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Show in ill 1 1 IE ENTERTAINED Willard G. Wilson, commercial agent for the Southern Pacific, with head-' head-' quarters here, was hose to a party of eastern and southern railroad men, I now touring the west, at luncheon at , the Weber club today. During the afternoon he took them to Ogden can-yon can-yon and other places of scenic and in-( in-( dustrial interest about the city. I The visitors were S. C. Robli'n, as- i sistant ticket agent, Boston; T. E. in : Sweet, assistant ticket agent, Baltimore, Balti-more, and J. J. Angcll, traveling freight and passenger agents, Birmingham. Birming-ham. They, together with L. S. Walter, Philadelphia, and W. A. White, St, Louis, also ticket agents, are on an annual trip through the west as guests of tho railroad companies. They passed through here yesterday afternoon, en route to Salt Lake City N Mr. Angell was enthusiastic relative to Ogden's destined importance as one of the great railroad centers of the United States. He declared that the northwest is only beginning to develop its resources and'that Ogden's natural advantages, the enterprise, initiative in-itiative and wealth of its citizenship will force it to an influence among the largest and most far-reaching in the country. |