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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 43 succeeded in reorganizing the company and placing it on a sound financial basis, after which the road was extended to Manti, reaching that city on Thanksgiving day, 1S93. In 1894 the road was extended to Morrison, its present terminus, and in 1896 the gauge was changed from narrow to standard. The charter has been amended to allow the construction of an extension southwest through Cedar City to the Nevada line, and work will begin on this in the near future. The general offices of the company are in the McCornick Block, Salt Lake City, Theodore Bruback president and general manager, S. T. Pearson, secretary and treasurer. Local headquarters, Manti; H. S. Kerr, general superintendent and general freight and passenger agent. The policy of the company is to employ local men to the exclusion of transients. The good service, courteous treatment and satisfactory management gives this road its share of the local and through freight and passenger traffic. A direct connection with the Oregon Short Line at Xephi makes a through line from Salt Lake City to Manti, and business from and to Eastern points is interchanged with the Union Pacific at Ogden. At Morrison terminus are located the extensive coal mines of the Sterling Coal and Coke company. The Sevier Valley branch of the Rio Grande Western railway was begun at Thistle in June, 1890, and completed to Manti, a distance of sixty miles, and opened for traffic January 1, 1891. The line was extended through the county to Salina during the year "91, many residents of the county being employed in grading and furnishing ties and timbers. In '96 the road was continued to Belknap, in Sevier Valley, and the line as contemplated will probably continue through Utah and to the coast, making Sanpete Valley the most direct route to the |
