Chapter 1 ENTERPRISING YOUNG MEN 19 Twenty-fifth and Twenty-Sixth streets in a sheriff’s sale on November 28, 1894. United States Marshal Nat M. Bingham conducted the sale, which brought $20,000 from a single bidder representing the First National Bank. As the end of the nineteenth century approached, the reorganized Corey Brothers Company, with the bankers aboard, continued to obtain construction contracts, although its net worth on December 8, 1898, was a paltry $10,000, about equal to its original capitalization some years earlier. Most of the Coreys eventually left the company, although Lester S. Corey, son of George Lyman Corey, would become general manager of the descendant company, Utah Construction, in 1931. Ironically, the real estate that Amos Bonesteel Corey lost to the First National Bank became the site for a home E. O. Wattis built for his daughter Veda Ruth. Another daughter, Ethel Wattis Kimball, later occupied the house. Still later, Marriner Eccles and his first wife, May (Maisie) Campbell Eccles, owned the home from 1923-43. It still stands at 2454 Van Buren in Ogden as a reminder of the hopes and aspirations, both fulfilled and unfulfilled, of the Corey and Wattis brothers. Now, with the Dee and Eccles names connected to the fortunes of their enterprise, the hardscrabble days were Over, and a new company would take them to places far beyond any of these families’ individual or collective dreams.