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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process . .i I I . . \. , . Gladys' Whittaker wants to save ing in ' Milford: ' Union Pacific , plan' to . d'emolish .· the buihling the Union Pacific depot build- officials have ' annOlUlced they that ~ .was built '58-years ago. . ' I. . ~/; ~. • : ' ; " :' Must G<., Says Raijro~d ' ____________ ~....-----. " ". ", ' I" " " .• , , ... , : ; ,". I . ' .... . \ ,', \ ." . I . .• ~:.,,~·.;»>,I· ~, . ; . . I ' . ; ,:': ~'. ) ,\ . " I, . , ~earlyi ·-upf():r:'Milf.~~d:' Depot , , ' By JoAnn J~cobsen~ Wells' " ,,' ': . ~,: ,'};,jovember 192a;the depotwasd~scnbed by The railroad ,~~ cieric~lf6rce 'is ~orking out Tribune sniff Writer ' "' . . ,/, ':,: ~ "local ,newspaper as . "the : handsomest ;'. of temporary trailers. : ' ' " , ; .',depot in the state and outside of Ogden and ,. ' . - d '. ' , ', ' '' , . . MI'.....T.'ORD ,.Be~ver Co unty ~ Preservs" , Salt Lake ' it is the most expensive and the ' ." '. Mrs. Whittaker an other CI~y reSidents tlon or modernizatIOn? " best" " . , ,', haye . recommended , renovatlo~l .. of the , That's the pressing question here. . , . , . , : ' ( :" " ' . , building, ~ven though they ~dmlt It would ., I' Tile and StUCCO:l :'.'};; ''';'': ' ,. ,.":" .' be expenSlVe. (The cost to build the del?Ot 111 caused by the Union Pacific Rairoad's ···\ , ; . annOWlcement that it will demolish its .'}, >,: .The building, constructed i after ".the " 1923 was $200,000.) It hasn't been. pa.U1ted 58-year-old depot to .ma~e way for a riew ". ·otiginal depot burned to hhe gro'und, is 222:,' for.pyears;and "b~cpy needs a fa;elifL ". office building. ' feet long and 7~ feet wide, with an anne~ for ,; ; " Beeause we antiClpate ,a lot~f gr?wth 1£ · al'lroad offiCI' a I . .' a boiler room,bakery and laundry. ' , . ," the/ ~X comes through, i we d like to R , . .. investigate a Trolley Square plan," Mrs, . .I Dick Tincher said the The depot, wluch housed a f?nnal.~mg . Whittaker said. "We'd, like to see Union depot, built in 1923, is ' area, beanery, l.unch cowlter, m addlti?~ to , Pacificput a fence in front of the depot as a _ _... ' ''old and inefficient . an express 'offlce, baggage ' and waltmg . protection for pedestrians " to operate. . , rooms, ticket , office and the. railroad's :' ' . ' . "',. , , "It was' bulit. for i:. official busi?~ss offices, was onc~ the site '" Agamst Policy , . passengers ', in :. ofrouchactiVlty. " .• " ,,~, . .' '. J~ut, ' ac~ording to , Mr. Tiflcher, "It's another period. of Mrs. Whittaker said that party held on against company policy, for safety reasons ~i1ford ' (the depot sits too close to the tracks), to time, ". he sai!,l., "and Nov. 12, 192:'l, . ~onoring the fifth observance ' -'allow public use of the building in this :" thoderail~oaff~ nebed~lda .' of the Arnllstlce and the open house of the . manner·'" ' ,: !l1 ern 0 Ice , ill - newly' completed depot,. was one, of the"i _i' , ' , .\ , " c. ' ," " . , ......- - - - _ -..... mg which fits the ' biggest celebrations , eve!" ., held)n . the ... 'r The railroad;, c?mpany has ~greed t.o need ofthe presei.nt." county: '., ' , ,', , ' , :' , '; .. ' ;,'" dOI~ate '" the :buildi~g to, the' city. -:- If , , Mr.Tincher ~ald _. ' .' Big Ceiebration . " '.. . reslde?ts. can m,ove I~, which all agree IS an ' ~JOURNEY Millord is a . "ctlew }," . " . ' ., . . i " '" ', ' .. ",Impossibility .. .•. .~ . ", " ,, ' change pOint" for .! he \ .; , . ~or~ than 2,000 people (Millord S popu~ , I " ' '. So, ;.unt~l ' April 30, . discussions be'I \ railroad. Crewml'n," l~tlon ~s a~ut 1,300) att~nded the celebra . tween theJawyer representing citizens and ;who once slept in the depot, are now hQus~d " \ ti.on, .highlighted by mUSIC, aba.r~ue and ' :, ,; UnionPa(!ific attorneys will continu{~, "We in a 64-l,mlt motd, which Union Pacific bU;,lt . d:nc~l~ o~, ti~ ~tf~r.nt whi~h l~ ' dO~l't want to caus~ hard feelings with the last October. " , s ruc e o ., • " riC S a~ , ex en s " L,rallroad because It's our breud and but" across three tracks. It served as.a.pa~sway ' . ter," said Mrs. Whittaker, whose husband Milford residents, insisting the depot i ' , t o passen g ers wh 0 wan t e d t 0 J01l1 mthe . 'I'S a ' chlef crew di"patcher' F"ur gene'l'a '3 historic lundmark. "meaningful to young , art " . . ' .. ". v • and old," are resisting the move. , ,\' P y. , " ' :, . " ' : ';'~1'; ,":" " 1~:F ttOl;s of ~~ ~amllY', ~, a".,v,e ll,ee,'n"el"n p,lOY, C,d by ., The depot IS now rundown and empty. , Unton Paclftc" ;':·",_l ,': ~., ,> '" ,. '.>', : Restraining Order . .." "",:,~,",~,:< J:"!~ ._,. -..;~. . '!'." ~""I. ' J"!' ~ ~ <:'4 ';·'~l"'. ~~ , ~~ :', ... ~~,~.. ~.(4, ' ~~~i, ~.\. . :·. ) . .., '. ' :· " " .!,~·.', t.:• . ; -f;";J.~;:::~ ~ ·;,, ~::·.' J~}'. t,t'~·· ... -:--!:...,1• . In fact, they have been convincing , enough in their arguments that a district .: ~- judge has issued a 3O-day restraining order ' prev(~nting demolition of the structure until j April 30. "I Gladys Whittaker, founder of the Mil-, i ford Historical Society, and one of the .! anti-d~moUtion leade~s, said the depot is ! the city's "only claim to fame" - a • reflection of the stability that the railroad "! has provided the commwtity since 1880 ;: when the first train passed through", Millord. .1 And, Mrs. Whittaker said, the depot. of • Spanish design, "unique to the state ,of ', Utah," hlls been approved by the state # historical society for the Nutional Hugister ...• Uuilt ' in six months, from June t~; 1 1 ,. a • UTA H /03- . _ . ,.J J.- |
