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Helps f T b Build iVd Vast Empi Empire In Salt Lake and Utah Counties En Enormous Freight Traffic Being Done b by byI Y t I Orem Line More Cars Loaded in October Octo- Octo t I ber her 1923 Than Entire Year of r i f 1916 Cars Loaded 14 1 4 b the most striking illustration of the industrial jt Lake and Utah counties is the growth of Salt statistics of the Salt Lake Utah railroad which reveal the tho Astounding information that practically as many cars were loaded along the iJ nine line ne in n the month of October 1923 as in the entire year 1916 It is s indeed as t unusual as it is is remarkable that hat an ele electric line e will by the tle e end d of the twelve-month twelve period load over its territory toPP tapped ed by y six seventy-six miles of Approximately carloads of 01 produce Ilo How v different would have have- h wo been I the the tho history of or the expanse of ot territory ter ter- ry between en Salt Lake and C f Pa Payson son without without the tho Salt tal Lake U ah Utah raI railroad road What Incentive u would would there have been for the l' l how now one eighty flourishing IndustrIes Industries industries Indus Indus- tries When the Salt Lake Utah line was built only two Industries were tapped by spur tracks of or other railroads Today one eighty Industries on their spur tracks are given hen the tho most efficient service that can be furnished by modern railroad facilities SALT LAKE AND UTAH PREDESTINED TO BE FREIGHT CARRIER Tho The OreIn Orem line Uno as ns it has been commonly called after the name of ot Its president W W. C. C Orem was predestined to become a a. freight i iline line and industrial builder At its Inception ten years rears ago it It was not I calculated to follow the tradition bF of f other electric lines of ot the United United United Unit Unit- I ed States and develop solely for forthe tho the purpose of ot the passenger fic fico A The history of ot the railroad Is not wreathed in romance It Is the product of ot cold business calculations cat cat- cula ions and a prophetic vision AS lis to the future greatness of the Industrial field which it traverses Citizens of ot Utah and southern I Salt Lake county had seen the need for tho the road many years before its actual construction As early arly as 1910 they had made known their wishes but it was not until th the f fall ll of 1912 that a ti committee of public spirited citizens citi itI zens of Salt Lake and Utah counties counties coun coun- ties headed by W. W V. V W. W Armstrong started a preliminary fund for the negotiation of franchises and the initial survey W W. 0 Orem investigated the plan for the railroad and made a proposition n to the committee to tu undertake ke Its Us construction providIng providing providing provid provid- ing the city commission would al allow allow allow al- al low the extension of the line into Salt Lake When this assent was given Orem and his associates began immediately on the project and by March 1913 the material I Iwas was as ready and the actual con con- work worl started There rap hp delay in the building of or the I road j I and on July Juh- 24 1914 the first electric train entered Provo I as part of ot the Pioneer day cele cele- bration Regular service followed immediately on August 1 1 I ROAD EXTENDED TO PAYSON IN 1916 Requests from citizens of ot the territory south of ot Provo soon led to the expansion of ot the Orem line Une and In 1915 the railroad was extended extended ex ex- tended to Spanish Fork ForIe and In 1916 to Payson Pason In 1917 the last additional main line Uno track was I built to Magna at once the opportunIties opportunities opportunities for industrial development the Salt Lake Utah railroad ex expended expended expended ex- ex money for commodious freight houses encouraged the building of ot manufacturing plants and In every ery way attempted to win the confidence of shippers Its path was not without thorns Connecting Connecting Con Con- Con Con- netting roads and shippers were a bit skeptical about the tho feasibility of ot the electric line Uno as an industrial I developer It took tool two years to finally gain I the co cooperation of or the tho carriers and get et them to realize the value alue I of the system as a business gatherer for the great trunk lines Unes From then on there r has been a close cooperation between them Rates and routes were published which helped shippers Industries multiplied with astounding rapidity until one eighty-one are arc now contiguous ous to tho the Salt Lake Lale Utah rail rail- road They Include four sugar Rugar factories eight canning factories fruit packing plants beet dumps candy factories wholesale grocery establishments gravel plants oil and gasoline plants and the new steel plants STEEL INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATES WISDOM OF FR FREIGHT IGHT LINE In spite of ot the enormous growth of ot the industries in Utah and Salt Lake counties It is only in its chrysalis stage The new steel Industry which Creed president of the Columbia Steel corporation declared will be one of the tho o most expansive in the Unit Unit- ed d States is only beginning FabrIcation Fabrication Fab- Fab plants will follow What It t will bring in way of allied Industries in industries industries in- in money employment t and prosperity to Utah can hardly be imagined The Tho steel Industry impetus If It nothing else has proved the wisdom wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom of or building the road for a freight carrier as well as a passenger passenger pas- pas enger carrier It has been the greatest factor In the ot of f Utah and southern Salt Lake counties In the past ten years and Its ts usefulness is only begun Orem has delivered adequate service ervice to keep abreast the Indu industrial indus indus- trial development In 1914 the railroad began with one engine and anden ten tan en boxcars Today there are six I electric engines in operation and ISO cars of various types used to carry the freight business |