OCR Text |
Show HWHAT OGDEN DOES NOT REALIZE Traveling from Now York to Ogden. have you ever noted the fact that coming westward over tne New lork Central, the Chicago. Milwaukee and , St. Paul and the I'nlou Pacific rail roads there are no mighty mountain? to be Viewed from tho car window until you are near home. Not until the train rolls out of We ber canyon and you I urn your gase to the north and east do you see the great peaks that stir the Imagination and inspire awe. Tho people of Ogd n do not make sufficient capital out of the majesty of the Waeatch range. Compared with the rugged grandeur of the mountains which lift their heads above Ogdcn. the other elevations eleva-tions from here to New York aro low-lying low-lying hillB of no Importance. Crossing the continental divid nothing more than moving along the ridge of on small eminence after another, an-other, to gradually reach an elevation of 8000 feet and look out on other rolling hillB of equal pquattiness. Ogden is whore tho westbound passenger pas-senger over the Union Pacitic route receives his firs;, awakening to ih.' majesty of peaks which pierce the clouds and canyons which are deeper than the deepest shafts bored by man. Some day ORden will begin to advertise ad-vertise the beauty and glory ot the 1 cliffs and pinnacles and gorges whion were here when' the angels sang at 1ho dawn of man and, if ogden knows how to advertise, few travelers on pleasure bent, will go by without stop ping to admire and tarrying long rnough to climb to the summits and :here commune with nature in a form ttrangely new and deeply Impressive |