WESTERN INCIDENTS.

select party of friends, who had accompanied him the
previous day in a special train over the Union Pacific
Railroad from Omaha.

Mr. Holladay was on a tour of inspection over his
stage route to Denver and Salt Lake City; and he in-
formed us that he should probably visit San Francisco
before returning to New York. We examined with
some curiosity his fine private four-horse coach, which
seemed perfect inall its appointments, having ample stow-
age and sleeping accommodations for a party of three
or four gentlemen, or even ladies.

Mr. Holladay also informed us, that he could not well
shorten up this end of the stage route, and make an
earlier connection with the cars, which were now running
some forty or fifty miles west of Kearny, until the track
had reached a point opposite Cottonwood Station, where
the Platte river could be crossed without difficulty. This
will -be done about the first of November; and then the
staging to Denver will be reduced to two days instead of
three, as it is at present.

KEARNY TO OMAHA BY RAILROAD.

We crossed the Platte, in company with Mr. Holladay’s
returning friends, and took a special tram for Omaha,
over the Union Pacific Railroad, at ten 4. mu. Here we
learned that during our absence, the Government Com-
missioners had been out and accepted thirty-five addi-
tional miles of track, making in all, two hundred and
forty-miles of road, from the initial point at Omaha.

The scene along the road was both interesting and
exciting. Here was a fine passenger station in course of
construction ; there, a freight or water station was being
put up, as if by magic. Now, we were halted upon a side-

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