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Description:Excerpt from The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, With Its Connections, an Unbroken Line From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed October 25, 1867Opening a vast territory to settlement would attract immigra tion, and its consequent production, and this would increase the gen eral wealth, and lighten our taxes by a wider distribution. The im provement of one portion of a country or even of an estate, although at some first cost to other portions, soon benefits and enriches the whole. One great immediate result to be secured was the develop ment of the vast mineral resources that were abundant along not less than a thousand miles of the proposed railroad line. California was rich in the precious metals, but other and less accessible regions were known to be richer. The cost of trans porting the necessary mining machinery and means of subsistence by wagons across the plains, was $500 a ton, and as other incidental expenses were quite as great, only the richest veins of ore could be profitably worked. We were in debt, and nothing was so good to pay with as gold and silver. Indian wars were imminent, and there were no peacemakers or civilizers so cheap and so potent as the rail-track and the locomotive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, ... Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed. To get started finding The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, ... Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, With Its Connections, an Unbroken Line From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed October 25, 1867Opening a vast territory to settlement would attract immigra tion, and its consequent production, and this would increase the gen eral wealth, and lighten our taxes by a wider distribution. The im provement of one portion of a country or even of an estate, although at some first cost to other portions, soon benefits and enriches the whole. One great immediate result to be secured was the develop ment of the vast mineral resources that were abundant along not less than a thousand miles of the proposed railroad line. California was rich in the precious metals, but other and less accessible regions were known to be richer. The cost of trans porting the necessary mining machinery and means of subsistence by wagons across the plains, was $500 a ton, and as other incidental expenses were quite as great, only the richest veins of ore could be profitably worked. We were in debt, and nothing was so good to pay with as gold and silver. Indian wars were imminent, and there were no peacemakers or civilizers so cheap and so potent as the rail-track and the locomotive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, ... Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed. To get started finding The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, ... Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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The Union Pacific Railroad Company: Chartered by the United States; Progress of Their Road West From Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent; Making, ... Pacific Ocean; Five Hundred Miles Completed

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