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Railroads of Utah, Corporation Information, Part 1

From the records of the State of Utah

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Alta & Jordan Valley Railroad

Organized: October 24, 1910

Filed: October 25, 1910 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 8633

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $200,000 (10,000 preferred shares @ $10.00, 100,000 common shares @ $1.00)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad between Sandy and Alta, Utah, a distance of about 16 miles

Incorporators and directors:

D. J. Williams	SLC	19,990
W. F. Williams	SLC	2	Secretary, Treasurer
B. F. Cummings	SLC	2	President
E. W. Cummings	SLC	2
N. A. Williams	SLC	2	Vice President

Alta - Cottonwood Transportation Co.

Organized: September 24, 1915

Filed: September 24, 1915 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 11388

Dissolved: (revoked in 1919)

Capital stock: $100,000 (100,000 shares @ $1.00)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad from Wasatch, Utah, on the Salt Lake & Alta Railroad in Little Cottonwood Canyon, to a station called Alta Junction, a distance of about nine miles.

Incorporators and directors:

Walter K. Yorston	SLC	59,600	President, General Manager
Walter K. Yorston, as trustee		15,000
W. H. Burnside	SLC	100
W. P. Twist	SLC	100	Secretary, Treasurer
George E. Ford	SLC	100	Vice President
H. B. Cole	SLC	100

Remarks:

Authorized to reconstruct or lease, etc. other railroads.

Conveyed to this corporation as full payment for shares of stock, the following items:

Lease and option to buy a certain roadbed and right-of-way from Wasatch Station to Alta Junction, Utah

Two locomotives
Ten freight cars
25,000 railroad ties

All valued at $75,000

American Fork Railroad

Organized: April 3, 1872

Filed: April 16, 1872 - with Auditor of Public Accounts

Utah index number: 4350

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $300,000 (3,000 shares @ $100.00)

Route:

From a point on the Utah Southern Railroad at or near to American Fork, Utah, to the Sultana Smelter Works at the head of American Fork Canyon, a distance of about 20 miles

Incorporators:

(no Directors listed)

Lloyd Aspinwall	New York City	50
G. G. Howland	New York City	50
A. C. Kingsland Jr.	New York City	50
H. W. Gray	New York City	50
Edmund F. Wilkes	SLC	10

Remarks:

Lloyd Aspinwall is shown as being a "General"

Edmund F. Wilkes is shown as being a "Colonel"

Reference notes:

Edmund F. Wilkes was also the General Manager of the Miller Mining Co., also located in American Fork Canyon

See also: Reeder, page 401

Ballard & Thompson Railroad

Organized: July 15, 1911

Filed:

July 15, 1915 - with Salt Lake County Clerk

July 17, 1915 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 9102

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $150,000 (1,500 shares @ $100.00)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad from Thompson, Utah, on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, to a place called Ballard, Utah, a distance of about 5.25 miles

Incorporators and directors:

B. F. Bauer	SLC	1	President
H. G. Ballard	Thompson, Utah	1	First Vice President
R. F. Nelson	SLC	1
L. W. Hahn	SLC	1
W. S. McCarthy	SLC	1	Treasurer
C. L. Crockwell	SLC	1	Second Vice President
William Darke	SLC	1	Secretary
William Darke, as trustee	SLC	1,493

Bamberger Railroad

Organized: February 15, 1939

Filed:

February 16, 1939 - in Salt Lake County

March 3, 1939 - in State of Utah

Utah index number: 22644

Dissolved: September 28, 1959 (voluntary, in Third District Court, State of Utah, case 121987. Filed in Salt Lake County on January 7, 1960)

Capital stock: (no par value) (45,000 shares)

Purpose:

To purchase all property and assets of the Bamberger Electric Railroad, including all property sold by receivers to Hugh L. Balser at the receiver's sale on October 20, 1938.

