Ten mile day
Does anyone recall the exact quote regarding the 10 miles in one day,
wherein Huntington said to the effect he wished Crocker would have done
it, when it mattered?
From: "Wendell Huffman" wwhuffma@clan.lib.nv.us
From: "Wendell Huffman" wwhuffma@clan.lib.nv.us
CP Huntington letter to "Friend Crocker" (which is undoubtedly Edwin B. Crocker) of 10 May 1869:
"I notice by the papers that there were ten miles of track laid in one day on the Central Pacific, which was really a great feat, and more particularly so when we consider that it was done after the necessity for its being done had passed."
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 12:32 PM
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From: "Chris Graves" caliron@cwnet.com
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
—Chris
" ... At 7 a.m. April 28, 1869, a crew of Chinese started laying track. During that day 25,800 ties were placed, and 3,520 rails were spiked. The eight [Irish] men who were transporting the rails carried a total of 1,000 tons of steel in that one day. A grand total of 10 miles and 56 feet was laid."
“It may seem incredible, but nevertheless it is a fact that the whole ten miles of rail were handled and laid down this day by eight white men,” a reporter from the Daily Alta California wrote. “These men were Michael Shea, Michael Kennedy, Michael Sullivan, Patrick Joyce, Thomas Daley, George Elliot, Edward Killeen, and Fred McNamara. These eight Irishmen in one day handled more than 3,500 rails—1,000 tons of iron.”
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