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Show The OGDEN May 15, 2001 VALLEY NEWS PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Inside This Issue: Spring Time in the Valley Ogden Canyon Club News Page 3 Don’t Forget Ogden Canyon Spring Clean-up Page 3 Former lineman’s lodge isn’t on the county’s records By Brady Snyder, Deseret News staff writer Passport in Time Program Page 4 Animal Services Designed to Help Pets and Pet Owners Page 4 Garden of Eden Ranch Springing with New Life Page 5 IRS Changes Retirement Plan Distribution Rules Page 6 Let’s Go Outside Page 6 Scenic Byway Meeting Scheduled Page 6 Calendar of Events Page 7 Announcements Page 8 Student News Pages 9 - 10 Flowers and Plants: A Simple Way to Splurge on Mom Page 11 Jazz Update Page 11 Public Meeting on Pineview Water Quality Study Set Page 12 Snowbasin Road is Sliding Down Page 13 Clothing of Early Days Pages 14 - 15 Classifieds Page 15 Weber Investigating Ex-NFL Star Jones Beautiful daffodils from a local Eden garden bloom, announcing the arrival of spring to the Valley. Work on the Ogden Canyon Kiln Continues would have to be maintained for about three to four days. After allowing the heated rock to then cool down for a couWhile building the first road through ple of days afterwards, the worker would Ogden Canyon in 1859, James Moroni then clean out the ashes, and use an iron Thomas noticed its abundance of lime- pole to help break apart the heated and stone. He also recognized the urgent need cooled material until it collapsed down for lime in the growing city of Ogden. So, onto the floor of the kiln. Teneal Jensen, U.S. Forest Service in 1865 he constructed the first lime kiln in Ogden Canyon. Eventually he would Archeological Technician at the site, relatoperate three large stone kilns, producing ed how the team of volunteers working on lime for both construction mortar and the kiln restoration have dug out the mateplaster. His largest kiln remains at the rial in front of the kiln where rock and Coldwater Trailhead, but is in a serious debris from the hillside and the deteriorating kiln have state of disrecollected over pair. the years. This kiln Several feet is being of material restored by have had to volunteers be removed, from the and sifted O g d e n through for C a n y o n artifacts. Club, The Stones and O g d e n bricks from Applied the kiln have Technology also been C e n t e r sorted and masonry stucollected dents, and the from the F o r e s t debris. They Service’ n a t i o n a l Photo of the James Moroni Thomas kiln constructed in will be used to rebuild the “Passport in 1865 in Ogden Canyon. structure. Time” program. The Weber County Heritage Firebricks were used inside the burn area Foundation has recognized this kiln as of the kiln, and were most likely imported one of the six most endangered heritage from England. These extraordinary hard sites in the county. Volunteers will work and heat resistant bricks were necessary to for several weeks through May to restore withstand the extended high temperatures the massive structure, and keep it as a vis- used to heat the limestone. Local bricks ible reminder of the county’s rich history. were used for structural purposes, along To produce lime, the kiln oven was with chiseled and shaped rock from the filled with the lime rock from a chute canyon. from the top of the kiln. A trail that ran After removing the loose debris from along the hillside above the kiln was used in front of the kiln’s entryway, Jensen dug to transport the raw rock to the chute. down about an additional 16 inches and Workers would then build a fire under- found part of the old wooden track where neath, inside the entryway at the back of the wagons would have rolled backup to the kiln, begin careful to keep the temperKILN cont. on page 3 atures within the oven regulated. A fire Compiled by Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Staff EDEN, Weber County—Several Weber County agencies are investigating former National Football League star Rulon Jones for, among other things, failing to pay property taxes on a lodge constructed at the exlineman’s for-profit hunting park. The county attorney’s office, assessor’s office, health and building permit departments are all part of the investigation, which began in force this week after officials discovered the lodge. Until a week ago, county officials say they had no knowledge of the 3,600-squarefoot lodge at Jones’ exclusive park—at the base of James Peak next to Wolf Creek near Powder Mountain ski resort—where hunters pay to shoot elk, deer and moose. County officials say the lodge went unnoticed since Jones never got a building permit, septic tank permit or a food service license. With no legal records of the lodge’s existence, Weber County assessment director Randy Kelly said zero property tax has been paid on the lodge, which Jones says was built in 1999. “We can’t assess it or tax it if we don’t INVESTIGATION cont. on page 2 The Rumor is Still Just a Rumor By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Staff Rumors that Powder Mountain ski resort has been sold have been flying around the Valley for sometime. But the Cobabe family, current owners of the resort, say that this is still just a rumor. But Dr. Alvin Cobabe did concede that the resort has been for sale for over ten years. Cobabe says that, “though it has never been formally listed or actively marketed, if the right person or company comes along with the financing, the family owned and operated business would be let go.” Dr. Cobabe cited age and health of family members as the main reason that the family would be willing to part with the resort. The health issues and a desire to retire from the business are the motivating factors. Dr. Cobabe also stated that because of a good management team currently running the operation of the resort, there is no big hurry to sale the recreational area. Until that time comes, it will be business as usual for the Cobabe family. Dr. Cobabe did say that there have been many interested in purchasing the ski area over the years, though no one, yet, has come up with the assets to finance the purchase. “For such a large investment, the ski industry isn’t always the best money maker for the capital that has to be pumped back into it. It takes a unique type of buyer.” So, at least for a while longer, the rumor is still just a rumor. |