, 1891-06-16
DISTANT FIELDS.
Their Brightness Fades When Cri
ticaIIy Looked Over.
Former Residents Look Back to
Cheyenne L%ongingIY.
Visiting the Cities of Salt Lake
and Ogden.

80 Aho ~ W SoNN @aNo
and Ogden.
If one wishes to appreciate the advant-
ages of his own town he should visit
others. A short TIP made BY a reporter
of THE LEADER to those much talked of
cities, Ogden and Salt Lake, during the
past week, in which not only the faculty
OF observation was exercised. but plenty
of questions were asked, proved conclu-
sively that Cheyenne's material condition
is much better han either of these sup
posed prosperous places, and the prospects
for the future are equally bright.
During a short Journey of this kind
numerous former residents of Cheyenne
are met, and with all of them the CONVEX
sation naturally drifts into a comparison of
their present residence and the home they
left. In every instance a longing desire to
return to Cheyenne is made apparent. not
directly, perhaps, but none the less Ger.
tain from the tone Of the speaker.
In Ogden are numbers of former Chey
enne residents. One cannot walk a square
without meeting an acquaintance and re-
ceiving the hearty greeting which they all
have in store for friends from Cheyenne.
A pleasant feature OF these meetings is
the fact that you learn that your friends
are prosDering in their new location and
are counted among the most substantial
aud %enterprising citizens of the town.
10 n OF the finest real estate offices
John D. Gill is located. During the past
year he has engineered some of the heav-
lest real estate deals of the city, and has
been prosperous ever since he reached the
city. Will Swan is the manager OF the
street car system of the city, and is one of
the most energetic men in Ogden. New
extensions of the line are being made at
the present time, and a large force of
workmen, under charge of G. B. Moore.
formerly of Posts rancho, is employed.
+. w. LaFrantz has charge of the Hot
Springs hotel and pleasure resort, a few
miles from the city, an enterprise which
is growing more profitable every month.
Il: A. Reed has since his residence in
Ogden set the old timers there an exam
pie OF enterprise and push which has done
much for the city. Tho Reed hotel,
which he has just completed at a cost of
over a hundred thousand dollars, is not
surpassed in convenience or beauty by
any hotel IN the west. 1t contains l2S
rooms, admirably arranged and elegantly
furnished. Through the courtesy of Mr..
Reed, the LEADER man was shown
through the entire hotel, from the tiled
floor of the Office and lobby to the dining
room and kitchen on the fifth floor. From
the dining-room windows a view unsur-
passed in the west is had. On one side
are snow-covered mountains seemingly but
a mile or 80 distant; to the front one can
see great Salt Lake stretching away in
the distance like a sheet of polished sill
yer; to the south is a valley with farms
and orchards, while beneath are the hand
some business houses and residences OF
Ogden. Swiit-moving elevators are NOV
ing day and night. The furnishings OF
the rooms, parlors aud halls are superb
and exceed in beauty and elegance those
of the famed Knutstord of Salt Lake
city.
Mr.. Reed has rented his hotel, with the
stores and offices it contains, for a
term of years for Sl9 $500 a year.
The erection OF so handsome Il build
ing has done much for Ogden, aud
has been the means of starting a number
of fine business blocks.
In spite, however, of prosperity and
good prospects all the Cheyenne people IN
Ogden are firm in the idea that Cheyenne
IS the best place in the world. Ogden
has dust knee deep in summer and mud
to the same depth in winter, Sidewalks,
even in fine residence quarters are hardly
known The great amount of shrubbery
and vegetation, although pretty to look
al, makes the place unhealthy, and scarlet
fever. diphtheria and other complaints
hang on persistently the year around.
Rents are outrageouslv high and prices of
residence aud business property are about
equal with those OF New York or Chicago.
While there is a go ID surrounding coun-
try, Ogden is at the present time very
much ahead OF it and will be for years.
While there are good mining prospects
near at hand, they are nothing more than
prospects and none of them compare
with either Gold Hill or Hartyille.
Salt Lake City. which has been the
Mecca of the discontinued Tor the past
year, loses much of its fame when one
spends a few days there and talks with