| Show RAILROADS a I OV THE STATE 1 Early Agitation for a TratisCorjt nertcl Llra Drlof His torlos of tho Different Roads Constructed Iri the Stato J fNP of the most astonishing aston-ishing features concocted II I concoct-ed with the journey westward of the Mormon Mor-mon Pioneers 1 was the pains they took to lo eaten route for n rmlro id Many years after the first settlements were founded in Utah George f A Smith inn lelter to the New York Evening Post said I crossed the pains with Brigham Young on his 1nonecr journey in 1847 Ucwtic looking I for i railroad ionic as well I is a wagon road and in company with linn I made many a detour from the wagon road to rind I pisses wherci i railroad could be constructed through the mountains Ve then expected that ten or fifteen yelrs would be sufficient to complete the road On March 3 1852 less than five years after the arrival in Salt Lake valley of the Mormon Pioneers the Governor and Legislative I Assembly of the Territory of Utah petitioned Congress to provide for the establishment estab-lishment of a national railroad fiom some eligible point on the Mississippi if or Missouri river to San Diego San Francisco Sacramento or Astoria or such other point on or near the Pacific 1 Pa-cific coast as the wisdom of your I honorable body may dictate Al the same session of the Legislature I n memorial was adopted asking Congress Con-gress I to establish a telegraph line across the continent In December 1853 Governor I Young submitted to the Legislature n message in which were given reasons rea-sons why a railroad across the continent conti-nent ought to be built md urging that interest in the subject be not permitted to flag Within a few weeks liter the I delivery of this me san rJ hihll hi rage i great miss I meeting m tins city adopted a memorial asking Congress to builll I the road 1 I The agitation continued until 1862 in which year Congress pissed i s pis-sed md President Lincoln sgncd the Pacific railroad act which was supplemented by the act of 1861 extending ex-tending further government aid and encouragement to the enterprise 9 On May 10 1869 the list spike was driven which united in a con linuous iron bind from the Missouri to the Pacific the Union and Central 1d Cen-tral Pacific railroads The completion ol the transcontinental i transcon-tinental railroad made it imperatively necessary that a road extending to this city should be constructed immediately im-mediately md the Utah Central Railroad company was organized for this purpose March 8th 1869 by Picsident Brigham Young and a number of other prominent citizens of Utah Ground was broken for this road on liar 17 1869 just one week after the drIVing the last spike of the transcontinental line Work on the road between Ogden md Salt Lake I was pushed with great igor md on Jan 10 1870 an assemblage as-semblage of is ooo people witnessed the arrival of the iron horse at the depot in Salt Lake City This event waS celebrated with great enthusiasm and in m elaborate manner There were present at the depot President Brigham Young and a large number of prominent citizens of the Territory together with leading official ol the Union Pacific and Central Pacific 1 railroads Exercises were held which included music md a salute of thirty one guns one for each mile of the road mil a dedicator dedi-cator prayer which was offered by Elder Willord Woodruff followed by a number of speeches Public traffic over the Utah Central Cen-tral the road from Ogden to Silt lake City was begun on the day on which the foregoing celebration WaS held I Presulenl Brigham Young was president of the company and le Ins son Joseph A Young was buperintcndcnt t il the road For the purpose of building a line that should extend southward from Salt Lake I City the Utah Southern Railroad company was organized January 17th 1871 principally bv the Mime men who had orgimzed I the Utah Central On the tint of May following work was begun on the southern road mil the line w is extended to different towns from time to time until it reached Juab toy miles from Salt Lake I City June 15th 1879 For the purpose of building a second sec-ond line running south Irom Juab the Utah Southern Kulioid Extension ion company was organized January Jan-uary u ih 1879 several prominent Mockholdcrs and officials of the Union Picilic being associated is incorporators w ith n number of the men who had taken part in the organization RantZiition of the two other road The new line was pushed r ipi ii 11 f ly soulhwitd and reached Fri < co June Jrd 1880 The chief inducement tr I pushing the I < i a flr tth IIS the trail t i d I t n the Horn v r 1111 at t h I wl 1 h h I was th n > lung cnc cc