The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-10-07
TEE BUILDING OF THE CENTRAL
PACIFIC RAILROAD.

| There can be no doubt that as good 6
railroad, one of as complete, substan-
tial and perfect construction IS the Cen.
trail Pacific, never was built as rapidly
rs that road is being laid with ties and
rails. d" Caxton," in a letter to the
| San Francisco Times describes what be
saw when "at the end of the track, +" a
few days ago, as follows:
| Here we found very large number of men
at INDEPENDENTLY Chinese-laying the
track. The scientific part of the job is
superintendent by white men, but the rough
mudsill work is done by the Mongolians. A
horse was furnished me by General Croker,
and l rode on gallop to the front. The
grading is completed several hundred miles
in advance Of the track-laying. so that there
is no delay in placing the rails.
1t would be impossible to describe how
rapidly, orderly and perfectly this is done,
without seeing the operation itself. There
are just as many employed as can conve-
niently work, and no more. Vehicles laden
with ties are always in advance, and Chinese
with gauge and leveling rod place them
across the grade, almost as quick as thought.
The car with the rails is brought up at gal
lop. and six white men-three at each rail-
roll the iron of the car, and drop it upon the
track. with the velocity Of steam. The empty
car is lifted off the track, and then one fully
loaded is drawn to the front, and the same
operation repeated ad ti.tfaitum.
l found that it was no joke of General
Croker, that it would be no easy matter to
overtake the end of the road. Taking out
my watch l timed the last half mile I saw
laid, and it took a little less than twenty eight
minutes. John c. Fall, who resides at
Unionyille, Humboldt county, recently came
to San Francisco to purchase goods; and
left orders at Sacramento to ship them to the
end of the track. When he left home the
road was completed to within few miles of
Unionville. He made all his purchases in
three days and started home. His goods had
preceded him and he found, to his amaze
ment, that in complying with the order to
ship them to the end of the t1ach, that during
his soiourn in this city the end Of the track
had advanced twenty-five miles beyond
JnionriHe, and his goods were landed half
way to Winnemucca ! 1t is fact, beyond
dispute, that this company has laid over StI
mites of track IN single day.
In establishment we ask how can this be !
possible: 1t is Ill the result of method and
organization. There may be better head Ill
the United States for this purpose, than
Charles Crocker's, but we doubt it. The |
man himself is built in a large massive
mould. Full of animal life and spirits, his !
mind partakes of the characteristics of his
body, and you behold before you, in Charles
Crocker, one of those properly balanced in
tellects which yitalizes all that it touches and
invigol ates whole communities with its en-
,erprise, perseverance and faith. No other
man in this State could, with the means at his
have ever completed what he has
done. OF course he has had able and ex-
perienced licutenants-men like Strowbridge,
whom no ordinary difficulties could daunt;
,r like Hopkins, whose intelligent and pers-
,icacious eye surveyed the whole financial
ield, and saw at glance what rocks to
,trike, like Moses of old, in order that living
streams of gold might gush forth. Ii