Incorporators and directors:

Julian M. Bamberger	SLC	1	President
A. B. Irving	SLC	1	Vice President
W. D. Nebeker Jr.	SLC	1
George E. Giles	SLC	1
Hugh L. Balser	SLC	1	Secretary, Treasurer
Hugh L. Balser, as trustee for bondholders		44,495

Remarks:

Receivership court case: Crowley-Anderson Co. vs. Bamberger Electric Railroad; Hugh L. Balser designated Reorganization Manager on March 23, 1938

Notification of the Bamberger Railroad ceasing to do business was published in the Deseret News for July 10, 17, and 23, 1959

A special shareholders meeting to dissolve the corporation was held on July 13, 1959 and the following persons were present: (42,972 shares represented)

Clair G. Anderson		1,001 shares
Clair G. Anderson, by proxy for:
	Bernard J. Eggertson	224 shares
	Charles D. Foster	10 shares
	Edward R. Hindman	10 shares
	Rebecca W. Buell	20 shares
	Russell Allen	3,000 shares
	Gordon F. Cullum	9,667 shares
	Murmanill Corp.	27,752 shares
	Simon B. Eggertson	1,228 shares
	H. B. Olsen	-- shares

$5,000 was received from Union Pacific in payment for unspecified easements and spur tracts

$82,000 was received from the Utah State Road Commission in payment for an unspecified option

Reference notes:

Murmanill Corp., of Dallas, Texas, purchased the Bamberger family interests in 1956. They operated the railroad until December 1958 when parts were sold to Union Pacific and to Denver & Rio Grande Western

Bamberger Electric Railroad

Organized: 1917

Purpose:

Reorganization of Salt Lake & Ogden Railway in 1917.

To Bamberger Railroad, 1939.

Remarks:

Beltline Railroad

Organized: 1943

Purpose:

This was the railroad service to the St. John Army Ordnance Dept. (from USGS topo map)

Remarks:

Big Cottonwood Railroad

Organized: October 7, 1874

Filed:

Utah index number: 4298

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $300,000

Purpose:

To construct a railroad from Big Cottonwood Station at Sandy, Utah, through Big Cottonwood Canyon to Silver Springs, a distance of about 20 miles

Incorporators and directors:

William Richmond

W. L. Barrington

E. F. Smith

N. T. Richmond

Joseph Chamberlain

Additional shareholders:

I. Ricketts

W. L. Mann

F. E. Morse

Lewis Buons

A. L. Morse

T. A. Braly

See also: Reeder, page 401

Bingham & Garfield Railway

Organized: July 1, 1908

Filed: July 8, 1908 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 7037

Dissolved: September 8, 1948 (voluntary, by Affidavit of Intent, acknowledged by court June 30, 1951)

Capital stock: $1,000,000 (10,000 shares @ $100.00)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad between Bingham, and the mines and mining properties thereof, and Garfield, and the smelters and smelting plants thereof, a distance of about 35 miles

Incorporators and directors:

W. S. McCornick	SLC	1	President
D. C. Jackling	SLC	1	Vice President
R. C. Gemmell	SLC	1
John N. Hayes	SLC	1	Secretary, Treasurer
A. C. Ellis Jr.	SLC	1

Remarks:

Amended May 9, 1911, to change structure of Board of Directors

Amended November 3, 1911, to increase capital stock to $2,500,000 (25,000 shares @ $100.00)

Amended August 31, 1912, to change terminus: to continue from Garfield, north to Saltair Beach

Amended June 10, 1913, to increase capital stock to $6,000,000 (60,000 shares @ $100.00) Filed: June 11, 1913

Amended December 19, 1916, to increase capital stock to $10,000,000 (100,000 shares @ $100.00)

Amended October 24, 1940, to decrease capital stock to $2,800,000 (28,000 shares @ $100.00)

At the time the corporation was dissolved, September 8, 1948:

Kennecott Copper Corporation (of New York) is shown as owning all shares of stock, except the six shares for qualifying in Utah and one share held by N. E. McKinnon

The wording used in these articles is almost identical to the wording used in the articles of the Bingham Central Railway (index 6542) which preceded this corporation by about a year's time. Both had the same organizers.

