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Show Eugene oison presiding and Second This comment comes all tne 1 I 'S'o were paved with gold, 'freighted good. prices, were charged at ft pound for sugar, $30 to ft hundred for flour, $1 .For Young Nation WhenThe Golden Spike Steel Spanned " V , for pork, $2 a dozen tot'.?!! Corinne had her saloon. , gambling dens, her wateho and banks, her divorce chine where one could divorce by parting with & and the spouse; by ptoj, necessary. She had her ty or more Mountain Nvrn or Doves du Pave," but also had a stable side. Moa the prominent early-dachants of Ogden and Salt La and indeed of many other r of America, made their sta in business in Corinne when railroad was built. With the building of theti Northern railroad into Idaho freighting business vamv from Corinne and such oi business enterprices as had already gone to Ogden when was declared the junction c soon departed, leaving only few hardy souls to carry on tradition of the town and vanishing hopes. The names of the founders Corinne seemingly are unkno One or a group of enterpns! men followed the survey ot J railroad and envisioned where the road crossed jfrfkwM iv: Pictured above is the scene of May 10, 1869, when East met West in Box Elder county as rails by the Union Pacific, building: westward, and the Central (now Southern) Pacific, building from the West, met at Promontory summit and amid jubilation and with considerable ceremony rail-- , the golden spike completing the re- -' was scene the road was driven. On September 8, 1942, trans-continent- CORINNE WAS WITH IARGE al GENTILE enacted as Governor Herbert B. Maw and railway officials removed the spike, marking the end of the pioneer span. as Oddly enough, the usefulness of the old road lives on, fay as a road to the grazing service uses the cilitate transportation to many areas of Box Elder county reached most readily by way of this line. right-of-wa- POPULATION IN EARLY The "Cursed City" Was Fastest Growing Town In Utah; Was Center For Freighting it Corinne, located on the Bear i probably the fastest-growinrfver about six miles west of was intended by its founders to Brigham City, was the last town become a great' metropolis and built on the railroad that con- the capital of Utah. nected East and West in 1869. Many leading business men It was Utahs Gentile (that is, of Ogden and Salt Lake City capital, it was made their start in Corinne. the Known as the burg on the the cursed city, it was the Chicago of the and 3ear , wickedness city in Utah 1870s a to the river. This was in February In March the town Contis surveyed by the Union Pacif chief engineer, J. E. Hot before From the very beginning h driven meant to be a city, not just P Alt other town, and the railri Corinn company received alternate for the survey. A whole hi moo i was set aside for a uniers were rr another for the Catholic chui In anticipation of ' fur. growth, the city limits were The: tended some distance from how C town proper. or A spectacular mushroi that t growth followed the complei u ei of the survey in March, in weeks more than 500 fra early dtizer buildings and tents were er'Mmne ed and the town contained 1,500 people. The first rail! locomotive and cars came o the Bear river bridge and Corinne April 7, 1869, a mo (Continued on Following Fo 1869. them to their destination .and loaded them up with rich ores for the smelter at Corinne. It was indeed rich ore, for later when mining companies bought up the old slag piles at Corinne and resmelted them, they yieldWest, The Queen City of the ed $20 to the ton in metal. . 6reat Basin, The City of the When the citizens the and innumerable muddy period nearly during Ungodly, sank to other monickers, Corinne rose to their knees, someone got the fame as the center of freighting idea of crushing the slag and into the northern territory leadit over the mud. A spreading ing into Idaho, Wyoming and lot of it was used for this. So Montana, Supplies for ..the min- the streets of the city literally ing towns were transferred from to the trains huge warehouses, whence they were loaded into Where Fast reight wagons .which carried CAPITOL OF UTAH v-- Met West -- The right clothes for the right places add so much to Vacation fun and relaxation. Dredges is your Sportswear headquarters for Sport Shirts, Slacks, Sox,' Footwear, Caps and Hats, Summer Weight Suits and all accessories. ' Come in and see Many visitors to Box Elder county this summer will lines to Promontory summit, to the point where the East and West met and the Golden Spike was di shortly after the close of the Civil war, in 1869. will find this Last Spike monument marking the and commemorating the day of historic interest to tt tire United States when stagecoach and pony xPFq came obsolete, when bands of steel bound the United b in reality, into one nation. |