Show TWENTY YEARS arter main street ogden 1863 Is wa on a photograph presented ay wit h the of it 11 th aimi iiii it few of a hittlet country tov n low adobe or lumber structure tur is bu ailt with gable end upon the at feet the inevitable accompaniment of main street is there A knot of horred to ahe pos ts in front of tile low business houses the view Is taken from near the prep i nt location of dees livery stable looking northwest north west and includes th two corners pow so prominent on th e main side of fourth it recal Is ma 11 y tating recollections to ahe mint of ia old reAl dent where now stand emersons bookstore and bonds groce ry the land Is worth 1000 per foot front twe anty v ears ago it pro bably bould have been purchased for s 0 t pe r foot frd rit and cesis earlier than that time or thirty y cars ago frank dudman now of north could ba ve purchased the 01 lot one acre for three days work and a bushel of corn but my dear boy bays fank 1 I spare talo corn where now stands the magnificent Z C 31 1 block on land of fabulous value haq the old office store twenty years ago enclosed althia a rock wall between the two cornberg and stretching entirely the mag street Is liquid knud today to day main and fourth streets are well not exactly they will be street boen 1888 the inscription on a photograph presented to STANDARD by the same artist it is a view taken from the buntion of fifth and 31 streets looking north ut those who want to see what it reprise ta stand at the same spot and te n the same sweep they vi III conel with us thai the progress has been magical twenty years sinde have sufficed to elevate ogden from a to a railway and mei tro polls thirty years sinh 1859 have turned arms and into priceless building sites the change has already been so great as to tax credulity although the results stare us in the face can any one that the present achieve delats marvelous though they are can compare with the mighty of program which will be witnessed within the next gen oration the destiny of ogden is e just opining to the gaze of her citi tens in 1908 twenty years after today this city will be the greatest com inertial iner cial and railway center between the missouri find the coast |