The Independent . Photoo aplu i>ui S>??man Travel Talk* and Brnvn & Dawson Photographed at night by the glow from its own fires. This is the largest crater—nearly 13,000 feet in diameter. The Independent N E W S ~ PICTORIAL Harpers HZekty. Phitogrnplu) Copvnuht by Jniemationnl Film There is one kind of food that has not gone up: scollops, a shell fish oftcnest found in the nets of Cape Cod fishermen 26 THE INDEPENDENT January 1, 1917 «s Americas Great Railroad The Union Pacific And the Man Whose Foresight, Energy andGenius Made It the Almost Perfect Road IT is a band of steel, that
The Independent . Photoo aplu i>ui S>??man Travel Talk* and Brnvn & Dawson Photographed at night by the glow from its own fires. This is the largest crater—nearly 13,000 feet in diameter. The Independent N E W S ~ PICTORIAL Harpers HZekty. Phitogrnplu) Copvnuht by Jniemationnl Film There is one kind of food that has not gone up: scollops, a shell fish oftcnest found in the nets of Cape Cod fishermen 26 THE INDEPENDENT January 1, 1917 «s Americas Great Railroad The Union Pacific And the Man Whose Foresight, Energy andGenius Made It the Almost Perfect Road IT is a band of steel, that unitesthe two oceans, the West and theEast, in a great Pacific yearsago, President Buchanansaid: Withoutsuch a road we can-not protect Califor-nia and our PacificCoast possessionsagainst Lincolnwas deeply inter-ested in the con-struction of thisgreat railroad, ad-vocating it, notonly as a militarynecessity, but be-cause he believedthat the buildingof this nationalhighway, this ironband of commer-cial union, wouldkeep East andWest united in interest and closecommunication. Hence the name Union Pacific/typical of the permanent, PacificUnion between the East and theWest of this country. The UNIONPACIFIC was the name
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