Bingham Canyon Railroad

Organized: September 10, 1872

Filed: September 10, 1872

Utah index number: 4283

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $1,000,000 (10,000 shares @ $100.00)

Purpose:

To construct, own and operate a narrow gauge railroad from a point of intersection with the Utah Southern Railroad, or other railroad, at or near Sandy Station, to Bingham Canyon, so as to accommodate the mines therein, a distance of about 25 miles

Incorporators and directors:

I. Wentz Wilson	SLC	50	President
M. B. Valentine	New York City	50
M. B. Dodge	New York City	50
W. C. Hendril	SLC	50
J. A. Williamson	Des Moines	8-3/4	Vice President
John Tierman	SLC	8-3/4
Theodore Haswell	SLC	8-3/4	Secretary
George Field	SLC	8-3/4
Wells Spicer	SLC	8-3/4	Treasurer
(unreadable)	SLC	8-3/4

See also: Reeder, page 402

Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd Railroad

Organized: September 9, 1872

Filed: September 10, 1872 - with Auditor of Public Accounts

Utah index number: 4291

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $300,000 (3,000 shares @ $100.00)

Route:

From Sandy Station on Utah Southern Railroad, through Bingham Canyon, and through or near to Ophir City, to the town of Lewiston, Camp Floyd Mining District, Utah Territory, and to pass into Salt Lake and Utah Counties, and through Tooele, Utah Territory, a distance of about 35 miles

Incorporators and directors:

A. N. Baskin	SLC	100
Hugh White	SLC	1,000
James M. Day Jr.,	SLC	100
John P. Taggart	SLC	50
Charles B. Trowbridge	SLC	50

Additional shareholders:

Stephen DeWolf	SLC	10
H. A. Saugan	SLC	100
J. G. Bryant	SLC	10
Thomas R. Jones	SLC	10
M. Salisbury	SLC	10
Clayton L. Haines	SLC	10

See also: Reeder, page 402

Bingham Central Railway

Organized: August 27, 1907

Filed: August 28, 1907

Utah index number: 6542

Dissolved: November 9, 1974 (involuntary)

Capital stock: $500,000 (5,000 shares @ $100)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad between Salt Lake City and Bingham, Utah, a distance of about 50 miles

Incorporators and directors:

A. C. Ellis	SLC	10
W. F. Adams	SLC	10	Treasurer
W. T. Gunter	SLC	10	Secretary
John Weir Jr.	SLC	10	2nd Vice President
R. G. Schulder	SLC	10
T. W. Sloan		10	1st Vice President
A. C. Ellis Jr.	SLC	440	President

Remarks:

Amended April 30, 1909 to increase capital stock to $3,600,000 (36,000 shares @ $100)

Boston Consolidated Mining Co.

Organized: 1898

Purpose:

Mining railroad in Bingham Canyon. Merged with Utah Copper Co. in 1910.

Remarks:

Cache Valley Railroad

Organized: November 15, 1918

Filed:

November 21, 1918 - with Weber County Clerk
November 28, 1918 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 13570

Dissolved:

Capital stock: 1,000,000 (10,000 shares @ $100)

Purpose:

To purchase interests of the Amalgamated Sugar Company in a certain line of railway extending from Kent Station, known as "Kent's Spur" on the line of railway of the Utah Idaho Central Railroad in Cache County and extending south for 15 miles to the factory of Amalgamated Sugar Company known as "Smithfield Factory"

To purchase certain line of electric interurban railway in Weber County commencing at a point on the Plain City line of the Utah Idaho Central Railroad known as UIC Station No. 259+12.8 located in the Southeast Quarter of Section 32 of Township 7 North, Range 2 West, and extending northwest over located line of said railroad for 2.05 miles to the station known as Warren

Incorporators and directors:

Marriner A. Browning	Ogden	10	President
Marriner A. Browning, as trustee		5,950
J. M. Eccles	Ogden	10	Vice President
Joseph Scowcroft Jr.	Ogden	10	Secretary, Treasurer
C. A. Boyd	Ogden	10
J. H. DeVine	Ogden	10

Remarks:

Articles of incorporation are written on stationary of "Boyd, DeVine, Eccles & Wooley, Attorneys, Ogden." 4,000 unsubscribed shares to be held by the treasurer for future use by this corporation

California Central Railway - Utah Division

Organized: August 23, 1881

Filed:

August 23, 1881 - with Auditor of Public Accounts

September 5, 1881 - with Secretary of Territory

Utah index number: 101 (also 4312)

Dissolved: April 1910 (charter revoked)

Capital stock: $5,000,000 (50,000 shares @ $100)

Route:

From a point on the western Utah state line in Iron County at intersection of said line and the California Central Railway - Nevada Division in the vicinity of Panacca, Lincoln County, Nevada, then east to Iron Springs, to Cedar City in Iron County and branch lines from most suitable points to Iron Mountains, to Kanarra Mountains, up Coal Creek Canyon, and to a connection with the Utah Central Railway, a distance of about 100 miles, all in Iron County.

