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Show b--s - Attend Brigham City Peach Days, September " 10 And - - Utah 11 s Oldest Harvest Golden Spike Completing First East West -- SEVENTY-THRE- YEARS E LATER, j the THE CEREMONY Bui- - of tli L. I). S. church U the in oe.ition. Mrs. Ralph Talbot. Jr., offered wife Box In Railroad In U. S. Was Driven The End Of The Line of command-- brigadier-genera- yiSTORiCRlBiLJ:; ppcflftr'l Utah quartermaster de-attended! great-unclpot. uli, ins Ibis Time The Jubilation Is tin1 i j! Not Quite Real As The Spike Is Removed ., group of t'.o,, vt to of Utah, and ii.,i s "f Union M.d Pacific to: roads tdio'ogranhers and - i to Sou-her- 'i&s '.vere seen as of value to production, A Chicago Hyman Michaels company, tractors, had been tearing rail line out for the U. S. n Mrs. Mary Ipsen of River City was the only person at the ceremony who was present at the original golden spike driving, 73 years before. At the time the golden spike was driven, Mrs. Ipsen was a girl of 11, working as a waitress on the mess car of the work train which was helping lay the sjja;)-'r- ; "en. Daughters of ta.i Piorovis. others interested :i t ie iiisr, ir of the state and .it Box Eld-county, and many v. no, tliroo h past years, have seen the old rail line cross the !csert as an artery of life's blood to the broad acres of the central and western sections of Cox Eider county these mingled one v arm autumn afternoon. Seprember 8, 1912, at rails connecting east and west. A caravan headed by Goverhistoric Promontory to reenact the ISO', ritual of the driving of nor Herbert B. Maw came from the golden spike, the last in the 'Salt Lake City for the celebration. making short stops at Og line connecting east and west. Only this time, in 1942, the den. where a short spike was pulled out instead of program was broadcast over radriven, the last of the rails were dio station KLO, at Brigham lifted instead of laid, the line City. Corinne and Rozel. was abandoned instead of put The entire group attending the celebration was entertained at into service. As in tin: May day in 1869. lunch in the outfit train by Evtwo locomotives stood pilot to erett Michaels, vice president of pilot, one from the east, one the general contracting firm from the ct. Hals were waved pulling the rails. and the crowd cheered, but only Frank Francis. Ogden newsto the historic picture. paperman and sage, served as The reason for abandoning the master of ceremonies at the obme and purling the rails was servance. George Albert Smith, exp ained us a war measure; the pioneer L. D. S. churchman and old line had been of little use member of the council of the event sears, and the rails twelve apostles (now president lii i Festival He rv. 1 - Where East Met West $ 1$ &im it MW Hopkins, division superintendent of the Southern Pacific. Finally the job of removing the spike was done by Everett Michaels. vice president of the U. P. company, The above close-uphotograph shows the inscription or the granite stone which explains the significance of tht historical rail that served where the Golden Spike wa. alS driven, and later removed. This stone and the rail may bt seen on the Brigham City court house square. p Brief remarks by the participants and the guests then the celebration. Others attending the fete were E. E. Monson. secretary of state: Grover C. Giles, attorney general; Reese M. Reese, state auditor; Oliver Ellis, state treasurer; Charles H, Skidmore, state school official; Captain R. V. . Miller. U.S.N.; Ralph Talbot, Jr.; Capt. A J. Irwin, aide to General Talbot; It. A. Dixon, president of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce and president of Weber college; E. J. Fjeldsted. secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Dan Petersen, president, and Mrs. Carl Hansen, secretary of the Box Elder county company of the Daughters of Utah PioBrig-Gen- neers. F. H. Knickerbocker, executive assistant to the president of the Union Pacific; B. W. Hanson. Union Pacific traffic manager; Joel L. Priest, manager of the Union Pacific news bureau; W. A. Cross. Union Pacific photo t ghan William Warner, oldest out a million bushels of whe: nwf living pensioner of the Union from Box Elders dry farmsl i sot Pacific; Judge D. H. Moffat, numerous winters it hauled in t feed that meant the differer,. Tp.i Merrill J. Bunnell and Jay between a total loss and sale tion for large herds of she or . Rosenberg directed the event horses and cattle. Besides cc w as chairman of arrangements. necting the far reaches beyor et The Hast rail of the old line this section of the old railrc; Ufct was secured by Ed Ward, of the served the immediate a: of Box Elder Junior Chamber through which it ran. Comerce. on behalf of the orIn a winter siorm, with ganization, as a historic relic of feed available, when 15 trc at led:: t line. the old might just as well be 15 h. tdtpl Between May day in 1869 and dred, many a time flocks a September, 1942 over a period herds have huddled close tor of 73 years during which time , and the tra tttorthis section of the Southern Pa- have tKi- in with feed puffed cific hasn't received much pubthem through the worst I carry licity, the old line meant a lot the winter. With the crowd to another group the farmers at the celebratt? and ranchers of the central and dignitaries there were others, ranchers a of Box counwestern parts Elder farmers of the broad dry aiv ty. who could remember those w. aid Year after year during that T period the old S. P. had hauled (Continued on Following Paf grapher; east-wes- right-of-way- dtdr M At The PEACH CITY Bp BANANA SPLITS SUNDAES tir SODAS CAKE ROLLS co ICE CREAM IN BULK Fountain Service AT THE HOLLYWOOD- " MERCHANTS LUNCH SALADS SHORT ORDERS ICE CREAM FOUNTAIN SERVICE Many visitors to Box Elder county this summer will drive to Promontory summit, to the point where the lines from Eust and West met and the Golden Spike was driven, shortly after the close of the Civil war, in 1869. They will find thU Last Spike monument marking the point and commemorating the day of historic interest to the entire Lotted States when stagecoach and pony express became when bands of steel bound the Lnited Mates, in reality, into one nation. ob-olet- e, PEACH CITY ICE CREAM AND HOLLYWOOD CONFECTIONERY |