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Show j " OGDEN AND THE COUNTRY'S FUTURE. I I I . The stocks on Wall street have been ascending at a rapid rate I I J during the last three weeks. The railroads, industrials, coppers j ! l and all other securities have been recovering the heavy loss which y. i occurred prior to, and following, the Standard Oil decision of the lj j - supreme court. Coppers are going upward almost a point a day. .: . Utah Copper, quoted at $40 a share two months ago, is now sell-'! sell-'! J - ing at $54. Ray Consolidated, which sold at $12 a share, has -! Y reached $18. United States Steel has made almost a full recovery J ' from its loss of a few weeks past Union Pacific is getting back to 1 5 its old figures. jjRff-' This all means that the country is about to emerge from the dull- 1 period of the past eighteen mouths, if the "big interests" are not J 1 given another violent shock by the government in its floundering (Si, around for political capital. V With the country having passed the crisis in business upset, i' every favorable sign of industrial revival will bo emphasized, just mv as every unfavorable prospect in the last year or more has been cn- I' r larged on and made to appear destructive. Utah's industries are in fine condition to receive the impetus of jr a business revival in the nation, and Ogdcn was never on a sounrl- . . er financial basis to take advantage of a country-wide prosperity : ' than now. j ; It may be a little too early to measure the degree of permanent ' - good to flow from the improved tone'of business, as reflected by i ,?, the market quotations in Wall street, but every indication is that & , the country is at the beginning of a restoration of confidence and f, 7 fc period of better times. . i ': - ' . |