Show the ot the cut offard ihfe felicitating felici tating by the papera have niada us the standard li yhu jh an aff art 1 fc cil fc nd the movement was in its of all the papers and editors who now proclaim so vigorously and enthusiastically the successful conclusion alio task bot one tan maintained that the cutoff cut off wag feasible or practical noc gnp with the exception of the when the future of ogden apparently hung S itic balance and fate lemed to be against us there wag one paper ever bitont ni tont upon ahe caama af pf ogdan and ever outspoken in defense 0 those vital to its welfare hut wine aho vho have returned at the eleventh hour to join in hurrahing hur for ogden the cutoff cut off and a bigger ana better were then so little concerned as n whether the route bof the transcontinental line was to be by the south or the north or acres the lake and ogden cease to exist that they preferred to peddle hot air to gullible foreigners 9 flu solid sub earnest were laboring day and night bringing every pressure possible to bear upon those who were decide alie au eiton might involve the total eclipse 0 ogden by ball lake false statements relating to local meteorological conditions were sent out from salt lake in countless numbers waitt on salt lake vero rep resented as mountain high and ible the vinda torm having a clear sweep the waters w ere said to be barong enough to blow loaded car off tha track the lake waa subject to aad mysterious fluctuations A subterranean supply source was discovered which day as m tho pat would fill th lake basin broi ull and swamp the works of man with the suddenness ot the closing in of the waters of thea cited when the chariots ond horsemen in pursuit af pf ch were traina in a krecl would be thrown into the briny seo and the occupants smothered inthe strap glin caters and many other such assertions were ande andrein and rein forced with all tha scientific knowledge that the bait lakers could buy or otherwise and were presented 0 o K IL haniman the that appeared the standard at the time and were placed before the railroad people ore readily recalled they may not have been essential in convincing the engineers or ir ila ariman that the undertaking wai feasible in that the climatic conditions were favorable and the reports from salt lake were misrepresentations but therein waa shown a spirit as commendable as though the very existence of the city had depended upon our ability to refute the base fabrications from salt lake how strangely incongruous looking back over tho events of the past two years it decema for those alia were silent or bitterly antagonistic to now come forth with their song of hallelujahs heralding the opening of the oen lucin cutoff cut off for H U well that the public ban a short |