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Show UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION SUPPLEMENT PACE SIX CIVIC ACTIVITIES Ogden Water Supply The Best in Area First Class Condition Ogden Streets Are in Construction Work Being: Done By Ogden x ,1' xs ' X x ' J" 'f V 'V J rul !e wok o by the Lif" department' of Ogden City along engineering linof" that will in nio-- t cases fill a Con-Ji- t ;'vea cl want and tend to place the eliy a in a much hotter position to prepress than has been possible for some time. For instance, considerable time and effort is being spent in the proper mapping- and locution of city monuments and c'ty owned propeities, including sd lefts, alleys, ote., v. hich have for a number of yenis been neglected; a pump i i being installed it the artesian Ps w ich the iew t delei n.iring the possible additional flow of vatT that wells may be bed from our pre-en under by jumping the li awn-doartificial tlow. After n ririco of tests alo: g thi, line hae been completed we v ill be in a position to doteiminc mt.ch latter the potir.tial v.a'er sup-pl- y fiom this source. Lights have been installed at the eiipoit, bunging one airport to somewhat of a parity with oilier fields and enabling this city to be placed on the map for night flying and for night landing for mail and commercial planes. While every effoit has also been made to the accomplishment of our FKLD E. VII.LI AVS This struclong discussed stadium. Coinmmumei of Ogdt n ture will be completed and ready fot use by August 15. Work on the structure began Friday, June G. The necessary steps have been taken to clarify the deeds regulating The original plan for wide the transfer of certain lands involved has pioven of tiemendous value in in the construction of the municipal sob. ing many problems of traffic. Togolf course from the state to Ogden day Ogden has 2G1 mile--- of streets, of City, and the continued piogress of which" 10 miles are paved and many this municipally-owne- d course is now other miles macadamized. insured. The natural conditions have proWe are endeavoring, and to a cer- vided ample opportunity for constructtain degree are succeeding in adjusta sewage system with ample fall ing ing our delinquent tax situation to the and a storm sewage system that aids point where Ogdens special municipal materially in disposing of surplus bonds will soon be worth par and that waters from rains. These same natfurther municipal development can be ural conditions have provided the opembaiked upon with the assurance to portunity for building a city water public owners that such municipal im- system for which no pressure pumpprovement will not be done at a pro- ing has been necessary. From reser-voihibitively high cost to them because fed by dozens of artesian wells, of the low value of special bonds which municipal distributing sysOgdens now exists. tem takes water, under natural The matter of revision and to every section of the city. The wells that tap an underOgden City ordinances is well forty-thre- e under way. When this very large and ground flow of water in Ogden valley, important task has been completed supplying Ogden with pure, sparkling the resultant effect to Ogden City and water of highest value, are just a part its citizens in general will be very far of this boundless natural wealth with We have been fortunate which Ogden, as a community, has leaching. indeed in that Ogden City has been endowed. been free of many fires of magnitude, Recently Ogden has been developresulting in loss of life or property; ing one of its greater natural reand, considering inadequate equipment sources its parks along Ogden river and shortage of personal help which from the mouth of Ogden canyon to we are able to supply at this time, we Washington avenue, directly through feel that this situation is being han- the residential district between the dled in a most satisfactory manner. main travelled highWe also feel that the matter of of Utah and one of the worlds way public safety is being placed on a greatest scenic drives. Rolling hills much higher plane of efficiency, and and valleys are being utilized to build the department is securing much betthis scream a playground for ter cooperation than has existed for along Ogden and its friends. some time. Our city has been exOgden is being builded substantialtremely fortunate in the small num- ly upon this foundation of natural ber of major crimes committed; and, those w'hich provide comfort, while we still do and always will have for the coma small number of petty offenses, the safety, and happiness munity. situation is w'ell in hand. Ogdens municipal activities are diOur police department is functioninto numerous departments vided ing in a manner highly satisfactory to two commissionthe officials in charge as can ba easily guided by the mayor, departmental heads. shown by the increased number of ers, and numeious of finance, fines collected during the past two At the head andthe public public affairs disafety, public months, even with a very small police vision is Ora Bundy, with Comdepartment which makes it difficult missionerMayor J. Rackham in William to cover the districts as we would like to have them covered. In general, the charge of streets and sewers; CommisFred E. Williams having charge affairs of the city seem to be in a sioner the waterworks department. The healthy condition which points to con- of health department is under gentinued growth and prosperity. And public of Commissioner eral supervision around the corner we can see just the and Rackhe