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Show sis in ciyoi ARE DISAPPEARING Campaign Against Them by Weber Club at Ogden Is Bearing Fruit. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, July 24. Commercializing the beauty of Ogden canyon with signs advertising ad-vertising brands of foodstuffs, auto tires or wearing apparel is on the wane, according ac-cording to a report which reached the city today. It is stated the signs are beginning be-ginning to disappear mysteriously at night. The firms and individuals who have placed the signs in the canyon and near the mouth of the canyon have been ap-jCd ap-jCd to by a committee from the Weber faiy and now the club is waiting to see "if the signs will go. According to a report re-port current here, one of the signs, in which several hundred feet of lumber and .some heavy tin were used In the construction, con-struction, disappeared at night but neither the owner nor any of his agents wre responsible. Xewcomb Carlton, president of the "Western "West-ern Union, on his recent visit in Ogden was taken through the canyon in an automobile au-tomobile bv Ralph E. Bristol and when he saw the biliboads and signs at the mouth of the canyon Mr. Carlton is reported re-ported to have said: "It is a shame that American commercialism commer-cialism has taken such a practice as this, placing signs which hurt the beautiful tone of this canyon and turn it from a superb creation of nature, to be en-joved en-joved bv ail, far from the usual blare and irritation of the business world, io a place where one is constantly reminded re-minded of the thing he seeks to leave for a moment. "It is a desecration to cover these rocks nnd shrubs with such bold signs. You Ogden people will be losing the respect of many tourists for allowing this wonderful won-derful scenic assei to be thus ruined." |