Show considerable space is given in this issue to our sister c ity city ogden and abid the many natural advantages and resources enjoyed by this charming cl spot none of the least of which are the numerous mineral districts by which it is environed mining has made salt lake what it is today the commercial of this intermountain inter mountain region and yet salt lake is no more favored by nature and really not so much so as is ogden the main reason for the precedence of zion over the city on the weber being that salt alt lake people have given more attention to mining while Ogden ites have long slept on their rights and have neglected their advantages and yet at the same time ogden is but a short distance from some of the most promising but undeveloped mining camps campa to be found in the state la plata is surely the peer of bingham or park city in it its mineral min eral deposits willard hill gives every promise of heavy production the country around peterson already boasts of one or more producing 0 mines the consolidated mine above ogden is but one of the prospective bonanzas in that locality while the signs of extensive are apparent on every hand with i gniel cent resources such splendid opportunities to back her progress there is no good reason why ogden should not made a record as being a great mining center in the near future |