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Show Drawing a straight liuo from that great railroad center, Kansas city, to the foot of tlio lake on the same and only really feasible route to the Pacific and we again strike Salt Lake city. Lotus dry our tears and "wait for the wagon" for it will surely come. In the meantime we would recommend recom-mend to our disconsolate and hungry brethren at Ogdon, that they betake themselves to raising oysters and ctunis I at the mouth of Weber river. ! ! THE OYSTER KATEItS CUT OGDEN. j '-Ho was tt bold man Hint first nto nu . j oyster," says Dean Swift, but the ! Ogden man who makes "tho railroad fsind commercial center of tlni new -west'' at his favorito burg, takes tho jcake. With wry faces ho swi'llows tho 'oyster aud kindly gives tiiS shells to I Nail Lake City, lie draws u map with jblood-red moons shadetV with crape, four in number, to designate Chicago, ! Omaha, - Denver aiut Ogden, and runs numberless iv.l lines from tlio three lirst named cities, ' by circuitous poiuU' into Ocden and , into the center of the Dead Sea other--wise called Great Salt Lake. These red lines he calls railroads. Th'u this bold oyslcrmaii ceases to draw upon his imagination, but draws with his pen a tiny circle which he kindly names Salt Loke City. This he considerately makes a way station on tho Deliver & Hio Grande railway. These two-penny maps, suggestive of the place of their origin, ho gets lithographed in Denver, aud scatters broadcast as the devil of the Scripture scattered tares. At lirst sight of the "great four" moon cities, Ogden being painted red on as large u scale its Chicago, wo poor Salt Lakers at a way btatiou, may congratulate ourselves our-selves that a way of retreat to the Mountains, or to the alkaline "wilderness "wilder-ness of Zoan" by way of Ogdon is open to us. Wo are nowhere, at present. To go Ogden-waid would be like jumping jump-ing out of tho pan into the tire; let us take to the mountains. Stopping a moment to consider, we place n yard Htick on the oyslermau's map and lind that on & straight line as the bird Hies, from the center of Chicago to the foot of Salt Lake, on the old overland utage route to California, we squarely : J$e both " Denver aud this city. |
