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warfare. While one army of
men labored, it took another
army to protect them from hos
tile Indians.
General Dodge, chief en-
gineer Of the railroad eonstruc-
ton, being fresh from the
army, himself, was able to Sc
cure valuable aid from the war
department, without which it
would have been impossible to
complete the road. Said he, in
describing the help extended
from the troops: Even the
%commissary of the regular
army was open to us. Their
troops guarded us; we recon
noitered, surveyed, located and
built inside their picket line.
We marched to work to the tap
of the drum, with our men
armed. They stacked their
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under employment $4,000 men
and 5000 teams. Between 50
and 100 locomotives and hun
dreds of freight cars were en-
ployed by each company.
World Takes Notice
BY the time the Union Pa
cific reached the Rocky noun
tains the size Of the undertake
ing had begun to be appreciated
and was attracting the atten-
ton of the civilized orld. All
the leading newspapers of the
country had special correspond
ents in the advance construc-
ton camps, and at the close of
each day the result in miles of
track laid went out over the
wires to the public. Men who
had made regulations as war
correspondents in the civil war
sharpened their pencils and
went west, for here, too, was
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souri,, the Central Pacific was
laying rails eastward from the
Golden Gate. The law that au-
thorized the building of the Pa
cific roads directed the COM
panies to join their rails wher-
ever they met between Omaha
and the coast. The California
company was having almost as
many troubles as the Union Pa
cific, but slowly both roads
made progress. Before the
close Of 1866 the long tedious
ride by stage overland between
the ends of each railroad had
been shortened from II to 10
days. That year the Union Pa
cific laid $50 miles of track.
The builders were learning the
art of railroad construction and
in one month as much as IS
miles were laid.
The rolling stock and much
of the other materials for the
Central Pacific were sent by
the long ocean route around
Cape Horn, a distance of 49,
900 miles. An immense amount
of material was transported in
this way. It is a matter of his
tory that at one time no less
than 80 vessels, loaded almost
exclusively with railroad stock,
aggregating hundreds of thu
sands Of tons, were on the long
sea voyage.
Crossing the Mountains
The snow-capped summit of
the Sierras was reached by the
Central Pacific in the summer
of 1867, and on the 30th of
November of that year the first
of more than a mile. One at
the summit was a mile and a
quarter above sea level. In
building the road more than
10000 men and more than a
thousand teams were steadily
engaged, making a zig-zag
course down the eastern slope
of the Sierras. Work across
this range, because of the tun-
nels through solid granite, and
also because of massive snow
sheds had to be built, was nee.
essarily slow, while up the
Platte valley, on the Union Pa
cific, with the immense force
employed in building, the track
was being spiked down at the
passenger train ran there from
Sacramento. The difficulty of
crossing the lofty western
range was enormous, for it was
found necessary to pierce the
mountain by no less than Is
tunnels, aggregating a distance
rate Of two and one-half miles
a day. The road progressed SO
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scene of the exercises would
take place where the track
crews met. The last tie was Of
laurel, cut in the mountains Of
California. It had been beau
tifully polished and was now
put in place in the roadbed:
then the last rail was laid and
spiked. The two locomotives
faced each other on the track,
painting noisily. Across the
track Governor Stanford, pres
ident Of the Central Pacific,
and Vice President Durant Of
the Union Pacific, shook hands
and drove the golden spike.
The Atlantic and Pacific,
$500 miles apart and with four.
lofty mountain ranges between.
were at last Joined together by
bands of steel. The first great
transcontinental railway, then.
the most important steam
route in the world, was COM
pleted.
Among the hundreds of
men who watched the ceremo-
MES marking the conclusion of.
the railroad was one who looked
on with mixed feelings. His
name was Sam Gets, and he
viewed the exercises somewhat
~wistfully from the seat of q
stage coach. He was making
the last drive on the famous
and historic Overland stage
route. For three years Gets
and his fellow drivers had
noted the progress made by
the two railroads. They were
of the frontier. and they sensed
the passing of the life they
we're accustomed to live and the
ways they had known. It was
on this morning of May 10 that
Gets left Salt Lake with his
stage coach for Fort Crittenden
and just as the last rails were
being laid, he drove up with his
six horses at a dead run and
refined them in with a flourish.
Gets, seated on his old Con-
cord coach, the last of the Over
land drivers, was a picturesque
and pathetic figure in the dra-
ma that was enacted there on
the prairie. Amid the clamor
end the cheering that followed
! the driving of a golden spike,
symbolic of civilizations con-
quest of the vast, wild empire
Iof the west, he was the lone
representative Of all that host
of trail blazers and pioneers
whose kind were then passing,
and who were destined to dis
appear within another decade
from the prairies and noun
tains they had known.
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arms on the dump, and were
ready at a minutes notice to
fall in and fight
Most of the men employed on
the Union Pacific had been sol
diers in the Union army. They
were accustomed to camp life
and soon learned to jump to
arms, day or night, when the
cry, Sioux, was heard. Nearly
every manager and foreman
had a well-earned military title
won in the war. After the
chief engineer, General Dodge,
came General Jack" Easement,
in charge of the track trains,
could form and arm a regiment
at a word, and from general to
captain it could be commanded
by experienced officers. The
stories of Indian fights along
the Union Pacific along would
make a big book. How many
men who died in battle with the
reds will never be known. Up
and down the steel rails that
cross the continent from east
to west are the unmarked
graves of the trail makers, for
besides those who were vic
Tins of the reds, there were
countless others who died from
disease or from one of a dozen
other mischances of construc-
ton camp life.
The Two Roads Meet
In the spring of 1869 a com
paratively short gap lay be-
tween the two roads, and this
was rapidly being closed up.
The intervening space-more
than 1000 miles two years be-
fore-had dwindled to less
than 200, and day by day the
distance grew less. Each COM
pany was fighting desperately
to get the most road. When
the Union Pacific was finished
to a point only five miles east
of Promontory, the Central Pa
cific crews astonished every
one by laying nine miles of
track in a single da.y, beating
every previous record known in
railroad building. The spirit of
the battle entered the blood of
the men and they worked fe-
verishly at top speed.
The track layers of the two
roads hour by hour neared each
other. They met face to face
at Promontory Summit, a little
west of Salt Lake, on the morn
ing of May 10. Then began the
closing exercises Of the great
undertaking. The roadbed had
for some weeks been finished,
and it was understood that the
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by several Of the dogs and this earned
for him the good will of the chiefs
whole tribe.
Mrs. Wilson recalls an interesting
incident-how the Indians scheme to
wipe out the whites at Fort Aber-
crombie in the early spring Of 1870
was thwarted. Red river flows north
and the south end opens UP from two
weeks to a month before the north end,
thus causing ice jams from which the
water backs up and overflows the low
lands. In this particular spring. the
Indians came to within two miles of
the fort in their canoes and camped,
waiting for dark when they would make
their attack. While they were waiting,
the river rose so rapidly that they
were marooned and nearly all of them
were drowned.
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MllIer's Station, Red River Valley, in 1876

