Show NOW DO ITS PART GREAT MORMON CHOIR IS WIDELY HERALDED but 2000 must be raised beare the special train de parts from tuesdays standard the importance attached to visit of the ogden tabernacle choir to portland is manifest in a circular letter sent out by the secretary of the national irrigation congress which states that the great mormon choir of voices has been secured as a special attraction and will render the irrigation ode the letter also states that the choir will arrive in a special train from ogden on saturday august and remain iri Portland until the the people of ogden might as well know it now as any other time that the success of this trip depends wholly upon them and that the collections thus far from every source have amounted to but the amount required to send the choir on the trip la or 50 for each of the voices leaving 2000 yet to be raised so far ogden has done practically nothing to help the undertaking along but having been subscribed in this city the balance coming from portland and new york it is difficult to understand just why the people of ogden have been so lax in this affair the move is one that should be of material benefit to the city and advertise it as nothing else would the praises of the ogden choir will be sung from end to end of the continent making the advertising possibilities of the city great indeed the sending of the choir to portland will be alike encouraging to the members of the choir and the irrigation congress the move should also have a tendency to increase influence in matters pertaining to irrigation and go a long ways toward destroying the prejudice existing against the people of this state already it has done a great amount of good as portland ia now supplicating for that against which they inveigled inveighed ed at the mining congress thus ogden in behalf of utah will be returning good tor evil heaping fiery coals upon the heads of the portland people by showing them what the people of utah really are an enthusiastic supporter of the choir incites the following appeal awake out of your lethargy 0 citizens of ogden and rise to the occasion and the possibilities involved in this journey of the sweet singers of israel from ogden to where rolls the oregon let us all pull together A little more of the same kind of enthusiasm will do much toward the raising of the balance necessary tor the making of the trip which the people of ogden are called upon to do |