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Weber County History in a Minute: Utah Hot Springs

Join us for Weber County history events every month of the year!   / wchf   This steam caught Reason Slater’s eye as he passed by on a train in 1878. He asked the conductor to stop, and took a sample of the water. Testing it on his horses, he discovered it was good stuff. So he staked out a $400 claim, and that was the beginning of Utah Hot Springs. Slater’s find became a major destination for nearly a century, because doctors endorsed “The Great Water Cure of the West,” as a remedy for a long list of ailments. 50 cents would get you here by train from Ogden. But folks also came by foot, bicycle, and buggy, to drink and bathe in the waters. You could stay for weeks in a 40-room hotel, and picnic, gamble, drink at one of three saloons, boogie at the dance hall. The land is so mineralized that they couldn’t beautify it with flowers or grass. But that was okay with Slater because the flat, salty land was perfect for racing. It’s all gone now -- closed in the 1970s. But water still flows here at a blistering 140 degrees.