Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd Railroad
This page was last updated on May 10, 2008.
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Chronology History
September 10, 1872 — Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd Railroad was organized by Hugh White and a group of Salt Lake City businessmen with interests in local mines and smelters. This was Utah's third narrow gauge railroad to be organized, with Utah Northern Railroad at Logan being the first in August 1871, and the second being the American Fork Railroad in April 1872.
October 26, 1872 — Ground was broken for the construction of BC&CF. The road would connect with Utah Southern near Sandy, which Utah Southern had reached in early September 1871, just a year before.
December 1872 — Construction started on the smelting works of Galena Silver Mining Company at the point where the new railroad was projected to cross the Jordan River
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