Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

C[APTER XXXII.
THE UNION PACIFIC COMPANY-EARLY HISTORY-CON STRUCTION AND COMPLETION.
The Union Pacific Company owns from Omaha to
Promontory-l,085 miles. This Company is a New
York organization, composed of about a dozen men,
practically, who have built the road and own the
most of it. They had the work done by contractthat is, a company within a company, and the profits
upon construction have been very large.
The immense amount of materials piled upon the
river bank at Omaha, indicate the great work. The
thousands of men, teams, ties, rails, and the many
appliances, cover the bank for miles. The great
cast iron tubes are also there, seventy feet long and
eight feet in diameter: one to be placed below low
water-mark and the other above it, properly ftastened
together. They are to be placed upright, all the
water pumped out, and then filled with solid( masonry. They are eighteen in number, and are to be
used in constructing the great bridge over the Missouri, estimated to cost two million dollars.
At first everything must be done with men
and teams, as no railroads are built to Oi-taha; even
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