The Story of the First Trans-continental Railroad: Its Projectors, Construction and History ...

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W. F. Bailey, 1906 - 164 pages
 

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Page 92 - Phew ! " And a long low whistle blew. " Come now, really that's the oddest Talk for one so very modest You brag of your East ! You do ? Why, I bring the East to you...
Page 118 - States, to be allowed at par; and after said road is completed, until said bonds and interest are paid, at least five per centum of the net earnings of said road shall also be annually applied to the payment thereof.
Page 117 - Sacramento rivers which was practically worthless without the facilities afforded by a railroad for the transportation of persons and property. With its construction, the agricultural and mineral resources of this territory could be developed, settlements made where settlements were possible and thereby the wealth and power of the United States largely increased ; and there was also the pressing want in...
Page 92 - That I've done my level best." Said the Engine from the EAST: "They who work best talk the least. S'pose you whistle down your brakes; What you've done is no great shakes: Pretty fair — but let our meeting Be a different kind of greeting. Let these folks, with champagne stuffing, Not their Engines, do the puffing.
Page 91 - WHAT was it the Engines said, Pilots touching, — head to head Facing on the single track, Half a world behind each back ? This is what the Engines said, Unreported and unread. With a prefatory screech, In a florid Western speech, Said the Engine from the WEST : "I am from Sierra's crest ; And, if altitude's a test, Why, I reckon, it's confessed That I've done my level best.
Page 92 - Nursing in my iron breast All his vivifying heat, All his clouds about my crest; And before my flying feet Every shadow must retreat.' Said the Western Engine, 'Phew!' And a long low whistle blew. 'Come now, really that's the oddest Talk for one so very modest. You brag of your East! You do? Why, I bring the East to you!
Page 17 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 92 - That is what the Engines said, Unreported and unread ; Spoken slightly through the nose, With a whistle at the close.
Page 36 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do, upon the application of the said Company, designate and establish such first above named point, on the Western boundary of the State of Iowa, East of, and opposite to the East line of Section 10, in Township 15, North, of Range 13, East of the Sixth principal meridian, in the Territory of Nebraska.
Page 88 - Almost ready. Hats off; prayer is being offered." A silence for the prayer ensued. At 2:40 the bell tapped again, and the office at the Point said : "We have got done praying. The spike is about to be presented.

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