Show dJj I G TINENT Pacific of tho Union ilding Railway Over tho Great PlalOs ft IOlR Ihe y sMrJ W river lconvince the traveler c < rta ny md develop T J lie Krowth I thai i western country ent ° f if not t more to free in been I ut or ferliltvofthe nnte tutions How slow ii Ih Eu i nVhe march off ould h l ol nil f Blither Mistruclion 1I1liz lion pOlble the 1St as h d not 1IIle II 11Ieh has aided kof imniRriii Ihe Gleat Amm njkc l tCllall 10 ollhe pas hire tn Deserl tid j noW een a memorv mardl of peace fill th 1 gl al In n < I ha been more onquest no olllrlletioll of and tl1I oleollhaa 01 Ihe lnion Iacifie tCleiopmenl lhleh hs brought lIilhin Iem of the people of the cast reach sy and 01 forcin countries m slJles mineral the Iast ic arden pOb bOUlldless caltle ches and Ihe of the cst imrcs and ex ne survey Ue first prllale 11dhe rlilroad II as of Ihe Jused loraton by the lallure of Ihe Miis aad lisollrlnoW Ihe Chicago IPpi ock Island md Iicific railroad i complete its I roicet their mone ill The men who put money conceived the idea of Hit enterprise fiorkme scheme west of low i orkmg up i > inducement to i t oulcl b m 113t their to invest in ciming iptal across Iowa to the Missouri frwct tier They iKo wished to deter t neat whit point on the Missouri ie Pacific rulroul would start so u to terminate their road it that lomt mil ill loicls crossing the i itc for yeirs ended their survev at hat point and ill roads now buili Jiat connect with tint joint These fimlontions commenced m 1853 Acre continued eieh yeir until 1861 W the result wis seen m i the t OTI ng of the b I1I now know ms the law of isc IZ Alter tils bil was pissed the nion Plrllr I comptnv wis orgm iJ at Chicago September 2 itXil nd Reed Diy 1 md BrIton made connoiainccs r cist ot ihe moun IIns Uiccl onlinmg his worl to the ros ng ol the mount mis to t rcich t c Greit Silt Lake I ham Iheef I ill t to eigige capital m the road w is ill lure and work was suspended The exploratIOn by the govern nent for a Pitr railroid ire ill iatlcr3 of olhci il report long since lAMied mil open to ill Ther iorctliebi sof the future explori DM of ill the trinscontmcntil rapt the Union Picilic then known I I i tint of the fortv second parallel of tule That hue md the conn IV Irom the Arkmsis to the Yel ustone wis explored md dev el Ijcdminlv bv pnvitc enterprise lad illS bv nr the most practtciblc Ine J crossmj the continent the ihortcM uiekcst of ghtest 1 curv I re md lo icsl grades md summits It u not in in engineering point I iel the true line from the At < nile to Ille 1ieifie but in a com t crctil point ol lew it is Imn engineering point of view it as demonstr itrd betore the real llfio that the true line was up the Flatteto its lorks to which point the tin n Pdllhr 1 s now built then up I North Pluu 11111 I Sueetvv uer to the South I iss mil then down Snake rvcr where the Oregon Sh > > rt Line n1 runs to the Cohim h and then t tldlIater it Port Ilnd The llIlilll md Central were In It for comimreul alue mil to LI4n the hurlt t md emickest time iom ocean to o em The Ine ol the Centril vvis con oiled ilmost entirelv by the dc ooj I mem ol I th mining industries ii ilform nil Nevuh until it f nclted the Huniboldt then its mt r c e to re ich Silt nt 11 I 1 rmon bclllements I 1h llllOn P i h > objective point i tin I i ist by tin vviy of e grtat 1luL valley and Silt hat rClI 1I111e I the Pacific raids re1 I el subsidies from the crnrae t It j I halethepproml r Ih ipprovil 101n1l11elll three different m tlr II eleetcd officers Ire III ouh 1 be received lon I II > d rtified III The 1 > urvey lng 11 < cr1 route ° r the e h t I epted is ill com an 11 h lid the d salisfetory I I I ft A lioll of5uor too I 1 located on the o nd Ih g the nUH11 llne to d C ull 1 I It It could not bo V Ilir Ir I It I to be filed lIith F I uen FrlU II 11 llon of wenty r rt rm ornplctiu iml u i I rle d b > 1w tin I 1 nelll sent ut e1 u d Boners who ot nlj I oil mater