| Show Green to Wales 1In 1884 Chester the track was continued through Moroni and on to This move away from the coalmine changed the nature of the trainfreight from coal to farm produce At this time Sanpete was called the granary of Utah of livestock In 1885 Moroni became the center for the shipping from Sanpete and southern Utah weighing were installed by the railroad winter trainload 10 carloads or more While Chester of cattle was the or sheep southern stockyard and scales for Some days in the fall or early would be loaded terminal of the trainload railroad meant 1884-1893 coal was discovered near Sterling This discovery acted very much likeblood transfusion for the Sanpete Valley Railroad The hope of coal to be freighted to Salt Lake was resurrected The railroad company was reorganized and refinanced The dream of extending the road to Parowan for coal was recorded by Theodore Burback the new president Late in 1892 Sanpete 1893 Valley The old Henry Beal Railroad first train line from reached of Ephraim Chester Manti to contracted Manti This on Thanksgiving to build the was done in Day Manti now became the main office terminal roundhouse and the all for the rolling stock To turn the train around so it could begin its trip back to northern Utah the belonging to the RG railroad was probably used as the Sanpete Valley had neither norturntable and the RG was justfew hundred yards distant The track was extended to the Morrison mine in Sterling Canyon during 1804 In 1896 the Sanpete Valley tracks which were narrow gage four feet rail to rail were changed to standard gage five feet rail to rail The RG RR that reached Manti January 1891 must have been narrow gage if the Sanpete Valley train used its to turn on Nearly all western railroads were making the change from narrow to standard gage in the late 1890 The dip of the that withinvery coal vein at Morrison was not short time underground water great but was enough became traublesgme and it was necessary to install pumping machinery train by tunnel was from the bottom of the canyon to intercept the mine This resulted in gravity flow of betweenandCFS peculiar DENVER odor and taste AND RIO GRANDE Prior to 1883 of the main line Thistle of this tunnel is about 1899 RAILROAD the town of Springville of thi Pleasant Valley mines from The date Hydrogen sulfide gave the water to Manti was Utah RG through Spanish completed January In 1890 Fork had constructed Canyon as 53 miles far as the the Sanpete branch of this railroad route 1891 big 2pay Cox Manti Utah 3Mantl Lake Company and Gunnison Irrigation Company records 4See RG driven -53 cele |
