"All within reach"
That is the slogan of the modern city of Ogden, Utah. That is because within the city you can kayak in the water, you can bike all over the land, or you can hike up the mountains. Ogden was one of the stops of Jose Rizal when he visited the United States and travelled from California to New York in 1888, from 28 April to 16 May. The entry to his diary reads: 'Tuesday, May 8. This is a beautiful morning. We stop from place to place. We are near Ogden. I believe with a good system of irrigation, this place could be cultivated. We are the Utah state, the 3rd state we passed over. In approaching Ogden the fields are seen with horses, oxen, and trees. Some small houses are seen from a distance.' - Gregorio F Zaide, Jose Rizal: Life, Works And Writings (page 124).

Rizal is thinking agriculture, but only of irrigated farmlands. He wasn't thinking of the un-irrigated, the drylands and of crops that grow on minimum soil moisture, that do not call for irrigation, which is added cost. Horses, trees, oxen - they all suggest a ranch. He didn't like the idea of a ranch either?