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Show vj THE COMMERCIAL CLUB AND OGDEN Tha."ComnicrciaI club of Salt Lake City pleads not guilty to the charge of conspiring with "Bill" Rlshel and others to rob Ogden or its position on the trans-continental automobile route or of being a party to an attack on the prosperity of this city Joseph 11. Caine, the secretary of tho club, in a letter to a local business man who hail been urged to join the Commercial club, but who took the club to task for Its opposition to Ogden, says- "I am surprised at your statement that there is a great deal of animos-ity animos-ity between Salt Lake City and Ogden. Og-den. I believe I keep In pretty close touch with the sentiment of Salt Lake City and, outBide of Bill Rlshel of the Utah Automobile association, I have yet to hear an unkind word spoken of Ogden by any Salt Lake citizen Risk el claims that he went to your town with the idea of putting you on his automobile map and that he was In sulted by your mayor and piactically kicked out. Rishel, however, is not a member of our club and if he owes you an apology or you owe him one. it should not be held against us. The fact of the matter is, the Salt Lake Commeicial club has made every effort ef-fort in its power to secure a trand-continental trand-continental road that will bo agieeablo both to Ogden and to Salt Lake In fact, wc have gone so far that some of our Salt Lake citizens accuse us of trying to leave this city off the map entirely In the interest of your good town. We have offered to go more than half way In an effort to arrive at something that will be mutually acceptable ac-ceptable to you and to us and, while we have not yet met with entire success, suc-cess, we are not through trying. The Salt Lake Commercial club has not yet gone on record in favor of any route across this state, having held the matter in abeyance In the hope of being able to agree with Ogden upon every point in question. "We take the broad view that wc represent not only the state of Utah, but the entire intermountaln west; what helps any part of this region, helps us, and that anything that hurts any part of this region, hurts us." The Standard is not completely won over to the idea that the Commercial club has not encouraged "Bill" Rishel in his campaign for the "Midland" route, but we are willing to accept the professions of friendship in a fair spirit spir-it and withhold judgment until the Salt Lake organization finally has acv- ed on the transcontinental automohlle route. If the Commercial club lives up to the closing declaration in Secretary Calno's letter," the club and all Utah. Including Ogden will have cause to rejoice. re-joice. Salt Lake could well afford to step aside In all these rivalries tint arc to the advantage of one part of the state or the other and temporarily miss opportunities to directly advance itself, knowing that tlo Indirect benefits bene-fits to be derived by Salt Lake as the commercial center must prove more lasting and substantial Salt Lake should be empire building. Instead of bickering with Its neighbors over a cabbage patch. |