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A photograph titled "The Eccles Family of Utah." This photo shows David Eccles with his parents and siblings, all of whom traveled from Scotland to Utah in 1863 as immigrants and settled near Ogden, Utah.
A collection of bond coupons that were issued with the mortgage bond for the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad. These coupons were worth $15 for bondholders interested in investing in the company and its future development.
This gold bond was created for the inauguration of the Logan Rapid Transit Company on January 1, 1913. The bond was worth $500 with a 6% annual interest rate for the company's first mortgage. It was created and authorized by the Ogden Savings Bank.…
On July 18, 1947, S.J. Quinney sent the following letter to announce the auctioning of all U.I.C. property throughout the counties of Utah and Idaho in which it had operated. Quinney had been appointed as receiver for the U.I.C. by the U.S. District…
A copy of a letter from Geo. Preston, the attorney from Logan, to Moyle and Moyle Attorneys at Law in Salt Lake City on January 10, 1947. Preston discusses some possible options for having the U.I.C. real estate and property sold to a bidder who can…
This is a copy of a January 9, 1947 notice to Bullen from M.R. Hovey, Secretary of the Logan Chamber of Commerce, regarding a special meeting concerning businesses that will be affected by the abandonment of the U.I.C. and its lines of operation.…
Bullen responded to Knickerbocker on September 10, 1947 and expressed surprise at the Union Pacific's hesitancy to invest the money for what Bullen calls "development purposes in the rich Cache Valley." He also states that business opportunities are…
Here Knickerbocker responded to Bullen on September 8, 1947 and informed him that the cost for the U.P. to purchase and upgrade the U.I.C.'s abandoned lines would be too great for the company and that they did not justify the expense of $35,000 for…
Bullen's letter of September 5, 1947 shows Bullen continuing to try to persuade Knickerbocker and the Union Pacific of the value of providing services in place of the abandoned U.I.C. He describes Cache Valley as economically stable and a great…
Following the abandonment of the lines of the U.I.C., S.J. Quinney oversaw the auctioning of U.I.C. property and real estate as the appointed receiver for the company. In this August 6, 1947 letter from Quinney to Bullen, Quinney informs Bullen of…
As the U.I.C. petitioned for bankruptcy, Bullen reached out to the Interstate Commerce Commission to support the protest of some Cache Valley citizens and companies against the petition. Bullen also asked the I.C.C. to consider the obligation of the…
F.H. Knickerbocker, Executive Assistant of the Union Pacific Railroad, responds to Bullen's request that the Union Pacific purchase and continue to operate the lines of the U.I.C. that are to be abandoned. Written on May 13, 1947, Knickerbocker is…
This letter from Geo. Preston, an Attorney in Logan, Utah, refers to a hearing over the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad and its future operation. Preston notes on February 14, 1947 that the situation seemed to be hopeless, that the financial situation of…
A sample page of the "Daily Abstract of Local Waybills Received" by the Providence Station of the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway on April 29, 1918. These bills provide information regarding the type of freight, its place of origin, its weight, and…
A sample page of the "Daily Abstract of Local Waybills Received" by the Providence Station of the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway on April 27, 1918. These bills provide information regarding the type of freight, its place of origin, its weight, and…
A sample page of the "Daily Abstract of Local Waybills Received" by the Providence Station of the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway on April 27, 1918. These bills provide information regarding the type of freight, its place of origin, its weight, and…
A sample page of the "Daily Abstract of Local Waybills Received" by the Providence Station of the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway on April 22, 1918. These bills provide information regarding the type of freight, its place of origin, its weight, and…
A sample page of the "Daily Abstract of Local Waybills Received" by the Providence Station of the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway in March, 1918. These bills provide information regarding the type of freight, its place of origin, its weight, and cost…
Shipping orders from the Providence Station record the relationships that businesses and individuals in Providence had with other parts of Utah and the United States. This shipping order, on behalf of the Utah Fruit Exchange, is for "Bulk Apples" to…
Shipping orders from the Providence Station record the relationships that businesses and individuals in Providence had with other parts of Utah and the United States. This shipping order, on behalf of Anton Kohler, is for a wheelbarrow, three bundles…
Shipping orders from the Providence Station record the relationships that businesses and individuals in Providence had with other parts of Utah and the United States. This shipping order, on behalf of the Hansen Livestock & Feed Co., is for 20 sacks…
Shipping orders from the Providence Station record the relationships that businesses and individuals in Providence had with other parts of Utah and the United States. This shipping order, on behalf of the Theurer Brothers Grocery Store, is for 25…
A Baggage Claim Ticket, No. A 41538 issued by the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway in 1918. This ticket is for a passenger traveling from Brigham City, Utah to Providence, Utah. The reverse side of the ticket explains how to use the ticket for stations…
A Baggage Claim Ticket, No. A 43489 issued by the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway in 1918. This ticket is for a passenger traveling from Ogden, Utah to Providence, Utah. The reverse side of the ticket explains how to use the ticket for stations where…
A Passenger's Check, No. 9446, dated to June 19, 1918 showing the cost for a passenger traveling from Logan, Utah to Providence, Utah. Additional information is included on the reverse side, but damage to the document covers some of the…
A Baggage Claim Ticket, No. A 40138 issued by the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway in 1918. This ticket is for a passenger traveling from Deweyville, Utah to Providence, Utah. The reverse side of the ticket explains how to use the ticket for stations…
This collection of letters contains correspondence between Geo. Champ and Royal Eccles concerning the topic of stock conversion from O.L.I. to U.I.C. stocks. The first letter in the collection, dated September 3, 1919, is a follow-up reminder from…
A letter from Royal Eccles to Geo. Champ, dated September 18, 1919, with Champ's new stock certificate following the conversion of stocks from the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway Company to the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Company.
