209 20 9056 https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/b59788defb1a8a68454c8add9a2ef22f.jpg 0b7e3c284b29347f1cd60f812580a25d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 16 x 11.5 cm. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gaming panel opposes higher stakes; interest in par-mutuel industry Subject The topic of the resource local news Description An account of the resource John Nelson (left), president of the Iowa West Racing Association, and Paul Bryant, Jr., president of Alabama-Iowa Management Inc., attended Thursday's meeting of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission at Bluffs Run. Iowa West owns Bluffs Run, which is run by AIM Inc. The Commission has taken no position on the proposal to build a $67 million hotel-casino just east of Bluffs Run. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil December 15, 1989 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-12-15 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Bluffs_Run_File2_12_1989_01.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. AIM Inc Alabama-Iowa Management Inc Bluffs Run dog racing dog tracks greyhound racing Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission Iowa West Racing Association John Nelson Pari-mutuel Betting Paul Bryant Jr Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper clippings Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gangs Council Bluffs 1989-1994 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Gangs Council Bluffs 1989-1994 Police Probe A 'Gang Style' Shooting Here June 30, 1989 Shooting Suspect Is A Gang Member July 1, 1989 Moline Says Gang Slasher Rumors 'Groundless' August 8, 1989 Gangs Forum Topic June 7, 1991 Graffiti Fine Considered July 29, 1991 Sudden Increase In Vandalism Hints Of Gang Problems July 29, 1991 Police Seek Youth Who Fired Shots August 10, 1991 Pamphlet Puts Gang Figure At 1,000 August 29, 1991 'Bluffs Gangs Small, Not Organized' September 15, 1991 Graffiti A Big Deal To Gangs September 15, 1991 Schools 'A Haven" September 15, 1991 Police Fix Figures September 15, 1991 Gangs Frustrating To Street Cops In Bluffs September 15, 1991 Law Enforcement Scrambles To Curb Violence September 15, 1991 Why Join Gangs? Youths Seek Identity, Attention September 15, 1991 An Inside Look At Gang Activity September 15, 1991 Lawmakers To Hold Hearing Here On Gangs September 15, 1991 Youth Arrested On Graffiti Charge October 5, 1991 City Forming Youth-Issues Committee October 14, 1991 Gang Graffiti Cleanup Target Of Bluffs Group October 22, 1991 Suspected Gang Members Have Charges Dropped October 31, 1991 Skinheads Called 'New Shock Troops' - Self esteem seen as key to curb gangs' attraction February 4, 1992 Two Teen-agers Arrested In Mynster Disturbance February 4, 1992 Letter To Girls Threatens Harm February 24, 1992 Teen-ager Assaulted By Gang Of Youths March 30, 1992 Youth's Jaw Broken In Gang Attach April 20, 1992 Juvenile Crime Increase Spurs Police Changes July 1, 1992 Gang Ties Suspected In Car Shooting July 24, 1992 Vandals Hit C.B. Buildings January 10, 1994 Attack May Be Gang Related January 22, 1994 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil reporting Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-1994 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper articles Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Gangs Council Bluffs 1989-1994 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Council Bluffs Gangs Gang Grafitti Gangs Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper clippings Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Garbage Removal Council Bluffs Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Garbage Removal Council Bluffs Alternatives To Garbage Hike Studied - Landfills might not be answer January 26, 1973 Pride To Consider Endorsing Mechanical Trash Collection April 28, 1973 Pride Backs MBR Garbage Collection May 3, 1973 MBR System Law Advances August 14, 1973 Pride Symbol On New Bags August 27, 1973 Pilot Garbage Collection Begins Late September August 24, 1973 City Official Says Don't Can It, Bag It - October start for MBR September 2, 1973 Two Week Delay For City MBR October 19, 1973 New MBR Arrives In Bluffs - Picks up trash mechanically November 19, 1973 Housewives Cheer MBR In Test November 20, 1973 MBR Needs 'More Kick' For The Hills November 27, 1973 Bag System Passes Snow Trial December 6, 1973 Biggest Problem Is MBR Customers December 13, 1973 Fewer Complain Of MBR January 31, 1974 Garbage Pickup Van Begins Trial In Bluffs February 8, 1974 Trial Run For Compactor February 9, 1974 MBR Bags Must Be Closed Tight February 24, 1974 Proposed Garbage Ordinance Would Increase Price To $39 October 15, 1974 Garbage Ordinance Over First Hurdle - Public hearing Nov. 4 October 22, 1974 Lewis 'Researches' Garbage Collection November 1, 1974 Public Hearing On Garbage May Bring About Committee November 5, 1974 Trash Cost For Firms Going Up? November 11, 1974 City Abandons MBR - Garbage system fails November 21, 1974 Garbage Service Backed By Survey December 3, 1974 Garbage Ordinance Changes Possible At Council Meeting June 3, 1975 Garbage Ordinance 'Mess' Cited By C.B. Councilwoman June 6, 1975 Public Hearing Tuesday On Garbage Issue June 29, 1975 Garbage Ordinance Passage Is Stalled September 3, 1975 Mandatory Garbage Pickup Passes - Third reading in October September 17, 1975 Marathon Council Session Expected Tonight On Garbage October 7, 1975 Details Delay Garbage Law's Implementation October 8, 1975 Water Works' Plan To Collect Garbage Bill Not Feasible November 18, 1975 City To Borrow From Fund To Pay For Garbage Trucks November 25, 1975 Council Bluffs Refuse Now Baled, Trucked To W. Omaha April 20, 1976 Garbage Bill Will Be Sent After June 1 May 16, 1976 Trash Cost Up Without New Landfill December 17, 1976 City May Dump Garbage Efforts December 13, 1977 Douglas County May Refuse Bluffs Garbage January 22, 1978 Garbage Haul Cost To Go Up January 23, 1978 Low Bid On Garbage Costs Three Cents More March 10, 1978 Garbage Fee Could Reach $4 March 21, 1978 Private Hauler Hired; Garbage Rates To $4 March 28, 1978 Two More Firms Enter Race For City's Garbage April 17, 1978 Council Sticks With 1 Firm For Garbage Service April 19, 1978 Low Garbage Fee Deadline Nearing May 17, 1979 Collecting Trash: What Is Or Isn't Hauled Away? August 5, 1979 Refuse Haulers Get Increase On July 1 April 15, 1980 Trash Decision Delayed April 13, 1993 City Issues Reminder On Bag Ban - Plastic bags can't be used for yard waste May 6, 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil reporting Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper articles Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Garbage Removal Council Bluffs Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973-1993 CB Garbage Ordinance Garbage Collection Garbage Removal https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/9a206858d760d44c7ce4e5b13a305400.jpg 158def6c5eeed4453c7fdec2fdca8a54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 26 cm x 21 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Garbage Removal Council Bluffs Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Mechanical Bag Retriever (MBR) used to collect trash in Council Bluffs, May 1973 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Garbage Removal Council Bluffs Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973-05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Garbage_Collection_05_1973_001.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. CB Garbage Ordinance Garbage Collection Garbage Removal MBR Mechanical Bag Retriever Operation PRIDE Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper clippings Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gasoline 1979-1990, Shortage, Trucker Strike, Gas Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Gasoline 1979-1990, Shortage, Trucker Strike, Gas Dealers: Diesel Fuel Being Supplied Month At A Time May 9, 1979 Gas Stations Are Closing Sundays May 14, 1979 Odd-Even Ration Possible In Iowa - If gas supply gets critical . . .May 18, 1979 Availability Of Gas Uncertain In C.B. May 21, 1979 Way Is Paved For $1 Gas - Pump conversion begun . . . May 23, 1979 Keep Eye On Fuel Gauge - If traveling this weekend . . . May 25, 1979 Truck Stop Stays Open - Despite truckers' strike . . . June 5, 1979 Bluffs Drivers Join Truckers' Shutdown June 7, 1979 Injunction Issued In Trucking Blockade June 8, 1979 ITC May Vote To Raise Weight Limit June 9, 1979 Striking Truckers Ride Convoy Into The Bluffs June 11, 1979 Truck Strikers Picket - At 4 Omaha locations June 12, 1979 Truckers 'Don't Condone Violence' June 13, 1979 Support Grows In Truck Strike June 13, 1979 Truck Strike Violence Is Continuing To Spread June 14, 1979 Gasoline Lines Lengthen As Drivers Top Off Tanks June 14, 1979 Siouxland Firms Relieve Truckers June 14, 1979 C.B. Grocers Feeling The Pinch Of Truckers' Strike June 15, 1979 Gov. Ray Signs Order; Load Permits Sent To C.B. June 15, 1979 Petry: Trucks Honor Picket At Standard June 16, 1979 Ray Critical Of Shutdowns By Gas Dealers June 17, 1979 Fuel Supply Threatened As Shutdown Continues June 18, 1979 Fuel Supplies Wane As Drivers Honor Pickets June 19, 1979 Gas Panic Strikes As C.B. Supply Stopped - No buses to run Friday June 21, 1979 Long Lines, Short Hours At Stations June 21, 1979 Truckers Reach Accord With Nebraska Senator June 21, 1979 Rural Southwest Iowa Supplies Also Draining June 22, 1979 Stage Set For Gas Battle June 22, 1979 And Where Do You Get Fuel? June 22, 1979 Iowa Delegation Supports Truckers - ICC surcharge applauded June 22, 1979 Tankers Roll After Fuel Payments OK'd June 22, 1979 Sign Of The Times June 23, 1979 Fuel Forecast: No Gas To Flow Sunday June 23, 1979 'Hungry' Truckers May Turn Violent June 25, 1979 Hales: 'I Won't Pay High Prices' June 25, 1979 Truck Pickets Continue At Omaha Packing Plants June 26, 1979 Research Delays Filing Of Charges June 28, 1979 Iowa Trucks Roll; Threats Persist June 28, 1979 Iowa Truckers Return To Work As Others Strike June 28, 1979 Talks Break Down Again; Truckers Stay Shut Down June 30, 1979 Man Missing; To Return when Strike Settled June 30, 1979 Some Truckers Roll In Des Moines June 30, 1979 Fourth Of July Travel A Gamble July 2, 1979 State Officials: Stay At Home July 2, 1979 Gas Sells $1 Gallon In Des Moines Area July 3, 1979 ICC Awaits End To Truck Strike July 3, 1979 Truckers Gear Down Strike Demands July 5, 1979 Nebraska Truckers End Strike July 5, 1979 Gas By Half Gallon To Debut Monday July 13, 1979 Government Bumps Gas Price Limit July 13, 1979 Gas Price Dies A Double Take July 16, 1979 More Fuel To Iowa July 19, 1979 State Is Mad, Truckers Glad - Over longer truck ruling August 17, 1979 Rep. Harkin Questions Auto, Fuel Change Delay September 10, 1979 Drivers Give Double-Take At Posted Gasoline Price October 4, 1979 Stations Don't Fret Over Tax May 31, 1985 State's Newest Laws Take Effect Monday June 30, 1985 House Approves Gas Tax Hike March 18, 1988 Police Call Halt To A Cheap-Gas Promo In C.B. September 7, 1990 C.B. Fuel Costs Up 54.5 Pct. September 13, 1990 Prices Hit High At Pump November 1, 1990 Government, Not Hussein Boosting Gas Tax Five Cents December 1, 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil reporting Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979-1990 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper articles Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Gasoline 1979-1990, Shortage, Trucker Strike, Gas Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Gas Gas Tax Gasoline Shortage Trucker Strike Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper clippings Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gavins Point Dam, Yankton, South Dakota Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Gavins Point Dam, Yankton, South Dakota Gavins Point Dam To Play Important Role - Smallest of Missouri River projects . . . August 17, 1953 Bluffs People To Visit Gavins Dam - To attend ceremony marking closure July 28, 1955 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil reporting Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Gavins Point Dam, Yankton, South Dakota Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953-1955 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper articles Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Gavins Point Dam, Yankton, South Dakota Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Gavins Point Dam Missouri River https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/4b83e1e0b06ee97252a15452639f9b4a.jpg fa5f0ac00cc9b5cc9f137f6f789ae7c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 26 cm x 21 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gay Paris Offers Fascinating Time To Members Of The Nonpareil Tour Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Nonpareil European Holiday Tour Members . . . will get this view of Paris on a Thursday in July when they can go to the top of the famed Eiffel Tower for a panoramic sweep of the jewel city of France. - French Government Tourist Office Photo. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil March 3, 1960 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-03-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Nonpareil_Tour_II_03_03_1960_001.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Nonpareil European Tour Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper clippings Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Judy Hall To Vie For Easter Queen - To Hold Contest At State Cage Tourney March 16, 1955 'Miss Omaha' Title Won By Council Bluffs Girl May 25, 1956 Two More Honors For Miss Judy Hall December 17, 1956 Judy Hall Advances In Miss Universe Contest - Outshines 10 other Iowa Beauties . . . July 1, 1957 Presenting Our . . . Judy Hall: Miss Iowa July 7, 1957 Pointers For Judy: July 13, 1957 Beauty Secret: July 16, 1957 Judy Hall Among 15 Most Beautiful Girls - In Miss USA Contest . . . July 17, 1957 Judy Wants To Go Deep Sea Fishing July 17, 1957 One Of 12 Princesses Will Be Judith Hall - In Ak-Sar-Ben Court . . . October 13, 1957 Visiting Her Parents . . . May 3, 1962 Here From Canada: October 19, 1965 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil reporting Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955-1965 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper articles Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Judy Hall Judy Hall Geddes Miss Iowa 1957 Miss Universe 1957 Mrs. Gordon Geddes https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/02c919424c681897e03bccb3091d1204.jpg a8fa2f431606aa13c2f356aec217d991 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 13 cm x 18 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, Long Beach, California. 21 July 1957 A good time was had by all at the Grand Coronation Ball ending the "Miss Universe Pageant" in Long Beach, California, last night . . . especially by Naval Aviation Cadet John W. Kelsoe of 1524 Cripple Creek Dr., Citrus Heights, California. He was selected to escort "Miss Iowa", lovely Judith Ann Hall of Council Bluffs, Iowa to the gala event. Cadet Kelsoe is one of the members of the NavCad Choir, which appeared on stage during the final night of the Miss Universe judging. The choir is stationed at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, where each of its members is studying to become a Naval Aviator. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957-07-21 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Geddes_Judy_Hall_07_21_1957_001.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Judy Hall Judy Hall Geddes Miss Iowa 1957 Miss Universe Pageant https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/6eef05b9b4111d728c5affdb1cabc04f.jpg 078aaea65f31c22c852259d6795ebfb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 10 cm x 9 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource It's June in January . . . for Judy Hall who will reign as Miss Outdoors of 1958 at the all new 1958 Sports, Vacation and Boat Show which will open on Tuesday, March 4th and run for 6 event-packed days through Sunday, March 9th at the Omaha Civic Auditorium. The all-new Sports Show will feature two performances each day by a 12-act entertainment team of internationally known headliners. There'll be a sensational and thrilling aerial act brought here directly from Germany, a spine-tingling tuna fight, an amazing exhibition by Bob Rhode, national archery champion, and log-rolling, fly-casting, and retrieving exhibitions. In addition, both levels of the 86,000 square foot Omaha Civic Auditorium will be jammed with interesting and informative exhibits by the leading firms in the sports world featuring the newest in boats, fishing tackle, and gun and hunting gear. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1958-01 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Geddes_Judy_Hall_01_1958_001.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. 1958 Sports Vacation and Boat Show Judy Hall Judy Hall Geddes Miss Outdoors of 1958 Omaha Civic Auditorium https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/f0f21d5c90c88640fe2b207fab317ac1.jpg e94b9949a891503560ce61eb38158a9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 13 cm x 18 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Judy Ann Hall, September 1959 (United Air Lines photo) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1958-09-10 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Geddes, Judy_Hall_09_10_1958_001.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Judy Hall Judy Hall Geddes United Air Lines https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/2e7670222e3e7f888b694e9ffe378267.jpg 5c4c5bea0c051e39273e73bd18f178cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 21 cm x 14 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Mrs. Gordon Geddes (nee Judy Hall) with her family, July 1970 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-07 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Geddes, Judy_Hall_07_1970_001.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Judy Hall Judy Hall Geddes Mrs. Gordon Geddes https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/715d42dd5cc2e05037fa26012254ec16.jpg e8ab04e9ef45d9cc9fb3e318aaa3ad9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 12 cm x 22 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Okoboji Lakes, July 1 - Miss Iowa Crowned - Judy Hall, right, part-time model from Council Bluffs, is being crowned Miss Iowa of 1957 by Carol Morris, of Ottumwa, last year's winner who captured the Miss Universe title. The crowning was part of the coronation ball held here last night. Miss Hall will represent Iowa in the Miss United States contest at Long Beach, CA, a preliminary event to the Miss Universe judging July 11 to 21. (APWirephoto) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Geddes, Mrs. Gordon (nee Judy Hall) Former Miss Iowa in Miss Universe 1957 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957-07-01 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Geddes_Judy_Hall_07_01_1957_002.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. 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Title A name given to the resource Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Subject The topic of the resource News, events and people of Council Bluffs and Southwest Iowa. Description An account of the resource Newspaper clippings and photographs from the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 9 cm x 11 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gen. Everest To Head TAC - New Assignment For Bluffs Officer Subject The topic of the resource Local news Description An account of the resource Everest . . . new job. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nonpareil photos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daily Nonpareil June 23, 1959 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1959-06-23 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Everest_Gen_Frank_F_&_Edith_05_31_1957_01.jpg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Council Bluffs Public Library is unaware of any claim of copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq). The Council Bluffs Public Library has provided in the catalog records for these materials all known information regarding the photographer or other persons associated with the materials. This information is provided as a service to aid users in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the user. Edith Everest Frank F. Everest Gen. Frank Everest https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/75d04a64e8d6f5337ddbe51390b84ac2.tif c1618962d981a3ea40b4ca4e0dca8112 https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/79043cd83847d6cdb9cc0f9c3575e10b.tif ff18d3abcf60b857ac42ce2d98d84c41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Grenville Dodge Collection Description An account of the resource Documents, letters, papers, and other materials related to General Grenville M. Dodge and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 13 x 28 cm. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge and staff Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916. Photographs held by the Library Description An account of the resource General G. M. Dodge and Staff. Left Wing 16th Army Corps. Corinth, Miss. Partial list of names on the back of the photograph. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Library Special Collections Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collectons Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black and white photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Dodge, Grenville G464a Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. civil war General Grenville M. Dodge war https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/5955f12106ac0874536db4ebaf3e70f1.tif 782ab8ff4cf2c695d15138f507374105 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Grenville Dodge Collection Description An account of the resource Documents, letters, papers, and other materials related to General Grenville M. Dodge and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Painting Description An account of the resource Equestrian portrait of General Dodge, painted by Charles A. Whipple, depicts him as Grand Marshal of the day on the occasion of the dedication of the tomb of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in New York April 27, 1897. The painting, 7 feet 2 inches in width by 9 feet 10 inches in height, in a gold frame was presented to General G. M. Dodge by members of his staff. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collectons Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1897 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Artwork Type The nature or genre of the resource Painting Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. General Grenville M. Dodge Painting https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/43e363c3337cda6d88fa18b880b20d5b.pdf a0e9eedef9b218e58e691737175e0b21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource Data chronologically arranged for ready-reference in the preparation of a biography of Grenville Mellen Dodge. Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 1 Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 1 1851-1889 Family history of Dodge family as recalled by Nathan P. Dodge. Diary of Dodge, 1853-1857. Correspondence. Anti-War Period. Norwich University. Index for Book 1 included. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1889 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Grenville M. Dodge https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/020cd65f62ca82bf24a195e2591ca08f.pdf afc6de6720fe58c8e867c37142711271 PDF Text Text DATA CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED For Ready Reference in the Preparation of a Biography of GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE President of Sundry Railroad & Construction Companies Late Chief Engineer Union Pacific and Texas Pacific Rail Road Companies ^lE^^BER OF CONGRESS Major General in the War for the Preservation of The Union. * * BOOK 10. Southwest System Railroads. Texas & Pacific| New Orleans Pacific, Missouri Kansas & Texas, International & Northern Also Mexican Oriental and Fort Worth & Denver City, Des Moines Northern, Wabash, etc. 1880 - 1 - 2 - 3. January, 1880. Lenp:th of Roads at date of Consolidation Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas Pacific Railway,- Leavenworth Branch, Oenver Pacific Railway, Total, 1,042 miles. 63 9 " ,34 " 106 " 1,820 Mies. Funded Debt, including principal and balance of intei'est due to the ^'nited States, January 31, 1880. Union Pacific, Mileage^ 1,042 Amount ,472,391.10 Kan. Pac. Leav. Br.,: & Denver Pacific, : Deducting amount own* 779 35,743,518.50 ed by the Kansas Pa-: cific Ry. Co., : I'otal., 1,821 $124,215,909.6( Per mile $84,906 .32 45,883.85 ?68,213.02 Capital Stock, January 31, 1880. Union Pacific, kdileage 1,042 Kan. Pac Leav.Br.693; : 779 Denver Pacific, 106j Total, 1,821 Amount $36,762,300.00 9,809,350.00 $46,571,650.00 Per Wile $35,280.51 12,592.77 iip25,574.77 Outstanding, as above. $9,809,850.00 Kansas Pacific stock in Treasury, 191,750.00 Denver Pacific stock in K. P. Trust. 3,998,900.00 $14,000,000'.00 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Dated Windsor Ho. K..Y. Jan. 18, IffiSO. Received at vVestern Union Building, Broadway and Dey Street. To Gen. G . N.. Dodge 78 Broadway, N. y. Neet me at Everett House ten dclock tomorrow morning sharp have arranged important interview. 14 paid Geo. L. Niller. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. ai916Ave-. N. Y. Dated Jan. IB- 1880 . Received at Western Union BuLlding, Broadway, and Dey Sj,reet To Gen. G. . Dodge 78 Broadway, N. Y, Fearing I may not get you at ten in morning 1 change time to half past ten telegraph. m.e at Everett on receipt of this. Geo. L. Iv-iller. 25 paid. BIISOO 1880. 1449 Lexington Avenue, New York City, Grenville . Dodge, No. B'dway. Dear Sir: I drop you a line to state that forgot yesterday to a sk you for that Carte de Visti Photo of yourself tha t I returned after finishing the "Dodge at Atlanta." I think it would be the best picture of you for me to copy into the "Generals" subject. I have erased your face off and want to put in a new one and that small one that is,I think , in your desk, I think would be the best to ocpy from. Will you kindly send it up per mail and oblige. There is ohw other ^question, or rather a favor, I was going to ask of you yesterday but iTesitated. I feel sure you will grant it as it will be a great gratification and comfort to me and which I Wish to file away for keepsakes among rny choice and valued letters. i.e. Would you allow Nr*. Steller to copy upon your type writer and send me the copies of the letters of thanks that you received from Genls. Sherman, Schofield, Howard and Ghetlain, at least these four. i much want to preserve their comn.ents on the picture. I feel sure you will gratify me with the type-written duplicates and above all, if you should care to dash off a few lines as to how you are pleased with the "Dodge at Atlanta" . That document ^ would treasure above all. I have beautiful letters from Genls. Schofield, and Howard complimenting my "Dodge at Atlanta" conqjosition. The Toledo Gomn.ercial, last Sundays issue, has a fine notice of the "Dodge at Atlanta." I will (if you havn't already received a copy) send you onbd n I am. Very truly yours, Jas . E. Taylor. January 5, 1880. P. S. Bond, V.P., Dear Oir: Better order Noble to build four boarding cars, sleep ing and dinin;:, -^.c. If we ace convicts we can lock them up in box carsj should be an office for" headciuarters of trackmen; make strong, ventilat'; well and put in plenty of wj nr'c.-.-, that can be closed or opened; have them heavily trussed by trassed floor choj-d so ti^at they v;on't hog- down; lowest bid on iion sixty-one dollars per ton. . G. M. Dodge. ' CfeV ' ^ ,t.¥* J •, > • «-»> " . O ■ 4 ' ' 4*^ ' '.r ' I " V . . r' . -n ■ , . ;rl ^ .. «'-u: • I ^• :4 h ■ ■ ■ ' ■„ •"• -'' ■virV. ■ * ,„V. - .-•..x. • lit-" A.- . > f • , ■ '-■■ • ■t'. 'Vi Kew York, January IL, I80O, Pranlc S. Bond, Esq., Dear Sir: I notice that your head chairs, two t..row and three throw are of wrouyht iron; very expensive, which appears to me unnecessary; wiiy is not cast iron just as rood? Do you use any crank switch star.do? My understanding was that ■ they were all to "be of the lever pattern. Yours truly, G. M. Dodre. Pres. Pacific Ryl Imp C. P.C. If you can conveniently spare them, please send me a few more books "T.& P. Ry. Co. Rules and Specifications for Maintainence of Way. ... '3 ' 1^; ■'j" ' ' * New York, January 13, 1880. P. 8. Bond, Dear Sir: Mr. Kc iueen has just heen iiere and sucgests the follcvvin^; Ci.ances in the specifications of the locor.i'^tives now being built in his company, viz; Fleus to be made 11' 4" in length instead of 10' 11 1/4" so a to allow the use of a longer connecting rod whici. they want to make 7' 6" in length. Safety valves eiti-er of the Richardson or Crosly pattern; these are latest and most approved valves. The old style with sprin inside the boiler was di^ca ded 12 or 15 years ago. l!dd drums are now generally discarded and considered useless but if insisted upon, will put them on. Boiler rivets sh'-uld be 3/4" instead of ll/'e". Engine truck -wheels should be 28" instead of 26" . They also desire to be informed as soon as possible in regard to style of painting, numbers^ names, &c. Yours truly, G. m. Dodge. ^ '-if'' ' p'-r -I '■ ■ N ■ - New York, January 15, 1860. F. S. Bonfi, V.P., Dear Sir; I have a bid from tlie Danfortl. works for ten Iccomotives on our specifications, deliverable in July, August and September at eight thousand dollars each. This is a bid on \7l.ich I have an option. I could not now duplicate the I.'criueen locomotives for an additional $1,200 each, and this bid from Danforth works is $500 each less than we could get t..em for today and it is my opinion that we should accept them, bu - I leave it to your judgment to decide upon them. This would make thirty locomotives. I could put the build ing of tiiom off until late in the fall if. necessary. I have heard nothing as yet from tl;e Baldwin works. I have a contract sent here for signature from the Allentown people for some iron at $62.50 which I agreed to take to make up my 125 miles, but they have ah^nged the specifications on the flanges, thinking the flanges to whicl; they say you agreed. Is this true? If so wire me and I will sign the contract. Please wire me also about the locomotives, as my option is out Saturday. 0. M. Dodge, President. New York, January 16, 1880. Frank S. Bond, Esq., Philadelphia. Dear Sir: I liave boday accepted a proposition from !ir. 0. Leavitt of Allentown Mills for 2500 tons of iron rails rolled to T & P pattern but slightly modi Tied by increasing thickness of flange. Price $62.50 per ton, f.o.b. mills. Delivery during months February, March, April and May, » Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, . President. "i- '■ '■ '.-i'*"**'. A;-' ■ '4m m ^ ^ ■ C-/ ■ ' . ' 19 HI a.?t January 19, 1880. F. S, Bond, V.p.j Ttear Sir: Referring to your telegram of t}:is morning, Mr. Washhurn's reciueisition calls for an Elliot Switch. This specific ation in your book calls for a plain switch while the tracin s from Washburn represent .t..e Reynolds patent switch. TJ.ere is a vast different between the tracins sent me and the common lever switch in the book of specifications. I would like an early decision upon which of these you desire to use, so I can have the drawings of it photo-lithographed, I am afraid of these patent switches, though you may know all about them. T..e common lever switch sucli as we have on the road is, to ray idea, as g-^od as any, still I am ready to buy any kind that you may decide upon. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, _ . President. ■ ''f'- ■ , 1. 1 ' -sf, '-v 21 ijS New York, January 2.0, 1880. Prank s. Bond, V.P., Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir: T tkhink you had better make the arrangement to put the T & ^ stock on the board before I co away I i.ave closed up the syndic ate here which takes the twelve thousand shares and I want if p'^s sible to have it placed on the board before I leave. Why don't you put all our securities on the board here, at the same time, on the regular call? Yours truly, G. I!. Dodge. i> t..;- v..» t p. -' ■ ■■ ■ ) h: i ; •?> ' ' ' ■ ' ? .-J- , ■ Mr'- »t ' ' ^ 'h'-r } I 23 US: New Yori', January 21, 1S80 Frank S. Bond, V.P,, Dear Sir: I have contracted with the Danforth locomotive and raachin'-: works, Patterson If. J. for ten locomotives 16 x 24" cylinders according to your specifications $8000 each, delivered on track rt Patter'son, comiiiencing in July and thence onward as we need them. I enclooe a copy of their letter; please comply with their request as soon as possible and also instruct your master-mecla nic to come here and consult with these people as soon as he gets through at Schnectedy. I have arranged to ship the first 3000 tons iron from Danville by rail to Dallas direct, with fastenings, &c. The iron will commence moving very soon. You will t;.erefore h've to have inspectors on hand to see that it is all right. Very truly, G. 1,T. Dodge, Pre 3. ',,'v New York, January 21, 1880, Prank S. Bond, V. P., Dear Sir: In looking into the question of freights hei^e, I find it is going to be impossible for me to ship an ything to Dallas over the Morgan line. The only possible way is for me to ship to New Orleans and up Red River or to Galveston and over th-^ International. I believe now that all my material can go by rail from Philadelphia to Dallas, cheaper a« it can go b: water on account of the high rate put on everything to Ne Orleans and Galveston, I have made a contract with the Missouri Pacific and the M.K.fr. T. Rds for a rate of $5.00 St.>ouis to Dallas and if I can get a rate of about $4.50 or |5.50 from here to St, Louis, think it is my true way to ship until Red River opens an^ 1 think these rates by all rail, will beat even the Rio River rate to Dallas. I wired Mr. Scott and am in hopes of getting a very low rate to St, Louio., from tho Pennsylvania R.R.Go, and as the material will keep coming along for the next two or tliree months, it appears to me they ouri^t to take it as quite a low figure. Col. Scott gave me a rate on iron, Danville to St. touis, of $6,50 and I have directed Mr. Lewis to ship the 3000 tons, with spike and fastenings complete over that line and Missouri Pacific and M, K. T. to Dallas, Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President, January, 1880, 25. Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 25th, 1880, B, K. Greene or C. C. Earr, N.O. P. Rh. Co. New Orleans, La. Dear Sif : - Please set some competent man to v/ork to get up plans for our round house, blacksmith shQp and machine sltp at V/estwego. I'hey want to be placed so that in our trackage coming in or going ou'.they will be out of the way, and v/ant to be made upon a plan that can be hereafter extended--we building a very small portion. Go to work and get a wooden ten stall roundhouse first, so that we can use a por tion of it for blacksr.dthing and perhaps for machinery. In putting tip your water-tank put up one that v/ill hold about 60,000 gals, and put it high enough to enable you to run pipes into the roundhouse, and use the water for washing out and filling tanks, etc Also place it so that it can be r eached and water taken from it from the main and roundhouse track. You do not want to lose any time in getting the roundhouse up so that we can h- ve a place to take care of our loco motives . Perhaps Col. Clark, or you maj?- know some one who is thoroughly competent, to make a draft of this plan. Get up roughly and send it to me. In arranging for coaling you want bo put an incline plane in so that'^ifou can unload coal during all stages of weather, and place your coal chutes where the coal will have to be moved only from the boat to the platforni loading a locomotive. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. President. New York, Janury 27, ^ Frank S. Bond, V.P.-, Dear Sir: I had an interview today with Tslr. Osborn, President of the Illinois Central Railroad and he says it is very necessary that we should iiave some expert in steel appear before the House Committee on T7ays and Means on Tuesday February Sdd. ; some person .vho can speak authoritatively upon the subject. There is no question that if we hav esome one there to meet the statements of these steel men, and show that it costs no more to make steel than to make iron, and the enormous profit there is in the business, we can put it out of Committee. Wliile fully two tliirds of the members of the house are in favor of the reduction, we cannot do anything unless we get it out of the Committee. Mr. Gould has wired Mr. Scott upon this subject, and now if you, or the Pennsylvania people know of any such person, he certainly ought to be sent to Washington. Please let me hear from you tomorrow. Yours very truly, G. M. Dodge Pres. f? ^ ■■'■.p, , . v i," > . f y' ' ,» ■ •'V y> 29 New York, January 28, ,1880. Frank S. Bond, V. P., Dear Sir: I am in hopes of getting away from here next Satur day evening, and I would like to see you before I go. I have not time to go to Philadelphia but if you are coming over here soon as indi cated in your letter suppose you come either Friday or Saturday. I want to suggest to you now that it is pretty evident that these properties will all get together sooner or- later and to ask you why we cannot forclose that Dallas Branch, sell it out, and then buy it in for the Texas and Pacific and then put our bonds on it out to Whitesboro and save building a parallel line across there from Sherman of course we want to build just as little railroad we can to accomplish our purpose, and I v/oulc like to have your opinion upon this. Yours truly, G. K. Dodge, - - President. 'r- hh <• . i _ ■> vf 1-; V- •• ' ■ ■ -M-'r .. " v' . , "I , Council Bluffs, February 6, 1880. Sidney Dillon, Esq., Pres. IT.P.R.R. Co, Dear Slr:- I spent th-^ da3- on the Oregon Line and estimates and sent a dis patch thst TTouftd up my decision; we leave the C. P. Road by the ndopted line at Blue Spring station, 45 miles from Ogden, and o-r line .vould be within a stone's throve from Ogden to that point; hence if possible to avoid, we should not build and certainly C.P. will give us tracksge that far. If we could get trackage fro:r. Kelton to Ogden, It would s? the building of 90 miles and leaves only 335 miles from Kell«^to Baker City, over an excellent route and save as well the work of crossing the rroraontory Range wl.lch we are obliged to do. The line needs more close examination at several points before fully located and now Is the time to do It so as to be ready for any decision by April first about time you will want to open \7ork. I telegraphed for authority. There are three separate engineer organizations here to work on profiles and estimates, viz. Bllckensdbrfer, Cleburn and \7alcott. T-ods Is another looking after Ilebraska surveys, Walcott should go on to Oregon line. Cleburn to Utah Northern and Blickensderfer people to the Cheyenne and Black Hills lines. But whatever you do, have a head. I have got the last season's work In good shape and If you don't appoint a chief, I better keep-control of surveys until you commence to build other ise we are apt to lose time and money. Yours truly, G. Dodge. f , UV/h',, - > J ■ 'A I ;/■ February, 1680, Fort worth, Texas. Feby. 17th 1880, J.'Gculd, hisq, No. 80 8'Way., New York City. "uear Sir:- un my way to Texas 1 met Mr. Mitchell, Gen'l . Manager, and Mr. itimberly the Chief engineer of the M. iv. &. t. Road and rode over the line from Sedalia to JCenison by daylight. The road generally is in good condition. It is well and thoroughly ditched, a great portion of the cuts have been ballasted v/ith stone which makes a great improvement upon the rOadbed. une the 5? miles of main line from Hanibal to uenison they have laid 208 miles of steel and the steel portion of the road is first class, in 1878 they put in 450,000 ties. In 1879 , 370,t300 and in 1880 they propose to put in .300,000. over the whole length of the line nearly all of the old bridges have been renewed with a combination bridge lower chord . of iron, and a great -any openings new bridges entirely have been placed in; so that the bridging of the road is now in excellent condition. There are several la rge.trestles within a hundred miles of uenison that they are proposing to replace with stone culberts. The stone is handy and it is true economy to do it instead of replacing with wood. They have a steam excavator at work near Red niver which can be used to fill up tiestles. They are already filling up the ends of a portion of them. So far as fuel is concerned, the road is well provided, ' They strike the. first coal mines 35 miles out of bedalia. Then ag'in at Ft. tiCott and then again in the Indian Territory; but their fuel is not handled as easily as ours on the u. F. especially in the Indian Nation, on account of the royalty of thirty cents a ton they have to pay the Indians for mining. At Lewis, the first station they calim to put the coal on the cars at vl.65 per ton; in the xndian Nation the company pay vl,872 on the cars. The grades on ^the road are such that a thirty-two ton locomo tive will haul over it .-rom 19 to 21 loaded cars. The rolling.stock locomotives and cars that they have on the road are in good condition; but they need moro cars. Mr Mitchell told me that they had just contracted for 200 box cars at .*650 each. They have also contracted for 6,000 tons of steel; but to put'the road up in first class conTheir^n^tSrw Their patterm is 52 a?lbs to the yard. more—aryhow, M. M. Buck, 2000 « Co., tons ofmore. St Louis has a thousand tons of their pattern of steel that he asked me to make a bid on. Being -an odd lot you might possibly bu? it chlap^ That portion of the^ road that now has iron in it has a meat division, the rosdnifst^r told me that tner were 6,000 bars less than 12 feet in length and on the division south of him I think there are as many more! Puttint In tons of steel this year »ould take up eood IroreMuT ^ probably to replace a large portion of the short lengths. There ^ ought to be added this 'ears to their siding at least five miles. They have been adding to then all they could y-arly; but when the" road was first built the sidings were made short 1300 to 1500 feet which often makes long delays for trains where they are running as they are now, six freight trains each way daily. It seems to me this is one of the first thdngs that they ought to do. I found at several, places freight trains lying up an hour or so for the purpose of get ting a chance to pass. The road appears to be ivell handled and well cared for, especi->lly its roadbed end replacement. Thej^ are using on the road a large number of• foreign cars and had pressed into the service their own stock cars and boarded themip for the purpose of meetin? the demand of grain running into Texas. Their business in my judgment is bound to increase very largely this year; and if it does, it will be impossible to do it with the present rolling S(^ck except at a great disadvantage, bearing the summer months they expect businessto slacken up ome; but if we should send much materiai over them which is likely now v/e shall do, I do not believe their tonnage will be much less duringthe summer mohths than it has been during the winter They wlU have considerable business from outfits orJrSS the lit, •the north down on to this line; and if emigration ever sets In again thip way, they will have all they can do. ^ ^ than + T^ 1 T had when seeing you first the property, took it. I I had can a see much very better well opinion of iLit condition we can turn over it a good deal of business* and if we are ever fortunate enough in getting "tL Indian TerrUorr + prophesying the amount of ^emigration and business that .the road will take into and out of that oouJJtry: here arc moving along SBootlily. we are v-ttinr our men to work. Our material is comr.enoln-- to arrive of two weeks or so we commenoe our track. The weather Is warm andTr™® It is for your to decidd whether you would IJkP to f 300 miles of the M. K. &. -T. and let tC k p \ J each side of Junction Citv an?^MvP tJo what it can get lumber business destined for Weftern kaLas^ Yours truly, ^ G. M. Dodge. •' ' President. ■ ', Pebr, 1B80. Port Worth, Texas, Peb'y. 18, 1880• 0. P. worrishoffer, Esq., 54 Excbance Place, New York. Dear Sir:- I came down here last week and commenced letting the work. The first hundred miles of grading or scraper work will cost about 14/6 . Our bridging ^30.00 a thousand our track v550.00 per mile per day. We will commence laying track about the 15th of March and I think be able to get in about a hundred miles by the 1st of August. Everything down here looks prosperous. I find a good deal of settlement west and a very fine country. Everybody speaks in pra-» ise of it who have been out to see it. The drafts upon you from here will commence to be pretty large by the 1st of April, as that is about the time our first estimates will be in. The^other payments will be mostly for material that I have bought and for freights. 1 do not think v;e will have to call for another assessment before 1st or the middle of April. I wish you would wire me when you ascertain what the total amount of subscriptions to the two millions are. Also write me if you have anything new about Rio Grande or Atlantic and Groat Western. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President, Feb., 1680. Fort worth, Texas, Feb'y. 19, 1880. J. T. Granger, Esq. No 80 Broadway, Nev/ York. Dear Sir:- • . The first car of iron shipped on the 26th of January, arrived here today, making four days en route from Danville. I notice in the shipment of splices th.at they are shipped to East St Louis, and that the shipments of iron are to West St Lous; so that on splices, in addition to the price given us, we have got to pay the bridge charges or ■ferryage over the Mississippi River. My understanding of Levis's rate from Philadelphia was to West St Louis, the rame as the iron. The rates that they are giving you on the Allentowr: iron by rail and by steamer to New Orleans it seens to me are very high. I figure, if I understand, as follows; To New urleans by steamer ^5.53; to Shreveport C4.50; to Dallas Cs.lO insurance v»60. You want to calculate over the Texas and Pacific one cent i^r mile on 2000 lbs. net ton. The rates for gross ton so that on a ton of iron it ci. sts from Shreveport to Dallas Cl«90, and from Mineola to Dallas 85 cents. I have wired you very fully about the Allentown iron. I would like to get them running in here with the Danville iron so as to be sure of a supply, whilst it is better to send my Spytendevil iron by way of Galveston and Texas Central, whichever gives the best rate. I wired you to look up the rates from Pittsburg to St Louis. If you could run the Allentown iron to Pittsburg, reship there and then take it by river to St Louis, it seems to me we ouglit to get a much lower rate than is being given by all rail, i notice the spikes coming from Riciunon d are shipped by the Chesapeake and Ohio to Ilvintington and then down the river a d up to St Lous at a pretty low rate. > Y'oUrs truly, G. M. Dodge, President. 39 Feb. 1680. Gov. Jno, C, Brown, Port worth, Te xas. Feby 19th, 1880 . Vice President, Marshall. Dear Sir:- I have your dispatch in relation to payment for work Fort Worth to Weatherford and have wired for the accounts, we are ready to meet the settlement. My understanding is that v/e have the right to make the same payments upon the work that the Texas and Pacific Com pany made whatever that might be. I can wire to New York and have that portion payable in cash arranged there on or before the first day of March; but I would like to have the estimates, accounts and state ments of the payments of the Texas and Pacific so th^t I can examine them before I sendthe order. I tmst you are improving and will soon be out. I note what you say about the Dallas matter a d also about the whitesboro surveys. The people here are considerably exercised over the M.K.T. extension and will make a proper^tior. to us to bring it hero. Yours vbry truly, G. M. Dodge, Presiaent. Feb. 1880. Fort worth, Texas Peb'y. 23, 1880, J. T. Granger, Esq. No 80 Broadway, New York City. Dear Sir:- I have been talking with Mr. Fox of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe road. He says that all stu.f shipped to the Houston and Texas Central has no wharfage or charges upon it. It is lighter ed .right in the stream and up to Clinton, which is just below Houston and there talces their road; all stuff shipped to the International and Great northern goes to the wharf, and the 'charges that they ret for us are as light as it is possible to get. Also says that all ships bringing iron for tliem generally draw twelve foot and bring six hundred tons, runs right upto their.wharf or get inside the bar. and if we ship any from New York it will be better to shipby that class Of vessels if possible; for if it comes by the Houston ^nd Texas Central my experience here is that vm can ret better rates from the Houston and Texas Central to Dallas, than from the International and Great torthern. It is cheaper the round trip to Dallas than it iL had ^ better of change New Orleans our water and communication I find comes from about New as#r.nick. Orleans toBo that we ves on if you can get rates that will compete with the rail, TiiSurtincG fi?oin Ngw York to ^^hrovGnort can be had for about one per cent, 2oTe/7elt S r^^lrc^oS sSirit on the round trip, that s, on sailors. I think you ou"ht to r-ot Insurance into Galveston Harbor on sailors for abLt one per oint. .rank Yours truly, n Gi M. Dodge, President. Feb. 1880. For t worth, Texas Feb. 24, .1880. J. T. Grander, Esq. No 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir:- I wrote yoa in relation to the spytendevil iron. I am satis fied our policy is that what iron we send by v/ater to send by Galveston. We can do it cheaper and make certain of its reaching here, v/hile by Red river it is very uncertain. So that you v/ant to work up your rate from Galveston to Dallas as low as possible, t en. it with the sailors, iron is 30 days from New lork here by rail. It cannot be much more by water, we have had about 20 cars carried so far. I will have to have the Allentown iron pushed right along with the Danville iorn, in order to keep my track going. I would like very much to make arrangements with Pomeroy for his tons if I can get it down where -i- think it ought to be. The indications are that iron is going to advance in price considerably and very soon.. In allcases send full copy here of all our agreements On n Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President. ■. ■ 'A ' Feb. 1880. Poi^t Worth Texas, Peb'y. 24, 1880 Major Frank 3. Bond, Vice President, Philada, Dear Sir:- I wired Mr. worrishoffer today to pay you two hundred thousax.d dollars (,v^200,0Q0) on account on the 1st day of March and at the same time to arrar, the loan. My understanding of the contract and . of our agreeme t at the time it was miade in relation to the work between mort worth and weatherford was that we should pay the same as the Texas and Pacific pay, in kind if we chose, or in cash. The co: tract says to pay the cost to the Texas and Pacific. i understand the Texas and Pacific gave part bonds ard part paper in payment. Whatever advantage there is in that jpayment over cash I of course, am entitled to for the uonstruction uorapany. i only got the detailed statement today of the work, which I have no doubt is correct, but which I desire to have gone over carefully before i make the final payments upon it. The material has commenced arriving here pretty freely but it is a very long time on the route. There are two or three questions that have arisen here in relation to xinloading of nuterial. Gov. brown claims that we are to unload all the material. The contract says we shall undload all deliered at the ei.d of track which I am prepared to do. You will remember our discussion of that matter was that 1 was prefectly willing to unload everything delivered to my track contractors that went into the track. That was stored or surplus material i expected the corapanj'- to unload; but the Governor is roinm to to make us pay one re>ation cent per to ton it, per I think net mile it is and pretty unload strong our material upon Ss when over all the other roods including the reads west of the Mississi ppi we get a rate of seven tenths of a cent per tonand ttey do thl virtually prohibit the Texas and acific from carrying any material for me except what happens to be on their line. i hold that the Texas and Pacific can Lansport reight ju.'^ t as cheaply as the Mirsouri Pacific or the M. K. ?• T ey transport a gross ton for one cent per ton per mile, while vou the one cent per net tin and unlad ing the material brings up the cost pretty strong. transport Trlcele question Is, ho. ere t],e tleo del verld? • thOdbank Of the road in quantities oJlrai^^l^d'rr^Sfi^ery in relation ^T^^rmitLranrai youierr'reserr;herth . were all discussed, I think yorwin aJ?ec wfth mp ! questions ing in relation to our unloadii^^the^^te^^U understandurs very ru J-, Dodge. Feb. 1880. Fort worth, Texas. Feby, 24, 1880. J. T Granger, Esq. 80 Broadwy, Nev/ York City. near Sir:- In order to keep your supply book straight, I will give you a statement of the contracts that i have made in detail: First: To andrew 'Varrcn. we originally contracted with him for 32 fro'^s and 32 switches. I duplicated. that order, making 64 frogs and 64 switches. Of M. M. Buck & Co. St Louis: 7 sets of tank fixtures, complete. 7 knowles pumps and boilers, complet 7% cylinder 1 track scale 40 tons. 8,000 cord bolts 5/8 by 21 inehes 4 000 drift br.lts 3/4 by 18 inches 160C0 packing washers 5/8 of an inch. 16000,bridge washers, 5/8 of an inch. 32 Elliott frogs, six 1 in, 6 26 in 1 and 9. You have the prices affixed to these and their bids. Notify Mr. j^sond of the contracts a. d also notify officially Mr. washburn. Be careful and send here in detail all the C(Dhtracts we make as to price and time of delivery. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President. I •' Feb. 1880. Fort Worth, Texas, Peb'y. 24, 1880, J. T. Grarcer, Wo 80 aroadway, flev; York. Deal' Sir:- ^ We have finirhed the contract- on the first hundred miles today at the followiig prices: Grading, scraper work 14^ une mile grading has 90,000 yds in it Three miles averaging about 40,000 each 20{!^ ^olid rock 90^ loose rock 40j^ clearing and grubbing 18.00 per acre. The bric^ng was let before, the_ trstle bridging at ^50,00 Mr. a. M in place, company transporting'material and furnishing the iron Piling per lineal foot, company transporting the material and furnishing the iron. Masonry, 1st class, bridging seats and piers "^10.00 per cubic yard, in cement. Box culverts, dray .'J-.S.BO to v5.00. Buildings, 8 sect,iori houses $800. each. 4 Freight and Passenger 2nd Class vl050.f"?0 each 2 " " 1st " 1450.00 eaeh vl050.f"?0 each 1450.00 each " Passenger house 1850.00 " 1230.00, the company transporting t>|p lumb r from mill to building site! Track laying !j550.00 '^per mile per day, 575 « h " " " 625 2 " 650 " - 700 - 3 " " " and fufV additional half mile track layers to take every- think from the last switch and run forward to end of track not only their own material but all other material that other contractors may need. The Texas and Pacific deliver the material at the last siding. Ties 700,000 at 40^ each delivered on the Texas and Pacific road, • Teleg aph line v40.00 per mile for erecting the company.fur nishing everything. r jr . u Frecting tanks and furnishing timber C500.00. 4 These prices are all under th- price fixed by Mr. washburn in the estimate attached to the contract, excepting the telegraph which ^ T1 probably cost us ,„il25.00 a mile erected. Truss bridginr was let to uofrode and Taylor, xou have the price, plans in detail Tor getting them out are to be furnished by Mr. "^assig of Chicago. I send this forward for information at tVie New iork office, Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President. Feb.1860, JD. w, ivashburn, iis q. Fort Worth, Texas, ii^eb^'y. 25, 1880. Chief Engineer, Fort worth. Dear Sir:- Wlien your forces are at leistire, I v/ould like to have prepared for me a profile of the located line, ahowir.g the quantities and the contract price, together with the bridigirg, aligi"iment, etc. After the first month's estimate, have r tracing made of the profile and have that tracing printed up. Upon the second month's work, h^ve another tracing made, and have that printed upand j- will return the first profile to have printed upon it the third month's estimate, so that I can have on hand the last estimate showing the total amount of work done, I would also like a copy of the different plans of structures, buildings, etc. when your monthly estimate is made up, so that you can tell within a few ;:ollars the amount of maney you will want for that month's estimate, wire me the amount, a detailed statement to follow it afterward. Yours truly. G. M. uodge. President. Feb. 1880. Fort worth, Texas, Feb'y. 25,18 80 Major Frank Bond, Vice President Texas and Pacific, Philadelphia, Pa. De-^r Sir:- I wired you today in relation to putting an inspector upon the a.gle plate. They are not made in accordance with our specifica tions. Both inside and outside plate ai-e bored for bolts with an oblong hole and both are slotted alike. They have changed the plan so that we have to reverse the plate. That would stagger the slots but not as planned by Mr washburn. The II/I6 , while they should be full II/I6. sendinr us pom" slots for the spike are scant The spike that "Ir. Lewis that they fit an II/I6 slot very tigiit and we will occassionaly have trouble in driving them. By looking at the plan as shown on the enclosed, you will see how the outside and inside are arranged, we had be ter be particular about those things at first and get them right that we may have no trouble hereafter. As I wired you, those t}iat are here we can use. I don't know that it affects the track ay. I have written "r. Levis enclosing a pencil sketch showing how those that are sent will have to be driven. I notice or. the plan in the book that the slots were only made for ten sixteenths. That would generplly give one-sixteenth p_ay on the spike, but the point of the spikes a.'e now made, most of them, from ten and a half to eleven-sixteeenths, so that it is better to have the slot fully eleven-sixteenths and then they will alway- fit. The angle plnte that arrive here are very roughly made, the roughest I ever saw, a good man of them not well rolled and in slotting the5' are punched out of sliape. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President. Feb. 1800. K. S. Hayes, iisq. Fort worth, Texas. Feby, 26, 1880, uhief ingineer, Palesbine hear 8ir:- I am In receipt of yours of February 24th. we let all of our grading except six sections of very heavy work for 14j!f. Those sec tions one of them had 90,000 yards and the rest 53,000 each, we let at 20p j solid rock 90^. Loose rock 40^, ties, same specifications as those used by the T. and P. excepting 8 ft. long, 40^ delivered on the line. Trestle bridging 03O.OO per M. B. m. We transporting the material from mill to end of track for contractor and furnishing the iron. Piling 39^ per lineal foot upon same conditionj masonry 1st class, piers and bridges seats ^10.00 hry culverts '73.75 to ""B.OO per c bic yard. Grubbing and clearing 018.00 per acre. 'Prack layingupon the specifications per laile a day 0550; lO miles a day 0575.Oo'. 2 mles a day v625.00. 2^ miles aday .,,650; 3 miles a day v^OO. Buildings according to the standard plan which I presume you have seen Section houses, two stories high to accommodate two gangs Freight and Passenger second class first " houses alone " Passenger " vSOO i050.00 1450.00 1850.00 1230.00 lot 1 o+ in < Philadelphia at 5 2/10^ is combination per pound. tri;ss and the iron work was Water stations ^500, we furnishing the iron and pumps and transporting the material tand they setting them upcomplete ready to put in oj^ration. ^ Mr. washburn ha^"issued an order that contra^-tors shall not pay over ,1.25 per day for men and ^2.75 for teams. I enclose a couple of copies of specifications. what work do you propose doing and when. Yours truly, G. M, Dodge, President. Council Fluffs, March 13, 1880, P. S. Bond, Esq., Vice Pras. C.P.^'^.R., Marshall, Texas. Dear Sir: I eKclose my cnntract with the Jacksonville Car Works. When you send an inspector there I would like to have him look occasionally on H. H. Elliott's work East St. Louis on switches and frogs. The question oi" the ^-f^-w/i^i^ron bein;' made is now held in obeyance. Mr. Bamum proposes to turn in a thousand tons th^t, he has made and guarantee it equal to any new iron «e will lay. He proposes to make the other six th-^usand tons with part new metal. He reduces his rail to a flat bar, then piles it and from that roll his nev/ rail. I wrote him that with ti;is process he might use this flat bar and one third bar. ^ Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, Pres. f. . -'f;' M. . ♦v/ ' r* March, 1880, Council Bluffs, March 15, 1880, S. H. H. Clark, Pass Christian, Dear Sir:- I have heard from you almost daily since you have been in the country but ^lave not written you. I only write nov; that I hope you will keep down in that country or anywhere else until you are perfectly well, and stomg. Itis all nonsense it is unnecessary for you to come back here to attend to business. Take my advice and do exactly what I have done when I was pretty near in the same condition. Ouit work and if 1 were you about the first of April I would go to iiurOpe . Make up a little party of your own and go and stay for a year. Life is too valuable to fool ?away, Truly, Ct . M. Dodge: - k'sM: .kill March 1880. Council Bluffs, March 16, 1880» Jay Could, 80 Broadway, Nev/ York City, Dear Sir: On receipt of your dispatch I wired the people of Fort Worth to work the line from Gainsville, Denton, Fort worth and Celburn, I believe I can get, them to obtain ri^ht of way and g ade it for us. I am certain if I should say to them, "we will do it and take it an^ build it. " Supposing in making up the syndicate for building that line you take in a few parties such as you want, and that we take the CO: tract to build it for twenty-thousand in bonds and twent3'' thousand in stock, and that you take the stock of the M. K. &. T. and give for it stock of the Missouri and Pacific when you capitalize that road, i could take it and with ray organization in Texas and -.'ev7 York vie could buil it I think pretty cheaplj'- especialljr if we were released from the arbitrary specifications that is placed upon us by the Texas an Pacific and could put down a first class road and then as the bu iness increased improve it. I have got the organization that will c^o it and if they will give us the grade and right of way there will be considerable money^'nude Out of the doing of it. Three or four or five could do it as well as a dozen because the: moment we advertised the bonds we could nerotiate them and probably hold the stock. I am. Truly, G.M. Dodge. March, 1880. Jay Oiould, Esq. 80 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa, I!arch 20, 1880. . N.Y, Dear Sir:- Frora the letters and telegrams 1 am receiving from Texas they are ■: vidiently working up the line from Gnini^ville via Denton to Port Yorth and Clubum pretty' rapidly. The Uoleman isrothers who are down there have written me that they would be v/illing to take the subscription that is worked up along the line, do the grading and procure the right of way upon that subscription, and that they would then go on, and do the bridging, ar.d furnish the ties for stock for the total amount of work done. viz. grading right of way, bridging, and for a price to be agreed upon for each, provided we will agree to give them the balance of the owrk, ar.d pay for it in cash. Which you be the track-laying, Ir ildings, and water tanks, we of course to furnish the material, and this work to be done at a price to be ''greed upon. At any ra^e as low as the prices upon the Texa Pacific. 1 have made them this answer. Go ahead and woi'k up the line as far as pra ticable, and that r believed you v/ould be willing" to take under advisement such a contract. lo I have demanded of the citizens of the line that they give us the grading and right of way as a donation, uf course, if Coleman Brothers completed the road and took the donations for the paycf right of way, we would have to give them in addition stock upon ^hat which would be probably two thousand per mile or something near it. Governor Brown has asked the citizens of jf'ort Worth to make a prxjposition to do the grading and procure the right of way from Denton to Fort Worth for him to lay before the Texas Pacific Board. 1 suggested that you should say to !Tr. Bcott, "If you .build and put in operation the i>ie from Gaines ille to Fort worth to Gleburn. that L?d and Denton to ^ on the by way same of terms Bells, they Denis, giveGainsviile tracka'''-e to the international Road from Lougoien via Marshall to Texarcana. That would harmonize both interests. I am truly, G. M. Bodge. March 1S80, Council Bluffs, March 20, 1S80. D, w. Washburn, Dear 8ir: Col. Scott entered portest against track contract price above one mile per day says time for com.pletion of road does not re iuire over one mile a day . The price of one mile a day he does not object to so when track starts have them one mile a day if you can keep other things out of the way ; that is after they get fully started tell them we shall expect 26 miles per month or a mile for each working day. I am. Truly, G.rM. Dodge, March. 1880. t^ouncil Bluffs, Iowa, March 20, 1880. John Adamson, Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of recent date, if t'ley grade, tie and bridge the line I think our people will be willingLto give stock, but if they only give the right of way, and grade the line we would expect that as a donation, we would be disposed to let the rest of t^^e work to donations, tie and bridge the road giving them.fair price for the ties, track-laying, section houses, station house water tanks, etc. I would not want to build as strong a line as on the Texas Pacific specifications. J^cr instance in my track work I would have it put up and back filled, and lay the joints thoroughly; then would put section men on immediately to keep it in good condition, as fast as the road was completed and track laid, i have no question in ray raind if they arrange to do the grading and give right of way as a donation that for the briding ajid tieing our people would give stock, and agree to Imr.ediately grade and run road as fast as completed. At any rate have these people do the very best thing they can and I will then take hold of the raatt-r, and see what I cando. I am very desirous of gettin- a road from Ganes ille to whitesboro to i<'ort worth and Clebum . I am disposed to think that our people will be governed by what i amy advise them to do. I am tiaily, G. M. Dodge. vi/' ■ Council Bluffs, April 1, 1880. Fred L. Am^s, Esq., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- I notice that the Milv/aukee and St. Paul R.R.Co. has leased the Dakota road. What effect ;7ill this have on the Iowa Falls and Sioux City? What is the value now of the stock of ti:e latter road? Is there any demand for it? I returned from Texas yesterday. Everything dov/n there is moving along q- ietly. We have co;:.menced track-laying, and about May lot \7:i 11 be in Weatharford, 30 miles, and I hope by August to com plete tie first hundred miles. We made our contracts at a very reasonable price and if material will only go down we can get a pretty good road at a fair price. The country is filling up very rapidly with a good class of settlers. The coops look first rate. I saw Mr. Perkins in Ciiicago and had a long talk with iiim. I tnink there is no reason for any friction tiiere; at any rate- he says there is not, on his part; theough there may be among some off the employees of the two companies, but we ought to keep that down. He complain~ a little of some of the actions from our company and I find when I get here that our company coraplains of some of his but I th.ink that will sonn he rectified. Very truly yours, G. M. Docge. Council Bluffs, April 1, 1880. E. Perkins, Esi., Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: As soon as I arrived hnre I t'^ok occasion to have a talk with LTr. Dillon and tir. Gould in relation to matters you spoke to me a h-ut and they assiired me that so far as they are concerned they are deter mined to live up tc the agreement in letter and in spirit. The question of crossing the tracks and such things they seemed to think were as mud the result of misapprehension as anything else, thoudi Mr. Dillon thou-ht tiiat you ought not to ~o norti. of their track unless you were goin" to go on northward; said that he would prefer to give you ground south of it rather than to have to stop tra ns at tx:e crossing. As to the C'Si ps of engineers you mentioned as "being in there, they are not ours. Mr. Dillon immediately telegraphed to Mr. Clark asking if we had any then and he replied, "None whatever." -» ■ Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. New York 3, 1880. E. ?. wheelock, Esq., President New Orleans Pacific Ry. My dear Sir;- We have gone over your general proposition and examined into the condition of yoiir company so far as we have been able to do from the papers submitted by you; and we have now to say that if your Board will accept the proposition made by the various creditors of your line for an exchange of securities in settlement of their debts prior to the 12th of April as per agreement under date 12th January 1860 we will undertake after a period of sixty days option to us to examine into title and general position of your line, if the same be found satisfactory to organizing a Company that.vwill make a contract with you to complete and equip your line on the following general basis. Your company to agree to give a first mortgage for ^i20,000 per mile, securing; 6^ bonds at forty years and also !y20,000 per mile of stock, for which it will agree to equip and complete your line from the state line of Texas to or opposite the city of New Orleans before the 6th of March 1882, in*order that no question may arise as to your charter or the rights of your Co. thereunder. v/e will agree out of the bonds above referred to, to place your Board in possession of ^^384,000 of bonds to enable you to carry out the agreement made with your bondholders and other creditors and p350,000 of the above stock to be exchanged with the present stock holders in your company so thnt may be placed in the same position; and in completihig the line the Company will utilize as much of the work now done as possible and as may be to the interest of the Company. Your company to absolutely cancel and wipe out the existing mortgage and liabilities of every kind as against your company. This be ing done we will undertake to have the road completed as above for the consideration abcv e stated:- the further understanding being that if the Congress of the United States should at any time grant to your compamy the lands formerly granted to the Backbone River, the same are to be included in the arrangement and are to be covered by the first mortgage herein before referred to and that anv other donations or concession mede from any source shall also ersure to tn'^' Company. It is also furtlier understood that if the option referred to be accepted and the work is undertaken under this agreement the present Board shall place their resignation in your hands, lo be accepted in such shape as may be found necessary and desirableby us to secure the dedsien election of a Board satisfactory to us. 78 The existinr; contracts with Louisiana Const'n. Co. Company for the construction of the road shall be abolished and the charter, right and privileges of that construction compariy shall be turned over to such parties as we may request free and clean of all incumbrances, whatever. We shall expect action under this pi^loposition and an answer thereto, by April 15th. Very truly ypurs, Thomas A, Scott Jay Gould. Th e foresoing proposition is satisfactory to me and I will endeavor to have it carried out within the time indicated above. ' ^ E. B. Wheelock. ' V Pres. N.O. Pac. R.R. Co. / ' »M I • , - Jr - i'f*, '/ .im April, 1880. N. P. Dodge ' • •-^IL ■p, ; f-r-,. W. W. Dearborn REAL ESTATE AGENCY N . P . Dodge & Go., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Apr. 5th, 1880. Dear Gren: Messrs, Kountze Bros, have an order from me to sell 7000 Utah Southern 7" @ 105 2000 Little Rock - Fort Smith 1st. Sinking fuiid and Land Grant @ 102. If any change is desired by you please direct Ihem in the matter. Yours truly, N. P. Dodge &. Co . New York, April 12, 1S80. James P. Wilson, Esq., Washington, D. C. Dear 5ir:- I received some time ago your letter in regard to payment for your services as Govei'nment Director of U.P.R.R. but have delayed answering it because I wanted to see Nr. Ames before doing so. I have talked with Nr. Dillon and Mr. Gould about it and t ey say that it is impossible for thorn to do anything as the opinion of their Attorney is against it. The only way they could pay anything -would be if the courts held that they must. I think the only "vay you can ever settle it will b to see them personally. I note what you say about Presidential matters. I know very little about it. I have . ad nothing from the General since he got home except a short note that indicated nothing. I do not believe he has changed his views from wha^ he told me in Paris; however, I am not authorized to say this. It looks to^me very much as thourh there would be another dark horse unless Blaine gets strong encughto make it. Evidently New England, ?:ew York and Pennsylvania will try to control the nomination as against Blaine. Y^u know very well t^iat my cnoice is Blaine, if Grant is out of the field, but if Grant is a candidate, I arc for him. He is the strongest man in the party, no matter ^hat they think. lo-vva papers have orked up a boom for Blaine, but that is an easy thing to do in so strong a Republican State as Iowa. What we have to look'for in the election is, who is certain to carry New York? Whoever that man is, the party should nominate him. I hope you will come here before you go west. I see you are in the Northern Pacific but I believe you can't get much for a corporation out of this Congress, pending a presidential election. I think the best you can do is to keep them from doing any harm. think the best Nay. I shall go<.^est in about t-.vo weeks and bo at home the first of Hope you will be out there so I can see you. „.Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge Ml, Hew York, April 20, 1880, Fred L. Ames, Esq., Beaton, Mass. Dear Sir*.;, Do you v«rb4: to ti proposes to build ^le Ni a construction Co. with takes !|^300,0C0 of it, s take an interest in the Construction Company that New Orleans Bacific R.R. It is proposed to make ,h a capital of one million dollars. Philadelphia so there are $700,000 to be disposed of. If you and your Boston friends want an interest, please indicate to me what it j so that I can reserve it for you. The Construction Company will be formed sim.ilar to that under which we are now building the T. P. and a contract will be taken to build the road for $20,000 in stock j $20,000 in bonds per mile. This is really an extnesion of the Texas and Pacific into New Orleans, or to the Mississippi River. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. ' T'V. M ■ f'.. Si-'Y New York, April 20, 1880. Hon. Alvin Saunders, U.S.Senate, Washinrton, D.C. Dear Sir: - . ^ ^ We would like to have the hill for the extention of tine for corapletion of the Texas and Pacific Ry. reported fron the Senate Committee, with a favorable recoirjiiendation. We see in it no antagonism to our interest, and if you can consistently do so, .le wili^consider it a favor if you will lend a helping hand in the matter. We are now building the Texas and Pacific from Fort Worth west to ElPaso, as fast as possible, and we don't like to see any legis lation that would in any way injure the company or the value of the property. Yours truly, _,G. I,!. Dodge New York, April 29, 1880. N, P. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Brother: I received a letter today from IZr. Adams, whom it appear^, has spent two days at the Bluffs with your people, and in his letter he writes as follows: "I left Omaha last evening, . avinr "been at Council Fluffs hoth Friday and Saturday, I think we have dispo=:0d of matters there, or at least put them in shape for final settlement. I met Chapmari and all the^ leading citizens, an d did what I could. The fact is, it is not in our^ power to do much. It hecame apparent t me at once, v/hen I met the gentlemen at Council Bluffs and looked over the ground there, that the trouble was not with the Union Pacific, but with tl.e fact that three eastern lines—the Northwestern, C. ?. q., and the Missouri Paciflc-- had forced tl.eir way across the river making Omaha instead of Council Bluffs, an eastern terminus. 17e have to meet them at Omaha, tl.ough Heaven kno>vs, we would much prefer to have kept east of the river and met them at Council Bluffs. (_This fact utTBets the vhiole traditional and wise policy of the Union Pacific so far as the terminus of the road was concerned'.^ The rest follows. It is this fact which is the rehl source of the trouble at Council Bluffs, and it is wholly out of the power of the Union Pacific to recall whatiis irrevocable, or to restore to Council Bluffs what the course of events has taken from it. What ever I can do, I assuie you will be done." I see he takes pretty nearly the same rr-o that I have--that our trouble comes from the att Ecads toward us more especially than any act of I hope our people v/ill be contented now that hr. Truly, G. li. Dodge rr'ound in this matterattitude "f eastern of the Union Pacific, and Ivlr. Adams is with us. 1 VVt> ^ I had pledged myself to support James G. Blain-^ for President. I had received a letter from General Grant telling me that under no circumstances would he be a candidate again. My business took me to Europe. When I learned that General Grant's name was to be presented to the Convention I immediately wrote Blaine that General Grant was a candidate and I would have to support him. Blaine ans.vered me very promptly, approving my decision and thanking me for writing him so promptly and said that it would be impossible for me to take any other course, I was in Burope during all the campaign and up to the comvention; therefore took no part in it, but I think Grant's letter written to Conkling, on May 2, 1880 in relation to the third term i a remarkable one and an extract of iL was as follows: "There have been exigencies that warranted a second term, but I do not believe that the best interests of the country's good ever demanded a third term, or ever will, I have my doubts even as to the advisability of a second term, and you know that I iave so expressed myslef to you in our confidential talk. This is a big country, full of brainy and ambitious men who can serve the country eminently well as its President, and I sin cerely question the policy of thwarting their noble ambition. In a republic cosmopolitan like ours a man's fame is too frequently dependent upon the s^tus of public sentiment. Fame in this country ebbs and flows, Toda^you are the peer; tomorrow you may be submerged beneath t]ie wave of adverse sentient. This is another reason wi^ the noble ambition to be President should not be restricted to one man. I feel t..ao our country has am|3ly repaid me for all my services by the honors it has bestowed upon me, and I feel that to be a candidate or accept the nomination Cor a third term would be ingratitude, and would eventually effect me with thepeople who have loved men and whom I love. I am still of the opinion that I should speak to the country that I should break the silence in a letter declining emphatically to accent a nomination for a third term. I appreciate your efforts, your friendship and loyalty, but I fear tiifet your zealousness for me is an error, not of heart, but of mind," June 16th I60C. Gen.G.M.Dodge; 78 Broadv/a^', New York. 2GC F3/fth Avenue, Brooklyn, June I6th 1880. Dear General; Since meeting you, the great changes of temperature have c^.used my taking cold, and rt.ther a low tone, tut not being serious, it is I evidence it is a sort of vital of a strength. crisis with In me. relation to health and otherwisw, ^ you know | \ * I It is due you and myself, that I come to the point with yo. and submit my disposition and plan to repays all my obligation to you not only, but for further profit to both. This case, from the time you first took an interest in it by loaning me the first '„'5000 to the present time, affords a definition and key to business in New York, not alone in your interests and mine, but in all directions.' It v/ould be throwing away a costly and valuable knowledge and expedience not to utilize it, or to think of me(and what I have done or no 0 done), as more than a nice circumsti.nce of it. However weak I may have been or appeared to be, physically or otherv^ise, in the circumstances that surrounded and involved me, all can now be turned to good account and profit. That being so, in any degree, you are the first entitled to it. It has been a business and social revolution that leaver us without a precedent. ^ I There is no precedent to the fidelity and faith of one man ; to another, v;hich you have manifested and substantiated toward me, in a rev olution, which has placed and held me at a perilous disadvantage in. which some other former good friends, for a time, to sustain themselves, harshly criticised me even when confined to my room and helpless. Some of these are dead, others, as the mill ground, come to the same disadvantage and such de grees of it that they now want to be helpless, for the very good reason that it will thereby help themselves. DurinJj the years that I have been engaged in New York in ac cumulating a fortune ahd trying to keep it, I paid very little attention to society. But since my business emergency and during my prolonged illness and absence from business, have learned enough about it to say that we are in a social as ..oil a^ business revolution. What the women and children are generally saying and doing has come to me. Wlien able, I have strolled into public places and saloons i where all the phases, features and the situation generally can be observed in this relation, and depend upon it that everywhere, here and in Europe, in social and business relations there is a showing on the outside that is dis appointing when you look inside. It is unpopular and \in!:ecessary to say this publicly. But I must say this in submitting to you my own case and state the worst. I have sacrificed everything ^ had and more toe, to regain ray health. Have refused to expose my weakness, not only, but have encouraged ^•11 Ih regard to it, to the extent that at times they may have thought me able to attend to business. Myself and family have endured a long period of privation and anxiety, which you relieved.The most trying feature of the matter has been in relation to "r. Stillman, my f;-ther-in-law, knov.!! to be amply able to ^ acsjomodate us to anything we required. People knowing id naturally referred us to that. Vdien here from Texas' he engaged to assist me on his return to Texas and said that he could as *Aell a^ not, and did to a small extent, b then we could not hear from him. " He told me that his brother, Charles Stillman, who died in New York a few years since, left ^7,000,0C,Q,5they were interested to gether in business, "they are peculiar •people. In our exigencies I ax;plied to his son, cousin to my wife, "r. Jas.Stillman, with whon I had little acquaintfnce and but little right to ask a favor of, he is a gentleman, granted what I asked, but re marked that his uncle, my wife's father was just as able to do any favor as he was and that his own father and my wife's were alike singular in these respects. My father-in-law has always been kind, friendly and accomodating toward us and I was not pecuniarily indebted to him. He pieasv,, antly remarked to me that he was growing closer as he grew older. Put you see the dilemma .it put me in. 7/hile ill we commenced about a year afeo to pledge our effects, privately raising but a trifling percentage of their value, thinking I could soon get out and-redeem them. The time expires for their redemption, is now up and all maturing inia few dfys. During sickness I have been an enigma to people, at times clear, calm and apparently well, but on the least disturbance weak, ner vous, easily excited and confused,unfit to exercise good judgment. On one occasion a year or more I think, our attorney sent over his attorney and notary for my signature to our discharge in the settlement of our ola afr ^ fairs. I oomienced a discussion on it ,worked myself into an excitement, and refused to sign it, calling a d'dy or so after I executed the papers. So if anyone called and I entered into any discussion with them the infer ence could be drawn that I was out of my mind. My condition of health and weakness burdenec with the circumstances, business and social:, that I had to deal with, explain to you all that, r-rgardless of^hat you may hear or anyone says. The general sit uation, temporarily, is such that in society from children up anyone is subject to suffer or hear of calumriy. So much for the social and now to business. Business. In regard to business, you would not give much for one that would not look out for himself and his own whenever able, and oppor tunity offers. You never can help such a man or anyone with out injuring the man and yourself too. You have assisted me and I wish to render an equivalent. Flattery is fraudulent, compliment is only a decent rec ognition; it is only the latter when knowing you, and what you have acc omplished, unknown to others, that I say that you have proven to be the most entei'prising, penetrating successful business man that I know of,and g whatever adverse circumstances might happen to you any day would not ohang" it.But it is a mighty responsibility and you will have to look out accord ingly . You are substantially in New York as head quarters. You did not tell me, but I see it published that you were in a board of direct- <^-if./^ '' " 87 ion with Jay Gould, Russel Sage,and others. It is the most powerful board of business men ever organized. Russel Sage is directoi* in the Importers and Traders Bank with li.K.Thurber of U.K.and F.B.Thurber and GO. nov/ one y of the foremost cominercial firms in tlie' world and by virtue of their loca tion at one of the greatest active trade centres;- in real merchandise in the v/orld. At that "centre v.'e handle and exchange the real mercbandise not paper contracts, futures etc..,in wheat and other staples as at the Pro duce Exchange. The Thurbers are good friends of mine. They are heavy in our dairy staples, they will wield the credits at that centre and the comi.ercial influence of Nev; York which is centering there. That is my field and where I belong, in one of its greatest branches of trade, and where I can and must rebase for operation. The coffliercial power and profit is there ii anywhere. Tran sportation lines terminate there on the Hudson. You are especially in trans portation interests and I in comir-ercial, all based on agricultural, neither can flourish for any length of time unless each does. Competition regulates. Each interest will get all the advantage they can. The farmers profits be come reduced and then the merchants. Tanderbilt was charging the two classes 8 per cent Interest on double what his road cost him while goverments only paid 4 per cent. - - Thurber of the mercantile class (in the issue) started in the Chamber of Commerce, went in to the Legislature of New York and made such headway (though temporarily defeated) "that Vanderbilt sold his 8 per " cent Central stock and in"vested. in 4 per cent Governments, look out foi- that. ( Central or the Vanderbilt stocks have been the back bone of "the Street;',and there is no better railroad property in the world. In this connection allow me to submit the leading and most valuable business idea; in th; world in any business. Europe is no longer au thority, but America is. Not London, but New York. I found it out at great cost in our trade. It will damage anyone here or abroad who does not recog nize it. '."all street discounts everything and discounted the market the wrong way on Ihropeen authority on wheat in the last crop, in with the Produce Ex changes of Ne"// York and Chicago, ignoring American authority and the idea and were hurt, so thei will be in finance, stocks or any merchendise. It is not a popular idea with foreign interests. I found it out o or 7 years ago by exper ience in our trade, and expressed it, was unpopular and that is why they did not want me in the trade at the time but events have so confirmed it,that it is now accepted and New York is the basis, the chief and governing market in the world in our tr.de. And thoroughly understanding this idea, this market and .all others, I ask you to assist me a little in getting on my feet and working at it. Mr. Trask got the idea in his head after I had sent him to all our principal .markets, to Canada and Europe, but did not become quite convinced until the ignoring of it failed our London house of a hundred years standing for a million of dollars. He was operating auccesofully v/hen he died, and while I have been ill, I discovered the idea and the pl-Hn of its execution and can go right on with it. From what is submitted, you can see what I need, which.is not very much. But first that you will consider and criticise or comjnent on the st tements submitted, which 1 think you will mainly aiiprove. Then I need a little money at once to redeem those effects which I will give as security. I can live at a verj/ smvdl expense-. These effects cost,and would today, ov er ^3000, upon them have realized s^y 2 or vSCO on pledge. So far as I can see, SjSOO dollars will relieve me end ray family from peril and anxiety, and vigorously set me in operation. All of which I respectfully and not privately submit, subject to your criticism and judgment, with nothing reserved from your questioning and advice, which is earnestly desired by Yours truly IV.S .Fairf ield. .' « « ' I',' V ." 