Incorporators and directors:

W. W. Walker	New York City	10
J. H. Kirkland	Carson City, Nevada.	10
John Sharp	SLC	10
Lyman Bridges	Nevada	800
W. L. French	San Francisco	10
P. W. Johnson	Nevada	10
A. H. Washburn	San Francisco	10
William S. Godbe	SLC	10
R. P. Layton	San Francisco	10

Additional shareholders:

W. H. Hooper	SLC	10
H. S. Eldredge	SLC	10
P. L. Williams	SLC	10
Feramorz Little	SLC	10
L. S. Hills	SLC	10
John Sharp Jr.	SLC	10
LeGrand Young	SLC	10
H. S. Young	SLC	10
James Sharp	SLC	10
Alfaler Young	SLC	10
J. T. Little	SLC	10
Ferg. Ferguson	SLC	10

See also: Reeder, page 403

California Short Line Railway

Organized: June 10, 1882

Filed:

June 12, 1882 - with Salt Lake County Auditor of Public Accounts
June 12, 1882 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 150 (also 4315, which is the original signed copy)

Capital Stock: $1,600,000.00

Route:

Commencing near Salina and running in a northerly direction to Manti  thence up the San Pete Valley passing through the towns of Ephraim, Chester, and Moroni to a point on the San Pete Valley Railway at or near Draper in the county of San Pete thence to Nephi northerly passing through the towns of Mona, Santaquin, Payson, Spanish Fork to or near Springville - a distance of about 100 miles.

Incorporators and directors:

Eli H. Murray	Salt Lake City	20
Allen G. Campbell	Frisco, Utah	20
George A. Lowe	Salt Lake City	10
William S. McCornick	Salt Lake City	50 (not a director)
William W. Chisholm	Salt Lake City	10
John T. Lynch	Salt Lake City	10
Jacob E. Bamberger	Salt Lake City	150

Additional shareholders:

Simon Bamberger	Salt Lake City	630
Josiah Barnett	Salt Lake City	10
George Cullins	Salt Lake City	10
Abraham Hanauer	Salt Lake City	10
Robert Harkness	Salt Lake City	10
Richard Mackintosh	Salt Lake City	10
Fredrick K. Morris	Salt Lake City	10
George M. Scott	Salt Lake City	10

Remarks:

Sold to San Pete Valley Railway, 1889

Source: Reeder, page 403

Carbon County Railway (first)

Organized:

Filed: November 20, 1899

Utah index number: 2749

Dissolved: November 9, 1974 (involuntary)

Capital stock:

Proposed route:

From main of Rio Grande Western at or near Scofield Station, south to Clear Creek (ex Mud Creek), to the coal mines of the Pleasant Valley Coal Co., a distance of about seven miles

From main of Rio Grande Western at or near Mounds Station, north for five miles, then east up Grassy Trail Creek and Valley for 10 miles to Whittmore Canyon, then north two miles up said canyon to the Sunnyside coal mines, then north nine miles to head of said canyon, a total distance of about 26 miles

Incorporators and directors:

William G. Sharp	SLC	326	President
William F. Colton	SLC	1	Vice President
Robert Harkness	SLC	1	Secretary, Treasurer
S. H. Babcock	SLC	1
Edward T. Yard	SLC	1

Carbon County Railway (second)

Organized: July 28, 1922

Filed:

July 29, 1922 - with Salt Lake County Clerk
July 29, 1922 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 15468

Dissolved: (still active)

Capital stock: 500,000 (5,000 shares @ 100.00)

Purpose:

