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Show GEORGE W. LISHIJS WHO WAS ENGINEER ITPROMONTOfif I BMBi . i "V'v.V wSESi&Km . .'ifiJ George W. LashUB, of Hgden nn en glneer of the locomotive which was at the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory. May 10, 1S89. will be on I hand for Ihe celebration and ride on the float with the replica of Ihe Jupiter, Jupi-ter, which is being built at th.- South ern Pacific shops. At the conclusion of the Civil war, in which he served fith Company (5, Third Maine. Mr Lashus entering n- war June 4. 1861, and being mustered out June 28. 1864, he started west He secure, employment with the I'nion Pacific and served until 1867, when he came to Oden and then went west to Wadsworth, Nevada, by stage, where bt was given employment by the Central Cen-tral Pacific a3 an engineer. As the railroad was built toward Ogden, Mr. Lashus was engineer of the train which carried the rails and ties in tbe constructing of ten miles of road! in one day. |