1 IT' i *** ' A' • t'.d , Texas and Pacific Railv/ay Company. // Phildelphia, Pa., June 23rd, 1880 Wessrs. Thomas A. Scott, & Jay Gould. Gentlemen: Under your proposition of April 3rd with E. B. Wheelock, President New Orleans Pacific Rwy. Co., by which you undertook to have the New Orleasn Pacific Road coinpletec on certain terms, on your request I visited New Orleans where I met Gov. Bi-own, to look into the financial affairs and status of ihe Company. I find on examination that a mortgage of )5,000,000. dated N.arch 1st, 1878, was i.. sued on 357 niles of road, and that -^SO,000. of bonds v/ere formally executed by the Company and prepared by a notary, numbering from 1 to 750, both inclusive of these bends /4:1G6,000. were sold and |;305,000. were pledged as collater'al security for certain indebtedneasof the Company, leaving if279,000 in the Treasury of the Company. Under an ar'rangement formally executed in writing, under date of Jany. 1-th, 1880, the bond holders have agreed to exchange their bonds, waiving accrued and accruing interest to Jany. 1882, and the creditors agreed to accept bonds for $218,000. of indebtedness, waiving all int rest to Jany. 1882, all the bonds, both those owned and held as collateral, to be deposited with the Trustees. The Trustees namied in the agreement vere E. A. Polfrey and Adolph Schreiber. I hold their certificate certifying that there are in their possession deposited under the agreements referred to, .^456,000. of bonds; the officers of the Com.pany have possession of $279,000., and two lots, $10,000. owned by H. G. Dillaway of Bost'-n and $5,000. held as collateral for indebtednesSi- of F. Y. Dabney, have not yet been deposited under the agreement. The Dabney bonds are held by an engineer who was out on the line, that I am assured will come in as soon as he can be reached, and a Mr. Baldwin of New Orleans through whom Dillaway obtained his ten bonds expresses himself confident of being able to get these ten bonds exchanged on the sane terms as the others. # Included in the floating indebtedness is a claim of S. L. James for $57,000., for which bonds are provided. There is soHiC question about the ability of Mr.James being able to accept th bonds and hold them under the terms of the agreement. Gov. Brown, however, who is expected to arrive from Texas on Friday of this week, will be able to make a fuller statement than I can as to Mr. James legal status, as he made a special investigation in regard to ti ana had a more recent interview than I with Mr. James on the subject. In addition to this, indebtedness provided' for, there is about (|:7,500. of floating indebtedness that I suppose will have to be arranged for in son.e way. I think there will be bonds and stock sufficient to do this but I am not quite certaln that there will be. Accompanying this is a Balance Sheet of the New Orleans Pacific Rwy. Co., dated Ifa'j 31st, 1880, certified to by W. S. Nicholson, acting Secy. The examination m.ade by Gov. Brown and myself and the papers furnished would seem to prove the accuracy of this Balance Sheet, which shows that excluding interest paid and discount on bonds, about |62G,000. has been expended upon the pr(jperty, for 'hich you have agreed to pay $384,000. in bonds and -#350,000. in stock. The share capital subscribed originally was $355,600. and Lnere has been paid in money $323,000. leaving still due $32,600. As I understand the arrapgenient, new certificates are to be issued by the Company and these outstanding shares are all to come in and be excahnged for the new certificates, that is, all that shall appear as full-paid, not exceeding $350,000 in amount. While -we were in New Orleans a form of Construction con tract was prepared by Gov. Brown and myself and a form of New mortgage was also prepared both of which were submitted to the Board of Directors and approved generally by resolution. The President of the Company was formally authorized to execute both the contract and the mortgage and to issue and deliver the bonds in substantial.accordance with the forms presented to the Board. There were quite a number of ligal questions that came up during the discussion of these matters in New Orleans, and it was finally agreed to submit them formally for advice of local counsel. They were submitted in writing- to Nr. Thomas J. Semms, one of the ablest lawyers in New Orleans and all action that has been taken has been based uponthis advice of counsel. Copy of the questions and opinidigs I have furnished to Gen'l. Dodge to be filed with the Construction Company now being organized. So nriuch for the status and financial comdition of the Company. It would seem there would be nothing to prevent you from at once undertaking the construction of this road. As the policy of the Company with reference to con struction was fully discussed by Gov. Brown and myself when in New Orleans, ti seems proper to give you the result of our views and opinions. We are clearly of the opinion that the line should be constructed as rapidly as possible between Shreveport and a point on the Nississip.ii called Brulle Landing about four niiles south of Baton Rouge; that work should be commenced at once from Shreveport and the grading and track-laying pushed as rapidly as possible from thence via Alexandria 144 miles to Le Compte, a point in Rapidesparish, near where the Ivioi^gan Company's Anolonsnns road is expected to intersect this line. Work should alos be commenced on the sub-structure at the Atchafalaya river, where there will be about 800 feet of truss bridging. If this work can be gotten under way at once and the substructure put in by 101 Sheet # 2 . Fhildelphia, Pa., June 23rd, 1880 Messrs, Thonias A. Scott & Jay Gould. October, the 88 niles between Brulle Landing and Le "^mte could be completed so that the whole line can if necessary be opened for public use within fifteen months. The completion of the line from Shreveport to Le Comte, and a business arrangement teniporarily with the Morgan line to furnish a connection through to New Orleans via its Opolonsas and Vermillionville and Brashear Road, it is believed would be a substantial complicance with the provisions of your contract to conijlete a line between Shreveport and New Orleans before the 8th of March 1882, and it will certainly prevent any question from arising as to the charter rights of the Company. Work on the linebetween Brulle Landing and New Orleans need not be undertaken at the present time, and unless a sale of our bonds can be m.ade, I would not advise its being comm;enced at all until the line between Brulle Landing and Shreveport shall be very nearly completed. « It will be time enough then to decide whether we can purchase from the Morgan Company what is known as the Bayou Goula Road, or make reasonable arrange ment for its use by our Company, or whether it would be better to cross the river and build on the East side of the river into New Orleans. It will be necessapy to have proper terminal facilities in New Orleans, and Gov. Brown and myself both agree that a plot of ground, what is called a double block, 850 feet front on the river, by 440 feet deep, area about 7 l/2 acres, with Batture privileges, that it is believed can be purchased at efrom ;tf75,C00. to -)|>80,000. will be the best adopted to our purposes. It is the most advantageously located of any proper ty on the levee that we saw that can be made available, and no matter where we^hall cross the river whether at Brulle Landing at Westwego or ac the Morgan docks, it would be necessary that the Company should have facilities such as tiiis block of land will furnish on the levee and hear to the buisness portion of the City. In fact, it is within one block of the New Orleans & Jackson Railroad freight yard and building. I have been very agreeably surprosed at the reportfe made as to the character of country naturally tributary to this line of road; and unless they have been greatly exaggerated, the localbusiness alone should pay the interest on the v20,000. per mile of bonds and of course with our 1100 miles of Texas and Pacific line between Shieveport and El Paso and teh PTansas City connection via the Missouri Kansas & Texas Road, a very large volume of through business would be certain to be sent in both directions over the line to the Mississippi river near Baton Rouge, and to New Orleans, for distribution, from those points. Ther-e is little doubt in my own mind that the line from Shrevecort, Alexandria and Le Compte, will take care of itself from the start and 7vhen the line shall be completed to the fv'.ississi ppi river a large business must certainly be re ceived and delivered at that point. As we may not be able to dispose of any of these New Orleans Pacific bonds until 100 or more miles shall be opened to the public sufficient to show what ti can do, it seems to me very important that our Construction Co. capital should be filled up to 2,000,000 . With that amount of cash, it would be very easy to complete the 230 miles of road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport; but with only §1,000,000. capital, we amy be crowded in case of a tight money Hiarket. If necessary to complete the subacription up to the full amount I would suggest that the larger sub scribers, in fact all that .are willing to do so should double up their subscriptions. It will not in reality be mat erially increasing their present liability, as under the terms of the subscription, each subscriber agrees to carry his proportion of the securities which may be received in constructing the railway. I expect to go over ta New York tomorrow and will see you on Friday should you have anything to suggest in respect to this matter. Yours very respectfully, Frank J. Bond, 1 Enclosure Vice Pi'esident P. S. I } ave rougl.ly blocked out a form of lease for the W. K-. & T.Co. but I may not be able to get it into shape to send you before next week. Will forward it, however, early in the week. m American Railway Improvement Co., President's Office 78 Broadv/ay, Hew York City, June 24, 1880, Prank W. Baldwin, Esq., Denver, Col. Dear Sir:- I hand you herewith tv/o copies of the certificate of incor poration of tH.e American Ry. Improvement Co. duly signed and executed. Take one of these and file it in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in Arapahoe County, ,and pay the fee necessary for iti? record. File the other in the office of the Secretary of State paying there also the necessary fee. You will observe that you-are named therein as secret.->ry. I will write you separately, at an early date, in regard to your compensation. lour duties for the: present will probably be light and will consist principally in causing to be published public notices of the time and place of holding elections as required by section 196 of the laws of Colorado, and making the annual report sixty days from the first day of January in each year. This last is very important and I shall rely on you to see that it is duly made. About the first of January you should write me, without fail for the necessary data. The certificate provides that the principal place of business in Colorado shall be in the City of Denver. I desire you to procure a sign, not necessarially very large, or expensive, bearing tlie words The American Railway Improvement Co. " and if convenient your own name as Secretary and have it placed where you are renerallv to be found. > o - or ou uc I enclose also a brief notice to be published for the three weeks in one of the weekly newspapers in Denver, giving notice that this company is ready to do business. I also enclose for pub- ^ formal notice of the organizatioii of this comoanv amount of Capital stock, etc. This you will also have published for three weeks in some weekly news paper in Denver (sending several copies here.) I .ilso enclose - blank copy of the certificate of incorporation in order to enable the secretary of State to certify under the great seal of t/he tliot it is a ta?"ue copy of the one on file in this office, filling the necessary blanks so as to make it corresoond with the one on file. Send this to me when certified by the Secretarv of » ^ te • All necessary stock or record books will be furnished you. and all expcrises you may incur, in carryin out these instructions will be remitted to you, on receirt of statement thereof, I am, respectfully, G. Dodge, President. 105 525_ ne-.v York, July 2nd, 1880. George C. Tlchenor, Chicago, |11. Dear Sir: - . . i. . x I am in receipt of yours of the 29th ult. in relation to investment of six or eight thousand^dollars. , ^ If I were going to buy anything now, it wouldbe the firs gage bonds Rio Grande Division of the Texas be pickdd up here now for about 80 cts. and to the security. They are setlling at a low a new line and are issued under a construct hing now, a new wv t mortthe^Texas & Pacific road. Ti.ey can cts. and there is no question as at a low price because ti.ey are on construction Company. There are x v - but ?.25.000 per mile and that is all th-t can be put upon the road. _ The first mortgage bonds of the Eastern division which is the divi;jion east of Port Worth are selling at 103-106 and I consider t.;ese just as aood as they are, and one of these days they will sell for a s mucn. A construction company has b'^en formed to build the New Orleans Pacific and you mi'^i.t nut j/'our six thousand into that, you ..'ould only have to pay it up in investments and it gives you a chance toget your proportion of the outcome, whatever it may be. We get for builcin'^ it ^.20 000 per mile in stock and the same amount in bonds of the Company. I think this a good scheme, because eventually it willbe consolidated with the Texas and Pacific or at any rate will he a part of the throu-n line to th.e Pacific Ocean. You know that country and are competent to judge of it. I have a good deal of faith in it and have no doubt that in the end you will make a g'~'0d profit on the money invested; still you may have to wait some time for it. All our people are^in it and^ I could put you in on the same basis on which I myself go in. I consi der either of these good investments; best I Imow of at present. I look upon Texas Pacific land grant bonds as also being a good investment, selling now at about 60 but at present prices I would rather buy the first mortgage. x, x ^ Titere is noti.ing just now down in that country th-^t is worth your attention ijuf when I get to building th- New Orleans Pacific, it is possible that there might be something that would suit you, but generally speaking there is not much in it except for the engineers. Very truly y^urs, '. l.h D-^dge, July, 1880. Council Bluffs, Iowa. July 5th, 1880. My dear Papa: I received the check this morning. Many thanks. I gave the letter toUncle Nathan as you told me. He has it in his possession and told me he would attend to the matters for me. Is that all right? Am glad you can get away from New York for it must be disagreeably hot there for comfort. We are both well and the weather here this summer has been remarkably cool and pleasant. Write soon to your aff- daughter, Ella. M < 109 A American Railway Improvement Company President's Office 78 Broadway, Kew York July 15, 1880, Prank 'V. Baldwin, Esq., Denver, Colo. Dear Sir: Mr. Egbert recommended you to Mr. Dillon as a suitable person to act as secretary of this Co. and your a pointment as such secretary with full instructions for completing organization of the Company were sent you on June 24th in the same kind of envelope and with the same address as the one in which this is enclosed. Not hearing from you of the receipt thereof I wired you in regard to it and was much surprised to learn from your reply that you had not received the letter. Vigilant inquiries are on fpot to trace, if possible, the reason of its miscarriage. I enclose you a copy of the original letter together with copy of incorporation of the company and a notice that the aompany is ready for business , which are to be published three weeks in one of your weekly papers. The purport and tenor of the original letter of instructions will have to be slightly modified as follows--on account of our having but one original executed copy of the articles of incorpoz^'ation whereas I previously sent you two. Herewith you will find one original and duly executed certificate of lov/a Incorporation of American Railway Improvement Co. to be filed with the Secretary of State under section 192 General Laws of Colorado, 1877. Have him record the same without delay. Also find herewith a true copy of the said original certificate of Incorporation. Have the Sbte .Secretary certify the same to be atmze copy under the grea^ seal of the State of Colorado and annex the certificate to the said copy. When thus certified and the certificate annexed, taJce the same and file it for record in the office of tlie recorder of deeds Arapahoe County, Lose no time in doing this and telegraph me when these papers are filed with both recorded and secre tary of state and the notices given out for publication. Very tmly yours, G. M. Dodge. President. officer inquiries for this misslnc letter in yo ur post July, 1880. N . P . Dodge W. VV. Dearborn. REAL ESTATE AGENCY. K . P . Dodge & Co. Council Blulfs, lo^a, July 15th, 1880, Dear Gren: From letter you handed Ella on her v/edding day i learn those 7000 Utah Southern Bonds standing at Kountyes in my name are now here but from enclosed order authorizing their sale at 105 I suppose you expect to change the investment from time to time as heretofore. I am advised, of a Cr. of .^245 from coupons paid;this I '*■- suppose I shall hand to Ella? Prease ascertain (if you do not now know) if there are any previous credits undrawn, also write me a line saying these bonds stand in my name subject to such changes as you may make but tl^i t they belong to Ella and requesting me to pay the interest to her. The Nixon Block Trustee fiuids in my hands and loaned (or only those loaned) which is it, belong equally to Letile, Ella and Annie. Am I correct? Please state the matter clearly so I can file your letter among my private papers for information of my excES^w or advers. in event of death. Very truly, rv, N . P . Dodge . t "x; 113 New York City. July 16, 1880. E. B. Wheelock, Esq., President N. 0. Pac. Ry. Co., Hoffman House, New York City, Dear Sir:- In accordance with your request, I have reserved ^150,000 of the capital stock of the; American Railway Improvement Co. which you are at liberty to place in Nev/ Orleans if you see proper to do so. You fully understand the- conditions of the contract with the N.O. Pac. Ry. Co. The Construction company is organized on a basis of ^2,000,000 capital and with that it expects to build the road, by the negotiation of the bonds. Whatever the Construction Co. receives in bonds, stocks or other assets, or whatever profit it rn.nkes in carrying out its con tracts will go pro rata to the subscribers and for the amount paid in they will, under any circumstances, get the first mortgage bonds and stock, to the full amount of each with the probability of recei ving a good deal more in the securities, or if the company should negotiate the bonds to build the road then the stock and surplus of bonds would be left as profit to the construction Co. Calls of lOf. each will be made at intervals of about 30 days and when bonds are issued thd^ will be distributed pro rata. The principal subscribers are Messrs. Could, Sage, Dill®n, Perkins, Wicks, woodward, Baldwin, Davis, I^.senheld and wollesfioffer of New York. Messrs. Thomas A. Scott and George F. Tyler of Philadelphia and Mr. T. W , Walters of Baltimore, most ofthem being parties intimately connected with the Union Pacific and Texas and Pacific enterprises. The subscription has not been offered except privately to such parties as we desire connected with the company. Please let me hear from you as soon as possible as I desire to close the subscription and proceed with the work. Very truly yours, ^ . M. Dodge. President, American Railway Improvement Co. The American Railway Improvement Go. President 's Office 80 Broadway, New York, July 31, 1880. E. II. Green, Esq., 20 Gamp H. Nev/ Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I have sent you various telegrams in relation to making surveys to Shreeveport south'to a connection with your, located line. Of course you know best where the line going to Shreeveport will Siverge and I want to commence back on your located line, at the proper place. You will notice from the advertisement in the New Orleans Times that I propose to let the 140 miles and the Atchatalago Bridge on the 20th of August. Tomorrow or next day I will send you specifications and statements of the work that is to be done so that any:ody calls upon you there you can show it to them. I think, upon receipt of this you had better have the Times add to the advertisement that specifications, information, etc. can be obtained at your office. I should have ser.t the add to you and havd added this to it but it went out without my thinking of it. The terms of payment arc such that I do not suppose many in New Orleans will cire to bid on the work. I should be glad to have in writing your views on the Atchatalago Bridge and the proper plan therefor. Is the stage of water such that soundings could be made there now or is it too high? If it can be sounded, I think you had. better send a party up there and take soui;dings. See what is the depth of the silt and if it will hold a pile and determine whether or not we can out in a pile foundation. I expect I will want you to come up here'about the time I an^roady to let the work, but probably up to that time you can be more service to us by remaining where you are and looking after people i.. tnat country who want to bid. If we succeed in nen-otiating at Bayou Goula very soon after starting at ^ Shreeveport. commence wSrk Very truly yours . G. M. Dodge., President. 117 Philadelphia, Pa. August 5th 1880. ^ien'l G.M.Podge; 78 Broadway, New York. ' . My dear General; I was sorry to have missed seeing you on Tuesday in Pew York as I fear now that I shall not be able to see ydu until y.u eome over on Monday afternoon or evening. I v/ould suggest that you come over early in the eve ning and if you come to the Continental, 1 have my rooms there and vje can go over such matters as may be necessary in advance of the Board meeting, as I understand there are quite a number of matters that you as President of the Improvement Company desire acted ujjon in the shape of changes or modificati ons or explanations as to the contract. Mr.Scott, I regret to say will not be here until Monday night, so there will be very little time to go over mat ters with him as I hoped to do before our Board meeting. He will get home of course very much fatigued and will not, I suppose feel like going into busness matters much until after a night's rest, and as our Pirector's meeting is to be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, and our Stockholders meeting follows it at one, we shall hardly hav^an opportunity of talking over mat ters very much. In accordance with your request, I have prepared a couple of resolutions, one to be passed by the Pirectors, making the Election of Pirect^ ors annual instead of bi-ennial. Under the rules, this amendment, if offered at the meeting on Tueoday, must lie over till the next meeting, which can be ( of course the nev/ly elected Board, that if a quorum shall be present can be organized after the Stockholders meeting, the present By-laws provide for 17 Pirectors. I think that these should be reduced to not exceeding 15 and that it would be better to have 13, if Mr. Gould and Mr. Scott can arrange as to whom they shall be. The present Tirectors are; Thomas A.Scott, Frank s. Bond, Jno.C.Brown, H.H.Hudson, Wm.Thaw, lY.C.Hall, Jay Gould, Pussel Sage, F.I.Ames, W.T.'Palters, Marshall C.Roberts,11 .G.Stebbins, R.P.Barclay, Alfred Gaither, W.W.Keefer, Ti-L.Nesmith of California and *V.M.Hari ison of Texas. I can see no reason wh^Mr. Harrison of Texas, or Mr.Nesmith of California, should be retained in the Board; r^r why t<fr. Gaither, who, I understand has sold out his interest, should be retained, nor Mr. Keefe.., v/ho was put in to represent the Matthew Paird estate, but as the Estate is now all distributed to the heirs, there is no Si-ecial reason why he should be ret ined. Mr.Earclay, of coufse, represents Mr.Scott, so I can see no reason why t^ip four ad ditional names mentioned by Mr.Gould as parties who have a large interest in t'ne Company, should not be elected as Pirectors if the full number of seven teen is retained. I also enclose a resolution to be passed by the otockholders, authorizing and requesting the Director^ and Officers of the Company to nego tiate for a consolidation with the New Orleans '"acific Co. Should it be thought advisable of course a similar resolution can be passed with refoience to the M.K. and T. and the Missouri Bacific. I am very glad to learn that Messrsa Gould, Sage and Ames are all I jf them coming over here. I hope they will come over the evening before, so that if possible the^ can see Mr. Scott on Monday evening and have the more important matters discussed, «nd, so far as pr:cticable, agreed upon, in ad vance of the meeting of the Board. I have my report in pretty good shape and will send over to "r. 118 Gould a- proof tomorrovy. I sent a rough proof to J!r.Scott, who seemed very much pleased with it.' .Krunibhaar writes me that l^lr.Scott was very much 1 delighted with the Report, and did not alter or suggest a single V/ord, cept that a short notice should be given of the '"dew Crleans raciflc as an addenda. As you will see from the Report, I have prepared a very pretty endorsement of the d.O.P. enterprise that will, I think, do a great deal of good. Yours very truly, Frank S.Eond. . , X . } ■ % ■ /• " %, A. .• .... 119 Slate of Louisiana office Board of State Engineers Mew Orleans, August 9th, 1880 Gen'l G. W. Dodge, Pres. Am. Ry. Impt. Co., 80 Broadway, Mew York City. Dear Sir: I have for several -weeks past been acting your chief Engineer. Although you have made me no offer or proposition to assume charge of the work, I am compelled to infer by your letters and telegrants that you expect me to take charge. You write that you may require my presence in New York on or before the 20th inst. the date of the letting. To explain my position, I will quote from the Legislative Act creating and governing my office. "The Governor shall be authorized to appoint three (3) Engineers, one of whom shall be«known as Chief Engineer, and two (2) assistant Engineers, whose term of office shall be four (4) years from the date of their appointment. The Chief Engineer shall receive: a salary of three hundred (1300) dollars per iiionth, and the Assistants two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars each. Theirsalaries, mileage and all office and contingent expenses shall be paid monthly." "It shall be the duty of said Engineers to make a careful survey of water-courses and public work and levees cf the State. Said Survey to be completed as soon after the sub sidence of high water as pra.ticable in order that the con tracts for work may --e let out and commenced at the earliest moment possible. They shhll report to the Governor of the State the improvements necessary, and the levees to be con structed, also in ^id report furnish estimates and specifica tions of work nece..sary to be done." Since writing you last, I find f romi the reports of my Assistants that the waters have now subsided sufficiently to make the annual tour of inspection of the levees, and de termine the location of the new works,as required by low, which will require a month or six weeks of my time and presence with the party, thus putting it out of my power to be with you in New York on the 20th, without resigning my State office. Of course it is hardly necessary to say that I cannot do that with out a definite and satisfactory engagement and understanding with you. In my present position, I have an engagement for four (4) years at a salary d' $300 a month and all expenses paid and with opportunities constantly occurring for outside work, which would yield me as much more easily, as the demands upon my time except at this period of the year are small. Furthermore, in this positi-m, with the exception of the brief period already referred to, I can have my family with me all the year. Although my tastes incline me strongly to Railroads and particularly to this one, with -.hich I have been identified f from its inception, and upon which I have concentrated the experience gained from thirty years practice, I could not be expected to give up an assured position unless secured in another of equal duration and emolument. Whilst I an. fully aware that I am the cheapest man that your Co. can employ even a t a high Sii^lary, on account of my local knowledge already acquired during my five years connection with this work, I am not disposed to take advantage oi' this, but only desire and ask to be p ut on iqual footing with cotemporary Engineers of my own Section. l^.y Junior brother, for example, has for the last six years received a salary of six thousand (.^6000) doi ars per annum from the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad. these f wire me some no falling on the placed against If you are igures for the , as it is due tice before re wat-. rs adiiioni annual tour of under contract the annual ri willing to make a contract w ith me at term of my present engagement,please the Governor that-I should give him signing, and the more so, as the rapidly sh me now to prepare to leave the City inspection, that the State work may be at the earliest practicable period, se in the ]\/'iss. Very truly yours. B . H . Greene, Chief Engineer, . State La, 121 New York Cit-. Au^just 11, 1880. Genl. Sam'l. Thomas, New York City. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of 9th inst. You mention 9000 tons which would be about 90 miles only and you ask that the bonds should be delivered to you as fast as say $20,000 worth of them should be due you. I could not agree to to this. I could only agree them, pro rata as I obtain them from the Company. I will be entitled to bonds only as I complete each section of 20 miles of road. You cay $50.00 per ton. Do you n-ean at the mill, or Cincinnati? I should need about 20 miles per month. I do not know t e capacity of your mill but if it is under that I should have to let you such proportion of the 140 miles as you could turn out in that time. ^ I will hold your oropbsition open until the 25th, in which time all my other bids are to be in and will then correspond with you I pon the subject. Allow me to say to you, hov/ever, that I have a bid, deliverable at the mill, nnich below yours. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. state of Louisiana Office Board of State Engineers New Orleans, August 13th, 1880 Gen'l. G. 1*^. Dodge, Pre8 . Aiij. P.y . Impt. Go ., 80 Broadway, New York. My dear Sir: In 9 th Augt. , I Engineer to kindly grant weeks from M be with you evening next iTiorning, and view a conne reply to your telegram answering my letter of the have to say , that having secured a competent represent- me during my absence, the Governor has ed me a leave of absence from the State for two onday next. Under these circumstances, I will at the letting, as I will leave here on Monda y , putting me in New York the subsepuent Thursday believe that we"can arrange in a personal interction that will be mutually satisfactory. Here I beg that you will allow me to disclaim any intention of desiring by a contract, to fasten mgself upon you and your couipany, whether or not my administration of your affairs was satisfactory, I regret that I omitted to. so qualify that clause of my letter, and since we are likely to be assonciate.d togither, I beg to say, that the slightest hint will command my resignation at any tin:e that my profess ional or admiinistrative acts fall short of your expectations. The second locating party, also the Atchafalaya party are organized, as I telegraphed you today. The water I learn frork inquiries of Atchafalaya steam boat riien, has fallen sufficiently to allow the necessary borings made. I expect to get both parties off Monday. Very truly yours, B.H. Greene. Keiv York City, August 23rd, 1880, B. u. Green, Esq., New York. Defir Sir:- I have appointed Mr. A. H. Stuart Book-keepaf of the Pac. R'way. Imp. Co.,the auditor of the American R'way Improvement Co. with instructions to report to you by letter, in the meantime, to get up the books, vouchers and reports he needs to do the work of the office, making them rimilar to those in use, in the office of the Pac. R'way. Imp. Co. As soon a s you arc ready for a tie and timber inspector please employ Mr. J.T. Potter, nov/ employed by Mr. ivashburn, he being used to our rules of inspections. Mr. Laffing well, will be ordered to report to you, to receive and forward material; and this organization together with the engineer force, will I think, be sufficient to start and carry on the work^ Mr. 'Vashburn will fuhnish you all standard plans with such changes as the country requires, and I desire that you shall confer with him in all matters where it can be made mutually beneficial, as he is thoroughly posted as to the plans and cost of those I propose to -dopt on the New Orleans Pac. R'y. As soon as your location out of Shreveport is determined it will be necessary to build a material•platform and shed where you can receive material from the Texas & Pacific R'y. A platform 150 ft. long by 60 wide with a shed at the end 30 by 50 with a room in one end that can be locked for storage of material which can be stolen. Yours truly, 0. M. Dodge, president. 127 B. K. Green, Esq., New York. Dear Sir: New York City, August 23rd, 1880. You are hereby appointed chief engineer of the American Railwa y Improvement Company with headquarters for the present at Shreveport, La. with a salary at the rate of ^5,000 per annum. You will have full and entire charge of the work in Louisiana anri are the only person entitled to sign drafts ar.d insure obligations for the uompany. All material required for construction outside of La. will be purchased by the office in New York unon your renuisitjon. You will make full and detailed reports to this office. All emoloyeer of the Company in the State will be ordered to report to you. You will report to Messrs. v/oevishoffer & Co. acting Treasurer #54 Exhange Place ^1 drafts drawn l.y you and report to this office for approval all contracts ma(^ on obligations insurred and furnish this office with duplicate contracts and vouchers. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President. 129 . . i New York City . August 26, 1880. Hon. Alex Ramsey, Secretary of trar.. Washington, D.C, Bear Sir:- The American Ry. Improvement Co. of which I am President is eng'ged in building a Railroad in Louisiana which crosses the Atchafelleya river , a navigable stream. I am aware that there are.several acts of Congress which place the Construction of bridges over' certain navigable rivers under the si:5)ervision and control of the War Department, is there any act of Congress, general or special that places the building of this bridge under the direction or control of your department? Ai;ghority to bridge it is conferred by the state of Louis iana in the uharter of the Co. I am not aware of any question being made as to our right, but we wish to proceed with due caution. Shall be glad to have an answer at your early convenience. % Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President. New York City. August 30, ISSTO. M. H. Tay.l or, Ks q., nt. Thomas, Ontario , Dear Sir:- Mr. 3. F. Menroe has been up to see me in relation to the subscription to stock and tonds of the New Orleans Pacific Ry. The entire amount of C.2,000,000 has been taken, as large proportion of it by Messrs. Gould and Sage the originators of project, and myself. I think, if you desire it, I could get, from their subscriptions some (;:50,000 for distribution. We all think tte t it is first class scheme and that there is a good deal of money in i.. The Hew Orleans Pacific Railway is an extension of the Texas 3: Pac ific Railv/ay, and when it is complete to New Orleans it will give us one continuous line from San Francisco to New Orleans. Our people all think well of it. It is 2>eally built for the purpose of S^Ming all our lines an outlet to Mew Orleans, that is for all linos in the Northwest, the Union Pacific a.'d Missouri Pacific as well as t-e Texas and Pacific. r-v / ■ The Texas & Pacific Ry. Co. has agreed to take this road off our hands if we desired them to do so, and give us their stock in exchange for the stock of this company, allowing the ■'*"20,000 per in bonds to remain. There is no question as to the ability of the country through which the road passes to take care of the road locally, outside of all the through bvisiness it may do. Yours ti'uly. G. M. Dodge. 133 New York, Aur,ust 30, 1880. J. M. Lindsay, Esq., Gainsville, Texas. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of August 21st. TTlien e first took hold of tho N. K. T. road, we expected to have the extension going on before now but we met with unexpected obstacles in getting control of the road. You are aware tliat tiie road is ir. the hands of the Union Trust Co. of New York but ve have not get given up our intention of extending the road as soon as matters get in proper shape. TTe appreciate the information of making an extension of the M. K. T. to Calves ton via Fort ■7orth and Cleburne and we trust that the people along that line will be patient until such time as we can see arr way clear to go forvfard. w'e do not consider the building of the Texas & Pacific from TThitesboro and Dent on to Dallas as antagonistic to our interests. Very truly yours. Jay Gould. 135 ,;:r Kew York City, tS'. // Augiist 31, 1680. James P. Scott, Esq., Vice President, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of yesterday. I have apnointcd ?'.r. Mr. A. H, Stuart as Auditor of the Improvement Co. He was Mr. Ross s Chief Clerk, and I thought best to appoint him on account of hir acquaintance ith our method of keeping accounts. I have not yet closed nil contracts on the New Orleans Pacific but am closing them every day, I would be glad to change from iron to 50 lb. steel for this road if I had not virtually closed the contract for a nortion of the iron for the 140 miles. That is I have made an offer for it half cash and half bonds and if they accept it I shall be bound by it. They have also an option on the fastenings on same term. I have written to Mr. Washburn in relation to the iron west of Fort worth, asking him to write me fully what iron it is thd.t shows wear and in what respect it is inferior. If made according to specifications it ought to be good. After we have used this 140 miles of iron we can if thought best lay 50 lb. steel on the old roadbed. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. j. • '' P'j'i * ■■ 137 September 8, 1880. Charles A. '-^hitney, Esq., c/o John T. Terry, Esq., #54 Exchange Place, New York. Dear Sir;- I am in receipt of yours of August 21st . V/e regret the action you have taker, in contracting to extend your road from Lecompte to Alexandria, as this will necessarily force us to parallel your line from Red River to Lecompte and beyond, as it is a.n essential part of the policy of our Company to own its ovm line to the Mississi ppi River near Baton Rouge, If you are desirous of reaching Alexandria, would it not be better for your Company to make running arrangements over the porti n of our line from Alexandria to Lecompte, there is certainly no necessifor more than one lire over that ground, I note also what you .say in refei once to prorating on all New Orleans business via Alexandira, making a proper allowance for transfer and terminal facilities in New Orleans. As our company will own some 1450 miles of railroad they seem to think it will be necessary at some time for them to have termi nal depot facilities there, l>ut until that tiem, I have no doubt we can arrange to do the business over your line from Lecompte to New Orleans .or until such time as we shall have an independent line into New Orleans, upon about the basis suggested in my last letter, However, we shall be glad to confer with ■ ou fully in all these rra, tters and after I have been south, which will be withinp- thi.'^ next 30 davs and have personal^ looked over the ground, I will then be better ' able to ta e up the subject fully and understandingly, I have let the work, and bought the material for buildinr to Lecompte, .and shall go on as rapidly as economy will permit, I hope that upon reaching there, we will be able to make traffic a arrangements, that will be satisfactory to both parties. Yours truly. Dodge, President. S. D. Carpenter, Esq., Ottumwa, Iowa, Dear Sir: 139 Kew York City. Septernber 10th, 1880. I enclose herewith for your signature tliree copies of contract for bridging. Whien properly acknowledged please return them here for my signature. As I wrote you last night forms, stockyards, fencing , and station houses, and buildings of you could give me a better bid u^ as you will have plenty of spare and I will not close contract on in Texas, and have seen our plans with Mr. Green our Chief Engineer me p bid. , I have not let contract for platrcundhouses, cattle guards tanks, all kinds, thinking that probably on them.than aany other parties timber coming from your bridging, them until after you have arrived and have had a clear understanding when I would like to have you give I have let my track and ties to one firm preferring that they should go together and avoid any clashing. I think the bridg ing with buildings named above will give you about as much as you will wanL to do. My tracklayers will commence work about the first or 15th of December. Therefore you want to get the bridging on the first 20 miles out of the way before th.at time; the condition upon piling, which I have inserted (viz. that it shall be drawn by teams when the haul is less than ten miles) is for the r-o.son that I am told by my engineers who examined the line that you can get piling that complies with the specifications very near to all the openings at least within that distance and it would not pay you to load them on the cars and I h£^e suggested that in doing the bri(^nr, as it will be some time beXore you reach the long leaf pine country, you can use temporarily, hard wood stringers which, when you reach the long leaf pine you can take out, carry forward and use for caps. This will avoid going off the line for any timber and it will be much cheaper for you. Also on these bridges you could until you reach the pine coiintry put in temporary bridge ties. However, this is a matter for your arrangement.with the chief Engineer. I have made these suggestions in order to save transportation over the lire of the road as much as possible. My engineer states that piling and square timber and hard wood can be obtained adjacent to the structures vmtil vou struck good pine. If this is the case you would only be obliged to load on the cars a very small amount of timber. I want the first ten or twenty miles of bridging out of the way by Nov. 15th and then kept out of the way of the track which will be laid at the rate of 25 miles per month. I shall put up all my buildings behind the track except a warehouse at the Junction of the T. c-, P. and N.O.P . and a passenger house at same place.and these will have to be put up immediately. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President. 141 New York September 15, 1 880 . B. H. Green, ilsq., Chief Engineer, Sh'reveport, La, Dear Sir:- I have a letter from Gov. Brown in relation to your conference and decision of running a line south from a point between Plournoy and Beckville which is all right, but I do not want you to abandon the direct line that you propose starting somev/here below Mansfield and running as directly as possible to Shreveport. I want that line developed also. ^ have put down in pencil on the enclosed skdc h my ideas of what might possibly be done, on the direct line. However, you are on tlie grounds ar.d know best. In considering the direct line any line striking our road west of Shreveport we must have in view the affect it will have not only upon the city of Shreveport but upon th^r influence in Louisiana. We do not want to do anything to antagonize that sentiment. I know Governor Brown fully appreciates this sentiment . I hope you will freely confer with him but give me, as promptly as possible information on all these lines. The true way to get it is to run quick preliminary lines^ Then we can soon decide which to locate. Very truly yours, G . M. Dodge, President. 143 New York City, September 15, 1880. Dear Granger:- I am in receipt of yours of 11th all of which I approve. I have written Mr. Green, giving ray ideas of to Shreveport. Our people here seem to think that i that we should not do anything that would antagonize and feeling of the people at Shreveport on account o it ihight make against us in the st-te. However, you as fully as I do but I t :ink if we stai-t a line from south of Mansfield and follow the ridge as indicrted to me, and get down off of th-t ridge. If the map i looks as though there was a very feasible line, dire in that case the distance around by Shreveport would further than it is to strike off where you siiggest a branch into Shreveport. 'Vhat we want is to '■et all fully developed so we can get them before usand thupon which to locate. the direct line t is important the interests f the feelin<^ understand this some point by Mr. Greene, s accurate it ct to Shreveportj not be much nd build the these lines n we can decide. My idea of the development of the country is that we shoiid run rapid preliminary lines so as to give us the contour of the coun{,ry. ''hen I see that I can very quickly determine when we EhOuH locate . I am very glad Wathen is going to give some attention to this. Referring to your letter about acceptin - the twenty miles I suppose tir. Washburn wants it accepted by you, so as to getcmaterial to him more rapidly as I have not called for any acceptance. It will not be long now before you are in Eastland and then I suppose you will make your "Y". X Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. Hon. John Brown, Vice Prert. T & P. Ry, Co. Marshall, Texas. 145i. ; :■ September 16, 1860. S. D, Carpenter, Esq., Ottumv/a, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your letter returning contract and I telegraphed you this morning that I would agree to the changes . ' proposed, I do not propose to use the lon-^ leaf pine if we can get good heart of pine a] ong the line of the road, but that is a question for you to settle with the engineer, Mr. Greene, I prefer to use the heart of pine lying along the line of the road because I do not want to transport any timber over the T. & P. if j can avoid it. I do not know whether or not the Engineer will be willing to have you use oak stringers. If he would I do not object but I believe it would be better for you and cheaper for you and better for the Co. to use only one style of stringers. You should order immediately your bolts end washers so as to have them on the ground. The approximate estimate of the quantity is as follov;s; \ 8,000 'chors bolts. S/S by 9 4,000 drft " 3/4 by 18 16,000 washers for 5/8" bolt. 16,000 packing weshers for 5/8 bolt. 150 kegs best spike 8" long 3/8 square. Be careful to get these last 3/8 " square as there are 420 of them in a keg whereas of square tfiere are only 250 in a keg. I enclose plan showing the style of bolts, washers, etc. that are used, we have heretofore purchased them of M. m. Buck Sc Co. of Gt Louis and I had already sent a letter to him asking for a bid upon them. When you reach St Louis you can probably get them from him. If you do you can get tlie benefit of our rates of freight by shipping them to ]•■ . il. Green, Ch. Eng'r. of this Co. at Shreveport, La., via Iron Mt. & Texas & Pacific Ry. I want tr have the road crossings put in by the track men. The Cattle Guards I will let to you, with the other build ings at so much cash. They cannot be measured in the work. As soon as you get 'down there and see the plans make me a bid upon buildings, cattle" guards, etc. Yours truly. G. M Dodge President. 147 -i, v: September 22, 1880. George F. Tyler, Esq., 15th & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir:- I have conrulted our 'people here as to the policy of placing C500,000 wdfcth of New Orleans Pacific Ry. Co. first mortgage bonds, or purchasing iron for half cash and half bonds. They seem to think it is best for me to place the bonds as sugg' sted by you and I therefore propose if confidential arrange ments can be made to place in that way the above named amount of bonds at 80 and accrued interest*, payments on the bonds to be made as I make the payments u-^on the iron and the bonds to be issued for each payment, or a certificate calling for the bonds, if the bonds have not been issued to me. There is a clause in the contract by which the Fidelity Loan & Trust Co. can issue the bonds ar.d take iron for security, which is probably the way I should do if I do not have enough bonds coming to me from the Company at the time the iron was ready." My payments on this iron would probably be made about monthly, commencing in November and running on through the greater portion of 1881. Understand that J- do not offer these for the purpose of going upon the market in any way but, as you thought you could find some few friends, who would take them and make it'^a confidential transaction I have concluded to place it in your hands. Please let me hear from you upon the subject. Very truly yours, Dodge. President. The Am. Ry. Imp. Co. i4r ShrevepoEt, La., Gamp near Flourney Sta., Sept. 24, 1880 Gen'l. G. N'. Dodge, Pres. Am. Ry. Imp. Co. 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: I will forward you per express of tomorrow morning tracings of map and profiles of all the suggested lines. Knowing your anxiety to teceive them at the earliest moment they have been executed in camp under whip and spur, hence many details have been omitted in order to get them off in the morning. I will take them up to Marshall to night to express them. The profiles represent the preliminaries as run, the map on a reduced scale, shows the ..onnection and relative posi tion of the respective lines-y and the approximate location deduced fron them, wl.ich will at no point increase the work represented by the orofiLes, but will lighten it say 10;^ throughout. After'you have decided upon the line to be lo cated, you will be furnished with a complete profile on pro file paper, as Sections of 13 miles are located. In my last letter I gave you my views as to the lo cation, which you were kind enough to invite, rather inferentially than directly. Looking to the local business, and cost of keeping up the road on either line, my preference is for the detour or ridge line, and to buildinto Shreveport as direct as possible from where we leave the ridge at the head of "Rumbey's" Bayou. The line marked on the map "B". As\.previously stated, this line occupies the most advantageous' position fpr the surest connection with the T. & P. west of Shreveport, should such a connection in the future be deemed to the advantage of the N. 0. P. But really General, this is not a questi n of Engineering, but one of policy or a commercial question, which the Stockholders or their Chief Executive officer will of course determine. There are no serious physical obstacles in the way on either line, as the profiles demonstrate. In as much as you desire, me to confer freely with Gov. Brown on all questions of policy of this Co. and the M. 0. P I have with one party commencod the location from Flournoy 3ta. in deference to his theory, of this being the quickest and most economical move, of bringin^ the Shreveport people to terms. In further deference to the Governor's views, with the other porty I an running a preliminary from the T. I- P. from its crossing of the Western line of the corporation of Shreveport, .assing some 3 miles south of Flournoy Sta., up to the T.& P. again at its crossing of the State Line. By the time this and th© accompanying papers will reach yuu, every 150 line that can be suggested will have been run, and if you de cide to telegraph your decision, the true or final location can be at once commenced and if it will stop raining, be push ed very rapidly. The line you indicated in pencil upon the sketch sent you by Gov. Grown,after getting beyond Fiansfield, is about the same as my direct line, marked "A" on the map. I found I could not "improve theprofile by running nearer,the ridge as I suggested in New York night lighten the work. To move in that direction, would lose us the benefit of the San Patrice ■\^alley heading up near N'ansfield. Besides, there is no stream running in the right direction ( all East) by which we could get off the ridge. South of the one I adopted, heading up near the town of Mansfield. I'returnsketch, that you miay see how near we werO upon the same track. The dotted red line would be the location line, should the direct line be adopted. To give a show of earnestness to the Flournoy movement, I have through the skillful eflorts of the right of way agent obtained already a-deed to 50 acres, of giound forthe Company, conditional of course upon our building to that point. The Atchafalaya borings have given most satisfactory results, hard clay bottom for any depth. I had borings made at intervals of 1.^/0 feet. Perhaps Mr. Vheelock had better send you specimens of material left with him. He informs me he has written you on the subject. Hoping to hear from you very soon and to receive definite instructions, I am. Yours very truly. B, H. Greene, Chief Engineer 151 New York City. September 29, 1880. John C. Brown, Esq., Vice Brest. T. & P. Ry. Co., Marshall, Texas. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your letter in relation to the New Orleas Pacific. Prom it i judge that you expect to swing over near Shreveport into the line that is built directly north would strike the T. P . some where near Plournoy. I suppose that Green & Wathen will soon determine where it is best for us to locate, and then I hope soon to get the maps and profiles. Of course if we go into Shreveport that city should aid us largely and there will be no need of both the T P. leased line and the N. 0. Pacific and if necessary one or the other could be done away with or if it was thought best we could put the Hew Orleans Pacific right up to Flourney to begin with. I have contracted for 5,000 tons of iron for the N.O.Pac. to arrive in Galveston in November. I wrote you about getting a rate from Galveston to Shreveport. I have arranged for a rate.St. Louis to. Shreveport over the Iron Mt. and the T. & P. and what I now want is a ton rate from Galveston so that my iron coming bb, water can be taken up to Longview and thence over t c T. P. and I have no doubt that Newman can make a better arrangement with the International than I can. I under stand (jhat they now own a line into Galveston . whatever arrangerOnt is made I would want them to attend to the freight ratesi duties,and and everything of that kind so that I would not have to keep a man at Galveston and of course whatever cash they paid out on duty and weights I would expect.to repay by draft. I do not know exactly what clearance cost*^but suppose it is not much. The iron for which I have contracted costs me delivered at Galveston, inside the ban $44.50 to $45 per ton. I have nov contracted for everything on the 140 miles except the building of the inildings the last 48 miles of grading which I am waitin- for one or two parties to look at. I think all my contracts are with good parties , that, however, remains to be seen. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. New Ycrk City. October 1, 1880, Geo. F. Tyler, Esq., 200 So. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of September 30th, and in answer to your question I can say that you are authorized to negotiate 250 or 500 M. 1st Mtg. Bonds of the Nev/ Orleans Pacific Ry. Co. at 90 v/ith a bonuf of 50/j in stock of the same Company. In other wordsj for each $900 paid in the svibscriber will receive a $1000 bond and ^.pbOO in stock, calls to be made the same as calls upon the other subscription. None, say, before November 1st and then not nearer together than 30 days. Of course when the negotiation is made there will have to be a payment of 10^ the same as on the other subscription. The subscription will bear 6f. interest until the subscribers receive bonds bearing interest, I think you have one of the circulars upon v/hich the other sub scription was based lut I enclose another for your information. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President. 155 October 6, 1880. New York City. B. H. Greene, Esq., Chief En.rineer, Shreveport, La. Dear Sir:- I have several letters and dispatches from you as well as from Gov. Brown in relation to our line from Shreveport and have wired you in answer thereto. Hy desire is to make our terminius in Shreveport and as soon as possible to get grounds on the Bagon and right of way. As soon as as the city will give them to us we will grade them and put up our depots but until this is done we had better erect a temporary warehouse at the stock yards when , you commence your work on a platform and shed where we can store our material as it comes in. Prom your last dispatch I judge that the only increase in expense in pu'shing the line a little farther north than the B line, making it connect near where th.e 0 line crosses Boggy Bayou and that we did not add much to the work though we might a little to the distance. The most of the business over the New Orelans & Pacific will of course come from the Vest and go to the "Vest, therefore it is necessary for us to make a freight connection preferably at Flournoy but that is an after consideration. As I have previously written yru I want bids from Carpenter for putting up all buildings and structures not already contracted for and if you can utilize the men until these contracts are let, you had better do so . You might let him, for instance, put up the building at the Junction. This building should be merely a temporary one with a platform and shed, the latter portion having Ce room which could be locked up. If we are going to ri-^ down Slnto Shreveport we would want to put our buildings unon our local grotinds -. I wish you would urge the people cf Shreveport to take immediate action so that we elm commence our business right at that city instead of from the stockyards. Carpenter will have plenty to do in getting his piling timber on the ground at the different crossings and getting out his stringers. I suppose that Zearing & Andrews will soon be on the ground ready to open work on* the first 10 miles and Carney and Hart on the following 25. I have another party now looking, at the grading from the 35 mile point to the end. I want to iiear from you by letter as often as convenient so that I may keep thoroughly posted as to the pro rcss of the work. There seems to have been a little di ference of opinion between you and Governor irown as to where the line should be located but as you stated to me, it is more a question of policy and comrercial interest than of engineering and I have therefore instructed to swein the line as far north as practicable without materially increasing the work or distance with a view of at some future time starting from near the corssing of Boggy Bayou and continuing to Plournoy but wili now put our right of way on the main line. Have you heard an'thing from Mr. V/ebster who has the contract for ties and tracklaying ? Ho should be on the ground getting out his ties. 157 1880 New Orleans Pacific Ry., Estiaated cost per mile. Earth excava^.ion Clearing & Grubbing Ties Prid-ing Track, Including Iron spike bolts, plates laying Buildings Road Crossings, Cattle guards,) Depots water stations section houses ) Telegraphs Engineering Expei'^ses Legal Trasportation Equipment Contingencies 10^ Deduct for Ponds vlVOO 300 1060 1050 c 6100 350 150 500 200 500 1750 13,660 1,366 15,026 2,000 13,026 At present prices the 240 miles of road from Shreveport to Mississippi River will cost Under contracts already let on 140 miles there.is payable in l^nds Balance payable in cash $3,606,240 480,000 3,126,240 Bond & Stock subscription to date $1,223,000 90 1,3.00,700 2,000,000 $3,100,700 V ' ■ - 1 159 rcj Kew York City. October 14, 1880. Messrs. E. V/. Clark & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Gentlemen:- We have sold to you $500,000 of the subscription to the stock and bonds of the New Orleans Pacific Ry. upon the conditions set forth in the ocoompanying circular, except, that upon calls of each assessment after the first bonds will be delivered for the amount of the assessments as paid. It is probable that I shall not need the money for this subscrip tion until sometime in November but will give you due notice thereof and when I make the call wfll issue the proper certificate in such names and in such amounts as you may desire. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President, New York City, October 18, 1880, B. H. Greene, Esq., Chief Engineer, Shreveport, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of Oct. 14th. In looking at your map and if you will look back at your telegrams and mine, it would seem that after you make your turn 4-| miles from Flournoy and two miles from Boggy Bayou you could run a straight line to about the 20th mile past on your B line. According to the map at the point where you now correct you have to swing your line to the east a. d then back again to the west. Is this necessary? I notice onthe plat you send me that the piece of land donated toyou lies along the T. & P . instead of on the B.O.P. "■■hy is this? As it is you cannot avail yourself of it without switching off of the main line of the N. 0. P. I suppose you propose to use if for storage ground more than anything else but still, even for this purpose it would be better were it on the main line of the N. 0. P. instead of on the T. & P. I make these suggestions for information only. miles. It is important to get the graders at work on the first five I cannot let the uildings at the prices carpenter wants upon them. I do not xi^derstand why buildings on that line should be worth so much more than upon the line of the T. & P. especially when timber is so convenient and will postpone the matter until I /xet down tharn How are you getting along with the Right of Way? You want to be vrry careful in relation to it for we have always had trouble about our right of way in t at country bn account of defective titles. Whenever the company comes to accept the road from us thev will criticise that point very closely. I suppose you have a first class man in charge of it who understands the matter fully but where there is any doubt about the man s title the better way is to condemn. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 163 Ootober I8th 1880. 26C/, Fifth Avenue, tv Brooklyn, Oct. I8th. I8&0, Gen.G.M.Bodge; 78 Broadway, New Tork. Bear' General; It seema to me, at least as a matter of course that I ! should conLiiunicate to you my affairs and situation until I repay my indebted ness to you which I would not have incurred nor do I think you would have per mitted had you not thought that I had the ability and integrity to discharge it. In my last two conuTiunications I gave .you full particulars and have not heard in reply.I trust that you will not conclude ,that I am a confirmed inva lid. Experience has made me more than half a physician. 'Wien ATr.Granger first ' visited me by your direction he found me occupying premises then not tenantable, the agent had agreed when we took them to put the water pipes, leaks from the roof and other defectt in order but did not. I had already been for sometime confined by a bronchial affection, not serious but in that house was attacked with the malaria, an insidious and unaccountable affection. This did not seem to aggravate, but hindered full recovery of the other ailment. But I have been debilitated and held in this condition as you may infer. 'Ahen I gained strength to go to New York to the office every day for a week thought I had a foot on shore. But a serious cold so comiion at the se.-son confined me at lome. Not able to go over myself and not knowing what might possibly be the outcoxe, "*• advised my wife to counsel with you. She called at your office on Saturday and you were absent and it was uncertain when you would be in, as is likely at any time with all your engagemeuts, therefore I dictate this for her to forward to you. Here allow me to say my obligations to you req.uire me to state all to you, not only but I want a life, long acq^uaintance and sub stantial friend as you have been, to be in possession of every particular which I have written you from the outset, have a copy of and can verify. So that in case I should be subject toaany more serious ordeal from illness or otherwise, there would be the record v,-ith my family for them and with you for anyone interested. This is over cautious and far fetched, but will not b be thought of a^I become stronger in he.'1th and position. In r^">rd to the last two letters stating the position we were in and the proposition , you of course will use your best Judgment. I hope you will accept it if it is in your power. It will be a line thrown To me tfe¥ I can pull asTTore on -.ndThe last favor I "can ask of you under such circumstances even. If you do it, will you please at the same time ad dress me a letter of this pui-port. That you have relieved myself and family all through the past year and lately that you had responded to Mrs. F^irfields personal appeal uhtil she could hear from her father in Texas.That it is well known here and in Texas that the Stillmans have for a long time had exten sive and valuable interests there in lands, stock growing am; othejwise. That the railroads you are constructing will greatly multiply that valuei-of fill interests there and that they are quite as able as you or any one to assist in a case like this of T^ra. Fairfields who is Mr.Stillman^s daughter. That you can do no more and say "it in -ll kindness". The letter my wife will en close to her father and awaken him. Chauncey Gtillrnan,my brother-in-law has been with us and approved what I have written you. As soon as we found ourselves in the present unexpected and unavoidable emergency,he telegraphed and wrote his father the ui-gency of it. But says that he is on one of• his interior ranches ay.ay from mail-: nd tel egraph, that we may not hear from him "before the first of the month or a few days later, t'y wife has also written him fully. Chaunoey says he gets a letter and loses thought of it thinking of nothing else but cattle,- horses, mules and sheep. Is inert and forgetful and the only way is to keep reminding him, v/hich will be done. rvelie"ve us for today if in your power .By prudence think I can go about my b^usiness permanentiy~l)y tfie time the election is over. It will be a good-time to commence. Great changes will occur v/hich ever party wins, not sudden nor for the worse, but grad ually for the better. Very truly yours, 7/.S.Fairfield. id'.' « / > s ' vvr „ ' 'I ' ■ < . 1 • • . I ' • - /'V iiiLi'mtL * ^. it"s New York, Get. 19, 1880. W. T. Fairfleld, Esq., Brooklyn, New York, Dear Sir: I enclose you herewith a check for IJICO in answer to your various applications. You know how much I have helped you in the last few years, the fact is, I cannot afford it. The demands upon me are so great that nothing but old friendship and acquaintance and the fact that I know that you are suffering for the aatual necessities of life would induce me to continue it and with this I must stop. Lately I have acted upon Mrs. Fairfield's personal application until sl.e could hear from her father in Texas. It is w ell known her- and in Texas that Mr. Stillman is a wealthy man, with extensive and growing interests in that state in lands, cattle and ranches and the rapid development of Texas by the completion of roads that I am building must greatly enhance his interests ana wealth and it is beyond my compre hension that he does not promptly aid and relieve you. I say this in all kindness and with sorrow. It is due to you, Mrs. Fairfield and myself that I should say that I can do no more. I hope you will take this in the same spirit of kindness in v/hich it is written and believe me, very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. ^ New York Citjr, October 21, 1880. B. H. Green, Esq., Chief Engineer, Shreveport, L , Dear Sir: I understand that it is going to be difficult to get ties on the first 10 miles of road out of Shreveport. If this is so, and if thej'- can get a good heart of pine, no matter it is is not t]:e Ion'" leaf pine, but the same heart of pine that the T. & P. uses you can accept it until you get into the long leaf pine country. O'^r specifications a call for long leaf pine but it must be the heart of pine. I have a letter from a party in Shreveport speaking of 10 miles of old graded road near where our line is located. I never heard of it before. Could not we have used it? I want to let the grading south of the 35th mile post and I wired W'bster in answer to a dispatch from him, that I would pay 10 cents for work ^from that point to section 80 and 22 cents from section 80 to section 85. It seems to me that you might let the work down there in small sect ions, but what is especially neces ary is to got some parties at work in those heavj"^ cuts. For those token alone I would be willing to pay 24 centsj all of the above prices half cash half bonds. If ?/ebster does not take it, see v/hat you can do and get them to work in these heavy cuts as soon as possible. You should hur^' up the graders who have taken the first 35 miles they ought to work on it' immediately. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 169 New York City, October 23, 1880. James P. Scott, Vlos President, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir:- Since you were here a few weeks ago, I have made the followin'- contracts for this company. Trading on the 1st ten miles Shreveport, La. East, Messrs. hearing &z Andrews, and t e next £5 miles to Messrs. Earner rk Hart at prices for earth 18^. solid rock, vl.OO loose rock, 4:8^. clearing Sc grading C25.00 per acre. Tracklaying to Messrs. J. M. Webster & Co. 140 miles at (415) per mile and the ties for the same length of road at 40^ each. Bridging to T. D. Carpenter Co. at prices for piling including driving, thirty five (35) cents per lineal foot driven measurement to include full length below the cap. For Bridge Trestling comniete, including all material and labor thereoc, Twenty, Five (g25) dollars per M. B. '. measurement to be made in t];e work. For excavations for Trestle foundations, when reguired by the Engineer, twenty five (25) cents per cubic yard. For wrought iron in works eight (8) cents per lb, I have also contracted with Allison & Co. for 500 Plat Cars delivered in Pi a Philadelphia at p449 each, half of which go to the Texas & Pacific and the other half to the Hew Orleans Pac. Co. AH of the above -rices half cash and ha]f in Bonds of the New Orleans Pac. Co. I have also purchased through the Messrs. Henry Lewis- 8 Co. Philadelphia, 2500 tons of rails at 6 pounds 58 per ton cash f.o.b. Wales and 2,500 tons of rails at same price on 90 days paper to be shipped by steam to Salvest on, com:"encing latter part of November, I have also 1st contract for a platform & depot at Shreveport for the storage of our material at the price of ^800 on which they are now at work. ^ The Tracklayers, Bridge & Tie men, are on the ground and at work and I expect the grading to open within a few days. The line has been located from Mansfield to a junction with the Texas & Pacific Ry., near the stock yards in Shreveport, I believe this is a complete statement of all that has been done since the organization of the Company. Hereafter I will advise vou of any important transactions. Very truly yours, Cr. M. Dodge, President. October 26th 1880, 171 Weatherfoi''d, October 2Gti- 1880, Gen, Dodge; r. Cir. In accord with your verbal request for me to look Into the reas ons why the track is being laid so slowly and the cause of other detentions I v/ould state; . In the first place the 'essrs. Coleman do not v/ork well with Ademson and do not agree together. The Coleman's think they know their business and how to lay track better than Ademson,while Ademson thinks he knows the ' best. They have a poor organization and do not know how to order their material in advance, and do not handle their men to advantage. They are absent too often, and when they are there, all try to order at the seme time, and the result is conflict and confusion. For some rea...on they have made themselves extremely obnozious to t'aj. V.'ashburn and while he is chief Engineer, and has the immediate supervision of the work, your track will proceed at a snail's pace. Understand me plainly, the ^^essrs. Coleman are gentlemen, my re lations with them are )^xtremely pleasant, I am wliolly unbiased, and as be tween viashburn and the Colemans l^would (other things being equal) side with tlie latter, but after a careful exarain.ation of the matter, after hearing in my rough clothes ahead of the track the gossip of the hands, when t)iey did not know who I was, 1 am forced to the conclusion that they do not understand tneir business or at least, can't lay track fast enough for y.,u. On the other hand there is too much favoritism shown "essrs.Jones, Cowan and ICnowlton, who have the bridge contruct. Whe)i y. u come down please ascertain whether a great part of tneir work docs not corioist of extras, and v.nether tney do net turn in the cost ct this and get in addition a profit of 18 per cent on tiie same. I am aatlafied that Washburn wishes to lay the track himself, r^.o I believe that after that plays out he will want to give it to Jones, Cowan and Knowlton. Ml the above is derived from quiet observation^ and my personal relations with all the parties are, pleasant, but I am satisfied that it is in the main correct. Very truly y^ours, E. E. iiontgem: ry. I am satisfied that material is' forwarded promptly, and whenever ordered with sufficient notice in advance, and from what I heard am satisfied that '.Vashburn does and has done his best to have it forv;arded promptly. Have just I heard that Coleman and Ademson refused to recognize 7'ashburn's authority to let the telegraph contract for the £ hund^d miles and actually ordered their men to keep up v/ith tixe construction and refuse to recognise User at all. The An . Ry . Imp. Co. 173^ T // Shrevenort, La., October 28th, 1880 Gen'l Dear Sir; W. Dodge, President etc 80 Broadway, Ne'.v York. On my return from a trip over the line, I found yours of the 18th and 21st. L Letters from New "^ork latterly have been from five days to a week getting here. My answer to your telegram.of the 4th was, "C" line deflects from "B:" line at foot of ridge dividing Cypress from Boggy. . Line you suggest would run across this^'ridge and mater ially incr'ease the work." The line suggested in your letter of the 18th would cross the same ridge, entailing a long and heavy cut. The 'B" line is thrown to the west toavoid impracticable hills south of Cypress, between mile posts 25 and 20*and back to the east, in order to get in the valley of one of the heads of Rambin Bayou, leading to the top of the main ridge. Your suggestion is a most natural one, looking at a map devoid of topography, which the pressure under which It was made, unfortunately precluded putting on to any extent. I am endeavoring to carry out your injundtion to make a "close location." The building at the Junction. I have of course al ways understood would be merely a temporary one, with a plat form and shed, and in locating it as shown on the plat, I first sent you, I was governed largely by the fitness of the ground in a natural state, for storage ground and multiplying tracks if necessary, including a Y for which I had obtained the right of way. Ai.so of coutj^e looking to an easy connection of tracks with the T. & P. which can be Jiad at the eastern end of these grounds. I would have preferred it on our main line, but there is no suitable ground on the south side within the City limits. Our main line crosses the east and west Corporation line 500 feet from the Junction at the Cattle pens, and the first avail able ground is as shown on profile enclosed. If it is not important that this structure should be within the City lines (and I do not see that it is, since it is designed to be temporary) this location is a good one, and the ground around is very favorable for storage ground, being a plateau, level for 600 feet each side of the line. It is covered with small growth, which will cost something to remove, and involve some little grubbing. On the north an ..d City side of the crossing of the T. &. P. the ground is also favorable, but as I telegraphed you yesterday, belongs to infants ( or "miner heirs" as styled in Louisiana law) and v/ould have to be expropriated, involving some delay, and I fear considerable outlay for the property. We v/ould alos have to cross the side as well as main track of the T. & P. and several streets, to reach it. Besides these people have not yet succeeded in getting the right of way through the town, or depot grounds on the Bayou,and it occurod to me, it ould be .jetter for us not to lay a rail beyond the cattle pens, but to rest right there, until they had cleared the way for us. I trust I have made the matter clear, and beg that you wire me your preference, as Carpenter tells me he will not be ready to commence the building for some days and 'ill then rush it. He has secured his mill and will have it running in a few days, and I am sure can abate his bid on the other buildings,as his estimate was based upon price of lumber at Shreveport mills. I will try him and report. We are having very little trouble with the right of way. I have a "first class man" in charge of it, and titles are rigidly scrutinized. In regard to the "old graded road near where our line is located," I have never thought it worth mentioning to you for various reasons. In the first place, it does not run at all with our present location, being 2 miles to the east of it, where we make our turn to the south, even if it ran right, it would not be a desirable acjuisition. It is partially and im perfectly graded for 6 or 7 miles from the cattle pens in the direction of Keachi. Located for a narrow gauge road and badly located, 80 feet gi-ades, banks 8 feet in width at the grade line, and when material is borrowed, taken right from the foot of the sj.'0pes, leaving no ber--. To bring them to our width, would make it necessary iir most cases to fill up the very pits from which the old bonds were mode I have used 3/4th of a mile of it, starting out from the Junction, because it occupied for that distance the very ground I would have selected had there been no road them. I could not get a line between it and the T. & P. and have done as well. The enclosed newspaper slip will gte you the history of the transaction. In all matters of this kind, I act under the adivoe of the best lawyer in Shrevepabt, Col. George Williamson, whom you know. The dotted line on the profile enclosed, represents the surface of-this old grading, which of course I have had to widen. The full line representing the natural surface,is put on merely to show you how..unnuitable the ground is for our purposes immediately at the Junction and for IJOO feet south of it. ' Gen. G. K. D. 175 ■ - . Sheet # 2 ■'' I I Shreveport, La. Oct. 28, 1880 Webster, carpenter and Iv'iadden ha-, e gone down the line to examine heavy work. They are expected back tonight. On their return I will arrange with Webster to get out ties on the first 8 or 10 miles in accoi'dance with suggestions contained in your telegram of yesterday. If Webster does not take the heavy work below, I believe I can let it in small sections to goodmen, and of course will make the effort promptly. I enclose a recent letter from a friend who is the City Engineer of f^femphis. I have written him to request those parties to send you a bid,and will myself write them direct if I have to seek contract ors away from her-e. I have done every thing in my power to get the Contract ors to start the grading. On last ^'onday, Zearing & Andrews broke ground with a feeble JTorce at the Junction and on'the same day Carney & Hart did like wise, some 12 mil es from the Junction. They shall be required to put on adequate forces. 