888, when Chief Justice Sanford became the incumbent and so continued until 1889, when he was in turn succeeded by Judge Zane, under appointment of President Harrison. He is still serving as Chief Justice of the territory, and by virtue of this office, Judge of the 3rd judicial district of Utah.

Many of the decisions made by Judge Zane during his judi- cial career, have became national in their character, among them being the celebrated case of the State of Illinois, vs. the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company. In the trial of this case before Judge Zane, a writ was issued removing the same to the United States District Court. The removal of the case was denied by Judge Zane, in which decision he was sustained by the United States Supreme Judge, thereby establishing a pre- cedent in the disposition of similar questions. Other noted cases, wherein he greatly distinguished himself, were the cele- brated injunction suits against the St. Louis Bridge Company, the Madison County Ferry Company and the Wiggins Ferry Company. The nature of these suits was an injunction issued by the Judge, enjoining them from executing a contract where- by the ferry companies would refrain from exercising the rights provided in their several charters, whereby travel would be diverted to the bridge, the various transportation companies to

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receive a percentage of the bridge company's profits. His action in these matters gave evidence of his pre-eminent fitness for the "equity and good conscience" inseparable from judicial position.

When Judge Zane arrived in Utah, during 1884, he found that, although there had been a law in force for twenty-two years against polygamy and bigamy, there had only been one person punished for a violation of its provisions within that time. He held court in September of that year and a large number of convictions for polygamy followed, a result that WHS succeeded by a rigid enforcement of the law thereafter, in which the president of the Mor- mon church aided by the issuance of his manifesto declaring the law bind- ing and advising his peo- ple to abide by it. Judge Zane took this as an evidence of good faith, governing himself ac- cordingly, and when the people's party disbanded he at the same time ad- vising the democrats and republicans to organize, the people to join one or the other, according to their political procliv- ities.

.1 udge Zane is 60 years old, tall and dignified in appearance, and is the ideal gentleman in every respect. His decisions on the bench of I "tali, although they have been made with due regard for the law and the uphold- ing of the same, have al- ways been tempered with leniency as far as practicable, and he has a host of warm per- sonal friends, even among those who are politically opposed to him. He is a strong power in the party to which he belongs, and his able voice is ever heard in theadvocacy of its principles whenever the occasion demands. Mi- m strongly identified with the interests of Halt l^ake and has interests within her limits.

of one of the leading institutions of learning at the South. II e too, is an old resident of Utah, and a man of marked ability in his profession.

Mr. Bradley is a native of Wisconsin, a graduate of the Stat.- University, and first practiced law in Salt Lake in 1882. He is a wonderfully bright man and is regarded as one of the leading attorneys in the city and Territory. Taken as a whole, the firm is so constituted as to be exceptionally powerful before a jury in the courts of common law, as also in the courts of equity jurisdiction.

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BENNETT, MARSHALL & BRADLEY.

A bright example of well merited snooese in Utah is that of the law firm of Uennett. Marshall A Bradley, founded in 1^71. by Mr. ( '. W. Uennett. The firm is well known to the business and professional men of the entire Territory. It is comprised ..f c W. Mennett. .In.,. A. Marshall and Mr. M. Bradley, and occupying the entire second floor of a handsome building on Main street, is provided with offices among the most elegant in Salt Lake. Their magnificent library is also one of the most complete and comprehensive in the West, being made up of text books, authorities. State and National, reports and other

publications rare and invaluable almoot indiH|M»iiHal>li-. ind I.

to the requirements of a service rendered in every field of liti- gation in winch large profexiiional interests are involved, he citation of applicable authorities essential to the successor ror»iihic deputation. Mr. C \V. lt..|inett.th« founder • >f the firm, is fifty seven years of age, was torn in New York State, graduated at the Albany law school and first began the practiceof his profession in Wisconsin From t here he removed In C|,i, 'ago. and thence in 1K7I U.Halt Uike, where he has since been engaged in the practice. He IN regard.*! HH one of :!,.. most acute and clear-headed attorneys in th.- Territory, and is im ariably retained m. counsel in specially intricate causes.

Mr. JDO. A. Marshall is a Virginian by birth and a graduate

The subject of this sketch is a native of Ohio, having been born in Dayton forty - five years ago. He was edu- cated in the Wurtem- burg ('ollege at Spring- field, iiiul the Urbana University of Ohio. He has been a practicing lawyer for twenty years, autl is at present United States district attorney for this district, having been appointed by Presi- dent Harrison in 1889. In 1NGH Mr. Varian was elected county treasu rerof Hnmboldtconnty. Nevada, and was sub- sequently county clerk. From 1K7'2 to 1875 be was a member of the State senate of Nevada from 1 1 unil >uli It county; also United States dis- trict attorney for that State for six years, and speaker of the honse from the same State. Mr. \nrian came here in 188'2, when be was appointed assistant Un- ited States attorney .suc- ceeding to the position of United States attor- ney in l*S'.i. Frater- nally Mr. Variau is a member of the Knights I 'lar and of the Uiiitiiriiiii church. He is a man of talentn, recognized as possess- ing great abilities, and enjoys a reputation as a lawyer aiming the best. He is highly regarded by all who have the honor of his aeqnaintanc.

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ARMSTRONG & DENNY.

The gentlemen composing the legal firm of Armstrong .V Denny have acquired a reputation and influence extended and potent The senior member is a nathe of Tennessee and prom- inently connected with distinguished residents of that He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession for sixteen years, a portion of which time he was a member of the bar of D I, tlience removing to Salt Lake Oily in

•till), |sn<>. Me in married and a lilteral in politico. James M, I >enny, the jnnior member, IH a native of I'ennRylvania. where he wua also educated, rending law in the nllice of Kn-d Kulier, of Uutler. in which city lie w»n, in 1H80. admitted to pr , After a successful career at the Host, he remove,! to Saffnaohe count). Col., where he remained for ten jeam. locating in Salt Lake Git] with his family about M;.>.I~-1 He has held sev- eral ollicial pomtioiiN und was at one time surveyor of Uutler county. I'a. In politics he is a democrat. The firm is re- garded as exceptionally well equipped and has l>een retained by a large and growing clientele. They occupy oflloes 1*2 and 13 Ciilmer block, and command tlu« confidence and n-npect of citi- sens and resident* of Salt Lake and the surmnnding territory .

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HON. THOMAS J. ANDERSON.

Of the many prominent men in Salt Lake City and Utah generally, there is none that occupies a more exalted position of trust than Hon. Thomas J. Anderson, Associate Supreme Justice of the territory. The gentleman was born in Fulton County, Illinois, March 4, 1837, and is consequently in his fifty-fourth year. In 1853, when sixteen years of age, he re- moved with his parents to Iowa, and there received the benefits of a common school education. After that he taught school for some time and while engaged in this precarious means of a live- lihood was elected county surveyor. He was then only twenty- one years of age and the honor conferred upon him was a compliment to his abilities not usu- ally bestowed upon on so young. While pursu- ing his duties as sur- veyor, he occupied what spare time he had in reading law with Hon. J. E. Neal, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1860. He im- mediately entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in Knoxvilie, and has been very suc- cessful ever since. He also entered the field of journalism for a short time, and was one of the publishers and editors of the Democratic Stand- ard, published at Knpx- ville. When the civil war broke out, he tend- ered his services to the United States Govern- ment, and entered the army as first lieutenant of Company A.. 40th Iowa Infantry, Volun- teers and remained in active service until De- cember '2, 1864, when he resigned with the rank of captain, and immedi- ately resumed the prac- tice of law, soon attain- ing a leading position among the influental councillors of his state. In 1874 he headed the anti-monopoly ticket for judge of his district, and received more votes than any other candidate on the ticket. lie was tendered the nomina- tion again in 1878 and 18H2, but declined

the honor. He was nominated and elected court-attorney by his party in 188fi by a large majority, and in 1887, contrary to his wishes, was unanimously chosen as their standard-bearer for governor, and although defeated, led the ticket by over two thousand votes. In January, 1888, he was the caucus nominee of his party for United States Senator, receiving the entire vote thereof. He was recommended for the position of assistant commissioner of the general laud office by every democratic member of the Iowa legislature, and when the same was made, the general public was more than satisfied with the choice. His appointment as associate justice the the Supreme Court of Utah two years ago was a glowing tribute to his professional talents, and a just recogiiition of the many sterling qualities that characterize him as a man and lawyer. Since Judge An- derson has won the judicial ermine in this Territory, he has made many decisions that have attracted universal comment throughout the length and breadth of the land, but there are none of them but what have been sustained by the higher tribunals, as also endorsed by the intelligent people of the country. One of his decisions that became noted was, that a member of the church of J. C. of Latter Day Saints in good standing in the church was not entitled to his naturalization

papers, from the very fact that he acknowledged as his first and highest duty, his obligation to the laws of his church. In this he was concurred in by his associate judges until after the manifesto was issued by the leaders of the Mormon church, when they overruled their objection. Another decision that he holds to, is that no polygamist should be naturalized on the ground that he ha not a good moral character.

In personal appearance Judge Anderson is a man of noble physique, standing over six feet in his Blockings, and weighing 225 pounds. He bears a striking resemblance to the deceased vice-president Hendricks, and is a thorough gentleman, both on the bench and in the social walks of life. His administra- tion of duties in Utah, has been of an unmis- takable character as to the force of his con- victions in the matter of justice.

HON. THOMAS J. ANDKKSON, AsBociutc Justice Supreme Conrl of Utali.

HON. J. G. SUTH- ERLAND.

An able lawyer, per- suasive pleader, emin- ent counsel and dis- tinguished representa- tive of the judiciary, is • the reputation enjoyed by the Hon. J. G. Suth- erland, rooms 54, 57, 58, Hooper block, Salt Lake City. He is a native of the state of New York, where he was born in 1827, thence remov- ing to Michigan where he read law and was admitted to practice. His success was instant and complete, and his election to the circuit bench of Saginaw coun- ty was a deserved tribute to his profes- sional worth and hon- orable career; a tribute that was etill further emphasized by his elec- tion to Congress later on. Ac the close of bis Congressional teim he visited Utah for his health and after a brief sojourn in Salt Lake City, became a perman- ent resident. He resum- ed the practice of law, and in 1889, formed a partnership with the Hon. J. W. Judd, also devoting consider- able attention to literary pursuits, the results of his labor in that field being a work on damages in three volumes, and a work on statutory construction. Both of these publications commanded the attention of the bar throughout the United States, and have since been made standards of authority on the subjects respectively noted. During his residence in Salt Lake City, Judge Sutherland has been distinguished for the number and importance of the causes in which he has been retained and has managed, for the scrupulous fidelity he pays to the interests of his large clientele, for the erudition he displays in the man- agement of a cause and for his superiority as a trial lawyer. He was the pioneer president of the Salt Lake Bar Association, a position which he filled with honor to himself and the profes- sion, and to which has since been re-elected, is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, besides other organiza- tions of a social and beneficial character, and is most happy in his domestic circle. In politics he is a democrat, his son-in-law being editor of The Herald, the leading democratic paper of the territory.

HON. Q. W. BARTCH.

In writing of the bench and bar of Utah, there is none who deserve a more conspicuous place and prominent im-ntum, than Judge G. W. Bartch, of the Probate court. He was born in Snllivau county, Pennsylvania, forty-two years ago, and spent the early part of his life in that State, where, like BO many of the great men of our country, he first began teaching school. He subsequently located at Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where he was for ten years superintendent of the city schools. Sbeu- andoah is located in the con) regions, and, when Judge Bartch first began his labors as instructor it was the seat of operation and tinder the rule of the "Mollie McGniree."

To fill the position at the time that Judge Bartch began, required a man of indomnitable will, fearless courage and that exemplary and determined character possessed by few. The schools had been under the rule of this terrorizing body of out laws until nearly all semblanceof their original purpose had been

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lost. Immediately after Prof. B.irtob began to lav before the better class of citizens his plans for a new system of ••.Im-atum and with their endorsement and assistance began at MUCH to introduce it into the schools of that city and section. This of course did not meet with the approval of the Mollie MoGnires. lint be continued to improve hit methods and schools, until they stood forth among the best in the state.

Daring the time Judge Bartch was oocuping this position. be promoted and bad the satisfaction of seeing a large |>ul>lic library established. In I1-"-' he began the study of law and i In ring the time he served in theoffioe of superintendent of schools . Miitmued his reading, and after his first re-election was of the opinion that he would only serve out that term and then resign, bnt each time the board of directors of the Sbenandoah district. )>> their unanimous "lection and urgent request, so

.lily iin-i.-iit.-l their claims that In- continued to serve until ten years had passed by and when he finally did lt>av». h» wan favored with the highest tributes of praise by the iMiunl,

wait»n| ti|>on by a committee from the convention, with a r>-|iie*t that if he iv.nl, I not accept the position to come Ix-fun- the board and name his successor, which he did, and who was unanimously elected and continues to serve to the present As a further mark of appreciation tin- t>oar<l passed resolutions of respect and oxtoein for the ailvai m.-nt he hail

:he sohiiolH and regret at hi» departure from the manage moot thereof l» November 1879, the /'' »»«v/r,ini<i Jtrurti'il. the ollloial organ of the school of that great fxlnca- tional state spoke very highly of the advancement of th»

-.of the Hhenaii'loah district, nnd the marked advance- ment the pnpils bad made, (wing then enabled to recon.. the preparatory college studies at home, and it also published a very comprehensive and entertaining article on the subject of

"Language Lessons," of which Prof, liartch was the author Again in July 1884, the same journal devoted a pleasing an.l complimentary editorial to the same schools, and especially to Prof. Bartch, giving him the honor due, of increasing the schools, in ten years time, to more than double their capaeit\ and efficiency. In 1874 the schools were small and inefficient, while in 18H4 they had been improved until they took rank as be- ing among the best iu the State. Prof. Kartell was very promin- ently connected with the advancement of educational institu- tion and was one of the most prominent ami favorably known men of his profession in that State. Friends were innumera- ble; in fact everybody was his friend, and he was frequently honored with complimentary positions among which was that of a state delegate to nrge the adoption of the Blair educa tional bill. After leaving the schools Judge Bartch was admit- ted to the bar as a practitioner in 1884, at Bloonisburg, Penn- sylvania, where he at once established himself in the practice, with good success; but on account of sickness in bis family be removed to Canon City, Colorado, where he soon established a very successful practice. During the time he practiced then . he met Judge lilackburn, now associate justice of the Supreme court of this Territory, and they together decided to come t«> this city and form a partnership for the practice of law, which they did, arriving here in March, 1888. The business was a decided success, bnt was interrupted one Friday in ( >ctober, 1889, by President Harrison appointing Judge lilackburn to the position of Associate Justice of Supreme Court of Territory, and the following Tuesday Judge Bartch was honored from the same official with the Judgeship of the Probate Court of Salt Lake county, which in this Territory, is considered almost prom- inent and important office, the court being constantly in ses- sion.

During their practice they successfully conducted some very important cases, one of which was a case wherein the ques- tion arose as to title of riparian owners to the bottom of a Inke, as the water recedes. The case was Heard vs. Folson.et al. Since Judge Bartch has been upon the bench, he has' won for • himself a very enviable reputation for the clear, just, and in pn rtii.l manner in which he lias decided the numerous import- ant cases which have been heard in his court.

Some of his decisions have been very important, and have been spoken of very highly at home and abroad. Among these cases was that known as "Pratt" heirs case, where the rights of polygamous children to inherit were decided favorably and correctly being sustained by the Supreme court of the United Stairs : another noted one, was that known as the "Sharpe Walker will case," nnder which the question arose as to the point of giving notice of the sale of real estate, nnder the will. This was a case of technicalities, and affected the title of a large amount of city oroperty. An appeal was taken from the .l.-ci.sinn bnt Judge llarlch was sustained throughout. The " Kramer Will," which was refused to probate on account of the testator Samuel Kramer, having been "nou compos mentis," at the time the will was made and signed by another. The facts were published and largely commented upon throughout the eastern states. Another very important question came up on demurrer in the McKihben will rase, as to whether subse- quent marriage would annul the will of a " femme sole." The brightest lawyers in the country were retained upon both widen, and the decision of Judge I'artch wan very full and comprelx'ii sive. showing the result of a very clone study ami application of the statutes and common law, on this question and siis- tained the right of the "femme sole." The property involved in this case, amounted to over one million dollars.

.Imlge Kartell by virtue of his office is chairman of the County Court, and this together with large probate business of the office keeps constantly busy.

\t the early age of eight years, he was left an orphan, and l»-gan IMB studies in twiyhood while working on a farm. Mi- then showed a very studious disposition, ami studied and read whenever the opportunity presented itself. At the age of sixteen be started in life for himself, teaching his first school ami thereafter by teaching in winter and by working during Miml IT n. he obtained the means for attending higher institn- tiiiiiB. without assistance from the resources <if the estate left by his father. \i,.| l.y clone application to his studies be suc- ceeded in graduating with the class of 1S7I, at the Pennsylva- nia State Niirmal School, at IHoonmlHirg, and continued his HtndieHat the name institution 'where he graduated with the cUtw. 'I,., scientific courw U.fore the SI ute examin

ing com nntt«x>, passing a very creditable examination, winning high honors for himself and receiving the degree of M. S., at IMooinxImrg.

In 1*71. he \\-i- united in marriage with Miss Amanda A. linild. » lady of high family and accomplishments. As a result of this union their family now consist of two daughters, who

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are very highly accomplished, and soon to become valuable acquisitions to the social world of this city. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masons, and a member of the Alto Club, and politically is an ardent republican in both national and local questions. While living in Pennsylvania, he was a successful political worker and made many warm friends among all classes, and especially the brainy, and bright politicans, lawyers and doctors, of the state who when the opportunity presented, endorsed him to our leading official of the United States with the finest letters of praise and recommendation; among them being the honorables D. J. Waller, Jr., Henry Houck, J. B. Davis, M. D., and Ex.-U. 8. Minister, Hon. J. P. Wickersham, L.L.D., and many others of equal national repu- tation.

Judge Bartch thinks well of the prospects and outlook for this city and Territory and has shown his confidence in the best way, by his real estate investments. During his life he has accumu- lated an independence, in a financial way, and is an ideal example of the highest class of self- made men.

It is such men as this of whom the citizens of this Territory are justly proud, who are represen- tatives of her citizens, and who are in turn at- tached to their adopted home.

HON. J. T. CAINE.

John T. Came, Utah's delegate to Congress is one of the best known men in the Territory, and among the ablest repre- sentatives at Washing- ton, I). C. He was born in the "Isle of Man," January 8th, 1829, and removed to the United States in the spring of 1846, settling in New York City, where he be- came identified with the Mormon Church. He left New York in the fall of 1848, for the West, traveling by boat from New York City to Perth

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there by rail to Harris- burg, Pa., then the western terminus of railroad facilities. From there on the journey was continued by canal boats to Pittsburgh, Pa. From Pittsburgh the journey west was made down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to St. Louis, by steamboat. Mr. Caine remained in St. Louis for a time and was actively engaged in matters pertaining the welfare of the people of his adopted faith, and assisted large numbers of them who passed through St. Louis, bound for Salt Lake, during the years from 1849 to 1852. In 1850, he was united in marriage at St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Margaret Nightengale, a lady of the same family as the philanthropist, Florence Nightengale, and this union has been blessed with a large and very interesting family of children, eight of whom are still living.

In May, 1852, he started with his wife and one child, for Salt Lake, and arrived here the following September, having made the trip from St. Louis to Council Bluffs by steamboat, and from there across the plains by an ox train. In the spring of 1854, he made a trip to the Sandwich Islands as a missionary, from which he returned in the winter of 1856. On his return trip he stopped for some time in California, and while there cast his first presidential vote, which WHS for James Buchanan.

Mr. Caiue was manager of the Salt Lake theatre from 1861 to 1882, and entered the field of journalism, together with two associates founding the Salt Lake Berald and was for a long

time managing editor and president, until the paper was sold to a new company. He is now a director in the new company. He served as secretary of the legislative council during the sessions of 1856-57-59 and '60; was elected a member of that body for the sessions 1874-76-80 and 1882. In 1876, he was by a joint vote of the legislative assembly, elected a regent of the University of Desert, and re-elected in 1878-80-82-84-86; was elected recorder of Salt Lake City in 1876, and re-elected in 1878-80 and 82. He was a member of the constitutional con- ventions of Utah of 1872-82 and 87, and was the president of the latter convention, which adopted a clause punishing polygamy and bigamy, and asked admission to the Union as a

State; he was elected to fill a vacancy in the 47th Congres?,which was caused by the failure of Congress to seat the Hon. George Q. Cannon, when he was elected in 1881. As there was no law at that time in Utah governing such a state of affairs, and as the Utah commission failed to call an election to fill the vacancy, the matter was allowed to stand un- til the election for the 48th Congress was held, when Mr. Caine was elected to fill the unex- pired term of the 47th Congress, and also the full term of the 48th con- gress; he was re-elected to the 49th, 50th and 51st Congresses and re- elected to 52d congress ! by a majority of very nearly 10,000 votes.

During his service in Congress he has been a member of the com- mittee on post offices and post roads, and has represented the territory of Utah upon the dem- o c r a t i c congressional campaign committee.

He was for a number of years intimately ac- quainted and connected with Brigham Young, the late president of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He is a gentleman of superior mental endow- ments and high accom- ' plishments, such as are only found in those who

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have seen much of tjhe world in its poorest and best phases, and have profited by their experience.

D. C. EICHNOR.

Mr. D. C. Eichnor is one of the leading young attorneys of Salt Lake, who is coming to the front very rapidly. He is a native of Pennsylvania where he was born thirty-two years ago, of German parentage, and where he obtained his education, teach- ing meanwhile to pay his expenses, and finally graduating at the Millersville branch of the State Normal School. He studied law in the office of W. H. Dickson, of this city, and was admit- ted to practice during 1888. Soon after he became assistant city attorney under the administration of Mr. Merrill, a po- sition he still retains under Mr. Hall, also discharging the duties of assistant to county attorney Walter Murphy. In politics Mr. Eiobiior is a liberal, on local issues, but a repub- lican on National questions. He recently married a very charm- ing young lady of this city. Miss S. Lizzie Keim. He enjoys the esteem and respect of everyone with whcm becomes in con- tact, and is one of the prominent young men cf Utah. Seme day he will be heard frcm. He is a keen attorney, ever alive to the situations presented, and never miscesen opportunity cf scoring a point. He is a good speaker.

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HON. ELIJAH SELLS.

Klijab Sells, secretary for the Territory of Utah, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, and received his early educatioi in the public schools of that district. After entering active busi- ness life he was fora number of years engaged in mercantile enterprises, in all of which be met with admirable success. When still a young man he removed to the state of Iowa, and has the distinction of being a member of the first constitutional convention in that State. He was also a member of the First. •.<! and Third .Sessions of the Iowa legislature, and in IST.I; he was elected Secretary of State, and twice re-elected. For three years he acted as Adjutant General of Iowa.

Air. Sells was appoint- ed revenue collector under the Fiist U. S. Internal Revenue law, but did not accept the position. Early in IN'.:; he was appointed pay- master in the army with rank of major. Later in the same year he was urged by his friends at home to accept the nomination of governor, and strongly requested to come home before the convention, but declined in favor Col. Wm. M. Stone, who was nominat- ed and elected. Shortly after this he secured and accepted an appointment in the Mississippi S<ju »d nm of the United States Navy, and was assigned to the com- mand of the U. S. lie ceiviiiirShip''(lrampus." lU-iimiriing in service in this important position for about a year he was tendered the position of Third Auditor of the .miry Department, by i Inn. Salmon I1. Chase then Secretary of the Treasury. Me re- signed his office in the navy to accept this posi- tion, and shortly sub- sequent he . was trans- ferred to the office of \uditor of t lie Treasury for the I'ont Dili.-.. De- partment

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[H.inie.l one <>f thn commissioners to negotiate treaties of amity and peace with the Indians who had forfeited their treaty stipulations by joining the ( '..n federate army.

Mr. Sells baa bad an extremely eventful public career and his appointment to divert positions in the otlioes of the Qor- eminent. gave him a wide experience an well as a boat of friendB MM iicMiiamtanoes raving the head officials in the various department*. luit during all bis public life it may be Md he never sacrificed his honor or principles for money or fame, though many times presented with opportunities for pecuniary gain by advocating principles and policies adverse to bis own tlnn c r(. l>elit>fs.

In 1W7 be went to Lawrence. Kansas, and in 18fl9 was elected from HOUGHS county to the legislature. l,emif re- elected in ISTII BI1,| i HT I. serving at each session as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Sells first came to it.,i, .„ 1*72, and at once engaged in toe organ i /.at ion of a mining company, of winch corporation be was president and general manager. In 1878 be eonnd in the lumber business in this city, which enterprise he bnill up to a siilMUntial and profitable bam*. In 1H80 be wan api-omted Secretary of I'Uh

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Territory and ex-officio Secretary of the Utah Commission, in which capacities be is highly appreciated and looked up to by those who have placed him in office, and the efficient and satis- tory service he is rendering, forever insures for him the hearty support and good will of the people of this Territory. Mr. Sells has taken active part in many public-spirited movements, and has unlimited faith in the great possibilities for Salt Lake following the development of the endless resources tributary to the city. He is a thorough-going, public-spirited man, of broad and liberal views, and principles of the highest standard. He is genial and sociable and is well liked by all with whom he comes in contact.

RAWLINS & CBITCHLOW.

The senior member of the firm of Haw tins A Critchlow is forty years of age and a native of Suit Lake county. He read law first in Indiana and completed the course in the office of Williams, Young A Sheeks. He began the practice of his profession in is?-, in Salt Lake I ity. where he has sine resided, lie has been engaged in some very important litigation and appeared in the cele- brated case of the Coin heirs vs. Strongfellow anil -lennings, a ques- tion arising under the law regarding the title to the Emporium cor- ner in Salt Lake City. The case went to the Supreme court of the United States and was won by Mr. Ivawlins. The case of llollister vs. the /ion (V>-o|»'rativ.- Mercantile Institution, a case in which the right of the government to tax extensive mercantile orders.commonly known as the script cases, was another important action which he carried to the Supreme court of the United States and won. He was counsel in the celebrated Rey- nolds polygamy case before the same court. He is regarded as one ',f the iilOest men in the country. HP baa been en- gaged as counsel in nil

the great church oases and has a splendid record. In politics he is a democrat and was honored by bis party with the nomina- tion for representative to the house at a recent election.

I 11 Critchlow, the junior mnmber, is a native of Missis- Hippi. where he was lx>rn in isus nud from which state he re- moved with his parents to Western New York, where be re- ceive,I his early education. In is?:! he came to Utah and was for a time on the I'nitiili Indian reservation. In 1K70 he entered sohoo! in Salt Luke ( 'ity. and in IMTS began a course at Prince- ton College N..I.. froin'whicli he graduated in 1K81.' with rank of sixth in a class of one hundred and twentv. \fler Blinking a year in the Columbia Law School, New York City, he came to Utah and began prucimiig. In IH.-G he wan appointed as- sistant United States attorney for the »w.md dmtrict of Utah. which he held for one year, resigning to accept the position of first assistant United s'ut.-w attorney for the third .liHtrict. II.- resigned this in April. 1*:H. to enter the present firm. Mr. < 'ntchlow is married and is an inlluental man. He IH dp • in the Hank of (Vimmerce. In polities be is a republican

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HON. GEO. W. MOYER.

Among the many self-made men of Salt Lake, there is none that occupy a more enviable position and exerts a more power- ful influence upon the welfare of the community, than Hon. Geo W. Moyer. He was born in Stevenson County, Illinois, in 1854. He studied for his profession in the office of Hon. Geo. L. Hoff- man, at Mount Carrol, Illinois, teaching school to pay the ex- pense incident thereto, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme court of that State in 1884. He practiced law in Nebraska for some time before coming to Salt Lake, where he made a reputation as one of the ablest and most conscientious attorneys. He was appointed United States Commissioner for

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Utah in June, 1891, and has made a faithful and efficient official. Mr. Moyer, although a comparatively young man, is ranked aniong the beat attorneys in the city and is in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice which is constantly increasing. He is a public-spirited citizen withal, and interested in all measures looking to the interests of Salt Lake City, and the Territory of Utah. He is a gentleman deservedly high in the confidence and esteem of citizens, and entitled to the regard of the public. Although he has only been a resident of Salt Lake for a short time, he has made many warm personal friends who delight to honor him. He is also quite prominent in politics, and take a great interest in all matters pertaining to his party.

EDWIN W. SENIOB.

In cities of any commercial importance there are men in the professions and walks of business, who, by reason of their superior abilities, stand at the head of their avocation or chosen line of pursuit. The city of Salt Lake is no exception to this rule, and Mr. E. W. Senior, the gentleman whose -name heads this sketch, is pre-eminently one of this class. He is a native of England, aged thirty years, and has been a distin- guished land attorney of this city for six years. He was admit- ted to practice before the United States land courts of the Territory, in 1885, and has since been prominent in some of the most important land cases before that tribunal. He has resided in the city since 1868, and has been a "rustler" on the rough sea of life ever since he was sixteen years of age. Among the many enterprises he has been connected with in Utah was the platting and laying out of the town of Brighton, a suburb of Salt Lake, and a thriving little town supplied with churches, schools, business houses, ball grounds, etc., with a population of two hundred. Thirty artesian wells give a bountiful supply of pure water, streets have been graded to a proper level, a large number of shade trees set out, and a park established which give Brighton an almost metropolitan appearance. Mr. Senior was one of the organizers, and the largest subscriber to

the stock of the West Side Rapid Transit Railway Company, which has eight miles now in operation, and expects in a short time to have the line running to the Great Salt Lake, striking the same at a point two miles this side of Garfleld Beach. This will give the road twenty more miles of track, and prove of great benefit and convenience to the public, as it will provide rapid transit and reduce the cost of transportation. Mr. Sen- ior also has large investments in realty in and adjoining the city, bis residence alone costing 810,000. In addition he is essentially a self-made man in every respect, and has accumulated this vast property by his own individual efforts and labors. He is of that class of men who "never give up," is ambitions and enter- prising, and has the utmost faith and confidence in the future prosperity and welfare not only of Salt Lake City, but of the Territory in general. Socially he is a most pleasant gentleman, highly esteemed and regarded in the private spheres of life.

HIRAM E. BOOTH.

It is always a pleasure to chronicle the history of a self" made man. There is no more glowing tribute that can be paid to a popular and rising man than that he has risen to eminence by his own exertions. Hiram E. Booth is conspicuously one of this class. He was born in Postville, Iowa, thirty years ago. He read law with Hon. Frank Shinn, of Pottowattomie county, and was admitted to the practice by the Supreme court of Iowa in 1885. The gentleman oame to Salt Lake in 1890, and in June 1891, was appointed United States Commissioner. Before coming to Utah, Mr. Booth was engaged in journalism

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HON. HIRAM E. BOOTH, U. 8. Commissioner.

in Iowa, being editor and proprietor of the Critic at Carson. He was also the founder of the Pottowatiamie School Journal, a publication of considerable prominence in the State. In the time that he has been in this city, he has made the record of a very able and brilliant lawyer and demonstrated that he pos- sesses talents of a superior order in bis profession. He is very prominent in politics, and takes a lively interest in all matters relative to the political complexion of the Territory. He is also largely indentified with the best interests of Utah, and is a man in every way desirable as a citizen and official. He has acquired a very liberal and profitable practice, and has acheived a position in the western world which comes to none but those posessing superior talents. Hishigh business ability coupled with intense energy and brilliant attainments, has made him, and deservedly so, a leader in thought, action and in the con- duct of public affairs.

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JNO. W. GREENMAN.

The name of this gentleman is familiar to all who have re- sided in Salt Lake for any length of time. For several years he has figured as a prominent official and successful lawyer throughout the Territory. John W. Greenman, now in the prime of life, was born fifty years ago in Washington, Illinois. His education was obtained at the common schools and he availed himself of every opportunity to increase the volume of information he had acquired. He holds at present the respon- sible position of United States Commissioner, and is also a Justice of the Peace for Salt Lake county. At the breaking out of the civil war, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Kighth Wisconsin Infantry, and emerged at the end of the con- flict with the rank of Captain. He saw active service through- out the long and bloody strife, and received a severe wound at the battle of Nashville, Tennessee. In 1867 he was elected a

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member of the Legislature of Wisconsin; subsequently chair- man of the board of supervisors of his county for four years, and county treasurer of Vernon county for two years. Throe positions' he filled with the greatest credit to himself and with honor to the people that elected him. In National politics Mr. Oreenman ia an active and progressive Republican, doing all that he can to uphold and carry out the principles of his party. In local attain he sides with the Liberals and is an earnest ad- vocate of their doctrine and purposes. In the order of mystic societies h« is an honored Mason, Odd Fellow and member of the P. O. 8. of A., and (irand Army of the Republic. He was united in marriage in 1866 to Miss A. J. Stevenson, of Spring- ville, Wisconsin, a sister of the noted legislator of that State, with whom be has passed many years of happy domestic lift*. M r i i reraman ia a gentleman who enjoys the esteem and regard of a large following of personal friends, is conscientious and reliable in all transactions, and a man that can I* trusted under any and all circumstances.

C. E ALLKN.

No one of the city or county officers is more popular, among the members of his own party and of tin- opposition, than is Profeiwnr C. E. Allen, who in the summer of 1890 was eUcted clerk of the county of .Salt Lake. Th.nw who voted against him, did soon party line* for it was an established fact that the friendly feeling for the man was as sincere and in flnsntisl as was the universality of opinion in respect to his psnooal worth. 1'rofrwr Alien was born in (Heard. F.rie county, Pennsylvania. He was fitted for college at Grand River Institute, AuitinlmrK. Ohio, and graduated at the Western lUwrv* College, llnilwui. in the name State. t'p to the >par !»•*'', be taught m-hool, since that date however b* baa

been engaged in mining adventures. His election to the coun- ty clerkship was not the first recognition by the people of his ability to properly represent them in public office; he served two terms in the Territorial legislature where he introduced and secured the adoption of several measures which have re- sulted in much good to his constituency. Professor Allen came to the territory ten years ago and has been connected with several prominent undertakings since he began his residence here. As a public speaker be is popular and successful, his style oforatory being of a simple but persuasive character which holds tln> attention of his audience. To his efforts in this capacity is largely due the success of his party at the recent election which placed him in the position he now holds.

JOSEPH UPPMAN.

Mr. Joseph Lippman is one of the leading and progressive citizens of the growing West. A representative man in the broadest and truest sense, devoted to the upbuilding of Utah Territory, a citizen enterprising and intelligent, a student, a statistician, and a courteous, hospitable gentleman, is the expression regarding him universally heard in Salt Lake, the city of his residence. He has been identified with the advance- ment and prosperity of the territorial metropolis a number of years, and the instrumentality through which the advantages and opportunities available in the Territory have been pro-

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mitigated. A journalist by profession he was for a contum. ,1 period a member of the correspondent's bureau of the Salt Lake Tnlnit«\ where his labors were prompted by motives that inspire modest worth to noble i-n.U. An accomplished, even distinguished representative of the "Fourth Estate," his influ- ence was pronounced, and his counsels were accepted and adopted. 1 Miring recent years he has occupied the position of Territorial librarian and statistician, and in the discharge of duties incident to the trust he has still further commended himself to public confidence. In I -'.'I. the tlrst volume of Matistice of the Territory, containing data in rr the agnctil turn! and mineral resource* of I 'tali, the volume of business transacted in the departments of commerce, trade, manufact- ures and finance was issued, and met with a reception gratifying and highly deserved. It ia an unimpeachable record of facts in respect to matter* therein detailed beyond the domain of controversy.

Politically, Mr I.ippmsn is an unswerving republican upon all National i|iiestions, and alioftnl upm loMlMMMft In the mi-mi .mil IIIIHIIIIPH circled of Salt take and elsewhere the esteem in which he is held i* proverbial. He has earned sue- re** in bis struggle for hoi.i.n i,li. precedence, and is of the character of men who ever maintain an ascendancy in life'» nigged content.

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GEOBGE M. SCOTT, Mayor.

When on that February day two years ago the announce- ment was made that a new party had secured the ascendancy in Utah politics, the name of the man who bore the standard in the front ranks was telegraphed throughout the country, and thus George M. Scott.who was already well known to his towns- men as a man of sterling honor and a business worker of un- qualified success, became universally known. He is a native of Chazy, Clinton county New York, was educated in the Clinton county schools and his boyhood days were by no means un- attended by those little circumstances which, by opposition bring out the best qual- ities of manhood. Later his education was finish- ed at the Troy Academy in Troy, New York. Early in life he came west and for the past twenty years has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in Salt Lake city. Here his business has by careful and hon- orable dealings grown to be one of the heaviest in the Territory. In February, 1890, he was elected by a majority of 800 as mayor of the city of Salt Lake, being the first mayor ever elect- ed by the so - called Gentile vote. Mayor Scott has during the term of his incumbency made an exceptionally good officer and has instituted civic move- ments which have re- sulted in great good to the community gener- ally. His term expires in 1892.

ciates in the highest degree the standing and rank that he has attained to among the legal fraternity and the people of Salt Lake City. He is an ideal lawyer and an honor to his profess- ion. Fraternally, he is a prominent member of the Masonic order, and socially, is highly esteemed and regarded by a large following of personal friends.

W. C. HALL.

The practice of law is a profession involv- ing the utmost care, integrity and attention, and demanding the best talent as a measure of success. It is a well known fact that the West has some of the ablest members of the legal fraternity in the United States, and Salt Lake, in particular, has her full quota. Mr.

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GEOKGE M. SCOTT,

W. C. Hall is in every way worthy of mention in a work of this character as a lawyer of eminent ability and high qualifications for the profession he has chosen. Mr. Hall is a native of Kentucky, aged 45 years, and read law with lion. John. W. Stevenson of Covington. The latter was for- merly a member of the House of Representatives, also U. S. Senator from that State, and afterward became its Governor. He was considered one of the most brilliant lawyers of that grand old commonwealth, and Mr. Hall, under his special care and direction, received a thorough and practical education on all law points. He began the practice of his profession in Lex- ington, Mo., in 1868, and four years later removed to this city, where he has ever since made his home. He has occupied sev- eral positions of trust before attaining the office he now holds, among which were a member of the Territorial Senate, and Secretary of Utah, under ex-President Cleveland's administra- tion. These positions of trust he filled with great ability, and with honor to the Territory. He is now the efficient city attor- ney of Salt Lake and has discharged the duties of his office with satisfaction. Politically, Mr. Hall is an ardent democrat and thoroughly posted on all matters pertaining to the science of politics. He, however, devotes most of his time to his pro- fession and makes a specialty of mining litigation, and appre-

STEPHENS1& SCHROEDEB.

Salt Lake possesses an array of legal talent practicing at the bar or its courts and in the courts of the Territory, of which any city would justly be proud. Prominent among the

leaders of the legal fra- ternity is the well known firm of Steph- ens & Schroeder— Frank B. Stephens and Albert T. Schroeder. Mr. Stephens is a native of Maine, and is about thirty-five years of age. He graduated at one of the leading western colleges, studied the profession with his cousin, Hon. Leonard Swett, of Chicago, and graduated at the Union College of Law in the same city, and was] ad- mitted to the bar in 1883. He practiced law in Nebraska for six years, coming to Utah in 1888. Upon the resig- nation of E. B. Critch- low, assistant United States attorney for Utah Territory, Mr. Stephens was appointed to that position, which he yet holds, with honor to himself and credit to the government. He is a shrewd, able and cons- cientious lawyer, and one that is destined to rank among the most talented and successful attorneys in the West. In politics he is an ardent republican of the uncompromising type. He is athoroughgentle- manand has many friends.

Mr. Schroeder is wenty-seven years old, and hails originally from Wisconsin. He was

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at Madison, that State, both as a. civil engineer and in the law department, graduating from the latter in 1888. When he first came to Salt Lake he practiced law for about one year by himself, but on January 1, 1890, formed a co-partnership

with Mr. Stephens. In politics Mr. Schroeder is the direct opposite of hie partner, being a pronounced democrat of the old Jeffersonial school. He is a cultured gentleman, highly esteemed by all who have the honor of his acquaintance, and a man of talent, possessing, in a marked degree, the qualifica- tions necessary to success in the profession. While attending the university at Madison, he met and has since married Miss Parkinson, daughter of Prof. Parkinson, vice-president of the university and professor of political economy, a lady of high culture and excellent social attainments.

As one of the leading law firms of Utah, they have handled a large number of important cases, and their practice is increasing rapidly. They were attorneys for the eleventh school district in the noted school 'tax cases; are also attorneys for the B. G. Dun mercantile agency, and represent some of the best business houses in the city. They have commodious and elegant offices in the opera house block, and possess one of the finest libraries in the West. They are in the enjoyment of a

large and lucrative practice.

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JOHN M. YOUNG.

John M. Young, City Marshall of Salt Lake City, is a native of this territory and city, where he was born in 1856. He is a BOD of the eldest brother of Brigham Young, the late President of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Litter Day Saints, of which institution his parents were firm believers and members. His boyhood life was devoted to obtaining an education in all respects substantial and practical. While yet a boy he entered the composing room of the Deseret Newt as an apprentice, where be remained some time, and then accepted a position in the Z. C. M. J. At the expiration of two years he resigned to do service as a missionary in Australia, whither he was sent by

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his uncle Brigbam Young and where he remained twenty months. Upon hi* return to Salt Lake he entered the Univer- sity of Deseret, where he remained for six months, at the ex- piration of which time he received the normal appointment and in this manner succeeded in graduating. He taught schoo, one year, when he was appointed to the position of book-keeper in • large wholesale house in Salt Lake City, but soon after succeeded to the management of the Salt Lake Democrat, and later still was nominated to the upper house of the legislature by the liberal party. He dissolved his connection with the Democrat and entering vigorously into the campaign, was suc- OMgfnL Immediately after his election, he removed to Park City, where he was employed in the Daly mine. After resid- ing in I'ark City some time be was nominated city marshal 1 by the liberal party and was again successful, being elected by a large majority. He in prominently identified with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and other beneficiary organiza- tions and is a member of the Liberal party. He has done much for the success of that organization, having also in turn bean honored with many positions of trust and responsibility at the hands of bis friend*.

I (in term of office as city marshal has been very successful and he is daily receiving the approval and congratulations of the beet citizens of Halt Lake City.

CH AS P. BROOKS.

The subject of this sketch, Mr. Chas. P. Brooks, was elected surveyor of Salt Lake county in August, 1890. He is a native of tl-e State of New York, forty yean of age and a graduate of Yale college. He oommenotd the practice of his profession twenty vears ago in New Haven. Conn., where he WAS employed in the City Engineer's offloe. At the expiration of two years he accepted a position on the Texas & Pacific railroad, where he continued until 1874. when be removed to Halt Lake City. Since taking up his residence here be has been constantly occupied. His professional achievement* nave been notable, including, among others, the system of sewage now in opera-

tion, the work on'which was carried forward under his personal supervision. In addition to filling the office of county sur- veyor, he is a member of the firm of Brown & Brooks, builders of the Crescent tramway at Park City, Utah, a narrow-gauge railroad which, at the time of its construction, was character- ized by the steepest grades and sharpest curves of any road in the world. The firm is also emloyed in the construction of other railways, besides considerable canal and drainage work. The firm makes a specialty of engineering, in which the mem- bers have had a wide experience, and have for seven years filled the position of U. S. Mineral Surveyor.

Politically Mr. Brooks is a republican in National affairs while looal|y, he adheres to the liberal party. II. IK interested in both real estate and mine investments in the Territory, thus manifesting his faith in the great future of Utah, and is identified with many enter- prises promotire of the growth of the city. He is esteemed as a gentleman of superior skill in the line of his pro- fession and of potent influence in his capacity of citizen.

A. J. BURT.

Among the many Territorial officials who have become emi- nent and popular, A. J. Burt. the present sheriff of Salt l.nke county, is distinguished. Mr. Burt is of Scotch-English descent, his father having been a native of Fifeshire, Scotland, and his mother a native of England. He was born in Salt Lake City 32 years ago, and the beautiful valleys, rivers, lakes <ind moun- tains of the Territory are today remembered as the play

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grounds of his boyhood. He was educated at the public schools of Salt Lake City, and when fifteen years of age he )>egan work in the carpenter department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, so continuing (<>r eight and a half years. He was next employed as fireman on a locomotive engine, at which employment he remainc, I fur t liree and a half years. I hiring Id ut peril «l lie completely miixtere.! the profession of mi In >ml en- gineering, but resigned his position to accept an appointment M a patrolman on the police force of Halt Lake City, under City Marshall Phillips. In August, 1880. he was elected sheriff of Salt Lake County, was re-elected in 188H and again in 1890, • position he still holds. For the past eight years be baa been an active and influential memlier of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen, in which fraternity he him been frequently of- cially honored. In 1888 he was married to Mins Helen M. Mor- gan. r.f i In* city, the issue of such marriage being a son.

Mr. Hurt is an ideal officer and amostsuaosesful sheriff. His father was a pioneer of thin city, coming here in l-sV2, where be highly respected and popular an a citizen, anil for i"> veers

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filled the several offices of chief of (xilioe and city marshal). In August, 1888, he was shot and fatally wounded, while in the

discharge of his duty, by a negro he was attempting to arrest. The negro, however, was captured and met with speedy justice.

Sheriff Hurt is an enthusiast on all matters pertaining to the advancement of Utah and her resources. He is a director of the Utah Stone and Hardware Co., a stockholder in the Utah Commercial Savings Bank, and interested in real estate and mining property.

E. B. CLUTE.

It is very doubtful if there is any city in America whose official representatives, as a class are constituted of so many self-made men as those of Salt Lake City.

Mr. E. R. Clute, city assessor and collector, is a native of Wisconsin and 41 years of age. At nine years he was left an

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E. B. CLUTE, City Assessor and Collector.

orphan and removed with relatives to the State of California, where he attended the public schools, completing his education at Heald's business college in San Francisco. At the age of fifteen years he was employed in a mercantile business in Cali- fornia, where he remained for two years, and then removed to Nevada, where he was interested in the mine milling business, but afterward entered a mercantile establishment. In 1882, he arrived in Salt Lake City and established himself in the trans- fer business. This he carried on successfully for some time, after which he disposed of the enterprise and began contracting with the quartermasters department of U. S. army, in which he has been successful.

Politically, Mr. Clute is a republican on National questions, while locally he affiliates with the liberal party, and his party in recognition of his services has several times chosen him to fill positions of public trust. While residing in Nevada he was for several years a member of the State republican central com- mittee. In 1889, he was appointed by the Utah Commission deputy register for the second precint of Salt Lake City, and in 1890 he was elected city assessor and collector by a very large majority. He is the first liberal official who was ever elected to fill this important position, and since entering upon this official duty, he has made some very beneficial changes for the advancement of public interest, though, owing to the unjust discrimination which had formerly been practiced in this office, he encountered a very difficult undertaking. He materially in- creased the valuation of some real estate assessments, and by other reforms tending to equalize such assessments he relieved the owners of personal property who formerly paid an uniust proportion. For his equitable action in this matter he received the approval of a large majority of the best citizens of Salt Lake.

Fraternally he is a member of Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Patriotic Sons of America, Chosen Friends and Forresters, in all of which he is of high standing. Mr. Clute is

married and his family are valuable acquisitions to the social world of Zion. He is interested in real estate to a large extent in the city, and is regarded as a progressive and enterprising business man. He considers the prospects very bright and has evidenced his convictions by his investments.

It is of such citizens as this to whom the people point with pride, as those who have done so much to advance the intereste of the city, and place her wonderful resources before the peopls of the world.

J. B. WALDEN.

The population of the Territory of Utah has shown a won- derful increase during the past few years and among those who have located Salt Lake City are to be found many of superior ability, character and integrity. This statement is

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J. B. WALDEN, City Treasurer.

fully confirmed in the career of Mr. J. B. Walden, the present incumbent of the city treasurer's office. Mr. Walden is n native of Kentucky, having been born at New Liberty, in that state twenty-eight years ago. During his youth he removed with his parents to Cynthiana at which place he attended the public schools, graduating from the high school in the class of 1877. After leaving school he was employed as a travelling salesman for a St. Louis house. He came to Salt Lake City in 1881, and established himself in the wooden and willow- ware business as a member of the firm of Pavey, Walden <fc Co., the largest jobbing house in their line in this section. In 1890 he wus the candidate of the liberal party for city treasurer and made a successful campaign. He at once retired from the active mercantile life in order to give his entire attention to the duties of his office, retaining, however, an interest in some very important mercantile institutions, and at present is the vice-president of the Salt Lake Hardware Company.

Mr. Walden is a descendant of a noted family, being a direct relative of the noted statesman, Patrick Henry. In 1884 he was united in marriage, in this city, with Miss Augusta Baker, a lady of fine family and many accomplishments, and as a result of this union he is now the father of three handsome children.

In politics he is a democrat of _ the staunch old Kentucky kind and stands today upon the ground that the time is at hand for a strict party division in Utah.

Mr. Walden is interested in real estate and mining proper- ties in this Territory and in this manner has manifested his con- viction that Utah is one of the best, and soon to become one of the largest States in the Union.

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RICHARDS & MOYLE.

The HOD. Franklin S. Richards, a leading and representa- tive eitizen of Salt Lake City, and a distinguished member of the bar, ie a native of Utah, having been born at the city of /ion, forty-two years ago. He was admitted to practice in 1874, and began his professional career at Ogden, where he re- sided until 1884, daring which period he served a large and influential constituency in the several capacities of county clerk and recorder, also as prosecuting attorney. Politically, Mr. Kichards was an honored representative of the people's imrty, serving as chairman of the Territorial central committee and occupying posi- tions of honor and trust within the party's gift until the disband- ing of that organiza- tion. when he allied himself to the demo- cratic party, in which he has become an emi- nent leader and direc- tor. He has twice been elected to the legislative council of the Territory, at one session of which he was the presiding officer; was delegate to Con- gress in 1882 and chair- man of the delegation from Salt Lake City to the constitutional convention of 1887.

