Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01

dred thousand dollars there, or rather
my children have! My personal fortune
concentrates in a peanutO
FULFILLED PROPHECIES.
Reporter-Was everything promised
by the projectors of the Union Pacific
railroad carried out in good faith2
", II. Yes, even to finishing the
road before the time. These letters,
written long ago, show how faithfully
what has taken place was predicted long
before.
..OprtcE CREDIT MoBrL1ER or AMERICA. NPw
YORK, Ian. 8 1866. -.Geo. Francis Frain, Chair.
man Mass Convention. Omaha Dear Train,
You ask me to attend Nebraska Emigration
meeting. Can't do it. Time occupied every
omen in pushing forward Pacific railroad,
and in doing this | can aid more the cause YOU
advocate than in any other way. We intend
TO keep track ahead of your emiRrants. let
them come as fast as they will. With six
stationary steam engines of our own engaged
in preparing material, with nearly every saw
null tor 100 miles fifty up the river and fifty
down., hard at work-with arrangements now
making tor early completion of road to Fort
hearney, you will find how little time | have
TO make speeches or write letters; with forty
miles OF road open! twenty more to be ready
in February and forty in June, making 100
miles toward Pacific! l hope by building
htteen or twenty miles q month to convince
immigrants of Canada and Europe we shall
lind work enough to do at good wages for
laborers, choppers and mechanics. These are
best inducers to immigration! Good wages
aud prompt pay. Our railway lands are
another important thing tn settler, our terms
will be liberal TO bona fide occupier of soil!
low prices and long credit to the farmer. the
cattle raiser and the sheep producer, will be
the policy of the enterpri,ing gentlemen as.
sociated with US in pushing along the railway
TO the Pacific. Thomas c. DuRANL,
Letter from Col. Silas Seymour, con-
sulting engineer U. p. r. r., ex state
engineer of New York, chief engineer
Washington a%queduct:
OMAHA, January 0, 1866.
Geo. Francis Train, Chairman Immigration
Meeting:
find business engagements will prevent
my being present at your meeting this even
ing, but II you think my views on subject of
any service they are at your disposal! This
whole country wants muscle, real bone and
sinew, and plenty of it! The most productive
lands, which, if properly cultivated, would
supply the whole world with food, are lying
waste and desolate for want of muscle! The
great Pacific railroad must be built in five
years! To do this we must have muscle!
-hS b'SAs = 'tiiOJ llS 10 DODlltIcu,
and it cannot be done one moment too soon!
The honest, industrious laborer, be he Cana
dian, lrishman or German, will find constant
and remunerative employment on the railroad
and when that is finished he can have all the
land desires to cultivate on the most reasonable
terms! And ere long either he or his sons
Will be called upon to represent this great en-
pre- OF the west in our state and national
councils! S. SEYMOUR.
A WELL KEPT SECRET.
Reporter-But why, Mr.. Train, as
there was no fraud in the Credit Mobil-
Ter contract and Union Pacific subsidy,
has impression gone abroad2 Why did
you not make this explanation before,
and stop the slander2
G. F. T.-Because it did not amuse
me to do 80. When Dana called on me
at st. Nicholas hotel, in 1872, placing
two pages of The Sun at my disposal for
facts, l was too mad at his "swindle
Tor ignorance) in putting up Greedy to
elect Grant, and as he did Tilden to make
sure of Hayes, and now repeats ''fraud"
to ~re-elect Arthur, through Tilden ana
Kelly. Another thing; having organized
Credit Foncier, and bought 5000 Omaha
lots, | was too much interested in rolling
up that New Chicago" into another
Chicago, to roll me into a hundred mil
lionaire-ship. Again, 1 was astounded
at gigantic ''fraud," (Which psychology
cally 1 saw, but did not understand that
both parties put up, to sell America to
Europe, or rather to change our solemn
greenback contract into gold2 Twas
only then | tried to open the eyes of the
''damn phools," who do the ring master
voting, by my herculean campaign of
eleven hundred greenback conventions,
in three years, for the presidency!
Omaha heard me several times, (and then
went back on me-
REDIT MoBELIER PROFITS.
Reporter-Did yonhold big contract,
Mr.. Train2
G. F. T.-No, my brother-in-law
(James w. Davis) made it over to Ames.
Yes Credit Mobilier cleared on first
contract 81, 900, 900, on fifty-eight miles.
AS I before remarked, Cakes Ames' con-
tract (667 miles, SAT, 925, 000,) was made
August 16, 1867, signed on behalf OF
railroad by Oliver Ames, president pro
TEN! brother and partner of Cakes kmes,
contractor, and approved by Oliver
fAlNCSy W. -. DuslliiOii, y. iihipduSi \SoN-
ernmen5 commissioner, and t. @. Dur
ant, as executive committee of road all
interested in Credit Mobilier.
This contract was assigned October 10,
1867, to seven trustees, viz, Durant,
Ames, Alley, Dillon, Bushnell, McComb,
and Bates, for use and benefit of stock
holders of Credit Mobilier.
Ames contract cost railroad. ..... S57, 14O, 1O2
GN,.A Al ~ Dps 4 a
Profits of contractors. .........S 29. S54 49,
Dividends from proceeds Ames con
tract were $20,471, Sos.
Durantb by playing iske offagainstA Alley
and Alley against Gould quietly scratched
himself out of onion bed! (These patent
self-acting hen-scratching machines are
dangerous inventions). Gould was more
adroit! He ploughed with Boston heifel
through Vanderbilt's stamps las silent
partner, to ave Horace F. Clark
big INTEREST,", and stole the whole
Road Gas he did Tribune through Phelps
and Refs by buying Orton's fifty on,
shares, cleaning out Taylor, sinclair
Ayre's forty-nine, and now owns World
through Pulitzer.) Was John B. Alley
Yes! He played sharp game on Durant
He was Union Pacific director as well a,
control trustee of forty-seven millionl
Credit Mobilier contract When Boston
played out New York to hedge on Judg,
Barette, Fiske and Gould, Alley al
President told Treasurer to accept M
subscriptions and then (playing old Dor
ton borrowing specie dodge from severa
banks to counsel new one and evade tn,
lswD rendered s29, 600, OOG greenbacks
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