x- 112 Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. 2ft more healthy for culinary and other household purposes than what is ordinarily produced from wells—and as the city becomes more densely built up, its use will become general for such purposes. While the company does not desire to furnish wTater for irrigation, still by its sprinkling permits many residences are surrounded by beautiful lawns heretofore an impossibility. Last, but not least, by a judicial distribution of fire hydrants, supplemented by hose carts and hooks and ladders, a protection from great fires is afforded, which experience teaches is the surest and most efficient yet devised. No costly steamers to get out of repair, no large monthly bills for men and horses to make a steamer available, but instead a hand hose cart, gravity pressure, and plenty of water. The daily consumption is about half a million gallons, but that includes sprinkling of all kinds, leaving the regular consumption about 300,000 gals. The work during the course of construction wTas under the personal direction of the officers of the company. E. II. Orth, President; W. _?. Ilorton, Vice-president; Jos. Stanford, Secretary, and Treasurer; and James Taylor, T. D. Dee, and W. G. Child Directors in behalf of Ogden City. TELEPHONE. Iii September, 1880, Messrs. Kiesel, Goldberg, and others of this city obtained a license and formed a company for the purpose of connecting different houses in the city by means of the Telephone. They, however, not having attained their object at the expiration of a few months, sold all their rights and privileges to Messrs. A.. J. Pattison and J. N. Keller, who at once placed 40 sets of instruments in different stores and residences; and the service being considered satisfactory the real organization X x- Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. ~2ft 11? of the telephonic system commenced, it being due to the unremitting energy and perseverence of those gentlemen, the former of whom is the manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co. In 1881 the Ogden Telephone Exchange Company was incorporated and was worked under the general management of A. J. Pattison, with J. J. Dickey and L. H. Korty of Omaha, as President and Secretary respectively. This company remained in existence until March, 1883, when it was dissolved and a new company organized under the title of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, with a capital of $600,000, which has recently been increased to $800,000; the officers being J. J. Dickey, President; A. J. Pattison, Vice-President and Treasurer; and C. W. Cook, Secretary; the general management remaining still under the able control of A. J. Pattison. There are now about 120 sets of instruments in use in this city and surrounding places, connections being with North Ogden, Plain City, Hot Springs, Uintah, Riverdale, Kaysville, and Salt Lake City, the latter a distance of about 40 miles. Some 60 miles of wTire are necessary for the working of the system, which has been very satisfactory, as in most cases each subscriber has a wire for his separate use, and two switch boards are used in the central office, where operators are in attendance day and night. Ogden has the honor to claim the first inauguration of the telephone system in the western countries of America, and from the small beginning of the 40 instruments introduced by Messrs. Pattison and Keller, the number has increased to some 25,000. y