clark-kearns

Updated: July 9, 2026

Louis in building a railroad from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, and the Church owned some fifteen miles of track that had been laid from Salt Lake City, as the beginning of a Los Angeles line. It was apparently assumed by President Snow that Kearns' election to the Senate would facilitate the sale of this Church railroad to the Clark-Kearns syndicate.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft