March 15. A company was partially organized for building a railroad between Ogden and Salt Lake City.
May 9. The last rail was laid connecting the U. P. and C. P. railroads, thus completing the first railroad across the continent.
May 17. The first ground was broken for the Utah Central Railroad.
June 25. The first company of Latter-day Saint emigrants reached Ogden, per U. P. R. R.
December 24. In the evening street lamps were first used in Salt Lake City.
1870.—January 10. The last rail of the Utah Central Railroad was laid.
January 13. General mass meeting of the ladies of Salt Lake City, to protest against the passage of the Cullom bill.
February 12. "An act conferring the elective franchise upon women," became a law of Utah Territory.
April 27, An abandoned child was left at the door of Mrs. The first circumstance of the kind known in Salt Lake City.
August 12. A discussion commenced, in Salt Lake City, between Professor O. Pratt and Dr. J. P. Newman, chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Question, "Does the Bible sanction polygamy?"