Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 3, 1973

S. George Ellsworth, professor of history at Utah State University, was given the title of Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society at Annual Meeting award ceremonies September 8. Dr. Ellsworth joins a distinguished group of thirteen Fellows who have received the award for outstanding historical research and writing. The Logan professor is editor of The Western Historical Quarterly and the author of a number of articles, book reviews, and Utah's Heritage, a textbook published in 1972.

Other members of the historical community who were honored by the Society include: Jack Goodman who was named an Honorary Life Member; Hermoine Jex, J. Grant Iverson Service Award; Lora Crouch, Service Award; LaMar Taft Merrill, Jr., Teacher Award; Glen M. Leonard, Dale L. Morgan Award; William A. Wilson, Morris S. Rosenblatt Award; and Ronald Walker, Golden Spike Award.

The Utah State Historical Society has announced a second year of competition for the Golden Spike Award (railroading in Utah in the nineteenth century) and the J. F. Winchester Award (the role of automotive transport, i.e., trucking, in Utah from statehood to the present). Each award carries a monetary prize of $300. Manuscripts should be unpublished, typewritten on 81/2-by-11 -inch plain white paper and double spaced. Footnotes should be in a separate section at the end. Railroading manuscripts should be five to seven thousand words in length, trucking manuscripts seven to ten thousand words. Deadline for submission is July 1, 1974. Winners will be announced at the Society's 1974 Annual Meeting. Send entries to Utah State Historical Society Awards, 603 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102.

Two rare books were recently acquired by the library of the Utah State Historical Society: Laws of Corinne City, Utah, and Wolfe's Mercantile Guide, Gazeteer, and Business Directory. The 32-page Laws of Corinne, published in 1883, contains the city charter and amendments as well as a chronological listing of the city governments from 1870 to 1883. The revised and consolidated ordinances of the well known railroad town comprise 19 pages of the volume.

Wolfe's 1878-79 directory served as a guide to businesses located in towns along the line of railroads in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Dakota. In addition, Wolfe compiled general descriptions of towns, mining interests, agriculture, schools and churches, governments, and societies. Of the 362 pages, 88 are concerned with Utah.