In 1884 he removed to Salt Lake, where be has since been actively engaged in the prac- tice of law before both theTerritorial and Fed- eral courts, appearing in cases of National importance, from their inception to their final determination before the Supreme court of the United States, and in the management of which he displayed abilities of a character so superior, and fidelity to the interests of bis clients so entirely be- yond criticism, as to at- tract universal atten- tion and applanse. Among the more im- portant (pies lions raised by .Mr. Kichards and- adjudicated by the court of last resort

in his favor was one

relating to the disfranchiH«ment of all persons who had ever practiced polygamy. The court held that snob action could only be had where defendants were in the actual prart same. Another question involving the powers of the Utah Commission. " to disfranchise people without trial," raised in the case of Murphy vs. Ramsay, and io the can* of Angus Can- non vs. the United States f>n the question of what constituted unlawful cohabitation, were also disposed of. In the Utter oaae Mr. Richards appeared for plaintiff and prevailed, the court holding that it consisted of living with more tlinn one woman as a wife, and not act iml cohabitation wit hot her women. • notable cases in which be was attorney were Salt Lake •i. O. J. HollisUr, collector, in a suit to recover revenue tax from government on the part of the city, also Hint of !.•>• rwioo Snow, convicted and sentenced on three counts for unlaw- ful oohabit HI ion. He was released under habeas corpus pro- ceedings on the ground that one conviction only for the same offense could he established. The case had IM-I. previously argil .1 in the Supremo court and dismixard for want of juris diction; in the cano of Nielseo, convicted of unlawful cohahi- (jii ion and adultery, a reUase was effected on the ground that one offense only was committed; in the matter of Samuel vs. H. U. Beason, in regard to the validity of a" teat oath" pro-

hibiting members of the Mormon church from voting in Idaho, the court held the same valid. As the attorney of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints vs. United States, as to the power of Congress to divorce a corporation and confiscate its property, Mr. Kirhards has been indefatigable, having been detained in Washington during the greater part of the past ten years on behalf of the people of the church. The property in- volved amounts to more than two millions of dollars in value, and is now in the hands of a receiver appointed by the govern- ment, but Mr. Richards is confident that he will win the case, in which opinion he is sustained by the leading lawyers of the city. He has also appeared many times before the committees of

Congress and submit- ted arguments and statements as to the condition of ("tali, both in regard to its re- sources and its local and religions condi- tions. For twelve years he has been the chief attorney and lead- ing counsel of the Mor- mon church, has asso- ciated with men of na- tional repute in the trial of many cases, is one of the bent known practitioners before the I'nited States Supreme court, has an extensive acquaintance with the most prominent of law- yers and statesmen, and is regarded as one of the brightest men in the legal fraternity of Utah or the country. Socially, be is a pleas- ant and affable gentle- man, happily married. fond of his family, inul a delightful compan- ion.

J. II. Movie, the jun- ior partner, is a bril- liant young man. U>rn at Salt Lake City in 1858, and consequently in bis thirty :third year. He graduated in the law department of the Michigan I'nivemty with the class of ]->:,. was admitted to the bar of that State on the nineteenth of the fol- lowing June, and to the I 'tab Imr Septem IMT fourth of the same year. Prior to his em- bracing the profession,

however, he availed himself of a special course of science with results that have proved advantageous. In 1886 he was elected county attorney, holding the position un- til 18SKI, and in 1*88 became a meml>er of the Terri- torial legislature, for two years waa one of the board of trustees of the Territorial reform BflbooL baa been a director of the Dee- eret Agrinilturiil and Manufacturing Society for several years, also a director of the I'tah Loan and Trust Company at Og. den since its organization, and with Inn associate has been attorney for '/.. ('. M. I. of HUH city, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter PavSuints, and other prominent institutions. Mr. Moyle is a democrat who has always taken an active part in politic* ami attended the Chicago St. l*uns convention* at which drover i 'leveland waa nominated as an enthusiastic mem- berofhis party to witness the proceedings. He is one of the pres- ent central coimmttwof the democracy of Salt Lake county, and deeply interested in all that pertains to Jeffei»onian d,,c- trinen. lii personal appearance Mr. Moyle is tall, dignified. with a graceful bearing, and perfectly self-possessed at all limes. He is a married man, devoted to his family, an agreea- bl« gentleman and a lawyer with a brilliant career l>efore him. The firm occupy commodious and elegantly appointed offices

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JAMES ALLEN WILLIAMS.

The subject of this sketch was born in Cannonsburg, Boyd county, Kentucky, Nov. 30th, 1859. His father was of Irish- Welsh descent and came to America in the early colonial days. He was one of the solid, substantial citizens of Greenup county, Kentucky, and the first sheriff of Boyd county after its organization. He died in 1863, after having figured for a number of years in the politics of that State, leaving a consider- able fortune which was squandered through mismanagement by the administrators of the estate. The early education of James A. Williams was limited to a large extent, on account of his being obliged to work in order to obtain the means to enable him to attend school. At sixteen years of age, however, he prepared himself for the position of teacher in the public schools, where he serv- ed five terms with suc- cess and credit to him- self. In this capacity and by performing odd jobs in his leisure, he secured sufficient means in January, 1881,to enter the preparatory depart- ment of Center college of Kentucky. In Sep- tember of the same year, he matriculated in the collegiate depart- ment of the same in- stitution and graduated in Jane, 1885, with the degree of A. B. As a student he manifested great zeal and energy in whatever he undertook and carried off many of the prizes that were offered. While at both Center college and' the University of Virginia, he was an enthusiastic member of the Kappa Alpha, a college frater- nity, for four years hold- ing the office of Grand Purser of the order, during which period he was instrumental in spreading the order throughout the South. He continues to be an active member of that organization. On leav- ing college he was elected principal of the

is a pleasant gentlemen in social converse, affable and polite to all, and one of the brainiest young men in the Territory.

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Catlettsburg, Kentucky, graded schools, a position he held for one year, when he resigned to begin the study of law at the University of Virginia, whence he graduated with high honors in 1888.

He began the practice of law in Catlettsburg during the same year, and in January, 1889, removed to Denver, Colorado, where he remained one year, then locating at Salt Lake. Since his advent into this city he has been retained in some of the most important cases in the courts, being also attorney for some of the largest jobbing houses in Salt Lake, and has a practice that will bring him in an annual income of 85,000. For a practice of less than two years this speaks well, and as an indication that Mr. Williams will, in the near future, have an enviable reputation in the ranks of the prominent practi- tioners of the country.

Mr. Williams is a single man, a democrat in politics, and takes an active interest in all that pertains to his party. He is the vice-president of the Wilson Democratic Club and promi- nent in all its councils. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, a member of Fidelity Lodge No. 17 of I. O. O. F., and of the P. O. 8. of A. of Washington Camp No. 6 of Salt Lake City. He occupies suite 514 and 515 in the Progress building, and those desiring the services of a reliable, safe and competent counselor can do 110 better than to consult him. He

COAD & GOAD.

While the older members of the bench and bar of Utah are being reviewed in this work, those that have recently located here, and who have left a practice of equally large proportion and fully as lucrative as that possessed by some who have been here for years, must not be overlooked. Among those who have latterly located in Salt Lake City, there are none who stand

higher and are more favorably known than the firm of Coad & Coad, composed of Messrs. J. C. and E. F. Coad, hav- ing offices in the Was- atch building. Mr. J. C. Coad is a native of Pennsylvania and forty- six years of age. He first read law at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1870, and began to practice at Monlten, in the same State, remain- ing there about seven- teen years, when he re- mo v e d to Colorado, where he remained un- til about six months ago, when he came hither and became the senior member in a partnership formed with his brother who had preceded him about two and a half years. During his life he has held several prominent positions of trust and responsibil- i*y, one of the latter be- ing the office of assist- ant district prosecuting attorney for Colorado, which he resigned upon coming to this city. During the late civil war he enlisted in Iowa and served his country with honor and distiction for three years and three months. Fraternally he is a Mason of high standing, also a mem- ber of the G. A. E., and in National politics is an ardent republican. He is interested in Salt Lake realty and mines, and after some months of active and personal examination of the mining interests declares that the resources of this Territory are far in excess of those of the Dakotas and Colorado, which he also thorougly investigated. The junior member of the firm, Mr. Ed. F. Coad, is a native of Iowa and 35 years of age. He first read law in the office of his brother, J. C. Coad, at Moulten, Iowa, was admitted in Jan- uary, 1881, and began at once to practice in Seymour, Iowa; he remained there some time, when he removed to Lincoln county, Kas., where he located and soon secured a large patronage, but like many others, believing the far west offered better oppor- tunities to rise, he set his face in this direction, and after a brief sojourn in Colorado, arrived in Zion about two and a half years ago. During his residence in Lincoln county, Kas., he was prose- cuting attorney for that city and county, a position he filled with honor to himself and credit to the people who elected him. Mr. Coad is married and his wife and three children now call Salt Lake City home. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In National politics he is an ardent republican; locally he adheres to the liberals.

The firm is exceptionally strong and are deserving of their high class of patronage. They are both identified with the interests of the city and Territory, and are very confident of great prospects and growth in the future.

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HON. A. G. NORRELL.

There are no more interesting and instructive studies than the life histories of men who have made their mark in life, and have attained a position of trust and honor. This is more especi- ally the case in the Western country where success is gener- ally achieved only after a hard struggle ngainst opposing cir- cumstances. An example of this is to be found in the life of the Hon. A. Q. Norrell. This well-known and popular gentle- man was born in 185'J, at Jackson, Mississippi, and graduated from the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1876. In 1880 be began the practice of law at Yazoo City. Mississippi. In 1881, he was elected to the legislature from

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Yazoo county, Mississippi, and re-elected in 1883 and 1885 by the largest majorities on the democratic ticket. This fact alone, is an evidence of the high esteem in which he was held, as he bad only been a resident of the county a short time be- fore he was elected to represent its people in the halls of the legislature. After serving his constituents honorably and • •r-.i.t;tlily. he decided that the West offered more fruitful fields for his ambition, and In January, \M<, De landed in Salt Lake and began the practice of his profession. In June, of the same year, be was appointed United States Commissioner and has ever since been prominently identified with the city and her interests. He is well-known in politics as an uncompromising democrat and regarded as one of the ablest speakers in the Territory. He is a gentleman of the true Southern type, and a brilliant man in the profession which he has chosen.

ZANE & PUTNAM.

There are a number of members of the legal fraternity in Bait Unkn City specially deservim; ..r notir.. in a work of tlim character on account <>f their ability HIM! gentlemanly <|tialiflca- tions in the profusion which they have chosen. There are, |*r- haps, more yonng lawyers possessing onginHltalent for tlie prac- tx-Hiif their pursuit in Stilt I^ikeCity than in any other city »f tin siz« in the country, and prominent among the** are Messrs. Zane A Putnam, with offices in the ProgrtM building. John M. /line is a native <>f Springfield, III., and twenty-eight years of age. He received a common school f ducat ion in his unlive town, *nd afterwards graduated from t)><> I un.TMty <>f Michi- gan in 18H4. He removed to Salt Ixtke in the name year, where he began reading law willi hm father, Hon. < S. /.ime, and was :i.|n..itf.l in [.riii-i . <• in ;»-.' He has been engaged in several ini[Mirtant CMSTII in tin- city, prominent among which was Coke ke, on a question of illegitimate Mormon children N-iug entitled to inherit property. The question was decided by the

United States Supreme court in the affirmative, and the manner in which Mr. Zane handled the case, added considerably to liis prominence and standing in the profession. The gentle- man was clerk of the District court from 1884 to 1SST. u which responsible position he acquitted himself with great ability and credit. He has also occupied the position of court inspector for the Supreme court of Utah since 1889 up to the present time, ami has' been assistant United States district at- torney since 1889. For so young a man, he has held a number of important positions, all of which he has filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to all. In politics, Mr. Xane is a re- publican, nationally and locally. He in a young man of unusual promise and destined to rank among the legal celebrities of the West at no distant day.

Mr. Graham F. Putnam was born in the State of New York and graduated in the classical course of Columbia college, that State, in 1888. He began the practice of law in 1890, and has been very successful ever since. In national politics he is a democrat and locally a liberal. He is a young man of bright intellect, and has studied diligently to perfect himself in all the important points both of the common and statute law. The firm is a strong one, has a first-class library and is in the enjoy- ment of a lucrative and growing practice. They are entitled to the confidence of the public, and worthy of all patronage that may be accorded them.

J. E. DARMER.

The practice of law is in the natureof things an accomplish- ment that if chilli-nit to acquire, even by bard study. To be a successful lawyer, a man should possess those natural attri- butes that entitle him a front rank in the profession. Salt Lake City has as excellent an aggregate of legal talent as can be found in any city, of much larger population. Many of the

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fraternity are young men who came out here with a laudable •mbitkm to carve a name for themselves, and boats of them are succeeding. In the list of prominent young members of tin- bar of Salt l.nkf. Mr. .1. K. I tanner occupies a prominent posi- tion. He was born lit IWatnr. III., twenty five jears ago. and removed to Utah in 1890, and when- !•> tin- exercise of bis brilliant talents and a persevering character he has already secured a large and lucrative practice. He is a young gentle- man of fine address, well posted on all law points, and regarded as one of the ablest lawyer* in tl><> Territory. He i» withal very t-i'iiinl in his judgment and conscientious on all matters, both of a private and public character, in the profession and SB a layman. He baa elegant npartments in the Central Block, where be can be consulted during business hours by all in nwd of the services of a first class counselor.

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HON. ORLANDO W. POWERS.

Judge Orlando W. Powers "for many years has been one of the most conspicuous figures in Utah. His brilliant leadership of the liberal party has made him the leader of the Gentile people, while his graceful, picturesque and impassionate oratory, both on the stump and at the bar, has won for him the admiration of all lovers of the rostrum. His life has been so busy, so eventful, so crowded with interesting incidents that it is impossible to but touch upon some of the most important data in this brief review. Born June 16, 1851 on a farm at Pulkneyville, N. T., Orlando W. Powers started th» battle of life with but a common school education as his capital. Before he was twenty-one he had grad- uated from the law de- partment of the Michigan University. H i s first vote was cast for Horace Qreeley and the same year he was nominated by the democrats of the West Assembly district of Wayne county, New York, for the legislature, and defeated by a broth- er-in-law of Grover Cleve- land. In the spring of 1873 he was admitted to the Supreme court prac- tice of Michigan and en- tered the law firm of May <fe Buck at Kalamazoo, where he worked three months for his board. His services proved so valuable that he became a member of the firm — his share of the business being 8150 a year and "board, lie afterward suc- ceeded to the firm's busi- ness. In 1878 he was nominated by the dem- ocrats of Kalamazoo for prosecuting attorney, and ran 1200 ahead of his ticket. In the spring of 1880 he was elected vil- lage attorney by the dem- ocratic council, and in the fall of the same year was nominated for Con- gress by the democrats of the Fourth Congress- ional District; J. C. Bur- roughs, the present rep- resentative, being the re- publican candidate. In the convention, Judge Powers received fifty- eight out of sixty votes,

and in a hotly-contested campaign polled the largest democratic vote up to that time. He was made chairman of the democratic Committee in 1882 and carried the city. In 1882 he became an author by preparing a work on chancery proceedings ; which was followed in 1884 by " Power's Supreme Court Practice." In 1884 he was elected one of Michigan's four delegates-at- large to the National Convention and opposed the unit rule in an ablaand eloquent speech. This year he was made chairman of the Kalaina zoo County Campaign Committee and carried the county for the democrats. He was a member of every State convention from 1876 to 1885.

He was appointed Associate Justice of Utah by President Cleveland and sworn in on the 1st of May and assigned to the First District, with headquarters at Ogden, and tried the first of the Eleven Apostles ever convicted of polygamy. The great Bullion-Beck mining suit, which was one of the greatest mining trials ever known, was tried before Judge Powers, who held for the defendants. The agents of this powerful corpora- tion began a fight against his confirmation in the Senate and all adverse influences were brought to bear. Being satisfied that they would succeed in defeating his confirmation by a republican senate, Judge Powers placed his letter of resigna-

tion in the hands of the President. Judge Henderson was ap- pointed to succeed him. At this time Don Dickinson had a hard fight on hand in Michigan and he made Powers editor of the Grand Rapids Democrat, and his brilliant pen did valiant work. After six weeks he quit the editorial chair to accept an engagement from a lecture bureau, and is next found in Utah in a law office without a law practice, but with a few good friends. A year later he is next heard of in the harness with a luxurious practice and at the head of the liberal party. His distinguished services to his party and to his Territory during " times that tried men's souls " would make a volume of very interesting history. He was the idol of his party and to his

dexterous leadership and political tact, was ac- knowledged the series of victories which hastened the abandonment of polygamy and the dis- solution of the peoples' party. During the excit- ing political campaigns in Utah Judge Powers seemed ubiquitous, and like Napoleon, "flashed athwart the sky with me- teoric splendor, dazzling and astonishing the op- position by hip genius."

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LEE & POST.

Among the bright lights of the legal fraternity in Salt Lake City, the firm of Lee & Post, 52 and 53 Commercial block, are shining examples of what industry and persever- ance, backed by a full knowledge of the pro- fession, can accomplish. The gentlemen who are associated together in the practice of law, have a very rapidly growing pat- ronage, and are consid- ered authority on all matters relating to the profession. Mr. E. O. Lee was born in Canada, some thirty-six years ago. When quite young he re- moved to Illinois, where he was educated, read- ing law with Hon. Jas. Shaw, a prominent law- yer and politician of Mt. Carroll, that State. He afterward emigrated to Nebraska, settling in Sid- ney, where his merits soon obtained for him the largest land and commercial practice in that 'section of the State. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Sid- ney by the largest majority ever received in the county, and held this responsible position for two years. He also appeared in a number of cases before the U. 8. Federal court at Omaha, Neb., all of which he handled in such a masterly manner as to command the highest encomiums of praise from older mem- bers of the bar. In the order of secret societies, Mr. Lee is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias societies. In National politics, he is an ardent, and active member of the great republican party.

Mr. Jermain Post hails from the State of New York, and is forty years of age. He is a graduate of the State University of Madison, Wisconsin, of the class of 1879, and practiced law in that State for many years. He is a member of the Mystic Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the Methodist Church, and a pleasant and agreeable gentleman socially. In National politics, he is an active republican, and a liberal, locally. He is an eloquent speaker, a man of brilliant attainments, with bright prospects before him.

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C. O. WHITTEMOBE.

Among the prominent young members of the Salt Lake bar Mr. C. O. Whittemore is conspicuous for his ability and the valuable services that he has rendered the city. He is a native of Salt Lake, and thirty years of age. He read law in the office of Judge Van Zile, formerly United States Attorney for Utah, and for one year served as assistant city and county attorney, but resigned and finished his legal education at the Columbia Law School of New York, and began practicing the day he attained his majority, and has been employed as counsel in a number of important cases in the Territory, one of them,

most valuable citizens. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and in politics is a republican. Nationally and locally. He is married to a most estimable lady, formerly Miss Sarah L. Brown of this city, and has three children.

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the Cope case, being especially worthy of mention. The ques- tion at issue involving the rights of polygamous children to inherit the father's estate, and affected property throughout the Territory to the amount of several millions of dollars. He enjoys the distinction of having been one of the first Gentiles to be elected to office in Halt Lake City, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eighth School District. He is now attorney for the Brooklyn Real Kstnte and Loan Company, which holds property in the city to the value of over (500,000, also for the Garden City Improvement Company, heavily interested in the city and vicinity. About 1889. Mr. Whittemore, in conjunction with W. H. Shearman, influenced investments by Eastern cap- italists in property and loans in the city. Thus far they have placed nearly $1,000,000, and the gentlemen are still loaning Urge sums in response to demands made for same. While on an Eastern business trip Mr? Whittemore met Mr. Benson, and induced him to visit Salt Lake City, a visit that resulted in bmlilingof the Knutaford hot.-i. Mr. \Vhittemore will endeavor in the near future to influence the syndicate, for which be is the attorney, to erect several business blocks in this city, also to interest them in the building of the railroad to the Deep Creek Country, Pioohe, Nevada, and thence to the coast He has already secured the promise of a large amount of Eastern cap- ital, and it is well known there that the construction of tin* road would be a valuable factor in developing a rich mining and agricultural region, never yet traversed by the wheels of the iron horse. Mr. Whittemore is a stockholder in the Time* and one of the original founders of that paper, a republican organ, e«tahli«hed for the purpose of representing the resources and advantages of the Territory in a proper light, and to repel the attacks published against the people and the Territory by irresponsible writem.whieh M>nric« the paper has been the means of aoeotnplifthtng. Mr. Whittemore, from a life-long residence in Salt Luke, and a thorough acquaintance, by personal observa- tion of the resources of I'tnh, thinks it is greater in valuable products and undeveloped riches, than any adjoining States and Territories, not even excepting Colorado. He has done as Tini.-ti as *ny one person for the bust interests of Salt Lake and Utah, and is appreciated by all classes of people as one of her

O. H. HARDY.

Among the representative men of Salt Lake, Mr. O. H. Hardy stands preeminent. He is a pioneer of rtiih. ami received his early education in the public schools of Salt Lake City. He is also thoroughly an American, tracing his ancestry

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back to the landing of the "Mayflower" at Plymouth Kix-k. His tfrnndfather wan active in the Revolution, being one of the first men to take up arms against the British. His father and mother were both natives of Massachusetts, and many of his relatives still reside in that State.

Mr. Hardy began farming at the age of fifteen, following that occupation for several years, when he oame to Salt Lake City where be engaged as clerk with Taylor A- Cutler, remain- ing with that firm four years, during which time he acquired a thorough knowledge of merchiiiuliHiiig. He then began busi- ness on his own account, associating himself with his brother, L. ' i . Hardy, under the flrm name of Hardy Bros. They opened their establishment in 1882, but subsequently sold out to a stock comp.iny, retaining, however, the control of a large block of the stock. The venture prospered, and in 1891, when it again changed hands, and has since been conducted under the linn iiHiiif of Hardy, Young A Co. Mr. Hardy has always retained a controlling interest in the concern, and under his able direction the business has increased to an aggregate of nearly $100,000 per annum. His enterprise has been deserv- edly rewarded, and his keen business sagacity has invariably directed his money into profitable channels. Independent of Mtri<-th business pursuits be is an ardent admirer of fine-bred stock, and a few years ago purchased a ranch local*! in Utah county, containing some six hundred acres, which has since been mail.- l)i.< home of a large number of bones and cattle of a very superior breed.

He wan married in 1*7*. t" MINK K.Kther A. Marg«*tt<>. of thin city, a lady of rare araunpliKliment*. and IIIH family now con- sists of father, mother and three children. Mr. Hardy is I'lowly i<lentiti«.l with a niiinlHT of .-.ir[... ran. .us in Salt Lake exclusive of thcwe already mentioned, being .liroctor BIH! Mock- hoMer »f the I'tiih Commercial ami Savings Bank: director anil stockholder of the Burton < innlner ( '<>m|mny; also ntock- hol.ler in (he Deseret VitMtial Hank. Although without polit- ic*! aspiration* be was, in I880.i.|.«'l...| councilman for the Thin) precinct of Salt Lake <'ity. l.y an overwhelming majority. He represents the people of hi*' precinct to their entire satis- . and is daily gaining in popularity and reputation.

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A. J. PENDLETON.

A. J. Pendieton, eminent as a pioneer, a public spirited citizen and a member of the board of aldermen from the First precinct, is a native of New York State, where he was also educated, and passed the earlier years of his life. At an early day he moved west and in 1838 was a resident of the present city of Chicago. In 1845, however, he bade adieu to the Indian trading post with its whitewashed stockade, which has since been translated into one of the largest and most populous cities in the United States, and removed to Iowa, locating at Council Bluffs. Three years later he again "started West"

improvements to comport with the elegant buildings. In casting about for a man to fill this responsible position of chairman of the Board of Public Works, Mayor Scott fortnn- nately selected C. L. Haines. The wisdom of the selection has already been demonstrated by the careful attention and wise supervision exercised by that official over the construction of the Parley Creek conduit, a public work that will compare fa- vorably with the best masonry for like purposes to be seen in the East. Another public improvement of great importance under the control of the Board of Public Works is the paving of State Street, and the fine granite blocks already on the ground bespeak the high ^merit of the material selected for

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and upon reaching Salt Lake city opened, in conjunction with his brother, one of the first blacksmith shops in the Territory. His line of production included almost every article known to the craft from heavy saw-mill machinery to a rivert, and he succeeded in building up a large trade, which he still caters to, his son meanwhile having become his partner. In 1851, Mr. Pendieton was married to Miss Mary Spiers a most amiable and estimable lady who has borne him two children, a son and daughter, both of whom survive.

In 1890 he received the nomination for Alderman of the First precinct at the hands of the liberal party and was one of the number who were successful; since his election his ex- perience and ability have made him a most valuable represen- tative of his constituents. He has advocated some very im- portant measures among which was the establishment of a large public park in the beautiful spot known as City Creek Canon, which he conceived would be a most important feature for the beautifying of the city.

'By his own individual efforts Mr. Pendieton has accumu- lated an independence and has shown his confidence in the future of this city and Territory by investments and otherwise. He has not only the credit of being one of the pioneers but in addition, one of the city's most progressive and popular citizens.

C. L. HAINES.

In the building of American cities there are eras of great ac- tivity, during which time a large portion of the municipal im- provements are projected and constructed. In a few years vast gums of money are expended in improving streets, con- structing sewers and building a system of water works. For- tunate is the city that selects the right heads to manage its public works at these times, for through incompetent officials and bad construction millions of dollars of the tax-payers' money is wasted, and the public works, instead of reflecting credit to the city, will compromise its honor and pride. Salt Lake City has just entered upon an era of city building. The millions of dollars expended by the enterprising private citi- zens in massive business blocks and handsome private resi- dences has made a demand upon the city government for street

C. L. HAINES, Chairman Board of Public Works.

this work. During the paet year over eleven miles of sidewalk were built under the direction of the board, and the large side- walk districts already created indicates that during the coming year this good work will be prosecuted with even greater vigor than during the preceeding season.

Mr. Haines was born in New Jersey, January 17th, 1832, in which State he received his early education. When eighteen years of age his parents moved to Philadelphia and young Haines worked for many years in the coasting trade. He came to Utah in 1865 and worked for a mining company, but soon became connected with the Gilmer & Saulsberry Stage Com- pany, with which he remained for several years. lake moet of Salt Lake's enterprising citizens, Mr. Haines invested in va- rious mining enterprises and is now connected with the Yosem- ite No. 2. located in Bingham, in the West Mountain mining district. Mr. Haines is a man of dignified appearance, as his portrait indicates, and his generous sympathies have attached to him a wide circle of friends among the best business men of the city.

WM. G. VAN HORNE.

Among the prominent members of the Utah bar that com- mand the confidence and respect of the community of Salt Lake, there is none, perhaps, that occupy a higher position in this re- gard than Wm. G. Van Home. The gentleman was born in Fayeteville, Arkansas, and although but thirty-five years of age, possesses a knowledge of the law that very few men of hig age can lay claim to. He graduated at Brown University, Provi- dence, Rhode Island, in the class of 1877, and afterward read law with Bennett & Harkness of this city. He has been in actual practice for the past thirteen years and enjoys a lucra- tive and rapidly increasing patronage.

Mr. Van Home is a prominent member of the Masonic fra- ternity, and Grand Master Mason of the Territory. He is largely interested in the mines of the Territory. He occupies an elegant suite of rooms at 172 Main Street and possesses one of the finest libraries in Salt Lake. He is the legal advisor of many prominent commercial firms and mercantile houses of the city, and bis counsel is eagerly sought after by those need- ing legal advice and assistance.

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a P. ABMSTEONG.

Br. S. P. Armstrong is another of the younger mem- bers of the Salt Lake bar who, during his three years' residence in the city, has made himself prominent through the cases he has been engaged in. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and is now in his thirty-first year. His education was received in Ohio University and the Cincinnati Law School, from which institutions he graduated. lie began the practice of law in Newcastle, Pa., in 1887, and from that place removed to Seattle. Salt Lake offering better inducements he decided to change and came to Utah, in the courts of which he appeared as coun- sel in several important oases, lie was one of the attorneys in the case of the estate of Thomas Cope on appeal from the Probate court to the Third District court, Utah Supreme court and finally to the United States Supreme court. He appeared on the side for the polygamous child who won the case, which has been regarded as one of the most important ever tried in Utah, as it established a very important precedent. Mr. Arm- strong is single. He is a republican in National politics, a member of Phi Delta Phi of the law fraternity, and other socie- ties. He is regarded as one of the leading young men of the Salt Lake bar, and enjoys the confidence of all who have had business relations with him.

W. H. CROMER.

Mr. W. H. Cromer, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Pennsylvania, thirty-six years of age, a graduate in the class of 1883, of the National Normal School of Lebanon, Ohio, in the scientific and law departments, in both of which he distin- guished himself by the possession of the highest order of learn- ing. For fourteen years prior to his graduation he was a teacher of Latin and Greek; he subsequently retired from that position, however, and after some years passed in travel, in 1888 located at Denver, Col., where he was connected with C. T. Richardson, in the practice of the law, so continuing with good success, until attracted by the reports of Salt Lake City, he removed hither, arriving in this city about 1889. Upon lo- cating in Utah he found himself with a very small capital upon which to begin, but by judicious investment and close atten- tion to business he has come into possession of a large amount of real estate, and now pays taxes on $30,000 worth of prop- erty, being also interested in mines. He is an enthusiast on all subjects connected with the wonderful resources of this Territory and the future prospects of the city. His clientage is large and rapidly increasing, and he now ranks among the leaders of his profession.

HON. S. S. MARKHAM.

The subject of this sketch was born in Rochester, New York, thirty-three years ago. At an early age he decided to adopt the legal profession, and after completing a course at the Rochester University, entered the office of Danforth & Shep- pard of that city. After the expiration of the usual period re- quired, he was admitted to the bar of that city in ,.1884, and at once took rank with the leading attorneys. In this connectioa it may be stated that the senior member of the firm, when he received his legal education, was for along time associate judge of the court of appeals of the State of New York, and that he was considered one of the ablest jurists in the State. After a time Mr. Markham decided to follow the course of empire and turned his face toward the setting sun, settling in Dakota where he stood at the head of bis profession. , The fame of Salt Lake attracted his attention and be decided to locate here, coming hither about 1891, and since his arrival he has pros- pered, having built up a good success and a large clientage. ID politics he is a democrat nationally and a liberal in local is- sues. He is a benedict and has a very interesting family. Mr. Markham is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and is esteemed highly by all who know him. He occupies offices 82 and 88 Soott-Auerbach block. He has charge of a very large number of important cases involving money and property to a large amount.

HON. S. A. MERHITT.

Among the prominent attorneys of Salt Lake City, there is none that occupies a more favorable position or commands more respect in the legal world than Hon. H. A. Merritt. The gentleman was born in Augusta county, Virginia, August 15, 1828, and graduated from Washington College, (now \\ ashiug- ton and Lee University) in June, 1848. In 1H4!) he emigrated to California and settled in Mariposa county, of which he was elected clerk in 1H50. He resigned, however, in the fall, and was the same year elected a member of the general assembly and was re-elected in 1852. In 1858 he was admitted to prac- tice in the California courts, and in 1866 was elected senator from the sixth district, a position he held with honor to himself and credit to his constituanta for six years. A few years later he moved to Idaho, from which Territory he, in 1870, was selected M a member to the 42d Congress, where he served his conslit- uant« faithfully and acceptably for two yeara. Upon the expiration of Inn term of office, he came to Bait Lake, where he, resumed the practice of law with snob good effect that be soon became recognized as one of its most brilliant and accom- plished attorneys. With the advent of the liberal party into power in IKKI. he was appointed city attorney, a position In- held until the spring of 1802, when ill health compelled him I" resign and take a trip t<> tin- I'acitic coast, whence he returned much improved. Mr. Merritt is a man of wealth, a gentleman of honest convictions, a lawyer of remarkable force of charac- ter, and highly esteemed by all who have the honor of his ac- quaintance. He is a steadfast friend, an unmmprimng foe to all but honorable intentions, and a stern enemy of unscrapu Inns politician*.

BOOTH & GRAY..

Among the eminent army of legal talent that adorns the bar of Salt Lake, there is no more conspicuous firm of lawyers than Hiram K. Booth and J. G. Gray, the gentlemen of whom this sketch is the subject. The former is one of the United States commissioners for Utah, and whose biography in connec- tion with his official associates will be found in another column of this work. The firm make a specialty of commercial litiga- tion, including collections, and transact a large business. They are recognized as one of the strongest and ablest combinations in the ranks of the legal fraternity of the city, and have the unlimited confidence and respect of all who know them. Mr. Gray, the junior member of the firm, began the study of law in 1884 and was admitted to practice in 1887. He has resided in Utah for three years and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession during that time. The co-partner- ship was formed. March 1st, 1891. Their offices are eligibly located in the magnificent Commercial Bank building where they occupy rooms 64 and 65. Both these gentlemen are com- paratively young and are recognized as men who are thorough- ly identified with the best interests of the city and territory. They handle all legal matters entrusted to them with great skill and consequently their business has increased very rapid- ly since they came to Salt Lake Cit\ .

HON. J. W. JUDD.

Tin- Hon. .1. \\ . Jndd was born on a plantation in Simmer county, Tennessee, September 6, 1889. Upon the completion of his academic course he began the study of law in the office of his uncle, the Hon. J. C. Stark, an eminent advocate of Springfield. At the close of the war, during which Judge Judd served in the Confederate army, he was admitted to prnctice, and in May, 1H65, opened an office at Springfield, whence he was frequently summoned to Nashville in his professional ca- pacity and as counsel in rases involving the mont intricate ques- tions of law and equity. His learning, ability, eloquence, inti- mate familiarity with the disposition of mooted point* in the Courts of Chancery and common law throughout the United States, as also abroad, brought him into special prominence at the Tennessee bar, and he was appointed to the Circuit Bench of his native State, subsequently being made a Justice of the Supreme court. The decisions rendered in his judicial capaci- ties were models of elegant diction and legal acumen, hpcuring for their author an extended reputation, and establishing prec- edents in respect to legal principles that have since remained n n reversed. He has always been prominent in Masonic circle*. be-ing a Knight Templar, also a member of the Knights of I'ytliuiH and of the KnighUof Honor. Politically he is a dem- ocrat, ninl in 1HH4 served as an elector on the National demo- cnitic ticket. In 1888 he was apiiomted Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme court of 1 "tali, where IIIH administration of the trust was characterized by profound legal learning and judicial abilities of exceptional scope and rtwouine. !!•• re- signed his position in 1889 to resume the practice of law, to which be has since devoted his attention .fudge Judd is mar m- 1 . and his wife, a most charming woman with four children, complete his household.

MARSHALL & BOYLE.

The firm of Marshall & Boyle is composed of the best and most favorablyknown councillors at law in the Territory of Utah. The individual members are Thomas Marshall and Jonathan O. Royle, both natives of Kentucky. Mr. Marshall is fifty-six years of age, and has been a prominent attorney for thirty-four years. He has practiced before the courts of Montana and Utah, being a member of the bar of the latter for twenty-five years, with residence in Bait Lake City, and is universally esteemed as an able and fearless expounder of the law, a conscientious and skill- ful attorney, and one in whom the utmost confidence can be placed. In all the years that he has been in public life in Utah, there is no man that can say aught against the character and in- tegrity of Thomas Marshall. He has been employed in the most important cases that ever came before the Territorial courts and the skillful and successful manner evinced in handling the same, has won for him the highest encomiums of praise. As a citizen he is very highly esteemed and regarded, and numbers his friends by the score.

His partner Mr. Jonathan C. Royle is sixty-three years of age and has been in actual law practice for thirty-five years, and during that period in his capacity of an attorney, he has ap- peared before the courts of Wisconsin, Colorado, California, etc. For twenty-one years, Mr. Royle has been a prominent attor- ney in all the courts of Utah, and in that time has acquired a reputation as a law counselor, that reflects credit upon his abilities and talents, and renders him a conspicuous man among the legal fraternity of the West. He is liberal in all his busi- ness transactions, an untiring worker in behalf of his client, and conscientious withal in regard to the methods by which he may bring all his cases to a successful issue. In all the walks of private life, he is an exemplary citizen, and has a large fol- lowing of personal friends who are proud of his acquaintance.

The firm of Marshall & Royle is exceptionally strong, and those desiring the services of able counselors, can do no better than consult them. They are thoroughly reliable, and their advice apd judgment can be depended upon in all cases.

party and defended its principles zealously and effectively, and we look forward to the time in the near future, when his voice and influence shall be heard and felt in this commu- nity advocating and upholding the same true cause.

HON. L. H. EHODES.

Hon. L. R. Rhodes, the subject of this sketch, is probably one of the most distinguished lawyers practicing before the bar of Utah. His career in the legal profession has been a long and highly successful one, not only in the responsible official positions he has occupied, but in his record as a prac- ticing attorney. He was born in Licking county, Ohio, and is forty-three years of age. He commenced the study of law in 1868, in the office of Henipen Murphy, at Maringo, Iowa, studiously ap- plying himself to his work for three years, when he was admitted to the bar. In the same year he removed to Colorado and lo- cated at Fort Collins, where he continued the practice of law for eleven years, building up an extensive business and estab- lishing a well deserved reputation as an efficient and highly capable lawyer.

In the fall of '78 he was elected a member of the Colorado State senate. After serving iu that capacity for four years, he in 1883 removed to Denver, where, two years subsequently, he was elected district attorney on the democratic ticket. As a noteworthy fact in this connection, and to show Mr. Rhodes' exceeding popularity in Colorado, it may be mentioned that that district^ usually went^ three thousand; republican ma- jority.

During his term of office he tried many important and arduous cases, and among other things distinguished himself by convicting and executing the only man ever hung in the city of Denver. While engaged in private practice in Colo- rado he acted as attorney for the Cattegrowers Association of Denver, and also for the Colorado Mortgage Investment Co., of London, limited, besides many other leading corporations of that State. Mr. Rhodes remained in Denver until July, 1890, when he removed to Utah, and located first at Ogden. His superior legal talents and attainments at once brought him into prominence. While practicing in that city, he was re- tained as attorney for the Ogden Street Railway Co., the Ogden Waterworks Co., and Jarvis, Conklin Co., besides conducting an extensive general law business. In February, 1892, having been tendered several new and larger interests which necessi- tated his establishing headquarters at Salt Lake, he located in this city, and is now one of our most active and highly esteemed legal lights.

Independent of his law business, Mr. Rhodes takes a deep interest in politics, and being a staunch democrat and an eloquent and forcible public speaker, he has supported his

LEONABD G. HARDY.

Of the many public officials of this Territory there are noLe who are more prominent than Leonard O. Hardy, a nutive of Salt Lake City, thirty-nine years of age. His boyhood was passed amid the pleasant scenes which surround the beautiful city of his birth and education, and where he is well known as an enterprising business man. In 1880 he engaged in mercan- tile business, a"s one of the firm of Hardy Bros., which is now known under the name of Hardy, Young & Co., and whch now does an annual trade of nearly $100,000 in value. In 1887 he was elected to the office of Tax Collector of Salt Lake county, was re-elected in 1889, and is still serving the public in that capac- ity, performing his duties in a manner satisfactory to a large and exacting constituency. He is the son of Leonard W. Hardy, deceased, the first counselor to Bishop Edwin Hunter, the presiding bishop of the church of J. C. of Latter Day Saints, and in 1878 was united in marriage to Miss Marian Young, daughter of Brigham Young, late president of the church J. C. of L. D. S. As a result of this union they now have six bright children.

Mr. Hardy is one of the most prominent business men of Salt Lake City, being interested in several enterprises in addi- tion to the one already named. He has valuable real estate and mining properties in the city and Territory, and is also engaged in the breeding of standard trotting horses, and Jersey and Galloway cattle. This latter business has been in opera- tion for about three years. His ranch, located in the west side of the county, in the Hunter precinct, is finely equipped and represents an investment of about $'25,000. The stock has the best of care, and strict attention is paid to the breeding. He is also a stockholder in the Utah Sugar Company, of Lehi, one of the largest corporations of its kind in the United States, having in cultivation 2,300 acres of sugar beets. It is needless to say that Mr. Hardy is interested in the advancement of this city and territory; his investments above noted speak his confi- dence in the future prospects of Salt Lake City and Utah.

T. C. BAILEY.

For over thirteen years the name of Mr. T. C. Bailey, whose office is at 74 E. Fiist South street, has been a familiar one to the people of Salt Lake and Utah as a land and mining attorney. Mr. Bailey is fifty-five years of age and was born in Indiana, but has resided in Utah since 1874. He first became prominent as a real estate lawyer in Minnesota about 1856, where he remained until 1858, when he returned to his native state, settling at Yincennes, where he was elected city engineer, a position he held until the breaking out of the civil war, and serving throughout the entire struggle as a mem- ber of the 14th Indiana Infantry, of which he was adjutant, later the deputy provost marshal of Terra Haute, and in 1864 commissioner of enrollment for the 7th Indiana district. After the war he studied law under Hon. B. W. Thompson, at Terra Haute, and was city engineer there for several years also. In 1869 he located at Helena, Montana, as chief clerk of the sur- veyor general's office, remaining there until 1874, when he re- moved to Salt Lake, where he has since resided in the practice of his profession. He has handled successfully a large num- ber of land and mineral claim cases, served one year as dep- uty collector of internal revenue and in 1885 was appointed school trustee,— the second gentile incumbent of that office in Salt Lake. In his •profession the gentleman has no superior, his long experience having fitted him to cope successfully with the most intricate points that may arise in any case before the U. S. land department. He enjoys a large income from hie practice, is prominent in social circles and an active and influ- ential member of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce.

WALTER MUHPHY.

That the Weet is the region of country where the young men "get to the front," is evidenced by the fact that so many of them occupy responsible positions, both in business and official capacity. This is especially the case with young lawyers who have small chance of rising over the heads of older members of the fraternity in a country where in the nature of things the same old policy of years gone by is pursued. Among the prominent young men of the legal fraternity in Salt Lake, the subject of this sketch, Mr. Walter Murphy, occupies a leading position. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1861. an.1 in youth attended the academy at that place. He subsequently graduated from Yale College in 1882, and after-

ward attended the law department of the University of Penn- sylvania, where he graduated in 1884, and the same year began the practice of the profession in his native city.

Mr. Murphy is the present able county attorney of Siilt Lake county, having been elected on the liberal ticket in 1891. He has taken a leading part in all political matters of the Ter- ritory and has been an active supporter of the liberal party ever since he has been in Utah. Fraternally, he is a member of the P. O. 8. of A., and is a married man, his family consisting of a wife, formerly Miss Emma B. Parves, and one child. Mr. Murphy has been a resident of Salt Lake since 1888, and is re- garded as one of the rising young attorneys of the city. Soci- ally, be is agentleman highly esteemed and regarded by all who know him.

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OGDEN CITY

|^^^O city in the United States of equal population, com- fc ^ mercial importance and material wealth is more I f generally known, perhaps, to the world at large than the city of Ogden. And though her history is not altogether disassociated from romantic incident, her growth and development have been carried forward from their incep- tion with an energy and determination worthy of the suc- cess to which the city has since attained, as also in the nature of a guaranty of her future stability. Competition has always prevailed among western cities; but spite of this Ogden, or "Junction City," by which name she has also been known, has evei maintained her precedence, escaping the net of discour- :i;'.i -merit, defeat and disaster into which contemporaries had been ensnared: because, like the net of Penelope, it was never woven. Who can tell?

The story of the conception, birth and growth of the "Queen City of the Mountains" is so intricately associated with the history of Utah that it is difficult to determine where the line

of dernarkation begins or ends. The progress of the city has been rapid, however, during intervening years, and fortune has come laughing through the strife with all her gorgeous cheer.

The early settlement of the present city's site was contem- poraneous with that of Salt Lake City. The hardy pioneers who came hither for the purpose of creating anew world, so to speak, laid a most substantial foundation, upon which has since been erected a superstructure embodying the most per- fect proportions, and giving promise of one of the grandest and most prosperous of cities within the limits of a Territory that, within the near future, will be invested with the rights and priv- ileges of statehood.

The geographical location of this city has unquestionably contributed to the growth of Ogden, and with the efforts of a population that have been as unceasing as they have been effective, has formed a combination against which no powers could successfully prevail. The city, it is said, was early deter- mined upon as the general distributing point of the Territory,

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and the most desirable point from which to establish direct communications with other portions of the country, contiguous and remote. And when in H»',!t, though at that date Ogden wa- Imt a sparsely settled community, railroads halted at Junc- tion City, the foresight of the settlers was vindicated and con- confirmed a fact more publicly and eloquently acknowledged in the prosperity apparent and the advance she is making in the direction of wealth and importance. True, the year last past was characterized by sluggishness in busine.-s lines; but the same conditions obtained in older and more experienced -ei tinns, and notwithstanding the embargoes referred to, Ogden continued to progress, to avail herself of opportunities, and to otherwise grow in strength and importance.

endless varieties. A few miles distant the Ogden and Weber canons divide the mountains, through which the Ogden and Weber Rivers flow perpetually, whence, uniting below the city, they empty into the lake. Extensive preparations are being made to utilize the water power to be obtained from the-e riv- ers, and the next few years will doubtless witness the erection of mills and manufactories for the appropriation of a motive power so inexpensive and simple.

Wonderfully improved farms, some of them, however, of limited acreage, are located in the immediate vicinity of the city. The soil is of unexcelled fertility, and the thrifty anil industrious class of citizens who occupy them gather bounteous harvests. An imperfect idea of the fertility of the soil in the

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the latter mountain pass that the Union Pacific railroad enters the valley.

Some of the most completely equipped bathing resorts to be found in the United States are located upon the shores of the great Salt Lake, within easy distance of Ogden. Among the most popular of these is Lake Park, which is visited during the bathing season by residents from all parts of the world.

Eight miles north of the city are the celebrated Hot Springs, rising at the base of the Wasatch mountains. The waters have a temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit, and possess

the winters genial, and the summers exempt from the exces- sive heat characteristic of this season further east and further west.

As a business center there is little left to be desired, so hap- pily blended are the conditions promotive of success in the various walks of mercantile and productive industries. Com- plete facilities, an abundance of raw material, a comprehen- sive system of railroads, reliable and skilled labor, good wages, and other incidents essential to economic production make the city desirable for the location of manufacturing plants. The

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remedial qualities of the highest order. Salt, iron, nitre, mag- nesia, and soda are present in strong solution. They flow upward of 156,000 gallons every twenty-four hours, and each gallon contains about 300 grains solid matter. The improve- ments located here consist of a bath house with capacity to accommodate from three to four hundred patrons. The main pool is 166x204 feet in dimensions; there is also a private pool commodious and convenient for ladies, and individual bathing apartments for subscribing patrons. A fine hotel is enriched in the grounds proper, affording genteel and and con- venient accommodations to guests, and many distinct features of excellence, such as drives, etc., are present in all directions. CLIMATE. The delicious climate for which Utah is noted is a part of the daily life at Ogden. Pulmonary diseases are unknown and those suffering from their presence are almost immediately relieved, and in a majority of instances perma- nently cured. Humidity in the atmosphere is never percepti- ble; the weather is equable, extremes being scarcely known;

banking capital is commensurate with the needs of the service, and is managed with a degree of ability that enlists universal commendation. Public improvements are constantly being made. Trade never languishes. The press is aggressively enterprising, society progressive, the hotels and places of public resort numerous and desirable. Taxes are nominal, and the government of the city is well administered. Wholesome police regulations are enforced as the statistics of crime dem- onstrate. The learned professions stand high. The sciences of law and medicine may boast of talent and skill, while the clergy is represented by men of learning and eloquence. In short, very little seems to be necessary to the rapid attainment of a position of prominence and prosperity little short of per- fection,

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police and fire depart- ment, supplied with all requisite equipments and appliances essential to a successful administration of the affairs committed to the respective custody of each. The matters of sewerage, water works, the schools, public parks, libraries, street railways. and other adjuncts of a well-regulated munici- pality, arc in competent hands, and the several duties are so discharged as to merit public ap- proval. During the past year a substantial ad- vance has been made in every department within the jurisdiction of the city overnment. Pave- ments have been made, streets and avenues laid out and prepared for ser- vice; provision for the support of the schools has • been perfected; many miles of electric railway, costing nearly one million of dollars, have been put in o|«-ta tion, and a vast number of permanent improve- ments of a miscellaneous

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Tur c'm SCHOOLS. The residents and tax- payers of i (gden those indeed who not only bear the heat and burden of the battle, but those also who participate in and IICIH 'lit bv the victory, so to speak, take espe< ial pride in the schools and educational facilities pro- vided for the youth. llu -vstem which obtains there is simple, reliable. v< and most bene- ticial; its management liberal, enterprising and productive of results ad- vantageous to the pupils and to the public. I'ntil according to an author on the subject, the schools were maintained partly by subscription and partly by taxation. In the last named yi-ai. however, the free school system was adopted, and lias met with a very pro- nouncrd -n, c ess. Their gradation and equipment have since been perfec- ted, and they now occu- py an enviable position and reputation. School* twenty-five in number, are located in the various wards, in addition to a high school, and com- petent teachers have been emploved who devote their entire time and attention to the cause. The branches taught em- brace all degrees, from primary to classical and advanced, and

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thoroughness in each inferior grade is made a condition precedent to advancement. The attendance for 1890 is stated to have been in the neighborhood of twenty-two hundred. That for the following year was measurably greater. In the latter year $100,000 worth of bonds were voted for and carried, with the proceeds of which larger and more conveniently appointed school houses will be erected, and the curriculum in each will be improved.

The private schools available are not less important factors in the cause of education. They are of the highest order of merit, are admirably conducted and numerously patronized.

priest and poet for nearly nineteen centuries, and each suc- ceeding year has witnessed its adoption and practice by increasing numbers. Almost every creed and sect is located in Ogden, including the Episcopalians, Roman Catholic, Presby- terian, Congregational, Methodist, Baptist and Mormon, and all of these report steady additions to their respective rosters of membership. The houses of worship are commodious and convenient, and the improvements completed within a com- paratively brief period are notable, and embrace the Presby- terian church, erected at a cost of $35,000; the Baptist church, erected at a cost of $10,000; Methodist Episcopal church, cost-

BESIDENCE OF COL. PEBCIVAL J. BABBATT. PHOTO BY NEWOOMB BEOS.