north was a French Canadian settle
ment and Catholic mission about II
miles south of the present city of
Fargo. 1t was known as Wild Rice.
The nearest settlement to Miller's sta
ton on the south was Fort Abercrom-
bic. about 25 miles away.
The mail was brought to Miller's
from the fort by dog train. then a new
dog team carried the mail on another
% miles.
The Indians were anything but
friendly to the whites in those days,
but they never molested Mr.. Miller.
the reason being that they were afraid
of his dogs. The dogs had but little
use for Indians and could scent them
whenever they came near the station.
1t seems that Mr.. Miller once saved an
Indian chief from being torn to pieces
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was broken at Omaha. Flags
~fluttered above the tent vii
lagos of the construction crews
that today are cities at either
end of the bridge spanning the
Missouri. There excitement ran
wild as the rails crept out to-
ward the west, but to the capt.
talists of the nation there was
only the picture Of the rough
looking construction camps,
with the boundless American
desert" beyond, and they re-
fused to sink their dollars in
the enterprise.
The Rails Creep Westward
AS a last resort a construc-
ton company was organized
under the name of the Credit
mobilier," whose methods of
raising money and spending it
have been criticized by all his
torians, but which, regardless
of the means employed, led to
a successful end.
In the spring of 1865 work
began in earnest, but every
thing was done at a terrifying
cost. No railroad reached the
Missouri at Omaha at the time.
All materials, machinery, loco
motives, men and cars had to
be brought up from st. Louis
by boat. The wages demanded
by the men-often in advance
of the days work-were great
ly in excess of those paid for
similar labor where the dam
gers were not SO great. Men
refused to 60 out on the prai-
ries and do the heavy work of
railroad building just for the
excitement. There was no coal
or wood. For stretches of
many miles there was no stone
for rockwork. Ties actually
cost the company $3.50 apiece
for q long distance, as great
numbers of these had to be
shipped by river from ST. Louis
along with the rest of the ma
terials needed.
By the end Of 1865 forty
miles of road had been put
down, which, upon its accept
ance by the government,
brought the construction COM
pany $64O,000 in government
bonds, or $4,000 a mile, as a
subsidy loan. This money
helped the company to a GER
tain extent, but it did not put
an end to it's financial embar-
rassment, which continued UNI
til the road was completed.
The Road From the West
While the Union Pacific was
building west from the Mis-
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II EBlu al ou "
Even in the early days of the Dakota
and Montana territories, the p~ostoffice
department RENTED mail from eastern
relatives and friends to the pioneers
who had forged their way into the
frontier. Mrs. G. G. Wilson, postmas-
tree at Lehigh, was born in the log
cabin at Miller,s station, where her
father. Mr.. Miller, was postmaster.
Miller's station was q relay point Cor
dog trains that transported the United
States mail.
The station WINS located On the Min
nesota side of Red river, about half
way between the present Abercrombie,
N. D., and Moorhead, MINI. Aber-
crombie is built on the site Of old Fort
Abercrombie. Settlers were scattered
in the days of 1870 and the nearest
h~abitation to Miller's station on the
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20

