Reclamation and the Economic Development of Northern Utah: The Weber River Project BY S T E P H E N A. MERRILL
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H E STREAMS W H I C H CUT through the precipitous Wasatch Mountains and flow over the flat plain toward Great Salt Lake have always been one of the principal attractions of Weber Valley. T r a p p e r s who first explored this area in the 1820s came to regard it as one of the best sources of beaver in the Intermountain region. Peter Skene Ogden of the British Hudson's Bay Company and Jedediah S. Smith of the rival American Rocky Mountain Fur Company are just two of the mountain
Echo Dam, 1935, showing the spillway and the reservoir which stretches four and one-half miles behind the dam. Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce photograph.
