The record-union., 1892-09-10
HISTORICAL SECTION.

HISTORICAL SECTION.
The exhibit of the State Board of Trade
is now in place. 1t consists of a hand
somely framed canvas about SKA feet,
worked out in fine lettering in gold read
ing as follows:
California State Board of Trade, organized
February l, 1887, Crocker Building, Market
street, san Francisco
OFFICERS.
Eugene j. Gregory, President
William 81. Mills, First Vice-President
j. ). Emery, Second Vice-President.
b. w. Maslin, General Manager.
Changers Bank of California, Treasurer.
An organization supported by the counties
and citizens of the State. Organized for the
purpose of fostering and advancing the varied
industries OF, and TO encourage immigration
10 the State.
WHAT IT HAS DONE.
Sent California on Wheels" throughout the
United States, which was visited by nearly
100000 people; initiated the movement
for representation of California in the Column
bian Exposition; opened the channels of Eu-
ropean trade for California dried fruits; petit
TONED CongIesS for the preservation OF Call
iornla forests; secured meeting in California OF
the National Editorial Association; exhibited
our fruits IN the q. a. h. encampmentS OF
Columbus Ohio, and Detroit, Mich; prepared
exhaustive reports on arid lands, immlgra-
ton and on river and harbor Improvements;
also statistical reports on the development of
the fruit industry; published a handbook OF
California, setting forth, in detail the re-
sources of the State and points OF advantage
presented; moved successfully for the eStaD-
lishment of a Department of Agriculture in
California; maintains an elaborate permanent
exhibit OF the soil-productS and manufactures
OF the State. which is visited by an average of
100000 people annually; disseminateS prac-
tical and reliable printed matter throughout
all parts of the globe, thereby securing direct
attention to the merit OF California soil, CHM
ate and productions
The exhibit is the design of President
/ w inn obi al W
intended its construction.
THE RAILROAD EXHIBIT.
The railroad era in State history is illus
trated by the most novel exhibit ever
placed in any fair-that of the Southern
Pacific Company. 1t occupies an annex
100 by l20 feet, opening directly out of the
main hall. In this annex are three tracks,
each eighty feet in length, and on them
are the contrasts in car and locomotive
use in California.
On the central track is the pioneer loco
motive G. p. Huntington, a single
driver engine, that went into service OH
the Central Pacific Railroad December,
1863. 1t was made in the East and brought
to the coast around the Horn. Its driv-
ing wheel is fitty-five inches in diameter,
its weight $4,000 pounds, it's hauling ca
pacity on level at twenty miles an
hour is 81 tons of cars. 1t cost Sl0,603 40.
It's developed horsepower is 1877 b. D.
Opposite to it, and compared with
which it is pigmy, is the contrasting
compound giant locomotive of the South
ern Pacific Company, No. 1885, which,
though four times as large as its little
companion, cost but little more, Sll $50 %.
Its developed power is 100 b. p. 1t went
into service July 27, 1892. The diameter Of
its drivers is sixty-nine inches, and its
hauling capacity at twenty miles an hour
on the level is los tons of cars.
At the other end of the central track is
another pioneer locomotive, double
driver, the Leland Stanford. 1t was built
in the East and shipped to California,
and went into service of the Central Pa
citic Company November 6, 1863. Its
drivers are 81 inches in diameter, it's
hauling capacity on the level at twenty
miles an hour is 500 tons of cars, and its
developed power, 408-horse power.
1t weighs $4,000 pounds, has 57-inch
drivers and cost Sl5,S61 %, or over 81, 900
more than the monster compound loco
motive with which it is in contrast, to
illustrate the leap that has been made in
less than thirty years Of railroading in
! California.
Another striking contrast, that cannot
fail to impress the visitor deeply with the
| progress made in providing for the COM
| fort of travellers and with the wide differ
ence between the cost of railroading be-
| tween 1868 and 1892, is the comparison of
passenger day coaches.
Sacramento Valley Railroad coach No.
4 is shown, a short, low affair, built in
| the East in 1854, and brought in a ship
around the Horn, arriving in Sacra-
mento, June, 1856. 1t weighs 1000
pounds, seats forty people, and cost
| s., 300 It is very plainly fitted, and is
mounted in primitive style. Beside it
| stands the Southern Pacific day coach,
built July 5, 1891, by the Pullmans,
weighing st, 1900 pounds seating sixty-two
people, and costing S6,0l5. 1t is elegantly
| furnished in the very best style, with the
latest and best order of high-back ed
seats. 1t is handsome in fine panelings
| and rich trimmings, and is mounted ac-
cording to the best mechanical devices,
with the improved platforms, trucks, air.
| brakes, etc.
| On the third track is shown an old-time
box car of the Central Pacific Railroad
that went into service December, 1868. It
weighs 1880 pounds, has carrying ca
| pacity Of 10000 pounds, and cost 800. 1t
| is a small, low structure. Over it, towers
| like a giant over child, a Southern
Pacific furniture-car, built in 1892, at the
Sacramento shops, weighing 29,8OO
| pounds, having carrying capacity Of co.
900 pounds, and yet it cost no more than
its little companion OF 1865.
In the early sixties the Central Pacific
| Company fought the snow drifts on the
mountains with push-plows. One of
these is shown. 1t was built in 1866,
weighs $1,000 pounds and cost $1,000
| Next to 1t stands monster rotary-plow,
! the latest device for cutting out and cast
! ing away snow drift. 1t was built
| March, 1890, in New Jersey, weighs 90, 700
pounds and cost SIS, 150. This monster
| will be operated on several occasions
| during the fair.
| At the south of the annex is a fine COL
/ of Gh ha
progress made in the RAILROAD era in
! California. These consist ofthe last tie laid
/ on the completion of the first overland
railroads, the Central Pacific Railroad
and Union Pacific Railroad. 1t is beau
| tiful laurel tie, highly polished, and bear
| ing silver plate suitably inscribed. Be
side it lie the two last rails laid upon the
tie. Above hang the gold spike driven
at Los Angeles on the Southern Pacific
Railroad line reaching that city, and the
/ silver spike driven at Tucson when the
| line was completed to that point. A little
| to the left is the first spike driven, the
| hammer, pick and shovel used on break
| ing ground for the Central Pacific Rail-
road at Sacramento.
! Here, too, is shown fine collection of
| photographs illustrating railroad build
/ ing in the mountains, fighting the SHOWS
| constructing snow sheds, teaming sup
| plies, etc. There are also fine portraits of
| the railroad builders, Messrs. Stanford,
| Huntington. Croker and Hopkins, and
old portraits of the engineers that laid
out the road, Messrs. Judah, Wilkinson,
! Clements, Montague, Guppy, Steiner
and Ives. Among the striking contrast
| ing exhibits in this section is the first
| time table of the Central Pacific Railroad.
| June 6, 1864, with Sacramento at one end
OF the line and Newcastle al The other,