Show atee if silver was silver miners would be added to the ranks of labor in this state who would in turn afford a market for the produce ol 01 farmers furthermore the silver bullion would return from the cointa ae silver dollars and add to the volume of money with which to do business the silver dollars would go out through the arteries of trade not through the banks to give tone to business ogden would be wonderfully benefited the prosperity which would directly fall to the lot of the farmers be reflected in the buei nesi houses and nevada montana and idaho which are tributary states depending largely upon silver mining would contribute their share to the return 0 good timea there Is no reason why ogden during the period of awakening which would follow free coinage should not supply all of eastern nevada with goods the trade in which would bo enormous the merchants of ogden are today shipping goods to the silver mining camp of austin nevada which has over 1000 in population although claiming over in the sixties eureka in the same state ninety miles this side of austin has about the same population but at one time it together with ruby hill an adjoining town had with a population adjacent or tributary to to consume a large quantity of manufactured goode our city would be encouraged to build up manufacturing enterprises and be come the center of trade ot a district stretching out to the points of the compass and much of nevada idaho and montana railroad rates will always the field of operation for Ogden ites with our grand water power and prevent ua beyond a certain limit but in turn these same rates applied to imports would stand a barrier to outside competition within well defined lines and act as prohibitive against the goods of the outside world whether the nation waa on a or a free trade baabe |