Show THE JUNCTION CITY th 11 of a stranger Str anser our baites SECRET air S success SUC fESS the ih grind grand vie view from the Toot hilli oath t ali city our Tel rth offic numerous attraction attractions the following letter signed 11 II III K J 11 appeared in the rockville conn journal sept 15 1887 ocia sept 2 our ours ie is a broad abroad country and no one can a realize that fact better than he v who ito stops after five daa das a and four nights steady ride tram fram new york and is greeted by tho the eign sign on the ogden depot san francisco miles ogden in western guide books is called tho the junction city cily and well named but it might also so be called the enterprise city forin for in no town does this trait show itself at every turn to such an extent as here eveia A and athe the secret of success today to day lies in the union of its business men and the harmony m which the two areat great factions factious of utah town mormon ormon and gentile pull together to any one w ho attempts to inhere A himself in salt laketha lake alie blow development of that city is shown to be due t to 0 tho the inside broilo he the pull mormon and haul gentilo gentile business bu ainess that undermines every effort of the city to get ahead in ogden none of f this if lis appears api ears evera one pulls in the t in 0 same direction and the result ie is visible every here from the courthouse roof in ogden a varied and extremely pretty view unfolds itself ta the north and to the south the vast plains stretch away at the joint point of h I 1 youma you may catch a glimpse of the temple at sarit salt lake while upon pon on one e hand band the bold Wa Wali heatch satch range towers over you and far away in the ot oilier her direction the western eun sun glances over the ever changing and picturesque lake lale no grander view vien a can be imagined than one over the wahsatch Wah satch foothills eight miles to lie tie famous ogden canyon toward which the tile new boulevard probably the finest in the west mh when n completed is being pushed while an advance party are already making maki ng preliminary surveys survey ti through tho tile canyon for the new colorado midland railroad ogden toasts boasts little in the ak way ay of public buildings but the few now up are sub substantial statial and handsome and give e the idea that w hat is done in this rv line e w ill be lie done well not enough can be eaid said of the cli li mate hero here the mornings and evenings ings make a light overcoat overcoats a necessity but there are none of the sud deriO changes found heie here so common to the towns of theio these mountain states at no time laet art winter tho the thermometer ther below 12 abw abote tiro and we were mere told that not riot since the winter of 82 83 had ie below sprit ar I 1 atay fr VT droit day we ae lind a slight rain and this morning from my window I 1 can sen see the snow upon it the mountains that has fallen since sin car last night ogden with all other towns boasts of a Cham chamber berof of commerce composed AM members of nearly all the busi business nebs houses of the place in no place that wo no have visited lias has tho the real benefit of the organization to tho city itself f hown to such advantage advant ad vantage ag e as here one of the great things ino in ogden den as in salt lake is the tile mone zions co opera tive mercantile institution he the Z 51 31 C 1 I or ae as our party got into the habit of paying saying for short tho tile Y AI C A the establishment is after the plan of the largo large pastern eastern dry goods houses macys or wanamakers Wana makere makers and in salt uke lake lie the building occupies an entire blok there are in all four ot of the a tores t 0 res I 1 believe though where the other two t 0 are located I 1 do not know I 1 aho s tn ia managed by a board of directors e appointed anted directly dir citty by the church T alie all J manager has the entire intire force of cl clerks erk s and all others connected eddith with the business being hired by the tile church which receives all the lie profits m which bich amount in the correo of a 3 ear to For something enormous though I 1 cannot pay fay that they average any bode 1 those of private con concerns terns but of course all zealous dyed in the Ns wool ool mormons patronize thebe stores al boft t exclusively tho greatest need of ogden v when hen thelast the vast eystein of waterworks water works now in process of completion are is process a new depot C ahn chimber chamber of commerce have by their efforts about completed com plated arrangements and we vie this week paw saw lie the plans fresh from a bos ton firm of architects for an edifice that w ill go ahead of an thing in the wept 11 the rivalry between ogden and salt C alt lake al ii Is a source of rare amusement to a stranger all a L beggar in one city needs to do is to eay say that the other one did PO so end and 0 tor for him and hie his fortune ia is made pothina costs too much for an ogden man provided it be a degree belter better K than n what hat you have juht sold his salt luke like neighbor and one pr prominent eminent member of lie tile C of 0 remarked remarked as a we e were ere looking oi oer era a map that had just been pent sent in by tile draughtsman fur publication in a akew new york balver that he was m as ferryle for ryLe lie had salt lake put in about here as one of the tu burbe at ogden is also the third largest telegraph office in tho united states only ony atlie in new york and kowha being larger this is lie the firby repenting repeating station of lie western union cart cat of san I 1 ranc francisco ran cisco iAco the entire amount of tl the alot Ot vast business done between oregon california and the bait pawing passing through this office 11 ij j I 1 |