. The Pacific tourist . () ^n mue from Xew Yorkvia Ca[>e Horn, with imii, loeomotives, rails and. SCLNKb IN OMAHA. 1.—General View of Omaha and the Missouri Valley. 2.—Po8t-Office. 3 —High School Buildiug. 4.—Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri River Bridge. rolliiiij stock, ilestiiieJ for the Central PacificRailroad : and it is a curious fact, that on sev-eral consecutive days, more miles of track wereiroii^d by the railroad companies than it wasfossible foi an ox-team to draw a load when at last the irreat road was completed,the fact suddenly flashe<l upon the nation tha
. The Pacific tourist . () ^n mue from Xew Yorkvia Ca[>e Horn, with imii, loeomotives, rails and. SCLNKb IN OMAHA. 1.—General View of Omaha and the Missouri Valley. 2.—Po8t-Office. 3 —High School Buildiug. 4.—Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri River Bridge. rolliiiij stock, ilestiiieJ for the Central PacificRailroad : and it is a curious fact, that on sev-eral consecutive days, more miles of track wereiroii^d by the railroad companies than it wasfossible foi an ox-team to draw a load when at last the irreat road was completed,the fact suddenly flashe<l upon the nation thata road once so distrusted, and considered toogi^rantic to be possible, was constructed an actualdistance of 2,22\ miles, in lesn thun jice ijtfar^, ofwhich all but 10 miles was done l^etween Jan-uary 1, IS^tJ and May 10, lv)t)9—three yeari,j(jurmonths and ten days. OMAHA, Rail roads.—The first railroad that reachedthis city from the E;ist was the Chicasjo andXorth-NVestem.—the first train over it arrivin:^on Sunday, Januarj 17. 18H7. Then followed theKansas City, Coimcil Blufifs and St.
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