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Show OGDEN Yesterday's Salt Lake Tim- - said: Tbe ooaapUltit eooies from ti.e bw tD.Cit-- g difclrrt of La Pil tL.t It slfcked. aad Bholw oouDtry bw ttat the prospector tid no ooourafe'-metojw-ttio- n Tfctf is a complaint that in Utah, and th eonditjo&s of Uw from wbieh it anae should be remtie edied. Tie subject should will attention of tie legislature cocrene this winter, as it is mott im portact to the minuig industry that the evil should be remedied. A U w cu ust be psmad regulaULg the tune w ithin which the tret year's aaeeeeaient work abill L done, so it at w hen a ciaiui is staked the r will be required do some work upon it In Colorado tbe location wsrk has to be done within sixty days after the stake is set This time mijht be cut down to thirty days to advantage. With such a law in force, a cisum would open to relocation if it were found tnat the work had not been done. This would make it impoetible fur a few niea to take up an eutire district Mt--o would not sUke ground indiscriminately. They would only take that which tbev thought to be good and w hich they could do the work on w ithin the required time. d In the first place the Time is at "whole about the country" La riata being staked. This is probably true about the immediate vicinity of La Plata City. But there are miles and miles of mineral country in Weber and Cache counties that have not been prospected at alL Some of the best claims are a long distance from La Plata. Probably as good mines as any, possibly better than any, will be found from two to four, possibly rive to six miles from La Plata City. But there is a point in what the Times says. A man should not be allowed to stake down a claim and bold it indefinitely without working it to an ex tent that shows that he means to do mora than sneculate with it It is to the interest of everybody to have the mines opened and improved fully and mere landgrabbers should not be allowed to block the way too much. so Ediuc. H kATES-TH- Oalrr mi avMb iUtixMiu,) t - 'U M DaILT. E - - - THE WEEKLY. IHrf lear. Basi, EJi'kia. U advance, kimtMi um a3ct oe Julj 1, 1l iMr tttrf M.u, ru a ui a. 5: SPECIAL tuiii t'U aeiiiurfloe c.a fil U truti wbo 1U tmf trrt tWir fax NOTICE : AtW niu ortirw f Tut imt aiMiu. viii b rl-- i. . - - Im-aW- tl-- W (a-r- e ljr Ruufyibg okur k iiL m aiii p. m. f aii't arruijee ftr tije i at the eiturial oflice, 4J Vbir v a ij ut. up .'.air., fart ilotr. itu-r- u i- ..rin-HA- I fla COMMERCIAL 9. Busing Offir, ' t. rc!e ttt t iM ami w. ) TELEPHONES: Kdilurial 0ffir.SC5. niiain-furme- ACblT FEItlAV PUSH BUSINESS! Two mora working days and SeptemThe wane of the year ie upon ua. The time when contract are being cloeed up has opened. But with the mayor and city council it is the time only to begin to work (or the city. Or it ia, rather, the time to begin to talk about defending the city's Acts may begin later on interests. when snow flies and they may net Already the economical "reform" mayor has drawn $1,100 f the city's money for services and the council has taken about 13,000. There is over 11,000 gone for whatf For doing the city positive damage by not upholding it By not during the financial distress. most needed. its when interests pushing Bj Dot being vigilant, up to the times. By allowing the spirit of progress and improvement to become mossed over with lethargy and dry rot It is brilliant piece of admin ietra tion to borrow money at Ave per cent pftis six per cent interest eleven per cent taxation, and squander it for salaries for officials who sit down and obstruct the interests of this important commercial and mining center, if not by deliberate purpose, then by incapacity to comprehend and execute their re sponsibilities. But the year is slipping away. And if this "reform" city administration is going to do anything for Ogden this season it must rouse up instantly, and push business with a diligence and energy it has never yet given reason to suspect it possessed. Do its best it cannot accomplish much. But it can show a good purpose. It can join its encouragement Vo Hint the mines awl the brighter business prospects. It can make 1891 go out with spirit and activity. It can usher ' 1892 in with some good work well done and an earnest of a season of growth and progress in the coming year. The mayor and council should rouse up tire up be somebody, do something, redeem the future. The people are tired, disgusted with the past weak and worthless policy. ber ii bore. A MISTAKE. It is certainly a serious mistake to a large excursion of Colorado and other eastern men to come here and not do something to formally receive them Several hundred tourists arrived in Og den this weik and little or no courtesies were extended to them. This should never happen again. Those gentlemen did not expect to be wined and dined, being generally practical men bent on looking into the mineral disco v eries here. But all the same they would