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Show WRITE LETTERS ON HOME TOWN Ogden Bov Answers Com mimical on of Pennsylvania Pen-nsylvania Girl The two following letrirs are yp-iral yp-iral of thq CCJ 1 1 opoi.d n. that 11 cc inp on lietwcen school pupils of j the Ogi'T p.ity schools and other cities of the Cnl'ed Stares P-jperln-'eneents, principals : nl t n'diers sre encouraging this kind o' cbrreJipbnd-erce cbrreJipbnd-erce ;ia it ts odricaUonnl In many eases, said Superintend nt W Korl Hopkins of tho Ogden city schools. ft 1 9 West WashinctMii Ave.. Pu Roll. Pa.. December 12. 1122 To the Pupils of the Kishth Grade. Dear Friends Our English teacher has decided that we should write to different places and tell them aout ou.- city. BO I chose your city. Du Bola Is located In Clearfield COUnty. It Is about 120 miles from I Pittsburg and lfiO miles from Buffalo It is situated in the heart of rich' soft coal region, ami ha- an al un-dance un-dance of good, cheap coal. It 1 also well supplied with natural gas, c'.e -trlelty and good water John Rumbarcar and John Pu Sola founded the city. It becam- i city In about 1SR1 und about 1889 the town was almost totally destroyed lj fire. - There are about 33 miles of streets and about 20 miles of alleys In th city. Of this amount about I mile-, of street! are paved and 1 mile ot alley Is paved The water In the city Is about 31 miles long. The water is pure and it comes from a reservoir. There is a first class postofflce In Pu Bols. Cm OP CHURCHES There are about 23 churches In the city and most of these are located near the heart of the city. Du Pols has a public library and1 a number of school libraries. There are eight schools In Du Bols. five public grade schools, a high school, a parochial school and a business busi-ness college. There are three banks In Du Bois. They are Deposit National bank.i founded In 1880. The Union Banking; Si Trust Co., founded in 1900, and the! Du Bols National bank, founded in J 1 904. nnd there arc many stores in j Du Bols. There are 16 factories, some an' small and some are large. There are. three theatres In Du Pols Thy are the Avenue, the Carlton and the Em-j pire There are five hotels in Du Bois:1 Hotel Dogan, Commercial. Du Bols.' Fort Worth and the St James. This Is all and when you get my lPtter. write and tell us something about your city In which you live. Yours trulv, ROSIE MARKAIiONia OGDEN HI PPY. 2S27 Plngreo Ave.. igden, Ltah December 20. 1922. ! Dear Friend : Tt Is a great pleasure in answering your letter, to be able to present to you some facts concerning our city, the city In which we westerners t5ke ! so m uch pride. Otrden is located in a .spacious rocky mountain valley. Tt Is bordered on three sides bv mountains and on one side by th- dead sea of Amerlo. known to the world as the Great Salt I Pake. The cllm.ite here Is one of the best and most healthful four seasoned climates In the world Government ro-i ro-i ports show that the death rate In 'this county Is the lowest in the na-i na-i tlon. The soil is especially fertile as I Opden Is oo;j ted on a delta built bv Lake Bonneville, an ancient inland sea. which once filled the valley The climate and soil are suitable for the I raising of nil kinds of fruits, grains a nd vegetables. The Mormon pioneers were the first permanent settlors in Ogden. although trappers and hunters had roamed this valley in earlier days. Ogden received re-ceived her name from Peter Skeen Ogden. one of thes. eariv trappers Mr. Ogden established a trading post here and it was for him that the river, the valley and the city wm-named. wm-named. Another of the explorers of this country was Jim Brldger. He met the pioneers on thHr wav in thi country, described the valley as containing con-taining nothing but sagebrush .-nd rattlesnakes, and offered them $1000 for the first bushel of corn raLsed here,, so sure was he that this valley, was a barren desert. The pioneers,! however, saw great posslblltiea and through skillful management they ! raised Ogden and the surrounding country to the position it now hold.'. EARLY H VRD9HXPS. Besides the ordinary hardships In-1 eid-nt to pioneer life our settlers had to contend with the savage red men Many women chose to work with their husbands In the fields as they! were in constant fear of visits from the Indians. Often the unsuspecting housewife found herself face to face' with a burly redskin who had slipped in unaware and stood with his ba k against the door, where he remained until his demands for food or clothing cloth-ing were satisfied Time and hard work hav developed develop-ed manv wonderful Industries In our dry Ogden now ranks first as a manufacturing an 1 railroad center of the lntermountaln eountrv. A popular pop-ular saving in this locality Is that you can't get anywhere without com-1 lng to Ogden This saying is In some respects true, for most of tho im-nortant im-nortant railroads of the western United State- pas? through tho city whllo several smaller roads help to make Ogden an Important center. It might be interesting to know that the I nion Pacific and the Cen- j tral Pacific railroads, which united, the east with the west, were Joined a: i igaen. Ogden has also been growing rapid iv as a manufacturing center. In the last SB yean a great many Industries have bei n developed, among whP,. are the milling, canning, sugar, cement ce-ment and livestock Industries. Fore-' j most among these is milling Alii grain shipped In the lnter-mountaln country comes to Ogden. The storage stor-age capacity of our mills Is 2.600.000 j bushels. Ogden's factories are able I to turn out 6.000 barrels of flour dally l.e-hb-s . er. ..i .,nd stock foods This industry Is the greatest of Its kind In this part of the country and Ogden is rapidly becoming known as ths Minneapolis of the west. It might bo interesting to know that 20 vears sgo gden grocers sold f .illfornia butter ' now. however, the tide has turned and California grocers aell Ogdn utter, besides other products manufactured manu-factured here. EDUCATIONAL SYOTKM Ogden'n educational system has Increased from a one-room lug cabin the first pioneer school, to 15 well iulpped public schoola costing nearly near-ly $2,000,000. Besides these wo have six other private and state Institutions, Institu-tions, among which are a normal college, business college, state industrial indus-trial chooL, and the state Deaf and Blind school, a parochial school and a Catholic academy. Aden's school are all first clnss buildings The federal government has shown its preference for our Ity by locating here an arsenal and a forestry serv-i serv-i Ice headquarters. Tho locating of j these branches here makes Ogden , future as a seat of government activities ac-tivities very bright. One of the things of which ogden Is very proud is her excellent water system. This system Includes 34 artesian wells, which are located at the head of our canyon. InVastkjStlOn by government officials has shown j that our water, besides beln: On pri I cent pure, comes from a subterranean lake. This proves to i-den th.it he. water supply Is Inexhaustible. Ogden Is not lacking In scenic beauty for tho city's wonderful canyon with Its attractive SURlRier resorts and Its paved road, unexcelled In the world, makes her a tourists' paradise. para-dise. Located In ono of the resorts of this canyon Is tho Hermitage Inn. This rustic log hotel, built quaintly on the side -of th- mountain. Is famous throughout the I'nlteii stat--.s for its warm western hospltalltv. Twn companies of railroad tourists stop here weekly for their feast of trout and chicken, carrying away with them many pleasant memories. Our mountains, as you ha- perhaps learned, are different from the Appalachian Ap-palachian rancc They are exceedingly exceeding-ly hih and rugged, and are axKfctty suited to their name. On all sides may be found sheer granite cliffs. A most Impirlnj; sight are our mountains moun-tains In the evening, reflecting n their summits the m: n .ir.s of the sun setting over Great Salt Iake. Hoping that I havo furnished the Information desired and ihat lome day you may visit our city, or perhaps per-haps live In the shadow of the great. Rocky mountains, I am, Sincerely yours. GARFF WILSON. |