n m thOtI I ru fo of eon r t I at I 01 contructed i I II uther t hi approal Ill t lIId bumed I II 1111 t lall to ilis rl V I It blore been ip I I rM II I 11 hlth ipprovi 1h nlllructed I gl Ih roulbcJ thee the-e k d l IIies1 I to b up 10 to dI dlx tn the olern h 11 idjptcil on the d I les 01 People Id ell the country er h e r a lias eompletc in mm cises it had to be chantc ed 1 to Oleleome one itobsticlc which < nc utucqu imtcd utti the countr > ould nccr dreim ofthe question of snow I er > su limit ecr > intunsiele every ille Ind to be btudied to find from the currents II Inch IIIS the lOW > side ind which the birreii mil over the whole I 500 mile > of line located fur the Union ncifie lor three winters engineer wcre kept ill tent or dugouts w Hell ng from lour to six month the dnlt of Ihe snow ind w iter to be over come and the safe > t surest and moot effectual methods ol dumg it The charter of iSS4 provide thaI the lo in ill bond hall eh mge Jl6 ooo i mile to 32 ooo at the Eat 1 ble ol the Uoek Mount mis md the West bast ol the Sierr Nev idi When the mountains were reichod a series of questions iroac as to how this bise should be determined de-termined The eistcrn bise w is determined Lv Mr Illickenbderfei who I was ipiiointed bj the govern mcnt After exammmR i the countr > he elechred it to he right it the foot of the mount nils where the he ivy grades to overcome the first mte the Mick Hills were made necta sarra er > proper decision llu west bise of the Sierra lIa locited near bicrimento where the drilt of the mountims rciched into tint illej or where on might sij the first ippioieh to the mountims bc in but long before he heivj erides commencid A good btorv is told the truth of which mil not be vouched for ill relation re-lation to the fimg of the bise II 1 the origin d rulro id act is we hive noticed the president WIS to fix the point vvhcie the Sicnmento valler ended and the foot hills ol the Sicrri Nevuli begin Chief Engineer I I Judah n his leport hid design ited llaimore tlnrtv one miles from bicruncnto is the beginning of the mountims This conesponded with the decision of the Supreme court of the United States m ide m April 1864 ill the cise of the ledsdorlf I grant The 1 grant hr I Mexican iiithorit IIS bounded bj 1 the foothills on the e ist The con tcstmts of the gi mnt attempted to lithe I li-the eistern boundaries it Alder creek eight miles nearer Sicri mcnlo The Supreme court decided i tint I the loothilU i commeneed t ibout thirtj miles from tint city Sever ittempts by Mr Sirgcnt then a member of Congress ml since United Stitcs scnitor soon after the pissige ol the original let were nude to bring the mention ol Picsi I dent I iiKoln I to this subiect I ut the 1residcnt s const u t occupition with I I weiijitiir duties forced upon him by the great wlr preventeil 1 his iction I The tune however emit when it could bedehjed no longer < Owing I to the mcrcise ol subsidy i imong the niSc Sli li Inlli ind mountains t I itw isimportint i ito i-to the railway company tint the foothills should begin is near n I posMblc to bacrimenlo The sen nor chims hcal credit ol mov I mg the mountains from Ilir more to Arcade creek n distance of twenty four miles Ihs rcLtun of the ilhir to liu friends is this I mcoln w is cngiged with i mi > I when the scnator substituted mother md demonstrated by it and the statement of some geologist tint the bhck soil of the val ey and the red soil of the lulls united it Arcade I The President relied on the it tate mcnts given him and decided ca I cordini Here you see nd i the I scuitnr hov mv pertmicit I I KO mil I Abrilnm I sfatth lemovcd niuvin I tuns Reconnoissmccs made ill i80 I 63 64 hid demonstrated tint a ser iou question would inse in re ich mg the Humboldt dley from the II western loot ol the V is itch moun tuns in the Silt Iake I basin Should the line LO north or south of the like Preside linilnm Young of the Mormon Church and the