X' 2ft 120 Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. erection opened up all the rich and populous western portion of the County to Ogden's commerce, and has also resulted in the saving of many lives, as herebefore several people had found their death in the surging waters of the Weber while fording it. The people of South Weber and Riverdale especially, and the public generally had for a long time been put to much inconvenience, trouble, and expense by the destruction of the late bridge which spanned the Weber River south of Taylor's mills. A new bridge became a necessity, and that necessity is now supplied. Golonel Moore was the contractor and builder, but his son, Mr. David M. Moore, superintended the construction. The span is 125 feet; the full length of floor is 138 feet; width of floor 14 feet, bight of structure 15 feet in the clear. There are 14 panels of braces to each truss. The bridge is supported by 68 main, and four counter brace rods, ranging in length from 10 to 26 teet, and 1^ to \\ inches thick. There are also between 700 and 800 bolts, ranging from nine inches to three feet in length, and from five-eisrhts to one and one-fourth inches in thickness. There is nearly 40,000 feet of lumber in the bridge. This fine structure rests on two right substantial abutments built of sand stone and granite rocks, laid in cement mortar throughout. These abutments rest on fifty-six iron pointed spiles, which are driven twenty-feet below the surface, and are cut off twenty-six inches below water mark. They are capped with heavy timbers, on which the rock-work is built. The contract price of building the bridge was $7,300; part of this amount was appropriated by the Territorial Legislature, and part by the County Court of Weber County. The work was commenced in the latter part of the summer of 1881. *e. .x Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. 121 ~2ft THE NEW CITY BUILDING. The New City Building is a credit to the City authorities. It is centrally located on the east side of Union Square, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, and faces the East mountains. It is a brick structure, two stories, and 61x31 feet, and is 24 feet to the square. On the first floor of the building there are eight iron cells, each 4 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 7 inches in size. They are made of boiler iron with heavy bar iron doors. On the same floor there are four other rooms, two of them (one 13x15 feet, the other 11x15) are fitted up as offices for the City Recorder. The other two, one of which is 13x24 feet, and the other 10x10 feet, are Council Chambers, where the City Council hold sessions until the New City Hall is erected. On the second floor are four well-built cells, which, in size, will average 7x8 feet. These are of wood, 2x6 in. scantlings spiked together, and lined on the outside with lumber. There are on the same floor two other rooms 13x11 feet, designed for sleeping rooms for paupers and transients. Also two rooms, one 13x18 feet for the use of the Justice's Court, and the other, 13x15 feet, fitted up for police headquarters. The rooms and cells will accommodate between 30 and 40 prisoners, exclusive of the rooms occupied by the Court, Council, and police. The building is erected on a rock foundation which is raised two feet above the street grade. The walls are 17 inches thick, the material is extra burnt bricks. The house is covered with Porter-roofing iron. The windows are well barred to prevent escape by any of the prisoners, and the whole structure is thoroughly ventilated from the foundation to the top. It cost, altogether, a little over $10,000. The building was designed and constructed by Mr. N. C. Flygare, architect, of this city. .&-— , — X