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Ogden Section Page 701 Route 698
17.5 15.1 Fork; bear left. Avoid left-hand roads 22.3-31.5. Pass
33.4 Hylton and Hanna Stores 33.1.
15.9 Fork of several roads; take center road. Avoid left-hand
roads 35.5-36.4-37.3-40.1.
45 5 12 1 Fork; bear right. Avoid right-hand road 45.6 and left-hand
road 46.2. Pass Sadler’s Ranch 50.7. Avoid left-hand roads
52.1-53.6 and right-hand road 61.5.
106.0 60.5 EUREKA, court house on right.
Route 698—Ogden, Utah, to Pocatello, Idaho—150.2 m.
Reverse Route 702.
Via Brieham Logan Preston and McCammon. First 6.1 miles concrete, Ih en
68 miles asnhalt' macadam 333 miles good to fair gravel; then concrete to two miles
nL^Loearn good gmye! to Preston; 26.7 miles fair gravelly dirt; balance good gravel
to Pocatello with some fine stretches where fast tim * is p °sstole. Summary. 11 miles
concrete - 7 miles asphalt macadam; 108 miles gravel and 24 miles dirt.
A thickly settled farming section is traversed by this route and supplies and accom-
modations may be obtained at several points. The road passes thru some pretty
canyons and there is good fishing along the way.
^ MIL
Dman7e For this and other exits see City Map, page 661.
Total Between
Mileage Pomt^
UTAH, Washington Ave. & 25th St., city hall on left,
Go north with trolley on Washington Ave.
bank on right.
Cross bridge over Ogden river 0.9. Pass large brick school
on right 1.6. Thru 5-corners 2.7.
Right at 1.6 leads to Ogden Canyon.
Gross trolley 3.1. _ ,, .
5 9 Irregular 4-corners; bear left with trolley. Trolley leaves
5.9 Pass Hot Springs Sta. on left
to right 6.0. Cross trolley 9.8.
Recross trolley 10.0. Thru Willard* 14.9.
9.9.
16 7 10 8 Fork; bear left away from poles. Same thorofare becomes
Main St. Pass large brick church on right 21.9.
5.4 Brigham,* Main St. & 1st Ave. S., P. O. on right. Turn right
22.1
away from trolley onto 1st Ave. S.
Straight ahead on Main St. is Route 690 to Snowvllle.
Turn right just beyond small concrete bridge into Brigham
Cross small concrete
canyon 23.7. Pass dam on right 25.0.
bridges 25.3-25.5, leaving canyon 25.7.
26.2 4.1 End of road; turn left. . , . ,,
0.5 Mantua, small brick school on left. Straight thru.
26.7 left downgrade. Caution for curves on steep
_
30.9 4.2 Fork; bear Downgrade into valley
downgrade 31.2. Enter canyon 35.0.
37.7.
7.4 4-corners, house on left; turn right two blocks.
38.3
38.6 0 3 4-corners, log cabin on left; turn left.
l'l Wellsville, 4-corners, P. O. on left, large brick school and
39.7
church on right. Turn right two blocks.
40.0 0.3 4-corners; turn left three blocks.
40.3 0 3 4-corners, stone house on left; turn right one block. left.
40.4 0.1 End of road just beyond small concrete bridge; turn
mountains 20 miles north of Ogden and near
is 12 miles north
•Willard, Utah (pop. 577), the northern shore of Great Salt lake. It is
of Ogden on Great Salt lake. It is a quiet old noted for its peaches. In summer the- town
town whose streets are lined with poplars. It is almost completely hidden beneath peach
was started by the early Mormon settlers at trees which grow luxuriantly because every
the mouth of a canyon where a perennial street has its irrigating ditch running the
mountain stream affords water for irrigation. entire length of the street. Since 1907 Brig-
The houses are surrounded with peach or- ham has celebrated “peach day” early in Sep-,
chards and the growing of peaches and to- tember. On that day free peaches, plums,
to the thousands
- of
matoes is the principal industry. In the can- and melons are given Tomatoes are also
the
town.
to
yon, back of Willard a stream leaps over in a visitors in large quantities and a factory near
beautiful waterfall and disappears in the grown in the height of the season
the station cans
terraces below. 60-75 cars of tomatoes a day. Brigham was
:
•Brigham, Utah (pop. 5,000, alt. 4,305 ft.), is settled in 1853 and named for Brigham Young:
situated at the western base of the Wasatch