Union Pacific Locomotive #119 and Central Pacific Locomotive #60 ...

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texts about Sroicontorj of tea actual^ relate to one or the other of
these coastruction ca*ags. Ths exact location of these caisps needs
to h& determined by researeli. Mes&lsas to say, some of -thesa were
tough places*
As evidence of this, a I*. T. 0. Leary, correspondent for the
Sacramento Sally M Bee s wrote a dispatch for Ma newspaper from
Promontory Summit on Ma^/ 10, 1869 in which be described the
reputation of the ifoioa Pacific eoastructioa eamp about 6 miles
of tb© viisa be arrived there on May 8, He said
tbere were saaay fC hard caaes" in tbe vicinity, including one person
known as "Behind the Hock Johosy, the hero of 5 amr&ers and
tmntiatoered robberies*" Speaking of the stain construction canip
aear Blwt Croak he said there ha4 been £9 surders there in one
month during ths past winter, with 8 ia oae ^
Leary. uoted that the Uftion Pacific laid the last |- mile of
track on May 3 to close the gap with the Central Pacific. M s
left only the 56 feet of bare ground without either ties or rails
separating the two lines. M a gap was the length of two rails,
one pair to "be put ia place by each company on the next day at the
tima of the
78, Sacramento 5aiOy Bee> XXVS Sfo.
Msy 13, 1869*
79. Robert L* SarriSj "!B3s Pacific Hailroad—Unopen4 :t
^fonthly> September 186$, 252.