It is almost beyond computation. One becomes almost bewildered trying to comprehend and figure out the extent of it. It is almost one of the wonders of the world. The nation as a nation stands almost aghast at its magnitude. We refer to the UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY in all its wonderful extent.

Starting in 1864 from the Missouri, with twelve years time to complete its line to Ogden, there remained seven years of that time after the road was completed and in running order.

The original Union Pacific Railroad included only the 1,000 miles to Ogden.

By new roads built and old ones bought, the company now controls the old Kansas pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Colorado Central, the Utah Central (narrow gauge), which latter road penetrates the mountains from Ogden into Idaho and Montana, the Omaha & Republican Valley, a branch from Columbus, Nebraska to Norfolk, Nebraska, and various branches all over the states and territories of the west.

Travel over this road is always immense, and every convenience one wants to enjoy while traveling can be found on the trains of this company. Their bridge across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs is second in size and cost only to the St. Louis Bridge. Their depot here is the largest in the western country and where all the trains going east from Council Bluffs receive their passengers from the west.

Mr. S.H.H. Clark is general manager of this great company, with his brother J.T. Clark as superintendent. The land department of this company is in the hands of enterprising agents, with Mr. M.H. Judd representing its interests on this side of the river, with his office at the Emigrant House near the Union pacific Depot. Mr. Burnham is the land commissioner and assistant attorney of the company, with headquarters at Omaha.