History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

UTAH SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN. 737
during this year the Utah Southern Extension was
commenced at the latter point, completed during the
following spring as far as Milford, 14 and a few weeks
later to Frisco, the location of the Horn Silver mine,
In 1881
its distance from Juab being 138 miles. 15
both these lines were incorporated with the
Central.
Utah
16
The Utah and Northern was organized in 1871,
ground being broken at Brigham City in September
of that year, and the road completed to Logan at the
close of January 1873, and to Franklin, Idaho, by
way of Ogden, early in the following year. 17 The
means for building this line were raised by the people
of northern Utah with great difficulty, and after being
maintained for years, first at a loss and then with
meagre returns, it was sold to the Union Pacific for
an insignificant sum, in February 1877, 1 * extended
through Idaho into western Montana, and in 1883 had
become one of its most profitable branches.
During Emery's administration a bill passed the
legislature authorizing the counties of Salt Lake,
Davis, Summit, and Tooele to issue bonds for the
purpose of constructing a road from Coalville to
131-2- Deseret News, Dec. 3, 1873, Jan. 27, 1875, Jan. 26, 1876; 8. L. C. Herald,
March 20, 1878; 8. F. Alia, May 11, 1872; 8. F. Post, Nov. 11, 1873;
Prescott Miner, Jan. 26, 1877u
The first train ran through to Milford in May. S. L. Wkly Tribune,
15 Utah Gazetteer, 1SS4, 108. See also 8. L. Herald, Jan. 1, 1879; S. L. C.
Tribune, July 8, 1879.
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16 In the Contributor, iv. 1S2, is a report of freights received and forwarded
over the Utah Central for eleven and a half months in 18S2.
17 The road from Ogden to Franklin was built entirely by the settlers. Doddridge's
U. & N. R. R., MS. For act granting right of way through public
lands of Utah, Idaho, and Montana in 1873, see Zabri*he* Land La, is, suppl.
1S77, p. 57; House Ex. Doc, 46th Cong. 3d Sess., 47, pt 2, 976-7. In 1772 ai
act was passed granting right of way through to the Utah, Idaho, and Montana
road, which was to connect with the Utah and Northern. Id., 975.
18 During 1879 the income had increased to about $80,000 a month. Deseret
News Julyl6, 1879. For further items concerning the Utah and Northern,
see Id., Oct. 10, 1877; S. L. C. Herald, Nov. 21, 1877; Portland Ev. T, ><
qram, May 3, July 24, 1S79; Utah Gazetteer, 18S4, 108-9; Doddridges U.
& N R H MS. W. B. Doddridge, a native of Circlcville, O., came to
Ogden in 1867, and though only 19 years of age, readily obtained employment
on the U. P. R. R. In 18S2 he was appointed to the charge of the Idaho
division.