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Show jj ag OGDEN PEAK IS NAME OF THE MOUNTAIN I "Ogden Peak" is the name by I which our local observatory should j bo known rather than Observatory 1 1 peak, as it has been called for many l years. Rev. Frank G. Bralnerd, inlj searching among the government i a publications of fifty years ago, dls- covered today that there Is no foun- dation whatever for calling the prom- p inent, "Observatory peak," "that name I having been used solely by the pub- t lie In referring to the government's fi observatory monument at the top of 9 the peak and to distinguish one from another of three established points of I triangulation. jj The first survey point was known B as the Salt Lake base line, which ex- K tended for about seven miles in the P vicinity of Hooper and was marked V by a stone monument at each end. ' The second point was located at the c old railroad station, the elevation of L which was given as 4,312 feet above 1 sea level. Another point was es- tabllshed at a height of 4,390 feet t and was known as Ogden Observa- I tory. It is bcliced that this was lo- h cated somewhere on the brow of the fi bench above the Reed hotel, al- though some are of the opinion that J it was located at the City hall. As I there is practically a water level g from the City hall to the Union sta- ij tion, the first mentioned theory is j regarded as the moro plausible. j It is made quite clear that the top of 'the mountain was formerly known i as Ogden peak -and that onlv a coiij fusion of terms and later ignorance of the facts has lead to the error of calling it Observatory peak. j The government's figures Tor the . I altitudo of the peak arc 9,592 feet above sea level. In ascending the peak recently Mr. : Brainerd and Harry Beauvard of the forest service established the altitude of several points passed on the trail. At the mouth of Taylor's canyon the altitude was found to be 5,100 feet and at Malan's point, 6,700 feet, a difference of 1.C00 feet Another interesting altitude established es-tablished was that of which flows out of the mountain side at a point usually usu-ally designated bv the amateur climber as "just below the peak." Tho spring is S.700 feet above sea level or nearly 900 feet below the point The Ogden . Publicity bureau is making a thorough investigation to determine the proper name for the mountain and the general opinion prevails that it will henceforth be known and advertised as ''Ogden peak " eo |