Arizona republican., 1900-08-17

successful in soliciting funds, and eve rything seemed to be at last going nicely when the master spirit of the en- terprise was taken away. Judah, the engineer. died of fever in New York.
 ON HIS OWN RESOURCES.
 This left Mir. Huntington practically on his own resources in the east. But he needed no others. With one master strok= in the spring of 1864 he swept the company up out of the mlre- With the help of the Union Pacific people Huntington got through congress bill granting important new concessions which practically doubled the grants made by the act of 1862.
 By q bit of craft. the company was al- so helped financially. Congress had agreed that the company was to have subsidy of $4S.OOO of United Stats bonds for 15O miles of the road built east of the base Of the Sierra Nevada mnurtains. By reason of his unfamili- arity with the country. President Lin, coin was persuaded to locate the base at an almost imperceptible rise seven miles north If Sacramento.
 With all of these things coming its way, the new railroad soon csass d to be a struggling corporation. It had plenty of money, and it's stock was valuable.
 In 1866 the Southern Pacific began to cut a figure. It had been incorporated in 1865 to run to Santa Clara. Monterey, San Louis Obispo. to Los Angeles and san Diego. Congress in July. 1866. passed the act authorizing the con- struction of th1 Atlantic and Pacific. which was to be met by the Southern Pacific at the state boundary
 Meanwhile MT. Huntington had been active in gaining an important conces- sion from th= Central Pacific. Congress passed an act authorizing the road tn build past its original limits to meet the Union Pacific.
 Tn the summer of 1871 Mr. Hunting ton brought about the first of the gigan- tic absorptions which gained for this road it's nickname. A railroad known as the California Pacific had been nm co to connect San Francisco and Sac ramento, from Vallejo by steamer and thence to Sacramento by rail. Mr. Huntington and his associates bought out the majority of the stock for $l. BOO O00 in bonds running twenty years at 6 per cent. Along with this road went several ether projected concerns at the same swallow. Among these were the California Pacific extension and the San Francisco and North Pacific.
 The Sacramento merchants and their little road now came to be known as ''The Great Absorber" and "The Great Monopoly"
 They had many bitter enemies in their schemes. Among these were the
 
 fornia Steam Navigation O., Wells. Fargo X Co.,. and the California Stage Co. All sorts of trouble was thrown in the way of the road getting into san Francisco-which is a story by itself.
 RACE FOR SUBSIDIES.
 Mir. Huntington's last great feat in the building of the Central Pacific was in the race for subsidies. with the Un. ion Pacific when the roads came near the meeting place.
 The Union Pacific was actually grad ing 22O miles west of Ogdan but had not completed some of the intermediate line when the Central Pacific man ap- pealed in dismay and alarm to Hun- tingiton. He told them to go ahead and build the road without respect to tha othtr" road. He said the rest could be
 
 men at work and performed some of tho most astonishing feats in the whole history of railroad construction. One day he is said to have laid tn miles of track. The roads met and passed each other
 After some dispute the meeting place was finally decided to be at PromOntory Summit. Congress fixed the matter of tnc share of subsidies by locating tn: common terminus at or near Ogden. the Union Pacific to build and the Gen. tral Pacific to pay for and own the road from the common terminus to Prcmontory Summit where the rails met.
 Hirtdll, the historian in writing of this stroke on the part of MT. Hunting. ton, says: Like everything else done hv the Central Pacific company in tha molding of legislation, the ttIement of this controversy showed the master hand"
 At or near Ogden" turned out to be five miles west of ogden and the Gen. tral Pacific secured the advantage of running to the business center of Utah and the Salt Lake re zion.
 This was perhaps the greatest work of Huntington's life. Since then he has been among the for most of that dis tinctly American product, the railroad magnate.-Los Angeles Times.
 
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