The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad: Its Projectors ...
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad: Its Projectors ...
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This was in the summer of i860, and in the fall the engineer party returned, toil-worn and travel- stained, but vastly encouraged and elated with the result of their summer's work So favorable was the report that fifteen hundred dollars were immediately raised to be used the following summer in the same manner. The summer of 1861 found Judah and his party in the gulches and defiles of the Sierras, earn- estly prosecuting their labors. The result but con- firmed the previous report, with, if pos...sible, more en- couraging details regarding country, cost, etc. Ju- dah then visited many of the principal capitalists of San Francisco to obtain subscriptions for the work, but failed to obtain a dollar. **But this road — what is it? Nothing that concerned them. It did not represent capital. A poor engineer wanted to make 136 First Trans-continental Railroad.
some money, and had started the idea for that pur- pose." These wise men shook their heads, and sneered at the undertaking. *'What can they do,'* said they, "even with their Charter from the State?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This was in the summer of i860, and in the fall the engineer party returned, toil-worn and travel- stained, but vastly encouraged and elated with the result of their summer's work So favorable was the report that fifteen hundred dollars were immediately raised to be used the following summer in the same manner. The summer of 1861 found Judah and his party in the gulches and defiles of the Sierras, earn- estly prosecuting their labors. The result but con- firmed the previous report, with, if pos...sible, more en- couraging details regarding country, cost, etc. Ju- dah then visited many of the principal capitalists of San Francisco to obtain subscriptions for the work, but failed to obtain a dollar. **But this road — what is it? Nothing that concerned them. It did not represent capital. A poor engineer wanted to make 136 First Trans-continental Railroad.
some money, and had started the idea for that pur- pose." These wise men shook their heads, and sneered at the undertaking. *'What can they do,'* said they, "even with their Charter from the State?
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