To construct, own, operate and maintain a railroad of public conveyance for persons and property between a junction with the mainline of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad at a point thereon located 517 feet easterly from milepost 13, and the mines and mining properties lying in a general southeasterly direction from said junction point, running through a portion of Carbon County, Utah, a distance of about 4.79 miles

Incorporators and directors:

L. F. Rains	SLC	10	President
A. C. Ellis Jr.	SLC	10	Vice President
W. W. Armstrong	SLC	10
Duncan MacVichie	SLC	10
L. F. Adamson	SLC	10	Secretary, Treasurer

Remarks:

Represented by "Dickson, Ellis & Adamson" law firm

Castle Valley Railroad

Organized in Wyoming: August 10, 1909

Filed in Wyoming: August 2, 1909

Filed in Utah: September 4, 1909 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 7906

Dissolved: November 22, 1919 (voluntary, having sold all of its assets, filed in Wyoming: November 26, 1920, filed in Utah: December 6, 1920)

Capital stock: $100,000 (10,000 shares @ $10.00)

Purpose:

To construct, operate, maintain and own a railroad, operated by steam or electric power, in the Counties of Carbon and Emery, State of Utah, from Price and extending in a southwesterly and southerly direction to Cedar Creek Canyon in Township 16 South, Range 8 East, Salt Lake Base & Meridian, a distance of about 40 miles

Incorporators and directors:

Moroni Heiner	Morgan	10	Vice President
C. B. Oliver	SLC	10
Walter C. Orem	SLC	10	Treasurer
Roswell M. Heiner	SLC	10
James H. Mays	SLC	10	Vice President
Winsor V. Rice	SLC	10	President
James C. Berryhill	Des Moines, Iowa	10
Frank M. Orem	Boston, Mass.	10

Additional shareholders:

Elmer O. Leatherwood	SLC	10
Daniel H. Livingston	SLC	10
Castle Valley Coal Co.		1,000

Remarks:

Principle place of business to be Evanston, Wyoming

Reference notes:

The coal mine of the Castle Valley Coal Company was located at Mohrland, in Cedar Creek Canyon

The town's name, Mohrland, was derived from the incorporators' names, Mays, Orem, Heiner, and Rice, M-O-H-R-land

(Read more about the Castle Valley Railroad, and its operations between Price, Hiawatha and Mohrland, 1909-1913)

Castle Valley Railway (first)

Organized: April 4, 1891

Filed:

April 4, 1891 - with Auditor of Public Accounts
April 6, 1891 - with Secretary of Territory

Utah index number: 882 (also 4352, which is a carbon copy)

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $1,000,000 (1,000 shares @ $100)

Route:

From Price, Utah, west to Pittsburg in Coal Fork of Cottonwood Canyon, all in Emery County, a distance of about 50 miles

Incorporators and directors:

Ben W. Driggs Jr.	SLC	4,955
Alexander Johnson	SLC	4,955
B. F. Thornburg	SLC	25
Milando Pratt	SLC	25
E. M. Cummings	SLC	5

Additional shareholders:

Fred B Barton	SLC	5
O. P. Pratt	SLC	5
W. Longmore	SLC	5
Josiah Burrows	SLC	5
Martinus Nelson	SLC	5
Ed. L. Sheets	SLC	5
O. L. Buke	SLC	5

Reference notes:

Castledale is located at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon

The railroad's destination of Pittsburg, was possibly the same mine as the later Orangeville mine of Utah Power & Light.

Castle Valley Railway (second)

Organized: January 9, 1901

Filed: January 15, 1901 - in Salt Lake County

Utah index number: 3028

Dissolved: April 2, 1910

Capital stock: $400,000 (4,000 shares @ $100)

Route:

From Salina, Utah, east along Salina Creek, through Salina Canyon, to junction of Salina Creek and Meadow Gulch, a distance of about 18 miles, then southeast along Meadow Gulch to Salina Pass, a distance of about 10 miles, then east and northeast generally following Ivie Creek to a point in Castle Valley at Township 23 South, Range 5 East, near the Sevier/Emery County line, a total distance of about 40 miles

Incorporators and directors:

David C. Dodge	Denver	360
S. H. Babcock	SLC	10	President
A. E. Welby	SLC	10	Vice President
E. A. Greenwood	SLC	10
Theron Geddes	SLC	10
William F. Colton	SLC	10	Secretary, Treasurer

(Read more about the D&RGW Castle Valley Branch)

Castle Valley Railway (third)

Organized: 1976

Purpose:

To build south from Price to Huntington.

