Show AS OTHERS SEE US the following article handed us by a friend will be reed with interest by 0 jen people end should elicit patriotic respect tor the daily times index of san bernardino which ably defends our greatness the english douriet tou riet who cornea across the water by one steamer returning by the next and in the meantime father in material for a boob on america has ceased to be a subject of ridicule and hie boffi are never beard of except when chanced upon by aonie in the dusty corner of the library shelves eh elves but there is another class of peripatetic writers alie magnitude of whore transgressions gres suggests the hope that the worst tears with reference to a place of future torment may be realized we refer to the people who come west for brief trip and write letters to their home paper it ever one was written which contains more than a tithe of truthfulness it has not been oar good fortune to eee it in general they are misleading full of information which inform and are re for no end of trouble the aaret of it is that these letters are generally written by people unused to newspaper work and unused to spither ang facts for such work and the result ie only aliat might be expected bot only thie but when the letters are perused in the east probably beintz personally acquainted with the writer the herlese reader are more than ever ron incel of alie truthfulness of the facts announced it may a awell be stated here that we have not been labeled libeled libe led far ae we knew and tills city bae not been given any black eye so far as we are informed but recently eccli letter fell under notice and in ten lines it con bained mere than one would suppose could be crowded into as many columns the letter waa written from beniel gel and published in the ironton sio register of august 22 over the signature of 11 II M B it is descriptive of a trip to california and here is an extract keat we readied ogden uuie a town pread over a narrow at abe foot of rugged allar told of tree and with llie of lae park which in aze wonlu not arpasi many of our lawn it is loo klof pot railway center rives a mere for its ex shades of Brig liam young and lie post lea A sleepy town I 1 A cheerless looking spoil rugged hills void of trees ogden ha long flourished with the title of queen city of the intermountain region and it is no misnomer with the most beautiful location for a city and n the canler of a veritable garden extending for in every direction with two rivera rushing from the mountains and their waters turned to irrigate countless acres with electric fichta lichta and electric railways wholesale i eloree and paved street ogden lias an excuse for ita existence we should hope so the difficulty with 11 M B is that like many anoche tourist he took froni the depot dreaming that a few block away was a busy bustling city with broad and with pure mountain water courting cour bing along both sides of every street with beautiful bobee and pretty parks that would make a borry comparison with missouri if C had aaben taben the trouble to step it off lie would have found several weary dilce 11 a hie point of vantage and those rugged hille void of trebe while a closer view might have a beautiful growth of mountain pines it is hot for the times index to point out that people who read the ironton register and particularly those win know if M will not elect ogden for thi ir home should they ever come to a home in the great west and it may iw due simply to the fact eliat gome one in writing wrote of what lie knew nothing about the west is not afraid of an investigation of its advantages if they were properly exploited alie east woul I 1 de populated we welcome any one who will the truth for himself and give it the widest cut from ach correspondents we have indi bated we feel moved to quote from the prayer book lord deliver us |