Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Point, Utah, effectively ending the Church's isolation in Utah.
17. President Young Broke the first ground for the Salt Lake
Branch of the rail Road from Ogden to Salt Lake City
I spent the day at the Endowment House we gave Endowments to
48 persons W Woodruff sealed 27 couple J F Smith 19
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