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Show tiful in Utah. At various altitudes are resorts where camping, boating, boat-ing, fishing and huntirg are enjoyed, and where the hotels are famed for their chicken dinners and the cookery of trout fre3h from the stream. Automobiles go the whole length of this boulevard, and electric cars leave the Union depot every twenty minutes for the canyon. can-yon. It is only a travel-hour from Ogden to Salt Lake, and the pictures pic-tures of-rural home-life and fertile fields along the way are framed by the mountains and the sea." We only refer to the above cases as being the recent ones out of hundreds that have passed under our observation. With a little judicious judi-cious advertising, it would only be a few months before Ogden's Royal Gorge would be mentioned in the advertisements on "See America First." , ; . WHY NOT ADVERTISE? There is hardly a day passes but what we read in some publication publica-tion some boost on Ogden and its beautiful canyon. These comments come wholly unsolicited on the part of the people of Ogden and they aro becoming frequent. With this amount of boosting unsolicited, Ogden could certainly get a splendid amount of good, valuable advertising if she wished it by soliciting The best way to solicit is through a publicity bureau established by the Weber club or the Chamber of Commerce. It could be operated at little expense. There is hardly a newspaper in the United -States but what would use good, live "copy" from Ogden as well as that they are now receiving from Chicago, St. Paul, Spokane, Colorado Springs, Oklahoma City, Pueblo and a hundred other cities that are growing rapidly. About a month ago Miss Scott, driving an automobile from New York to San Francisco, spent a day in Ogden canyon. She described the canyon and the road as the most beautiful in the world. Tho story was published on the front page of a large eastern daily. In the issue of August 13, Collier's Weekly, under the head of "Everybody's Camping Ground," Agnes C. Laut speaks of Ogden canyon in part as follows: "Come up to Utah, and you may vary your camping in the national na-tional forests there by trips to the wonderful canyons out from Ogden, Og-den, or to the natural bridges in the south ; but do not go for pleasure pleas-ure in the hot weather. Go to these forests in tho spring, fall, or winter. win-ter. These trip3 must be by horseback or tented wagon from tho railway rail-way terminus. ' ' The Union Pacific Railroad company in a booklet entitled "Where to Go and What to See," refers to Ogden canyon in the following fol-lowing manner: "Cleaving the Wasatch, from almost the center of the city, is Ogden Og-den canyon through which for fifteen mile3, a broad boulevard follows fol-lows the windings of tho roaring river, This canyon is tho most beau- |