Among these are the Ogden Military Academy, opened Octo- ber 1, 1889, near Five Points. An able corps of teachers is employed, and the course of study is designed to fit students for college. The New West Academy, established in 1883, employes five or more teachers, while the range of studies is from primary to collegiate. Also the Sacred Heart Academy, Congregational Academy, Utah University, Weber Stake Aca- demy and a number of others, each of superior merit. The enrollment is large and the average daily attendance corre- >|i(ni(liiigly gratifying as to numbers.

The schools in their entirety, both city and private, have earned for themselves a name for effectiveness, at home and abmad, which will be the pride of citizens to uphold when those who are now engaged in the work will have long passed from the stage of action.

Tnu'CiTY CHURCHES. Like a heavenly vision the liL'ln «»l cftristianity sheds its beneficent rays upon all orders ;in«l conditions of the human family. Time cannot mar its brilliancy, nor can its progress be limited or restrained. The Go |n-l of the Divine Nazarene who, far down in the vale of liallikr, ^pukc as never man spake, has been the theme of

ing $50,000; Episcopal church, $10,000; Congregational church $7,000. The Roman Catholic society is now building a church edifice that, when completed ready for occupation, will repre- sent an outlay of between sixty and seventy-five thousand dollars.

A statistical table recently published shows that there are seven religious denominations domiciled in Ogden, owning prop- erty estimated at $465, 000 in value, and possessing a total mem- bership of 1890. The Mormon church owns property assessed at $36,000, and has a very large following.

THE CITY BANKS. Ogden is supplied with very complete and admirably conducted banking facilities. The city now has eight banks with a total capital of more than one million dol. lars, and totals of surplus and undivided profits aggregating nearly one-half that amount. All of them are reliable in the highest degree and their clearings frequently reach five hun- dred thousand dollars per week. They are intimately associ- ated with the mercantile, productive and manufacturing interests of the city, and valuable and powerful allies in the building up and extending of every deserving enterprise.

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Safety deposit vaults, provided with substantial and secure facilities for the storage of valuables, are also available.

WHOLESALE AND JOBBING TRADE. The unsurpassed loca- tion of Ogden as a distributing point is nowhere more plainly demonstrated than in the magnitude of her wholesale and job- bing trade. Quoting from a late issue of the Joarnal of Com- merce: "The demand for supplies of various kinds from surrounding towns has and that

these demands have been made on almost every leading mer- chant in the city for job lots. And in this way nearly every promi- nent dealer has been led into doing some wholesale business in connection with his retail transactions" The same authoriu announces that on January 1, 1K91, there were eight houses in Ogden doing a jobbing trade at the rate of $7.181,049 the year. ( )f these, two sold at the rate of $7.50,000 per year; six al the rate of $300,000 and over, and the balance

at lesser rates. Later advices indicate that the city's jobbing trade is nearly $9,000.000, Conducted by about one hundred houses, each of which has :•" annual trade of $90,000, the .m-.i covered by the trade comprising Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Montana and Idaho.

The retail trade is flourish- ing, and each year witnc steady and permanent improve- ment in all its lines.

The Tcoplc's Life Associa- tion of Utah, organized during the present year, for the mutual tit of members, is in active operation.

liu CMAMBEK

MERGE. The necessity of com- bined effort for the improve- ment of the city from an industrial standpoint, as also for the extension of it-, mihicm e as a commercial metropolis, gave birth to the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Ogden. And although it* organ isofrecent date, the gentlemen who compose its memlx •

by their rideliU to the objects for which the ASM* utmn w.is created, have rcvilved it into a powerful fa< tor. Tli< present position is largely due to the unremitting and eft' work of members, ami many of the new cotiimcp i.il .mil imliis trial establishment^ »hnh h.ive located in I >gden. ha\i induced to make the venture through their int)iien< e. The officers and influential member* of the organisation are leading and influential citizens, men of wealth, influence and posi-

RESIDENCE OF WM. DRIVER. PHOTO BY NIWOOMB HBOS.

IIKH1DKNC1 OP MAYOR W. II. TURNER. Pnoro. BT NBWOOMB Bion.

tion; the .class of men with whose aid and encouragement no great undertaking ever lapses.

The Produce Exchange and Real Estate Exchange, the objects of both of which arc explained in their rcspt titles, are equally important in their several fields of endeavor, and form a combination advantageous to the city in all its diverse relations.

THE CITY MAM - FACTTiu us. The im- portance of Ogden as a manufacturing city- is toopotcntto require elaboration. Indeed, those even indifferent- ly acquainted with the subject concede that the city is destined to become one of the greatest industrial centers in the West. All that seems neces- sary to be done to hasten the desirable consummation is to direct the attention of capitalists and artisans to the sup- erior locality and in- finite resources to be utilized in the behalf indicated. The local supply of raw material is unlimited, fuel is

cheap, means of carriage convenient, and accessibility to the markets of the world unrivaled. The very large numi manufacturing plants now operated in the city limits ate daily growing in magnitude and importance, and the number isannually increasing. Tlv total cost of manufacturing a ton

of iron, for example, i- $13.00, it costing just double that figure to lay it down in Ogden from Birmingham, Ala.. to say nothing of the advantages accruing from the working of home mines. The vicimtv oi Ogden also furnishes abun- dant material for the manufac- ture of glass. Sand of the proper i onsistcncv for this purpose costs from scventy- ints to one dollar p< r yard, and i o.d liom one to three dollars per ton. In tins connection it may be stated that negotiations are now pending between the Ogden Chamber of Commerce and S ork i .ipitalists for the

lo< ation of glassworks in the former cit\. The I 'tali < '.in- ning Company funii lustve proof in the premises. It was organ i red in 1«5K), with a • apital of $.M n 1,1 • « i ; but the . of ti.ide has been SO rapid and profitable that the i oinpanv has been i (impelled to add \ei\ m.iti nallv to its fai iltties and within the ensuing two or r - the •Hi which improveii» made will be cntircly.dcvotcd to buildings for the a« ommodation of the

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business. Another addition to the industrial plants lately located is the Hall & Brown Wood Working Machine Com- pany, of St. Louis. The Chamber of Commerce was instru- mental in securing this valuable acquisition, and when in full operation the business will require the services of several hun- dred experienced and accomplished mechanics, beside a numerous following of subordinates and clerks.

An enumeration of the lines of productive industry that could be located at Ogden with profit to "all concerned" would be a difficult task. In addition to those already established the following may be designated: The manufacture of iron ore into pig iron, and that of pig iron into wrought iron and steel; foundries, blast furnaces, stoves, barb wire, car wheels, leather and morocco, boots and shoes, saddlery and harness; sash, doors and blinds ; hats and caps, cloths and flannels, fruit boxes, canned meats, soaps, glycerine, candles, etc., etc., and the thousand and one commodities used in daily consumption. All these and more are urgently needed. To the question "What is the extent of the market?" the reply is made: Ogden com- mands a section of the country not sup- plied by San Fran- cisco and Portland on the west, or by Den- ver, Kansas City and Chicago at the east. The facilities, trans- portation, resources, etc., of Ogden being unlimited, the city offers every induce- ment to establish- ments of this charac- ter, and the openings awaiting preemption are as promising as they are desirable. The capitalist desir- ous of investment, the mechanic of em- ploying skill, or the laborer ambitious 'of securing good wages and cozy homes will be benefited by making an investigation.

RAILROADS. As already stated, Ogden possesses direct communication with all parts of the United States, in this respect occupying a position at once commanding and unap- proachable. The city has seven distinct lines of railway con- tributing to her progress and wealth. Three of these are trunk lines and four branch roads. New York, Chicago and other eastern points are reached by the Union Pacific, also points in Oregon and Washington; Montana and Wyoming by the Utah & Northern; California by the Southern Pacific; Eastern Utah and Colorado by the Rio Grande Western and Denver & Rio Grande; Southern Utah by the Utah Central and its branches. The total mileage of railroads having their termini at Ogden approximates five thousand miles.

IVm.ir lJi-ii.i)iN(;s. Ogden is already noted for the num- ber and value of its public buildings. These embrace the Grand Opera House, which cost §150,000, exclusive of the grounds; the building of the Utah Loan & Trust Company, costing a similar amount; the Reed hotel building, represent- ing a total outlay of §206,000; the Utah and Woodmansee block, $75,0000; the Boyle block, §50,000; Wright block, §40,- 000; Union depot over §400,000, and 3 number of others,

Within the two years last past more than three millions of dollars have been expended in buildings. Eighty-six business blocks and stores have been erected, at a cost of §656,895; eight hundred and twenty-three residences, at a cost of §1,113,- 314; the railroad companies having expended §436,200; and churches and school houses §320,000. Comment would be superfluous.

PRIVATE RESIDENCES. The citizens of Ogden have erected private residences which, in nearly every instance, are the homes of luxury, refinement, and attractive surroundings. The material employed is of the best quality, the structures are architecturally handsome, and many imposing and costly. The interior decoration, furnishings and conveniences are both elegant and adaptive, and the equal in all respects to those of a similar character in the more populous and pretentious cities of the east and west.

Society has passed the transition period, and is composed of educated and refined men and women. Secret societies also

flourish, being com- posed of Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Sons of St. George, Forresters, P.O. S. of A., National Union, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers, Brotherhood of Firemen and Order of Railway Conduc- tors; thirteen lodges in all, holding regular sessions in splendidly equipped and cen- trally located quar- ters.

REAL ESTATE. The increase in val- ue of real estate in Ogden, during the year 1891, was sub- stantial and perma- nent. The aggregate of sales during the

same period amounted to about ten millions of dollars, show- ing a marked increase. This was not the result of any special "boom," though due in a measure to investments made by new-comers. A significant feature of transactions in realty' is the limited number of mortgages on file, and the further fact there are very few, if any, foreclosures. Title to Weber County lands was originally derived from the United States; the city lands being patented by the Mayor of Ogden under the "Town-site Act," owners obtained title from the mayor, and in the quarter of a century during which such action has been had, no question has ever been raised, involving titles thus obtained, legally or equitably.

THE PRESS. The press of Ogden has ever fulfilled its special province as the formulator of public opinion and the conservator of public morality and private rights. The Stand- ard, a daily and weekly, republican in politics, is conceded to be one of the leading puclications in the Territory. It is con- ducted in a manner to edify and instruct, upon the most liberal plane, and according to methods deserving of emulative imi- tation. The news of the day is ably presented; the issues of parties equitably treated and devoid of personalities, while its make-up and appearance is so attractive as to make it a pat-

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tem of typographical art. The Standard meets with substan- tial support from a large and discriminating constituency, and is growing steadily in circulation and influence. The \\',-<t,-nt Knight, the organ of the Knights of Pythias, and several other weeklies and monthlies, are also issued in the city, and furnish reliable intelligence on subjects to the discussion of which they are severally devoted.

THK 1-t T KK. I'ntil recently Ogden has not been regarded as specially a mining city. But the opening of the La Plata mining district, and the almost daily discoveries of new and

valuable ledges of ore, promise so much that the liveliest hopes arc entertained of Ogden becoming a mining center of \ cry considerable importance in the near future. Thus is an addi- tional source of rapid growth and development is offered to a city the surroundings, resources, of which— present and ad- vanced— make certain a future wherein the arts, sciences, and material interests will be utilized successfully, and the pro- >f the city and her people be as substantial r^nd rich with blessings, as it hitherto has been wonderful.

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MANUFACTURES IN UTAH.

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Utah ie situated in the center of the States and Territories west of the Missouri river, and has the advantage of being within easy reach for manufactured goods of the markets of Nevada, Idaho, eastern Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado and Mon- tana, New Mexico and Arizona. It is a certainty that manufacturers in Utah can depend on a market for their goods to a population of about two millions, and more than that amount in some manufactures. The population of newly set- tled countries has not had the time for more than the accumu- lation of labor to provide themselves with homes and a few of the comforts of life, and the great wealth that is lying in the undeveloped resources of Utah may be said to be untouched for the want of capital. It may be a work of time for Utah to accumulate enough of capital to partly manufacture for her people, leaving it open for capital to invest here at vast profits and quick returns. In Pittsburgh the manufacturer of iron is content with one to two dollars a ton profit, while in Utah iron can be manufactured for 817 per ton, and the lowest price for the poorest pig iron now brought here is 827 per ton, leav- ing a clear profit of $10 per ton. In the manufacture of win- dow glass, good glass sand can be had at an expense of hauling, limestone the same, plenty of fire clay, and soda from 86 to 810 per ton. Glass can be manufactured here in Utah at the same price as in the East, with the advantage to the manufacturer that it can be sold for twenty-five per cent, more, or the expense of freighting it here.

Utah produces double the products of the farm and range that she consumes, therefore the price of living is cheap, labor reasonable, and the present agricultural products of Utah would support double her present population. Manufacturing would benefit the farmer in that he would find a market for his crop, at home, instead of having to freight it 1000 miles to find sale for his surplus.

There is a. belt of coal running from the north of Utah to Castle Gate, in Emery county, and northern Utah has plenty of cheap fuel for manufacturing, besides natural gas that has been found on the borders of the Salt Lake.

Utah being mountainous, all her rivers and creeks have a fall of from 2,000 to 6,000 feet, and water power can be obtained in the distance of a mile on those rivers at a fall of 100 to 500 feet, generating a. power on same of 100 horse, and on the largest of from 4,000 to 8,000 horse power.

Utah produces gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, coal, clays of numerous kinds, wool, hides, etc., and all the products of farm- range and dairy natural to same latitude; has a delightful cli- mate, and there is not over one month in the year that outdoor work has to be discontinued.

Manufacturers can see the advantages of Utah, where with the raw material cheaper than in the Eastern States, labor at about the same price and a market of 2,000,000 people that at present pay a tariff of from one to three thousand miles freight on their goods, because all our manufactured goods, with very little exception, has to be shipped here. We ship in immense quantities of stoves, cast and bar iron, while we have the ore and coal to manufacture cheaper ourselves. We ship out our gold, silver, lead and copper ore for the want of proper smelting and reduction work. We ship the bulk of our hides and wool East, and import our boots, shoes and woolen goods because we have not enough of tanneries or woolen mills, and more could be enumerated; in fact, we imported glazed pipe for draining our largest cities, when we had the material close by to have made far better pipe. The fairest field in the world for manufacturers is Utah. V. D. JONES.

COREY BROS. & CO.

Next to the government, railroads are the largest institution in the world. Performing as they do a vital function in the affairs of men, the greatest importance attaches to their proper and substantial construction to insure safety and speed in the transportation of passengers or freight. These desiderata are intrusted to the skill and fidelity of the contractor to secure. He must be a man of superior ability and unerring judgment, as also perfectly familiar with the details of the work, possess- ing a long and varied experience, and able to undertake and manage any department of the business. Enjoying a reputation based upon the intimate familiarity of members of the firm with every branch of this intricate art, Corey Bros. & Co., of

2432 Washinigton avenue, are well known as among the most influential and extensive railway contracting companies west of the Missouri river. There is scarcely a road traversing the western country that has not entrusted the construction of some portion of its line to this company. Since the business was established in 1881, the firm has built section after section of road-bed and track on the lines of the Oregon short-line, Northern Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific in Washing- ton and Idaho, also on the Idaho branch of the Union Pacific, the Chicago & Northwestern, and Burlington & Missouri in Wyoming, on the Colorado Midland, Hio Grande Junction and Rio Grande Western, aggregating hundreds of miles that have stood the test of the most exacting service. The firm is now employed in the construction of forty miles of the Bear river canal, in the prosecution of which work a force of two thousand men is employed — indeed, nearly that number of men have been constantly in the firm's employ for the past ten years. The business for that time aggregates over $10,000,000.

The firm was originally made up of W. W., C. J. and A. B. Corey, three brothers of an extended experience in the business, but in 1887 Messrs. E. O. and W. H. Wattis were admitted as members, since when, operations have been conducted under the firm name of Corey Bros. & Co.

Through years of devotion to their work, each of these gen- tlemen has become practical and proficient in the business. Their untiring energy and indomitable perseverance, supple- mented by a natural ability of a high order for directing and engineering work on a large scale, have especially fitted them for the services to which they devote their energies, and gained for them the confidence, esteem and good opinion of railway projectors throughout the country.

They are now making preparation to prosecute their work on an even greater scale; are provided with an outfit, one of the largest and most complete of any firm in the country similarly engaged, and are prepared to execute contracts expeditiously and upon terms proportioned to the value of the services rendered.

THE HENDERSHOT ABSTRACT OFFICE.

There is no feature entering into real estate transactions of more vital importance to all parties concerned, than a perfect title. Property holders cannot sell their property without a perfect abstract showing its history from the time it was first obtained from the government, and prospective purchasers will not buy unless such authentic record is furnished. It is of equal importance to the intermediate agent who seeks to effect the transfer. If the contracting parties cannot come to terms his interest in the deal is lost, and in every instance the services of the abstractor must be obtained to examine and pass upon the title.

The Hendershot Abstract Company, located at 2414 Wash- ington avenue, is no doubt the leading abstract concern in Weber county. Their books are complete and accurate, and contain a full record of every piece of property in the county up to date. Each of the members of the firm, F. J. Hendershot, C. A. Hendershot and J. C. Hendershot, are men who have devoted themselves for years to the business of searching rec- ords, examining titles, issuing deeds of conveyance, etc. Every new addition to the city is immediately entered upon the books of the company/and applications for abstracts are attended to promptly.

The company was organized in March, 1890, and is already doing a remarkably large business, which shows the com- petency and reliability of the members, as well as the satisfac- tory and meritorious work they are doing.

The Hendershot Abstract Company are the only firm whose abstract shows a plat of every piece of land transferred. The intricate courses found in the surveys of Ogden, and of Weber county, make these plats an absolute necessity to the party who has once obtained an abstract upon this plan.

OGDEN ABSTRACT COMPANY.

When investors are seeking for investments in real estate in any city or town, and eventually purchase, the next important move to make is to secure a reliable firm to examine the title, and to make a deed of conveyance of the same, so that they may feel well assured that when it is done it will be well and thoroughly done. One of the most reliable firms engaged in this line is the Ogden Abstract Company. It was incorporated

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in 1883, and is now doing one of the largest lines of business of any company in the county, in searching records and furnish- ing abstracts of title to land, as a steady application to the wants of patrons, thorough acquaintance with the city and county, and a complete line of abstracts, enable them to ac- commodate all applicants with promptness. It is safe to say that hundreds of people investing in Ogden realty are not per- sonally acquainted with any of its conveyancers. To such it can be said '•yon will make no mistake in committing your busi- ness to the Ugden Ab- stract Company," which is thoroughly responsible for all its acts, officially or otherwise. The company owns as complete a set of abstract books as are to be found in the county, kept fully written up and compared, containing a chain of title to all tracts <>f land in Weber county, including all the latest divisions and subdivi- sions. The company keeps in its employ a full corps of expert abstract men, working continuously, making abstracts, writing np deeds, mortgages. bonds, etc., to be recorded with the register of deeds. The company is com- posed of the following- named gentlemen: C. C' Kicbarus, president; R. U'lbinson, vice-president; \V. I;. Swan, secretary; Daniel I lamer, treasurer, and manager. They have large and commodious office rooms in the First National bank building, corner of Twenty-fourth street and Washington arenne, and any one de- siring to have any busi- ness transacted in their line will do well by calling on them, with the full assurance that they will receive courteous and kind attention, and their work be honestly and faithfully done.

. bjr Nowcotnb Bro*. E. A. REED.

K. A.

The city of Ogden ha* furnished her fnll share of enterpris- ing men. Among them is Mr. H. A. Keed, founder of the Reed hotel. He is thirty-five years of age, was born in I. !-!••. Broom conntv, N. Y., graduated at Little Academy, and, at the early nge of seventeen, engaged as clerk in one of the leading estah- hhlimenU of that city. He followed this occupation for two years and then engaged in the l>ook and stationery business for himself. At the age of twenty one he accepted a position as traveling salesman fora prominent manufacturing concern of Syracuse, New York, in which capacity he continue^ for over a year, when he resigned the position and started for the Hlack Hills, Dak. There he followed ranching for a year and then removed to Lsadville, Colorado, and re-engaged in the i*M>k bimmwM. Not content with ordinary success, however, he again shifted his occupation, and for two years traveled through Oregon an<l California buying sheep. I li.T- ••••ing no railroad facilities in Oregon at that time, many drawbacks and difficulties were encountered, bat he succeeded in returning with some fifteen thousand head, disposing of a portion of t|i>. herd in the northern part of Wyoming and bringing the balance

on to Cheyenne. While in the latter city, he started the Chey- enne l>'ii!i/ Leader, now one of the prominent journals of Wy- oming, but sold out and invested in the furniture and carpet business, there being a splendid opening for such an enterprise. Mr. Reed continued in that business for five years, establishing a large and extensive trade throughout the Territory, and mak- ing out of the venture quite a sum of money. His judgment and business ability are superior, and whenever a fair promise of building up a successful and profitable mercantile enterprise

presented itself, he never hesitated in changing his avoca- tion and entering new fields of labor. To this fearless and courage- ous spirit may be at- tributed much of his success in life, and while most men can only achieve desirable ends through close ap- plication to some par- ticular branch of in- dustry, the versatile nature and varied abil- ities of others enables them to embark in any legitimate enterprise and feel assured of abundant success.

^jfc • From Cheyenne Mr.

Reed came direct to Ogden, where all his interests and efforts have since been cen- tered. The enterpris- ing spirit and thor- ough-going business qualities he has exhib- ited, and the implicit confidence he places in the future of the city and Territory is clearly indicated in the costly buildings he has erec- ted, which are monu- ments of the city's growth and prosperity. Mr. Reed is the buil<li>r and owner of the Reed hotel, one of the finest and most magnificent structures of the kind in the West. He also erected the Vendome hotel building, and

owns a large amount of

I:IH> valuable property in

different parts of the city. In addition to this he owns 280 acres of land along the Union Pacific track near the city, also half interest in <>40 acres on the bench directly north of Ogden. All this land is of great value, and as the city grows, will be utilized for residence purpose*. Since first commencing to handle realty in this city, Mr. Keed has transferred over $1,000,000 worth of property.

It is through the instrumentality and meritorious work of such men as Mr. Reed that < >gden is what she is today, a met- ropolitan center of the intermonntain region. an<! it would be, beyond question due to these came men of wealth, thrift and enterprise, that the city forges ahead still farther in the future, outstripping all competitors in the race for supremacy.

JUNCTION CITY CORNICE WORKS.

Among the induHtrie* devoted to the work of beautifying bui IdingH, none have made more rapid advances or introduced a greater variety of new novel ideas, than Hume devoted to I lie in inufni't ure of cornices, etc. In the Junction City Cornice WorkH. located opposite the oity hall, Ogden, is specially pro-

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vided with an institution of this character, as complete in all its departments and capable of turning out as fine and merito- rious work as any concern of the kind in the West. The enter- prise was first established seven years ago by H. J. Newman, who has since been succeeded by B. P. Newman, Wm. E. New- man and M. L. Newman all young men skilled and experienced in the special lines of business to which they are devoted. The premises occupied consist of a building 20x100 feet in dimensions, provided with every arrangement and convenience for the prompt execution of orders, for ornamental work, tin roof- ing, and eaves-spouting, all of which are made specialties. Tin, copper and sheet iron work of every description is also

HEED HOTEL.

The magnificent caravansaries to be found in all large American centers of population are subjects of universal com- ment and admiration. The territory west of the Missouri river especially, with its superb scenery, salubrious climate, exhaast- less resources and unexcelled railway equipment, furnishes the greatest field in the world for all classes of tourists requiring unsurpassed accommodations. It matters not whether in search of nature's wonders, or the light and balmy air with its signal healing properties, both are present to a matchless de- gree, and the splendid hotels everywhere open, are regarded

Photo by Newoomb Bros.

REED HOTEL.

Thompson & Weigel, Architects.

manufactured upon order, promptly and accurately. A force of twelve competent and experienced assistants is employed, and a trade representing $35,000 annually, and extending throughout, Utah, Idaho and parts of other adjoining States and Territories is supplied ; the natural reward of enterprise, per- fect familiarity with the details of the business, originality and elegance of design, and a faithful and conscientious perform- ance cf all work entrusted to the skill and judgment of the Messrs. Newman. They are courteous and intelligent gentle- men always prepared to make estimates and impart any infor- mation in reference to the business, which, under the popular and able management of B. P. Newman, is extending in all directions.

not only as "palaces of pleasure," but as material monuments to the enterprise and thrift characteristic of western citizens. The Iteed Hotel of Ogden, Utah, so admirably illustrates the point in question, that one cannot refrain from giving the pub- lic a brief sketch of the "grandest hotel" of the intennountain region.

The new arrival, leaving the depot, passes up Twenty-fifth street but a block or two toward the central portion of the city, before the largest and most substantial buildings open to view. Among these the Reed Hotel stands out conspicuously. The building is a six-story stone and brick structure, strikingly handsome in architectural design and external finish. It is located at the corner of Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth

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street, in the heart of the city, and in the immediate vicinity of all the principal business houses, places of amusement, etc.

A favorable impression is at once formed upon entering the rotunda, opening from Twenty-fifth street. The office tint attracts the admiring gate. It is a model of its kind, being spacious, nicely arranged, and provided with all conveniences usually found in first-class hotels. The finishings of the ro- tunda and writing and reading rooms, together with the furni- ture of each, are in oak. The grand stairway is broad and richly carpeted, the bannister, wainscoating, etc., also being in oak.

After viewing the rotunda, the newly arrived gnest takes a modern improved passenger elevator and quickly ascends to the fifth story. Stepping from the elevator he passes across a commodious, richly furnished reception room and enters a din- ing room, that, in its particular style and arrangement, is moat delightful to the eye. Large, double plate-glass windows ad- mit an abundance of light, at the same time open to view the grandest panorama of nature one could wish to see. Guests seated at any of the tables during the service of meals, contemplate with wonder and admiration, a landscape made up of the great green valley, dotted here and there with beautiful, well- fenoed farms, until it breaks upon the irreg- ular shores of the Great Salt Lake on the south, or is brought to an abrupt termination by the Wasatch range on the north. These win- dows are 14x18 feet in dimensions and so ad- justed that they can be easily adapted to pur- poaee of ventilation. The room is 40x80 feet in dimensions, and the floor is covered with a moqnette carpet of ex- uuimte design. The finishings, tables, chairs and richly carved side- boards are all in oak.

The ladies' ordinary is a email room 26x40 feet, separated from the main dining hall by silk draperies.

The kitchen extends along the south side of this floor, and is eqnipped with every modern device anil cook- ing apparatus calcu- lated to perform the work expeditionsly and in the moat delicious and inviting style.

I'SMling through the reception room, which is carpeted and fur

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niched in the same elegant manner, and descending to the floor below, one come* to the spacious, light, airy and splen- didly fiirniHhed H|p«-ping apartments, all of uniform excellence. The second, third and fourth floor* and a portion of the fifth are also devoted to sleeping rooms that are, without exception, furnished and finished in the most elaborate fashion. The carpeU are of velvet and body bru*eels. The furniture is in oak and cherry, sixteenth century and old Knglish pattern*. All the rooms have a commanding view of the city and surround- ing country, are arranged single or en mite, and furnished with every convenience, snob as bath and toilet rooms, ward-

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The corridors on each floor are broad, high and light, and carpeted and finished in harmony with the rest of the building. They pas* around a court which, rising directly above the rotunds, extends to the top of the building, over which a sky-

light is built to afford light and ventilation. Each of these corridors commands a full view of the rotunda and eacii suc- cessive floor. Many of the rooms are provided with open fire- places laid with tena cotta trimmings and decorations, adding beauty and cheerfulness to their interiors.

The parlors on the second floor are large and magnificently famished with heavy mahogany and oak furniture, richly carved, and upholstered with the finest silk tapestry. The car- pets are of the most expensive Wilton's and the drapery and curtains the best that can be obtained.

Each room is provided with steam heat, gas and incandes- cent electric lights, electric call bells, etc., while the service is first-class in every particular, none but the most skilled and experienced help being employed in any of the departments.

Altogether the house is a veritable palace of luxury and convenience, constructed on a plan of superior conception, and provided with every appliance and modern arrangement con- tributory to the comfort of guests. It is, in fact, the culmina- tion of refinement, ease and wholesome luxury, unsurpassed in any of its appointments by the leading hotels of the country. It should be added that the sixth floor is devoted to sam- ple rooms for commer- cial travelers, and con- tains nine commodious apartments fitted up expressly for the con- venient and proper dis- play of commodities in every line.

The bar and billiard room open off from the office, but are separate. They are very attrac- tively furnished and equipped. The former is one of the largest and most elegant in the Territory, and the bar is stocked with the fin- est imported and do- meetiowinesand liquors. The billiard hall is pro- vided with the very- latest tables of the Brunswick, lialke, Col- lander Company pat- tern, and is a model in its appointments.

The Iteed Hotel is conducted by the Mc- Millen & Doming Hotel Company, composed of men of experience and a practical knowledge of the hotel busineaa.

Mr. W. A. McMillen, the principal projector, has for years directed the management of high class hotels, ami m thoroughly conversant with all the phases of hotel life. His effl to the important

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position hotels occupy to dny. i.inl th«> standard of excellence demanded in their management. A great hotel like the Ketd must need* be under the immediate snprivision of an indefat- igable—thoroughly sccomplifbed gentleman, and the public IN to be congratulated upon the b«|i'y Circumstance that placid Mr. McMillen at the head of the Reed.

Mr. Iteming is also a practical hotel man and during his twenty odd years of experience has acquired a thoiouith con- ception of the busines*that enables him to direct the dntirs and office* of every department with unruffled precision.

The hotel was opened on July 4th, 1891, and has been doing a choice and profitable bnsine** ever since. It entertain* the beet cl*s* of people, and both traveler* sod tourists are loud in their praise of it* unexcelled < <|iiipment and service.

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is required, and fifty-four polite and experienced assistants are employed. The Reed Hotel of Ogden, Utah, with its perfect equipment and magnificent surroundings is meeting with the success that was not only predicted, but was prepared for by the gentlemen to whom the city ,the territory and the ubiquitous and fastidious traveler or tourist, are indebted for its presence, its capacity for superb entertainment, and the delightful and liberal features which characterize its management.

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FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK.

Among the responsible financial institutions of Utah to which business men can always look with confidence, is the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Ogden, located at 2438 Wash- ington avenue. The bank was organized in September, 1891, with Charles Woodmansee, president, and J> M. Langsdorf, cashier, both men of high financial qualifica- tions. It has a paid up capital stock of 8150,000, transacts a general banking business, and its career, though brief, has been made a suc- cess creditable to the executive ability and conservative judgment of its management. Its policy is liberal and en- couraging; it affords substantial and valuable support to all classes of commercial and indus- trial enterprises, and the officers and directors in- clude some of the most prudent, honorable and successful gentlemen in the business commu- nity. It receives de- posits, discounts first- class commercial paper, deals in exchange, etc., making a specialty of collections by means of its correspondents in all sections of the Unit- ed States, among whom are the leading institu- tions of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, Corinne.San Francisco, Portland and elsewhere.

The banking rooms are spacious, elegantly equipped, and possess every convenience for the prompt despatch of business, and its affairs are in a flourishing con- dition with steadily in- creasing deposits, giving evidence of the confi- dence of the fpublic and of the growth of the city and surrounding country.

Mr. Woodmansee, the president, is one of the largest land owners in the county, and identified with several of the most important business enterprises of the city. He is a man thor- oughly acquainted with the citizens of Ogden, both in business and social relations, and enjoys the confidence and good will of the public.

Mr. Langsdorf, the cashier, is a man of surpassing fitness for the responsible position he holds, being not only an expert accountant and financier, but understanding all the details of the banking business. The directory is composed of men equally reliable and well-known, and the future of this monetary insti- tution is unclouded.

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PLYMOUTH ROCK BUILDING, LOAN AND SAV- INGS ASSOCIATION.

The modern loan and savings associations are presumably doing more for people of moderate means than any other insti- tution in the country. Such associations are alike beneficial to the rich and to the poor. The principle of assigning a mul- titude of petty savings to the care and keeping of one general body, thoroughly organized and perfectly responsible, is a ver- itable " boom " to the wage earner.

The Plymouth Bock Building, Loan and Savings Associa- tion of Ogden, is an ideal organization of this character, not only because its plan of operation is perfect, but because its — affairs are in the hands of competent, upright men, who repre- sent the responsible element of the community. It was incor- porated July 13, 1871, with a capital stock of $3,000,000, and

is to-day placing many of the poorer people of Ogden into well-to-do positions where they can enjoy the fruits of their labor, through its effective and judicious manipul a t i o n, The methods of the associa- tion are safe and liberal. Hard-working men who are required to be at their place of business from early morn till late at night, do not find time to look about for the safe and profitable investment of their earnings, and even if they had the time, the impossibility of doing so to advantage, indi- vidually, would make it impracticable. It is equally as desirable for merchants, clerks, book- keepers, etc., to be iden- tified with this associa- tion, as they are thereby enabled to obtain the highest rate of interest without sacrificing any of the privileges of di- rect investment. Stock is non-forf eitable. Members can sever their connection with the in- stitution at will, subject to by-laws, and take principal and interest, with the exception of one and one-half per cent, of the interest. No fine is imposed when a stockholder occasion- ally finds a month in which he cannot pay his dues. He simply extends the time his stock matures, and three the accommodation of all

series of stock are carried for members.

The officers and directors are numbered among the most reliable business men of Ogden, whose names alone are ample guarantee of the character and responsibility of the institution.

The executive officers are : H. W. Ring, president and man- ager; J. M. Armstrong, M. D., vice-president; R. P. Hunter, secretary, and Wm. F. Adams, treasurer.

The main business of this association is carried on in Utah, and though it has been before the public but a short time, the vigorous manner in which the managers are pushing matters , and the implicit confidence of the public in the fidelity and in- tegrity of the officers and directors, together with the superior plan employed by the association in the transaction of its bus- iness have already caused many of the people in Ogden and the surrounding country to become active member*. It is im- possible to give in this brief space any adequate discussion of the details, but a clear and concise explanation of the same

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will be cheerfully furnished upon application to the officials, whose headquarters are located in the Citizens' Bank building, Ogden.

Its affairs are conducted according to the latest and most ap- proved business methods— methods that have been tested to the fullest extent and found not only thoroughly reliable, but devoted to the best interests of each member. Through the association houses are built for those without them, lives are insured, and business men are protected and supported in times of adversity and depression.

" Margurette," etc. He also carries a full line of stationery and all the leading and latest periodicals.

Mr. Huffman is a native of Iowa, from which State he moved to Butte, Montana, in 1880. In 1889 he settled in Ogden, when he established himself in his present business, a business, too, that is daily increasing, largely due to the courteous and kind treatment extended patrons, as also'to the superior quality of the goods kept in stock.

J. W. MoNUTT & CO.

No line of business wherein the dealer must possess a great amount and variety of information, coupled with a fine discrim- inating taste, is that of pharmaceutist or druggist Gentlemen possessing these qualities in a marked degree are members of the firm of J. W. McNutt A Co., pro- prietors of the pharmacy, corner of Twenty-fifth street and Grant avenue. Mr. Mi' \ u 1 1 is one of the oldest, most experienced and most capable drug- gists in the city, having been for the past twelve yean thus occupied in Ogden, during which he has built tip a business of $25,000 per annum. Along in 1888, Mr. M. Allen was admitted into the partnership and the firm name became as above designated. They occupy a two-story brick structure, 25x65 feet in dimensions, handsomely fitted up and provided with all conveniences and appointments for the transaction of business or the accommodation of patrons. The stock car- ried is very larjre, and em- braces the finest and frewhest lines of drugs, chemicals, toilet articles perfumeries, etc.. also an excellent line of drug- gists' sundries, in fact, anything kept in a first- class establiahmentof the kind. They employ five

The firm is well known M among the most con- spicuous chemists in the oitv, fully prepared to fill orders promptly und in the putting up of pre- scriptions, compounding of medicines, etc., to

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exercise extraordinary oare and diligence.

Mr. McNutt has served the city in the capacity of recorder, and has been otherwise made the recipient of public confidence.

C. B HUFFMAN.

The cigar and tobaooo trade of Ogden, which forms an important feature of its commercial standing, is principally in the hands of business men who are thoroughly acquainted with their line, and whose constant aim Is to produce and import a fins grade of good* nml maintain the reputation of th-ir brand*. Among the •stabli*hm»nts contributing to thin important result is the flrm of C. B. Huffman, located at No. <«nty-foiirth street. H* carries a large line of imported and domestic cigars, chewing and smoking tobacco and a full line of smokers' articles. Among ths brand* of cigar* carried in stock by this flrm can be found ths noted " Vindsx " and

BROOM HOTEL.

Against the majority of cities that have witnessed a rapid upbuilding no complaint can be made regarding the adequacy of hotel facilities. Especially is it true of western cities, as

some of the greatest ho- tels in the world are found in the western part of the United States. Ogden, Utah, is a repre- sentative city in this re- spect, being admirably supplied with public hos- telries of a high grade, both in equipage nnd management The Broom Hotel, located at the cor- ner of Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street, is an illustration. It was built by Mr. John I i room in 1882^ and opened under tbe management of Mr. Shakespeare, an expe- rienced hotel man. Since that time it has figured as the leading hotel of the city, especially so under the management of the present proprietors. Mr. A. J. Heath and William Best, who took possession September 3d. 1891.

The house contains sixty-two large, nicely furnished, and well ven- tilated sleeping rooms. with a capacity sufficient to accommodate one hun- dred guests. The dining room is elegant and HJIB- cinns, capable of seating eighty people. The parlors are furnished with the finest bruseels carpets, and rich hard wood furniture heavily upholstered. A steam heatingsystem apparatus conducts heat to all parts of the building, and every room i* lighted by electricity. The build- ing itself is a three- story brick structure Mx\W feet. Miiohly studded with hand- somely shaped bay windows, that make all outside rooms on both streets especially desirable. The surroundings of the hotel are all that could be wished for, and a beautiful view IN obtained from all parts of the bouse. The important acquisi- tions to a first-class hotel, such as bath rooms, billiard rooms, bar, etc., are in the building, and every department is main tamed mi the highest scale. The Broom Hotel is now doing H thriving business, and will continue to do so a* long as tbe present managers are in possession.

Itoth, Messrs. Heath and liest are intelligent, wide-awake gentlemen I >y nature adapted to the hotel business. Though they have been but a short time in charge, their effective work in supplying needed additions and making necessary change*. has already been felt in an increasing patronage. A brilliant future is predicted for thi* hotel.

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S. T. WHITAKEB.

The architectural industry, without doubt, has a more im- portant bearing upon the beauty and attractiveness of a city than any other branch of industry calculated to attain that end. The handsome appearance and substantiality of modern con- structed buildings, gives material evidence of the marked prog- ress made in recent years in this highly practical art. The achievements of architecture is the pride of all metropolitan cities, and the high degree of proficiency attained by those en- gaged in the business, points with unerring certainty to much greater advancement in the future.

grounds, and other local structures. He has been particularly successful in modeling and drawing plans for special work, and the superior merit of his professional labors has acquired for its author a wide-spread and enviable reputation.

Mr. Whitaker is but thirty-one years of age. He was born in Salt Lake City, where he was also educated, after which he made an extended trip to Europe, acquiring his architectural educa- tion abroad, but upon returning to America located in Ogden and began the practice of his profession. He is now a member of the well-known firm of Paulsen, Lavalle & Whitaker, located

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One of the most capable, efficient and enthusiastic devotees to the science of architecture in the city of Ogden is S. T, Whitaker whose spacious rooms are located in the Opera House building. He has been engaged in the profession in Ogden since 1890, and has designed and prepared plans for some of the most substantial buildings in the city and vicinity. Among these are the Grand Opera House of Ogden, the State Academy, a large school building at Huntsville, another at Harrisville, the city school edifice under course of construction on the city

in Butte City and Helena, Montana, in Boston, Massachusetts, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah. He has permanently identified himself with the Territory of Utah, however, making Ogden his future home, where he holds the important position of inspector of public buildings, and where he is fast gaining popularity for his thorough-going business methods, sterling integrity, and perfect familiarity -with the details of his busi-

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W. B. WEDELL.

The real estate dealer is presumably the most important agent in the material and substantial upbuilding of a town or city. Notwithstanding the fact that a city maybe located in the heart of a section of country fairly teeming with natural resources, it is essential for the progression of the community, that some one make it their business to inform the world at large of the wonderful opportunities offered, and to inaugurate enterprises for immediate development of its latent wealth."

The real estate agent, more than any other class of citizens is looked too for the performance of this duty, and the commend- able manner in which the dealers of O^den have responded to the call, reflects great credit on their value as citizen?.

Mr. W. B. Wedell, a real estate owner and broker of this city, furnishes a fair illustration of the push and enterprise characteristic of our leading business men.

where else in the city. Twenty-five families are already settled in comfortable homes on the tract, and new houses are con- stantly going up.

Mr. Wedell has upward of $100,000 invested in Ogden re- alty, and his annual sales amount to over $300,000. In addi- tion to this splendid list of city property, he handles improved and unimproved acre property located in different parts of the Territory. Mr. Wedell has consnmated some very large and desirable transfers since starting in business that have termin- ated to the financial benefit of both buyers and sellers. lie is a gentleman of entire probity in his business relations, and of sound judgment in all that pertains to the handling and care of real estate. Prospective purchasers can safely rely upon his statements and representations regarding the value, location and desirability of the property he has for sale.

He handles his own property principally, and has an abnnd- anoe of capital at his disposal, which enables him to take ad-

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Mr. Wmlrll opened bis real estate office in 1880, and from the very start provwl lntnwlf a working factor among the busi- ness interest* of Ogden, and has already platted and sub- .li vi' li-d and disposed of • large portion of some of the most de- firul.lK property, both for business and residential purposes, that has ever been placed upon tlit> market.

The following list of addition* will serve to show that Mr. Wedell has the handling of *onn> of tin, b*st tracts in the city: Wedell'd Mont. on; Wmlell's Terrace sub-division;

l.und's Lymie n nnford's Annex; Five Point Annex;

South Og.lt-n Height*, Five Point sub-division and Kiremide Park.

All these additions ar» admirably situated, ami contain choice and sightly loU, unmirpassed as location* for )>eaiitifnl DOOMS. Monterey addition contains ten acres, located in th» beat part of thority. Ixmig well drained and commanding an elegant view. T«rac« sub-dmsion is the most desirable tract on the marknt. It contains tventy-one acres of fine residence property, and lots In this addition are selling f asUr 'than any -

vantage of every business exigency and secure control of the bnrgHius that are to be had through cash transactions.

His oflioe is located at No. :CJ1 Twenty fourth street, over the postoffice, and persons wishing to buy or sell real estate will do well to give him a call, and get acquainted with his su- perior methodH of doiiik- liiiNineas.

Thoiiuli only! went v ,.1(;|,t yi-iirNof ag»> Mr. Wedell has bad quit* a varied experience during his business career. He was bom in tb» state of Wisconsin, and came to Utah several years ago, and engaged in the restaurant business at Halt Lake City, running what is familarly known as the California restaurant. After remaining in Salt Lake for a time became to Ogden and was proprietor at different times of both the Saddle Rock and tin- Klit* restaurants. Ho soon saw, however, the wonderful opportunities afforded in the real estate business in<V>l<'" mi. I opened his present office in 1R89. He is an enterprising. go-ahead citizen and a man of integrity, straightforward and conscientious in all his business relations, and has won the confidence and good will of the public.

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JONES & LEWIS.

The above is a prominent and popular establishment in the grocery business of OgdeD.

The gentlemen comprising the firm are Edgar Jones and Robert B. Lewis. They formed a co-partnership under the present firm style in March 1887, and have since developed extensive connections, such as are usually accorded to houses in this branch of industry.

The premises occupied is a large two-story brick building 25x80, located at 328 Twenty-fifth street. The store is well arranged and fitted up according to modern ideas of the busi- ness.

The firm obtain supplies direct from all the best produc ing sources, and carry an extensive assortment of everything in the line of imported and domestic staple and fancy groceries and family supplies. They have made it their aim from the start to keep on sale only such goods as are of a superior quality, and as a consequence a trade has been built up of a

B. JONES.

In reviewing the varied and important industrial enter- prises which go to make up the sum total of the city's wealth and prosperity, there are many deserving of more space than can be extended them. Such an one is the Ogden Carriage and Wagon Works, owned and operated by Mr. R. Jones, at 345-347- 349 Washington avenne.between Washington and Grant avenues. There is no city in the northwest of the size of Ogden, where a better arranged and more complete enterprise of this kind can be found. It was established by its present proprietor in 1889 and has steadily increased to its present large proportions. The premises occupied are located as above, and consists of a substantial two-story brick building 38x80 feet, complete in every detail and arrangement, and equipped with the most modern improvements known to this branch of industrial pur- suit. In the manufacture of carriages, Mr. Jones is prepared to turn out anything from a sulky lo the heaviest grade of transfer wagons, and his work is noted for the excellence of

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most substantial character. Only the choicest of everything in their line is handled, and patrons can always feel assured that no inferior or adulterated goods will be sold to them.

Lowest prices prevail, order, system and neatness are observ- able on all sides, polite attendance accorded, while orders are taken and delivered at residences free of extra charge.

The firm have 9 16,000 invested in their large and complete stock, and their business reaches over 8100,000 annually. The large and growing trade of this establishment is not confined to the city of Ogden, but extends all over Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.

Both Mr. Jones and Mr. Lewis understand the grocery busi- ness thoroughly, and by pushing their interests energetically, and observing upright principles in all their dealings, they have succeeded in building up the large and profitable trade they now enjoy. No effort on their part is spared to please and satisfy each and every one of their numerous patrons.

material used, superior workmanship displayed, and the beauty of design and finish. He employs six skillful and experienced workmen and gives his personal attention to all matters connected with his establishment. His trade extends throughout the city and Territory and is steadily increasing.^ Special attention is also given to horse-shoeing, anchors for buildings, and repairing of all kinds, and all work is warranted. There is a paint shop connected with this enterprise in which all kinds of painting of carriages and wagons is done in an artistic manner.

Mr. Jones is a practical and experienced business man and was eighteen, years employed as blacksmith by the Union Pacific Railroad. There exists in this city no enterprise more worthy of mention than the Ogden Carriage and Wagon Works which to-day stands in the front ranks, and deserves the merited success they have achieved.

OGDEN MILITARY ACADEMY.

It WHS with a view of fulfilling, in a practical and compre- hensive manner, the requirements of a high grade military academy, where the citizens cf Ctab and surrounding States and Territories could seiul their boys, and feel they were attending a praiseworthy mul superior class institution, that a few of Ogden's leading men organized a stock company and constructed and equipped the splendid edifice known as the Ugden Military academy. The academy and grounds are situated abont three miles north of the business center of Og- den, on the line of the Hot Springs railway, occupying a high, well-drained quarter, and commanding a magnificent view of the surrounding country, while an ample campus affords every facility fur drills, parades and athletic sports.

The main building is 80x150 feet in dimensions, and four stories high. It is a brick structure, finely furnished and especially arranged for the comfort, convenience and instruc- tion of pupils. Independent of the main academy building there is a gymnasium, and a wood and iron work-shop. In this latter department the boys are given an insight into practical mechanical work, as a part of their course of instruction. The entire grounds covers about ten acres and the buildings and equipment have been provided at a cost of 850.000.

Thorough academic courses are taught by which students are prepared for entrance into first-class colleges, scientific schools and for business life. The school is strictly military in char- acter and all the formal- ities of such an institu- tion are observed. It baa capacity sufficient to accommodate sixty- five boarders and fifty one are now in attend- ance. Appropriate rules and regulations have been instituted, and the officers and teachers always insist on their enforcement. Thorough discipline is also main- tained in every depart- ment, and of a character calculated to promote the moral, mental ami physical well-being of the inmate*.

Capt. I .. L. Howard, who ban the manage- ment of the school, ably aided by six competent and experienced assist- ant*, is presumably aa

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bia special capacity aa

any man in this country. He is the perfect embodiment of phys- ical manhood and poaaeeaes administrative ability of a superior order. He baa had years of experience in the charge of just Midi inHtitntioiiH, IH thoroughly conversant with all modern method* of recognized merit, and is quick to apply every principal that promises to advance the best interests nf all patron*. Hid creditable work supplemented by the valuable mid painstaking effort* of the corn* of teachers now engaged ia rapidly building up the school and giving it favorable and wide- spread popularity.

Tin- Hoard of Trustees are aa follow*: Reese ilowell, president; \\. M. Shilling, vice-president; ('. L. Howard, secretary ; John A. Hoyle, treasurer. Fred J. Kieeel, A. C. Newill and A. II. Nelson, all gentlemen of the highest standing «nd well-known to the people of this section of the country. Their identification with th>- uiMtitution in iUelf is a infllcient • guarantee of merit and effectually insure* for it a long and pros- perous career.

OGDEN ACADEMY.

The thorough and efficient educational institutions located in tii- city i >r < )|(den are among the most salient manifest i< .TIN of prugrMNion on a Bound and substantial bans, and the ten- dency of the people of this community t«> keep abrea*t of mot) era advancement and enlightenment. There is a* much sterling etiterpriae exhibited in the construction and maintenance of

high claes religious and educational schools, as there is in any sphere of commercial industry; and the simultaneous develop- ment of the mental faculties and the moral nature accomplice an infinitely greater amount of good than either one taktn separately. It is as much within the piovince of schools for the education and training of the young to weave in the course of their instructions, proper lessens in the doctrines of religion and principles of moiality.as any other branch of study.

It was with a view of fulfilling and carrying out this necessi- ty that the New West Commission founded the Qgden Academy, one of the most admirable and perfect institutions of the kind in this section of the country. The excellent building which is located on the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Adams ave- nue, is spacious and substantial, and arranged especially for convenience and adaptability. KM-M department is perfect in its equipment, and the corps of able teachers are hignly quali- fied for the respective positions they occupy. Nearly all the teachers are graduates of excellent eastern colleges. The school was first opened in 1883, by Piof. H. W. Ring with eleven pupils, and it has enjoyed a most successful and prosperous career from its very inception to the present time. About $'J~>,HK) are invested in the premises, and the academy has a capacity Biillicient to comfortably accommodate three hundred pupils. There are two hundred now in attendance, and the number is increasing each year.

