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Show TOURISTS LIKE OGDEN BUREAU Statistics on City Seem to Amaze Transient Visitors Visi-tors Here That the. information bureau at Hie ll'nion depot, conducted by the Ogden Chamber of Commerce is appreciated bv the traveling public i 1 belief of j! A. Smith, who has charge of the bureau. In his monthly report to the Ogden Chamber of Commerce. Mr. I Smith eas ! "As your representative ai the i"i-I i"i-I Ion depot 1 wish to assume you thai your Information office Is certainly Lppreciated bj the traveling publle. Kvery daj nun and women coming Into the depot notice your filgn ami jstop for Investigation- Among tho questions heard by the listener are 'Somethipg new, some surprise; let's go and ask him some questions' U3K Ql DSTTONS And 1 must Say that the questions asked bj the traveling public BhTpw an lali est in our agricultural reoKircr.v, jfnctorie.s and graving; and when informed in-formed that Weber county boasts of h. hi. invent) canning Factorial within with-in im herders, that there are twelve sugar factories In ih s.tii Lake val-i ! ley. that Ogden USQ eight flour mills ami iAi-r one hundred minor faetor- 1- d packing house that would be (credit to Kansas City or South Omaha and various other 1 nterprleeSi too nw-j nu-rous to mention here, they are at once interested beyond measure, Tie n when th travel. t learns that Ogden'sj labor market keeps over twelve thou-1 s.ni.l men and women on the payroll .with an annual Income of over fourteen four-teen millions of dollars they express! great surprise and admiration. Then they are handed a little! Chainl et of Commerce circular Which ! Inform them In a very attractive mati- 1 ner that they cannot get anywhere .without coming to Ogden and that Ogden has fifty-seven passenger trains! dully und thc stand lu amazement. t 1 1 11 CLIMATK. nothcr ttiiOK that surprises tho. I t Is tlie orimatic conditions existing ex-isting here. When lold that the thermometer hud been down to r.crn , but once in seven years and that fouri years out of five you can go out lnto your garden any winter day and put your shovel down Its length by the weight of your foot pressure, they I say. 'Why. you must have Callfornlul weather here." And we say. 'No, not California w aiher, just Utah climate.' "Then thoy want 10 know the alsJ of our town and are pollteu Informed thai our city has 13,000 population;, that our schools are up-to-date, so-' ciety und business well organised and' religions privileges for all. and then1 ihi ask, Why don't you advertis these fuels In the east?' and wj mod-1 SStly reply lhat that is exactly what Wt are doing and handing them anoth-j er circular, they are politely asked to hand It t'o their local paper when thiiyl get home.'" Oil |