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Show M. SKEEN SAYS OPPORTUNITY HERE IS KICKING DOOR IN Chairman of County Board Believes Splendid Development of Ogden Is Just Beginning and Declares Era of Great Prosperity Is Established Upon Firm Foundation. (By J F. Kenny) Moroni Skoon, chairman of the Imard of county cOflUniBBlonorfl tor YVrbrr county, Is an ardent and enthusiastic en-thusiastic bpllever in Ogdon and the comity of which It is the seat Hp nan spent practically all of his active life In this lection and Is exceedingly well acquainted with It, and especially v I ii fnrm and livestock resources ana 1 the. r.reat possibilities of further de-I de-I vrlopmont In this locality I spent 1 enough time with Mr Skeen to learn that he believes the splendid growth Which has come to Ogdcn In the last two or three years is actually only i he beginning Of an era of prosper ous development that is already upon 1 1 B and that will continue for a number num-ber of yean to come Hundreds of visitors from other states who attended the recent state fair were very enthusiastic over Og den and Weber county, Mr Skeen told me. and over the splendid farm prospects idenl markets and other advantages ad-vantages here He said the crops this year are wonderful and pointed to the enormous per-acre production of beets, corn and tomatoes as a creator cre-ator of new wealth this year that is not to be regarded lightly. And. he pointed out, Ogden has splendid fa-icilities fa-icilities for taking care of the marketing mar-keting of these bumper crops. The sugar factory and canneries are operating op-erating to the limit of their capacity. Mr Sknen deals in real estate and loans and of course. Is In close and OOnstaht touch with values generally through this section. He had Just sold a nome to a banker for moi than ?8000 the day I talkr-d with him end said there seemed to be a good steady demand for residence property, both for building purposes immediately immediate-ly and as an investment for the future. fu-ture. In this respect, he considers ihe outlook brighter than it has been for some time. Values Here Are Good. Values, In Ogden generally are exceedingly ex-ceedingly good, Mr. Skeen believes and be pointed to the fact that some very desirable property In Ogden now is lower in price than in some smaller towns "But the prices are going steadily upward," he said, "and In my opinion the day will come soon when every foot of desirable property in the city will cost a great deal more than It does at present The city is showing great progress and continual expansion. expan-sion. In our business section, extensions exten-sions and large, new investments are being made with great rapidity while the development around Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street Hudson avenue and In ether parts of the business district is nothing short of marvelous Values Val-ues are continually climbing " Mr. Skeen declared that, while It is in the business section that the improvements seem most impressive because each is large and represents a substantial Investment, the development devel-opment throughout the residence part of tov. n Is really exceptionally! great. Home builders Active. "It is In the residence part of Og den that really fine opportunities are to -be found," he said "Steadily, the circle of homes has been crowding eastward to the foothills. Blocks of property on the Bench' which, until the last four or five years were near ly two-thirds vacant, are now filled up with substantial dwellings and large areas to the east which helu nothing but boulders and sagebrush are now the sites of many fine homes The same thing has been true of the big territory between Twenty-second strnei and Five Points. As the city crowded and fought for room for ex pension, values have risen in the east, west north and south and more new hmr.es are being bullded every day "The southern section of the city, with Its excellent transportation fa cilities, has shown brisk development and the outlook there rlcht now is exceptionally good Situated between two canyons and protected from wind and promised plenty of water -and other ton enionces through improvements improve-ments now in progress, values should double out there In the next six months. "You can hunt all over Ogden and you will find very few vacant houses. In feet, It is doubtful whether there is a really desirable dwelling In the city for rent more than a few days at a time This speaks for itself. The demand for homes really exceeds the supply and that is why I look to see the big addition of hundreds of acres d-: voted to systematic home-building . In the southern end of the city prove a RTeat succesB," Co-operation Is Help. In his capacity as chairman of the , board of county commissioners, Mr. Skeen take6 care of the poor. "One would naturally expect that a town as large as Ogden and situated as this is with railroads leading into it from every direction, would have a great many poor people to help. Yet there 1 Moroni Skeen. are very, very few cases and prac llcally none at all among the actual residents of Ogden Any able-bodied pei son who is able to work Is pretty sure, to find some sort of employment here This lack of Indigents is a splendid Indication of the prosperity that exi6ts here "Of course, there is a disposition on the part of the people as a whole to-wards to-wards co-operation that is helpful to all, he said One of the finest Insti tsitions in this respect in the city. If not In the entire west, Is the day nursery maintained by the Martha so-i so-i let) It is located on Washington f.rd Twenty-first street and expert care is given to children of roomers v ho go out to work, while the upstairs up-stairs is devoted to the care of widows. This institution is doing wonderfully helpful work and If is the foundation of a larger and better public home It is this co-operation that one sees on every hand here that is accomplishing so much in Ogden. Og-den. The citizens work hand In hand, whether building a public home or institution in-stitution or improving for some private pri-vate enterprise. "Ogden is esiablished on a firm foundation The developments around Ogden all make for a greater city, and these developments already are great while their continuance Is as purr-d In fart, it is no exaggeration to say that Ogden's real growth is only Just beginuing. I regard the ad dition of hundreds of acres of home-sites, home-sites, beautifully improved, in different dif-ferent parts of the city as a splendid thing, for there is already strong de mand for more room for the expansion expan-sion of the city's residence district Opportunity Is not merely knocking in Ogden: it's fairh kicking the door in" |