The building is 100x150 feet in dimensions, and three stories

high. The arrangement is such that ample light and ventilation are se- cured, while the build- ing is heated through- out by steam. I'.very thing about the place has an air of attractive- ness, and it is altogether <in ideal private school for both sexes.

The usual English, scientific and classical, courses are taught, ami all the various studies classed under theee heads are included. Special attention ia given to fitting for first class eastern colleges. Nineteen students are now fitting for Yasear, Uberlin and Stanford. A choice library con- taining many valuable reference books, ency- '•l..|,,.,lms, etc., has been provided for the use of st 1 1 dents and the school

a v MM \n is particularly well pre-

pared to give instruc- tion in the sciences by means of an extensive set of late improved apparatus of inestimable value for practical illus- tration. A first and second primary and HII intermediate department are p'ovided for the younger pupils, and a thor- ough commercial course is given fur those who wish to avail themselves of a complete business education.

Prof. I'iiMil A. Curry, the principal, is a man of superior ability in the efficient conduct of an institution of this charac- ter, and his untiring efforts to maintain a whool of the highest order and carry out the fundamental principle upon which it is baaed, has been of such a satisfactory nature as to command the esteem and good will of the Commission, ami the high re- gardofhoth pupils and co-instructors ll» in ably assisted in the academic department by Mrs. Jennie Foster < urr\. in lower departments by MIPH Mary H. Nutting, Miss Mary McClelland, Mia* Eva Roney and Mias Alice H. Hamlin.

PARKER. DOXEY Si EASTMAN.

\ distinguishing feature of the city of ( >i;den is the superior claim of it* buildings nnil private residence*, the tine character of which retl««ct great credit on th« skill and ability of the architects who 'hem. \moni; the most prominent

rim engaged in thiK arduous profession none have prose- cuted their work with more skill or greater success than the firm of Parker, Doxey £ Eastman, long and well known aa

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accomplished artists in some of the leading cities of the United States.

Mr. A. F. Parker, the senior member, is from the East, hav- ing acquired his professioa in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had a thorough training in all its details; while Mr. Samuel Dpxey is a native of Ogden, where he is intimately acquainted with the best business men of the city, by whom he is univer- sally esteemed. Mr. C. E. Eastman, who was educated at the University of Illinois, comas to Ogden from Chicago, where he was actively engaged at architectural work, in which he attained to distinguished prominence and reputation.

The firm is prepared at all times to promptly execute' orders for plans and specifications, exercising extraordinary diligence and guaranteeing accuracy. The members also make a spec- ialty of superintending the construction of public buildings, private residences, etc., at the shortest notice and upon reason- able terms. They are expert designers of beautiful homes and high class private dwellings, and were the architects employed in the planning and erection of the follow- ing: The residences of A. Allen, A. R. C. Smith, Dr. J. D. Carnahan. F. T. Sanford, W. J. Em- mett, and many others that speak very highly for their proficiency at the business.

The firm possess every facility for the success- ful completion of all work entrusted to its care, and is prompt in satisfying the wants of patrons. They occupy suites 27 and 28, First National Bank building.

Mr. Ellis stands high in the community, not only as a pro- fessional, but as a citizen of enterprise and public spirit, executing all business entrusted to him in a thorough artistic manner, and at prices that cannot fail to be satisfactory.

D. W. ELLIS.

The profession of the civil engineer and sur- veyor is one of the most important. He needs not only a thorough scientific training based upon the fundamentals that have always been a part of the profession, but possessing a capac- ity for the reception of new ideas and a readi- ness to adapt himself thereto.

Mr. D. W. Ellis, civil engineer and surveyor, occupying offices 27 and 28 in the First National Bank building, is one of the best equipped and most widely known civil engineers in the city. He has had years of ex- perience in all its branches, and is thor- oughly educated in all the technical and scien-

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JESSE J. DR1VEK.

JESSE J. DRIVER.

Of all the various branches of mercantile industry, the drug business is beyond question the most important. There are concerns engaged in other lines, that may carry a larger stock, require greater capital, and transact a much more extensive business, but in the matter of importance and responsibility, the drug business, without doubt, stands at the head. The citizens of Ogden have in the establishment of Jesse J. Driver located at 2357 Washington avenue, a pharmacy from which they can purchase every line of medicaments, drugs, etc., and feel assured of getting fresh and pure articles. This house was

established by Mr. Driver in 1880. The store is handsomely fit- ted up and furnished, and contains a full and choice stock of drugs and chemicals, carefully selected for their purity and strength, also per- fumeries, soaps, toilet articles, fancy goods, etc. Prescriptions are compounded and family recipes prepared at low- est prices, every care being taken to guard against the possibility of error. About $6,000 is invested in the busi- ness and the annual re- ceipts amount to over $12,000.

Mr. Driver devotes his personal attention to the business, and nothing but highly com- petent help has ever been employed. He has in consequence built up a very extensive patron- age, and his establish- ment is the popular pharmacy of the city.

Mr. Driver is an old resident of Ogden, hav- ing lived in the city for the past sixteen years. During this time by straight-forward,' hon- orable business methods he has won the confi- dence and esteem of all who know him, stand- ing high among the business men of the community and figuring prominently in many public enterprises.

tific departments of the business. Surveying of every descrip- tion is made a specialty, and plans, plats and maps are prepared expeditiously and accurately.

Mr. Ellis was retained as one of the expert engineers on the new electric railway of Ogden, a model of its kind, and evidenc- ing in its plans and construction, exceptional skill on the part of those who formulated and provided the designs. He is also an expert in the department of mining engineering, in which he enjoys an established and well-deserved reputation. His master- piece, however, and that for which he has gained for himself an advanced position in the estimation of the citizens of Ogden, was in the draughting and gathering of data for the first litho- graphical map of the city, a professional achievement, pro- posed and concluded upon his own personal responsibility, and for which meritorious undertaking, Mr. Ellis received public applause and patronage from citizens and the daily press.

MRS. L. B. MAHAN.

The existence of such first-class establishments as that con- ducted by the lady whose name heads this article is the best indication possible of the metropolitan character of this city. Mrs. Mahan is a lady of cultured taste, moulded upon a thorough acquaintance with the best schools of artistic dress- making, and is prepared to create a new and superior style of dressmaking in Ogden.

She is a lady of skilled judgment in all matters pertaining to her business. She has been a resident of Ogden for two years, coming to this city from Indianapolis, in which city she was engaged in the same line of business for eight years, and numbered among her customers some of the wealthiest ladies of the city. She is at present located in Wright & Sons' build- ing, Washington avenue, where she has four elegantly fur-

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nished rooms: parlor, cloak, fitting and reception room, and is splendidly equipped to receive her patrons aud execute their orders for dressmaking in the latest styles and most artistic manner.

Mrs. Mahan keeps constantly employed from twelve to fifteen skilled assistants, and supervises personally all work committed to her, which is of itself a sufficient guarantee that everything will be done in a satisfactory manner.

IDAHO LUMBER COMPANY.

The rapid and substantial growth of the City of Ogdeu has created a large field for the operations of lum- ber dealers, and the practicability of ship- ping an unlimited amount of all kinds to the points where build- ings are in progress of construction enables the lumber merchant to supply all demands at fair prices. The Idaho Lumber ( 'ompaoy is recognized as an influ- ential factor in meeting the demand for first- class lumber, well sea- soned and adapted to immediate use. The company was formed eight years ago and bus been since its organiza- tion under the control of its present able and efficient manager, I). I >. Jones, to whose untiring efforts and superior business ability is al- most wholly due the wonderful success achieved. It carries in stock a heavy line of lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors, blinds, building material, etc., also Fay's manilla goods, for which it has the exclusive agency. In connection with the yards which are located on Twenty-fifth street, between Lincoln aud Wall, the company operates a large and extensive planing mill. two stories high, and 50x100 feet in size, where it is prepared to supply every description of scroll sawing, turn- ing, etc. An averai:*' stock of forty-thousand dollar* in value is car- ried and the average •ale* amount to one hundred thousand i'i,..r..i,> v»T..mi. i: d-illiirs per annum the trade extending throughout Utah, Idaho, Nevada mi<l Wyoming- Hy great oare in purchasing iiinl honorable methods in dealing ttie company has won i's war among competitors to a succese at once, gratifying and well deserved.

Mr. I). I). Jones is a Weluhman by birth, but has lived in Ogdcn for the pact twenty vears. lie is one of the moat enter- prising of hniinea* men, always on the alert to advance any (MOM which ban for its object the good of the city. He in a member of the Chamber of Commerce, also chairman of the

committee on man n fact urn, and has thenwpwt ami <-nnti.i-i

of all citizens. Tin- Mali" Lumber Company i» to be congrat ulated oo securing the earvioel of so popular a gentleman, and well deserve* the confidence and patronage of the public.

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WILLIAM W. FIFE.

There is no profession more arduous aud intricate or that requires a deeper and more comprehensive study to approach perfection than that of architecture. The striking beauty and magnificence of any city depends principally upon the archi- tects who have designed and planned the buildings which iidorn its streets and thoroughfares.

The wonderful advancement which Ogden has made during the past few years and the great metropolitan appearance she has taken on. is due more to her elegant and modern structures than anything else. It is but fitting iu a work of this character, containing engravings of her finest business blocks and private

dwellings, that a brief sketch of the business and meritorious work executed by Mr. \V. \V. Fife, aprominent archi- tect of this city. l>e given. Mr. Fife is cer- tainly efficient and painstaking in the per- formance of his work, and that he has ^rcai original conceptions re- garding the line of en- terprise in which he is engaged is amply at-

^rj* tested by the elegant

MI T structures for which he

has made designs and drawn plans.

The following brief list of buildings in this city speak more em- phatically for his abil- ity than could the most lueid writer: City Hall, Ogden; Utah Loan £ Trust Co.'s bank and office building; fifth wan! institute and then tre, Ogden; high school North Ogden; church, fifth ward. Ogden; church, fourth ward. Ogden; \V. II. Wright & Sons Co.'s store and office building, Ogden; Hon. D. II. Peery's store and office building, Ogden; Jno. .1. < blo.-k, Ogden; Union block stores and ollice building, Ogden; C. Woodmansee's store and office building, < 't,'- den; li. White's store and office building, Og- den: .Ino. Soowcroft A Sons' store building, Ogden: .1. II. Spargo's uid office build- ing, Ogden; Lincoln hotel, OgdiMi; grand pn- villion. Hot Springs. near < >gden ; residence, linn. Lnrin I-' n r r, < 'gden: residence, E. T.

\Vixiley, Ogden; residence. K. T. Hiilaniski. < >gd«»n; residence, I. <;. Ke ly. <>k'd.Mi; n'xidfiice, I. L. (Murk, I igdon; resi- dence, Hon. Jos. Stanford. <>gden: n Idard, Ogdxn; residence, Thos. .1. Steph*ns,Ogden ; residence.!''. W. Lafrentz, Ogden, and many othei stores, office buildings, bank*, churches and residence* to which reference can be made. Thee* are all representative buildings and we call epeoial attention to the Utah Loan A- Trust Company's building at the comer of Washington avenue and TwentT.foartli street, the finest and most handsome structure by all odds in the Terri- tory, and really unsurpassed in the West as an architectural creation. It is an ornament t» th» city, and Mr. Kife achieved for himaelf great credit, and established a lasting repu' for ability and competency in modeling such a grand aud imposing structure.

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Mr. Fife is a native of Ogden and thirty-fivejyears of age. He has been actively engaged in the contracting and architec- tural pursuit for fifteen years, and for the last five years has devoted himself exclusively to his large and growing business as an architect.

Mr. Fife's knowledge of the architectural profession was acquired in the beet school of learning, viz. : practical experi- ence.

His father was well known to the people of this community as a thorough-going, capable and highly qualified builder and contractor, second to none in this country. His education and knowledge of the rudiments, details and fundamental princi- ples of this department of industry was obtained under a seven years' apprenticeship in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in the large cities of England and Scotland, and upon coming to this

of any similar firm in the city, and we doubt if any young man in the country has manifested such superior capabilities and efficiency in so arduous an occupation.

Mr. Fife has studied hard and earnestly to perfect himself in the details of architecture (in which study he never tires), and in order to keep abreast of the times and give his patrons the benefit of the latest and most approved productions of recognized authority and eminent draughtsmen and designers, subscribes to, and keeps constantly on file, the very best works and periodicals on architecture published in the United States, and is in communication with publishers in different parts of Europe to bring to his aid and to use in his work the finest and most magnificent and substantial class of work in planning and construction of buildings.

He subscribes regularly to such celebrated publications as

BUILDINWS DESIGNED BY W. W. FIFK, ARCHITECT.

country in the early settlement of Utah, he was an active worker in the construction of buildings in Salt Lake City, Ogden and throughout the Territory; and established for him- self a reputation for the excellence of his work and the great skill he displayed.

His son, the subject of our sketch, was an apprentice under his father, and always exhibited the same natural aptitude for this class of work. At the early age of thirteen he started in to learn his chosen profession. He soon became a partner, and when but fifteen years of age was made clerk of the works his father then had in charge. He was invested with the important responsibility of ordering the material, etc., and other duties of which a lad of his years seldom has a proper conception. Two years later at the age of seventeen he assumed entire charge of tbe draughting department, and shortly afterward his father retired from business, leaving the affairs of the concern entirely with his sou. The business was at that time much the largest

the American Architecture, international edition, published in Boston, Massachusetts, the most expensive scientific work produced in the United States.

The Inland Architect is a monthly edition of. the highest order which comes to Mr. Fife's office regularly.

Another weekly paper of a high character, the Architect and Builder, is teeming each issue with new and valuable points and suggestions.

The Scientific American, architects and builders' edition, is another important publication dealing in an able and scientific manner with the latest topics of interest.

All of these and many other noted papers are to be found at Mr. Fife's office as they appear each regular issue, and the high class plates and engravings which come with them from time to time, are all carefully classified and kept for ready reference.

Mr. Fife's library is replete with volumes by authors of the highest authority, and anything appertaining to the subject of

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architecture can be found. We mention these facts to show that be is wide-awake to the demands of modern architecture and uses bis utmost endeavors to furnish the people of this community with all the advantages of the latest developments of the profession all over the world.

That Mr. Fife is highly expert in his mastery of the subject to which he is devoted is clearly indicated in the splendid class of buildings he has erected; the bulk of the substantial and costly structures of this city having been modeled and designed by him.

this floor, there are three music rooms and a garden hall for the recreation of pupils. The second floor contains eight large class rooms, a double parlor, the main office, and the chapel and infirmary. The library, studio, two large class rooms, seven music rooms and five large dormitories occupy the third floor, while the fourth floor is set aside exclusively for dormitories' Twenty one sisters attend to the interests and instruction of pupils, under the supervision and head guardianship of thesister superior. Every care is taken to see that the primary objects for which the school is designed are carried out to the fullest

extent. Thorough and compre- hensive courses in all the vari- ous branches usually provided in academic schools are taught, iind the best systems of instruc- tion are adopted. Besides the regular English course and Latin, lessons in book-keeping, ty|«> writting and short-band, are given after the latest im- proved methods. There are now 250 pupils in attendance and scholars are received at all times during the year.

The citizens of Utah and surrounding states and terri- tories are to be congratulated on having in their midst such a praiseworthy and meritorious institution, and as this work will be circulated largely through this section of the country, the opportunity is availed of to recoommend the Sacred Heart academy in the highest terms, as an admirable place for the proper training and education of young ladies.

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SACRED HEAHT ACADEMY.

The high class educational institutions of Ogden are among the noteworthy features of the city's multitudinous attractions and advantages. The splendid school edifice, known as the Sacred Heart academy, located at the corner of Twenty-fifth, nii'1 i, >uincy streets, is indeed a model institution of the kind, and reflects great credit on the worthy and right minded peo- ple, whose high motives and sincere efforts have caused its i-r.-i-tiiiii. His doubtful if the school has a superior in this country, both in regard to the excellent design and convenient arrangement of the building, and the conscientious and capa- ble sister* who have charge and are now conducting the in- Htitution. An academy of this character commends itself to the favorable consideration of parents who wish to provide for their children it thorough and comprehensive education, and at the same time feel that all the influences thrown around them are of ouch a wholesome and beneficial tendency as to purify and strengthen their moral nature and early inculcate prin- ciples of honor mi. I obedience.

The building itself shows the untiring zeal and earnest en- deavors of the projectors, and their perfect conception of the fundamental needs of so vital and important an uiHtitution. II was erected and equipped at a total cost of $lii."i,uio, mi.i i« pre- eminently appropriate and convenient in every appointment. It U '225x75 feet in dimensions and is four atones high. The capacity of the school is sntllcient to accommodate from 500 to 600 boarding pupils, and although it is but a short time since the building wan ready for occupancy it is rapidly tilling up. An ample hot water heating aparatus furnishes 'heat to every apartment, and th«« building is provided throughout with lx>th gas and electric light.

The tirxt Moor in occupied l>\ the spacious exhibition hall which i* T'lyf.T feet, a splendid and nicely arranged office 2r>x14, also a commodious and appropriately furnished reception room 2flx4fl. The dining room i* also oa the flmt floor and is di- vided into two iliHtin.-t • i.'partraenU each 44x28 feet in dinmti •ion*. The kitchen and refactorie* are located near the dining room, and folly equipped with all facilities and necomary arrangements. Hmide* the apartment* already mentioned on

DOYLE & HALVEBSON

Very prominent among the industries of the country is the

plumbing business, defined as by far the most important branch of the house building art. Among the most indispen- sable aids of the sanitary reformer are the men of integrity, skill and intelligence in this special line. In this connection due mention should be made of Doyle A. Halverson, plumbing and gas fitters at No. 'i'li 1 Washington avenue, who keep pace with the demands of the times, and who have for the past i lire.. years been actively engaged in this department of trade. The firm is fully prepared to execute every description of plumbing, gas and steam fitting, also sewerage work in the beat manner and at lowest rates, at the same time guaranteeing sat-

isfactiou in every instance. They give steady employment to fifteen skilled artisan* and the experience of its members combined with skill and sound judgment have given them a wide reputation as reliable workers. This important tlourixh ing and industrial enterprise has now been in sucoeaafnl oper- ation for nearly three years. Kach member of the firm is a master mechanic in hi* special line, a fact that coupled with popularity mid rare business sagacity has secured for them a ln- •• huiioMS upon a sura and permanent foundation. Ml orders are promptly attended to, the beet material used, and toe rates and terms are reasonable and liberal.

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C. A. EKLUND.

The foremost enterprise in the city of Ogden engaged in the merchant tailoring business is that of C. A. Eklund, whose spa- cious rooms are located at 2463 Washington avenue, second floor. This widely known and old established house has been doing business in Ogden since 1881, and has enjoyed a most prosper- ous career. Through the untiring efforts of the proprietor and his thorough understanding of all the multitudinous details of the profession, the trade has been increased until now it amounts to over $25,000 annually, and extends all over Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada. Mr. Eklund carries a very choice and complete line of stock embracing all the latest and best goods in the market, and ever makes it a leading object

C. A. EKLUND.

not only to employ the very best and most experienced work- men, but to keep on hand a comprehensive line of well selected cloths, from which the most fastidious can make selections. The store and workshop consists of two large and conveniently arranged rooms together 25x80 feet in dimension, equipped with every facility and otherwise convenient and inviting. He employs twelve hands, and is prepared to fill orders for gar- ments or suits adapted to social or business purposes, with the least delay, and at the most reasonable prices.

Mr. Eklund is a native of Sweden, and came to this country in 1874, and to Salt Lake City in 187G. where he remained until 1879, when he removed to Larime, Wyoming. He remained there two years, and then located in Ogden where all of his in- terests have since been centered. Me is an honorable, upright business man and applies himself faithfully to his chosen avocation.

J. A. STEPHENS.

Among those old established mercantile enterprises in the city of Ogden, which have ever maintained a leading position in the commercial interests of the city, and proved themselves instrumental in furthering and increasing the importance and material prosperity of this section as a wholesale and jobbing center, is the well known wholesale and retail grocery house of J. A. Stephens, located at 365,Twenty-fourth street. This estab- lishment was first opened ten years ago under the firm name of Stephens & Stone, and continued under that title until October 5th, 1891, when Mr. Stephens became sole owner. A large and substantial trade has been built up both wholesale and retail, and the amount of business transacted is increasing yearly, the an- ual sales now averaging over 8 120,000. Six hands are given con- stant employment in the various departments and shipments are made throughout Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.

Mr. Stephens has been the principal factor in the enterprise since its inception, and being a thorough-going business man of untiring industry, supplemented by unremitting efforts to sup- ply the demands of the trade, satisfactorily, he has not only augmented the business to its present proportions, but has gained the respect, of the people of this community.

Mr. Stephens was born in the State of Ohio forty-two years ago where his early education was also acquired. While yet a young man he removed to Omaha, and engaged with a mercantile house of that city, as traveling salesman, continuing in that capacity for twenty years, when he severed his connection with the house and came to Ogden. This was about twelve years ago, and since then he has been highly successful not only in his business venture, but in outside investments and speculations. He is chairman of the executive committee of the board of di- rectors of the Equitable Co-operative Association of Ogden, and is prominently identified with other leading enterprises.

Mr. Stephens is deeply interested in the future of Ogden and not only watches its growth and increasing prosperity with the keenest pleasure, but is always ready to aid in the promotion of projects designed to build up and improve the city.

E. A. OLSEN.

The business house occupied by Mr. E. A. Olsen, at 2245 Washington avenue, is an old established stand, and shows a keen business discernment on Mr. Olsen's part, when he se- cured possession of the same about two years ago, as the busi- ness of to-day will verify. The building in which the estab- lishment is located is a large two-story structure, 20x50, conveniently and attractively arranged. The stock is full and complete, the assortment embracing everything in the way of staple and fancy groceries, glass and chinaware, etc. He fully guarantees his goods to be strictly as represented, while his prices will always compare favorably with the other stores of

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E. A. OLSEN.

the city. He obtains his supplies direct from the leading sources, and nothing but the choicest and highest grade goods are ever sold over his counter. He carries a large stock, and his sales amount to $24,000 annually, the trade being exclus- ively among the very best class of people, with whom he has gained universal popularity as an upright business man.

He has lived in Ogden for the past seven years, and is well known and respected by all with whom he comes in contact. Independent of his business relations, Mr. Olsen is an enter- prising, public-spirited man, and has the future interests of the city of Ogden at heart, readily aiding and endorsing all movements calculated to promote the city's growth and ad- vancement.

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amonnt of sales. The stock represents something ov T *'2.r)0,(KK), ami tlie annual business reaches Watson is one of the popnlar business men of Ogden aud an enterprising riti/.eu.

JOHN WATSON.

Mr. John Watson, man-

. ager of the Ogden branch

] of the Z. C. M. 1., emi-

'• grated to this country

- from Englauii. hin native ^ country, in 1KM. H* : came direct to I'tali. and I having a thorough husi- | ness education, obtained = through experience ac- E quired in some of the lar- " gest commercial houses of . Kngland, soon became

§ actively engaged in the

j mercantile interests of

=• this Territory. Naturally

•; shrewd and careful in all

' business transact ions, and

?. possessing a thorough

; knowledge of the general

i merchandise branch of

r. industry he moved rapid

; ly to the front, and wit liin

-. three years after reaching Utah was appointed to

- the responsible position | he now occupies. Under : his able guidance the in-

- stitutiou his made re \ markable progress and ; has been maintained on ,'. the same solid aud pro-

- gressive basis, that char- : acteri/es the mother con- = oern in Salt Lake City.

- tueOgdeneuterprisecom- ing next in order in point of magnitude and the

upward of $7(M),0<K>. Mr.

A. W. PUTNAM.

The gents' furnishing establishment of Mr. A. \V. Putnam, located at No J4o:i Washington avenue, was first opened in its present handsome quarters in the Utah Loan & Trust Co. building. December 15, 1891, and the large stock of new and choice goods, together with moderate prices, and the proprietors liberal methods of doing business at opce brought th.- st'T.- into popnlar favor, and it now enjoys a large and growing patronage. A full and complete stock of clothing and gents' furnishing goods is always on band, embracing every article known to the tr.de, and all »f the best brands aud highest grade of goods. In addition

to these, goods of an equally sub- stantial character but of plainer patterns and at more moder- ate priced is kept constantly in stock. The investment is quoted lit alxmt *1H,(KHI. and the aiiiinul sales amount to upwards of $3<UH)n in all 1'iutn of Utah. Idaho and W\ liming, requiring the services of a force of competent assistants.

Mr. Putnam is an enterprising and thorough going citizen as well . as a shrewd aud sagacious Imsi § ness man. He caun- t« < Vden a 3 year and a half ago aud opened a

- similar establishment on Twi

- fourth street, where he continued y: until the new store he occupies at ._• present was completed and ready ^ fur oooupanry. lie w HH Ixirn in

\VniikeBha county. Wisconsin, and is fifty y ears of age. For ten years he was engaged as traveling sales- man for the American Kuhber .(•any. of Chicago, III., ami for two years prior to coining to this city he MIL- in South 1 >akota, con- ducting an enterprise mmilar to that over which he now preside*. He IK an honorable upright man. Denial and Rwisbli'. and well liked l>y all with whom he come* in con- tact.

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DK. E. M. FELSHAW.

DR. E. M. FELSHAW.

Dentistry is coming to be one of the most important pro- fessions of modern times. Not but that high class work in this line has always been appreciated and persistently sought after, but the marked advance and improvements in the methods and instruments employed of late years require thorough discipline and practical experience. There are many able and skillful dentists in the city of Ogden prominent among whom is Dr. E. M. Felshaw. He first came to this city in 1882, with ripe experience and a thorough knowledge of all phases of the art. He opened an office, but after two years of prosperous business here, he removed to Park City, remaining there four years, thence returning to Ogden where he has established himself permanently. He was born in Lewis county New York, thirty-four years ago, was educated at Lee Center, Oueida county, and then entered the office of H. T. Felshaw at Constableville, New York, to study this profession. He applied himself closely to his work for several years, and then came direct to Ogden, where he has proved himself a highly quali- fied dentist, well able to execute with perfect satisfaction the most difficult and complicated class of work, and where his conscientious, painstaking efforts to please all patrons has gained for him confidence, esteem and good will of the people of this section. His parlors in the Grand Opera House build- ing are pleasant, handsomely fitted up and equipped with all conveniences and appointments. Those entrusting their work with him can feel assured that they will receive careful atten- tion and be dealt with upon the most satisfactory terms.

L. H. WALLACE.

For several reasons the jewelry business may be regarded as the highest art conducted on the basis of a mercantile enterprise. Especi- ally is this true under the advanced degree of perfection it has attained in these modern times, and the jeweler and watchmaker who hopes to meet with gratifying success must be thorough- ly experienced and qualified in the details of all branches of the trade.

The city of Ogden is supplied with several jewelry establishments which may be justly termed first-class, and which occupy positions in the front rank of that industry, among them being the jewelry store of Mr. L. H. Wallace, located at 421 Twenty-fifth street in the Reed Hotel building. The premises are conveniently and handsomely fitted up, and arranged with a special view to facilitate the proper transaction of business and the display of the costly and elaborate stock of goods carried, embracing all styles and classes of watches, clocks, jewelry, precious stones, etc. The assortment of dia- monds is especially complete and varied, also that of rubies, emeralds, sapphires, cameos, opals and other gems, wtich are set to order in the most elaborate and artistic styles. Watches of various makes both foreign and American are always found in stock. Repairing is done promptly and neatly, and all work entrusted to Mr. Wallace is guaranteed to give entire satis- faction. He is also an expert optician, and car- ries a complete stock of optical goods. He employs three skilled and experienced assist- ants in the various departments, while Mr. Wallace is himself a practical jeweler and scientific optician, thoroughly conversant with all phases of the business.

Mr. Wallace is a native of Clearfield, Penn- sylvania. He removed to Iowa in 1871, and from there in 1883 to Red Cloud, Neb. He has resided in Ogden for the past two years, during which time he has gained the confidence and good will of the public and established for himself a high reputation in his profession. He is an honorable and upright business man, straightforward and reliable in all his dealings. Since locating here he has built up a large and substantial

patronage and executes work for the very best class of people

in the city.

PHOTO BY NMWOOMB BUGS. L. H. WALLACE.

THOMAS BROS.

Among the old established and successful business firms of this city, one that has gained a high reputation for excellence of goods car- ried, and straightforward and liberal methods of con- ducting their enterprise will be found the firm of Thomas Bros., grocers, located at the corner of Twenty -fourth street and (I rant nveutie. This leading concern was first established some fifteen years ago, under the title J. M. Thomas A Sons, which continued until about three years ago when the firm name was changed to its present style, Thomas Bros. Through years of careful and painstaking efforts to please the public, and con- stant endeavor to carry in stock at all times such a choice and comprehensive stock of staple and fancy groceries that customers can at all times find the articles they need and feel assured that nothing but pure and wholesome goods will be sold them, they have succeeded iu building up an immense trade in this line, numbering among their regular patrons, some of the very best fami- lies of the city.

The premises consist of a large two-story brick build-

Photo by Neweomb Bra. THOMAS MHOS.

ing 34x60 feet in dimensions, fire proof and fitted up tastefully, with a special view to facilitate the r»n venient and rapid transact i< n , of the extensive business this firm now controls.

Over $ 10,<MK) is invested in the enterprise, and the an- nual sales amount tot 70,000.

Ten experienced hands are given employment and the ir trade is very extensive.

The individual memtars of the firm are N. J. Thomas and M. II. Thomas, both gentlemen of high business qualifications and a thor- ough knowledge of the mer- cantile enterprise in which they are engaged.

They are natives of Ogden, and their interests and in vestments have been centered in this city.

They are public spirited men and support many causes and efforts instituted for the (general good of the city, and not only have im- plicit confidence in a won- derful growth and expansion of Ogden in the future, but believe that such a condition should be brought about as speedily as possible by the united effort of all influential citizens in the adoption of any legitimate measure for the purpose.

Photo by Mowonoib. M. J. TIIOMAH.

Photo b» fewoomb, N. J. THOMA8.

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UTAH LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY.

W. W. FIFE, ABCHITKCT

UTAH LOAN & THUST COMPANY.

Perhaps the strongest evidence of the material and sub- stantial growth and prosperity of a rising city, that has gained a sufficient degree of advancement among the industrial and commercial centers of the country to claim distinction, as a metropolitan center of the locality in which it issituated, is the character and soundness of its banking institutions. They form a reliable index in estimating the aggregate amount of financial and industrial transactions, and are safe and sure in- dications of the actual progress being made in all directions.

The credible and substantial banking houses, and financial and investment corporations, which are centered in the City of Ogden, and from which their extensive operations in improve- ments and developments radiates, are marked evidences of the present advancement and future possibilities of the city.

The Utah Loan & Trust Co. is one of the Territory's stauncbest and most reliable financial institutions. It has among its officers and directiors, some of the most prominent citizens of the community, and who are universally recognized and appreciated, as men of the highest business qualifications as well as Bound and able financiers.

This leading banking corporation was first organized in 1888, with C. C. Richards president ; L. W. Shurtliff vice-president, and H. H. Bolapp, cashier, all men of superior ability and especially fitted for the respective positions they occupy. Through their judicious executive guidance and sound financial policies, the interests of the bank have been subserved to the fullest extent, and its business has steadily grown and

prospered, until now it stands in all respects among the fore- most institutions of the kind in the country.

The paid-up capital is $'200,COO, surplus 812,000. A general banking business is conducted, receives deposits, discounts good commercial paper, loans on first-class security, corresponds with leading banks in the United States and Europe, issues letters of credit, etc.

The new and elegant structure in which the banking rooms are located is owned by the company and is, indeed, a model of its kind. No adequate description of the premises can be given in this limited space, but as regards substantiality and grandeur of architectural design, and beauty and richness of finish, we doubt if it is surpassed by any similar structure in the West.

The building is five stories high with basement, and is 75x122 feet in dimensions. The materal used in its construction is cream stone and pressed brick, with redwood interior finish. It contains in all four ccixmcdious stores and the banking room on the ground floor and one hundred spacious and nicely arrang- ed offices on the upper floors. The building is provided with all the modem improvements and office conveniences, such as elevators, electric lights, gas, speaking tubes, etc., and is in all respects an ideal business and office building, and is not only a source of pride to the enterprising gentlemen who have erected it, but it is a maiked credit to the City of Ogden. The interior arrangement is an especially fine piece of architectural work. A large open square occupies the center of the build- ing, around which a psssage-way extends en each floor, affording from any point an entire circumspect of the

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interior. A mammoth skylight is constructed overhead giving an abundance of light and ventilation. The finest passenger elevator made rises along one eide of this court convenient to all parts of the building.

The banking rooms are especially handsome and finely furnished. The finishing throughout is in mahogany, richly carved and artistically arranged and with a special view to facilitate the convenient transaction of business. Immense plateglass are set on two sides throwing a profusion of light into all departments. The main entrance extends obliquely across the corner. Heavy stone steps, out with a graceful surface-curve rises from the street to the floor of the banking room. The style of the building is modern rumanesque. The stone comes from the celebrated Croydon quarries of this Territory, and which is now regarded as the best to be obtained in the intermonutain region. The base- ment is divided up for storage, heating and elevator purposes. The ground floor is occupied by the banking rooms and four commodious store rooms. The main en trance on Twenty-fourth street, leading to the office and elevator hall is twelve feet

AH glass in the windows on street fronts are plate and the sashes are so arranged that the lower forge light will slide up, and transom over same is pivoted so tnat the occupant or tenant can always have good, pure air circulating in his room. Leading from the mam entrance hail and circling the elevators is the main staircase, four feet wide, and con- structed of iron and slate. This stair continues to the fifth ttoor. After leaving the first story the stairs are built out in the large light well or open court. The second floor and floors above are divided into offices, averaging twenty-seven on eacfc floor, with toilets, closets and all other modern conveniences. There is not a dark loom in the building, all are desirable for the purposes for which they are intended. Most of the ofllces have direct sunlight in them while the others receive their light through the windows in partitions that divide front and private offices and from the large open court. The entire building is heated by steam and lit with gas or electric lights. The ceiling of offices is eleven and one-fourth feet high, and otherwise furnished and modeled in a rich and georgeous fashion. The building and bank are altogether the most mag- nificent in the city, and for that matter equal if not superior to any in the Territory. • It has been the purpose of the Utah Loan & Trust Co. to make their building a monument of the city's growth and enterprise for all time to come, and we may say without fear of committing ourselves, that no matter to what metropolitan proportions Ogden may expand in the future, this Handsome and costly structure will ever be re- garded by the citizens of this community as a most highly prized acquisition, an well as an incalculable benefit to the city.

success, one that reflects the highest credit on his abilities and methods. Mr. Pingree, the cashier, was chosen to fill that im- portant position in consequence of his extended experience and well-known competency; and the directory, made up of men too well known to require more than the citation of their nan.es, complete an official board of surpassing excellence. The back, has won the confidence and esteem of the corporations, com- panies and merchants of the city, and is looked upon by all who have occasion to transact business with it as well deserv- ing of patronage.

W. FABB & CO.

t In every community there are men whose enterprise, activity of mind and strong business talents bring them into prominence— men in whose hands a branch of bneinets ordi- narily commonplace is built up and managed with such skill that it BEBumea a prominent position in the mercantile history of a city. Such men and such business is that of \V. Farr & Co., Whose present enterprise was established about two yeais ago, and by prudent management and a thorough practical knowledge of the business has been brought to its present large and growing proportions. Farr & Co. are located at 346 Twenty-fourth street, where he carries a heavy stock of flour, grain, hay and feed, which is offered at bed rock prices, and also makes a specialty of car load lots. The average amount of business done by this firm is fifty thousand dollars a year which necessitates the assistance of four employees, and their business extends through Utah, Nevada and Idaho, and to-day they rank as one of the leading firms in their line, and have gained a reputation of being a thru who deals fairly and justly with all their patrons. Mr. Farr is one of Ogden's pioneers, having resided here twenty-nine years, and is well and favor- ably known throughout the city and Territory.

FIB9T NATIONAL BANK.

The First National Bank of Ugden is one of the oldest established and most reliable banking bouses of Utah. It has ever retailed the entire confidence and good will of the public, and now elands as the leading financial mutilation of Ugden. It was duly organized in 1881 under the National banking laws, and iU solid success and splendid financial condition reflect! the highest credit upon all connected with its adminis- tration. The capital stock is $150,000. with a surplus of »'JU,OUO, and the officers and directors are as follows: 1>. 11. I'eery, president; John Sharp, vice-president; James 1'ingree, cashier, 1>. II. Pe«ry, R. J. Taylor, D. Ecclea, Oeo. W. Thatcher, .loin. Sharp, Jamee Sharp, James T. Little, H. 8. Young and liar nard Whit* directors, all of whom are representative citizens and capitalists, men of sound judgment and superior financial method*, whose plan of operation baa received the merited endorsement of the community at large.

The bank occupies nllirm in its splendid five-story bi Iding, 78x«»l, situated at tbe corner of Washington avenue and Twenty- fourth street, and fitted up in elegant andcoetly style, arranged with a special view to facilitate the proper and rapid trans- action of their exUniive bnaineaa, which teachea to all parts of tbe United States and Europe.

A general banking businesa ia conducted, exchange* letter* of cre-dit are issued, loans made on good collateral, and discounts of first-clam commercial paper. It has tbe largest list of deposit* of any bank in the city, and corresponds with tbe very beet bank* of the country.

Mr. Ptery, tbe president, is a tonnd banker and UUMMr, wboee guidance baa secured to tbe bank a career of uniform

STAFFOBD, MILLEB & CO.

The house of Stafford, Miller & Co., dealers in harness, sad- dles, etc., maintains tbe highest standard of excellence in its manufactures, and a reputation for liberality and fair dealing of the highest possible character. The premises occupied con- sists of two floors at 2450 Washington avenue, each 2.r>iltXJ feet in dimensions, equipped in every respect for the satisfactory prosecution of the business.

The firm, which consists of F. Stafford, K. T. Miller and P Hoop, succeeded to the business of the Ugden Saddlery and Harness Manufacturing Company, April 20th, 1891, and at once completed operations for an increase in volume and extent of operations. They carry large and selected invoices of har- ness, saddlery, whips, blankets, horse goods, etc., and give special attention to the making of goods to order. They use only the best qualities of stock in their lines, devoting particular care to the work, employing only the most experienced and competent operatives, and warrant their products as among the best obtainable in the markets of the world. They do a large and steadily increasing trade throughout I'tah, Idaho and Wyo- ming, and are well known a* exceptionally deserving of the public confidence and patronage.

JOS. WALLACF.

The drug establishment of Joseph Wallace was founded about one jear ago by Mr. Wallace, who poaMtet* in a marked degiee all the qualifications necettaiy for tbe conduct of a *uo- cn>nfui entei prise. Few nun are moie generally known throughout this Territory than he, being a native of Utah Mid having lived in the Teinlory all hie life. The past eight jeais he baa tesided in Umh-n, wheie he ha* seen the.wond. iful change's and iraLfrfoiniBtinn* ihfct have l«en made in the city a growth and picsterily in (list tine. Mr. \Vnllsre i* at present located at iiMi) Washington aveuoe, in the letail drug business, kt which place (an be (cued a lice cf pnie diugs, also perd m- eiy and toilet ailiclti. All inscription* ent tutted to him will be caiefulh compounded.

Mr. Wallace ha* resided for to nany ye»i* in this city, and ia to well and generally km.nn tbiooghout tbe Territoiy, that he needs no cimmendation. Anyone needing pne diugior chemical*, diuggisl*1 aundries, etc., will be w»ll served by calling at hi* place of bu*inet • •• above deaignated.

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T. E. FITZGERALD.

Mr. T. E. Fitzgerald one of Ogden's prominent and influential citizens, wasborn at New Lexington, Perry county, Ohio, and is forty-four years of age. He was raised a farmer boy, and educated in the schools of his native town. At the age of twenty-three he learned the butcher business, and shortly after removed to Toledo, Ohio, whence although he was successful in his undertaking and made some money, he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, and associated himself with the well- known firm of Taylor & Williams, in the capacity of traveling salesman. He is still connected with the same house.

Mr. Fitzgerald first settled in Utah during 1830, and has resided in Ogden for the past twelve years, where he has not only gained the esteem and good will of the community, but has by his public spirit, liberal support and hearty endorse- ment of all efforts put forth for the advancement of the city's material interests and general welfare, estab- lished a deserved reputa- tion as a loyal and ster- ling citizen. He was elected to the imortant position he now holds, as police judge for the first ward in February, 1891, because of his recognized ability, integrity, and wide-spread popularity, and his judicial career has been highly satisfac- tory to the public. He is a member of the North- westen Commerical Trav- elers Association, of Chi- cago, a member of the West Commercial Trav- elers Association, of St. Louis, and a member of No. 16, A. O. U. W. He II.-IH a high standing in all of these organizations and takes an active part in their movements and workings. Personally he is a man of prepossessing appearance, and his socia- ble nature and general manner creates for him a host of warm and cher- ished friends wherever he goes.

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O. HANSON.

Among the leading tailoring establishments in the city of Ogden is that of Mr. O. Hanson, located at 2444 Washing- ton avenue. The prem- ises occupy the ground floor of a substantial building 15x25 feet in dimensions, the sales- room being handsomely fitted np and well ap- pointed. A branch establishment is located at 220 Twenty- fourth street.

Mr. Hanson has been in business in Ogden for the past five and one-half years, and during that time by careful painstak- ing efforts has succeeded in building up a large and ever increasing patronage. A fine line of broadcloth, cassimeres, seasonable suitings in tweeds, meltons, cheviots, serges, diago- nals and vestings is carried in stock, from which the most fastidious cannot fail to make selections. Mr. Hanson is a practical cutter and fitter and personally superintends the make-up of every garment that leaves his establishment.

Seven skilled assistants are employed continuously in the various departments of work, and orders are promptly filled.

Mr. Hanson is a native of Sweden, and came to this coun- try in 1863. He is a proficient and experienced tailor, perfectly familiar with every phase of the business, and a genial, sociable gentleman who has popularized himself with all with whom he has dealings.

W. KAY AND COMPANY.

In writing of the advance and development of the city of Ogden with reference to commercial affairs, the wholesale pro- duce, fruit and grain business must always occupy a prominent position as a branch of mercantile pursuit, contributing in no small degree, to the commercial importance of the city.

Among the houses whose extended transactions and high standing entitle them to special mention is that of W. Kay & Company, one of the largest establishments in the city. It was founded in 1881, and has had a remarkably prosperous and successful career, its trade steadily increasing with each suc- ceeding year! The especial plan upon which this company operates, is to buy up produce from the farmers roundabout, load into cars and ship direct. An immense amount of bus- iness is in this way carried on, which is by no means confined to Utah, but extends in its various relations all over Montana,

Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado and California. The average sales per annum reach over $50,000, and four competent and experi- enced hands are con- stantly engaged in look- ing after the business of the house. The head- quarters of this concern are located at the corner of Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street, where they have large and commodious office rooms, and through which the various operations of the company are carried on.

Mr.Willard Kay is now the sole proprietor of this institution, and his untir- ing energy and thorough- going business qualities, together with a keen un- derstanding of the spe- cial requirements of the branch of enterprise in which he is engaged, has enabled him to gradually build up and enlarge his business, until now he is one of the largest prpduec dealers in this section of the country. He is one of Ogden's enterprising, go- a-head citizens, ever alive to the best interests of the city and Territory, a native of Utah, with an unwavering confidence in a wonderful growth and expansion of her commercial and indus- trial relations in the future.

T. E. F1TZUEKALD.

OGDEN MILLING & ELEVATOR CO.

The flouring mill industry of Utah is quite as important a branch of business, as any of the manifold interests to which her varied resources give birth. The Odgen Milling & Elevator Co., is among the leading concerns in its line in the Territory. The company was incorporated in 1888, with James Mack, president ; Joseph Clark, manager and S. H. Higginbotham, secretary and treasurer. It controls three large mills with a total capacity of five hundred barrels per day, and does a busi- ness extending all over Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Mon- tana and Texas.

The Phoenix Mill, the largest of the plant, is a six-story building with facilities of the most expensive modern character for rapid and large production, which is operated by water power, is complete in the minutest detail. The two remaining mills, the " Advance," and the "Taylor," are respectively four and five-story buildings equally well equipped; also

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operated by water-power. The Advance~was the first mill in Northern Utah provided with the stone grinding process, the stone used being quarried in the mountains of Utah.

The company manufactures and deals in tine grades of patent Hour, bran, shorts, grain, rye-Hoar, rolled oats, graham, hominy, corn meal, germade, cracked wheat, chicken feed, etc., particular attention being paid to special lines in which an extensive trade is done, and which are known under the follow- ing brands: "High Patent Victor." "Gilt Kdge," '•( iold Medal." "Good Lack," "Snow Ball," and "Fancy."

Two hundred thousand dollars are invested in the business, sixteen experienced men are constantly employed.

The members of the firm are all highly proficient in their line of business, and thoroughly practical, occupying an envia- ble position among the business men of Odgen, and highly respected and esteemed as citizens.

The officers are as follows: James Mack, who built and owned several of the first mills erected in Northern Utah, is president; Joseph Clark who built the first steam Hour mill in the Terri- tory, is manager; ami .1. W. Abbott, secretary and treasurer, and the capi- tal stock is as above, the largest, part of which is held by these gentlemen.

The Ogden Milling A Elevator Company is classed among the lead- ing concerns of Utah, and the energetic push- ing disposition of its officers promises a main- tenence of its present advanced position.

recognized as one of the best qualified men in the profession in this part of the country.

He is a genial and courteous gentleman, well liked by all with whom he comes in contact, and respected and esteemed in both business and social circles.

W. M. CLARK.

It is of paramount concern to the public that those who are en- gaged in the drag bus- iness should be highly qualified in their pro- feMion. and offer for sale nothing but the very purest and fresh- est medicines. Lives often depend upon the virtues and remedial properties of articles contained in prescrip- tions which the drng- giM must fill, the bene Hcial effects of which depend largely upon the strength and parity of the ingredients. The citi/ens of Ogden have in the pharmacy of W. M. Clark, located at 2 IJ Twenty-fifth street, an establishment that fill ttlls all the requirements of a ti rut -claim service of it. kn,,l.

Mr. Clark is a highly qualified pharmaceutist, and has had years of experience in the bumnem. His prevent establiHhine.it was opened in August, 1891, and has since been the base of HUP plies for a large and prosperous trade.

The premise* occupied consist <if u large brick building, fltteil up with every convenience and arrangement for ade- quately meeting the demand* of the trade Kv«ry article included in the stock of a flrst-olas* drug IIOIIM- will he found ami |.iitr»nn can always depend upon having their pre nriptioM filial promptly and accurately.

Mr. Cliirk rame to ( igden from Hurliiigton, Iowa. an. I wan

<ir and one-half years engaged M manager at Win. I >nv,.r

A Sow large establishment. M- was also connected with the

•'* Drug Company, »f Halt Lake City, for live and

one-halt year* before engaging in business for hinuwlf. Ili-

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HON. WM. H. TURNER.

The highest municipal office of the city, viz: the mayordlty is ably and satisfactorily filled by Hon. William II. Turner, a native of England, who came to tUis country in 1867.

He received bis early education in the schools of KugUiid. and after coming to America remained at the city of New- York about a year, then moved westward to Cheyenne. Wyoming, where he entered the employ of the Union Pacific railroad, con-

tinuing in the employ- ment of that corporation for a year or two. thence removing to Corinne, Utah, in the company of Geo. A. Lowe. He re- mained at the latter city from 1870 to 1879, when he came to the city of Ogden. This was about the time the Utah & Northern railroad was in course of construc- tion, and Ogden was the most prominent point on the line. Fully rec- ognizing the possibili- ties of the city as Boom- ing commercial and in- dustrial oeirer of the West, Mr. Turner deter- mined to settle perman- ently in Ogden, and ac- cordingly engaged in the service of lieo. A. Lowe, in the agricul- tural implement busi- ness, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the Territory, of which he soon became mana ger. This important position he continued to fill until April, 1891, when he wan elected tn the office of mavor of the city, which office he now fills, with a quality of ability and fidelity not only acceptable to his constituents, but Mich ax to insure for him a high place in the esteem and good will of all worthy oiti -.ens.

Since Mr. Turner has assumed the grave re- •ponml>ility of his pres- ent incumbency, the city hiiF n mlcrgone ben- eficial changes that may be attributed to the wise policy he has inaugurated.

Mr. Turner IN n linn lieliever in the virtues an.) advantages of fraternal organizations, and lends his sand ion and *up|M>rt to as many as his limited time will permit II. is Post Grand Warden of the local lodge of < >dd Fellows, ( i ran. 1 Treiim-. tli.-iinmd Lodge nf I'tnh. also <i rand Treasurer of the Grand Kncainmnent of I'tah. He has aleo been an active rnemlxT of V i ). I'. W., for the past ten years, having tilled every office in the subordinate lodge, and is present chairman of the finance committee of the < imud Lodge. For ten years he has been an a'-tive and valuable member of the K. of IV, during which time he has tilled every office in the 8iil>ordinate lodge. He has also been • member of common conn 'il. to winch he has been repeatedly returned; is a repul>lt<Mn in national I...I.IICH. and was elected to the office of mayor of tbeciU.on the Citiwns It k. t

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WASHINGTON JENKINS.

Mr. Washington Jenkins, located at Boom 68, First National Bank building, is conceded to be one of the most accomplished of surveyors. He is the successor to David Jenkins, who estab- lished the business in 1850. The present incumbent began operations in 1881, though engaged in the practice of his pro- fession several years previous, and has, since succeeding to his father's patronage, maintained the reputation the latter ac- quired. Mr. Jenkins has had a large experience in laying out and sub-dividing town sites, in draw- ing plans for their improvement, also plans and specifications for water works, sewerage, foundations, and other descriptions of engineering work for patrons located all over the Territory of Utah, also for some in Idaho and Wyoming. He makes a specialty of land surveying, examining titles, etc., and is prepared to execute promptly and satisfac- torily all work of this character entrusted to him.

Mr. Jenkins filled the important office of county surveyor of Weber county from 1882 to 1889, and discharged the duties in a thorough and systematic manner, and to the entire satisfac- tion of the public and county officials. He is well and favorably known throughout this part of the country, and has succeeded in building up a substantial and desirable business. In the city of Ogden he stands high in business and social circles, and has gained the good will of all with whom he has come in con- tact.

