Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 24 | Pioneers Asked to Rail Jubilee

PIONEERS flSKEO TO RfilUUBtLEE Utah Central Employees Are Asked to Give Information. As secretary of the committee making mak-ing arrangements for the celebration of tile semicentennial anniversary of the entry of the Utah Central railroad into Salt Lake, over tracks now owned by the Oregon Short Line, D. W. Par-rat Par-rat t yesterday renewed the invitation to the employees of the railroad at that time to make themselves known, that they may be honored guests during the celebration, January 1. The committee asks that the veterans explain briefly, but in some detail, the exact services they were performing at that time. iiany letters have' already been received re-ceived from such "veterans."' Joseph G. Young, 2119 Richards street, wrote that he worked in Mill Creek canyon, Davis county, hauling ties for the new line, and later was tlw first brakeman on a Utah Central train, running from Ogden to Farmington. John Leavitt was conductor. He remained with the line for several years. Alma Hardy and Hyrum Shill, of Bountiful, worked on a contract held by Archibald Mac-Parland. Mac-Parland. near where Clinton now is. Robert Jones, 224 E utieot, tells how he assisted iu making the last spike, which was driven by President Brig-ham Brig-ham Young at the celebration of fifty years ago. He writes: "The spike was made, by request of President Young, from Sanpete iron, at the shop of James Lawson. I assisted as-sisted to make it. Afterward I worked on the Utah Central as a blacksmith for nineteen years. I knew "Race" Hancock, who brought the first passenger passen-ger train into Salt Lake. He is still alive and is a resident of Ogden." Lincoln Carlisle worked for his father, fath-er, who was a contractor, at Center-viile. Center-viile. and later on the t't.ih Southern at Sandy and between Lraper and the j Point of the Mountain. This was the ! longest contract of the railway. j V alt.fr C. Brown. 1722 South Third ; East street. Salt Lake, claims he is j the olde-it living passenger conductor j on the Utah Centrnl. He worked first 1 as vardman and then as a freight con- j ductor, under William Hiskev, Edwin i Davis and Francis Cope, the latter be- j ing general freight and passenger agent.