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Show IT IS MT. OGDEN AND NOT OBSERVATORY PEAK To tho Editor. Vos. if is Mt. Ogden. and fo dpsfsrnntod at th topographical I department at Washington. G B. Fla.-k of thr- Spony Flour Mills vows that life Is coins to have Observatory Peak r - j named Mt Orrlen if in his nmvot m,-. I Flaek is conceded a master Judge of i 1 grain values ond if he succeeds In the I rclncara&tioh of mi Ogden, and as name I was never anything else, he will prove himself not only a prime friend of Ogden, I but, maybe in a larger way, th bene-i bene-i fartor who would have words and terms mean fomethine for Observatory Peak, as before said, means nothinp. tvhile Mt. . Ogden means everything to the enterprln- Ing city that nestles in its granite arm? AVIlh my feeble pen, over aivl 6Vt5r again, for more than twenty wars, I have told the Ogden papers the story oi I the t'nlted Slates topographical corps. I 'I thnt durinp two r.irs was here anrl located lo-cated on the map the VWierable mountain at the east of this rlty and named it Ml. Ogden. and so wrote It for their ir-chlves ir-chlves in their department at Washington, Washing-ton, and I shall not weary the reader by retteatihg it here. For a time the papers here employed the term Mt. Oden. hut a new reporter would come, nnd huvlnc oecaslon to use the i' tin. would catch the words "Observatory "Observ-atory Peak" from some local Jay Hawker, and so that designation grew as slants and falsehoods grow. I have learned to love Ogden bemuse i havi ardentl watcnefl its growth from a small village to a beautiful city, and moreover, I love Its enterprising peopte who have tolerated me among them for ' nigh onto half a eenturv beoauw of the patient, level headed workers who huve created a splendid elty of substantial homes and filled them with a contented I people Observatory Peak, as said, means noth- Ing and Mt. Ogden means something Thl ce are huntlreds of obseiwatoiy pcbks In the T'nited Ptntes and but om Sit Ogden It is a reciprocal term; It advertises adver-tises a vigorous up-bulldlng city of prosperous pros-perous law-abiding people and the cifv adertlaes to the world a majestic mountain moun-tain who.Hc vetierable grandeur is a syno nym of silent power, and let no one debase de-base It b 1 1 1 1 f i cr bj nn other name than the one so christened some forty years ago bj constituted authority, Mt Ogden!' (Signed) A S. CONDON, o-den. ft ah. November in, 1910 |
