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Show Lonely Monument Marks Site Where "Golden .Spike" Was Driven k . ...... V . to i. t 4 . Continued from Preceding PageO- It tolerated no drinking or gam bllng among its workmen. Infc the very beginning its builders had made triends ot the Indians along the way by making treaties with them and Issuing them tree "passes on the iron horse," a privilege they took to with V childish delight. i Ramrod for 'the Central Pacific was Charles Crocker, the engine that drove everything ?-' ahead. Under the stimulus of ; the great undertaking he grew s from a small merchant to a great organizer and manager. (JL, jt-- . it Crockers lieutennt, superintendent in charge of the field Work, was J. IH. Strobridge, vho supervised work at end o track. H, Accompanying him from Newcastle clear to the finale at Promontory Point wa his wife who was the only white woman that saw the thing through from :7Sr!V beginning to end, earned the ti4 tle Heroine of the Central Pa'$ JSL L..t.-i- r Mfc&i. cific. inM In the west white labor was Site Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike to the extreme. . . . now desolate and with only cement monument marking the spot, It was here the Independent Crocker found that tht Irish continent was connected by rail on May 10, 1869. turned away from the Central r a day pick Pacifics to face heat and cold, storm had to carry a canteen and and shovel to labor on the docks talk, toil and American curses, or in the mines at four dollars and and require only their dollar a With the two companies nearday. in ing each other competition was day and an infrequent lay-of- f ' Faced by a wage-strik- e among tribute to some Joss. keen between them. The telethe Irish laborers, Crocker found graph line was completed and the solution by directing his In June, 1868, the Union Pa- the East and West were linked in cific of track rested Sherman upon construction, superintendent communication. Fur flew as Oma540 to miles out of send for some Summit, Strobridge, Chinamen. They were set to ha. To tap the fertile Great Salt messages were tapped across Work much to the disgust of Lake Valley the 10,000 Irishmen the American continent. the Irish, who begged us not had to grade and lay track 480 In defiance of the Central's to have any Chinamen come. : miles. The survey f the engi- best endeavors the Casement But the Chinamen did so well, neers led on into the Laramie track gang laid six miles of in one day from rise to set nd there was such pressure Plains, then across the snowy track of sun. The Central accepted bearing, calling for speed that Wasatch Range to Ogden and the gage, and Crokers pets reto end the bickering the big into the vast Great Basin of an boss issued a call for 500 labor- ancient western sea. General torted with seven milea General was ordered to lay that Casement and his rugged c Dodge ers, repleted the ranks of They had other tricks Celts by filling up track before winter set in. At the same time, June 1868, up their sleeve. With Mongolians. 'No damned Chinamen can In the beginning for $26 a the Central Pacifics Superintenmonth and keep themselves, la- dent Crocker was driving his beat .me laying rails," Jack Casement said. Reno for of Chinese and for out ter towards the later again $30 Before the eyes of several dis$35, they trooped, in from Sacra- Great Basin. .He was looking mento and San Francisco, in ahead at nearly 600 miles of tinguished guests seven and .a work to reach the half miles of track, less a few their basket hats, their bluce were put down beblouses and flapping pantallons, rich Mormon valley. He faced fore the bosses a as into finally bawled, their the which, bringing trap scanty outfits, region Lay Off! In the dusk the men their placid visages and choppy per legend read, a quit, well satisfied. General Casement vowed that the next stint should be eight miles, if Rementieto-OnlCrocker did not cry enough. Crocker replied: "The Central promises ten miles in one working day. And he added, to himself, iBut well take our time to il .1 e arm chopped off as his t growth of coarse hair. The Irish were not satisfied with teasing the Chinamen, knd before long they devised a booby trap that would deserve the re spect of any war veteran. Digging a shallow hole be neath a spot a large group- - of Chinamen would be working the following day, they planted a sizeable deposit of black pow der, and installed the necessary fuse. The resulting explosion blew Chinamen all over the country side. The Mongalians were fast to learn and the following day a group of Irishmen met their maker when an explosion went off beneath them. That ended the hostilities. Through the winter the com panies plowed ahead. The Union Pacific pushed over the Wasatch mountains and the Central neared Promontory, Utah, where the -- 1 death-dealin- mm t. rAAnn life-tim- SecH f m, tail was sacred to him and he would as soon have his right Tu dry-good- M g (Continued on Following Page) Pease. two-dolla- help people be , more' careful I Irish-laughe- unen-thusiastl- track-layin- g Jack-rabb- i voir can PREVENT FOREST.FIRESS y it. When Durant received the word of the wire at New York, he was prompt to call:. "Ten thousand dollars that you cant do it before witness Vice-Preside- es.1 iiPJfll sL TASTES ' CONES BETTER ..SUNDAES MALTS AND SHAKES QUARTS AND PINTS 656 South Main v . mMs BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH1 ' N,. .. "Well notify you, answered cooly. Now both of the companies neared the rich plumb of the Great Basin, that would vide the company with dividends when the track completed. Both companies coveted business of the Mormon coun try, and mustering all their finances and man power they set out to capture it. By the fall of 1868, graders of the two companies had reached each other in the Great Basin and passed. Like two balls of twine pushed towards each other, they wouldnt stop until the energy in them had ebbed away. A definite meeting point had not been established by the government, so the two companies Just kept building road beds, side by side. Evidence of this waste of manpower is today around the north end of the Great Salt Lake. As would be suspected the Centrals Chinese and the Union Pacifics Irish did not take to each other like long lost friends. The Irish, working sometimes only a few feet from the Chinese, wopld often isolate one of the Mongolians, whack off his pig tail and oar with delight as he shuffled down the road in humiliation A Chinaman's pig Su DRUGS NOTIONS SUNDRIES PHOTO SUPPLIES SUN GLASSES MAGAZINES PRESCRIPTIONS On Corner of Main f M r COTY COSMETICS PHOTO FINISHING anl First gouth ' I |