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Show OGDEN LEADING IN BUSINESS ACTIVITY That general business conditions In Ogden during the present month have been better than In any monih of September lor the past three years is the belief of Harry W. Beckett manager of the Reed hotel His op.nlon. based upon one of the most reliable Indications of true conditions, condi-tions, Is influenced by statements of commercial travelers representing the w'holesale supply bouses VI Ith scarcely an exception, according accord-ing io Mr. Beckett, the commercial men who visited the city during this month have declared that commercial commer-cial activity jn Ogden at the present time Is not equaled by any other city of the size In the west. Large or- I der6 by local merchants In all lines indicate their sincere belief In a con-linuatlon con-linuatlon of the present excellent conditions and future Increase in business, according to Manager Beckett 7 he opening of the annual home-peekem" home-peekem" excursions in the east on September 2T. had it? effect on local passenger traffic yesterday when 700 homexeekers arrived in the city over the I'nion Pacific and Rio Grande railroads. Of this number 400 were turned over to the Southern Pacific for points west and 300 to the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line for points In the northwest. For the next few days hundreds of prospeclUc westerners will pass through the cltv dally. The romeseekers' excursion rates from i ntl east arc in effect from September Sep-tember 2T. in October 10. S. W. Eccles general traffic man-. man-. ter of the Guggenheim railroad and i steamship lines. arrived in Ogden from 'he west yesterday enroute io i in Lake. He will depart over the Union Pacific today for Chicago W . A. Gardner, president of the C hicago & Northwestern railroad, together With a large party of business associates, as-sociates, passed through the city yes- |