Remarks: No additional information has been found.

Cedar City Terminal Railway

Organized: January 26, 1894

Filed:

January 26, 1894 - with Auditor of Public Accounts
January 26, 1894 - with Secretary of Territory

Utah index number: 1412 (also 4363, which is the original signed document)

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $200,000 (2,000 shares @ $100)

Route:

Commencing at Cedar City, east up Coal Creek Canyon to Section 36 of Township 36 South, Range 10 West, a distance of about 10 miles, all in Iron County

Incorporators and directors:

W. W. Cluff	Coalville	1,940
Orson Smith	Logan	10
Elias Morris	SLC	10
J. E. Langford	SLC	10
Charles H. Wilcken	SLC	10

Additional shareholders:

Charles Adams	Parowan	10
Arthur Winter	SLC	10	Treasurer

Reference notes:

Coal Creek Canyon is now known as Cedar Canyon

Central Pacific Railroad Co. of Utah

Organized: December 19, 1881

Filed:

Route:

From Corinne Station on the main line of the Central Pacific and running through the counties of Box Elder, Cache and Rich to a point on the North and South boundary line between the territories of Utah and Wyoming - a distance of about 110 miles.

Directors:

Charles F. Crocker
Charles Crocker
W. V. Huntington
A. N. Towne
Thomas Marshall
Harry T. Duke
John Tiernan
John E. Dooley
Jonathan C. Royle
Wm. C. Hall
Martin K. Harkness
John W. Guthrie

Remarks:

Source: Reeder, page 404

Central Pacific Railway

Organized: 1880

Filed:

Route:

Sacramento to Ogden.

Remarks:

Reorganization of original Central Pacific; leased to SP in 1884; merged with SP in 1959.

Chicago & Pacific Railway

Organized: March 21, 1904

Incorporated in Wyoming: March 23, 1904

Filed in Utah:

Utah index number: 5370

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $100,000 (1,000 shares @ $100)

Route:

From Casper, Wyoming, through Natrona, Fremont, Sweetwater, Uintah Counties in Wyoming and through Rich, Cache, and Weber Counties in Utah to Ogden, Utah

Incorporators and directors:

James B. Bradley	Natrona County, Wyoming
Fred E. Place	Natrona County, Wyoming	Vice President
William D. Rhoades	Natrona County, Wyoming
F. J. de Weldige-Cremer
Charles W. Green
George H. Crane
Jean W. Puryea
Paul Boisserain
Anfossi Rymenaus

Remarks:

G. R. Hagens shown as Secretary

Charles S. Tingey shown as agent in Utah

Coal Belt Railway

Organized: September 20, 1905

Filed: September 21, 1905

Utah index number: 5351

Dissolved: November 9, 1974 (involuntary)

Capital stock: $100,000 (50,000 shares @ $2.00)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad between Spanish Fork, Utah, and coal mines in Carbon County, a distance of about 89 miles

Incorporators and directors:

Archibald C. Milner	SLC	10	Vice President
Frank Knox	SLC	10	President
S. B. Milner	SLC	10
S. B. Milner, as trustee		49,950
Charles E. Milner	SLC	10
Harrison E. Jenkins	SLC	10	Secretary

Coalville & Echo Railroad

Organized: October 1869

Filed:

Capital Stock: $250,000.00

Route:

From Echo, Weber Canyon, to Coalville and then running into the various coal mines - a distance of about 5 miles.

Remarks:

The first attempt at building a railroad between Echo, on the newly-completed UP, and Coalville, where several coal mines were being developed. Graded only; no rail laid.

Right-of-way and finished grade sold to Summit County Railway in 1873.

See also: Reeder, page 404, who cites Deseret News, October 26, 1869, for the organization of this company.

(See also: "From Echo To Park City" on this web site.)

