The Rise and Fall of Ogden’s Packing Industry

Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, June 1996 In 1901 a group of men organized the Ogden Packing Company with a capital investment of $7,500. In 1906 the first packing plant was built. During the next decade the facility was constantly expanded until by 1917 the Ogden Packing & Provision Company, as it was then called, encompassed almost six acres or …