have appreciated some official recognition from the city authorities or Chamber of Commerce. Such attentions would have made them think better of Ogden and Utah, and would have been happily be stowed. It is business, and it is also a simple duty of hospitality to extend a welcome and at least a few kind words to all visitors coming to the city, espe cially in large bodies. Our mayor should awaken to the re sponsibilities and duties of his position and attend to the hospitalities of the city on such important occasions without having the matter suggested.' The very latest and best pointers from Ogden's mining district are fully as encouraging as the first Several who have claims have begun to sink shafts to test the permanency of their deposits and that is business. It is to their interest to do so. No one will buy an imaginary mine. The quality of almost any ore yet found is rich enough to warrantgrest expectations of the new prospects, but where there is a body of ore it is nearly sure to assay better as the shaft goes down, and if a claim owner desires to sell he can do it more successfully by opening his prospect, at least to a limited extent So those who are digging are d iag the right thing. 0 ;de is pleased to see so many excel lent gentlemen from Colorado and it hopes they will enjoy their visit very much. They are here for business and doubtless so many will be so well pleased with the mining prospects and beauty Of this city that they will decide to locate in Ogden. FEED THE IslSISE BIG FINDS. SOT QUITE CORRECT. THE COMMERCIAL. DULY COMMERCIAL: FRIDAY. Al'Gt ST 25. 1S3I. DOUGLASS AT HOME. rieasantSuTroundiuffs of the Famous and Frederick DougLetter: Washington e lass suid recently before his resignation vas made public, that if he should de cide not to return to Hayti it would be because he preferred to stay at home. One can easily understand after vis iting Mr. Douglass at his home Low I ne I strong the tie is that ,4,'ndB D'm win. old piaoo. .. (yioufMa fMfetCreClj residence, set . on a hill in a bower of tall trees in the little village of ALacos- tia, which is connected with this city proper by an iron bridge that spans the eastern branch of the Potomac at a point not far distant from the navy yard. The grounds are carefully kept There are many flower plots, and a carriage way winds around from the foot of the hill up to the veranda, which extends along the whole front of the house. Standing on this veranda one may see the whole panorama of the capital spread out almost at his feet. The prospect, in deed, is magniticent The capitol building, the state, war and navy buildings, the White house, the treasury building, the new naval observatory, and the spire of the Georgetown college, Arlington Heights, are plainly within the view, as is also the point of land at the arsenal, which marks the union of the eastern and western branches of the Potomac, which flows thence, a gradually widening and deepening stream, to the Bea. At night, when the lamps of the city are all burning, the picture presented to Mr. Douglass and his guests is one of memorable beauty. Mr. Douglas has his house furnished for comfort, but at the same time with every consideration given to an attractive appearance. He spends much of his time in his library, where he has collected many rare books and souvenirs of the great struggle against slavery, lie bore a notable part in that conflict and has many things to remind him of his colleagues and companions. The Doug lass household is a mixed one. Mrs. Douglass who is white, has some of ber relatives with ber, and Mr. Douglass entertains several of bis grandchildren, who are the descendants of his old slave wife, now some years dead. But notable as the picture is from the house, the striking picture at the house is Mr. Douglass himself. He is an old man now, but kale and hearty, and stands up straight in bis giant proportions. IIis hair is still very abundant, is worn long, and is white as snow. He dresses this warm weather in a loosely fitting suit of white flannel, which with his snowy hair, makes the more pronounced his tawny skin. He talks well, and with the ease of a traeled man, and as you see him at home, surrounded by every comfort, and reflect that bis place in history is assured, and will he unique, you can readily believe that he is tired of the fret and worry of foreign diplomacy. Ia t Important Co'. WeUj f new -:- - Notice. Dtrin the past wwek wttettk Las their Blind's eye the general atlines i Un absorbed ia by great eiciU-sb- : the scenery in and about tae ssinei, y rSL nuiAu orders roLiUUnf exILe La Plata rtion Las etTtaia featr of rye were taken cSLetal eot.tr-e-atjoOur Hanging Lamp Sale is over- peculiar to iteJ shich people naturally perts of the wort reports rard-L- i hke to Lxiai aequaiLWi with, sinoe a deet uiwi to beouUi so fa- the harvest In that is no country, and wt-rtuous. further supported by reports mat simOIK li)UHU!t riSJTOES ilar drfrnsive