Show I 1 1 N os 0 ill ii air security of titles tind HAT THE IR WORTH good tal k from an EXA I 1 I 1 MIKER OF ABSTRACTS tho Jane tion 18 1110 best on earth I 1 sont op ailep wonderful combination of advantages which yaks ogden the oat to rest of the world the astonishing interest recently displayed in ogden real estate led tug reporter to all anter view a ith lien A H nelson pro krietor of the weber county abstract as and leman g aly acquaint ed with land matters in all tile states from Ilic higan to california M r nelson wan a pioneer in tile seattle boom in washington territory and knows how are created and how they are made ma de to grow I 1 mr nelon flays that the only w onder is that attention to advantages has 00 long been delayed as no other city in the west equals it as IL railway and coin mercial contra the attractions of og ien are manifold and no one article can do justice 1 to this af the particular parti eular purpose of the reporter in interviewing si elson was to learn something of the tl 1 the price of ogden ml estate king first of the security of titles mr nelson said I 1 never saw any place where the origin of land titles was so little inthe evolved as in this part of country all titles here come di re ct from the Government of the un cited states by tnt and as the PI tents are all of recent date the chance of error fraud mystificatiOn or is very slight tile principal and almost the only source of difficulty bere Js one which I 1 is easily remedied it arises from failure on he part of indi to alave ilave their lands proper ly platted and the deeds recorded an error of this kind creates a temporary difficulty which however is readily remedied all won agthe title Is ined and the defect found to an eastern man it is an abaz ing thin g that no tax title appears on record in this county in counties in other kadeg couri ties no older than tills I 1 have own hundreds hund and even thousands of tracts of laud sold for taxes thereby giving cause for insecurity both As to value and title the fact that no such deed was ever given in all the forty years of weber Coun existence proves three facts of interest to land buyers I 1 first that land must always have possessed a fixed value here and a steadily iacre ing value second dolight I 1 as not to be orne and third 1 chaton a of the most vexatious causes of involved and insecure lind titles elsewhere is n ot known in this 10 I 1 1 I have seen more of I 1 mortgages in one county in michigan I 1 of the same population as weber in out term of court than have ever been had in this county in her forty years of life it is also very rare to sie land sold on execution in weber P tracing the history of real estate I 1 d eber countes 1 during the past twenty years its ap parent stability is something enal there was never the faintest approach to a boom and I 1 lands grow steadily in price that price being usually not speculative or prospective but only the amount upon which tile und would give a reason able annual interest it will be apparent to anyone acquainted ith land I 1 matters and the growth of towns that method is eminently safe stud conservative it does not do justies to the real estate interests Inte of a growing community ehst I 1 said a moment since about I 1 tile i r tuge of prices is largely flip V ty bhough happily it Is 9 0 o all the time to value I 1 I 1 according to the inhere st t aduce every year is to JA ution Wt ion upon bu biness ter prise which by a sudden stroke I 1 mill often double or quadruple the value of real estate the steady I 1 11 increase of values here affords ample opportunity for a big land boo ill I 1 without any danger of loss or reaction every rean who buys at I 1 rulenz ices to certain of receiving his raciness rac ineys worth in actual possession no man who calmly surveys the field can doubt for a moment that 1 land is worth all that 3 asid 1 for I 1 it b and usually more than is demanded this beang the case the investor bas every chance of a handsome return without the danger of a loss v aich I 1 would threaten him in other I 1 gitles every speculator knoo that 0 an enterprise in which loss is im pool bible and stal the chances ure for gain I 1 Is something which Is rarely found and to be seized with avidity abon I 1 ever discovered I 1 the city af ogden is forar years I 1 dd dartsy the AW twity years it k vas a coutry town almod I 1 I 1 entirely upon its agricultural resources those were rich and did much to establish the city on a firm baclar the last terl years it has grown very rapidly as a manufacturing fac turing and commercial center it n 0 w has a permanent ti on of twelve thousand apuls it bag woolen iron resources contiguous coal fields the best flour ini ills in tile wes ri in quil ity of product the world famed mills of minneapolis gas works electric lights street cars broom factory building factories in exhaust ible quarries admirable water we its owned by the city enough available water power to run a thou sand mills the finest brick making machinery this side of kansas city aud the best brick making material on earth these are only a few af her resources As a railway centre she Is the gate city of the intermountain inter mountain region ogden is the junction of six rail koffs five of them being ther largest which touch Utah lines two more big roada havo been our keyed and will bobu it Is a short line to chicago i it is one hundred and eighty two miles shorter between ogden and chicago than any other line ever projected work ori this road will begin in a few months Id jacent to ogden Is