'Webster also needs stirring up. Very truly yours, B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer. New York, November 3, 1880. J. Bliokensderfer, Jr., Chief Bngr. U.P.Ry., Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of youro of October 20. I think that Yr. Wokott or any other one of your principal assistants who are valuable to the road should be retained during the winter if v^e have any use for them or can keep them at work. If not give them leave of absence untilsppping when tiioy will be needed again. You must be the judge of the extent to which you cut down your number of employees but the chiefs of divisions should always be kept as long as there is a prospect of work ahead. That has always been my policy and it is the policy that will be approved by President Dillon. I suppose most of the Assistants can be 16t go as their places can always be supplied but I do not kno'.v that there is any one on the road except I'r. lYokott whom we are under obligations to retain unless perhaps it sh-uld be Mr. I'oscrip but of this-you must be the judge and whatever you do in the matter I am certain will be approved. Truly, G. I.I. Dodge. \ 4 ' ' < 179. New York City, November 5, 18c0( Jas. P. Scott, Esq., Vice President, Phila. Dear Sir:- I find it will be impossible for me to go to Texas until I can get transportation there sufficient to do my work. I wish when you get down there that you v/ould go to Shreveport ai.d look over the ground and write me fully how they are progressing and of anything t'";at you thir.K, needs attention. I have a. idea that the contractors need stirring up. I have inrtructed Mr. Greene to obtain bids for the ties, bridiging and remainder of the 'trading i'rom Fayou Goula to Lecompte, deliveries to be made so as to com ence laying track from Bayou Goula. I want him to get these bids in by the time I reach there so that I car let the contracts at that time. I havf^ made a contract for 5000 additional tons of iron deliver d at Galveston at about the same cost as the other and am now contractinn: for some to be delivered at Baton Rouge. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. LA- 181 New York City, November 5, 1880 Frank J© Bond, Vice Brest . Philadelphia, Pa, Dear Sir; After consulting with Mr. Gould as to the reorganization of the New Orleans Pacific, he seems to think that if it can drift along until we can make the reorganization omplete it would probably be better than to put in a new board. You and the Mr. Scott, must be judges of this. However, if a new board is made up he desires that a majority of the Executive Committee shall be in New York, and for directors, representing our interests sug-ests the following names: Thos. A. Scott; Jay Gould; Addison Cammack; Russell Sage; D. Filsenheld; Frank S. Bond; A. K. Wicks; W. T. Walters; George J. Forrest; A. L. Hopkins; J. P. Dillon; this leaves five directors to be put in from the south, one of whom he suggests should be Governor Brown; the others, as Mr. Scctt may designate. - Make the Executive of such New York & Philadelphia parties as you deem best only have a majority of it in New York. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. President. November 8" 1880 183 Buffalo Gap Nov. 8, 1880, My dear General; When you asked me in New York to look up matters quietlj' in Texas, and ascertain tie true position of affairs and the reason why the work did not progress faster I forgot to speak of several matters of which I had been a long while cognizant. I VAt only here a very short while before I found out that no friend of yours had much shov; on the road. They did not apply this par ticularly to me, for the reason that we had very.little business in comir.on, but parties who were your friends, or had been appointed by you, were uni formly treated with coldness or even worse. As you very well knov/ this can only emanate from one source, and that is from the Chief Engineer. I would again call your attention to the bridge contractors. I understand that nearly all the work they do is extra, by the day, and that they get 15 per cent over the actual cost. I -understand that all the superstincture on the truss bridges is done this way ( i.e.the labor). Bridge men have lately discoverec a vein of poor coal some 4 miles from the road and are drifting in. Under instructions from Washburn (who advances the Improvement Co. money) they have already secured and pro pose to secure large quantities of land off the road. If they would confine themselves to simply filing on State lands and then prospecting,it would do well enough, but this idea of buying large quantities of land off the line of the road, when there is every probability of it being found on the main track la a useless waste of money. Besides we will get coal west of the ?ecas and near the Big Springs, and perhaps in Nolen County. If the Messrs. Knov/lton wish to prospect, let them do it at their own expense. I came on the construction train from Eastland to the end of the track and was struck with the demoralized/state of Coleman Bros, gang. No'discipline, no "esprit du corps". They have poor sleeping quarters and poorer forfe, and you know that to keep men in this country they must be well housed and fed, and not left in rotten tents. Very truly K.E.Montgomery. <• i.* The All . Ry. Imp. Co Shreveport, La., November 8th, 1880 Gen. Dear M. ttodge. President etc. 80 Broadway, New York City. I have not written you since receiving your dispatch of Nov. 3d. to divide work between Carpenter, Mallory & Madden, and Callahan and Dunavant for the reason that I have not yet closed the Contract with Callahan & Dunavant who are Lo be here tomorrow and nothing else of much imsportance has trans pired . There will be no trouble in letting this heavy work to other good parties at Callahan and Dunavants bid even should they fail to stand to their bid, or at 22 cts. half bonds to good reliable parties. I am seri capacity to execute arrived hei-e nearly gotten out a single parties to get out a week ago, and has repeatedly that he with the assurance lost all confidence for new Contractors ously apprehen.-ive of Webster's ability or his contract. He with his partner McDoniel a fnonth ago, and up to this time have not tie, nor have they contracted ith any any ties. Webster went to St. Louis about not yet returned. I have notified him must get to work, which is always answered that he will not be behind hand. I- have inhini, and believe we will have to look out in his stead. Zearing and Andrews are very slow, though as I previc'usly wrote you had made a feeble start from the Junction. I am constantly stirring them up. Carney & Hart are more energetic The fact Is Webster's dilatoriness has demoralized the whole line, with the exception of Carpenter, who is a first class man and contractor. His hew partner Madden, has impressed m.e very favorably. For their grading contract the firm is styled "James Madden & Co." Relieving there was a probability of an improved alignment being found on the East side of the high ground I spoke of inmy last, by throwing the line one mile east opposite mile post 23, thence running nearly due south to the angle between miles 11 & 17, I ordered an instrumental examination made. I did not allude to it in my last because the examination had not then been concluded, and I did not feel cei'tain of good results. The were so favorable that i have adopted and located the eastern line, which is shorter by 1200 feet, lees curvature by 40', and places our line in better position to maxe the angle to the west to reach top of main ridge. Graduation and grades about the same on both lines. I have received no bids yet for telegraph poles. Have advertised in Hew Orleans papers for Cash bids for com pleting grading between Bayou Goula and Lecompte, also on crosstles and bridging between same points. For plans profiles and schedules of aniounts of work bidders are referred to this office. While speaking of Carpenter and his contracts I omitted to say. that he is urging me to give him a partial estimate on the iron to go in his bridges. It is all here bought in such large quantities he says by your advice. I declined to give him an estinate until hearing from you. He insists that he is not required under his contract to remove the bark from his piles. I also agreed to refer th matter to you. Very truly yours, B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer. 187 . : November 8th 1880. Buffalo Gap, November 8th 1880, My dear General; I suppose you are aware that the Government contemplates establishing a post somev/here on our line betv/een here and the Steked Plains and the Pecos. I met the party and they will report in favor of a site on South Champlin Creek, east of the Colorado Kiver, and some 3 miles south of our line. The G. Col. and the Sante Fe R.R. have run a line about 3 miles east of here, through the Cedar Gap and have intersected our line west of the Clear Fork and at the place where "Abilene" is supposed to.be. I heard the other day, that the Southern Pac.R.R. had had an engineering party for more than a year running between El Paso and the country west of San Antonio. That they pretended to be working for Pierce's road, but that their vouchers and letter heads were Southern Pacific R.R. This is authentic. Very truly. R.^Montgomery. 189 "K Nev/ York City, Nov. 10, 1880 D. W. Washburn, Esq., Fort 7/orth, Texas. Dear Sir: I wired you today about starting the surveys for tl:ie extension of the U. K. & I. road. I do not intend to burden you with this except to get it started or until I can jget the organization effected. All that I write you about it please treat as confidential. What we propose to do is to complete the road from Fort Worth down to Belton and George town, to a connection with the International and there join with them in building from San Antonio to Laredo or else building another independant line from Clebourne to San Antonio thence on to Laredo. I want you to put on a party to locate from Fort Worth, south-to Belton so that we can put this work under contract. At the same time I want you to start a party from Clebourne and follow down to San Anton io in the direction of Hampton. Have them get into the best counties west of the International line, keeping asfar from it as you consistantly can while still keeping in good country. I want torun through the best portion, present and prospective of the country between Clebourne and San Antonio and thence to Laredo. Put some person with the party who can give an opinion of the country, its present productions, it's capabilities and its supply of wood, water and material and have him write me, at lease once a week sending skeliton maps and profiles of the line. I do not know the character of the country in Hamilton, Lampasas, San Saba, Llano, Burnette, Blanco, Gillespie and Kendall Counties but probably you do. Organize the par)f,ies as economically as possible and draw upon me for funds. Give _^them such instructions as to their vouchers accounts etc. as you see proper, keeping all accounts and drafts independant of and separate from any other matters that you have. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 191 . Ne V York City, November 17, 1880. Jay Gould, Esq.',' 78 B'way, New York City. Dear Sir:- Tn extending the M. K. & T. to the Rio Grande, two policies pre sent themselve's; 1st, shall we 'cotabine' with the' other roads, using part of their track, or shall we build an Independent line. Under either policy, we will probably own partly with the Texas &• Padfkc, a line from ''Vhitesboro to Fort '"orth, and from there So., we must adopt one or the other, of the policies indicated. If the first, when by building to Belton, 124 miles, we connect with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe R.R. or to Georgetown 157 miles we corniect . with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe. R.R. or to Georgetown 157 miles, we connect with the Ir:ternational system, and would use a joint road to the Rio Grande, a2:d if fair terms can be obtained, I believe this is the true policy to persue. If we conclude to build an Independent line, we should have some 500 miles to construct and it would be policy to build it from 50 to 60 miles west of the present contemplated line of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe. R. R. and tlie International Road, and a very fair line for local traffic can be obtained in that longitude. The Grading, Bridging, and Tieing of the road in Texas is easily handled, the question of speed will be determined by the ability of the other roads to deliver material. My experience under the most favorable circumstances is, that it takes four months from the time a contract for material or rolling stock is let before it is delivered on the line of road. Hence wo should i mediately let contracts for the Iron or Steel and fastenings, an^ then the motive power and rolling stock, say for the first 200 miles. Track material I would land at Galveston and would cost now about ■.,60.00 for steelj ^45.00 for Iron, and on line of road wou''d be sav ■"'Ob and C50. If the line is adopted from Fort 'Vorth to Georgetown 157 miles material can be delivered upon it at three points. If the direct line ' from Fort "orth to 5ant Antonio, be adopted, we could at present only get materia] at Fort Worth and San Antonio, but ere long there will be another Fort^Sorth branch of the H. & T. C. say 100 miles So. of Two engineering parties are on the field, one locating to Belton. one ru ring an Independent line to San Antonio upon either of which work can be opened inside of 60 days and be made ready for track before we can get the material there. abou, Qo 92 miles T?® estimates indicate about made upon the the cost new of road the road, from and h'hitesboro we can to pretty Cleyburn safely base an estimate or the whole line upon them. saieiy I calculate the distance as follows: Der.nison to Fort Worth; via .TiitesbGro, 95 miles Port Worth to Georgetown, Intersection of the Intern. & Great Northern R.R« 157 '• Georgetown to Ran Antonio 115 " San Antonio to L'anedo ' 158 " Total 5G5 miles Dennison to Laredo direct all new lines" say 500. If the all new line was built connection could be made with Austin and San Antonio, by short branches. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 193, , • Memorandum. In regard to I.and Grant of the New Orleans Baton Rouge and Vi|cksbiirg R. R.Go. The New Orleans Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Ry. Co. will assign its right to the Land Gra± obtained under section of the United States Laws to the New Orleans Pacific R. R. Go. which is to accept it proveded it can do so, without assuming any of the debts obligations, claims or charges of any kind whatsoever, if there are any shov/ing against the said New Orleans Baton fiouge & Vicksburg R. R. Co. If ti.e New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. accept the said assignment they shall upon the issue of patents by General Land Office to the Now Orleans Pacific B. R. Co. and as the land is patented ;pen each section of road accepted by the said company issue Land Grant Bonds upon the same at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, said bonds and interest to be applicable solely and exclusively to the Land Crart an to be under no circumstances a lien or char-e in any way, shape or manner upon the road. All charges for the issuance of said bonds for their sale or receiption shall be first deducted from the proceeds ofthe sale of the land. One fourth of the balance of the bonds shall be set aside in the hands of certain Trustees hereafter to be named to takeip certain bonded indebtedness and claims outstanding against the said New Orleans Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railway Co., but this sum shall be set asie in s^ich a manner that there can be no possibility of the New Orleans Pacific Railway Co., being obliged to assuem or become liable for any claims charges orjgebts of any kind, standin - against said New Orleans, Baton Rouge Vicksburg Co. Of the halance of the bonds, one half to go to the New Orleans Pacific Railway Co., and one half to the New Orleans,Raton Rouge & Vicksburg K.R. Co. 185;,! November, 1880. THE MERICAN RAILWAY IWPROVEKENT CO. G. M. Dodge, Pres. President's Office. 80 Broadway, New York. November 17, 1880. Jay Gould, Esq. if78 B way. New York. Dear Sir: In extending the Iw. K. & t. R. R. to the Rio Grande, two policies present themselves: 1st shall we combine with other roads using part of their tract, or shall.we build an Independent line. Under either policy, we will probably own partly witia the Texas & Pacific, a line from Whitesboro j,o Fort Worth, and from there So., we must adopt one or the other, of tae policies indicated. If the first, then by building to Belton 124 miles, we connect witii the Gulf Colorado & Santa Pe R. R. or to Georetown 157 miles, we coniiect with tlie international system, and would use a joint road to the Rio Grande and if fair terms can be obtained, I believe this is th.e true policv to pursue. ^ ^ conclude to build an Independent line, we shoild have some oOO miles to construct, and it would be policy to build it from 30 to 60 miles west of the present contemplated line of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fd R. R., and the International Road, and a verv fair line for local traffic can be obtained in th.at longitude. TR® shading, Bridging & Tieing of the road in Texas is easily handled, the question of speed will be determined by the ability of the other^roads to deliver material. Ly experience under the most fuvorable cir'camstance'S is, that it takes four months from the time a contract for material or rolling stock is let before it is road. Hence we should immediately let conand and rollii g stock, at say for the first fastenings, 200 miles. and Track then the rriatrerial m.otive Ipower would land at Calveston and would cost now about 560. for steel 5.45 for Iron, and on line of road would be say S65. and .l-50 If i I'no is adopted from Fort Worth to Georgetown 157 miles, material can be points. If the direct line, from Fort Jorth to oan Antcnio, be adopted, we could at present only pet mater- lal at Fort, »orth and San A-.tonlo, but ere long the?e Sni franothe? ?orrSoJ?h. ^ ^ C. say 100 milee IS! oT • Two engineering parties are on the field, one locatinc: to ^elton, one running an Independent line to San Antonio upon either ■: track beiore we can get the naterial there. The estin;ates made upon the nev> road frou. IVhl-tesboro to Cleyburn about 92 miles, indiccte about the cost of the road, and we can pretty safely base an estimate of the whole line upon them. I calculate the distance as foliows: Dennison to Fort V.'oi-th, via Vi'hitesboro 95 miles Fort 'Torth to George-town Intersection of the International & Great Northern B. R. 157 " Georgetown to San Antonio 115 " San Antonio to. Laredo 158 " Total 525 Iv.iles . Dennison to Laredo direct all new lines-say 500 " If the all new line was built connection could be made with, Austin and San Antonio, by short branches. .Very truly.yours, G. R'l. Dodge. 330 Ne'.7 York, November 18, 1880. Dr. George L. Miller, Oaaha, Neb. My dear Doctor I am in receipt of yours of November 12th. You merely give up one-half of your stock for the purpose of aiding in the consolidat'on of all our S.W. interests and for the one-half you give up, you receive in return the amount of the installment paid in and 50^ premium, which at any rate is a pretty fairprofit but I consider that the one-half you retain will bring you fully as nuch witl: the 50, premium added as the v/hole would have brought you without the consolidation which this transfer aids in bringing about. In other words, I consider tnat the stock which you will get for the one-half you hold will sell for a good deal more than tue same stock .vould sell for if the interest remained separate. It was a scheme of my own for the purpose of bring ing about this consolidation. You are treated the same as all the others and it is optional with you wiietiior you come in or not. I may say that almost every stockholder or at least 9/10's of them have done so. The change means that the Missouri Pacific, the M. E. T*, Texas Sc Pacific and the New Orleans Pacific will all eventually come into one concern under the control of Mr. Gould and then you will have the stock that represents all those combined properties in the place of stock that would have represented only a portion of them. Very truly youis, G. M. Dodge November 20" 1880 I.Ty dear General; 1S9. Ft. 'iVorth, Texas November 20" 1880 Have just returned from a trip to the front, and had to remain a day with the track layers before I could get in. The v.'eather was quite cold and they had just received two boarding cars from Dickson s.nd Iiiarshall, that they had expected a long while. When they arrived with thermometer 12 above zero, there we:e no stoves in the cars and a greet many of the mens beds had been left at the camp,^behind, and some of them actually remained by a fire in the prairie all night. The next day a great many of the men left, and those who re main do about as they please, and there is an utter lack of discipline and respect, because they say and knov/ that the contractors do not understand their business, and they jeer at both Coleman and Ademson and are very in solent. The only man they respect is Ed. Jiurphy. The fare is also very poor ill the present weather if you do not clothe, shelter and feed m'^n vyell you can't hold them. On the other- hand they are very much hampered occasionally by want of material, but not very often, as you will find out from Brown's and Seward's reports. The obstacles they encounter are none but what men of push and energy can easily over come, if they had the get up and exper ience. There is one significant fact about all this. I do notthink any one suspects I am locking this matter up except the Colemans, and half the time when men talk before me they do not knov. me and think I am some Cov< Boy, but I have not heard one Railroad man from the highest to the lowest talk but what they say that they are inefficient, but very polite ui.right gentlemen. Now this is the last time I shall mention this subject and you know I^ell the truth when I assure you I am impartial, or if any thing prejudlced^lin favor of the yoianger Colemsn, whom I like exceedingly, but I am satisfied that furbish them men , material and every facility and they can never exceed or even average one mile per day. Now I know you are getting com.i.unications on both sides of the question, and there is one way for you to judge for yourself, everyone is feverishly anxious to know when you are coming down, so as to make preparations. Slip down quietly in the IT.K.T. of ficers car, do not stop here, but push right for the front and judge for yourself and I think at the close you will agree with me. Very truly F.. E .Montgomery • 20X New York, November 22, 1880, C. I. Woershoffer, Esq., Treasurer. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find, properl;; endorsed, receipt to me for first installment of $10,000 upon subscription of $100,000 to the Capital stock of this company. I wish new certificates to be issued for this amount as follows: Name. 1st Installment. Amount G. M. Dodj-'e A. Kountae, A. Cottinc U, H. Painter W. E. Chandler $7,000 1,000 1,000 500 500 $7C,000 10,000 10,000 5, OCC 5,000 Which please return to me at this office at your earliest convenienoe and obliye. Very truly yours, G. M. Dod^e, President ] t /O Int. Rwy. Imp. Co., New York City, Nov. 22, 1880. D. w. Washburn, Esq., Fort Worth, Texas. Dear Sir: I believe that I have sent you instructions to start one party to locate the extension of this road to Belton, and another to run a line from Cleborn, to San Antonio. I now want you to put on, still another party, to run a preliminar./ line from Fort Worthstriking out through the Counties of Hood, Hamilton, San Saba, Llano, Gillespie, Kerr, Bandera, Medina, Labala, Dimmit, and Webb to Laredo. My idea is if possible to get a line outside of all the others and to keep west of the heavy country, that is said to lie in the country west of San Antonie and West of Austin. I am told that the country between the Guadaloupe and Redremalas river is very heavy and we have to keep out around the heads of those branches with a railroad, in order to get anything like a good line. You know that country better than I do and you can see that the point is to get a line from Fort Worth direct to Laredo, not running exactly straight, but sweeping to the west in such a manner as not to loose very much distance, but getting into the best counties of that portion of Texas. It is possible that your line may have to lie slightly west of the counties which I have named. I have sent to you two engineers on e of whom (Mr. Amos Stiles) was out west, on the original survey of our Pecos Division and who is an old and experienced engineer. The other is Mr. ^shee, from Burlington, Iowa. I want you to give the Engineers, strict instructions to report frequently and perhaps it would be better to have Lhem send their reports to you and for you to forward them to me, untiLI can get down there. Put their parties in good shape, but economically with good men at the head of them. I have no doubt from your applications, that you can get plenty of good engineers. Those I have instructed to report to you take their instruments with them. Very truly yours, G. M.Dodge. !lkl New York, Nov. 23, 1880. S. H. H. Clark, Esq., Gen'l. Manager U.P.Ry. Omaha, rreb. Dear Sir:- As the first step toward uniting all our southwestern interests under one harmonious organization I desire to have the Missoviri Pacific Ry. Co. become a large stockholder in the American Ry. Import Co., and for that purpose I have made to the original subscribers the following proposition, viz: That I will purchase one half of their subscription, repaying to the subscriber the lOf, ( 1st installment) paid in and giving for each two shares of American Ry. Improvement Co's. Stock turned over one' full paid share of stock in the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. Nearly all the original subscribers have accepted this proposition, and I should be glad to have you join them and if you will send your- receipt for 1st instalment (properly endorsed) to General Dodge hd make the transfer and send you a new certificate for the half you retian and the, proceeds of the half assigned as above. Very truly yours. (jj The Air. Ry . Imp. Co . 20T-' • Shreveport, La. November 29th, 1880 Gen'l. G. K. Dodge, President etc., 80 Broadway, New York City, Dear Sir: Your three enclosures of 20th inst. have been received. Before you receive this my telegram of this date will have informed you of con tract concluded with Jones, Coven & Knowlton by instruction of Vice President Scott. He telegraphed me from St. Louis yesterday "Close contract with Jones, Cowen 8c. Knowlton unless otherwise directed by Gen'l. Dodge before this reaches you." At. 8 o'clock t is A. M.Jones was informed that his bid was accepted, by noon he had 40 m.en on their way to the line to get out ties. Jones, lives here, and has the largest saw mill in North Louisiana, can command any amount of labor, having the confidence of the entire community and country around. His first bid on Crossties was 42 l/2 cents, which I succeeded in getting down to 36 4/l0. He could not be mioved from his bid on track, and declined a y farther consideration of the matter if require- to transport on his train all material from the Shreveport Function. Knowing it to be customary for Railroad Companies to furnish material. I deemed it inadvisable to reject on this account the strongest and most reliable contractors who have yet made a bid. As the contract now stands Jones vill carry his own material for the first 40 miles that is to Mansfield. It will clearly bo to the interest of . the company Lo put on a comriiercial train when we reach that point to which can be advantageously attached daily, the necessary cars of matei^al, thus saving an extra train passing over the accepted part of the line for the sole purpose of transporting material. The New Orleans parties did not co me as they wired they would. Their bids by telegraph wc e too extravagant to be entertained. Thus the matter was narrowed down to the parties who have the contract. Websters claim that he had forces enroute was totally unfounded as I learned through his partners Swartz & Nicholas. I furthermore learned through sarr.e parties that Musick was not interested, and his name was used by IVebster without authority. As regards ir.aking contractors com.e up to time, there will be no trouble about it when the weather admits of work being done. It has been neither through a want of firmness on my part, nor of ability on the part of the contractors that so little work has been done. There has been within the last 30 days an unprededented fall of rain, and it is now physically 208.. impracticable to move a shovelful of earth, as has been for nearly two weeks past, and but Little better for the previous two weeks. It is still raining with nbsign of breaking away. This condition of things can't last always. We can but hope that this long continued wet spell represents the full winter rains, and that long continuous fair weather may follow, when we can and will crowd things to make up for this unavoidable loss of time. I have nevertheless served official notices upon Zearing k Andrews, also Carney & Hart, to increase their forces to the required strength, and I will see that it is done by them or others. I enclose copy of W. Leffingwell's letter which will give you information of.the progress of our work by the Marshall Car k Foundry Co. I will keep a close watch on them. I also enclose bid from a highly responsible party to furnish telegraph poles at this point. No other bids have been received. Also enclose bid of Lebster's late partners for track and ties on lower division. I personally know nothing about them. Swartz professes to be an experienced Crosstie Contractor. I enclose also Putnam's telegram in reply to "creosoting time" for Atcl:afalaya bridge timLbers, will forward .his letter when received. Jones, Cowen & Knowlton promise to make a favorable bid upon our buildings now that they have the' contract for the track, and expect to establish saw mills along our line. Am hurrying them up in the matter and will forward their bid as soon as received. Carpenter k Kallory show no disposition ot abate their bid, and no other parties thatlhave been able to find seem disposed to compete for this work. In regard to hand and horse power pumps there may be a few points on the lower division where they can be tapplied and perh aps one or two points between Gotile and Le Compte where the streams run throughout the year. None north of Gotile. Will forward more definite information as soon as I can with confi dence . ^ I have dispensed with our former Right of Way Agent, and have instead constituted""the Recorders Agents in their respec tive parishes. They are entirely familiar with the titles of the properties, and since each individua. right of way has to be recorded and a fee paid for doing so, I find theis conbination the most economical. In very few cases has the right of way been refused. In some instances I have had to buy, and under the advice of our attorney paid a compromise price as cheaper than to expropriate, he investigating and guaranteeing good titles. Very truly yours, B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer. 209 . New York, November 29, 1880. J. N. Eddy, Esq., 54 Clark St., Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: I have not ans\7ered your dispatch or -ritten you because I did not know what shape our I.!. K. T. matters would take, but I now think that we shall build it under the Missouri Pacific and I think Mr. Talmadge would like to have you go there and tae charge of construction. 7/hen he gets back to St. Louis, you go down there and see him, first wiring him to ascertain when he will be there and can meet you. I told him that I believed yon would would take take charge charge ofof the work, if, when it was completed yov were assured of a position in the running department, so that you could stay with the organi zation. I believe that you could work with Talmadge, who will have charge of th-^ M. K. T. Of course I will have a good deal to do with the road here but the direct charge of the road will no doubt be under the Missouri Pacific. We have taken the M. K. T. out of the hands of the Trust Company and have it in our possession and Talmadge will be assigned to the position of General Manager of the M. K. & T. wiping out the present organization and running it as a division of the I'.issouri Pacific. ■ . In calling on Mr. Talmadge you will not need any introduction from me, as we have talked over the matter very fully. very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. • - v.. 213 New York Citj', Dec. 1, 1C.80. Yessrs. W . G. Lhote & Co.., Corner Fenlouse & Franklin St. \ New Orleans, La. Gentlemen: I have received through Mr. E. B. V/heelock y ur favor to him of the 26th of November making bid for supplying this compnay with sleening and dining cars at the lollowing prices: Sleeping cars, complete Dining cars, complete vlOSO.OO each, complete. 961.90 each. I desire herewith to accept your proposition for four cars; tv^o dining cars ard two sleeping cars, to be delivered by January 15 h 18G1. I have telegraphed Mr. John F. Dickson, of Marshall Texas who is building similar cars for me, to send you immediately size of the frames of these cars, and plan of interior arrangement of bunks. Vi ease be very careful that the frames of these cars are very strong trussed so they will not sag down. The cars to be mounted on regiiar freight trucks, of standard gauge, Under these four cars i want tool boxes the full length of the car between the wheels, which can be sued for storage purposes. I also want the roofs of these cars made very strong, and railings put around thorn, so that in summer th. men can sleep on deck. Please acknowledge receipt. ■my Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. New York City, December 10, 1880 Senor Robert B. Gorsuch, Fifth Avenue Hotel, Dear Sir; New York City. We would like to have you go on and get up such a map as you spoke of, showing the different conces^ons in Mexico I understand from Mr. Gould that Senor Romero was at Coltons to see about their making a map. Please consult with Mr. R. so that you will work in unison in the matter. My idea for the present would be to take his map of Miexico and place upon it all the different concessions in the state with the proper data. Very truly yours, G . M . Dodge. ^ tJ'.; '.v 217 International Railway Improvement Co., President's Office 80 Broadway New York, Dec.,10th, 1880 Frank W. Baldwin, Esq., Denver, Col. . Dear Sir: I hand you herewith two copies of the 'certificate of incorporalion of "The International Railway Improvement Co." duly signed and executed Take one ol' them and file it in the office of Recorder of Deeds in Arapahoe County, and pay the f6es necessary for its record. File the other in the office of the Secretary of State paying them also the necessary fees. You will observe that you are named there as Secretary, and your compensation in that capacity will be one hundred dollars per year in addition to what you are now receiving from the American Railway Ijnprovement Company. Your duties until we have contracts to execute in Colorado will probably be light, and will consist, primcipally, in causing to be published public notices of the time and place of holding elections, as required by Section 196 of the laws of Colorado, and recording the annual Report within sixty days from the first day of January in each year. This last is very important. I shall rely on you to see that it is duly made.-- About the first of January you should write me without fail for the necessary data. The Certificate provides that the principal place of business in Colorado, shall be in the City of Denver. I desire you to procure a sign, not necessarily very large or expensive, bearing the words "The International Railway Impro^ment Company." and if convenient, you own name as Secretary and have it placed where you are generally to be found. I enclose also a brief notice to be published for three weeks in one of the weekly nev.spapers in Denver, giving notice that this Company is reudy to do business. I also enclose for publication a formal notice of the orgainzation of this Company amount of Capital Stock etc. this you will also have published for three weeks in some weekly newspaper in Denver sending several copies here. I also enclose a blank copyof the certificate of incorporation in order to enable the Secretary of State to ceitify under the great seal of the State that it is a true copy of the one on file in his oliice, filling the necessary blanks, so as to make ti correspond with the one on file. Send this back to me when certified by the Secretary of State. All necessary stock or record books will be furnished you, a.-d all expenses you nay incur , in carryi.ig out these instructions will be remitted to you on receipt of statement thereof. Very truly yours, G . . Dodge, President. Notice The International Railway Improvement Co. having been duly organized under the laws of Colorado with its prin cipal office in the city of Denver, is prepared to enter upon the business of repairing, building, constructing and equiping Railroads and other works of Public Importance. Address Frank W. Baldwin, Secretary, ■i;- St., Denver, Colorado. Notice of Incorporation. Notice is hereby given of the formation under the laws of Colorado of a Corporation by the name of "The Inter national Raf^lway Improvement Company." It's term of existence is twenty years; the amount of Capital Stock is ten million doliOrs divided into shares of one hundred dollars each with power to increase the same to twenty millions of dollars. The principal place of business of said Corporation in Colorado is in the City of Denver county of Aracahoe. The object for which the conpany is created is the repairing, building, constructing and equiping, under Legislative author ity and under contract of Railway and Telegraph Lines, and works of internal improvement, with power to purchase property along the route and in the vicinity of such Railroad and Telegraph lines; to lay out town plats, and lease, sell, and convey the same, and to purchase, lease and acquire the charter rights and franchises of any Railroad, Bridge, Ferry, or Trans portation Company. .219 . - 2 - ' The International Railway Improvement Company. Dec. 11th, 1880 Notice of Incorooration. It is provided by its charter that it may do business in part and hold corporate meetings beyond the limits of the state of Golora^do. Stockholders are not individually liable for the debts of the Corporation beyond their ligal liability in respect of stock owned or held by them. Its affairs are managed by a board of not less than five directors. The first Board of Directors consists of the following persons: G. M. Dodge, Thomas F. Ockert, Thomas W. Pearsall, A. H. Calif, A. L. Hopkins. The Oificers of the Corporation are as follows: President, G. K. Dodge, Vice President, A. L. Hopkins, Secretary, Frank W.-Baldwin, Treasurer, G. P. Morosini. Dated this day of December, A. D. 1880. G. M. Dodge, President Frank W. Baldwin, Secretary Publish 3 weeks fill in date. 221 // .Xtr. i Texas and Pacific Railway Company Phildelphia, Pa,, Dcc'r. 22d, 1880 Gen'l. G. Dodge. Pres't. Pac. Ry. Impt. Co. Fort Worth, Texas. My dear General: Your dispatch with reference to tht. Southern Pacific occupying the Long Canon north of El Paso wcs received and laid before our Board yesterday, and wes referred to Mr. Scott with power to take such steps as shall be necessary, I am going over today to see Mr. Gould and will go over to matterv.dth him. I agree withyou that vigorous action should be tcken at once on behalf of our Co. and if v/e are to get into a fight, it is a great deal better for-us to strike the first blow. If we follow up this legal proceeding v/ith active work from El Paso in grading and tracklaying, I think it will greatly strengthen our standing before the Court, and I shall certanly advise that this policy be adoped I tnink that this corresponds with your own views in the matter. I enclose herewith copy of a proposed ordinance amendatory and supplemental to the two ordinances heretofore passed by the New Orleans City Council, in respect to the N. 0. P. Ry. Co. I have forwarded copies of ttu oi'dinance to Mr. •"heclock with a letter, of which I enclose you a press copy, in order that you may be fully advised what instructions have been given with reference to this ordinance, and as to the facilities in New Orleans. If you will look at the city map of New (Jrleans, I think my letter to Mr. Wheelock v?ill explain fully what we pr-oppse to do; and if we can get the oi dinace passed, I think we shall have as near perfect tern.inal facilities in New Orleans as can be possibly obtained. I do not construe the two ordinances heretofore passed as being absolutely value less in case we should make this Westwego connection; but I have thought it better, in preparing the new ordinance to place these grants beyond question, making it absolute, unless we shall abandon the terminus North of Claiborne Canal, and I believe that is really what was the intention of the City, although they couple it with the words "abandon its said road on the East side of the Mississippi river." I think it is worth riiaking an ef J ort and a very vig orous effort to pass this ordinance and I believe it can be done now a great deal better than after we shall have conmonced work in the City, and the people think the terminus is a fixed fact within the City linits. 222 I trust you .vill look over the ground on the river front, at the foot of Thalia street, the Brooks property, and also the terminus near the Jackson depot; also the proposed purchase between the City Park and the river front for^ $10,000. Gov. Brown was here at the Board meeting yesterday, wen t over last evening and vill see Mr. Gould today in New York. I am to meet him this evening and shall alSo see Mr. Gould tomorrow, The matter arranging for the Union "Pacific Express Go. to work our lines, wcs brought up at the Board meeting and was refex red to the Executive oxficers of the Company to look into and report to the new Board meeting. Gov. Brown and myself will go over the matter with Mr. Gould tomiorrow. Yours very tr'uly, Frank J. Bond, Vice President 1 Enclosure. Phildelphia, Pa., Beer. 22d, 1680 E. 43. Wheelock, Esq., i Prest. N. 0. P. Ry. Co., Nev Orleans, La. Dear Sir: I enclose v-oth this a few copieLi of an ordinance amendatory of, and supplemental to the ordinances previously passed by the. City Council of New Orleans in relati n to the New Orleans Pacific Rwy. Co. You will see the purpose of this new ordinance is to provide for a possible, yes, Imay ✓ say perhaps probable, purchase of the Bayou Goula Road, and consequentlcrossing of the Mississippi river at Westwego, instead of at New Orleans. The ordinance-first passed, you will recollect, in the preamble recites that the Company is desirous of con structing , its line of road on the East bank of the Mississippi river from a crossing near Baton Rouge to some point in the City of.New Orleans, and section 4 provides th at "should the said Comp;ny at any time hereafter abandon its said road on the east side of the Mississippi river -:s- '.i then this grant shall cease and terminate and be without force or effect from the date of such abandonment." It is not proposed to abandon altogether the Baton Rouge crossing and construction on the East bank of the river; but this proposed purchase of the Bayou Goula Road if accomp lished, will secure a more speedy completion of a through line t^q New Or\eans . I think not later than August next; and it is the present intention of the Company if this '.Vestwego connection is made,-to use the same depot grounds near the present terminus of the New Orleans, St. Louis &. Chicago Com pany above the Canal, and to establish its passenger depot, as authorized oy previous ordinance on Claiborne and Ganal, using Thalia street to get to and from its terminus to the river, In asking the City to sell the ground between the City Park and the river, I fixed the price at $10,000. be cause I understood that the City had once offered to sell it to the New Orleans Pacific Co. for that price. These grounds would be very useful, yes, almost absolutely necessary for ferry purposes and for yard room; and of course we should de sire to extend our track down along the river front to Louisiana Avenue and Jackson street, for the reason that I doubt very much if a single track on Thalia street v/culd be sufficient to accomimodate all the business our Company would Pring into the City. Will you have this ordinance introduced and if possible passed at as early a date as possible? I wish also that you would have the title e^.andned and the deed prepared for consumniating the purchase and conveyance to the N. 0. P. Co. or to_; in trust, of ithe Brooks pro perty, and you can notify H^r. Sheppe.rd that the transaction will be consuniBiated so soon as the papers .shall be put in proper shape, and are passed upon by our Counsel. This may take beyond the 15th of January, as I should like the deed sent on here for examination by our Coiinsel, and as soon as approved the $30,000. will be advanced and the N. 0. P. Co. or the Trustee wi 11 execute a mortgage for the remainder of the consideration. Please let me hear from you at as early a date as posible with reference to these matters. Yours very truly, -1- , Frank J. Bond, Vice President. P. S. I send you more copies of ordinance by this mail. 225 ^ December, 1880. J. T. Granger, Port v?orth, Texas December 25, 1880. 80 Broadway, fi.Y. Dear Sir; In the statements tht you gave me when i came away you then showed only 30,482 tons of iron contracted, while your statement of tren-eentraetedj-- December 18th shows 281 miles shipped. Now then is the reading 2000 tons, Alkins Bros. 3,000 tons and the 01 ndown revelled 1200, and the weich and Barnum 2nd quality 150 tons that has not been shipped, making 6,750 tons that added to the 28114 tons makes 34,844 tons—say 350 miles, w ere is the discrepancy. Is it in the amount sent forward from the Gl-ndown on the revelled contracts I take the amount shipped from your statement of Dec. 18th. Very truly yours, 0. M, jjodge, ^ . President. Dec. 1880. Creo. IToble, Dec. 26," 1880. Gen, Supt. Marshall, Texas. Dear Sir:- I enclose two reports showing the go dition of matters here and at front for your information.* This week we hove laid very little track for want of m.aterial at Bairds. There appears to be plenty of material en route but it does not get to us. You will also see condition of Fort north Yard, Now 1 suggest for your consideration that you terminal agent or master of '"ransportation should be the agent of both companies, under pay of each, with orders to look after both interests. In this way he could be fully posted as to wants of each,and could so handle matters as to serve each more effectually. Again he could use of our locomotives when she was not at front, in clearing upside tracks. This would not interfere with your work, and would put him in direct commu nication with us. T notice that all cars reported to you for a week, includes all cars delivered at h'astland and beyond, I looked over dispatches reg-rding the Y and spurs at Baird and see that delays were for want of material that lay back on siding that we were not able to get forward, our spare engine having taken place of one broken down. Consider this matter and please consult with Mr. nashburn if you approve, i believe with one agent at front both companies would get more accurate reports of each condition whereas now, I am satisfied, your agent reports one state of affairs sometimes, shilst ours repoi^s a different one. I understan' you have a new Agent at the froiTtj if so it would be a good time to try this plar. Our tr-cklajrers complain bitterly for want of material, say on Thursday or Friday, I forget which,-^t'lat they could get but four cars in the forenoon and five in the afternoon, while there were pTentv bevond Kastland . ^ j j Our reports showed that there was nearly six miles of materii west of Dallas, certainly sufficient to supply them if it was only daily and regularly delivered to the front. Division except wh not aidin telegraph Engineers ''/hile our chance to hear from good sources that some of the train men on this take pleasure in blocking the front, in fact doing anything k.t they ought. They are not loyal to the Company and are should, I think they arranged to smash the I at Bairds simply to keep from getting orders to run back, complain of water being bad, fuel bad, anything for an excuse, engineers at the front use the same water, -nd have had no wash out, and the fuel they use is the same. over them +\ who u will be bod moke water, tliem get but it the can work be out used. of the They motive need power some one 'hat is in it, and know when they do it. 228 Kow an able man (it oucht to be the best man you have) at the front, M whose interests are to serve both of us, would settle all of thiS, ^ In conversation with a rentleman of large experience in transpor tation, and who has been on one of the Eastern roads, who is west on a V isit , observed these things and conveyed them to me for our benefit stated that he thought we should know it. He also tld me that your dispatcher at Texarkanna was cut west and saw and heard of these things and could, if he liked, advise you of them and a great many more that are not necessary to repeat.^ I simply write this to you in order that you may be posted an look into Ihc m.atter if you deem best. All I desire to accomplish is to aid you if I can in your difficult duties. Very trulp yours. G. M. Dodge, Pre:ident, 229 Dec. 1880 - '^^^•V/orth,/December 26, 1880. Jay Oould, ii'sq. 80 Broadway, N.Y. Dear Sir;- " I have not written to you becaur.e I have not got things in shape to give results. The v/eather down here hns been rainy for the past six weel:s, so that in the soft black soil it has bee almost impossible to move anything. I have arrar;ged to keep matters moving at trie front but I have had the same difficulties that we have expericrced. for the last tv;o months—the want of material on the road, meet of it lying on the sidings on the last 130 miles of'road. They lack motive power and system, and bad weather has discouraged thema good deal. i do not believe that I am going to be able to lay track very fast until after the cotton season is over. Every station of the road is crowde ' with cotton seeking transportation. I'have arranged to strrt mywork at El Paso East. The Southern Pacific, ar.d the Atchicon Topeka are fighting over the canon north of ElPaso. There is plenty of room there for all of us, and I have concluded that it was policy for us to keep out of the fight for the present, althought I have sent a man there in whom I have confidence, who will reach there in a few days and shall be governed by his report whetl:er I will put a force in north of the i-1 Paso. So there will be three of us fighting for the canon. This fight for line out tlaere should be made by the Texas, Pacific; their chartered rights give them precedence. Their line is filed through that canon and covers the ground, and there is no reason why they should not hold it as against the Territorial cliarters. I have'^een to all the points of the M. K. & T, extension, and from Port north, Gruniville, and fron San Antonio, everything is moving. I have arianged with Mr. Hayes, President of tie International to build the road from San Antonio to Larade and Mr. Eddy v/ho is looking after t e line from Fort Worth ar.d from Grenville is getting his work in hand. The work from Port worth to Denton so as to give the M. K. & T. a direct line to Port worth is in charge of Mr. washburn and he is getting the line under w y all right, and I would not be surprised to see him get his track laid down from Denton to rort worth by the time we are ready to send in material to Port north for the south. Un the New urleans Pacific, as soon as the weather will permit we will do a good deal of work. On account of heavy rains the country has been flooded with water; the bridging and the ties are out for twenty miles, and material will be plenty as soon as I am ready to lay it. I am now going to Galveston to have an interview with the Gulf Colorado and Santa Pe people who are anxious to see me. Prom thcK I will go to New Orleans and start work from Brilay Landing opposite 230 Baton Rou^e east, unless I made a trade with Whitney" for his 66 miles of read, if 1 do you may hear from'me by telegram. As it wi]a probably be a cash purchase, you will have to arrange to__furnish the money until I can make calles upon the American ImnrcvemGnt Com.pany to replace it. Immigration from the north is beginning to pour into this country, and 1 desire to impress upon you the importance of putting 'som.e first class northern man in the field who is used to that kind of work, both in the north and in isiurope; In the next year let us pour all the people we can into the state, how is the time to act, and the quicker you move in the matter the better it will be for all your interests in the south. I am, very truly yours, G, M. Dodge, - ■ President, 231 December, 1680, Jay Gould, 80 Broadway, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Galveston, Texas, ueceraber 28, 1880. I had an interview with the Gulf 0 & S. Pe. Koad. They are now completed to Batton 256 miles. North of Galveston 124 miles wouth of Pt. Worth. Their bonded debt is ^2,000 per mile. Of 7 bonds £28 mile 12,712,000 They had paid in on each anaddition -1,350,000 Total uost per mile to them 4,062,000 13750. The equipment is 9 locomotive 16 by 29 4 locomotives 15 by 22. 8 passenger cars Freight flat. The road is in good condition and is doing good business. I offered them cost in M.K. & T. bonds at par if they could lift their mortgage and give me the entire stock. The ;stock they contro 1 is about, v6000 per mile or 01,356,000. They having issued stock when full pai» and put into ro.ad. There contracts now out are for 13 locomotives 16 by 24 cost 08,250 4 15 by 22 lo passengers cars loo Box Cars 1^0 Flat c.ars 12000 tons iron 50 lbs to yard with fastenings,cost abort v2.00 per tone less than we are now paying, also 2,000,000 feet of lumber at a low price; all this we could use. Th y would take up my offer i believe if it were possible but they cannot control the bonds they are scattered and it would be impossible to ta'e them up. They asked me for a cash offer on the stocl: which I may make on my return from New Orleans. 1 believe i could buy the entire stock for ^5,000 per mile. That would make the road stand us.,, 17,000 and talce away all opposit on between Port worth and Bolton and give us the best through and local line the the state. Galveston will receive thic year 600,000 b^ler of cotton. I write this so that should I wire you you can have the facts before you. G. H. Dodge, December, 1880. J. T. Granger, Esq., 233 Irew Orleans, La, December 31, 1880 . 80 Brordw-y, N.Y. Dear Sir:- T^e Lena arrived in Galverton on the 29th ready for discharge on the 30th and no papers were there. I do not understand why the papers wore not sent. The demurrage every d.^y she lies waiting for us i^ from 40 to 45 per day. I cannot gather from your telegram wh^e the bills of lading are. They certainly have been sent either to us or Levis & Co. with the consular expense bill a tached; upi n them the duties are paid and the ship discharged. The original or duplicates which were sent to us or to Levis and Co. are the ones to forward to tsall Eutchinson & Co. our agents at Gaiveston. I suppose they come in duplicates one being given to our bankers abroad and one sent to us. The n'astbo Qrs is now due there and is expected every day. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. fa*-' ,1' https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/aa6c92458511e02efbec45580bd8a87b.pdf 44d616a54ad178d6db247fe304674118 PDF Text Text 237 New York City, Jany. 6th, 1881 iv:essrs. Drexel & Co., Phildelohia. Gentlemen: Referring to a conversation today with your Iv'.r. Drexel, I subnit the following statement and proposition: The Amierican Railway Improvement Company is a corporation with an actual subscribed capital of two millions of dollars about $6J0,000 of the original subscription having been made in Phildelphia. Mr. Thomas A. Scott taking for himself ■$200,000. The President of the Company is Gen'l. G. Ivi. Dodge, and the Vice President, James P. Scott, son of Col. Thos. A. Scott. This Imiprovement Co. have a contract to build the New Orleans Pacific Road, about 325 miles between Shreveoort, the easter/i term.inus of the Texas & Pacific Road and Mew Orleans, for which they are to receive $20,000. per m.ile of First Mortgage 6 per cen gold bonds, the entire issue authorized upon the property and ^20,000. per miile of Capital stock , as road shall be constructed and equipped and accepted by the railway Company. York has already comim.enced, and the line is being rapidly .prosecuted with the intention of completing the entire line within 12 or 14 mionths. The Iniprovement Co. have sold in advance by sub scription, $2,Ol/0,0..'0 . of these bonds, carrying 50/'^ bonus in New Orleans Pacific stock at the rate of 90jz^ on the dollar for the bonds, and these subscriptions are selling today at about 12^ premium. It is the intention of the parties in interest and prelir.inary steps have been taken by the Texas and Pacific Co. and will during the present month be taken by the stock holders of the New Orleanss Pacific, looking to a consolidation of the two properties into one corporation, making New Orleans practically the south-eastern terninus of the Texas & Pacific Road. Morgan'.s Louisiana Texas Railroad and steamship Comipany sometime since purchased from Frank M. Ames, Trustee of Joseph Seligman, Henry Morgan, Fdwin D. Morgan, Geo. Bliss and Harrison Durkey, purchasing committee for the N-w Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad bondholders, about 67 mdles of road extending from Westwego, opposite New Orleans, to Bayou Goula and this piece of road the Improveiient Co. are proposing to purchase and miake a part of the New Orleans Pacific line. The Morgan Co, have offered to sell this property fa' $12,000 per mile, say $800,000 in cash. The Improvement Co. desire to nake this pur-chase with tiie intention of putting the i-oad in goodcondition, to thoroughly equip it and turn it over to the railway Company, when it .ill become entitled to stock and bonds to be issued under the contract. As the subscriptions for teh two millions of bonds sold and for payments of share capital, can only be called ten per cent each 30 days,it will be necessary for the Improvement Co to borrow, teniporarily, the purchase price, say $800,000 and this they desire to do, offering as sec,.rity their own notes secured by $1200,000 of New Orleans Pncific bonds to be issued on the road as collater-al and security for the loan, the loan to be repaid in ten instalments, say $80,000. per month as the subscription instalments for the two millions of bonds already sold shall be collected monthly. Should you be willing to undertake this negotiation, will you have the goodness to advise me of the terms, rate of interest and commission for your services, and should you desire any further information, I should be very glad to furnish it. I know this transaction to be a perfectly legitimate one, and believe it to be a perfectly safe loan to make; for in addition to the collateral security, I think the Improvemjent Co., with its two millions of capital, abundantly able to provide for the n.onthly payments of the loan, without any difficulty. Yours very truly. Frank J. Bond, Vice President. New Orleans, La. 1381 Gay Gould, 80 Broadway, N.Y. Contracted with Morgan Road for line Westwego opposite Bew Irkeabs to Bayou Gould, sixty eight miles. Only difficulty has been traffic arrangement agreed upon sometime ago by T. & P. It is important for us to secure this line for reasons I cannot telegraph. It v;ill cost me a great deal more than I apid to build as good road on east side of river,. Have wired contract to bond with instructions as to payment . Please see that no default of payment is made if you approve the purchase . There is no question in ray mind. Contract is coiiBumated Jan. 15th because bonds now on road can be redeemed that day. hi go to Houston tonight. G. M. Dodge, J '"tr,. t, . Jan, 1861. 241 New Orleans, Jan. 5th, isBl. F. «. Dond, Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. Whitney is firm on his letter to you. Have examined from here to aTchafalaya. oost of his road is about his figures for fifty-seven miles and about eisht thousand for ten miles. I offered ten per mile. Probably to build on east side of river will cost from ten to twelve without tei^minal facilities equipment and buildings. If I could trade for bonds could you manage to let me have T. ec P. Kio Grande bonds and hold New Orleans first mortgage until they are on board, or could you arrange loan for amount, giving N. 0 P. bonds as security, using assessments, taking up portions each month for ten months. G. M. Dodge, D. H. 1031. January, 1881. urleans, L S. Bond, Vice Pres. T & P. Ry. Co., Philadelphia, Pa, New urleans. L 243 a, January 8th 1881, Bea.r Sir:- The contract requires I shall be p» id total cost of first hundred miles. There can be no deductions. Have wired Granger and want an advance. The non-receiving of material for the front keeps me from laying track and the company must aid me in carrying my heavy expenses, we are continually out of ties, and seldom receive sufficient to lay a mile of J:,rack a day, Washburn wires me today "Am laying no track. Ho ties, ^ut o ties yestarday and the day before. Only 2i5 cars received yesterday and 22 day before. Very truly yours. G M. Dodge, President, 245 New York City, January 10, 1881, Resolved: By the Board of Directors of the International Railway Improvement Company that the President of this Company is hereby author ized to go forv/ard and make surveys and expenditures on t'le line of the concession in the Republic of Mexico, heretofore granted to this Company for the purpose of preserving the concession and developing the country until the said concession is transferred to the ne\ comp'iny, and that the expenditures heretofore made for this purpose are hereby authorised and approved. G. M, Dodge, A, H. Cale. , ; .41 January, 1861 Hew Orleans, La. January 10, 1881, James P. ^cott, Vice Pres. Am. Ry. Imp. Co. Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir:- I have been here some time and have finally got most of the work going to the west side of the Atchafalaga River, i let the Atchafalago bridge; the sub-sti"Uctxiro for ?|;40,000.00; the stiperstructure I am going to make of iron ,and have let that to Cofrode a a Saylor , whole bridge to be completed by July 1st, I think the bonds of the New Orleans Pacific should be sent on here, a million at a time, to be signed and returned to the Trustees, will you please see that this is done. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. January 11, 1881. 249 New Orleans, La. Januax^y llth, 1881. Jay Gould, 80 Broadway, N.Y. In purchasing Donaldson Road we got one hundred fifty acres with half mile river fron' opposite New Orleans, now valuable for terminal facilities; could be utilized also for barge line. No trouble for American Improvement Go. payA-ng for it. liay need little help for ten days until assessments are paid in. In conveyance to us thee e were no conditions as to traffic or anj'thing else and those that I agreed to are all in our favor. Wirth this, line in our hands we are masters of both sides of line and can complete my road New Udeans to Shreveport six months earlier. Don't let'purchase fail on account of any objections to traffice arrangement. G. M. Dodge. 1/2 rate 625 JWTJan. 1881. To All Officials San Antonio, J'exas, January 12th, 1881. In the Republic of Mexico; Gentlemen:- Maj. B. H . Wathon, Chief lin^ineer of the International surveys in Mexico will present this letter . The Railroad line he is seeking to obtain is for the extension of our lines terminating at or r.ear Earedo. There comple- "oed Railroads consist of the Missouri Pacific, Missouri Kansas and Texas iron liountain, Texas and Pacific, and the International and Grea northern, all of which are interested in the completion of a road to the T'exican Capital . They will complete the road to Laredo this year. Any aid or courtisies that you can give Major 77athen, personally or officially will be-highly appreciated by us, and we shall endeavor to reciprocate. Major Wathen has-full authority from us, and will make proper payment for escrots, guides, etc. we have the honor to be • Very respectfully your obt. servants. C S. Hayes Prest. International Railv/ay Co. G. M. Dodge Prest. International Ry. Imp, Co. 253 January, 1881., ^'260 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, Jan. 13th, 1881. Gen. G . M. Dodge. Dear Friend; Your letter in regard to the Life Insurance Policy, I received, and replied to it, but my brother qn calling at your office found you had left for Texas, ani would not return for some time. -^s you probably know my husbandfe death was very sudden and unexpected to me. I can hardly realize it such as loss to us all, just the time when children at their age need the care of a father. i feel it a great responsibility. i-e was always so kind and good, throughout his troubles and sickness 1 never heard him complain, and you know some thing of his trouble, hard enough feu:* a strong man to bear but to one in such poor health as h.e was, I do not see how he keptj up, only that he felt so confideht that he would regain his health and be better than ever for business. And I felt the same way, placing great confidence in his business abilityies, as .1 had every reason to, and it made my cares all the lighter, thinking it would soon be different with us. He used to say to the children, "if anything should ha ppen to me and anyone asked you who your father was? show them the little pamphlet I wrote, that will tell them." He would often say the trials his family had to endure were more distressing to him than his sickness. He looked upon you as the best and truest friend he ever had, and placed the greatest confidence in everything you said or done, and was careful to leave that impression on all his relatives and friends. Y'hat we have suffered for the past two years or more no one knows better than yourself, and you have done more to relieve it than any one living, and certainly no one appreciates it more than 1 do. I knew that you held this policy, exactly how I did not know, but in his condition of health it v/ould occur to me, knowing that it would be all that we would have to,depend upon. I said so to hirr,, le replied, "I could not wish it in safer hands, it will be nil right. Gen. Dodge dolit think that is any kind of security, iie advanced me money knowing that when I am able to attend to my business am capable of repaying him ten fold." All through his sickness and troubles there has nothing been so difficult to contend with as the supposed wealth of my father, Iv.r. Stillman. Tht t evidence others may have of it, certainly his family htve none, for it is only with the most severe economy my mother has been able to make ends meet. He has been informed of our circuDistances fron, tl;e beginning always a firm friend of my husbands and a kind father to me, if it could have been in his power to have helped us any more than he did, it would be a mystery no onecould solve. I felt the only thing I had in this world to look to to support n.y little family on was what I received from this policy. I know exactly how kind and liberal you have been to my husband and myself. and of course liberal with i must leave it all to you, and now as you can afi ord to be. I know you will be as You are a man that occupies a high position, and with great influence and wealth, wo.ild not dare to write to you in this wav. if I looked looked upon upon it light of a mere business transaction that occurs daily between men (shich of course it was in one sense). But it occurred as it did between old friends, boys together, families intimate. One power ful and prosperous, with everything that pertains to .happiness in this world. The other In his grave leaving a wife and little family to battle alone with the world, and I know you will do by me as you would be done by if the case were reversed. Hoping that yourself and family will alv/ays entertain toward us the same pleasant feelings and relations we have held so long. I remain. Sincerely yours, Mrs. ',V. S. Fairfield. #260 Fifth Ave. Jan. 1881. 255 Marsl:all, Texas, January 14, 1881, James P. bcott. Vice Prest. Am. Ry. Imp. Co, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear 8ir:- Please have the bonds taken up and the notes endorsed by Mr, Gould forwarded to Mr. h". B. wheelock, 2 Camp bt. New Orllean by February 5th so we can have the road turned over and trransfer made by the 10th. I am having the title examined and the deeds w ii be made to the N. 0. Pac. Ry, Mr. ".'hitney agrees to pay us interest on the bonds from Jan. 15th until we turn them over, Mr. Sheelock wants to be instructed to see the bonds cancelled and the mortgage properly annulled on the parishes. The contract forwarded to Mr, Bond wants to be signed and sealed by T. & P, and returned to is, ts. Wheelock, New Orleans, The weather is very bad,"rain, snow, sleet and cold altcniating , i a in hopes to see settled weather soon. I am. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President, American Ry. Imp, Co. New York City, January 14, 18G1. James P, Scott, Vice Prest. Philadelphia, Pa, Dear Sir:- I have today received letters from Mr, Greene in which he suggests laying track from Alexandria. No doubt he will talk to you about it when you get tliere. I see no advantage to be gained in it. It will oost us a great deal of money to get locomotives, cars, etc, and to start a new base ot Alexandria as soon as we need it. He writes m me he is crowding graders onto the work but that the storms down there are such that but very little progress has been made thus far and of course we can only get ready to push the work as soon as the elements will allov/. The work on the M. K. & T. extension from Fort Worth nortti seems to progress very well and fey will soon be able to make a rood showing there, ^ The ties from Le Compte to Atelafalaya need looking after, I hope you will go to New Orleans and have an interview with - Morse and come to a conclusion in regard to the boats we will need tere, I am still of opinion that cars on barges with a boat for the transfer of passenger cars would be best. However, I shall set aside my iud-'^ement in favor of those who have had more experience, " the Texas & Pacific is so blocked, I suppose that very little material is arriving at Shreveoort but I have nearly 100 miles of rail and fastei ings at Calveston. anything down there to push the work alonr nle-^se do so. The most important thing is to look after the gradinrr contracts and see that they keep a heavy force at work all the time. They should be heavy enou~h to take the first 20 miles out of the way within twenty or thirty days after they get to work. i."enLv or ■ -+ „ I notice what Messrs. Kite and Howard say about boats, y'hen you get to New Orleans please go with Mr. Morse and look at the Morgan arraLement. You will then be better able to tell exactly what we wanU Very truly yours, . G, M. Dodge, i President, January 14,1881. Jay Gould, ...0 Broadway, Hew York. Dear Sir:- 259 -:- Marshall, Texas January 14, 1881. The weather since 1 have been down here has been terrible, rain, snow, sleet, and thaw for a month, but have kept to work except when it was impossible on account of water. Af te^^xamining matters "in Hew urleans i saw the key to the situation wsfs'^est side of Mississippi . That if we expect to compete with roa^ in forth- west and California we must avoiiJ^cxpense of c^ssin^^ississippi River for all business going to domestic or foreign potit's. Again terminal facilities in heart of Hew Orleans for the business of 10,000 miles of road are not to be had while west side had them where we could concen rate our R. R. lines. Elevators, b rges, and all shipping and I bought that road cheap. The only thing I did rrot like was the traffic clause, but knowing the fate of all such things when both parties were not benefitedl worked to get it agreed outside- of deed which I accomplished;by going to the river at Baton Rouge we can give the capital of the state accommodations aiid make a good point to receive and deliver iip river freights. This requires only seven miles of a spur, and the whole distance. Baton Rouge to Hew Urieans isthrough solid plantation, and cut:: off all competition, which we certaMv woul;^ have if we left that G6 miles road out. Then with a crossing the Mississippi in the middle of our line, some one would have picked it up and built a competing line. I made the terms so that the Imp. Co. could meet them, and gave you as endorser, as that avoid ed putting up anysecurity on deferred p^ments. I cannot do much with Galveston and Santa Re people on exchange of stock, we can buy the road so it would cost us about vl7,000 per mile of c mpleted and equipped road. At San Antonio, I a ranged our work and closed all the contracts and strted our Mexican surveys. Sent ahead into Mexico and our agei t with letters for proper parties including the military author ities here to those in ?Texico and 1 believe we will get through, we have a very able man in charge of surveys, Maj. B. wathen. the best man i ever had on preliminary lines, Antonio I crossed by wagon 13 miles to tho International ine, and examined it to Atistin , The new road is very fine and expensive, but is desirable. Eighty niles has 19 truss bridges. Of all the roads in Texas, or in the soud^ the international is the best. As to condition its equiprent is limited, but it is never idle. It is 600 miles long and had only 800 cars; still htey have increased earnlgs and bio;t tje 80 miles; its management is the closest, most economical, and the best I have seen in the south. The road is clean, smooth, and has stood tJie rains remarlrably well and if any new arrangement is made Hayes and Hoxie want to be ' utilized. They will give us good results, and get out of our roeds whatever there is in them* 260 I go to t^hreveport and i-'ort worth today. Shall make out a final examination there and then return north. 0ur work is all moving well at all points and good weather will give us quid: results. Washburn is now all ready to commence trac k north of worth towards ^Denver. You do not waht'to come into this country until weather is settled and spring opens. ^ • . Very truly yours, * G. Yi. Dodge. January 18, 1881. 261 Port worth, Texas, January 18, 1881 Gov. J. C. Brown, Vice Prost. T. &; P. Ry, Marshall, Texas. Bear Sir:- I submit the account of cost of the first 100 miles as we have m de it up now. There 7/ill be the interest on the balance due us after deducuinr the bonds received on this 100 miles.from October 1st until date of paymei t. Also a final statement of cost of equip ment which cannot be calculated until our final payments are made. Please wire i*'. b. Bond to turn over to us the balance !ii;2,ei0,000 of bonds after deducting from that amount the bonds turned over to us on this 100 miles, i need these bonds immediately to meet the demands on us for p"yments now due. I submit the account subject to future alterations when we receive our final statement of cost, and when you have examined the account in detail if you wish to do so. All vouchers are in the hands of Mr. washburri, except the charges of New York office which are in that office. I am. Very respedtfully yours. G. M. ^odge. written on car . President. 263 t: January, 1881. Port Worth, Texas, January 18, 1881 Max hlser, Esq. Fort worth, Texas. Dear Sir: I accept yciir bid of seventy-five dollars per mile for telecraph line built complete behind the track but the line to be kept up to the front; and one hundred and twenty five miles built ahead of the tracK. Go to work iirimediately and build from Westv/er^o over the com pleted line sixty-eiyht miles to end of rack. Tlie balance to be built ahead of the track to the Atchafalgo River. From Shreveport south vie will build behind the track. The Cypress poles are to be of red cypress, inches at smaller end, fitted for cross arm. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodce, President, January 19, 1881 1881 Memorandtun. Memorandum of an agreement by and between Gen. G. M, Dodge of New York and John Sealy of Galveston made at Port worth January 19th, 1881. nitnesseth: That for certain purposes Gen'l. G. M. Dodge that upon the he will purchase all the stock of sum of eigiit cents on the dollar all the iron, spikes, fastenings, including two Rogers Pngines and on above contracts, provcded the on or before January 26th, 1881, on or before March 1st, 1881. 1 nrmed it is agreed on the part of representation made by Mr, Sealy the 0. G. & St Fe. R.R, for the of value, and assume and pay for material, and contracts for v/ork, two convict cars dov/ delivered sale can be consumated and th'~ road completed to Kelton All of which are based noon the statements of Mr. Sealy that the total issuance of stock Upon the road completed to Belton^from Galveston shall not exceed 1650 shares of 'I'lOO each, at par value and a mortgage bond of '12,000 per mile upon the said distance which is about 226 miles. And it is further understood that the donation promised by town of belton of C75,000 is to be collected bv G. M. Dodge, All of the facts and statements herein referred are to be examined and verified by R. S/ Hayes, and if not fotuid to be substan- .ti'-'lly correct the agroemci t is of no avail or moment. It being under stood that this instui*ment is intended as a porposition. G. M. Dodge, John Scaly, January, 1S81 2C7 Fort Worth, Texas, Jariuary 20, 1881 Jay Gould, Esq., 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: - I enclose you a memorandum agreemert that I made with Mr. Sedly He goes to Galveston to get his stockholders (some of them) to agree to it, and will then go to New York to turn over the stock. Mr. Hayes is to make a thorough examination and sec that the stateme: ts made to me and in the agrement are correct. T ere is no floating debt, the eariiings of the road as reported being 150,000 n6t on about 165 miles in six montlis. The road is thoroughly ballasted and in my opinion in very g., oa shape. At any rate it is a good thing for us that it is. v*e can get into Galveston six months sooner.than if we had built throi^gh. I did not think it was best to allow a few hundred'^dollars to part us. The issue was made to provide the money on last month's payments, and I gave them the money they have actually put into the road without interest. We get a subsidy of g75,000 out of Helton which will come with the purchase and some other minor things. The cost of the work which has been done north of nelton will be inside of C20,000, and I think nearly all of this we can use. The contracts on material that they have out and for rolling stock are very much lower than we car. contract for them now. It will probably made a difference of vl00,000 if not 200,00. Mr. Talmagt was here w'-.en I made the trade ai.d i consulted him and finally agreed as you see, and I have no doubt it will be carried out. Mr. "^ealy who controls the rood wei;t bade approving my proposition. As soon as 1 heo.f rom him I will let you know. When we take road there will be turned over to us the officers and Board of Directors. There are 13 of them. Seven of them will have to be made in Texas, we want to keep Mr. Sealy in, .and in addi tion put in Mr. Hayes and Mr. hoxie a d such other men as you mav select who are in our Interest in Texas. I am, very truly yours, 0 . M. Dodge, January, 1881. 2G9 CoToncll Bluffs, Iowa. January 25, 1881. E B. wheelock, Brest. N.O. Pac. Ry. Co. New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- When the bonds and money are sent on for the paym nt of the IT. 0. Pac. road, you wart to rmember that we are entitled to the interest on the bonds from Jan. 15th to Feb. loth, the time they are turned over, and you want to take complete possession of the road and then make a traffice arrangement for commercial business, only allow"rg the Morgan line to take off of the line anything that has been contracted for and delivered upon it. we are not to admit them to go on our line and contract for our timber, poles, etc., while we are building If it interferes with our track; if it does not I have no objection at present. The traffice arrangement Var.ts to be made for just so long a time as we handle the road, or until we are able to take it and run it ourselves; and we ought to get at least OlOO per day trackage. But before the trafficcarrangement is made hope to have some one who understands these ra-^tters thoroughly. Very truly yours, G. M. Bod e. President. . ■ ;-5 M: , vt' - ;(V- ■■■ 271 American Railway Imp. Co. New York Git;-., January 25, 1861. E. B, V/heelock, Esq., President New Orlean' Pacific Ry. Co., Mew .Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- Mr. C. P. Toenshoffer, Treasurer of this Company will today ship you, per Express, 250 M Bonds of Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Ry. a^nd steamship Co. ivith coupon July 1881 attached, which we purchased from him on the 14th inst. Please see that these Bonds are cancelled and the Mortgage property annulled in the parishes through which the road runs on which they own a mortgage, and that they are delivei^ed to the Messr, 'Vhitney & Co. as part of the pruchase price of the Bagon Gould Ro d according to the agreem nt of sale of the property to the American Ry. Improvement Co. I received your telegram of yesterday stating that you held Whitney & Co. agreement to accept cash on or before the 11th of Febru ary, in lieu of the notes for balance of payent as specified in the agree ent. I have not yet received anything from you as to when cash is to be paid. We would prefer to pay it here in New York. Very truly yours, James Scott. 273 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company New Orleans, Jany. 27, 1881 Gen'l. G.N. Dodge, Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. Dear Sir: We held a meeting of our Board today and adjourned stockholder's meeting eill 24 proximo. I hold the proxies for a considerable ^lajority of the Stock to vote at the adjourned meeting. I enclose you copy of an ordinance which I will present to the council at the proper time. In regard ta the lots owned by Matthews, the dimensions of which I gave you in my telegram, is the river front of the Thalia Street or lower corner of the property already pruchased; and imtiediately in front of the seven lots owned by Mr. Ca'iipbell and Mr. Leary and one lot by Mr.. McCloskey for which they asked you will recollect '.|p2500 a lot, we offering $18J0. The lots of Mrs. Matthews are the same dimensions, with the riparian privileges,' which at present amount to 100 feet at low water in addition. The ownership of the Matthews property I consider particularly desirable, for the following reasons; riparian rights are not subject to expropriation ana the ownership of this property will 'Enable us to*buy the seven lots of Campbell and others at a fair price, else we can expropriate them. I have therefore concluded to submit to the terms demanded from which no deviation could be obtained, viz; $15,OOP - $5,000 of which cash and balance in 12 months with 6% interest privilege of anticipating payment less interest. I will do nothing further until Mr. Morse reaches here, in regard t© the running department of the Bayou Goula road. I have the promise from Whitney &. Co. of six box cars, one passenger car and a few flat cars for use say for two months, terms not yet agreed upon. I am confident,a small cheap running stem wheel boat can be chartered ,ith a crew by the month at a reason able rate, which would enable us to transact the commercial business of the line to the satisfaction of its patrons and I trust with profit to you. The weather for Last three or four days has been very fine and promises to so continue. I forwarded yesterday to the Trustees the third million of the oonds executed, and will send the fourth tomorrow or day after. My board today passed a resolution authorising Ke to sign any act of sale of any property you HiSy purchase in the name of the N. 0. Pacific Co. I understand from our attorneys, that they have all the papers to be prepared here for the Books and Morgan property ready. The acceptance of the Texas & Pacific to be signed by them is not yet to hand. Yours very truly, E. B. Wheelock, Prest. h -v" i pi.' . h" . p.t' y*" s t. ■ - I (jtD ■ h'ehruary 3d.IS6I 'Chicago, 111. ,?eb.3d.IS8I. :.:y dear General; I send you by Mr. Wheeler a copy of a look I have had printed giving much valuable information about Gonora Mejcico. As soon as I get maps printed I will send you a copy. The information it contains relative to re sources of the country, is entirely reliable, aside from its in the narrative of a 15 years roughing it.Only 10 copies have been printed so please keep this one for your own use. In regard to the pavement I wish to say that 'Alxeeler has done constant hard work to make a success of it. He has associated v^ith him,J.~. Smith, the largest and most successful pavement contractor in this city. Smith has the confidence of the city officials. Street railroad Companies, in fact, of the best men in the city. Last year he contrclled the paving of about, fifty miles of streets. Gy interesting Smith, V/hepler has made the strongest combination possible. Already 75000 yards of paving is secured by ordinances and contracts, justifying iimnediate erection of works. I feel so certain of success that I have taken an interest in it, and hope you will do all you can. to help getting the work fairly startI can't tell yet when I will be ordered- if moved at all. We still proy for the retirement pf Your friend, W. Myers . .iL- 277 February, 1881. Finance Comnilttee Senate Washington, Feby. 4, 1881. Dear Genl: I have yours of 2d inst. I ani glad you are back again, I did not get anything in the k. K. & T. extension as I did not know to whom to apiDly. I have $10,000 in the Cable Otock and 10,000 in Lackawanna extension but I have not paid any assessment on either. I wish you would call on Trevor and he will pay you the assessment on both. They stand in your name. hlease attend to this for me. I will take $10,000 in M. K. & T. extension if you think it a good thing. When will the remainder of the Telegraph Stock be issued? When it is please get it and hand it to Trevor, who will take care of it or sell it if you so advise. I do not now know when I can come to N. Y. I fear not till after March 4th. I want you to take care of these things for me as above until I come over. Be sure and call on Trevor for the assessments. When will you be in W. What Southwestern stocks do you aavise me to buy? Tell Trevor for me and he will buy. Yours truly. W. 3. Allison. New York, February 4, 1881, A, West, Esq., Cor. LaSalle & Monroe Sts, Chicago, Ills. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your letter anc note whet you say in relation to change of management of the building. The whole management of the buildin- is in my brother's hands, thou^a- he con sulted me before he made the change. They were not satisfied with its management.nor with the collection of the rents. I had supposed thet with; the room you were occupying in the build"ng you would cliarge the usual commissions for collections. It is possible and very probable -hat you may have given the matter more attention than an outsider might have done; bu syill I do not believe it is any more than should be required of an Agent. The greatest fault I have to find is that people were allowed to remain in the building wiio never paid their rents. You will remember that I spoke to you pers'^nally several times in relation to them. I have referred that part of your letter in relation to doing something in Mexico to Mr. R.S Hayes. I will tell you very frankly that if I can aid you in ti.is matter or in any other way, I am perfectly willing to do so. I have said to Mr. ?Iayes that if he could find any place to put you I would be very glad to have him give you a position. It will be sometime, l.owever, before we do anything more than make surveys in Mexico. My business is such and is so pressing upon mo, that my private matters I must leave entirely to my agents and whatever they deem best I must agree to or discharge them. I a;.I, Very truly yours, C. M. Dodge. New York, February 7, 1881, Frank Hatton, Esq., Burlington, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I have youi'S of January l?th which was Texas and from there here, a.ici; will account ans7,'erinG. I note what you say about L'r. Hastings forwarded to me i for tl.e delay in letter. any opportunity upon any of our roads to use him, will be glad to X notice also what you say about myself. The fact is I am so busy that iiy time is so mucj. occupied that I think of nothing else but matters connected v.'ith my business. The subject of politics and wj;at there is in the future hardly ever enter my mind nor do I know what is to be the upshot of matters. I have heard all kinds of storie since my return, but nothing reliable or definite. I was very much in hopes that Wilson -would go into the Cabinet if he wanted it, at any rate that Iowa would be given a representation. I understand Allison could have it If he wants it, but do not even know whether or not that is true. I suppose if A ""ison does not go in that "yilson -will. I shall be glad to hear from you at any time or to aid you in any way when I can do so, you know very -.'ell that I am always ready to do so. That ^art of your letter about not leeting you "warm up to us" is all in your eye. Very truly yours, C. U. Dodge. 283 New York, Feburary 7, 1881, Fred L. Ames, Esq., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir; Tnile I was absent I received from Mr. S. S. Montague, Chief engineer, Central Pacific R.R.Co., a letter requesting m- to obtain photographs of I.Ir. Cakes Ames and Mr. Oliver Ames. He desires them to use in the painting of a picture 8 x 12 representing the meeting of the two tracks at Promontory. Will you be kind enough to secure the photographs of ti^ese gentlemen and enclose them to me here. They would also like the photographs of any other Boston parties v/ho v/ere present at that time. P"ease be prompt in this matter as my absence has already caused considerable delay. -Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. a d' - , ■ . 1,, ■ ■ ■ ; ,.V. : w 285 Kev.' York City, February 7, 1881 R. S. Hayes, Esq., Pre St, Intl. & Gt. Nn. Ry. Go., Palesline, Texas. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of several letters from you relating to J/:exican affairs and also one of Feby. 2d enclosing requisition for material for San Antonio Division. I have a surplus of 40U cars now being built for Texas & Pacific under their specifications at Litchfield. Schroder & Ellery of Chicago are the.Agents and I propose to have these cars turned over to the extension as they will be delivered much sooner than you could other wise get them. I have alos arranged with Messrs W. C. Allison & Co. who are making cars for me in Philadelphia to give you 400 cars for your old road @ .'5440 each. They had contracted them with Mir. Barnes @ $460 but I made them come back tO my price; this will give you a considerable addition to your transportation within the next few days. I want you to get in communication with Messrs Scroder & Ellery 93 Dearborn St., Chicago and ascertain when they want an inspection then to take cars of them thus: 33ft. cars they are . to furnish according to .T & P. specifications. There are to be 200 flats & 2oO boxes. I understand that you have arranged with the C. & G.N. for the two 50ft. Gallows turn tables and the 25 hand and 25 push cars boarding train etc. which is all right. The 15000 tons steel rails with fastenings will come from Bethlehem. The balance of the material we will arrange for. The telegraph material has all been ordered and will soon be shipped. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 287 February, 1881. Office of KOORE, SKITH & CO., 240 Devonshire St. Boston, February 7th, 1881. Gen . G . Dodge , ^ Dear Sir: Although you have no doubt not heard froi; 0ie in any manner since your boyhood, I have taken the liberty of writing you. You will recollect my Father, Dr. George Osgood, of Danvers, who was your mother's family physician and very dear friend for years. Also ray sister Iwiss Sarah Ann Osgood whom as I have often heard say she was your first -chool teacher. ~I know my Father to the last of his life always felt your honored mother to be one of his best friends and always spoke of her as a very superior woman. N.y sister,who is now with me often speaks of you as one of her old scholars, and has watched your successful career with much interest and pride, and of your Parents as her stedfast friends. So much for the introduction, r. y object in writing you is in regards to a son of mine who is very anxious to make Railroads, or the business oi' them, his occupation. He is 23 years of age, has had an education at Harvard College, but having no desire for a profession he-started off last September on his own responsibility to Minneapolis. Although a total stranger their, he made tiie acquaintance of some gentleman and obtained a sit uation on the Minneapolis and St. Louis R. R. in the freight depart ment, where his duty has been, to get the accounts at the Flour^'ills and see to the shipping of it etc. In one mionth he had the full charge of it but has compensation there is very small, and the chance for advancement very little. He is very capable and energetic, willing to do. I write you in hopes that in your great business you miay liave some situation connected with soirie Rail Reading that you can speak a good word for hini and help him. I know a. man in your situation has numberless calls similar to this but if in memory of by gone days you can assist hiiii to some situation you will never have reas n to regret it for he is a "go-ahead Yankee" and strictly moral in every respect. I think it will not make any difference to him what part oi the U. States he was in only give hitii a chance. With much respect, I am Very truly yours, Mores E. Osgood. . S. You are aware it is very diflicult for a yoang man to advance un less he has somie friends to assist him. The Am. Ry. Imp. Co. Shreveport, La., February 8th, 1881 Gen'l. G.U. ^odge, Pres., 80 Broadway, New York, City. Dear Sir: Present condition of grading for 7c miles south of Shreveport renders it obvious that Road cannot be completed in time if left in the hands of the present contractors. I present to your consideration the accompanying proposition of A. J. Lane & Co., believing that our only remedy for existing state of affairs is Lhelaying of the track north and south from Alexandria. 55 miles of grading is now ready (or nearly so) north, and about as much south. The work is light and if even 70 or 80 males of well-surfaced track belaid on this extent, you will readily perceive the advantage of the arrangemient, especially when this is accom lished at no loss of tinie in the other Divisions. Whatever track is laid at Alexandria, be it more or less, is that miuch gained, the only loss is the small charge for transportation of iron and engine and cars to Alexandria, and this I believe Lane & Co. will pay. Jones Cowen & Knovvl~ ton I believe would be willing to surrender the Alexandria end of their contract and should make some abatement as that is their long haul. I have sounded theman..i they promise an answer in a few days. River in favorable condition and rising, men say it will stay up for three or four mionths . Steamboat I have invited bids for grading on this end from many contractors in all quarters stating p.rice etc. and whilst up to tliis date I have no replies still hope in as much as a favorable change in the weather may now be expected that miany more hands and teams will soon be added to the present force . N'y idea is to let all the contractors now on the work remain even though many of the contracts be expired, giving them the option of working along until the track shall reach their respective sections, putting on however new contractors whenever they can be obtained on any and all unoccupied miles. Shall spare no effort or device, but affairs I must confess are unpromising. We have just had the severest rain storm of the season, making it physically impossible to work, teams, Very truly yours, B. H . Greene, Chief Engineer. New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, Feby. 8, 1881 *Jen'l. G. II. Bodge, President, New York. Dear Sir: Ivessrs. C. T. Whitney & Go's, proposition to run the Donaldsonville road for 75 percent of the net earnings could not be entertained. Therefore I gave Lhera notice, that we would operate the road from the 10th inst. and ■ould run to and from their trains, transferring at the Junction. While I hope not to do this but to make arrangements to run over their track, it would be impossible to maice such arrangementsuntil they were thoroughly disabused of the idea of operating our end of the line; hence the notice. The Donaldsonville branch is of more value as an auxiliary in extending the line towards Shreveport then it is in a commercial sense, or for its revenue. result; Their proposition shows approximately the following Earnings estimated at $5,000 permonth. Gross for rent six months, Whitney c".: Co. agreeing to run the road for 75;^ of this, or ;53750 Leaving for Am. Ry. Impt. Co. $i250 Cost of tr:;ck repairing $1 per mile 68 miles, per day, or per month Leaving loss of, per month 2040 The expense of running their trains and handling the business comes out; and we were to keep up the track also, which would result in loss to us. To hire a boat would be a losing business at present. We can have our iron and material delivered at Westwego and transfer other business at Junction, if wt ha\e to. Full car loads would go through. Will endeavor to make the road pay. It would bi impracticable to have them run over our track anyway, without a telegraph line while we are running construction trains. Will advise you soon as we arrive at a conclusion. Will be ready to run on the 10th. 1st. I am in full accord with suggestions in your favor of the Yours respectfully, H. S.Morse, Supt. A telegraph pass over one or both lines would be a convenience, and "economical", if convenient to procure them. H. S M. The wire for the 125 miles of telegraph material has now arrived and is in store here. 293 , ii New York, Pebttuary 8, 1881. N. P. Dodge, Esq., Council BluBfs, Iowa. Dear Sir: I received your 'two letters today also read the article in the Nonpareil. I never stated to any Councilman that I considered the contract or ordnance a good one, as T never had seen it. The only statement I did make after I saw it was to Mr. Morgan in which I made pretty much the same criticis:; that you make in your letter, and I suggested to him that although the city had reserved in its contract no right to insepct, still that is a right tliey shoii.ld have as a party to the contract, and that whenever the works were built the city should put upon them an Inspector to see that they were properly built. ; t]:at Company agrees to give first-class water works and the city is as much a judge of v/hat a firsL-class water works system is as the contract-^rs. I believe to obtain reliable water works you have to be pretty liberal in your charter and at tlie sar e time guard the contract in sue a way that whatever you get is first-class in every particular. In my opinion, -he most serious change in the matter is the de duction of the pum.ping power one-half, which, to my mind, is a great mistake. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge New York, Peburary 9, 18G1. J. Blickensderfer, Jr., Esq., Chief Engineer U.P.Ry. Omalia, Neb. Co., Dear Sir:- Mr. Dillon requests me to write you in relation to the Denver, Utah, and Pacific R.P.. It is said that they propose to build a narrow gauge road to Boulder; thence up the Thompson through Estes Par k into the middle Park and thence down Uhite River. If this is their route, I have an idea that they pr-^pse to follow up one fork of the Thompson and cross from that to Trout Creek or South Fork Cache la Poudre, one of the tributaries of the Caciie la Poudre and thence across into the Lliddle Park, making two summits. This is the only route I know of by which they could get in theire north of Lcn 'd Peak. It would be very possible for them to get in south of Lon~'s by following up St. Vrains. Nr. Dillon is anxious-l.o ccupy the pass leading from Tr ut Ore; into Lliddle Park v/hich they would have to use, or at least to have that xountry thoroughly examined so to ascertain the possibilites of their getting through that v;ay. I went through there once, and it seems to me that I went up from the Thompson to Fall River and across from the South Park of Cache la Poudre and thence into the North Park. There are two good passes througii that way that are practicable for narrov/ guage roads, but ii is so long since I examined the country that I am not familiar enough with it to locate thern from memory and I have here none of my detailed maps or maps of recornoisance, but what should be done as soon as lible organize a reconnoiterheights, and v/ith pack it thoroughly developed. ing party with instruments sufficient to take heights, and v/ith pa mules and have that country and every pass iri it thoroughly develo Then we would 's^ow what to look for. I understand these people propose to reach the coal country in the north and Niddle Parks as well as the Boulder valley and to run through the mining districts of the Thompson and Fall Rivers. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. New York, Peburary 10, 1881. J. Biickensderfer, Jr., Chief Engineer U.P.R.R.Co., Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir: At the instance of k:r, Dillon, I yesterday wrote you a letter in regard to the proposed movements of the Denver, Utah and South Park Ry. Co. Since then I have seen some of their people and I am satisfied thct they intend to run their line from Denver up to the Boulder coalfields and thence take the high line narrow guage rout that Evans run years ago and re-examined two years since in opposition to the Cleark Lake line vfhich gets up into the mountains and follows it across the divide near the head of South Boulder at wliat is known as the Hogback, very near a point at whiath we once had a line over there. I think you are posted on all these surveys. It seems to me you are in a position to get plenty of information of their movements better than we are here. I am told that they are at work at points either on the Rawlston or Boulder- near their heads. Yours truly, C. M. Dodge. Nev. York City, February 10th, 1881 R. S. Hayes, Prest. I.&.G.N. Ry. Co., Palestine, Texas. Dear Sir: All the material contracted for goes directly from the mills to Mr. Talmage at St. Louis and is by him distributed to the different roads as needed. As I telegraphed you today , I have requested him to send directly to you b/l for that portion which goes to you and which I think he intends to do in all cases, unless possibly where shipments may have been diverted after having been consigned to you. You had better communicate vith him by letter in relation to the cars. After I returned here I found that I had more oars contracted for than I wanted to use, and suggested turning over these 400 to you because I could get them so much sooner than I could if I made new contracts. By doing this I gave up the contracts I intended for you turning them over to Mr. Barnes so that he could have them to put on the old roads thus giving you two early deliveries. It would have been just as agreeable to me to have contracted under your specifications as under those of the Texas Sc. Pacific, but I thought we had better take advantage of early deliveries. It is very hard to get any quick deliveries now. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. February lOth. I88I. 301 . '1'^ Council Blul'Is, Iowa February Io,I8SI. ^ Tear Gren; I am in receipt of your letter informing me v.'here you stand upon the water works contract, but which I will make no public use of except to cor rect any wrong impression that may be in the minds of those whom I may con verse with, I hope I am through with my newspaper comniunications, having ac complished what I set out for, which was to get the citizens waked up, he have Lyraan and Brewer at work looking up legal status of the ordinance. It was drawn to stick. The City^ Council are anxious to do what they can to cor rect these errors and omissions, at least those who were pressed into it and at next regular meeting we shallr go in with a petition and request a revis ion of this contract and also appeal to contractors, and hope in that way to accomplish something, for we believe the contractors will yield rather than l^have a continual warfare, \Ty last letter is in Wednesday's paper, Judson's statement of facts in regard to Cook's visit(on Saturday) the honpareil suppressed, it contained this clause; "During his(Cook'a) visit in my office which was on Saturday, Jany,2£/8I ^r. Cook said i'n substance that he did not re^s^rd it as a part of his professional business,, as Eng. for City, to unite with Water Go, and GJty Council in forming a new ordinance but that if City Council wished to submit it to him when it was before them for action, he would g-lve his opinion", Please read the editorial I pin to this letter in connection , with this suppressed letter.Tiie action of Nonpareil has hurt Chapman among the better class of citizens, Vorgan of the Globe has kept his columns free from any editorials since tne one he wrote in reply to Holmes, \'r. Baldwin eoii.e to talk with me yesterday, sent undoubtedly to pacify me. At same time bw\ : v'.aa outspoken in his way, about the manner it was passed and knew it was in interest of contractors for the first thing contractor done was to employ Geo. '.bright for one ye? r and he wrote the ordinance by agreement, bet them and "City Coimcil, Lut "he wpnts v,-ter at any pric6 /And I can see he will not object to tH.'.ing some stock in it. I wtote ^Tiller and lichardscn a letter calling attention to the dirt their local writer was throwing to Judge Casady and myself(we bet ing only persons v/ho have attacked the contract in papers) and'reqd a kind letter from Dr. Miller saying he was not aware that the articles reflected upon us arid would stop it. I also have an excei.lent letter from "Mr. Cook whom I have kept posted. The sale to Gguire of v/est part ofJilontgomery *s lot v/ill be closed today. Mr.l^ having sent' me deed. That leaves hipi'the tract adjoin ing your place and v/idth of street in front of your line, which-he holds at 2000 and riot likely to sell at that price very soon. I shall write to k know what way he desires to fix up the note referred to'in his letter to you as he simply requests me to put this money to his 'credit. Mother has an excellent girl and is bright and happy, have not seen her so well for 2 years N.r.h. , '.if' , V. .'V / „ r? ■ ' ■ ■ ■ • • », V . ■ I i >. ■ U:. ■ , ■ . .. / ^ ■ - I- ' ' - •• : sn '-.i ' ■ . • ' i J', thy s' f.v. , K . 't', . • 303 American Ry. Impt. Co. New York City. February 14th, 1881. B; H. Green, Ewq., Chief Engineer, Shreveport, La. Dear Sir; I am in receipt of yours of 16th. I do not see any advantage to be gained by commencing work at iMexrandria. In the first place 1 we have reith er the locomotives nor the cars for c-nsturction purposes and in the second place am afra.d to get anything afloat on Red River and the whole of it would be very costly. What we- had better do is, as soon as we get the grading out of the way to nut on an additional force of tracklayers from this end. There is no trouble there in laying two miles of track daily an by the time we would get well started at Alexandria with ties and other material we would probably be as far behind hand as we are at Shreveport. What you must do at Shreveport to cover the first 20 miles of that work and gew it out of the way as soon as the weather will permit and get your track started south from there at as early a. date as possible. We certainly must have some good weather soon . Very trrly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. 305 Kew York, February 15, 1081, Llr. N. P. Dod^e, Esq., Council Bluffs, lo-ja. Dear Kate: T'r. Hopkins of the water-works company has twice been here to see ?ir. Dillon and myself. He says he has no disposition to carr" out any contract that is not satisfactory to the citizens of Council Bluffs, and says that when he gets there he will call upon yoi^ and oth.ers vrho are not satisfied with the ordinance and tr" to make it satisfactory. He says also that he has no objection to t e citizens appointing any engineer they may desire to supervise the work and I think he has himself concluded that it is best to doulbe the pumping capacity of the wor"s. He sees the necessity for this in the amount of'water which will be required by the railroads. He asked me parti cularly in v/hat respect you and ySur'friends desired the ordinance changed. I think, in your place, I woi'ld have an interview ;ith the company before commencing any legal fight. So far as I can learn taey are a very responsible concern and are buildin'- tlie water works for thie purpose of making good their bonds and stock. I think the great difficulty is going to be in obtainin.'^ the water from the river. This is a problem whici: will be hard to solve. Very truly yours, G. It. Dodge. 307 New York Cit3^ Pebruarj'- 15, 1881. vA H. S. Morse, Esq.., Div. Supt. N. 0. P. Ry. Co., Kew Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I want the road bed put in fair condition so that when the buildinf^s are repaired and the rolling stock is on it it will be ready to turn over to the Railwajr Go. and I can get my pay upon it. I wrote to Mr. Barr about having the buildings repaired and P^i^ted, tanks the same and to make whatever little improvements we might need. I will also write him about getting up plans for ships at Vestwego so we could start work on them. I do not think we ou'-ht to spend more than ,.500 per mile on the completed road to put it in "-ood condition, though you know best. ?7hatever work is done upon it seems to |me should be by putting in good material, taking sand from the river ^or from places wiiere faere have been crevasses where the sand has lodred I have been told there are such places at several points on the road. Cannot you arrange with Whitney to let you assume all the contraats for ties along the road. I have your letter statin.^ the agree ments you have already mede witi: him which -re all ri 'ht. I tried to make the same arrangements when I ws there, but could not do it. Mr. James P. Bcott, Vice Prest. of this Co. will be in New Or leans ere long and will then consult with you in regard to the boat and will contract to have it built. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. Heiv York, Fetniary 15, 1881, J. Blickensderfer, Jr., Bsq., Chief Engineer U.P.By. Co., Cmaka, lieh. 1,'r. Dillon is anxious to have the Colorado Central R.R. extend ed into "the I.Iiddle Park. In a former day there was a r oute examined and run from Black Hawk across to the kiddle Boulder; thence^up that stream to the Hog-haclc and through the Hog-hack hy a tunnel into the Middle Park. I believe Mr. James A. Evans had something to do v/ita runnin- this li e but I am not certain; however, there is a feasible line to be obtained iy hugging the slopes and \7orking around. No doubt Mr. Dillon will .vrite you full instructions_in relaoicn to it. Mr. Sickels also examined the road when he was chief engineer. My recollection is tliat it ran up the Clear Pork to near its head; then swept back striking the Middle Boulder, about^opposite Carribon or Rawlings; thence working up the slopes of the Middle Boulder. If I remember aright, it was reported to be a cneap line at any rate, by putting an engineer in there you ca- soon develop what there is hhere This -would be right on the route, or on a portion of the route of the High line road which they contemplate building from Denver ^ I beieve is about as good a way for us to get into the Middle Pa . pr-^vided we go from the east base of the mounijaino. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 311 New York City February 16, 1881 R. S. Hayes, Esq., Vice President, Palestine, Texas. Dear Sir: In answer to your dispatch of yesterday as to what interest we have in the Corpus Christi line and the Palmer concession I replied that we had none whatever. We undertook to purchase the Corpus Christi road but found that Palmer was after it. The Mexican Central peo.^le are disposed to give us a very favorable connection at Durango, and the right to usetheir line into Mexico, and they state that they think there is no our getting a concession from Durango to Laredo. This -vould avoid any antagonism between Palmer and ourselves. I wired you to have Wathen look at the Durango route. In looking at it onthe map it seems to be almost a straight line until you strike the stream west of Salillo, where it bends to the west, working through the mountains in that direction. Of course I do not know how co:rect these maps are, but the indications are that we could follow out one of the forks of the Rio Salado and strike the head waters of the stream that heads southwest of the Sattillo and follaw dovn one of its westerly branches and striking in between the two lakes, thence on to Durango. wever, general instructions to Wathen will enable him to develop the best route through. I believe that as this route would be nearly the same, to or near Saltillo he might make the reconnoisance across to Durango before he went to Mexico and could post us out that route. If you can reach him and have him do it without detriment to his work that he has laid out, please have hin do so. Very truly yours. G . M . Dodge, President. 313 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, Feby. IGth, 1881 Gen'l. G. A'!. Dodge, President, 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your;:^ of the 9th inst relating chiefly to the tie mestion. In mine of the 6th I mentioned that the place could be bought at from ^30,000 to $40,000 though they asked ^45,000 at first, I concluded it could be. had for less. I have bought the place for the N. 0. Pacific for j):37,500. of which v3,0Q0 cash, balance in equal payments one, two, three, four and five ye. rs_with Qfo interest and option to discount paper at any tim.e. I therefore wired you I might desire to draw on you for v3,000. The timber lands will furnish 150,000 ties from small trees. I consider the ownership of this property will practically fix the price of ties and bridge timber in the future for the line. Should you decide to take this purchase within thirty days to your* account you can do so. In case you do not, the M. 0. P. will furnish timber at the stump at such price as Mr. Barr and myself may agree upon. I will mention for your information, that I can get the Citizens Bank to take bonds at par for the credit portion and perhaps the whole less the $500. Truly yours, E. B. ".'heelock. PreSt. An.erlcan Railway Iirioroveinent Company. N. 0. Feb. 16th, 1831 Gen. G.M. Dodge, Presdt., 80 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: As I wired you this morning we have bought the Gov. Roman plantation for the sum of thii'ty seven thousand five hundred dollars (^37,500). I disliked very much to do it as I supposed the Coust Co. w:;uld not care to own property of this kind and it does look as though we should be able to get all the ties necessary without buying property. We thought we had arranged to get our ties at five cents per tie for tim ber but where we undertook to-close the arrangement found the property was mortgaged and there was a question about the parties right to sell and our best offers oubside of th.is was from 8 to 13 cents per tie. It is estimated that the tie timber alone on the plantation bought will at a price of five cents per tie more than pay for the plantation. This of course can only be made available in the future operations of the road and Uv. Wheelock agrees to take the place for thes.N.O. P. R.R. and charge us a reasonable price for Lies or to let the Const Company take the property as you may desire. Besides the tie timber there is large amounts of large timber. IVr. Wheelock will write you all the particulars in regard to the matter. I wish you to understand that while I consider it a good investment for the N.O. P. R.R. it was only in self defense that I had anything to do with it for the Improvement Co. The terms are (^3000) three thousand dollars cash, ballance on one, two , tnree, lour, and five years with 6% interest, with the right for the company to discount the paper at any time it may so elect. Pochee will commence sending men and supplies to the work tomorrow and I see no reason why there should.be any difficulty in getting ties. I have a force of about 250 men, (company and contractors) at Atchafalaya. Expected to put on much larger force but the water has overflowed the swamp so that we can only work on the highest points.The man Muth who took the contract of grading south side of Atchafalaya has proved a failure having abandoned the work without moving a yard of earth, Adams Oconnell contractors for grading in the Fordoche loop have been run out by water. I have insi.ructed them to move their force to the Atchafalaya where we have about one mile of work that can be done at present stage of water. 3!6 ij-.-' // Should the river fall again will put on as heavy force as possible but it is only a waste of money to send men there when the ground is covered with water. There is about 9000 feet of the line between Bayou Goula and Placquemine under /ater from one to three feet. Dont know just how I will get over it but think I can nianage it in some way. Have been unable to get contractors fot the grading in Ohactaw and the water is in there now so they could do nothing if they were there. If we fail to get the grading at Ohactaw done in time then I propose to take any timber I find on the Right of '.Vay and drive two pile bents and get track over and fill in when the swamps are dry. I have no doubt that we will have to resort to all kinds of tem.porary ways to be able to get the track along as fast as you wish and if there is too much of this kind of work it might cost more than would be gained. Please give me an idea of howfar you would care Lo go rather than wait for low water so that I will have something to guide me in case the trouble comes. As the water.does not get too deep to drive piles yet it costs mioney to do it. Dodge & Downey are at work on Donaldsonville bridge and will have their drivers at work at other points in few days. I received plans of Atchafalaya Bridge from Cofrode and Gaylor few days ago and will send you plan of piers as • soon as finished. I have a draughtman at work on nap of Westwego property and will send.tracing as soon as complete. Will then put him to work on plan of Round house as you derected. Respy. yours, G. C. Barr, Div. Eng. American Railway Improvement Company. M. 0. Feb. 16th, 1881 Gen:G. M.Dodge, Presdt., 80 Broadway. Dear Sir: Herewith please find contract Putnam Tobias for Atchafalaya bridge.' I leave it to be signed by you as have been com;elled to work rather blindly and take Mr. Putnam's work for a great many things, as regards yours and his verbal agreement. As per tl:e original plan of bridge 200 ft. draw and 100 ft. spans, there wouLd have been 187 piles, total number. The change to 150 ft. spans maked it necessary to use more piles and I have agreed to pay him one dollar per ten ft. in work for all piles driven in excess of the 187 originally conteinolated. If there is nothing ranically wrong think it would* be best to overlook it as any missunderstanding now might delay the work. Mr. Putnam tells me he has given orders to n.ills for the lumber and that he has parties looking for the piles and also promises to get material on the groun^d asfast as possible. If you find contract 0. H. will you please sign and return to ne either the original or copy of same7 Respy. yours. C. C. Barr, Div. Eng . 319 'I New York City, February IStS., 1881 R. S. Hayes, Prest. I.&.G.N. Ry. Co., Palestine, Texas. Dear Sir: I wired you today in relation to having Wr. Wathen make his surveys airect to Durango. The Gould lines have I think made arrangement with the Mexican Central with a view to using their line from Durango or some point near it into the City of Mexico, which will only necessitate the building of a road from Laredo to Durango. The Mexican Central people are also going to examine the route from Eagle Pass straight through to Durango. In a day or two I shall send Ivr. Sweet, their Engineer, down to you with instructions. The idea is to develop all the country so as to see exactly the line that we want to take. It is a question whether we can get a concession to Laredo, but we are in hopes of doing so. With this view of the situation it would seem to me a good idea fro Wathen to be looking not only to Durango by the way of Monterey and Saltillo, but also for a line which .ould run as straight and direct as possible from Laredo to Durango which would leave out Monterey. This line we consider a much more feasible one than the one going via Monterey. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. New York, February 21, 1831. Nessrs. Polk and Ilubbell, Des L'oines, Iowa. Gentlemen I contracted ,vith Llessrs. Perkins and Choate for 2800 tons 35 lb. iron rail, 1000 tons deliverable in Llarcii and the balance in equal quantities in the months of April and hay ® L 6-15-6, C.I.F. New Orleans at four months prime bankers credit. After looking at your negotiations with tne , I found that if they insisted upon it, they could enforce their contract with you and I think it better to trade -vitii them than to buy of other parties and be liable to trouble in the future. Therefore I hac to pay a little more than I could buy the same iron for independently of any prior negotiations. These rails v/ill cost you from $46, to $48.50 in New Orleans. Freight from Ne'w Orleans to 3t. Louis will be $2.50 and from there to Des hoines you will have to arrange hereafter. , Very truly yours, G h. Dodge February 21, 1881. C. C. Barr, Division Supt. New Orleans, La. , ."i Dear Sir:- I ain in receipt of yours enclosin;^ Putnam's contract for Atchafalaca bridye. I shall sign contract and re turn it to you herewith, although" it is changed very materially from -my agreement with him. I supposed that that contract was drawn and signed whilst I wa-s down there ^nd I so instructed Mr, Greene. I do not want to put in spliced piles if I ca help it, and certainly I do not want a bridge to put upon a bent of spliced piles. There is but one thing to do in tliat country up to the work-- and that is to continually punch th-em, I hope as. soon as you get the road running to get into position by whiah w we aan push them into ■ .oing their work roperly -and in time; or at any rate be in a position where we can ride over them if they do not comply vith their contracts. In answer to your letter of the 16th I wired Mr. Wheelock to pay for the Rom in 1 nds inbonds at par i, he could do so but before we conclude to tal:o -it I would like you to figure how much more the land will cost us than if we paid stumpage on ties. I want to first complete the Road to Baton and do it as soon as practicable. I suppose Maj. Greene instructed you in relation to runnin';^ the lino up there and getting that work under contract ard completed to a point opposite Baton ' ouge at as early a date as possible a and I want to complete the Road to the Atchafalago so as to cross the bridge as scon as it is completed. There is nothing to be made in forcing that work except for that purpose . As I take it you have a clear field to opposite Eaton Rouge, and the quicker you can get the track in there and do business from there into New Orleans the better for the Road. In corssing the swamps you want to figure so that we can get over the bridge as soon as it is ready for us. I dislike very much to pile through theose swamps and then grade as it will make the cost of the work very heavy. Still if you cannot better itwe will have to do so, I have an idea that the waters will be very high this season; but before the snow goes they will r\an down so that we will have a chance to get in there. I have arranged to lease ground at 'Vestwego for an elevator and bonded v/arehouse, the elevator to be co^ structed so as to accommodate our barge line and also our cars, and when the parties get down there you and Mr. Morse want to agree upon the proper location and the nroper amount of giound to let them have. I should say that we ought to give it to them at the west end of the track where they have permanent water and where we can run back of the levee into it, and we will have a chance to swing out upon our own ground. The propose to put in an elevator there that will cost from five hundred thousand dollars to a million dolla rs. 334. I would like to hear from j^ou in relation to what you think is necessary to be done on the old road in the shape of buildincs, v/ater stations, etc. I want to get that work going so as to get my full nmuuiit of pay on the 68 miles of road, and also so that it can be examined by the U. f. Govt. and t';e land that we are entitled ta upon it given to us. But in these matters I do not want to cripple-your work west of Bayou Could. My idea is to push the work that we can do now and be ready as soon as the weather lets tip to crowd the rest of it out of tht way in a very short time. I am. afraid of the hot weather in these swamps, but I suppose we will have to take it. I suppose the grading from Baton Rouge down to the point of intersection is clear work that can be done at any time, and that the only difficulty between I'ayou Could and Baton .Rouge is the that you speak of that is now three feet under water." It is important to pet the telegraph line along that part of the road so that you can be in daily communication with all portions of _it. I do not know whsU Fouchie has done in regard to poles., .hut I .. suppose they are being get out. The wire is there and it should not take long to stretch it. If you cannot ret the poles seems to me that the wire could be temporarily drawn over trees until we could get in there and set the poles. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. ■ v.'.' t ■■ .fr < t' * - - I ^ »*' '' .' V'* 0 ■ •. V' . , -r • j . .• i ^ . H: ■ '■ 's ' 325 Ilew York City, New York.. February 22nd, 1881. C. C. Barr, Div. Sup't., New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- What do you think of the practicability of commencing track laying at Alexandria going toward the Atchafalago and toward 8hreveport? Havf you an idea that Putnam will get his bridge across the Atchafalaga so that we can push over it by the 1st of August? In his agreement h with me he was to have been on the ground driving piles before now. You wrote me that he has a man out looking for them. I v/ant you to say to Mr. Putnam for me very frankly that I have been written that in the interests of the Morgan linp from New Orleans to Alexandria he proposes to delay our bridge and to keep us out of New Orleans and to force us to run our busii ess vis. r,e Compte to New Orleans. A gentleman writes me this in whom I have considerable confidence and I give him fair notice of it. You yourself can judge of the -actions of Mr. Putnam whether he is doing all in his power to push this work. I met I'r. Putnam in New Orleans and do not believe any such charge. He struck me as being a square man and one who intended to do what he agreed to therefore I hpv paid no attention to this statement. As to shops at 'estwego; Ve want to nut in Division shops and our plans should be made as I wrote you heretofore so that they can be enlarged at any time. A 11 we want to put up at presort is sufficient to do our work whilst building. I tbink you had better build of wood. Order your machinery, as it ./ill take some time to get it. I think you should, if possible, find some assistant Engineer who is accustomed to this kind of work and put him at it so as to relieve yourself of tlie details. I think you nsed more help in the New Orleans office, say another draftsman, and probably an Asst. Engr as I want you to give your attention to pushing the work. Mr. Morse can prolably give you a good deal of aid in this matter. There is no question but that our ground at "estwego will all be taken up for terminal facilities and you want to consider this question in the placement of our shops. I have already written that there will ware°house^^^^ ^ within the next two months a large elevator and bonded Very truly yours. G. n. Dodge, President. U ^■9 7 i d ■ New York City, February 24, 1881 Gen'l. G. C. Auger, Dear Sir: San Antonio, Texas. This will introduce to you Iv'r. Claries A. Sweet, who goes to the Rio Grande to make surveys through a portion of country not covered by the work of Mr. Wathen. Will you be kind enough to give him wuch aid as you can consistantly extend and give him -such orders as he may need to avail him self of the order fr-om the headquarters of the Army, January 17th, 1881, allowing him to purchase supplies from the posts along the Rio Grande, and also give hiii any letters- to your post commanders along the border which you think would be of value to him. Very truly yours, G. M. Daige, President. 329 , 3 5T Hev^r York, Feburary 26, 1661. 1,'rs. , I. Fairfiold, 26C Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. ?.!y dear MadaLi:- I enclose here-.Tith ciieck for $1236 bein^]; balance after deduct ing uitiiout int-irest the amount of money .vhich I have advanced and of which I enclose statement. You will notice that the company deducted froLi the face of the policy the sum of $394 on account of difference in statement of I'r. Fairfield's age at tjie time the policy was taken out, and so given in proof of deatii. I enclose notes or receipts for the amounts advanced lir. Fairfield of which please acknowledge receipt and return receipt for the check sent you v/i ^h this. The Collatei'al redeemed from I.Ir. J. Alexander are here in our safe and we will make such disposition of them as you may desire. Very truly yours, r. Y. Dodge. ."iif !•( . 331 American Railway Improvement Company, N. 0. 2/26th, 1881 Gen . G. M . Dodge, Presdt., 80 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: Yours of 21st and 22nd to hand this day. I have seen Mr. Putnam and told him of the statements that had been made to you in regard to the delay of work in the interest of other parties. He says that it is entirely without foundation, that no such thing had ever been intimated to him, and that the idea had never intered his mind. He says in regard to the delay of getting started that it iS owing to the terrible condition of the roads. That it is impossible to get hauling done and that we are simply in the same fix as other parties, and as to your thinking he '.vould be at work driving at this tim.e you must have missunderstood him as he knew at the time that he could not get piles on the ground by this time. He says he has men at work now getting the piles and that he will arrange to have a drive ready to commence driving as soon; as the piles are out and that we can depend on having the Bridge ready by Aug. 1st and as miUCh sooner as he can do it. I think myself that Mr. Putnam has not been pushing the matter as he might but I iiave been "punching him up" and he has pron,ised that there should be no tinie lost. In regard to the splicing of piles I do not think it will be necessary in but few instances and in no case will it be necessary to splice an entire •st Sometimies in driving to such a depth a pile will "broom" or "mash" and it is necessary to cut off two or three feet to get a solid head to drive on and in such case it might be necessary to spike one or two piles in a pier. I put that clause in the contract so we would able to use our descretion in such cases. In i^egard to how much more the Remain place will cost us than if we paid stumipage on ties. We will probably, need from this end of the road about 250,000 ties. I think the stumpage would have cost us at least 8^ per tie had we depended on getting ties in this way possibly more and I thin,!; it would have been a source of delay in addition. We now have our tie force concentrated and I think can work it to m.uch better advantage. Fochee has force of tie men at work now,and expect to have a large force in few days,and don't anticipate any delay on that score. Elser has foreman here getting ready to commence work on telegraph line will get started.the coming week. Have about 1200 poles on line and force at work getting mor-e. 332 Hardeman is getting good force on grading at Bayou Goula and I do not think there will" be any delay between there and Baton Rouge unle^^s it is at the .point I wrote you of and I will get over this in some way. I did not understand until I received your letter that the v/ork was to be pushed to Baton Rouge but supposed the branch to Baton Rouge was an after consideration. I under stand the matter now and will arrange, accordingly. Have an Ass't. at work now locating the line. I am .xnforraed that we can depend on navigation to Alexandria until June 1st. I do not know anything about that part of the line or what the chances are for ties but if the ties can be had it seems to ne that the work should be pushed from that point as I am told the grading is all done and I can see nothing in the way outside of those two things. Ties and navigation. This is off of my i^iv. and I had not posted my self but since receiving your letter have made inquiries with the above result. ^ I send you by ty showing property and of pro.osed tracks. I location of yards,shop e you this as about my ide a suitable man for getti asking him to let me ha or six weeks. Have not some one else. express today tracing of IVestwego propertracks as they now are and also tracing have not had tin.e to give the proposed tc. the attention I wish and only give a of it. .1 have not been able to find ng up plans. I wired N'r . Washburn today ve (I/r. Hayne) his araughtsman for mionth heard from him. yet, will find him or I do not think it will be necessary to put up any station houses between N .C. and Donaldsonville except small houses for operators with small room for ware house. As every plantation will either have their freight deoivered on their plantation platform or else get it by river. The Donaldsonville Depot can be repaired so tla t it will answer every purpose. The section houses need repairing and repainting. The following I think will be about what is needed outside ofrepairs to old buildings 4 Depots 12 X 20 1 18 X 45 2 Aater Stations. 'Alien the weather gets in condition that track men can make any show then I .think there should be good section gangs put on and supplied with the necessary ties and the road can be put in condition to turn over in short time. It will be necessary also to put on gong of bridge men and let them overhaul the bridges of which there are a great number of small openings, many of them I think could be replaced with tile drains. 333 N. 0. 2/26/1881 Gen. G . . D . - 2 I am alraid we will be troubled to get labor to push ellof this work at once. Ha\e thought of wiring ^"r . Talmage as you suggested but think it much better to get acclimated lal.or if possible as I do not believe that labor brought here from the north at this time of the year would be able to stand the work, especially in the swamps. Dodge & Downey expected to ship two drivers to Chactaw last eve. They have been delayed with Donaldsonville bridge on account of mill overflowing and failing to get their tinber. They being dependent on one mill entirely for long lengths other mills not being able to saw it. They appear to be doing their best to push the work arid where men are trying I have hopes. swamp Water is reported about three- feet deep in Chactaw Very respy. yours, C. C. Barr, Div. Eng. P. 3.Have wrote Coventry & Price asking term etc. tracklaying machine. G . 0 . B • o 9 PT Texas and Pacific Railway Company, 275 South Fourth Street. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb'y. 28, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Prest. Am. Ry. Imp't. Co., New York, My dear General: I enclose with this, a letter of E. B. Wheelock, Pres't. dat! d Feb'y. 23, and enclosing Deputy Surveyor Albert G. Blanch; rd's cei tii'icate under date of 26th of Jan'y marking out a portion of land in the block bounded by Thalia, Terpsichore and Piele streets on the river front in New Orleans, that 7.'heelock has purchased from Mrs. Matthews for ^15,000., $5,000. cash and the balance, 'i?10,000., on one year's credit with 6;^ interest. This is quite an important purchase in my opinion as it secured to us the entire batture front between Thalia and Terpsichore streets. By referring to the map I gave you, you will see that in the purchase from the Brooks Estate there are 7 lots extending from Piele street through to water and numbering from Thalia St. 215 ft. front. It is directly ; the rear of this purchase. These 7 lots belonging to. Camp bell you know about, and I think should be acquired for our Co. either by purchase or expropriation. With these two purchases made I think we shall have the finest depot facilities on the Mississippi river of any of the Railroads terminating in New Orleans and at a not unreasonable cost. I have written Mr. Wheelock today that you will attend to this matter, as well as to the matter of p;;yra6nt for the Breoks property. Yours very truly, Frank J. Bond, Vice Pres't. 337 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, New Orleans, La., March 1st, 1881 Gen'l. G.M. Dodge, President, New York. Dear Sir; If you have not fully decided to cross the river at Westwego, would call your attention to another route viz. to keep on west or right bank of river until opposite of the property you bought on the River front at foot of Thalia Street. This is just as good a place for freight and pass enger depot as any otherroad i.as here. Beside, a Union Passenger Depot can eventually be had at the foot of Canal Street, which we would then be prepared to reach. I believe you can save money by doing this and save the annoyance of city ordinances and police regulations incident to a line thr'ough a city. Getting the right to go through Thalia St. does not save us against damage and litigation froni each individual property holder. It will be expensive putting a track thr-ough Thalia St. which is narrow and has two bends that will require additional property. Business is on the River front. The property you have there, and can acquire is very desirable. By crossing opposite concentrates business. The property at Vestwego is also good property, anu the place for Division shops, yards etc. Much of the heavy freighting could be done at '.'estwego. The track on the west side of the river is through a good country and reached by several ferries; while coming in back of the city is through a swamp. Fifty miles of the Jackson road out of New Orleans is unproductive and covered with water. Nearly one half of our passengers get on and off at Gretna and pay the ferry charges to and from foot of Fackson Str-eet and save an hour in time over going by Morgan's ferry. I have not mentioned this to Mr. Wheelock nor any one but Mr. Barr, because if you desire to go on west side it would be better to keep up a show of crossing at Westwego until right of way is secured on west side. I believe parties will interest themselves enough to nearly get right of way on west side if we manage right. Let Mr. Wheelock get his ordinances through. It is the best aid we could have for the other side. No work has been done at Westwego, but what is required if we dont cross there. This should be kept pri vate and if you de..ire me to see what can be done, wilido it. Yours truly. H.L. Morse, Supt, Tex. & Pac. Ry. Co. 339 IVarshall, Texas, March 2, 1881 G. M. Dodge, Esq., Prest., American Ry. New York. Dear Sir: Imp. I spent Monday in Shreveport with Greene,Qhief Eng. The weather is good now and diging up the ground rapidly, and he should get his track laying forces at work next week. All of the grading contracts on first75 miles south of Shreveport expired yesterday, and having received notice froni Greene to that effect I have instructed him to continue pi-esent forces at work on terms of original contract and in addition put as many new men to work on any unoccupied miles in this distance not covered by the forces of old contractors; in arr'angeing. for such increased forces not to exceed prices of original contracts, but have terms made cash instead of half bonds, half cash. I saw while there the spikes received from Diamond State mills and also a test made of them. They are a very inferior spike to the Tredor make. I told Greene to use as many of them as possible, some oi' them being considerably better than others, but I think we will hrve to condemn 90% of them. I think a great mistake is being made in the ties we have directed Greene to purchase for this north end of the New Orleans Pacific line, and most strongly urge that you authorize him to increase the specifications to that of the first class ties of the Texas & Pacific Ry. Co., who are now getting out. 100,000 of cypress ties from Shreveport at .45/. Unless this is done I don't think the north end of the N. O.P. line can be miade a creditable piece of work, it will be next to impossible to keep up a track on such small ties as are being gotten out at the present time. I expect to leave here for New Orleans Monday or Tuesday next by river from Whreveport and will do what I can to hurry up matters at that end. Since change of tie loading train to southern division have had no' complaints from Abel. Yesterday he loaded 40 cars of ties, 18 of which were after dark, delivered 100 cars to him, of which he used the above. \ have not motive power inough to fire hiti two trains and he can't well get time enough to use more than 40 a day running one tiain. We are getting our own track up better with the iniproving weather and no eflort is bt ing spared to accommiodate the construction work. Yours truly, James P. Scott, Vice Prest., A.R.I.Co. 343 New York City, March 9, 1801. George F. Tyler, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa, Dear Sir:- The failure to lay track on the New Orleans Pacific Ry. caused by the extreme wet weather is making me pay for a large amount of material in advance of construction and as I am in need of money to pay for it and I would li' e to dispose of the 300 M New Orleans Pacific Bonds now held for me by the Fidelity if I could get a good price for them. I v/ould also sell 200 M. Texas Reos and I should be glad to have you advice me of the best bid you can get on them. I have an encouraging dispatch from Mr. Gould and party who are now in Texas. They are evidently very much pie sed with the country and the future of the states. Mr Gould wired me that the New Texas & Pacific road is the best -new road he has ever seen, v/hich of course is very gratifying. The new road from New Orleans to V/hitecastle is now earning considerable money and the officers there write very encouragingly of its business. I hope to push on to Baton Rouge just as soon'as we get weather in which we can work. They write me that prospects for good weather are now favorable. I have to commence tracklavino* from Shreveport south within a w.ek. " " The New Orleans i'acific Bonds will probably l e -uoted on the New York stock exchange tomorrow, the Governing committee "havinm decided to place them upon the list. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President. 345 New York City, I.Iarch 9, 1881. Messrs. McLenran & Holman, 94 Dearborn St., Chicago, Gentlemen;- I am in receipt of yours of July 26th and wired yoii today accept track laying machine on the Hew Orleans Pacific. I have written to Mr. C. C. Barr, our Division Engineer who is in charge of our work at New Orleans asking him to advise me which of your propositions he prefers to have me accept, but I wired jrou today so that you would get the machine ready and have a man on hand ready to start with it imnrdiately and be there ready to go to work by the fifth of April, next. As soon as I hear from him I will either buy the machine otitright and pay for the right to run it or else pay the v45 ger mile and half the wages of the man. You furnishing the machine and payin- half the wages of man to run it. Ties down there vary in size of face from 10 to 20 inches with an average of 12 inches so that runway should be large enough to carry a large 20" cypress tie nine feet long. Be sure that you send a good machine and a first class man who understands all its workings and is good machinist to keep it in rei^air, Iiet me hear f]^om you fully. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, Pros. 347 March, 1881. Office of James F. Wilson. Fairfield, Iowa, March 11, 1881. Dear Dodge: Your letter of the 5th inst. is just at hand. I wrote you a letter last week, but not knowing where to send it, I enclosed it in one to Painter, and requested him to forward it to you. You have doubtless received it before now, and know that I have gone into the Senatorial fight, ana mean to do all that can be done in it. I know that I must have a systematic organization and I am moving in that direction. I am doi.ng a vast amount of personal work in writing to. all quarters of the state. Replies are coming back promptly and the indications are first rate. I dont mean to overlook anybody, but I dont write letters in such cases, that I am afraid to have get out. Aside froiii this 1 shall have proper parties in the field to work up the localities. I can see that I have a big fight on my hands; but I dont mean that it shall fail for want of attention. I am weakest in just the point wherever you say you can help. Let me know what you can do in that matter. ( I have no doubt of the active co-operation -of both Allison ^ and Kirkwood. I will probably hear fi'om Clarkson tonight or to morrow. I must have him and the Register. Chapman, Anderson, Stone and others from the slope are in Washington. A letter from Allison today says he will see them and Ed. Russell and others. I mean to make the best fight I can,give it my unflaging attention, and all the energy I possess. Do all you can, and especially on the slope, and let me hear from you soon. Yours truly, James F. Wilson. m 349 March, 18S1. ,v'/.v' .New York Citjr, March 11, 1881 Notice of incorporation. Notice is hereby ^iven of the formation under the lawssof Colorado of a corporation under the nairif of the "Colorado & Texas Railway irnprovement company. J-ts .term of existance is twenty years; the amount of the Capital stock is two millions dolDars divided into 'shares of one _ hundred dollars each with power to increase the samie to ten millions of dollars. The principal place of busire ss of said corporation in Colorado is in the city of uenver, County of .Irraphahoe. The object for which he company is created is the repairing , building, constru cting and equipirg, under legislative authority and under contract of Railway and Telegraph lines and works of internal improvement with po er to purchase prop rty along the route and in the vicinity of such Railrcud and Telegr-ph lines, to lay out town plots and lease,sell, and convey the same, and.to purchase lease an" acquire the charter, rights, and franchises of any Railroad nridge, Ferry or Transporta tion company . It is provided by its charter that it may do btisiness in part and hoi corporate meetings beyond the limits of the 8ta'e of Colorado. Stockholde s are not individually liable for the debts of the corporation beyond their legal liability in respect of stock held by them. Its aff.'irs arc managed by a Board of not less than five directors . The first Board of c actors consists of the foil' ing persons:- i^odge, John DiHon, Russell Sage; Amos L, Hopkins. The officers of the corporation are as follows: President, C. M. Uodgo Vice Pres. A. L. Hopkins Sec; etarj' Frank w. P.aldwin Treasurer, Amos H. Calef. Dated this day of Au Domonie 1681. G. M. Dodge,President Frank W. Baldwin , Seci^etaiy. r "'liiaia i i 351 American Railway Improvement Company. New Orleans, K'arch 11th, 1881 Gen'1. G. U. Dodge, 80 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: A,. Hereeith please find two contracts: one with Clarey for grading Baton Rouge branch and one with Aymar for ties. As you will see, Aymar's contract is for 40^ which is quite a reduction from the prices asked before the plantation was bouglit. Don't think he will get out as many ties as he has contracted to*do, but every little will help and we will not depend on them until they are out. Since Mardi-Gras is oyer we are having better success getting labor and I hope now to get along without paying trans portation from a distance. There are any number of men here and it is nu trouble to pick up a gang of fifty or one hund red men, but after sending them to the work they do not stay. John Clarey issaid to be one of the best contractors in teh City and controls a considerable number of men, so that if we are not delayed at the swamp between Bayou Goula and Plaqueij.ines I think we will go into Baton Rouge "on time", notwithstanding the delay at Donaldsonville Bridge. Dodge & Downey have had a great deal of trouble getting timber for that Bridge and if I can cross by April 1st it will be os much as I expect. The long timber co Id only be furnished by one miill here and it was overflowed, the water putting out the fires and loosing ..heir best logs, so that D. & D. are not really to blame as they could not, of couxse, foresee such • accidents. Will try and make up lost time when vie do get started. Foucher reports his force getting out about 1000 ties per day and is sending mor-e men as fast as possible. I returned from the Atchafalaya Tuesday night, found that work all under water except about 1 mile, have about 200 men at work there, company and contractors. If the water rises 3 feet more it will cover this mile. Putnam is above looking after the getting of his piles etc. Also find herewith profile of Atchafalaya River, showing the soundings of 1877, also soundings just taken. There is quite a change and that not for the better. The last soundings were taken while the water was very high and consequently in a very swift current and I tliink probably it shows it in a little worse farm thatn actually exists, but am afraid the extra depth will compel us to alter plans of at least one of our piers. Should say pile foundation with frqme work on top but this would require low v.ater to make a workman like job. I suppose will have Lp govern ourselves according to circumstances when the time comes to do the work. I wired you last night that Westwego should be ex pressly stated in charter of Vessels loaded with iron, as one of the points that we have a right to unload at. The longshoremer have an Association here and will not work for less than four dollars per day and where ships get into trouble with them they soiietimes find difficulty in getting reloaded. Al though ti is really bette^r for ships to unload at Westwego, they claim that it is oniy a matter of av.comodation that they land there, and if at any time there should be a question rais ed they fall back on their dignity and say Westwego is not a usual place of delivery. I have a draughtsman at work on plans of piers for Atchafalaya Bridge and will send as soon ascomplete. Have, also, arranged for plans of niachine shop. I do not think there is any neceL>sity of immediate erection of machine shop as Nir. Morse tells me he cna have all the work we need during construction done by the Morgan people for much less than we can do it ourselves. Mr.Morse and I have been investigating a crossing opposite Thalia St. property, which he tells roe he has written you about. We both think it would be a miich better point than Westwego for the purpose. Should you agree with us, might we not want to put shops at" that point*? Yours Kespy., C. C. Barr, Div. Eng. - ^ v. i1 I . , n'lt March, 1681. Colorado Texas Railv/ay I provcr.er.t Co. Presidents Office, • 80 Broadway, Pew ^ork. March 11, 1881. rrank w. isaldwin, iDsq., Denver, Dear Sir: I hand you herewith two copies of the certificate of incorportion of the Colorado Texas Railway Improvement Co.duly signed and executed. Please file the same in the office of the Secretary of sta^e at Denver and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the ocur'y of Arraphahoe, respectively paying whatever fees are necessary. I also enclose an unexecuted opy of'the certificate which you will please have certified by the Secretary of State and return to me. lou >/iii notice th-1 you are named as Secretary of the Co. Your com pensation in that capacity will be one hunfred dollrs ner -nnun in addition to your salaries from the American and international Corns, lour duties as Secretary will be similar in all respe ts to your' uties in the same capacity for the last named companies. Please similar to that you obtained for the International Co. ard have the same put upwith the other. i also enclose you for publication, formal notice of the oiqr-nization of this Co. and a notice that tac co. is ready to do business; these you will please have published in a weekly newspaper in Denver for three weeks of which you ■,vlll please sent me sevarcl copies as in fSmer c£L All necessary book fe te., will be furnished you and on vour sending me a statement of all expenses incurred by Jou in carryW out these instructions I will remit you the same. Very truly yours, G. M, Dodge, President. New York, March 12, 1881 N. P. Dodge, Esq., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dear Hate;- I have letters from yourself and Mr Phillips. I coul send nim out to BlPaso or s a salary, but if he got dovm he ..'ould not because I dent keep any sucn men in my emp There is but one thing for Uncle Jo: out to UlPaso or s Henry in regard to Nate ome other western point on dovm he .vould not last more than a month sucn men in my employ if I know it. thing for Uncle John to do and that is to put his foot right down and refuse to give liim money ob allow him to with draw it. I know it is a hard thing to do but it, is one that is necessary and it will teach Nate a lesson. Of course if Uncle Jovm desires to have him sent away, I will take him to Texas or out to New iiexico but so far as whiskey is conerend there-are no places in ti.e worla that are any worse, and the qi estion is, would he be willing to go there and take such a position as he could hold at sucii salai'y as he could get? It is a shame and an outrage that he Si.ould treat his father in the way h does and I regret it very much but if I was in Uncle Jolin's place, I would fix it so that he could not injui'e me while he was injuring himself. This I think is due to himself and -to his family. Very truly yours, G. IJ. Dodge. oGl March, 1881. Office of James F. Vilson. Fairfield, Iowa, March 12, 1881. Dear Dodge: J I had a letter from Ret Glarkson today. He does not fully commit himself for the reason that i^es Moines may have a local condidate. This of course means Kasson. But Ret said that as soon as he could talk the matter over with his brother he would write me again. You better reach him at once if you can. If ^es Moines does not have a candidate I believe Ret will be for me. His letter is entirely friendly. I must not be beaten now that 1 am in the field, and I promise you I will work. Help me in what ever way you can to make the start right. Yours truly, James F. ^Tilson, 363 Shreveport, La., March 14th, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, President , 80 Broadway, New York City. Dear Sir: The original grading contractors are pretty well ex hausted from the long and expensive wet season, and as I have already informed you it was obvious that reinforcements had to come from other sources. Sincemy return here from New Orleans, I have been diligently seeking such help and as wired you on the 12th I expect large accessions of teams and hands in a few days. Morgan Jones & Co. at same prices paid present con tractors, agree to put on not less than 150 teams and probably 200 teams at once, il their agent who is now going over the line confirms my representation of the character of the material. I do not fear the cioeefet scrutiny and as the contract hinges on this point solely, I wired you as above. Carney, of Carney& Hart has gone to St. Louis to buy 40 additional teams, and I authorized him to ship 100 men, as the labor is not here,nor is it to be had in New Orleans. I asked for a shipment of hands from New Orleans a short time ago, and Mr. Wheelock wired me in reply, "^arr is wanting men here for Co. Work and c-nnot get them." wanting men With the teams and force Morgan Jones & Co. will add to those now on the line, which will be lapped over until the whole grading is finished, we can yet pull through to Lecomte by August and even to the Atchafalaya River, by laying track north and south from Alexandria. Your advertisement for transporting 10,000 tons iron from N. Orleans to Alexandria would indicate this to be your plan. As I fear the Atchafalaya Bridge and the adjacent embankments cannot be put up until the fall or low water sea son, this would seem to be the only plan to open the road for the fall business. Jones, Cowen A declined to surrender the Lane & Hazlehurst. That willing to give it up fro be accepted by L.& H. if through to the Atchafalay repair the old road bed f will bring a large negro finished. Knowlton after much delay and hesitation Alexandria end of their contract to is from Alexandria north. They are n. Alexandria to Lecomte, which will they can get the contract to lay a. They will also take the contract to rom Alexandria north and south, and force from a road in Florida just being They say thoy can probably comn.and 1,000 negroes, trained and organized rail-road hands. This is the kind of labor for the sumnisr months in this latitude, and especially in the alluvial district. I am to meet Mr. Scott in New Orleans on the 14th and Lane & Hazlehurst will also be there. Mr. Scott is of course more fully informed of your plans and views than I am, and I presume a contract with these parties will be entered into in N. Orleans, especially if they can satisfy him of their ability to throw a large negro for ce on the line. I fear Jones, 0. &. K. will resist any chanbe inthe size of the lies except at figures you would not entertain. On their fceturn will get proposition■1rom them and wire you. We have about a n.ile- and a half of track laid, and I have ordered boarding cars returned. After this, will be able to proceed without interruption, I hope, and vith a con stantly increasing force. We have engine "34" here for shifting purposes. I inclose report Diamond Stall Iron Go. spixes, as submitted by Material Agent. ' I hope the samples expressed you on the 3d have arrived. Very truly yours, ; B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer. 365 0. 0. B, New York City, March 15, 1881, Division Engineer, Mew Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of March llth. I am glad you begin to see daylight ahead. How mu-h difference is there between t' e sound ings you m de in 1881 and those made under Mr. Greene's directions in 1880, profiles of which I believe are on file in Mew Orleans Pacific office. I have ordered to be sent forward the three 100 ft. spans for the Atchafalaga River Bridge, and as soon as you get the piers in you can raise them. The pier which goes into the deeper soundings I suppose will have to be postponed until the water fails so that we can trestle on the pile foundation if necessary for us to do so. It is almost impossible to get 'Vestwego expressed in the charter parties of ships coming with our iron. I have cabled and wired about \ it and hope hereafter it will be done. It will take - little time but will eventually be accomplished. In mean time you must handle the ships I as best j''OU can. Those that come in loaded with iron for Alexandria you can unload rig t in the harbor on the barges. I have so far succeeded in turning 3500 ton Galveston rails to Rew Orleans for Alexandria. This makes a total of 8500 tons to arrive at New Orleans. Out of this vqu must hold enough to build your line across the Atchafalago River and to" reach Baton Rouga Ship the balance to Alexandria. "y idea about transferring freight at New Orleans is that if we conclude to go to Gretna opposite Thalia 'V. we would use there simply a ferry-boat for passengers and baggage, similar to that used by the Pennsylvania Co. here, and transfer all our freight going into the city by barges and tugs. We v/ould then load and make up our passenger train at '"retna and do all our freight business at 'Vestwego. '"e will probably have to have at first a roundhouse of five stalls at Vesturgo, and we will have to have our machine s' ips there, because we have the land there, and I do not svippose we could get oroper facilities a Gretna without great cost, which I do not care to incur" iust nov/. shall be ■--overned in this, however, by the arrangement which vou can make for getting to Gretna, and the amount of land that you can obtain there. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. 367.•: 3(> Y New York, March 15, 18G1. R. S. nontgoinery, Esq., Fort T^orth, Texas. Dear Slr-- I am in receipt of your two letters, March 9th from Gordon. 17e do not ourselves expect to do any work in Mexico. Tie expect the Mexican central, -wit,, whom v;e have arrangements to build all the roads, to connect v/ith us there. It is possible, however, that this may be changed, but at present tiiere are no indications of it. CPhe surveys I am making in Mexico are in their interests and iBor the purpose of developing the country for our own information. If we should ourselves do anything in tliat country there vrould be no difficulty about giving you a place there; but if we do not. we woul have to obtain it through Kickerson who no doubt would be glad to have you go there. I think, ho'wever, that it is better for* you to stay in Texas where you no;/ are for the present until matters get more definitely settled in Mexico and we know more fully and exactly what is to be done there. Tlrere is a great conflict of interests there and when or how they v/ill be settled no one car tell. Vei-y ti-'uly yours, G. M. Dodge. New York City, March 15th, 1881 E. Ml. Alvorcl, Esq., Internati"nal Ry. Imp. Co., Fort Worth, Texas. Dear Sir: I am. in i-eceipt of yours of March 10th with statements of material received by you up to the 25th February. The form in which they come is satisfactory, but I would suggest that when several days elapse on which no material is received you would note it upon the report next following such time- that is to say giving us a record either something or nothing for every day, so that we will know that no dates have been skipped or reports lost, or miscarried in the malls. Your understanding of the term "Bridge material" is correct. We do not care for report ofbridge timbers receiv ed. You need not use separate reports for reporting material received and forwarded and for track material and bridge and telegraph material. They can all go upon one report if you are careful to specify clearly wherethey are and give accurate descriptions. Very, truly yours, G. M. Dodge. President. \ 373 ..ia New York Cit,y, March 17th, 1881. n. Villard, Esq., Oregon Ry. & Navigation Co., Portland, Oregon Tet. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Thomas B. Morris of San Francisco requesting me to -.vrite yau what I knov? in regard to himself and his ahilities, Mr. Morris was an engineer under me during the time in which I was building the Union Pacific R.R. was a very able and competent engineer, very reliable in everything he undertook. After leaving me hd went to the Northern Pacific and I believe that vrhile he was there an effort was made to displace him, but after investigating the matter thoroughly, Mr. Roberts wrote me a letter stating that he found Mr. Morris to be just as I had recommended him and that he was prepared to recommend him to any parties who desired his services. If you have any use for Mr. Morris in his profession in Oi'egon, or any business relations jvith hi:.., I am satisfies from his knowledge of t. e country and his ability his services would prove of great value to you. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. ' '.A -<■ • . • . • 'h' 375 ■- American Railway Improvement Company. New Orleans, J.iarch 18, 1881 Gen'1. G. M. ^odge, 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: On Karch 11th, 1 sent you profile of our crossing of Atchafalaya river, showing soundings taken in 1877 and also Feby. of this year, wliich shows a very great scour and from the notes of borings made during the past summer, 1 think the most of this scour must have been of recent date. 1 said nothing in my letler of above date as to my idea of the consequences likely to arise from the change, as 1 wished to get more infoririatio» on the subject before doing so. From the best information 1 canget, the quantity of water flowing through the Atchafalaya is yearly growing greater, on account of changes taking place at mouth of Red River. Taking these things all into consideration, 1 think we will run a great risk of losing our bridge if it is put up as has been arranged. 