Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-16 | Page 6 | Should Guide the Auto Travel

SHOULD GUIDE THE AUTO TRAVEL J. B. Bolt of Ponorvllle Is in tho city attending to business matters and meeting his many friends. .Mr. Bott lormerly resided in Ogden and ho still ottns valuable real proporty here. Ho has resided at Portcrvlllo tor the past year and Is in the goueral merchandise mer-chandise business there. .Mr.' Bott statos that Portcrvlllo, which Is only a Tow miles from Morgan, Mor-gan, is the town of cauliflower, cabbage cab-bage and potatoes, muiiy carloads of which are shipped from that section each year. The soil Is particularly adapted to tho growth of these products, prod-ucts, tho two former having given Portcrvlllo a wide and favorable reputation. rep-utation. It Is only a few miles from Portcrvlllo to the Union Pacific railroad and the products of that section sec-tion aro shipped rail to market. Speaking of the automobile travol across tho continent in the summer months, Mr. Bott says Ogden would do well to havo a representative near Portcrvlllo to direct tourists toward the city. Tho route most traveled, unless parties aro rondo aware of tho bettor way to Ogden, Is over the Parley's Par-ley's Park road o Salt Lake. Mr. Bott has spent most of his lifo In Qgden, his father having been among tho pioneers of this section. He claims that t,He Bott family haa taken the Standard for tho past 30 years, tho first subscription being for the Ogdcn Junction, a Stanadrd predecessor, moro than a quarter of a century ago. Crop haests in tho neighborhood of Portervillo were bounteous last year, and the prospects for this year, both as to farming and stock raising aro good. There Is a promise of an abundance of water and the ranges will have plenty of grass because of tho groat quuntlty of snow that has been deposited this winter. Portor-vlilo Portor-vlilo Is headquarters In tho summer tlmo for a number of heavy sheep and catllo ownors who ship their provisions provi-sions from that point to the range camps. no.