L. H. BECRAFT & COMPANY.

Among the live, wide-awake and enterprising real estate firms of Ogden, is that of L. H. Becraft & Co., located at 2414 Washington avenue, in the Citizens' bank building. This firm is composed of L. H. Becraft and J. C. Nye, and is probably the most extensive handlers of choice local and suburban property in Ogden, having listed on their books three of the best addi- tions to the city, besides numerous odd pieces of business and residence property. They operate principally in Ogden and Weber county (though they have for sale some excellent farms both improved and unimproved in various other parts of the Territory, and make a specialty of Lake View, Nob Hill and University Place additions, all located in sightly and well- drained districts; doing an extensive advertising business, and enjoying a well-deserved reputation for making quick sales for those desiring an immediate disposition of property. They also negotiate loans on mortgages, make collections and transact a general business in their lines.

Mr. Becraft and Mr. Nye are both enterprising and go-ahead citizens, instituting and aiding all efforts to build up the city. They have effected some very large and important deals, and now have on hand prospective sales which, if consummated, will terminate to the financial benefit of both buyer and seller, as well as promote the interests of the city in general.

Their contracts for handling property are both explicit, and liberal, and are conscientiously lived up to.

GIBSON & SMTJRTHWAITE.

Of the many commercial and mercantile enterprises forming the channel through which the trade of cities Hows there are few if any having capacity for a wider scope and range than the general merchandise and produce business. Of those en- gaged in this line in this city one of the most prominent and influential establishments is that of (iibson & Smurthwaite.

The enterprise was first established five years ago by Mr. H. E. Gibson and on February first, 1890, Mr. C. A. Smurth- waite was admitted into the business as co-partner. The com- prehensive knowledge of the requirements and responsibilities connected with this branch of commercial endeavor possessed by this firm, together with their straightforward manner of transacting business, has steadily increased their trade until it now amounts to one quarter of a million dollars yearly, and extends throughout Idaho, Nevada, Washington, California, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.

The business is wholesale produce, groceries, grain, seam- less burlap bags, twine, kerosene, linseed and machine oils, etc., at the same time making a specialty of alfalfa seed, grain, and all kinds of produce, in car-load lots, necessitating an average investment of thirty thousand dollars and requiring the assist- ance of five employees.

The premises occupied by this firm consists of a three story brick building 50x160 feet in size, with a large and commo-

dious basement all of which is admirably adapted to their needs.

Mr, Gibson has been a resident of Ogden for twenty years, and stands high in the community, having served the city as a member of council and as a justice of the peace. Prior to removing to Ogdeu Mr. Smurthwaite was in the wholesale grocery business at Salt Lake. No firm in this Territory stands higher, and none is more favorably known than Gibson & Smurthwaite.

THE LARKIN UNDERTAKING COMPANY.

Among the undertakers and funeral directors of this city, the Larkin Undertaking Company will be found occupying a foremost position.

The corporate members of the company have had a long and varied experience in their line of business, and understand perfectly the proper mode of directing funerals, according to the wishes of those who seek their services. The company was established in May 1887, and by close attention to the require- ments of the service the company has become universally known and esteemed.

A full and complete line of metallic, cement and hardwood caskets, and burial-cases, coffins, etc., are carried in stock, also undertakers trimmings, artificial flowers, etc. Embalming and preparing bodies for shipment are made specialties, and every facility is at hand for the proper and appropriate execution of orders, etc.

The premises occupied consist of a substantial brick build- ing 25x65 feet in dimension, and conveniently arranged and appointed. Three experienced assistants are employed, and orders are received from all portions of Utah, Idaho and Nevada.

The individual members of the company G. W. Larkin and Chits. J. A. Lindquist, are intelligent and energetic gentle- men, courteous, attentive and polite, and independent of their business relations, are social and public spirited, taking a deep interest in Ogden and its present and future welfare, and ready to encourage any plan whereby its interests may be promoted.

Mr. Larkin the senior member is forty-four years of age and a native of Cambridge, Eng. He came to this country in 1863, is a graduate of the United States College of Embalming, of New York, and has a wide practical experience.

B. M. SHORT.

Of the various enterprises that give character and standing to the metropolitan pretensions of the city of Ogden, there are none more worthy of favorable consideration at the hands of the public than the real-estate business; and the interests of that line of business in the city are in the hands of competent, thorough-going business men, who are energetic in their efforts to promote the city's welfare. Foremost among them will be found Mr. B. M. Short, investment banker and attorney-at-law, located at 2404 Washington avenue. Mr. Short opened his present office in April, 1889,when the time was ripe for the city of Ogden to spring forward to a place of prominence among the rival mountain cities, and he has aided very materially in effecting the wonderful growth and prosperity which she has undergone during the past few years. He is a man of means himself, and has a confidential standing and wide acquaintance among the leading investors of the Bast. This has enabled him to direct large amounts of outside capital to the city, as well as to induce settlers and newcomers to locate here. Mr. Short handles West Og'den addition, a spendid residence tract, situated in a high and sightly portion of the city, making it especially desira- ble for beautiful and comfortable homes.

Besides this he has for sale other choice property in various parts of the city, as well as throughout Weber county. Having ing ample capital at his command he is enabled to take advan- tage of special offers, the benefit of which he in turn gives to his patrons, by at once replacing them upon the market at a small margin, believing as he does in a rapid disposition of property at a reasonable profit.

Mr. Short was director of the Chamber of Commerce, of Ogden, for over a year, and is now a director in the Keal Estate Kxchange, fast becoming an institution of importance. He is also prominently connected with other leading public-spirited enterprises designed to build up the city and promote the general welfare of its citizens.

Mr. Short is not only a thoroughly conscientious business man, but courteous and affable in all relations, both business and social, and well deserving of the confidence and esteem the public repose in him.

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lie made extensive improvements and enlarged the building, fitting it up for mercantile purposes, since when it has been leased to a leading business interest of this city.

From that time until the present Mr. Woodmansee has de- voted hi? time almost exclusively to the improvement of his farms, culture of fruits, etc., an industry, which under his skillful care and management, have grown to be highly remu- nerative and a source of inestimable pride and satisfaction. Mr. Woodmansee owns considerable valuable city property, both business and residence, and his great faith in the future possibilities of Utah and especially Ogden City, has been made apparent in his willingness to aid such public spirited movements as are likely to bring about the material growth and prosperity to which the vigorous development of the sur- rounding country unquestionably points. In the past as in the present Mr. Woodmansee has ever exhibited a progressive spirit, and broad and liberal views, with whatever enterprise or project he identities him- self. As a citizen he is loyal, sterling and public spirited, and withal a thorough-going business man, sagacious and yet fair and upright in all transactions.

To the integrity and honest purpose of such men Ogden owes her pres- ent advanced position of wealth, population and in- telligence, and it will be due to this same enter- prising and go-ahead class of citizens that she forges ahead in the future to the high position she right- fully deserves, among the metropolitan cities of the country.

RALPH P. HUNTER.

Anyone taking into consideration the im- mense transactions be- tween buyers and sellers of real estate in this city cannot question the im- portance of the agent. One of the most reliable gentlemen engaged in this line of enterprise is Ralph P. Hunter, of 2414 Washington avenue, who established himself in this city in 1888, and by his fair dealings and strict business integrity he has placed himself in the front rank. lie makes a spec- ialty of loaning money on all kinds of real estate security, and is doing a large business in this line. He also has the

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DAVID EVANS.

Mr. David Evans, the subject of this sketch, furnishes an em- inent example of the thoroughgoing and progressive class of men who have figured prominently in Utah's progress from a primitive, undeveloped Territory into a modern and highly or- ganized modernized community.

Mr. Evans was born in the city of Lehi, Utah county, Utah, and is thirty-nine years old. The city was then scarcely a vil- lage— only a hamlet. Mr. Evans was in fact the first boy born to that vicinity. He was raised on a farm and received his early education in the district schools, the educational facilities of the county then being, as may well be imagined, crude and imperfect. But they were the best to be had in those days and were really as good as in most other portions of the Territory. He worked on his father's farm during farming season and at tended school during the winter, following this plan until

seventeen years of age. About this time many promising mineral dis- coveries were being made at Tintic, and Mr. Evans, though but a mere boy, concluded to visit the Tintic district and "try his luck." He first visited Homansville, Tintic, where he hired out as a laborer in the construc- tion of a large smelter then in progress of build- ing at that place. Re- maining at such employ- ment for a time, he next commenced prospecting and general mining on his own hook. He located and worked a number of good mining claims, but owing to his inexperience and lack of means it nec- essarily proved up hill work. Being ambitious and persistent by nature however, he never lost courage, and after two years of unrewarded exer- tion, shifted his occupa- tion with the intention of returning to his claims as soon as he had acquired sufficient funds for the purpose. For the follow- ing two years he had charge of a saw and shin- gle mill in Southern Utah, at the same time burning charcoal for smelting purposes. A noteworthy incident oc- curring to him while en- gaged in these capacities, was the capture of John L>. Lee, leader of the as- sailing party at Mountain Meadows. 1 laving saved some

exclusive sale of a very large number of choice pieces of inside properties; also in a number of highly improved farms situated in Weber, Davis, Boxelder, Morgan and Rich counties.

Mr. Hunter is secretary of the Plymouth Rock Building, Loan & Savings Association of Ogden, and of the People's Building, Loan & Savings Association of Geneva, New York. He is also agent for some of the most reliable insurance com- panies in the East, among which may be mentioned the Mer- chants, Newark, New Hampshire; Jersey City Union, United States, etc., and local agent for the Lombard Investment Com- pany, of Kansas City, Missouri, through all of which he has facilities for furnishing money in large or email amounts at short notice.

- In both social and business affairs Mr. Hunter well deserves the honor and respect accorded him, possessing, as he does, those qualities which go to make up a cultnred, intelligent and honorable business man.

little money out of his earnings while in Southern Utah, he made a trip through the Eastern and Southern States, visiting the principal citits of the country on his way, and arriv- ing in Philadelphia during the great Centennial. He soon returned to Utah, however, and engaged for a time in the forwarding and ccmmifsion bneinets, in the town of York, at thattimethe teiminusof theold Utah Central Railway. Never satisfied with ordinary success, however, and having long been poesested of a desire to gain a more thorough education, with the special view of acquiring a knowledge of law, he went out of the commission business, and from that time until 1879 at- tended the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, part of the year, teaching school and studying law the balance, finally obtaining admission to the bar. In 1880 and '81 he studied law in Judge Hoge's cilice at Salt Lake City, and succeeded in building up quite a practice.

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Leah Naegle of Lehi, and shortly afterward moved with his wife to I'rovn, where he opened a law office, and built up a large practice. He continued in business in Provo until 1884 when being desirous of acquiring a more thorough and com- prehensive knowledge of his chosen profession he spent two years iu the law department of Ann Arbor College at Ann Arbor, Michigan, returning to Provo in 1886, where he im- mediately formed a law partnership with 8. R. Thurmau, and so continued until 1890, when realizing greater pos- sibilities for the exercise of his legal talents Mr. Evans removed to Ogden, and formed a law partnership with L. I ; Rogers, under the firm name of Evans & Rogers, which already commands as large and profitable a practice as any law firm in the Territory.

While at Provo in 1888 Mr. Evans was tendered the position of probate judge under President Cleveland, but owing to his large interests in private practice he declined the position, yet for four years he held the position of U. 8. Attorney for Utah, and his surpassing com- petency as an able and efficient lawyer was es- pecially manifest during his term of otlice in that capacity. The courts were full of important and arduous cases and the work which fell upon Mr. Evans' shoul- ders was infinitely re- sponsible, but the thor- ough and satisfactory manner in which he discharged the duties of the office, established for him a widespread reputation among the people of theTerritniy. Among the important and intricate cases in which he was retained as counsel while prac- ticing at Provo, mention must be made of the celebrated Bullion- Beck, Eureka mining ease wherein be ap- peared as one of the attorneys for the defen- dant. The case was tried at Provo and Og- den in 1885, and in- volved property valued at millions, the trial ex- tending over a period of three months. He was also associated with the prosecution in the caw »f the People vs. Pierce, tried at Provo on a charge of murder.

M r. Evans tells as an Hnuihinn incident of Inn |.u|j|ic career, that his fint fee as an attorney amounted to twenty-five

upright principles, ever ready and willing to aid and encourage all meritorious efforts put forth to further and promote the in- terests of his chosen city .

Mr. Evaus is now President of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce and one of the moat active workers and valuable members of that important body. He takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the worthy objects for which the Chamber was designed, and is untiring in his efforts to carry them out to the fullest extent

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cento, not payable in coin, but placed to his credit in a water ditch company. The case involved the title of a cow and terminated in hi* client's favor. It was in Mr. E vans' eyes at Hint time quite a victory. Ilia second fee was from a merchant for collm-iin^ an important account, and the remuneration for bis valuable services was a pair of suspenders valued at seventy tu-- cent*. The following two years witnessed a remarkable transition m M: I Mini. hr«, for he was then connected with some of tin- weighty canes ever brought into the courts of Utah.

His public career has been marked by increased actmtv There is probably no man of his age who has tried more law unite, ana acquitted himnelf with greater honor and snores*. He is a member of the Legislative Council and has taken Rctm> part in moat every public spirited movement, which has for it» 1 the development and advancement of the city of Ogdcn and the Territory of Utah.

H* is an enterprising go-a-bead citizen and a man of sound.

THOS. D. DEE.

Thomas Duncombe Dee was born in Llanelly, South Wales, November 10, 1844. He migrated to Utah in 1860, and settled in Ogden, where all his interests and business ventures have since been centered, where after reaching maturity, he became

prominently identified with commercial enter- prises, and met with gratifying and abun- dant success.

In 1870 he was elected school trustee for the third school district of Ogden city and served for six years, when the district was consolidat- ed with the other Og- den districts. In 1K77 he was appointed by the city council assessor and collector of Ogden city, and reappoiuted in 1878. In t'eli., '79, elected as- f essor for two years, the law having been amend- ed, making the office elective, and again in 1881 and 1883, filling the position in all eight years. In the latter year Ogden purchased a con- trolling interest in the Ogden Water Co., and appointed Thomas D. Dee, one of its repre- sentatives in the board of directors of the com- pany, E. H. ( irth, W. X. Orion and Joseph Stan- ford, representing the company interests; Messrs. Dee and Orth having charge of the practical operations of the company.

In a year the company established a water sys- tem at a cost of about $ 6ft, 000, laid eleven miles of mains, con- structed two reservoirs, the water from which supplies two hundred 4 D. HKK. &nd fifteen taps, three

motors, two railways,

thirty-four fire hydrants, five drinking fountains nod two horee troughs, producing a revenue of $8,000 per annum.

At the Augutt election 1888, Mr. I>ee was elected jiittice of the peace of Ogden precinct, re cl« cted in 1886, nleo in I1- the same time cerving as aldeiman for the fourth municipal ward of < igilen.

During tbete four years be officiated as police judge. He was also a member of the committees of the c< nncilou munic- ipal laws, water supply, fire department and public land, and • member of the building ooirmittee under whc M> dm c ti< n the present magnificent city hall waa erected and furnished.

In 1 v.'ii the legislature of the Territory n mended the reboot law so that cities of the second class constituted respectively one school district to be controlled by a board of education, consisting of the mayor »nd the trustees to be elected by the voters of each city ' 'gdcn city, being of Ibe tecond class, held

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its eleotion in July, 1890, and Mr. Dae was elected a mamber of said board, which position he still occupies.

In February 1891, Mr. Dee was elected a member of the city council for the ensuing two years. He is chairman of the committe on streets, member of the committee on municipal laws and chairman on the committee of sewers.

The discharge of all duties devolving upon Mr. Dee in his respective official positions has been characterized by marked executive ability and conscientious unbiased judgment. Dur- ing his public career, which necessarily brought him in close contact with nearly all the citizens of this community, he acquired a host of warm and cherished friends and intimate acquaintances, and is looked up to as a man of sterling integrity, possessed of broad and liberal ideas.

He is connected with several leading private corporations, being secretary and treasurer of the Eocles Lumber Co., director of the Oregon .Lumber Co., vice-president of the Equitable Co- operative Association, and director of the Utah Loan & Trust Co. In each of these industrial enterprises he has been instrumental in build- ing them up to the ad- vanced position they now sustain among the commercial institutions of the city. He is also one of the founders of that substantial and magnificent structure, the Utah Loan & Trust Co. building, erected by the Ogden Investment Co.

Mr. Dee is the possessor of a rare combination of admirable character- istics and a well-bal- anced mind, lie com- menced his public lite with self-reliance, eagerness of purpose and a determination to succeed. He thinks with thoroughness and rapidity, and assures himself that the ground is firm before lie will put a foot down upon aud trust himself to it, then he acts with de- cision and promptness. He is reliable and thor- ough, aud a man whose opinion can be trusted in critical cases, for he thinks before he speaks. Yet there is life and sparkle and tire about him;and he delights in a good joke, and to tell a good story. He is kind, affectionate, generous and whole-souled, very companionable and, posessed of a large fund

mant are a standing proof of their excellent taste, sound judg ment, and conscientious care. Their average business is quoted at 825,000 annually.

The firm consists of Herman and Max Liohenfield, both born in Germany, Herman having been in this country eight years, and Max twelve years. They are men of long ex- perience, coming from Omaha, Nebraska, to this city and where they have built up a large trade. Their place of business is situated at No. 2466 Grant avenue in a two-story brick, twenty- five feet in width by sixty feet in depth.

Personally they are modest unassuming gentlemen, possess- ing that push and energy characteristic of successful Western merchants.

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of information which makes his society always pleasant and profitable.

Such a man is the subject of this sketch— one of the founders of this beautiful city, and of this rich and growing common- wealth.

JOHN MoMiNIS, Councilman

LICHEffFIELD BROS.

Lichenfield Bros, the popular tailors commenced business in this city in 1839 and have alraady beootne the representative head quarters for the finest class of custom made garments. Tne parlors are elegantly stocked with an endless variety of imported and domsstic fabrics of every possible design which are made up in the most fashionable styles. Their skill as oorreot and stylish designers is provsrbial, and they employ ten of the most competent and experienced workmen, so that in fit, finish aud workmanship all garments leaving their establish-

JOHN McMANIS.

It was the sixth day of July, 1851, in the old Connecticut

town of Bridgeport, that the Hon. John McManis first gazed upon the beauties of this world. Although born a gen- uine blue-blooded Yan- kee, he is of Irish line- age, and it is to this combination, probably, that he owes those qual- ities which have made his life so successful — perservance, indomita- ble energy, business integrity and strict honor.

At the age of four years Mr. McManis' parents moved from the place of his birth to Illi- nois, and settled in the little town of Dunleith, Jo Daviess county. The boy attended the public schools of the village until he was fifteen years old, when he re- solved to strike out for himself and make his own way in the world. He chose to take up railroading, and was fortunate enough very soon to secure a position as brakeman on a I >n buque & Sioux City freight train, which po- sition he held until 1870 — four years — when the great possibilities of life in the far West at- tracted him strongly and he resolved to take HoraceGreeley's advice. Acting upon this deter- mination, he soon found himself west of the Mis- ' souri river, and it was not long thereafter until he secured a position as brakeman on the Union Pacific! Bailroad, his run being from North Platte to Cheyenne. In 1871 he went to Denverand took a similar position on the Denver & Kio Grande, running be- tween Denver and Colorado Springs.

In June, 1872, Mr. McManis determined to cross the Rocky Mountains, and, consequently, a few days afterward found him in Ogden, where his life in the real West began. He remained here in Ogden for some time, and just as he had made up his mind to go to California, the position of fireman on the Central Pacific Railroad was offered him which he accepted, retaining his run between Ogden and Terrace until the fall of 1872. He then went to braking on a Union Pacific passenger train between Ogden aud Green river. Eirly in 1873 he was promoted to train baggageman with a run between Ogden and Cheyenne. In October, 1874, he was placed in charge ofa freight train running between Ogdeu aud Green river which position he held until November, 1882, when he was transferred

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to the Oregon Short Lias iu the same capacity, la 1833 his steady sad faithful servicss wju him soother promotion, and he was tsoder ad the position of passengercondnotortorun between Green rivar and Hautioffkoo, one of ttie longest and most responsible runs iu the W^t. Tais position he ksld without interruption uatil hs re^gaed. Mirjh '21. isn.tr> eni;»ga in msrcantile business. He especially prides himself upon his reoord as a railroad man, he never bavin? bad tli? slightest •ooident to a train under his charge, and having always bean in go>J rttlitttj. H i r-->rl is r n At witli tli«

company in whose employ he remiiued for so miny years.

In 187t», whilaa freight conductor on the Oregon Short Line, and living at Eranston, Wyoming, Mr. M sMinis was elected a member of the Territorial legislature on the democratic ticket from Uintah county, receiving a majority of 350 votes of a total vote of 930. He served through his term with distinction, having advocated and voted for many of the most important measures of that ses- sion.

In 1882 he was the democratic candidate for sheriff of Uintah county, but was defeated by a majority of about fifty in a total vote of 900.

In the fall of 1882 Mr. MoManis moved to Og- den, and made this city his headquarters, where he has resided ever since. On February 7, 1890, even before his resignation as railway conductor had been ac- cepted by the company, Mr. McMaiiis, in com- pany with his brother, Joseph McMania, and B. F. Livingston, both former Union Pacific conductors, engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor and eigar busi- ness. The business prospered, and early in the spring of 1891 the McManis Bros, bonght the entire business, and since then it has grown to large proportions. Wishing to enlarge their business the brothers opened, on October 10, 1XM, the bar in the New Heed hotel, and placed in it the finest furniture and fixtures to be found anywhere West of the Missouri river. The place is an airy dream of beauty, and the pro- prietors can well feel proud of it.

on September 2, 1H7M, Mr. MoManis married Miss Mary A.

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Whalen, the daughter of a wealthy Wyoming ranchman, and a mutt estimable lady. Twobeautiful children have blessed tlx-ir union, one, a girl that has most remarkable musical talent, which the parents take pride in cultivating ; the other, a boy of link-lit promise.

In the municipal election of the spring of 1891, Mr. MoManis was elected councilman from the first ward, and in that body has made for himself a reoord as a progressive, far-seeing city legislator second to none. He is a member of the sanitary, water and fire committees, and also of the police commission, and in all his work, either in committee or in council, seems to b» only guided by the one idea of doing what is for the best interest* of the city. He is slow and oarefnl in making up Mm mind, but when once he settles a question to his own satUfacv ti'iu he mikes a strong fight for what he believes to be right In all his work be hu represented the most intelligent anil pro- gressive thought of the people.

HA.SKELL W. SHURTLIFF.

Ths youngest membar of the city council, and one of its m >st active and influential workers, is Hiskell W. ShurtlitT, wlio w is b irnin [his city October 'J7, IS il His father, Haskell I! Sliurtliff, is one of the oldest pioneers of Utah, aud up to 1S7U onw of the wealthiest and most prosperous merchants of the Territory. At that time, business reverses came and as a consequence the young man was thrown entirely upon his own resources at the age of fourteen. Up to that time he had at- tended school for several years, acquiring as full a knowledge of the branches usually taught iu public schools as the length of time would permit. Even at that early age the boy grasped the f nil meaning of the changed conditions surrounding him and bravely started out for himself. He engaged as a grocery clerk first, then as a drug clerk, and later engaged in several other lines of mercantile business. He saved his earnings and by

judicious investments he counted his wealth by the thousands before he had attained the age of twenty -one.

At about this time Mr. Shiirtlitrs natural liking for fine animals led him to purchase a rauoli and stock it with blooded animals — horses, Jersey cattle and fancy poultry — and as a breeder of thor- oughbred stock has he made the greater part of his fortune, and through this has he be- come widely 'known among thoroughbred stock men. Mr. Shurt- lifTs ranch has had a number of fast trotters aud pacers with records down as low as 2:27. and he has now a num- ber of colts of exceed- ingly fine promise. He taken great pride in his stock, and his ranch is a model in its appoint ments. Mr. Sliurtlilf 1ms also engaged to some extent in railroad con- tracting, he having built the whole of the ' >t;ilM!i ami Hot Springs railroad. His bupiness ventures have nearly all proven remarkably suc- '"iil and to-day Mr. Sliurtliff owns valu- able properties all over

the t'ltj.

Bwfcnbw -M. 1S86, Mr. Shurtliff married a San KranciBoo lady, Miiw 1'milv Medina, a thoroughly educn'

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talented and beautiful woman, and ever since, tlit-ir home has been H place where cultured and eHpivmlly musical people, find delightful entertainment. Mrs. Slmrtliff is possessed of musical talent of a higli order, is an expert performer upon several instruments and has a voic* of wonderful sweetness and power.

In r..iinmr>. IH'.M, the subject of this sketch was elected a mem tier of the city council fmi the third ward. He was m%de chairman of the committee on lire department and it has been in his work on this committee that be has made his bum neM ability and his appreciation of the needs of th>< city felt When his term of office began, tin. tln> d»pHrtm»iit was a small, incomplete affair, with a very limited amount of aprmrat tally inadequate to th,. proper protection of the city. By his bard and persistent work in council, Mr. Hliurtlifrsreoommenda-' tions were adopted one by one, until now no city in the West has a more complete fire department than Ogden, as will be

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seen by reading its description on another page. Mr. Shurtliff is also a member of the committee on public buildings and grounds.

As a councilman, Mr. Shurtliff is liberal, progressive and broad minded, yet careful and conscientious, doing every- thing be can to advance the material interests of the city. In him the people have a most valuable guardian of their in- terests, and the city an official who looks to the future and has the courage to champion measures which tend toward the building up of a coming metropolis.

HIRAM H. SPENCER.

Hiram H. Spencer is one of the present membera of the city council, elected from the Second ward of Ogden,

and of him it can he is en rapport with the most progressive and advanced thought as applied to thegovern- ment of the city, and that his only object in accepting the nomina- tion to the office he now occupies was that he might advance the city's material interests by his influence and vote in passing much needed measures, and in counteracting the influ- ence of Mossbackism, which is the bane of any young and growing city. As occupying such an important place in the city government, a short sketch of his career will not be considered out of place and hence it is given below.

Mr. Spencer was born at Hockingsport, Athens county, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1851, where he passed the first live years of his life. His father was a 'general merchant, and also en- gaged extensively in the lumber business, and the boy was practically raised in a lumber office from the time he could walk. In 1857 his par- ents moved to Meigs county, Ohio. The boy was precocious in his studies and when his parents moved to Meigs county he entered the public schools of Heeds ville, that county, and for nine years attended school at Reedsville and at Belleville, West Virginia, at the the high school grade.

be most truthfully said that

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left Cincinnati for the West, his point of destination being the upper Columbia river. He, however, stopped at Ogden, and his residence at this place dates from February 4, 1874. On July 1 he entered the employ of the Gibson, Eccles & Vannoy Lumber Company and remained with them, and Gibson & Eccles, until 1880. Gibson & Eccles then dissolved partner- ship and Mr. Spencer remained with Eccles in the same busi- ness, he having a one-sixth interest in the business as a silent partner, besides receiving a large salary, his thorough acquaintance with the lumber business making his services very valuable. In 3883, Mr. Spencer, while still with the Eccles .Lumber Company, engaged with Mr. Eccles in the cattle business in Idaho, under the firm name of Eccles, Spencer & Co., Mr. Spencer being the manager of that business also. He remained at that business until May, 1884, when he opened a general mercantile and lumber business in Beaver Canon, Idaho, which business he is still interested in to-day.

In 1887 Mr. Spencer en- gaged in the lumber business in North Pow- der, Oregon, associated with two other men, the firm name being Spen- cer, Ramsey & Hall. That business ran for two years when it was closed out and Mr. Spencer became a heavy stockholder in the Ore- gon Lumber Co., one of the heaviest companies on the coast. He has $10,000 of stock in this company and it is quoted at 140 per cent. Mr. Spencer is also one- fifteenth owner of the Sumter Valley Railway, running from Baker City, Oregon to old Fort Sumter. This road was built chiefly to take care of the heavy lum- ber freighting interests of Oregon and is a good dividend payer.

Mr. Spencer is known as one of Ogden's weal- thy citizens, and that he is public spirited is shown by the large number of enterprises in which he is interested as stockholder, director or officer. He is presi- dent of the Wasatch Driving Park and Fair Association of Weber county and a director of the Junction City Driving Park, a heavy stockholder and director in the Citizens'bank and is interested in nearly a dozen other enterprises, chief among which is the Eccles Lumber Corn-

end of that time being a member of In 1866 the family moved to> Cattlets-

burg, Kentucky, where young Spencer attended the Powell academy at that place for four years. Powell academy was considered at that time, and very justly too, the best school in all that region. In 1870, the young man grew weary of the parental restraint and of the close application of study, and ran away, when eighteen years of age. He engaged as clerk on a Eanawha river steamboat, but one year in that capacity was enough for him and he returned to his home and resumed his studies in the school which he had deserted a year before. He remained in school for one year and left the institution six months before time for his graduation in the classical course. When a little past twenty years of age, Mr. Spencer went into the lumber business on his own account, and was doing a tine businefcs besides being engaged extensively in lumber speculation, when the great financial panic of 1873 came and he lost everything. Soon after this, on January 28, 1874, he

pan y , of which he is still manager and which is doing an immense business, second to none in the Northwest. Mr. Spencer has been remarkably successful in business, and is an enterprising live citizen of Ogden.

. On December 31, 1876, Mr. Spencer was married to Miss Effie Brown, of Ogden, a talented and educated lady, a member of one of the best and most highly esteemed families of the city.

When Mr. Spencer was elected a member of the coun- cil in the spring of 1891, he was made a member of the finance claims and street committees, three of the most important of all committees, and in his work in each committee he has brought to his aid his business experience, sagacity and integ- rity together with an earnest desire to legislate for the best good of the city, present and future. He is not given to speech- making in the council chamber, but his vote is always cast, as he thoroughly believes to be right, and his strong influence is always in the same direction. His long and successful busi-

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I career have given him a correct and keen insight into financial questions, and as a careful financier he is ' greatly esteemed by his conferees.

ALBERN ALLEN.

There are many men to-day installed in positions of public trust, who do not t oast of long year's of trying experience, or make any pretense to an eventful career, through whien they raised to the advanced and responsible position they occupy. but who are nevertheless conscious that they have won the abiding confidence of the people, and been placed in office through honorable and meritorious efforts, and repeated demonstrations of their ability and sterling integrity. We doubt if there is any city in this country that can number among its public incumbents, a more worthy and capable class of men than Ogden. We do not mean to panegerize un- duly, but taking as our guide meritorious and praiseworthy deeds and achievements, we are led to the assertion with scrupulous candor and unwavering truthful- ness. Among those whom we regard as worthy examples of Og- den's leading citizens, and who have by their faithful and conscien- tious efforts to subserve the best interests of the people, gained the es- teem and good will of the citizens of this com- munity, we are pleased to mention the name of Mr. Albern Allen, the present collector for Weber county.

Mr. Allen was elected to the important and responsible office he occupies in August, 1889, and never before baa the duties of that encnmbency been per- formed more ably and •iitiNfiictonly. The

work that comes within the province of the coun- ty collector has wouder- fully augmented in Weber county during the past two years, and it is bnt meet to say that Mr. Allen has closely followed up and sup- plied the increased de- mands of his position HO that at all time* it* operations move with unruffled precision.

Mr.A lli'ii is but thirty •even years of age, and a native of Ogrlen. All his interest* and ventures from earliest

REED HOTEL LIVERY STABLES.

A first-class livery establishment conducted in tuch a man- ner that the public can always be BEsuicd of acccnrmcdatkn and proper attention, is one of the essentials of any town or city. The city of Ogden has in the concern of S. A. Coppinger & Co. on Twenty-fifth street, between Washington and Adams avenues, an institution of this character. Its horses and vehicles are always in first class condition, and the business is prosecuted on such a systematic basis that patrons can be supplied at any time during the day or night.

The premises occupied consists of a large and spacious two- s-lory building, arranged and equipped for the speedy transac- tion of business, and located to the rear of the Heed hotel, in the center of the city, and convenient to wholesale and retail houses, places of amusement, etc. Ample help is employed to look after the affairs of the concern, and Mr. Chas, D. Coppin-

ger, the manager, is al- ways present to see that customers are treated courteously and in other ways to meet and merit the demands of a superior service.

Mr. Coppinger is a genial gentleman, thor- oughly conversant with the details of the busi- ness in which he is en- gaged, and the success- ful and profitable trade he has already built up emphasize his well de- served popularity.

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boyhood until the present time have been centered in this city, and he is on this account all tbemoredeaervingof conmderHtion at our hands in treating of Utah's prominent and self-made men. His education was obtained in the public schools of thin city. From 1H74 until INK!) he was in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad. That he was esteemed and his service* ap- preciated by that leading <-or)>oration is clearly proven by IIIH protracted connection with it, which wan only seven*! after being called to the larger and more important pooition ..f collector of this county. Mr. Allen baa always held the respect and good will of lb*p*opkof tUl community, and since entering upon the diRchnrge of bin ofllcial dutie* haa more than

ever popularized himaelf with all with whom he came n n

tact. His genial mnnnor and affable disposition, together with din can-fill and painntaking«fforts to pleue all in the execution of hi* work, MMure* for him the |>ermanent high regard of (noae who have the power to place him in office.

M HI KN \l I ' '• <'.. Doctor.

tion of work. An annual bnsine is disposed of.

OGDEN STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

The Ogden Steam Laundry ('o. is the Isrgeet institution of the kind in the city and one of the largest in the Territory. It is a cor- poration with a capital stock of $12,000 Mr. o. I'. Hendershot is man- ager and O. A. Farm- ley, secretary and treas- urer. Business at this establishment is con- ducted on an immense scale, and the work turned out is first- class in every particular. The premises occupied is a large building HfixliO feet, located at 433 Twenty-fifth street, equipped with the latest improved laundry ma- chinery— both Kmpire and Troy, with every facility put in for flu- proper and rapid exeou- noiint IIIK' to over $ 'i'i.OOO

The trade of the Ogden, is not confined to the city of < >gden. bnt extends all over Utah and Idaho, and the humnes* is in- creasing daily. Twenty experienced laundry hands are given employment at the works, and the thorough system which tin* been inaugurated enables the company to turn out an astonish- ingly large amount of work each d»y.

Mr. O. P. Hendershot is a business man of rare >|imlifioa- tions, and is well known in the city as an honorable, upright utid thoroiigh-goiiik' '-iti/rn. Mr. 1'iirmley is an expert and priicticul liuitidrynian, and conduct* the affairs of thin leading nmtitiition to the entire satisfaction of the public and hia as- sociate* in business. He watch** the operation* closely, and UM* every precaution to see that all work leaves the establish ment in perfect condition.

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JAMES A. CALVEBT.

James A. Calvert, who was elected a member of the city council from the Fifth ward,inFebruBry,1891,has a life history which reads like a novel, and the incidents which he can give of life in Australia, the Sandwich islands, on the coasts of South America and Africa, to say nothing of years of ex- perience on the Pacific coast, are interesting in the extreme. Mr. Calvert's father, George Calvert, was a sea-faring man, and James A. was born on the briny deep. On December 1, 1852, Mr. Calvert first saw the light of this world, in a stateroom of the good ship " Nation's Hope," a merchantman, plying between Savannah, Georgia, and British ports. His father was a citizen of the United States and hence he is a native-born American citizen, although at the time of his birth the log-book showed that the ship was less than one hundred miles off the Irish coast, returning from a merchant trip to Belfast, Ireland. When on land his par- ents' home, until he was eight years of age, was Atlanta, Georgia, and there they made their nominal home until in 1860 they moved to Co- lumbus, Ohio. But, un- til his parents moved to Columbus, young Cal- vert knew but little of land life, most of his time being spent on the sea with his father — his mother accompanying her husband on his voy- ages.

When his parents moved to Columbus, James A. was sent to school, and at eighteen years of age graduated from the Columbus high school, at that time one of the best educational institutions in Northern Ohio. Immediately af- ter his graduation Mr. Calvert learned the trade of bricklayer, 'working as apprentice in Columbus for three years, or until he was twenty -ofle years of age. He then, in 1873, went to California, working at his trade there during the summers, and re- turning to Ohio during the winters for two years. In 1875 Mr. Cal- vert started for Aus- tralia, landing at Mel- bourne after a long voy- age. He worked at his trade in nearly every city of Australia, and while not so employed traveled over nearly every section of that country, visiting the im- mense sheep ranches, the gold fields and seeing much of the then unexplored aud wild regions of the interior.

Four years of Australian life was enough for him, however, aud in 1879 he started for the Sandwich islands, stopping at New Zealand for some time, where he again followed his trade, and also worked iu the gold fields. Reaching the Sandwich islands in the latter part of 1879, he stopped there for six months, his time there being occupied in the pursuit of his trade. Finally he wearied of foreign life and resolved to return to this country which he did, landing in San Francisco in July, 1880, having been gone from his native laud about five years. He almost immediately came to Ogien and, with the exception of the winter of 1880-81 spent iu Denver, has made this oity his home ever since. When he came to Ogdeu he commenced the business of contracting builder, and this business he is still engaged iu. He has been successful in a marked degree in a financial sense, and has made a splendid record for himself as a conscientious, careful and thoroughly reliable builder.

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Mr. Calvert was married in 1881 and four bright children, two boys and two girls, have come to bless a happy home.

Mr. Calvert is a member of the council committees on claims, streets and water supply, and in dealing with the questions and matters referred to these committees, displays the same sound judgment which has made his business ventures successful. He is not a public speaker, is of a retiring disposi- tion, and his voice is rarely heard in the debates in council, but his vote is always on the side of progress and in the interests of his constituents. He is thoroughly honest and conscientious in all that he does, and his judgment upon matters of importance is rarely at fault. Mr. Calyert is a fiim believer in the future greatness of Ogden and his ideas of city legiela- lation take in the future as well as the present good of the city.

S. J. BURT & BROS.

The fact that Ogden has attained a perman- ent supremacy in com- mercial affairs at the West, is greatly due to her leading merchants and business men. They have by untiring indus- try and a thorough knowledge of the re- quirements of the trade, enlarged their business and increased their fa- cilities until to-day the stores are stocked with the best classes of goods both domestic and for- eign, equal to those found in any city in the world. The firm of S. J. Bnrt & Bros., at 2437 Washington avenue, a representative institu- tion of this character, is an old and well-known house, and has had a remarkably successful career. The business was established in 1883 by Snyder & Burt, con- tinuing for two years under the administra- tion when it was reor- ganized under the pres- ent firm name and title. The premises occu- pied consist of a large three-story brick build- ing and basement 25 x 100 feet in dimen- sions, located as above, and fitted up especially to facilitate the conven- ient and rapid transac- tion of business, every department being con- ducted on principles so well defined and sys- tematic, that the large

number of customers who trade at the store daily, experience convenience, hospitality and polite attention in their purchases. The trade which amounts to over $100,000 annually throughout Utah, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada, giv- ing employment to a large force of salesmen and assistants. A manufacturing and dress-making department conducted in connection with the store, occupying the entire third floor, and a complete stock of dry goods, notions, trimmings, white goods, men's furnishings, fine shoes, etc., will always be found on hand. The individual members of the firm are, S. J. Burt, W. L. Burt and Thos. G. Burt, all young men of high superior business standing and ability, who have steadily increased the volume and importance of the business they now control from its inception. The firm, provided with ample capital and possessed of advantages for buying not ex- celled by any house in the country, is enabled to offer prices and terms to customers, that cannot be surpassed by any house in the Territory.

JAMES A. CALVEKT, Councilman.

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W. DRIVER & SON.

In presenting for the consideration of our read- ers, both at home ami abroad, historical and descriptive reviews of the resources and commer- cial enterprises of I'tah. it is necessary and im- portant to select repre- sentative institutions and establishments, and to consider more particular- ly those whose success • •JL has made them conspicu- J oils and gained for their 3 proprietors positions in

- the mercantile history of g the Territory.

~l The character of busi- ness men is often mea- sured by their success, which to some extent, tends to maintain the reputation and impor- tance of the community of which they are mem- bers.

The drug trade of Og- den, and in fact of any city, is one of the most important factors in its general make-up, and exercises an influence not Miit measured by any other branch of trade.

The leading house in this city, and certainly one of the largest in the Territory, engaged in this line is that of Win- l>river ,v Son. located at 'J4;i3 Washington avenue. It was founded in 1871 by William Driver, and in 1880 his son, O. W- I )river, entered as partner in the business.

With regard to so well-known a house, but little can be said that is not already generally understood of its importance as a mercantile enterprise of this city, and beyond giving the plain facts, a detailed description is unnecessary. The premises oc- cupied is a large handsome three-story building and basement -JiMM'.. all of which is devoted to the heavy and complete stock of this establishment.

In regard to the building occupied, which is owned by Mr. Driver himself, it may be mentioned as a point worthy of note, that it was the first three-story struct uretevpr built in the Territory, it being some seven years subsequent before any other three-story building was erected.

The retail department occupies the entire ground tloor, and is con venieutly andattraotively arranged for the proper display of the immense line of goods carried. The second and third floors are set apart for the wholesale department of the business, which is one Mf the largest and most important branches, the trade extending all over ^ Utah, Idaho. Wyoming 2 and Nevada.

The basement is used ~ for their comprehensive if stock of liquors, wines,

- mineral waters, etc.. a £ heavy stock of which is al-

- waya on hand. Through Miit thin immense Mtal> lixliiiient. the stock of ilruiiH and medicines car ned are fresh and pure. nnd constantly replen ished. Kight skilled and experienced assistants are ••iiiplottnl in I he various departments of the enter prise. The avc raff* capi - (al invested is $75.000. and .in annual bnsinewof S'JOO.fKHi IH transacted.

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The line carried oy this house embraces American and foreign chemicals, proprietary and patent medicines, pharma- ceutical preparations, together with the largest aud most complete stock of drugs and druggists' sundries to be foun.l in the Territory. Special attention is pud to prasaripticms, none but highly profijieit assistants being admitted to this depart- ment.

Mr. Q. W. Driver, the business manager, is thirty-two years of age and was born in England. He came to this country early in lite with his father. He has grosra up aud been schooled in a thorough business education, and is highly qualified as a

druggist. His personal time and attention is devoted to the enterprise, with which he is so prominently identified, and super- vises its affairs in a highly creditable manner.

Mr. Win. Driver, the senior member of the arm.isamanof mature years and highly respected and esteemed in the business community. Ha was a member of the city council and is promi- nently conneoted with several public enterprises, devoted to the city's welfare. Both father and sou are sterling citizens, and have the future interests of the city of Ogden and Territory of Utah at heart, and are ever ready to support and encourage ail public-spirited movements.

ROBERT ,C. LUNDT.

One of the young, stirring, active, level healed business men whom the people of O;len elected as their councilman in the spring of 1S,H, is It >bert C. Lundy, who at that tinn had been ideatitled prominently with Ogden's business interests for.four years previous. Mr. Lundy was bora on a farm near the little town of Nashville, Washington county, III., on Sep- tember 5, 18*50, where hit parents lived until the boy was two and a half years old. At that time his father enlisted in the Thirteenth Illinois cavalry and was at the front battling for the union, until the close of the war. During his absence the fam- ily resided in the town of Nashville. In 1SS7 the family moved to East Tenue-isse, near Knoxville, where the boy lived with bis grandfather on a farm for seven months. From there his parents moved back to Nashville, 111., and shortly afterward to Oakdale in the same county, where they lived until 1871, when they came West and settled in Denver. Before hav- ing moved to the West, young Lundy went to school a short time in Oakdale, III., and later spent two years attend- ing the school at Evans, Colorado, a school then with considerable repu- tation for excellence.

After this schooling, at the age of thirteen, Mr. Lundy had his first introduction to busi- ness, going into a gro- cery store in Denver, where he remained for a year, changing from there to Gallnp's whole- sale and retail establish- ment, which handled millinery, toys, fancy goods, jewelry, show cases, etc., aud also pic- ture frame*. After be- ing with Oallup for four years, Mr. Lnndy went to Fort Collins where he took charge of his father's store at that point. Remaining there only six months, he re- turned to Denver, and went into the picture frame business. In 1878 when only eighteen years of age he formed a partnership with Dr. Slrohm in the furniture business. Trade increas- ed, mod business pros- pered, so that in a few months Mr. Lnndy was able to buy out bis part- ner. Mr. Lundy remain- ed in this business, sometime* alone and

Oa Thanksgiving evening, 1881, Mr. Lundy was most hap- pily married to Miss Hilda Hanson of Denver, the result of the union being two boys, six and four years of age, and a daughter aged two years.

Mr. Lundy is member of the council from the First ward and the people of that ward have every reason to be proud of their choice. From the moment he took his seat, he entered upon his councilmanic duties with the determination to under- stand them most thoroughly. He put into the performance of his duties all the energy of his nature and has made a splendid record for shrewdness, business ability, strict integrity, public spirit, and devotion to the interests of his constituents and of the whole city. He is a strong and earnest advocate of every measure which will tend toward the advancement of the city, aud on the floor of the council urges his views with sharp, strong arguments. He is chairman of the license committee

and member of the san- itary and tire commit- tees, and in all these committees makes his influence strongly felt.

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LUNDY. Cooncllmwi.

som»timM with diffarent partners, intil 1HV>, when he sold oat and concluded to try the farther Wast. He decided to locate UD, and in the spring of 1HH7 m >ved here and started the Utah ('inning Cjmpany of which he is president. He has re- mained in that buiineis, together with the real estate business, at timM, ever since. Toe canning business has grown from a KIM ill start in a little frame building, to large proportions, the great pl»n;, c->niistiug of fine brick building* and long sheds i- >v»ring ssveral a?res of ground. The business amounts to over $ I. V i.i m per year. During the MMOQ of 1891. a daily average of twenty-flva th >u«aad oaot of canned goods— corn, tomato**, etc., ware put up. TUB plant also embr^OM machinery and faoilitiea for making vinegar, pickles, jellies preserve*, etc. The product this year ha* been over two hundred and thirty oar loads. Th» saooess of this institution, in Ur M I, m in»g«tnont, has been phenomenal and speaks loudly regard- ing hw basin*** sagacity and ability.

II. M. BOND & CO.

Among the represent- ative commercial enter- prises of the city of Ugden is that of the well-known firm of II. M. Bond & Co., of 353 Twenty-fourth st., and 2411 Washington aven- ue, occupy a position of conspicuous and deserv- ed prominence. Identi- fied with the trade and commerce of the city for a period of over fifteen years, it has gained a commercial standing second to none, and shared by few in its line of trade in any part of the United States.

The business was es- tablished in 1876 by 1 1 M. Bond & Co., and their line includes the business of wholesale and retail groceries and shippers of fruit and produce, being also the sole agents tor "The King of Soaps." Their trade extends through- out t'tah. Malm. Neva- da and Wyoming, and the yearly sales aver- age forty thousand dol- lars, neoesHiUting the employment of seven assistants. The firm is deservedly esteemed

among the bast representative business men of this community, an 1 Mr. Bond ha* honored the position of director of the Ojden Chamber of Commerce; he has also been commander of Mi- i Iran I Army post here, and at onetime, in partnership with L. K. Fretman, published the first Gentile paper ever is- sued in this city. At that time owing to the opposition mani- fested by the Litter Day saints it required a man of nerve and courage to engage in such an enterprise, the Gentiles being so largely in ths minority. Mr. Bond was born in Galvaston. Texas, and lived there until 1HV>. In the latter year he moved to Kentucky aud lived there until the breaking out of the rebellion when he enlisted in company C, Fourteenth Ken- tucky infantry. After the war he published The Big Sandy Hentld at Catlettsburg, Keotnoky, coming from there to Utah, where he has resided for eighteen year* and in well and favorably known throughout the Territory.

DR. AMASA S. CONDON.

It is most pleasing to the publishers of this work to be able to include among the biographical sketches of prominent and enterprising men who go to make up the leading citizens of the Territorry,those who have achieved success in the literary field in both prose and poetical composition.

If there ia one class of men whose records and attainments are more interesting than another it is those who have made the success of their lives in the realms of literature, whose genius and painstaking efforts as exhibited in the clever and meritorious work evolved, have been commented upon in com- mending terms by the illustrious writers of the age. A splendid work, especially from a literary point of view, entitled "Poets of Maine," which accidentally fell into our hands, fur- nishes us with information regarding Dr. Amasa S. Condon of the city of Ogden. Dr. Condon <was born at Penpbscpt, Maine, December 22, 1846. Hie early education was acquired in the dis- trict schools, which possessed at that time as may be imagined, primitive educational facilities, and young Condon was compelled to walk each day two miles through the woods on his way to school. At the age of fifteen he en- tered the east Maine conference seminary at Buchsport of that state, where he applied himself diligently to his studies until the war broke out in April, 1861, when he enlisted in company E, Sixth regiment of volunteers,madeup chiefly of the students of the seminary. At the battle of Williamsburg he received in- juries which compelled him to withdraw from active service, and from which he never fully recovered. After regaining his health in a measure.he returned to the seminary, to complete his academic education, having selected medicine as a profession. He removed to Iowa, and after three years diligent preparation with Dr. Marcus D. Sheldon, of that state, entered the Univer- sity of Michigan where he remained two years and passed suc- cessful examinations. He returned to Iowa opened an office and continued to practice until Jan. 1875, when he was appoint- ed surgeon of the U. P. R. R., with headquarters at Ogden.

As a literary man he has achieved marked success. His first poem written when but a child, was published in the TIMES-HERALD of Boston, Mass., and Dr. Haven, the prince of critics, wrote him a letter, complementing him on his ability.

In 1886 Dr. Condon visited the Hawaian Islands to gather information. He wrote several very graphic and interesting papers regarding the Kilama volcano then in erruption. Be- fore leaving he was tendered a banquet at Honolulu, by one of the royal princes, which the king himself attended. In 1887 Dr. Condon visited his old home in Maine. While in the East he visited the famous poet John G. Whittier, who is a personal friend of the doctor. He also visited the old Webster home- stead, scene of the "Old Oaken Bucket," -'Miles Standish Mon- ument," at Plymouth, and then went to Quebec on his return our. Climbing the heights of Abraham to look upon the mon- uments of Wolf and Montealm. We understand he is going to publish the many poems he has written, in book form, which judging from the high character of those which have already appeared in print, will make a valuable acquisition to the libraries of all lovers of poetry and admirers of the true poetical spirit. He made a careful tour of Yellowstone park and minutely described all he there saw. The above extract from an eastern publication containing biographical shetchee of many noted men who have achieved fame and success in di- verse avenues of human aspiration, while of great interest to the citizens of Maine, Dr. Condon's native state, is of even greater interest to the people of Ogden, for this city has been the doctor's home since 1874.

