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van, the exodus of the Mormons, broke through 

 here, and all about you was written the history of 

 those first heroic souls who dared the desert and 

 the unknown. Fort Bridger is just over there, 

 and over this very trail, then as remote frorn us 

 as Thibet is today, thousands sought the way to 

 fortune or the refuge of the desert to find but a 

 wayside grave. 



As I said before, U. P. is Harriman's favorite, 

 and she can have anything she asks for. Money 

 is no object. Does she get a speck of dust in her 

 eye, straightway the road is ballasted from end to 

 end with rock. Is there a splintered rail, a tear 

 in her pretty iron dress, a low joint or two, she 

 must have a new suit of ninety-pound steel, sur- 

 faced to a razor edge. 



Along in 1902, Miss U. P. began to whimper, 

 and Mr. Harriman, in New York, heard her and 

 sat up. ^^Say," he says, ^'what's the matter with 

 U. P.?" ^^Wants a cutoff," says the vizier. ^^Says 

 all the other roads have cutoffs and says she wants 

 one." ^^Well," says Harriman, "why don't you 

 fix it for her?" "She wants the Great Salt Lake 



