| Show VIL buiners beels tile impulse of spring throng gibout this western ca try A 0 cursory examina llon odthe fooling at awk lake indicates that tile of abe cantal have been roused to a se riso of their brill lint opportunities A reaction has generally set in against the whimsical and flim y booming of paper towns east and everit and investors are willing and anxious to ia cities which have already built their founds eions broad and deep salt lake and Ogdon with other utah towns fulfill fulfil this with tile one exception of corrinna Cor rinno we be alevo that this territory never had a city tile growth of which was ill founded the great difficulty here his been and Is today to day that communities in utah have been and are slow to take advantage of their resources reso urceL itte last spring ogden seemed to hav 0 from ber lethargy sho immediately ribbed ber eyes another nap it shedo not qi lickly rouse franf this morning snooze she wilf wid the afternoon has come and all the trains are gone we rema akell that salt lake is awake to her opportunities the people of ogden should arnow iving done in tho sister city salt lako is doing all thit ogden Is doida in prepares tion for public improvements etc then the chain ber of commerce of the capital has it competent man at a salary of a month whose principal duty it is to bend out information concerning salt lake ile ja making capital known in every commercial city of the j country every capitalist and beadth and from blaine to texas and ore on to vollda hears and readia of salt lake her wondern ui climate and her superior opportunities for money making the postage bill alone of this department of the salt lake cham berof commerce amounts to more each monta than the entire expense of the ogden chamber of commerce including an average of all the advertising that ever done of tile two cities salt lako stan la less in need of advertising than ogden because during forty years pastille name salt lake basteen wit I 1 utah of the two cities ogden undoubtedly possesses infinitely greater resources but these resources without the energy and capital to utilize them are com parl dively valueless until we call im fort the requisite money to bring into active service we do not to the enterprising ter mez of the junction city As this paper and its esteemed p r de cessor tile coming hrold often remarked but lor the able grit of ogden her com merce would have been overcome and sunk out of sight for ever by the superior capital and azes ti e of salt lake As we have also often remarked the men of ogden have had such a constant to maintain individual commercial exist ance in com petition with their power fill rivals of other cities that it seems impossible now to unite them fully in a brad generous and united pot ey for the advancement of the ty an instance pinpoint was the proposed establishment of a tory in this city on tile night of the opening of the chamber of commerce the cracker factory was built in words and that Is as far as the project ever advanced thera maybe some more occult reason for tile lamentable failure of this enterprise but so far as we know the only trouble was busine jealousy A crat ker factory established under such auspices would doubtless be a fine investment it would dalaly be a good thing for the dour mill which supplied the factory with raw mat eal n several men wanted the control or nothing that kind of a spirit Is death to enterprise ext into all the business of a town it mako tile difference between nineteenth century progress and sit urbanism urian ism in two months from now the springtime will be fairly resplendent people will have already ov elected their locations it will beas be as it was nearly a year ago too late pete with other towns which move during abe vda terin preparation tion for amat this town wants is to be round up and that at once no city ia the whole west can do more lathe nex ae art abo n can if she will avill she do it this remains largely with the chamber of commerce action is today to day bi broad generous |
