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Directory of Ogden City and Weber County.
machinery, type, etc., as they arrived from Salt Lake City, and deposit them in the "Seventies Hall," where thc paper was to be issued. On the 8th of May, 1869, Mr. John Jaques, the Editor, and Mr. T. G. Webber, the able Business Manager, arrived from the capital, and, on the 11th of May, the first number of the Daily Telegraph was issued in Ogden City. But here we must correct an error in relation to part of the name of the journal. It was not called the Ogden Daily Telegraph, but it retained the former name---viz.: Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, and some of the citizens of Ogden took umbrage at this, be cause they expected he proprietor of the paper would adopt the name of this city for his new venture. Mr. Odell became the Foreman of the establ ish ment, and Mr. Hall the City Editor.
Mr. Jaques had been appointed at a General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter—day Saints, held in Salt Lake City in April, to take a mission to England, and therefore occupied the editorial chair but for a brief period. He was succeeded by the late Mr. Edward L. Sloan, one of the founders and also Editor—in— Chief of the Salt Lake Herald. After a run of a few months the publication of the Telegraph was discontinued, and the proprietor removed the establishment back to the capital—and thus terminated Ogden's debut in journalism. Among the compositors who had worked on the Telegraph in this city were Mr. John G. Chambers, Mr. Orson H. Eggleston, and Mr. Reuben B. Eggleston; the last named gentleman still plies his vocation in the Ogden Herald office.
For the remainder of the year the people of this city and county were without a newspaper. This condition of things could, of necessity, be of but brief duration. The people must have a journal here—the necessities of the