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Show HOW OGDEN VyILL RAISE THE c HALF MILLION. There seems to bo a doubt in the aiind of Salt Lakers as to Ogdcn's iblllty to subscribe, and pay Into a fund, $500,000 for the purpose of building build-ing a capltol In this city. Our neighbors are poor financiers or they underestimate tho resources of. Ogden. Wo believe we. can convince con-vince them Ogden has made a bona fide tender and can keep its promise. It Is proposed to erect tho capltol on old University sito to tho east of the city. There is no site in Salt Lake half so charming. There are acros of unimproved land In that part of the ' city. Let ub suppose the committee financing Ogden's bonus obtains 25 per cent of all those holdings as a subscription to the capltol fund. How much do you estimate that would aggregate? ag-gregate? With the building of the capltol at that point, how much would that unimproved property increase in value? Suppose that the entire city be canvassed can-vassed for vacant lots, a percentage to be donated by reason of the advance In value which the locating of the capltol cap-ltol in any part of Ogden would bring about. How much would that total? With titles to land of that description descrip-tion placed in escrow, how much would the banks of thi6 city or men of money be Justified in advancing, with the understanding that the capltol Is to be erected here or the money refunded? re-funded? There are at least two men in the city who would subscribe $100,000 each, if necessary to make up tho $500,000. The Salt Lakers are certainly not so blind as not to bo able to see that Ogden can and will raise that half million dollars without calling on any one to carry a heavy burden. The land in the immediate neighborhood neigh-borhood of University sito alone would yield sufficient money to supply the guarantee fund. That l3 0ne of the - most beautiful building sites in the city and could bo made a delightful residential districts for the Governor and his numerous official family; for the supreme court Judges and their attendants; for the state land board and their auxiliaries; for the "federal bunch" and their satellites ; for the-well the-well for half of Salt Lake, as in running run-ning down the list of people who would be moved to tho now capital, wo find t includes nearly everybody of note in the city of wry faces. |