1 dislike very much to be compelled to give this as my view, as 1 know that it will seriously dis arrange your plans and tin t you do not like to hear it said, that anything cannot be done, but 1 have given this matter some attention and seriously believe t]:iat if we had the bridge com pleted today, as per our plans that the piers in main current would scour out in ten days time. Had we low water to work in 1 think Lhe scour might be overcome by mattresses, but of course it is idle to talk of doing that kind of work in high water. If the tatter was left with me 1 would say "arrange for crossing with ferry and take tiem to make a good job of the bridge." Please do not undeistand that there will, in my opinion be any trouble in doing the wor.c, on the contrary, L i'hink it can be done; but without artificial protection 1 do not believe it will stand. 1 have consulted with Nr. Greene and he agrees with me, that there is great danger. O P o«' b '■miA Mr. Putnam will be in New York latter part of next week and will see you. He reports his force making good head=.i, , way getting timber. Awaiting your views and instructions. Yours respectfully, C. C. Barr, Div. Eng. 377 New York City, March 18, 1881 Thomas Nickerson, Esq., Dear Sir: Boston, Mass. I am in receipt of yours of 15th inst. The delay in executing the contract comes froiri the inability to get the boards together. The Texas & Pacific Board will come to gether about April 12th, and the M. K. & T. board upon my return. The Interraational & Great Northern have been con sidering the matter and they object, very seriously to the contract from the fact that it does not confine the road to starting from the Rio Grande at Laredo. My understand ing was that the roacf \o lead to Laredo . They claim that that they have information from Mexico have applied for a concession from Eagle Pass. I think however that when they are satisfied in relation to making the connection at Laredo there will be very little difficulty in obtaining their signature to the contract. Will the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe sign the contract? Yours Truly, J. Gould. ■lb. 379 New York City, March 18, 1881 A. A.Talmadge, Esq. , St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir: Reolying to your dispatch of 14th instant in relation to drafts accounts etc. make your drafts directly upon Mr. G. P. Morosini, Treasurer, sending to this office duplicates^ of all your vouchers upon which drafts are made, and which will offset such drafts, also sending me a monthly statement of your accounts, showing under different heads without going into details the cost under different heads of construction and equioment so that we can get into our "books the cost of each dividion of the road. I suppose your auditor keeps an account of construction.material,rolling stock, etc. and his condensed statement of these, each month are what we want to enter on our books. keeping the details in your office -«• we should them will ask you for them and if you send duplicate vouchers they should accompany this state ment Your drafts on Morosini are ample vouchers for his disbursments. I take it for granted that the accounts will be kept by divisions one being the line from Greenville to Mineola, another from Fort Worth south, and a third from San Antonio south. I enclose herewith a copy of the condensed state ment which comes to us from our Texas Office and which will give you some idea of what we want. You may not keep your books in exactly the same way, making perhaps some difference in headings of accounts, but Lhis will show you about what we want. "Very truly yours. G . M. Dodge President. 381 Iviarch, 1881. Office of Des Koines & 8t. Louis Kailroad Co. Des Koines, Karch 20th, 1881 Confidential. Dear General:. I have -your letter in regard to Wilson and the Senatorship. I have been so conference with the uolit I am not very well posted been making up since the heard, and from a daily i that it is going to be a and Gear, with the prospe finally. For thero will will have enough to elect busy in our railroad work, and so little in icians, sin'ce the Kirkwood withdrawal, thett up in the sentiment of the Ltate, as it has change of candidates. But from what I have nspection of the Gtate papers, I should say vei-y close and even fight, as between Wilson ct that some dark horse will carry it off be several candidates, and neither W. or G. Wilson unquestionably has the moot strength, as a general proposition. But he l:ias been really out of practical politics for several years, while Gear has not, and has had besides a position of power, and an unusual amount of patronage as Governor. He has, too, more activity than Wilson, and a close acquaintance with the politi cians of the Counties, who have a great deal more to do with Ltate politics than they did in your days here. Still I think W. bould be elected, if the right men, who have large personal acquaintance and influence with the local poli ticians, and who are good workers and wise managers, would take hold of his case and organize it and work it up. You know what that means, and how much of hard work it would include. I do not feel like going into such a fight all over - as i always do, if I go at all. Such fights mean more to newspaper men than to others, for they not only go into it themselves but ta.ce their property in with them. They have to bear the brunt of the fight while it is going on, and inlierit all the enmities after it is over. So I feel much disin clined to go into this one. f^esides all the candidates are our friends now, and Gear has always been, and voted for Dick three titiies for otate Printer. While I personally prefer Mlson, Dick personally and decidedly prefers Gear; and ^ would not want to carry the paper in to a fight against his wishes. Kasson, too, will be a candidate, and while would not ^ fight for him, local .interests would hardly allow us to fight him. So I am all at sea on the question, and feel inclined to keep out of the fight altogether. There is nothing in it to me at best, any more than to any otlierr citizen, and so I do not see why I should go into a hot fight, and miake a harder fight for a man than would make for himself - and be left in the end inherit all enmities, and share none of the profits. I feel like keeping out of such fights. The older I get the more We have made all the hardest fights in ^owa, and have always lost money by it. I am looking looking forward to no political honors, and want none, and therefore I can find no good 'excuse to give to myself for interfering in this fight between friends, and making another, man's baltles my own. Truly yours. J. 3. Clarkson. Maroh 2Ist. I88I« X IFairfield, Iowa March 21,1081 Dear Dodge; Yours of the IDth inst. was duly rec'd. I had a letter from J.T.B. He is all ri^t* I believe that I will hold your olu county against all comers, I have done a large amount of work already and am getting re-r turns from all sections of the state. I have some parties in the field quietly and will put some more. I am greatly encouraged with tiae looks of the field. A number of papers that I did not expect to come out for me have already done so.My work is going on quietly but effectibely and if I ca . keep it up I will win, and I have full' faith in it. Still 1 am going to work as though I felt positive doubt. That is I am not going to grov/ over confident. I have not heard anything farther from Clarkson. The Register remains non-committal, but gives me more nid and comfort.than anyone else. I hope that you oomaiunicated with I Saw John Y/Stone in Chicago last week. He was not prepared to commit himself. I tried to see Anderson but failed to do so. Can't you put John Y. ri^it? Do all you can in the Southwest particularly. I have the current with me in the Northeast and Southeast. I doubt if Gear has any strength in this District outside of his own county. I will draw on you this week for the amount named in your let ter. Yours truly, James F. Wilson. D.G. I wrote to Chapman some time ago, but he has not answered. He may bo from home. It will be stringer if he Joins the otlier dide. W. iBffiimi 385 American Railway Improvement Company. Copy New Orleans, Karch 21st, 1881 We, the undersigned, have carefully measured the distance from the end of the main track of the Rail-Road extending from "Westwego" to "White Castle" plantation, near Bayou Goula, the terminus of said track, and find it to be 67 miles and 4,755 Q/iO feet - 67,9007 miles. Signed H. W. W. Reynolds J. Kruttschnitt MV.A 387 statement The New Orleans Pacific Ry. Co, The Governing Cominittee of the New York Stock Exchange. Gentlemen:- ■^n addition to the statement heretofore filed, I respectfully sub mit the following: We asked to have placed upon your list the first mortgage "bonds upon sixty eight miles of completed road, from New Orleans to Bayou Goula at the rate of ^20,000 per mile. There is no other mortgage, lien , or claim of any kind upon the road. The New Orleans Pacific Ry. is located in the state of Loiaana, the main line extendin':' from New Orleans to Shreveport, 315 miles, with one branch, 15 miles long, to Baton Rouge, this bein- the only portion of the road now under contract or that we contemplate building. . The road is to be completed for its entire distance durina the year 1881 and the material, rolling stock, and equipment for a large por tion ot is is now in the State ^of Louisiana or enroute there via Galveston. * amount of the stock upon the road is ^20,000 per mile of which s,j1,124,000 has been issued. The 68 miles of road from Rev Orleans to Bayou Goula cost completed and equipped about 025,000 per mile. '''he equipment at present upon the road consists of 10 locomotives 200 freight cars. 6 passenger, baggage & express cars. Its terminal facilities at New Orleans, consist of three quarters of a mile upon the Mississippi river with 180 acres of land adjoining and in the city of New Orlca; s; at tlie foot of Thalea Street it has 1000 ft of river front two blocks deep with privileges j'or which this company has just paid C:i55,000. Fifty seven miles of the road have been operated for commercial business since February 10th, 1681 and its gross earnings from that date until -viarch lOth amount to seventy eight hundred and twenty five dollars. I'l'® New Orleans Pacific Ry. is an extension of the Texas & Pacific and forms part of thf~ turnk line between Ne - Orleans and San Francisco i an is owned and controlled by the Texas and Pacific interest. For the Nev Orleans Pacific Ry. G. M. Dodge. 389 New York City, ^'arch 23rd., 1881 J.M. Eddy, Supt. of Construction, Dear Sir: Fort Worth, Texas. I am in receipt of yours of March 17th. I think that line No. 2 is the one that should be adopted, especially if we can use it for that distance for the line going to Galveston, thus giving only one line for the International Road. I sometime ago wired Mr. Talmage in regard to making these sux'veys so that we coiild use the line from Fort Worth south, both for the San Antonio line and for the line which we propose to build to Galveston. I understand from your letter that a point of junction near Taylor will accomplish this. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President 391 New York City, March 23rd, 1881. E. B. Wheelcok, ■President IT. 0. Pac. Ry. Co. New Orleans, La. Dear Sir: I object very much to those iron-clad clauses in the various powers of Attorney which I have sent you. They are unusual; and never in all my experience have I had such things de-ianded of me. I have, however, signed the Shepard power, against the direct protest of. Judge Dillon. He says that such a clause in it was unnecessary, but I did it for the purpose of getting th( matter through and being done with it. Under direction of Judge Dillon I wrote to Mr. Morse insturctions in regard to signing it. If we should abandon that property now they could never again sell it for half the price we are giving them, and if they do not deed it to us very soon, I shall let it go and do nU ray business on the opposite side of the river, getting merely a point for a local station where we can deliver our local freight and passe ngers in New Orleans; putting in no tracks whatever or movinp- anv cars there. . " I have no doubt you are doing the best you can in the matter; but these people down there must learn that if they want to do business they must do it as other people do. The other powers of attorney are being prepared and will go forwoard tomorrow, I have made these in the iron-clad form, but before executing any notes under them would like to have these objectionable clauses o-mitted, if you can manage to do so. You are ^Tavin-^ very high water, and I am fearful that the lev^e may break in on us eomeTplace, but hope it will not. I take it for granted that you keep posted on the condition of the water above youty telegrams from St Louis. All the streams in the northwest are very high, and there is yet an immense body of water to come from them. Very tinaly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 393 Nev/ York City, March 23rd, 1881. C. C. Barr, Division Engineer, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of March 18th. If you abandon the plan of piers that you heretofore intended putting in what plan would you use for the Atchafalaya River Bridge. V/ould you put in columns? How are you going to get rid of the Putnam contract? I made this contract on the soundings that were shown me, and upon Mr. Greene's statements that there was no danger in putting in wooden piers. He claiminr that they would stand there if they would on the Mobile Road where the piles were longer. If it were necessary we could wait and work during low water and put in pile foundation and trestles on top. Is that your view? Ti^y idea originally was to put in iron columns there, but I gave up my judgement in favor of the judgement of the people v/ho were loca there, and upon Mr. Greene's statements in the matter and upon the sound* ings shown me, whicn certainly if they are correct should not scour. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President, New York City, March 24, 1881. C' 0. Barr, Division Engineer, New Orleans, la. Dear Sir:- As I wired you today I have asked Mr. Hayes & Mr. 'Vashburn to go to New Orleans and go with you to the Atchafalaya River to decide upon the plan of piers we put in there. I am very much disappointed in the way tliese things have turned out. I do not see how it is possible, on the borings, for t^c river to scour twenty feet in hard clay, and tbat is what is'shown at the deepest points by the soundings which fAr. Greene had m~ade. Perhaps you can use pile piers on a portion of the bridge, even if you put iron columns in h the deepest part of the river. 'Vhen Mr. 'Vashbran, Mr. Hayes, a:,d yourself get together t -want you to decide this question and I will be governed by that decision fwhatever it may be. You vill have to take into consideration the fact that we have a contract with Mr. Putnam and sec how we can relieve ourse] of* 11 • 1 ^ "^Tiile Mr. Hayes & Mr. 'Vashburn are with you I want them alsn in Mr. Morse. M the If question there is of anything terminal else facilities upon which about you which desire I to have consult^ wvittan them do so freely and they will ;'ive you the benefit of their advice. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 897 #8C Broadway, New York, IJarch 24, 18c 1. Kon, Jonathan Evans, Denver, Colorado. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of I'arch 19th. 'Ve are going on to build the Fort '.Vorth & denver R.R. in accordance v/ith our original plans, and have formed the Construction Company for that purpose. I am getting the material and everything ready to commence building as soon as ;ve complete our road from "Jhitesboro to Fort 77orth. I am ready now just as I was before to go into an agreement -.vith you for a connection and to make a through line of it; or for a con solidation, whichever may be deemed best. I have not in any way changed my views kibout the matter. We propose to occupy the Pan-handle for the protection of our Y. E. !c T. and Texas & Pacific roads and of course would be glad to get a connection with a through line to Denver. Mr. Gould seems to think the~better plan is for you to build down to some point and e build up to meet you. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. S7C ■H^QQ Broadway, New York, Llarch 24, 1881. G. S. Runnels, Esq., Bes Lloines, Iov;a. Dear Sir: I enclooe hei-evvitl. a contract duly executed. The delay has "been caused hy the injury that Mr. Huinphreys received in St. Louis and his inability to give any attention to it until yesterday. You will notice that the contract is drawn a little differently from that which you left but it is substantially the same. An engineer should be put on immediately and I think I had better consult with one of two or three that have been i^ecommended to me, unless you have a goon man on tiie ground. I have purcnased about 60 miles of iron, miles of which can go upon that line. I have also purchased spike and fastenings enough to cover the line. The reat diffic-'lty is going to be ir. obtaining locomotives. I do not see vn.ere we are going to get any of them before winter, even if then. The only .hing to do is to try io find some manufacturer who ias room enough to build them. I can get tiie cars wnenever we are ready for them. I have a prospect of obtaining some narrow guage equipment in Delphi, Ind., and today telegraphed Mr. Polk asking him to send his superintendent there to examine it and make me a written report. Ttis contract should be executed in duplicate and signed by both parties thereto and I will have aiiother copy made and sent you for your signature in the course of a day or two. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodgg, President. New York City, March 24th, 1881 J. M . Eddy, Supt. of Construction, Fort 'iVorth, Texas. Dear Sir: I, an; in receipt of yours of March 19th. I will shortly send you, for execution, a copy of the contract between your Company and the Colorado & Texas Railway Con struction Company. There will be no difficulty in making an arrangement Lo run over any portion of the M. K.& T. line which you may desire to use north of Fort Worth. I have a letter from Gov. Evans in which he takes pretty high ground- he says he supposed from the organization of the Construction Co. that we do not want to have anything further to do with him. I wrote him telling him that the contrary was the case; and told him that we were ready to con solidate with him or agree upon territory. Of course we do not want to commence building a road from Denver south. That is not to our interest. We want to build from Fort Worth north. As to the Santa Fe people, by the time you get your road built into Galveston I do not think their property will amount to any great sum, and they will not be as fierce to build into the Pan Handle as they now are. You should work'up your local subsidies upon the line to Decatur as rapidly as possible, for I will put a portion of it under contract before very long. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 403 ■hl-L New York City, March 25, 1881, Dear H. M. Pusey, Esq., CoTincil Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of March 20th in regard to the Edison electid light. I enclose herewith a slip from this morning's Herald, which '.vill give you considerable information in regard to it. I tele graphed you this morning that I had no doubt that we would obtain the concession for Council Bluffs, but that it might'be some little time before it was finally settled. The Edison Company will not under any circumstances give the franchise for any city to any Gas Company because it would be to the latter company's interest to suppress the electric light. This programme has.been made and requires the organization of a stock company in each city to whom exclusive right to manufacture the light is given; the present company furnishing the lamps arid machines at cost and taking pay in stock for the patent rights, and in cash for the mechanisms, Tjie light is now in operation here in the city at the Company's office and lit up every night. A large district has been mapped ou!:, in the vicinity of V7all St. and .ires are being run throu. -h the houses here. Poimission has been given by the city to the company to lay their connecting mains through the street, and it v/ill take about two months for the first station here to be completed and in operation. It requires a station to every mile; that is, a half mile radius is the extent to v;hich the current can be transmitted economically and each station is entirely independent of every other station. Your plant for Council Bluffs will probably not cost over ^40,000. It consists mainly of engines and boilers, the wire to be run through the streets and the generating machines are tlie least expensive portion of it. The present gas fixtures through the iiouses can be retained and a wire run alongside of them and the electric light burned from the same chandeliers as we now burn gas. The allotment of territory will not be finally made until the station here in this city is complete as a model :;tation which will be Mthin the next two months. Until that statio is completed any one the light in operation here at company s office Ave. and can there see just wiiat tl^e light is. The company will require the llP"ht to bo sold at the same price as gas; their profit and tlie profit to the local company being regolated by the ability to collect tolls from the public. A large saving in the light is for the benefit of th the public; the public gets and fire, and of a su lerior Mr. Ediscn has given tliat I will get tlie control application and in a few da; efit of e people owning the Company and not for ic gets its advantage by '^etting a light wlth'^ut heat u lerior quality. s given me such assurances that I have no doubt but control for Council Bluffs. I added my name Lo your few days will see uim in reference to getting local franchises there until ."hich time we had better not say anything to anybody in regard to it. Tri'.ly, G. M. Dodge. 4G5 New York City, March 26th, 1881 R. S. Hayes, Prest. I & G. N. Ky. Co., Palestine, Texas. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your several letters enclosing others from Wathen, and also yours of March 21th showing what Palmer is doing. This Mexican business is in a general muddle. Palmer is now desirous of making a trade with us and putting down a third rail taking our business at Laredo. This plan I am in favor of. We propose to run our cars over his road, using narrow gauge power; but we do not relax any of our efforts to get information of the country, or concession,if necessary. I am satisfied that we can get a concession if we desire it, and it will be given for your Company. Mr. Pearsall is looking after this matter and no doubt keeps you posted. Gen'l. Grant will leave here Monday next for Mexico, and we expect that after he gets there we will get a better insight into the affairs of that country. We have also made an agreement with Hickerson who proposes to build a branch across to meet us, so that we think between the two we will get some favorable connection and avoid building any road ourselves whic is undoubtedly the better plan for us. They are putting altogether too many railroads in Rexas, and one of these days the trunk lines will be able to buy a great many of them very cheaply. I am in hopes of closing up all ours during the pres ent year. Palmer has purchased the Corpus Christi line and the line which you raintion as running from Houston is in his interest You wired me yesterday in relation to locomotives, and I replied that Mr. Talmage was looking after them. He proposes to furnish the motive power for the extensions. It is im possible for me to contract for any locomotives to be delivered daring this year. I am watching all the shops, and if I find any contractor who drops out, or any locomotive for sale, I propose to pick them up; but as for contracting to have any delivered this year it is at present absoliitely impossible. Very truly yours, G. M . Dodge, President. 407 Confidential. A. A. Taimage, Esq., General t'anager, St. Louis, Mo. New York City, March 26, 1881 Dear Sir: In the course of 60 or 90 days I want to move some material to El Paso, with which to build from there east. When you meet Strong I-wish you would see if you can make any arrangement with him for a through ratefhom St. Louis to Es Pase, and ascertain if you can ab ,)ut what time he will be there. I want you to make it for yourself and get a rate on through business by which you can handle our mater ial under your own bills You understnad what is wanted. please go at it yoior own way and oblige. Very truly yours, G . M . Dodge, President. 409 ■yi'.'i ■ // New York City, March 26th, 1881 A. A. Talmage, General Manager, St. Louis , Mo. Dear Sir: I'had a long letter irom Mr. Eddy in relation to the joint arrangements at Fort Worth. The agreement with the Texas & Pacific, which I am now getting putin writing, gives us an equal right from Whitesboro to Fort Worth, with the ad vantages of an equal rithe in the terminal facilities so far as they relate to that road; and I held that we have just as much voice in what those terminal facilitiesshall be as the Texas and Pacific, and while it is best not to antagonize them still if there is any disposition to withhold from us the rights to which we are entitled, I will endeavor Lo settle the matter here, but I prefer that you-should do it with Gov. Brown and Mr. Noble I have no doube that you can do it much better than it can be done here. I myself do not exactly understand what is wanted. You do. Mr. Eddy seems to think that they are not going to give us the rights to which we are entitled and informs me that he has written you fully upon the subject. I write this merely to show you what my understanding with the Texas & Pacific is. Mr. Eddy in his letter uses the following language: "The way matters in regard to tracks etc. are being handled in Fort Worth yards and the sidings to the Compress and connections with Texrs & Pacific being planned, it looks as if the Texas A Pacific owned the Santa Fe, or at least were giving them rights which are denied to the Missouri Pacifi c." I cannot doubt that the interest of the Texas &■. Pacific is to give us every advantage there that it is possible, but you have been on the ground since I have and understand the matter a great deal better than I dc , and I shall have to leave it to you to decide unless you require our help in the case . Please write me. Very truly yours. G . M . Dodge, President. 411 'i American Railway Improvement Company New Orleans, 26th March, 1881 Dear M. Sodge, President, 80 Broadway, New York. I returned from trip over line to Baton Rouge last evening. The grading between Bayou Goula and Baton Rouge is now progressing favorably. Both Contractors liave good forces and I think there will be no delay in the grading on dry ground. In the overflowed ground back of Bayou Goula the work is not progressing as rapidly as could be desired owing to the dif ficulty of getting men to work in the water. We are offering inducements in the way of several jiggers of whickey per day, which I think will expedite the AOj^k. Dodge and Downey appear to have a great many delays. As I wroLe you, they were delayed in gettingtimber and never succeeded in getting the last of same for Donaldsonville Bridge until three days since. Downey was here a few minutes ago and promised to go to the Bridge to morrow and give it his personal attention and work as a any men as possible until we can cross trains, which he thinks will be in two weeks. Were it not that they appear to be working so hard I should be out of patience with them. They have sent two drivers to Choctaw and one to Bayou Goula and arranging for another at Bayou Goula, all steam, also, are arranging for two or three small drivers. Although they have been a long time getting started, I still have hopes of them, as it appears to be more bad luck than bad uanagement. Mr. Terr-y, the party getting out the piles for them, reports good success and this is encouraging as we can always push the driving provided we have the timber. Elser is at work and expects to have poles all set from Donaldsonville to Westwego by 1st day of April. We are not getting out ties as fast as I wo ild like, on account of labor our force in that dep't is but little larger than when I last wrote, say 140 to 150 men, the water is quite cold in swamps yet and n.en do not like to go into it. We are doing all in our power to obtain them and I think will succeed. Have par tially arranged with Mr. Lane, of the firm of Lane and Hazlehurst, to send us 100 "Swampers" from Georgia. Mr. Wheelock telLs me he sent you Copy of agreement with citizens of Baton Rouge regarding terminal facilities there. We are having c.nsiderable opposition from the planters on that line about Right of Way. Had the following message from the Asst. "^ngr. a few n.inutes since. "Baton Rouge, 26th. C. 0. Barr: Anti-Rail Roadists appointed comi^lit tee with Kr. Laws as head to oppose present location. They would prefer it even to run between levee and Lneir improvements on River front. (Signed) P. Whitty, Ass't. Engr." The trouble is th^ y want us to run our line back of their plant ations along edge of swamp where it will take 5ft. bank and act as a levee for them. This, besides the extra work, would put us so far back that we never could hope to get any of the business along the line, and as for running between river adn their umprovements I c nsider it entirely impracticable, for while it would please a few, it would dis.jlease many more who are now favorably disposed. I have had new blanks printed for report of material (duplicates of those used in Shreveport) and I think the reed. & forwd. agt. understands what is wanted. You will probably notice that the iron was not reported for some time after arrival This was owing to a differenct in the "Cids"load from Bill Lading they being some 18 Bars short and I did not vish to report until we were certain of the amount. '.Ve have unloaded the "Cid" at Westwego and the "Lartington" at long wharf foot of St. r^ary's St. and a tug with two barge loads, containing between seven and eight thousand tons, left here on 82nd.for Alexandria. every day. i/.inigerode is expecting another ship in with iron As per your instructio ns, Iv ch. loth, out of the 8,500 t tons, I can only send aPout 2,500 to Alexandria. If there is going to be more Iron here in the next 40 days, would it not he well to forward iron fast as possible to Alexandria while we have plenty of water, as the "Cid" cargo will be sufficient for this end for that length of time. Mr. Hayes wires me today that he and Maj. IVashburn will be here Monday. Maj. Greene and Mr. Putnam will both wait their arrival. Your message in regard to Iron Cars received and answered that I would want three. Owing to the niany delays we have had in starting I want to be prepared to make up lost time and therefore wish to be independent of track-laying'machine in case of break-down. Also when we reach the Junction of Baton Rouge branch with track, if everything is favorable want to lay track on both lines at same tine, and as teams are inpracticable on account of the many ditches through Sugar Plantations we shall have to get both ties and iron ahead on Iron Cars and to make proper headway three cars v;ill be required. Respectfully yours, C. C. Bar;r, Div. Eng. 415 Vice President's Oi'fice. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. Marshall, Texas, 3/28th, 1881 Gen. G. M. Dodge, President, New York, Nevi. York. Dear General: I have yours'liSd inst. and have wired to ascertain when Major VJashburn will return to Ft. Worth. I will direct Mr. ^etriken to organize a reconnoutering party to extmine the country north-west of El Paso, thro' Silver City and the mining distticts'to reach tiie line of the Atlantic and Pacific road on the Rio Puerco. I have already instructed him, as heretofore advised, to re-establish his line In the Canon and put a force there, without any delay, to occupy it if he can do so without actual Collision, but if he is driven out, to notify me at once and I will commence proceedings in the courts. Major Washburn wir-ed me that the So. Pacific was grading east of Es Paso. He also notified you of the same by telegraph. I have been to Shreveport, and iind that the election to assess a tax to pa.y for the right of way and terminal facilities, v.ill occur on the 10th of April. Meantime, they have secured ir.ost of the propei'ty we want. As soon as the election is over, they will secure the balance, pay for it and turn it over to us without any liens or incumbrances, and reimburse themselves out of the tax when collected. "rocect.ings are now being taken to ex-appropriate several pieces of property, that connot be secured other wise because of the minority of some acd non-residence of others of the owners. I think they will not disappoint us in their pro mises, and I think we may rest satisfied that we will get all we asked and we are v.ry much indebted to John R. Jones for it,- for he has been the leading spirit in every moven;ent. Yours very truly, Jno. A. Brown, Vice Pres't. 417 VrV .. March 28 th 1881 Fairfiel/d,• Iowa, March 28th 1881 Dear Dodge; Yours of the 2tth inst. is at hand. Clarkson is mistaken. No third man will get the Senatorship. I don't propose to lie heaten. The Register has acted very will thus far and I am content to let it run on as it Is going, "but if it comes to a point when it will decide between me and it must come to me. If enters the field as a candidate of course it will he for him, at least I suppose so. You must arrange to have Clarkson with us against any man except a Des Moines candidate. I believe Senator Hibard of Red Oak will be for me, but you may be able to strengthen him. Do it if you can. I go to Des Moines and the Bluffs this week. Had a letter fo from Chapman today. He don't commit himself, but is rather more on my side than any other, and he would like to see me. Will see him at the Bluffs this week. The U.S.Circuit Court sits there this week and I will be able to see many of the people of the slope. Yours truly, « James F.Wilson. If,' >.^ M ' American Railway Improvement Company New Orleans, 28th, March, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, President, Dear Sir; 80 Broadway, New York, Notwithstanding the fact that the party who jheasured the Donaldsonville Road made affidavit as to the correctness of his work, on having it re-chained, with representatives of both Companies to overlook the work, we find an error of 862.9 feet; making the total distance 67 miles and 4,755 9/l0 ft. instead of 67 miles and 3893 feet. Therefore, the Morgan people are entitled to pay for the additional distance, Very respectfully yours, C. G. Barr, Div. Eng. 421 }iareh 30 th Vy dear Gen'l; ji Ilotel Brunsvrick, Boston March 3Gth ^ I Vi/as delighted to find your letter awaiting me on my return from out of town yesterday. And right here let me thank you for your kind ness in "being willing to "bother with my affairs when you are so busy all the time. Your advice is good, you of cousse know that I haven't very mhch money to speculate with, but I am making money right along and wish to put it where it will yield the moat.Yhile I do not wish to foolishly risk it yet I am willing to venture something if you think you can use to advantage the small sums which I shall be able to send you from time to tiine. I will send now, five hundred dollars with which you may buy for me Texas ^'acific Kio Grande at 98, as you suggested, or anything which you think best. I have money in the bank here, and whenever you see a chance to make something, if you will drop me a line, I will send it on as you want it. ly selling a .-art of my property in Chicago I could have five or six thous and dollars to work with. Do you think it best to leave that as it is or put it into something else? friend, Again thanking you for your kindness, I remain your sincere Fanny Kellogg, P.S.I saw Mr. Prootor last night who inquired after you, he said he read or heard that you had gone to Mexico. Have you?- •' v ' I,. 423 New York City, March 30, 1881, H. . Morse, Es^., Division Euperentindent, New Orleand, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of March 24th. In regard to your salary, I think v/e should start you in at about v250 per month which is the amount we pay for similar services upon the Texas & Pacific, and when the road and the business get larger, and you remain upon it, it can be increased. I wrote you in relation to securing the land where you propose to put your track, opposite Thalea street. Mr. Scott thought it could be bought for about lA'jO per acre. If this is the case I think we ought to purchase twenty acres in there, if we can get it. If Morgans spur tracks were out of the way we could take in that ground also tt.en we wouid have room enough to put there what round houses ard shoos we needed. I suppose you will have to condemn the right of way along the Morgan track ard you can go to work at it at once, and as soon as you get it condemned you can go to work pulling up your bank. Mr. Barr will give you all the necessary engineering aid you want or put an engineer in charge of it if necessary. You could probably put it up cheaper by day labor by looking after it yourself than by contracting it and at tjie same timr get it done to suit yourself. There is a qnestion arising which you will have to submit to my attorneys, viz. whether or not we will have to have soi>ie agreement with the Morgan lino if we widen out their bank which I understand you propose to do or do you propose to make ar independent track entirely separate from theirs, leaving a ditch between. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. 4«'' I'. ■*» New Orleans Pacific Railway Company New Orleans, La., March 30, 1881 Gen'l. G.M. -i^odge, ^80 Broadway, Nev/ York. Dear Sir: At the request of Mr. Barr we have also viewed the terminal facilities obrained in the city of New Orleans; and the subject of the location of a ferry crossing of the Company across the Mississippi. We hardly consider it necessary to enterinto any argument for the conclusions -e draw below as they are quite evident upon an examination of the matter. We think the difficulties and liabilities of operating a road within the city limits subject to its ordinances alone suf ficient to make it to the best interests of the Company and for economy of construction to locate the line on the west bank of the Mississippi, parallel with Morgans road, to some convenient point opposite the wharf property of the Company near Thalia St. and for the present at least, believe it should be operated in the dame way as the Morgan road, that is, with out crossing the passenger coaches; placing the principal yards roundhouses and necessary repair shops on the west bank of the river. We i however believe that the ciLy ordinance which Presdt. Wheelock has just secceeded in obtaining contains so many valuable privileges that it should be sufficiently complied with that the Company may obtain its benefits, and which we understand can be done by still adhering to the location of crossing above suggested. The passenger depot site corner of Claiborne and Canal Sts., which we understand has been selected for a Union passinger depot, is a very accessible and central point in the City, and if entered into by all the other roads entering the city could be miade valuable, but do not at present see the necess ity of its use for the New Orleans Pacific road alone. We have consid^.red the subject only with reference to the economy of the railroad comoan" in its construction and operation and with out regard to what may be the best advantage of the city of New Orleans and its property holders. We would again revert to the fact that the legal obligations of the ordinance above referred to should be thoroughly understood and complied with so that all its benefits may be obtained. Respectfully, R. !•'. Hayes, D. W. Waahburn. rarch 31, 1881, I42I I Street, Jvlarch 31, 1881. Yy dear General; General Grant asked to have Kramer transferred to some other place and it was done. Badeau has had London since 1869; both Kramer and Badeau ought to have been left out entirely, as I understand it is the policy to make changes in the Consular and liplomatic Service. Shall everybody else be changed and General Grant's pets kept in; if so why. General Grant has no cause to, complain; and I am not sure that he does complain. Of course ^ shall do nothing to change the issue as far as I am concerned. I did nothing to,get the nomination; I shall not with draw. There are a few things that might as well be settled at the begin ning of the administration as later. It takes a very large noise to fri^iten me; i.e. po^-itical noise. I expect I should have run aw .y if ^ I had been with you at ;our desperate cannonadings. But Chinese gongs don't scare me. Yours truly, W.E.Chandler. General G.M.Dodge {V, ■■■ . ■ V • ■ - ■ , j. New Orleand Pacific Company. New Orleans, La., April 2d, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, President, New York. Dear Sir: Your favor of March 28th received, and will endeavor to carry out your wishes to your satisfaction. Mr. Marcy who owns the land most desirable for terminal on west side of the River will not be home until about the 8th of this month, and we propose to,show no disposition to build on the other side until as much land and right of way is secured as possible. Can save money by doing so. ?;ill have everything ready to put track downin short order soon as right of way is settled. Propose to get fifty feet independent of Morgans road but parallel and adjoining. Think it will be better to do so. There could be no question of damage by so doing, only just the Value of the land for farming purposes as Morgans road settled the question of damages. Will you please get the right to run through the Ames plantation. Fred Ames, if Mr. Jas. P. Scott U. P. has not looked after it, wants to get ready to do business be October 1st, but it is economy to use Morgans road as long as we can. What arrangement have i?ou made for telegraph cable across the River and the La Fourche at Donaldsonville and is the line to connect with Western Union, or be independent. If no arrangement, for cables etc. has been made I will put them ii' if you wish. If we do business with one of the companies here perhaps they may have a lead wire or two in one of their cables that we can buy and save putting dov/n a cable. Don aldsonville bridge toes slow. They were delayed in getting timber by high water, but I see no reasonable excuse for Lhe slow progress made since they received their timber. Think it will be two or three weeks before we cancross the bridge. Yours respy., H. L.Morse, Supt. P. S. Morgan's Co. has a "Y" to the River as shown on the map May make some arrangement by which they will take up on or both tracks. H. L. M. New Sfork City, A:-ril 2nd, 1881. B. H. Gr«ne, Chief Engineer, Shreveport, La. Dear Sir:- I forv/arded to you yesterday Mr. Eddy's dispatch.. I have received several letters from parties vvho have beer, down the road to look at work and they say that they did not take their trains there becar.se the contractos yave them no encouragement. There is only one way to get thi work out of the way, and that is to take hold of it personally, and let such work to these men as the other con'.ractors are not covering and not interfering with the latter in any way, but puttin" more force either as I have indicated above, or by fixing a price that they shall pay for teams, and let sub-contractors know that you have done this. You have the right to do it under the fcrrn of our contracts. For some reason or dther there have been great delcys in grading on the line south of Shreveport, and you will have to make ex raordinary efforts to keep out of the way of the track-layers. Mr. V/ashhurn and I Mr. Eddy have had no trouble in getting either men oi' teams, and I think ^.f you give contractors to understand exactly what they can have you can also get plenty of them. I t:ink you had better give the subs, full price rather than be delayed. '1r. Morgan Jones sajj^s that it will take until the first of September to get ti e work out of the wav with the forcd you now have or even with any force you can put upon"it. I am f arful that the heavy cuts will detain you. I think if you will look at my letters and will recall the statements I made to you when I last saw you you will see.that I frequently pointed out the fact that the of°the w''^^ contractors to open up their heavy work and get it out * I^desire you now to get all the force you can to the line and get the grading completed. I have to put in a boat for the crossing of the Alchafalaga there' '"ill endeavor to et one that can be used in sinking columns expected That bridge is going to cost me a gr'at deal more money than I the + decision cannot that was tell made from or your whether dispatch you think whether the or original not you plan agree a safe with track met. ought to now be ab3.e to put down at least one mile wTSp wire me at the + close of each day's laying work track the station regularly at I which desire the you' iron ends, so that I may keep a consecutive record of it in my office.here. Very truly yours, G, M. Dodge, Presiden t. April ibUi. Ilote^^ Brunswick,Boston April 3d I88I. '.!y dear Gen'lj Your two letters.March 3Ict and April 1st are reo- and I can not thank you sufficiently for your kindness. There is no difficulty about my m8,king money. I have reached that point in my profession where it co'mes to me all of the time. I have more engagements than any other singer in Boston, and at the end of the next five years I ought to be worth something. I feel that to have the right kind of advice and management nov; is v/orth everything to me. That is why I wrote to Mrs. Podge as I did. It is so hard for a woman with a little money to know how to manage it and what to so withit. You have done Just the right thing and I will do as you say, send my money on to you as it comes in. One of my lots in Chicago is unimproved aiid does not biing in a cent, but I have to pay taxes on it. H is in the V-'est fide near Robey St. I was offered last month for it ;rf2400, ^.1000 cash, bal two and three years at 7 per cent int. What do you think of First Mortgages on '-estern farms at 7 and 8 per cent? Or do you know of some good secui'ity that will bring me a larger and quicker income? Very truly your friend. Fanny Kellogg. t-i, 435 American Railway Improvement Company. New Orleans, Apr. 3, 1881 Gen. G. 1/1. Dodge, President, 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: I was unexpectedly called away to attend to some Right of Way matters on Baton Rouge branch and this is my first opportunity -f -writing you since Iv'r. Hayes and ITajor Washburn were here. I suppose you have received their report on Atchafalaya bridge by this time and as that report gives you all the parti culars known to me, I shall await your decision and instructions asto what will be done in the matter. I have just returned from Ghoctaw swamp and found two drivers there, but no piles, therefore nothing done. I have notified Dodge & Downey yesterday, that if in tendays therefrom they were not progressing with the driving of piles and getting out timber at a rate that would compile the work up to and including the Ghoctaw bridge by June 1st, that I should nut on the necessary extra force to complete it in that time ^ their expense; and I shall commence immediately to look out for competent men to take charge of the work or re-c ontract a portion of it. I amsatisfied from their movements they will not do the work in time, as it appears to be more than they are capable of handling, as there is not a single portion of their work that is goingahead as it should. Yours enclosing letter from Richd. J. -"^vans received last night. I think he is just the man I want and have wired him to report here. Donaldsonville bridge going ahead at the usual D. d. pace. Have Punished and reproached but with little effect. They have all the n.aterial on the ground and lower chords in place. We have now about 25,000 ties on hand and a tie-force including contractors men of about 225 men which by calculation should make ties about as fast as we will want them but in practice does not hold out. Our tie force is gradually increasing but very slowly and I guess the force from Georgia for this purpose will prove a failure as Lane & Hazlehurst wire there is a difficulty in gettirg them. 'T« I suppose you think we find a preat n.any excuses here for not doinfi work, but I assure you that in all my experience I have never found a country where there were so many obatacles in th.e way of fast Rail Road construction; as it appears we have to fight for every inch ofground we gain in any direction. Will have force all ready to put to track laying soon as bridge is out of the way. Yours respectfully, C. C, Barr, Div. feng. . ..v., ^ ^ irf ..f' " '• '' 1' * V„. , ' * • ( * i'. ' \ ' - ■' , • •. ■, .Y f, ■ - The Am. Ry. Imp. Co Shreveport, La., April 4 th, 1881 Gen'l. G. . Dodge, President, 80i Broadway, New York City. Dear Sir: I found your letter of 28th Karchawaiting my return from New Orleans. Have been almost worried out of my life because of the small amount of work done on the line, but under the cir cumstances it has been impossible to do more. The weather, the soil, the difficulties heretofore of getting labor and teams and of retaining.them, have beaten the contractors, all of whom have lost money on their contracts. I have pushed them with all my might and main as my letters and telegrams to you will show. It is true they have done the light work first: I would not have permitted that to be done if it had been possible for them to do the heavier work Teams had to be with drawn from the line and sent to the river to be fed. The labor question is now the most serious, for -there seems to be a prevailing opinion an.ong laborers that yellow i'ever prevails in Louisiana the whole year round. Men re cently brought here from St. Louis quit in a few days to go to Texas roads. I have a favorable telegram from Mr. Lane of A. J. Lane & Co. in regard to bringing negro laborers from Florida. We shall have to rely chiefly upon that class of laborers. They can stand the climate, and have no fear of "yellow fever." In respect to obtaining labor and teams from Morgan, Jones & Co. I send you enclosed a copy of their proposal which is out of the question, as its acceptance would be so unjust to other contractors that I fear all of them would withdraw at once, and we cannot ai'ford to lose a man. Your several telegrams in regard to Mr. Eddy's having anabundance of teams, and being able to send me labor are in strcnge contrast with that gentleman's telegrams to me, of which I enclose you copies. I am glad to learn from your letter that he and Ivr. Washburn are succeeding so well in their respective lines. Without comparing myself with them or either >jf tl:;em, I believe neither of those gentlemen could have done more on this line than has been done under the un favorable circumstances surrounding my work. 'Tis true their latitude is about the sam.e as mine, but the rainfall here has been far greater, ana the character of the soil on my line is entirely different. Hope and believe that results will begin to count in my favor before long. At all events you may rely upon it that I shall leave nothing undone to push the work. Very truly yours, B. h. Greene, Chief Engineer. 439 April, 1881. Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4th, 1881, Dear General: VJe have had a hard tussel with the opponents of water works and after offering every honorable concession, the council finally passed a supplinental ordinance extending the time for their completion to Jany. 1st, 1883. John Beresheim, Nathan, the Phillips family, the Casac.'y's, Lawrence, Shugart and the Stewarts comprise the opposition. The balance of the population are uiianimously for the improvement. I never knew the town to be as harmonious on any question. Al'l parties are wild for the measure and it seems to me that you might urge the American Constructinn Company to push ahead without waiting for tlie adjudication of the issue they raise. There is nothing in their objection but broad opposition and they cavil and wriggle when cornered closely, like men who do not understand their own objections. If the comioany would go ahead with the work, the opposition would die out of its own imbecility and impracticability. A,ll the construction Co. need to do is to go ahead v/ith the improve ment., • , The action was begun to injure the sale of their bonds and the boast to this effect has been made. I believe Nathan, Nr. Phillips and Beresheim, thought the charter was a bad one for the city at the outset; but I believe they would cease their opposition if such men as Jno. Stewart and the Casidays would consent, since they have investigated the question. After carefully considering this question and looking at it fron every point, with such men as Pusey, "'right Baldwin, etc. I deliberately conclude that there is nothing in this but a disposition to cavil and a g)irit of spite with those n.ost rabid and most unyielding. I have talked with two of the supreme judges. Day and Beck, and from what they said I feel sure they will not recognize the application as practical or legal, if it ever reaches their court. Of course they did not say this much but they thought it strange that lawyers would advise and that citizens would pursue such a course. If the company will go right along with their work there is nothing in their way worth considering and I wish you would advise them to this effect if you can consistently. The improvement will bring thousands of people here as soon as it becon;es an assured iact. Many have come already. In haste yoizs, J. W. Chapman. 441 .r-U 'o: New York, April 6, 1881. N. P. Dodge, Counc !1 Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Nate:- ' I have received your several letters in relation to waterworks and have watclied the course of the matter very inter-'-ntedly hecause I am very anxious tco have you come to some agreement with these people and have them complete their works. I cannot go into full explanations hut there are good reasons why they should he huilt this year if possible. Mr, Dillon has shown me what purports to he a copy of your agreement with the company and I understand from him that the only question now between you is contained in the last giiiuh§ where you ask a forfeiture of ti;e charter if they fail to provide water. 1 think you had better cnange that clause for anything in an agreement that forfeits a company's rights injures their securities. I myself would not sign any contract that contained a forfeiture of that kind. If that is all the difference there is between you, I think you better fiige way on that or else put it in the shape of a penalty, fixing the time wl.en the works shall he repaired and the amount of water they shall supply. Under this clause of die agreement, the best thing would work a forfeiture and invalidate the securities. You could not do anything at all with their securities upon such a basis. If there is any necessity for putting in such a clause let it wtate exactly what they want or intend should work a forfeiture of the charter, I submitted this question to Judge Dillon and he agrees with me as to the effect such a clause would have upon the value of tiieir securities. I know nothing abOut these people but from the letter I have seen of them ..ore, I have been very favorably impressed with them. 1 have never written any body in the Bluffs anything in relation to the matter nor have I -aid anything to any one about it because I did not consider the oidinance as first passed a good one for the city and so stated to ?Ir. Hopkins, very frankly but as you have now amended it, I do not think you could do muc:: better. Of course there .should be a clause of some kind inserted in the ag reement by wnicn, if there is any material failure to furnish water for a long time or any thing of that kind, the city would have a remedy but if they are going to bu build the works you should do everytiiing in your power to make their securities available .vithout injury to the city, I have no interest in this matter directly or indirectly except such as any other citisen of tiie town may have in desiring to obtain good water-works and to get them as soon as possible. Yours truly, Ct. M. Dodge, k,;.' kh (Telegram) ■S. IXlffA ,:iktoY t.Ci'fi ij9'^ York, April 7, 1882. N. P. Dodge, ,1 . ,Br oI J /< ;oD *: eJ«'l T f>(T . J - . Council Bluffs, Iowa. ':'' f»r T I rrrrrord fei't t f »■ - '".r fl'"«»<* ^jpQ-j^g you fully about water work^y^''t Submitted the^'fci]*- rncf .!n r r-r , , . ^e'iture clauses which I unclsrotand is tlie only block in the way of ,, ^agreement t'-'"J:udg0 Dillon. He says such clause would prevent nogo tiation of bonds. It is too indefinite.' I would not stand on it if •' all else is satisfactory If you want forfeiture clause you kust, -n . • ■ . ■ • • • ■ , ■ . .1 • ^'• • ■state in terras what delinquencies cover it, as now any little ■ ' . TI •delinquiency ciuld be used. ' *" '' ' . ' o yf- -"1 , . .'rd *1 . ' .V There are reasons v7hy early corapletfon of'works should be beneficial tci the city. I wire this upon stateraej't that if you . : i r r, I can agre.e u ">on t-.is clause'matter^ feAn• be arfah^^ed.i IT '' • • -' l- v" . x>- t T ) .■ ■ '' ■ ' ■ urj jf'* Jg; .Dodge. - ' I ftiiJ /■ ■■r";* f. ,,J '.V ui bI(.i)K n.'( I ' i P H. r.K ttt ovRil T 'ia.\:pX c.i.t JiTd firooq JyOdr ^orii X , vh . Jlc fe o.'coaqol wtr $ffnd I ntod* to /woa o.' nl rnttU% m oiif nl >o<t y;* t r^Mnv ^eT»A ov#wl I T MV-'riocKf J1 jLo-fg i»fn \c<ir* oJ bl« i urm ten teiim tnU yjl' -Uv' nrl f;iio bor^ « n« iHMianlfne etj loftii rrro .toA bib '1 Ofc. TCf ovrA l O'- Hr Jud tbrtliqcH .u?* oj beirjc. on br.e fjivo.,1, luiJ "rjKje: 10 ataa ob bJi/or u'x ion ot» I t: ...rfi.r Ji rc.rf^ l hoJiwtnl r..or In rji'rlo « 'c/ "fld.t \,ar CO ^ro/ e tt*t tt>4tn. ij intLt r: f .Lri/ji Jrl crJfr v. f n v» ; ol tiiii tbfU 11 JiNf ^obM • owoA htuer \ito oAi ,5nljl In.ti to ■il'fiij oAmj n.i lunv nl rh bjuoiln ifo^ b#fr« odj bfliM •Vki lb **fiJ oi .'I't ii.'lv oJdn flMrn anl liueHu \fJartf'ni to i# JtM Jm piiUt pJiUt nl nl Jtitn JM»*sb.fnl o i otmti I ' jiinl f'l 'Vr.. T'' r "f .it: !.',?'. -i-uUhi ;ni> ,( ^ fLJOf i!« tirof nn no. .♦ cicrcY .i! .A ' diornnJAiv , Ipj-'r, n. 4- - -v ^ 'Wi 443 t: V!'/;uv V.arshall, Texas. April 6th, 1881 G. M. Dodge, Care Texas & Pacific Ry. Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Eddy telegraphs as follows: " - 1 - "I dont see any way the two lines can be put together between Fort Worth and Temple and satisfy the principal towns. Cleburne is the only town of importance we do not strike and and if no work was done by either line it would pay us to run there now. Our - 2- line runs through the best territory for local business, most direct, best grades and alignments, and our work finished up very much the best, our grading will be very nearly completed to Waco by April twentieth and we have two large outfits south of Waco. Brazos bridge material arriving and force at work there. We have expended - 3 - one hundred and seventy thousand dollars up March thirthfirst inclusive of Waco bridge." J. T. Granger. <|>S' 7 445 New York City April 8t"', 1881, G. C. Barr, Esq., Division Engineer, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of April 3rd. I shall go to work systematically at the Atchafalago Bridge, and put up a .permanent bridge vising a transfer boat during the time it is being constructed. I am lookin'"' for some men who did the pneumatic work for me upon the Omaha Bridge and lossibly may have to wait until ilr. Sickles returns from New Mexico when I sha]1 send him down there to take charge of sinkin- the piers. I am very much disappointed about that bridge, but do not suppose that anyone could have avoided it. I note what you say about the difficulty o? doing work down there and apnreciate your position. You must keep dri^-ing them until you get something out of them. I am particularly disappointed in Dodge &z Downey. They are the only contractors who I saw down there that seemed to have any aim at all. If they do not come to time you must put a force right on too of them. You should consult with Mr. Morse and be certain to have cars enough around there to do your work when you commence laying track. ',Ve have plerty of cars on the Texas & Pacific and you can have them sent to you at any time. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. 447 April TIth 188I. Les WolnQ/3, April Ilth 1881, Gen.G.".Podge, 8C Broadway, y.e^ York. Pear General; ^ I have your letter about my narrow guage article. What ^ say in Iowa, in order to popularize the narrow guages we are going to build, will not hurt your Eoads in Texas, while it will do us lots of good help in raising outsiders. I agree with you as to this alter. But just now we are given narrow guages to build, not broad guages,and we have to make the people think tliey are desii'able. I had really supposed, too, that the lines in question were to be narrow guages, as saw it stated in a Ct Louis paper. Therefore I was not the author of the story, and it is our good fortune, not our fault, that it operates to our interest so well. There ia a deep-seated prejudice against narrow guages, and we find it hard, to overcome in building them throu^i town lines. Pid you get my letter about the Senatorship? And were you satisfied with it? The contest is getting hot, and is going to be 39 bitter between Gear and Wilson that many seem inclined to go for a third party so as to keep out of the enmities of the main fight, and finally name the winning man. Just now McPill is having a boom, and.I shall not be surprdised finally to see him the winning man. The people relly dc not like Gear and are afraid of Wilson's f I wrote to Chapman. He says he wants to go with me and the Eegister, and is coming over to see me about it. And the man we both of us rather support in preference to all others, as I told you in New jlork, ia G.M.Podge. We are getting in our winter pro ject, although there is etill a f^^ot of snow on the ground and the earth is 448- ; 'v. II ;till frozen solid to the depth of four feet. '■Tk . Cordially ;/ours. J.T.Clarkson, ■m'- :r- .• y . a^J • . "» ,• k- }. . «, * ■,••- ■ •• .-M ^>1^4 \ >. .. t iu' li v.V'.'i'" ' ►<1 - .Li New York City, April 13th, 1881 R. S. Hayes, President I. &, G. N. R.R. Co., Palestine, Texas. Dear Sir: You communication to the Board of Directors of the International Ry. Go. in nation to building a branch road to the Pineries in eastern Texas has been referred to me You are hereby authorized to go on & carry out the programme you suggest in your own way for and in behalf of the International Ry. Imp. Co. For all expenditures made for this purpose please make drafts upon me as President of this Company and have the drafts show that they are for the purpose of constructing this branch, whatever its name may be. Very truly yours. G. M. Do dge, President. ■oil ... i)t\ ''.ft 451 "New York Cit3'', I'ew York, E. E, Wheelock, Prest. N.O.P.Rj'. ,Co. New Orleans, La. April 13, 1861. Dear Bir:- I am in receipt of yours of recent date in regard to removal of the peir of the bridge over the Lafourche. This as a very serious matter to us and we must do all in our power to prevent it. I do. not know what will turn up next in that country before we get t' rough but expect pretty soon to see some proposition made for the removal of our road. Nothing happens out there as v/e had expected, and I am gettling a little anxious about it. You must bring to be-^r upon upon Mr. Kowell all the pressure possible both from citizens living along the line of the road and from those in Raton Rouge and New Orleans and do everytiiing possible tc have him insert in his report a ^.tatement to the effect that thorn is no necesE ty for the removal of this pier ; that it is not an obstruction to navigation and then perhaps the government will not act on it. Let him state the facts giving reasons why its removal had been recommend ed. Have ou attorneys look into the question and see if the Governmant has a right to remove this pier when it was placed there under a proper charter. Very truly jrours. G. M. Dodge. f ' -'^1, > "■ V. New York City, April 13, 1881. B. H.Green, Chief Engineer, Shreveport, La, Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your se veral dispatches in relation to laying track. I hope you will arrange to lay your track so as not to require the use of too much motive power. Ser.ding four locomotives to Alexandria is in my opinion a great waste of power which we are very short on both Texas <?: Pacific & New Orleans Pacific. It is impossible to contract or buy any for early delivery. We will have to wait untO. it is delivered to us on ourregular contracts. Mr. Hoxie, v/ho will on the 1st of May take charge of the Texas & Pacific will aid you all he can in this direction. I am in hopes of getting three or four more second hand engines to send down to you before we need them, but it will take nearly treble the motive power to build the road from three different points than where we biiild from only one aoint. I think you should, if possible, arrange so that Hazlehurst & Lane would lay with their locomotive from Alexandria north, instead of havin; two parties and two sets of machinery laying from that point—one laying north and the other south; or all the power that is going down there should be used first to lay from Alexandria north and after the 55 miles of road is completed or whatever amount is to be built from the north, there it should be turned over to be used in laying from Alexandria couth. Two or three locomotives in my opinion should do all the work if you laid north and south at same time. We can start in with them and if afterwards it is necessary to build faster we cnn then get more power. I am very glad to sec that you are '-etting so many teams on the line, and 'lipe you will now push the work to its fullest capacity. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. ,^-r r.J'iq; VSrioY wai New YorK, April 13, 1881, J. Blickensderfer, Bsq., « , V'' f'l . Omaha, Tleb. n ^'''T ,1..!'' 'ilf! (JtoiUit^r Dear Sir:- I would like to hear ,from you In regard to tlie high water at the Bluffs, especially as to whether it was banked or piled up by the Union Pacific Bridge embankmevjt-; or was the height general eSesewhere? . I have a curiosity 6o know how much the water was impeded by tue ombankment and how much of a raise it caused. How high did it get at the U.P. depot and iio.v far back Lov/ards the Bluff did.it reach? Uas all of (the U.P. land under waLer? Please write me also how high ic came-up o- the Omaha side; both above and below the bridge, and how much of this was caused by embankment and also any other facts in relation to it which ypu think would interest me. Very truly yours. ojvft/ 'ivi. /fid v;<ir ;i0'4 h'T - - c J,. rawfj J,.oJ Irnoo .1 vri.r .. ■■ r j .Ti r iUnoafx f. rt. t f c tij tYn. f T /enJ /d ox ^Xrr o/ crx o; ivbd Xcn hlnor T Jmi /i* To ill al i.JnuoD ftiT rr" f Xfrb /j-mg r v'e* x'J .'If* ifov ar oi .h tim 4nX»lJ I is»hi brw WdX r oo wU. 'I,.' 456 ' New York, April 14, 1S81, H. L. Henry, Esq., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dear Sir:- ,/ulnaiO - :ttP Press of business here has caused me td ^le^lect Veplying to your favor of C7th of TIa-ch asliln^ if tnere was a-ny way in which you couod realize uponyour bon.-.s of Harrison Coxanty Texas'. I do not at present see any way By whin we can force ^ferrison County to tako care of the-ie bdnds or td fulfill the obli^fetions under which they were given, but strong parties are at work upon the matter and using every legal me-thod in order to complet V. eir recognition. Th Omaha National Bank is interested in these bonds and has made a move to compel their payment, -n' I have ho doubt by consulting witli TIr. Mlliard you wilY leahn 'their exact status. I shall be glad to do anytning for you in this matter wuenever I consistently can, but-at present cannot give yoxi any better advice or information taan above. Iff have neard tnat some of those bonds had recently been disposed of at 25;^ but I would not advise you to soil yours at that for I think you will eventually get a great deal more for the a. The County is in law and equity bound to recognize them and I think must do so sooner or later. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, 457 Nev. Orleans Pacific Railway Company, New Orleans, La., Apr. 18th, 1881 l3en'l. G. M. Doxi^e, President etc.. New York. Dear Sir; I telegraphed you a little strong this morning about the Donaldsonville bridge. A lawyer called on me sometime ago said he had been tendered five hundred dollars to commence proceedings to remove the pier at Donaldsonville. I said to him that our bridge is about 213 ft. long, with a pier 22ft. in diameter in middle of stream, leavingabout 95 ft. each side, while over same Bayou where tlorgans road crosses the draw is only 96 ft. and that charter had been granted and contract let for an iron bridge at Donaldsonville only two squares from our bridge, over the La Fousche, above our road, which would close up all but one hundred feet of the chanel, (that is the pier is to be on one side and the draw 100 ft., Lhey have since com menced the bridge) and in view of all this and the fact that no single case or cases of complaint had -..ver been filed or made during the eight years the bridge was of no use to any one, and unused, that removal at this late day was too rediculous and absurd to talk about. He concluded he did not want to be an atty. for the boat Co. I gave him a pass and have not heard of him since. The object is too apoarant for any respectable people to engage in. It is all done to satisfy an old grude against some of the old Company. I understand and the road having changed liands since this is probably the last kick. The bridge can't be removed legally nor otherwise, without removing all similar supposed obstructions over all streams. When notice was given me I did not consider it of importance enough to mention to you, and did not mention it to Mr. 7/heelocb until several days after. When we saw Mr. Howell, U. S. Engr., who would not molest the pier. Yours truly. H. L. Morse. Sup t. The River is rising, The levee has been strengthened at all weak points, no danger to us unless it runs over the levee, which is beyond our control or help, as the levees cannot be raised at present. H. L. M. The An,. Ry. Imp. Co. Shreveport, La., April 19th, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Presd't. 80 Br'oadway , N. Y. Dea r Sir: At the risk of being considered importunate on the subject of shipments of rails and track material, please allow me to ask a few questions. Was not your original plan to ship to Galveston, thence to be brought to Shreveport rails and ttack material to build only as far South as Le'compte. in accordance with my requisition for the first or Shreveport Dividsion dated Nov. 11th, 1880, which called for 13,640 tons of iron rails and other material in pro portion; and to ship to New Orleans all of the iron and track materisil required for the other two Divisions, viz: extending from Bayou Goula to the Atchafalaya River, and from the Atchafalaya River to Lecompte respectively with a view of laying track from Bayou Goula to Lecompte consecutively? These two Southern Divisions measuring 53 and 51 miles respectively would call for say 9,600 tons including sidings. You write me under date of April 13th that total amount to be landed at New Orleans will be 11,100 tons, 5,100 of which you have turned from Galveston. Under date of Apr. 11th you also write that 11,000 and oddtons is the total to be shipped to New Orleans and add: "This with the road that I have already built and the amount contracted (14,000.tons) going to Galveston, and 10,000 tons going to New Orleans will cover pretty much our entire distance." Now what I fail to understand is that if there were originally only 13,640 (or say 14,000) tons of iron ordered to Galveston, and 5,1000 tons have been turned from Galveston to be landed at New Orleans, that there should yet be 14,000 tons intended for Galveston. Im making the contract with Wusick for ties between Atchafalaya and Lecompte you instructed me to frame it so that we could lay track from Atchafalaya North, clearly indicating that the track material would come from New Orleans over our line and across the Atchafalaya Bridge ( which you then expected to build this season.) This programme would h^ve called for about 10,000 tons of iron to be landed at New Orleans of itself, before the Alexandria move was sprung. Under this understanding of the General Plan, I could only infer that all the iron you succeeded in diverting from Galveston to New Orleans would apply North of Alexandria. Now 11,100 tons (total to be landed at New Orleans), is just the quantity of iron required tolay from Bayou Goula to Alexandria, including side tracks; hence whatever of this 460 11,100 tons we may lay Nor-thof Alexandria will create a gap of equal extent South of Alexandria to be supplied from here, unless say 5,000 tons more can be turned to New Orleans, with a view of taking it up to Alexandria. It was under this interpretation of the whole matter that I hesitated as I wrote you on the 14th to start Jones, Cowen & Knowlton laying track North of Alexandria. Of course it would be most desirable and more econ omical to us to have Lane & Hazlehurst lay the track both way's from Alexandria, and I worked upon Jones, Cowen & Knowlton with out avail to relinquish to Lane & Hazlehurst, as much of the track North of Alexandria as they could lay until their track running South from Shreveport joined them. All I could get them to con cede was the track and ties from Alexandria to Lecompte, 15 miles. What I ail. most anxious to accomplish if within the rang. e of possibility, is to open the line from Shreve ort to Lecompte by August and thus meet your original expectations, and by the same date open through to the Atchafalaya River if theiron can be dis tributed advantageously. Lane & flazlehurst expect to comply promptly with their contract and have a large force cusnstantly increasing getting ties and laying track; for the latter they have Coventry's tracklaying machine, shipped from here last week. Mueick has a good force at work getting ties from the Atchafalaya Northward. I notified him as soon as contract with Lane & Haxlehurst was closed, that he must put a force at once getting out ties from Lecompte South. Should he not deliver them as fast as the track is laid, as provided against in his contract Lane & Hazlehurst will supply the deficiency. We are fortunate in having our ties in strong ha nds from here to the Atchafalaya, as ties generally more than any other one item retard the progress of track laying. Forces are coming in daily and as I wired you yesterday are being concentrated between Sections 20 & 30 as fast as they arrive. These are the small new Contractors. Hall who is march ing across the country from the vicinity of Waco writes me that he has a large outfit enroute. He has shipped by rail here at least 100 men who are forwarded to the work as fast as they arrive. He has Commenced with much energy, and in another month I hope to make a good showing of work. By the ist of May I will have 10 miles of completed track out of Shreveport. Shall I forward you a certificate to that effect when finished that the bonds may be drawn? By the 15th of May I hope and expect to report 10 miles more completed track. Jones, Cowen & Knowlton's track laying force is regulated by the progress of the grading. It is agreed they are to thus continue and under no circumstances to put in any claims for delays. Very truly yours, B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer 461 New York City, April 19, 1881. John. G. Parker, Acting Chief of Enginc-ers. ".S.A. Waehincton,D.C. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of the 18th inst. and would say in reply the bridge resting upon the pier has been placed tliere by the authority of the State of Louisiana and is in daily use by the New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. and cannot be removed except by the consent of the Company owning it. The action of Congress has no doubt been taken through ignorance of the rights of the Company invoked and under the eronious impression that it was some obstruction to navigation. Please inform me when Gen. Wright returns- to the city as we shall resist in the courts, if necessary, any attempt to cut our Rail Road bj*- hostile interests. I should be pleased to have you delay any action in the case until our rights are understood and as the bridge has been there for over seven years unobjected to there can be no cavise for any hastv action, which the courts would undoubtedly enjoin. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, Presidei:t. 463 American Pailway Improvement Company New Orleans, 21 April, 1881 Gen'l. G. . Dodge, Fresdt., 80 Broadway N. Y. Dear Sir: I have just i-eturned from the Ghoctaw and Gr: nd river swamp where I went to find what was the cause of delay in getting piles to the Right-of-way. I found about three' thousand piles cut and ready to drive but at a distance of about thirty miles by water below the bridge. They have been trying to tow them and made a failure, as at some points the current is quite strong and the bayou full of bends. I was soon convinced that they could not get a boat of sufficient power to tow them and I got them to agree to load them in barges, which they are now doing, a"d I feel confident they will have no trouble in gettin.g them to the bridge site. I have sent to Texas for some bridge men and am pushing them on to Dodge and Downy as fast as possible, '.vill get on the Donaldsonville bridge some time the coming week. Our tie force is gradually increasing and I do hope we will be able to make up some of our lost time when we once get started. The steamship Topaze has discharged h r cargo of iron and Red river boats will commence taking to Alexandria immediately. We are hav ing some trouble with ship captains about unloading iron. We claim it is their duty to deliver and pile the iron so it can be counted, and this has been the custom in this port, although there has always been a difference fo opinion in regard to the matter and in some cases the owners have paid for trucking and piling, which is from twenty to forty five cents per ton. The Lartington cargo was piled by the ship but the captain of the Topaze refused to do it. We then arranged with him to pile the iron, we giving bond for the amount in case the court decided against us. Ve claim it is not a delivery until all is de livered. He claims we n.ust take it bar by bar, as fast as he puts it over the side of the vessel. If it is decided that we must do the work, then it should be arranged to pay the ship extra and let them do the work as when a ship comes here and contracts with a stevedore to unload the vessel we are then in the stevedore's power, as he ca do the work much cheaper than an outside party. Either this or we should have the right to unload the vessel and hire our own stevedore. Respectfully yours, C. 0. Barr, Div . Eng. 4G5 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, La., April 22c, 1881 Gen. G. K.Dodge, President, New York. Dear Sir: We have just learned, that fworgan's Company intend extending their road to Little Rock via Alexandria and Monroe, and considering the country between Alexandria and Little Rock the best unoccupied territory for a railroad we know of, deem it of sufficient importance to lay the matter before you at once. Mr. Hazelhurst, a man of excellent practical judgment has been over the line and speaks in unqualified praise of the country as to production, and-as a natural, cheap and easy place to build a railroad. This would give a good northern connection to St. Louis, quite as good as tie Chicago, St.Louis and N. 0. line everything considered. It seems to us that this connection is of great im portance to your system of roads. The proposed lind would pay at once, from the start. Red River can be crossed cheaply at Alexandria on a rock bottom, and the road can be built for $12,000 per mile. Have had this connection in view for some time, but supposed it would keep until our road was conpleted to Shreveport, but now consider the natter sufficiently imp'ortant for President Wheelock to lay before you in person. Yours truly, H. S. Morse, Supt. Ne.v York City, April 23d, 1881 B. H. Wathen, Esq., City of Mexico. Dear Sir: This will be handed you by Mr. Francis DeGress who has full authority to c«rt for us in the City of Mexico, which he will explain to you. I want you to make to him any suggestions that n.ay accur to you in relation to the concession which runs from the City of Mexico toward Tuxpan or Tainpica, thince up the coast to the Rio Grande, or via Victoria whichever way upon examin ation, or from the knowledge you have when this reaches you, you may consider the best line for us in a commercial point of view. Any information which-you may be able to give him may control him in the shaping of the concession. They have with them maps showing the lines they have marked down. It is probable that a better line for us would be from Tampico via Victoria tnence to Laredo on the Rio Grande, but you have had knowledge enough of the general topography of that country to decide upon the most feasible line. Mr. DeGress is very strongly of opinion that the line along the coast is the better one for our purposes. Secondly, you may be able to give him some general information as to the pro posed line starting from the Rio Grande at El Pasa or south of it and going through Para ,and thence on to the City of Mexico. Very truly yours, G . Ml. Dodge, President. New York City, April 25th, 1881. E. H. Grerne, Chief Engineer, Shreveport, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of April 19th, The first plan was to uild so as to make use of our road to be completed and to get the material to go there. Therefore everything was ordered to Galveston. After wards I concluded to :uild from New Orleans north, and ordered 3,000 tons of rail there, and the balance of the rail to go to Galveston for the purpose of reaching the Atchafalaf^o, thinking that I could build fr'.rn Shreveport to the Atchafalagy by the line we could from New Orleans to the Atchafalaya. Now, my idea is to close the work from Shreveoort to Le Compte first, then we can run '.he rail from Shreveport. to Le'Compte and push to the Atchafalaya. The least important of this work is the work from Le Compte to the Atchafalaya, and you must handle the thing on that plan. The enclosed statement will show the destination of the rails as finally settled upon. It is probable that I may buy 500 tons more of rail to send to New Orleans which will make 11,600 tons going there. I expect to buy some second hand locomotives to go to you in th next 30 days. If I succeed in doing so you can have plenty of locomotive for Alexandria. You understand we are short of power and we have to work with that in view. Le Compta and the Atchafalaya; ^ telegraphed my intention you in was relation that the to ties ties ifbetween they could be gotten out there, could be laid from Le Compte south or from the Atchafalaya north. souLn or Very respectfully. G. M. Dodge, President, # 80 Broadway, New York, April 26, 1881 M. H. Goble, Esq., Omaha, Neb. Dear 3ir; I am in receipt of yours of April 8ta. It. has not been decided how this line from Fort Wortn toward Denver shall be constructed, whether under the general law of Texas oh whether we will use the special Ciiarter granted the Denver City and Fort Worth R.R. Co. There ia some question as to the legality of that charter, or as to the fact of its ha-.-ing been kept alive. In either case there is but on- way to get any luoney out of it and that would be to take stock in the Construction Company that builds the road, which, of course, will make a direct contract with the R.R. Co. but there will be no bonus paid for the charter, or anything of that kind, but anyone in the R.R.Co. that may desire stock in the Construction Company could probably obtain it. If you desire to take any I will see that you get it. