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Show Hi CAN OGDEN GET THE STEEL WORKS? H Thomas F. Cole, in his evidence before the committee of the H House of Representatives investigating the steel industry, said Utah H bad almost inexhaustible bodies of iron ore and coal and that some H day soon great iron and steel industries would be built in this state H to meet the growing demand for the products of the steel works. H Some one has suggested Salt Lake City as a suitable site for the H steel plants, but a farseeing citizen of Ogden, a man of wealth, with H wide experience in big undertakings that makes his views worthy of H more than passing notice, says he is of the opinion that the steel Hj works could be obtained for this city or vicinity say the lake shore H or Promontory Point if Ogden 's publicity bureau were to go after H the industry this early, and keep at the thing persistently. Ho H bases his opinion on the fact that Ogden is the railroad hub of the H intermountaiu country, on the main line of the greatest of transcon- H tinental railroads and most invitingly situated as to pure and ample H water supply and the other essentials of a great steel center. H This suggestion is worth considering and now is none too soon H to begin the campaign, even to the extent of anticipating the future H by five years or more. open the eyes of the Stundpatters to this fact so evidentlo those not blinded with political stupidity and obstinacy. |