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Show normal was flow. Last 3,516,031,326 year’s consumption gallons. It is esti- mated that the available supply is sufficient to take care of Ogden’s normal growth during the next 25 years. Three concrete-lined reservoirs with capacity of 59,960,413 gallons are used for distributing water to all parts of the city. This community has not neglected proper facilities for educational purposes. There are 21 educational institutions in the city, including 13 grade and junior high schools; 2 high schools; : two rie sectarian schools, one of is which a boarding school; state school for deaf hg ga Ra and blind; state industrial Sanden i school; busi- ness college and a part-time school offering day and night classes. In 1933, the State of Utah established a Junior College at this point known as the Hermitage Hotel—Famous Hostelry in Ogden Canyon Weber College, which is a state institution under the direction of the State Board of Education. Ogden is a “year-round” recreation center. A wide diversity of pleasurable activity is Offered winter and summer by both natural surroundings and facilities created for the purpose. The nearby rugged mountains and their canyons hold a fascination for the fisherman, hiker, bridle path devotee and motorist during summer months. deep snows offer a winter paradise to lovers of skiing, snow-shoeing, And their tobogganing and dog racing. The scenic beauty of Ogden Canyon is unsurpassed, its smooth paved highway winding between rugged, pine covered walls that tower hundreds of feet, at points rising almost perpendicular from the highway. This beautiful canyon is the summer mecca for vacationists from far and near. Well appointed cottages and cabins as well as sumptuous summer homes line the shady banks of the canyon stream—bidding the sojourner welcome for a few days or even months. A rustic mountain inn, famous for its trout and chicken dinners also provides a cool retreat in this canyon—only a few minutes drive from the city’s business center. Ogden’ City proper is supported by an agricultural area that is concentrated and cultivated to the “nth” degree. This community with its high percent of industrial institutions and its wonderful network of transportation facilities would be impossibie if it were not for its agricultural background. The territory generally recognized as the trade area of this community 1s not only highly cultivated but represents some of the most fertile land in this gcermouacain territory. The far-sighted agricultural and business interests of this territory have een successful in establishing at the present time, two major irrigation reclamation eae One is the Echo Dam, which furnishes supplementary water for a large Benen O Weber County and Davis County, The other is the Pine View Dam, which will soon be completed and will furnish water for Weber and Box Elder Counties. The Echo Dam supplies 78,000 acre feet of supplementary water and we responsible for increased agricultural production in this area of at least 25 Bee cent. ‘ a result of this water, late crops such as sugar beets and highly cultivate peer e tonnage of sugar beets in this ee jate area The Pine View Dam will supply 40,000 acre feet of additional water and effec gardens have been made possible. The has almost doubled as a result of this supplementary water being made avai is a will a a , | 17,000 acres of highly cultivated land. is it and area The future Ranh community rests largely in her agricultural trade 15 |