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 473 New York City, April 27th, 1881. C* C. Barr, Division Engineer, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- This will introduce to you Mr. J. P. Anderson, the Engineer whom I have selected to take charge of sinking the piers of the Atchafalaya Bridge. He has had very considerable experiencr in sinkin^ piers of the Mis souri Bridge, the Si uth St. Bridge, Philadelphia', and has recently been connected with the work on the Hudson River Tunnel.. I have instructed him to get all the information possible in before he commences to make up his plans, and to malce * hiE_official reports and send requisitions for material to be provided in Louisiana to you. v free traJi'sportitlLf"'' employed Is to be 06OO per month and Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. 475 New York City, April 29, 1881. Charles G. Johnson, Esq. New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I make you the followin.'^- proposition for your property on the river front above Tripsicon St. with the batture rights and privileges together with your four squares of ground adjoining the upper city Park with batteure rights and pri'ileges. I will give you 2' 00 arpents of the Remain plantation including the front to the place and enough of the swamp to make up the 2000 arpents as above and vlO,000 of the 1st mortgage bonds of the Nev/ Orleans Pacific Railway Co. of the New Orleans delivery. The New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. reserving the right of way for railroad etc. through i,he plantation. The Remain property will be transferred to you subject to the present lease held by the Citizens Bank. The New Orleans Pacific Ry. Co. guaranteein to you the payment of the notes given to the Citizens Bank for the above property. Very truljr yours. E. B. Wheelock. President. I accept your proposition for the property above stated on the terms and for the price named. Chas. G. Johnson. 477. April, 1881. ■Julien T. Davies J. Henry Tork James McNamee. Edward P> . Hilton U. 3. Grant, Jr. Henry E. Davies Counsel. 120 Broadway, New York, April 30, 1881 Dear Sir: I enclose copy message received from General GranJ, this afternoon in answer to an inquiry sent him day before yesterday. I have no further information as yet as to bonded debt of Vera Cruz Road. Yours truly. J. H. Work. Genl. G. Dodge. 120 Broadway, New York, April 30, 1881. Copy message received in cypher this day (translation) J. 1. Work, 120 Broadway. Twelfth Average cost narrow gauge judging from cost Iv;orelis roaa about twenty thousand per mile .Would prefer standard because would connect better with road being built Relative cost you can judge. Grant. April, 1881. Julien T. Davies J. Henry V.ork James Kc^^amee Edward B. Hilton. U . S . Grant, Jr. 479 Henry E. Davies, Counsel. DAVIES, WORK, McNALCEE & HILTON, Counsellors at Law. 90 & 92 Broadway, .April 30, 1881. Dear Sir: I enclose you a telegram from General Grant received late this evening from which it appears that he is told "by tiexican Govern ment that Vera Cruz stock has been sold. I consider it a good thing for us that the Govt. has got out of the -era Cruz road unless in so doing they have entered into some stipulation hostile to our interests. It may be that you and Kr. Could know all about this sale and purchase already but I send that telegram and my little opinion on the situation just the same as though you didn't. It may be also that the Iv-exican Government is stretching the truth a little to see how it will affect the market. Perhaps the Governm.ent agent (whom Lr. Gould mentioned) in this City can give some information on the subject. His continued willingness to seel at this time would perhaps test the truthfulness ci the state ments iiiade in L'exico. ^ Truly yours, J. H. work, General G. U. Dodge. April 30, 1881. Copy telegram received April 30/81--4:50. ?. ¥. J. H. Work, 120 Broadway, N. Y. Thirteenth 'foo late Vera Cruz stock already sold. Grant. The Am. Ry. Imp. Co. 481 Shreveport, La., May 2d, 1881 Gen'l. G.M. Dodge, President, #80 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: Yours of 25th, April to hand . The statement it enclosed showing the destination of the rails as finally set-led upon is clear enough, and being final I "must handle the thing on that plan" as youremark. Since it is now settled that only 5,000 tons of rails can be brought up to Alexandria froii New Orleans, as the balance of thell,600 tons (total to arr-ive at New Orleans) will be required South of the Atchafalaya River, it is unfortunate that Lane & Hazlehurst have begun laying ti-ack South of Alexandria, or that their contract for laying track through to the Atchafalaya River was lin.ited to August first. They have made their arrangements and organization comniensurate to this limit; as this was the limit fixed to all contracts you made and instructed me to make, Ivr. Scott who was a party to the Lane and Hazlehurst contract agreed with me that the usual limit should be imposed in this Contract. My understanding has all along been that it was your earnest desire to open the road from Shreveport to New Orleans in time to move the growing crop, and all my calculations and suggestions have looked to the attainment of this end if possible. Hence the Alexandria move was suggested under the belief that you had originally ordered to be landed at New Orleans the iron required between Bayou Goula and Lecorapte, and that any iron you miight succeed in turning from Galveston to New Orleans would apply between Lecompte and the 55th mile post North of Alexandria, thus giving me until August to complete the heavy grading and lay the track 75 miles South of Shreveport and join the tracks there and at the Atchafalaya simultaneously. The question now is, shall Lane & Hazlehurst be stopped when the track reaches Lecompte, and Jones, Coven & Knowlton started at Alexandria to lay the balance of the 5,000 tons North or let Lane & Hazlehurst continue laying South as far as the 5,000 tons will extend and fall back on the original Plan oflaying through from Shreveport to Alexandria. Since Jones, Gowen & Knowlton positively refuse to transfer to Land & Hazlehurst any of the track-laying North of Alexandria, notwithstanding they were offered a handsome bonis for whatever they might lay. With the teams and ibrces now at work between here and the 75th Section and others that will be added during the next two weeks. I have every reason to believe tfiat the°Grading can be put out of the way by the middle of July, certainly by 1st of August and the 55 miles of old grading extending down to Alexandria will also be in readiness to receive the track. I submit the matter for your decision and instructions. I infer from your remark that the "Least important of this work is thework from Lecompte to the Atchafalaya" that you do not expect to reach the Atchafalaya from the South as soon as you had wished and calculated. From F.r. Barr * s letters I judge tba t the 3 miles of piling through Choctaw swamp is the greatest if not the only obstruction to getting through on time and this could be over come by increasing the drivers. Everything can be conveyed to all parts of that work by water now and for the next two months. The heavy embankments adjacent to the Atchafalaya made necessary not against high water but to reach the elevation of Bridge can now be dispensed with and only a section of them need be built this season, as you have decided upon a transfer boat for the present. The banks through the Fordoche loop and adjoining the 3 mile piling can be razed similarly if the water goes down at the usual time. The grading elsewhere remaining to be done on this Division is very light.' Please pardon me for volunteering so many suggestions but my great anxiety to meet your original expectations and believing that the thing can be handled on this plan embold ens me to speak freely. Very truly yours, B. H. Greene, Chief Engr. 483 New York City, Kay 4th, 1881 Private. R. S. Hayes, President I. & G. N. Ry. Co., Palistine, Texas. Dear Sir: I wired you that I had sent Kr. Wathen instructions about which I would write you. We had assurances from Mexico that a concession would be granted us if we wanted it from Laredo via Victoria and Tampico to the City of Mexico; or else going furtner east along thecoast from Tampico to the City of Mexico. I instructed Wathen to be in the City of Mexico on the 6th of May to meet the gentleman I sent there with in structions; and I also wired him to examine the country from the City of Mexico to Tuxpan, thence to Victoria and Laredo, giving all the attention he could to that line, or a line near the coast. These instructions will now take the place of the instructions on the Tula Canon line, but as soonas he gets me the information I desire, I then want him to examine the line through the Tula Canon as first proposed. If you will take the map of Mexico you will see that we get a very direct line from Laredo via Victoria and strike the road that the Mexican Central are building to a connection with them and could then use that line into the City of Mexico if the direct line from Mexico and Tampico was not a feasible one. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 485 New York City, May 4th, 1881, Jay Gould, Esq., 81 Broadway New York City. Dear Sir:- ' enclosed dispatcn you will see that our superintendent in New Orleans thinks we have plenty of nrop rty on both sides of the river to accommodite the barge line. The property which Mr. Samuels proposes to :-uy for $40,000 is adjoining the -roperty which we have bought. Before anything is done I suggest that a conference be had with our people in Nev/ Orleans. We have free wharfage for every thing coming to or going fro.m us and are free from Port charges. B placing the storage, barges and elevators at Wostwego and usinr the front at the foot of Thalea St. and opposite at the foot of Jackson ot. in retna. It seems to me to place the Barge line in a very good position, and plenty of accominodntions* Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, Presider t. New York City, May 9, 1S81, B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer, Shreveport, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of May 2nd. I don't give way for one moment on my idea of completing the road clear through and doing business over it by September; b t my belief is that the :uickest way to get such completion is to get a connection from Shreveport to Alexandria or Le Compte. The 35 miles south of Alexandria being laid and 145 miles from Shreveport waiting would leave the 50 miles south of Alexandria for a long time unused; whereas, if we can turn in and btiild both ways from Alexandria thus getting a cojinection with Morgan's line at Le Compte we will have lost no time but r-ained a great deal by getting a through line to New Orleans. I have no objections to your sending 20 miles of iron from Shreveport to Alexandria if it will aid you in the matter; but I want the track started north, so that when the grading is finished and the track down upon it, it will meet the track'coming from Alexandria norfh. I shall have a boat in the Atchafalaya River within 90 days to transfer crs, and I expect by that time Mr. Barr will be able to reach the Atchafalaya, so that the only gap which we will have to close (as soon as you get the one from Alexandria to Shreveport closed is from La Compte to the Atchafalaya. I think you might catch boats wanting loads fromShreveport South upon which you could ship rails at a law rate. If you send 20 miles of iron from Shreveport to Alexandria, that with the 30 miles would give you 50 miles north of Alexandria, and it is possible that as th.ings are working in New Orleans we could move some of that iron up to Alexaidria, provided Barr should not make as much headway as he now expects to, but he appears to be getting along pretty rapidly. In getting your track down I consider it important to laj^^ it so l^at it will give us the best returns coirraercially, and to do this we need first a connection from Shreveport to Le Compte and if an'*^ por tion is to wait it should be the line from Le Compte to Alexandria, Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President, 491 •, Ntw York City, Kay 9, 1881 Private. J. M. Eddy, Esq., Port Worth, Texas. Derr Sir: I am in receipt of yours of 4th in relation to the Fort 'Worth and Denver R. R. and the construction Co. When we have definately decided who is to build this line all ex penses which your company has incurred will be repaid by the Construction Company, and I will allow them to subscribe for the Construction Company's stock in such reasonable amounts as Lhey may desire which they can pay for out of the funds repaid to them by the Construction Company or from their own private funds as they deem best. It is yet a grave question with our attorneys whether we will not have to form a rew company under the general law. They are fearful at this special charter thinking that J.t may have been vacated by noncompliance. At any rate I cb not consider it as of any great value. It might be sold to other parties or other people might be induced to take hold of it and build the road but what would it amount to as against our combination or as against our building a road from Gainsville through that country? Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 403 # 195 Broadway N.Y. May 9bh, 1881, C. P. Morosini, Esq., 80 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir:- I hand you herewith my cheek for '*p30,000 payment of three installments on ray subscription of ^100,000 to the capital stock of the kiuerlaan Gable Construction Co. re3ardin!3 whicxi I wrrte you Saturday. Please send receipts by bearer. Very truly yours, C. M. hod^'e. I.'ay, 1881. Santa Barbara, Gal., fvlay 10th, 1881 Gen. G. Dod^^e, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir: I send you today by registered mail a painting made from a study taken last summer at Todos Santos Bay, Lov/er California. It is one of the most picturesque spots on the Pacific Coast and the part at this point has been recently declared a port of Entry by the r/exican Government. I hope you will have it nicely stretched and framed before showing it to your friends. Should the surface stick to tb.e cloth or paper, a little tepid water will remove it. I send this in remembrance of past favors and in the hope that you n.ay be able to hfeip me -in a similar riianner in the future on some of the roads with which you are connected. I shall try to go east sometime during the year to come and may apply to you for aid in the way of passes. Last season I was engaged in making studies of the California Missions and shall get the remainder this sumn.er, when I hope to go east to dispose of the set to some public institu tion or gallery and publish copies in the form of etchings oh engravings If successful shall continue the project until I get all the old churches and r».issions in Lower Cal. Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and perhaps extend the matter into old t.exico. My health is still such that I dare not brave the northern winters or I should again establish my studio in Chicago or New York. I hope yet to be able to live there at least a portion of the tiine. Let me hear on the arrivall of tiie picture how you are pleased etc. V.'ith grateful remembrance of former kindness I remain, Yours very sincerely. U. C. Ford. Box 269 Santa Barbara, Cal. w 457 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, La., May 11th, 1881 Gen'l G. M. Lodge, President etc.. New York. Dear Sir: I took J. C. Clarke, Gen'l. Manager of the Jackson road over to Gretna and Freetown, showed tne property we have acquired and what we have refusal of. He was very much sur prised at what we have, and at the little cost it will be to us Said there could be no doubt, not the least in the world, in regard to our plans over there, and that he woald not swap our property on the Hest side for all we have here on the N. 0. side with all the privileges w^ have he e included. There are people who feel that aroad on the west side would not bene fit New Orleans as much as on e on this side, and do not sde the difference between crossing at Westwego and lower down opposite. They will gradually out grow this and Jje with us. Mr. J. C. Clarke being an old personal friend, (we were on the Northern Centi'al R.R. of Fenna- twenty five years ago) a man of more than ordinary practical good sense and unexcelled as a Railroad Manager, evei-ything considered, he is familiar with every departn.ent of railroad service, I wished to have his views before going farther. Mr. Clarke fully coincides with me in regard to terminal plans and Mr. Clarke says if we will join him and buy the Liverpool cotton press property, the only property between their property and ours he will join us in a Union Passenger depot there, and in a general interchange of a system of tracks on this ^ide to the mutual benefit of both, arranging for use of his track in St. Joseph St. and use or half interest in the belt road which is a seperate Company, but owned by the Jackson road, and extend the tiack to opposite Westwego, in short, pool our tracks rights and interests on this side, so as to give both companies better facilities and save building through Thalia Gt. He has no right to „ passengers through St. Joseph St., but can get the right he thinks. The Jackson road will'be narrowed up June 1st., L. & N. <5c M'organs people will never change their present passenger locations. Mr. Wheelock read me his letter to you yesterday enclosed plans and asked if I coincided with his views, told him not, he said it would do no hurt any way and he would let it go. We have room enough on this side to do all that will be required. Can adopt wharves to the boat you are building. If the Liverpool press could be bought low enough, or we could trade them a location on the other side where the presses should be,and join Mr. Clark in a Union Pass, depot wotdd likeit. We need not occupy Thalia St. for two years yet with out losing right to -it, and advise arranging for present needs and be governed by needs, requirerrients and circunistances as our business develops. Will be ready to put wharves on the other side as soon as water goes down a little more. Have properLy enough for shops elevators, cotton presses, barge line, etc. Want a plan of the transfer boat, shape, draft, etc., so engineer can draft plans for landing, and get work started. Will build to fit the boat. Yours respy., H. L.Morse, Supt. lyy^iiihir ti i\i 499 '^63 ^ Nq'.t Yor.:, II xy 13, 1331. H. ;I. Hoxia, Esq., Marshall, Texas. My dear Sir:- I "iTirad Mr. Washbum in relation to pushing his track '.vest-vard. Our oeople got anxious from the fact that a great many ties were being delivered at the front, while we were not getting an equal amount of track. Mr. Gould sent me your dispatch saying that you had bee'^ over the road wltii Messrs. Washburn and Sands. I can say to you pfivately that as you saw when you were here our people are very anxious about pressing this track. They have finally concluded to oush the road through to the Pacific and they watch every day's raovement toward the west very closely. We all know tnat you and your assistants will do all tint you can* I hope when Sands gats there he will be able to handle txie mat erial and give us better results.- I also understand that it is yet too early to expect Uxcy iiiipr ovoiuent frcci the ne.v mruiageLient. Mr. 3. II. a. lark hrs returned and is pressing very strongly for control control in the southwest. southwest. You know he is an old favorite, favorite, but . I do not thint his iiec.ltn is to t;.c v/ork, and I have so stated very frankly. I hope Mr. Gould will be able to get down there before very long. He is detained here now on account of suits against the Western Union, but is anxious to leave. I have agreed with Governor Evans of Colroado to build a road from Port Worth nortnwest to the salt fork of Red River. I am, however, holding off on my contract® on account of not wishing to interfere in any way with delivery of material on the lines now building, but I want to build 100 Mies of it this year, but do not propose to do any thing that will require the do liver of material until along in the fall Governor Evans is building from Denver southwest to meet us at that point and we will probably make the connection inside of two years. I want to hear from you occasionally as to how you are getting along and what the outlook is. Yours truly, r. LI. Dodge. ; ,.yi' 501 ' Nev. York City, May 12th, 1881 F. S. Hodges, Esq., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir: I want some young engineer in whom I have confidence to go to Mexico and make for me a rapid reconnoissance, Vera Cruz to Huatulco via Oaxaca, and report to' me the feasibility of the route and the probable cost of a road over it. If you are not other wise employed and would like to undertake this journey I should be glad to have you do Please notil'y me of your decision at your earliest convenience. Very truly yours. G . Ml. Dodge, President. : A., /-r*" May, 12, 1881, Julien T. Davies. J, Penry V/ork. Jan.es McNainee. Edward P. Hilton. U. S , Grant, Jr. Henry E. Davies. Counsel. DAVIES, WORK, McNAMEE & HILTON, Counsellors at Law. 90-92 Broadway, New York, i-ay 12, 1881. Genl. G. M. Dodge, New York. Dear Sir: I herewith enclose to you a copy of a coniniuniaction received last night fron: Genl. Grant in the nature of an official report of progress up to April 26th. It is of interest, and shows, in connection with telegrams since received, that t;:e affairs of the company are locking most favorable, and that we shall probably get from the Mexican government as much , at least, as we have referred to as especially desirable for oiir operations in that country. I am leaving the office for a few hours, and if they find here that it is going to take too long to make a copy of this commun ication, they will send you over the original instead of a copy, in which case you will please let me have it again after it has been read by yourself, Mr. Gould, Mr. Sage and any others who may be interested in it, and who you may desire to have read it. Truly youi'S, J. H. Work . r/ay, 1881. Julien T. Davles J. Fenry '"''ork James IVcKamee Edward B. Filton, U. S. tirant, Jr, 507 Henry E . Davies, Counsel 90 Broadway New York, May 15th, 1881. Dear Sir: I enclose copy of report of progress from Genero.l Grant up to April S6th lieu of the original left with you yesterday. I have pleasure also in sending copy of a telegram received last night. Yours truly, J. H. Aork. General G. M, Dodge. 90 Broadway, New lork, M%y 13th, 1881. Copy dispatch received at 77 Clinton Place. 10 P. M. May 12, 1881. Mexico, 11th, 1881. J. H. Work- 77 Clinton Place, N. Y. Fifteenth. Contract signedl. President thinks no doubt about ratifi cation . Grant. 509 New York Cit3'', Maj^'J.Sth, 1881. E. R, Tneelock, President, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of :'!ay 9th in relation to what has been done at Baton Rouge.. If Mr. Barr thinks the square can be used we will purchase it if they do not ask to much for it. I am also in receipt of yours of May 6th enclosing Mr. Evan's maps. My great objection to his barge plans is that tlie plans we have adopted require only a boat that can do all the frei ht and passenger isiness lew Orleans. Freight coming from an^ foreign or domestic point goin,- out on the road will'be loaded either at ".-estwego or at our terminus opposite Thalia St. therefore there will be no necessit3^ of unloading cars directly into the s: ips; or if this should become necessa^- we would handle our cars at '"estwego or opposite Thalia St. so they coui 1 be unloaded directly from the cars into the ships without running them aboard the barges. The transfer of freight will be or should be altogether local to do the business proniplly in New Orleans, and our arrangements could be made to handle this freight promptly. T think the incline at which the boat is to lie should be at more of an angle with the stream. He lays the boat too raiich along the shore. I would do this in order that we could get a sharper angle on our lands and give us room in front of the track where all the land except that occupied by the boat could be used for wharfage. It is a question that is hard for me to determine here, but Mr. Barr and Mr. Evans will understand it and can work it up p operly there whenever it becomet nocessarg to do so. You know we have a contract for a tro.nsfer boat and shall load all the freight and passenger business oth at Vestwego and opposite Thalia St. Mr. Evans plan might do if the local business there became uo heavy that we could not handle t]:ie cars with the ferry boat. The question of switching does not ai cunt to very much because they woul have to hoist the cars up upon the wharf and then switch them to get them to your different presses, etc. Very truly yo;rs, G. M. Dodge, President. 511 American Railway Improvenent Company. New Orleans, Kay 13, 1861 Gen. G. K. Dodge, Prest., 195 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: Yours in regard to lightMpg arresters also insulators, "brackets and submarine cable to hand. As I wired you Donaldsonville bridge, renewing ties and bridge Expect to have boarding and immediately commence able to finish grading of water. I have a for for stringers when track hundred feet. on 2nd, construction train crossed The track force have been employed since s from that point to White Castle, train at White Castle tomorrow evening tracklaying north. We have never been in swamp^ back of Bayou Goula on account ce at work cribbing and will have it ready reaches ihem, will crib about fifteen • We have had a great deal of trouble getting Right of Way on Baton Rouge branch, but have settled with all but. one or two parties and if there is no more delay on that account grad ing will be finished to Baton Rouge by 1st of June. Herewith find contracts for Ties. Rogers is one of the best contractors here, has been getting large quantities for Korgans and Ivobile roads and will throw a large force at work immediate iy,r He is ona of the parties that wanted 50 to 55^ for ties and would listen to nothing less until very lately. I think I begin to see my way clear on ties. The only thing that I can see that can prevent us from getting them would be a drouth to dry the water up In the cypress swamp. This is why I am so anxious to get large force making ties. Dodge & Downey made a very poor job of Donaldsonville bridge, had a lot of house carpenters at work. I have not yet received it but propose to make them remedy it so iar as in their power, but I see no chance but to make the best of a bad job, as to refuse to pay them means to stop their work as they are already in close circumistances. To stop then, means to relet the work at an advance in price from 25 to 33 l/3^. I have sounded all the responsible contractors here •and I think as the matter has gone so far the best thing we can do is to help them through with work. They have oromised and are getting ready to put on night force at Ghoctaw'. Mr. Anderson arrived few days ago and iminediately left for Atchafalaya, returned yesterday and from soundings taken by him there is till a scour going on at our crossing. Mr. Anderson left this F. M. for Chicago to order machinery, from there he goes to New York where he will see you and explain in person. four days. I go to Ahite Castle tomorrow to be absent three or Yours respectfully, C. C. Bar r, Div. Eng. > ■> ■" 513 / New York City, May 14th, 1851. H. P. Morse, Niv. Sup't. New Orleans, La. Dear Sir;- I am in receipt of yours of May 11th. I ara anxious to get full terminal facilities opposite Thalia St. both for the railrocsd and barge line. The question of buying the Sunpool Cotton Press is a matter which the opera tin-; department of the road will have to take up when the line is completed. I have no authority to make any such invest ment. I will, however, bring the matter up before the Toard of Directors of the Texas & Pacifio-.Ry. Co. at its next meeting and will see what they t';ink about it. I wrote Mr. 'Theelock in relation to his proposed transfer arrangements saying that I did not a ;^prove of it. I did not see any necessity for any transfer arrangements there except such as are afforded b" our boat. I intend to do nothing in New Orleans except that business w ich is local to the city. All freight for foreign or domestic ports should be t-^ken care of on the west side of the river . You must use your own judgment in relation to the coal. You are on t^-e f-round and bnow better what is best to do, I ha e ordered a locomotive from Mr. Hoxie to be sent you and it is expected to be there by the 20th. Very truly yours. C, M. Dodge, Presi dent. 517 Kay, 1681 90 Broadway, New York, Kay 16, 1881. Ver a Cruz - 16th. Sixteenth J. H. Work, 120 Broadway, N. Y. No doubt about confirmation of concession will draw sixteen thousand pay for depot ground purchase here and for surveying jarties next sixty days. Ground plot purchased contiguous to Vera Cruz Central and Palmer depot aboi^t eleven acresjprice of ground plot five thousand. Grant. City of Kexico . 519 r/.ay, 1881. Julien T. Davies. J. Henry Work. James KcNamee Edward B. Hilton, U. S. Grant, Jr. Henry E. Davies. Counsel. 90 Broadway, New York, ^.ay 16th, 1881. Dear Sir: I herewith enclose copy of dispatch received f-rem this P. from General Grant.The words "Grant- City of Nioxico"- are I learn at the telegraph Company, part of the message as received. The dispatch is dated fron. Vera Cruz, and I understand it to refer to a purchase made in that city, and the concluding words "City of Mex ico", I understand to indicate that City of Mexico is still his address. Truly yours, J. H. Work. General G. M. Dodge. His presence at Vera Cruz will explain his not answering a telegram which I sent to him on Eridsy. Treasurer. I have sent a copy of this dispatch to Mr. Sage as the 521 Iv'.ay, 1881 Mew York City, 77 Clinton Place, tay 17/81/ Dear Sir: Grant. I enclose cqjy of a letter received this day from General I would be pleased to have an opportunity to speak with you on the subject referred to in it at as early a moment as you can make convenient. ILruly yours, J. H. Work. General G . K'!. Dodge . May I trouble you tJ3 hand the letter to Mr. Gould and Mr. Sage or cou-municate its contents to them. ^ 1 535 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, IVay 21, 1881 Gen'l. G. N,. Dodge, President, New York, Dear Sir: I returned evening beiore last from Alexandria, where I ■•■.ent to arrange a right of way matter that was likely to cause some litigation and delay. I made a satisfactory adjustment the full particulars of v.hich I can give you if you so desire. As I had a couple of days of tin.e there I took occasion to carefully make a survey of all the affairs connected with our enterprise in that division. I found everything regarding Lane & Co. contractors who have-the ties from Alexandria to Lecompte and the tracklaying from former place to Atchafalaya proceeding most satisfactorily. iv'.r. Lane is a man of great experience i.. building Railroads, possessed of ample means and prou.pt and reliable in all his dealic.gs. I cannot say as niuch for Dr. Carpenter and to be candii with you he is progressing very slowly; he appears to have neither means nor credit, he is unable to pay his bills; ard his time checks and other evidences of debt are sources of great annoyance to the Dividsion Engr. at Alexandria, which necessarily militates seriously against the proper carrying out of your wishes. Without doing him injustice I think him too fond of whiskey; and in the event that Lane & Hazlehurst are delayed in their work, it will be attributable to Dr. Carpenter's inefficiency in getting in his bridging. The piling that I have seen on the line of the road fiurnished by him is of the most inferior kind and more suitable for telegraph poles than for holding up a train of cars. With the abundance of timber in that country and its accessibility, there is no excuse for shortcomings of such a character. I find on examination of his contract although en dorsed on back "Contract of Carpenter & Mallory" that Mr. Mallory's name only appears in ;■ foot-note L.igntd ig i,cu, that I.e. Carpenter is permitted to take Mr. Mallory in with him. Regarding conti-act for ties made with Chas. L. Musick & Co. which call.s for 115,000 ties to be delivered prior to the 1st August commencing at tie Atchafalaya river, the estimates rendered on 1st may showed only 4,400 ties delivered, Mr. Musick claims to have 72 nien at work, you can readily see, that in order to complete his contract by specified time he would require 250 men'at o ce, which I am satisfied he cannot procure nor anything like this nuiiber. I took the liberty to instruct your J^iv. Engr. Mr. Chs. M. Greene to inform Mr. Iv.usick after I had had a personal interview with him (^-Usick) that the ties miust be ready for delivery at the time specified in his contract and that the Company would not receive or pay for any ties after the 15th August next. In the meantiri.e, in order not from any fault of ours to cause delay and expense to Lane & Go. I proposed to them that they furnish the ties at each, the same specifications as used on the lower end for any num.ber that Musick & Go. may be likely to fall short. Lane & Go. have already brought some 250 railroad hands froDi Georgia and can bring- 500 additional if necessary. The temporary telegraph line fromi the Atchafalaya to Alexandria is nearly completed the holes being dug to within two or three miles of Alexandria and teh poles set to within ten or twelve miles. Yours very truly, E. B. Wheelock, President. r '' •,^^3-' V, 527 195 Broadway, N.Y. May 24, 1881, George L. Miller, ^sq., ,ji*ioY >f«it Omaha, Neb, Dear Sir:- , • f o /■ /: I received a telegram from you a short tips ago asking if there r * • f was anything of interest going on in New York which would pay you to come drown here. I.replied that at that time there was nothing so far as I could see worth your time and attention* Since then I have completed the organization of the Colorado & Texas Railway Improvement Company with a capital of $2,CCC,000 organized under the laws of Colorado, for the purpose of building a road from F ort Worth northwestv^ard to the Canadian River, forming a connection with the Fort Wort Denver road which Gov. Evans is building southeastwardly from Denver, It has occurred to me that you migh perhaps like to take an interest in this Company and.if so, if you will indicate about the^ amount you desire, I will hold it for yo; . The subscription books » are not yet ope' , but the demand for the stock is great and the evidences are that it will prove a profitable investment. Very truly yours. G, M. Dodge, New York, May.24, 1881.:': ,J «3TroeO . . «')riAaO -»iir p. M. Hubbell, President, . oilf am'§S03 b»irl»e«t I Des Moines, lovva. Dear Sir:- f I am in receipt of yours of M^y 22nd. I have sent to the Spring field Iron Company a section of the rail as requested. Sometime ago I v/rote Hr. Ciarkson that as soon as hd was ready to commence work on the line he could do so and to go ahead as fast as he desired, which I now confirm to you. I do not care how fast you push the work, hut do not want you to do anything that would defeat any of the subsidies. You are on the ground and know what js best to he done the Springpush the work, the subsidies, and can do it. As soon as the surveys are completed, I want a map and profile of the line and detaildd estimate of the cost, which can be made up by the engineer and from these I can act understandingly. I also want from your company a monthly statement of expenses of all construction of the road accompanied with duplicate vouchers for detailed expenditures. I supposed you retained a copy of the contract, but will have one made and sent you immediately. - Your iron is now arriving at New Orleans and is coming up the m Mississippi by barge iLne and will he rapidly .ushed forward to yoi. You have duplicate b/l for it so that you yourselves can keep trace of it. None of these things come to me as I have sent instructions to have them all sent to you for I do not care to keep the run of details. Yours very truly, " nji ' i , - G. M. Ddpe, ■ I 1 iw J J oii»btTe The Am. Ry. Imp. Co 529 Shreveport, La., May 25th., 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Presd't., Ne;. York City. Dear Sir: In reply to your dispatch of 24th inst., I enclose copies of letters to contractors and inspectors, written and served a month ago. In addition, the contractors hxve been notified, that any and all ties found in the track that are not fully up to the specifications uiust be removed and replaced with standard ties. This matter is receiving the closest attention. I think there -must be some mistake about Mr. V/heelock's report of the quality and size of the piling south of Alex andria. The inspector on that Division is a very competent and conscientious man. He reports to me that out of 100 piles Carpenter first cut, he rejected all but 20. As soon as our wire is up to Alexandria, I will go down there. In the mean time I have called upon the Division Engineer for a special report on the bridging. Carpenter will not delay the track down to Lecomptw although he is slow and needs con stant spurring up, which is constantly administered. Land & Hazlehurst I believe will take the bridging from Lecompte to the Atchafalaya at a less price than Carpenter asks in his letter to you of 7th inst. from Alexandria and which you hav'. e referred to me . I am expecting an answer from them daily. Carpenter has his hands full without this work. Musick is behind, but Lane & Hazlehurst will provide ties down to where the, will meet Mustek's ties. Acting upon your letter of 9th inst, I have advised Lane & Hazlehurst th.at when they; have laid their track down to Lecompte, their engine and cai'S would be turned over to Jont-S, Cowen & Knowlton, to lay north from Alexandria. The latter firm positively refuse to turn over to Lane & Hazlehurst any of the work north of Alexandria. I have instructed Jones, Cowen & Knowlton to commence laying track north of Alexandria in tiem to complete it by 1st August over the 55 miles of old grading. Have also served upon them the enclosed order, to raise their force on this end toa capacity of a mile of track a d§iy on and after June 1st. 530 Teams and forces continue to come in, and if un remitting personal exertions can accomplish it, we will pull through on time. The first installment of Florida negroes reached here yesterday. Another lot will leave New Orleans this evening, others to follow. Very truly yours, -il r. B. H. Greene, Chief Engr. 531: <■• Ne ■• York City, May 27th, 1881. Dear Sir:- 0. F. 'Venshoffer ,• Treas. 54 Exchange Place, New York City. Replying to yours of this date in regard to full paid subscri ptions to the stock and bonds of the New Orleans Pac. Ry. Co. will say:- First: Messrs. E. '.7. Clark Co. were al.lowed to pay up in full their subscription o^ ^500,000 to the stock and bonds of the N New Orleans Pac. Ry. Co. and your receipt No. 75 January 26th 1881 covers the 1st & 2nd instalments thereon, amounting to ^^90,000. They afterward paid in to this Co. the remaining eight instalments on this subscription, amounting; to O360,000 of which you have been heretofore notified. This makes a total of $450,000, making that subscription fully paid. Second. They afterward purchased in open market certificates to the amount .,;100,000 upon which two instalments had been paid. These were transferred to their name and they were allowed to pay up the remaining right instalments, as shown by your receipt No . 156 February 16th, 1881 for $72,000 which makes this certificate Tvlly paid. Referring to the subscriptions of Mr. Levi Parsons, $100,000 On October 28th Mr. Parsons paid $4,500 1st inst-lment on a subscrip tion of ;::50,000 and received your receipt No. 44 for the same: and' on December 20th he paid the remaining nine instalments amounting to v4O,0OO and received from you a written receipt therefor of whi h you have no stub. This makes one subscription of $50,000 fully paid. On the remaining $50,000 he has filed with this offre your receipts for instalments up to the 5tb inclusive, the latter bearinr date May 23rd, 1881 and No. 360 which shows that he is not in arrears on any instalment. ^ If you desire to do so you can take upthe written receipt for v40,500 referred to above, and give me in its place one of your regular printed receipts. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, May 28, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Prest., New York. Dear Sir: I have yoars of 24th inst. Jones, Gowen & Knowlton are now getting ties near Alesandria and expect to begin laying track from that point north by the 15th June. It would cost some '^20,000. say, to send your iron down to Alexandria and Gotile sufficient to lay track to the Atchafalaya and from Alexandria north to meet the tracklaying party from Shreveport; but would not the time saved by so doing fully compensate you? Lane & Go. can reach the Atch afalaya by the time Mr. Barr can get there from this end, provided you give them the iron and allow them to get the bridging and ties or such quantity as Dr. Carpenter and Nusich may fall short. With Jones, Gowen and Knowlton laying track from Alexandria north ; and Lane & Go. from Alexandria to Atchafalaya River, I do not see what should prevent the com/jletion of the line in time to bring this coming crop to market. Lane Sc Go. expect to have the Iron laid to Lecompte by the 20th June and it would be a pity to have them stopped froni going on to the Atchafalaya for want of iron. When the "Sirocco" arrives I shall try to arrange for her to land her cargo at Westwego, even though the "Rothesay" has not finished. I think it can be done onthe bank just below our wharf, by using some of the long timber which the Morgan Gon.pany used in their approach to the river at Westwego. Yours very truly, E. B. Wheelock, President. 539 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, June 6th, 1881 Gen'l. G. U. Dodge, New York. Dear Sir: I have your personal favor of the 3d inst. I thank you for the inforuation contained therein, as alos for the opportunity to place myself right with you. I have when asked the question, would the Morgan Go. build their line to Alexandria; replied that their charter gave them no such rightand I did not believe they would build north of Lecompte. When questioned by Newspaper reporters, regarding various rumors of changes and combinations supposed to affect your interests in connection with those of tho Morgaan Co. I have replied, that I knew nothing about the matter and I have always been careful when called upon to speak of them as our being on friendly relations with them. I have been approached more than once by parties I had reason to know were in the confidence , to some degree, of Messrs. Whitney &. Co., as to what I thought, the intentions of our friends were regarding the future operatio is that might involve a conflict of interests; I have never failed, I am sure, to leave the impression that the relations of our Company and the Morgan Co. were pleasant and harmonious. The report in the Galveston paper and II. 0. Papers of the pur chase by you of the Nu 0. & Texas & La. Western made consider able comment naturally and to all enquiries I replied I knew nothing about it and did not credit the report. I have reliable information to the eliect that Pierce has made a movement to get the control of th® N. 0. Times, that he has put up -#1,000.00 cash for an option to purcahse the paper is - - -tioned. A leader in the issue of 4th inst which I en close I consider suggestive. Very truly yours, E. B. Wheelock. June 6th 188I. Leon,Iowa,June 6th I88I, General; In complianoe with your request, I have tendei'ed Hon.J.F.V/ilson my unqualified support. Was for Gear as against Kirkwcod, hut have eff ected a change of base to Wilson without loss• Will make arrangements to have this Co represented hy a "Wilson" man in the next assembly. Have written Wilson stating your request and my compliance. May this find you healthy and prosperous as it leaves me. Yo\irs as ever, Fred Teale June, 1881. Julian T. Davies J. Henry kVork Jan.es KcNamee Edward B. Hilton U . S . Grant, Jr. Henry E. Davies, Counsel. United Bank Building, V/all St. ^ Broadway. New York, June 7, 1881 General G. Ivi. Dodge, Dear Sir: New York, I had a letter yesterday from General Grant of which I herewith send you a copy. You will note that Genl. Grant's papers are probably, by this tine, in Washington, and can be ordered on here at once if there is any reason why we are in a hurry to see them before Genl. Grant gets on, as he will, probally, within a few days. You will note also that the General now expresses his preference, as a matter of judg ment, for a narrow instead oi' a standardgiuge road. Truly yours, ^ i J. H. Work. . 1It June I2th 188I. Council Eluffs, Iowa,JTJne 12, TGGT Eear Gen'l; Yesterday told J'r. Fodefer triat Siclcey proposed a consolida tion of the two exchanges. Ke(Kodefei*) is in favlr of the project and thou^t we should call "a meeting. He says the Exchange here is paying expenses and that is about all and thinks it would- do better if the two were run as one Exchange. A months delay in the consumation of this plan will make no mater- " ial difference, if you would like to be at the meeting. Mr. Eodefer thinks they have tried to"bull-doae" us a little and there seems to be some mis understanding between Fodefer a-'.d Korty. Think possibly it v\ould be better to have the meeting in July when you are here, as you could accomplish more in making the consolidation a benefit to your interests in the exchange. You say in your letters to Mrs. Dodge that I ought to be in Denver by the fifth of July. I can leave here at any time. Would prefer to go some days before the meeting as you say, and post myself up a little as to what is being dine there so that 1 may better comprehend the sense of the meetings* If there is anything in particular you want to know about or -/.ant looked after let me know. Shall leave here in time to take a trip over the lines they are extending, if you so desire. This has been a profitable week owinfe to the large attendinoe at tiie tournament. The place is looking welliand we have more cherries than we know what to do with. Ella, the financial schemer of this household,proposed that we peddle them out among tiie merchants.' Fhe says she will write you soon. Affect'ly. Frank. June, 1881. Iowa City, Iowa, June 13,/sl Dear General: Please read and return the enclosed. I once stumped the Council Bluffs Cong. Dist. for yOu and think you are somewhat in my debt in that account. You can and I hope will, pay the debt by doing what you can and all you can for Wilson. Very truly. Kirkwood. ■ 549 American Railway Improvement Company. New Orleans, June 14th, 1881 Gen'l. G. Iv . Dodge, 80 Broadway , N. Y. Dear Sir: I returned from off the line this A. M. as I wired you track reached Plaquemine Saturday P.f/.. Will,be delayed there on day getting in side track and other necessary work and expect to commence track laying Tuesday if the bridge across Bayou Plaquemine is ready and I think it will be. Had a very ugly job getting over Cribbing at Bayou Gould and was delayed there one week. Had to carry timber 12 X 12 - 24 feet l,/4 of a mile in mud and water ankle to knee deep with a gang of men that are as independent as men can get with a dozen other jobs open for them when ever they choose to quit. Have only gang large enough to lay track and when there is any back work done it is at -the expense cf front force. Therefore I am only full spiking and making track safe and not attempting to keep up surfacing, As I wired you from Baton Rouge I expected to take D. & Downeys outfit and work off of their hands and put on company force; this I had made up my mind to do and came to the City to arrange with D. A D. But they both begged so hard and promised so faithfully that I concluded to let the work go on in their name with this understanding which practi cally puts the work on my hands. They have agreed to work all the men and furnish all the outfit that I may send to them. To take all material at my price that I can send. As I wrote you some time since the trouble has been in getting the material to the work and I will say for therinthat they have had a great many difficulties to overcome and a great many things have been learned by all of us by hard knocks and disappointments. But there has certainly been bad management. I have arranged with another party to put driver at work at Atchafalaya and work south there being about 1/2 mile of piling in Atchafalaya Swamp. I have also con tracted with an outside party to deliver one thousand piles at Chactaw by the 13th of July with a forfeiture of 4 uents per lineal foot on all he does deliver if he fails to fill con tract, I have contracted with another mill to furnish one and a half milea of stringers and ties and if men and money can do the work I propose to do it let it make or break D. & D. To take the work from them at this time I have no doubt it would about wind themup and with the understanding I now have with them I hope to accomplish as much as if it was Company work. 550 My intention now is to use every effort to get track to South end of Ghactaw bridge, then if I can do no better I can take pine piles there on thrain and when I can once get the material there I ca.n make short work of the driving. We have one thing staring us in Lhe face and that is a fall in the water which v/i LI make it expensive to distribute piles to drivers, up to this time they have been able to float the piles to their pi ace. The parties getting timber for D. & D. I think have arranged to double their capacity of delivery from this on and with the aid of the other party I think we can keep our drivers running. If so we have a capacity of 36 to 40 per day of 12 hours. After getting track to Ghactaw we will have a chance to do good v.ork while we lay track on Baton Rouge branch. Swamp grading isstill under water but as the river is reported falling rapidly above I am afraid it will be down only too soon. If Allison of Fhildelphia is making cars for you now it would be well to call his attention to his brake rods They are so low thatthey catch on road and R. R. Crossing. We have quite a number of sugar tracks crossing us and it is almost impossible to keep them in condition for crossing and the planters never miss a chance to complain, besides we came very near having a serious accident from this cause. Dont want you to think I am getting discouraged. Never was more deter<.ined but believe I will be ready to en/igrate when everything is completed. Yours respectfully. 0. C. Barr, Div, Er\g, P. S. Have just arranged with parties said to be responsible to bring me fifty colored men from Florida. C. C. B. OTT ■ T New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, June 14th, 1881 I have reliable Information to the effect that Mp. Pierce has concluded the purchase, of the N. 0.Times giving $56,000. for the building and $45,000. for the Paper etc. the building was bought some two years since by present ocempant for $30,000. possession lo be given July 1st, The above given me confidentially. fr. I'utohJ.nson called on I'e yesterday and asked the meaning of N'ajor Bond's message; I replied that I supposed it meant what it said, he expressed sone surprise, hut showed no feeling in the ri'atier, only saying i] at l e thought it would have been only fair to them to have been informed at an earlier day, to which I said in a friendly manner that his con.pany could lay no equitable claim to our line. Iv'y opinion is, that if the N'iorgan Co. are quietly permitted to extend their line above Lecompte they can, for the same reasons go as far north of the 31st paraliell as they choose even to a connection with the Texas Central at Dallas I have no faith in any of the protestations of friendship made by t'r. Whitney. I believe he would join Huntington and Pierce in a twinkling if it served his purpose to do so. At the same tien, he would try to make you think he was co operating with you. Judge Home will be home in a few days and I will get his opinion. Truly yours. E. B. Wheelock. 555.- June, 1881. New York City, June 18, 1881. Dear General: Father would like to have you and Mr. Hayes come up anddine with us to-morrow. The train leaves the Grand Central Depot at 9 A. K. Will you please send me word if you and t:r. Hayes will come . Yours truly, George Gould. 557 ■" Few York City, Jione 18th, 1881, C. C. Barr, Div. Engineer, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I have yours of JJune 14th. I hope the new arran-j-ements will aid you. I know that you have a pretty hard task before you, but you irust not get discouraged. Fight away at it and you will come out some time in the fall. Your end is doing better than the other and I think I begin to see daylight. All you have to do is to push these people a 1 you can and I shall be staisfied, Mr. Anderson is making his contracts here and will soon bring with him part of his machinery and tools. We vail soon have one oT the transfer boats ready. How does the track-laying machine work. What would be the expense of laying track with it provided you could work it steadily. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. 659 June, 1881. California & Texas Hy. Cons'.ruction Co., President Uffice, 195 Broadway, New York, June 20, 1861. Col. Lyraan Pridger, Present. Dear Sir:- As a preliminary agreement , and iintil such time as we can make an examination of the country through which it is proposed to con struct the California Central and the San Francisco and ocean Shore Railroad we propose as follows: That we will p-y whatever legitimate expenditures have been made in surveys procuring riglit of way, etc., and will either use those roads or ""onsolidate them with other cl'.artei's now in cxistoncor to be obtained for the purpose of building a line extending your lire east to meet the lines connecting with the T. & P. and the U. ' and the A. & P. railroads u lon such-practicable routes as, after fully developing the Country, I may hereafter decide upon. I also authorize you to go to C-.lifornia ai:d have an imnediate location made from San Praijcisco to the west base of the Sierra Nevada and the riglit of way obtained thereon, ai.d also to exter'u your surveys as coon as posritle eastwnrdly as far as to a coicnecti ii with t!io T. (% P. at Cr stal Springs and meet the II. P. at such point in Utali, as they may hereafter decide upon. The surveys from Crystal springs toward Texas 1 will myself take cars of. " Whenever tho company's lines -re determined upon and the sy cate is formed the parties in ir.tcrcst in the two companies named above shall be entitled to their full proportion (not less than) Tourth of tho Capitol stock of th.e construction Co. or railroad Co. upon the same terns and same basic as it is taken b-^^ all the other companies. " yndiIn case your companies accept thi proposition the contract made by yoir companies .and now in form for procui-'ing of bonds and p!.Pchasing of rails will be carried out if complied with on or before July twenty-thii-d. The Unl. fc Texas Ry. Construction Co., by, C. . Dodge. i: . iJtaik. ..JiKLf. New Orleans Pacific Railway Company New Orleans, June 21st, 1881 Dear Sir: Herewith I hand you the Deeds effecting the consol idation I notive the omission of one word in the manuscript copy which I enclose which you will please have added to cor respond with copy I retain. The following J-'-esolution was unaniuiously etlopted. Resolved, "That the action of Prest. IVheclock in executing the Indenture or article ofAgreement of comsolidation of tlie N. 0. Pacific Ry. Co. with the Texas & Pacific Ry. Go ^ dated June 20th, 1881 and which Indenture will be copied in ths ridnutes of this meeting be i ratified and comfirmed." s hereby aP;roved The nuinbej:' of sliares voted for i the foi-egoing was 21,G65 a-d therefore the meeting adjouiT.ed to July 20th, 1881 unless sooner convened by call froii! the chairman. Judge Home inforiied ne that to comply with our law regarding consolidation it will be necessary to place in file with the Secy, of State certified copies of the Indenture and resolutions relative thereto which I will have done. Very respectfully yours, E. B. 'Aheelock, Prest. ■t -.dust iur .Pj. 'v 565 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company New Orleans, June 25th, 1881 Gen'l. G.M. Dodge, New York. Dear Sir: Col. Lane was here on his way to Macon, Geo. yesterday, from hin. I iearn that the work is going on satis factorily at Alexandria. Lane says he can get down to Leconipte in ten or fifteen days if necessary but he is under the im pression that you wish to build north from Alexandria and do not care to push the work below Lecompte towards the Atchf. river, as you doubtless expected the K'organ line to get to Lecompte where you would make a connection with them to N. 0. Mr. Barr is quite confident of being able to get to the Atchf. river in sixty days, and I believe he will. In that event I cannot but urge that you would allow Lane and Co. to go ahead and connect with the work at the Atchf. river. The importance of a line from N. 0. to Alexandria should not be underestimated. A delay of some duration is almost certain between Alex, and Shreveport but if we can get through from here to Alexandria ,say..in sixty days we can very well afford to wait a montb so longer in getting to Shr-eveport. I do not believe the Morgan Co. will ever build to Lecompte but think Washington which is four miles above Opelonsas will be as i'ar as they will go, ie if we decide to prevent their building to Alexandria. In case they are permitted to go to Alexandria they will in my opinion endeavor to go through to Dallas; this was always the idea of Mr. Chat Morgan. The objections made by Mr. Hutchinson to our crossing their track I do not regard of much importance as they surely cannot prevent it. They may make it a point, unless you con clude to submit to their uni'air demands about Alexandria to give us all the annoyance possible. I enclose a slip fron, tte Picaquin ^ the general ioipression here is that the with the several lines has been consumated. alliance Should the contest wax warm I suggest that a vulnerable point with the Morgan Co. is their Item ship line from here to N. Y. • The trade of the South and west down through this port with N. York and the eastern cities is much greater than you may suppose and they are and always have been largely eng:ged in it. Please excuse this drawn out letter and attribute any portion of it which you may consider gratuitous as simply prompted by a desire to serve your interest. Very truly yours, E. B- Wheelock. P. S. Judge Home will forward you his opinion in answer to your inquiries about Morgan &. Co. extending their line to Alex, under the general law of La. 5G7 New York City, June 29th, 1881 J. M. Eddy, Supt. of Construction, Fort Worth, Texas. Dear Sir: I an: in receipt of yoursof June 23rd. Am glad to see that you have got through to V.inneola. I wired you today about not ..oing any work south of Temple. Suppose the order was given during my absence, and I wanted to know what the facts are, because, when Mr. Hayes left here the understanding was that we were to build that line to Taylor. I have already contracted for one hundred miles of steel for use on the Fort Worth & Denver road, but the great difficulty I anticipate i^ill be in procuring cars and. locomotives. Very truly yours, G. U . Dodge. President. 569 New York Citj/, June 29, 1881. E. B. Wheelock, President. New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receiot of yours of June 25th . I suppose Mr. Greene is pusing Levi with his crk to Le Compe as'fast as possible so tViat I can commence laying track north from Alexandria? The great point to make is to get road from Shreveport to fe Compe . Further than that it is easj' enough for us to handle our material and complete through to the Atchafalaya in a short time. The great problem to solve is to get track down between /Vlexandria -nd Shreveport, I think I have it so arranged now that it can be done; then we can rush our material through north toward Le Compte. At any rate we can get our line to the Atchafalaya by the time we will be ready for business from there to New Orleans. Our arrangements with the Morgan people allow us to do business first from Le Compte through and that will control about all the business there by going to the Atchafalaya, because it will be a not much greater haul to the railroad than to the river. I forwaided to Mr. Hayes the opinion of Kinnard, Hour and Prentiss upon the right of Morgan peOple to build to Alexandria. I have never changed my views that the: can build this line if they want to, but they will have to do it under a new charter, which I understand is the method they propose to pursue. I would like to keep them out of there. I do not think if they vere going to Dallas the 20 miles betweei I. Compte and Alexandria would hold them. We should not let them build through under their present charter ; they must build under a new grant. That I understand is Mr. Hayes' position or that he will give them trackage over our line. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. •! V' ' https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/2956b3d5417b3c447fecc8f6ff37b0d7.pdf c79e8de4c267cfb6df20284a5888e2bf PDF Text Text 571 New York City, July 2n(i, 1881 Received from the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company One million and four thousand Dollars ($1004,000.) of its 6% General Consolidated Mor-tgage ""onds of December 1st, 1880, Nos. 32098 to 33101 both inclusive, and Ten thousand and forty (10,040) shares of $100 each of said Railway Com pany's Capital Stock, Certificate No. 3411; said Bonds and stock being in full payment for the construction & equipment of Fifty & two-tenths (50 2/tO) miles of said Railway Company's lines extending from Greenville to Mineola, Texas under its Contract with the International Railway Improvement Company. $1004,000. # Bonds.) 10,040 she. of stock) Tiie Int. Ry. Imp . Co ., Per G. M. Dodge, President. t) i o Nev/ York City, July 11, 1881 The Pacific Railway Improveinent Co. The American Railway Improvement Go. The International Railway Improvement Go. has settled with John F. Dillon for all lagal sefvices for each of said companies down to May 1st, 1881. And it is agreed by and between G. M. Dodge, - Pre sident of said Companies in behalf of said Companies and Dillon & Swayne that the compensation of the latter for attending to all the ordinary ligal business of said Companies from and after May 1st, 1881, shall be at the rate of Twenty five hundred dollars per annum for each of said Companies, payable quarterly; and to be the same for the Colorado & Texas Company, when it shall commence active operations. (Signed) John F. Dillon for Dillon & Swayne. (Signed) G. M. Dodge, President. July 15, 1881 A. J. Seith, Esq., New York City, July 15, 1881. President, Joliet Steel ; Chicc-GO, 111. Dear Sir:- I return you h rewith the two copies of the contract of July 1 st 1881, between our respective companies for 8000 tons steel rails. As I explained to your Mr. Griswold verbally, i distinctly understood in making this purchase thro* Mr. Minnigroods that the terms thereof were to be in all respects identical with the former contract of June 20, '81. That contract reads "The party o the first part shall have the option to use best quality foreighn steel columns purchased under the inspection of either Professor Kiley or C. P. Oandberg. " The contract of July 1 merely states "The partj^ of the first part shall have the option to ....the rail from fw'st quality foreign steel blooms". Acting on Mr. Griswold s assurance that the matter had been laid before you and was merely a cleric 1 error cf omission I have inserted the missing words in margin of each contract and duly accepted them. These mark your approval of the considation and return my copy of the contract to me at your very early convenience, -and oblige. Very truly yours, G . M. DqJ ^0 ^ President. 577 New York City, Julj' 16, 1881 . Gen. G. ?'i. Dodge, President, My dear General I enclose you herewith a cony of telegram received last night from Maj. C H. Gi^een in relation to the new delivery of Cherri & Co. fastenings at ''lexandria together with our reply to the same and a telegram to Cherrie & Co. in relation thereto. In view of th circumstances I judged it best to allo'w Greene to supply deficiency at Alexandria from his stock at Shreveport as we can easily supply him from St. Louis where the ods are being manufact ured. Cherrfe & Co. seem to have no intention of keeping their "contract. 'Ve have written to them a number of times lately, ns you will doubtless remember and they have always promised to make their shipments regularly. On all these contracts the onlything they have filled . in toto are the bolts and nuts. Their orders were to send 50 miles of each kind of fastenings to Vestwego and 50 miles of bolts and spikes and 100 miles of spike to Alexandria. They have nearly filled the ".'estwego order but Mr. Greene telegram shows what they have done on the Alexandria order. The prices on their contracts are low and no doubt in the low state of the market they would be glad if we would break the contracts. They seemed to understand your verbal order given while in Chicago as meaning to send every thing to "'ashburn and I therefore thought it best to suspend this until we can see exactly how large the proportion of their contracts is that can be turned to 'Vashburn without detriment to Mr. Greene's supplies. I think it would be inadvisable to make a new order on Cherrie for spikes as indicated in your dispatch of the 13th inst. on k^ashburn's account as with the orders for spike lately given Buck. There will be more than enough to complete the T.&P. road 'hrough to El Paso. Trusting tliat .you will approve my action in this matter I am, ' Very truly yours, J. T. Granger, Asst. Secretary, 579 July, 1881. Copy--Telegram. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTIv^NT OF TEXAS. San Antonio, Texas, July 18th, 1881 General G. V.. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Your telegram of yesterday asking for troops to protect graders received and referred to the comntanding of ficer Fort Davis for the necessary action. His reply will be duly communicated to you. (Sgd) Vincent, A. G. 3101 D. C. 1881. Official copy furnished by mail. Thomas M. Vincent, Adjutant General 581 Hl'O New York, July 20, 1881. F. M. Hubbell, Esq., Prest., Dea Moines, Iowa. Dear Sir:- Our people here do not clearly understand in regard to the division of expenses of constructiong the two narrow gauge roads. The road from Boone do.vn to the Junction should buy no rolling stock except perhaps one locomotive for construction purposes, the remaining equipment, when they are ready for it, they can hire from the Wabaah by paying mileage for it. The accounts for construion of th St. Louis, Des Moines and Northern road must be kept entirely separate from those of the St. Louis, Des Moines and Northwestern. All papnents on account of the Northwestern will be made by the Mr. Howe and we are to make payments for construction of the St, Louis, Des Moines and Northern only, and al rolling stock purchase should be paid for by the parent Company. Has any mortgage yet been placed upon this property and put upon record? If so, please have a form of bond drawn up and sent here and I will at once have it engraved, so that we can use it for the purpose of raising money. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. 583 Nevir York City, July 23, 1881 Received as July 19th, 1881, fron. the International & Great Northern Rail Road Coy., one hundred 1st Mortgaj^e Bonds for $1,000, each (Nos. 6685 to 6784 both in.) with coupons payable Nov. 1, 1881 on a/c of contract with the Ineernational Railway Improvement Co. for building road from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. Nos. 6685 to 6784 • 100 M 1st Mortgage Bonds. J. T. Granger, Assistant Secretary, I. Rwy. Impt, Co. New York City, . July 1881 Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood, Secretary of the Interior, 7/ashington, D. .C. Dear Sir:- Supplemental to my recent letter upon the same subject, I a hand you herewith application of Mr. E. B. 'AOieelock, President of the New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. Assignee of the New Orleans aton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Co. for an inspection of sixty miles of their road from Westwego opposite New Orleans in the State of Louisiana to a point sixty miles below Shreveport, all in said State of Louisiana and requesting that a Commissioner be appointed to examine and report upon t:\e same, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Congress of the Untied States of America, entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purnoses." Your early consideration of these applications is respect fully and earnestly requested. Very truly yours. G. M. ^odge. Enclosure. President < 587, American Railway Improvement Company. New Orleans, July 24, 1881 Gen'1. G. M. Dodge, Piest., 80 Bi'oadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: As I wired you several aays ago, I have taiien l^odge &. Downey's work and outfit off their hands. I was in hopes to get along without doing so, but found I could not push the work so long as I did not have entire Control of it and as they were getting behind hand I would have to become re sponsible for everything they got therefore I agreed to take the work and outfit off their hands and pay them for all work done at contract pi'ice. This is of course very liberal but I think it will be all they can do,, to pay their bills at this, and it would not do for us to allow any bills for either labor or material go unpaid, as there is already too little confidence among the people here. I now have three drivers running at Choctaw for the first time since the work was commenced. Will finish track laying on Baton Rouge Branch about the 28th July , will then put all hands on back surfacing for a week or ten days while we get stringers on the portion of Choctaw already driven which will be about two miles, the balance I will lay temporary track on the ground and go ahead and if I can get the track to crossing of Grassetete Bayou by Sept. 1st it will be as much as I expect as there is now a great amount of sickness in the swamp and in consequence of the con tinuous breaking in of new men the work goes slow. Some of my best foremen are now away on leave of absence on account of sickness. After passing Grassetete we should be able to make good Lime with tiack laying as we have comparatively few sugar ditches and other bridges to detain us. I have a better force the past two days than.I have ever had since track laying was commenced, having received 60 men from Vicksburg and Natchez, and I am in hopes we will be able to hold them. Yours respectfully. (Signed) C. C. Barr, Copy Div . Engr 589 ^ Alexandria, La., July 31, 1881 G .M . Dodge, President, 195 Broadway, New York City. Dear Sir: Your letter was wired n;e from Shreveport after I had left for a visit over the line, and as I dispatched you I delayed answering by letter until tracing.this point in order that I might make a more full and satisfactory report. Your suggestionsabout making temporary track on the slope of cuts, I havei anticipated - while the force of teams is not as large.as wanted, I still believe we can get through without delaying the track by resorting to any temporary work. Carney and Hart finished their contract but owing to sickness of Hart and foremen and desertion of m.en they brought with them,they could not be induced by any advance of price to take any new work, they owed a balance of about nineteen hundred dollars for advances made them, and I had a mortgage on teams to eucure the debt, I was prepared to foreclose the mortgage when your dispatch to let the miatter lie over until you came out was received. They have gone back with all their outfit to Missouri- with this exception the original contractors have stj/uck to the work. Zearing and Andrews have taken the heavy cuts at South end of Section fflb and will be able to let us through. Carpenter and Mallory I think will keep the Bridging out of the way, if not I am prepared to help them. I advanced their prices to forty cents for piling and thirty dollars for timber, I deenied it best not to m.eet their full demand, at ler\st in the beginning. I find Lone and Haslehurst have begun laying track north and are prepared to advance as fast as may oe necessary to make connections with track coming south. I leave today to visit visit end of Whitney's track which I learn is some twenty five miles south of Lecompte, to learn definitely il' it is their intention to stop where they run into our line at Cheneyville, eight miles south of Lecompti. I have been informed since officiating that ti.is is their intention, if os, will it not be policy to extendour line eight miles further south to Cheneyville with a part of the thirty five miles of work intended togo north. The loss of Cornio Brandon&s wired you from Natchitoches will not affect track laying h^ere. There is still a good supply of fastenings on hand here. Six miles of angle plates and fifteen miles spikes were lost on the Brandon, everything was fully insured. boats are bringing down material that will be needed here. I have instructed Chief of Party , moving line to Pine Bluff to report ot Mr. Morley. I did this under instructions from Gapt. Hayes before hearing from you on the subject. Capt.Hayes and Gov. Brown made a visit to Shreveport the day before I left there and I presume have informed you of the result of their visit about depot grounds. I do not believe Dr. Zearing can command a force to cover the two miles of grading at Shreveport until he is through on Section Very truly yours, B. H. Greene, Chief Engineer 591 August, 1881, N;EaIGAN southern railroad COIvEANY (United Bank Building) New York, Aug. 3, 1881. Gen. G. Dodge, 195 Broadway, Dear Sir New York City. A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Southern Railroad .Company will be held at the office of the Company, Room 58 No. 90 Broadway,New York City on Tuesday, August 9th at eleven o'clock A. M. Truly youhs, J . H . 7 ork, Secretary. 4 . „ 1 ■ New York City, August 4, 1881 Received as July 29, 1681 from the International & Great Northern R.R.Co. One Hundred (100) First Mortgage B onds for $1,000. each Nos. 6785 to 6884 with coupons payable Nov.l, 1881. on account of contract with the International Rcilway Improvement Co. For building road from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. J. T. Granger, - ■ Assistant Secretary. No. 6785 @ 6884 100 1st Mtg. Bonds M ea. 5G7 liP?" Califoi^nia d-. '" 'jxas P.ailw'ay Construction Co., President's Office, 195 Broadway, N.Y. August 11, 1881, L. C. Short, ii'sq,. Civil Engineer, Hifce Lincoln Co, Nev, Dear Sir: Your report of July i:4th to General Dodge from Cryst-'l Springs Nevada has beer received at this office , and as far as I can see your action in organising and starting your parties are satisfactory, Ge; oral Dodge is not at all- well and has left New York on a trip for the benefit of his liealtli, ar.d as he per nits no new business to be sent him the foraal reply to your letter canrot be sent until his return, I note what you say about title to be put upon the riaps, and will say that that is a question which as yet is undecided, but will reply to your question as soon as the title has been selected. My impression now is that they should be marked "California & Texe., Railway Construction Compaa y", We will not need more than one copy^ i the profile sent to this office, I note that your nearest post office is Piocl^iC, Nevada, Pleas inform us promptly of a y change in your mail or telegraphic address. Very truly youi's. J. T, Granger Cecretary. U. S. Grant, President. G. L". Dodge, Vice Pres. Russel 3age, Treasurer. J. H. Work, Secretary. Jay Gould, ) Frank Work, ^Executive Com, Russel Sage.) ^"EXIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, )Unlted Sank Building.) New York, Aug. 12, 1881 Dear Sir: You are hereby notified of a call for a second instalment of ten percent of your subscription to the capital Stock of the Mexican Southern Railroad Company, payable" at the Treasurer's office on or before the 23rd day of August, 1881, being portion oi the first million subscription to the stock of that Company made on the 24th day cf ^arch 1881. The amount of your subscription is $100,000.00 Ten percent upon which is Triiy yours, $10,000.00 Russell Sage, Treasurer. Please make checks payable to the order of Russell Sage, Treasurer. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Trustee, 195 Broadway, New York. 603 - -f'S' 195 Broadway New York, August 13, 1881, 0. M, Dodge, President, ' ■ •' ■ Council Bluffs, Iowa, ' '' ' My dear General I am in receipt of yours of the 9th inst, enclosing check for $2,0C0 which-shall be applied as directed, I wrote a letter to Mr. Calef in regard to Bridge's draft giving him the full particulars and asking him to see f he could not arrange it with Mr, Gould; but Mr, Gould declined to do anything with it, so as directed by you, I-paid it from Pacific Railway Improvement Company's account and have charged it to the Cal, Texas Ry. Construction Co, I wired him to make no more drafts lantil your return. The 500 tons of iron were a portion of those shipped us and the vessel sprung a leak and had to return to England. The rails were said to be in very good order-and offered to us subject to inspection •on te wharf at ^ew Orleans at $44 and in accordance vdth your instruc tions, I have ordered them to be shipped at once by steam, V7e could no doubt make good use of them and I think it is a good purchase. Iron from the mills is going forward and we are well supplied with material generally, I showed Judge Dillon your inquiry in regard to the Gould, DillonWinslow, and Seligman contract. He said that the little drift of an agmment written out when you were here was not satisfactory to the Boston people and they came to Mr, Gould with a long elaborate agreement which was not in any respect satisfactory to our side. Judge Di.llon took the two papers an yesterday made a draft of an agreement, a copy of which he gave me to send you and copies were also handed Mr, Se liman and General 7/inslow for the Boston interest, and a copy sent to Mr. Gould at Saratoga (where he still is), A copy was also given to Mr, Sidney Dillon, Judge Di Ion says that in the main this will be satisfactory; so far as he car tell, to all parties; but there must be added a provision for a line to connect the Texas & Pacific through New Mexico with the main line of the Atlantic & Pacific, The Boston people propose to make this a common line. You will notice that this a agreement proposes to build a line through Nevada and Colorad-^, if found practicable, under the charter of the Atlantic Se Pacific Co, Judge Dillon says he does not understcmd enough about the matter to know how this scheme tallys with your arrangement with Bridges, and wants me to send you this for your information and ask your advice and instructions in the matter. The Atlantic Se Pacifin people have sent for their California engineers (Judge Dillon does not recollect his name) and he is to be here in ten days. They say the matter has got to be fixed one way or the other before long. I'hey will not join with us or -et a line for them selves, I note in your letter of 3 d you say that work on Mew Orleans and do more work, but to little purpose. Mr, ^eelock is here, came on to attend the T. & P. meeting and says that in his opinion Green has doneeverything that could be done to expidite the work, but of course you know that Thee ock looks at this with southern eyes anr I think is a little prejudiced in Greene's favor. On Monday, I will get their rull reports of track at each for the week and will then give you full statement. H Mr. Greene made a great mistake in misconstruing your telegrapi.iC^ instructions that the Carney & Hart matter must await your return. I enclose a letter from him in which you will see that he says he was _ prepared to foreclose the mortgage and would doubtless have held their men and teams on the work but instead of doing so on receijpt of your tele -ram he let them go, .taking their force with them. , , . „ ^ + Our transfer boat for the Atchafalaye is finished and lying at St. Louis. As soon as I can get a load for her^ will send her down. The caissons for the Atchafalaye bridge are now being turned out and I will ship four car loads from N. Y. on the 2«i and ten from Providence on tne 25th. T'.e.se go through by rail as the rates by sea are exorbitant. ^ I have received your telegram giving me authority to close witn Paterson people for the two additional locomotives they offer, but before it came they had withdrawn the offer. I am, however, negotiating for two 35 ton Baldwin engines to be delivered in 60 days and which Mr. Hayes thinks we should purchase. I understand they are 17 x 24 cylinder. . ' ' , Very truly yours, , * J. T. 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Short, Esq., G05 195 Eroadway, New York, August 18th, 1881. St. Thomas, Lincoln Co., IT'Jvada. Dear Sir:- Yours of August 6th to General Dodge, with enclosures as stated is at hand and on hie arival here will receive prompt attenuion. In regard to tE.e we desire to have it cal Sr. Pacific Railway". Mr. quarters at El Paso, and country which you are no expect to take charge of to meet him or can make freelj^ with him and rece have to give. name of the line which you are running led the "California Division of the Texas R. Petriken is Ciiief Engineer with lieadi believe he is working up and into the w occupyii.g, although he does not that and of the line, and if j^ou happen it convenient to do so, confer fully and ive a. d carry out any instructions he may Very truly yours. T, Cranger, Private Secretary, il 607 New Orleans Pacific Railway Company. New Orleans, La., Aug., 21, 1881 Gen'l. G .