| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION by brothers Issac Ike and Charles Diehl and later published by James Hayford closed its doors in 1897 The Iron County Record had much greater longevity meeting its weekly schedule under the guidance of three generations of the Rollo family for some eight decades before the masthead was elimi nated in 1982 The territorypopulation was 230 570 and that of the capital city 53 531 Other larger communities in order were Ogden 16 313 Provo185 Logan451 Park City759 Springville422 Eureka085 and Lehi719 Since the December 1893 gathering was rather informal no actual minutes were taken However the Salt Lake Tribune reported in its December 18th story that these 10 newsmen had joined Webb William Glasmann and Edwin Littlefield of the Ogden Standard Lamoni Call and John Stahle of the Davis County Clipper in Bountiful Rawlings ofa Salt Lake City weekly The Silver Star Tomson of the Brighton Star Don Johnson Springuille Independent Murray Ephraim Enterprise Josiah Gibbs Deseret Blade Andy Rosenbaum of the Logan Nation and Most of them were able to travel to and from Lehi with relative ease since the north-central portion of Utah Territory was criss-crossed bynetwork of rail lines Even from some what distant Logan Rosenbaum had no difficulty making the journey by train Because the Union Pacificline didn actually go through Lehi but ran aboutmile north and west of it many travellers rode from Salt Lake City to Utah County communities on the Rio Grande instead Ephraim from where Murray journeyed was served byRio Grande branch line which ran southward out of Thistle passing through Mt Pleasant Manti Salina and Richfield enroute to its terminus at Marysvale It was abandoned after1983 mountain slide destroyed facilities at Thistle Tracks were removed in 198788 Atglance readers will note disparities in the reports of the Lehi Banner and the Salt Lake Tribune One is the newspaper affiliation of Edwin Littlefield whoidentified with the Ogden Press in Mr Webbaccount and with the Ogden 14 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
