| Show SOLVING TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULTIES Thereafter through minimal tax funds toll roads and the equally meagre Federal allocations Utahns managed to maintain and expandwagon road system It by no means met the entire need but was certainly better than travelling across raw ground and fording streams glimpse of such travel is provided by recollections of Arthur Gaisford who joined his brother Lorenzo in buying the Fillmore Progress in 1894 After theypublished long enough to reach the conclusion that two families couldnexist on the paperearnings decision was made to separate Arthur sold his interest to Lorenzo and his home and posses sions which couldnbe moved were bought by townspeople He and his family then returned to Salt Lake City The trip back his memoirs recorded was over the long dirt road ina well loaded white-top outfit behindspirited team of driving horses taken as part payment for our home Long beforeroad system could be established the arri val of rails providedsolution faster and more comfortable than ridinghorse But while they made it possible to reach the towns through which their trains passed those communities off the line -and there were many were still dependent upon the development of roads over which stage coaches could carry passengers and wagons could haul essential goods In 1868 the Union Pacifictracks penetrated Echo Canyon from the east and on May 1869 they linked with those of the Central Pacific It completedtranscontinental system that quickly sprouted other lines in Utah That meeting of east and west took place itworth noting at Promon tory Summit not Promontory Point as some writers persist in misinforming their readers Promontory Point is at the south ern tip of the Promontory Mountains which dip deeply into Great Salt Lake Promontory Summit is quite high and dry yet the lowest point in the mountain range and consequently the place chosen for laying the rails over the pass By January 10 1870 Salt Lake City was connected to the new system as Brigham Young directed construction of the Utah Central Railroad between the capital city and Ogden In the next decade railroads moved into the Cache Valley on the 281 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