• .Dodge ., Pre St.,. New York. Dear Sir: The contracts for erecting the wharves etc. at the terminus of the road at Mac Donogh Landing; and at the ferry landingon this side of the River, were, after due publication and wirting sealed proposal, awarded to Messrs. Kauffnian & Pierson and to Messrs. Eager, Ellerman & Go., (they being the lowest responsible, bidders), respectively, and were only sign,ed yesterday, the following being in substance, the conditions accepted. . IViessrs Kauffman & Pierson, by their contract, agree to construct, in an acceptable manner, all the wharves piled tr; cks, freight and passenger vamps and ferry inclines at-Mac Donogh Landing; furnishing all the materials and labor except the railroad bars, angle plates and bolts necessary, which works are to consist of six freight slopes or vamps , two in the upper and four in the lower wharves; sixteen mooring piles; one passenger vamp along the fron4)f the depot properly planked up on the sides; ( The wharf under the passenger depot not included in tnis contract) sheet piling on the outside, at the entrance of the ferry slip, together with the necessary excavations and revovals of stumps and other ob structions to the floating of the pontoons or barges along side of the transfer boafc, all of which works are minutely detailed in the engineer's plans and specifications which are made part of the contract. The works to be fully and properly com.pleted, ready for use, under the following terms, towit: For the wharf and piled tracks, thirty dollars per square of 100 ft., superficial measurement. For the ferry inclines and slip com plete - $21,000.00. The contractors to commence work immediately a.id to prosecute same continuously to completion, the ferry inclines to be completed first, and be reody for use by 15th of October. To Messrs Eager, Ellerman and Co. wasawarded the contract for the constructionof the works at the ferry landing on this side of the Ri^ver, at the foot of Thalia Street, they like Kauid'man & Pierson, to furnish all material, labor tools etc. The works are to consist of a ferry incline, wharf and bulkhead extending from Thalia to Terpsicone Streets, the whole of which is also particularly detailed and defined in the engineer^ plans and specifications, which are made part of their contract, the whole work to be completed upon the following terms, towit: For the per lineal foot. •for the ferry inclines, ^^19,000.00 For the wharf, including vamps thirth dollars per square of 100 ft., superficial measurement. For twenty extra fender piles. Ten dollars each. The freight slope at the lancing is to be 14 feet wide, and the passenger slope, to be 10 feet wide and to extend the length of the ferry slip, and be measured as wharf. The revetment planking of one side of the ferry slip is included in the price of the whaid", as well as all things necessary to make the work ready for use. The work Is to be icmiediately undertaken and ^^ushed to completion. The transfer incline to be completed first and be delivered to gether with the bulkhead, by the 15th of October and the whole work to be completed by the 15th Nov. the contractors agreeing to employ two steam and two hand pile drivers. Contracts neue alsoawarded uncer same conditions as the foregoing to Jno. Cleary for a revetm.ent bulkhead and the necessary filling-etc. at Niac Donogh Landing and to P. G._ Conway for filling back of bulkhead at the Thalia St. Landing, on this side of the River, as follows, towit: deary's contract requires of him that he shall construct in an accepable manner, at ^'ac Donogh Landing, a revetnient bulkhead and levee for pro tection against overflow at following prices, viz: For all hewn 12 x 12 squared timber, to include all labor and material' twenty four cents for lineal foot. For all sawed timber and plank, including all labor, niaterials etc. necessary to the completion of the work. Twenty four dollars per 1,000 ft. board measurement, to be nieasured in 1 work, The above prices to include all spikes, screw and drift bolts, washers etc. For all dirt handled, to be nieasured once, in com pleted works eithteen cents per cubic yard. The contractor agrees to employ as large a force as can be handled to advantage and to complete the work with greatest dispatch. Conways contract to fill up rear of bulkhead on this side of the River, at Thalia St. Landing is at following prices, viz: Twenty cents per cubic yard for dirt wheeled, and fifty four cents per cubic yard for dirt hauled, measured in work. Nothing has been none towards erecting shops as yet as Mr. Hayes desired meeting ^!r. Barr and myself before commenc ing the work, but advised us to go ahead with work now under contract, asit had to be done during present low stage of water. piled bulkhead, at the rate of five dollars GG9 New Orleans, La., Aug. 21, 1881 Gen. G. W. Dodge, Prest. - 2 Our track from Westwego to the River at MacDonogh Landing will be ready for use this week with the exception of swing bridge over Harvey's Canal, which will not be (completed until about 15th Sept. The bridge over Company's Canal will be completed this week. '.Ve have laid the track from Morgan's road between and below the bridges, except about a mile and a half, 'Which '.vill be laid this week. I am trying to effect arrangements with Morgan's people to continue our contract to use their'road until our road i.s ready for use frO|ra Westwego to New Orleans, although we will be so situated by the 1st of October, the time at 'which our contract expires, that we can do business over our own line, if absolutely necessary. Yr. abt. servt., H. L s Morse , ' Supt. Gil New Orleans Pacific Railway Company New Orleans, La., Aug. 22d, 1881 Gen'l. G. .Dodge, President, New York. Dear Sir: Fully two miles of wharves have gone into the river here since water began to fall', but strange to say the banks of our property at Thalia St. and on the other side of the river at Mac Donogh have not moved, and are firm and solid batture sand on this side and firm solid clay bank on theother side covered with cypress stumps four feet in diameter, a washing bank but it has not washed out over four feet in nineteen years, and can easily be. protected from washing. Therefore our river property on both sides is as good as could have been picked out, had we made a choice. There is fully four feet of river sand deposit on the land in front of levee at MacDonogh, which with the earth in present levee will be all the filling required. The present levee will not be necessary when our new bulk head levee along the river is completed. No railroad company entering this city has more disirable terminal grounds. It is about seven and one tenth miles from the point wher-e we leave our old track near Westwego to the river at Mac Donogh, and two and one eigh th (2 l/8) miles less to Canal St. via Mac Donogh and Thalia St. than by Morgans road and ferry from Company's Canal, o.r a given point. Yours re spy, H. S. Morse, Supt. Gi3 New York City, August 23, 1881 Received (as of August 7, 1881) from the International & Great Northern Rail Road Company, One hundred, 2nd Mortgage Income Bonds for $1,000. ea. Nos. 5985 © 6084 on account of contract with this Co. for building road from San Antonio to the Rio Grande, G . M . Dodge, President. 100 M. 2d Mort. inc. Bonds. 5985 to 6084. New Orleans Pacific Railway Company New Orleans, August 24th, 1881 Gen * 1. G. . Dodge, 195 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: As I wired you v/e commenced laying track on Choctaw bridge yesterday. Had half iLile ready for track. Stringers didtributed One mile, and two miles piling down. Will push the track as fast as we can get stringers frpmaed and in place. In spite of all I can do it appears im po.ssible to push this work,as fast as one difficulty is overcome another ar-rises. We are now fighting swau/p fever. Two out of four of my Ass't. Engineers are down with it, also my main bridge man. We hrve from two to twelve leaving our bridge force daily with fever. Had a slight attack myself but am all right again. This in the face of a scarcity of labor is big odds to work against. I am very tired making excuses, and I have no doubt you are tired hearing them. I can only say that _I ^ doing the best 1 know how. The work from Westwego is progressing favorably as I suppose Mr. Morse has notified you. The contracts for the ferry slips both grading and timber work have been let to responsable parties, and I think there will be, no trouble about it going ahead as there is little or no trouble in getting labour close to the City. We have a forc- of about one hundred and seventy-five men at Atchafalaya, and Fordoche grading should have four times this number but it appears impossible to get them. We have such poor success with imported labor that I am almost discouraged from trying to get it. In a majority of cases they do not stay long enough to pay the expense of bringing them here, I visited the Atchafalaya last week, the river is in a good stage for Kr. Anderson's work. Am sorry he is not here to take advantage of it. Three hundred and sixty one kegs spikes arrived to day, the balance of the one thousand kegs I have been unable to get any information from. I send to Alexandria 150 b.cgs of the spikes. This is all I can spare as wt have borrowed one hundred kegs from Morgans people and may be called upon at any time for Lhera.Hope the others will arrive soon. Here with find Contract for grading. One for the work in Choctaw swamp, the other for filling at ferry slip, foot of Thalia street Hoping you are not getting discouraged with our progress on the N. 0. end I am Very respectfully, 0. C. Bar, Div. Engr. Per K. S. 617 Ner. York City, September 1881 Chapter 1. Construction of the Railway. Article 1st. Authority is given to the "Internation al Railway Improvement Company" to construct and operate, duringninety nine years from the date of this grant, a railway line, with its -corresponding telegraph line, which, commencing at a point on the Rio Grande, between Laredo and Reynosa, continues south between the Longitude 1' West 2' East of the Meridian of Mexico, touching the Meir and Victoria, thence between the al ready mentioned degrees to the City of Mexico by the most con venient ascent to the Table Lands, and they may continue from there (City of Mexico) to the Pacific Coast, to a point situated between the Meridians 0' and 6' West Longitude of the Capital of the Republic. The main-line may divide or branch off before its ascent to the Table Lands, passing by Papantla and Mizantla with its terminus in Veracruz, with branch roads to Soto La Marina, Tampico, Tuxpan and Tocolutla or Nautla. A Branch road may"be extended from Ciudad Victoria via Tula as far as San Louis Potosi: the Company is obliged to construct a branch road to Matamoras, San Fernando, Santander-Jiminez, also to Bar of Jesus Maria, in case this last port should be opened to the coasting and foreign trade, after the improvements the Govern ment may deem convenient to make to the same. The time to con struct said branch road to be extended to ten years instead of five. 619 Sept. 1881. California Railv;ay Constr'uc'ti on Co., 195 Broadv.'ay, K.Y. September lst,lG81, Lyman Brid^jer, b'sq., 712 TTarket Street, 'an Francisco, Cal, Dear S-ir: I am in recei wired yovi to put all Joquin Valley. I don Sprincs to Cedai* City we determine the lino minary lir.e so that I Joquin Valley to Cry any road or spend any have to meet. pt of your letter from Crystal Springs. 1 your forces between urystal Springs and the Sr 't care anything about the line from Crystal ; there is plenty of time towork that upafter over the mountains. I want a connected prolican see the profile and map from the Sa n stal Springs... do not intend to locate money in that country until I know what I I was not aware th.at you v;ere locating or doing any work east of Crystal Springs. If I had known that I would have turned that party south toward Pr-escott. Very truZy yours. C . W. Do dge, Presi dent. 621 . • New York City, September 3rd, 1881 B. S. Wathen. Chief Engineer, Laredo, Texas. Dear Sir: Your letter of 26th August to Mr. Hayes has been for warded to me here, I want to get a connected line through to the City of Mexico as soon as possible. You therefore had better put the other party on north of Mexico, which you speak of. We intend to begin construction as soon as we get completed to Laredo, and by that time I am in hopes of getting a preliminary line through. I wired you today in relation to the bridge at Laredo. It appears that before we can get permission of the Govern ment we will have to send a map showing the location of tte bridge and a plan of the same. I suppose it will be a common truss bridge . I notice what you say about making your trip to Mexico, Please inform me where your head.iuartere will be and whom I am to address in your absence. As you get information from the parties I wish you would write me. I wired you to Mexico asking you what amendmient you would reocmm,end to our concession,- that is for themain line. My idea is to get a main lime from Laredo to the City of Mexico if we can,leaving out the compulsory line by way of Santander & Juminez giving us the option to build branches in that country. Mr. De Gress goes to the City of Mexico on Mondjay to look after the concession, haence my desire to know your views on the subject before he left. Please let me hear from you at as early a date as possible i n relation to these matters, very truly yours, G . M. Dodge, President. 623 f (JQX New York, September 5, 1881, ,.rffnff .%.T> C. F. Wornshoffer, Treasurer, r Y ,00 rt1 o^rtjiia*! Ml 54 Exchange Place, New York, -;llC ifrfT Dear Sir:- (* >^ 4 1^ a 1 ' ^ ^ .-1 Y I enclose my check on Gilman, Snn &: Co. for $20,0C0 in payment of 4th and 5th instalments an capital stock of the Pacific Railway Improvement Co. fot) the following persons: C. M. Dodge, Trustee, Trustee, ' $50,000 :> G. Vu Dodge, F. S. Pusey John Adamson $10*, 000. 1(D,000 30,000 10,000 ,Xen rH . I 2,000 6,000 2,000 20,000. n 'J 1' f _ I - f,' '1 Please receipt for the same and return me certificates in above parties names and oblige. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 624 #JCc^i ",a 'Jo:.'.. • lOC ,.^-1 New York, Sel^tember 5, 1881. C.F. Wornshoffer, Ereas., 54 Exchange Pla ce, New York. Dear Sir:- ,oonii ft-' mi I enclose herewith my check on Oilman, Son & Co. for $lg,000 in payment of 5th and 6th instalments to the capital stock of the 't, American Railway Imprvoement company as follows: > ' f 'J J t . ■ 0. M. Dodge, $80,0C0 ^16,000. P. S. Pusey, - 10,0;0 2.000. , 18,000. Please send receipt^lii-rabove names and deliver bonds on same and oblige, I Ml fVtWt'l Very truly yours. G. I^. Dodge. »•« wt xXiftJ .M September, 1881. Office of James F. V'ilson. Fairfield, Sept, 8th, 1881 Dear Dodge: Yours of the 5th inst. afhand. I had not noticed the report relative to Mrs. A. to which you refer, but I learned day before yesterday that A. had been called east by a telegram from Mrs. A. who wants to return to Philadelphia to consult her physician. I hope the report you miention is not true. It would be sad indeed if it were true. Though she has suffered from great nervous pros tration. Everything is going well in the campaign. I do not see how we are to fall below 85 to 9£ votes, unless some of our troops are captured. The effort is to combine everything against me, and this will make it necessary for me to keep everything in constant working order. ScOtt Co. did not nominate a solid Gear ticket. have one sure, another probably - a chance for a third. I shall I never did so much work in the san.e length of time in my life. I have been at it every day sirce the 10th of March. In that time aside from all other work I have prepared eight of the best addresses 1 have ever, made, all on different subjects, and all require study and care. I have had all of these printed in pamphlet, and while they are not , I have circulated them in every township in the state. I procured lists of nanes in every township and send the documients regularly as they come out, addressed person ally to each man. To do all these tb.ings I have had to keep from two to four clerks employed. I merely mention these things to give you an idea of how I have organized, and worked. Then I have had some discreet men in the field all the time . I have not left a stone unturned, and if I dont win it wont be because the work has not been well done. The people in the oounty townships wave come up to my support splendidly, and when the local leaders have sometimes, thought they had me beaten in some counties the county townships upset all their calculations. -Everything looks well. Yours truly, James F. Wilson, 627 Sept., 1881 C-lifcrnia & Texac Railray Constiuiction Co, 195 Broadway, TT.Y. September 10, 1881. Lyman Bridcer, Esq., 702 Market St. San Francisco, Gal. Dear Sir: I have wired several tire in relation to the sxirveys bein made by you but you do not understand yet what I want. I wart to get a connected preliminary line from Crystal Springs to the San Jaquin Valley. I do not want to spend any more money'in locations of any kind until I can get this preliminary line before me and determine whether the route is a practicable one for us to build. I do not want to pay out any money east of Crystal bprings. If we build that is a part of the duty of the Union Pacific to join us there. Now please follow my instrtxctions implicit; ly in the matter. The expenditures are costing more than I expected they woula. and as fast as a prrc ical preliminary line is settle:! uj.on dischargo the pai-'ty and stop expenses. I have sey.t "r. Ci-awford, one of my own engineers, out to examine the surveys aj d report to me as to the practicability of the country 'nd of t}\e line, and r.f the probable cost. instead of drawing upon me for expenditures send in estima tes of what you need for each month, so that I can remit to you. Very truly yours. Ci. M. Dodge, President. American Railway Improvement Company. 20 Camp St., N. 0. September 14th, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Presd't., Dear Sir: In reply to yours of 9th Sept. to Mr. Barr in regard to Atchafalaya transfer would respectfully state that no part of the material in the sliding cradles and very little in the track approaches and incline, except the piles, will be lost. For piles we will use the young growth of timber in the vicin ity which has no value except fro cordwood, taking indiscriminate ly every tree of proper size that can be driven. Very little of this timber will last more than one season. The caps, string ers, and crossties and the holts used to secure them, are like those on the main line trestle work, and will be put in the work so that, after the bridge is finished, all this material can be easil:. taken apart without injury and will be available for repairs along the line. The wheels and axels are the same as those used under cars, and the whole sliding cradle will be constructed so that it may be taken apart and put together again for use some where else. The difference of level the Atchafalaya crossing is 35 fee water is very irregular. We will the incline when the water is lowe to provide for its possible use at this difference of level by means would be impracticable at moderate have been adopted if we could have with a suspended platlorm anything between high and low water at t, and the tiuie of high probably commence to use st and have thought it prudent high water. To overcome of a suspended platform cost, though that plan would had a practicable slope less than 100 feet long. The considerable cost of this temperary crossing involving as it does grading down from the main line embankment and curves to obtain a sufficiently easy slope on the river bank has been carefully considered by both Mi' Barr and Mr. Morse and efforts ii;ade to reduce the ultimate cost to a mini mum by credits Ahich the /.ork will receive for material after the completion of the bridge. Of course we understand that much reliance cannot, generally, be placed on credit estimates of this of this character. But by keeping the object in view during construction nearly all the material except the piles can be saved. Mr. Anderson being in the city the plans were submitted to him and he agrees with Messrs. Barr & Morse that considering the difficulties of the situation the plans adopted are about as cheap as any which could be devised. Mr. Anderson leaves this evening with tug and two barges for mouth of Red River but the water is so low I fear he will find difficulty in getting through. None of his material has reached here yet. Very respectfully, f Richard I. Rvans, for C. C. Barr, Div. Eng. ■ / Septemlrer I4th 1881. G33 .-.*4 ^•M^irshall, Sei'tember I4th 1881 Genl. G.AT.Dodge, New York City. Dear Sir; I have your two favors TOth inst. I think Circular "I45G" issued by TvTr. Olds was intended to egfect the earnings of the Ft. W.j D.G. Go. and will have that effect. It should not have been issued, and would" not if proper Judgement had been exercised by the Ft.vV& p.G. I told ATi-. Frost that was useless and senseless for a tail trying to wafe the dog, but he would not listen to me and 1 wat powerless to prevent his getting into a controversy that ended as I knev7 it would, and it was to prevent this and other mistakes that ^ desired to have the question of responsibility settled and either put it into my hands or tc.ke it entirely out. I wrote you long igo that Frost was intoxicated with the success of his road and honestly believes he was the cause of its successful showing the first year. Now he is all ri^'it if he has some one to steady him and occasionally put on tiie brakes firmly, and map out the direction, and I think it would be a good plan for you to call and have a talk with him. He is time as steel ^o you and don't mean to do anything that is not for your very best interesta. I regret to be obliged to say that his "Greenback","Social","Anti Monopoly" ideas runs away with him, that he talks too much against the South west System interests in general, anf that he openly declared himself in sympathy with the Telegraph strikers of the time, but I am certain he did nut appreciate that his remarks would ever be noticed or repeated. I thlnl it will pay you to have a talk with him. 0 Yours truly, J .MhEddy. G35 195 Broadway New York, Sept. 15, 1881. J. S. Runnells, Des Moines, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I have been looking over the accounts that have come in from the Narrow Gauge road, and find that up to date I have paid over $31,000 for right of way alone. This is ^650 per mile. I can get the right of way for a road in the thickest settled portion of New York state for that. I do not understand what makes this right of way cost so much. When you and Mr. Clarkson were hero you said you thought the right of way would be donated to us. I do not know whether it has all been settled for or not, or how much more there is to be paid on it. It seems ^o me there must be someti. ng wrong in such enormous prices for prairie land in Iowa, That is over $100,000 per acre. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, ... ■ < '' . v i .'1, -•* G37 iii: .// New Orleans Pacific Railway Goiuoany. New Orleans, Septr. 17, 1881 R. S. Hayes, Esq., First Vice President, St. Louis, Kg. Dear Sir:. You are doubtless apprised ere this, of the closing of the navigation of Red River; and several steamboats are now aground in what is termed the "gut" - extending from the bar towards the entrance to the Atchafafaya river-in less than 2 feet of water. Our transfer boat No. 2 is among the number; though we are informed she is not in a precarious condition, as she is aground in soft bottom, and within a hundred feet of water deep enough to float her;-the parties in charge of her, hav ing succeeded in getting her nearly tr.rough the shosuL water. The river fell so rapidly that several boatswere ' caught in the same preaicament. By this condition of afiairs from vvh probably be no I'elief until the riv^r rises, w of the means of communication with our work in of the Atchafalaya, and west of it, except by All the country tributary to the Red River the as the Atchafalaya are cut off from access to Morgan City. Bayou Pluiuemine which wo cross all seasons of th year to within 3 l/2 to 4 ni Not less than 5 to 6 feet of water, can always at this point insuring safe navigation. ich there will e are deprived the vicinity overland route . Ouachita, .as well this city except via is nayiigable at iles of our track be relied upon Between that and our bridge crossing some 4 miles, there is no navigation; the Bayou being full of logs and ob structions. From Bayou Plaqueraine, the distance to or bridge crossing of the Atchafalaya River is I judge to be some 65 to 75 miles by water. Besides, through the Bayou Plaquemine Boats could reach the entire water courses of Louisiana, including the Teche, Grand Lake, and the lower Atchafalaya as far down as Berwick^ Bay. The Red River and all of its tributaries would also be accessible to boars by this route. Under the circumstances, I cannot but think that it would be to our interest to build a spur track to this deep water which will not exceed 4 miles- perhaps not more than 3 in a direct line. G3S There are now some 3 or 4 small boats inside, the owners of which, would very gladly undertake to bring the business of that country to our road, and I believe that the amount of business for the next 3 or 4 months will be quite large. Also, this connection by rail with the navigable portion of Bayou Plaquemine would be a necessity to the Steamboat Con.pany yo u have in view. Mr. John A. Darden, a planter who owns the plantation where this landing will be located on, expressed his entire willingness to give the right of way to the Company and says that he believes his neighbors, through whose places the spur would run, will do the same. If you agree with me that iL is practicable to build this spur, provided we can get the right of way without paying for the land please wire me, and the track can be put down at once No Grading of any consequence will be required. The Morgan Co. have made arrangements since the close .of navigation in Red River, to put boats in the trade to run up as far as Churchville on the Atchafalaya River, above our crossing. The Bayou Plaquemine will afford a much shorter route to New Orleans by our road for a considerable portion of this country, which would otherwise go to the Morgan line. On this subject, your Dr. Smith can give you the information you may desire. Mr. Morse accompanied me to Plaqueraines to investi gate this matter, and fully concurs with me in what I have written, and says, the track can be laid within ten or twelve days; should you so decide. Very truly yours, (Signed) E. B. Wheelock, Prest. Copy. New York City, Sept. 19, 1881 Received as August 27, 1881, from the International & Great Northern Rail Road Go. One hundred 2nd Mortgage Income Bonds for 10..0 each (Nos. 6085 to 6184) on account of construction under contract with the International Rail way ImproveDient Go. for building road from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. No. 6085 di 6184 100 M. iucoffie Bonds. G . M. Dodge, President, Int. Ry. Imp. Go. Sept. 1881 Texas and Colorado Railway I mproveraent Co, 195 Broadway, N.Y. Sept. 23, 1881, R. ii;. Montgomery, Esq., Eort 'Vorth, Texas. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your porposition in relation to ri^^ht of way. I prefer to ha\e the ri^ht of way obtaine d by the Co. in the most economical manner possible. Three hundred dollars per mile is a very large sunc to pay for obtaining the right of way through that, country. The first hundred miles west of ii'ort worth did not cost u: over tow hundred 'ollars per mile. "" Parties ought to be out now obtaining this right of way on the first hundred miles if it is located. iou have no interference in obtaining the town sites for the company if they have any; t!:ey will put the matter in your hands if it will aid you any in the right of way. I shall open work on the Port Worth & Denver City road as soon as I get down tliere and as soon as the material commences to arrive. You can go to work on the right of way as fast as you please and get your vouchers endorsed by Mr. 'Vashburn, if he is in charge of the surveys, and I will pay them. Very truly yours, G, M. Dodge, President. New Orleans Pacific Railway Coicpany New Orleans, La., Sept. 24th, 1881 Gen'l. G. Dodre, President etc. New York. Dear Sir; It will require on e good pony switch engine with air brakes to run on the incline at McDonogh and one for the New Orleans incline- Also two for the Atchafalaya river- 7/ill require two additional switch engines for McDonogh- and one at New Orleans- as soon as road is completed through or as soon as we commence .using our own yards and transfers here. A'e have one switch enj^ine- No 30- on hand. Hope to use our transfer and yards here by Nov. 1st- but cannot without more engines even if we get them ready- Have an engine 1 rom IViorgan's Co. for Mr.oarr- which is all he asks for. This enrine we get in place of the switch engine - which they can't do without. Yours etc., H. L. Morse. New York City, Sept. 27, 1881 Received from G. B. Genson, Secretary of the Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway Go. Six hundred and sixteen (616) Bonds of M. each Kos. 33102 to 33717 in both inclusive) issued under the General Consolidated Mortgage of Dec. 1, 1880 of said Railway Co. said Bon ds being on a/c of construct ion of Fifty miles of railway southerly from Ft. Worth, Texas. 616,000 Bonds M. each G. M. Dodge, President. G47 195 Broadway N. Y. September 28th, 1881 Jay Gould, Esq., Brest. M. K. & T. Ry. Co., New York City. Dear Sir: I desire to call your attention to the condition of the equipment account of the M. K. & T. Ry. Our contract with the ¥. K. & T. Ry. Co. requires that I should furnish '^240,000. worth of rolling stock for the line from San Antonio to Laredo. On this 150 miles I have contracted for and partially delivered $392,600. of material which will leave a balance due me of §152,600. On the line from MinneoJ-a to Greeneville 51 ndles, and from Fort Vorth to Taylor 157, making a total of 208 m.iles contracted requiring that' I should furnish $332,800. worth of equipment. On this line there has already been furnished our $8j0,000. worth of equipment, and there has been contracted by Mr. Talmage $1,400,000. in round numbers. Mr. Talmage, as Superintendent of the International Railway Improvement Co. has contracted for 2031 Cars 10 Passenger coaches 6 Cabooses & 23 Locomotives, at a total cost of $1,400,000, and he telegraphs and writes me that he must have this amount of equipment to run the M. K. & T. road. He has not only contracted equipment for the road we are now building, but for the road already built the line from Denton to Gainesville, 42 miles, from Denison to Fort I'orth, 53 miles, making a total of 168 miles. This is a very heavy equipment for the road, but if it is necessary means must be taken to pay for it, and I reapectfully request that the M. K.&T. Ry. Co. take imnediate action by furnishing me the bonds to pay for it out of the reserve bonds or in any other way they may deem best. It being outside of my contract I must provide means to cover this very heavy expenditure for equipment. Will you please give this your immediate attention, and oblige. Very truly yours, (Signed) G. M. Dodge, Enclosure. President 649 American Kailv/ay Improvement Company. , . New Orleans, Sept. 29th, 1881 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Prest., 195 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: Herewith find Contract with Rodgers for grading on south bank of Atchafalaya River. Rodgers is a partner of James the Lesee of the Convict force, they agree to put a force of 300 Convicts on at once and were to be shipped from tiorgans road yesterday. I suppose they are now on their way. The price is large but I could do no bettc;r and if any one can do the work they can. I enclose tracing showing stations re ferred to in Contract. Anderson is having a hardtime getting through the mouth of Red River with his outfit. Have just arranged_to get an Engine from Iv'organs People in place of our Switch Engine which I '.'.ill put on Construction, and after passing Bayou Grassetate I sec no reason why I should not make good headway with track. Have been laying temporary track in Choctaw Swamp which is very tedious. I will certainly push it as fast I can. Five hundred kegs of spikes from N. Y. and one hund red and fifty from St. Louis just arrived. I send two hund red kegs to Alexandria and will push Pherrie & Co.and try to get others in lime. I go to the end of the track in the morn ing . Yours respectfully, C. C. Barr, Div. Engr. Per R.s. 651 International New York, Oct. 4th, 1881 Received as August 27th, 1881 from the International & Great Northern Rail Road Go. One hundred 1st mortgage Bonds for $1000. each, Nos. 6985 to 7084 with couoons payable Nov. 1, 1881 on account of contract with the International Railway Improvement Company for building Road from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. No. 6985 7084- 100 First fctge . Bonds. G . Ni. Dodge , Copy • President, Int. Imp . Co . sfl <rs4 .' ."vt.'.i? New York, Oct. 4, 1881 Received as September 20th, 1881 from the International&Great Northern Railroad Co. one hundred 1st Mortgage Bonds for ^1000. each Nos. 7085 Q 7184 with Coupons ,>ayable Nov. 1st, 1881 on account of contract with the International Railway Improvement Company for building Road fromi San Antonio to the Rio Grande. No. 7085 © 7184- 100 First Mortgage Bonds. - Sig. G. M. Dodge, Brest. Int. R. I. Co . New York, Oct. 4th, 1881 Received as Sept. 20th, 1881 fromi the International & Great Northern Rail Road Co. 100 second Mortgage Incom.e Bonds for $1000 each No. 6185 © 6284, on account of contract with the International Railway Improvement Co. for building road from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. No. 6185 © 6284- 100 Income Bonds. (Signed) G. M. Dodge, President, Int. Ry. Imp. Co. 655 New York City, October 4th, 1881 Edwin D. Adams, Esq., New York. Deor Sir: Replying to youi' note of this date I vould say that the stock dividend on the International Railway Improvement Go. is 25^ on its capital in U. K. & T. stock. When the International Ry Imp. Go. took the contract to build the Extension of the International & Great Northern road it was undein toed that the Gonsi.i'uotion Ge . '.^ould take I. . F. I- T, stoGA in exchange ut the rate of '(^20,000 per mile, which is about the same amount per mile as the holders of old International stock receive. The stock of the International road bought and exchanged was about '^10,000 per mile and was taken up with k,. K. & T.stock at the rate of .'^20,000 permile • In relation to the services of Messis. Guzeman and Gomanche, I have not yet made decision in the matter but will endeavor to bring it up so that you can soon give them an answer. Very truly yours, G.^;. Dodge, President. Oct. 1881. 657 // Texas & Colorado Railway Improvement uo.. 195 Broadway N.Y. October 8, 1881, D. 'V. washburn, Chief iingineer, J:''ort worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of October 1st. jl want to take all the ties needed for the 1st 40 miles as suggested in your letter from the surplus belonging to the Pacific Railway Improvement Co., and 1 think you had better let the contract for the other 70 miles of ties of which you speak in the timber along the line. We have delayed making contracts on the requisitions for the 1st 100 miles until I could ascertain what amount you can furnish from the Pacific Railway Improvement Company,because I want to clear that concern up clear through to El Paso. I have ordered two locomotives to Mr. ^^oxie, as suggested and you ^vill have to arrange about keeping them or sending them to the front. They are sent to Mr. ^oxie for your. 1 have wired you in relation to the gi^eat difference between the price of earth work on the rort worth & Denver road as named in your dispatch of 26th Sept. and your letter of Oct. 1st. The parties certainly ^o not want 25^ per yard for ordinarv scraper work. Very truly yours. G. Dodge, President. New York City, October 8th, 1881 R. S. Hayes, Esq., Vice President, St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir: I ackonwledge receiptof yours of October 4th enclos ing comiiiunication in reference to the Galveston & Eagle Pass Air Line Railway. I sent a confidential Agent to investigate the stand ing and financial ability of this road, and he makes the following report: The Company have made arrangements to place $12,000 per mile of their bonds in England and propose to use the funds received therefrom in the construction of a standard gauge road in the direction indicated. The parties placing .the bonds de mand one half of the constrction stock and also domand that the contractors shall take the contract for the entire distance of 350 miles. They have as yet made no surveys and have no drawings or profiles of th., route. They have made the following propositi .n to the contractors: viz-, That they shall go on and build the road as cheaply as thcycan and that the Company will allov/ them 10 per cent over the cost thereof. This proposition is being considered by Messrs. Dodds, Lord, Frost, and Smith, the con tracting firm in Cincinnati, Ohio, who built the Springfield & Illinois Southern road. They have also offni.red the same to other contractors who are said 'to be backed financially by Mr. Sidney Dillon. They expect to close the contract within the next 10 days. They propose to equip the road through a Trust Co. and have the promise of $75,000 from the city of Galveston. They have not made any arrangements with Owens. In order to ascertain whether or not they had dis posed of their bonds my agent proposed to sell them iron and take bonds in payment, but they said they could not make such a trade as their arrangements for the disposal of the bonds were all completed. Mr. Fowler of §9 Nassau W. has been to Europe with the scheme and conducted their negotiations there. Company. U. 5. Grant, Jr. is President of the Construction I return herewith the documents you enclosed me together with the prospectus of the road which may give you some additional information. Enclosure. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 661 New York City, October 10th, 1881 J. . Eddy, Esq., Supt.'of Construction, Dear Sir: Fort Worth, Texas I am in receipt of your dispatch in relation to obtain ing right of .way on the Narrow gauge line, Greenville to Mc Kinney. ' The International Railway Improvement Co. has made arrangements to build this 3o miles of road and you can there fore proceed as fast as economy will permit to get road located and under contract,- making all your returns to this office. Make your drafts for all expenditures upon me as President of the International Railway Improvement Co. and return all your accounts to this office. Keep these accounts entirely separ ate from the accounts of any other Di'vision or Branches under construction by this Co. and in your drafts specify that they are for expenditures incurred by the extension of the East Line & Red River Railroad. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. G63 New York City, Oct. 21st, 1881 Received from the tlissouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company One thousand (1000) Bands of $1000. each, Nos. 33102 to 34101, both incl., ex. Coupon No. 1, issued under the Gen eral Consolidated Mortgage of December 1st, 1880 of said Rail way Company and Certificate No. 3549 for Ten thousand (10,000) Shares of the par value of $100 each of the Capital Stock of said Railway Company in full payment for the construction and equipment under its Contract with the International Railway Improvement Co. of Fifty miles of said Railway Company's line extending southerly from Port Worth in the State of Texas, said Fifty miles of railway having been completed & accepted as follows: 26 9/10 miles on the 3rd day of August 1881 and 23 1/10 " " " 19th 19th " " " " September September 1881. 1881 $1,000,000.- Bonds) 1,000,000.- Stock) G. M. Dodge, President. G65 October £6,1881. New York City, " October 26, 1381. J, v., Eddy, President, Port worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- Judge Dillon requests me to send you by express today a draft of the propored mortgage of the rort Worth & Denver City Railway Oq, for your examination and that of your local counsel. You vill perceive that w e want a copy of the resolution to be passred at the stockholders' meeting, and also a copy of the resolution of tlie Foard of Directors authorizing the execution of i.his mortgage. If this last resolution has not been passed then under the ad vice of local counsel let it be drawn up carefullj'^, giving authority to execute the mortgage about in-the terms of the one passed bj' the stockholders. A more specific description of the property (see page 5 of the ac ompanying draft) ought to be given. Have Mr. Herman or your local counsel look over it carefully and comply with these sug-estions and return to me, as soon as possible with any commer:ts he may see fit to make. Very truly yours,. G. M. Dodge, President. 667 . New York City, October 28th, 1881 Levi H. Wade, Esq., Vice PreSt. Nex. Gent. Ry. Co., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir : We are informed that our Concession in Mexico has been amended in a manner which makes it satisfactory to us, and we shall therefore proceed to immediately construct the line. In accordance with the conversation held between Mr. Ncikerson, Mr. Gould, yourself and myself, I would like to know the wishes of the Boston party in this matter. We Lhink we shall build this line under the direction of the International Railway Improvement Company, to whom the Concession is made, and we oIf4£r your people one half of the entire interest, or such portion of one half as they may elect to take. We think it is very important that the Mexican Central should have a large interest in it. I have no.doubt that the line from Tarapico west could be used by us for traffic going over your line north of .Mexico and it is possible that in rising on to the table a portion of that line might also be used by us. The surveys, however, will determine what is real economy in the matter. We desire to work in harmony with the interests of theMexican Central. Will you please give us a prompt answer as it is necessary for us to open our subscription and raise the money. We will probably make our construction capital Twelve million dollsrs. Of course your people go in upon exactly the same basis as we do. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. . V . • New York City, October 29th, 1881 Fred L. Ames, Esq., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir: I enclose you a letter to Mr. Wade signed by myself and approved by Mr. Gould. Mr. Gould wighes you to take it to Mr. Wade and have aitalk with him and see v.hat he says in the matter. When Mr. Nickerson and Mr. 'Wade were here they were undecided what they would do but they wanted an interest with us and Mr. Gould told them that he was ready to give them any interest or make any arrangements that would be satisfactory to both parties. The idea was to consolidate these interests, but that we find we cannot dn. Now the idea is to build it andafter building if necessary make them one line or enter into a traffic agreement. The idea is to work the two roads in harmony. Will you not please talk it up as our representative, with the Mexican Central and get their views definitely in the matter?. Our concession as changed is much more favorable than any that has been made and I think there is no question but that it iq the best line into the City of Mexico and we want to make 'our arrangements for building ita s soon as possible as.we are closing up work in Texas and Louisiana and will have large forces which are used to that country and climate that we can turn into Mexico. We want to uti lize them by crossing the border as soon as we see our way clear financially. Please write me fully, Very truly yours, G. to. Dodge, President. 671 New York City, November 8th, 1881 Francis De Gress, Esq., City of ^:exico, Mexico. Dear Sir: / I a cknowledge receipt of yours of 2oth October with enclosures as therein stated, and have forwarded the same to General Dodge who is now on a tour of inspection over our Southwest System of .roads. I notice in the copy of thedispatch we sent you October 17th the words "provide forfeiture in case of failure to build" etc. were bulled so as to re; d "provide fro future in Case of failure" etc. I take it, howevur, that this change did not materiallyalterthe interpretation you put upon the dispatchi I notice by dispatches to the New York Herald th at the Senate has confirmed the Concession granj^ed you, and I have wired General Dodge to that effect. Permit me to call your attention to the ext-reme length of the paper upon which your letters to this Office are written. Our system of liling letters never provided for such lengthy sheets, and I would be very 0uch' obliged to- you if in sending letters to this Office you would write them upon paper about one-half shorter than that which you now use. This may look like a small point to you, but when you consider the vast amount of correspondence coming into this Office you will readily see that any deviation from ordinary sizes throws us out of our regular channel of business, and sonieLimes delays us in promptly referring to correspondence. Very truly yours, J. T. Granger, Ass't.. Secty. New York City, November 8th, IBBli Received as October 26th, IBBl from the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, Onehundred Second Mortgage Income Bonds for One thousand dollars ($1000) each, Nos. 62B5 to 63B4 on accountof contract with the International Railway Improvement Company for building I'oad froii. San Antonio to the Rio Grande. Nos. 6285 to 6384 100 Income Bonds. G. M . Dodge, Pre sident New York City, November 9th, 1881 Genl. G. M. Dodge, President, Fort Worth, Tex. Dear General: Mr. Levi Wade of Boston telegraphed several day s ago acknowledging receipt of your letter as approved by Mr. Gould and requesting a map of the route through Mexico which he proposed to lay before the Board of Directors on Monday last. I have not heard from him yet, but in an inter view with Mr. Ames today was informed that they had prepared a letter for transmission to you, the purport of which would be that their own schemes in ^,exico were laying such a i eavy burden upon them that they did not feel at libertyto make any further investments in that direction, and therefore if it would be agreeable to Mr. Gould and yourself they would not make any subscription to the new fund for construction in that country. Mr. Ames says this 'ao. Id be perfectly agree able to Mr. Gould and to himself and believes that you will agree with them in this. Mr. Ames states that the Mexican Central people express the most kindly feeling towards our enterprise, and desire to work in entire harmony, and are ready to make any arrangements to combine the business of the two roads or to allow us the use of their track into the City of Mlexico; or if you prefer to do so allow us to lay a track and run our trains along their right of way. Yours truly. J. T. Granger, New York City, November 9th, 1881 Received as October 26th, 1881 from the Inter national & Great Northern Railroad Co. One hundred First Mortgai_;e Bonds for One thousand dollars each, Nos. 7185 to 7284, with coupons payable Novernber 1st, 1881 on account of contract with the International Railway Improvement Co. for building road from San Antonio to the Rio. Grande. Nos. 7185 to 7284 100 First Mortgage Bonds. ' . S*" ■■■ • . ' ' ■! ,!■' *>. - , , 'i.j; . , 1 A I ■ ' ' ' ■ * ' hS'V y. ' ■■■' -■ '; ■ V, 681 New York City. November 24th, 1881, Dear Sir; in receipt of your letter of March 18th, with acrompanying I think you had better :-o to work and get the right of way down to the Barge property and try and buy ground sufficient in there for the round house and machine ships if it can be got at any reasonable price, but I do not want to put much more money in terminal facilities at that place. If we cannot get plenty of property for machine shops we can put our shops up at ^Vestwego v/here we have plenty of land, and use that property down there for the transfer of our freight, passengers, etc. In buying the property you want to be sure and -et bature privilege so we can put up wharves. I expect that Mr. Hayes and Mr. Washburi. will be there to consult with Mr. Barr upon some matters, and I would like to have -ou and Mr. Rarr present these matters to them and get-their opinion upon what is true economy in placing our shops and roundhouse. I notice on the map that the Morgan line has tracks to the river near the vacant property. Have they those tracks down? Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, President. T St. ■ kl m Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 28, 1881 J. J. Thi Cault, Esq., Dear Sir: Tuxpani, l/:e>;ico. Your favor of Aug. 24 addressed to Mr. H. M. Mabie, General Manager etc., together with the accompanying documents, in relation to the advantages of Tuxpam as an objective point for a railway in Mexico, having been referred to me; I would say in reply thereto, that the concession granted by the Government of Mexico to this Co. for the construction of the 'Mexican, Oriental, Intcroceanic &: International Rwy.' gives us the right among others , to construct a branch to Tuxpam. At present however, our entire attention is occupied in getting our forces upon our main line from Laredo to th City of Mexico, when that is accomplished we will be ready to take up the question Ox Branches. Thanking you for the infornation afforded, I am Very truly yours, G■ M. Dodge, President. G85 St Louis, Dec. 2, 1881. A. A. Talnage, Es q.. General Manager. Dear Sir:- I want to thank you for your courtesy in fiirnishing me a train for my five weeks trip and for the attention and courtesy of all of your employees. Messrs Kail and Gordon have made over eight thousand miles, quietly, safely and without any friction. Mr. Gordon never hitched on to me so that I could feel it. He gave me an even, steady ride wi'.hout a bump or accident, and has never been called upon day or night without responding. I must say I never made a trip v/ith better arrangements or with more comfort, than this. I include in this the whole crew, and if you see proper I should be glad that they should know it. Agrain thanking you for your courtesy and attention, I am. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. Texas and Pacific Rail,'.ay Company, 275 South Fourth Steeet, Phildelphia, Pa., Deer. 8th, 1881 Gen'l. G. J. Dodge, President, New York My dear General: There are two matters to which I desire to jcall your attention while in New Orleans. First as to the terminal facilities of the Company on the levee, two plots of ground belonging to the Broods Estate of Boston, represented by Mr.,Shepard of New Orleans. The price asked is ,jj'150,000. cash, or $30,000. cash with a mortgage for 5 years at G per cent for the balance. We have an option on this property good until the 15th of January, so there will probably be ample time for you to see Mr.. Shepard while you are in New Orleans. Mr. 'A'heelock knows all about the negotiation s and can show you the ground which is very advantagiously located for our purposes. I think that the trade should be closed with the parties if they will accept a five per cent martgage, but I donot quite like paying 6 per cent, when the rate ..f interest is so low else where . I also enclose with this a copy of Chas. A. Whitneys & Go's, letter offering to sell the Bayou Goula Road, on behalf of Morgans Louisiana and Texas R. R. & Steamship Co. with its appurtenances, purchased from I'. M. An.es Trustee and a committee of the Bond holders, for the siam of $12,000. per mile, they reserving all franchises beyond Bayou Goula, and especially the franchises and all rights of any character appurtenant to the road between Vermiliionville and Alexandria. It is per fectly proper that they should retain the franchises from VerniillionvilLe to Alexandria, but there is no ieason what ever for' their retaining whatever rights appertaining to the road,beyond Bayou Goula. The charter carries vith it the right of extension to Vermiliionville and this we should in sist upon retaining. In fact we should retain all the rights covered by the original conveyance to the Morgan Company except the Franchises appertaining to the road from Vermiliionville to Alexandria. Messrs. Whitney &■. Co. also make two conditions for the sale. I don't think either of these conditions or stipu lations desired should be put into the conveyance in case the property shall be purchased. I can see no objection to agree ing to receive their fi-eights at the intersection of their 690 ro&ds with the N. 0. P. at Alexandris, but re should claim the right to deliver any of our stuff at Alexandria or Le Coute. In other woivj.s, eachcoDipany would take its largest haul for business received from, the other; and I can see no objection to our pror-ating between New Orleans and conpetitive points reached by our lines in Texas, provided there is unagreed rate between the two competitive lines, and that agreed rate shall be maintained; but not otherwise. As to their second requirement, that for business to and from New York they shall be placed on an equal footing with the most favored lines, I do not see any objection to making that agreement. Thei'e have no advices Mr. Cummisky having been api)oin road, and I cannot think this h is an excellent office man as I make a purchasing agent, and. to Distribution of cars, and this to which he was to be appointed Sup't. a very much more active required.. As an office man, M we have, on the road, but he has office that I know of. been received at this office of ted Ass't Gen'l. Sup't. of the as been done . Mr . Cuniriiaky ..old you of good material to attend to the Car Record and I understood, was the position For an assistant to the Gen'l. outside man is, in my opinion r. Cummisky is one of the best had no experience outside of an I trust while you are in Text^s you will wrtie m.e free ly as to hat you see and hear with reference to our Texas & Pacific & New Orleans Pacific m;. tters. Gov. Brown will, I presume, be on at the Board meet ing on the Slst, when I shall have an opportunity of going over a good many matters with him, and making some suggestions that will, I think, facilitate a harmonious and active working of our operating Department, in connection with Construction, such as will I think avoid friction in the future between the oper ating and Construction Departments. Yours very truly, Frank J. Bond, Vice President. J1..' -•ju'., ■ New York City, December 9, 1881 Frances De Gress, Esq., City of ivexico. Dear Sir: I today paid you draft for .!^150,000. having the receipt therefor endorsed upon the face of the contract. The I. C. & I.Ey. Co. htId a meeting today and com pleted their organisation by the applintment of A'r. RuSsell Sage as T^easur er, and passed resolutions complying in every particular with the law as mentioned by you. You will receive fron the Secretary official copies of these resolutions. The company also authorized Lhe opening of books for subscriptioi¥..to their capital stock, to be opened on 15th instant and to be kept open for ten days. Ye are now moving right along making eveything ready to go ahead south of Laredo as soon as one N:. K. & T. extension reaches there. Is there now anything which the Inl. Ry. I. Co. has not.done that should be done or is necessary for them to do inorder to comply with all the laws and the provisions of the concession and take amendments? You must keep us posted upon what is necessary for us to do. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President. r:^ New York City, International Railway Improvement Co., December 9, 1881, The attention of all employes of this uo. is called to the following portion of Act 32nd of the concession granted to this Co. November 15, 1881, "The Company shall imniediately discharge from it's services, anjf of it's employes who may engage in or protect contraband trade, or commit any crime, and shall aid the authorities in apprehending them." "The uompany will be obliged to comply strictly in all that relates to it with the regulations which may be issued by the Treas ury Department for preventing countraband trade and for the observance of Federal lav/s," due Employes are hereby notified that tho/^observanceof the above will be strictly enforced and heads of apartments and chiefs of par ties are instructed to give the same full effect, vT. Uodge, President, 607 Received this ninth day of December 1881 of the International Railway Improvement Company the sum of One Himdred and fifty Thousand Dollars in full payment of the sum to be paid to Francis DeGress Tin der the first article of an agreement dated April23rd 1881 between Jay Gould acting for said International Railway Improvement Company and Francis UeOress. Duplicate of this receipt appears on the face of the original contract. Philadelphia, New York City, Diiceiriber 15, 1881 B. S. '.Vathen, Esq., Dear Glr; Laredo, Texas. I am in receipt of yours of 8th in regard to the appointment of Custom House Agents. i' I do not at present know of any points except Laredo at which we will make any importations. Ae do not expect to bring anything in at the ports of Iv'atamoras, Tampico, Camargo or Miin, unless it may be a few supplies for contractors and do not understand the necessity of appointing these agents. What are they foi? As soon as we appoint them don't we put them under salary? Your are on the ground and know the necessities of the case, but I wish you would me more fully in regard to it. Rut I do not want to appoint a lot of agents and pay them for doing nothing. Yours truly. G.f/:. Dodge, President. 703 New York City. December 29, 1881. Thos. Nickerson, Esq., Pres. !.!ex. Cent. Ry. Co, Boston, "»asE. Dear Sir:- I am In receipt of yours of December 28th. Our road is now completed throurth from New Orleans to El Paso, and the distance is as follows; New Orleans to Shreveport 32r: miles. Shre-eport to Port Worth 210 " Port Worth to El Paso 614 " There are no wharf~or terminal charges or anything of the kind at New Orleans; your material would be landed directly from the ship upon our wharves. The distance from Calveston by the shortest route to El Paso is 900 miles; this is over our road to Houston and over the Texas Central from Houston to Cisco, thence over the Tp:-as & Pacific to El Paso. In G1 veston lighterage charges are ClSO to Os.OO per ton, and you would have to tal^e your chances on demurage which is often lage. There are also wharf charges at Galveston which have to be arranged with the railway Companies centering there; but if o you send your material over our line from Galveston I think our people vould take care of the wharfage charges, but that is a point upon which I would have to consult Mr. Roxie. I do not know .vhat rate Mr. Hayes has given you upon your material, but it seems to me there is no question that it should be landed either at New Orleans or at Calveston, taking into consideration the items of prompt delivery and cost of transportation. It seems to me that the insurance, interrst, and time used up in sending it to Wilmington would m.ore than offset any difference there would be in the rate of freight, yours truly yours, G. M. 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Language A language of the resource English Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections 1880 1881 1882 1883 General Grenville M. Dodge railroads Texas & Pacific Railway Union Pacific Railroad https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/0aca7e7e74e94d0d7aa545876522883f.pdf 1c60dda5fd9e6e0701ccddc37a58b0e5 PDF Text Text DATA CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED For Ready Reference in the Preparation of a Biography of GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE. President of Sundry Railroad & Construction Companies. Late Chief Engineer Union Pacific and Texas Pacific Railroad Companies, ^iEMBER OF CONGRESS, MAJOR GENERAL in the Tar for the Preservation of the Union. BOOK 11. Building of Southwest System of Railways and and other Railroads. Legislation Relating to Iowa Railroads . Unxon Pacific Bridge. Settlement of Secret Service Account with G. M. Dodge and Government. Death of H. M. Hoxie - General John A. Logan, N. E. Dawson Report on General Logan. s Report Presidential of Battle Campaign of Atlanta. Blaine & Cleveland. | ..jB 1884 - 5 - 6 - 7. The-officers of the Ft, Worth and Denver City railroad for the year 1884 were as follows: Morgan Jones,President. Jti v' '/O T. W. Piersoll, Vloe President, ,, . J. T. Gran or, Treasiirer, t , f-oo" 1'' t\ noJ W. A. Ross, Secretary, tr . tuQ'^ C. L.Frost, General Superintendent. My reaons for building the Ft. Worth and Denver City road nearly all tlie way from Wichita Falls to Trinidad through an undev eloped and unknown country were on account-of my knowledge of the country, which I had traveled over. It was now used almost entirely as a pasture and the staked plains were considered too higl. arf altitude for agricultujiax purposes. The country through Nev/ Mexico was virtually nothing but a pasture devoted to slieep, but no one can travel through than country, as I have, but what would be impressed with the topography and the prettineess of the land-scape, starting fro;,. Ft. Worth. After passing through a small skirt of the "gr^s timber between Pt, '7orth and Decatur, you come into a beautiful prairie country gently undulating and wit): a fertile soil. This beautiful land extends for hundreds of miles to the upper edge of the Pan Handle, and for years has been comparatively undeveloped for want of transportation facilities. The advent of the Ft. Worth and Denver road through that rich belt, had worked an epoch in its history. As soon as we commenced building, the people commenced flocking in and the rich lands were being rapidly Settled up. The greatest bar to om'gration, are the large, enclosed p««tures of the rich stock-men. TJie Capital pasture was 115 miles through on the lino of the proposed Ft. Worth and Denver City road, B11301 s. 1 ^ ' fc-' f ' "■ v.| 'j:n but we considered that as the land Advanced in value, it would be to the interest of these owners to break up their"pas1;ures and- sell them out in small farr;^, and it was'our opinions-that Northwest Texas would become a garden spot Of the State. The towns of Decatur, Bowie in Montague Country, 'Henrietta in Clay County, Wichita Falls in Wicliita County, were the only settlements of any important. There was a small settlement on the Canadian river called Tascosa, so t at virtually we were building 500 miles of road "in an unoccupied country, 3C0 miles of it on an elevation-^of the'staked plains. A person traveling thfough the country today finds it so'-fully occupied that the railroad ti!at •commenced earning $2,000 per mile'gross 'is now earning from Eight to ten thousand dollars per mile per year gro J .LV:- ft . iiflri. . . ■ yvfV'- . hianK ^ « " ItI- ; Hw* fSiv ufcrrx/ t •.f)« ^ 'S fvl "Jo l.t5<rift,.'Lia -r ' ' " -i V.jV i j'. .JM ffhv 9l " ' i lU'l m.-'op . ^ {jrv r. ■ i4ooXl br&nr I 'h.i •f .f-.ftjrfnr. Oi-jT , -id, . . . t ' • 'v- V .'lir/nar^ .4»ae , " , - >' vJn itol A 'aiih* •vf' 1 . mfiu]' . ,,b* h ■ ''>■ ' After the Qlectipn,.in New Yorkj B\aine made the following statement.: ■ " " - • - * — o • , ' : r "From the first I had no -other desire than that-'a .fair c-o'unt should be made, find, so far as I am personally concprned, I would be content with either result—^^success would not elate me and defeat "woul^d not depress me. I liye.d too near the Presidency in 1881 and have too keen a Sense of its burdens, ,it3 embarrassments and its perils to be .' unduly anxious for" the office." ' . - ■ . , , ^ ^ : /' Mr. Blaine considered that the vote from the Irrdep.endent - - Republican of New York: was one of the man causes for t.he loss of New York. He also thOuglit that ti-e remark of Dr. Burcliard, which; was quoted everin.vhere to his prejudice, drove from him the Irish.i vote which was naturally his. , " -- There is but one comment on Mr. Elaine's flefeat. He made a 'gallant and brilliant fight. Millions^of•freemen voted against him, huntipeds'Of thousands labored and r.chetted ^and contrived to '^ompass his oWrtlirow, A sooj^re of the most distinguished and influential Repub- • lie an Journals in the' country and many scores of Republican leaddrs frdat-'tih»l»*pa*6y and lent their effort's and their example to ' the cause of thd DdrSocraoy, NevSir before in the history of our 'politics was the a presidential candidate so terrihlyliandicapped for his race, by his personal and official record, by the bitter aniraoaitieS of powerful men within liis party; hy the Independent movement; by the ProhiT.'ition movajtasnt; by the mischievous folly oT such friends as Rev, 'Orchard; by every conceivable element of weakness. and the personal antagonism of Roscoe Conkling, Pacing all this v/as l.onestly elected, hut through the cowardice of his friends and ■ >■'* himself, failed to make the contest to maintain his election. He '■ 'was deterred from this by the dispatches he got from Nev/ York, especially fromThitelcck Reed, claiming it would make such an r upheaval and panic and showing the bitter fee.ling in New York, which finally made him over rule the advice of his managing'conmittee. General John A. Logan of Illinois, ,was on the' ticket with: Mr, Elaine for Vice President. Hi .popularity in the 'Jest held that country. It was a great disappointment to the soldiers that he was not elected. Logan thought tliat a contest should be made to main tain thelT electi.'n blrt of course the decision of Elaine .controlled him.' ' 01' - r--" ' \ r be.' " Ever since the Civil Tar, theu?e had' been' a great controversy as to the .question »a>a-to what Grant intended when .ordered Logan ^ 'to Nashville,' when he^atarted t-o go th^re 'himself to take comearnd, and , ' aleo ordered me from St. Louis to go there,' and when we reaclaed •Jif Nashville the battle was on and neither of them wont any farther. I suppose his desire for me to go there was to command the troops I had sent from my department,- but my presenfce. was certainly not necessary because the troops wei*0 commanded by a .very efficient officer. General A. J. Smith, who had oommanded the right wing of. the 16tl. A.C. a- long time.' ■ : n- ,V"i . I il ' On February 1884,' Gen'eral Grants'battled this "question by the following letter to General Eogan: ' ' H'uai';; V' During the year 1884 there was the great Presidentiil campaign of Blaine and Clevelanc. I took a great interest in this caxpaign. Mr. Clarkson from Iowa was the Republican National Coimr^itteeman from Iowa and was a member of the Executive Committee of seven which conducted the Republican campaign, . . At the electin in November, Blaine was honestly elected and it 4 ^ was through the advise of Whit61aw Reed of the Tribune that made Blaine give up the fight, while Clarkson, myself and others sent protests to him, tellin'^ him not to do so as he was legally elected. The whole thing was turned on the election in Nev/ Yorlc, Blaine had 3700 more legal votes in that State than Cleveland, but the Democratic party counted over 700 Butler votes for ClevQland and committed great frauds at Coney Island, returning a majority for Clevolanc!. This investigation of the matter has since been fully settled by the fx^auds at Coney Island and A the men who committed them were sent to the State prison, Mr, Jay Gould took a great interest in this fight and his name was not helpful to it. After the election crowds marched up and down the street denouncing Jay Gould, which frightened a good many but the police were able to hold them in check. The best statement in relation to this election was made by Clarkson on November 19, 1884 to the Chicago Tribune and is to be found in scrap-book 10, page 11. John Kelly of Hew York was oppoaed to Cleveland and had made arrangements with the Republican party to turn over a large democratic vote in New York City to Blaine but Burnes wiio was chief of police or chief of the detective force, I forget which, was a personal friend of mine and he came to me two or three times hefore the election and ' told me that Kelly was ""oing to throw us down--that he had been seen. I went to the head-quarters and made it knowfT to Clarkson and others and while they did not helieve it and had no means of really proving t it, the results of the election showed that Kelly did not deliver the votes he had a'-reed to; w'lether it was because he coi/ldn't or whether he had been induced not to has n6ver been determined. ■ • -if '• ■■ J . -JV . '^JT-n-yr gam 9d M or. ^ Hld ■■ - .1 ' . ) T u* nal/0#Jrt mdi 9im yil .i ejfp tr.f. 'viu/w*l9 14is^ jr - ' i'T cu" a-.J ijXXai ki«^ ori.i; a' aija-nwJJjeiF • I i' ■' :■■$ »*i ■ - . . i . . •/ * ; , A,|/ tM. ^iijtaf. • imQj briiijiMr ■ \.;i ' t.i i'v ' i.*4 Hi ifttfmJrtl jaci-j # < ej of ^r> .I'f n-irh i'fr* *;■ ' 9Mmtt - . ' W1:A ..fi c.; d a*tj j£fr,\y»«it« hocf^ • ..r-i >,- ,'jiWm . I*. 'it 04 tUSi» woilo , . ■ V . *' r.; ■" fthA:, cr- *;i, .' .-.h'l./ani irrMf etU ,CX "taibjawot ..;r %r I»1 ,: r ff ertsr-i lrlNlir?^k,ii»h oT**! tt 'uii rMKaJt.iwqaW « .iJ " 10 8«» .» .W vJlQ nt «u*e' h-«r..-r •- , .-1 1- • . T uo . .. wlkT^Mi^ New York City, January 2, 1884. Morgan Jones, Esq., President, Fr. Worth. Dear Sir: I am in receixit of your letter of Dec. 28th. I have heard a. great deal about the coal near Bowie and have had it partially examined. I think the best plan is for you to make the arrangements there yourself and thoroughly test it. I am willing to pay ■tfSOO to do this but before we do any work there you should have options giving us full control of the property so that if we made any discoveries we would not have to pay an exoroitant price for the land. I am perfectly will ing to take your judgement in this matter and niake any ex penditure of this kind which you think would be beneficial to the Go. Mr. Soeley has been here and I have had a long talk with him. He is vei-y desirous of running the road or obtaining some interest in it. I do not want them to build up into that country north west of Fort Worth and I believe that if you talk with them they .can be kept from doing so. They can cer tainly make arrangements with us by which they can do better than by building. The stone quarry of which I wrote you is only two miles from the road, west of Sunset, and I have been told that it would take but little over a mile and a half of new track to reach it and that we could get control of it, so as to develop it as rapidly as we wished but oi course it would be better if we could fird a quarry right on the line of road. Does not the stratum. - of Hull's quarry cross the road somewhere? Wher-e is the quarry of which you write. Yours truly. G . M . Dodge, President. 9 m New York, January 2nd, 1884, Gen. Hamilton. Dear General: Your favor of the 27th of December sent to me at Counc"1 Bluffs as been forwarded to me here. I note your request for aid in obtaining a pos't-'on for your son and shall be very glad to do so as f ar as lies in my power. I am not at present in railroading business and am only very slightly interested in them though I know a good many of the officers. Has your son had any experience in railroading; if so, in what departments? It is almost impossible bb obtain positions in running roads for inexperienced men and it will be difficult to find him at once a suitable position or one which he would be likely to a ccept, but if you will write me more fully and particulary what his business experence has been, it may be that through the officers of some of our roads I can find something for him to do, I often think of our old times together and events occurring then seem to me now more like a dream than reality. I have seen the TifQ_p fought over so many times since it closed and so many things have come up which I never dreamed of that I am almost convinced that T knew nothing about it. My family has grown up and two of my daughters have marri ed. Mrs. ""odge is an invalid and has been so for a year past. She is now in the south anc. T have a letter from here today from which I learn th that she is somewhat better. We all remember you and have often spoken about you and they will be glad to know that you remember them. Please accept the compliments of the season and my kindest regards. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. ■ ,1884. 'ilkinsonville , ('•Vorcester ,Co .) I/iass. Hon'l Grenville . Dodge, Dear Sir: I address you at this time to know what Dodge City, Kansas was named for (whether it was for yourself or the late A. G. Dodge of Burlington, Iowa' or his father the late Henry Dodge. I have two sons at Raton, New Mexico, they are emijloyed by the Atkinson Topeka and Santa Fee R. R. Company at Raton Station just over the line from Colorado. They passed by Dodge City, and we all feel a little interest which of the distinguished men above referred to that town was named for and if you will be so kind as to answer my question it will be a great favor. Tl:e late Honl. A. C.Dodge was at my house several days at the tin.e of meeting at. Salem, but not think ing ny sons might pass through that Town I did not think to ask in reference to that town. In '" isconsin lone town and village and county were named for Gen'l Henry Dodge, yet I am rather inclined to believe Dodge Gity, Kansas was not named after him, but yourself. I have seen several prominent menbers of the Dodge family and consulted them as to having another fanily gathering at Salem, Mass.this year or another year and thought it might be a very inter esting meeting and miuch more so than ;the first one we had. I sent you soiiie time last month a small pamphlet of the reprint of what I had accomplished in the Dodge ^'amily, and other Historical works. I do not know th!>t you received it. Sincerely yoiu's, Reuben K. Dodge. . h-, )y-' , t ^ ; . - ■ V 1 " i .5 ■ w ■w 195 broadway New York, Jan, 6, 1' '84. Messrs. Polk ?c Kubbell, Des Moines, Iowa, Gentlemen:- I am in receipt of yours of the 12th inst, and enclose herewith appointment of your Mr, Hubbell as Secretary and Assistant Treasurer, I understand that my action in making changes ^n the board at the recent stockholders meeting does not meet your approval. My whole action in this matter was taken olely at the advice of your Mr. Hubbell, given when he was last in New York to the effect that it vTould be well for me to go into the Board and take personal charge of the operation of the road. If I had taken more thought in the case I might have made Mr. Hubbell Vice President but as Mr, Clarkson was going to remain interested with us I thought he would be of service to us as Vice President^ more so than any one else, or in any other way, I hope t.iat you gentlemen will look up this matter just exactly as it Has intended. Whatever I do witii the road, whether I extend it or sell it I expect to have your hearty cooperation, I do not intend to do any thing to cause you to change your interest in it or to prevents your aiding me in getting ray money out of it, I have no doubt whatever that if Mr, Clarkson thought that you objected to the action of the board or thought for a moment that it would be an injuy to me, he would at once resign the posit-'on. I \inderstand that his relations with you are perfectly harmonious. As to otiier matters mentioned in your letter I expect soon to make a trip west and when I see you in Des Iloines we will consider and decide upon them. Yours truly, G, M, Dodge. It- 15 8 195 Broadway New York, January 7, 1884. I'U.XC 'jnnf) Phil Clarkson, Des MoineS, Iowa. ^ ^ Dear Sir: I" clip from the copy of your paper received here today the enclosed article. I suppose you do ni>t desire to print anything but the exact facts in this case regardless of your friendly feelings toward the C. B. 0. and as this case happens to be so clear I desire to state it to you. There has never been any wish or desire to take from the Q by t the pool lines any of its rates, or any of its Nebraska business to which it is justly entitled. The pool lines simply demanded that the Q should treat them the same as the U.P. did. That is all. To show you just what that demand is T will give you an example At the town of Columbus, Nebraska, the Q and the U.P. divide the business 50^ going to each road. The 50^ taken by the U.P. goes to Omaha and is there turned over to the Iowa pool lines. The 50^ taken by the Q it carries to Chicago or to such point as it is destined crossing the river at Plattsmouth giving none of it to the Iowa pool lines. Bu tthe Q has a line to Council Bluffs and there goes into the Iowa pool and takes its 1/4 of the 50^ Which it turned over by th U.P. thus getting 5/8 of the 0olumbus freight leaving only the remainder to be divided among the pool lines. All that the Iowa pool ever asked was that at competitive points if the ^ took its share of all the business of the U.P. at CounCl Bluffs, it should turn in its 50^ nothing more. That is, the pool lines demanded of the Q that at all competitive po'nts with the U.P. the total business at such comp titive points should go into the Iowa pool if the Q desired to take out its full quarter of that pool. Is there anything unfair about this? The Iowa pool for the past year has been a pool merely in name. The Q has repeatedly violated all its agreements with that pool and has cut the rates at competitive points where it could get a load of freight. They may deny this but the proof of it is so positiv and it has been sliown so clearly that any person who is at all posted will not deny it. The facts above mentioned is one of the causes which induced the Iowa pool to enter into the tri-party agreement, if the Q now cuts a rate at any point the U.P. does not have to stand it all but only stands its l/c or l/s or its.equal share of whatever number of units there are in tlie pool. « Very truly yours, G. M. Ddge. ; ;"T. ».''x " v.'<11 New York, January 8, 1884, dear Clarkson: I notice in a recent article in the Register you get after f ■Medill of Chicago Trihune. It seems to me you do not hit just where ' ■ you should. IHe bases his reasons for being a free trader on a change of heart, and goes on to state that the prosperi'ty of" this, country is due to large crops and not to protection and further that the depression" of affa?rs is due to protection. Now,, in ,the very hext colTunh you. have an art-'cle on. Iowa and its credit wherein you say and Khow that, for the past three years the crops have been largely defic-'e Xoo' and that this is the case'over very nearly the whole ' ountry. . "Wliy t . ■ . • 't' X' ■ didn't" you take h'ra on that plea and show h^'m and the-people tha If prosperity comes from good crops then certainly the depression ^ .' ' fully accounted for by poor crops. His defense, of course,, is a ntl' very weak one. "We all know just .why he is a free trader. Tt is just \ _ . »'' ■ as potent here as it IS why a large proportion of the New York papers are free traders. "« • " ■ nJiif <: f>v» ' -yours truly,, i raJ Jiio jiB.i ;.>a« . £»•; ? 10 .w »ij Jta t hi.' . ■ - lo bflOX . rj/i .Jrt ojiw nooWA^ ,n*i . G. M. Dodge4 ti H t.nm -- 'rt . 1 -1|- . ' ; rn^ Jort Ilfr o.f if nutim oJ .. ."r-Cifht* dsf.iv Idi'i' '"'3 Vy* #«l»t n tslfO --on p iF t ". Phil Clarkson, Esq., ' n d\/ -*0 t\l ebrifi.r' j, . '■'o.Ti f-.ij nf irjA K.' f'tif lo iC'dniin Des Molnos, Iowa, rr^r ilXi' New York City, January 11th, 1884. Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Prest. City, Dear Sir: This company owns a one-half interest in the Town sites on the line of the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway and the following brief report will show just the amount of acres owned at each point, together with the c©st of the same to the Company and there below the amount in goods"utalized from the sale of lost or property at each place, either in cash or notes or both, commencing from the first site north of Fort Worth and continuing north to Wichita Falls and beyond. Sale 107 Acres in a solid body owned unconditionally in fee simple and costing - - - - - - - - :t?538. Lots sold 60. Deficit or lost ii^478. Aurora. 100 Acres of land deeded to R E. Montgomery, Trustee on condition that one half the net proceeds from Sale of lots be paid to B. Mains the grantor. Proceeds from sale of lots :pl077.50 1/2 coming to this company 538.75 Cowen Unconditional deed to 21 acres of land costing - - 100 No lots sold. Alvord Unconditional deed to - - - ■ - - 97 1/2 acres Costing - - - - - - - - - - $487.50 Proceeds from sale of lots - - - - -2705. Profit 2217.50 Sunset Unconditional deed to 147 acres Costing - - - - - - - - - Proceeds from sale of lots Profit Bowie Unconditional deed to 100 acres. Costing - - - - - - - - Proceeds sale of lots - - - . "■rof it - 1087. ■ 4650. 356,3 . - 1176. - 14193. 13017. Baiievue Deed to 148 1/2 acres conditional that one half the net proceeds of sales be turned over to the grantor 1/2 Gross proceeds of sale -^460 Alma Unconditional deed to 40 acres Costing - - - - - - - - - - - - 145 No lots sold. Carlyle. The right to pui'chase-40 acres in square covering the siding at it's per acre from R. 1. Montgomery the owner of. the section. Vernon 100 acres donated by citizens there covering Depot grounds and which is the unconditional property of the company. I have not the date with me but I bought an additional tract sur rounding the town of Vermon at |3. per acre that I think con tains some 540 acres. The best portion of this property has be^n sold and the cream, taken and from now on sales will be apt to languish, as the best has been already selected. You will understand that the Texas Town Site Co. owns a one half interest in the net proceeds arising from these sales, and also that nearly all sales are made for only one-third cash, so that by far the greater portion of the above profits consist in vendors lien notes and not in cash. This Company also hss o5/l00 interest in the town-site of Wichita Falls, but this will be made the subject of another communication. This Company has in addition to the above and not owned in connection with the "Texas Town Site Co." 73 acres of improved land near Fort Worth that cost -^20. per acre, but it was bought to settle an ugly right of way claim and is badly cut up by the Railway, and I have been unable to even sell it for $15 per acre. This report is up to December 1st last, and since that time I have stopped sale of lots at Bowie until I returned, but sales are in progress at other points. Respectfully, (Signed) R. E, Montgomery, G. T. L. A. (. V. New York, January 16, 1084. N. C. Ridenour, Esq., Clarinda, Iowa. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of the 14th instant . I think Col. Kinsman's body should be taknn to Counc-* 1 Bluffs anc buried there. He enlisted there in the Fourth Iowa Infantry and went out under me from that place and became Captain of Company B before he was promoted to the command of the 23rd regiment. He v^as with me at the battle of Pea Ridge and distinguished h'mself there holding the mountain to our extreme left. If the legislature proposesto take action in the matter, I have no objection. It is a very propert thing for them to do. I happened to see your article and was astonished to learn the facts, I supposed his body had been laying south only because there was no one who felt disposed to take it north. As I wrote you I am ready to do whatever his friends and the members of his regiment decide upon. He should be taken to Council Bluffs and a monument raised over his remains. It would be a very facreful act for the state of Iowa bo do this through the Legislature but if they don't do it his comrades should. Kinsman was my warm and particular friend from the time he came to Council Bluffs until he left me after Pea Ridge. I knew him v;-ell socially and as a citizen, politician and soldier. Yours truly, G. II. Dodge. New York City, January 23d, 1884. Morgan Jones, Esq., President, Fort Worth. Eeqr Sii-: I am in receipt of yours of 18th inst. It wil] be impossible for me to get down to Texas as long as financial matters remain in such an unsettled condition. I have a great desire to construct fifty or seventyfive miles of additional road during the coming summer, and if you can arrange to form a syndicate that would be willing to take our bonds and do the work I should be glad to have you doso. The road should be built very cheaply and it would be only a question of holding the bonds a short time. I approve of every thing you do there for the sake of economy. You are there as president oi the Company, and I want you to act as such. Of course I want to avoid any friction with Mr. Frost,still we must look out for the road and its bond and stock holkers. This is the great object. I know Frost is inclined to be a little extravagant, and to build up a railroad reputation but this we cannot afford. He has handled the road so far* in a very satisfact ory manner and I have no fault to find only I have no doubt he has done things which he would not have done had I been there on the ground to consult with him. You must talk right out and-say what you think about matters and especially cut down expenditures whenever you think them unnecessary or extravagant. Frost talked with me when he was here about machinery for the round house and said that it would cost less money to operate it than he was now paying to the Missouri Pacific for doing his work and could also get a considerable amount of City or outside work to help pay expenses. I told him I would take the subject under consideration but have not written him about it since. I am disposed to go very slowly until we see what the crop in Texas and our next sumniers earnings are to be. I am glad you have started in to solve the coal question for if we find it near the road and in any quantity it will be of great aid to us. I have covered the buildings equipment, freight stored or in transit with about ^184,COO of Insurance, of which Mr. Frost will inform you the details. Let me hear from you fully and often. