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Show Solving the Problem Of Housing the People in Ogden An organized effort to solve the housinc problem of this city will be made through a committee to be appointed ap-pointed by President J. S. Lewis of 'the Merchants of Ogden. according to la decision reached by that body last night. The committee will be com posed of three or five prominent men in th-3 city who are Interested in the securing of new homes lor those desiring desir-ing to locate in the city. Rapid growth of industrial plants In Ogden. the centering of considerable governmental activity here, and enlargement en-largement of the teaching forces of the city and Weber academy and gen-eral gen-eral development of the cltj have brought a condition, it was said last (evening, which showed that they would be need for hundreds of morv homes than are being built Would Have Apartments. One hundred and twenty apart- j ments would be provided by the com-jpletion com-jpletion of two apartment houses, build Ing of which has been delayed by a lejral tangle Efforts to push the com-pTetion com-pTetion of these buildings will be i mude. There will also be urgent re-, ilU'v-t that other propl join In! building apartment houses and that a; general campaign, possibly through some new corporation, be instituted to build cottages, bungalows and similar simi-lar homes. Property owner? who bavo untenanted uppr floors in buildtncs will also be urged to hae them put in shape for occupancy, ar- |