The Union Pacific Railway; a Study in Railway Politics, History, And Economics
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. . appropriated and in ' like manner, when each succeeding section of equal extent is completed, ... an equal amount shall be advanced to the contracting party until the whole road is completed . . . " According to this amendment, which Davis announced to be an expression of the views of the minority of the Select Committee, the shorter the railway, the more money per mile could be advanced to the contractor. That would have insured the building of the road on the line of the 32d parallel — Da...vis' favorite route, the route recommended by him as Secretary of War, — for the shortest dis- tance between the states was from El Paso del Norte on the west- ern border of Texas to Fort Yuma on the eastern boundary of Cali ■ fornia. ' A railroad was aheady projected and partly built from Shreveport and New Orleans across the state of Texas to El Paso del Norte, with the liberal aid from the state of Texas, of §6,000.00 in money and 10,000 acres of land per mile of road. This, with a line from San Francisco to San Diego and Fort Yuma, would have given the South a through line from the lower Mississippi and southern centers to San Francisco.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
. . appropriated and in ' like manner, when each succeeding section of equal extent is completed, ... an equal amount shall be advanced to the contracting party until the whole road is completed . . . " According to this amendment, which Davis announced to be an expression of the views of the minority of the Select Committee, the shorter the railway, the more money per mile could be advanced to the contractor. That would have insured the building of the road on the line of the 32d parallel — Da...vis' favorite route, the route recommended by him as Secretary of War, — for the shortest dis- tance between the states was from El Paso del Norte on the west- ern border of Texas to Fort Yuma on the eastern boundary of Cali ■ fornia. ' A railroad was aheady projected and partly built from Shreveport and New Orleans across the state of Texas to El Paso del Norte, with the liberal aid from the state of Texas, of §6,000.00 in money and 10,000 acres of land per mile of road. This, with a line from San Francisco to San Diego and Fort Yuma, would have given the South a through line from the lower Mississippi and southern centers to San Francisco.
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