THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, 
The accompanying Map of the Union Pacific 
Railroad was prepared expressly for the Rubai. 
Nbw-Yorker, and will, with the annexed de¬ 
scription, convey a pretty clear idea of the 
extent of that gigantic and world-famous enter¬ 
prise, as well aa of the vast region of country 
which it traverses. 
The Union Pacific Railroad, which only a 
tew years ago was talked about as among the 
possibilities of the remote future, is now not 
only a “chartered institution,” hut being con¬ 
structed with a celerity almost unparalleled in 
the history of human enterprises. The Com¬ 
pany building the road was organized and 
ready for business on the 2d day of July, 1864 
—having on that day complied with the condi¬ 
tions of the charter granted them by Congress. 
The road proper commences at Omaha, and 
extends to the California State Line, a distance 
From Omaha to the base of the 
of 1,5^4 miles. 
Rocky Mountains is 517 miles, the mountain¬ 
ous region 150 miles, thence to the California 
line 927 miles. The grade between Omaha and 
the base of the Rocky Mountains docs not ex¬ 
ceed 30 feet per mile. From that point to the 
summit or divide of the Continent, at Bridget’s 
Pass, it does not exceed 80 feet, and from that 
to the California line the greatest grade to he 
overcome does not. exceed 116 feet to the mile. 
The capital authorized by the charter of the 
Company, by which the road is being built, 
was one hundred millions of dollars, of which 
it is supposed about twenty-five millions will 
be required—five of which is already paid. 
Besides granting the charter for the road Con¬ 
gress also gave the right of way; the privilege 
of taking const ruction materials from the pub¬ 
lic lands; and, in alternate sections of land, 
on each side of the road, twelve thousand eight 
hundred acres of land per mile. In further aid 
of the road and telegraph line, Congress made 
a loan of thirty-year six per cent bonds of six¬ 
teen thousand dollars per mile on five hundred 
and seventeen miles of the road, forty-eight 
thousand on one hundred and fifty miles, and 
thirty-two thousand on the balance of the dis¬ 
tance., or nine hundred and twenty-seven miles. 
In 1866 theCompuuy completed 805 miles of 
the road in a substantial manner, with machine 
shops, rollingsti ekatid telegraph line. Duriug 
the present season the track has been laid at the 
rate of two miles perday, giving assurance that 
the whole line will be completed in eighteen 
months. 
The total grant of money from the initial 
point at Omaha to the eastern hase. of the 
Nevada range, fifteen hundred and sixty live 
mile-. j* *11,308,000, issued In Instalments of 
$16,000 per mile upon the completion of each 
section of twenty nines ot man. 
Of the route »f the road it mny be said that 
the Platte Valley, east of Fort Kearney, Is a 
delightful section of country, presenting uo 
obstacles to a rapid construction. Over the 
Black Hills and Laramie Plains the country is 
rough and broken by rocky canons and gorges, 
but it has the advantage of plcntifulucss of 
timber and building stone. West of these 
hills the road will follow mainly the valley of 
the principal streams whose hanks supply a 
sufficiency of timberlbr construction purposes. 
From Suit Lake to Humboldt Valley, a dis¬ 
tance of 200 mike, arc dry deserts and broken 
ranges, but not presenting very serious obsta¬ 
cles to road construction. Tills valley Is a 
delightful one, and of superior agricultural 
promise. The ouly serious impediment is 
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net, and if slm has live grains of common sense, 
she will find it out. The great tiling is to teach 
her her just value, and that there must bo 
something better under the bonnet than a 
pretty face for real happiness. But never sac¬ 
rifice truth. 
I am convinced that digestion is the great 
secret of life, and that character, talent, virtues 
and qualities are powerfully affected by beef, 
mutton, ple-orust, and rich soupa ; I have often 
thought I could feed or starve men into many 
virtues and affect them more powerfully with 
the instruments of cookery, than Timotheus 
could do formerly with his lyre .—Sidney Smith. 
tropical fruits, all of which can find ready mar¬ 
ket in the north, and then return freighted with 
corn, salt, isinglass, and various other products 
of the north which have a market in the south. 
LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD 
the Central Pacific R. R. Co.,—the latter work- j 
ing east from Sacramento, while the former la j 
proceeding west from Omaha. We annex a table a very erroneous idea is indulged in by many 
of distances, and elevation of points, between people, in relation to the largest city in the 
New York City and San Francisco by the Pacific world ; many confidently assert that London, or 
Railroad route, derived from official sources: as Jt frequently is termed, the Great Metropolis, 
Total Elevaiion j s far superior, both in size and the number of 
San Francisco. . Tide. inhabitants. But such is not the case; Jeddo, 
Sacramento. 134 56 the capital of Japan, is, without exception, the 
COMMON SENSE 
Never give way to melancholy; resist it 
steadily, for the habit will encroach. I once 
gave a lady two - and - twenty receipts against 
melancholy. One was a bright fire; another 
to remember all the pleasant tilings said to 
her ; another, to keep a box of sugar plums on 
the chimney-piece, and a kettle simmeriug on 
the hob. 
Never teach false morality. How exquisitely 
absurd to tell a girl that beauty is of no value; 
her whole prospect and happiness in life may 
often depend on anew gowu or a becoming bou- 
I do not mean to expose ray ideas to Ingenious 
ridkule by maintaining that everything happens 
to every man for the best; hut 1 will contend 
that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the 
part ol a wise and good man.— Cumberland. 
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