situation and to submit the report
at the next regular meeting.
Clean Up Week.
The two weeks starting next
Monday were officially declared
city clean UP weeks by the COM
mission and a plan will be worked
out whereby the city can be dis
tricted and the city trucks be
available to carry refuse to the
city dump. The cooperation of
the Chamber of Commerce, truck
ing companies and various civic
organizations will be sought to
make the movement a success.
Electric Company Protests.
Claiming that If the street car
company was required to pave any
more of its tracks, the company
would have to stop operations.
George Roslington, of the City
Electric company, offered to lease
the street railway to the city for
a period of 20 years at rate
which would return 5 per cent on
the appraised valuation of the
tracks.
Mr.. Roslington claimed that the
company has recently paid $50, 900
paving and stated that he
could see cost for such work of
about $4,000 in the next few
years. He urged the city to let the
remaining paving in such a man
ner that the property owners
would pay to the center of the
streets upon which there are street
car tracks instead of to within a
foot Of the tracks.
1T would take three cents of
every passengers fare for the next
ten years to pay off the street car
track paving" Mr.. Roslington
stated. He was protesting mainly
against the company having to pay
for the track paving on the pro-
posed paving of North Secopd
street. He stated that the tracks
were worth about SO foot and
that If the paving program was
carried out in the present manner
the tracks would have to be mort
gagged to the extent Of $4 a foot
He will submit a formal written
protest which will be acted upon
at the next regular meeting.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20

