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.

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dollars per mile, and the companies first mortgaged
bonds, which had a ready sale, and doubled this
amount as the cash capital for the construction of
the road, or sixty thousand dollars per mile. But
the actual cost has not probably been in excess of
the government bounty alone. After equipment, it
did not cost over forty thousand dollars a mile. This
would give the owners a net cash profit, on construction and opening the road, of thirty-four million of
dollars.
But more than this: The company own the capita]
stock of the road, and also own half the lands on either side their tracks for a width of,twenty miles.
This has been one of the most gigantic speculationrs on the American Continent; and it is hoped
that no other Railroad Company will ever receive
such government aid as this has. But the great work
is done-the great need-atid only by such magnificent liberality could the country have the Continental Railway so soon-a large addition to our Nationality, to (,ur Commerce, to our Wealth, that will
be in a few years worth the cost.
As the Pacific Railroad is now, and will be for
some time to come, an interesting subject in our
American history, is our justification for this article
upon it.
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