. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . Before the Vermont Society of New York 165 ILLUSTRATIONS Faces page Major-General G. M. Dodge 5 Dale Creek Bridge 17 General Dodge and Party of Exploration 23 General Grant and Party Visit General Dodge 31 Temporary Trestle, Promontory, Utah 3 3 S. B. Reed 37 General J. S. Casement 38 Six Passenger Trains Snowed In 47 City of Rocks 51 Twin Monks 57 Joining of Tracks 67 The Locomotives Touched Noses 69 Cedar Pass, Utah 71 Monument Point, Great Salt Lake 7 5 Eagle Nest, Utah 81 Laramie Peak, Wyoming 83 Laramie Riv
. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . Before the Vermont Society of New York 165 ILLUSTRATIONS Faces page Major-General G. M. Dodge 5 Dale Creek Bridge 17 General Dodge and Party of Exploration 23 General Grant and Party Visit General Dodge 31 Temporary Trestle, Promontory, Utah 3 3 S. B. Reed 37 General J. S. Casement 38 Six Passenger Trains Snowed In 47 City of Rocks 51 Twin Monks 57 Joining of Tracks 67 The Locomotives Touched Noses 69 Cedar Pass, Utah 71 Monument Point, Great Salt Lake 7 5 Eagle Nest, Utah 81 Laramie Peak, Wyoming 83 Laramie River Canyon, Wyoming 8 Thos. B. Morris and Party Tunnel No. 3, Weber Canyon Divide of the Continent Camp on Snake River Range 114 Humboldt Wells 121 Chief Engineers Office, Omaha, 1866-70 127 Entrance to North Platte Canyon 133 Thousand Mile Tree, Weber Canyon, Utah 135 Julesburg Stage Station, Wyoming, 1867 139 Union Pacific Railway Crossing, Green River, Utah 147 General Dodges Camp, Blackfoot Creek, Utah 153 Bear River Bridge, Utah 157 Cottonwood Grove, Weber Canyon, Utah 165. GENERAL G. M. DODGE Chiit ICiv^inoer Inion Pacific Itailway. ISOO-ISTO HB HOW WE BUILT THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY. In 1836 the first public meeting to consider the projectof a Pacific railway was called by John Plumbe, a civil engineerof Dubuque, Iowa. Interest in a Pacific railway increased fromthis time. The explorations of Fremont in 1842 and 1846brought the attention of Congress, and A. C. Whitney waszealous and efficient in the cause from 1840 to 1850. The firstpractical measure was Senator Salmon P. Chases bill, makingan appropriation for the explorations of different routes for aPacific railway in 1853. Numerous bills were introduced in Con-gress between 1852 and 1860, granting subsidies and lands, andsome of them appropriating as large a sum as $96,000,000 forthe construction of the (One of these bills passed one ofthe houses of Congress. The results of the explorations orderedby Cong
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