would be take by actjuo wto have so lately come to Ogden cer are goiLg to the othrr govern aients. The jrk here w as ei-rthe lUu Grand iLua far suddenly sdranoni so far as to stop ex- for our Fall Goods we must continue sacrificing until we get in large ouruU-rs- . tuuii La Plat. ports, and then about 100 Lave start! t rapidly reeled, but s our stock reduced sufficiently to accommodate them. Of ttis number it issai i fully subsequently grew stronger, ckifclng at of or the or are miners agents citalist cent above Ut week's latter. The balance are probably at- tlAVi or No doubt q uotation. There is little rootn to doubt tracted chw-tfby curiosity. ever one half of the entire band of Col- that furrigu demand will be greater orado excursionists now in Utah were than ever if prices here are not so we will offer our attracted here by the already famous magnificent line of PARLOR STAND dr&nccd so as to check it Later rediscoveries at La P.ata and the result are still more will be of inestimable value to O'den as ports favorable LAMPS AT COST. it w ill mean in the near future the ad a to the American yield, and by many dition of numbers of niuet valuable new conservative authorities it is This li ne comprises all the different makes, viz: ROCHES- residents to our city and county. In usually now 23 to 40 mLUion bushels estimated on th is it this connection freeiy akd TER. II. AND BRISTOL. IMPERIAL and others. streets what our Chamber of Coiuoiecoe above the government figures which inand our municipal authorities are doing dicated about IAI million bushels. As to the figure would give over 30 E5TFRTAIS THE VISITORS million bushels for export, the latest desas information such to and help them they will naturally seek concerning our patches from Toronto say Canada Las 33 resources and the opportunities which million bushels to (pare, it is in the now invite thein to become residents highest degree important for both counhere. This is a matter of public impor- tries that the golden opportunity should tance which cannot le neglected with not be lost such a rise in prices through impunitv. as would curtail foreign consumption. Nick reweek and W. B. Evans of Salt As yet prioes are not extraordinarily Lake City, visited La Plata the first of and not as high by 10 cents, with high, Wedneshome returned week and the all the foreign news, as in April last, in and both Since then, Ogden day. with but a dream of famine beSalt Lake they have expressed them- fore nothing to them. warrant July selves The general business of the country AS MOST FAVORABLY does well, with gradual improvement in impressed with the showing already nearly all its branches, based on actual made at the new mines. Considering increase of demand from farming states. 2443 and 2445 Washington Avenue, : : Ogden. Utah the amount of work in development al- It may be doubted whether there has ready done they believe that the showing ever been a more cautions and conservais amply sufficient to induce any cool, tive feeling prevalent at a time when mining man with capital to the prospect of a large trade was bright, expend his money in proving up a great and in scarcely any branch is there seen They also con- a disposition to venture upon large many of the prospects. sider the superficial indications as point- speculative purchases. Stocks of goods HEADQUARTERS FOR LOW PRICES- ing to great miueral wealth and believe carried over have been large for years, the new camp will prove to be a reat and dealers are admonished by the full and permanent one. These gentlemen list of failures, and there is so general a are fairly good judges and theiropinions ispoei tion to purchase only what it is are entitled to weight, especially as they 9 ruiiitiAJUBUiuera win require kutti uiuuj We give you prices that mean business. only endorse every intelligent view yet trades appear hesitating and almost dulh We give you values that mean business. Yet the volume of business ia probably recorded. as large as ever before at Gents Underwear, Overshirts, Flannel THESE DISCOVERIES. RESPECTING Collections are not good, and Shirts. President David Evans of the Cham- there is more than generally Socks, Ties, Etc-- . Ladies Underusual complaint but ber of Commerce who went up to wear, Hosiery, Laces, Ribbons, Velvets, of harvesting and other tempoas a part of a committee of the the rush causes explain much of the delay. Etc., Table Linens and Toweling, new Chamber tjO report to that body on the rary is well also that in other speculative line of Muslin Underwear. Our Fall value and promise if the new depositee It in is little markets there except grain also returned a day or two ago. He is Line C' advanced corn while excitement; comingin. BLANKETS, BLAN-ETentirely satisfied that the La Plata cents, oats declined 7, and cotton, with could BLANKETS, at mines are all that le expected of of a crop, declined the most notable and rich prospects. He prospects coffeelarge 15 cents per 100 pounds, is satisfied that if they develop what and petroleum 3 cents, while pork also and so abundantly promise amply they fell 50 cents per barrel, with lard a shade they will be a genuine bonanza. Their Twentv-Fourt- h , of Postofficc. value is as certainly great as the value stronger. St., of the best mineral discoveries in the world could be in the embryo stage of their discovery and development. t u o TO MAKE ROOM two-third- UNTIL AUGUST 28TII tU "WATCH THE DATE. kjtt THE FAIR' f Importers, Jobbers and Retailers. TEE PEOPLE'S STOKE, level-heade- d r. La-Pla- ta S, THE PEOPLE'S STORE. 