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The Last Rail
Laid; Spike Driven
Washington - “The last rail is laid, the last spike driven,” a telegraph key clicked. “The Pacific railroad is completed.” The news from Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, thrilled the Nation. Bells rang in Washington, D.C. A magnetic ball dropped from a pole atop the Capitol dome. A four-mile-long parade wound through Chicago. “San Francisco annexes the United States!” California boasted.
From coast to coast, cannon fire hailed the linking of two rail lines at Promontory - one from the Missouri River and the other from Sacramento, California. The first transcontinental railroad was complete. Two Companies Named
Legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1, 1862, authorized the Union Pacific Railroad Company to build westward from the Missouri and the Central Pacific eastward from Sacramento, the National Geographic Society says.
The companies faced identical problems: Too few laborers and too many Indians. Both lines filled the labor shortage in colorful fashion.
Union Pacific hired Irish
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