Book/Printed Material The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and resources of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways.
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Image 1 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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- Date: 1869
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Image 6 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
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Image 9 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 7 The Overland Roztte to the Pacific^ A REPORT CONDITION, CAPACITY AND RESOURCES UNION PACIFIC CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILWAYS. BY E. H. DERBY, OF BOSTON. October^ 1S69. X BOSTON: LEE SHEPARD, No. 149...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 10 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... .34-^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, bt e. h. derby, In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Wbioht Potter, Printers,...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 11 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... Messes. Blake Bbos. Co., Bankers of Boston and New York: Gentlemen: At your suggestion, and through the kind per- mission of the President and Directors of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 12 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 13 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to tlie Pacific. On the evening of August 9th, 1869, 1 left Boston for Mon- treal, accompanied by Mr. F. B. Blake. Our course is north- erly by the...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 14 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 6 The Overland Route to the Pacific. will be increased by branches now in progress to connect the Granil Trunk willi lines through the Passumpsic and Amonoosac Valleys. Me considers the changeable...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 15 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 7 came several car loads of rails that passed us yesterday but the fires are out, and work suspended. We observe, however, many piles of splintered...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 16 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 8 The Overland Route to the Pacific. have been felled for fifty feet on each side of the line. Five section men keep eiglit miles in repair, and the line is very...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 17 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 9 so great, the transsliipment, risk and delays so ruinous, that the line profits little from this part of its business. All this will be changed...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 18 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 10 The Overland Route to the Pacific. thirds of its exports were consumed, while England drew most of her grain and timber from t]i3 continent of Europe. Boston receives most of its...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 19 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 11 we take a view of its new city hall, an elegant edifice of free- stone, and embark for Chicago at 9 1-2, A. M., in...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 20 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 12 The Overland Route to the Pacific. used for the emigrant train. The Grand Trunk line requires a better equipage. The trains from New York to Chicago now make the run of...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 21 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 13 charge for first-class through passengers is not far from two and a half cents per. mile its rates for freight very moderate.* Chicago, August 14th....- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 22 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 14 The Overland Route to the Pacific. open approaches, one four lumdred feet, the other three hun- dred feet in length, and the whole extent of tunnel and ap- proaches is sixteen...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 23 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 15 bowl, a commodious water-closet and state-room at each end. Then settees on either side for two persons each, with ample space between, and sloping sides-...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 24 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 16 The Overland Route to the Pacific. Pullman car lias tvrenty-eiglit berths, many of which accom- modate two persons. And the extra charge, if not diverted from the road by intervening companies,...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 25 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 17 Clinton, for Omaha. Distance, four hundred and cightj-eiglit miles the fare, twenty dollars for each person. We pay also five dollars for a saloon with...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 26 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 18 The Overland Route to the Pacific. Wyoming. But the Wyoming coal, at ten dollars, has the pref- erence. We regret to find that this section of the North-western line has suffered...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 27 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 19 Missouri. They are four miles apart, for ample space must be given to the rapid and capricious river. Omaha, on the west bank, has at...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 28 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 20 The Overland Route to the Pacific. From this must be deducted the land previously granted or occupied, which will reduce the grant to about twelve millions of acres a part of...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 29 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 21 above the level of the sea, and 7,300 feet above Omaha, and finds a gradual descent on the way to Omaha, except one as- cending...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 30 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 22 The Overland Route to the Pacific. gers, wliicb give place to a long saloon and padded sofas in the daytime, with wash-rooms at either end, and a tank of ice- water,...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 31 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 23 tured. Tho corn is more luxuriant than any we have seen, and the crop will be a good one. In the course of the day...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 32 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 24 The Overland Route to the Pacific. travelling on a well gravelled road, and on a good rail laid with fish joints, the road-bed improves as we approach the mountains while the...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 33 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 25 We present a letter of introduction to Dr. Latham, who has charge of a hospital for employees, and I am indebted to him for much...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 34 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 26 The Overland Route to the Pacific. eight drivers are competent to take one hundred and sixty tons of coal over the summit. With such power, two trains from Carbon, with three...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 35 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 27 alone will supply the entire line with coal at an average cost of $4.00 to $5.00 per ton at the points of consumption in a...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 36 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 28 The Overland Route to the Pacific. The road is rough, and we are glad to stop to change horses at a Mormon inn, and here we notice the ravages of the...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 37 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 29 pears, peaches, plums and grapes grow luxuriantly in these inclosurcs. Water has clothed the sombre pastures and sage- bush plains with trees and verdure, and...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 38 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 30 The Overland Route to the Pacific. houses have cost thirty-five cents a pound for transportation, but thinks the railway, wliich reduces that cost to five^ charges too liigh. lie is disappointed...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 39 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... The Overland Route to the Pacific. 31 who had turned them from his door in a rain had died soon afterwards, and a church from which they were cxchided had been struck...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869
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Image 40 of The overland route to the Pacific. A report on the condition, capacity and ... 32 The Overland Route to the Pacific. their flight to Council Bluffs, and their establishment in this valley, where their settlements extend for six hundred miles over plains once covered by sage...- Contributor: Derby, E[Lias] H[Asket]
- Date: 1869