mot of his people i central pover of great use to the tr ins continent d ronls vercdetremmedl m fivor of the south line It I HIS preiehcd from pulpits and mnounced th it i road should not be built or run north of the like Hut explor itions in in irlier day for the Union Picitie indicated the north side though in etlntistive cximmition vvismide south ind only one line run north it being the m un line to the Cahfornia stile line surveyed m 1867 The I exploritioiij by parties south of the like md the persoml ex immitions of the chief engineer de termmed tint it hid no merits is compered with the north line and on vueh report the north line vvis id > pted by the comp my md accepted ac-cepted by the government resident 1 llriglnm Young called a conlerenee of the Clmnli md re lused to accept the decision idviscd Ins people not tll > contrict or work for the Union Pacific md tlnew ill his influence md efforts lo the Centril Pacific which just at tint time w is of gre U moment is there v is i complete lorce Mormon contrictors and I iborers m Silt Lake I ille > competent to construct the hue 200 mile s e ist or west of the lake mil is the two eompimes hid entered into active < companion eith respeetiveh to see how foi i i t or lIe > t of the like the could build tint eit t being the objiuivc point I md the Ie 1 to tin control ol the commerce of tint gmtlnsm The Centril Iicilic compin cute ed upon the cviinmition of the lines long liter the Union Ticilic hid detcimmed and filed its hue md l i decision of their cngmecia w is wl tell for with some mticti It M is known the could not obt un so good i line but there vvis doubt vhcther with the influence named md the 1let I tint the line south of the like pissed through Silt Lake I Cit the onlv commcrcid capital between the Missouri river md Sacramento they might decide tot I to-t ike the I long and unduhtmg line mil then 1 would irise the question i is to which the one built south the other built north and it would fill to the ovcrnmcnt to decide should l recive the bonds md become the tr insiontmctit il line 1 low ever the engineers of the Cintril I 1icifie I i gll t Clements uul Ivcs took strong Around ill fivor of the north hue I mil loeited ilmo > t exicllv upon the ground the Union 1acihc ind oc I ciipicd i ycir before and this brought the Mormon Torres hack to the Union Pacific their first love The location of the Union Iicific vvis extended to the California slate line md tint of the Centril Iicific to the mouth of Wcoer canon Ihe Union Iicific vvoik l wis opened md I most of the line grided it lo Hum boldt Wells 2tq milts west ot Ogden mId the Union Iicilie met I the trick ol the Central 1icihc at Promontory summit iiSO miles icst of the Missomi river md 638 mile eat of Sacramento on M Iay j Qth 1869 to the wonder ol America nd the utter istomshrnetit of the whole world eimpletmi the entire line seven sthl before the limit i of I tune illowed b thegovernmen On the occision of the iipletmn oflhe roid theie issemble I on the I bleak mount un s dc represent itivcs of nearlr ill civilized nations As I the I ist spike w n driven connection is uncle with even tcUji I iph office I betlllen the Atlmtic md the Iicifie nd every blow w is heirl throughout through-out the land To the represent lives of the roid there came over the wires the < ionentiilitions ol uthontics officnls md eminent people of evciy country th it could be reiehed by wire The building of the Iicific roads Ins contributed to chinking the rhmilc between the Missouri river al1l1 the hierriNevuli In the extreme ex-treme west it is i not felt so mueli is between the Missouri river md the Rocky mount mis lielore settle mcnt hid developed it the country west of the Missouri river could r Use very little of the main crops except by irrigition From 1 April until September no rain fell The I noli of the mountains lurnishcd the strciuib with witer and the bunch risi with sufficient