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Show rs INTRODUCTION . S : : SA Sie Y & ; : ; SS ‘ SEEN SSS ab reae Weber 3 brady pes = Ps 3 Bs County = Peay : . “OER BOR Library, ne Se oe RM ere : Patera eR SE AZ eee ees ae : 2 . i ee ie ate oe ee RCCRE TD SOAR s Se : aeae: ee Ree whe bs 2464 Jefferson Av. Ogden, e, ee. meng ‘: Utah 84401 CITY STA TIS TICS-- Total street mileage 215, with face, 204 miles of sewers 199.8 miles of hard sur. Capacity of municipal water 36,000,000 gallons, average daily consumption with of 16,500,000 gallons. 221. 3 miles of mains. Total water storage is 64,210 26 pieces of motor ,413 gallons. Fire dep artment has 116 Equipment which is val ued at $1,000, 000, men, 9 stations, 000,000. Police departmen buildings at $3,t has 100 men and 28 wom en, one Station, 58 pieces of motor Equipment, 3 rad ar units and a 2-way radi o patrol system. HISTORY Ogden was named for the Huds on Bay Fur Company represen Skene Ogden, who trapped in tative, Peter the area around 1826, Fifteen years later the Mexican government granted to Miles Goodyear, trader and trapper, ‘‘all the land between the mountain and the lake,’’ Goodyear built a log cabin for his home, the first in Utah, and it is now Standing at the Ogde n Tabernacle Square, Brigham Young led a group of colonizers from Salt Lake City 1850 to lay out the city which was to Ogden in legally incorporated in 1861, It was on May 10th, 1869 that the Union Pacific and the Cent ral Pacific were united at Promontory Summ it, west of Ogden, On May 10th, 1969, national and inter-national attention focu sed on Ogden as the Golden Spik e Centennial of the historic event was celebrated in Utah, GEOLOGY During the Pleistocene era, the land whichis now Ogden, Utah was resting Some 850 feet deep on the bottom of Lake Bonneville, the waters of which drained into the Pacific Ocea n, As the lake receded, it left a series of bench marks, clearly defined even today on the east boundry of the City, Another geological phenomenon of the area is the Wasatch Fault , exposed just above the bench marks, It is a prime example of a Slipping of the earth's crust in a vertical plane, with the upper Segment naving projected itself up and over the lower one, This has created the effect of the upper segm ent tilting skyward and is particularly evident in the vicinity of the mout h of Ogden Canyon, The soil in the area is a Sandy loam with clay and gravel at relat ively shallow depths, Utah stands first in the nation in term s of varieties of minerals, some which are undeveloped, Of major of importance are the non-ferrous metals (copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold) , iron ore, coal, petroleum and natural gas, pany will result in the initial harv est evaporation ponds in the Bear River in 1970, This harvest will be from Delta near Little Mountain, OGDEN solar TODAY Ogden today finds itself in the envia ble position of having a balanced economy, steady population growth, widen ing cultural horizons and idea] livin g |
