| Show bration was held on December 29 Utah 1890 in the tabernacle at Manti The RG track reached Salina in 1891 Belnap now called the southern terminal was reached by track and train in 1896 FEW FACTS to ABOUT THE RAILROADS IN SANPETE The Sanpete Valley Railroad the Ephraim franchise The Sanpete Valley ownership until the end Marysvale was sold to the Railroad continued of the year 1929 RG to operate in 1915 under according the RG Many grand celebrations were held in various Utah cities when the railroad came to towne 0gden August 1869 Golden Spike at Promontory May 10 1869 Salt Lake City January 10 1870 Provo October 25 1873 Chester 1884 Ephraim 1890 Manti 1890 SANPETE RAILROADS remember in Sanpete MY PERSONAL about County 1918 or that EXPERIENCES 1919 it became before there necessary were any to attend hard-surfaced Farm Bureau Board roads Meeting at Manti At this time of the year the mud on the highway near the 0ld of Ephraim cemetery north every road in the County Joseph Bagnal was at its Commissioner County Farm Bureau Secretary appraised the situation most sticky stage as and County it was on Christiansen of Fountain Green Director Farm Bureau We changed the time of the meeting from day to evening The morning of the meeting daycalled the RG agent at Ephraim and requested that he ask the train conductor George Bradley to pick up Mr Bagnal at his home aboutmile south of the Chester Station and me at my farm two miles north of Ephraim That afternoon the train obligingly stopped and picked us up for the trip to Manti After the meeting we obtained rooms at the hotel Next morning boarded in real the old style we rode Sanpete Valley in the Conductor he had picked us up the day before boarded the Sanpete in Ephraim This was hack to the Manti Bradley let each Depot and of us off where On September 14 1908 about30m Valley Train about 100 yards north of whereTived the first timehad left home alone with the inten tion of making an extended stay was on my way to theA at Logan Also on the train were four Manti boys who were going to college They were Melroy and Clinton Kjar Henry Voorhees and Rob Hogan At Fountain Green the another boy Christiansen next evening came aboard At that moment we would He carried the be roommates cornet thought for never that case He was entered my head school Archie that by year At that first meeting we were strangers but the stranger Teft and has failed to return even after 67 years wonder where has the stranger gone Individually and collectively they were trulygrand bunch of boys to have known |
