. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . 0- ^ <? r# ^. Ive! ADDRESS AT THE OMAHA CENTENNIAL. I have been asked to give ten minutes to the constructionof the Union Pacific Railway. Private enterprise made theexplorations, determined the line and built the Union PacificRailway. Although the Government spent an immense sum insurveying three other routes, it did not touch the most feasibleroute, that of the forty-second parallel. In 1852 Farnam and Durant were building the Mississippiand Missouri road, now the Rock Island. They desired to endthat line o
. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . 0- ^ <? r# ^. Ive! ADDRESS AT THE OMAHA CENTENNIAL. I have been asked to give ten minutes to the constructionof the Union Pacific Railway. Private enterprise made theexplorations, determined the line and built the Union PacificRailway. Although the Government spent an immense sum insurveying three other routes, it did not touch the most feasibleroute, that of the forty-second parallel. In 1852 Farnam and Durant were building the Mississippiand Missouri road, now the Rock Island. They desired to endthat line of the Missouri River where the Pacific Railroad,following the continent forty-second parallel of latitude, wouldcommence. Under the direction of Peter A. Dey, who was thenthe chief engineer of that line, I made the first survey acrossthe State of Iowa, and the first reconnoissances and surveyson the Union Pacific for the purpose of determining wherethe one would end and the other commence, on the MissouriRiver. I crossed the Missouri River in the fall of 1853, andmade our explorations west to t
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