. The Pacific tourist . or the feats of skill;let active eyes watch the scene as thetraveler passes over the railroad, and then givedue credit and admiration to the pluck, skill,persistence and faith which has accomplishedso much, and been productive of so much CENTRAL PACIFIC KAILROAD COMPANY. Capital stock actually paid in, $54,,500 Funded debt, 53, United States subsidy bonds, 27,855,680 Land grants of 11,7213,400 acres at $, 29,300,000 Value of lands in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, 7,750,000 Total value, .S172,256,275 SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. $90,
. The Pacific tourist . or the feats of skill;let active eyes watch the scene as thetraveler passes over the railroad, and then givedue credit and admiration to the pluck, skill,persistence and faith which has accomplishedso much, and been productive of so much CENTRAL PACIFIC KAILROAD COMPANY. Capital stock actually paid in, $54,,500 Funded debt, 53, United States subsidy bonds, 27,855,680 Land grants of 11,7213,400 acres at $, 29,300,000 Value of lands in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, 7,750,000 Total value, .S172,256,275 SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. $90, 000,000000, Authorized capital stock. First mortgage bonds, authorized, 12,000,000 acres land grants, at $2 50, Total value Southern Pacific Railroad Company, §100,000,000 Total capital of Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, $338,,275 Number miles constructed and in operation by Central Pacific Railroad, 1,213 Number miles built and being built by Southern Pacific Railroad, 1,160 Total, 2,373. The little beginning, in 1860, has now givenplace to the most astonishing enterprise of mod-ern times. The pay-roll of the Central PacificRailroad Company now exceeds 7,000 names ofemployes. Tlie Southern Pacific Railroad Com-pany, which is an actual part of the CentralPacific Railroad, is building its road rapidlysouth-eastward, with a force of 5,000 men, towardthe fields of Arizona and New Mexico. All theimportant railroads and steamboats of Califor-nia are now controlled by this gigantic corpora-tion, and from the latest reports we quote thesefigures of financial value of the greatest corpora-tion in the United States : SILVER IALACE CAR, C. P. R. R. Westivard to San Francisco. Travelers from the East, after dining at Ogdenand having an hour in which to re-check theirbaggage, will board a train of silver palace carsbelonging to the Central Pacific, in the evening,as the trains now rim, and will soon be whirlingaway across the Great American Desert. As wel^ass
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