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Show 80 Orders by Mail promptly attended to at Walker Bros.' top of battlements; has an octagon tower at the north end 54 feet in height. This extension is divided into four apartments, as follows: engine room, kitchen, dining and reception rooms, all connected with the main building by a long ball. The main body of this extension is built even to the placing of its rafters. The foundation of the main building is also a few inches above the ground The design is original, embracing none of the particular orders of architecture. The entire amount of rock to be used In completing tho whole structure is about 264,224 cubic feet. There will be but little cut stone, that used being only for sills, caps, etc. Another edifice for public worship is the beautiful and commodious Taberna¬cle, which is 65 1/2 x 125 1/2 feet, centrally located and of splendid architectural design. It is entirely of stone. The "United Order" Foundry of Logan is one of the prominent institutions of Northern Utah. It contains two lathes run by water power, the largest of whioh was made there. They are making a large press drill which will weigh 1,600 pounds, made entirely from scrap iron. The wheel which runs the wind apparatus of the blast furnace and forges makes 1,500 revolutions per minute. It employs four first-class machinists, one apprentice, four good blacksmiths, two good apprentices, two good moulders, one furnace hand, one carriage maker, one frame builder for mills, one superintendent, one secretary. Joseph Wilson is foreman. No other similarly conducted and organized concern is to be found in Utah. Tho "United Order Manufacturing and Building Co.," of Logan, was organ¬ized and incorporated under the laws of tho Territory, January 8th, 1876. with a capital stock of $15,000 subscribed and $10,000 paid up in shares of five dollars each. Its officers are, H. Ballard, President; P. N. Peterson, Vice presi¬dent; C. O. Card, Charles Nibley and J. M. Wright, Directors; the five in all constituting a Board of Directors. J. E. Hyde, Secretary; C. W. Card, Treasur¬er, and C. O. Card as general Business Mauager. The property paid into tho corporation consisted of a saw, lath and shingle mill, formerly owned by Card & Son, and a planing mill of which Peterson & Sons were the proprietors. During the first year the Company prospered very well, paying a dividend of twenty per cent, on the capital stock invested. In 1877 the company added to its already valuable property, over $3,200 worth of improvements, consisting of a large carpenter shop, 24x36x18. Bought land in the central part of Logan City and built a store 20x48, and filled it with homemade and other merchan¬dise. Also bought land and built an office upon it for the Company's use, near its mills. Constructed a boom, at a cost of $112, in tho Login river, for the purpose of catching wood, ties, logs, etc. It also conneoted to the Company during this year a co-operative dairy, at a cost of $1,335, consisting of land, Walker Bros'. is the Oldest Wholesale House In Ogden. 81 Peery, Herrick & Co. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in General Merchandise, Plows, Harrows, Farm and Garden Imple¬ments, Stoves and Hardware, Grain, Flour and Mill Feed. Manufacturers and Exporters of the Celebrated Weber Mills Brands of Flour. Wholesale Buyers ivited to inspect our Heavy Stocks of Merchandise. Shipping Carefully Attended To. FOURTH STREET, L OGDEN, UTAH. |