62 WESTERN INCIDENTS.

Large and commodious brick shops, engine and station houses
have been constructed by the Company at the Eastern terminus of the
road, and these will be repeated as often as may be necessary to
operate the road successfully.

The surveys of several routes have been extended ag far west ag
the meridian of Salt Lake City, and of one line to the Humboldt Val-
ley ; but the location cannot be regarded as definitely fixed beyond
the first two hundred miles.

5. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, extending from Sioux City,
Towa, on the Missouri River, to a connection with the main line of the
Union Pacific Railroad, “said point of junction to be fixed by the
President of the United States, not further west than the one hun-
dredth meridian of longitude aforesaid, and on the same terms and con-
ditions as provided in this act” (approved July 1, 1862) “for the con-
struction of the Union Pacific Railroad.” This branch was originally
to have been constructed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company ;
but the act of July 1, 1862, was amended by the act of July 2, 1864,
so as to release the Union Pacific Company, and authorize the Presi-
dent of the United States to designate a Company to construct it
upon the same terms and conditions as were previously granted
to the Union Pacific Company, with an additional grant of
“alternate sections of land for ten miles in width on each side of
the same along the whole length of said branch.” The President, on
the 24th December, 1864, designated the “Sioux City and Pacific
Railroad Company” for this purpose. The map designating the gen-
eral route of the road was filed in the Department of the Interior, June
27,1865. Nothing further has been done towards its construction.

6. The Central Pacific Railroad of California, extending “from the
Pacific coast, at or near San Francisco or the navigable waters of the
Sacramento River, to the eastern boundary of California.” This is a
State organization, but it receives from the General Government the
same aid as the Union Pacific Railroad. It has also been authorized
by Congress to extend its road one hundred and fifty miles eastward
into Nevada, in case the Union Pacific Railroad is not completed to
the State line when it arrives there. This Company has transferred to
the Western Pacific Railroad Company the right to construct the road
to the Pacific coast, and is now engaged in the construction of the
line easterly from Sacramento to the State line, a distance of 164
miles. The laying of the track was commenced in June, 1864, and