History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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manufacturing facilities, and with many of the attractions
and conveniences of modern cities, including
a theatre 28 and one of the best hotels in the country,
with gentile churches and schools, both protestant
and catholic, the western terminus of the Union
Pacific was probably the most cosmopolitan town
in Utah. 29 Among the other settlements of Weber
county the most prominent were North Ogden, 30 Harrisville,
Huntsville, 31 Lynne, 32 Slaterville, Uintah,
Plain City, Hooperville, and West Weber. 33
28 Opened Jan. 4, 1870. Stanford's Ogden, MS., 10.
29 For act to incorporate Ogden, see Utah Compiled Laws, 746-54; Deseret
News, Jan. 30, 1861. For act amending charter of incorporation, see Utah
Laws, 1880, 4-5. In 1885 the mayor of Ogden was David H. Peery, a Virginian,
who during the civil war served as assistant commissary under General
Marshall. In 1864, after being honorably discharged from the confederate
army, he arrived in Utah with the sum of §1,400, saved from the wreck of his
property. In 1885 he was the owner of several blocks of business buildings,
and was worth about 8150,000, being at that date a member of the territorial
legislature. In 18S0 the city and county built a bridge over the Weber, at a
cost of $10,000, and in the same year the city constructed a reservoir on
Court-house hill to collect the waters of several small springs which were
conveyed in pipes to Main street. Stafford's Ogden, MS., 15-16. For sketch
of the business growth of Ogden, see Tullidge's Mag., i. 47S-84. For description
of town at various dates, see Bonwick's Silver Mines, 22-3; Millennial
Star, xxxi. 518; S. L. C. Tribune, Jan. 1, 1S78, July 6, 1S79, Jan. 1, 1881;
Telegraph, May 18, July 8, Dec. 19, 1869; Herald, Dec. 12, 1S77. Topographical
plan, in Wheeler's Surveys, ii. 471.
3u With a population in 1880 of 956. Stanford's Ogden, MS., 8; about 900.
Amos Maycock, in Utah Sketches, MS., 115. In 18S3 it was about 1,200, and
in 1886 some 1,500.
31 Harrisville was an agricultural settlement containing in 1880 about 60
families, most of them Scandinavians. Though subject to early frosts, cereals
were raised, with the exception of wheat, and in the neighborhood was good
pasture. A considerable income was also derived from the sale of shingles
and railroad ties. Stanford's Weber Co., MS., 5, 11-12. In the Description of
Huvisville, MS., 1-6, and Utah Sketches, MS., are particulars as to theresources
and growth of Huntsville from 1S60, when it w ? as founded, until 18S0.
32 An agricultural settlement two miles north of Ogden, containing in 1880
about 500 inhabitants. Stanford's Weber Co., MS., 1.
33 Slaterville was organized as a county precinct in 1864. Population in
1880 about 400. Uintah, at the western entrance of Weber canon, was first
known as East Weber, the name being changed to Easton early in 1867, and
in the same year to Uintah. At Plain City the raising of fruit and vegetables,
especially strawberries, was the principal industry. Hooperville, settled in
1869, had in 1S80 about 100 families. West Weber, organized as a ward in
1877, mustered at the same date nearly 700 inhabitants. There were also
small settlements at Mound Fort, a mile north of the Weber; Eden, near
Huntsville; Marriotsville, three miles north-west of Ogden; Riverdale, two
miles south of Ogden; and several others. Id., passim.
In the Brief Historical Sketch of the Settlements in Weber County, by Joseph
Stanford, MS., are given in minute detail the leading incidents in the history of
all the principal settlements of Weber co. from their foundation until the year
18S0. The Historical Sketch of Ogden City, MS., by this author, covera