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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Photograph by Pach bros. General Grenville M. DodgeChief Engineer of the Union Pacific during its construction on the 41st parallel. Seward, indeed,had said in debate, ten years before, Make a route across the continentwherever you please; there will be buttwo terminals to that road, one at NewYork, the other at San Francisco.Moreover, Chicago was already pushingwest with its roads to the Missouri River,and William B. Ogden, founder of theChicago and Northwestern system, stoodwith the New York interests against aNorthern Pacific route. He was alreadypushing the Northwestern westwardfrom Chicago, and. when the Pacific-railroad bill of 1862 passed Congress 714 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. the contest between Chicago and St.Louis as to which should secure themain Pacific line had been won by theformer in the provision that the initialeastern point of the new line should beat a point on the 100th meridian, be-tween the south margin of the valley of
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Chimney RockFamous landmark for emigrants and travellers across the continent the Republican River and the north mar-gin of the valley of the Platte River inthe Territory of Nebraska, and the finalbill of 1864 confirmed this location. Theprincipal eastern terminus was given toOmaha in a provision that, of severalbranches provided for east of this point,the Iowa branch should be built to theinitial point on the 100th meridianfrom a point on the western boundaryof the State of Iowa to be fixed by thePresident of the United States, andAbraham Lincoln fixed the point withinthe limits of the township in Iowa op-posite the town of Omaha, in Nebraska,and afterwards east of and opposite to the east line of Section 10. In the endthe legal terminus was fixed by the Su-preme Court of the United States onthe Iowa side of the Missouri River,where west of Council Bluffs the travellerfinds to-day what is known as the Trans-fer Station; though this is, in matter of fact, some distance south of Sectio

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