cu > qUJlltll ul I c i The Lull iem a l the Ltah 1 Southern and the Utnh Southern extension were consolidated under the name of the Utah Central Rail road company Judy ist 1881 Sidney Sid-ney Dillun Jay Gould and other magnates of the Union Pacific being he chief movers in the matter There waS nov a continuous line ofru cd extending from Ogden to Frisco a distance of 280 miles a condition which enormously itig went ei and developed the northern and central counties of the state A few venn after the consohditlon the I Utah Central was absorbed lij the Union Pacific and ceased to he 1 controlled trolled by citizens of this State It was another example ol the bj fish swallowing the little ones The 1 next railroad enterprise In mounted ill Utnh was the Utah Northern designed to extend from Ogden to Franklin 1 in Southern Idaho md pass through Cache valley I villeTlie I The duel promolcr of this roid iehVroY IiI wahJoiehVroY was John Young mil mainly through his efforts the company to I construct it win organized August 1 sjth 1871 He HIS president md superintendent I i In the following I 1 month ground was broken at ling i him City md the first tail i was laid I 1 i it linglnm Junction i a point on the lh Jfi utt i i ll Central Picific some r miles southwest south-west of Brigham City The road was completed to Logan in January J 1873 and to Franklin I in May 1870 The people of cache valley constructed con-structed the grade and furnIshed the lies liking their pay in tock in the load Financially 1 the road 1 was not successful so fir as meeting its indebtedness in-debtedness was concerned I and in the year 1879 it pissed I under the control of the Union Pacific md its original stockholders received but a few cents on the dollar of their stock Immediately liter the litter com Ir ray absorbed it file road was rapid I y extended to Butte und then to Garrison here it connected with the Northern Pacific Its name was changed to the Utah and Northern By mean not necessary to be detailed de-tailed in this article the Utah Northern North-ern and the Utah Central became i parts of the Oregon Short Line tys i tern which was sold a few months i ago at a chancer sale md they ire now known as branches of the Ore I gon Short Line In ibSi three local railway corporations cor-porations consolidated and organized under the laws of Utah as the Denver Den-ver iV Rio Grande Western Railway company This company at once proceeded to construct a road from Ogden to Grand function J near the Colorado line ml within the litter stilt distance of 36 miles Here I it joined the Denver Rio I Grande completing a through route to Denver Den-ver Later it constructed several branches 1 in Utah one extending to Bingham mother to Alta another to pleasant I valley and I another into Smpcte valley which last year wag pushed southward into Sevier valley Great business ability mil enterprise nave characterized the management of the Denver S I Rio Grande Vestnn system mil it has been very successful fin inci illy In 18i was begun the construction construc-tion of a railroad designed to traverse trav-erse loocle county ind pass through the Deep I creek mining country into I Nevada Itwis called the Utah 6 Nevada railway and Us chief promoter pro-moter was John W Young it was built as fir is Stockton loclc I county in 1873 which place has remained re-mained its terminus ever since In 1892 the Salt Lake I and Los I Angeles railroad waR built from this I city to Siltur the famous bulling report whose magnificent buildings wen constructed that year it was the original intention to push this road on through the Deep Creek country and the state of Nevada tn 10 I Angeles Cd but not much in a practical way in this direction his been done since the opening of Silt air in the year named For I many years the ncccssitv for a railroad extending li t o the Deep Creek mining country in the western west-ern part oflooele county Ins been urged by the local press and 1 promt Went citizens and several diflerent companies hive been organized for the purpose Re seated surveys have been Ot made T large turns f money have been spent in these and other preliminaries but nothing tangible his as yet been done to build the road Within the last month however the assurance hah ha-h published that the Oregon Short Line I intends to construct 1 Deep Creek brlllch 1 and there are i excellent reasons for believing that that CnmpIII will do this When the limited population of tin State is i considered together with the engineering ml other d hIt c h-It lwJuntcr11 II hI rilr il I en d tl Sate t be Cditi St gr I tun i d it t nip ten its t 101 whit I h 1 I i > ney ci y tiu ul 1IllIUlIne III it I |
