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Directory of Ogden City and Weber County.
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 water for irrigation, still by its sprink ling permits many residences are surrounded by beauti ful 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 steam ers 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 regu lar consumption about 300,000 gals. The work during the course of construction was under the personal direction of the officers of the company. E. H. Orth, President; W. N. Horton, Vice-president; Jos. Stanford, Secretary, and Treasurer; and James Taylor, T. D. Dee, and W. G. Child Directors in behalf of Ogden City.
In 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