. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . THE BUILDING OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AND ITS RELATION TO COUNCIL BLUFFS AND WESTERN IOWA. To give the early history of the Union Pacific Railway,and it relations to Council Bluffs and western Iowa, necessi-tates the recital of the first railway surveys in Iowa. In 1852 the M. & M., now the Council Bluffs, Rock Island& Pacific Railway, was chartered in the interest and as anextension of the Chicago & Rock Island Railway, which wascompleted that year to the Mississippi River at Rock Island. In May, 1853, Pet
. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . THE BUILDING OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AND ITS RELATION TO COUNCIL BLUFFS AND WESTERN IOWA. To give the early history of the Union Pacific Railway,and it relations to Council Bluffs and western Iowa, necessi-tates the recital of the first railway surveys in Iowa. In 1852 the M. & M., now the Council Bluffs, Rock Island& Pacific Railway, was chartered in the interest and as anextension of the Chicago & Rock Island Railway, which wascompleted that year to the Mississippi River at Rock Island. In May, 1853, Peter A. Dey left the Rock Island, of whichhe was a division engineer, stationed at Tiskilwa, and com-menced at Davenport, Iowa, the first survey of a railroad lineacross the State of Iowa. I had been with Mr. Dey about eightmonths as rodman, and under his direction had made a sur-vey of the Peoria & Bureau Valley Railway in Illinois. Mr. Deywas made chief engineer of the M. & M., and took me to Iowaas assistant, and placed me in charge of the party in the fiel
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