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Show OODEN'S FINANCIAL STRENGTH. Building Inspector Browning's reports, of a few days ago, of 400 cottages built in Ogden since the first of the year, is supplemented by the statement that more building permits arc now in sight than at any time in years. v At the present rate of increase in population, as indicated by the new homes, this place will be the second largest city in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country within ten years. Representatives of a large life insurance company, after a careful care-ful study of local conditions, prior to passing upon the acceptance of loans based on real estate, have stated that there i3 less mortgaged mort-gaged business and residence property in Ogden than in any other city of its size in the United States. Following the depression of 1890-96, Ogden liquidated its debts, so that by 1900 there were no outside mortgages and no absentee absen-tee landlords, and today there are no foreign obligations acting as a drain on the community, or tending to rob it of its financially independent inde-pendent position. |