Show THE il TRUTHS 0 OF HISTORY A deiv weeks liso the tribune made a little note of T D li udall one of 0 the doncom fi of calf rna and the genius rall out of which tile central pacific iacino roid in waterfall el the themis a PR per pu in sacramento made it a acte ote of it and tile the decord unload spoke of it because of 0 it a few little error in I 1 in the article we ile dc ascribed scribed mr JL judah dah na as a tell rian man th tho record union says he was 6 fact eel 6 inches and weighed pound A gentleman who knew mrs him well says lit hu was 6 feet 11 inches and save gave one tile the idea that lie be was tiller taller even than tl that at and ilia bin wife VIM wrote te to a gentleman in this caty who received the letter last week week that he be weighed weigh td over 70 pounds the record union further says save that lie before the lall jad road beached leached the summit of the sierra ar aad 4 la in effect that it was waa tor for anyone now to refer to the donner lake lak w davoll road as in tiny any W way ILY connected with the rall fod mrs mis judah miya her bue balad went to work on an that scheme echeme in n worked incessantly upon it surveyed Burve route after route roule over the sl si berrins tried in as many ways waya to get eel as M to start as columbus tried to I 1 get ett assistance to find the new world and that the scheme chemo which first interested the th builders 71 huntington crocker and stanford anford Et was that very dobrer lake wagon road the comstock had bad been found in ISSO 1359 and it was with the promise that abot with the road pushed up toward or to dutch flat tt it together with tho the tolls on that wagon road to this side of the summit of the St sierras erras would make inake cadi cach main I 1 bar of the company a good deal of money it if tho the washoe rallies mines held up two or three years that was the level on which those gentlemen lit in sacramento worked and we ave will say to their credit that it wit was a higher view law than they could set get other moneyed men man in california to tate take but all tho ilio time T 1 judah was dreaming of a road across tho the continent all the time he was visa working tor for it working among the business busl nesa men mea of california aud and before congress Con greta it was waa through his energy ills his science cylence and hla his enthusiasm that the smatter was finally inaugurated and though he died before the road reached rea clied the su nimit he did not die until the enterprise ter prise aas fully launched and when ben tb building bull diny of the road had r n retied a point Sli where kere the subsidy obtained from the govern ini nt paid all the expenses of building and the road arid and I 1 tt it a margin beside tor for the builders the work was flut shed before the great engineer ceased to live that Is in tire the main work tho the work necessary to launch the enterprise and to put it on a bests where it would run itself the bory story of mrs mr judith judah of 0 the work that ter husband did of the enthusiasm that carrl careld ld d him along of the obstacles it overcame of 0 what lie he had to suffer softer when lie he with mith 1111 1 imagination was driving trains up and down the summit or of the mountains mountain arid and ut at the same earne time was obliged to hold himself down to the practical and petty details of how much each rall rail and spike would cost how much money the road would have to earn to pay interest on the cost cont what the possibilities were of obtaining the traffic to male the enterprise a a success the ilia tribune tribunes Trib uneAs Is rejoiced at one thing thine which Is that the widow of tile the treat great engineer expresses perfect mail faction with the article in the tribune and while admitting a few errota errors in petty details excuses them on the ground that the article as a whole was wonderfully accurate considering that thirty years have gone by since the strong man hla his work and fell IL asleep leep |