Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 3 | A Highly Prosperous Year

II" : A HIGHLY PROSPEROUS YEAR. I I "With the coming of spring, extensive plans are maturing for l ' improvements in and around Ogden which will call for the expend- 1 i itures of large sums during the construction fjcriod of 1920. E ' The city of Ogden alone is mapping out work which will rc- I quire the outlay of approximately $1,000,000, including the outfall L' , ( sewer, extending six miles from Twenty-first street and Wall avenue L to the district northwest of the city. I A contract has been let for 19 blocks of paving, which is said L to be the largest single paving program ever attempted in any Utah I North "Washington is to be paved on the east side, and the street railway is to reconstruct its line from Ogdon river to the north lim- its of the tcily and meet the demands of the. city's specifications as Y to paving. Gardner & Co. are working on the stretch of road from the south limits of Ogden to Rivci'dalc, and connecting with this there is to be erected, .jointly by the state and the Union Pacific railroad, a viaduct .at the crossing of the Union Pacific railroad so long re-I re-I garded .as a source of clanger. A new bridge is to be built over the I Weber river. New sewers are to be constructed in the southwest part of the Of all the new work to be started this spring none will be so important, as bearing on the future of Ogden, as the ordnance depot directly south of the Weber river. Government surveyors are running run-ning lines on the ground and doing the preliminary mapping of that region, where millions of dollars are to be expended in the establishing es-tablishing of an inner line of defense for the protection of the Pacific Pa-cific coast. Following the building of the ordnance depot will come other government activities, including three hard surface roads from j Ogden to the coast, making this city the hub. The big grain elevators are going ahead with their flour mills winch will have a total capacity of from 5000 to 6000 barrels of flour The Union Pacific railroad is to double track to Evanston and perhaps to Granger. "With all these avenues of employment opening, the workers of Ogden should be Looking forward to the most prosperous period in the history of this community.