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Show REVIEW OF LOGAN STATISTICS GOVERNMENT: Logan has the C om m ission form of governm ent/ POPULATION: E stim ated at 11,000. AJtEA: Six square m iles. ELEVATION: 4/535 feet. ASSESSED VALUATION: $5,949,826.00. POST OFFICE RECEIPTS: 1936, $67,869.98; 1937,-.$74,595.87; 1938, $75,814.24» BUILDING CONSTRUCTION: 1936, $424,615.00; 1937, $462,177.00; 19-38, $575,739.00; fir st six m onths of 1939, 203,077.00. STREETS' Over 60 m iles of oiled and cornerete streets ^com pleted at a co st of $120,000.00. T h is-y ea r an addiijbnal two milesw ill be laid at a co st of $4,000.00. SEWERS: A 25 m ile sew er sy stem installed at a ’'cost? of $600,000.00. An additional 8 m iles w ill be com pleted by. 1940. NEW SPAPERS: One tri-w eek ly ;-o n e daily except Sunday. TELEPHONES IN SERVICE: . 2,659 on Logan E x ch a n g e//: BANKS: 3 modern banks’-with resources over $6,000,000.00. AIRPORT: 3 m iles north w est of city. The city and county, join t ow ners, have purchased 110 acres of land at a cOgt. of J>8,800 00. T his addition in creases th e'sizeo f-th fe'lfield from the' original 96 a c res-to 206 acres. A $3,500.00 hangar is being constructed and im provem ents .am ounting to $75,000.00 are; being made on the grounds, An A viation T ra in in g School, conducted by the U ta h /S ta te A gricultural College, w ill begin at the airport next fa ll. PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS: A pproxim ately 75 acres of land for public parks; 2 parks; 9 playgrounds h avin g'p laygrou n d s u pervision; 1 g o lf cou rse known for its unusual location and fine fairw ays and g r e e n s. CLIMATE: Average annual precip itation of 16.17 inches and an nual average tem perature of 47.4 degrees. PAYROLLS: A pproxim ately $300,000.00. LIBRARIES: Cache County Public Library having 17,395 Looks; Utah State A gricultural College Library, 150,000 books, and governm ent docum ents; Senior High School, Library; 4,721 books ‘ Junior High School Library, 4,000 books; and the E lem entary School Libraries, 32,000 books. HIGHWAYS: Federal highw ays num bers 89 and 91 entering from the south; jun ction for tra ffic goin g north to the w eak en -, trance of Y ellow stone N ational Park over II. S. 91. and to Logan Canyon, Bear Lake, M ontpelier, Aftori, Jackson Hole and theSgouth entrance to Y ellow stone Park over II. S.. 89. The latter highw ay also extending wesjt of Logan, C onnects with the m ain highw ay to the Northwest-i and south to Salt Lake City and San F ra n cisco .. RAILROADS: The U tah-Idaho Central Railroad and the O. S. L. Railroad. BUS LINES: Union P acific Stages, and Bear Lake Stages oper atin g from th e Hotel É ccles; the U tah-Idaho Central Railway buses operating:, in the city. |
