Horses And Mules, And Even Sail Cars,

Great Men Are Usually The Products Of Their Times And One Of The Men Developed By These Times Takes Rank With The Greatest Railroad Leaders In History.

The Close Relationship Between Railroad Expansion And The Genera Development And Prosperity Of The Country Is Nowhere Brought More Distinctly Into Relief Than In Connection With The Construction Of The Pacific Railroads.

Farmers, Merchants, Manufacturers, And The Traveling Public Have All Had Their Troubles With The Transportation Lines, And The Difficulties To Which These Struggles Have Given Rise Have Produced That Problem Which Is Even Now Apparently Far From Solution.

The States Which Form The Northern Border Of The United States Westward From The Great Lakes To The Pacific Coast Include An Area Several Times Larger Than France And Could Contain Ten Englands And Still Have Room To Spare.

The United States As We Know It Today Is Largely The Result Of Mechanical Inventions, And In Particular Of Agricultural Machinery And The Railroad. One Transformed Millions Of Acres Of Uncultivated Land Into Fertile Farms, While The Other Furnished The Transportation Which Carried The Crops To Distant Markets.