Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Company, Mendon Station Papers, (1916-1936)
COLL MSS 60
Historicial Note:
The Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Company grew from two local railway systems organized by David Eccles. The Ogden Rapid Transit Company (1900) and the Logan Rapid Transit Company (1909) merged in May 1914 to create the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway Company. The main line extended from Ogden, Utah to Preston, Idaho and its major business focus was to profit from passenger (rather than freight) transit. The Company was officially incorporated with the name “Utah-Idaho Central Railroad” in 1918. The Utah-Idaho Central operated until February 28, 1947, when the railline was abandoned and scrapped.
The Mendon, Utah Station was erected in 1915 and by 1916 had become a stop on the electric powered Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway Company’s route.
Sources for further information:
Sorenson, Philip E., “The Utah-Idaho Central Railroad,” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1959.
Sorenson, Philip E. "A Corporate and Financial History of the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad" (Masters thesis, Utah State Agricultural College, 1957.)
Provenance:
The material in this collection was donated to Utah State University Special Collections & Archives by Richard Watkins in 1981.
Scope & Content Note:
This collection contains the papers of the UIC Mendon Railroad Station and spans the period of 1916 to 1936. This collection consists of twenty-two boxes and sixteen oversized ledgers of material in the form of station correspondence, monthly reports, financial summary reports, various receipts, waybills, shipping orders, passenger transit tickets sales, a train schedule for 1918, and other similar papers. The material in this has been organized chronologically and topically.
Note for Researchers: In addition to this collection USU Special Collections & Archives houses two other UIC collections: The Wellsville Station Papers (COLL MSS 61) and The Providence Station Papers (COLL MSS 163).
Inventory:
Box 1: Freight Bill/Delivery Receipt/Memorandum for Cash Book Entry, 1918-1919
(Records point of origin and destination for cargo; consignee; shipper; route of shipment; amount
and description of cargo; weight and rates.)
Box 2: Freight .Bill/Delivery Receipt/Memorandum for Cash Book Entry 1920 - 1921
Box 3: Freight Bill/Delivery Receipt/Memorandum for Cash Book Entry: 1922 - 1929
Box 4: Freight Bill/Delivery Receipt/Memorandum for Cash Book Entry: 1930 - 1935
Box 5: Daily Reports of Baggage and Local Checks on Hand: 1918 - 1924
(Records train identification; baggage received, delivered, and on hand; destination; kind of
checks.)
Daily Car Reports/Reports of Freight Cars Received and Forwarded: 1925 - 1927
(Records train identification; date received; car numbers and whether loaded or empty; demurrage
rates; detention report; destination.)
Reports of Cars Set Out Picked Up and On Hand: 1933 - 1935
(Records initials, number and kind of cars; whether loaded or empty; consignor and consignee.)
Box 6: Communications from the Office of the Superintendent, Railway Express Agency, Inc.,
Utah-Idaho Division.
Bulletins, 1930 - 1933
Circulars, 1930 - 1933
General Correspondence, 1918 - 1929 (incomplete)
Box 7: Freight Waybills, 1920 - 1933
(Records cargo origin and destination; shipper; consignee; weight and rates.)
Box 8: Less Than Car Load Freight Waybills, 1922 - 1927
Livestock Freight Waybills: 1925 - 1933
Livestock Contracts: 1919 - 1933
(Forms to be used in place of Uniform Bill of Lading for shipment of livestock and wild animals.)
(Letterpress books recording daily abstracts of local waybills received; daily balance sheets; cash
remittance records and descriptions of drafts, bank checks, vouchers, etc. ; daily reports of freight
cars received and forwarded; cars detained; cash papers remitted)
Volume 1: March 1918 - May 1918
vo1ume 2: May 1918 - July 1918
Volume 3: July 1918 - September 1918
Volume 4: September 1918 - November 1918
Box 12: Daily Station Reports
Volume 5 : May 1919 - July 1919
Volume 6 : March 1921 - April 19121
Volume 7: May 1921 - July 1921
Box 13: Daily Station Reports
Volume 8: July 1921 - October 1921
Volume 9: October 1921 - December 1921
Volume 10: January 1922- April 1922
Volume 11: April 1922 - August 1922
Box 14: Daily Station Reports
Volume 12: September 1922 - December 1922
Volume 13: January 1923 - April 1923
Volume 14: May 1923 - August 1923
Box 15: Daily Station Reports
Volume 15: December 1923 - April 1924
Volume 16: April 1924 - August 1924
Volume 17: August 1924 - November 1924
Box 16: Daily Station Reports
Volume 18: October 1925 - January 1926
Volume 19: December 1926 - April 1927
Volume 20: February 1929 - May 1929
Box 17: Daily Station Reports
Volume 21: January 1929 -September 1929
Volume 22: September 1929 - February 1931
Volume 23: October 1931 - March 1933
Box 18: Demurrage Reports: Weekly
(Records the detention of freight cars beyond the time allowed for loading and unloading and the
payment made for the detention.)
Volume 1: July 1920 - May 1924
Volume 2: October 1927 - June 1929
Volume 3: Station Record Book, 1923 - 1929
Volume 4: Report of Cars Released, 1931 - 1935
Volume 5: Short or Bad Order Reports, 1921
Box 19: Comparative Statement of Business Handled
(Records freight and passenger traffic; cargo; weight increases and decreases; rate increases and
decreases; carloads received and forwarded.)
Fd 1: 1927
Fd 2: 1928
Fd 3: 1931
Fd 4: 1932
Fd 5: 1933
Fd 6: 1934
Box 20: Summary of Reports Sent to District Accounting Bureau
Fd 1: 1929
Fd 2: 1930
Fd 3: 1931
Fd 4: 1932
Fd 5: 1933
Box 21: Summary of Reports Sent to District Accounting Bureau
Fd 1: 1934
Box 22: Train Schedule, 1918.
Schedule of Cache Valley Routes and Timetable: effective June 24, 1918
Oversize Record Books
Book 1: Receipts and Payment Record July 1916 - November 1918
Book 2: Receipts and Payment Record July 1920 - October 1921
Book 3: Receipts and Payment Record November 1921 - October 1922
Book 4: Receipts and Payment Record November 1922 - November 1923
Book 5: Receipts and Payment Record December 1923 - April 1925
Book 6: Record of Freight Bills Issued September 1916 - February 1921
Book 7: Record of Freight Bills Issued March 1921 - April 1924
Book 8: Record of Freight Bills Issued November ]928 - January 1931
Book 9: Station Cash Book July 1930 - April 1936
Book 10: Station's Monthly Reports March 1917 - May 1920
Book 11: Station's Monthly Reports June 1920 - December 1923
Book 12 - Station's Monthly Reports January 1924 - June 1928
Book 13 - Station's Monthly Reports July 1928 - May 1933
For more information: 435/797-2663; Manuscript Librarian.
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