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4-H Report
April 22, 1969 Mr. Fleetwood’s class had a 4-H meeting. The president called the meeting to order and the devotional leader led us in the 23rd Psalm. Song leader led us in the songs “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “This Land is Your Land”. The secretary read the minutes from the last meeting. The vice president led us in the act Cinderella. Mr. Brumback told us about 4-H Camp and the Share-the-Fund Contest. He had some pictures of insects and showed us how to mount them.
Reporter,
Mary Corder Hudson
mmigrants, ex-convicts, and war /eterans. Central Pacific imported Dig-tailed Chinese from Canton. Criticized for using such puny-looking workmen, construction boss Charles Crocker retorted, ‘.They built the Great Wall of China, didn’t they?”
Hostile Indians posed a more delicate difficulty. Central Pacific found an ingenious solution. Collis P. Huntington, one of the company’s “Big Four,” later explained:
“We gave the old chiefs a pass each, good on the passenger cars, and we told our men to let the common Indians ride on the freight cars whenever they saw fit.”
Union Pacific’s tactics proved less successful. As General William T. Sherman recalled, the crews futilely tried to distribute “enough whisky to kill all the Indians within 300 miles.”
After feverish work across Sierra granite and Nevada flats, the two lines met in western Utah in early 1869. Neither admitted it. Anxious for government land and loans that accrued with each mile laid, the crews kept constructing - right past each other for 225 miles. “Oratory and Whisky”
Rival crews traded pot shots, rolled boulders at each other, and blasted opposing grades. Then Congress intervened.
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