| Show OGDEN VALLEY of ogden don valley to ie one of those pleasant utah summer resorts which in the winter season is in seldom visited by persons persona whose homes are situated in warmer climes often in past seasons when whelk the roads in tue valley below would be dry and dusty snow would cover the ground in this more elevated valley to 10 the depth of several feet this winter howe however verg has so far been an exception to the general rule as there la barely snow enough here at present to afford a sleigh ride in driving up from ogden the dinst I 1 found the road dry and almost dusty to in places until I 1 reached the he mouth of the canyon thence for the next three miss bodies it was slippery and hard with att until the snow limits were reached near the point where the hermitage ermitage ff a favorite summer re ort rt for stands in the shade of 4 a romantic mountain from there abd A bd until ogden valley Is reached the was somewhat deeps deep and the wind which blew us as I 1 pasted 01 ajai ajpi cold I 1 d pud and piercing but on n t the he open valley the atmos fi eang ore f re at on once oe became milder and the decade cape at the same time quite sUr attractive active of the thirteen miles which ich inter intervene between Og oden denand and there is abaft about eight j miles of canyon road pr operas the distance t I 1 from ogden to the mouth of the ajon Is nearly three miles and HUdi huntsville eville is situated about two miles bave the head of the canyon the road only crosses the river twice oden valley is about fifteen miles longs long extending from norta to 60 beast and has an average width of bout four miles its mean altitude above sea level is about feet or nearly arly feet above the great salt lake biake consequently only the hardier lode of fruit grain and vegetables aa ka be raised a successfully u ocessa u I 1 ly the au surface ff f the valley is considerably broken ly oy the turee three main forks of tue the birden river and their smaller tributaries tributa ries which cur through the country these three main streams actively known as aa the south middle and north forks form thelden the Oden Ogden river proper immediately above the head ut of the canyon where they ikey all come together to form one main otia ot iannel which during the long centuries past bas cut its way through the main X of the wasatch moun mountains taints io ia order emer to send the batera foru the ji melting snows in the mountain ays tome terns farther east into inco the great inland sea from the enormous lake Boun uville finally confined itself to the present boundaries of the great salt lake the ogden river drains an extensive mountain country lying east aud and northeast of the valley of the same name the latter was un doubt edly formed in prehistoric pre pro historic times by the actions of the vast amount of waters which must have accumulated here before an unobstructed channel was cut through the mountains west ward huntsville the principal settlement in ogden valley is beautifully situated on an elevated bench lying between the south fork and spring creek the town is laid out in regular eight acre blocks the streets cressi crossing tig each other at right angles facing the public square from the north stands the huntsville meetinghouse a flue brick structure with a lofty and finely shaped tower on the south end immediately east of this lies a recently erected two story brick schoolhouse one of the finest country school build ings in the count county and wes weal of the public square stands the old rook meetinghouse which was used for many years for meetings school and social purposes there are quite a number of handsome and commodious dwellings in huntsville and nearly every settler has large and comfortable stables and barns which indeed are necessary considering the hard winters generally Hene rally experienced in this high attitude altitude the place has a population latin of about one thousand people ot of whom souls soula or families are latter day saints constituting the largest waid wad la in the weber stake of zion outside of ogden city about three fourths of the people are of scandinavian frigis huntsville Hunt ville has perhaps furnished as many missionaries for foreign fields fieldsa as any sany other settlement of the in the moun mou calus mains and luring aho recent prosecution of suspected or real transgressors gres I 1 sore of the edmunds edmunda EJ munda law huntsville seemed to be a lavor ite rendezvous for the united states deputy marshals who were in weir their zeal to uphold the majesty of thelah 01 their adventures however were not always fraught with success as the 61 tricky descendants of tho theold old of the far north often became invisible duft vt as the representatives of the law after having encountered cou a the storms storma a and ad 9 aws 0 we of ef the he t canyon at made their in the streets of the slum alum ering boring village these experiences however now belong to the he past as the good people 0 of ogden valley are complying with the law and the nightly raids of marshals and their deputies belong to the histo rio ric bygone the bishop of an is our genial and hospitable friend david mckay of scottish mission fame and his bis counselors are soren ij petersen and C F who have both performed successful missions to their native land P C gretten Gre Gr taen etsen extensively known from his long mia career in denmark ilso also resides at tiis place eden is the next settlement of am m in ogden valley unlike huntsville where most of the be people live jive on the townsite most of the people of the eden ward reside in a scattered condition on their farms and only a small per of them occupy a cluster of houses surrounding the pub lio lie square which constitute the village of eden where the school house the he only public building in the place is situated the village lies about four f 1 11 and a half m miles it as from hants Honts huntsville ville ita iba north northwesterly westerly wee terly direction and about the same distance from ogden as its neigh 1 I h boring town the E eden jen ward whim last year numbered latter day saints or 90 families has ban recently been divided into two wards the upper portion of the same being set off and organized into a separate ward named liberty the bishop of eden is elder josiah M ferrin who for many years has been a public man and has haa als served one term in the utah legislature after spead speeding ing sunday with wilh the Saint ikin huntsville I 1 add addressed an appreciative and audience benoe io 14 eden on monday evening lastant last la stand and yesterday proceeded to liberty where spoke to the saints in their new school house last night liberty ward embracing the saints residing in a scattered condi conditto conditio tio in the upper or northwest north west end of ogden valley bids bid a fair to become a prosperous locality in the near future with such good neighbors as eden on the south and paradise on the north it certainly has advantages which no other settlement ui in utah can boast of elders judkins Jud klus wade and ferrin constitute the bishopric of liberty ward which embraces about half the mem members berv that formerly constituted the eden ward before it was divided it was wag in the south portion of that district ot country now included in the liberty ward when the first permanent settlers of ogden valley erected their pioneer cabins in 1869 1859 previous to that time the valley was utilized as ae a summer herd hard ground for the benefit of the people of ogden and vicinity and for many years it was considered too cold for actual settlement but since that time the lord has tempered the elements in favor of his people and several kinds of grain fruit and vegetables vage tables which in early utah days men raised with difficulty even in our lower and warmest valleys now do well in this locality ANDREW jenson J LIBERTY weber co rutih jan 24 1893 |