The ripe experience of mature years always gives a classic touch to the gifts of genius, and while actively engaged in the practice of medicine, the doctor has found many spare moments to devote to his forthcoming work, which we know will be of great merit and find a place among the works of our famous American authors.

Since taking up his abode in Ogden Dr. Condon has built up a large and successful medical practice and is looked upon by the people of this community as an able and highly skilled physician.

He has won by his generous nature and painstaking efforts the high esteem and good will of all with whom he comes in contact, and numbers among his wide circle of friends and acquaintances the wealthiest and most influential citizens of Ogden.

For a long time Dr. Condon was a director in the Chamber of Commerce, was supervisor of the eleventh census for this district, which embraces the whole of Utah Territory, and is now a director in the Equitable Co-operative Mercantile Company.

KELLY, ILLE & CO.

The well known and popular real estate firm of Kelly, Hie & Co. at 2414 Washington avenue, first opened their office in January, 1890, and have built up a profitable and substantial business, extending throughout this section of the country. The bnlk of their business, however, is confined to Ogden realty, the firm owning and controlling choice tracts of resi- dence property, among which may be mentioned the "Rex Place" situated about two and a half miles from the center of the city near Five Points. This addition which has been platted contains thirty-five acres and the firm are now offering it for sale either as a whole or in single lots or blocks. Independent of the property owned and controlled by the firm a large amount of real estate has been placed in their hands for sale, and prospective purchasers, by calling at their office, will find a complete and comprehensive list embracing some of the most desirable business and residence property to be found in the city, as well as many choice acre tracts and large farms in the vicinity. These gentlemen who have taken an active part in building up the city of Ogden are constantly laying out new and splendid additions, especially desirable locations for cheap and beautiful homes.

The individual members of the firm are Qep. J. Kelly, A. Hie and B. A. McMillan, young men of rare business ability with a keen perception of the activities and fluctuations of the real estate market, who have, by the adoption of superior methods and improved plans, for the disposition of property favorable to people of moderate means, established a repu- tation for meeting the popular demands.

Honorable in all their trrngaotions, and fair and liberal in al 1 business propositions, customers having occasion to deal with them are invariably satisfied and well pleased. This firm is doing much for the advancement and welfare of Ogden, by distributing valuable information regarding her resources and possibilities, and in divers ways aiding and encouraging all movements and efforts to promote the city's material interests

GEO. W. JONES.

Within the past few years, there has sprung up an institu- tion of commercial necessity, known as the " American Ticket Brokers' Association." The unreliability of many people en- gaged in buying and selling railroad tickets, owing to the un- certainty and complication of the business, have compelled those disposed to conduct a legitimate and straightforward enterprise of this character as well as to facilitate the satis- factory transaction of business, to join themselves together under one national association of high standing and unques- tionable responsibility, that the public may be accommodated, and at the same time feel assured that they are reposing con- fidence in people of sterling integrity and honest dealing. Mr. Geo. W. Jones ticket broker of Ogden, Utah, located at 346 Twenty-fifth street, has not only the protection and surety of the association to offer the public, but by honest upright dealing during a period of seven years in his present line of business in the city of Ogden, has established an enviable reputation as a conscientious, trustworthy business man, well versed in all phases of the business. His patronage probably exceeds that of any other concern of the kind in this part of the country, and bis methods of doing business have thus far given universal satisfaction.

Something of the magnitude and importance of Mr. Jones' establishment may be formed from the fact that he has $10,000 invested, and his annual transactions amount to over $100,000, equal in fact to some of the largest commercial enterprises.

Mr. Jones is a comparatively young man being but thirty- six years of age. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and re- ceived his education at the well-known Oberlin educational institutions. In 1872 he " toured " to the West, locating at Cheyenne, Wyoming. While there he engaged in the stock business, and was quite successful. He was also for a time manager of the Western Union Telegraph office at Cheyenne, and became a prominent citizen of that place. Realizing, how- ever, the great possibilities of Ogden, he came to this city seven years ago and has established a large and paying busi- ness. He also deals largely in Ogden realty and has for sale some of the choicest in the city, both business and residence.

Mr. Jones is well and favorably known in the community and stands high among the business men of Ogden.

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G. B. BELNAP.

Among the widely known and highly esteemed citizens of Ogdeu, who have achieved success, there is no one more de- serving of mention than Mr. O. K. Belnap, sheriff of Weber county, who has been a resident of Utah for many years. He is regarded as one of Ogdeu s sterling citizens, as a man espe- cially fitted by nature and principle for the important public position be occupies, and to which he has been almost unani- mously elected by the voters of the county, for every successive term since first entering upon the duties of the office.

Mr. Belnap is forty-four years of age and was born in Coun- cil Bluff, at that time called Florence, winter quarters of the first emigrants to Utah. When but two and one-half years of age he accompanied his parents to Ogden, where he was educated, and upon attaining his majority he was married and and removed to Hooper, Utah, being one of the original founders of that place, and taking an active part in all its varioi s interests.

While pursuing the occupation of farming, he also acted as consta- ble and remained in Hooper for fifteen years. About 1884 he was first elected sheriff of Weber county.

Especially qualified by education, experi- ence, courage and sound and i-ii refill judgement, for the discharge of his ottii'ial duties, his induc- tion into office had the effect of inspiring re- newed confidence and assurance, that the en- forcement of the law would thereafter be car- ried out.

The condition of af- fairs, while not desper- ate in the true sense of the word, required the service of a fearless, ac- tive and vigilant man to hunt down outlaws, whose depredations had been felt and who were dreaded throughout this section. Bo efficient was Sheriff Eieloap and his deputies, including Mr. Arthur Pratt, that the outlaws were dispersed and those who escaped capture immediately disappeared and have not siooe annoyed or terrorized the locality. Mm first arrest in the county WHS that of a desperado and murder- er,'and his name as a capable and efficient officer of the law was established in the minds

of all aware of bis untiring zeal, intrepidity and shrewd detec- tive work, in the arrest anil roimrtion of tin- daring train rob- lw>ra, K.I. Dayton, alia* E. K. Fisher and Joseph May. These wily and iiniicimlly cute characters were widely known in the lUx-ky mountain country, where their outrage* had aronsed a feeling of terror and widespread indignation. They bad previously succeeded in evading the iron Imnii of the law, and were the chief actors in the Denver A Rio Grande train robbery of September 7, 1880.

The cirrumntances of that bold and almont unprecedented "hold-up" are Mill fresh in the mind* of the pmplp. The train w*« composed of six coaches. When the robbery orrurn-il tli»

Their capture was effected by Mr. Belnap subsequently, while "holding up" a gambling house in Ogden, and their recklessness was specially manifest in an actof the leader, Dayton, when the twain were at the jail in the custody of the sheriff. The latter re- moved the prisoner's coat and laid it on the floor, whereupon Day- ton began kicking it vigorously, but was token in hand and compelled to desist The coat was examined and was found to contain highly explosive dynamite cartridges of sufficient strength to have blown the structure into "smithereens." The law took its course and the prisoners are now in the peniten- tiary, serving a sentence of seventeen and a half years.

On different occasions Mr. Belnap has demonstrated his ability in handling extreme cases, and has never failed to acquit himself in the discharge of his duties in a highly cred- itable manner.

Aside from his public relations, Mr. Belnap is a business man and a public spirited citizen, having unlimited confidence

in the brilliant future that is spreading out before the city. He be- lieves in assisting and urging the development of resources, and aids and encourages all ef- forts designed to build up and advance the vari- ous interests of the city and Territory.

Pholo br Newcomb lirwi. <i. K. MKI.KNAP. Sh-riff W.-l-r r,.,,ti,>.

WM.K. WILLIAMS. Fire insurance has long since become a necessity. Every prop- erty owner or merchant carrying a stock of goods is compelled to insure his property against loss by fire, if be would keep abreast of the times or realize his only source of pro- tection against the most common and devasta- ting of destroyers.

All the leading in- surance companies of the United States and r.iik'laml are represent- ed in the city of Ogden, iiiul Tor the best of them Mr. Wm. K Williams, whose ollii-e is located iu the First National Bank building, room 11, acts as local agent He first engaged in the in- surance business in Og- deu iu 1HS<>, and met with HuliHtaiitinlsuccess and deserved prosperity from the start, having during his career secur- ed for the companies he represents some of the very best risks on hiiBinesH and residen- tial property, stocks, household goods, etc., in Ogden. That be is an active, experienced and judicious insur- ance agent, the following list of c< mpanies wL ich have entrusted their interests in this city to him fully attest: 1'liroix. of Brooklyn ; Guardian, Sun, Fire and Atlas, of Ix.nilon ; Na- tional Assurance, of Ireland ; Doylston, of Boston ; Fire At- "ii iiiul Pennsylvania Fire, of Philadelphia; Amazon, of Ciiiriniintti ; I'.nfTiilo Geiman, of Buffalo; Burlington, of Biirlirgtoii ; Sy ndicate, of Minneapolis; Union and Firtman's Fund, of Kan KHUH in-.. ; l-'itlelily & Ctsnality Company, New York ; and 1'Hcitlr Surety Company, of San Francisco ; having total assets of 8WI.M 0,<:<K> Mr. Williams is to be « n- aratnlated upon the snrcefs he b»s acini M <!. Ilin policirs have

engineer was compelled, at the point of a gun, to pass through been issued principally upon prefer™ d ritks, restricting his un the passenger cars ami hold the, "booty tack," while the tern- derwritiog to exclude an) thing extra hazardous. The ccm-

tied passengers were forced to give up their valuables. Tb« audacity of this episode on the part of two men, wan at the tim* without a parallel in the history of western lawl

panies mentioned are nil nptfd for I heir pi on.pt | n\m bl of locies a* aeon as adjusted. Their policies arc wot<l«il in H clear and ex- plicit manner and rate* are the lowest commensurate with cafe ty.

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HOTEL LINCOLN.

Among the hotels of Ogden that have become a part and parcel of the city itself, the " Hotel Lincoln " is worthy of more than passing notice. It is admirably situated at 330 Twenty- third street, in the central portion of the city, and most con- veniently arranged and finely appointed in all respects. The building is three stories in height, 40x60 feet in dimensions, and contains twenty-six sleeping apartments with a capacity for the accommodation of fifty people. All modern improvements and conveniences usually found in a first-class hotel, such as hot- water heating apparatus, gas, bath rooms, electric call-bells, etc., have been introduced, making it, in all respects, a public hostelry of the highest order.

The hotel building itself is a handsome and substantial structure, costing, together with fixtures, over $ 17,000, but owing to its great popularity and consequent inadequacy to accommo- date the large number of permanent and transient guests, who appreciate the excellent service afforded, an ample and com- modious house adjoining has been secured, richly furnished and made a part of the hotel.

The dining-room, with capacity to seat sixty guests, is one of the special features, as the house has a reputation for superb cooking and a quality of service not excelled by any similar in- stitution in the city.

Odell & Wright are proprietors, while Mrs. Wright, a lady of practical experience and intelligent understanding of the demands of an unsurpassed service, is conspicuous in her appre- ciation of its requirements. As a convenient and desirable stopping-place for permanent boarders Hotel Lincoln has no superior in the city. It is located in a quiet, pleasant district, surrounded by beautiful residences, at the same time as central to the business portion of the city as other leading hotels. Everything about the place has an air of quiet elegance that is persuasively refreshing, and nothing that can in any way add to the comfort or pleasure of guests, is ever omitted.

CHICAGO MEAT MARKET.

It can be said with great assurance and strict adherence to the truth, that no line of business, in any city, needs to be con- ducted with as much care and cleanliness as that connected with the handling of choice lines of meat. In this particular, mention of the Chicago Meat Market, 2254 Washington avenue, as among the popular and enterprising establishments engaged in this line, must not be omitted. It is one of the best equipped and most centrally located markets in the city. The individ- ual members of the firm are F. Loewenstein, W. Beckman and Henry Linderman, gentlemen familiar with the details of the business and the requirements of the trade. They carry full lines of meats, and game and fish in season, and are prepared to furnish the householder, the gourmet and the public with the finest roasts, juiciest steaks and most delicious chops and cutlets to be found in the market. The establishment is located at the cor. Twenty-third street and Washington avenue, occupy- ing a large frame building 24x50 feet in dimensions, especially ar- ranged for the convenient transaction of business, and provided with refrigerators, ice chests, etc., for the proper preservation of meats. The capital stock invested is 82,000, and the annual sales amount to over $36,000. Three experienced assistants are employed and goods are delivered to customers in any part of the city, many of whom are among the leading and wealthy citizens of Ogden, who do their trading at the Chicago Meat Market.

The gentlemen conducting the enterprise have resided in the city for several years, and are well-known as honorable, up- right men, whose methods are such as meet with co-operation from a large and exacting trade. They "push" their business energetically and are ever on the alert to furnish patrons the best the market affords.

T. J. NEWCOMB.

The progress made within recent years in the art of photog- raphy is nothing short of marvelous. The methods are virtually revolutionized by the march of progress and improvements closely approaching perfection are now employed. In no photo- graphing establishment is this more strikingly illustrated than in the gallery of T. J. Newoomb of this city. Coming here but a year ago Mr. Newcomb has built up a business already ac- knowledged to be among the finest in its line of any in Utah and the high order of work done, the uniform satisfaction

rendered to his patrons together with the unmistakable busi- ness capacity, energy and sound judgment, which characterize the management of this deservedly popular establishment, have been the chief features contributing to the positive and perma- nent success that he to-day enjoys. His gallery is pleasantly located in the elegantly furnished rooms 25 — 26 — 27, Wright block, and it is safe to say that no more thoroughly equipped1 establishment can be found in any city in the west.

Mr. Newcomb has had a long experience in his line of busi- ness, having conducted for fourteen years photograph galleries in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and at Los Angeles, California, and is an artist in his line excelled by none as his work will testify.

He employ • three skilled artists who are proficient in the enlargement of pictures, the execution of crayons, water colors etc., and all commissions committed to him will receive his per- sonal and careful attention. His work is not confined to the city, but extends throughout the country, and a visit to bis studio will amply repay the admirer of fine artistic features which he has on exhibition. His orders are promptly filled, and his terms most reasonable.

A. KUHN & BRO.

Occupying a conspicuous position as the leading establish- ment in their particular line of mercantile activity in the West, Messrs A. Kuhn <fe Brother have been prominent since 1868. The firm are admirably located for business at No. 2365 Wash- ington avenue, the premises being a large three-story brick building, double front, 28x100 feet in dimensions, which build- ing is owned by the firm and is equipped and appointed in a chaste and elegant manner. This firm undoubtedly carry at all times the most fashionable assortment of all descriptions of gentlemen's furnishing goods in this city, their patrons being drawn from the.most fastidious people of Ogden and vicinity in their local trade, while their wholesale trade extends throughout Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Nevada, and their annual sales average 1150,000, with a capital invested of $75,000.

They have in their employ seven skilled assistants who are thoroughly and well informed in their different branches of business. This firm has in connection with their gents furnish- ing business a ware-room in the rear of 2365 Washington avenue, where they deal extensively in hides, fur and wool, and contemplate, in the near future, building a large and commodious wareroom for this branch of their business, as the one they now occupy i« inadequate to th»ir large and con- stantly increasing trade. The firm of A. Knhp & Brother was established in Virginia City, Mont., in 18'!5; from there they removed to Corinne, Utah, then came to Ogden twelve years ago and established themselves in business in this city at that time, and have by pluck and perseverance built up a large and flourishing trade, and to-day no firm in the Northwest is more widely and favorably known than that of A. Kuhn & Bro.

J. M. GRAHAM & SON.

One of the most extensive and largely patronized livery stables in the City of Ogden is that of J. M. Graham & Son located at 239, Twenty-fifth street. It was first opened to the public in 1889, and has through the excellent service af- forded, together with the liberal and courteous treatment extended, built up a large and constantly growing patronage. The building occupied is 40x160 feet in dimensions, adnptively arranged, and provided with every modern appointment of value for the conduct of an enterprise of this character. The undertaking represents a large investment, and the annual business amounts to over 812.000.

A full and complete supply of buggies, carriages, snrries, phaetons, hacks, etc., are always to be had together with a choice selection of well broke and desirable driving and saddle horses. The utmost care and attention are paid to customers, and every effort is enlisted to retain the large patronage now enjoyed.

Mr. J. M. Graham, the senior member of the firm is at present in Bueno Vista, Colorado, where he is conducting a large livery establishment, J. W. Graham jr., his son, having entire charge of the Ogden concern. He is an enterprising young man of sound judgment and keen business sagacity, with a natural aptitude for the special branch of industry in which he is engaged. He is a genial and social gentleman, honorable and upright in all his dealings, and well liked by the people of this community.

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FRED. J. KIESEL A CO.

Ogden baa lung been regarded as the central point from which the commercial and industrial trade of the intermouu- tam region radiates. The great and unwavering faith men of thrift and of judgment have for years had in Ogden's prosper- ous future, is clearly indicated in the protracted length of time they have been engaged in general mercantile enterprises in the city. Prominent among the firms to whom reference may be made as eminent illustrations of the point in question is the old established and well-known house of Fred. J. Kiesel i Co., wholesale dealers in groceries, liquors, tobacco and cigars, located at 335-337 Twenty-fourth street This substantial and enteiprising company was organized in 1873 with F. J. Kieeel president and Theo Schansenbaoh secretary and treas- urer. The business was commenced at a time when Ogden was still in her infancy, when, in fact, the commercial trade through- out the West was unsettled and inadequately provided for. These gentlemen, however, realized and clearly foresaw the wonderful and rapid upbuilding of the entire West, and so "cast their lines" in the city of Ogden with full confidence in the large and young trade they have since developed. The premises occupied are a two-story brick building and base- ment 36x175 feet in dimensions, also a mammoth warehouse along the railroad tracks in the lower part of the city. All goods are handled on an extensive scale and procured from first hands direct thereby being able to supply the trade of this section with fresh, pure and high-class goods at the lowest market prices. Their line of groceries is full and complete embracing every article of commerce usually found in an establishment of this character, while the very latest and best brands of liquors, tobaccos and cigars will always be found in •lock. The average capital invested in the business being S100,0<)0, while the annual sales amounts to over 8700,000. Fifteen hands are constantly employed, and the trade extends all over Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Nevada, Oregon and Colorado. The company is also sole agents in this section for Pabet's celebrated beer, of which they annually dis- pose of immense invoices. Both members of the company are efficient business men, and this, together with their honorable, straightforward and liberal methods has enabled them to build up the large and growing trade they now enjoy.

Mr. Fred. J. Kiesel, the president of the concern, is a man long and favorably known in Ogden, and the high regard in which he is held as a loyal, trustworthy and upright man, by the citizens, has been repeatedly demonstrated in his election to the highest positions of public trust. He has served as mayor of the city, elected thereto by the liberal party, his term having expired lu.-t Febnuiry, and is now commissioner of Utah to the World's Fair. He is fifty years of age, a native of Germany, and received his early education in that country. He came to America thirty-five years ago, first locating at Memphis, Tenn, but removing to Utah in 1863 where he has gradually built himself up in business and public favor until now he stands as one of the most prominent men of the Ter- ritory. He holds large interests in leading enterprises such as mining, real estate, etc., that have proved profitable, as well as lieneficial to the growth and advancement of the Territory, and he is known throughout Utah as a liberal, public-spirited man, ever ready and willing to aid and support movements calcu- lated to promote the city's welfare and prosperity.

T. WOLLSTEIN & CO.

July, 11, 1891, was a memorable day in the annals of ' >gden, it l»-ing the opening day of the magnificent liquor house of T. Wollstein *Co at 'Jlixi Washington avenue. The establishment is appointed and equipped in the best of style, is an honor and credit to the city, and a monument to the pluok, energy and enterprise of iU founders. The firm located here recently, and though in huitinesfl in Ogden but a few months, are to-day recognized aa a repre*entative and leading house in their linn of ImsineM in the West. With abundant means, and uri- eqiisled facilities at their command, they are enabled to anp- |il> their cuMomers with tl,.- pun-tit qualities of f .reign and domestic liquor* at prices that defy competition, ami will as cheerfully and as liberally effect the sale of a quart, gallon, or barrel as a car load. They will also deliver g.xxlH in any quantity free of charge to all parts of the nt> . an- 1 orders from mtry will receive prompt and conscientious attention. The bnsinew of this firm is far-reaching and influential, ami owning, in a<l lit inn to tin- < )/,l..n houm*. the following extensive branches: 1070 Union avenue, 804 Main street, 1639 West

Ninth street, 1420 East Eighteenth street in Kansas City, also stores in Nebraska City and South Omaha— also at 422 South Thirteenth street, 222 North Sixteenth street, and 2224 Gum- ming street, Omaha, at 710 Main street, corner of Elm and Preston streets, Dallas, Texas, and at 106 and 1415 Main street, Fort Worth, Texas.

Their average sales at this place are stated at fifty thousand dollars per annum, and they carry an average stock valued at from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. They employ five men one of whom is on the road constantly, selling goods through Utah and Idaho, where they have built up a large and increasing trade, and enjoy a reputation of unqualified excel- lence both as to the quality of their goods and the honorable methods which characterize their operations.

JOHN H. COLLINS.

The growing demand for new and improved designs, and convenient arrangements in the construction of buildings in all active and enterprising cities, has been fully met, and it may be added, led by the architectural profession of the present day.

The new and growing cities of the west are pre-eminent in their advancement. Ogden probably has as perfectly qualified and efficient men engaged in the pursuit of this artistic line of professional endeavor as any sister city, and among those of whom special mention should be made is Mr. John H. Collins.

Mr. Collins came to Ogden in 1K89, and from the uniform excellence of his work and his repeated demonstration of sur- passing ability in all departments, he at once sprang into popu- lar favor. He has prepared the plan for and superintended the erection of the following well-known buildings, all of which are models of grandeur and beauty : Fitzgerald block on Twenty- fifth street, St. Joseph's new Catholic church, corner Twenty - fourth and Adams streets; the new Sacred Heart Academy, corner Twenty-fifth and Quincy streets, and many other struct- ures whose complete arrangement and invitingly attractive appearance speak well for his native ability and perfect con- ception of the requirements of the most exacting service. He removed hither from the State of Connecticut, where he also followed the practice of his profession for seventeen years, dur- ing which time he designed and constructed many costly and substantial buildings, and acquired a thorough knowledge of the business.

He is accurate and painstaking in the formulation of his plans, estimates, etc., and especially equipped in respect to assistants and facilities for prompt ana satisfactory service. His offices are at 2»>7() Jackson street.

CHAPMAN HOUSE.

A n important item of information for the visitor to Ogden, whether he comes from adjoining parts of the county and Terri- tory or from abroad, is where he can find comfortable accom- modations during his sojourn in the city, where, in fact, he will be made to feel most at home. Ogden has no lack of comfort- able hostel ries, where he will find excellent quarters, and the Chapman Hotel occupies a place among the leading. It is con- ducted on the American plan and is situated on Twenty fifth street, within one block of the Union depot, making it the moatoonveuient hotel in the city for transient guests. The build- ing is two-stories high, 50x60 feet in dimensions, and contains thirty sleeping apartments, all nicely furnished and provided with every convenience necessary for the comfort of its guests. The house waa opened in 1874, by its present proprietor, Mr. \V. M. Chapman, a most estimable and genial landlord, who has Inn) iniiny years experience in the business, and every effort is made by him to please guests and make them feel at home. His charges areas reasonable as those of any first-claas hotel, and all who hare occasion to visit Ogden should not fail to give thin lmt««l a call.

Mr. Chapman is a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsyl- vania; moved from there to (,)uincy. Illinois where he engaged in the hotel ImmiieMi. In the year 1STI, lie located in the rilj of ( >gdt»n, and has lived here continuously since, aiding mate- rially in promoting the wonderful growth and advancement the

city has ma 1« in t In- last four yeara. He has served t) r

of < >gilen for two years as a member of the city council, ami in the war of the rebellion served for three years in the Cnnm Army. His reputation for reliability and integrity is us perfect as it is general, and be is ever ready to aid in any enterprise whirl, has for its object the advancement of the city.

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JOS. P. LEDWIDGE.

One of the most noticeable differences between the western part of the United States and the older inhabited sections of the East, is the class of men who occupy positions of promi- nence and public trust. In the West young men, if they be qualified have every opportunity to work their way up into important and responsible positions, not only in the offices of the people, but in private enterprises and corporations. The fact that young men are able to assume such grave responsi- bilities and discharge the duties devolving upon them, efficiently and satisfactorily, is fully proven by the large number that have been admitted to, and now hold important public incumbencies. The possibility of reaching places of power and influence, is the greatest stimulus to zealous effort, and the benefits to modern civilization and advancement are apparent.

The city of Ogden, Utah, has in the occu- pants of her municipal offices many salient il- lustrations indicatory of this point, and among them we take special pleasure in mentioning the name of Joseph P. Ledwidge, county clerk for Weber county.

Mr. Ledwidge is but twenty-six years of age, and was born in Santa Rosa, Cal. He was ed- ucated at the Sacred Heart College in San Francisco, and then re- mained in that city and engaged in the book publishing business with the well-known firm of A. L. Bancroft & Co. He remained with this establishment from 1882 until 1885 when he severed his connection to join the wholesale stationery enterprise of Stevinson & Longville. He continued with this concern until November 188G, and then, realizing the wonderful opportu- nities for young men in the Territory of Utah, he came to Ogden.

While here he has held several positions of public trust, invaria- bly acquitting himself honorablv and meritori- ously. He was deputy cle'-k of the United States district court for some time, then resign- ed to accept a position as railroad postal clerk, remaining in the service until August, 1890, when he was appointed dep- uty county clerk, serving in such capacity until December 1st, 1890, when he was promoted to the important position of county clerk for Weber county, which position he now holds.

Mr. Ledwidge is a bright, energetic and intelligent young man, ever ready to enlist his services wherever there is a fair promise of advancement and higher achievement. This, active, go-ahead spirit has always been characteristic of him, and has not only gained for him the high and responsible position he now occupies, but has widened his circle of friends and acquaintances, and increased his popularity with all associates.

His work as county recorder has been ably and satisfac- torily performed, and insures for him the permanent abiding good will and esteem of the citizens of this city and county.

Photo by Newoomb Bros. J. P. LEDWIPGE, County Clerk.

CONSOLIDATED LUMBER AND MILLING CO.

In all cities noted for enterprise, for progress in commercial affairs and growth in population, there are no more efficient and substantial contributors toward those desirable ends than the branches of industry connected with the building interest. Among the establishments that daily enhance the value of the standing Ogden now holds in the mercantile world, there are none more worthy of notice or special consideration than the Consolidated Lumber and Milling Company. The enter- prise was established some ten years ago by W. G. Child. It has since extended its influence and to-day is known as above; the individual members of the corporation and the officers being W. G. Child, president; M. L. Causey, vice-president; Geo. W. Carr, manager, and Mr. Stevens, secretary, all of whom have a thorough practical knowledge of the business in all its various departments, Mr. George W. Carr, the manager, being specially informed from a mechanical and scientific point of view. The lumber yard and planing mills of the company are located at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Grant av- enue, and extensive and first-class lines of stock are carried, including hard woods, pine, red- wood, cedar, etc., sold at retail or in car-load lots; also manufactur- ing door and window frames, mouldings, brackets and all kinds of wood work at short notice, employing a force of twenty-five as- sistants and supplying a trade throughout Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming, with av- erage sales of seventy- five thousand dollars annually. The company also operate two large sawmills, located twen- ty-eight miles east of Ogden, where are man ufactured all kinds of lumber products, em- bracing ties, electric poles, etc., and is now filling large contracts for these specialties with the Ogden. Street Railway Company and other corporations.

The individual rep- resentatives of the com- pHDy are too well known to need special mention. They are enterprising citizens and their thor- ough practical know- ledge and experience coupled with energy and legitimate, business principles, have gained for them an honorable position among the man- ufacturing and prom- inent business men of the growing city of Ogden.

JOHN G. TYLER.

Among the men of Ogden whose standing and record as citizens has gained for them important positions in the offices of the people, and who have since their installation proven themselves competent and efficient in the discharge of the varied and responsible duties devolving upon them, we are pleased to speak of Mr. John G. Tyler, the present recorder of Weber county.

Mr. Tyler has served the people of this county in his present capacity since August, 1890, and we feel that we but reflect the sentiments of those who have placed him in office, when we say that the position has never in the history of the city been filled more satisfactorily. The last two years has

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greatly multiplied work in this official department, and the able and faithful manner in which Mr. Tyler has kept pace with the ever-increasing call, ie highly creditable.

Mr. Tyler is but forty years of age, and was born in Rock- ford, 111. He received hie early education in that city, and in 1863 left home for Chicago, where he engaged in a mercantile boose as cashier. This responsible position he tilled fur six years, and then came to Salt Lake City. From 1871 until 1875 he followed the mercantile business in that city and met with very creditable success, but Ogden appeared to him at the time to be a coming center of importance, and withal a specially desirable place to locate for future advancement. From 1875 to 1887 he conducted a profitable hotel enterprise, following which time he was appointed postmaster for the Ogden office, which position he filled satisfactorily to the people of this community until August, 1890, when he was elected to his present official position.

Ever since taking up his abode in Ugden he has taken active part and been deeply interested in the city's growth and welfare, and has aided and encouraged as far as consistent with his station in life, all enterprises and public spirited move- ments calculated to ensure a steady aud solid advancement of the city toward the important and vital position she rightfully deserves among the metropolitan centers of the country. It is through the substantial support and personal efforts, as well as the widespread popularity of such men, that Ogden hap built up so rapidly, and gained the distinguished position she occupies as a commercial and industrial center of importance in the Inter-mountain region.

MISS E. J. KLINKENBEARD & SISTER.

One of the most elegant of the new establishments which mark Ogden's advance in cnjtnre and refinement, are the mil- linerv parlors of Miss K. .1. Klinkenbeard & Sister, lately opened in Wright's new building. Washington avenue, where they oc- cupy the most elegantly furnished apartments of any firm in their line of business in this city or Territory. The Misses Klinkunbeard are recently from the East, where they have been engaged for many years in catering to the best trade of the wealthier classes, and are consequently able to offer the people of the city and vicinity the latest styles in every class of goods carrie I by the trade. They keep in stock a full line of imported

hats, feathers and fancy articles equal to any that can be found in the leading millinery establishments of the East, constantly employing four ladies skilled and experienced in the art of mil- linery, and are prepared to execute all work in their line in an artistic manner and at short notice.

The Misses Klinkenbeard came direct from St. Joseph, Mis- souri, about eighteen months ago, aud although but compara- tively a short time in Ogden they have, by strict attention to business and the excellent taste displayed in their work, estab- lished themselves in a business that is daily increasing and ex- tending, in. til to-day they are regarded as leaders in their line. Their millinery parlors are a credit to the city, but owing to the large and ever increasing patronage the ladies are acquiring they have found it necessary to obtain more commodious quar- ters. They have accordingly secured delightfully appointed parlors on the ground floor of a Washington avenue building in the central part of the city where, with increased facilities, they will be enabled to conduct their business on a more exten- sive and satisfactory scale.

MISS EDITH HOFFMAN. La Mode.

There is not perhaps, among the various departments of art and industry in the United States, any branch in which such remarkable improvements have been effected as in the millin- ery tra le; indeed the function of the strictly first-alass milliner has steadily revolutionized the plane of fancy millinery. Among those who have attained distinction, as well as merited recogni- tion in Ogden City in this line, is Miss Edith Huffman, located ;.i jlJ'.i Washington avenue, and established for more than two years, with an average of $5,000 capital. The dimensions of premises are 20 feet in width by 70 feet in length, one story brick, where she carries on an annual business of $36,000. She employs five ladies who stylishly trim the numerous shapes of this season. She keeps on hand not only the finest but largest line of hats, bonnets, flowers, feathers, plumes, tips, ribbons, laces, silks, satins, ornaments, frames, millinery, etc. A more complete line cannot be found in the city. Miss Hoffman is a thoroughly competent milliner, who fully understands the needs of her many patrons, and her class of goods is kept up to the highest standard of excellence. Her store is handsomely fitted up, aud ranks first among the many. A more pleasing lady of culture and refinement does not live in the city.

BENCH AND BAR OF OGDEN CITY.

Ogden has just cause to be proud of the array of legal talent which constitutes her bench and bur. Probably in no city of its size in the country can there be fonudsnoh a large number of attorneys who have made, each for himself, a repu- tation for ability and legal skill extending over several states and territories. Ogden being the natural center in so many line* of business for such a great scope of country, and being also the seat of the First District Court of the United States for tin- Territory of Utah, she has attracted many men who have attained eminence in the West in their profession and as .1 State* judges, supreme and dmtrirt judges of states and territories, together with many young, shrewd men from the Kant who bare come to Ogden as the most inviting Held of operation in the tVest.

The United Htates laws governing this Territory provide f..r the appointment of the judge of the district court and the l>r»t>ate court by the president ; and the dmtrict judg«n sitting together as the territorial supreme court, appoint the commissioners of the United States Supreme Court, who have jurisdiction similarto that of justices of the peace under the laws of many of the states with thU addition: That they have juris- diction asaoourt nf preliminary inquiry in criminal offences against laws of the Unite.] States, as well as of thorn against the Territorial laws. The judge of the Fimt I Mntrirt Court, the

Hon. James A. Miner, was appointed to his present position by President Harnson, and took his seat upon the bench July -jj. i. .luilge Miner is a Michigan man and before coming to Utah f.i||.i\\e.i t!i.. profession of the law for many years. II* served as district attorney of his judicial district and also as repre- sentative and senator in the State Legislature of Michigan. His reputation is that of an able lawyer and careful, conscien- tious judge.

.IndgH \. »' litshop was appointed probate judge of Weber county in February, IV.M, liy President Harrison, and has filled his office very acceptably to the people. Thia position also makes him the presiding officer of the county court, or board of commissioners for the county, and these two positions, together with Unit of United States Commissioner keep his time well occupied.

There are eight United Htates Commissioners in Ogden. They are: 11. C. Wardleigh, A. C. Itinhnp. K W. Cross. A. .1 Web.-.. \. IVrnn. K. T. llulaniski, M. A. Hreeden and V. (odeon, all selected for their especial adaptability for the position.

The bar consists of forty-nine members, among the number being several of National reputation. Considered as a whole the bar of Ogden is an eminent one for itn ability and legal learn- ing, and will compare very favorably with any in the country.

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HON. JAMES A MINER.

It can be said with every assurance and due regard for the truth, that Utah has been most highly favored by the Federal government in its appointment of James A. Miner as associate justice of the supreme court for this Territory.

Mr. Miner came to Utah in August, 1890, and has already made a record as an able, sound and highly qualified judge, as well as an honorable, loyal and sterling citizen. His life throughout has been marked by grand successes in whatever capacity he was called upon to exercise his varied abilities. As a lawyer he has been retained in many important and intricate cases, and his forcible character and perfect mastery of the law have invariably led him to ultimate triumph and success.

Mr. Miner was born at Marshall, Mich., September 9, 1842. His parents emigrated from Connecticut in 1832 and settled on a farm in Marshall township, where his father died in 1864. For a number of years he worked on the farm in the summer, and attended school in the winter. After graduating from Lyons institute, he com- menced the study of law in the office of Governor Baker, of Clinton, Iowa, but at the breaking out of the war, he returned to Lyons, and assisted in raising the Ninth regi- ment of Michigan volun- teer infantry, remaining in the service until the death of his father, when he returned to Marshall and resumed his law studies. He was admitted to the bar by Judge B. F. (i reaves in 1863, follow- ing which time he prac- ticed in Marshall for several years. In 1868 he was admitted to practice in the United States Court, and in the same year appointed United States Commissioner for the eastern district of Michigan. He also held several muncipal offices and positions of trust in his native city and coun- ty, and for several years Mr. Miner acted as prose- cuting atttorney for Cal- houn county, having been elected to that office by a larger majority than any other candidate on the ticket. In January, 1876, he formed a law partner- ship with F. A. Stace, un- der thefirm name of Miner & Stace, continuing in business under that title until 1887 when Mr. Stace HON. ,TA8. A. MINEU, Aeeocii

resigned and Geo. A. South worth joined Mr. Miner in the practice of his profession. This latter firm continued for two years, when Mr. Miner decided to remove to Utah, acting on which he had long before determ ined to take as soon as his extensive and press- ing business could be satisfactorily arranged. After remaining in Salt Lake City for a time, during which brief observations convinced him that there were wonderful possiblities awaiting the development of the Territory's resources, he returned to Michigan, received his appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for Utah, and has since resided in the city of Ogden. Politically Mr. Miner has ever been a staunch Republi- can, an eloquent and forcible public speaker, he has faithfully supported his party by voice and action in many hard fought campaigns. As a judge Mr. Miner has superior intellectual and executive ability. Through the accuracy of his decisions and the soundness of his judgment in all cases that have come up before him, he has gained the esteem of the people of the Terri- tory, and is looked upon as one of the ablest and most learned judges on the supreme bench to-day.

RANSFORD SMITH.

Among the prominent attorneys of this city, one who has not only distinguished himself as an able and highly qualified lawyer, but who stands high in the popular esteem and good will of the people of the Territory, will be found Mr. Kansford Smith, of the law firm of Smith & Smith. He is fifty- seven years of age, and is a native of Oxford, Ohio, where he was also educated, graduating at Miami University at the age of twenty- one. He immediately entered his father's law-office, and after a course of study was admitted to the bar at Dayton, Ohio, in 1856, being admitted to the United States Circuit Court at Cin- cinnati three years later.

In 1859 he was elected mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, filling that official position until 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteers, and for the marked ability he ex- hibited as a military man, was soon promoted to the captaincy

of his company. Mr. Smith's war experience was an extremely active one. He was engaged in fifteen battles alto- gether, among the most important of which, was the engagements at Mill Springs and Shiloh. He was mustered out in 1863, and returned to Hamil- ton, where he resumed the practice of law, and so continued until 1870, when he removed to Cin- cinnati, where he con- ducted a large and suc- cessful business. He had always displayed re- markable legal talent and attainments, and the sound and vigorous man- ner in which he prose- cuted a number of im- portant and complicated cases while practicing in the state of Ohio, gained for himself the abiding good will of all citizens, as well as the esteem and high opinion of the judi- ciary and associate attor- neys. While at Hamilton, Mr. Smith was engaged as special prosecuting attorney in the murder case, State of Ohio vs. John Griffin. The case was a difficult one, and lasted over an extended period. The prisoner was convicted and hanged.

Since coming to Ogden, he has not only built up a large aud growing prac- tice, and taken charge of many important and ardu- ous suits at law, but has

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in the politics of the Territory. In 1884 was a candidate on the Liberal ticket as a delegate to Congress, but was defeated by Hon. John T. Caine, the present incumbent. Mr. Smith, how- ever, is a highly popular man, and his great ability and signal oratorical powers, together with his sterling qualities as an up- right and loyal citizen, forever insures for him a warm place in the hearts of the people.

Mr. Smith was retained by the people of Oneida county, Idaho, as prosecuting attorney in the noted murder case of the People vs. Mooney and Banks. The trial was exciting, and when the verdict was rendered hanging Mooney, and sending Banks to prison for a lengthy term of years, Mr. Smith at once came into popular favor, and established for himself a flattering reputation in that Territory as an able lawyer.

His life has been eventful. He has been president of the Alumni of Miami University, and orator of the society, orator of the Phi Delta Tbeta Society at its convention held at Athens University, in 1872, and was chosen for theee positions in im-

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portant college societies, because of bis marked ability and forceful manner as a public speaker.

Mr. Smith was married in 1857, to Mary I). Daly, of Hamil- ton, Ohio, a lady of rare accomplishments and marked literary talent She was well known as a magazine writer, her articles appearing under the nt>n <l>' iiliuiie, " I )Hiny I >»!*«." As a result of this union three children have been born, two daughters and one son.

The son, Wm. H. Smith, is twenty-three years of age and a graduate of Yale College. He is now engaged with his father.

In 1887 Mr. Smith formed a law partnership with H. W. Smith, a leading attorney of this city, under the firm name of Smith A- Smith. This firm is one of the strongest and most favorably known, and enjoys an extensive and successful [.nii'tiee. He has been for years an active member of the Q. A. K.. and commander of that important body. He is also a member of the A. O. U. W. and the Royal Ar- canum, and takes a deep interest and active part in all their movements and workings.

As a resident of this city, he stands high in both business and social circles, and his genial manner and a (Table dis- position has surrounded him with a host of friends anil acquaint- ances. He is decidedly public spirited and lends his endorsement and support to such movements and enter- prises as are calculated to advance the city's interests, and promote the welfare and pros- perity of all citizens.

A. C. BISHOP

In writing the liiog- raphies of Utah's lead- ing men, those who figure prominently in her public offices, as well as those who have, by thrift and enterprise, gained positions of power and influence, we take particular pleasure in including that of lion. \. c. I'.I-IK-II. Pro- bate Judge of Weber county.

The busy career through which Mr. Bishop has passed, the marked successes be has attained and the universal high esteem in which be is held, makes a record of his life i«ith interesting and instructive.

Born of parents whose worldly possessions was limited, and the quiet retreats of a rural domicile, be braced the storms of human existence with no opportunities or advantages, save tin- inherent capabilities nf a bright and m-tiv.. mind, that rests only with the reward of high achievement.

After attending the common schools of his native town, Mr. Bishop began teaching, this being his first step toward ar. (Hiring the thorough education it was his ambition to gain. He taught six months in the year, thereby earning sufficient money to attend school the balance of the year. Following this plan until twenfy-fonr yean of age be entered the law office of H. McNeil at Indianols, Iowa, applying himself ilili gently to the study of law for three years when he was ad- mitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of Inn pro. fission. This was 1877 and bsoontinned the practice of law in the same town until 188ft, daring which time he was retained as counsel in many important cases.

In the murder trial, State of Iowa vs. W. H. A. Williams and six others, which lasted from 1881 to 1884, Mr. Bishop appeared as of counsel for the defense. This case was tried nine different times, each trial requiring nine days, there being over one hundred witnesses. It was brought before the Supreme Court three times, terminating in the conviction of two men with lowest penalty, who admitted the killing and plead self-defence, and acquital of the balance. During this trial Mr. Bishop's reputation as an able and efficient lawyer became known and he established for himself a fine reputation among the judiciary and legal fraternity.

In the year 1885 he removed to Kansas City, Mo., where he remained until the latter part of 1888, when he was compelled on account of the climate to seek a new location, whereupon he came West, stopping at Denver a short time, and early in 1889 came on to Ogden. Soon after reaching this city he pur- chased the Daily < 'mimx rcial and conducted that paper as

general manager for over a year, when he sold out, and in Febru- ary, 1891. was appointed Probate Judge of Weber county.

The wisdom of this appointment has been repeatedly demonstrat- ed ever since Mr. Bishop entered upon bis public duties, in the justice of his decisions, the ac- curacy of his judgment and perfect familiarity with the law. He is a straightforward and un- assuming gentleman, possessing a magnetic force which makes him always recognized as a power by bis associates. Cautious, careful and methodical, he is yet a man of despatch. He has been peculiarly a ac- oeesful as a judge. He is firm, self-reliant, and withal, a man of con- scientious, unbiased principles. The resi- dents of Weber county are to be congratulated upon their good fortune in having as Probate Judge such a reliable and highly qualified man as Mr. HUhop.

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MORTON V. OIL- BERT.

Among the rising young lawyers of this city, one that has not only exhibited marked ability and high legal attainments in the prac- tice of his profession, but has by his courtesy and honor- able characteristics won the favor and high regard of the judiciary ami hix fellow practitioners of Ogden and Territory will be found Mr. Morton V Gilbert, a native of Crystal Lake, Illinois, where he was born February 14. 1S64. His early educa- tion »as in part acqnir<-<! in (!,<• academy at Klgin, Illinois, and |mrtl\ nt the Miruigiin I Diversity. He remained at the latter institution for two yearn, after which he filtered the Inw ile- partment of the University of Minnesota. In March, 1H89. he was admitted to the bar and at once began the practice of law in conjunction with a firm of prominent attorneys at Chicago, where he remained for six months, thence coming direct to Ogden. Sine* opening an office in tlnm-ity Mr. Gilbert has been very successful. He has had charge of a number of important HIM! difficult oasis, wherein he acquitted himself with great credit and displayed remarkable legal talents and attainments. He is careful and painstaking in his work, and seems to regard his client's interests as bis own.

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W. L. MAGINNIS.

Judge W. L. Maginnis, is one of the ablest counselors of Utah, and although he hag been in the Territory but little over two years is highly esteemed among the very popular members of the profession in this city to-day. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, and is thirty-three years of age. His early edu- cation was acquired in the district schools of his native state, but later he attended college at Latrobe, Penn., gradu- ating when but eighteen years old. He first went to Zanesville, Ohio, where he conducted a daily paper, at the same time study-

His faithful and con- scientious efforts, his retentive memory and quick conception of the exigencies of a case, constitute an admirable combination which bids fair to lift him into the front ranks or among the distinguished law- yers of Utah. In giving legal advice, draughting important documents and looking after the general interests of his clients, Mr. Gilbert is especially careful, methodical and system- atic. His extended knowledge of the law, keen perception, and the accuracy of his judgment is recognized and duly appreciated by all who seek his services, and is destined to bring him a widespread repu- tation in this section. He is a thorough gen- tleman and consequent- ly a loyal and enterpris- ing citizen, who has permanently taken up his abode in Ogden with faith in her brilliant future.

ing law. He continued in this pursuit until he was admitted to practice, and in 1886 received an appointment as Chief Jus- tice of Wyoming from President Cleveland, a position he filled until October, 1890, when he became a citizen of Ogden.

Judge Maginnis has met with great success as a wy having been retained as counsel in many important and difficult cases. His work as chief justice of Wyoming was most satis- factory to the people of that territory, where his great ability and the justice of his decisions won for him the lasting esteem and good will of the inhabitants.

Since opening a law office in Ogden he has enjoyed an active

and successful practice, and his high legal at- tainments have been recognized and duly ap- preciated by the citizens of this community. Independent of his law practice Judge Magin- nis is decidedly a public spirited man of enter- prise and progressive ideas. He lends his endorsement and sup- port to all meritorious projects, and having permanently cast his interests in this city takes an active part in " such movements as are PH wholesome and benefi- UJ cial to the public wel- . fare. He occupies § offices in the Btayner S( building.

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JUDGE HENRY P. HENDERSON.

Judge Henry P. Hen- derson, attorney at law, Ogden, Utah, was born in Onondaga, county, New York in 18<1'2. When but a child his father removed to Lai)-

sing, Michigan, where he remained for a time and then went into the new county of Ingham and settled on a farm. In 1854 his father was elected county sheriff, and thereupon removed to Mason, the county seat.

Mr. Henderson attended school at Mason and afterward re- ceived an academic education at Lausing, Michigan. In 1862 he was appointed deputy clerk of Ingham county and as such had entire charge of the office.

In 1864 he was elected county clerk, and also appointed clerk of the supreme court of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in 18(57 and at once formed a law partnership with Judge Huntington, locating at Mason.

This firm continued for years when Judge Huntiugton was elected circuit judge of Michigan. In 1874 Mr. Henderson was •lected prosecuting attorney for Ingham county, in which cap- acity his faithful and meritorious work, gained for him the confidence and esteem of the people of that county.

In 1878 he was elected a member of the Mich- igan House of Repre- sentatives, and in 1880 nominated Attorney- Oeneral of Michigan on the democratic ticket, bat owing to the pre- dominancy of republi- canism in that state, was defeated.

In 1880 he opened a law office and built up a very extensive and suc- cessful practice. He maintained the business until 1886, when upon receiving an appoint- ment as associated jus- tice for Utah, he came to this Territory.

During his law prac- tice Mr. Henderson has exhibited remarkable force and ability, bis perfect familiarity with the law, force of speech and penetrating nature has won for him many signal successes, and his honorable and sin- cereefforte have brought him the esteem of both the judiciary and asso- ciate attorneys. In the celebrated Marble mur- der case, wherein charges of murder were preferred against a Mrs. Marble, her son, and a Mr. Martin, which took place in 1875; Mr. Hen- derson was employed by the county to assist in the prosecution.

Oov. Blair, Dark and Hhields and 8. S. Kil- bourne, all learned and able lawyers, appeared for the defense. The

EDWARD MAHTIN ALLISON, JR.

One of the most popular and successful young attorneys of Ogden is Hon. Edward Martin Allison, who was elected a member of the city council in the spring of 1891 from the Fourth Ward. Mr. Allison is a native of Utah, having been born in Lehi, Utah county, this Territory, 1 >ecember 13, 1863, being now a little past twenty-eight years of age. His father was a farmer by occupation and was engaged in this business near Lehi at the time of the birth of the subject of this sketch. \Vhen the boy was two years old, his parents moved to Conl- ville, Summit county, Utah. There young Allison lived with his parents, attending school part of the time until 1880, when he went to Salt Lake City and entered the University of Deseret, taking a three and a half years course at that institu- tion of learning. He then returned to Coal vi lie and taught district school during two years, at the same time reading law

under the direction of J. L. liawline, of Salt Lake city. In 18K4 be was elected county at- torney of Summit coun- ty, the duties of which office he filled with honor to himself for the period of two years. In 1886 he again received the nomination for the same office but was de- feated.

In February, 1SH7, Mr. Allison's real career as an attorney com- menced, he being at that time admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Utah Territory. Just one year later, in February, 1888, became tu Ogden determined to make this city his home and the field of his legal operations. He soon formed a partnership with Judge P. H. Emerson that continual until March, 1889, when Judge Emerson died. In July of the same year, Mr. Allison formed a partnership with Hon. James N. Kimball, which partnership still exists. Since coming to < >»:i!fii and entering upon the practice of his chosen profession, Mr. Allison has made a great reputation for himself as a careful, IMHWI.-M- tious and able lawyer and has achieved a suc- cess that few young men of his age obtain. He has been engaged in

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case was tried several times in different courts and excited great attention and interest. It was tried before the supreme court of Michigan and Mr. Henderson prepared the indictment against Mrs. Marble, and the protracted trial resulted in con- viction.

