Year: 1868

enough we travelled, even at that high rate, proving conclusively that the Union Paci- fc Railroad is substantially built''

 Of the Company's shops at Omaha, the same authority says:

 ''.The frst-class cars manufactured here are equal to any cars to be found on any of the eastern railroads, and indeed, the whole rolling stock of the Company will compare with that of any other road in the country

 The editor of the Philadelphia Age says:

 ''It might be supposed, from the rapidi- ty with which the work was done, that it was of & temporary and perishable charac ter. But such is not the case. x Of the roadway it is enough to say that we traversed it smoothly, safely and steadily for five successive days, at 8 rate of speed varying from twenty to fifty miles per hour and between the old track and that at the western terminus, which had been finished but an hour or two, no discrepancy was perceptible."

 The editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin gives the following spirited description of the way the track is being laid:

 Track laying on the Union Pacific is a science, and we, pundits of the Far East, stood on the embankment, only about thousand miles this side of sunset, and backed westward before that hurrying corps of sturdy operators, with 8 mingled feeling of amusement, curiosity and pro- found respect. On they came. A light car drawn by single horse, gallops up to the front with it's load of rails. Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward. the rest of the gang taking hold by twos, until it is clear of the car. Then they come forward at run At the word of command the rail is dropped in it's place, right side up with care, while the same process goes on at the side of the car. Less than thirty seconds to rail for each gang, and so four i rails go down to the min ute! Quick work, you say, but the fellows on the U. P. are 1 tremendously i'll earnest. The moment the car is empty 1t is tipped on the other side of the track to let the next loaded car pass it, and then 1t Is tipped back again, and 1t is sight to see it go flying back for another propelled by horse at fuli gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by young Jehu who drives furious ly. Close behind the first gang comes the gaugers, spikers and bolters, and 8 lively time they make of it. It is grand Anvil Chorus that those sturdy sledges are play ing across the plains. It Is in triple time three strokes to spike. There are ten spikes to a rail, four hundred rails to the mile, eighteen hundred miles to San Fran cisco. That's the sum what is the quo- tient? Twenty one million times are those sledges to be swung-twenty one million times are they to come down with their sharp punctuation before the great work of modern America is complete.''

 These quotations might be greatly ex- tended, but all the members of the edito- rial party bear similar testimony to the thoroughness of construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and the permanent char acter of all it's equipment and appurtenan- ces. They are all equally positive concern. ing the great business future which the road must have as the outlet for the vast re zion west of the Missouri awaiting devel opmqent.

 pany that the alniifH earnifHi Treasurer of the Com :. past year exceeded four 'lle leerro road Tor , the Great as. this sum is, 1t must be co.o ooilafs; as only the beginning of the immenssseGrt Gt 60 lie which will pass over the road when tn

 whole line shall be finished