OGDEN  , a

city and the county-seat of Weber county, Utah, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Ogden and Weber rivers, and about 3.5 M . N. of Salt Lake City . Pop . (ago) 14,889; (1900) 16,313, of whom 3302 were foreign-born; (1910. census) 25,580 . It is served by the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Oregon Short Line, and the Denver & Rio Grande railways . It is situated at an elevation of about 4300 ft. in the picturesque region of the Wasatch Range, Ogden Canon and the Great Salt Lake . Ogden is in an agricultural and fruit-growing region, and gold and silver are mined in the vicinity . It has various manufactures, and the value of the factory product increased from $1,242,214 in 1900 to $2,997,057 in 1905, or 141.3 % . Ogden, which is said to have been named in honour of John Ogden, a trapper, was laid out under the direction of Brigham Young in 185o, and was incorporated in the next year; in 1861 it received a new charter, but since 1898 it has been governed under a general law of the state .