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Show Junction Cav. Ogden is in duu-ger duu-ger of being emasculated by the chango of the junction of the U. P. railroad and tho U. P. railroad from that place to a point live miles westward, where it is proposed to build np a town to be known ns Junction City. Junction City is described as being situated on Broome's bench, near the bank of the Ogdcn river, and in one of the finest locations in Weber valley. White Pine j? ((. If our contemporary understood the "lay" of the country bettor he would havo little faith in "Junction City" injuring Ogdeu to nuy groat extent. There may bo a hirgo hotel built and the railroad juHOtion i'or tho two overland over-land lines be at the new place, but a hotel and a single junction do not usually us-ually make a largo town. Ogden has boon tor years the commercial centre of a tlourishingagricultural region, and it will be a railroad ccnLro, more im-: porta nt to its growth than if the Pa-1 eitic junction alone were to continue at it. Being tho terminal point lor the large northern trade of tho Territory, the place where the narrow guage Utah Northern and broad guagc Utah Central connect, a halting placo for Territorial tratlie, no removal of any other junction cm "emasculate" it, though one flourishing place may be somewhat injured in business in the vain attempt to make a eity uliero a j city can't be made. |