the wonderful take aith its superb bathing and its salt resources and within three in ilea of the town are the bethesda hot medicinal springs with well known curative properties only mine miles from ogden easily reached by rail or carriage are the utalia and grow ng in repute ayery year these several springs are not only the greatest health givanc f pring in this territory but they excl exal tile springs of arkansas or any other region in the known world these things combined with fertile soll and plenty of water for arri gallon make ogden and weber county great aut the best remains to be told that is tile climate we have three hundred and si day sunshine every year there never has been a day for forty years when tile sun tha nn ogden the winters are just bracing enough to give proper tone to the tom while the summers are robbed of all oppressive heat by the cool nights tile mountain winds and the cool take beekes enable a man ta adeep coin fort ably during the warmest night in july anere never waa a case of con eption originating in this locality and people N he come here lisit dd from lung troubles usually recover with all these thinas I 1 satt it is a marvel to me that ogden has not attracted earlier ad attention explanation I 1 can give is tatt people who llave ben attracted to utah have always supposed that salt lake city only place worth visiting that town has been th befit advertised place in the world for over forty years it has I 1 tia ec clesi political and financial centre Z I 1 the most noted of american terri to people abroad utah and salt aake are synonymous terms happily a change has been brought a bout and when business men come out hero not essentially for politics or religion but for money and safe investments they select ogden because this town has fi vo times the resources ces and tunit les of the capital efty 1 I am in daily correspondence a are may other business men of ogden with capitalists east and have observed the railway prestige 0 ogden and who see that this city Is destined to be the great cl ty of the moun taina such farsighted far sighted men are milking investments here not for speculation alone but for burliness bui liness purposes they b y now and ill continue to buy tIter they bev for speculation or as a perin manent V estment they are sure of good returns bebau the price 4 property is climbing every day unlike mot mo t cities th price of alid han a good way to go before it will reach the figure which is consistent with the projects ts of the town whew ands which be afoot in other of equal importance and population are selling here at a foot the OD port unity for mu Iti plying ones espital ig apparent advantages extend all lines of property ana afford a margin such as never was offered by any other city it 4 be remarked that ogden to no town she does for the coming of a 11 0 t need to waft population to make her real estate valuable it is already worth all that is asked for it in many instances in null more than Is asked with the ri tinned development of visible reco sources I 1 find with tile influx of tion tile increase however rapid is sure to be justi ged by the facts when I 1 think of the prices paid in salt lake for property compared with the prices ruling hero I 1 am amazed that any matt should choope to buy there I 1 believe that not many people do choose who visit ogden first a chance to compare tae two cities but some people there and make purchases before knowing what oad ans res ily are and when they finally reach title town tiley coni plain that their in salt lake give cholera borbus they hedge by buying ogden property and they are buying big tile gentleman who apol a to atiq STANDARD som 0 little timi ago after vainly seeking a secure and hopeful investment in SaIt Lake but uttered the views of many who have addressed me thought galt lake must h avo water sewers and paved and yet all of are practically beyond the citha reach for years to come that ally Is badly located in point of witter or a sewerage tem and many of its streets remind 0 no of the botto rillow pit millions mu at be expanded to secure by artificial means tile advantages which are natural in ogden ogden has an unfailing supply of pure water easily obtainable tai and sufficient in a city the of london 11 he contour I 1 of the country will make Bew orage easy besides the town atas two rivers either one of which bonu emily carry off sewage tile foundation of the n and the fine draina goat r 0 r ad d by the slope of the country inake naturally As good streets in 0 den its would be possible in salt lake b y the expenditure of inore money than the latter city has evar had the nerve to expend for this purpose added to Is the no less important one that the city has done and Is con much jo grade and brink the streets into good condition for paving mr nelson concluded as follow 1 I came five years ago because I 1 I 1 saw even from afar that she was destined to be a great city I 1 have watched her growth during the time I 1 have lived here and am now certain khat I 1 made no error in 1 I 1 agdens Og dens location in tile salt lake valley Is such that every cental road that sallly must pay to her I 1 with her magnificent climate her pure mountain water lice health giving breezes her invigorating atmosphere her grand and awe inspiring mountains 1 and her manufacturing facilities she must be a great city A I 1 the next five years will see a transfiguration ajae like of which ilia not been seen in any city in the land if I 1 had a million dollars I 1 would invest it all in ogden real estate |