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Show Creamery in Salt Lake City. In the late 1920's Cream 'O Weber or Weber Central Dairy was built in Ogden to which dairy farmers consigned their milk. This plant first processed butter, but later it was changed to produce market milk. Dairy herds were increased from 20 to 100 cows and dairying became a thriving business. Sugar beets were grown from 1916 to 1930, but the dairy business and the raising of beef cattle took over the largest share of business. Some sheep were and still are raised in the area. In the late 1930's the roads were hard surfaced, res¬ervoirs built and a culinary water system installed which served more than 80 families. Peterson was slowly being modernized. DEXTER HOTEL SEPTEMBER 1891: Harriet Maxwell Converse, a white woman, was made a chief of the SIX NATIONS TRIBE, at Tonawanda, Reservation in New York State. OCTOBER 1775: The U.S. Navy began when the Continental Congress authorized the first two cruisers, one of 10 guns and the other 14 guns. NOVEMBER 1750: Crowds followed the funeral of a Mr. Bright, Essex, England, for he was so fat that his waistcoat could hold seven persons. DECEMBER 1803: The United States took possession of Louisiana Territory, over a million square miles with a population of 90,000 plus unknown number of Indians. JULY 1837: Ojibway Indians ceded the St. Croix River Valley forest lands to the United States at a conference with Governor Dodge of the Wisconsin Territory. 'MAGIC BRIDGE' SPANNED WEBER RIVER AT PETERSON Photo—Utah Historical Society 358 |