Show FHE PRESENT GOOD TIMES not so good as twenty years ago you ought to have been here then money vas as free as water elmost T were no more than dollars today the prosperous condition of affairs in ogden as evidenced by the large exceedingly large trade enjoyed by the merchants during the fall and tho magnificent business done by them during the christmas week have brought out the old settler the oldest inhabitant and the thoroughbred croaker who may have seen bettor days they have met on different occasions during the past year and have looked back into the dim and distant past and sighed for the days well the days which nobody ever saw or ever will see they said to themselves that these times acro good but the good old times of 80 to 90 or 70 to 80 or long about ag will never come again they remembered picking up twenties in the streets where they had been dropped by some passerby who would never miss them they were certain that wheat was about a bushel and flour about the same price per hundred they explain just how this happened but their stories were jus about as liable 0 ci edibility as one told by a barber 10 a tenderfoot yesterday which was as follows there were in the shop a gurney cab man a traveling man a tenderfoot all talking anan newspaper man the tenderfoot and cab man began to talk about cab and livery charges and the barber broke in speaking to the tenderfoot der foot ought to been here twenty years ago they used to rent sleighs by tho toot on busy days hows that asked tho tenderfoot well there many sleighs hero then and the livery men always sent a man out to drive so you could size up the distance it was 30 a mile or one halt cent a foot and when you settled up they would figure the block at feet a side or 14 for the trip I 1 tell you those were the days nt any too much either said the cab man and thai clinched the matter for the tenderfoot soma day that story will be retold and twenty years from now it will bp considered by the teller and the audience as an actual tact the way with a great deal of those good times of 20 years ago the people who enjoyed them are now broke alo good jimca of today are the ones upon which the people are to be congratulated it Is the kind of good times where the salaries 0 employed emp loyes are increased and where their increase is due to the increase in business done by their employer who in turn Is dependent upon the financial condition of the public at large there is not a business in the country which is not today prosperous except that of tho pawnbrokers pawn brokers all others are kept busy and they are hiring more men so that there is a tightness in the labor market and you cant get men to do your work in the railroad business Is this more noticeable than in auy other because here they keep their force in close couch with the business pulse and as business increases the train crews increase and the shop men grow in num bers the clerks are more numerous and all arc busy the railroad business is quiet during the holidays they did their rushing business getting the goods over the road to the merchants and now they are resting with reduced forces during the holidays hut the merchants of ogdan did an enormous business business conditions havo improved in ogden for years but the average holiday business in Ogden city this year Is from 50 to 60 per cent above that of 1898 that is certainly a basis for claiming that the prosperous conditions of today have grown from the people every man alio works by the day every artisan every farmer every laborer clerk or machinist was busy and when they are busy and at good salaries la no question as to the prosperity of the community |