Show I 1 I 1 ONE OF OUR OMISSIONS e I 1 I 1 I 1 in one important respect odea has I 1 been singularly slothful this year and it might as well be confessed first as 1 jast a st wa we refer to the matter of 0 dis tri bating literature about the city I 1 ita ta progress and hopes its advantages ad vant agns I 1 and surroundings those who remember I 1 the energy which has characterized as heretofore in this respect will acknowledge the present neglect without hesitation every one will admit that it is a neglect which iribe Is jibe more glaring because it might so easily hare have been supplied and because its I 1 results are BO so quick and so important oden ogden is at the point where in all I 1 the great empire ot of the md west a city has the best opportunities to advertise itself all the railroads r ail within hundreds of malea canter here and each of them thera delivers I 1 into our precincts many thou thon sinda of travelers traveler every severy month in the year some stay permanently some remain a day or two and break breal with na as while they look the country av over or 11 I 1 but bat the majority pursue their journey 1 1 1 with but little dalay delay now most of these people ard aro beings of intelligence and ob observation serval jion and would gladly learn more of the towns they visit and the country they traverse to our shama be it said we rive give them little opportunity to learn much ranch about our particular region what ogden should do is to prepare in neat and attractive form a little I 1 pamphlet or book illustrated with views views of our principal bail ball dinga dings and eights sights of interest and giving in a terse and entertaining manner a I 1 sketch of what we are what we have done and what wo we are going to do this should not bo be an ordinary y advertising 1 ver obert which would ba thrown d down own in as soon as saen soon it ought to possess the highest literary lit arary artistic and typographical mer merit it and be in tact fact such a souvenir that every traveler would ba eizer to aea e it and most of them would bo be glad to keep it of course the getting up of 0 such a work would cost money but not a as much as be thought there are ways of deriving an inc me from it while still distributing it gratis the ulterior income no man can compute for no one can tell bow how much of the good god seed would fall on fruitful ground |