Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-21 | Page 9 | Golden Rail to be Set into Main Line of Union Pacific System at Cedar City in Memory of Harding

Golden Rail to Be Set Into Main Line of Union Pacific System at Cedar City in Memory of Harding Tha first American .memorial ta Praaldent Harding will aa laid, by tha Waat. It will taka tho form of a golden section of standard railroad rail, act Into tha main Una of tho Union Pacific ayatem at Cadar City. Utah, to commemorate President Harding's official opening of tha railroad to that point, according ac-cording to announcement mada hare today. Tha golden rait, which la now heir, he-ir, 'fabricated In Salt Lake City, will hava carved on it tha. following follow-ing fnerrlption: , "Tha Harding memorial rail, laid by tha citlaena of Iron county, Utah, to commemorate the opening by President Warren O. Harding of the Union rVirlllc national park line to Cedar City nn June 17. 1 .' In tha dedication ' oeremonlee, which will be held September la. Use golden section af call will -be laid to tha tlea at the spot where Praaldent Harding descended from the first train with spikes ot virgin Utah Iron, mined nearby. , 1 ' The new railroad Una, which waa formally opened by 'the late presl-dent presl-dent on hia Western trip, will serve tha newly opened Elon National park region, and also tha tremendous tremen-dous Iron depoalta of southern Utah. Its construction, rushed to facilitate tha paasage of tha prealdentlsl special, spe-cial, la aald to hava broken all rec-orde rec-orde for opead. forty-nine miles of line harlngt been built In elghty-nevan elghty-nevan daye by tha Union Pacific Thla world's record gained- for tha new Union Pacific line the comment com-ment of having been "built to order." or-der." At tha time It waa -considered an atlmost Impossible faat to flnlah the work In time. And yet when the presidential special rolled into Cedar City It traveled over a perfectly flaiahed and - ballasted rack Into a terminal epick and apan to tha laat pebble, but the construction engineara and railroad workers who accomplished It never aaw tha prealdent, aa hia arrival .announced tha completion of their leak. . Taey-wera all lyuuj In. oa-hauated oa-hauated aleep. aftsr a final 41-hour shift In which the work waa done. It la In commemoration of tha president's visit that algnallaed this achievement that the golden rail will ha laid by tha citiKnry af the country,