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CONFUSION OF NAMES.

There is another item of legislation required, which has
grown out of the confusion that exists with regard to the
names of the roads, which should be attended to. The branch
road, which starts from the mouth of the Kansas River, is
called the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. The con-
sequence is, that though this road is being made by an entirely
different Company from the Union Pacific Railroad Company,
which is constructing its road all the way through from
Omaha, till it meets the Central Pacific of California, the
credit or discredit which attaches to the one naturally
attaches to the other, to the enhancement or depreciation of
its bonds ; and already I am informed there have been consid-
erable serious misapprehensions existing on this account, to
the advantage or detriment of one or the other Company.
This liability to error can only be obviated by Congress
changing the name of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern
Division, so that it may not by any possibility be confounded
with the Union Pacific Railroad, with which it is in no way
pecuniarily connected. A sufficiently distinctive name would
be the Kansas River Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.

BENEFITS TO CHICAGO.

Thus, Mr. Mayor, -ladies and gentlemen, I have at some
length given you a description of the Union Pacific Railroad
and branches, with the provisions of law relating thereto ;
but I cannot close my remarks without pointing out to you
the great benefits which must inure to your city from the com-
pletion of this great highway of nations. Standing as you do
pre-eminently related to the great lakes of the North ; and by
your railroads with all portions of the United States on the
east side of the Rocky Mountains, with the prestige of your
past and present growth ; and immediately on the great air-
line route across the continent from New York, you cannot
but become the great entre-dépét of trade and travel of the