The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

outside circulation; very few who read
this but well have seen and read both of
those papers. They are ably edited, but
are not as comfortable and harmonious in
each others society as Da~id and Jonathan
are said to have been. For instance, if one
records that Mrs. William Smith has been
hooked by a cow and it transpires that it
was Mrs Willard Smith, the other paper
never gets over it. Ogden has one even
ing paper, the Union; this paper always
sparkles with something that is sure to
attract attention. the editorials are meaty
and most always loaded for bear.
Brer. Mcdaniel, he of the Tribune, edits
monthly named the Inter Mountain Mer-
chant. 1t is an able magazine and would
be missed by merchants and spectators,
but it has passed through its days of pre-
baton and has no doubt come t. stay 1t
is filled with interesting matter to those
engaged in trade, and is reliable in its quo
tations and forecasts.
The hills have all the summer been full
of prospectors in search of the precious
metals, and many rumors of rich finds in
the stubborn hills have found credence.
A great number of locations have been
made but the winter has driven the hardy
miner down from the mountains and he
patiently waits for the spring and the rich
bonanza that is hidden in his claim
But the space in your CHRISTMAS HER
AID, and the time at my disposal will
not permit me to enter into details
of what Ogden now is and is to be- ANY
one can see that nothing can hinder US
from becoming great city; that we have
the climate, the location, the railroads,
men of energy and plenty of money. The
planets this year are in exactly the right
occultation and everything is suspicious.
For men may come aud men may go,"-
but Ogden will grow on forever. But one
thing, however, we lack, and we lack it
awful bad; I refer to an opera house or
theater building. Probably there is no
town in the United States with the popu-
lation that Ogden has, without It's play
house to which the populace may resort for
recreation and to be enchanted by Patti,
or an Ingersoll, or the immortal Booth.
Why this is thus, no ''feller'' can find out,
and this is written more in hope that some
man Ol ucdnS Will dill eye w a 4dISG anu
constant per cent. on his money will be in
duced to build one, than to advertise our
remissness IN this particular 1 am told
by those who know, that play house in
Ogden, if properly built and arranged, will
pay at least ten per cent. on the money in
vested. While / am about it 1 might as
well tell the truth, and that is that Ogden
has not so much as decent lecture room
outside thevarious churches. Again 1 say
Why this is so no one can tell, as great
efforts have been made many times but they
were all abOrtive. May be the capitalist
sees more money for the present in corner
lots, and when he gets tired of keeping the
run of his multiplying finances, he intends
to sober off and build an opera house
There has never been made such strenuous
exertion for any public edifice in Ogden a:
for the one just named, and all to no pur
pose. 1t does not need a philanthropist
with more money than brains to build {
theatre here, for it will pay more on the in
vestment than any other project thai
can be named, unless it be a dea
in real estate. 1 know something
of the labor that has been put forth to in
terest capital in the scheme, and don't
mind saying that l believe some one ha.
hoodooed the project of an opera house il
Ogden. 1t never rains but pours, and 81
when some one has built an imposing theatre
here there will probably be one built OF
each block in the city. However, levity
aside, it looks a little as if we were going
to have one now, sure.
Ogden is a halfway house between tw'
great oceans that are covered with tn,