Heber J. Sessions, Golden Spike Oral History Project, August 7, 1974, GS-1, American West Center, University of Utah

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-9- SESSIONS the towns of Corinne, Tremonton, Garland, Fielding, Plymouth, and Malad. That track's still used ., it still in use. But, it was jo·int track betw~en Corinne and Brigham City for the railroad for quite a number of years. The last of it was from Ogden to Corinne. Southern Pacific used the up tracks there. Then from there on they used their own. But they, there was an exchange of cars, loaded carF and empties f6r during the grain season for the early part of that year before that was taken out. I have an article, here somewhere, on the ... T: How much of the freight that was going up to Malad, Mr. Sessions>was mining freight or was it agricultural? S: All agricultural. The mining, I have an article here that might be interesting to you. I might tell you this. Then we lived in Brigham City, my wife was an officer in the Daughters of the 1Pioneers with Bernice Anderson. Bernice Anderson was chairman, if I iemember, 6f the Daughters of the Pioneers of the Box Elder State, and my wife was given an assignment to write a theme for a convention they were going to hold on the historical outline of the railroads m Utah, completion of transcontinental railroads and their affect on the growth and progress of Utah. There's a copy of that theme right there. That is the beginning of Bernice Anderson's study on the Golden Spike deal. She progressed right from there but that was the blow out that the Daughters of the Pioneers made, and this is my wife's contirbution to that deal. Bernice followed through with events of that · convent ion. T: When was the convention held, Mr. Sessions? S: In Brigham City. T: Do you remember what year?