CONTENTS
PAGE No. SECTION I - THE SOUTHERN ROUTE TO THE PACIFICPrefatory Statement........................................1 The Southern Route to the Pacific..........................3 The Atlantic And Pacific.................................3-7 The Southern Pacific.......................................7 The Texas And Pacific......................................9 The Galveston Harrisburg And San Antonio..................13 The Southern Pacific Company..............................13 The New Orleans Extension of the Texas and Pacific........14 Resume relative to the Southern Route to the Pacific......17
SECTION II - CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION.........................18
SECTION III. SURVEYS AND MAPS OD DEFINITE LOCATION.
Page No. The purpose of these under the Act of July 27, 1866.
General Remarks...................................................36Instructions of E. Godfrey Rehrer to F. S. Hodges July 31, 1871...37
F. S. Hodgesâ report to E. Godfrey Rehrer, relative to surveys from the Rio Grande to the Little Colorado, January 1, 1872............38
Report of James F. McCabe to J Blickensderfer, Jr, relative line through Tijeras Canon. Jan. 8, 1872...............................50
E. Godfrey Rehrer report to J Blickensderfer, Jr, relative to surveys from the Rio Grande to the Colorado, January 10, 1872.....56 page 64 from the Rio Grande to the Colorado, January 10, 1872.....64 page 70 from the Rio Grande to the Colorado, January 10, 1872.....70
F. S. Hodges report to J Blickensderfer, Jr, relative to surveys from Seneca, Missouri, to the Rio Grande, January 20, 1872........77
J. Blickensderfer, Jr., report to Andrew Peirce, relative to surveys from Vinita, Ind. Ter., to San Francisco, California, dated November 1, 1873..............97
Certification of the maps of definite location...................119
Transmission of maps of definite location to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, March 9, 1872.......................120
Letter of D. K. Parrott of March 16, 1937 to Charles H. Woods, explaining that to the General Land Office the designations ãpreliminaryä and ãdefiniteä locations mean one and the same thing...121
The Engineers who made the Surveys of Definite Location 1871.....122
IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE WESTERN DIVISION.
Page No. The Days of Construction Inertia during the ÎSeventies...........123 Conditions which led to the partnership of the ATCHISON, FRISCO and ATLANTIC railroads and their plan to create a New Transcontinental Railroad..................................127 Preliminary agreement of Nov. 14, 1879...........................131 Modification of the preliminary agreement, Dec. 6, 1879..........134 The Tripartite Agreement, Jan. 31, 1880..........................136 The General Managersâ Contract, Jan. 31, 1880....................143 Modification of the Tripartite Agreement, April 15, 1880.........148 Disposition of Securities, Jan. 31, 1880.........................152 The Western Division was the Atchisonâs largest single Project..........................................................158 The four subdivisions of the A&P RR between Missouri Central, California and Western Divisions........................160 Early Orders For Construction Materials Rails, Ties And Bridge Timber....................................................169SECTION V - ORGANIZATION OF MANAGEMENT. ENGINEERING AND EARLY ORDERS FOR CONSTRUCTION MATRIAL.
WESTERN DIVISION...............................161
VI. SURVEYS OF FINAL LOCATION:
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Preliminary Moves...................................... 178
Lewis Kingman's report to H R Holbrook from Camp on
Partridge, relative to the first hundred miles,
Dated August 17, 1880.................................. 183
H R Holbrook's report to Thos Nickerson from Albuquerque,
Relative to the Colorado River crossing,
dated September 11, 1880............................... 189
Lewis Kingman's report to H R Holbrook, relative to
The second hundred miles, dated October 15, 1880....... 191
Alignment, Grades, Character of Work
....................................................... 195
Timber, Agriculture And Grazing, Comparison Of Alternate Lines
....................................................... 197
Alternate Lines
....................................................... 199
SECTION VIII- THE 25-MILE SECTIONS OF COMPLETED LINE...........268
PORTRAITS
(do not intend to put portraits on the web due to political problems)
JACOB BLICKERSDERFER...............................following page 36
A A ROBINSON......................................following page 182
LEWIS KINGMAN.....................................following page 182
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