Harry F. Stevens of the New
Mexico state tax commission.
George NJ. Post. an engineer in
the Indian irrigation service.
Harold F Gray. engineer of the
state board of public health.
The application OF r. J.
Schmaulhauser was presented by
Commissioner We'll. The appli-
cant was superintendent of the
Elephant Butte dam project and
has been connected with many
other large construction and rail-
way enterprises.
An informal application was
presented by Commissioner Hughes
for Kenneth Balcomb now with
the bureau of public roads
City Dump Discussed.
The question of the city dump
was brought before the commits
sion through the presentation of
q petition signed by 165 property
owners in the southwest side of
the city asking that the city dump
he removed as it was a menace to
I'pdllll anu a tlCll IlllNlIl W iliuN SNi-
tion of the city. 1t was also stated
that the dump bred insects and
rats and that the refuse blows over
the yards Of nearby property own
erS.
County Health Officer DIR. o. C.
West admitted that the dump was
breeding place for mosquitoes
and flies and suggested that the
time had come for the city to in
stall an incinerator to care for the
city refuse. After considera BILE
discussion the city manager was
instructed to make careful sur
vey of the situation and Of the cost
of an incinerator and to report at
the next commission meeting.
Cheaper Wafer.
The suggestion was made by
Commissioner We'll that steps be
taken to ascertain the possibility
of lowering the water rates to
some extent at once. He suggest
/ ed a cut of probably cents a
thousand gallons and of cents
| for the minimum. He stated his
! belief that such q cut would result
in more water being consumed and
as a result the water department
fund would not suffer through the
reduction. Commissioner Wei
stated that if this first cut could
be made. 1t would be his idea that
from time to time similar cuts
could be made and the standard
Of the water service be maintained
and the denartment still remain
self supporting.
Following discussion Of the
question City Manager James Glad
ding was instructed to compile {
report covering the entire water
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20
WAL ton HEADS CITY CONANaISSION;;
RODDy SELECTED POLICE JUDGE;
7 APPLY FOR MANAGERS berth
Commission VIII Consider Modern Method of
Caring for City Refuse; Cheaper Wa
ter Rates Are Discussed; Next Two Weeks
VIII Be "Clean Up" Period for Albuquerque

William r. Walton was chosen
chairman of the city commission
and eX-officio mayor of Albuquer-
que at the meeting of the city COM
mission last night. Commissioner
Walton's name was presented by
Commissioner Clyde Tingley and
seconded by Commissioner Ed
Swope. Commissioner Thomas
Hughes presented the name of
Commissioner Sidney M. We'll for
the chairmanship. The vote upon
roll call was: For Walton-Ting-
ley. Swope, We'll and Walton; for
Weil-Hughes.
Commissioner Walton assumed
immediate possession of the chair
manship, upon the suggestion of
the members of the commission,
taking the position which has been
held temporarily since the first
meeting Of the new commission by
Sidney M. We'll.
Roddy Is Police Judge.
Upon motion of Commissioner
Ed Swope the office of police
judge, held by Judge w. w. Nc
Clellan, was declared vacant. The
motion was seconded by Commits
sioner Clyde Tingley and unani-
mously carried. Commissioner
Swope then presented the name Of
George f. Roddy for city police
magistrate. Mr.. Roddy was the
unanimous choice of the commits
sion and will assume his new office
this morning.
Due to the fact that Judge W.
w. Mcclellan is also justice of the
peace for the Twelfth precinct and
has an accumulation of business
which will probably require two
weeks to transact. arrangements
will be made for him to continue
to use the police court room until
this business is completed. Office
space now used by Judge McClel-
Ian in the city hall will be avail
able to Judge Roddy.
Applications Received.
Seven applications for the posi-
tion of city manager, now held by
James N. Gladding, whose resig-
nation will take effect June i
were formally received by the com
mission at the meeting last night
The applications were filed for fu-
ture consideration.
Those making application Tor
the position were:
Bert Calkins. engineer formerly
connected with the city engineers
department and who has been con-
nected with a great many Of the
engineering projects of Albuquer-
que.
Guy LAYERS Of Niagara Falls
! formerly connected with the city
engineer department under the
/. administration of A. r. Heben'
STREET, as city manager.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed proposals for the erection
and completion of three school
buildings will be received at the
office OF the Superintendent Of
Schools until p. m. May IL, 1922
Separate bids are asked for the
heating. plumbing and electric wir-
ing. A certified check equal to 8
per cent OF the amount Of bid is
required with all bids. @Plans and
specifications may be seen at the
office of Gladding & Gladding. 116f
West Central avenue and may be
obtained by making deposit of $50
which will be returned on return
Of plans. Board OF Education re-
serves the right to reject any and
all bids.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20
COAL STRIKES
COST MILLIONS
IN LOST WORK
BY FREDERIC J. HasKIN.

