A Book of Railway Stories Tue Niowr Orerator, By Frank Packard, Author of the Wire Devils,""
ete. New York George H. Doran Company.
It is but a trifle over 50 years since the completion of the first transcontinental railway of the United States, formed by the junetion of the Central and the Union Pacific lines, built by rival corporations, each rushing forward its construction work at breakneck speed. They eventually met in the State of Utah. The junction was called Ogden, and is now an im: portant railway centre. The opening of this initial through road was a great event, celebrated by an excursion from each end. The last spike of the last connecting rail was: a golden spike, driven in with re-Jigious and oratorical ceremonies. (It is superfluous to mention that it was immediately replaced by anoth er of iron much more suitable for permanent service.)
Romance or THe Rockies.
Those were the days of the Romance of the Rockies, as well as of the Sierra Mountains. The wild Indians of the lofty plateaus naturally resented this uninvited invasion of their solitude. A large band of them determined to "stall" the first locomotive. This was to be achieved by means of a stout raw-hide lariat stretched thwart
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