Ogden's stockyards were 7th largest in U.S.; Plus, Ogden's first traffic jams and more

OGDEN'S Stockyards were a national powerhouse for decades.
Began in 1916 and located north of 24th Street by the Weber River, the facility soon moved to north of Wilson Lane on 70 acres.
"Ogden stockyards moves into seventh place in U.S." was the Feb. 4, 1936 headline in the Salt Lake Tribune. The yards handled more than 2.75 million head of animals in 1935. Chicago and St. Louis had the two largest stockyards in the country at the time. Omaha, Kansas City. Denver and St. Paul ranked ahead of Ogden.
However, the story stated that all of the six cities ranked ahead of Ogden in stockyard size had from five to 60 times the total population of the Weber County capital. 
The Ogden stockyards, 570 pens, were the largest in Utah and about triple the size of Salt Lake's stockyards. At one time, the Ogden yards was also the third largest shipper of sheep in the nation, ranking only behind Denver and Chicago.
Ogden's stockyards closed in 1971.
-MORE HISTORY: First Ogden traffic jams? World War II and its extensive military operations in northern Utah likely produced the first traffic jams in Weber County. "Army workers causing large traffic boost" was a May 3, 1941 headline in the Ogden Standard-Examiner.  The story noted how morning and afternoon road traffic in Ogden was now becoming so heavy that it was hazardous.
Between 4:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., a record 540 cars were counted in that 45 minutes at the "Death Curve" in Roy, where Riverdale Road ends.
Police in Ogden and Weber County also operated traffic blockades  to check on drivers. Six drivers in Ogden were arrested for not having licenses and 32 warnings here handed out for various traffic offenses. The most common traffic offense reported in the story was turning left from a lane other than the center lane.

                              This is likely the slowest speed sign in northern Utah today.

-"10 M.P.H. traffic sign thrice torn down" was an Oct. 13, 1939 headline in the Salt Lake Telegram newspaper. South Salt Lake City at the time had a slow down area near its Madison Elementary and Madison Junior High Schools.  But, on three occasions, the signs were torn down and thrown into nearby yards. This slow speed zone was believed to be the slowest in the state and only 10 mph zone too.

-"Davis County leads state in '47 traffic toll" was a Jan. 15, 1948 headline in the Weekly Reflex newspaper of Kaysville-Bountiful.  a total of 29 people died on roads in Davis County in 1947. Salt Lake County had more total deaths at 44, but on a per population basis, Davis' ranked worse.