Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-02
OGDEN CANYON
AS AN ASSET.
Attracts Crowds by Hundreds
And Coins Money for Re-
sort Owners.
ARRIVAL OF THE STREET CAR.
salt Takers by the Score Visit the
Place and Local Automobiles
Were Everywhere.

For a long time Fisher Harris has
/ been pointing 10 ogden a. an example
Of how a town can make money by
making available is natural scenic ad-
yantages. and he has declared that
ogden would receive large interest on
every dollar spent in making ogden
canyon a recreation grounds for the
people. The completion Of the new
car line 20 the canyon mouth, and the
establishment Of Institutions for the
care Of tourists and sight scers at in
teryals up the canyon seem to have
combined To- make Fishers declaration
seem plentifuIy true. The place Is
now so thronged with people in the
afternoons that Il resembles a busy
! business street on q shopping day.
The first day Of the car service,
every trip carried its capacity both
for the car and a trailer, and the peo-
pie either took buses to the Her.
mitage or TO the lake farther up, or
strolIed along the creek to the var
ious points OF interest and beauty.
Salt Lakers were very much In evil
dence The chug chug Of local auto.
mobiles was heard all afternoon on
the canyon boulevard. and the Hermit
tage dining room was fairly crowded
with salt Lakers al dinner yesterday.
one man was not enjoying the
growth n the canyon. and he was the
one employed 10 haul cobble stones
for the new Inn being built near The
Hermitage. He has been picking up
stones II seems for miles around, look-
ing especially for moss-coyored oIes.
and when he has found them he has
wrapped them I'm straw 10 preserve
the natural moss. other teamsters,
with no eye for the picturesque In
cobblestones, have made the trouble
The dubbed the careful driver a wat
ermelon vender." and have made him
the but Of 10 many jokes on straw
packed. cobbles that he threatens TO
60 on strike and use his next load
I'm rough house against any and all
corners who object to his style Of saw
ing the natural moss, for the power
that Is I'm Il 20 lure the dollars Of
pleasure seeking tourists
The upper end Of the line Of after
noon travel extends TO the big ogden
canyon DAM where a number Of row
boats have been installed by some en-
terprlslng camper, and these are rent
ed out 20 the fisherfolk while he tells
them OF FIVE Founders caught at some
remote age, which he declares was
night before last The catches report
ed this season are very meager. and
Of very young and small fish. Below
the dam there has practically been no
results, and the people interested in
the Development Of the canyon will
probably attempt 10 secure all they can
Of John Sharps June hatch OF trout
spawn for stocking ogden canyon.
Fishermen declare there Is no danger
Of the big fish eating the little ones.
as there are no big fish.
From the inflow Of people under
present facilities II IS easily apparent
that the parking OF the driveway TO
the canyon. and Up into II, together
with the building Of the car line 10 the
mouth. is making the place one Of the
most attractive play grounds for the
people IN the vicinity Of Salt Lake and
ogden. and that q good parallel Is
furnished ON the possibilities 81 the
now remote Cottonwoods and Parley's
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