Show AND furthermore A GOOD PLACE FOR BUSINESS ogden business men return and give their impressions odthe trip fr 1 f better acquainted wih nevada and enthusiastic over the trade relations that arc possible between ogden and tho mining camps of the state the party of local merchants that went to ely friday returned this morning at without exception they talk of copper and ely and predict a bright future for investors who have faith enough in the towns resources to spend their money the reception given the excursionists was extremely cordial and nothing was left undone to promote their pleasure and comfort they were shown through the town through the mines over smelter sites and through halt completed plants wined and dined and invited to come again the only place where they failed to make an impression was on the ball field where the local boys went down to defeat in two games with the that resulted in scores of 7 to 6 and G to 5 I 1 L reynolds who went along to represent the weber club and the bus ineas interests of the city in general gives his impressions of the trip in the following its simply remarkable to note the neighborly feeling for ogden that obtains in ely the business men there do not seem to talk about any of their neighboring cities or towns as they do of ogden we certainly won a homo on our trip out there last railroad rail noad day and this recent trip has done much to further cement the pleasant social and business relations ely is certainly destined to be the largest copper mining and smelling smelting sm elting camp in the world they have but only begun the vast undertaking of development and construction coAst ruction work when the mines and shelters smelters sm elters are once in working order which will be about a year hence ely will no doubt have a population of people then is the time our business men here will fully reap the benefit of oui boosting trips I 1 drove through the canyon and around the mines with a director of one ot the big mines now being developed and he told me he alone favored ogdan business men with a monthly business of about this Is only one of many similar cases that might be recited while our baseball team put up a clean fight on both saturday and sunday I 1 am of the opinion it was much better that the ely team should take the two games it pleased ely people immensely to win these games and will be of much aid to them in exciting interest in the organizing gan izing and maintaining of a strong team As I 1 said before our boys played good clean ball and while there was lots of ely rooting they won much aralee for themselves for the fight they put up the railroad people are so pleased with the outcome of this excursion that they have determined to repeat it about every two weeks during the summer if they do the same rate will be named and special trains will be run as this one was vice president cannon of the nevada northern bellg me he is not going to let up until he can work up enough business to justify their securing arrangements from the southern pacific and run at least a part of their trains through to ogden |