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perpetuating the National Irrigation Congress will be 

 presented at Ogden, one so simple in fact/that it will be 

 accepted as not only advisable but necessary to avoid 

 the evils that will surely follow upon any dissolution of 

 its organization. More than this, THE IRRIGATION AGE 

 is not at liberty to state. When the proper time comes, 

 however, the plan will be so vigorously pressed, and 

 such substantial reasons given for its adoption, that the 

 only opponents will be those who have personal reasons 

 for establishing a scheme of their own, one which will 

 certainly not be for the best interests of the great army . 

 of irrigators. 



OGDEN CITY, UTAH, 



WHERE THE CONGRESS WILL BE HELD. 



Ogden City, Utah, where the Eleventh National 

 Irrigation Congress will be held, is one of the most 

 beautiful cities between the Mississippi river and the 

 Pacific ocean. The altitude of the city is 4,301 feet 

 above the level of the sea. No city in the West is better 

 located. It is situated on the foot hills of the Wasatch 

 range, mountains that rise majestically and form a 

 beautiful background to the city. Ten miles to the west 

 is the Great Dead Sea of America Great Salt Lake. 

 Between this lake and Ogden City is Great Salt Lake 

 valley with its productive fields of grain, vegetables and 

 fruits. The entire valley is dotted with trees that have 

 been planted since the arrival of Brigham Young in 

 Utah. 



It is the great railroad center between Denver and 

 San Francisco, being the center of the Harriman system 

 of 30,000 miles of railroad and the end of the Gould sys- 

 tem. The Union Pacific, the Central Pacific, the Rio 

 Grande, Western, the Oregon Short Line and the Ogden 

 and Great Western railroads have their termini there. 

 A large union depot is used by all the roads. The Cen- 

 tral Pacific railroad now runs north from Ogden around 

 Great Salt Lake, but at present the railroad is building 

 a cut-off across the north arm of Great Salt Lake, 

 which will reduce the distance forty-five miles, thirty-five 

 miles of trestle work being built over the Great Dead 

 Sea of America, which will be filled in on each side with 

 dirt and rock 100 feet wide, with only a bridge in the 

 center for the water to pass through as well as to 

 accommodate the boats on Great Salt Lake. Over 2,000 

 men are today busily engaged in this greatest of modern 

 engineering feats. 



The railroad facilities naturally make Ogden a job- 

 bing point, and the large wholesale interests of the 

 intermountain country are located there. 



The climate and sanitary features are first-class. 

 The city is reported to have the finest sewerage system 

 in the entire West, being a gravity system, and the cli- 

 mate is such that the reports show that Ogden has less 

 than ten deaths out of each 1,000 population, and this 

 rate includes the deaths of those who go to Ogden in 

 the hope of gaining health, who have been given up by 

 their physicians in the East and whose last hope was the 

 invigorating Utah climate. 



The city has a splendid electric street car system, 

 electric lighting plant, as well as gas plants for heating 

 and illumination. 



It is a natural location for beautiful homes, the city 

 being located at the junction of the Ogden and Weber 

 rivers which flow between the mountains on each side 

 of the city through two great canyons, thus forming air 

 currents through the mountains directly over the city, 



making it cool and healthful during the warm summer 

 months. 



Accompanying this article will be found a few illus- 

 trations of the many beautiful residences in the city as 

 well as a few of the substantial business structures. A 

 glance at the illustrations will show that the buildings 

 in Ogden City are erected for permanency, thus indicat- 

 ing the confidence the people of Ogden have in her 

 future. The city is growing, not with boom methods, 

 but in a substantial and permanent manner. The 1900 

 census gives the city a population of 16,350. Since then 

 there has been a growth of over 3,000 population per 

 year, and it is now estimated the city has a population 

 of over 25,000 people. The completion of the cut-off 

 across Great Salt Lake, which is a most important fac- 

 tor in locating the termini of all the railroads at Ogden, 

 alone, is a guarantee of the continued growth of the city. 

 The Central Pacific Railroad Company has had for sev- 

 eral years past their shops in operation here. At the 

 present time, however, the joint Harriman systems are 

 constructing shops of gigantic proportions, which will 

 be the greatest combination of railroad shops west of 

 Omaha, and will employ all told, over 1,000 men. 



Ogden City has an electric power plant, said to have 

 possibilities second only to the great electric power plant 

 at Niagara Falls. The street car system of Salt Lake is 

 furnished with power from Ogden's power plant. Salt 

 Lake City is also lighted by the electric current from the 

 Ogden plant sent over wires forty miles away. This 

 great power plant, which has not yet furnished one-half 

 the power the owners of the plant contemplate develop- 

 ing, indicates what prospects there are in store for the 

 city in the shape of manufacturing enterprises on 

 account of the cheap electric power. 



Already Ogden City has a few manufacturing 

 plants established. The Ogden Beet Sugar Company 

 plant, costing over $500,000, slicing 400 tons of sugar 

 beets daily ; the Ogden Broom Factory, employing forty 

 people; the Ogden Box Factory, turning out 500,000 

 boxes annually; large vinegar and pickling works; two 

 steam laundries; a large woolen mill; four creameries; 

 three kniting factories; four flour mills; a pressed brick 

 m a n u f acturing 

 plant ; a sewer pipe 

 and tile works ; 

 eleven canning fac- 

 tories and two foun- 

 dries and machine 

 shops, all located in 

 the immediate vi- 

 cinity of the city. 

 Such manufactur- 

 ing establishments 

 as will require coal 

 and coke can easily 

 b e accommodated 

 with coal only forty 

 miles from the city, 

 and with coke of 

 the very finest class 

 within 200 miles of 

 the city. 



Great deposits 

 of iron have been 

 discovered just west 



of Great Salt Lake WILLIS T. BEARDSLEY. 



within a few miles 



. ,, f-< L ^ F ; rst Assistant Secretary Eleventh Nations! 



Of the new Central i rrigation Congress and Secretary 



Pacific Cllt-off. This Board of Contro'. 



