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Show tanned A Youha Nation When The I, Indians Raised e Rail Workers Railroads Surged Across United States To Meet Here Scalps On Plains By Bob Crompton Hardly had the smoke stopped curling from the artillery of the Civil War, when the roar of another great battle on the plains srtd the mountains of the vast 'American West echoed across the nation. The piercing din of a savage fight rose into the solitude of desert air at the battle lines ot two great American railroad companies. Closing the gap between the east and blossoming California, the Union Pacific advanced from the Missouri and the Central Pacific from Sacramento, toward a junction near Ogden, Utah, to weld the nation together with bands f steel. . . The railroad companies bat- tled each other like two marathon racers sprinting a long kace, neck to neck. The compe-'"litiobetween the two companies. smothered the lowlest track layer to General T (Greenville Dodge himself in an ' iir of urgency, whipping the 'Ttajlroads on to complete the 'transcontinental railroad a full "five years before their goal. But it was the skirmishes With Indians at End O Track that let the blood of the swear-tng- , sweating Irishmen of the '.'"tjridn Pacific; and it was the Wide the gorges, crashing streams and the sheer moun-- , of "tains the Sierra Nevadaa and the Rockies that cost the com- Spanies heavily in. lives 'as , well T las. money. V Pricking national Interest Into treat, great metropolitan news- r the East papers throughout shouted in the broadest head- lines every used: "One mile of n Chi-"toe- 1 amid jubiliation and with considerable ceremony the golrailroad was den spike completing the transcontinental driven. Marking the end of the use of the railroad, the rails were removed on September 8, 1942. key Leg, leading a war party of cat, he and his braves tied a fired by the invasion of their Cheyennes, scored their first ma- log across the tracks, with a hunting grounds by the thun- jor victory against... the Ji.ron length of wire cut from the. accompanying telegraph line. dering engines that split flames horse. t from their jowels and belched Sioux William Thompson, head lineshad The and Cheyenne bellows .of black smoke into their crystal sky, lurking with- peppered the trains with mus- man, and five of his crew, soon in musket range almost every ket shots and arrows, with lit- came rumbling down the track tle affect. They had stretched a on a hand car, seeking the mile of the way. hide rope from pony to pony, break in the telegraph line. They Engineers and firemen carried across the tracks in front;' of the plowed into the log, jumped the rifles in their cabs and work engines, with disastrous results track and the crew was flipped trains and freights bristled with to the braves and no effect on belter skelter. Pictured above is the scene of May 10, 1869, when East met West in Box Elder county as rails by the Union Pacific, building westward, and the Central (now Southern) Pacific, building from the West, met at Promontory summit and track laid yesterday on the Un- the Rockies with the savages, Two and ion 'Pacific Railroad; s miles of track laid by the Central Pacific." When one railroad would set a record, the other would soon top it. three-quarter- The nation strained on tip toe to watch the two companies charge across the plains towards each other like bull buffalo, and would then discuss their exploits; the new track laying record or the latest skirmish with Indians. . The Union Pacific lunged across the plains and through . . ' ,jV firepower like a frigate of war. The bloodiest stretch of the track was through Nebraska, and it was here, in the Plum Creek vicinity, that Chief Tur- - V' the puffing engine. The Cheyennes pounced on Chief Turkey Leg, though, rea- them as they leaped to their soned that the iron wagons must feet and tried to escape. Thompcarry valuable cargoes, and with son felt the rip of a slug in his curiosity of a young mountain right arm from an Indian rifle. OUR LOVELY TROPICAL ROOM V .Jj We are able to handle any size crowd. Eat in the cool comfort of our lovely Tropical Room. Morris Nuttall (owner and manager) has operated in famous places of the Intermountain West for over 23 years, and is an expert in general v food preparation. Let Morris prepare you a meal thats worth writing home about. 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