68 WESTERN INCIDENTS.

been constructed and accepted by the President of the United
States, and another section of twenty miles is represented to
be nearly ready for examination by the Commissioners. The
next branch is

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY, EASTERN DIVISION,

which starts from the mouth of the Kansas River, on its south
side, and has been located up the valley of the Kansas River
as far as Fort Riley, and thence across to and up the valley
of the Smoky Hill Fork, as far as the western boundary of
Kansas ; thence it is to go to Denver City, and join the
Union Pacific at a point not farther than fifty miles west from
the meridian of Denver. This road has been accepted by the
President of the United States for a distance of one hundred
and thirty miles west from the initial point at the mouth of
the Missouri River, and has been represented recently as com-
pleted and the cars running thereon as far as Fort Riley, a
distance of one hundred and thirty-six miles.

GOVERNMENT AID.

The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad of Cali-
fornia, on the completion of sections of not less than twenty
miles of their roads, will be alike entitled to bonds respec-
tively from the Government to the extent of $16,000 per mile
from their initial points to the east line of the Rocky Moun-
tains, and to the west base of the Sierra Nevada, thence
across the Rocky Mountains to the west base of the same for
a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, and across the
Sierra Nevada to the east base of the same for a distance of
one hundred and fifty miles, they respectively got three times
$16,000, or $48,000 per mile. Between the western base of
the Rocky Mountains and the eastern base of the Sierra

Nevada, they will be entitled totwice $16,000, or $32,000 per
mile.