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Show ee INTRODUCTION 4 Smaller concerns continue to move here along with the bigger manufacturers. Supporting plants provide tooling, engineering and similar subcontractor serv- ices for the area’s Westinghouse new industrial giants. Electric in the Ogden area and Corporation located its Pacific California Packing Corporation Coast Supply Depot established a Del Monte Foods distribution depot here. The Pacific Iron and Steel Company built a fabrication plant here and joined the old-line firm of Ogden Iron Works in supplying the Intermountain area with steel construction and other needs, There kindred are presently over products 140 constituting the manufacturing major plants industrial with activity. food processing Among the and other principal industries located here are printing and publishing, lumber and wood products, apparel and other finished products, primary and fabricated metals, Stone, clay, and glass products and aircraft engines. The largest stock yards also make Ogden an important center for the beef cattle and The National Ram Show is held here each year, and the Golden Show is held annually. Flour mills of this community have a combined Capacity Sheep industry. Spike Livestock greater than balance of the Intermountain territory, and a major portion of Utah’s business is confined within the trade area of the community. the canning tof Oe peer ae, m4 ) ORs Gs ee A portion of the campus of the Weber College in Ogden. Since this picture was taken a new Student Union building is well on its way to completion in the upper center area of the photo below the stadium. (Photo courtesy of CollinsMorris) Coupled very closely with the manufacturing and industrial institutions of Ogden are the larger transportation companies. This community serves as an important terminus for the Southern Pacific Railroad, a junction for the transcontinental Union Pacific System, and a terminus for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. Ogden’s ers acres the importance for Region No. of forestland Continental is further emphasized 4 of the Forest Service. by the location of the headquartThis office supervises 32,000,000 in 20 National Forests in Utah, Southern Idaho, Wyoming Divide, Nevada, and a small Under the supervision of this office, more section to of California. than $1,000,000 per year is spent for forest roads, while it costs the Government in money spent for fire protecThis expenditure and damage is tion and for damage, about $500,000 per year. constantly renewed. |
