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(UP) Peach Soy's Edition BOX ELDER NEWS Brigham City, Utah Wednesday, Sept S. 1951 power la today around the north end of the Great Salt Lake. As would be suspected the Central's 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, would often isolate one of the Mongolians, whack off his pig tail and Toar with delight as he shuffled down the road in humiliation. A Chinamans pig tail was sacred to him and he would as soon have his right arm chopped off as his life-timgrowth of coarse hair; t The Irish were not satisfied with teasing the Chinamen, and before long they devised a booby trap that would deserve the respect of any war veteran. Digging a shallow hole beneath a spot a large group of Chinamen would be working the following day, they planted a sizeable deposit of black powder, and installed the necessary fuse. , t The resulting explosion blew Chinamen all over the country side. The Mongallans 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 death-dealln- g hostilities. Through the winter the companies plowed ahead. The Union Pacific pushed over the Wasatch mountains and the Central neared. Promontory, Utah, where the to companies finally decided drive the last spike. With his old bet In mind, Charles Crocker sent work already sped by telegraph. 'Tomorrow well lay those ten miles. To his own force he had said: "Well do it now, when they cant get back at us." The ten miles would close the gap to a last ten, of which the U. P. share was six. The Union forces prepared for a holiday to Witness the feat e 'i ' i i t With our expert dry cleaning, pressing, and attention to minor alterations, your gloves . . . n dresses and your coats . . . your suits look like new, genuinely clean and smart! Call us today for rapid service. We call for and deliver. and , Reeves Reliable Cleaners ' 132 South Main Phone 31 most-sendin- t President Leland Stanford had come out to be spectator. The ties had already been laid, far In advance; early in the morning the teams were hauling reinforcements of others to the fore. The camp train had been relegated to a and five temporary side-traclong trains of rails, spikes, bolts and fastenings were arrayed upon the main track the rears forward wagon- - mid-seaso- g 5 Robbins Bakery SPECIALTIES O CAKES O CUP CAKES O ROLLS P BREAD . PIES O DOUGHNUTS O SWEET ROLLS i , Visit Our Here is the exact spot where the Golden Spike was driven, endirig a battle of wits and guts by .two great railroad com- panies to pick the plum of the Great Basin, made productive by hard working Mormons. . loads in profusion for distribution by means of the iron trucks. Sunup to sundown was the working day; but seven oclock had arrived before the signal to Jump in was given to the bosses by a sharp word and a lift of the hand from Crocker on horseback. IWith nippers the eight selected four in a squad seized a pair of rails from the and running them forward plumped them down. They were adjusted instantly, the spikes had been dropped, and the fishplate fastenings bolts followed, there was one man told off for each spike, one for the fishplate and one for each bolt; pursuing them closely marched a solid column of Chinamen, the outside files with picks, the middle file, between the rails with shovels, to ballast the boadbed. their Bending backs another ' squad of the k Chinamen shoved the over the .newly-laionward rails, keeping pace with the ad. vance, , From water carriers .to bolters it was a system that. brought' generous plaudits. Union Pacific watches timed the march at 144 feet a minute five pairs of rails, or a pair every twelve seconds. 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Crocker did not cry enough. Both companies coveted the "The Central business of the Mormon coun. Crocker replied; promises ten miles In one work try, and mustering all their fiinf diy. And he added, to him nances and man power they set seif, But well take our time to out to capture It. 'By the fall of 18G8, graders of , When Durant the two companies had reached received the word of the .win at each other in the Great Basin New York, he was prompt to and passed. Like two balls of each towards twine pushed call: 1 . - - . dollars that cither, they wouldnt stop until you cant ' do Jt befpre witness- the energy In' them had ebbed ) es." away.' A definite meeting point "Well notify you," Crocker had not been established by the I government, so the two compananswered cooly. Now both of the' companies ies Just kept building road beds, neared the rich plumb of the side by side. Great Basin, that would pro Evidence of this waste of man- - Cold-Should- er Phone 60S Phone 548 146 South Mae Brigham City, Utah &1&M- - y Drive In And Park At 324 South Main , nRE II EA DQ u A RT E RS |