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the field more than half a million of men to enforce the na 

 tional authority, Congress passed an act for incorporating 

 * The Union Pacific Railway Company, and appropriated 

 $66,000,000 in the bonds of the United States, with large 

 grants of land, to aid the work, directing it to be commenced 

 at the 100th meridian of longitude, but with four branches 

 extending to the Missouri river. The necessary surveys 

 across the mountain ranges are now in active progress, and 

 the construction of the eastern division, leading westward 

 from the mouth of the Kansas river, or the Missouri, has 

 actually commenced. The whole of that division, including 

 that part of the line west of the 100th meridian to the foot 

 of the Rocky Mountains, is on a nearly level plain, and is 

 singularly easy of construction. Its western end will strike 

 the most prominent point of the auriferous regions in the 

 Territory of Colorado, where the annual product of gold, as 

 stated ia the official message of the Territorial governor, is 

 from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. The gold is there ex 

 tracted by crushing-machines from the quartz, in which it is 

 found extensively distributed, needing only the railway from 

 Missouri to cheaply carry the necessary miners, with their 

 machinery and supplies. The distance to that point will be 

 about six hundred and fifty miles, which will be passed in 

 twenty-eight hours. When completed, as it easily may be, 

 within the next three years, it will open the way for such 

 an exodus of miners as the country has not seen since the 

 first discoveries in California, to which the American peo 

 ple rushed with such avidity, many of them circumnaviga 

 ting Cape Horn to reach the scene of attraction. 



&quot; Meanwhile a corresponding movement has commenced 

 on the Pacific, in vigorously prosecuting the construction 

 of the railway eastward from the coast at or near San Fran - 

 cisco, which will cross the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 

 about 7,000 feet, on the eastern line of California, in the 



