. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . maha would have OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. one hundred thousand people. But Train was right. President Lincoln and many prominentmen from all parts of the north sent telegrams to Omaha in regard to the auspicious be-ginning ot the enterprise. Grading was begun on the Union Pacific in the spring of sum of $100,000 was expended on a due westerly course, when a
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . maha would have OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. one hundred thousand people. But Train was right. President Lincoln and many prominentmen from all parts of the north sent telegrams to Omaha in regard to the auspicious be-ginning ot the enterprise. Grading was begun on the Union Pacific in the spring of sum of $100,000 was expended on a due westerly course, when a change was made in the route, because of the unevenness of the countr)-, which would not permit the road to be constructed rapidly enough to reach the one hundredth meridian in time to save the charter. It was provided in the charter that the railroad that first reached that point should have the right of way as the main line to a connection with DEEXEL & polls STONE Y.\uDs .^Nij sToxE SAW MILLS. the Central Pacific, which had been chartered by the State Legislature of California. At that time the Kansas Pacific was pushing rapidly ahead, and having railroad connections at its eastern terminus it had the advantage of the ^___. Union Pacific in obtainingquick transportation of sup-plies. Fifty miles were com-pleted and in running orderby the first of January, 1S66when the road reached thelevel country of the PlatteValley, the work was pushedmore vigorously than everand the result was that itreached the one hundredthmeridian in advance of tlieKansas Pacific, its competitcrin the race. It should beborne in mind that there n isyet a break in railroad communication between Omaha m. a. disbbow & factory. and Dcs Moines, a distance of 193 miles, and consequently everything had to be transported byteams from that point, or by steamboats up the Missouri river. The first engine of the UnionPacific shops in this city, a seventy-horse-power, was transported in wagons from Des MoinesTh
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