Show LOCAL enterprise there is a good deal of talk about ogdena needs and necessities aa as well as her achievements and accomplishments no doubt the junction city is predestined to be the center of commerce erce fora for a vast region of productive country and the busy mart of numerous industries and manufacturing investments when the eita of the present city was chosen a prophetic eye must have pierced the dark veil ef of the future and hopefully gazed i into the dim dawn of ortho the dazzling day of progress aad and prosperity for thia this phenomenally advantageous point we do not think that there is within the confines of the united states any city of inhabitants where BO so many railroads of such transcontinental importance meet and again diverge over so fruitful productive and profitable an tin area as the junction city with its union Vaci pacific fic central pacific denver rio grande utah northern and utah central railroads which stretch the tenacious tentie tentacles fles of their traffic from seaport to river from mountain to tomalley valley ovar more thana than a dozen of states and territories we doubt whether there ia is A city in the united staica with ahr three eg times the population on of og den dent wh Us va fr freight ight p passer 1 se S fm 4 zu mr ar i arn from wagon to car where there is as a freight delivered rec received i vedor or aind here we are with a despicably deplorable rookery rook cry of a so 80 called dep depot oto j n kruc ture which would not pasa pass muster even elven is as the outhouse of a third rate way station anywhere eat east of the kock ies or west of the sierra nevada n 1 yet we did id not set out to add jo to the inexhaustible argument on the union depot question a question which is us its old al almost lost as tile anic enigma n a of the tile sehlus althou although gha a good deal dent moro more fl ve we have the or some aliance assurance by tile president of the U P R II 11 co and the vice I 1 of the 0 P R it co that thia this vital matter for ogden city shall find an early and presumably favorable solution the last named gentleman who was last seen by some of our leading business men in connection with the de depot p ot question is now in the east and he be will probably confer with the P authorities and indue in due time the chrysalis of the depot may emerge from the larva of the existing dilapidation it is not only the depot that ails ogden city what lies and presses as the tile most burdensome incubus upon the vitals of og dens business organism is the lack of public enterprise in this assertion we do not wish nor to arraign anyone of the units forming the aggregate of the business body ogden city has as wideawake citizens as enterprising business men as any city in in the east or west of similar or only half equal dimensions population or facilities can justly boast of oe A dozen years ago when it was considered as almost unjustifiable temerity to put up a ones on story brick cott cottage one of our business men had sufficient foresight and faith in the future to erect a three story brick business block when I 1 fourth bourd I 1 street was rather a common for the festive goat and quacking duck than an important thoroughfare for busin business esq gome come farseeing far seeing financiers and others went toworu to work and established business plants which soon rose to enviable eminence in the town again when the old style gristmill grist mill was becoming insufficient to keep pace with the rapid growth of the nineteenth century men of means and enterprise went down into their pockets and brought forth the du cats which were soon metamorphosed into brick walls and latest improved milling machinery and thus within a quarter of a century the place where peo people ale erstwhile had ground their wheat in a coffee mill became the minneapolis ot the west the greatness of which is only veiled and held back by the inex if not inescu inexcusable able discrimination on the part of the railroad companies Q some of which in seriously suicidal policy seem determined on oil killing the he goose that lays the golden egg astringer A stranger receiving his first im of ogden city from the flimsy frame framo fabrics of the depot structures everlasting strictures on n the companies would as soon as he be was escorted uptown and passed along main fourth and fifth streets and others olour of our proud and pretty thoroughfares exclaim ex claim how agreeably I 1 am disappointed I 1 where I 1 thought you had only a hamlet of hovels I 1 find evidences evidence of affluence and ivaldi wealth of thrift and progress but if we were to take this same intelligent stranger afterwards ate r into in 0 o the canyons with their unparalleled water power if we were to guide him bini over the foothills fool foot hilli teeming with iron ore into the gulches where coal literally oo les i arom rom the bowels of mother earth to tile lake shore where the bill bof the tile earth lies ready to be picked up eo so to speak iffe if we were to chaperon that gentleman all around over the unmistakable evidences of inex inexhaustible haus ti natural wealth all within a gunshot or a few miles easy access to cheap transportation would not that came same visitor if he wag was an ail lion hon eat man exclaim why do 40 you let all these sources of wealth go to waste or remain unused I 1 thought you were an enterprising go ahead puah push iu advance people why dont you utilize the gifts nature lias has to abundantly strewn around you even to the very thresholds af pf of your habitation habitations within th the re reach 1 lich of your hands if you but choose to grasp them this is what we nie are driving 9 at t it is public enterprises instigated by individual ingenuity and carried out by colle collective cilyo capital that we need m bjore ore and more our boys boya ore are grawi growing ng to be young men our gerh g irli are becoming young women LE for them is becoming sofr r r a more imperative imp erad vc necessity ever every y day unless w wo bo be willing which the i is 13 proud to know the tile majority tf the people composing its constituency arc are not to allow them to gr grow ow up tip iu in idleness which leada to vice which leads to destruction st hence we feel on a general principle to welcome and hail any public enterprise the gas work as we did the electric light the be molecular as we vre did the bell telephone but above all things we would gladly herald the day that gives us more factories more mote mills more furnaces more work benches more industries of all kinds |