m, parks directed by every indication that the present un- Commissioner Williams. employment condition will be relieved The commission form of government and general prosperity will result for has been effective in Ogden for nearly ail. twenty years. Civil service regarding police and fire department appointWell ments has been the law during the past two administrations. Chief of Ogdens municipal activities at the present time are the folBy W. E. ZUPPANN Located on ground selected by pio- lowing: neer trappers and traders as ideally Operation of fire and police departgeographically, platted under direction ments and also health department as of that great western development matters of public safety; leader, Brigham Young, built by the Improvement and maintenance of same men whose genius attracted na- public streets and sidewalks as a mattional attention to their family names ter of traffic regulation and facility; in later years, Ogden has had subBuilding and operation of sewage stantial basis for municipal progress. system, operation of garbage collecIts handicaps have been compara- tion system, and control through intively few, unless one takes the desert spection of food supplies, all for the as a handicap and mountain foothills public health. as an obstacle. Its natural resources Operation and maintenance of adeaffecting community life have proven quate water supply system; abundant. Development of Ogden parks for Until the early nineties, Ogdens recreational purposes, including stagrowth had been that of any small dium, municipal golf course, playwestern pioneer and then came the grounds, and similar features underwith its resultant declines. way or planned; boom, Since that time, however, Ogdens Development of Ogden airport. growth has been very consistent. The Thus, Ogden is seeking the utilizathermometer of its census reports tion of those natural resources which shows steady rising of the mercury it has and the development of them column. With that progress, of ne- for the present and future utilization cessity, has come municipal growth. of its citizens. i VlvW Vi v. is pres-sure- north-and-sou- th ' V 1 K V - V i &: MVyX ' t, . .! I 1 , j ' f. 4 'V - ' p' fX'' s V s .. 4 s0 ' V. WM. J. RACKHAM Commissioner of Otfden ORA BUNDY Mayor of Ot?dtn Ogden Airport Is Ideally Situated By I.AWREXCE CLAYTON The municipal airport at Ogden is beautifully situated some two miles :outh of the ciiy limits on the high ground overlooking the city proper and the entire Salt Lake valley to the west, including the shimmering waters of the lake itself. The transconti-highwa- y passes alongside the airport, and the Union Pacific main line track is only a mile or so to the south, where it emeiges from the Weber canyon. Only two or three miles to the west of the airport the main line of the Union Pacific, north and south, passes, so that Airport Ogden is beautifully situated at the coiner of main highways, both motor and rail, radiating in all directions from Ogden. The mighty Wasatch range running north and south to the east of the great Salt Lake valley forms a formidable burner for the aviator who must cross it. The Weber canyon gateway, through which the Union Pa cific railroad runs from Evanston to Ogden, is the lowest pass through this range. In case of poor visibility or storm, the airmail pilots make it a practice to leave the official lane and sw'ing through Weber canyon. Thus Ogden is by nature destined to become the ultimate junction point for transcontinental air trafiic, as she has long been in railway traffic. Airport Ogden comprises a high but flat tract ot six hundred acres, all of v hich is gravelly land which drains perfectly and is never muddy, even after the severest rains. This is an additional advantage afforded by very few airports. The tract was purchased by the city under a lease and option in the year 1928, and promptly wTas made a regular stop on the National Parks Airways route between Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Montana. The city has also erected a waiting room with telephone, drinking water, and other necessary facilities. The field is well equipped with a revolving beacon and is completely surrounded by marker lights, as well as danger lights. The completion of this installation was celebrated by an on May 1 of this year. The Chamber of Commerce Aviation committee has for its program the .hinent of Weber canyon as an alternate airmail route, with the proper lights, and the inclusion of Ogden as a regular stop on the Varney lu.es route from Portland to Salt Lake I ity. Commercial Operations On March 1, 1929, Messrs. D. R. Biimhall and Robert H. Hinckley organized the Union Pacific Airways, Incorporated since changed to Utah Paul tc Airways for the purpose of operating planes for hire, establishing a flyrng senool, and distributing planes Their in the intermountain country. first ship was received the same month and three more were recived the same year, one of which was sold to a private puichaser at Boise. y A very noteworthy event in the y of aviation was a tup made by Mr. Brimhall with his wite and .tw children in the com panys Travelair cabin monoplane. The journey began at Ogden, continued to New York, and after a few days the return flight was made. So far as is known, this is the first cross-counttrip ever made in this country by an Another interesting entire family. feature of the trip was the fact that sonic fifty years before Mrs. Brim hall's mother had crossed the plains from the Missouri river to Ogden in eight weeks. The daughter and