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Show SALT LAKE AXI OGDEN. Denver Journal of Commerce. Salt Lako and Ogden have battered down the obstacles 10 their rapid growth after a great battle, and a signal ictory it was. They are no doubt good investment invest-ment points. Ogdeu is sure she has the greater chances. having hav-ing a fine agricultural region, excellent ex-cellent manufacturing facilities, and numerous important railroad connections. con-nections. That point remains to bo seen that is of great superiority. Salt Lake City has a fine country within reach, old and highly developed so far as it goes but capable of very great enlargement with tho greatest great-est practicable water storage. In her mountains all around, and especially espec-ially southeast, are immense, varied n mi rare mineral resources, and her independent in-dependent railway connections promise gloat things in a future that cannot bo more than ajfew rears distant. The The Kio Grande Midland now almost complete nearly udireet to Denver, the Rock Island, Burlington and iojsibly Santa Fc and Missouri 1'acitiu and probably several lines west and southwest ami south to Pacific ports; inimitably a line via Du-rango Du-rango and Albuquerque" to Gulf deep-water deep-water harbors all will push her ahead fast and far in i moderate time. Denver will get the north Pacilic-Gulf Pacilic-Gulf trade, being several years ahead . in preparation to utilize it; but that lul.er-mouutain line will 'probably lind easier grades oxer the main divide on either" side of Durango anil in time do a large business that will help Salt Luke greatly. A great and rich country will be developed within the interior. Utah-Snake-Col-umbia basin, and the metropolis for it 1 1 1 : 1 V ln S.ill I.iiLh But something like the (St. Paul-Minneapolis, history may be repeated between be-tween Salt Lake aud' Ogden in fact it is pretty sure to lie with a fair division of the specialties. A good permanent and great growth is certain for both, as Denver real estate men have divined and so invested in either city with tolerable impartiality.. impartial-ity.. Many sections of Eastern Utah, especially about the shore lines of the great territory lake that is cast of tho Wasatch and south of tho Utah Mountains, Moun-tains, are remarkably rich in economical economi-cal minerals and soil." They also escaped the greater force of the subsequent disintegrating forces and are as rich in economical minerals as western Colorado, Colo-rado, though probably wanting in any considerable precious' metals s-o abundant abun-dant in Colorado. All this will be likclv to help Salt Lake. |