washington, April 19.-Govern-
ment intervention in the coal
strike, or some Official action to
relieve the situation. was promised
when the situation becomes
acute or when the public begins
TO feel the pinch of the coal short
age. There are experts who con-
tend that the public was pinched
from the moment the strike was
threatened, and such of these ex-
perts as are not engaged on one
side or the other of tho wage con-
troversy are now busy computing
the costs of the strike. Their fig
ures are at once interesting and
startling.
The average citizen probably
goes his serene way without a
thought that the coal strike is
hurting him until suddenly he
finds that he cannot get coal when
he wants it. or must pay a higher
price than he was charged for his
last order, and it is at this average
citizen that the experts are aiming
their broadsides of statistics. Thus
David L. Wing who has studied
the coal problem for years, says:
Since every cost or waste in
coal production, Whether II be OF
natural resources, or man power
or of capital, must eventually be
borne by the coal consumer, it is
! not enough for the man in the
| street merely to read the news of
threatened strikes, grumb.e over
high prices and talk of profiteering
ana summary leglsiaton. He must
ea.iSe tna. inns Is pIopieh Wnlcn
t ,lo ~ ,'., ilua. ooopeia ave III souVllis,
! oy nns aoou. an ilseliLSeh'
puuiG op,nloii WI,iiout whicli no
pui'u anu epuisapie settie'lienl VI
tne oua. p,ooieiiis Vi 'iilS oouI'iy
o.o
ohi i'lV W i'te s.IiAes causeu
IV.o per cent Vi the lule Gays m IN
si he ui'el.'i,pus ea . eoai ,,a1os.rs. ..', lH
,I SUI ioi .rie seaf isIs was SUI
lalseI' ana lor Ine current year II
may pe oi,e 10 ciuilehse puplic at.
tehtion. AT any rate. tile prospec.
waIIah.s GoisiueIatloll ol tle COST
Vi .lie s'iihe ma pesai April l.:
EAacl coiiipiiaI,oiiS ,r, Vi stiihe
ISIS ale ii.lpossiple. ne Ine ouseau
! es. - e, -
uoileu eiiorts III .hat llne. ioi evIn
tnis soeuliiiileIe asenoy oouiu
neVef seizure coiiipie'e iepoi'' oif
sucIl cohcrete Items as ioss II.
wases ana loss III prouuels' anu a..
the same tlme there are many
lteiils entering inLo tie eos1 vi
strike thas are ahueiinite ana sus-
ceptiple oniy OF estiiiiate UT ap-
proNiiliatiol.
| Giving the Public Jolt.
However, in the case OF basic
industry such as coal the statistic
ians have more informing data
with which to give the pubic a
| jolt. First of all. they point out
that a total cessation OF coal pro-
duction and exhaustion of coal
supplies on hand would result In
the complete industrial and COM
mercial paralysis of the nation;
famine and death would speedily
| stalk the land and chaos ensue.
| Government itself would break
down and civilization totter and
fall. That is the possible ultimate
cost of the coal strike, and is be-
yond reckoning in money. Moth
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20
EINISu TRAINING.

FL Paso. Texas, April 10
Tommy Murphy, of Scranton, Pa,
and Jimmy Kramer, of Kansas City,
today finished training for their
scheduled fifteen-round fight here
tomorrow night at 1873 pounds
Rabbit Palmer, of Atlanta, Ga. and
KID Mortio, of Fort Bliss, Texas
featherweights, will meet in z ten
round semi Windup.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

SANCHES--The funeral of Alta
gracia Sanches, who died last Tues
day evening at her residence. will
be held this morning at o'clock
from the family residence. Burial
win be in Santa Barbara cemetery.
Crollott will have charge.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20
sIMnNs KNnCKEn nIr.

Houston, Texas, April I9. =
frankie Garcia, of Los Angeles
knocked out Artie Simons, of New
Orleans, in the seventh round of
their scheduled twelve-round bout
here tonight.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20

RAEL4-Beatris Rael, GO years
old, died Tuesday morning at her
residence. She is survived by one
son, Ramon Gutierrez. and one
daughter. Funeral arrangements
are still pending. Crollott is in
charge.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-20

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