grandchildren made the journey by air over the identical route in slightly over eight hours. The flying school of Utah Pacific Airways has already soloed fifteen students hailing from various points The in the intermountain country. average cost of a course at this school is considerably under that of other schools of the country, being approximately $200. The school is gaining in size and the company plans to make physical enlargements so as to take caie of the increasing patronage of the school. This company is the only distributor of airplanes in either Utah or Idaho and has the agency of the cele- brated Travelair line. air carnival his-toi- cross-countr- ry For Rapid Progress i s i V ifS I fr It vV'VA v ukk i f c-- Commissioner The'-comments about Ogden only relate to some of the activities of the street department. A great deal could he sahl about the engineering department and the health department. At tins time, I want to say that these two departments are functioning in a very able manner. The street department, during the past four months, under the super-vi'io- n of James S. McGregor, has been kept very busy. The new administration was greeted in office by a very heavy snow storm. During our first tin eo weeks in office we spent $4,076 for the removal of snow alone. The public should know that the removal of snow was by no means all of the work done on the streets at that time, however. Some work was also done on repairing and maintenance of streets and on the repair a id maintenance of culverts, bridges, and waterways. When the removal of snow was no longer a problem, upon the coming of milder weather, the street department immediately became busily engaged in cleaning paved streets and grading the dirt streets. In the business district, paved streets have been washed and cleaned daily, and in the residence districts the paved streets have been flushed on an average of once every five days. The gutters in the business district have been cleaned daily, and on paved streets in the residence distiict as often as the streets have been flushed. The dirt streets in Ogden have practically all been graded three times this year. We have in Ogden 201 miles of streets, of which 40 miles are paved. Some work is being done on the repairing of curbs and gutters, of which we have 82 miles in the city. Also some attention is being paid to sidewalks, of which we have 130 miles. The street department men are also under the direction of the city engineer flushing the sanitary sewer system, of w'hich we have 82 miles. We have maintained a complete working force of men in the street department since the first of the year. During the period of the heavy snow fall, we employed many extra men. It has been the policy of the street department to try to work as many men as possible, as we realize that the employment situation since the first of the year has not been the best. We have tried to supply as much work as possible to married men with families who are residents of this city. The new administration has maintained a free employment agency since its induction into office. Of course, the city has been unable, itself, to employ a large percentage of the men registered here, but we have furnished employment to a considerable number of needy persons at a fair wage. We have had many men offer to go to work at wages much below the standard scale, but the city has maintained its wage scale and kept up its personnel in an endeavor to maintain good economic conditions. The city expects to open up all streets which have been fenced up by different individuals in various parts of the city. We believe that by opening up and grading such streets, it will increase the property values on the streets and will help such districts to be built up faster. Early this spring we had a cleanin the city. This period up week really ran over a period of two weeks, owing to the large amount of rubbish which was put out at the curbs by various home owners. The street department took care of hauling away this rubbish. The street department endeavors, during the entire year, to gather up the rubbish which naturally accumulates in the gutters, but the street department does not pick up the garbage. The city has entered into a contract with a business corporation to gather up kitchen garbage and ashes which aie placed on the curbs in the residence districts in containers. I shall conclude my article by stating that we are planning to do as much as we can to improve the streets as funds as our disposal will permit dur.ng the remainder of this year. par-Ccul- ar Located Ogden By FRED E. WILLI By WM. J. RACKHAM BUNDV Mayor I!j OR , local automobiles and teams, the other 1 j: 41 . x 5 A : : T4 1 i; high-spee- c T A'V .l ..T' is HANGAR AT OGDEN AIRPORT. south city limits by Route No. 30S. Route No. 91 is either paved or oiled from the state line on the north to a point ten miles south of Nephi, a distance of 210 miles. Route No. 30S By B. J. FINCH is improved and oiled from Ogden to Ogden ic the center of a network of Morgan on the cast. Within two years county, state, and federal highways. this road will be improved and oiled The main north and south road, Fed- from the Wyoming line near Evanseral Route No. 91, is' joined at the ton to the Idaho line at Strevell. On the east, the Ogden canyon road is paved to Huntsville in Ogden valley. Oiied roads also extend to South Fork canyon and to Liberty. On the west a paved highway extends to Plain City, and an oiled road to Hooper. Work is now under way on the new routhwert entrance road from