Show WITH wito ABIG BIG tho kind hind of a boom that is coming to ogden MEDICINE FOE FOR SKEPTICS no crazy E yet substantial stant lal progression for tho junction city hello there mr all reporter how bow goes tho the boom 0 happily was the reply well sir I 1 commend the course of the ogden HERALD but do you TOU know I 1 have come deross across a few persons fortunately their number is very limited who dont eem seem to understand taud tho the term boom as applied to ogden now I 1 am an X old resident of ogden and from the first and more particularly particular li since the rail railroads came here have hake had faith in future greatness I 1 have fondly watched her steady growth and am now assured that she has reached a point in her hi history tory when she will go chad a f ansler ter than ever before and her accretion of prosperity will be solid and substantial then you really do think we arc are to have a boom yea yes sir and a boom with a great big B too A and nd by the way jet let me explain this matter a little you sic ae c a great many towns par ticul atly aly western ones have a period d of excitement that has been mis named a boom during this short period everything has been in a state of turmoil people sometimes acted as though possessed they bought pro property erty at fabulous discernment business discernment has been oba obscured cured by a form of temporary half wittedness caused by a forlorn hope of suddenly beco becoming rich every thing was rush ming hurry burly and excitement men blen have been wrought up to the highest pitch of wild cat excitement and then after the excitement wae was over abin ahinga were flatter than a pancake tt it was like a sagebrush fire a flash a blaze a roar and tind all was ended the strain on the inus muscles cles that had not been rendered tough and aud enduring by continuous energy properly applied produced a relapse and a state of lassitude but Ogdene boom is is genuine and you should always write it A as your your paper baa has announced with a capital B boom you see is the western ard word for progress a steady con sinuous t progress that will leave no bad after effects ogden will have no intoxication of prosperity that will mako make her head bead so big she cant get her hat bat on without an effort whatever improvement she makes must be of the best jand and of which her citizens way may be proud ogden is not so essentially a railroad town the railroads have not buit it up the railroads came here because there was no other convenient route or terminus for them her growth has not pot been of a mushroom character and now there I 1 is s a genuine boom ahead you cant obliterate the word boom from we western steril nomenclature any more than you can substitute a word for the expressive terret dude boom boorn is a short expressive way of speak ing of a ci progress progression ign and acquirement qui rement of substantial prosperity Y no mr all reporter you keep beep right along at booming boom there never was almore auspicious time and of course you have heard beard the old saw strike the iron while it ashot ob oh yee yes and there la is another saying that well applies to ogden now I 1 make alake hay bay while the sun shines shine it exactly and now continued success to the HERALD I 1 am certain that the few skeptics remaining will soon be converted to boom with a big B the gentleman with whom the above conversation occurred went to wait on oil a cu customer who rho had bad just come into aj lys store and the reporter report cr dodged after r another item |