Show 4 1 t T M fw i r 4 y yr t DR COOLEY Tells Rotary Of Railroad Start tart In n Utah to Dr Everett L L. L Cooley director tor Utah State Historical Society Society Society Soci Soci- ety gave a timely talk Thursday afternoon on the history of Utah during the coming of the railroad railroad rail rall- road to the state His talk was given to members and guests of the Bountiful Rotary club IN ill TELLING o of the tremendous tremendous dous effort expended to I get the railroad through Utah and the West Dr Cooley used a series of lantern slide pictures taken at the time of construction Horse and ox drawn vehicles and scrapers made the earth fills hauled the ties and sup sup- plies It took a gigantic effort to get the track bed down and th the rails laid through valleys over mountains and across streams DAY LABORERS gave great energy on the pick the hand drills the horse drawn earth scrapers and the hard rock tun tun- tun- tun Dr Cooley said the coming coming com com- I ing of the railroad to the state was second only to th the coming comingo o the pioneers to the state The noted historian pointed out oat the Impact the coming of the railroad had on the economy of the state Cost of ot wagon freight to Utah was approximately per ton Mall by pony express cost per 2 1 ounce I A TEN DAY stagecoach ney from St. St Louis to Salt Lake cost This was reduced to I 60 with the coming of the rail rail- railI I road With the coming of ot the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road were able to market market market mar mar- ket their produce move mineral ores to smelters and out of the state They could bring in other products In machinery clothing clothIng clothing cloth- cloth Ing etc for much less than they could be made locally adding addingto to the money coming Into service service service ice In the state THE DOCTOR pointed out three outstanding and significant significant cant events in the annals of transportation that all took place in Utah These were In 1861 the transcontinental telegraph lines met and were joined on Ort Main Street In Salt Lake City In 1869 the joining of ot the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Point In 1915 the transcontinental telegraph lines were joined at Wendover DR COOLEY reminded Rotarians Rotarians Rotarians Ro- Ro that a great centennial celebration already authorized I by Congress will b be held in Utah I to commemorate the loath year since the joining of the Union I and the Central Pacific lines at I Promontory Point in 1869 i Highlights of the celebration I which will be national in scope will be M May y 10 19 1989 1969 9 I IROT II I ROT ROTARIAN ARrAN Bernell WrIgley I introduced the speaker sneaker I |