Producers of Weber, as was the case in two other counties, Salt Lake and Utah, took advantage of the opportunity and formed cooperative dairy associations. In Weber a central organization, Weber Central Dairy Association was set up as the marketing agency, to market commodities processed from milk received from the various communities of Weber and that received from some communities of adjoining counties. This organization had a humble beginning; a detailed account of which would cover pages. Suffice it to say that with all the vissisitudes it encountered during early years of development, it survived them all to become one of the largest, most progressive, thrifty, milk-processing, industrial institution in the intermountain country. Its operations are not confined to supplying dairy foods to Ogden, vicinity, and much of Salt Lake, and points between the two cities, but have been extended into four important cities of Wyoming, Rock Springs, Casper, Rawlins, and Laramie. Many things contributed to the dairy's success. The most outstanding of these were shrewd management, faithfulness, and stability of producers, expert salesmen, and output of a product that has always excelled in quality. A program defining quality as essential to establishment of a sound business on which the public depended so largely for much of its important goods, was inauguated at the commencement of the institution's operations. Recognizing the fact that production and care of milk at farm level to reduce sediment content and bacteria count to a minimum, figured mightily in the dairy's ability to put out quality products. To acquire such an arrangement, field men were sent out into the field to assist producers. It was felt the desired results could be achieved more amicably through a system of education than by compulsion. From the outset, the dairy, as a precautionary measure, backed wholeheartedly, state laws providing for elimination from dairy herds, cows infected with transmittable disease such as bangs, T. B. and others, through tests conducted by competent veteranarians. All must agree that these precautions contributed to public health safety, but why, the question is asked, when such a successful effort was launched by the dairy and like institutions to improve the sanitary and health standards under which milk was produced was it necessary for state, city, and county health departments to enforce drastic health measures patterned after New Deal socialistic health laws that have forced hundreds of small producers of high-quality milk out of business, who relied on dairying as a dependable source of income, and on whom Ogden City all through the years depended for its milk supply? Stringent measures requiring producers, scores of whom lacked the means to provide facilities to satisfy new health regulatons imposed on them which called for a milking parlor to be kept spotless inside and out, an insulated tank of prescribed size to store and hold milk, a milkhouse of prescribed size provided with hot and cold water, a rack on which to hang all dairy utensils, a cabinet in which to store detergents, water softeners, insecticides, filterpads, brushes of all sorts, and wash bowl or basin, soap and towels, all to be used to safeguard public health. Strange the use of milk that had for years passed such a high rating of cleanliness and quality should so suddenly become an alarming threat to public safety, when the ill effects of use of any brand of cigarette or grade of liquor, has on human health, is viewed with such little concern. Revenues collected by state, city and county -124- Governments from sales of tobacco and liquor and fines imposed for drunkeness or intoxication is probably the logical answer to which of the two the law deems is most damaging to public health. Slaterville, one of the smallest communities of the surrounding country, produced more milk than settlements of much larger area and greater populations. Due to its close proximity to Ogden and because of high quality and large quantity of milk produced here, supplied a substantial part of the whole milk market of the city through the media of small dairies, for years. Returns from dairying enabled residents of Slaterville to meet their financial obligations and establish credit at any time during past years. Further, production from small dairy herds furnished the volume of milk that enabled Weber Central Dairy to get established on sound footing and contributed to its development until edicts purported to improve production and care of milk for human consumption, issued by the chief of a health department, who sat in a swivel chair with nothing to do but puff on a big black cigar and figure out ways to harass and dominate producers. The imposition of such oppressive, unjustifiable regulations on farmers at a time they had not fully emerged from a devastating depression, forced all but two or three producers of our settlement to discontinue the most remunerative phase of the farming industry. Construction of a long planned sewer system for Ogden City was commenced while our nation and local economy were held in the grip of a mild recession following lavish expenditures of money in prosecuting our country's part of the World War. Work on the project, which took two years to complete, began early in 1920 and lasted until the close of 1921. The Security Bridge construction company of Lewiston, Montana, headed by a man named Roscoe and chief construction engineer named Mr. Morris (first name of either not available) had the contract to dig the trench and make and lay the pipe. The pipe manufacturing part of the deal was sub-contracted to Edward Miller, a construction engineer from DesMoines, Iowa, Making pipe for the big project, to say the least, was a mammoth undertaking. Construction of ten thousand lengths of pipe, each five feet long, five and one half feet in diameter from wall to wall on the inside, with a ten-inch thick wall reinforced with steel, as specified in the contract, required extensive operations and devoted engineering skill. A plant of no small dimensions was established on property Mr. Miller leased from Walter Jackson located in the corner east of Highway 84, where the residence of Delmore Baird, present owner of the property stands. The magnitude of that important phase of the sewer project necessitated employment of about fifty construction workers to install and operate the heavy steel pipe forms, an elevated track over which the heavy concrete was conveyed insmall cars from a huge mixer to pipe forms placed side by side along both sides of the two-hundred foot long runway. A boiler plant to supply steam and hot water for mixing concrete in cold weather, a large steel hoist that moved on rails used to move the three-ton lengths of finished pipe from forms were installed to facilitate construction operations. Power used in operating motors to turn the concrete mixer, for moving the hoist and for pumping water from Four Mile Creek to the plant was supplied by electricity -125-