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Show 6 Exchange on Principal Cities bought and Sold by GUTHRIE & Co. have been out of employ. The wall, being built by taxation, prob¬ably cost about $40,000. The uniformly kind policy pursued by the old and new settlers towards the aborigines was not without its good effects on the minds of the latter; they became reconciled io their situation, and the former realized that it was better and cheaper to feed than to fight them, and it is now very rare that depredations are committed by the red man upon his white neighbor in this section of the country. In 1859 the Ogden canyon road was built, at an immense labor and expense, considering the limited population. It cost about $50,000. It is about seven miles in length, and opens into another beautiful little valley, (Ogden) which is now becoming thickly set¬tled by a thriving community. This road shortens the distance be¬tween Ogden and Bear Lake valley about fifty miles. The Ogden river, which runs through the canyon, sometimes, in the spring of the year, rises very high, in consequence of which the company who own the road have at various times sustained heavy losses by their bridges atd much of the road being swept away by floods. This canyon opens into a number of other smaller canyons and ravines, from which our citizens obtained wood for fuel when nearly every other resource seemed to be closed against them. A number of saw mills "have been built at different points up this road, and a great quantity of good lumber has been got out each year, which has aided materially to build up our city, and to bring it to its present thriving condition. Other public buildings being too small to answer the requirements of public worship on the Sabbath, in 1857 the Tabernacle was built on the Public Square, on the west side of Main Street, near the north end of the city. It is 100 feet by 50 feet outside, and will comfor¬tably seat two thousand people. In the same year the canal on the bench was taken out of the Ogden river, for irrigation and other purposes. It is about two miles in length, and cost $50,000. The canal for irrigating the Special Attention to Collections by GUTHRIE & Co. C. P. LAMBERT, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Marble Headstones, Furniture Slabs, Etc., Etc., Sandstone for building purposes supplied on short notice. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. Fifth Street, Ogden. Next door West of Junction Office. DENTISTRY. SHARP BROTHERS, DENTISTS, W OUID MOST RESPECTFULLY announce to the citizens of Ogden and surrounding country that they have opened an office in the rooms over Blancott & Mauldin's Provision Store, 5th Street, and are prepared to do DENTISTRY IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES. Chloroform and Ether administered when desired, for painless extraction of teeth. Terms moderate. A neatly furnished private room for ladies. OGDEN CITY, UTAH TER. ESTABLISHED 1875. OGDEN REAL ESTATE AGENCY. Office, West side Main St., between 4th and 5th. All Kinds of Property Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Houses Rented, Loans and Mortgages Negotiated. Terms Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed. J. H. NELSON, Proprietor |