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Show Almost to tha Nuhcrc Stagt. The billboard form of advertising hag grown to such unsightly proportions as to almost come within with-in the nuisance class. rom the circus poster, which was the delight of our boyhood days, has grown a succession of landscape land-scape destroyers, advertising everything, from salmon sal-mon pills to- soda crackers, from cigars to circuses, stretched in an almost continuous line from the Canyon Can-yon road to Clear Creek, or from Dan to Beersheba. These billboard signs, gay, gaudy and gorgeous, are to be seen at every turn, towering higher and higher and extending to almost interminable length as the years go by. Not only are they plastered with paper, but huge permanent signs are painted upon them to become constant offenses against civic beauty and symmetry. From an advertising standpoint it must be admitted ad-mitted that they have some value, else advertisers would not continue to use them, but as compared with newspaper advertising they are as darkness to daylight. The newspaper goes into the home, where advertising reaps results. Billboard advertising, carried to the extent that it has reached, becomes of fensive to the eye and" in consequence loses its value as advertising. s . The advertisers themselves are the ones who ran control and check this growing nuisance, but legislation legis-lation may also be judiciously enacted, placing limitations lim-itations upon offending displays that mar a city's ornate beauty. , |