Show KNOW UTAH H By ALBERT T F F. F PhIlLIPS PHILIPS I It wa ll was in rn 1562 that President Lincoln approved the act of oC c congress providing for building of oC tho Union Pacific railroad The jho act net granted a n. right Qt wa way feet teet wide wido through the public lands and gave savo tho tim railroad rail road cyer every alternate or odd numbered section of land I to o tho Amount of or five flye alternate sections per pr mile on I each sido of tho the road rond within the limit of or ten miles mile I not lot sold ld or otherwise disposed 11 of ot mineral lands cx- cx It also provided that bonds Lands to tho the amount of or per mile should be ho Issuer Issued d b by tho United States to al aid l in tho construction of tho timo roa road that amount to bo ho trebled through the limo Rocky and Sierra Hll mountains Time The bonds were to become a n. fh first l mortgage mort mort- gage gaJo lien Hen upon the thc property This was waR ono one r reason wh as originally ll built hullt there thelO were wro so ninny many curves on on tho timo line William B. B Ogden was elected ted first l' l resident ent of ot tho tim lo road loI I Polities Politics of or course COUnie entered Into the building of ho tim road and on October 20 I at nt a a. oC the tho ho directors In Ia Now Nw York General John A A. Dix was WitS eJected president to succeed William I B. B Ogden It was vas General GenN DIx Db who vho sent ent that famous dispatch to the he captain of or a n r revenue cutter In N Now m Orleans In 1862 to o arrest the captain of or another cutter closing tho dispatch with the words flU If an any man attempts to o haul down tho American flag shoot him on the spot pot At tho tim Nc New York meeting Dr Dl- Thomas Thoma A. A Durant was vas elected vice president of the Union Pacific company com corn pany and later with General DIx Oal Oakes es Ames and others bought out tho the Pennsylvania ania Fiscal compan com com- pan lany pany a a. contracting concern and organized a a. company compan as a n. insurance company under tho tim name of ot th the tho Credit 1 of oC America which took over the he unfinished contract of oC and before the close of oC 1867 had constructed tho railroad as far west vest as Cheyenne It was when tho tim Credit was or organized that hat tho thc railroad became involved ed in scandal and entangled In political ka 1 intrigue lc The The- Credit l had lad Its office in Philadelphia but hut il its business was vas transacted tr in Iii New Nc York where it had a a. branch office which joined Urn tho Union Pacific offices L Later ter Ames and friends obtained control of oC tho Credit The rho purposes of ot the organization It was said were wre never understood 1 and were discredited b by charges oC ot graft and corruption and it wa was forced to sus sus- pend Congress ordered an Investigation in 1872 and anda a a. number oC of m members mhers ivero involved which resulted in Iii n their being retired d. d The first train over o tho Union Pacific railroad to reach each O Ogden arrived there thero at JO p p. p m in mf March tarch S S. S and was welcomed b by f every er man nian woman and child hild in tho tim city It was halted at t tho the marshlands just east cast of or th tho river Tho The first locomotive ot of f th Union Pacific road was tho General Sh Sherman locomotives in those days s 's bearing hearing names and its en engineer engineer en- en was Thomas Jordan The rho second locomotive c was vas tho the General McPherson l which h had hd d bc been n brought up UI p the timo Missouri l river rh rhIn In tho timo steamboat Colorado in and was placed c in commission lun on t 30 0 1869 From Omaha westward i the Union Pacific railroad constructed miles while whilo tho time Central Pacific built 90 miles mlle ea from flom Sacramento Sacr Tho rho t tw twp lines vero welo joined at Promontory Point in Boxelder count county Mn May y 10 10 It was opened for traffic on oit May Ia 10 1869 and anil since then tho the road has been double- double tracked racked and antI a a. roadbed constructed which is IR tho tim equal or of C any in tho time world It should be lie said that tho road was vas the first railroad we west l of the Mississippi to run first class sleeping cars carB dining cars and ami electric lighted d trains Tho rho story of or tho the uniting of oC tho limo Union and Central Pacific roads was only recently told in lii this column The coming week thero will ho bo a. a i. i reunion of tho timo old old- timers Imers or of tho system in Ogden and the timo stor story of oC the thc building of or tho road load again will wm bo be told Time The first railroad Into Salt SaIL Lake Lako was tho Urn Utah Central now tho the Union Pacific and antI It arrived cd January January Janu Janu- ary 10 ISiO 1870 almost eight months after anel the Union and amid Central Pacific roads had reached Utah |