hether there was really a serious
intention of building the road--pledged their faith to furnish the
Company with what money they required and when they required it. The
sum ranged from five million dollars to twenty million dollars per
year; but they failed not, the money was always ready. The success of
the enterprise was now assured. The bonds of the Company were put on
the market, and advanced rapidly in price, and soon the Company had at
their command all needful funds.

When the summit of the Sierras was reached, the road was pushed
rapidly forward. But long ere this was gained, when the Company was
toiling among the mountains, jeers and taunts of derision could be
found in plenty in the columns of California newspapers. "The Dutch
Flat Swindle," as the road was termed by some of these far sighted
journalists--when the Company was laboring to overcome the heavy grade
near that town--has passed into a byword in California, and now is
suggestive of success. The route, after the "summit" was gained, was
then comparatively easy, and rapid progress was made. The Chinese
laborers, who had worked on the road from first to last, drove the
work forward, and on May 10th, 1869, the roads met on Promontory
Point, six hundred and ninety miles from Sacramento. The following
will show the number of miles completed during each year: In
1863-1864-1865, twenty miles each year; in 1866, thirty miles; in
1867, forty-six miles; in 1868 three hundred and sixty-three miles; in
1869, one hundred and ninety-one miles.

Appendix I.

_Roster Union Pacific Railroad._

PRESIDENT.

W. B. Ogden, Elected Sept., 1862.
Jno. A. Dix, Elected Oct., 1863.
Oliver Ames, Elected June, 1868.
Thos. A. Scott, Elected April, 1871.
Horace F. Clark, Elected March, 1872.
Jno. Duff, Elected July, 1873.
Sidney Dillon, Elected June, 1874.
Chas. Francis Adams, Elected June, 1884.
Sidney Dillon, Elected Dec., 1890.
S. H. H. Clark, Elected May, 1892.
H. G. Burt, Elected Jan., 1898.
E. H. Harriman, to date.

VICE PRESIDENT.

Thos. C. Durant, Elected Oct., 1863.
Jno. Duff, Elected May, 1869.
Elisha Atkins, Elected