Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-23
GENIUS, PLUCK. MONEY, AND TIL
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

GENIUS, PLUCK. MONEY, AND THE
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The Genius to plan the Pluck To undertake, ana
the Money to do with, arr the three grand essen
,lals in all great and successful enterprises Each
good III its way, but each i powerle>s without
the other. 1t is but rarely that all these qualif-
cations are combined. either in an individual or a
company, bug when they are, acknowledgements
and magnificent rtsult- are obtained. old Colo
onel Tom Benton WAS thought man Of genius
yet he never planned a Railroad across the Rocky
( Mountains, except where practicable :" but the
old hard-money Senator is dead, and the world
and It's people and it, ideas have moved on. The
Rocky Mountains don't look aS high a. they did,
and, like many other difficulties which seemed in
surmountahle in the distance, they have been got
orer without unusual effort. The locomotive viii
run up 10 their highest summit At grade OF only
eighty tcet to the mile, and down again "a, the
other side upon u slope of but ninety feet, while
| the Baltimore x OHIO winds ITS climbing way over
/ tue Ali, -hanicS nj an incline Of one hundred and
sixteen feet to the mile Ton twenty miles to-
gethpr.-
\ few men saw that Il Pacific Railroad must BE-
buQt. There was 80 other way 10 the Pacific
without trayersing two oceans at great cost o
time and money. The dehles of the Alps were
not higher than Evans Pass, and, as they were
ttlng tunnelcd and t1ayei>s'd %hy not the Rocky
! Mountains So Genius sent out its typographical
and engineering corps and after two or three years
of surveying and mapping, it was reported
that practicable line for the great in,er-occanic
highway had been found. Genus further saw
/ that when finished, for magnitude and amount OF
/ traffic it would be one OF the wonders of the
II, Al, H. IL,
a hundred millions of money will create it,
Pluck nothing dauntcd a: these figures rt,r,lied
"Iet US brine in all the great parties in interest
and do our best with them" Tb5 United States
government wanted 1t the worst way" Uncle
Sam had an immense farm of millions OF square
miles lying waste, Of which nobody would buy an
acre until he made "a railroad through it ; ana
then, nothing else would ciEillzc those trouble
some Indian tenants. Besides. the old gentleman
was pretty deeply in debt, and his entcrprising
family were willing toshelp him out, ii he would
only open a way to his great gold mines and SO
ne came down with offer to end fifty million
dollars in bonds, and to make liberal donation OF
land if Pluck would go to work and put the
road right through"
Pluck accordingly went TO work with a WILL and
Congress chartered the Union Pacific Railroad
him others would venture but a trifie, while a
few brave spirits pledged their fortunes to the
suit Two brothers invested million dollars, and
several other individuals half million each, and
the road WAS begun. But Money or Capital, was
still tinid, and Congress wisely gave nothing ex-
cept as each section of the road was finished. The
truth was, that if the child lived, thrised and
| grew strong, Old Capital very willing to pat
HIM on the back, and to lend him helping hand !:
but he to be kept out in the cold, to see if ne
had Inherent strength enough to stand it. Then,
il he did not freeze TO death, he to be taken
IN and adopted into the great Wall-Street family.
He did live; and, under the name Of UNION
PACIFIC, he became giant, and has built and Is
running longer line of railroad than any other
body or company besides in the country. Old
Capital now after him, and begs that he will
borrow his money at the lowest rate, and the pub
lie buy Union Pacific First Mortgage Bonds faster
than the Company can continue to isuse them, at
the present price. It is this united and irresisti
! Bile power of GENIUS, Pluck AND MONEY, that
drives the work 80 bravely on, and promises the
contamination OF our material national union, so
long and devoutly wished for, in 1870. II all the
worlds great undertakings could secure such
combination, we should hear little of delay and
less Of failure.