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Identifier: utahsincestateho02warr (find matches)
Title: Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Warrum, Noble Morse, Charles W Ewing, W. Brown
Subjects: Utah -- Biography Utah -- History
Publisher: Chicago--Salt Lake, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e development and equipment of theCastle Valley Coal Company and the building of twenty-five miles of railroad called theCastle Valley Railroad Company. These properties were later purchased by the UnitedStates Mining Company and are now among the big earners of the state. Under Mr.Orems direction, his firm also organized, developed and equipped the Nevada Doug-las Copper Companys properties, which have since produced over five millions of dol-lars in high grade copper ore. Mr. Orem is still general manager of the property andone of the larger stockholders. In addition to this he financed, built and is still operat-ing as its president the Nevada Copper Belt Railroad, which serves the Mason miningand agricultural districts in western Nevada. The work in which Mr. Orem probably takes greatest pride is the financing, build-ing and subsequent operation, as its president and general manager, of the Salt Lakeand Utah Electric Railroad, which runs from the business center of Salt Lake City,
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WALTER C. OREM f f I UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 711 south through the fertile valleys of Salt Lake and Utah counties, with a branch lineto Magna, Utah, the home of the Utah Copper Companys mills. The Salt Lake andUtah, commonly known as the Orem Line, is built to trunk line railroad standardsand is doing a big freight as well as passenger business. This road has been a greatintensive developer. Sixty new industries are served by its spur tracks, among themthe largest sugar and canning factories in the state. No one thing has been developedin the past few years which has been of more benefit to Utah and especially the terri-tory immediately tributary to its rails. The Orem Line is a genuine home enter-prise, being almost entirely owned and fostered by Utah capital. Among his otherbusiness connections Mr. Orem is general manager of the Interurban ConstructionCompany. Measured by the extent, importance and result of his activities, Mr. Oremranks as one of the foremost business men of Utah, a p

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