In the famous "Lansing Conspiracy Cases" against Monroe ami Dayton, Mr. Henderson was retained as attorney for the plaintiff, and, as is well known, the case resulted in the establishment of conspiracy. While at Mason, Mich., Mr. Henderson was prominently identified with public institiitnuiH and private enterprises, independent of his law basines* 12 years he was a member of the Hoard of Trustees an president ami director of the First National Bank of that city. Since taking up his abode in this city, be has repeatedly proven himself a higiily qualified legal advisor, as well as a loyal and sterling citizen.

He has located permanently in Utah and takes great interest in her progress.

ing the past three years, prominent among which may be men- tion.•<! th<> Mark Hall, Orillln and l>illon munler cases, all long ami hard -fought trials ami all noted cases. In the first two oases Munitioned he was for the <lefens<>, and in the latter be had entire charge of the prosecution. In his legal work he is a close Htmlent. methodical and strong pleador and l>efore a jury IK dixtingniiihed for the soundness and force of his argument. These qualities are so markml that on AUK""! I. IX'l, he was appointed assistant United Slate* dmtnrt attorney, having in charge the work coming lx»foro the First l>intrirt court.

November 13, 1890, Mr. Allison, having become weary of single hleesednees, married Miss Kowene Cook of < >gden, a young lady of engaging presence and estimable worth.

Of Mr. Allison's record as a oity councilman, much can be said in earnest, true praine and commendation. As would be naturally supposed he is chairman of the committee on laws and also a member of the claims committee, two of the most

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important committees of that body. In all his work he is care- ful and conservative, always on the alert to guard the interests of his constituents and advance the material interests of the city. He is a terse, sharp earnest, debater and when questions are before the council for discussion he presents his views in a logical and convincing manner. He is unostentatious in manner, earnest and honest in his views, and hie opinions carry great weight with his colleagues. Thus his views have become embodied largely in some of the most important legislation that this council has done.

C. C. RICHARDS.

Probably no man in Utah to-day has worked his way up so rapidly and gained by his own ability and personal endeavors as high a position of affluence and prominence, as Mr. C. C. Richards the subject of our sketch. Mr. Richards started with practically nothing and although but thirty-two years of age he is now one of the leading and most influential busi- ness men of Ogden. His education and knowledge of business affairs have been ac- quired in the practical schools of learning, hav- ing been connected with various public offices and commercial enter- prises from boyhood. He is a native of Ogden and all his ventures and interests have been cen- tered in the city and Territory. When but thirteen years of age he was taken into the county clerk's office, where he remained in various capacities for fifteen years. In 1875 he was appointed dep- uty county clerk, filling the position until 1883, when he was elected county clerk and the following year elected county attorney. In 1886 and 1888 he was re-elected to this office, and during his tenure of offiie was looked upon as one of the most able lawyers ever chosen for that position.

His knowledge of law had been acquired by arduous study, during the short hours he was relieved from duty in the county clerks office. His implacable ambi- tion and inherent cap- abilities enabled him

term in the Territorial Board of Equalization of Taxes, and also one term as regent to the University of Deseret.

Within the past two years, however, his private affairs demanded so much of his personal time and attention, that he has withdrawn from public work, and now devotes himself to his larger interest in the Utah Loan & Trust Co., and other leading corporations.

As president of this banking institution he has repeatedly proven himself a man of superior general qualifications and a sound and able financier. By his careful painstaking effort and keen business sagacity its affairs have been guided safely and wisely through a successful and prosperous career, until it now stands impregnably fortified against all financial depressions or other contingencies, and is regarded as one of the most sub- stantial and solid banking corporations in the West.

It is but meet to say that Mr. Richards is well deserving of the great success that has attended his efforts thus far, and his

high reputation and wide spread popularity, so honorably achieved and so persistently maintained, are but the logical outcome of un- wavering fi d e 1 i t y in principal and conscien- tious direction of in- born capabilities to the wisest results.

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to fully master the sub- ject and the successes he has achieved and the unrelenting perseverance he has exhibit- ed is not only creditable to himself.but has brought him, in a great measure, to the present advanced position he occupies in the business interests of Ogden. Mr. Richards served three terms as county clerk and three terms as county attorney. In June, 1884, he was admitted to practice before the bar of the supreme court of Utah, and in December, 1887, before the United States Supreme Court. In the fall of 1887 he was elected member of the Territorial House of Representatives, and in 1889 to the legislative council. He was chosen as representative in these respective capacities, not only for his recognized ability and competency, but because during his brief though eventful public career, he had popularized himself with the people of Weber county and gained a wide circle of bosom friends among the leading and influential citizens of the community. In addition to the offices mentioned above, he served one

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H. H. ROLAPP.

Hon. Henry H. Ro- lapp, one of Ogden's prominent and influen- tial citizens, is a Ger- man by nativity, having been born in Flensbnrg, Germany, in 1859. When twenty years of age Mr. Kolapp left his native land and came to this country, locating in this city. He received a thorough education in Germany, and after coming heresoon turned his attention to law, for which he had a natural fondness and aptitude. After pursuing his studies here for some time he went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he entered the law school. There he con- tinued until March, 1884. when he graduated with honor.

Returning after his graduation, Mr. Kolapp formed a law partner- ship with Hon. C. C. Richards, the firm name being Richards & Ro- lapp. Before going to Ann Arbor Mr. Rolapp was assistant prosecut- ing attorney of Bear Lake county, Idaho, and also engaged in active general practice in that county, he leaving there to take advantage of a thorough law course at one of the best institu- tions in the country.

In August, 1885, Mr. Rolapp was elected the county assessor of this (Weber) county, which position he held for two years. In 1887 he was the assistant prosecuting attorney of the county, and this office he held until 1890. In the same year, 1887, he was appointed secretary of the board of directors of the Terri- torial Reform School, which he still holds. He was also in 1889 appointed by the legislature court commissioner of Northern Utah. At the present time he is cashier of the Utah Loan & Trust Co., having been selected to fill that most important position in April, 1891.

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character of which any man might well be proud. As a lawyer he is keen, shrewd and successful, a broad thinker and close stu- dent with a peculiar faculty of applying principles to situations, and in the possession of these qualifications his success has lain. As a business man the same qualities have been shown, together with that careful conserva- tism which marks the successful man. Mr. Rolapp is still young, and the future for him is bright.

division at the battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Peyton was born Sep- tember 28, 1868 at Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe county, West Virginia. He received instruction under a private tutor until fourteen years of age, and then attended the public schools of his native district, for two years when he entered Captain Cables Male Academy, at Stauntou, Virginia. He studied diligently for a year and then began reading law in the office of Judge Homer A. Holt, at Lonisburg, West. Virginia, now one of the associate justices supreme court of that State.

and his forceful manner of adilrem, and sound and ready argu- ment at once carries conviction to the minds of his hearers.

Mr. Peyton ban certainly oompmtJ the art of oratory. Hi* great command of language supplemental by the southern tiro of hid nature, and the happy manner tn which he blends the figures of rhetoric with dry statistics, and wit and humor with logical argument bring* to bear a combination of mote than ordinary power.

2 W. L. PICKETT PEYTON.

W. L. Pickett Peyton, one of the bright and promising attorneys of x this city , is an admirable ~ illustration of the class i of yonng men practic- al ing before the bar of £ I" tah to-day. He cornea * from mi old and hpn- ; ored Virginia family. I fis father, Col. Chas.S. a. Peyton was a colonel in the charge of Itokett'a Here he applied himself diligently to his studies and entered the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville. His ability as a student and speaker soon become apparent. The legal profes- sion not only proved a delight to his natural talent, but untir- ing devotion to the arduous calling he had set out to master, carried him through with marked rapidity. He attended the University of West Virginia, at Morgantown, that State for one year, graduating in June, 1889 with the degree L. L., B. This he accomplished in one session, and at the age of twenty. In

November, 1890 be re- moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, and was ad- mitted to the bar in that city, January, 1890.

After an extended trip through Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Texas and Missouri. Mr. Pey- ton located in Ogden, where he found a con- genial. Held for the ex- ercise of his energies aud abilities Since taking up his perma- nent abode in this cit>. he has forged rapidly to the front, and is already oneof the most popular and highly esteemed of the younger members of the Utah bar. He is not only thorough and capable as a lawyer, but possesses to an eminent degree the rare qualities that go to make up a successful and effect IM- public speaker. Being a staunch democrat, and perfectly familiar with local and national poli- tics, he has naturally directed hi* attention to that sphere of activ- ity, has stumped the

county and Territory in

the interests of his party,

He was sent as a delegate to the Territorial convention held at Salt Lake City, for the purpose of organiiing a permanent Territorial democratic party, was also a delegate from the fourth precinct to the first democratic oonventton.held tn Ogden to nominate candidates, and has been otherwise honored. Hehaa the reputation nf a brilliant man, and predictions as to his future, indicate the high estimation in which the possession of exceptional talents i» held by all classes and conditions of

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O. R. LEONARD

Was the youngest of six children, whose parents resided on a farm in Gaysville, Windsor county, Vermont. After arriving at the requisite age his time was divided between the schoolhouse and work upon the farm, until he was sixteen years old, when he commenced fitting himself for college by teaching school in the winter and attending the Bandolph Academy during the summer. Eventually he entered Dartmouth College, helping to pay his way by the continuance of those winter terms of school teaching, where he remained until his senior year. After leaving Dartmouth he removed to California and entered the office of Belcher & Belcher, at Marysville, for the purpose of studying law, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1863. On the 23d day of the following May, he arriv- ed at Star City, in Hum- boldt county, Nevada.

No laggard could have succeeded in the active regions and brill- iant surroundings in which he found himself when, as a young law- yer, he entered upon the scene of his future trials and triumphs. At the period when he en- tered upon the practice of law the bar of Hum- boldt County was one that embraced among its members many of the legal lights of that territory. It was a high order of legal talent, and for a young man and practitioner to gain recognition among such Titans of the bar re- quired ability, know- ledge of the law, nerve and perseverance far in excess of the average. Within a few months after hie arrival he was elected District Attor- ney, and held that posi- tion by re-election for five years, when he re- moved from Star City to Unionville, and be- came the law partner of Judge E. F. Dunn. In 1868 he was a repub- lican delegate to the Chicago convention that nominated Qeneral Grant for President, and always having been a Union man was married while East to Miss Eliza Sylvester, of West New- berry, Massachusetts.

The practice of law was continued by him until 1872, when he became Judge of the Fourth Judicial District. In 1874, at Winnenmcca, he resumed the law practice again and continued it at that place until elected in 1876 to the Supreme Bench of Nevada. This important judicial position he continued to fill until January, 1889, when, owing to the failing health of his wife he was compelled to resign and go to California. The change in climate seemed not to arrest her declining health. She continued to grow worse, and in March, 1890 succumbed to the grim hand of death. After the death of his wife Judge Leonard remained in California a short time and then came to Ogden and formed a law partnership with J. H. MacMillen, under the firm name of Leonard & MacMillen. A successful practice has been built up, and they are now regarded among the most able and trustworthy attorneys of this city.

Judge Leonard is a gentleman of fine literary and legal attainments. He is genial in his associations, affable in address, generous in his judgment of his fellows and courteous to all. As an attorney his cases are prosecuted with a persistence and

tenacity of purpose that leave no just cause for defeat; as a judge he possesses a well-earned reputation of unimpeachable honor and integrity of purpose, as well as that of an able and erudite jurist.

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JAMES N. KIMBALL.

Among the prominent attorneys of Ogden, and one who has exhibited high legal attainments is Mr. James N. Kimball of the law firm of Kimball & Allison. He was born at Livonia, Washington county, Indiana, and is forty-three years of age. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his

native town, also at Hanover College in Jef- ferson county, that State. At the age of seventeen he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar April, 1870. Two years later he commenced the practice at Indianapolis ns a member of the law firm of Gordon, Browne, Lamb & Kimball. One year subsequent he opened an office of his own, and maintained a successful practice until March, 1874, when he removed to Utah, and immediately formed a law partnership under the firm name of Whit- ney & Kimball, after- ward changed to Suth- erland & Kimball. He remained in Salt Lake City until 1878.

In October of that year he made a tour East and remained twelve months. Upon his return in 1880 he located in the city of Ogden and formed a partnership with Mr. A. R. Haywood under the title of Kimball & Hnywood. In 1886 the firm name was changed to Kimball & White, and in 1889 Mr. Kim- ball joined Mr. E. M. Allison with whom he is still associated, the firm being classed among the foremost at- torneys in the city.

During the years Mr. Kimball has followed his chosen profession iu this city, his work

has been characterized by careful, painstaking efforts, and he has exhibited marked ability in handling difficult and com- plicated cases. He is a member of the Territorial legislature to which he has been elected, and re-elected on the Liberal ticket, is now president of the Board of Trustees of the Terri- torial Reform school, also city attorney for Ogden.

While residing in Indiana in 1867 he was appointed deputy treasurer of the State, filling that responsible position for four years, and from February 10, 1871 until January 1, 1872, he acted as treasurer of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad Co., in both of which positions he displayed wonder- ful executive ability.

In all respects Mr. Kimball is a loyal and sterling citizen, and takes a deep interest in the progress and material welfare of Ogden.

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A. B. PATTON.

Jndge A. B. Pat ton, of tbie city, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1846. When but five years of age be removed 'with his parents to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. His early education was acquired in the schools of that city, and at the age of seventeen be began teaching school and at the same time attend- ing the Wesleyan University, his salary as instructor being used to defray college expenses. He followed this plan until 1872, when he was admitted to the bar. In 1874 he removed to Pueblo, Colorado, and opened a law office, and continued in the same place until 1890, during which time be succeeded in building up a large and substantial practice, and was retained as counsel in many important and complicated cases.

While in Pueblo he was tendered the posi- tion of county jndge for Pueblo county, but owing to the extensive private practice he en- joyed, and the great demand for his ser- vices as an attorney by the people of that com- munity, who had come to regard him, from the repeated successes he had achieved, as an able and highly quali- fied lawyer, he declin- ed to accept the posi- tion. Judge Patton came to Ogden about two years ago, and opened an office, much of his time and atten- tion, however, has been devoted to mak- ing careful and judic- ious investments in choice city property. He has unwavering faith in the fact that a great future awaits the oity of Ogden, and be- lieves that the inex- haustible resources with which she is im- mediately surrounded, and her superior rail- way facilities cannot but result in a won- derful growth and ex- pansion in all direc- tions within the com- ing few year*.

Since taking up his abode in this city, he has proved himself a sterling and enterpris- ing citizen as well as an able and efficient lawyer, and is rapidly building up an exten- sive practice. All wor- thy public-spirited movements meet with his hearty support and endorsement, and he is ever ready and will- ing to assist in advanc- ing every cans* which bus for its object the solid and substan- tial growth and prosperity of the city.

H. W SMITH.

Mr. II. \V Smith, a member of the law linn of Smith & Smith, prominent attorneys, was born in Ihckman ccmnty, Kentucky,thirty-fonryearsago. He was educated »t tli» Millmrn. Kentucky. Acadamy, where he remained until IMH *ixt«'i>th year when be taught *ohool, continuing for three yours in that arduous field of usefulness, meanwhile studying law. He was admitted to practice as an attorney in all the courts of Ken- tacky before reaching his majority, nnd bogan bin professional r at Blandville in hi* native state, as partner . if the Hon. O.

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W. Hugg of Bollard county, the firm being Bugg A Smith, and attaining to wide reputation both as advocates and counselors. In December, 1878, he removed to Mai ad City, Idaho, where he met with abundant success. He remained there until 1885 ami then moved to Blackfoot also in that state, where he was retained as counsel in many important and difficult oases, involving questions of great moment. One in particular was that involving the validity of the law disfranchising the Mormons iu Idaho. The case extended over a long period and ultimately reaching the United States Supreme Court, and the record establishes the fact that Mr. Smith succeeded in maintaining the validity of the law on the point in question. In April, 1885, he was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. At that time he bad charge of a very im- portant case against the Utah A Northern Railroad Company, in- volving the question of taxing the railway on an Indian reserva tion. The case was im- portant and compli- cated, and terminated in Mr. Smith's favor.

Mr. Smith came to Ogden in 18H7, and at once associated him- self with Mr. Ransford Smith, forming a law partnership under the firm name of Smith & Smith. The firm has continued in business from that time until the present and now enjoys a large and suc- cessful practice. His career has been both active and eventful. His record as a sound and able lawyer is amply attested in the great successes he has achieved, and his va- ried and wide exper- ience 1ms familiarized him with all phases of the legal profession. He has during bis law practice tried seven- teen murder cases, prevuiling in all save one.

The reputation Mr. Smith established in Idaho brought the firm of Smith A Smith many ni>|x>rtnnt esses in that State, one of which may be men- ti'im-d, that of Sample I >rr pgainat the Suti- Board of Equalization. Smith A Smith appear- ed for the prosecution, and as a result the actions of tin- State Hoard were held to be invalid. Many other oases can be cited in which the firm mem- bers have distinguished themselves for ability and cleverness as attorneys and legal advisers. Aside from his extended law business, Mr. Smith has taken a deep interest in the growth and progress of Ogden and confidently Iwlieves that a great future awaits the City as the wonderful resource* with which it is surrounded are developed, and he further Ix-li.-v,-* that the united action of all citizen* in a public spirited way, can accomplish a wonderful amount of good and bring about the desired end with all (HMwihle *peed.

Mr. Smith who 1 1 an always taken an active interest in politi '•nl matter*, was twioe elected to the Legislative Council of Idaho, iinil during both terms was chairman of tin- Judiciary Commit'- •• H.- is at present a member of the Democratic County Committee of Weber county.

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COL. PERCIVAL J. BARRATT.

Colonel Barratt was born in Devonshire, England, not far from the cathedral city of Exeter and close to the estuary of the Exe, mid wooded parks and rugged hills. His playground the grand old ocean and his lullaby the dash of its restless waves. In olden times smugglers had their hiding places amid the rocks on which, boy-like, the subject of our sketch hunted nests and lay in summer sunshine upon the green turf, watching the navies of the world go to and fro bent on commerce or warlike missions. There, too, when the fierce wintry winds sang requiems over the sailors' graves and stilled the voices of drowning men, would he and his school- mates watch the ves- sels drifting to their doom, hear the signal guns and pray with bated breath for the success of the lifeboat and its crew as they strove to the rescue. Scarce a cottage for miles around the col- onel's birthplace but had offered up some member of its family to the fury of the sea. Here the boy read legends of the adven- turous lives of those, who like himself first saw the light on fair Devonia's soil or list- ened to the old salt's tales of naval battles, pirates, slavers and of travels in unknown seas. No wonder then that after a careful, classical education and seven years of study in legal lore, the colonel longed for change, and when the tidings of the new Eldorado reached his island home he was one of the fever (gold) stricken ones and sailed away to Mel- bourne in search of the yellow metal, where like many others he passed through the vicissitudes of life, full of 'scapes by land and sea and assisted in building up a greater Britain in the south- ern hemisphere of his struggles,travels,hard- ships, history of suc- cesses in the southern seas, extending from torrid heats to the fri- gid zone of the Anartic regions. Space is too limited in this brief Photo by Newcomb Bros. COL. PEKC1VAL

sketch to portray — sufficient it is to say, thousands of those who took part with him therein, now sleep the sleep that knows no waking, under the golden wattle or 'neath the sunlit sea. Wnilst the colonel being of more stubborn make, lives to-day full of pluck, energy and endurance, with a prospectof for along time enjoying the harvest snatched from the tickle goddess. Bat while a man may "laugh at fortune and grapple with his evil star" and bid defiance to his enemies, there is a subtle foe which the strongest arm cannot drive or best defended home repel. Thus in the early '70's when everything bid fair, death came and stole away the colonel's richest treasure, his son and only child. This, followed by the sickness of his wife, induced him to say farewell to the Sunny South and turn his face to the land of freedom, there to begin afresh life's battles. Arriving in San Francisoo, the colonel,

like a good general, looked around, to select the best field finally out of the then wild and woolly west he chose the peace- ful valleys of Utah, where as a stranger, alien and gentile, he arrived in 1876. With a prophetic judgment, which has cosmo- politan training and had matured, he threw his lot in with the then small town of Ogden. Six weeks after he was admitted by examination, to the Utah bar; hanging out his shingle, he ever since has practiced law in this city. Shortly afterwards he was appointed U. S. Assistant District Attorney under the then U. S. District Attorney Van Zile, which office he held for several years until his private practice rendered it necessary to resign his public appointment. To show what this city then

was we have only to say there were but three attorneys at law in Ogden at the time of Colonel Barratt's arrival, of whom the colonel alone remains. The number increased and a bar association was formed, to whose efforts are mainly to be attributed the sep- aration of Ogden in 1888 from the Third district, and the estab- lishment of a district court in this city. Prior to this every case above that triable in a justice's court and all appeals from jus- tices had to be heard in Salt Lake City from the Neyada,Idaho and Wyoming lines, caus- ing witnesses and suit- ors to travel hundreds of miles, in days, too, when stage coaches and buckboards were the principal means of transportation. Now properly, cases arising in Weber, Box Elder, Cache, Rich and Mor- gan counties, are tried in Ogden. In 1880, associated with a few other gentlemen, Col- onel Barratt bought a tract of forty acres of land adjoining the city and had it surveyed and laid out as "The Mountain View Ceme- tery Association," the only private cemetery association in Ogden, and became and ever since has been a direc- tor thereof and on its board of management, holding to-day over one-sixth of its valu- able stock.

In mining the col- onel has liberally spent much in de- veloping Utah claims as one of the greatest mining centers of the world. For some two years Colonel Barratt owned and edited the Ogden Argus newspaper and, unlike the experience of most newspaper proprietors who cease the publication of such, made it pay. In 1889 finding that the labor of newspaper york encroached too much upon his time, he sold out the plant and gave increased attention to his professional duties. Like all old settlers, regardless of creed or politics, of the "Queen City of the Mountains," he is intensely loyal to the city of hie adoption and has aided and taken an active part in every enterprise designed to develop the resources of Utah and the up-building of Ogden. In 1889, considering that the time had arrived wheu a militia should be organized. Colonel Barratt at great expense to himself, there being no Territorial funds for that purpose, succeeded in organizing the nucleus ot the 1st

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regiment Utah National Oaard in O^den, and was elected colonel thereof, and daring the carnival oar citizen soldiers did much towards making that event the greatest that the West ever saw. Daring the Indian outbreak at Pine Ridge, Mayor Kieeel received a message from Salt Lake, inquiring in case of need how many of the guards would go to the front. He immediately called on Colonel Barratt and asked him the question. It was a bitter cold day, the snow was falling and winter was in its severest mood. The colonel was seated at his desk in his warm and cozy office. Looking up from his work he said: "Telephone back, 200 in two hoars." Sometime after report was received that Pocatello was in danger of an Indian raid. With promptness which showed that he believed business comfort and every other consideration had to give way to what he considered his duty, Colonel Barratt tele- graphed Governor Thomas that "the guards were ready when- ever called upon to proceed to that point" Fortunately in neither case were their services required, but the office of Colonel Barratt was during the whole of this period crowded with volunteers who were willing to proceed to the scene of action. In fraternal matters Colonel Barratt has few peers. Many of the local lodges bear his name upon their charters.

and nearly all his name on their roll of offioerspast or present. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a K. of P., P. D. Q. M. of A. O. U. W.. P. Q. of I. O. O. F., P. D. C. R. of A. O. F., P. G. M. of I. O. O. F. (Manchester Unity), P. V. G. Inoohonee of I. O. R. M., P. D. C. 0_ of Chosen Friends, Assistant Grand Secretary O. 8. 8. G. Pacific Coast Jurisdiction, P. of B. A. A. and belongs to a number of other societies and organizations in various parts of the worid, in all of which none take a greater interest, his motto being "The brotherhood of God and the brotherhood of man." The social gatherings and the hospi- tiiht v of the colonel and his estimable wife at their residence "up the hill" is proverbial. He is a fluent speaker and an able writer in National politics. He is a Republican and although the snows of fifty winters have tinged the colonel's hair with silver, yet he is ever ready to work indefatigably for whatever cause he thinks is right

The colonel has only one child living, a daughter, Miss Ada, now just budding into womenhood, preparing under the fostering care of the Sisters of the Holy Cross for gradua- tion. Everybody who enjoys Colonel Barrett's acquaintance wishes that he may live long and still work for Ogden's advancement.

HON. DAVID EVANS. (See sketch and article on page 183.)

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PROVO CITY.

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FIHST NATIONAL BANK AND VIEW OF SEVENTH AND J STREETS.

Not only is Provo the largest and most attractive center of Utah county, but one of the very best cities in the Territory. The city is most admirably located, surrounded by a populous and prosperous area of country, possessing all the appur- tenances and appointments that can in any way add to the wealth and importance attained since the first settlement made in that vicinity, more than half a century ago.

The amount of land under cultivation in Utah county ap- proximates 42,000 acres, of this, something like 37,000 require irrigation, about 16,000 acres are enclosed. The valley is watered by the Timpangus river, American Fork, Spanish Fork, .-UK! Hobble and Salt creeks, all of which originate in the \Vasatch mountains, and empty into Utah Lake, furnishing cnmute thither a motive power of surpassing value. Utah Lake lies west of the ctty, and is described as " the most charm- ing body of fresh water in the Inter-Mountain region." Agri- culture rules in the county, a source of wealth steadily appre- ciating, and mining though in its infancy, holds out induce- ments as glittering as they are conclusive. Within but a short distance from Provo, some of the largest and richest deposits of iron ore are known to exist in the United States, are to be found. A company, "The Utah Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company," has been organized for their devel- opment and the working of the product into marketable com- modities. And while mining has thus far formed no important parl "I tin active and substantial industries which contribute to ilit- city's ndv.iiK emcnt, there are deposits of mineral that

must in the near future be utilized with profit. The coal sup- ply available is equally inexhaustible, and the remaining natural advantages, a perfect climate, magnificent scenery, pure and bracing air, etc., for which the Territory is famed the world over, are never absent.

For all of this cultivatableand productive area, Provo is the central market and shipping point — the base of supplies for a section of the country thickly settled with a people whose in- dustry and consequent independence are topics of universal commendation,

The city's growth was comparatively slow until the con- struction of the Rio Grande Western into her environs, after which new comers began to flock into the valley, and indus- tries other than the tillage of the soil became established. Educational facilities improved, numerous lines of professional business were opened, and mercantile endeavor was greeted with welcome returns. The city, according to recent data, con- tains a population of more than 6,000, and property, the assessed valuation of which is not far from §5,000,000. The taste evinced in laying out the city is the frequent subject of complimintary remarks, and the beauty of design displayed in the homes which embellish the avenues as also the public buildings, and buildings devoted to commercial and other pursuits are the subjects of unstinted admiration. The streets are broad and smooth and clean, almost hidden from view in the foliage of trees that line their sides, and streams of sparkling, babbling water, fresh from the mountain

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fastness flow merrily along, giving additional >pii e to the endless variety of at- tractions one set- n: side. In all the requisites rial to good govern- ment, the city is fully equipped, having orticials of large experience and acknowledged < -apa< it\ as administrators of the will of constituencies not more distinguished for their law- abiding character than for their punctuality am! faith, in the transaction of business affairs. Ktiicient police and tire departments are maintained; the sew erage system is thorough and complete, and a water works system representing an outlay of *l.r>0,000. and having more than twenty mile-, of distribution is em- ployed. Klectrir lights have been substituted for illuminating purpo-e- in

business houses and re-i- deni-es. while telephonic communication i> enimed by citi/eiis with their neigh-

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lairs at home, a- also with those in Sail Lake City, Ogden and elsewhere. A complete line of street railway sen ice is also in operation.

Churches open their doors to devout communicants of nearly every denomination, and both public and private schools of superior excellence are located at convenient and available points. Among the latter are the H. Y. Academy, a model in- stitution; the I'roctor Academv having an enrollment of l.'rfi pupils; the Baptist Home Mission school. Kast Ohio Mission school, and others departmented from primary to collegiate, and most ably managed. The press of the city is of the high-

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est type, represented by the lhiil\ Eti<jiii>;-r. republican, and the Morning />isf>,i/,/t, democratic, together with two semi weeklies and one paper issued weekly. 1 lie banks are "solid financial institutions," under the direction of men of enterprise, character and splendid abilities. They include the I IIM N.I tional, the National Rank of Commerce, the I'rmo Comii'i and Savings bank, anil the I "tali County Savings bank, with an aggregate capital close on to $irX),000, and surplus to a laigc amount. In addition to the above there are fifteen corpora tions domiciled and doing business in I'rovo. requiring an im- mense capital, anil productive of advantageous results. Facil- ities for rapid transit of both pa — < : and freight are complete and satisfai ton . The railroad- include the t'tah Central. Denver & Kio C.randc Western, t'nion Pa ( itic and the- Ctali, \e\ada \- California systems. The I "tali Central make- Pnn.i Us supply station. Other railroads will be Constructed as s,,,,,, as \\wlt presence be- i ' .tiies nei e>-aiy. and no la< k of cnterpn-c on the part of < iti/en- need be apprehended. There are a number of liist , lass hotel-. and the public btiildii :mong (he

hand-omesi and most admired of an\ w!--! of the Mi— mm river. The "leintoii.d In -.me .\s\lnm iwi, mde- ra-t of the (it\. minentlv at the head." The strm tine is 4'Kl feet in length and l^1 in height. It is provided with all modem i onvenii in es. and when fully i umpleli d. uinioilations . an be fur- nished for neaih -<«i inm.iii .In-t

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of 900; the academies, churches, bank buildings, private residences, etc., make up a complement of improvements that are typical of the genius of their designers, and of the public spirit of those through whose liberality they were made possible.

The commercial business of the city is repre- sented by men -whose unflinching industry, nat- ural abilities, infinite tact, wonderful resources, and superb courage, are always enlisted when great interests are at stake, and critical enter- prises are involved. The successes scored in this field of usefulness attest the character and in- fluence possessed by those who have been instru- mental in accomplishing such results. Every line of trade is ably presented, and the houses thus employed represent millions of dollars invested.

The Chamber of Commerce, an organization of immense value to the trade and manufacturers of the city, is an active and powerful adjunct.

Of manufactures, what has been said else- where may be said with reference to those located at Provo. With the Provo Woolen Mill, as a nucleus, so to speak, there has centered in this city and vicinity every description of pro- ductive undertakings. Foundries and machine shops, lumber and lumber products, furniture, flour and meal, cigars, candy, spices, preserves, soaps and pickles, with other commodities in constant demand,

PROVO WOOLEN MILLS.

The future of Provo is bright with promise. An admirable location, superior conditions, limitless resources, and character of the people, make up a combination that is simply irresis- tible. No city in the Territory can present a greater range of attractions, or offers a wider scope of opportunities for the safe and judicious investment of capital, or the display of energetic enterprise.

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A. O 8MOOT, President First National Hank.

ABRAHAM OWEN SMOOT.

In writing up the commercial interests of the city of Provo, as well as biographies of her prom- inent citizens we take the liberty of saying, and confidently believe our statement will be heartily corroborated by all the members of this thriving community, that Mr. Abraham Owen Smoot, president of the First National Bank is, as a matter of fact, foremost among the leading men of Provo, in point of enterprise and public spirit as well as a man of effluence and liberal business methods. Taking active part as he has in the diverse interests of Utah, from its earliest his- tory until the present time, it should be said, not only in justice to himself, but as a necessary record to be included in a comprehensive and authentic review of the Territory, that he has done as much as any other one man towards bringing about the wonderful transition in mate- rial progress and modern advancement through which Utah has passed from a primitive un- developed state to its present advanced position among the centers of wealth, population and enlightenment of the great commonwealth, in which it figures as an important factor.

This being true it will, no doubt, be of inter- est to all readers to peruse a brief sketch of his life, and note the essential place he has taken in the past as well as the distinguished position he now occupies in the industrial affairs of the city of Provo and Territory of Utah.

Mr. Smoot is a native of Kentucky, and re- ceived his early education in the schools of Paris, Henry county, of that State. He was raised a farmer boy and followed that occupation until twenty-one years of age, when he joined the Mor- mon church, and has ever been a faithful adher- ent and ardent supporter of that religious body.

As a noteworthy fact in the initiatory settle- ment of Utah, we may mention that Mr. Smoot conducted the second pioneer train that entered the Great Salt Lake valley in the year 1847. That memorable event is one of the cherished incidents in the history of the Territory, being the first important move toward the actual set- tlement, development and populization of this richly endowed and highly favored region.

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The hardships and the privations that were undergone, the determined straggle for success and the establishment of a new and promising empire, is not only permanently enshrined within the memory of the closely banded people who were courageously battling for the maintenance of the sacred institu- tion they had espoused, but is commendably regarded by all noble admirers of human persistency and unflagging determina- tion in whatever cause is believed to be right.

Mr. Smoot was mayor of Salt Lake City, holding that high position in the office of the people, from 1856 to 1S66. He was a member of the first Territorial Legislature and has been a member for twelve years. He has been prominently identified with many large corporations and enterprises, both in com- mercial life and the development and active working of the various resources of the Territory. Since coming to Provo, February 25, 1878, he has been deeply interested in the progress of the city and has been a leader in all movements and efforts designed to build up and expand its interests, and hns fiid.-d and encouraged in every feasible way all industrial enterprises calculated to promote prosperity and develop the great re- sources of the surrounding country.

For nine years he has been at the head of the First National bank of this city, and its present sound and substantial condi- tion and uniform success, ever since first established, has been due, largely to his keen financial policies and judicious execu- tive guidance. Through all its career the conservative, yet lib- eral course followed out, has not only gained for it widespread popularity, as a safe banking institution, but has inspired con- fidence in the people of this community, who now regard it as the most solid and well managed bank of the city. Indepen- dent of his interests at the bank, Mr. Smoot is connected as a stockholder and officer in many other corporations among which we may mention the follow'ing: President Z. O. M. I., of Provo, president of the Provo Woolen Mills and president 1 tali County Savings bank; was one of the founders of the Brigham Young Academy, and is one of its board of trustees. He also owns and controls a large amount of real estate in this city and has erected many of its handsome and substantial buildings, which are very creditable to a growing city of its size.

Mr Smoot is an enterprising and public spirited citizen and is really doing more for the progress and growth of Provo tlmn any other man to-day. He is ever on the alert for opportuni- ties to present the merits of this promising center of importance find has by his personal endeavors, induced many of the in- dustrial and manufacturing concerns now in operation to locate here, and is using his influence in every way possible to apprise the country at large, of the merits of this flourishing locality and of the superior conditions and advantages here presented for the establishment of profitable and successful commercial enterprises devoted to the working of the inex- haustible resources yet undeveloped.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

One of the chief evidence* of thrift and growing prosperity in the City of Provo is the high character and sound condition of it* banks, and foremost nmong them will be found the First National Bank which was organized nine years ago, and haft a present capital stock of $60,000 and a surplus of 8U..VN). Through all the year* this financial enterprise has been conducted it has been attended with signal success and prosperity. Its policies have been of the highest < aod its management has been careful and conservative. \ general banking business is carried on, receives de- posits, dixooiinta good commercial paper, issue* letters of credit and corresponds with the lending bankx of the coun- try. Tn* premises occupied consists of • large and handsome twn-story brick building, 2.r>x70 feet in dimensions, and fur nisbMl and fitted up with a special view to facilitate the con- venient and proper transaction of a large bnsinefx. The i. ml. ling i* owned by the association and is a model of itc kiml. Tbs officer* and directors are numbered among the !• oitissos of Provo, and their connection with the inxtitir alone a sufllcimit guarantee of il* solid condition and jndi'-i oua financial policies. The following well known buiiness HMO MB- MM ofnVialu : A. O. Smoot, president: F. It. Culler. vioe-prssidsot; C. A f Hazier, CW.III.T; II II. ClufT. Jooes, John C liraham, Kssd Smoot and Walter K. I'iko. directors, all men of the hijbcst standing in the community and well qualified for the respective position* they occupy.

It has ever been the purpose of its directors to conduct affairs along liberal lines, but within the boundary of safety for the bank and its patrons, always enterprising and progressive, but never reckless or imprudent. It thus wields a great in- fluence on the finances of this section, and influence of a healthy, beneficial and generous character, BO far as consis- tent, of course, with wise and cautions management. The of- ficers are too widely known throughput the Territory, to need any special introduction to the public. Their standing and re- putations forever insures a successful continuation of its pres- ent importance and prosperity.

EXCELSIOR ROLLER FLOUR MILLS.

The Excelsior Roller Flour Mills of Provo is a most im- portant and extensive enterprise, provided as it is with every facility and convenience for the prosecution of the business on a grand scale. The mill was first erected in 1877, and has passed through a most successful and prosperous career.

By the enterprising disposition of its owners and the ener- getic and painstaking efforts of the managers to give perfect satisfaction to all patrons and produce nothing but high grade flour, a large and substantial trade has been built up throughout this section of the Territory. An average capital of $15,000 is invested in the business and three skilled and experienced hands are given constant employment in the various departments.

Wheat is brought to this mill from sections within a radius of one hundred miles from the city. It has a capacity of fifty barrels of flour per day and five stands have been put in, making it altogether the most extensive (louring mill in Utah county. The individual members of the firm are John K. Booth, John W. Hoover and John W. Hoover, Jr. Mr. Hoover super- intends operations at the mill and he is a thorough and prac- tical miller and perfectly familiar with all phases of this branch

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nf industry. Me wa* born at Bridgeport, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and is fifty-seven year* of age. He came to Utah in 1S.M and has been a resident of t he Territory ever since. !!•• is a practical miller and most of hi« active life has been de- voted to that business. He is a a man of sterling integrity and sound, judirioux principles, and of a sociable and generiniH nature, and withal a progressive and public spirit. •, I citizen. Mr. Miller came over the plains with an ox team on hix way to this country, and his life has been marked by vivid and inter- ••«ting incidents and experience* of pioneer day*, lie mar- n.il in 1'lali, and lmtt twelve children, ten of which ore now living Tlie ..I 'Im \V. Hoover is now associated

wild liini in biiMiic*- and in also a practical miller. Ile was born in 1'tnli county mid JH thirty-four yearn of age. Mo received hi* early «*d ii. at i. in in the HC|IOO|R of HUH city and has since been engaged in the flouring mill business. He is a bright young man of keen business ability and attends strictly to the inter- ests of the growing enterprise, in which he in a partner. Ile ix a man of brond and liberal view* and progressive ideas, and takes an active part in the political and social affair* of the community.

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JOHN E. BOOTH.

This is true the world over and especially in our western country, where resources are apparently unlimited and where development is going on with such wonderful rapidity. Utah now seems to be in the ascendency as an advancing and pro- gressive section, and there is probably no center of population looking more bright, or that promises greater achievements for the future than the City of Provo. Its present importance and essential bearing in the general advancement of the Territory is due to the thorough-going and enterprising class of men that control its business interests aud municipal affairs.

Included among this class of citizens and one that has the welfare of the city at heart, will be found Mr. John E. Booth, now mayor of Provo. Mr. Booth has had a remark- ably eventful and successful career.

Probably no citizen of Provo to-day can look back to passed struggles and ultimate achievements with more justifiable pride and satisfaction. Like most men of his stamp, Mr. Booth gained the prominent position he now sustains through his own endeavors and untiring zeal, supplemented by strong, inborn capabilities. He began, a poor boy, with no start in life save alone sterling qualities, and has by their persistent exercise gradually forged his way onward and upward, until now he is one of the most popular and wealthy citizens of this thriving and intelligent community. He was born in England forty-four years ago. He went to Salt Lake City in 1857 and from that city to Provo in 1871, and received his education in the University of Deeeret. From the time he came to Provo he has been prominently identified with its commercial interests and various municipial offices ever since. He was elected a member of the city council in 1875, and has served almost without cessation since that time, being out but two terms while absent from the country, fie has been a member of the Territorial Legislature for two terms, one in the House and one in the Council. He has practiced law in this city for a number of years, and during 1880-81 was Assistant United States dis- trict attorney. He was also Territorial court commissioner from 1878 to 1882, and is now mayor of the city, at the game time maintaining a large private law practice.

We may say without fear of contradiction from any source that through all his public career, Mr. Booth has acted with honor and sincerity, and has exhibited superior judgment and executive ability. He has ever advocated and supported wise and beneficial public policies, and has given his aid and en- couragement to all public spirited movements and projects of an enterprising character. Mr. Booth aided in the establish- ment of the celebrated woolen mills of Provo. He with others established an extensive foundry and lumber yards. Each one of these enterprises is a grand success and is now in a flour- ishing condition. Besides those mentioned he is a stockholder and director in several other corporations of magnitude and importance.

Mr. Booth has great confidence in a brilliant future for this city, and having lived here for so many years and taken such an active part in the various interests, much weight necessarily attaches to his opinion.

HAVERCAMP & CLARK.

The citizens of Provo and Utah county are especially fortunate in having among them the highly qualified and thoroughly experienced firm of Messrs. Havercamp & Clark, abstractors of titles, whose commodious offices are located in the First National Bank building.

This firm first opened their office in Provo in June, 1889, at a time when there was considerable activity in real estate circles, and large numbers of transfers were being made, and by faith- ful and conscientious work, it was not long before they established a wide-spread reputation among the people of this community, as thorough-going, upright business men, well fitted for the special line of enterprise in which they were engaged. They issue deeds of conveyance, examine titles, and, in fact, execute promptly and satisfactorily every class of work that comes within the province of the abstractor. Since locating here their business has constantly increased and ex- panded, until now they have something over 810,000 invested, and employ four skilled and experienced assistants to aid in taking care of the large amount of work entrusted to them.

The individual members of the firm are Mr. George Haver- camp and Clayton A. Clark.

Mr. Havercamp is but thirty years of age, aud hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. His early education was received in the

schools of that city, where he passed through a thorough academic course of instruction. After leaving school he entered an abstractor's office for the purpose of acquiring a comprehen- sive knowledge of the profession. He came to Salt Lake City in 1887, and removed to Provo the following year.

Mr. Clayton A, Clark is a native of Franklin county, Ver- mont, and is twenty-nine years of age. He was educated in the schools of Barre, Vermont. He came to Utah, in 1888 and has been actively engaged in business from that time until the present. He has held the important position of secretary of the Territorial Insane Asylum at Provo, one of the largest institu- tions of the kind in the west. He is v^ell-known to the people of this community as an honorable, upright man and a loyal and sterling citizen.

Both gentlemen are enterprising and public spirited and believe in aiding and encouraging every commendable move- ment designed to upbuild and promote the interests and welfare of the City and Territory.

The firm effects loans for the Lombard Investment Com- pany and Eastern capitalists, and also represents a number of the best insurance companies such as the California and the Continental.

CHARLES DEFOREST MOORE.

Mr. Charles DeForest Moore, superintendent of the Sun Foundry and Machine Company, of Provo, is an able and thor- oughly practical man in the important position he occupies and is well versed in the special line of enterprise in which he is engaged. He has made a deep study of the subject in all its various aspects, and it may be said, without fear of contradic- tion that he is as proficient and well versed in this department of industry as any man in this part of the country.

The great success which has attended the institution, over which he presides, 13 due in a large measure to his thorough knowledge of the business and the vigorous manner in which it has been prosecuted.

Mr. Moore has had an eventful career, and is also a practical civil engineer, to which profession much of his life has been devoted. Besides superintending affairs at the Sun Foundry and Machine Company works, he has been retained by the Utah, Nevada & California railroad, as chief engineer.

For thirty-four years he has followed this profession, and he hae held many important and responsible positions in that capacity. Mr. Moore traveled on horseback from Denver, Colorado, to the Pacific coast, in the interests of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, locating a route for the extension of their system to the coast.

Many other interesting incidents has occurred in Mr. Moore's career as a civil engineer, which we have not space to record in these pages, but he has filled many important and arduous positions and is well known throughout the West as a thorough and practical engineer.

Mr. Moore is but forty-one years of age and is a native of Boston, Mass. He attended the Columbia Institution, and also the Dartmouth College, where he received his pro- fessional education. Since locating in Provo he has proved himself an enterprising and public spirited citizen, and uses his influence wherever possible to advance the city's interests and increase it growth and prosperity.

HOTEL ROBERTS.

In speaking of the progress aud advantages of Provo the fact that her hotel accommodations are in perfect keeping with the enterprise, exhibited in other respects, should not be omitted. The Hotel Roberts is not only one of the best and most desira- ble houses in the city, but is also one of the most popular and ex- tensively patronized. First-class in its appointment and main- taining the best of service guests are invariably well pleased and made to feel delightfully at home.

The sleeping apartments are light and airy,commodious and finely finished while the dining room, reception rooms, parlors etc., are neat and inviting in appearance, and the tables are supplied with the best the markets afford.

The hotel occupies a substantial three-story brick structure of handsome architectural design and finish containing about fifty well furnished rooms and all modern luxuries such as baths, electric call bells, steam heat, hot and cold water, etc., making the hotel altogether, a model of its kind and requiring the constant attendance of twelve experienced and capable

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•Mutants to meet the demauds of the patronage which has been attracted.

Mr. L. Holbrook, the able and efficient manager and prop- rietor, who thoroughly understands the requirements of an institution of this character, sees to it that they are pro- vided and carried oat to the letter.

Mr. Holbrook has resided in Provo for about two years, com- ing hither from the City of Logan, where for more than a year he had charge of the Consolidated Implement Company's branch es- tablishment in that city. Since locating in Provo be has interested himself as an officer and stockholder in several leading corpora- tions and is now vice-president of I'rovoCity Lumber Company, director in the Provo Commercial & Saving bank, and pre- sident of the Provo City Railway Company, also a real estate owner in the city. He is an enterprising go ahead business man and a public spirited citizen of great value to Provo.

A. A. NOON.

The life of A. A. Noon has been one of many strange scenes and circumstances. He was born in Middlesex, England, on the 28th of Jane, 1837. His father was a professor of lan- guages in London, was educated in Outtenberg, Germany, served in the Prussian navy and finally settled in London, where he practiced his profession.

A . A. Noon left London for New Orleans, when but a boy, in 1851 at the time of the great excitement in California. From America he went to Australia at the time of the great rush to the gold fields, and with that wave went to Ballarat Beodigo, and other noted mining sections. There he prospected and worked in the mines, and was reasonably successful. He went from Australia to India and was at Calcutta at the time of the

excitement because of the massacre of Delli. From India he went to England again, thence to Africa, where in connection with his brother, Adolphus H. Noon, he helped to establish among the first, the sugar enterprise of Port Natal, and owned, by rental, Ispingo estate, a farm of one thousand acres, from which, under their management, were shipped large quantities of sugar, and placed the estate in a position to ship hundreds of tons per year, so that it is to-day one of the great sugar estates of Natal. While in Natal he was appointed quarter- master of a volunteer company for the protection of the colony against the savages— Kaffirs. He visited the Qrequas soon after they first crossed the mountains to No Man's Land, and had some business with them, and by some suggestions, which they acted upon, averted trouble between them and the sur- rounding tribes of savages. From this country he emigrated to America, married in Nebraska to the oldest daughter of Henry and Martha Smith, who emigrated to this country from Africa. He was one of the contractors in Echo Canon, on the U. P. railroad, under Brigham Young's contract, went to Tintic, Utah, in 1870, at the opening of that mining district and assist- ed in laying off and locating, with A. H. Noon, the present site of Knreka City. He always took much interest in the great iron deposits in that region and, with A. H. Noon, was among the early locators there. Since 1876 he became more and more interested in those great iron deposits and by his continued perseverance succeeded in getting an incorporation organizing with the leading men of Utah county, which was accomplished September 2, 1884. These iron fields bid fnir to make of Provo a Pittsbnrg, for they are inexhaustible and are referred to in this pamphlet elsewhere. Under his management the first iron plant was made in Utah in commercial quantities and he took the first into market and sold it. The enterprise is still under his management, as is the Utah Valley Iron Mining and Man- ufacturing Company's properties.

LOGAN CITY.

Logan, the county seat of Cache county, is said by those who are in a position to speak intelligently on the subject, to be one of the most promising if not, in fact, the most promising city in the Territory. The center of an agricultural region of unsurpassed fertility as also the distributing point, within short distance of mineral discoveries of wonderful richness, possessing an inexhaustible water-power, improving and im- proved railway facilities, numerous and well sustained manu- factures, together with other aids essential to rapid and per- manent growth, the outlook for I.ogan is radiant with the brightest growth.

•• i- a total of 54.301 acres of land in Cache county under cultivation, of this number icrei .in.- under

irrigation, the water Tor such purpose being obtained in un- limited quantity from the mo-intain streams adjacent, and the system employed being more thorough and effective than else- where in I'tah. Indeed, as has been said, no county in tin- Territory possesses a wider range of superior conditions than Cache, and no portion of the Inter- Mountain region can boast greater fertihtx • adapt. ihility for the cultivation of

products pci "liar to .1 inild.geni.il i Innate. Not only is I the so' pphrs and the distributing point of the neigh

i oiintry. Init of the many thriving x ill.ige- .md hamlets o| the i "iinlv itself.

iiiini-i.il il ! rcrentdate. Si\ months ago

"i the valley was not altogether

unsuspected. Sun o tin- summer of |8<>I , however, indications have been Mich at to conclusively demonstrate the presence of mineral rcvHirces.valuablcticyond estimate. Later in the season, . iMned chief! v of resident* and citi/cru of Logan was organized and purchased a number ol rl.ums including the Sundown and I..i I'lat.i. Work was at once commenced .md has since been continuously carried oh. Ore has been dis-

covered in both of the above mines as also in claims contiguous, chiefly in the Sunrise, North Star, Red Jacket, Last Dollar, Last Dime and Queen of the Hills the assays from which show a paying average. Discoveries have also been made in the mountains east west aud north of the La Plata mines, the ownership of many of which is vested in residents of Logan. The ore found and shipped has " panned out " so satisfactorily as to attract foreign capital and, in other respects, assures Logan as a mining center of conspicuous importance. •

The present population of Logan is stated at 6,000 ; and the '•d valuation of property at $2,400,000. The higlu-t quality of taste is displayed in the laying out and platting of the city. The streets and avenues are wide and straight, cither side ornamented with shade trees, and built up with residences, commercial houses, public edifices, etc., presenting in their entirety an ensrmblr in the last degree attractive. Residences as a rule are owned by their occupants. Th< built according to approved plans, many of them .surrounded by well-kept lawns, planted with forest trees, and decorated with beds of ilmvef -. grateful to the eye and distilling a most ex- quisite Ir.i/r.uii e. The business edifice-, a numl>vr of which Seen erected within the past year, arc notable for their hc.uity of design and the durability of materials employed in their construction. Among the structures lately added to the number arc the Thatcher Urns, hank building and opera house, a hanil-oiuc three story edifice linilt of brick and stone, the Murdoch store and office building, the Campbell \ Morns bl-ii k. the I'mon Depot, the Agricultural College building, the ml M.ichine company's block, two saw

and planing mills, a district school building and many ticcs. A large number of buildings will be erected in the spring of 180.2, embracing, among others, a bank building to be put up for the accommodation of Ogden capitalists.