dmif ness to bust un it until July when it be ime cured md w is the food tint ustunul ill mimil life on the plaill > ummer and winter Since the building of these road it t is i calculated tint the run belt moves wcstwird it the rue ol eight miles per year It Ins now certain ly I ieiched the p mis of Colorado md for two ycirs the pioneers ot thitlu h mil dry st no Inveriised crops without irrigition right up to the foot of the mountains Silt like smee ib32 Ins risen nineteen feet uiordmg to Union Iicifie meisurement submerging whole firms along its border md thrcatening the level desert weol of it t It Ins been i gridual 1 but pen pe-n mcnt rise md comes from the additional dition moisture filling during the yeir rim md snow Irolessor Agissiz in 1 Si ifter i viit to Col oiiclo predicted tint tlm increase of moisture would come by the dis turbmce of the electrical currents cmscd by the building of the 1ieihe rulroads and settlement of the country coun-try The Union Iic lie md the Cen tril Iicific were fortunate m selecting select-ing a chss ol young men for their work some of them hirdencd by five ears exieriencem in the war whose whole soul mil interest were m the mil II ays The commenced first m exploring mil engineering pirties md fin illy Imded is chiefs m some part of the work Un the Union Iicific were Dev Held Hurel IMtckensdcrier Morns McCartnev Eldy I House Hodges Iludnut t Mixwell Hrown Appleton Apple-ton Chtl IIoie Snyder thcCise i mcnts and many others under them Some of them laid down their lives ni the work ill reached fime in ifter yeirs md were builders mil operators ill fre it trinscontmcn til lines including the Canadian 1icilic I The 1 men who made possible thu work who till elV their fortunes their he ilth their reputations into it will one dn stmd in civil liIe like our grcit leidcrs m the war Monti ments to their enterprise dot the coiintr between the Missouri River ind th Rocky Mountims betwicn the 1Icific and the Wisiteh The were men who hid mid I possible i popuhtion within the next twenty yeirs between the Missouri River alld the 1icilic Cot of till milhois of people They hive been hbehd ibused ilhfiecl md m somi < ises bmkrupled md duvei to then griei but their vvoil k s st ind mi their monumci 111 yet cOineIhe Ameses Dillon D ilf nrnt I At kin Dexter Hiker Dix Brook Stmford Huntmjton lloilms ind Crocker Ihey md their subordmites were i i Jetermmed I to bn Id I i first cliss I roul The president Oliver Ames md the I boird of dreetois siist t lined the I engineers m building a roul of the lowest rides md hihtist curv iture the courtry would admit lien 1 some ot those mteresle I desired to use the maximum iiilhoried by 1111 I mill built a surf ice ro id I the bo ird mvimblv stood by for the lines ol the engineers is those ollerme the ireitest commcrcnl value The instructions LIVCII bv Olivet Ames md Sich ey Dillon one at the held of the rulroul eompiny and the other it the litid of the Ion ruction company weie mv mil Iv t < > olitun the bt line the eomtly i itlirdcd rce irdless I ol the cense Dikes Ames ome wrote when I it1 I seemed lino t impossible to ruse money to meet expenditures > ahead the work sh ill not stop even if it tikes the shovel shop The Ameses were mmuficturers ol shovels md tooK md their fortunes for-tunes were invested m the business mil is ill knoll 1 the shovel shop went When the diy cune lint the business of the An eses should go or the Union Iicifie Dikes Ames said S u c the credit of the roadI I will Iul It took i mm of courigc md p itriotisiii to m ike th it deeis on md li I liy down i reptitimm 1 mil business credit tint vv is mviluible in New I England 1 ind one tint hid comedown come-down through ilmost century lo him it vv is worse thin dpilh md it vv is the blow which followed by othera put him m his grave But the eredit of the mid 1 ws sived the Pioneer route of overlmd ti ivel between the Mississippi vlllle md Ihe Great West |