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Show It resources. For four years he was a moml.fr ..f the stale Kenato trom Sali Lake county. Qi"t. unaKsumlriR. obllKlnK and courteous at all tlmey, Simon Rainberner ha a host f frlen.ls in this mate, who believe that, when-ever when-ever he sal.l he wonbl do thlnK. nolb-i&g nolb-i&g but death couhl etP him. BAMBERGER h'AS HAD THECOUIUGE "Stlck-t'-lt-lvenesa" Is the word I that best fits the career of Simon ! Mamberger, president, general mana-I mana-I ger and principal owner of the Salt j Lake A Ogden road. The whole career of Mr. Bamberger Is one of sticking to a thing until he has accomplished ac-complished his purpose. When in 1 r I. he announced that it was his Intention t build a railroad rail-road from Salt Iake Cltv to the second sec-ond largest city In the state the wls5 onon laughed. Were there not already two railroads, owned and operated by rich and powerful corporations operating operat-ing between the two cities? What need was there for another? T'nllke a Harrlmon or a Gould be could not go into the Mg financial circles and borrow money on which to build a road that would compoto with other ronds. Hut be had faith In himself and In his project, and work was started The road was built as far north from Salt Lake as Peck's Hot Springs and there it stopped. Bamberger planted trees aud grass and flowers and mad a pretty llttlo park, and built a fine bicycle track. There was n hotel and one of I hi finest hot springs In tho world, and the" knowing ones said: "That Is as far as Bamberger ever intended to build that road, and as far as ho ever will build It." Two or three years later "the. dummy dum-my line" as It was known, probably for the reason that the locomotive made more noise than any half dozen other engines In tho state, was pushed on to Bountiful, ten miles north of Salt Iike and here another pretty park was established, called ' Eden ' Money did not como as fast as the promoter would have liked it, and the road ended here for a year or two. Then It was pushed on to Farming-ton, Farming-ton, ami the famous Lagoon resort was opened A few now began to believe that it was Bamberger's Intention finally to build tho road Into Ogden, hut H was not until some five or six ears later that Mr. Bamberger announced an-nounced that he Intended to start work. He made application for a right of way through tho north part of Davis county and tho south part of Weber county, hut was opposed by powerful Influences. He persisted, ho gave and took, and finally won the franchises Then came the application for i franchise Into Ogden City. Powerful influences again opposed, ami for months the matter hung In the balance. bal-ance. Bamberger, won. But to enter Ogden he must cross tho main line of the Union Pacific and that great, corporation fought him as hard or harder than any promoter of a short railroad has been fought In the history his-tory of railroading In this country. Behind the now road was a man now hardened to opposition. He was accustomed to overcoming obstacles, and he won out. August 4, 190S, seventeen years after he had announced announc-ed that he was going tu build a rail road from Salt Lake City to Ogden, the first trnln over the newi road was run from this city to Ogden. Then came tho announcement that wilhin a year the work of Installing electric power on the road would commence.. com-mence.. By this time few people smiled smil-ed at a promise made by Bamberger. Men who had learned to know the man said: "Only one thing can prevent him from carrjlng out hia plan death" Within the year the work was commenced. com-menced. Everything was done In the best character of workmanship. The cars ordered wero of the finest type. It took a little over a year to complete com-plete the joh, but It has been completed, complet-ed, and toda It stands as a monument monu-ment to Simon Bamberger and his "stlck-to-lt-lvenoHS."' Simon Bamberger was born in Darmstadt, Darm-stadt, province of Hesse, Germany. February 27, 1847. When 13 years oid he emigrated to America, and settled In Indlaua, later he removed to Missouri, Mis-souri, where in 1R6R he became Interested Inter-ested In a contract for the L'nlon Pacific. Pa-cific. In Kfi9 he arrived In Ogden nnd opened what was known as the White house, a hotel and restaurant. In 1871 Mr. Bamberger went to Salt Lake City and took charge of tho obi Dclmonico restaurant on the southwest south-west corner of Main and Second South streets, which he remodeled and named the White house, by which It i pilll known. In 1S72 he hecaroe Inter, ested In mining in Big Cottonwood and In 1R79 In the coal fields In Saii-pete Saii-pete county. It was largely through his Influence and energy that the Sanpete San-pete Valley railroad, now a part of the Denver & Rio Grande, was bull'. Of this line for a lime he was president pres-ident nnd general manager. Since his arrlvnl In lUnh Mr Bamberger Bam-berger has been largely Identlth-d with the upbuilding of the Mate ani |