Order Fixing Western Base of Union Pacific Railroad1Jump to section
In pursuance of the eleventh section of the act of congress 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 1, 1862, the point where the line of the Central Pacific Railroad crosses Arcade creek in the Sacramento valley is hereby fixed as the western base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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[1] ADS, The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia and New York. The act provided that the Central Pacific Railroad would receive sixteen $1,000 U.S. bonds per mile and treble this number of bonds per mile for the portion ``most mountainous and difficult of construction, to wit: one hundred and fifty miles westwardly from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and one hundred and fifty miles eastwardly from the western base of the Sierra Nevada mountains, said points to be fixed by the President. . . .''