Show lY GH GET YOUR EYE Off I YOUR SORE TOE Stop Knocking Your Town anc and Your Neighbor Get Busy Pull Together cs 1 Editor Standard I am inspired b by your recent editorials Where The TheDo TheDo They Do Things and Ogden Is la a Good City CIt to inflict you ou with a n communication communication cation Parenthetically I have hao been a sub subscriber subscriber scriber to your our paper for lo these I many ninny years rears and at present am ling lag Its merits as an nn advertising ad mell lurn ium I am nm not a n stranger In Ogden Og en I lived JIved hero here not wisely but too well wellIn wellIn wellIn In the time boom days dars of oC 1889 and I have hav been a n faithful and amid consistent tax pay or over oer since So I feel that I 1 have havo bava havon havea I a n right to speak as one of DC the fain fum 11 II Ily Ogden like a certain little girl girlis is very err very ery good but in ln some Home of oC he her ways was she is simply horrid True she sue has been a n victim of untoward circumstances but a good Sauling wont hurt her herIt herIt herIt It Is la not for me mc to tell Ogden peo pee pie Jle of the important location of oC this city nor of o the beauty of o her sur surroundings surroundings although I sometimes sometime doubt if f they appreciate the time commer value alue of the latter Is r a rarely beautiful spot spotS There Is no m nomore nomore more beautiful silo in America than that the Bench or Nob Hill from Crom i street to street from Polk street to the Mountains i Why h Is not this area covered with the beautiful homes of zens and of o the leisure class from Cram all allover allover I over Oer tho time country countr One reason Is that thai the local street railway people have seen seem fit fil to leave that thal part of the tho city a n desolate wilderness of oC scrub oak oale inaccessible to home builders Just Jus suppose tho the street railway had been beer extended from street across to tc street some sonic years cars ago on Fil Filmore more moro avenue Then Imagine time the group of beautiful residences now located on or ortho tho the Eccles block l strung out on Filmore or Pierce avenues surrounded by b spacious and beautiful grounds How many man others might aught have been attracted to build hund fill ful homes upon this favored spot speLl But there must be other Inducements to bring both bolh home builders anc and tourists to Ogden It is J truly surprising to note in inthe Inthe inthe the past few fuw years ears the he Influx from all allover allover over oer the country count of retired and well todo people Into not only ani Demer and m Colorado Springs hut but the time small swall smaller er or cities of Colorado like lIle Fort Col Coi Collins Collins lins and Greeley They The lucy are attracted not only anI by br the climate but by other considerations which go ro to malt males a It city a desirable place of residence e eI As a rule rille the tho home homo I seeker considers climate cli mate attractive a surroundings a clean well governed city good schools and a healthy moral atmosphere In which to bring up the younger members of the family Has Ogden Ogdon all of these Let Lol the people of oC Ogden Ogdon answer Owing to Its Ita loca ben location bention tion and amid to tho fact that It is a rail railroad railroad road town I dont consider for Cor one moment that Ogden cnn can be made mado a spotless town hut but I do believe bellove mor moral moral al iii conditions may be greatly Improved ed to the great advantage of Ogden One sees Hees too loa many man alan poor unfortunate ate wrecks on tho streets of oC this beautiful city Lit Ogden should not be bea a port for lost men menI I People hesitate to locate in iii a town ton having a large vagabond population No prohibition is all nil right for Cor a town I like Colo Cob On the whole it itla la Js j a success But for tor towns like Denver Denvel Salt Lake and Ogden it would be an impractical farce The best that can be lie done is to reduce intern Intemperance I perance and vice to a n minimum and strictly regulate I Next to the permanent home homo build builder I cr er Ogden should Join hands with Salt Lake Lalee and go after aCter the tourist business In the past fifty years yeaT New Eng England England England land people have hae fattened and grown upon tho summer board boarder I er Florida California and a few other sections draw millions annual annually l lI ly I from the tourists One person in perhaps fifty of the many thousands en route roule to California stops over in Salt Lake for or Cour hours to see seo the tho Temple and amid Tabernacle Few but traveling men get beyond tho the limits of oC the depot in Ogden These conditions can be changed but it will willbe willbe be a n matter of time patience and tho the outlay