. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . from the MissouriRiver. Therefore, as we moved westward, every hundred milesadded vastly to our transportation. Yet the work was sosystematically planned and executed that I do not rememberan instance in all the construction of the line of the workbeing delayed a single week for want of material. Each winterwe planned the work for the next season. 15y the opening ofspring, about April 1st, every part of the machinery was inworking order, and in no year did we fail to accomplish ourwork. After 3866 the reports Av
. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . from the MissouriRiver. Therefore, as we moved westward, every hundred milesadded vastly to our transportation. Yet the work was sosystematically planned and executed that I do not rememberan instance in all the construction of the line of the workbeing delayed a single week for want of material. Each winterwe planned the work for the next season. 15y the opening ofspring, about April 1st, every part of the machinery was inworking order, and in no year did we fail to accomplish ourwork. After 3866 the reports Avill show what we started outto do each year, and what we accomplished. The following extract from a letter written to me by Gen-eral W. T. Sherman as to Avhat we promised to do in 1867,which was only about one-half what we prepared to do anddid accomplish in 1868, indicates how one years experiencehelped us in the progress of the next. It also shows, what thecountry now seems in a great measure to have forgotten, thatthe Pacific Railroad, now regarded chiefly in the light of a. < 3 c HOW WE BUILT THE UNION PACIFIC 17 transcontinental, commercial highway, was then looked uponas a military necessity and as the one thing positively essen-tial to the binding together of the republic East and West: St. Louis, January 16, 1867.■ My Dear Dodge : ■ I have just read with intense interest your letter of the14th. and. though you wanted it kept to myself, I believeyou will sanction my sending it to General Grant for his indi-vidual perusal, to be returned to me. It is almost a miracleto grasp your purpose to finish to Fort Sanders (288 miles)this year, but you have done so much that I mistrust my ownjudgment and accept yours. I regard this road of yours asthe solution of the Indian affairs and the Mormon question,and, therefore, give you all the aid I possibly can, but thedemand for soldiers everywhere and the slowness of enlist-ment, especially among the blacks, limit our ability t
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