Show r H H tI r rI r I t tc t c h It 1 t tl 10 J t r rI i I I AD I U I Ii i I I I II r i I II 1 J d r lil f I A IW ft 1 I W 1 rr I I 1 1 I I J JW I II I v W 1 J 0 1 T Tt t tt p k I It 4 t h I l t f r f i W Wr j r r j jt t 11 J i if f i to J 4 1 r I I 0 HH HI H i H HI H t fH H 4 HI H H H IH Hi NOW AN AI MO U Famous Old Landmark That Wai by Shortening the Union The above picture Is that of It the Oaken uk R Ames monument until the changes on the main mainline line of the tho Union Pacific In Wyoming was wn a L object to tn transcontinental Tho monument wan erected at a cost of rome to perpetuate the of ot the man name It boars and lint who was one of the original promoters directors of tho Union The monument stood adjacent to the old main lino IIno at lit the highest point on till the Union Pacific the of o the Sherman hill hili When the tunnel was 1111 built and the thc lino IIno changed the huge hUje pyramid of wax Willi no longer viable rl flom the m w pass two mites miles to the south There Is some Bomo talk lalk however of or having removed at lit the elde of tile the track us itA It now IH III The Ames monument was Ins erected by h the and of Ouke Ames the man who was Willi in inthe the th promotion of o the droum II roll of u 1 Ho He was tho tun Oll of Oliver a II blacksmith who had acquired considerable In III the manufacture of shovels and picks When he grew grf to mans estate he his brother entered Into e the tho of Oliver Ames Hons of Kaston alon l Mats The Th houfe carried on 11 an enormous trad the gold excitement In III California und later In Australia During the war wal they supplied swords shovels to the government It wan 1111 through the th ef efforts f forts of Oakes Amos AmeR that the Union Pacific project was floated and the firm obtained large contract which were subsequently transferred tn to the Credit o oe America A a II corporation In which Oakes Oak Ames vuis lill the tho largest t stockholder After being elert tI to 10 Congress from the dl hili with the Credit led Icil to nn Investigation which Implicated a number of prominent nt congressmen made tho gag Ames notebook throughout the country During the bull of o the Union he hll succeeded In 11 ruining the firm himself and rt 1 number of oe hits his friend for 01 the time being but he hI lime came out on all top In the th end JIb WOK president of the th Union pio 1110 tern from ISM until 1 He was nR formally elected president of tho company on March 12 13 and continued as liS such until March 8 In 1873 he succeeded his hlA brother ns nil head of the Credit He died In North Enton Mass on the th Rth th of May In of ot the fame year |