ECV1850 Plaque:
Helper City.
(Utah)

HELPER CITY
THIS VALLEY WAS ORIGINALLY SETTLED IN 1881 BY TEANCUM PRATT. THE ORIGINAL PRATT SURVEY STILL PREDOMINATES ON MAPS OF THIS AREA. HE SOLD LAND TO THE RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD FOR A RIGHT OF WAY. BY THE FALL OF 1887 THE RAILROAD HAD BUILT 27 FRAME RESI- DENCES AND FROM THIS START THE TOWN CONTINUED TO GROW. WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE STANDARD GAUGING OF TRACK IN 1891, THE TERMINAL WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS AREA. IT TOOK EXTRA ENGINES TO PUSH TRAINS OVER SOLDIER SUMMIT. THESE EXTRA LOCOMOTIVES WERE CALLED "HELPERS" AND IT WAS FROM THIS SOURCE THAT HELPER WAS NAMED. WITH A MIXED POPULATION OF PRACTI- CALLY EVERY NATIONALITY, HELPER GREW INTO A BOOMING TOWN. IN 1907 HELPER TOWNSHIP WAS INCORPORATED.

DEDICATED BY MATT WARNER CHAPTER No. 1900 AND MOUNTAIN CHARLIE CHAPTER No. 1850 E CLAMPUS VITUS JULY 11, 1987

Plaque is located in the
lawn in front of City Hall.
Helper.
Carbon County, Utah.

*Approximate