simplified, neater in appearance, and easier to operate. The new improved model, like the old one, was anchored on the wall, but was equipped with an arrangement that rang the telephone company office when the receiver was removed from its mooring, which was formerly accomplished by several turns of the crank on the original telephone. The crank system and twin bells that rang at intervals like the alarm on a clock to notify occupants of a home when a call was made, were both eliminated on the revised model, which improved it as an asset to a home. Finally, the small compact dial and dial push button operated telephone, which rested on a table or business desk, represents a culmination of improvements achieved the past years that have given generations of the 1950's and 1960's a communication device, excelled only by wireless telegraphy. Expansion in business and industry, new inventions, transitions from long established customs and traditions that affected in one respect or another the economy of every locality of this intermountain country, were ushered in with the new century. In 1901 the railroad company launched a program of road building that called for replacement and abandonment of its first route established in 1869, that led from Ogden in a northwesterly direction over Promontory Hill and around the north end of Salt Lake to reach centers in Nevada and California. The new route established at that time is the one that extends through the lower half of Weber County across Salt Lake over which trains leaving Ogden, destined to serve the West, pass today. While the change was made with long-range economy in mind, by conserving time, elimination of miles of travel, reduction of costs and in improving future service, its initial cost, the greater part of which was for installation of a long-stressed work that spanned the deepest part of the lake was tremendous. Completion of this project in 1902, which challenged the engineering skill and ingenuity of man, was declared to be unparalled achievement of the age. It is rather sad to contemplate, but much valuable information pertaining to the early days that would have contributed largely to today's history of Slaterville was lost through failure to contact those of the last generation of Pioneers who held in their grasp the final pages of a historic epoch that vanished with their passing. We are living in this age of undreamed of accomplishments in the field of scientific research, are stounded at advancements made in technology and invention since days of the small, one-room country school and humble business ventures that were undertaken here a hundred years ago when our settlement was practically in its infancy. I am sure many are aware changes that have taken place in our economic and social systems during the few years since these modern accomplishments were achieved have been paralleled by changes in human attitude and behavior. High ideals and ethics, humble virtues of our Pioneer Fathers and dominant factors that contributed so largely to the success of early community social and business life, have today, become subjects of ridicule, sneered at, and derided by many of this perverse generation lulled into complacency by the glitter and glamour of -130- the great whiteways and social swirls of our modern cities. Styles, fashions, pleasures, and dissipation, supplanting interest in Church and the Sabbeth, are diverting human aspirations from things more enduring. During this atomic age, more especially since the beginning of the second world war, scientific and inventive geniuses have given the world gadgets to enlighten human burdens and increase greater home comforts and happiness. At the same time, unfriendly relations between nations, prompted inventions of the most destructive weapons of life and property, the world has ever known. Unfortunately, waste, extravagance, and high taxation that burdened people to the limit during the war, still continue to exploit human happiness and well being. -131-