331 As Others See Us. Grand Junction Star; The mining excitement in the new district of La Plata, near Ogden, shows no signs of abating but is on the increase. Many samples of tho cm Uv Vmmi wii trttt-futusoaf and those heard from are most encouraging. Experts are in the canon making examinations and Senator Tabor is said to have two representatives on the ground with instructions to see what is in the new camp and it it is as rich as?reported to get a large share of it The formation is said to be an exact reproduction of Leadville and promises to yield as rich as Leadville and the same kind and quality of ore. A town is rapidly springing up on the site of the camp, and the railroads are helping the excitement on by arranging excursions to Ogden. East BUSTS JEMOVED. Not far Have just received a handsome line of Novelty Suitings, N E W SILKS AND VELVETS. All the newest designs in diess materials. Choice line of trimmings in hand, crochet, jet feather goods. new Fall Jackets. S. NEWLY ESTABLISHED- new quarters. A Government to Absorb the Railroads. New York Tribune: Popular feeliDg in Switzerland in behalf of the purchase by the federal government of the railroad system, is likely to be much strengthened by the terrible accident which has A just taken place near Berne. Scarcely two months have elapsed since a similar catastrophe occurred at Moenchenstein. At present most of the trunk lines are owned by German and French capitalists whose sole object is to secure large re- & turns for their money, and who are relatively indifferent to the necessities of maintaining in good repair roads which Also are certain to be appropriated by the nation in a short time. The acquisition of the railroads by the government will, it may be hoped, reform the present abuses of railroad travel in Switzerland. For sinee charity begins at home it is obvious that the government will be more alive to the necessities of the railways than the capitalists at Frankfort, Berlin or Paris. irijy only two doors north to 2450 Washington avenue, where we will be found with one of the largest and most complete lines of Hainess.Saddles.Horse Goods, etc., to be found in the City. We are selling at the same Low Prices and invite you to call and see us in our Si STAFFORD, MILLER R R A. G. I BOLANDEK, MERCHANT TAILOR, V L and upward. Special attention given to dyeing, cleaning and repairing See him before placing your order. S Splendid assortment to choose from. No. J. BURT & BROS. - 2361, Up Stairs, AT THE BAZAAR, Corner 24th and Grant. Special Sales Each Day This Week. lilies, Liflw and fines Mondaj Aug. 24th Aug. 25th 1'ine Domestic and Imported- - Wednesday Aug. Cigars, Ale and Porter We make Family Trade our Specialty and will promptly deliver goods to all parts of the city. Mail orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. Write for prices. Box 133. Thursday Aug. -- 2406 Washington Avenue, OGDEN, UTAH. Rocky Mountain Amber, In Keg or Bottle. SIIELLIIAS BREWING 0IKX BF.KR, - Telephone - CO.. Washington Avenue. Eire, Water, Smoke Sale - THE (K BAT - GRAND FINALE (Branch No. 14.) "Little Tots" on the Doorsteps. & CO. Will make you a suit for T. WOLLSTEIN & CO., -- New York Advertiser: Grover Cleve land's doorstep on Madison avenue seems to have a great fascination for children who live in the neighborhood. The house where the lives when in town is closed and barred for the summer now, but any evening and Somk of the worthy gentlemen who in the afternoon when the sun is low came here from Colorado to see Ogden'B little tots, all the way from 5 to 10 years, sit on the stone steps or climb up and mines have subrscibed for The Comme- down, seeming to prefer that spot to rcial. They wish to keep posted on the others in the neighborhood. They have too, development of the new Leadville. The a "nickname" for the Commercial will eive them the latest and when they allude to the master of their soft stone sitting place they call nnd best information. Lim "Mr. Tariff." E. O. J Firtt Pag. OtTLOOJL 180. G. L. BECKER, Mgr. Corsets, Knit Underwear Yarn and Crochet Materials, 26th Linen Sale", and Children Clothes. 27th-B- aby Friday Aug. 28th Sale-Tuesd- Needlework Materials. Saturday Aug. 9th Underwear Hosiery, etc., MONDAY, AUGUST 3 1ST, Grand Clearance Sale of everything loft over from other sales THE BAZAAR. Corner Twenty-fourt- h aad Grant. ay |