Show HISTORY Of U. U P I RAILROAD NOW NO I II I BEING WRITTEN I I Historian storian H Arrives in Salt Lake After Obtaining Valuable Data and Pictures Pictures Pictures Pic Pic- tures on Pacific Coast The Tho romance of the earlY eany SOs and GOs the e progress of ot the white whiteman's whiteman's mans man's westward march the ob obstructions obstructions obstructions ob- ob of ot the Indians and the spanning of the continent WI with h the first transcontinental rail line Une will willbe willbe be recalled in a history of the I Union Pacific railroad oh ott which I the roads road's historian L. L 0 O. Leonard of Omaha Omaha Is now engaged and to which several aged m men mn n of Utah I and Salt Lake Lake will contribute Mr Leonard arrived here hero this morning from Los Angeles where I I he has been Interviewing aged men menI menOn menon I on the Pacific coast relative to the 0 early history of ot the West collectIng collecting collect collect- Ing antiques antiques' and assisting In the tho I production of the Iron Trail a picture dealing with the early railroad railroad rallI rail rall- I road history of the West Vest LINCOLN'S INTEREST SHOWN I have havo been particularly interested interested interested inter inter- ested in discovering what Intense Interest was taken by Abraham Lincoln In the building up of the railroad he said In 1859 Lincoln IAn Lin coIn coln having occasion to l look ok up up some property for a client came came- out to Council Bluffs Ia la where he hemet met General Grenville M. M Dodge the roads road's chief engineer The general general general gen gen- eral took Mr Lincoln to an an anemi eminence eminence emi emi- nence and pointed out to him hirt the tho great expanse of ot the Missouri rl river valley vaney visible from that point with which the future president expressed expressed ex ex- pressed himself as deeply Im- Im im Ira- pressed Later when Lincoln had II become the nations nation's chief executive executive executive tive he was Invited to name name name- the eastern terminus of the new road then completed and remembering the scene he had witnessed in c company company com com- m- m pany with General Dodge he desIgnated designated designated des des- Council Bluffs as th the ter ter- ter minus Among the numerous relics picked up by Mr Leonard during his researches is an of Lincoln used by his supporters as aa aaa asa a a. badge during the presidential campaign of 1859 1869 I 1 lIeve that thatIs Is the best portrait of ot Abraham Lincoln L have ever seen ever seen said Mr Leonard n rd and so far a as I know one on one that has has has' never been published HAS MANY PHOTOS I Not only has the historian come Into possession of a large amount of historical data but he also has accumulated photographs photographs' of scenes scenes showing construction activities activities activities ac ac- ac- ac along different parts of the theUne theline theline line Une meetings of noted men Interested interested interested inter Inter- ested in the railroad project In Indian Indian Indian In- In dian dances and other ceremonies and a multitude of ot other subjects connected railroad building Mr Leonard also exhibited a manuscript consisting of seven closely typewritten sheets and setting setting setting set set- ting forth the experiences of ot one of the veteran railroad builders he had called caned on in the East It tells tens of ot attacks on the railroad camp by Indians and names of several persons persons persons per per- sons who were shot full of arrows and afterward scalped The man who wrote that was about 90 years cars of age and died about two months after he gave me the account Mr Leonard said eald One peculiarity of all these aged men is that each claims stoutly that he Is the sole survivor of or the railroad builders and that all an the others died long ago Of course the road has a record of everybody who was employed on cOnstruction construe construe- tion and according to the best obtainable ob ob- ob- ob tamable information there are still some Iome sixty men left When I tell teU the sole survivors of this It always occasions some element of sur stir prise Mr Leonard Is Is something of ot an himself having been with the Union Pacific for tor four forty-four years e rs first i as S an engineer and later as historian n During his gathering of material for his history history his his- tory he has accumulated acu InterestIng interest Interest- ing irig data of a historical nature not directly connected with the railroads rail rail- roads |