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Show THIS CiTV AS SEEN BV A VISITOR (By II. C. Kegloy.) What would be the result if- the people of Ogden could see. themselves as others see them if they could stand aside and w-atch themselves go by9 It is a fact that people who have lived In a community for many years aro not as awako to the opportunities tbat surround them as Is tho Impressionable Impres-sionable stranger who comes to the city to spend a few days To tho casual visitor, Ogdon looks like a city of wonderful opportunities Located as it Is in the heart of a rich agricultural section, it has infinitely infin-itely more back of it than tho average western city. It has agriculture tho ono great thing upon which tho United States Is almost entirely depondont. Tho canning factories In tho city can certainly bo counted as great assets, as-sets, and the wholesale business of the city Is ono of Its most substantial possessions. As a railroad center, Ogden has not an equal In the west. It Is a natural distributing point Tho great railway Interest of tho country selected Ogden as a terminal city, and that was certainly cer-tainly not done because tho railroad builders had somo friends here It was surely done because the railroad builders saw, as does tho casual is-ltor. is-ltor. that Ogdon is the logical distributing dis-tributing point. At tho present time Ogden's wholesale whole-sale business is ver large, but It Is nothing compared with what it will be if Ogden takes advantage of her opportunities. Ogden has the best railway facilities in the country, there is undoubtedly a great deal of idle capital in tho city, and it would seem that it Is up to that money to go to work to put in its best licks to build , a bigger and a better Ogden. It requires re-quires no special research work to gather that Salt Lake Is em lobs of Ogden. and it is evident that Ogden can make her still more envious by merely putting idle capital to work. Here and there aro rumors that Ogden Og-den men would build offices or store houses, but they, some of them, arc waiting to see how the election comes out Factories and wholesale houses are planning to come Into tho city they would rather come to this city than go elsewhere, because of Ogden's Og-den's natural resources and railway facilities, but if thoy cannot obtain offices of-fices or storage rooms, here, they will be forced to go elsewhere. If Ogden builds it is certain that factories and warehouses will com here, otherwise there will be no building, and the big industries that might spring up will ' bo compelled to stay away. Ogden has good water, good streets, good business houses, and good schools and churches. What she needs most, in tho opinion of tho casual cas-ual visitor, is to build and build and build; to put a lot of idle capital to work; to become Salt Lake's strongest strong-est competitor, to foster strong competition com-petition at home, and pull together to a man, regardless of lodge or club or church; to stimulate and promote the commercial Interests of Ogden. Tn that way, according to the impressions of an outsider looking in, Ogden ought to be. in a short time, the first city of the state of "Utah. oo |