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Show Allend Brigham City Peach Days, Seplember IQAndll : jffilNNE, ONCE UTAHS WICKED lllahOIkiHamiirtivai Corinne Main Street In Its Rip-Roari- Freighting Days jlY,N0W NORMAL SMALL TOWN Capital Was Laid Out And Planned As Metropolis; Center Of Early Freighting Gentile j on Q mne. located feivf' about six miles trii'iam City, was the west of gambling dens, her warehouses last town and banks, her divorce machine where one could get a Jfl: on the railroad that divorce by parting with $2.50 1869. in West and and the spouse; by proxy, if is, "Gentile (that I'tahs t fas necessary. She had her seventy was it capital, 'Mormon) or more Mountain Nymphs was the it cursed city." but she and or Doves du Pave, Utah ridsedest city in also had a stable side. Most of , it the ftfably the prominent early-damerrai intended by its founders to of Ogden and Salt Lake chants and a metropolis great (come and indeed of many other cities capital of Utah. of America, made their stakes in iLny leading business men business in Corinne when the ( pgden and Salt Lake City railroad was built. in Corinne. start iJe their When the building of the Utah grown as the burg on the Northern railroad into Idaho the of West, the w the Chicago .business vanished Great freighting e Queen City of the from Corinne and such of her , of the The City ah. business enterprises as had not and innumerable other already gone to Ogden when it pickers, Corinne rose to fame was declared the junction city into of center freighting (joe soon departed, leaving only a northern territory leading few hardy souls to carry on the Idaho, Wyoming and Mon- tradition of the town and its Supplies for the mining transferred from vanishing hopes. jaf s were The names of the founders of to trains huge warehouses, Uice they were loaded into Corinne seemingly are unknown. which carried One or a group of enterprising aght wagons and men followed the survey of the an to their destination fld them up with rich ores railroad and envisioned a town fihe smelter at Corinne. It where the road crossed the Bear A indeed rich ore, for later River. This was in February of In March the town was n mining companies bought 1869. Uhe old slag piles at Corinne surveyed by the Union Pacifics chief engineer, J. E. House. From 4 resmelted them, they yield-)Jthe very beginning it was meant to the ton in metal. to be a city, not just another ien the citizens during the the railroad company addy period nearly sank to town, and A kr.es, someone got the received Aalternate lots for the whole block was set the slag and survey. j of crushing A aside for a university, another wading it over the mud. for the Catholic church. In an( of it was used for this. So of further growth, the streets of the city literally ticipation city limits were extended some Se paed with gold, ft: freighted goods such prices distance from the town proper. e charged as $1 a A spectacular pound for mushroom far, $30 to $125 a hundred for growth followed the completion $1 a for a pound pork, $2 of the survey in March. In two tan for eggs. weeks more than 500 frame Corinne had her saloons and buildings and tents were erect- con-Ea- fastest-growing- Un-fv- , Hardly recognizable as the main street of Corinne as it stands today is this picture from the burg on the Bears and prosperous freighting days. At one time Cowas a rinne city of 3,000 population and the railhead for of supplies and return of ores from the mines to the north and west. Todayfreighting its a progressive and friendhigh-ridin- g ly country town of some 500 people. ed and the town contained over 1,500 people. The first railway locomotive and cars came over the Bear River bridge and into Corinne April 7, 1869, a month before the Golden Spike driven on May 10. NEWS-JOURNA- GET ADS L RESULTS was At the peak of its population Corinne had something like 3,000 people. At one time there were 1,500 Chinese alone who had moved there to form a colony. There are several versions of how Corinne got its name, but the one most widely credited is that the town was named after an enchanting actress of the early days, who delighted the citizens with her talent, one Corinne LaVaunt. At its worst Corinne was no worse than any other frontier town, but the religious controversy of that period enabled her enemies to seize and build upon (Continued on Following Page) GIFTS OF LASTING CHARM FOR ALL OCCASIONS SOUVENIRS FRIGHAM OF CITY AND THE WEST RIGHT FOR YOUR CAR! Assortment Complete MOVIE CAMERAS VC PETROLEUM We are in business to I motoiing needs. 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