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Show I WHEN CORINNE AND OGDEN WERE RIVALS When Ogdcn was n very small village, vil-lage, Corlnnc, Utah, was the metropolis metrop-olis of tho Intermountaln rogion, with a population of 1000. All tho freighting freight-ing to the north, even ag Tar ns Montana, Mon-tana, went out of Corlnnc, after the completion of tho first transcontinental transcontinent-al railroad, and the city -was one of the liveliest on the frontier, i George F. Brown, now of Oakland, Cal., who Ih In .Ogden on a pleasure trip, recalls some of the early his-I his-I tory or Corlnnc which Is presented to I the Standard readers in this issue Theao reminiscences arc most entertaining enter-taining to those who went through the early experiences and they give to tho younger generations a glimpse of westorn life In the pioneer days, when this part of the west was a world of its own, separated from the outside W long stretches of uninhabited uninhab-ited country. One of our pioneers, describing the I arrival of the first train over the Union Un-ion Pacific, say the event was one of I unequaled Importance. The track- layers, working far ahead of the con-j con-j structlon trains, had spiked the rails j up to the contcr of the present yards and word was received that next day the first locomotive would run Into Ogdcn. The school children were dressed In their best, which In those 1 days was limited to very plain garments, gar-ments, and they were drawn up alongside along-side the track. When the Iron monster, mon-ster, with belching smokestack of large dimensions, rounded the curve ! that brought It into full sight nnd tho ' engineer started the deep-toned wills-i wills-i tie, tho children were thrown Into panic and stampeded through the wot bottom lands, so that when the train 1 came to a stop In Ogden, consternation consterna-tion reigned. That was Ogdon's introduction in-troduction to a transformation that ever since has played a roost Important Import-ant part In the city's- upbuilding. When the Union Pacific was extended ex-tended on west and met the Central Pacific, Ogden lost its temporary ad- vantage as a railroad point and Corlnnc Cor-lnnc became the commercial center, only to lose Its prestige when the Utah Central built north from this city and destroyed the teaming out of Corlnne. Those were stirring dnys. More I than one of Ogdon's business Inter-I Inter-I eats bad the foundation laid In old ' Corinnc. |