of or large largo sums of money mone A half a million dollars spent at Ogden Hot Hal Springs an equal amount In Og mien clen canyon canon a cogwheel railroad up U Observatory Peak to a n magnificent re reo resort resort sort quite as important the ex cx expenditure of oC fifty lift thousand dollars in advertising those these attractions would do dothe doI dothe the tho trick Who will do things I There Is money mone enough in Ogdon Ogden and Salt Sail Lake to do them and make them a success Probably enough money mane is sent away awn from those two I cities clUes to Nevada Idaho and else elso elsewhere where which If invested at nt home would mean big bl things for Ogden and Suit Salt Lako Here Horo la is i a clipping from a recent paper Colorado Springs not only gota gots a big tourist trade but ut It gets gots residents of this lila financial caliber And Colorado Springs cannot compare I with Ogden in beauty of oC location and I surroundings Another point The people of Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den are still lighting ghosts It is I true that no nation or community can truly trimly trul prosper under the time domina domination domination tion of a single religious religions faith nations fall Call behind in imi inthe Inthe I the time grand march of civilization and progress This would be ho Just as true truo whether th hi despotic rule be that of I I Moslem Catholic Mormon ormon or Meth Methodist I th thI I odist But Bul are Sail Salt Lake and Ogden really traveling tra under any an serious I handicap of this character There may be Jealousies aggravations lay favoritism fn and Md some restraint In com corn competition competition petition owing to church affiliations but why h blow those these little troubles In Inthe Inthe inthe the face of every eory visitor I am not seeking In this to precipitate any arguments or controversies I Iam Iam Iam am for pence peace and progress You lOll com corn commend commend mend a Kansas City for its ita public spirit Lot me tell toll you on of or the time pluck and spirit of oC my W home homo town in Colo Cob Colorado ratio rado About four years ears ago aso It was proposed to the business men of or our little agricultural town of or about people to Inaugurate a fourteen days das campaign to raise rahle 50 OO for tor a n Y YM YC YM M C 0 A building The Idea Irlea seemed preposterous But we e said Go ahead wo we 0 are ar with you ou At the tho end of tho the fourteen Courteen days of at wonderful or organization Organization organization nod and enthusiasm wo we found Cound we had total subscriptions of There were over 1300 pledges tho largest 1000 eight of them and andall all the way down to one dollar Tho The building was tas erected and has been a n splendid Investment not only for or the time youth of our city elt but for Cor our busi busl business ness men and the entire community Our little city elt has hns l people now It H has hus been b en a dry town for about fifteen years ears Could you do that trick In Ogden a city of almost people Why not noL Tho Time mon man money mane ey e Is here hero your our banks show that It IB la simply a matter of oC public spirit morality and an cooperation it Ogden Ogdon people seem scorn never to have havo gotten gollen over oer the tho licking of the depression following the boom of twenty years ago Ah cheer up I r find some Game people here who arc very CTr hopeful I find some others who are still sUIl in tho the doleful dumps They cant tell you anything good about Ogden The town is no Ho good real estate Is too high you can cnn buy bu cheap cheaper er next year rear etc ftc ad nauseam Let me tell the people leople of Ogden something Real estate In Ogden Is 15 cheaper relatively than In any other city or town in the United States west of time the Mississippi river Of O course that statement does not ap imp apply ply pi to busted mining camps only tho live towns of 1000 people or better belter betterIn In my home town of population population lation good real estate sells Bells at double time the valuations In your city of or people I cannot see sec why Ogden real estate Is not relatively cheap too cheap I Ido Io Ido do o not see seo how ho It can get any nn lower it all ought to advance Ogden has hns had a very slow healthy health substantial growth of o late years a growth that does docs not warrant a reaction for a long lons longtime longtime time Other places may ma have grown too fast prices may ma react but html not nol so in Ogden What Ogden needs Is a good quota of or courage pluck and confidence Get your our eyes off ott your our sore Bore toe too Stop knocking your our town and your our neighbor Get busy husy Pull together Open your hearts and purses And all will be well with Ogden I Signed ED H HALL I |