The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ogden

OGDEN, Utah, city, county-seat of Weber County, at the junction of the Ogden and Weber rivers, and on the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Rio Grande Western, Oregon Short Line and Salt Lake and Ogden railroads, about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City and 10 miles from Salt Lake. It was founded in 1848, and in 1850, under the direction of Brigham Young (q.v.), it was laid out as a city. In 1851 it received its charter. Ogden is in a fertile agricultural region, and in the vicinity of valuable mines. The opening of the Ogden Cañon is at the city limits, and its grand and picturesque scenery brings many tourists to the place. The water power of the falls is used for the electrical works which supply power, light and heat for Ogden and Salt Lake City. The chief industrial establishments are canneries, pickle factories, beet-sugar factory, woolen mills, cement mills, can factories, cereal establishments, broom factory and brick and tile yards. It has an extensive trade in manufactures and farm products, and is the distributing centre of quite a region with which it is connected by railroads. The educational institutions are the State Industrial School, State Institutions for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, the Weber State Academy (Mormon), the Sacred Heart Academy (Roman Catholic) and public and parish schools. The government which is vested in a mayor, who holds office two years, and a council is of the commission form, which replaced that of 1898. The mayor appoints, subject to approval by the council, the administrative officials except the treasurer, clerk, auditor, police justice and attorney, who are elected by the people. Pop. 29,528.