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Show OGDEN AS A PLACE FOR INVESTMENT. An Ogdenite, who Is visiting Chicago, Chi-cago, sends the Standard the follow ing. clipped from the Chicago Examiner, Exam-iner, on which is the marginal note, "This story will apply to Ogden: " "One Saturday night, about twelve years ago. two working people a man and bis wife visiting one of Chicago's outlying banks. Timorously, they inquired whether they could etart a saving account with so small a sum as one dollar. Being assured that this was not only possible, but that their account would be welcomed, wel-comed, they hastened to exchange their dollar for a dollar credit in a btnk book, and departed. As regularly regu-larly thereafter as Saturday night rolled around this thrifty pair were in line before the receiving teller's window. Gradually the size ot their deposits increased, as the habit cf thrift grew. And it was not many months before their total deposits ran into three figures Then was the move" made about which this story centers. A good chance to make a small real estate investment came to the couple who had saved. Together they consulted with the president of their bank, who gave them his best judgment and advice The investment invest-ment was made, as a tesult an In estnunt which within a year viriderj a profit of almost 100 per cent. There followed. In time, a series of ther investmentseach in-vestmentseach one larger than the other each made with the utmost care and deliberation eaeh yielding Its proportion of added capital for further investment Today the couple cou-ple who started with a single dollar twelve years ago own property assessed as-sessed at over $27,000 proper; y which some day will doubtless be worth twice that sum, and more " Confidence in Chicago is written in every Une of the foregoing, and It Just such confidence that makes a city grow. Ogden Is not as large as Chicago, but there re better opportunities opportu-nities for Investment here because Ogden Is emerging from a comparatively compara-tively small place Into a city of gTc.Tt importance and the transition brings with it constantly increasing value of real estate and a permamency which makes Investment here careful, care-ful, discriminating investment as safe placing of money am the buying buy-ing of gilt-edged bonds. oo |