Excerpt from Three Studies in Railroading: Building the Road; Driving the Last Spike; The West and the Railroads
Under all the circumstances, therefore, I must assume that he expects me to confine my remarks to something of an elaboration of the details of the construction of those lines with which I was personally identified, more especially that which first of all linked the two oceans together.
Before proceeding with this, however, a Single observation in reference to the priority of claim may not be uninteresting or out of place.
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