The Pacific tourist - Adams and Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean - a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads (14574566339)

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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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iles, the leader isfairly astonished at the endurance of the laborers.To put this material in place over 4,000 menhad been constantly employed. The laborers onthat day handled 25,800 cross-ties, 3,52o iron rails,55,000 spikes, 7,040 fish-plates, and 14,080 bolts,the weight of the whole being 4,362,000 pounds.Upon both roads, for a year previous, there hadbeen remarkable activitv-^ A total force of 20,000 to 25,000 workmen allalong the lines, and 5,000 to 6.000 teams hadbeen engaged in grading and laying the track orgetting out stone or timber. From 500 to 000tons of materials were forwarded daily fromeither end of the lines. The Sierra Nevadas suddenly became alive withwood-choppers, and at one place on the TruckeeRiver twenty-five saw-mills went into operationin a single week. Upon one railroad 70 to 100locomotives were in u.se at one time, constantlybringing materials and supplies. At one timethere were 30 vessels rn muie from New Yorkvia Cape Horn, with iron, locomotives, rails and
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SCI-NL.S IM UAlAllA.-General View of Omaha and the Missouri Vulley. 2.-Poai-Office. 3—High Srhool Building.4.—Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri llivcr Biid;,o. rolling stock, destined for the Central Pacificllailroad ; and it is a curious fact, tliat on sev-eral consecutive days, more miles of track wereironed by the railroad companies than it waspossible for an ox-team to draw a load over.And when at last the i^reat road was completed,the fact suddenly flashed upon the nation thata road once so distrusted, and considered toogis^antic to be possible, was constructed an actualdistance of 2,221 miles, in le.ss than Jive years, ofwhich all but loO miles was done between Jan-uary 1, 1866 and May 10, 1869—three years, Juurmonths and ten days. OMAHA. Railroads.—The first railroad that reachedthis city from the East was the Chicao:© andNorth-Western,—the first train over it arrivins^on Sunday, January 17. 1867. Then followed theKansas City, Council Bluffs and St. Joseph, theChica