The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-22

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tbc Cant,al Pacific railroad in hls nina,
and he said thut of nll tho glory ne ever eA-
nected moro than enough womb pe AZ ~
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of this work. IL Is re-
markable fact to find the presioehV . = =
Central Pacific railroad unchanged from
,ha yery com M enoemen of that enterprise
IN 1ssO to the present day. The compsn
,vas orpanized July, 1861. a yeas attef-
wnYd congress- granted them y loan OF
credit OF x35, QUO q mile ana q Iana Rtah.,
But they had to build MY m'!es :, ~
and equip and run II before they cou." gov
anythins ut all from the government, anu
nil Of thiai iron had to come from the Az
iantio states and crosa a foreign country.
Thev were two whole Yen,s puiiuihE
thirty-ous miles. and then they ma 10
mn aleyn.ion OF 1000 feet in seventy
miles. They spent $40, 900, 600 in builaiug
this 100 miles of railtoad. ana wheh sneir
locomotive went to the ouuta top " was
hioher in tho air than the snmmit OF
Mount Washington in the Whlte mouh'ains;
They wore fought by everyooaS NV 1;nss
in keeping the barbarism up--staSs ines,
express companies, pike roads, ara ahove
ali nv that small jealousy when seems 10
accomrany men to strange lands. ALTO,
they got down in the plains and ieafnem
the art OF building roads, thsy laia aao
miles in 1863 days. laying as h 1Sn ,o.h nf
miles Of rond yer day. AND on tine io.h OF
Nav. 1866. Leland stanford himself drove
the last spike. His company has never
tided oyer Il payment.
The same wear that Witnessed the organ
jzation Of the Central Pacific rail oaa saw
stanford elected governor OF oaiourhIIa "a.
which Office he held till Dscsnher. 1853. In
1885 he was lected to the United states
senate for the full term from March !, 1880.
anS vas reelected in 1891. His term would
have expired in 1877. When % years GU
Stanford married Miss Josie L~athrop,
daughter OF az Albany ins.ehan.. "a ST. bn,
Island, Jr.. was born to them IN 1919, pus
died in 1884. His father and mother were
both large, lonc-lived people to look upon,
TIL death of Island had nearly been tatai
TO them both until the idea that 1t was nor
NIL of life to live nor all OF death to de-.
occurred to the father. iie htm.l oeaiesea
that he heard his unburied sens voice saw
though in a dream: Father. don't say you
have nothing to live TO. You have q gieat
deal to live for" In that dream the uni
yersity Of the sons name was born.
The endowment to Stanfo d university
at Palo Alto Included tnre e, es.ares.
Vinor ranch. valued at 81 SOC. 900; Grid!ey
ranch, 81 600, 900. and Palo Alto, 25CO'oVo
The total value OF the lands IL certainly
over s. 600, 000. and to 1T was audea a
money gift sufficient to make the total en-
dowment 800. 000. 000. Ninor ranch is a
portion OF the old Lassen grant ana CON
isins the famous Gerbee vineyard. 1t lies
oOO miles north of san Francisco. Its ex-
tent is Sd, COO acres, 800 of which is planted
in vines. l.5OO in alfalfa. 5000 in wheat,
1900 in timber md the balance grazing
plain and foothill. Among the improve
ments are ffty-fve miles of irriGatiug Ca
nails and a winery having a storinG capac-
ity of 200, coo gallons. Gridley ranch IS
located about 100 miles north of the CITY
and is simply a vast wheat field OF 2l.uoo
acres, Paio Alto is forty miles south OF
San Francisco. 1t has long been known ms
Stanford's model farm" and summer
residence. II contains over 1000 acres
md ia mnde up of nine or ten es-
tates. tall with their various houses and i'm
movements. Among it's othe. attractions
are the Palo Alto stable. four racing tracks
and a park. 1t ia here that the proposed
university was located. ,
The buildings include an agricultural
department., mechanical institute, museum,
art galleries and buildings devoted to in
struotion in the principles OF government.
also in law, painting, medicine and music.
A towusite was established. where families
may live cheaply, in connection with which
preparatory scnools were erected. Bott
sexes are eligible. Superior courses of study
are FREQ, and. those leading up to them u
a very moderate tuition fee. Senate
Stanford declared it TO be his intention t
rob the European universities OF thell
brightest professors, if %pecunlary and othei
inducements can be made sufficiently
HGrOugs CUlf6TSlby tIaIio 1 AuI1 au ~
the day at exceedingly cheap rntea. TIT
management of this vast educational en-
terprise is confded to twenty-five gentle
men.
Senator Stanford was at one time promi-
nently mentioned in connection with th'
republican nomination for president. anG
his cause was espoused by no less a maj
than Gen. Grant. The sto v runs thus: IL
the fall of 1882, probably in October
Leland Stanford moved to New York fol
the purpose. it was said at the time, Of TAX
ing up his residence there. He passed th'
winter in New York, ut any rate, and wa
one day, in the early spring of 1893, drlylnl
homeward through Contra! park when h'
was met by Gen. Grant. who WAS just driviDl
in. The two stopped at once. for they wer
too close friends to pa5s with an oroinar,
salutstion. and Grant asked Stanford t.
turn and drive back to one of the refresb
ment houses. ns he wanted to talk will
him. How great the friendship betweci
Grant and Stanford WAS the public neve
knew, but the public may judge o
how close their intimacy was whel
it learns that the last lettor Gran
wrote (penned the dav before he died) wa
to Stanford, asking him to do something
for that confederate rough-rider, Col. Jon
E. Mosby.
When the two friends reached the plac
of entertainment, Grant at once broache
the subject by telling Stanford he waute
him to 90 before the people "a a candidat
for president. Grant said that he did nc
speak by authority, but that ne kne
enough of his patty 20 know the candldat
would be acceptable to 1t. lie said iurthe
that he foresaw divisions in the part, an
hat he believed Sanford was the man I
heal them. The conversation lasted som
two or three hours. Stanford's shale in
consisting principally in e disposition NJ
to say ANYTHING one way O; The other unit
he had had time to think moro about i
but that az q sick man he Ieit more Liz
refusing to entertain the idea at all.
tanford went to Iu ono that eumne
and while there q constant correspondent
was carried on between him and Grant, ii
letters sometimes being AZ frequent
twice a week each way. 1t is unde!st0,
that what Grant wrote was given at Ia
with authority, and it il known that star
ford gradually yielded TO the argumon
used. Grant wrote that he had seen.
had met. the leaders OF the party, aud til
all was fair sailing for Stnnford's name
be presented to the Chicago convent on.
is understood that Grant qua nnteed TIA
Conkling and the otter GtalwartB won
uphold him; and IL IL further undo Bto
that Grant also went so far as to assu
Stanford that Blaine would be willing
step down in orJe. that u mHn might
brought forward upon whom there could
Il coalition of factions.
This much 10 certain. that Granite he'
was wholly set on having Stanford non
mated for the presidency, and that nothi
but Ill health kept him from going persC
ally into the campaign for his iriei
1t is limited thnt affairs had gone SO
that Blaine had determined TO foriua
withdraw. But Stanfogd'B i'll health CT
tinued to stand in the way; then his