D'mG. Cine to West Ogden, five road n now under contract for raving with concrete. fc'iv. Paved Roads Lead to Ogden From All Ways v m d for through travel. When these additional roads are built, the network will be complete and Ogden will have as adequate a road system as it is possible to conceive. Future growth of through travel will require the widening of Route No. 91 to forty feet paved width in order to accommodate four lines of travel. This need will become so apparent with the increase of travel that within a few years the additional work will be deemed a necessity. twit, Tli re is need for further develop- f er nt of the roads on the west leading u ihe fa.'i'ing communities, on the . t f o Ogden canyon to Weber crayon and on the south there must ' (.cp;,d a prw shorter route between Ogden and Farmington. Travel n tnp esent road between Ogden and Salt Lake Cby is becoming so heavy that in the interests of safety and speed of travel, two roads are necessary, one for slow moving trucks, MS Commissioner In regard to the water F.uptJy of Ogden City, we are sure that Ogdon has been blessed with one of the most wonderful water systems in the country. Our artesian wells provide the best water supply in all of this vast area. At the present time we are supplying to the citizens of Ogden approximately 17,000,000 gallons daily, water coming from these wonderful wells in Ogden valley. This supply we are guarding jealously, striving as far as funds will permit to provide means that will assure conservation. To do this we are arranging for installation of meters, which we intend to do at the rate of 10,000 or more meters per ear. It is hoped that this step will bring a reduction in per capita consumption. Now we are using 300 gallons per capita daily. We want to reduce this to near 150 gallons. If we can not reduce this consumption, it will become necessary during the hot months to have our supply increased by canyon streams. We would like to eliminate this use of mountain stream water. The wonderful Ogden water supply is the heritage of Ogden citizens. Each should take an individual interest in its proper safeguard and control. Each citizen should watch the consumption of water and endeavor to control its use as waste brings nothing to anyone. Each person should cooperate with the waterworks department in this control of the water. This water, taken from Ogdens wonderful wells through great pipe lines to two reservoirs at the east level of Ogden City, is conducted through a system of water mains to every part of Ogden, without pumping. So high are these reservoirs, with a capacity of 22,000,000 gallons, that this gravity system can be handled successfully, easily and economically. As a result, the municipally owned waterworks system of Ogden has been able to provide a revenue of $75,000 yearly for a number of years. This revenue has beeh put in the general fund for operating the municipality, thereby relieving the taxpayers of this amount yearly. In conclusion, let me quote from one of the Ogden chamber of commerce reports regarding this wonderful water supply: streams gushing from Forty-thre- e 150 feet below the surface, supply the city of Ogden with water, clear, cool and absolutely pure. Its source is the rain and snow deposited in the ravines and over the slopes which extend in crescent form outward and backward from Artesian park, about ten miles from Ogden, where these wells are located. Sinking through the surface on these distant slopes to bed rock, this water percolates miles on miles through sand and gravel located far below any possible contact with vegetable or animal matter. Finally the myriad underground streamlets converge near the eastern end of Ogden canyon where an upthrust of solid ledge rock forms a natural barrier across the canyon and checks the underground streams in their downward flow, thus forcing complete saturation of the immense deposit of gravel which comes to within 150 feet of the surface at the place where these wells are located. Science could not devise and nature never has devised a more nearly perfect system for providing water 100 per cent pure. The level area overlying the gravelly deposit just above the eastern end of Ogden canyon has been acquired by Ogden City and there the wells have been bored, the average depth being 150 feet. This level area owned by the city has been named Artesian park; it is located 500 feet higher than the city and water gushing from its underground sources is conducted through an underground pipe line, about nine miles long, to reservoirs on high ground in the eastern edge of the municipality. This gravity pressure is so strong that it is necessary to reduce it by employing four regulators. The wells are located in Ogden valley, about ten miles east of the city, and are reached by trolley line or via auto through the famous Ogden canyon, over the finest paved mountain highway in the world. The canyon and wells are visited each year by thousands of tourists en route to Yellowstone park, the routing of the tours calling for a stopover at Ogden and a trip to the canyon and wells. The cost of the artesian wells development to date, including the pumping plant, is approximately $75,000. The entire city water system represents an investment of $1,335,000. V ' " 'tf tv r - 5v v, . t if rtf-,t . f - rfc ' " t t V , .. - . ; , ,"- '$ JV ,rt fj rr r 4 Lr" f 4 - V. i . s P J lit' . J" V a. 1 - jrtL ... ' ; 'Ji la Vf ' - Ji iRTESIAN WELLS A SOURCE OF OGDENS PURE WATER SUPPLY .iv-:- -. CITY HALL PARK AND HOTEL BIGELOW IN BACKGROUND - |