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Show OGDEN THE GATEWAY TO UTAH. Editor Standard: Your evening editorial on the 17th on "Forward or Backward, Which?" might be the text for a Greater Great-er Utah. You have made a good beginning, tu' the half is not told. Weber county enjoys, practically always, a gr'-at prosperity. pros-perity. Ogden, the county seat, is the distributing point, naturally, nat-urally, for all of Utah. It is entered by the best railroad of all railroads west of Chicago. The secret of Utah's success is not evident to the average traveler making a coast trip, and I have made many explanations in this wise: ' First, you enter Utah over one of the best, if not the best, sheep ranges in all the western country. Second, you enter the Weber valley near the coal mines of Coalville, where the first coal was burned on any of the western railroads. You are within 27 miles of the mines of Park City where millions of dollars worth of mineral have been taken out and from whence the prosperity and the building up of your state capital had its source. Third, you come on down to Devil's Slide whee thr Portland Port-land Cement company is a source of good revenue 'o Ogclrn. Fourth: Coming on down, you enter Round valley ard on into Morgan and Morgan valley. At Morgan you find the can- ning factory for peas that has no competitor in the United States as to its grade of peas. Adjacent to Morgan, you see grown the cauliflower that may have its equal but no superior. Your agricultural agri-cultural possibilities may be said to begin with Morgan valley Fifth: You enter Ogden with its numerous factories. The traveler asks, "How can they all exist in a country that apparently appar-ently is all mountains? You then explain to him the real secret of your prosperity. Your farms in the valleys must, of necessity, be small; the cultivation must, of necessity, be intense. The further secret of prosperity is that the raising of beets, potatoes, and tomatoes grown here, calls for the working energy of every man, woman and child in the growing, harvesting and delivering to your canneries and other plants. All the cost, or nearly all, is kept at home. The realization being that you all work. That is why you can have a canning factory every two or three miles. Sixth: You arc on the right track. But advocate for more water and small farms. Get plenty of irrigation water and you will prosper until the "overflow" will have to go elsewhere. And in the beginning, don't forget to bar all I. W. W.'s and agitators. Advocate the taking hold of the present conditions by the American Legion and the establishment of a code that will have for its aim. neace. (Signed) RAILROAD OFFICIAL. The author of the foregoing is one of the best informed men in the west. He is not a permanent resident of Utah, but is here repeatedly I in his travels. Often passengers on trains coming into Utah inquire of him as to how the industries are built up which are to be seen from the 'car windows. The travelers see the mountains, which srrm to hem in the universe, and they wonder where the farms are on wnich pros-: pros-: pcrity is established. They do not realize how fertile is the soil of the bottom lands. They know little in regard to irrigation, and to ! they are puzzled until an explanation is offered. As the author of the communication says, this part of Utah, to continue con-tinue to grow and prosper, must go on storing water, utilizing that resource re-source to the utmost. ! A few words of caution as to admitting the I. W. W. are presented. At this time, it is almost unnecessary to warn any community against , the forces of anarchy. There was an I. W. W. organization in Ogden ; 1 this past summer. Some fifteen members regularly met in one of the J rooms of a local hotel. One of the fifteen was an officer of 'he law who had wormed his way into the secret meetings. 'Vhen every Industrial In-dustrial Worker was thoroughly identified, the, entire body was com-j com-j manded to leave and the agitators departed over night. Today Ogden I is free from that element of unrest. |