1 88 Reminiscences of 



the building would result in a failure. Few of those 

 interested in the Credit Mobilier, organized to carry 

 through the business, believed that any profits 

 would be derived other than those which would be 

 obtained in the building of the road. Mr. Ames, how- 

 ever, believed to the contrary, and but for his own in- 

 domitable will and resources the road would not have 

 been carried on in its building by the original pro- 

 moters. 



The conversation with Mr. Geise occasioned his 

 joining the expedition with Mr. Simonin, which re- 

 sulted in the making of the first loan of $5,000,000 

 realized by the Union Pacific Railroad. Another was 

 added in Colonel Heine, a brother-in-law of Erlanger, 

 the Paris banker, a German of broad views and com- 

 prehensiveness, who was actuated by philanthropic 

 motives, as to an opening for Saxon miners who 

 worked hard in their native country for small pay. 



I visited Swansea in Wales with the sulphuret ores 

 of Colorado, which were too stubborn for any process 

 known in Colorado, and when shown to the experts of 

 Vivian's great smelting works they occasioned a smile 

 and response that they could be easily and successfully 

 treated. 



At this time Prof. N. P. Hill, of Colorado, and 

 afterward United States Senator from that State, came 

 to Swansea and secured the aid of competent workmen 

 and soon afterward erected appropriate smelting works 

 at Black Hawk, in Gilpin County, from which grew the 

 ultimate great smelting works in Pueblo, Col., which 

 have made Colorado the banner State of the Union in 

 mining the precious ores. 



I returned to Colorado from Paris with the parties 