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It is no exaggeration to say that Logan is the " Ath- ens " of the Territory. The public school system is be- yond criticism, while the private institutions of learn- ing are numerous and of the highest order of merit — specially so is the Agricul- tural College, a Territorial institution, deriving its sup- port in part from the general government. In addition to a wide range of study adap- tive to academies and col- leges, thorough instruction is given in the science of agriculture and horticulture. Mechanical training is made a feature, and a workshop fully equipped are among the auxiliaries provided. The institution contains a museum, library, laboratory and other adjuncts, besides the government experiment station. The matriculants number 275, in regular at- tendance. The Brigham Young College, named after the founder, by whom it was most liberally endowed, is equally prominent. It is open to the admission of students of both sexes, and the curriculum is limited to the higher branches, sup- plemented by a course of in- struction in theology as un- derstood by the church of Latter Day Saints. The regular course of study ex-

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BHIOHAM YOUNG COLLEGE. U. P. DEPOT.

tends through four years, and the instruction given is thorough. Two hundred and fifty students are at present in attendance.

The city government is entrusted to men, many of whom have been tried in high offices and critical enterprises and been found faithful in all. A new water system will be put in opera- tion before the summer of 1892, as most likely will a street rail- way and additional facilities to the electric plants now employed for lighting the streets, buildings and residences.

There are two banking houses in the city carrying abundant capital, doing a large business, and exercising a wide-spread influence ; the dissemination of news is well provided for, and the investments made in commercial and miscellaneous industries represents hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The hotels of the city enjoy an extended reputation for the perfection of their equipments and appointments, while the accommodations and service are fully up to the most exacting requirements. The Thatcher opera house, said by connoisseurs to oe "one of the finest" will accommodate an audience of nearly one thousand, and is in constant requisition by com- panies and combinations of superior order.

There are between fifty and sixty manufacturing establish- ments and almost an equal number of those of a lesser grade, besides depots for the sale of products of a mechanical and general character, manufactured elsewhere. The lines domiciled in Logan, include lumber, flour, lime, brooms, beer and ale, sash, doors and blinds, brick, iron and machine foundries, furniture cheese and butter, soda-water, hose, book binderies, plumbing and carding machine establishments, etc., etc., producing a total output annually of phenomenal propor- tions, and meeting the demands of a trade in all parts of Utah and the Territory adjoining.

Those who have been prominent in their contributions to enhance the value of Logan as a commercial, financial and productive center, declare that there is abundant room for investment, and those who will make the venture will be met by a hospitable welcome and the assistance experience and capital everywhere commands.

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shop. The second floor is set apart for offices, and as the building is provided with steam heat, electric lights and the other modern improvements, it is the most desir- able office building in Logan. The entire third Hoor is used for a music hall, fitted up in elegant style, and efficiently provides a place for lectures, entertainments, etc., that take place in the city. The building has a costly and substantial appearance through- out. Mr. M unlock is decidedly enterprising and public spirited in all be undertakes. He is a man of progressive ideas and liberal business methods and highly respected and esteemed by the people of this community.

J. R. KDWARDH' RESIDENCE. J. R. EDWARDS.

Among the long time residents of this city will be found Mr. J. R. Kdwards. who first came to Utah in 1851. Mr. Ed- wards was born in Pennsylvania and is forty-two years of age. He remained a resident of his native state until his parents removed to Utah. Upon reaching the Territory, the family located at Smithfield, following the agricultural industry. Here Mr. Kdwards continued until KV.t when he came to Logan where all of his active business undertakings have since transpired. For years back he has been interested more or less in the mining pursuit of the West and now stands at the head of several companies that own and control some of the best and most promising mining property in this section. Mr. Edwards is also senior member of the firm of Edwards, Evans .v !•'.. I wards, which conducts an extensive brick establishment in this city. The enterprise waa first established in the spring of ivil. and has already built up a large and substantial busi- ness. The premises consist of a complete plant for the manu- facture of brick on an extensive scale, including every appliance and facility of value in an enterprise of this character. The company also control Kit) acres of land from which the Decenary material is obtained. Over $3000 is invested in the business and eighteen hands are given constant employment. The daily capacity is Oi.OOO brick, which finds a ready market all throughout < 'ache county and Southern Idaho.

Besides his regular business and mining investments, Mr. Edwards owns considerable valuable real estate in Logan, among which are two store buildings in the heart of the city. Hi* residence is one of the handsomest in Logan, and is a veri- table beauty in finish and design. At a citizen Mr. Edwards is decidedly public spirited and lends substantial encouragement to all progressive movements for the benefit of Logan.

ROBERT MURDOCH.

M r. Mnrdock came to Logan in 1 WVJ. I le is a nativeof Dundee, Scotland, and is thirty -eight yean of age. He removed to America *ith his parents when seven yean of age and first located in Salt Lake < 'ity. Me remained there for two years when the family moved to Farmington, bis father building the first rook bouse ever erected in llmt city. After remaining there f»r a time be came to Logan, where all his interests and business movements have since taken place. Mr. M unlock was for many years a soeoessfnl stock raiser which pursuit he followed till a few years ago. Following this he settled in Logan and in 1890 erected the handsome three story brick and stone build- ing, now known as the M unlock blook. It is by far the most magnificent ami substantial store and office structure in Logan to-day. The building is four stories high with base- ment The ground floor is occupied by two spacious store rooms, and the basement contains a restaurant and barber

LOGAN HOUSE.

The Logan House, conducted by J. H. Ilium-hard, is the most desirable hotel in the city of Logan, and decidedly the most pop- ular with commercial men and theatrical companies. Its equipment is good and an excellent bill of fare is provided. The build- ing is a substantial three-story structure about 50x70 feet in dimensions and contains some fifty light, airy and well furnished sleep- jog apartments. The dining room is cozy and inviting. Skilled and experienced cooks and waiters are employed and the service throughout is admir- able. Mr. Blanchard has conducted the hotel ever since it was first opened and by maintaining his hotel in keeping with the requirements of a high class public hostelry, has suc- ceed in establishing a good reputation for it. \Vheu but ten

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years of age he came West with his parents, and lived in different localities of the Middle Stated until September. 1H61, when be moved to Utah, locating in Logan in 18.V.I. II. now sixty-two years of age, and has by energy and thrift suc- ceeded tn accumulating considerable means. He owns the hotel premises and a large amount of other real estate in the i -it j . valued at something over 140,000. As a citizen he takes a deep interest in the growth and progress of Logan.

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HON. J. Z. STEWART.

Judge J. Z. Stewart, the subject of our sketch, is a native of Illinois, and is forty-seven years of age. He came to Utah in 1852 and located in Salt Lake county. His early educa- tion was acquired in the schools of that county, including two years at the University of Des- eret. Since coming here in 1880 he has held prominent positions. He was president of the Brigham Young College for a number of years, and for five years held the important position of probate judge of Cache county. He served in this latter capacity ably and satisfactorily. Judge Stewart was also a member of the city council for six years and by his vote and in- fluence has aided and encouraged all public policies that his superior judgment determined to be right and to the best interests of the city. There is probably no man in Logan to-day do- ing more for the material prosperity and growth of the city than Judge Stewart. He has been instrumental in organizing several enterprising corporations devoted to the development of the resources of this section. He is now president of the First National Bank of Logan, president of the Cache Valley Mining Company, vice- president of the Rich Cache Valley Mining Company, and cashier of the Mineral Point Mining Company, all leading corporations of this city.

Judge Stewart has great faith in the future of Logan and believes it is destined to expand at no distant day into an important business center. The mining companies in which Judge Stewart is interested own and control some of the best mining property in the Territory and their active development is now going on. The property is located but a short distance from Logan. When the mines are in vigorous oper- ation, great benefit will accrue to Logan. As a citizen Judge Stewart is loyal and sterling and willingly aids and supports such public- spirited movements as he believes to be to the general welfare and prosperity of the city and Territory.

HON. J. Z. STEWART.

THATCHER BROS. BANKING CO.

Thatcher Bros.' banking house of Logan, is an institution which from its very inception has exercised a wholesome and beneficial influence over the material prosperity of Cache

THATCHKR J3RO8. BANK AND OPERA HOUSE.

county. It has ever aided and supported such projects and public spirited enterprises as gave promise of success and the advancement of Logan's interests in point of wealth, popula- tion and intelligence. The officers and directors are all men of the highest business qualifications, and able financiers.

The bank is now regarded as one of the most solid and ably managed in the Terri- tory. It was founded in January, 1883, and incorporated in December, 1888, with a cap- ital stock of *100,000. In July, 1890, the capital stock was increased to $150,000, with surplus of 818,000. The handsome build- ing in which their banking rooms are now located, was erected by the company in 1889 at a cost of 850.0CO. The building is a sub- stantial three-story brick structure. The ground floor contains two large stores, be- sides the spacious banking rooms. The Logan Opera House, which is one of the finest in the Territory, occupies the upper portion of the building. The interior of the banking room is richly and costly decorated, and equipped with a special view to the rapid transaction of business.

The officers and directors of the company are as follows: George W. Thatcher, presi- dent ; L. S. Hills, vice-president ; H. B. Hatch, cashier; directors: Moses Thatcher, James Sharp, W. W. Riter, George Romney, David II. Peery, James Mack, Wm. D. Hen- dricks, L. R. Martineau, H. E. Hatch, all gentlemen of the highest standing among the business men of the Territory. A gen- eral banking business is conducted, receives deposits, discounts, notes, loans money on first-clasB aecurity, issues letters of credit

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and correeponda with the leading banks of the country. Mr. George W. Thatcher, the president, has been for many years closely identified with the business interests of Logan, and he together with his brother, Moses Thatcher, have been in- strumental in fonnding and maintaining more commercial and industrial enterprises, contributing to the growth and advance- inut of Logan, than any other residents of Cache county.

Mr. Thatcher is now president of the Sundown >t La Plata Mining Company, president of the Thatcher Milling and Ele- vator Company, president of the board of trustees of the Brigham Young College, president of the Logan Light and Power Company, and president of the Bevans Mining Company, besides being interested as stockholder and director in other corporations and enterprises of magnitude and impor- tance.

Mr. H. E. Hatch, the cashier, is an able and efficient man in that capacity. He is a thor- ough financier, and in his hands the affairs of the bank are subserved faithfully and satisfac- torily.

candle business at different points in the East until 1807 when he returned to Utah and at once located at Logan. Having previously acquired a knowledge of the jewelry business 'he opened an enterprise of that character in this city, and has continued with signal success ever since. For a number of years he held the position of city recorder, and has also been alderman for a term of years. He has by thrift and enter- prise accumulated considerable means and now owns valuable real estate in this city. He is a stockholder and director in the Logan Light & Power & Heating Company, stockholder in the H. O. Building Manufacturing Company; stockholder in Jour- nal Publishing Company; stockholder in Irriijtiiiim .\ije, and a number of other leading enterprises, devoted to the building up and advancement of the Territory. Mr. Garden's honorable business methods and sterling qualities as a citizen have won

for him the respect and good will of all who know him.

THO8. B. CARDON.

Mr. Thomas B. Car- don's establishment, lo- cated in the heart of the business portion of the city of Logan, is with- out doubt the largest and most extensive of its kind in Cache county. Mr. Cardon's handsome new three- story brick building is divided into two dis- tinct departments, one carrying a large and comprehensive stock of jewelry, and the other an extensive and varied line of furnitnre.carpeta, wall paper, etc. Mr.Car- don conducts both en- terprises, and is the leading dealer of the city in these respective branches of business. A complete stock of watches, clocks, jewel- ry, silverware, precious stones, etc., is always kept on hand and skill- ed and experienced as- sistants are employe.! in the manufacture and repairing of all work entrusted to him. In the furniture and carpet department all classes of good* usually found at first-class establiab- iiii-iitH of tliiM kind are carried, and patrons are able to make as satisfactory selections an could l>e obtained in the larger cities of the Territory. Mr. Cardan has about * :«X).(H> invested in his store and transacts over 960,000 worth of business an- nually. Thirteen salesmen are given constant employment in the various departments and his trade extends throughout ('ache county and reaches into Southern Mulm nml Wyoming. Mr. Cardnn's business bl<x-k, winch is one of the best in Logan, was erected at a cost of 1 15,000. It is located directly opposite the Taberoscle on the main business thoroughfare, and is alto- gether a marked ac<|lllMltii.ii t'i tln-i'ity

Mr. ('union is a native of Piedmont, Italy, and is forty nine years of age. HP pmigrated to this country with his parents when but ten years old, and came direct to Ogdon < ity whore he remained from 1864 until IV.*. and then returned to tli» Kastern states. He served in the late war of the rebellion for four and a half years, after which he engaged in the

THOMAS B. ('AKIH)N.

FIRST NATIONAL

BANK OF

LOGAN.

The First National Bank of this city was tirst opened for busi- ness on January 4th, 1892, with the following well-known and highly esteemed business men of this Territory, as offi- ceraand directors: J. '/.. Stewart, president; .las. (Jaayle. vice-president; Geo. A. Pen-mil, cash- ier; Allan M. Fleming, assistant cashier. Direc- tors: John H. Davis. L. W. Snow, W. S. McCor- mick, G. Lombard and '.('. Ooodwin.

With such a list of highly qualified and generally recognized and able financiers. (In- substantial character and sound condition of this new banking insti- tution, is conclusively established and from its very inception sprang into popular favor, mil has since met with uni- form success and pros- perity. This is a marked indication of the present flourishing condition of l.i 'tun inn! tin- general thrift and go-ahead dis- position of its citizens. The bank has a capital stock of $60,000. A gen eral banking business

is conducted, notes are discounted, collections made, deposits received, letters of credit issued and corresponds with the lead- ing banks of the country.

The First National Bank of Logan, is probably as well man- aged as any other bank of the Territory. The banking rooms are elegantly fitted up and richly and ooetly furnished. I convenience and facility of value in an institution of this char- acter has been provided, and it is altogether one of the most popular and desirable hanks of the city.

Mr. J. /. Stewart, the president, has been for years, one of the prominent and active business men of Logan. Mr. Geo. A. Pereival, the cashier, is an able and efficient man in tbat capacity. He is genial and courteous, and exercises great care and pre- cision in all transactions and methods.

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RICH, RICH & WARRUM.

The activity and enterprise of any growing center of popu- lation is perhaps as clearly indicated in the class of professional men who are looking after its legal interests, as in any other respect, and it is with pleasure that we are able to include among our biographical sketches of prominent citizens of Logan,

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several members of the legal fraternity who are'not only wide- awake to the best interests of the city, but are ^classed among the leading attorneys of the Territory. The well-known law firm of Rich, Kich & Warrum is not only regarded as the foremost firm practicing law in Cook County to-day, but its individual members are able and highly qualified gentlemen

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well versed in all the details of their profession. The co-partner- ship was first established some two years ago under the firm name of Rich & Rich, and in June, 1891, was re-organized under its present title Rich, Rich & Warrum, sinoe which time they hare met with uniform success, and built up a large and grow- ing law practice. They are now attorneys for some of the lead- in? corporations of this oity, among whinh wa miy nvvition the

following, Thatcher Bros. Banking Co., Logan Branch Consoli- dated Implement Co., Logan Branch.Studabaker Bros.' establish- ment and also Sidney Stevens Carriage and Implement house. They have been retained as counsel in many important cases in all of which they have acquitted themselves with great credit, and built up a well-deserved reputation for painstaking efforts and a conscientious subservance of their clients interests. Aside from their extensive law practice a general real estate and loan business is conducted, and the firm is prepared to place loans on mostly any amount on first-class security. Mr. Geo. Q, Rich was born at Bear Lake county, Idaho, and is twenty-three years of age. His early education was acquired in the district schools of his native county, and later he attended the Brigham Young Academy at Provo. He continued here for a time and then entered the Deseret University at Salt Lake City to complete his general education. While attending this latter institution, he decided to follow the legal profession and thereupon went East to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and took a thorough law course. He graduated in the class of 1890 and immediately returned to Logan and began to practice. Since locating in this city Mr. Rich has exhibited marked ability as a lawyer, and his familarity with the law and keen perception of exigencies of a case have brought him the respect and good will of the judiciary and all fellow counselors. Admitted to Supreme Court of Michigan 1890, Supreme Courts, Utah and Idaho, 1891. Taught school three years, prior to going East, one year in Utah, two years in Idaho. Mr. Heber C. C. Rich is also a native of Idaho and is twenty-eight years of age. He attended the Brigham

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Young Academy at Prpvo for two years and at the age of twenty-three began reading law in the office of Captain Ransford Smith at Ogden. He applied himself diligently to his studies for two years, and then came to Logan and formed a law partnership with his brother Geo. Q. Rich. Mr. Heber Rich is now city attorney for Logan, and is a highly qualified attorney, careful and methodical in his work, and has contributed very materially toward the success of the firm. Mr. Noble Warrum, jr, is also a man of high legal talents and attainments. He was born at Greenfield, Indiana, and is twenty-seven years of ago. He was educated at the Depanw University and then entered the law-school at Ann Arbor. Mr. Warrum in the class of '89 returned to his native city and practiced for one year. He was first admitted to practice before the bar of the Supreme Court of Utah, and then traveled extensively as a result of which he decided to locate in Utah and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Utah in April, 1891. Soon after he entered the la w firm of Rich & Rich at Logan as an equal partner, and has since been actively devoted to the interests of the concern. As citizens they are all public spirited, loyal and enterprising and aid and encourage all progressive movements designed to upbuild the city and promote its general welfare. Mr. Warrum takes a lively interest in politics and assisted in the organization of the Democratic party in Cache and Rich counties, is a member of Democratic Territorial Central Committee, vice-president of County Central and member of County Executive Committees

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ALBERT LANG.

The photographic gallery of Albert Lang is equipped with all devices and appliances of value in an institution of this character and the uniform excellence of all work eutrnsted to him, has established a well deserved reputation in this section of the country. Ae an illustration of the character of the work turned out at Mr. Lang's gallery we may mention that the photos from which the views of Logan in this work were made were taken by Mr. Lang. In addition to his photograph

business, a general line of picture frames, wall paper, glass. etc. is carried, and customers can be supplied promptly. Mr. I.ang is a native of Bavaria, South Germany, and is forty-one years of age. He came to this country in October, 1871, and first located at Chicago shortly after the great fire which almost wholly destroyed the buttiness portion of the city. Mr. Lang came to Utah in 1881, and first located at Salt Lake City. After remaining there a short time he came to Logan, and has been an active and enterprising business man of this city ever since.

BRIGHAM CITY.

The apostrophy of Oliver Goldsmith to "Sweet Auburn, lovliest village of the plain," is recalled by visitors to Brigham city ' the county seat of Box-Elder county, one of the most populous and otherwise flourishing counties in the Territory, has already acquired the name "Beautiful," by which name it is known from the pine clad hills of Maine, to the orange

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grove* of the South; and from the boi-.U-n.M- Allaniii to the blue waters of that tide whi< li Mows outward from the (inldrn (iate to the I'.K iln . Nestling < lo-r up to the loftiest peaks of the great Wa-ati h range- . whi« h at this point, pn --i UN an ex- ceedingly nigged, yet pi< tiiresijiic outline, the ' itv CM ciipics ;i low mesa, commanding a inagniti< cut view of the (ire.it S.ili Lake valley, with its wealth of verdure for .1 ilistam e of many miles, while in opposite direction* are scenes ,,f natural beauty that charm the eye and captivate the senses. The city is hand-

somely laid out, and the improvements completed, more espe- cially in the residence portions, are in harmony with the most exacting requirements of the modem school, exhibiting exqui- site taste in their designs and refinement in their location, decoration and ornamentations, artistic and exceptional. The public buildings and "marls <if trade are substantial and at- tractive, while the avenues and promenades shaded by a pro- fuse £ rowth of forest trees, present a scene inviting and re- freshing.

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Box-Kldci ( otinty is without a rival for purposes of farming and stix k raising. Nature is prolific of her gifts on c\ei\ side. Immigration h.is been introdin cd and in addition to the I cm tory, in. hnling within its , of < ountrv

to be iMiibi.ii c<l b\ its extension, will be brought under i nlma- tion. and not only build up the immediate vn imtx. but extend the influence and enhance the value of Itrigham i'it\ 1 1. 11 Ic i enter. < '.rams ;mcl fruits of < v et\ >\i--< « plum .111 indigc- to the soil, and the prospei ts for an eailx development of the mining resource- ..I I'.nx I- Idi-r lounu .ne miouiaging in the last degree. The discovery recently of mh iimni.il deposits has served to emphasize the confidence felt in the

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city's future, and the working of mines will be energetically car- ried forward. Gas wells, the discovery of which was made about three years ago, are in successful operation, and the product is now used for purposes of il- lumination and fuel, with the most grati- fying success. Sur- rounded by such aids, peopled by a rustling, pushing, ac- tive population, the possibilities of Brig- ham City, all will agree, are innumer- able.

there are a number of other leading commercial ventures, all of which are doing a thriving business, and enjoying uni- versal public confidence.

During the year past, a large number of improvements, both of a public character, as also by private individuals, were projected and completed. Notwithstanding it was an off year, the sum of 8300,000, was expended in this field of usefulness and enterprise. Among the public buildings that command special attention, are the County Court House, the Brigham Opera House, the Brigham City Manufacturing Company's building, etc., with private halls and residences embodying the latest achievements in the lines of architecture and construc- tion.

Although Brigham City is more than liberally supplied with material advantages, there is room for additions in every department of trade, manufactures and commerce. Banks would certainly prosper, hotels could be made profitable in- vestments, and manufactures will meet with immediate suc- cess. Canning factories, preserving plants, salt works, and other establishments of a productive character, would pay handsomely. It is unnecessary to add that not only would all these be welcomed, but under proper conditions, substantial inducements would be employed to hasten their coming.

COUKT HOUSE OF BOX-ELDER COUNTY.

By the most recent census the city is credited with a population of between four and five thousand. Its location is unusually well adap- ted to superior drainage facilities, and no re- quisite has beea omitted that will contribute a desideratum so indispensable to good health and corresponding well-being of citizens and residents. In this connection as will be expect- ed, the delightful climate proverbial of Utah is at its best, and throughout the year brings fresh charms and good cheer to energies may li;ip imperiled by arduous exertions. Arrange- ments have been concluded for the introduction of .-ind immediate construction of a water-works system >if approved design, and abundant ca- pacity. The city has been bonded for a sum Miltirk-nt for this purpose and active operations will be commenced before the dawn of the sum- mer, of ' is'.i-J. The city is lighted by gas and electricity, and the departments of fire and police are efficient and objects of commenda. tory admiration. Railroad facilities are good, but improvements now contemplated, if carried nut will bring the city into closer communion with the outside world, and thus necessitate an increase of hotel accommodations, which at present, though comprehensive and attractive are hardly adequate to meet the needs of an unexpected influx of visitors.

The school system is that employed in all progressive cities and superior opportunities are available to a school population, estimated at between eight and nine hundred. To accom- modate an increasing demand, however, addi- tional facilities will be provided, including the building of an institution of learning, that is advertised to cost $30,000. Churches are num- erous and well supported, manufactures of fre" qiient occurence, and the mercantile establish" ments prominent and carrying varied and ex- tensive lines. In addition to the Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Company, the Box-Elder Stock and Mercantile Company,

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APOSTLE LORENZO SNOW.

Through all the workings, crusades and missions of the Mormon people, that transpired since his baptism and accept- ance of the doctrines of that church, at Kirklaud, Ohio, in June, 1836, Lorenzo Snow, has taken a vital and energetic part, and is now regarded by all living members, as one of the most earnest workers and staunch supporters the church has ever had, always having labored with untiring zeal in the great cause he deemed to be right. His active missionary life began in 1831), when he was called as one of forty elders, to visit Kogland, in aid of the apostolic body, then prosecuting a won- derful missionary work in Great Britain. He was president of the First London Conference, held after the organization, which took place May 16th, 1841, and the same time one of the presid- ency of the British mission, and his successful work and inde- fatigable energy in the cause he had espoused, was the subject of admiration, and esteem among the apostles and his fellow laborers. While on this, his first mission, he had the distinc- tion of presenting the Book of Mormon to the Queen of Eng- gland, and the Prince Consort.

After returning from abroad, his services were actively en- listed in a great missionary work inaugurated in this country, in which he was given special charge of the labors to be conduct- ed in his native State, Ohio. This was at the time of the assassination of the Prophet and his brother, Hyrnm, resulting in the return to Nauvoo of the elders, at that time engaged in proselyting, and soon after preparations were completed for the migration of the people to the Rocky mountains. Lorenzo Snow crossed the Mississippi, as one of the captains of the vanguard, of Israel, but was compelled to remain at Mount Pisgat, however, on account of sickness, caused by the unusual exposure to which he was subjected. The pioneers reached the mountains, but returned to winter quarters for the main body of the church, where they were joined by Elder Snow, and moved in to Salt Lake City.

In 1849, Lorenzo Snow, together with Charles C. Rich, Brasilia Snow and Franklin D. Richards, were ordained to the Apostleship, at Salt Lake City. The saints by this time were permanently installed in their new home, and began to spread out over the fertile valleys of the Territory, and devote them- selves to the tillage of the soil. Meanwhile the building of cities was carried on, and the great missionary work continued. Soon after Elder Snow departed for Italy and some of the most satisfactory and effectual work ever undertaken or accomplished by the Mormon crusades in Europe, took place during this mission. Mormon literature was translated into several differ- ent languages and distributed throughout the respective coun- tries, the gospel was proclaimed earnestly and elegantly, new missions were constantly established, and many new and serviceable moves, giving increased potency to the work were put on foot, Apostle Snow remaining in Europe until receiving word from the president of the church of /ion to return, to assist in laying the foundation stones of the Temple, in Salt Lake City.

From this time on, his eventful life continues as the founder of Brigham City, where most of his interests were thereafter centered. Since locating there, he has been called to and filled two missions, one to the .Sandwich Island, in 18M, and another to Jerusalem, in 1872. This latter ended his foreign missionery career, but by no means terminated his labors in the cause of /ion. Probably no compeer has enlisted more time and energy, or devoted himself more assiduously to mis- sionary work.

The site of Brigbam City was • small inconsequential fort prior to the coming in of Lorenzo Snow, in 1854, with some fifty families, for the purpose of permanently settling the fer- tile areas of that portion of the valley. The city was uniformly and properly laid out under his directions, industries and mer- cantile enterprises were built, the on-operative plan was insti- tuted, and various branches of manufactures were undertaken.

Lorenzo Know was not only the founder of this thrifty and growing center of population, but orginated and maintained, it may be said, all tbe important enterprise*, which have been established for the good of the people and proved conducive to their general welfare and prosperity. He is president of the Quorum of Mormon church.

He has ever be«n held in high regard by tbe people, and looked up to, and depended upon for any new and needful de- partment of industry or branch of enterprise created by the advancement and growth of the oity.

He is now president of the Brigham City Mercantile A Manu- facturing Company, also of th« Bngham City Theatre Company. winch runs and conducts th» Opera Hooss, Mid president of Brigham Oity Flouring Mill Company.

Apostle Lorenzo Snow is uow getting well along in life be- ing in his seventy-eighth year. He no longer takes an active part in the commercial and industrial affairs of Brigham < itv but devotee much of his time, when health and weather will permit to ecclesiastical duties and offices. He travels much throughout the Territory, visiting and comforting the saints and keeping alive the fire of zeal and love that lias inspired and enthused the Mormon people from the beginning of the die peusation, through all the nations, and during all the years of its signal growth and expansion, down to the present time Thus is briefly outlined the life and deeds of a man whose re- cord and career has been marked by unflinching devotion and rigid confonnance to the divine ordinances of the church, and while forced to renounce, by theenactment of federal Laws cer- tain customs of the church, he still lives in his quiet, retired life, a devout and prayerful apostle of the Mormon dispensation.

WM. HORSLEY & SONS.

Prominent among the active and progressive establish- ments of Brigham City is that ofWni. Horsley * Sons, deal- ers in general merchandise. The enterprise was founded in 1886 and has since increased until the establishment is one of the largest in the county. The firm erected their store build- ing in 1891. It is 30x90 feet in dimensions and well equipped for business purposes. Wm. Horsley, the senior member of the firm, was one of the early settlers of Utah, having come to this Territory in 1855. He is a native of London, England, ami is forty-eight years of age. He came West with bis parents

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when but a m»ra boy and first looated at Salt Like City. I !••-.• he remtineJ from 1855 to 1862 and then removed to Box KM-r county, settling at what is known as Three Mile Creek. While at this point he followed farming for H time and was then called to take charge of a branch of the Brigham Oity co-operative. newly established, and continued in that capacity for three years. The butineM was a decided success under Mr. Motley's man- agement aod li» rein tine<I in charge for some six years, when (lie tmtt was suddenly brought t<> n close, by aoall in a mission ..•land when he wai absent two years. ID the ra«antirae his sons had started a small pr»luc» aod shipping business, whifh they were sedulously pushing. Upnn their fathar's re- turn some five years ago they joined together and prosecuted ths enterprise, now conducted under the firm name of Wm.

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Horsley & Sous, which has met with such signal success and continually expanded up to the present time. A general mer- chandise business is conducted and a heavy stock carried that embraces almost every article used. A produce shipping de- partment is operated in conjunction with the main establish- ment, and is an important branch of the concern and com- bined the annual sales average $ 150,000. Ten assistants are given employment, and the trade extends throughout Utah, Idaho, Montana, and reaches into Nevada.

The firm is composed of William Horsley, William Clemens Horsley, John Henry Horsley, Eugene Horsley and Edward Horsley, all enterprising go-ahead citizens — representative men to whom the commonwealth is indebted for its growth and progress.

BOX ELDER STOCK & MERCANTILE CO.

There are several leading enterprises in Brigham City which in extent and magni- tude surpasses those of many other places of much greater popula- tion. The Box-Elder Stock & Mercantile Company as one of the foremost commercial in- stitutions of Box-Elder county. The enterprise was incorporated i n February, 1887, with the following list of offi- cers and directors, all gentlemen well-known to the people of this community: P.F.Mad- ison, president; A. H. Snow, secretary and manager; directors: P. F. Madison, A. H. Snow, J. M. J e n s e n, M. L. Snow and II. L. Steed. From the beginning of its career this establish- ment has met with uni- form success and pros- perity, and by an ener- getic pushing of the business straightfor- w a r d methods, and carrying an extensive and comprehensive stock of goods, has suc- ceeded in building up and commanding a very large trade. A general hardware stock is car- ried, comprising all ma- terial and articles usually found at such an establishment. Be- sides this, a full and complete assortment of wagons, implements and machinery, are con- stantly on hand. There is a wholesale depart- ment conducted in con- nection with the enter- prise, dealing on an

ALPHONSO H. SNOW.

Mr. Alphonso H. Snow, manager of the Box-Elder Stock & Mercantile Company, is one of the leading business men of Brigham City. Having been identified, both in private en- terprises and public positions with various interests of the city, he has proven himself a highly qualified and enterprising business man, and a sterling citizen. Mr. Snow is but thirty- three years of age and a native of Salt Lake City, his business career, however, has been confined to Brigham City. His education was acquired in the University of Deseret, and in 1880 he entered active commercial life, being first connected with the Co-operative Mercantile institution of Brigham City. Upon the incorporation of the Box-Elder Stock & Mercan- tile enterprise Mr. Snow became manager, and has since de- voted the most of his time in directing the affairs of that ex- tensive concern. Mr. Snow has been largely instrumental in increasing the business of the enterprise, and expanding its

interests, and is regard- ed as an upright and sagacious business man. As a citizen, Mr. Snow is higly esteemed and appreciated by the peo- ple of this community. From 1884 until 1886 he acted as prosecuting attorney for Box-Elder county and has filled the position of recorder and clerk. He has also served in the city coun- cil, and is now a rep- resentative from this district to the Utah legislature. For a num- ber of years Mr. Snow has taken a deep interest and active part in local and Territorial politics, and is now chairman of the County Democratic Central committee. He is very popular in this community and a staunch supporter of the great political party, whose principles he has espoused. Aside from the business rela- t i o n s aforementioned, Mr. Snow is a director in the Utah Loan and Trust Company and the Ogden Investment Com- pany. He is public- spirited and a man of progressive ideas and believes in the adoption of such public measures as are likely to promote the general good of the Territory.

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extensive scale in leather, harness,

saddlery, etc., and recently in one part of the spacious prem- ises a comprehensive stock of books and stationery, has been put it). Something over 825,000 is invested in the business, and the annual sales reaches to upwards of 850,000. A number of salesmen are given employment and the trade ex- tends throughout Box-Elder county and into Idaho. The prem- ises occupied consists of a commodious store building 55x80 feet in dimensions, while to the rear storage buildings for the large supply of wagons, and implements, etc., carried, extends back over one hundred and twenty-five feet. The firm has ever held the confidence of the people of this section and have been assiduous in keeping abreast of the times and supplying the trade promptly and satisfactorily. The individual mem- bers of the company are enterprising public-spirited and thorough-going business men, and all their transactions are eharasterized by straightforwardness and honorable, upright dealings.

A. W. COMPTON.

Mr. A. W. Compton, the Brigham City photographer, con- ducts an enterprise in this line equal to those of many larger cities. Mr. Compton is an expert photographer and under- stands all the details of his profession. He opened his presen business in 1883. The gallery is provided with all appliances and equippage of value in an institution of this character, and patrons can be assured of perfect satisfaction. Mr. Compton first located in Utah in 1869, remaining at Ogden for ten years, and then came to Brigham City. He is an enterprising busi- ness man and prosecutes the enterprise over which he presides properly and energetically.

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The Brigbam City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association is 'one of the foremost enterprises of this character in Utah, and has done much toward mak- ing Brigham City what she is to-day, a wide-awake, prosperous and progressive centre. This immense institution was in- corporated in 1870 and has had a most successful career.

As originally established it consisted of a large general merchandise store, with several extensive factories, manu- facturing different classes of goods, oper- ated in conjunction. Conducted as it was on the liberal co-operative plan, wherein the people shared in the profits of their labor, when once thoroughly es- tablished it proved a decided success and a highly profitable undertaking, but ow- ing to heavy losses by fire and other bur- densome drafts in the business, its sub- stantial condition was partially under- mined and the manufacturing depart- ments were shut down. Following this period the btisiners grew in magnitude and importance and soon by the superior and satisfactory baois upon which it was conducted, commanded almost the entire trade of Box-Elder county. In 1891 the large and handsome building now occu- pied by the company was erected, and its striking and substan- tial appearance was not only a source of pride to the citizens of Brigham but its ample and spacious store rooms afford efficient aocomodations for the large and comprehensive stock carried. The building is a three-story stone and brick structure 53x106 feet in dimension.

The stock embraces all classes of goods comprehended under the term general merchandise and represents something over |100,000 in value. The annual sales of this concern reach upwards of £125,000 and ten salesmen are given employment in the va- rious departments. A complete line of boots and shoes, clothing, dry goods and fancy goods, groceries, hardware, etc., will always be found ou hand.

The officers and direc- tors of the company are as follow*: Lorenzo Snow Sr., president; Alviras K. Snow, superintendent; Samuel Smith, Kndger riawson, Lorenzo Hoow Jr., Alvin Nichols, Nels Madison, Carl Jensen, A 1 - viras E. Know, directors. Mr. Alviras E. Snow, the superintendent, has tilled hi* present position fur the past seven years. He is a young man of thor- ough-going <|tialities and sound business, pritiri pies. Underhisablegui'i- .noe and direction the

tained on a solid basis. Mr. Snow is a native of Brigham City and is twenty-eight years of age. He is a graduate of the Beseret University of Salt Lake City, and when but twenty years old started in business for himself. He continued for one year and then assumed charge of the establishment over which he now presides. He is now a member of the city coun- cil and manager of the Hrigham City opera house. He is a man of progressive ideas and is never found wanting wheu public meainres for the benefit of the city are put on foot.

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HON. EDMUND P. JOHNSON.

Judge Edmund P. Johnson, the subject of our sketch, was born in Courtland county, New York, and is fifty-nine years of age. His early education was acquired in the schools of his native district, which were crude compared with those of the present day. To finish his education Mr. Johnson at- tended the New York Conference Seminary, a leading educa- tional institution. He remained at home until 1853, and then removed West to Elkhprn, Wis., where he established a mer- cantile enterprise. While engaged in this undertaking he also studied law during odd hours when freed from the demands of business. He followed this plan for five years when he decided to remove to Kewanee, 111., where he continued his law studies. In February, 1864, Judge Johnson was admitted to practice in the Supreme court of Illinois, and thereupon immediately closed out his business and came to Utah, first locating at Stockton, Tooele county. In 1867 he left Stockton and went to Salt Lake City where he formed a law partnership with Judge Hogue of that city, under the firm name of Hogue & Johnson. A success- ful practice was built up and maintained for two years, when the City of Corinne began to brighten up and gave promise of be- coming an important commercial and indus- trial center, and Judge Johnson decided to remove to that place. Here he continued the practice of law for ten years, during which time he served two terms as mayor, and then went to Chalice, Custer county, Idaho, following his chosen profession until Octo- ber 1887, and then re- turned to the City of Corinne. During the time Judge Johnson resided In Idaho he was a member of the Twelfth session of the Idaho council. In Feb- ruary, 188'J, he was ap- pointed probate judge for Box-Elder county, which office he now holds. As a lawyer Judge Johnson has ever exhibited marked ability and high legal attainments. His ef- forts have been char- acterized by care and

energy, and having a thorough knowledge of that profession has during all his legal career met with uniform success. Asa judge his decisions are accurate and deoisive, noticeably free from prejudice and partiality, which fact has established for him a well deserved reputation. He has been interested more or less in the mining pursuit of the Territory and is familiar with the remarkable extent of this resource. He is a man of unswerving integrity and upright principle, and is regarded as one of the staunch members of this community.

pleasures and conveniences of home life, that the Bowring Bros, opened their new and elegant hotel known as the forest House, in December, 1891. In establishing this public hostlery a long felt want was fulfilled and the hotel at once sprang into popular favor. The Forest House is situated in the central portion of the city, while at the same time it is more convenient to the depot than other hotels of the city. The hotel is nicely furnished with spacious rooms and light and airy sleeping apartments. The parlor is cosy and comfortable, and the dining room is nicely arranged and inviting. An experienced cook is employed and the service and bill of fare is all that could be wished for. The hotel is especially popular with thea- trical companies and commercial travelers to whom special rates are made. The individual members of the firm are H. N. Bowriug and J. F. Bowring, young men well known and respected in the community. Since opening the Forest House

they have taken par- ticular pains to meet the demands of pat- rons and to make all who stop at their hotel feel that they have been kindly treated and satisfactorily pro- vided for.

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FOREST HOUSE.

It was with a view to provide the traveling public with a convenient, quiet and homelike stopping place where they could find all the comforts and accommodations of a first- class hotel, and at the same time be surrounded with the

E. A. BOX.

Mr. E. A. Box, the subject of our sketch, is one of the promi- nent and enterprising merchants of this com- munity. He came here in early days. Mr. Box was born in Nau- voo, 111., forty-eight years ago. He came to Utah in 1852 during the Mormon emigra- tion and first settled at Salt Lake City. Here he remained three years, and then removed to Bi igham City. For a number of years during his early life he engaged in the occupation of farming, acquiring what schooling he could in the primitive educational facilities available at that time, and then later attend- ed the University of Deseret at Salt Lake City to complete his

studies. In 1881 Mr. Box first engaged in the mercantile pur- suit in this city.

He has ever taken a deep interest in the progress and growth of Brigham City, and has held several important and responsible positions in the affairs of the city and county. For three years he was a member of the city council, and for five years was County Superintendent of schools. Besides this he has been prosecuting attorney for Box-Elder county, and in each of these capacities he sustained a high reputation for ability. He is now conducting an extensive general merchan- dise and produce shipping business. He has over $3,000 in- vested and his business amounts to over 820,000 annually. Mr. Box is public spirited and progressive and encourages all movements conducive of the welfare of his city.

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city council, and while serving in that capacity was instrumental in bringing about the adoption of many beneficial public poli- cies, for the improvement of the city and the material advance- ments of its interests. In March, 1891, Mr. Jensen was elected Mayor of Brigham and has since exercised his power and influence conscientiously and judiciously, and brought bimeelf more than ever into popular favor.

HON. J.M.JENSEN.

Hon. Joseph M. Jensen, the present mayor of Brigham City, is one of the most popular and highly esteemed residents of Box-Elder county. He is a native of Bngham City and is thirty-nine years of ase. He was educated in the schools of this district, and since entering an active busi- ness career has exhibited energy and ability in all his undertakings. Dur- ing much of bis life he has been engaged in rais- ing stock and sheep, in which occupation he has met with abundant suc- cess. He has ever taken a deep interest in the affairs of Brigham City, however, and has been identified with many of the leading enterprises that have been built up, besides taking an active part in the municipal affairs of the city. Mr. Jensen was county clerk of Box-Elder county for two years and his work in that capacity was thorough and efficient. He has also been an in- f tlnential member of the

Personally Mr. Jensen is a man of prepossesing appearance, genial and affable, and well liked by all with whom he comes in contact. He is a director in the Brigham City Stock Mercantile Company, director in the Brigbam City Mercantile Manufac- turing Company. Mr. Jensen's record is one of honor and integrity and untiring energy in whatever he undertakes.

tod conntv attorney for Hoi-Elder county. This wag in Angiint. 1890, and he immediately removed to thia city. Mr. Jenaon is H gentleman of good education, and considerable legal attain- ment*. He i* a careful roan, and accurate and precise in the drafting of instruments and exceedingly thorough and vigilant

and later completed his studies at the University of Deeeret, Salt Lake City, graduating in 1888, and enjoys the distinction of having live diplomas and is the recipient <>f the first diploma ever is- sued by the University of Deeeret. After leaving school Mr. Jenson re- turned to llox-Klder county and located at Bear River City, where be engaged in teaching school, and continued in that calling for eight years, when he waa elec- in the pronerntion of such actions at law as come within the province of the county. He ia also City Attorney for Brigham City. Personally, Mr. Jcnuen is of a genial natureandpleaaant in manner. He ia well liked by his associates and held in high esteem by the people of thia community.

NEL9 JENSON.

The Hon. Nela Jenson, prosecuting attorney for Box-Elder county, is one of the bright and promis- ing young men of this community, and has since entering upon the duties of his present position established a well-de- served reputation for energy and ability. Mr, Jenson is of Swedish par- entage and is thirty-one •f. years of age. He came to j this country with his pur 2 enta when but five years £ of age. He received hia •r4 early education in the ~

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PARK CITY.

Approach Park City from almost any point of the compass, and one is almost immediately struck with the broken appear- ance of the land, an appearance indicative of a mining city, or rather a city that has come up from the mining camp. This is the fact, for authorities on the subject declare that Park City "has been the only permanent silver-producing camp in Utah for years." The mineral area, it is further said, is from ten to twelve miles in length, and from five to seven miles in width, embracing three separate belts: Ontario, Crescent and Snake Creek, and including some of the best paying and most productive properties in the world, such as the Ontario, Pioneer, Flag-staff, and others.

As a city, however, Park City is remembered and promi- nent. She is pleasantly situated, well planned and handsomely built, and contains a population upward of six thousand. In the matter of railway facilities, the city is fortunate, having communication with the world at large, by the Utah Central, via Salt Lake City, also by the Union Pacific, via Echo. In general appearance, her superior would be hard to find.

There are a number of industries in the city that are rapidly forging ahead, and the city is well supplied with stores of the best class, filled with goods that prove the good taste and buy- ing ability of citizens. There are two banks, the Park City and First National with ample capital and surplus, each doing a pros-

perous business, and each pursuing a policy that can only re- sult in great good to the city and her interests. The causes of education and religion are upon a firm foundation, and most ably sustain ,'d. During the year 1891, there were four schools, with a total enrollment of between six and eight hundred, and an average attendance correspondingly large. There are also four churches, largely attended, presided over by gentlemen of ability and reputation, and maintained with well deserved liberality— not only are the means of grace and enlightenment abundant and effective by the press, is of the best character. Park city is a good newspaper town, and supports two publi- cations, The Miner, daily, and The Record, weekly. Both are excellent, well-printed sheets, clean, aggressive in the cause they seriously serve, interested in the growth and prosperity of the city, and in all particulars models of the printers' art and editorial abilities and judgment-.

" Citizens are proud of their municipality," reflects a writer on the subject. And properly so. The city is growing rapidly. The government is "energetic, enterprising and progressive." Society is refined. The merchants and factors are rated high, while the public buildings and private residences are impos- ing, neat, tasty and " many of them stately." The future is promising in every particular, and it only needs addition to the population to cause a " boom," the activity of which will be far-reaching and pronounced.

LEHI.

The settlement of Lehi was first made in 1X50, and it was in- corporated as a city, February 4, 1852. Such, in brief, is the history of the "Banner City" of Utah, from her inception to the day when she was permitted to assume municipal prominence. Her career since then has been character- ized by a steady pro- gression that has not only merited recogni- tion, but commended her citizens and their methods to the favor and confidence of the public in all portions of the West. The pop- ulation approximates 2,01)0 in number, and the establishment of enterprises at Lehi, in Addition to those al- ready there, must in a very brief period, augment that number

coal houses, houses for employes, etc., representing an aggre- gate expenditure of five hundred thousand dollars. When in operation the company's plant will give employment to upwards of three hundred hands. Besides the sugar works, an ex- pensive bank build- •••^••H ing, an elaborately constructed hotel and

many fold. Through- out the years that have been associated with the history of the city,

improvements of all kinds have been constant and unin- terupted. Chief among these is the Utah Sugar Works; an- other is the Leaching Works. The former was erected by a company incorporated in 1889. The works were commenced in November. 1890, and were completed and in operation Oc- tober 12,1891. The main buildings consist of the factory proper, K4xlxO feet in dimensions and three stories high, and an annex 40x480 feet, both built of brick, together with beet sheds, 24x500 feet.with a total capacity of 14,000 tons of beets.pulp silos,

many private resi- dences were complet- ed. The outlook for the present year is even more promising. The New West Edu- cational society of Salt Lake City also oper- ates a branch of that institution in Lehi. The LTnion Pacific, Utah Southern, and Rio Grande Western roads are operated to Lehi, and furnish ad- equate facilities for traffic purposes, while the Lehi Banner, a weekly paper, inde-

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save those which contribute to the well being of the city furnishes an accurate record of current events. The city also contains banking accommodations, hotels, public halls, an opera house, and other undertakings necessary to the pursuit of business or pleasure, besides mercantile houses covering every line of trade, and manufacturing establishments of util- ity and importance. Lehi is daily growing in conspicuity, and offers valuable inducements to all classes of men to become participants in her prosperity.

NEPHI.

Nephi, a commercial city of considerable importance, and the county seat of Juab county, is situated at the intersection of the Union Pacific and Sanpete Valley Railroads, and in the center of a large grain producing valley. Minerals in abundance are also obtainable in the immediate vicinity con- sisting of salt, bismuth, coal, sulphur, gypsum and the more precious metals. Four miles above the city the mines of the Nephi Salt Mining and Manufacturing company are situated. The mineral is said to be about ninety-nine per cent pure and there is no limit to its extent.

The assessed valuation of city property for 1891 was $828,962, upon which a tax of five mills for the support of the city government, schools, etc., was collected.

A superior system of water-works is in operation, the water being obtained from the large springs having their source in Nephi canon. The system will be improved and extended dur- ing 1892. The fire and police departments are efficient and ably directed. The schools, six in number, are graded and since their new school law took effect, have been largely at- tended. The Presbyterians, Methodists and Latter-Day Saints

each maintain well ordered and liberally patronized schools.

Two banks, the First National and Nephi Savings and Trust company, are both well equipped and ably managed financial institutions. Manufacturing is extensively carried on. and commercial business is a marked feature, the trade engaged is extending throughout Southern Utah, and portions of Nevada and Arizona.

During the past year real estate is said to have materially increased in value, and buildings costing an aggregate of $50,- ooo were erected, including a handsome and commodious opera house. Another prominent structure is the county court house, which cost nearly $18,600, and is superior to anything of the kind south of Provo.

The city possesses a multitude of inducements for the loca- tion of business or manufactures, and the wool industry is the most important of its kind in the Territory. The inhabitants are people of enterprise, and stand ready to offer encourage- ment and assistance to those who will identify themselves with the interests and prosperity of Nephi.

SPANISH FORK.

Twelve miles from Provo in a southerly direction, and within sight of the mouth of Spanish Fork canon, is the city of Spanish Fork, the settlement of which dates back to the days of Spanish domination. In lx.Vi. the settlers obtained a char- ter, under the provisions of which the town was the same year incorporated. Since that date Spanish Fork has gradually been translated from a condition of inconspicuous uncertainty to a position of prominence among the town- of Southern Utah.

During recent years material improvements have annually

increased, and the output of money they have entailed, has been correspondingly large.

The inducements for locating at Spanish Fork, are not dissimilar from those of other territorial cities. An abundant water power can be utili/ed at a nominal cost, merchandising affords a field, the cultivation of which will produce rich returns, and the superior climate, delightful surroundings, handsome scenery, rich soil, plenteous harvests, good society and excellent educational advantages make the city and its vicinity a most desirable resort for pleasure Mrk< i-. or residents.

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