Show v 77 w REVIEW OF THE WEEK I 1 secretary of ilic tile liada 1 aill her of commerce aclei timal Ti silt 1 Vs owls dortho following gratifying statement staten a me n t of 0 t the b a ofer operations a lion 3 oft of the he C chamber abst m constituting at once a review of the business situation and an admon tion as to the tile immediate needs and arid opportunities of the chamber THE tite STANDARD ie I 1 indebted to secretary A L richardson the week engine ending today to day lay has ben extremely satisfactory lettera letters hare boon etan received from many sources asking for information upon oden ogden and anti urah that bat civer cover c iver every material point in the rai ge ef general business bus inee mad man fracturing fac turing real estate social and religious matters they came for the tile I 1 most part from living east of the rocky mountains and nd were ere written by men prominent in profession nl and business life I 1 have auR answered ered all fill letters promptly inaptly pr and given the rits rit s prebi ng invitations to toe come and still j in their energies and ca capital billial with us in building tip hat we believe is destined to be the tile greatest city in the morin of A mericita Ani meri enci cit I 1 find no bitti alty in I 1 batin ting all necessary s tty facts about the tile wa territory of utah I 1 am in possession sion of data alata on that sli subject biet sufficient to supply all that is tie eded in tilts way to inquiring ere hut it is different as to tile county while I 1 liae have a splendid a ray of facca eliat cannot fail fall toon vince strangers who read them that this ia is a tine fine busine 9 and resident center yet there is a woeful lack of statistical matter which the tile average eastern roan roan desires to study tip before deciding to plant plan t himself in a watern so d stant from liia his old home hon e aa as 0 oden den the campli aaion of this it appi appears ars has been bailly failly a ily negle neglected ett td d here I 1 can not sufficiently impress its importance to in its in ili I 1 p aciro the advantage i of the city before the minds of di distant people I 1 am ant pure sure that most of our leading mer tiler edall clant ts fi and roil real estate e tato men will ber bar me ine out in the tile aberth 11 that there is if it no m re important element than stalls iral nets this have apen forced upon thern linn thin vear velar and anti with ith somewhat blar star ling ei klavs B luring the tile piat pst ten days ty the great reat num br of lattim that have been receive r ceia it in the cily from biffi rent points ak ask ilg for ra anil ana that be tent them because they have nol been collated I 1 am envied enva ed in doms doing this work as fast a i possible po sible ble bit li b it it is necessarily a slow juli juh on act aunt of th the teerat grat erat prebi pres of rk cow now on the hands bands of our little for a 0 1 wk ih citizens would arn I 1 in to ilis chamber every fact in in tile r 1 os ion v wi 1 11 egird rt gird to oad opan in and anti weber county comity it would liehr help me in the work ork in immensely I 1 men sely IN we a arc ate n w g out newly early an aver age of 75 letteau leiters every aay dy aed ich fit tha olnie 1 tera ture t tire that lias has ben b on created up tip to the present time tinie these are 1110 fly to basli cea mm and manufacturers throughout the tile country I 1 bale have a list of en erp riFea tiia tha are seeking location in the west ti t whom I 1 am writing it in is m rule to a answer never all leters promptly an I 1 encourage lie the writers to visit the city batore before deciding upon a location els here visiting strA strangers have bien bi en numerous during the week the opine opinion expressed by them is generally very ver y favorable avo rable to ogden n rhey peem to think that our realty I 1 11 held at reasonable figures and predict a so aoi i healthy growth for the cily city it is rather however to ogden people to notice in the conversation of from the lar jar ett et surprise at the large proportions Cro tro portions of our city and ita its kiet gleat i deps activity few of th them em have bare heard card 1 bat very little of it save as a railroad junction until reading something bonn tiling about it in some eastern paper in the last few beeks I 1 feel that I 1 am doing pretty good work 0 rk in spreading reading sti the gospel of ag odan odon over the country but I 1 am not sati satiated aged with my tork work I 1 have not pot the necessary amount of money to do the work I 1 want to do the citizens cithens of ogden should raise a fund of 2000 21 to per montii month for the next si al months the reanie would be placing ogden in the proper light before bea ore the country and keeping her bar advertised and constantly exposed to the gaze of the people opie whose money ve nse want to ena enable tha 1 city to go ahead as so fast fist as vie a would like to see her advance I 1 received a letter today to day from an all old friend in virginia in response to a bendly epistle I 1 wrote roto him two Ns beeks agi in in which I 1 cave gave him a pen picture I 1 af tithe the city and the tile resources of 0 utah ho ile m wai as very much pleased with what ha be r ad therein and aked a ked about tile ice cc il ion lion of a colon colony here compo composed of virginians and alary Mary marylanders landers Sanders who old engage eliga gein in business mechanical and agricultural pursuits I 1 shall look up all the good points before le to I 1 pl I 1 ing to him and then let him leavo h it t straight t ri I 1 t from the eli eln ulder aie ue 1 is 3 a Rep splendid lend d fellow a good business man a and n d t those lo 10 be ili he would induce to come with alth lire would ba very ty de desir ablo citizens indeed sly private ie le tera for a week or ten days havo all contained so some tie references t to 0 P parties I 1 ies in intending it ending to come to 0 oliden aden k fram in a all 1 1 surface indications thero there seems to bo be a dispo ilion among the people of my acquaintance east of denver with whom I 1 hao have communicated since coming to ogdan to like the and a desire to come here and look it over indeed ogden and its wonder lol salt lake valley seem stein to attract the astern eastern man nhon hon presented to him in any ally thing like creditable shape and I 1 am of the tile opinion that active adert king will meet with a generous response refi ponso in my work for the p tot two weeks I 1 can call P state tato that I 1 am greatly encouraged by tho the re results stilts that tha have BO so far fare come to ight 1 and still I 1 b aliee lieve we oare are have 1 kave a great year in ogden there is in oie ore feature lacking it in ogden which in my opinion ie is 1 a mistake I 1 refer to the absence ati sence of w m eck 11 kly bank clein iiga customary cu to be 6 published in all the lare large cities of the coun country fry in running my eyed ej e over tho tile 1 litt let I 1 notice borna some 12 or 15 cities that have I 1 ave less bank clearings than olden many af ohse cities are old and have always been known an considerable commercial centers there does not seem sem to be any enod reason V w h hy og attl should not he in thia liba it etisa Is a very bimble matter to pet get her name on of lie list all that it junr rea I 1 is the tile opening or a clea birg house at one ol 01 the ban banks ks lii in the oty CAY where here all transactions are daily summed up the result is to be tt to the lio boston iton IM ogdena name will ill ira mediately med lately appear in the col columns dumns aloni alona with tha tile r neat industrial and financial centers venter ot the united states subject is Js worthy tho tile attention of our babka and III financial Ilan clat men |