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Show INTRODUCTION X See Weber County Library, 2464 Jefferson Av. Ogden, ae Utah 84401 CITY STA TIS TICS-- Total street mileage 215, with 199.8 miles of hard surwith face, 204 miles of sewers. Capacity of municipal water 36,000,000 gallons, Total mains. of miles 221.3 gallons. 0 16,500,00 average daily consumption of 5 stations, water storage is 64,210,413 gallons. Fire department has 116 men, at $3,buildings 0, $1,000,00 at valued is which equipment motor of 26 pieces pieces 58 station, one women, 28 000,000. Police department has 100 men and system. patrol radio 2-way anda units radar of motor equipment, 3 HISTORY Sometime after the receding of Lake Bonneville, a simple hunting and seed-gathering Indian population dwelt along the banks of the Weber and Ogden al rivers and within the present-day Ogden City Limits, Later, this agricultur tribes latter these of people was replaced by nomadic Indian tribes. Many were in the area when the white man cume into the valley. tive, Peter Ogden was named for the Hudson Bay Fur Company representa later the years Fifteen 1826, around Skene Ogden, who trapped in the area ‘‘all the trapper, and trader Goodyear, Miles to granted Mexican government his for cabin log a land between the mountain and the lake,’’ Goodyear built Square, e Tabernacl Ogden the at standing home, the first in U'ah, and it is now City to Ogden in Brigham Young led a group of colonizers from Salt Lake 1861. in ed incorporat 1850 to lay out the city which was legally It was on May 10th, 1869 that the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific 1969, national were united at Promontory Summit, west of Ogden,On May 10th, Centennial of Spike Golden the as Ogden on focused and inter-national attention Utah. in ted celebra was event the historic GEOLOGY was resting During the Pleistocene era, the land whichis now Ogden, Utah which of waters the le, Bonnevil Lake of bottom the on deep some 850 feet of bench series a left it drained into the Pacific Ocean, As the lake receded, city. the of boundry east the on today marks, clearly defined even exposed Another geological phenomenon of the area is the Wasatch Fault, earth’s the of slipping a of example just above the bench marks, It is a prime up itself d projecte having segment upper the with crust in a vertical plane, segment tiltand over the lower one. This has created the effect of the upper of Ogden ing skyward and is particularly evident in the vicinity of the mouth Canyon, y The soil in the area is a sandy loam with clay and gravel at relativel shallow depths. , some of Utah stands first in the nation in terms of varieties of minerals metals rous non-fer the are nce importa major Of ped. which are undevelo natural gas. (copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold), iron ore, coal, petroleum and of worth dollars billion 84 than more that indicate Geological surveys A 30 milchemicals are contained in the saline waters of the Great Salt Lake, ls Comlion dollar investment by the Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemica from solar be will harvest This 1970. in harvest initial the in result will pany , Mountain Little near Delta evaporation ponds in the Bear River OGDEN TODAY Ogden today finds itself in the enviable position of having a balanced economy, steady population growth, widening cultural horizons and ideal living |
