The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-24
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OGDEN CITY
W ATER
SAMUEL FORTIER, CIVIL ENcI.
NEER, MAKES EXAMINATION
Says Great improvements Must Be
Made In Order to Meet De-
mands Of Growing City.

Samuel Fortier civil engineer. who
has been employed by the city ad-
minlstration TO make a physical eX-
animation of the Ogden waterworks
system, has made the following re-
port;
ogden, Utah, Aug. 21st. 1909.
To the President and Members of the
City Council of ogden. Utah
Gentlemen: At the request of your
mayor and members OF the committee
ON water supply, have made an exam
ination of the water works system oil
Ogden, considered what extensions
and notifications will be necessary in
future 10 meet the ever increasing de-
mands of the city, and herewith submit
for your consideration such facts and
suggestions pertaining thereto as may
best serve the objects sought
In designing the present works.
nearly twenty years ago, tried 10
provide for the future needs OF this
city, I fnd the same forethought is
necessary now in attempting 10 out
line to your honorable body where and
how the revenue derived from the sale
of water can be expended
For q period of twelve or more
years the condition of this city was
like that of the South after the war.
il required patience, self-denial and
the strlctest economy TO recover from
the effects of one of the worst booms
that over afflicted a Western city.
IL has given me much pleasure TO
note that the prosperity you have en-
hn Il.
during the past seven years have re-
moved all traces of the blightIng years
OF 1892 and 1898. When one consld-
eTs the sure foundation on which the
present prosperity rests. he can have
no misglyings as 10 the future of Og-
den.
In so far as | am competent to
Judge, the revenue derived from taxes
and used for municipal purposes. have
been honestly and economically eX-
pended. You have an efficient sewer
system; the educational facilities are
abreast of the times, the business
streets have been paved and the side
walks and curb stones have been eX-
tended even in advance of the actual
needs of the citizens IN certain quar-
ters. For the care and skill with
which many of these civic improve
ments have been planned and eXecut-
ed, much credit Is due to Mr. A. F.
Parker, who has held the Office of
city engineer for the past twelve
years,
/ also hope to convince the most
skeptlcal by this report that tho city
has acquired a valuable plant in the
purchase OF the water system. This
plant has always been revenue pro
ducer, My recollection Is that the
gross revenue the first year of opera
ton was considerably over $4,000 IT
is now over $4,000, and increasing at
the rate of about $4,000 a year 1t
has therefore paid for itself two or
three times over in nineteen years.
The plant, as IL exists today, can be
maintained repaired and operated and
pay per cent interest on a capitali-
cation Of $500 900. besides $4,000
can he set aside each year for re-
newals and extensions,
In planning for the future of the wa
ter system, the growth of ogden must
be considered VIII 1t continue TO ad-
vance as It has during the past few
years? Everything points to that
conclusion. It's favorable location
and transportation facilities should
have made it the commercial metrop-
oils of the Great Interior basin. It
has no rival for a second place be
tween Salt Lake on the south and
Boise on the north. and between Den
yer on the east and San Francisco on
the west 1t is, however, upon its
agriculture, rather than it's commerce
that the prosperity of Ogden Is found
ed. Few cities in the West receive
the tribute of so large an extent of
rich farming lands. As the trolley
lines which now radiate from this city
as a center are extended and increas-
ed, new districts will be tapped and
Ogden will become In time the hub of
Northern Utah. a trolley line TO
Huntsville. another TO Cache Valley
a third TO Brigham and adjacent
towns. a fourth TO Bear River Valley,
a fifth 10 Plain City, a sixth to the
ogden bench and a seventh to Morgan
would insure the commercial supTem.
acy of ogden as far as Northern Utah
~ ANINtA bNha ~ AbAh aS iAllo Nilt
can offer cheap food and fuel, low
rents and low taxes. Il will not fail
to secure homeseelers. At the pres
ent rate of increase, It will soon have
population Of 10000. and in extend
ing such plants as the water works
plans should be made TO accommodate
this number OF people.
Condition OF Ogden Canyon Conduit
This conduit is 29.459 feet long
exclusive of branch lines. and
"a inches In interior diameter; S.8S2
llneal feet consists of wrought iron
riveted pipe. and POST lineal feet
of wooden stavc pipe. The finest red
wood lumber which could be procured
in California was purchased for the
wooden stayc pipe. Fully ninety-hye
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