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Show . f i BUILD A HOME, IF YOU ARE I PERMANENT PART OF CITY, IS ADVICE OF OGDEN MAYOR - ( BY MAYOR FRANK FRANCIS) Why build a homo? Why own a home in Ogden" First build a home wherever you ai". if von are permanently a part of the community, as home building ts a very big part of an one's 11(6, and essential to thf rearing of a family fam-ily In erecting a collage yU call home, you are doing more than construct con-struct four walls and a roof. You are building, as h man builds charac-j ter. Your eottag your bungalow, your dwelling will he something Ino which you Immediately will be directed di-rected and with it will coma pride, aspirations, as-pirations, hopes and eventually fond memories. No child is properly started off in thf world's great contest without the inspiration of place ho can call home. The attachments persist throughout life. Why own a place in Ogden? Because Be-cause Ogden is a city of home. with n community Influence of the best. Bducation( religion, entertainment are responsive to the demands of all and the environment Is thai of 0 city believing be-lieving and respecting the highest Ideals. 1 f igden Is grow Ing and the expansion me:ns thai money expended on ;i home today will bp money as safely Invested as i hough backed by gilt-edged gilt-edged security. Ogden has Increased In population from 2B.680 in 1910 to over 35.000 in 19 20. and that ratio of Increase Is being be-ing mnlntalned. New buildings .tre appearing in every part of the city and even during the dull period, the erecting of cottages has proceeded at a rate4to Indicate i constantly In-1 creasing demand Tnd a growth most surprisingly vigorous. In the waterworks department the number of connections prove the city Is going forward with most encouraging encour-aging prospects So great hns been the call upon the water system that! Ihe City commission has ordered then city engineer to prepars plans and specifications for now mains to cost not less than $150,000 and the con-1 tract will be let within thirty days. Three miles of streets are being paved, and petitions for a largo in-I Crease in this form of Improvements' are being considered Within the past threS years Ogden has had larger1 paving campaigns than any other city in the Infermountaln country. This Indicates the faith manifested In the future Ogden. If the I'nion Pacific obtains the I Central Pacific, there Is a possibility I Of enlarged railroad shops and the es- j tahllshing of operating headt) uarters at this point. Should that he brought about, Ogden as a railroad center would be unequaled west of tho Mis- J souri river. i |