This is one example of many checks that were written to the U.I.C. during its time of operation. This check was written for $3.78 on August 7, 1918. The stamp on the reverse side of the check shows that the U.I.C. utilized the services of Thatcher…
Royal Eccles wrote this letter on May 18, 1920 to all stockholders of the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Company regarding the annual meeting of stockholders in discussing the affairs of the company. Part of this meeting was to discuss the sale of the…
This "Weekly Comparative Statement of L.C.L. Door to Door Freight" from the Wellsville Station shows the L.C.L. freight handled by the station from July 21, 1935 to July 31, 1925. The pre-filled areas of the form indicate railroads that commonly…
A later record of freight bills collected at the Wellsville Station throughout September, 1933. The consignees of this particular record represent a variety of individuals and businesses, demonstrating the many different types of freight that the…
This document is a record of freight bills collected at the Wellsville Station throughout July, 1933. Each freight bill was tracked according to cost, the railcar and number in which the freight had traveled, the location of origin for the shipment,…
An entry from a Station Cash Book from the Wellsville U.I.C. Station. This entry, from January 1932, is a record of all of the cash transactions carried out within the month at the Wellsville Station. This is another form to be filled out by station…
A pamphlet outlining the timetable of the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Corporation as of April 20, 1942. This timetable includes the train schedule as well as the scheduled bus service that was provided by the railroad since the mid 1920s. The…
A Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Company timetable from June 24, 1918. This timetable displays the schedule of each of the trains traveling the route of the U.I.C. lines. It also provides information about connections from Ogden to Salt Lake City via…
The U.I.C. worked with a number of railroads to provide better service for their customers and expand that service to areas outside of Utah. This telegram, sent on July 29th, 1929, is evidence of the relationship of the U.I.C. with major railways…
This map was created by the Bamberger Electric Company and is an updated version of the 1916 map included earlier. It depicts the lines of the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad, the Bamberger Electric Railroad, and the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad with their…
One of the few handwritten documents in the station records, this note from July 13, 1925 written by J. H. Schwaneveldt describes the inspection and shipment of cattle via the U.I.C. Schwaneveldt was a brand inspector for Cache County and notes that…
One of the few handwritten documents in the station records, this note from August 23, 1924 written by J. H. Schwaneveldt describes the inspection and shipment of cattle via the U.I.C. Schwaneveldt was a brand inspector for Cache County and notes…
In addition to arrest warrants, robberies, and hold-ups, U.I.C. station agents also had to be aware of counterfeit money notes that were circulating at the time. This circular from November 17, 1930 notifies the agents of a new counterfeit $5 United…
P.H. Mulcahy, president of the U.I.C. at the time, sent this letter and the attached circular to all U.I.C. station agents on November 27, 1931. He, and the circular, encouraged all employees to utilize the railroad for personal holiday shipments via…
During the winter months, the U.I.C. stations were warned about increases in robberies and hold-ups that would result in revenue losses among the company. This September, 1931 circular instructs station employees to follow specific instructions…
This circular is another example of the variety of issues faced by railroad employees. Sent by Chief Special Agent W.C. Rutherford in 1931, this circular informs all railroad employees of a fugitive named Robert Paul Evans who has a warrant for his…
One of the many tasks of railroad workers was to ensure the proper packaging of freight for shipment to long distance destinations. This railroad circular titled "Handling Tropical Fish" provides instruction to employees on the proper shipping and…
This railroad circular, also from R.A. Cox, discusses the handling of corpses into Mexico and a new quarantine of agricultural products authorized by the Mexican government. Sent on May 15, 1931, it addresses another unique situation that railroad…
Another circular that was received by U.I.C. stations referenced loss and damage claims that were filed across the Utah-Idaho Division of railways. This circular, titled "Loss and Damage Bulletin No. 2" and sent from R.A. Cox on March 6, 1931,…
One of the many tasks of railroad workers was to ensure the proper packaging of freight for shipment to long distance destinations. This railroad circular titled "Handling Baby Chicks" provides instruction to employees on the proper shipping and…
This is an example of the records that U.I.C. station agents were required to document daily. The book contains information regarding ticket sales and baggage receipts at the Mendon Station. The front cover explains the instructions agents needed to…
This is an additional example of the records that U.I.C. station agents were required to document daily. The book contains information regarding ticket sales and baggage receipts at the Mendon Station. The front cover explains the instructions agents…