The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

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remarkable speech commemoratiDg
the day We located there the post OF
D. A. Russell and the city of Cheyenne.
At that time the ne Arrest settlement
was Denver, $50 miles away; and while
we lay there the Indians swooped down
on Mormon train that had followed
our trail and killed two of It's men;
but we saved their stock, and started
| the grave yard of the future city for
| the Union Pacific. For three years we
kept engineers in tents or dug-outs
watching from four to six months the
rift of the snow and water to be over
come, and the safest, surest and most
efectual methods of doing it. A good
story is told, the truth of which | will
not undertake to vouch for, in relation
to the fixing of the base. By the
original railroad act, as we have
noticed, the President was to fix the
point where the Sacramento Valley
ended and the foot hills of the Sierra
Nevada began. Chief Engineer Judah,
in his report, had designated Bar
more's, thirty one miles from Sacra-
mento, as the beginning of the noun
tains. This corresponded with de-
| CISIOu Va I1C va OOU1U VI IAC
United States, made in April. 1884, in
the case of the Leidesdortf grant. This
grant, by Mexican authority, was
bounded by the foot hills on the east.
The contestants of the grant attempted
| to FIX the eastern boundaries eight
miles nearer Sacramento. The
| Supreme Court decided that the foot
hills commenced about thirty miles
from that city. Several attempts were
made by Mr.. Sargent, then member
Of Congress, and since United States
Senator, soon after the passage of the
original act, to bring the attention of
| President Lincoln to this subject. but
| the Presidents constant occupation
with weightier duties
FORCED UPON HIM BY THE WAR,
prevented his action. The time, how
aver, came when it could no longer be
delayed.
Owing to the increase of subsidy
among the hills and mountains, it was
important to the railway company that
the foot hills should begin as near as
possible to Sacramento. The Senator
claims the credit of moving the noun
tains from Barmore's to Arcade Greek,
distance of twenty-four miles. His
relation Of the affair to his friends was
| this: Lincoln was engaged with map,
when the Senator substituted another,
and demonstrated by it and the state
ment of some geologist that the black
soil of the valley and the red soil of the
hills united at Arcade. The President
relied on the statements given him, and
decided accordingly: Here you see"
said the Senator, "how my pertinacity
and Abraham's faith removed noun
| tains." On the occasion of the CON-
pIetion of the road there assembled on
the bleak mountain side representa-
AS the last spike was driven, connec-
ton was made with every telegraph
office between the Atlantic and the
Pacific, and every blow was heard
throughout the land. To the represen-
tatives of the road, there came over tt e
wires the congratulations of authori-
ties. officials and eminent people Of
every country that could be reached by
wire, and among them all there was one
that | priced above all others-th
telegram which l have aires dy read in
YOUR hearing. You who know what it
is to receive communication and pro-
motion on the field of battle, III the
face of your enemy, can appreciate the
satisfaction conferred by
SUCH A MESSAGE FROM SUCH SOURCE.
In the last two years, the financial
strides have been remarkable. The
government is daily adding to its treas
ury more than all the interest upon all
the sums it has expended in developing
it, and does not know what it has &C
quired; nor does it comprehend, in
any degree, VIVA. it will in years to
come pay into the treasury. 1t has
already built up four great commercial
centers, each controlling territory 500
miles in diameter-one on the Missouri
River, one in Colorado, and in Salt
Lake basin, and one on the Pacific
Coast-and three more are in their in
fancy-one on the Rio Grande, one in
Montana, and another in Oregon. The
banking capital and deposits in the
cenJers illustrate their progress. They
amount to over $1O0,000 600 to-day.
The Union Pacific and the Central
Pacific were fortunate in selecting
class of young men for their work,
some of them hardened by FIVE years.
experience in the war, whose souls and
interest were il it. They commenced
first in the exploring and engineering
parties, and finally landed IS chiefs ia
some part of the work. The men who
made possible this work, who threw
their fortunes, their health, their repu-
tations into it, Will one day stand in
civil life like cur great leaders in the
war. Monuments Of their great enter
prise dot the country between the Mis-
souri, River and the Rocky Mountains,
between
The PACIFIC AND THE WAsATCH.
They were the men who had made pos
sib.e a population within the next
twenty years, between the Missouri
River and the Pacific Coast of so, coo COO
of people. They hare been libeied,
abused, vili6ed, and in many cases
bankrupted and driven to their graves,
but their work stands, and their mon
uments will yet Come-Ames, Dillon,
Duff, Durant, Atkins, Dexter, Baker,