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.

THE UNION PACIFIC COMPANY.
enormous, yet the road was very rapidly pushed
forward. Everything, workmen, and a wonderful
amount of materials, bad to go forward upon one
track. With the wonderful amount of means and
energy used in forwarding the construction of this
road, no obstacles could be presented which were
not readily overcome. The unusual strange camp
life of the workmen was more like a large advancing
army than railroad makers. A train of cars containing provisions, cooking apparatus, and beds, or
rather blankets, for fifteen to eighteen thousand
men; also tents like those of an army, all accompany
the working multitude, each night having a different
home. The ground was graded usually fifty miles
ahead of the track-layers, when they would put down
the sleepers, and when all was ready four rails were
drawn from the cars, laid and spiked fast in a minute.
Thus the gradually advancing mixed multitude
pushed on the great work, beyond laws and officers,
and away from thie restraints of civilized society.
When a place was selected for a new terminus sixty
or eighty miles ahead, the gamblers, the desperadoes,
the State Prison graduates, and the most profligate
men and women congregate, lay out the tent city,
open their rum shops, gambling houses and hellhouses. Eighteen thousand men receiving four dollars a dav and board, money was abundant, and this
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