Arizona republican., 1900-08-17
How Huntington Built
 The Central Pacific

One of the early California pioneers was a young civil engin CT upon whom the "Forty-niners'' looked with amuse- ment as dreamer of dreams. He thought he could build q railroad over the mountains 70 the east. His name was Theodore D. Judah, and he found encoura cement at last from four Sac ramento m r, hants. One of them was a Connecticut Yankee WtO rather thought there was something in this railroad business. This Yankee was then run ming a hardware store in Sacramento, but he was destined to become a great railroad man. His name was COllis P. Huntington.
 Huntingdon felt a fri ndly interest in Judah to begin with because they were from he same state. There was anoth- CT hardware man who believed in Ju- dah and his grJa scheme. This was Mark Hopkins. Then there was q small dry goods merchant named Charles s Crocker. and q grncer named Leland Stanford. They all believed there was something in it.
 Judah had b, en u Washington but could not get congress sufficiently in terested or could not override the op- position. At any raJe these four little merchants had to get their shoulders to the wheel and star the thing going.
 They hadn't much money. Oh. such a little bit of money 10 start railroad with.
 Still they were not dismayed. and with such means as they had sent Ju- dah back 70 peek around for a loop hole through the mountains. Engineers who cam years afterward learned how well the brilliant young fellow did his work. Huntington, the hardware man. acted as financier of the scheme.
 FAIRLY STARTED.
 June 2S 1861. only few days after Mr. Stanford had been nominated for governor of California. this dream of the Sacrament merchants resolved it. self into the incorporation of a rail- road. They named it the Central Pa cific railroad company of California
 The president of the company was Stanford. the groclr; the president. Huntington, the hardware merchant: the treasurer Hopkins. the hardware man. James Riley. a jeweler of Sacra- mento was the secretary. and Judah.
  one of the directors of the concern.
 The capital stock was $S.500,0OO divid- ed into shares of $100 each.
 Stanford, Huntington Hopkins, Ju- dah and Crocker each took 15O sharzs. The subscribers had to pay up $10 share. and this was used as a working fund. Other people had subscribed about as much as those named but in ,ft cept Edwin B. Crocker.
 In October If this same year Judah was sent back to Washington again to see what could be done with congress. It happened that h. went back with Aaron A. Sargent. congressman from California. who happened later to be put on the Pacific railroad committee, 10 fill a vacancy. Judah told him all about his dream to build a transcon- tinental line.
 The result If i; was that a new bill came before congress made of some of the best features of former transcon- tinental bills. I; provided for the con- struction of two roads. or west and east end of a transcontinental line. Judah had met in New York United States Senator James A. McDougall and had interested him in the plan; So in 1862 there was passed an act ito aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal and military and other pur- poses"
 IL was provided that the Central Pa cific might construct its line from the Pacific coast or Sacramento river to the eastern boundary of California on the same terms, practically. on which the eastern end to be known as the Union Pacific, was to be built
 Ground was broken for the Central Pacific in Sacramento on K and Front street. January s. 1863.
 Money was ny scarce and they had to En"' such q lot. Mir. Huntingdon was sent cast to try to raise some there. and Stanford became the financial agent of the struggling company on the coast Crocker became the super nten- dent of construction, and Hopkins the suerintendent of supplies s.
 Huntington in the eas, and Stanford In California were both astOnishingly