Consolidated Railway & Power Company

Organized: July 30, 1901

Filed: August 91 1901 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 3233

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $4,000,000 (40,000 shares @ $100)

Purpose:

To purchase ..., etc., Salt Lake City Railroad (47.5 miles), Salt Lake Rapid Transit Co. (21,91 miles), East Bench Street Railway (1.935 miles), Popperton Place & Fort Douglas Rapid Transit Co. (1.472 miles). Termini of said railroads are Fort Douglas in eastern part of city, Warm Springs in northern part of city, Poplar Grove in western part of city, Murray in Salt Lake County, south of city, and Utah State Prison in Salt Lake County, southeast of city. Railroads so to be purchased have branch lines located, maintained, and operated by electricity upon streets, roads, and public places of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. The total mileage, including double tracks, switches, and sidings, being 72.837 miles, all in Salt Lake County

Incorporators and directors:

Joseph S. Wells	SLC	1	Secretary, Treasurer
E. V. McCune	SLC	1
B. M. Ellerbeck	SLC	1
W. P. Read	SLC	1	Vice President
C. L. Rood	SLC	1	President

Additional shareholders:

E. B. Critchlow	SLC	1
Spencer Clawson	SLC	1
G. S. Gannett	SLC	1
E. E. Calvin	SLC	1
E. W. Wilson	SLC	1

Remarks:

The remaining 39,990 shares are to be issued to purchase said lines for which this corporation was organized

Copper Belt Railway

(This is one of the few references to Copper Belt *Railway* -- almost all later references use Copper Belt *Railroad*, including the locomotives being lettered for C.B.R.R.)

Organized: May 17, 1901

Filed: May 18, 1901

Utah index number: 3147

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $100,000 (10,000 shares @ $10.00 (7,500 subscribed, 2,500 held)

Purpose:

To lease certain line of Rio Grande Western from depot at Bingham, west up Bingham Canyon along and over tramway already located in Canyon, to Bingham Copper & Gold Mining Co., a distance of about three miles. The corporation may purchase said line.

Incorporators and directors:

H. G. Heffron	SLC	1	Secretary
J. G. Jacobs	SLC	1	Vice President
J. S. Gard	SLC	1
C. H. Post	SLC	1	Treasurer
William Bayly	Los Angeles	7,496	President

Remarks:

William Bayly's shares are paid for by transfer of locomotives, cars, and other property worth $15,000, by transfer of lease of route worth $20,000, and by $40,000 cash

Reference notes:

H. G. Heffron was the manager of Bingham Copper & Gold Mining Company.

J. (Joseph) G. Jacobs was also the manager of the Salt Lake & Mercur, and later, the manager of the Salt Lake & Alta.

Corinne, Malad Valley & Northern Railroad

Organized: July 6, 1892

Filed: July 8, 1892

Utah index number: 1154 (also 4358, which is the original signed document)

Dissolved:

Capital stock: $3,000,000 (30,000 shares @ $100)

Purpose:

To construct...etc., a railroad from Corinne, Utah, to Butte, Montana, a distance of about 400 miles

Incorporators and directors:

Henry M. Jarvis	Corinne	4,000
Tom D. Pitt	Corinne	4,000
Austin C. Sloan	Corinne	2,000
Lewis D. Zenor	Corinne	2,000
Francis E. Roche	Lakeside Ranch, Box Elder County	10

Additional shareholders:

John W. Guthrie	Corinne	10
Francis A. E. Roche	Lakeside Ranch, Box Elder County	3,990
Edmund P. Johnson	Eagle Farm, Box Elder County	500
Robert S. Guthrie	Corrine	1,250

Crescent Mining Co.
Crescent Mining & Milling Co.

Organized: September 29, 1882

Filed:

Capital Stock: $15,000,000.00

Route:

From Crescent mine to Park City.

In addition to owning mining claims and to work them . . . operate transportation routes to facilitate handling and marketing of products and for procuring supplies and generally to do all acts and things incident to a general mining business.

Directors:

Edward P. Ferry
Arthur Brown
R. N. Baskin
Chester H. Withey
David C. McLaughlin
Ezra J. Travis
Mardis Thomas
Clayton L. Haines
Moses Kirkpatrick

Remarks:

Owned two Shay locomotives. Reorganized in 1910.

Source: Reeder, page 402

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