The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-12
TINE CENTRAL PACIFIC nllsoAp u cllHossl.
Rapid PveGress Of the werk-ssis Lake City
Railr Dad, &c.


wlsHrsoros, Nov 10 1890
The reports on the progress and condition Of the
Central Pacific Railroad 81 California which have Jas,
been received by the Secretary Of the Interior represent
the read completed and running CISCO. distance
Of ninety -four miles from saernrnento reaching At that
point elevation o. about sixty hundred above
tide water Sacramento. Cisco twelve miles q
the summit % The Stern Nevada In soe0mpi .shing
this work 900 IabOrcrs 100 mechanic 900 horses
100 and 400 wagons and carts have been employed
and 900 kegs Of powder pr day and iis tons steel
drills, &C, expended
force Of ten thousand men 10 nov gagged 10 grad
ing The psu two sections. . large amount Of moray
having already been expended On IL. ,ame. Ts Aoor
10 bc nearly equal 10 white mon 10 sueh work and wh.
out them Il would have been impossible - have done
tho amount of work thai has been done - sts nsen
10 suneient numbers conld 10, have been obtained
Rsft-
used represented 10 be q the best aasy ~ Amer
can IRON from twenty four tsrniy.es ali f,i long
weighing sirty pounds 70 thu linear yard, except that
portion the .ams iAid o,er TIE saia,ni' q %. nosn
seventy mles u the road east from Sacramento the
wroagL. ron chair. we're usei bat tsfsa'isr their
their place aging The sxiy.sir pound raj. which The
company are nos doing soross ,he noantalHs
are ar BY sish, and ten inches ard eight feet long n
redwood which " equal 70 cedar Tor furaDllity aud
number tuo thousAnd four huDared H. two thousand
four hundred aud sishiy pr mile he ogigsrs al
81 granite Or bard rock, except fes ~ hafi banned
tress the valley, where stone could not = procured
fun svIDsr
made % The bot quality u red o. hrosghi from
osson, vim redwood slis placed % iosha.sloas ~
masonry The dransge ample snf conps,s, and the
read i wall bslssisd sfth gravel snd broken res
ne alignment 10 rprsssnied a. being rsnarxsbis for
It's drectbsss 10 such broken ard mountainous country
The least radiss ~ curvature - feet degrees
Tbs grades peosssry high 70 sgr@ogni tbs summit
Which % seven thousand feet above the level snf
which 4 obtAiss1 without sry rBiuialng gsfss Tho
rse bsnS Constant me higbsss srsds sssd tbs
psr fns o. which thsrs are three sbs halt iis- snd
there % clncay 10 opsrsiinz ik~ss gortsss n tie
rosf, ~ rgon passfnsu trains are run ihsfnou ~ We
" twenty eve lee snd FIRE ghi trsirs twelve miles
per boar
rvs iocos0rYvrs .sp cas.
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