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Show AUSTRALIANS HERE . IN OGDEN. Australians are invited to make their journey to England by crossing the United States, Instead of going by the dangerous Suez canal and Mediterranean Medi-terranean route. The invitation is in the form of a foldor just issued by the Southern Pacific company, which realizes the possibility of inducing much of the travel from Australia to come this -way. The publication Is for distribution in the English colonies In the Pacific and should bring results. One page is devoted to a beautiful sunset scene of a train crossing Great Salt Lake, at the bottom of -which is this information: "Thr nrrrlrm rmito nf thp Snnfhflrn Pacific has been called 'The railroad that wont to sea.' From Lucin to Og-den, Og-den, 103 miles, extends the Great Salt Lake cut-off, reaching straight across the lake for 30 miles, on a rock-filled embankment and trestle work. Surely Uiis Is tho most novel of journeys, nn experience long to be remembered, for it is literally 'going to sea by rail.' The Great Salt Lake is one of the most remarkable bodies of water in the world, more salty than any except ex-cept tho Dead Sea of Palestine. Tho entire region, with Its lifeless gray waters and weird mountain peaks, exercises ex-ercises a strange fascination upon the traveler. Ogden, the eastern terminus of the Southern Pacific, is a prosperous prosper-ous city of 42,000 inhabitants, situated at the base of the Wasatch range. Just outside the city is Ogden canyon, a wild highland gorge, with a clear, rapid flowing river through it." With a boost of that kind, Australians Austral-ians should begin to make stop-overs In Ogden. |