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, President. *1 ■ ' / I'll. New York, January 24, 1884. Hon. William P. Frye, Washington, D. C. j' - •noU Dear r:- » ^ t" C' t ,_,X k I feel a great interest in the ratification of the treaty with Mexico, I have a very thorough knowledge of that coiontry and of the effects of such a treaty upon it and feel certain that its rat if icatior and adoption will be in every way beneficial to us. I under stand that some of the protectionists are against it. There is no greater protectionist than T am but I knov/ that the adopt''on of this treaty will be of great benefit to us. If you can do so consistently with your views, I wish you would aid its passage. . . • During hhe past two years T have spent a great deal of mOney in doing work in Mexico and have given.a great deal of attention to the d velopment-Of the country. T understand fully all the bearings of this question and know all the difficulties we have to.contend with « under the present system and firmly believe that theonly way to remedy them is bey the adoption of such a treaty as that now under considera tion by the Senate. Very respectfully, G. M. Dodge. Nev^York January 24, 1884, , . n 'r Hon. Eugene Hale, .0 .rr j • ■ U. S. Senate, Wash-i.ngton, D. C. I am very much interested in the ratificat"on of the treaty with Mexico, Now under consideration "by the United States Senate, Of course my interests are in the west and southwest hut T think there are very few people who are better posted than myself regarding our business relat^'ons with mexico, and the difficulties undei which we labor in the present condition of affairs. It seems to me that there can be no mistlae in ratifying tin's treaty,' It may not be just righ in every particular but as it is its adoption .will prove to be a great benefit to the bunness interests of this country. You can have no idea of the development.that is going on in that country and when you remember that by next May at latest we will have a -^j^pough line of railway from New York to the city of Mexico and consider the difficr.lties tliat wiil be thrown around us in the trans action of business under the existing arrangement, you will see the necessity for some such agreement as this treaty provides, I know that you are a long distance away from the City of Mexico but I wish if you can make it consistent with your fiffleas of right you will do what you can to aid in the ratification of this * treaty. + , " I think the sugar interest-is mistaken in its views. I.certain ly would not wish to do that interest the slightest injury but in my opinion they are a good deal more scared than hurt. You will never hear 6f any injury to them if the treaty is adopted. I do not believe that free sugar from Mexico will ever hurt the State of Louisiana, Very respectfully. G. M. Dodge#'- X'i no f ^ ', New York, January 25, 1884. Hon. W. P. Kellogg, ' ■ TJ. S. House Representatives, * • ■ , / Washington, D. C. ' Dear Sir:- I am in rece^'pt of yours of yesterday making inqu'ry regardirg amount of stock Issued upon Texas & Paclf'c Railway and its relation to the bonds of the company. The stock Is ued upon the line of road averages but little- over $20,000 ;per mile. It covers the road, from New Orleans to El Paso over the Texas & Pacific main line and the New Oi?lenas Pacific division. On the latter division the stock comes next to the first mort gage bondd and this is the same case on the Rio Grande division. On what is known as the Eastern division extending from Texarkana to •Fort Worth there is an income and land grant bond ahead of the stock. The Idea has always been that the lands covered by our land grant from the State of Texas would from the proceeds of the^r sale eventually Wipe out the entire Issue of land Grant bond. In my opinion there is no question about the cheapness of the stock. Neither Mr. Gould nor any one else has ever advanced one dollar toward the "payment of Interest charges. The road has earned its interest. It has a great many sources of income outside of its earnings for Instance the Rio Grande division ownes all the town lots lying along it and the sales for the past year amounted to about $190,000 That Division has eamed its own Interest wi ohout depending upon the others. I have no doubt that during the coming year the road will make even a better showing than for the year past. You mu t reramber that about 900 miles of this road is new and there has to be a great deal done t it in the way of ballast and a great deal of equipment put upon It. We have th's year expended nearly $500, 00 for New equipment and it now has 155 locomotives and about 4000 cars and still it is unable to do all th business offered to it. Any person who buys this stock and holds it or lyys it away for two or three years will in my opinion make a great deal of money out of it. I know that during the past week Mr. Gould bought 10,000 shares of it and laid it away for keeps. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 28 ■ • ; rl , ' irX ' New York, January 25, 1884. Gen. D. S. Stanley, _ t..1^ ■ ' ' '* •' • ' ' Santa Fe, New Mexico. »bov» Jr 4 :-b01UBn ouwo ,(T ,.'to4-"vhioflir My dear General:- .. . . . • •.f-t-'' od ' I am In receipt of your very welcome letter of January 6th which I have delayed answering until "I could see the powers that be. I • had the opportunity within the past few days to -speak to President Arthur in relation to the subject of your letter and found that he feels very kindly tov/ard you. T have been told by others that Gen. " Sheridan favored Merritt for the promotion but of that of course I canno speak definitely. You may rest assured that I shall gladly do anything I can for you. I am go-ng to Washington on the 5th of January and will then take time to see the Secretary of War and urge your claim and ^ also see Sheridan and talk with him about 1t. You certainly deserve the promotion both by reason of rank and long and continous service. ' « ' , . ' ; 1 n r • . '• I .11 u Very truly yours, ■ • . ■ t' *i, -.a- i ;j II® «. 0.^ ; x : ■ : 4 G. M. Dodg§^ • o$ eXi^ lnJ ortv, 1^. i ' duo v'jto.r 1o rnrtfe t 'Ami ftolfkiqo X® II'w ar-i... -lo owi omc.ii! 000,01 . h.'iwoxf eX( 0 .tfl Amnm .«>'xifh dr.Aj , oo.l T ,jf to • a"-*-!! lot goira uufpY , -h r / .n .1* IaC mh * f to . 'A '' 29 New York, January 30, 1884, N. C. Reidenour , Clarinda, Iowa. Dear Sir:- Replying to yours of recent date I enclose herewith passes for yourself and two Des Moines to Memphis with pass for Col. Kinsman's body on teturn. From Memphis you will probably have to take a steam boat to Vicksburg. I enclose also my check on Oilman, Son & Go, for $?00 which will probably cover your incidental expenses. You can make me a statement of them after you get through w^'th the business. Of course T will not set my wishes against thoseexpressed by Col. Kinsman and i am perfectly will'ng that his body should b laid wherever he expressed a desire to be bur^" ed but it seems to me very singular that he should bish to be buried at Des Moines while his home friends and place of enlistment were at Council Bluffs. Are you perfectly sure that he made the request attributed to him? I mention this because always in his talks with me v^h^lst he was'under me his ideas were entirely different. In them he always said that he deSired to be identity fed w^ th Western Iowa and 7/ith Council bluffs. He said this to me a great many times and in his enlistment, and even after he went into the 23d regiment ho always insisted on being carried on the rolls as from Council Bluffs. I would prefer to have you go after his remains rather than anyone else, and send the passes for yourself, the chaplain and your son as requested in your letter. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 31 ,4'10Y New York, January 31, 1884, Hon. John C. Brown, Washington, D. C. My dear Governor « I am in receipt of yours f yesterday from Washington. I am going over there on Sunday night. T do not know that I exactly udderstand to what agents you refer. We have now no agent there what ever except Wheelock, who is looking after our land grant * >1^ _ _ I- ^ "(-vV* 4/* 0^^o4"r»C5 ^Tv» there what ever except Wheelocic, wno is xooKin.r aiuer our lana ^/'anb a and Dr. Green who attends to telegraphic affairs. Mr. Painter, on behalf of the Buckbone road was attending to getting their matters thr through the Interior Department in which he was very suecessful. In fact, I do not think we could have gotten along without him. _ . > . _ . . ^ T_ . 1 ^ il n w 4* In fact, I do not think we could have gotten along without, him. I do not think he is now employed by any one unless it may be the U.P.Ry. Co. but my understanding is that Sherrall is their Agent. Are either of these the parties you refer to? Our policy has ben to make just as little show as possible and do what we can before the committees making our strong fight in the Senate, when I think we have some show but I do"not think we have much in the House where they seem to me to be almost crazy. The great power behind tliese attacks in Washington seems to be the"bears in Wall St. They are evidettly putting up the funds but if.they get their claws cut here I do not think we will hear much more from them there. . Just now they are making it very lively in-Washington more especially because, as I understandi t they have a great many mei ibers there short of stocks on the theory that everytm'ng was going to the devil. I am very much obliged to you for your letter and for your 'attention to matters in Washington. I hear that affairs on our Texas roads are going along more smoothly. I am glad to hear it and hope it is true. Very truly, *" •" G. M. Dodge. B31301 .32 i ,IS ^KiiiniiL M v: New York, January 31, 1884< Col, E. B. Wheelock, Willard's hotel, ' ' ' ^ ^ ^r■' Washington, D, „ My dear Sir; I am in receipt of yours of yesterday and fully note contents thereof, I delegate see you, I expect to leave-here for Washington on Sunday night as a to the Mississippi River Improvement ConventTon"and will have a letter from Gov, Bro^m in which he states that some of the agents of roads over there are objectionable, I do not know to whom he refers. Certainly we have now no agents there of any kind except Shellabarger and Wilson who are the regular Attorneys of the Union Pacific. Unless it is Sherrall, who represents the joint interests of the Union and Central Pacifis, It is possible that he may refer to Mr Painter who represents the backbone road in the L nd Office but he is doing nothing for any of our companies before Congi-ess, lie has done remarkably well on the land department'and I know that no one else could have, done there would he has done. I should like to know who are the other parties to whom Brown refers. It is-possible that there may be any amount of bummers there cla'ming to represent.some of our companies but if ^^^t they certainly have no authority from any officer so far as my infor^^ mation goes, I do not think we can expect anything from this congress. We cannot defeat any measure which they may have a m'nd to pass through the house. Our only hope is do the best we can in the.Senate. It is not likeJiy that any bill they would no* pass wodld stand long. Very truly, ' - G. M. Dodge, u t*:- ' - ' '*■ I 33 - ' New York, February 8, 1884. R. S. Haynes, Esq., St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir:- While in Washington T saw Mr. James, the contractor for Louisiana Convict labor. He says his force of convicts will soon be at liberty and he would then like to get a contract for ballasting on the New Orleans division that would last him during the summer. He says that if an engine and cars were furnished liim he would be willing to put the ballast under the track, line it and put it in percect condition for 30 cts. per yard, which struck me as being a very reasonable offer. He says he has been subbing work fron, Rogers & Ballentyn and dealt directly with him they could save some money, t do not know any thing about the various questions involved but so far as T have seen his work, T know it to be good. He does not appear to know any of our pdople down there and asked me to write you this letter, but T really do not know whether you or Mr. Talmage is in QhArge of such matters. I can further say that Mr. James jas just completed ballasting the Mississippi Valley Railway on which he worked 150 convicts. He has about 600 more engaged upon the Tinsas levee which will be completed in three or four weeks. T wo ked a ood many of his convicts upon the New Orleans Pacific. Yours truly, G M. Dodge. Iittl. ut 35.1 New York City, Peby. 13, 1884 Hon. T. M. Gockrell, United States Senate, v;ashington, D. G. Dear Sir: I intended calling upon you while I was recently in Washington but the demands upon my time were so great that I was unable to do so. I went to the Senate to see you, but you were out. I desired to speak to you about our bill giving to the Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Go. the right of way through the Indian Territory. We go so far west that our line through the Territory antagonizes no one. I think the Omaha bill is in the hands of Coke of Texas. The House bill is in the hands of Welbourn. It is a similar bill to that which ha^ been unaniDiouslyreported in favor of the . G. & S. F. Ry. Co. and we think that we are certainly entitled to the same privilege. Will you be kind enough to do what you consistently can to aid in the passage of this bill? Very truly yours, G. v.. Dodge. «';r , New York, February 13, 1884. General John W. Puller, Toledo, Ohio, ,frtO Dear Slr:- T am in rece-'pt of yours of the lltL inst. T have already done all I can for General Stanley . I think he is entitled to the promotion. T spoke to the esi dent regarding it. T have a suspicion and probably it is only a suspicion that Sheridan is pressing Merrill; ' however, Stanley has plenty of friends and does not need much pressing. * Everybody knows who h^ is and what he has done, b t if there is any way in which T can further aid him, T shall gladly do so, T have written Stanley to that effect, I am veryglad to hear from you and whenever you come to New i. York T hope you will drop in and wee me, Swayne is only two floors above me. Ho has turned from being a soldier and fighting for me to bein g a lawyer and trying to keep me out of trouble which T fear he has hard work to do. Very truly yours, o4 Bin • . f litUim G. M. Dodge. bA« iu ' . >111011 t mf:i mf:i hJhht hJhht T T .n 'if, . u.i. -.r eee f>0:ifXdfo JIM Jfnf ttlbci' Of. OriA JF ,;udi fs ifoijg iHid ^ f tnfiijt ; tol 'ntfWv « ot :l.iMeiAFnnor) iio| nmO "iraeX 'V-^ I eioF Jrtjifn JbmI boil oicnl .tikoX J 1>r/| T • nf lo Imt jnMXi o MwhwI eVM? Y nol ,iF -m* n#. rtoo 'ie.4«(|iiiifin "in jhu-omm m» *to|J»brroo ♦ V. '•"» Mfi frt tj fl'w ' itttjJitt ▼ CM nnOM mA 'f 'R'V -i M^bo^r .IX ' ;v' '' , ■*' r 1 '/ New York, Peburary 13, 1884. , .V a ioi XinentO Gen, U. S. Grant, .oMO , beloT New York City, •iJSf''! ' -'***•" te-fi" Dear General: . r .^4 . f. r T have been absent for some time past being in Washington looking after the Mexlca n treaty. T It seems to me that Its failure is due to the fact that the admini tratlon did not give it the attention that it deserved and that was promised it, I think owever from the outlook now that it is going to pass. We are certain of one more vote in its faver,whene the treaty • • , - came up Senator .'\111son was in Iowa and supposed he was but it seems that such was no. the case and I saw two or three tthers who voted against it who will, I think change the^r opinions. While in Washington T saw Pitkin of New Orleans, United States Marshall of Louisiana who is an applicant for the position of Minister to Mexico, He has very strong endorsements but itsweems that the President considers himself under proinose to you not to remove Morgan which stands in the way. There seems to be a pretty general desire to • * • see Pitkin appointed to the position, I told him I would come up and see you about it and intendend doing so today but am again obliged to leave the city^ Can you consistently do a ything for Pitkin? I was ilad to leam from Fred last night thtt you were improving for I have heard a great deal of anxiety expressed in regardto your condition on account of newspaper reports concerning it. As soon as T return I will come and see you, ^ Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. New York, Feb. 14, 18^4. Hon. John A. Lo£-a9, United States Senate, 'Jashincton, D. C. Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of the 11th, I have t'^ say that my response must he from memory entirely, haviny no data at hand to refer to. In regard to tlie order from you to yo to Louisville and Nasliville, for the purpose of relieving Gen. Thomas, I never thought of the lUQstion who should command the combined armiies of the Cumber land and the Ohio. I was simply dissatisfied with the slowness of Gen. Thorns' moving, and sent you out with orders to relieve him. No doubt if tJ:e order hqd been carried out tixe question would immediately have arisen as to who was entitled to the com>:^ined command, provided Pen. Schofield was senior in rank to you, which I do not know that he was. I know that his confirmation as a. major general took jilace long after yours, but I do not know the date of iiis commission. The question In that case, of the command of the whole, v/ould have been settled in a very few hours by the use of the telegraph, between Nashville and Wasl.ington. I was in Washington when you arrived in Louisville and telegraphed me that Gen, Thomas had moved, and as I remember the telegram, express ing gratification that he uod done so. I was then on my way to Nasliville myself, and remained over a day in Washington, hoping that Thomas might still move. Of course I was gratified when I learned tiiat he had moved because it vms a ve.iy delicate and xmplesant matter to remove a man of Gen. Thomas' character and standing before the country. Still I had urged I.im so lony to move that I had come to think it a duty. Of course. In sending you to relieve in Gen. Thomas, I meant no reflection whatever upon Gen. Schofield, who was commanding the Army of the Ohio because I thoug..t tx.at he had done very excellent service in pushing the entire force under Hood a few days 1 efore, some twenty-five miles south of Nashville. Very truly yours, U. 3. Grant." The fact that Schofield was second in command to Thomas, who was a very efficient soldier and whom Grant had great confidence in, it is evident that he expected that if Thomas was relieved, Scl)ofield would fall to the command. Goneral Craht cxp.luins lliis in a lottm^ to Gen eral follovo: 2^ Avlc- <>5--3^ 41 New York, February 15, 1884, E. J. Abbott, Esq., Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of February 11th with enclosures cf copy of resolutions adopted by your post relating to the place of perma nent interment of the remains of Col. Kinsman of 23rd Iowa Regiment. In my my letter to Mr. Redinour, I requested that the body should be taken to Council Bluffs for burial and in answer to that letter he replied that he was Informed that it was the dying request of Col. Kins man that his body should at some future time be taken to Iowa and laid by the side of that of Col. Dewey. I replied asking if they were sure that such request that been made becuase the Colonel had often stated to me when we went into the service that it waa his wish to identify himself with western Towa and espc-'ally with Council Bluffs. Upon receipt of your letter and copy of resolutions adopted by your Post, I have wired Mr. Ridenour at Vicksburg again telling him that his remains should, in my opinion be taken to Council Bluffs wherd his home was and whence he went into the service. T do not, however, want to be placed in the position of taking Col. Kinsman's remains to Council Bluffs in the face of his personal re^Tiost to be buried by the side of Col. Dewey if it is ascertained beyond doubt that he made such a requeafc. If he did so there is certainly some evidence of it but in the lack of such indisputable evidence then he should be buried at Council Bluffs. I therefore suggest to you that you communicate with the old mem bers of the 23d regiment and of Kinsman's Post G.A.R. at Des Moines which I see has taken also official action in the matter and see if his place of burial cannot be amicalby arranr ed. ^ 43 ■ \ f' < New York, February 26, 1884. E. B. Wheelock, Esq., Washington, D. C. Sir** ~ T am in rece^'pt of your dispatch of this morning. I am not much disappointed as T told you last night what my Opinion was; and the inability of Barnum and his friends to do anything was very potent to me. The next thing to see about is to get the strongest possible presentation of the case in the minority report. It should be short, concise and right to the point. Consult Judge Payson Oats and Van Eaton and decide who shall draw it. I think probably_ it had better be drawn by Judge Payson as he can carry the Republican side of the House with him and Cats and Van Eaton, Democrtas, signing it will help divide the Democratic side, but T am fearful that the majority will put the bill through the house. I will consult Judge Dillon and see what he says about mandamus. Since writing the above T have seen Judge Dillo . who says that in his opinion t-he present is not the time to issue a mandamus. There will have to be some definite action of Congress beofre it should be asked for, therefore, he does not think it policy to apply for it just at this time and in this opinion I am inclined to agree with him. ^ . x ^ x -u t • If the right kind of a minority report is presented, I believe that with the united efforts of the three or four parties interested in these bills they can get be defeated in the house. I think the first move there should be to effect an organiza?^ tion of the people there who represent the roads whose interest are in danger, viz; the New Orleans Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Atlantic and Pacific and the California Roads and you better immediately take steps to ascertain who the parties are who represent those companies (I mean the head men, no intermediates) and have an understanding among these chiefs to get the member of the House to hold together on a rate. A great deal of help can be given each to the other in this way. . I think you better have a statement of facts printed so that when the question comes up in the house a copy of it can be laid upon the desk of every men' er. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. New York, February 29, 1884. E. B. Wheelock, Esq., Washington, D. c. Dear S^'r:- Referring to the last clause of my eqrler letter of this date T thirilt a separa e statement should be made up for the use of the House, leaving ou all the names of parties ment^'oned in your statement befoBe the Committee. When v/e come upon the floor of the House we come I do not want to bring up the names of Col. Scott Mr. Gould or any one else connected with these enterprises. It only creates a prejudice which we are forced to overcome because they are looked upon as being at the head of great monopolies; therefore, make your statement short, concise and directly to the point. I would also leave out allusions to Mr. Lewis in latter part of your statement, stating merely the number of acres of this land that lies in his district and that of Mr. Blanchard and others and the population affected by each. I think you should also say in your statement that it was impossible for you to obtain the bu*Iding of this road except upon this land grant that before you could get it done you had to obtain the assignment of the grant and that upon the faith of the land grant and its assignment you were enabled to close the contract and get the road constructed. I would suggest also that in this statement you make a clange from the one prepared for the committee by omitting all after "and was so far successful" (page 2, line 20) down to and including "pledge T had made for them" (page 3, line 14) and insert in lieu thereof the follov/ing , "That the parties who were constructing the T. & P. Py. entered into writings to extend that line and construct the New Orleans Pacific road to New Orleans provided that the Land Grant of the N.O. B.p. & v. Ry Co. was to thf-m I Immediately took steps to secure the transfer of this land grant and succeeded. Contracts for the construction of the road were then immediately signed and it was rapidly pushed forward and was complete in 1882. Upon its completion the government of the United States accepted the road and issued orders for the issue of patents upon the land and there ha sbeen received by the company from the United States Government up to date a little over one million acres of land which the company has entered in accordance with the regulations of the land departments. I think, however, that it would be still better to get up a short, distinct statement that could be placed before the members of the House which as I have said before should be to the point and short, such a statement as everyone would read. the minority report should be ready so as to present it to house at the same time that the majority report is presented for I have no doubt but that Cobb will try to push the matter ir' the house. Truly, G. M. Dddge, New York, February 29, 1884, Hon. W, B. Allison, Washington, D. c. Dear Sij: T enclose herewith a newspaper clipping which if you r^^ad the New York evening papers you may have noticed. From it and similar articles in the other New York papers you will see that the gold and silver question is rapidly oaning to the front. I am informed that on Saturday all these banks will show a great loss of gold, the theory being that people are becoming frightened and drawing gold out of the banks to lay it away. My opinion is that it is a move of the bears; still I see that all these bank officers are moroseover this gold and silver question. It is really a matter of very great importance, t myself have very little faith in the financial ability of New Yorkers. They only look at one thing at a time. If you know it T would like to know Folger's position upon this question. When I was in Was: Ington you seemed to be very firm in your ideas that it did not amount to much and th"t the progress of events wuld cure it. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. ,7 j.rioY New York, March 6, 1884. Hon. J. F. Dillon, Avoaley's Hotel, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:- ion'if»Tor' ' It is important tl-iat someone i the interest of the U.".f"overn- ' ment should introduce the Edmunds bill in the House and get it before the Committee there. Won't you have Will ams or someone arrange itIt should be done at the request of Mr. Armstron." and if he could get the Chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads to introduce and to say that it was introduced'at the request of t. e Commissioner of railroads, it would, in my opinion, be better than to have it put in ^1^ independently. We should have some such bill as this before that Committee in order to use it against the Anderson bill, or if you could suggest some amendment to the Anderson bill (which I enclose herewith) v/hich would put us in condition to go through under it, I think it would be well to do so because I do not for a moment suppose that the House Committee v^ould endorse anything favored by the Senate Committee, but we might antagonize the Bdmunds bill with some Bill of our own in the House or with an amendment to the Anderson bill. Very truly yours, G.M. Dodi^e. UOir- , New York, March 7, 1884. « I «rt0/i Governor Throckmorton, Dallas, Texas. My dear Governor:- ,D C "i itC ire . . You will notice that the House Committee on Public]Lands has made a Majority and Minority report upon the bill for .cuttingthe ITew Crleans Pacific Land Grant. Jv Of course Congress would be doing a great wrong and injustice in a taking away this land grant after we nave built the >roacl upon the faith *) of it and reserved tiiis bond as part oompeusabion for our,-vork and have had more than a million -ores of it entered. ^ "7111 you, if you can see your way clear to do so, take an interest in this matter and do what you can in favor of the minority and against the Majority report. Mr; Gates of Alabama will -present the latter* The vote of the Committee was 6 to 5, I cannot • see any policy 02j'future benefit to b« gained by attempting to deprive u us of this grant'or land .grant t|0 any, roads tnatonave been completed c^nd built upon the faith aa^cetrength rsueh land grant. , H.;, o.' rl ino 1 im eu-: \J1 i; :V3ry.ib^pftly.yours,i o cJ.x .unto «« iilM OilJ JH*., Dodge., nr. tlJlw 'lo ar i/olf 'cr > .♦ • . i 51 fa. J,:arch, 1884. Office of R. E. N'ontgoniery, Fort V;orth, Texas.' In Re Camp Rice Iv'arch 7/84. Gen. G. M. Dodge, New York. Dear Sir* " ■ I sho'uld be able to do just what is necessary towards placing your Maverick lands on the market now, if I had information as to what improvemeits the Government intends doing at Camp Rice, and I wrote you some tine ago in regard to this. ^ They have only now the soldiers in tents or willow and bunch houses, but if I felt sure they were going ahead the same as they do at other f.osts, then I v.ould lay out the town there and ignore Samp Rice altogether, as the station would then have to move up to the post, but it would be useless to do it now and ^ could sell no lots until I knew fully what the intention ol the Government is, or until a purchaser could see for himself, and this is.imformation you could easily obtain in '.Vashington or from Gen. Sheridan. Last year there was not sufficient water in the river to irrigate for two months, but I have a Californian who has had large experience in grape culture there, to whom I have leased 200 acres of the land at the nominal rental of ^10. per annum, and agreed to sell it to him at ;^2.50/l00 per acre at the end ol five (5) years, but have bound him strictly in the agreement that he must cultivate it con tinually and in a proper manner for that period. I shall make the ; agreement in duplicate and have it executed by both of you, but will have to wait until I can have the lines run out and the land properly decsribed. He has taken a low piece of land that overflows annually and erected a small levee around it, and proposes to let the water in every year and also build his ditch. He also proposed to sink a;"- large well and pump water when the river is dry, and wliile I think this will very seldom be necessary, I wish you would write to Colorado or California and find out the amount of gallons necessary to irrigate one acre per annum, and then I can get up the proper data because there is no trouble about ample water from wells, and you would never have to irrigate more than twice from wells during the year. I present you below a statemient of the profit in grape culture where you have ground already traversed by an irrigating ditch, but my estin-ates are very large and all against the profits, or in other words I have exaggerated the expenses and placed the profits below what they really would be, and I get these facts and figures from personal visits and talks with the most successful vine growers and wine makers in Wesilla and Paso route. First cost of land per acre Clearing and grubbing per acre Putting the land in order and planting vines etc- - - - - - - - - per acre Placing stakes "to support vines per acre Cultivating first year " " Covering or hilling up vines " " Add 10 per cent for contingencies or make it rather " " Cultivating 2 years " " Covering or hilling up vines " " Cultivating 3 year " " Covering or hilling up vines " " 30. 10. 8.- 4. 4i75 . You would sell enough grapes the third year to pay for all expenses of cultivating (except first coat of planting) to date, but we will leave this out and you could plant any thing you wanted between the hills for the first three years, but leaving all this out you v/ill gather the fourth yeai- from 4 to 6 tons per acre, but say we have 80,000 lbs. at 5 cts. per lb. on the ground (although they have never sold at less than 5 l/2 to 6) we have ^^400. grapes per annum. Of course if you make wine or brandy, the profits are larger but for a long while to come you will be able to sell grapes, and not complicate the business. These figures, I have given you, average on the expense side 25 per cent higher than the highest given me, and my object in putting this man on your gi'ound is that when I go to California and show them wine from a better country and with better seasons than theirs, I can also show them on the ground I wish to sell them a Vineyard in actual and successful operation, and all I need is the information I ask fro:;, you about the water and the intention of the Government at Camp Rice. I have with me and shall send you in a fev/ days Samples of the wines and bra ndies produced at Wesille and which I consider the best in the valley. Respectfully, R. E. Montgomery. 4^0 il New York, March 11, 1834. R. S. Hayes, V.P., St. Louis, Mo. Sir*" # • ' . Mr. Montgomery, who has "been out to El Paso looking after some orivate riiatters of mine writes me of several .matters there -Tuich will perhans he of Interest to you, although probably you know about them. The first is thtt they nave moved the County-soat of El Paso County to El Paso and propose to issue $150,000 of county bonds for the purpose of erecting a court house. There is a law of Texas vhicn provides that the state shall be divided into counties of not less than 30 miles square. Now if the vote is carried in favor of txisse bonds and the county is divided up next year, in accordance with the law, we williihave to pay for court houses in each of t.:e new counties, besides paying for the one at. El Paso, Mr. Montg mery suggests that we ought in some way to stop all this until the Legislature meets. He further says that Mr. T7ithin the present tax commisssionor of the.Texas ■'c-Pacific is a man of ability and pernfectly competent to nand'e t is qostion; qays he is oppo:5ed to the issue of these bonds as every one there should be, until tiie state is organised. He also calls my attention to■ the ■ fo-.ct that we ha considerable land in El Paso, tl.e condition of our ownership of which is that we shall use it for depot grounds, and says tixO-t tno ownor is about suing us for the title. He seems to think the property is worth saying by layinc- tracks upon it or something of the kind. He says that of the frieght destined to Paso Del Norte h. El Paso the A. T. 4 S.F. brings more than the T. oc p, and the S.P. combined. Thinks the reason is that h;e A. T. ^ S.F^ has an agreement with a large liousedoing an i-maonse business (about .5,000,000 annually; with Mexico. I suppose this while the fact is tliat ITr. Gould is now a larger owner of^Texas V Pacific stock than he nas eve r boe.' before. .Very truly yours, 'G. M. Dodge. 54 V - 3f ;■# ' »ri iln ■: ,-vic:.' ; New York, Yarch 11, 1884. Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan, Lt. Gen., Washington, D.C. . My dear General:- % * * ' « i. " • ' • >' i ,r^no.l tJC Gen., - :iir. nneff 111*. .1-1 l i" !■ h IC J ' . ft JflVl'jri ,i!c innjft' t'< i- ' 'irr ■ t"'"*.- „ . ' . • ,t.. n (>.r I sold to the Government the ground upon whiiah Camp Rice Texas is located and own the property adjacent'to it along the Rio i '■ ' 'Grande river. ' ■ ^ i / , ■ r • ♦ - . _ ' ' % ' y IJ am desirous of knowing wiiat, if anything, the Government f , , ^ • • r ,• proposes to do at this point. Does it propose to build barracks there or to hold the place merely as a camp? The railroad station is at some distance from tne camp and if ^the Gover.uaent is. gtmng to put a permanent station and barracks t..ere^ J. iYouJ.d like,to place t.ie railroad ft tatloTif neiirer to It.'i.' "r/'.r.f r r * . • • • . 't .J " *,• v!! • • Will yoH kindly give fiiS' such inforuKltioti'ufioii this subject as is "oroper for you to cokaunicate? ' ' ' . ' ; P particularly "desire it I oh acbou-at Of Itsibeariing upon my other property tnere some 30,080 acrec. Very respectfully yours, G. v.. Dodge. 55-. New York, March 13, 1884. Hon. Ben Le Pevre, Yashinsoon, D. C. !,'y dear General You will notice that a majority of t,hs members of the Conimittee on Public lands have, by a vote of 6 to 5 agreed to report to the nouse a bil.i forfeltin.3 the Ne? Yrleans Pacific Land Graib. A strong minority report has been prepared and resented by reoresentative Gates o of Alabama. Neither of these reports have as yet been printed but I understand t.;^t tne report of tlio minority is a much abler document than that of the majority and many leadin~ democrats will take position, in favor of it, upon the ground that the land has been earned. "dill ycu be hind enouyh to take an active part in this question and if you can see your way clear to do so join with them in preventing the passage of this bill. There is no justice nor equity in attempting to forefeit these land^ grant was turned over to us as a part of the consideration for building the road. On tiie faith of the grant, wo built the road, and ti;e Government recognised hire transfer and our rights and turned over to us more than a million acres of tnis land and it is .vrong and unjust for Congress now to endeavor to. take it away from \is. Tne grant was tur/ied o rev to us b-ifore we co..im.e cod to build the road; the road up to date has cost us more than we received for its construction and we are depending on this land grant to get us out. TTlll you, therefore, take an interest in preventing this manifest injustice? Very truly yours, G. M. "Dodge. oi„ n.. ■ulbh...- ' 57.- New York, Marcxi 13, 1884. n, Hon. James f. Wilson, Wasliinston, B.C. Bear Sir:- I see that tlie Senate bill ^rantinj the A.T.!^ S.P. Ry. the ri^ht of way through the India;: Territory lies on the Senate table and has been once or Jrwice called up by Gov. Brown and laid over under objection by hr. iiarrison. I notice also that the .^ranting the same right to our Ft. Worth and Benver City Railway has been reported from the Coiiimittee. The point is, after they have considered the Santa Fe Bill and If it is going to pajts, why cannot we work ours through at the same time? It is exactly a similar bill, except that we have the advantage in that the:ce are no Indians objecting to t/iO passage of our bill as our line runs toe far west to i iterfere witn t.^em, a ul, as I understand it, we are outsivde of the treaty limits, a:::I run through a country wnicn the Government bought from the Indians. Anyone connected witii the committee on Indian affairs can till you regarding this point. I cannot. I am anxious -when tiie matter comes up to have our b'll pushed through with tlje rest. Will you be kind onougi. to watcu it and w.^en it comos up do what you can to aid in tlie passage or as soon as tuo S.anta Po gill passes put ours through also. If the objections of the Indians makes any difference or is any weight to the Banta Pe bill, I don't want to get into the same boat / wlta it because there are no vach objections to be brought against our bill and we do not in any way Interfaro witii the rights of tne Indians. YouhJ truly, G. Y. Bodge. V34 N 3'.Y York, Mar'cli 22, 1 84, Hon. Tm. E. Gnandlar, Washington, D.G. Dear Sir:- p . I ^ nave been tninking over the Texas appoint-aent. I see tnat the resiaenb has not yet made it and as Judge Billings has been out ther loiaing court and it does not convene again until next October, tiiere necessity for yaakin^ it just nov and it has occurred to me tn''^ it vould be a good thing for ni.i to postpone it for the present. tnat if it is postponed, and the Pre.jlltent nas a 1 j doubt about tne policy of aopoin . Ing Yr. lemon, there will be no trouble in satisfying ni.u as to nis local standing in Texas. All r/e want is^a little time, in ?/hich to send dovm there and communicate with people there, to whose recouunendation I know th-^ President would feel justified in listening. more I tnink of this question and the more I hear concerning u.ie part'.es ^ho ar.e candidates for the position, the more :sati3fi3d I am that they are not vex'sed in that kind of law with •v.iich a United otates Judge in ti.at country has to deal, but it is universally ad.aitted .nat Tli'. II rmon has just the knowledge and the experionce necessary to fit him for the position. I have taken no steps towards obtaining additional rocormendations from Texas because I did not tnink it was necessary but the President said^to me, "rhilst I was Inere that ae 'y-^uI-i feol more t..oroughly justified in. making the appointment if he had on file more of that class of endorsement. Since then I nave ioen several pr'om nent men a.id attornies from Texas and the,' all agree with me that if -.Ye have a little more time we can get sucn oiidorseiaents. Of course every candidate for the position ..as some local clique in favor of nls appol'.itme It, " ut I th.i'ik if tne matter can be postponed until joy return fro.m Toxas, there will be no difficulty in satisfying t.n Prosident ti.ot if a iman from Texas is to bo appointed, !''r. ilermon is the man for the place♦ Very truly yours, G. 11. Dodge 61-. New York, March 25, 1884, Governor Throckmorton, Wa3hin:;tou, ^.C I.!y deai'' Governoi':- .f; I It) , f)".' 'tnab .4 , i.Jiv ■ .lihoJoTT n#©<t ov; ii I vif /I'- i . Lluf, I want to ask yon for my personal information '.7hat it is that you allow in Texas suits to he brouf.ht against the Company for small amounts due on labor claims, time c ecks, overcharges and dcuiuges .•n;Gro the evirIo..cc is o:' that class to which there can be but little, if any , defense. My attention was called to this by s'eeih'h docket of the leases at Fort Wcrth, .en ..h:ici. .tiiore sere, ente'red some sixty od.d suits against the T. & p. and a great many of them were of the class above mentioned If there was any dispute .about the a,..o nt .due for. labor or cervices, i.ow could t]iO mar- get a time check upon which to bring suit? , • ■ f • % I merely ask Yor my o,/n infoi'...atlGn. * ^ ■Tt seems" to u. that this class of suits injure u* a great deal. and that it would be f«r better to pay such claims promptly and avoid th* effect of litig<\t'Lon ratiisr tnon^ to pay tiiom at the end of a ■ judgment where it is prptty certain t- be rendered against us. 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My dear Sir;- ' I have been watching with a great deal of interest the effect of tiiis rise in the I^isslsDlppl upon the 14vees along its banks. It is going to bring up an important question which ?ill have to consider, nnd I t..iiik you yourself s.^ould open the question in~Nev/ Orleans. The theory of the improvement of the llississippi River has been tho.t its v/aters s-o-ld be confined -.vithin certain limits. How, supposing that its waters had been confined, in accordance with tlie plans of the River commission, or in accordance witx. the plan of Col. Eads, with the inmense amount of v/ater that has gone out of the river and broken almost every levee from Memphis to New Orleans, or even to the sea, supp'ose that ti,at water had been held within the levees, v/hat would have been the result? Would it not have risen two or three feet over the levee throughout all the southern country? The great yearly increase in the volume of water that seems to find its way so much more rapidly and easily to the tributaries of the Mississippi is crowding the floods into so short a time that their volume is largely increased. If I have correctly read the Times-D mocrat there las never, in the history of the south, been a season in which sueh universal attention has been given to sustaring the levees, and protecting and building them up. You have not only had the people locally at work but tre sta^P and the United States have taken action and the railroads have done everything in their power to accomplish this result, but it all seems to have been of but little avail, there being nothing that cot;ld successfull stem the force of the current, and if I judge rightly, the city of New Orleans was only saved from inuhdation by the bursting of the levees above allowing the water to escape into the swamps and streams. Now what I would like to see well considered and veil digested is the question "What is your remedy for this?" What are your plans? I have always been a confirmed believer in confining the waters but I must say that my faith is a lit,tie shaken by the results of this rise and the crowding into sjiort a time the delivery of all the drainage from the Teat water sheds surrounding the Mississippi and its tribu'tariQBS It seems to me that whilst you arc holding up the levees you will, at the same ti c, have to provide some other outlet for that high water. I suppose that the examination no being made by the United States Government will show whether or not tl.is flood that has been con fined has 'really deepened the stream, and I also suppose that there can be no ^estion but that the immense amount of water now covering fereat portions of Louisiana and Mississippi would, if it had been confined within the levees above, have given you at least two feet of water over the top of your levees in New Orleans, I write this to you personally becau e I do not want to discuss a question of which I have no personal knowledge and I send it to you just as it strikes me and as I find it strikes a good many people in the East who are friendly toward the levee system, as approved by the Mississippi River Commission as well as by the people heretofore con Bidered of the largest experience, I would be especially glad to hear from the Government engineers in relation to this question. Truly, G. M. Dodge. 63. New York, March, 1884, H. M. Hoxie, V.P., St. Louie, Mo, Dear Sir;- When Dr. Smith was here I talked with him a little about the February earnines on T. & P. There are two or three points in relation to them that I would like to ask you abott. The first is, W^iyyare we paying so very mud. for car hire? 1 notice that this iteni of expense on all our roads increased very heavily in February. Again, why is it that our expenses run up so high in the month of February? I can understand about the $44,000 that goes into steel but cannot understand why the transportation expenses are so large, while our gross earnings show an increase;you will notice that our net earnings run behind about $100,000. I suppose that there are some explanations of these matters and I would like to know what they are. It makes me a little anxious. Can you tell me anything about the effect the high water is going to have upon us? I notice that Mr. Talmage has cut off every expense there but our earnings run behind some $30,600 per week. In your opinion is the damage from water likely to be very serious? I suppose we must look to you to run mattei-s during Mr. Hayes' lay off, which I understand he would be obliged to take under any ciroiimstances. I am sorry he did not take his vacation long ago as I advised him to. Yours very truly, G. K. Dodge. Yt '0.. T fo, c:t«r New York, April 4,.1884. Dr. D. N. Smith, ■ ' ' 1 St. Louis, Mo, . . . " 1 Dear Doctor: A suit has been commenced against the M. K. & T. Ry. Co, by an Income scrip and coupon holder fro the purpose of enforcing payment thereof, the claim being made that the Income Mortgage is a lien ahead of tfee general consolidated mortgage upon the income of the entire railroad including the extensions and acquisitions in the state of Texas. The Company calims that the income mortgage is a lien only upon the old road and its income and that the general con solidated mortgage is the first lien upon newly acquired and constructed railway. There is nowa record in the U.S.Circuit court for the district of Kansas a decree confirming the company's claim in this regard. If this construction of the I^'ceme and general consolidated mortgage is the correct one, the income bondholders can only claim to have applied to payment of interest on these bonds so much of net earnings 'as may remain after paying operating expenses and interest on prior lien bonds on the old road. The Income bondholders have a right to claim that separate accourh s of the earnings and expenses of the old and new roads shall be kept. This has only been done for the year 1883 ancj should have been done for 1881 and 1382 as well. It is important th:t the division of earnings in k-^eping these separate accounts should be made on as favorable a basis as possible for the new road. The new road has added largely to the business of the original mileage and ougl:t to have as lafge an allowance as could be secured if the two portions of th M. K. & T. -.Ry. were operated as se arate properties. The accounts for 1883 were made up aq I understand on the basis of allowing 1 1/2 miles of new to one of old road. We think a more liberal allowance than this should be made. The company has refused payment of income coupons on the ground that there are no earnings applicable thereto when it comes to answer the bill filed in the suit before referred to it must be in a position to have the separate accounts of earnings correspond with and back up the position it has taken. The wl.ole question of a division of earnings must ne.cessarilly be upon an arbitrary basis anu if we have got to have a fight as to its justice, we may as well meet it on a good round liberal allowance as on a moderate and inadequate one. There is.no question but that the Huntington line, or the Texas & Pacific and Iron Mountain lines for the puppose of securing this business and haul over their roads would be willing to allow two miles to one. I know that the Huntington line would do this and I think that the T.& P Company would. Therefore, I think that the accounts should be made at least on a basis of two miles to one, as all the business is new and created business and is, in my opinioi', entitled to this allowance. You know that in the agreement of the ak«±M Union Pacific and other roads, the U.P. was allowed 1 1/2 to one and that road is really competitive with the roads that made the allowance. wi- 44^ Now. write you this personally confidentially and outsid|^^ ofl the company because I am a very large holder of I.!. K. & T. stock and bonds and want to see justice done it in such a suit as this. I am prepared to make good the proposition of 2 to 1, as.suggested above if the business of the M. K. & T. should be opened to the competition of connecting lines. •I do not suppose that any of the officials of the company would want to issue an order upon this question but I am satisfied that they would all agree with me as to the ratio named. Please give this your close attention. I v?rite it to you because when you were here we had some talk upon this subject. Yours truly, : X ; ■ G. M. Dodge. , * ' ''k/'i. • .or. : lo ) 0.. ..I '.-. . ;T .biflTfvi boJrtjiroc o.J ' ^'eorge E. Frost, Esq., Clear Lake, low Dear Sir:- My brother letter of IXarch 31st. engineers w o examined anything anything very definite deflnibe 'X iiJnX 0 u' vlOD hric His. fo fiji ■ ' -rorl4 to , Esq. , :e, Iowa. New York Cijiy» April 5, 1884. .taoM awf'ri has forwarded to me from Council Bluffs your I have not yet received the reports of the that country and am therefore unable to say about aoouL extension extension of oi our our roaa road to to your your place. piace. I have been to Clear Lake and .know the importance of the point and am going to look the field over very carefully. I hope to receive the reports of my engineers some time during the present monti;, perhaps by the .15th and after that I may be able to speak more definitely. If we conclude to go by Clear Lake I shall be very glad to have your aid. I will take it as a favor if you will treat confidentially whatever I write as I do not desire to have it known that I have any intention of doing into that country at present nor do I wish to raise the expectations of people there before I know exactly what I can do. I am very much obliged to you for the offer of aid from your people. Very truly yours, ; G. M. Dodge. voi-yL ui-uiy yours, i I- I'ii X .i ■ [unt .1 - o.; f ( ■ •nX.'ij"' G. M. Dodge.: ■ ni ci7 -liJ .U : w;,' i X (u aJX uni ', OWJ rosir nj nflll9 »(1 : funn .1 ..,f lovo SuMrt bfim ruetiJ ud KTftdil I f)n« Wiwt nnlJ rro^ erij J lU xoml I ."no o# ed \ijifotie leJmioofte X ^ *- • Mti wen fti sa »;i4 'ia aa ,a:to oj aaXIa to Xaad n tio aftaai .^oriaaoXXa al.iJ oJ , o|nl»o » uir .;.ealeuf badaa^n hta twa '^niaal rmxtrtx MMt MMmS e .J to ,iX toifJ ijoY 7.XXaai ax iaij .la ecio oJ ::\i T .'lavoXla aa« .i.'' tmttJp .o adi ebri: JpuJ afenon ruiJ i(jJw '•vlJ X^aqaoa eoroNroXXa a|.ix oJ b twa rtnltiO vjttmii ax OOai iaij 'Si: Personal New York City, April 5, 1884. F. P. Knott, Esq., Wichita Falls, Texas. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of 19th Ti^arch asking in formation regarding the extension of F. W. & ^.C. Ry. I suppose all this comes from the fact that the Denver & New Orleans people are agitating the question of building their road through from Pueblo to Wichita Falls. It has not been my intention to build north of Wichita Falls until I could arrange to build to a connection with the Denver' line or at least untilthe co.<ntry grew so as to demand such extension, or in case any other company should attempt to antagonize us by building in that direction, then of course as a matter of self preservation we should have to go forward. I am anxious to see Wichita Falls built up and pro sperous. Its location is such, however that even if we should go forward it will always maintain its strength and our exten sion would not injure it. If the bill granting us right of way through the Indian Terx-itory is passed by Congress I should then be disposed to build up into that country until we should strike coal. If you have any kno^-jledge or information of coal in . that country any where near Lhe line of such an extension please let me know what it is. I do not care about writing anything for publication as I think such things do more harm than good. I have however no objection to your showing this letter to any of your friends or making any statement from it. Yours truly, C . y.. Dodge . . \ '!■ ' y ' ■4-. ■ 69 . : New York, April 10, 1884. C. E. Satterlee, Esq., Marshall, Texas. Dear SirtThe Texas & Pacific road is credited with having 165 locomotives in its service. I have been informed by what I consider very good auth ority that whilst the company owns that number of engines there is not nearly that number in use upon the road, and that the great cost of our transportation arises •rom the fact that instead of our having locomotives enough to enable us to handle our business successfully we are obliged to double with them; that is, run them light or empty half the time. Now I want you to ascertain exactly the number of locomotives that the road owns and the number in use upon it, and in the shops and make a list of their individual numbers, and, as nearly as possible, ascertain the history of each one of them and irhat they have been doing and where. I now know something which I never knew before; viz, that during the months of September and October last, 17 locomotives that were charged up as being in use on the Texas Pacific road were not there at all, but were in the service of other roads and no other locomotives replacing them upon the T. & P. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. April, 1884. N. L. Sheldon, Editor-in-G'hief G. H. Nickerson, Business Iv'gr. C. H. Kellen,) E. R.Belknap,) T. S. Parker,)Associate Editors. G. r. Prince,) R. W. Stewart) THE REVEILLE, Lewis College. Northfield, Vt., Apr. 24th, 1884/ Dear Sir; ■ As this year is the Semi-centennial of N. U., we think fitting and appropriate that her fiftieth birthday should be celebrated with suitable exercises, and that there should be a Reunion q^f the Alumni and Past Cadets to help in doing honor to their Alma Mater. It' is also thought advisable to an oration before the Alumni and Past CafJets on this occasion. Therefore in accordance to instructions given to me by the Semi-centennial Corarriittee I address the letter to you, requesting to honor us by being present and delivering the oration; as we think you are the one of the "sons of N. U." who can best represent the Aluii.ni and whom they would be most pleased to hear on that occasion. Awaiting an early and favorable reply, 1 am. Yours truly, Lieut. T. H. Nickerson, Sec of Semi-centennial Com, Lock Box 18. Ma j . Gen. . M. ^odge, New York City. A. a. p. Northfield, Vt., April 30, 1884. Dear Sir: The approaching Coraiiienceme.nt will be the fiftieth anniversary of Norwich University, and it is intended to unite with this the next q,uinquennial reunion, and make the event very interesting to all sons of the institution. Y.'e also think it appropriate to have a Reunion of the mem bers and honorary members of the FRATERNITY on this occasion. An extensive programme is now in preparation and will soon be sent to you. V'e cordially invite you to attend, and to aid us in our prex^arations please ini'orm us at an early date whether you can do so. received. Any suggestions that you may make will be gratefully As we la ve not the addresses of all who have been members of the Fraternity you v;ill assist us by giving notice of the reunion to those v.hoin you may know the whereabouts of . By order of the . K. T. H. Nickerson, Chairman Com. lo/.u ' /'i it,. i.-' j 73 . New York, April 25, 1884. E. B. Wheelock, Esq., Willard* s Hotel, Washington, ^>.0. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of a copy of Mr. Ellis* Joint Resolution as presented in the house. I find that Judge Dillon does not agree with your people there o to the bearing of this resolution. He doesn't seem to think that the Committee could endorse it. However, he till try to be over there to meet it, A resolution committing Congress to such policy should have been very carefully considered. I suppose, however, that Mr. Ellis knows where they should stand although he told Judge Dillon that he did not but that they were all good lawyers. It 18 no necessary to get out of the committee something that is •t favorable, even if you cannot pass this resolution. I will myself be over there the first of the week, and don't want to leave any stone unturned with that committee to have a favor able report. Judge Dillon is now in court here on some important cases and it is possible he may not be over there on Tuesday but if so he will advise you. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. Hrf % New York, May 5, 1884. H. M. Hoxie, St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir:- . . . I am in receipt of several letters from yourself, Gover-^or Brown and Mr. Newman, relating to affairs upon the Texas Pacific Railway, to which I reply. Pltfet as to the El Paso property, I think some arrangement should be made by which we may be enabled to retain possession of this ground, especially in view of our relations with the Huntington system. Probably you could make some arrangement with McGaffin by which you would not have to pay him any money. . gecond, the question of steel rails. I have been looking over the detailed returns made by General Auditor ITarner and notice that we are spending a good deal of money for steel, in March some $36,000. If my memory is correct, you calculated that new steel cost you about $25 aer ton on the ground, counting.only the cost and freight and not the labor of puttign it in the track. This would be about $2,200 per mile. The statements for January, Feburary and larch show that dring those months we put into the track $87,000 worth of steel, which would represent a distance of about 40 miles. Now, what I woiild like to know is, did this amount of steel really go into the track during those months? Third, as to earnings. I notice that the earnings on the Iron Mountain road are increasing whilst ti.ose on T. p. and M. K. T. roads are decreasing. VThat is the cause of this? I do hope ti:e month of April will show up better tl.an preceeding months. The statement for March shows that notwithstanding the cessation of operations on so much of the line infeo New Orleans, the expenses of operation were equal to those for the same month lat year. Fourth, Coal for Ft. 7/orth Sc Denver. I have written Mr. Frost in regard to the coal for next winter. Does it make any difference to you whether we get our coal from your mine or from the Mc.Alliston mine. We have 50 coal cars which are now being run on their mile age. It might perhaps be economy for us to call them in and use them in hauling our own coal. I judge from the reports of our people that they get cleaner coal and bet er weight® from the McAllister mine. There may be a reason for this in the fact that Mr. Stevens has not yet turned over the McAllister to us and desires to hold Irade. Fifth. Cattle on Ft. Worth & Denver . I have a note from Mr. Frost in which he says that the owners of that lot of cattle you mentioned while you were here, undertook to drive them and lost about 3C0 head, and are now shipping the rest at the rates previously offered them. This would indicate th t the time for driving cattle in Texas is pretty much passed, which is very fortunate for us, I am informed that up to the 1st of Hay last year, Wichita Fa"'.ls had not received a single car load of cattle and at the same date this year it has received nearly sixteen thousand head; four hundred and nine teen car loads having been carried within tiie last 15 days. It is estimated tiiat the season' sh.ipment will amount to over 300,( 00 head. Very truly yours, G. M. DO' ge. f' 'J ,a f New York, May 5, 1884. • o ! ««iiuoa •.tC Lt. J. H. Nickerson, -llir ttttC Secretary Semi-Centennial Committee, ' JQltIMM «■ I Norwich University, " , .-i'" 'fif "iro " Northfield, Vt. . ' My dear Sir;- ' I am in receipt of your very kind favor of 24th of April inviting ' me to deliver an oration before th^ Aiunmi and Past Cadets pn the occasion of tiiS Semi-centennial celebration to be held at the t ^me of your approaching commencement. . I thank you and the conimittee for the honor conveyed in this sel ection and Invitation and beg to assure you af my high appreciation of the same. . I have delayed answering definitely whether'or'not I would be in this country at that time. > Thi-S question is as-yet undetermined but it is almost certain that important business affairs will demand my presence in.another part of the country at the tl. e mentioned. I regret this, exceedingly, as I had made up my mind to attend this commencement and siiould-1 eventually find that I can so arrange my business as to permit me to join you, I shall certainly do so, but in view of the uncertainty expressed above, I think your coirmiit.tee ^ had better select some other person to.deliver the oration, ^ • Be kind enough to convey to the committee my expression of thanks and regrets, and believe me, . • Very truly yours, ■ : G. M. Dodge.. . . .j ».i ... r wo, r; ' ' , - ©dnl mill •1 : . .linotfl MM fwii jf o ( ' , 1 . 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' bod >ifn nno OO'ibnuif ^^1 i wort bno'cnn'X rtr»|j(lr. xlfoon bovfeoo'i LOd jji lonv Of XT .t-XM Jaat a ., nl ♦!? hol«iTeo n»a<f * ilvorf obeo^ MO aooX i 77 ll''ay, 1884. lev; IS COLLEGE Barracks. Quarters No Northfield, Vt., N.ay 8th, 1884. Gen. G. M . Dodge, Dear Sir: Your favor of the 5th at hand. I read it before Gominittee last night, and it is hardly necessary for me to state that we were all very much disappointed at your not accepting. The Committee instructed m.e to v/rite to you, as you thought it possible that you might be able to be here, and see if you would not reconsider your answer. This Commencement is probably the turning point of "N.U." and it depends very much on tlie interest manifested whether the sun of "N. U." shall set forever befow the horizon or clouds clear away into a bright future. We all know well that you are the one of "N. U.'s," sons who can best represent the Alumni, and whose influence would serve to draw the most of the "old boys" to the reunion, reinstate the interest in "Old N. U." and unite the Alumni and Bast Cadet in their work for their Alma Riater. Therefore we sincerely hope if you can so arrange that you will be present, and if there is a possibilitv of your being here, that you will allow us the honor of putting your namie on our programme for to address the Alumni, as we think the future of "N. U. depends on this reunion and your being present. Hoping that this will find favor in your eyes an early reply. Awaiting Yours truly, T. H. Nickerson, r/ay, 1884. Office of R. E. kont£;oiriery, Fort Worth,Texas. Toyah, Nay 12/84. Gen. G. Ni. Dodge, • • ; Kew York. Dear Sir* I have just returned from quite an extended trip through this and El Paso County mostly in the interest of the County seat, hut I had to go to New ^lexico on some private business of my own, that made the trip a little longer. The county Judge of Reeves County expects to order an election for County seat in about 7 weeks, from now for the election of County Officers and the selection of a County >-'eat. I have heretofore opposed the organization of this County, but Pecos is going ahead so rapidly that when she gets the title to her site settled she may capture the County seat, and which ever gets it will make the place. There is a Mexican settlement called Laragoss about 20 miles South west of here off the Railway that may hold the balance of power and 1 arrived there just in time to prevent a coalition be tween Pecos and the persons controlling the Iv,exican vote, but think now that with the proper aid from the Railway officials (which I can secure) that we will carry the day as all ti.e heavy cattle men where cattle range near Pecos arc opposed to the growth oi the place, and all these men will vote with us. As you are well aware the growth and prosperity of this place depends to a great extent upon the custon of parties who come here to be benefited by the curative properties of the flowing sulphur well and as I wrote you before the parties keeping the eating house have'insufficient ro'^m to accomodate visitors who come here to be treated and although they eep the best house on the road, they are too poor to put up iri.xjrovements of their own. Iv'r. P.oxie promised six months ago to put up a ;j;2500. addition and so wrote me as did N'.r. Townsend, but this has lately been countermanded. 1 am aware that the road needs every cent it can get for other iii.portant, necessary improvements, but by rendering this place attractive, ybu get a very long passenger haul, and bring people on a portion of yoiu' road that is aln.ost wholly uninhabited and yet susceptible of sustaining juite a population. Fort Stockton, the County Deat of Pecos County, is one_ of the posts that was to have been abandoned this year and is inliabited by a terribly corrupt set of officials who are inimical to the inter ests of this road and this end of the County. A delegatiom lately went to V/oshington to postpone the abandonment o. the I'ost, but met with indifferent success. There of posts should be a'candoned in favor of those in the frontier of hexico, and hope you will urge it upon your friends in the A'ar department as Stockton gets all its goods from the Southern Pacific . . 4 I I . f Very truly, R . E . N'ontgomery. ■ : ■ ' ■ / ' . / .. . May 15, 1884. Nev/ York, T^m. II. .'Vbrams, Esq. , Land Commissioner T. & p. Ry., Dallas, Texas. Dear Sir;- I am in receipt of your telegram of yesterday informing m° that the five secti ns of land in Edwards County Texas mentioned in my telegram of yesterday were subject to entry © $3.50 per acre, except 69 on which you have not received patents and I replied to day by wire asking you to reserve them for me. I now send you today by express, in a separate package, T. & P. Land Grant Scrip of face value of $9,980 a detailed statement of which is enclosed herev/ith. You can apply as much of this as may be necessary to the payment of the price asked for the four sections which you can deliver and hold the rest to my credit to be used in payemtn for section 69 as soon as you get patents for the same, and as soon as you are ready to deed it. I will, upon being advised of the amount due, send you sufficient scrip to complete the purchase. Please have the deeds raaae to J. I". Jennings of New York and send them to me as soon as they are ready. If you have a map or plat showing ti;e location of this land and surveyors notes describing it, I will be much obliged to you if you will kindly send me copy of them. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 83 ... New York, June 3, 1884, W. T. Walters, Esq., Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir:- The American Railway Improvement Co, owes $203,000, $130,000 of which is in hills payable, the balance in accounts. It has on hand to meet this indebtedness 242 New Orleans Pacific Ry. Co. Ist mortgage bonds and 2785 shares of T. & P. stock. No cash. The indebtedness was $303,000 but I sold 1-5 bonds @ 75 and reduced the debt "lOO, 00. I have been anxious to tide over the Affairs of the company until I could sell enough of these securities to pay off this indebted ness, so as to avoid making an assessment on the stockholders and dis tributing the assets but there is a call loan of $50,000 which has back of it 75 N.O. Pac bonds, which must soon be paid off and I want to sell these bods so as to pay it with the proceeds, then I think I could get through without making an assessment until I could obtain and distribute the land grant bonds, I think v/e will get somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 band grant bonds, which will be distributed to subscribers when I wo-afid close up the affairs of the Company. Our affairs in '.Vashingtnn look pretty well and if they do nothing against us before the end of tlie session, I shall distribute the bon's. The directors of the American held a meeting here yesterday and authorized me to dispose of these bonds on the best terms I could get. It is no use to throw them upon the market hers, but if I do not pay this debt theyWill go there and there will be no price for them. There is no doubt about the interest being paid. Now won't you buy these 75 bonds or place them in Baltimore, or if you cannot do this will you lend $50,0C0 on them until such time as I can tide over its affairs? I was never in my life so pressed for money , I have had to put up my individual securities to keep the Company from going to protest unt'l I am now at the end of iby rope and must have aid, I do not want to present the matter to Mr. Gould for I know he has all he can carry and a good deal more nnd if I make an assessment I don't whether or not I can get the subscribers to pay it. Certainly we do not want the American to quit after all it has gone til ough and with so many assets on hand. Besides the money re ceived from the stock and bond subscription and the $12,000,000 cpaital, I sold a considerable amount of the securities received from the Railway Company ' nd to show you ho'w well they wore sold, I will only say that fo 15,475 shares of T. P. stock, I received a average price of $50.86 per share and for 1748 bonds an average of $953,90 each. If I had not b been forced to s-^ll, within the last three months a considerable number of bonds at low prices, the average price received fcr my bonds would have been about par. I think this is a pretty godd showing. Please let me kr^o-w what you can dowith these bonds at your earliest convenience, and oblige. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, 87 ,r-' June, 1884. Authorized Capitol ::^200,0G0. J, K. Graves, Pres. E. Clark, Vice Pres. A. J, Vhod, Treas. J. Stayner, ^ec. S. ^Jilliams, 3upt. THE OLD N'i . 0. SPRING, and Improvement Company. The water of these' Springs is, without exception, the best natural remediallagent in the United States for Rlieumatic, Paralytic and Nervous Affections; Indigestion, and all Diseases of the Nidneys, Situated at Golf ax, la., 23 iriles east of Des r/.oines, on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway. Coifax, la., June 12, 1884. Gen'l G. N., iJodge, New York. Dear Sir: In finishing our Hotel.we find ourselves unable to furnish the same and believing it to be of vital importance to all concerned that sonie prou.pt action be had whereby the Hotel could be opened for business without a monen;, s delay we concluded it best to and have executed a lease of our entire proi)erty to the Colfax Hotel Co. for a period of 5 years with however an option upon either side to cancel same at the end of 3 years, at an "Annual" rental of ^1000, payable semi-annually. The Colfax Hotel Go. is to make all necessary re pairs and furnishes the Hotel. If at the end of S years the lease is cancelled then the Colfax Hotel Co. have the option to continue to hold the mineral springs and bottling works for two years longer at an annual rental of ^50d,00. G\ir Go. reserving free use of the waters for patrons of the Hotel. This arrangement gives this ^^o. an in come of H'.IOOO. per year in addition to its drawback from the C.R.I.& P.R.R.Co. which it is believed will fu-ly cover the entire interest upon our bonded indebtedness, the Capital Stock of the Colfax Hotel Co. is iilGOOO. in shares of ■;,'^10G. each payable one half cash and the balance in 6 & 12 months with Interest at 7;'. And in order to push the opening of the Hotel which will now be opened for business about the 20th inst. some of tl:e ■'•owa men largely interested in the Did. N".. C. Spring'& I. Co. stepped forward and subscribed for the said stock with the express understanding that this circular should be issued and announce that each and every one of the Stock holders in the old ^. C. S. & I. Co. should be invited to become subscribers to said Sxock in the Colfax Hotel Co. to such extent as tH.ey might choose e within the next 20 days. The anticipated benefits from the enterprise are thus for the ensuing thr.e years to be mainly reaped by the Colfax Hotel Go. but meantime they are building up a reputation for our Hotel and I _ bottling works. Diir rental will cover our insurance and taxes while as stated the R. R. contract will protect our interest obligations under, existing circumstancec this course after careful consideration seemed advisable and w^s unanimously resolved upon. Please advise me as early as possible the amount of new stock desired if any, or otherwise. Wot later than July lst,/84,' and oblige, Yours Respectfully, J. Stayner, * Secty. •i I' ' "i ■ ...i ■ ■ ■ : .fy"' ■ *■' ' ' ' 'o4.. - ,y;> ' - f rW''' ■ f'h.K'' vj|j" r n* Nhvf- : : , -n v-.l' , , > ■ ' ' v.- . " •• ' \ :f « '1', New York, July 28, 1884, GenI, George B. McClellan, Dear Sir:- I have received a great many letters frora the soldiers of Iowa, requesting me to aid them in inducing your Board to locate the New Soldier's Home at Council Bluffs Iowa. The state has voted an appropriation of $50,000 as I am given to understand for the purpose of securing or aiding this home, and if. in the judgment of your board, it is possible and proper to locate it there, I should be very glad to have it done. I feel that the state is entitled to the Home and I have no doubt that if you were to make the' location there, it would be satis factory to every one, and the State and city would take great pride in carrying out the wishes of the commission. I am. Very respectfully yours. G. M. Dodge, Late Major General Vols.TJ.S.A. 91-'" New York, August 2, 1884. Gen. W. T, Sherman, St. Loui s, Mo. My dear GeneralLI read in the New York Times your eloquent tribute to General Ransom delivered before the Ransom Post ^.iV.R. You know that Ransom and myself were schoolmates and that I lived in his family during my residence at Norwich Vt,, as a cadet at the Military Academy there. We went to the west together, and were associated together in Peru, Ills, for two years, and were close friends, altiough our duties separated us after that time. After his Red River Campaign, General Ransom wrote me a letter, I think from Chicago, requesting me to do what I could to get him an assignment to your army, then advancing toward Atlanta. I made the ppplication and he was brought there and assigned to my corps. I notice that in your memorial you state that there has been no monument raised to makr his resting place. In this you are mistaken. His monument is in :-he cemetery at Chicago. Colonel Wallace, who was an official at Chicago, and a relation and personal friend of Ransom, had charge of this work. If the Society of the Army of the Tennessee has funds enough to carry out its intention of raising a moniiment to General Ransom, it seems to me that it would be better to let it take the form of a statue to be erected in some nuilio place either in the west or in Washington, such as have been raised for other distingiiished officers. General Ransom's mother is, I think, dead. His sister if the wife of Lieut. O'llara, a professor at West Point. His brother, I>unbar is still with me on one of our roads in Texas, I think you must be mistaken about Ge eral Ransom's age; though prbbably you spoko from some record. I was very glad to see your tribute to Ransom. He was a very close and dear friend of mine from the time we met at Norwich until his death, I think that in all my life I never met a man who had so keen a sense of honor, who was the sone of chivalry, or wi:o was braver under all circumstances than Ransom, He was almost the image of his father, had his presence, his magnetic influence over men and reseumbled him in a remarkable degree and I think you will agree with me that it is seldom that we look upon a more perfect soldier in his bearing and command. I do not know of a more graceful act than yours selecting his name for your post, nor a speech more eloquent than your tribute to him and I thank yoi' with all my heart. All soldiers appreciate these things, and they teach us that time only brings rewards of which they never dreamed. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 93 4^0 New York, August 18, 1884. Solon Humphreys, Esq., Receiver , St. L. & P. Ry. Co., 54 Exchange Place, New York. Dear Sir:- ^ ^ ^ -l. In 1881 and 1882, in accordance with the request of and verbal agreement with the Wabash Company, I entered into a contract to build a narrow guage road from Des Moines, Iowa, to Wuukee and Boone. And at the request of the Y/abash company, I turned over to them the road from C Clive to Waukee, and one-half of the road from the city limits of Des Moines to Waukee, but I have never been settled with for it, the settlement being held in abeyance, waiting for the transfer of the road from Clive to Boone. As I now understand the Ituation, the Wabash company cannot take the road from Clive to Boone, and as the Wabash company desires a settlement, I suppose I must submit, but is certainly a great injustice to me and my associates who put their money into the work. On May 3lst, 1082, the Wabash company rendered me a bill for material furnihhed, the amount of which was $110,542.09 and since then they have rendered additional bills for nearly $20,000 for terminal charges, interest, &c. whicn I have not had time to investigate. But I do not admit their right to render charges before the settlement is made. My total exnenditures up to Jan. 1st, 1884 on the road-bod proper from the Western limit of the city of Des Moines to Waukee and Boone, was $691,506.48 with no allowance for superintendance, insurance and risk. A fair proportion of this, for the road turned over, from the city limits of Des Moines to Waukee, would be $150,000 with such allo.vance for superintendance, insurance and risk as we can agree upon. . - In order that this business may be settled up and disposed of, I now make to the receivers the folloving proposition - I will turn over to your company the Entire right, title and interest to the road from Clive to Waukee, and an undivided one-half interest in the road from Boone to Clive, and in full settlement tberefor, will iake from your company, deeds to one-quarter or all the ternlnal property your company or its representatives own in Des Moines, and give to you deeds for three-quarters of all the terminal property 6he St. L., D.M. and N. Ry. or its representatives own in that city. Very respectfully yours, G. M. Dodge. Saratoga, New York, August 26, 1884. Solon Humphreys, Esq., 54 Exchange Place, New York City. ^0Sir 3 t"" I have been sick for some time and have had to leave Saratoga and go to the sea-shore in hopes that the sea air and rest will build me up again, .,, ^ ^ I do not think it is going to bo possible for me to come into New York for some time to come, but I feel very anxious qbout our narrov/ guage matters. I saw Mr. Hopkins in Saratoga and agreed with him, that when I came back, we would meet and arrange on some basis for a settleme but the Doctor says I must stay away for the present. I have, however, explained the situation and my views to Mr, Granger, and I wish that you three could come to some agreement so that we can get that paper out of the way. I can only be done, however, by a joint agree ment in which we all three agree to share the profits and losses of the construction, and sale of the road, in some settled proportion. Mr. Hopkins cliims that he is unable to take up his portion of the paper, but it is very late in th- day to go back over old matters, and the only thing there i to do is to get the matter in the best^ possible shape, and get our paper out of tlie way; and this as I said above has only bee done by Mr. Hopkins agreeing to pay a certain portion of losses if there are any. I would myself be willing that he should stand say one-quarter of the losses if that would be satisfactory to you. I have now got my paper where I can get, it by putting up other securities in its place, which I am ready to do. All securities o of the road are in the hands of Mr, Granger. My idea would be, after entering upon such an agreement as I have mentioned above, to dis tribute the bonds, leaving the stock intact until we could either go ahead or make some disposition of it. Or we could let it stand as it is until we make a final sale of the road as it now stands, and divide the proceeds as we think best. As soon as I am able, I ihtend to go to Iowa and go over the line to liason City, and try to make some by which we can be enabled to extend the road to that point, say by next spring at the farthest. But the important things for us to do are first: to make a settlement with the IVabash. Second; Get our paper out of the .vay. Tnird. Gret our terminal company in shape, and distribute its stock and bonds. If you and Mr. Hopkins and Mr. ^.ranger can come to any agreement about these points, I ill act upon it. Mr. Talmage and Mr. How are each pressing me to pay charges arisinr- from the use of terminals and maintenance of way, Des Moines to Elive.^ I have written Mr. Meek^asking him exactly how matters stand, and what portion we snouia pay if any. ^ Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. President, could let it stand as it is . now stands, and divide the G7- 'rf ■: .1 -t' r Saratoga, September 8, 1884. Solon Huraphreyes, Esq., • ■ , , , 54 Exchange.Place, New York. • ' Dear Slr:- There are some points in relation to the St. Louis, Des I-Ioines & Northern Ry. and the settlement its-open account with the Wabash Company which may perhaps have escaped yur attention, and I desire to lay them before you as briefly as possible, in order that you may be thoroughly posted in the matter when you present the papers at St. Louis. I think if possible, it would be better for you to make the settlement here without carryin.g it west, but perhaps there are pe«sons why you cannot do so; of course, you are the Judge of that. The road from Olive to Boone was the first part of the vvork contracted, but the contractors were taken off it and put upon the line from Des Moines to Wauk e, and were afterward again transf-^rred from there to the extension of the Des Koines northwestern; this action of the "/abash Co. made it very late in the season when the contractors Were able to return to the line from Des Moines to Boone; wet weat.ier came on and broke up the contractors, and I had to take the wor!: off their hands, and complete it by day's labor, making it cost me a great deal more money. In fact, almost double -what it would have cost me had the contractors been allowed to go on and finish the work when they were first put upon it. I allowed the Wabash Co. to t-ake ti;ese contractors and do what they pleased with them, because I then supposed I was build ing the road for the Wabash ^o., and v/as inclined, of course, to let them have their way in regard to whicn part of the work shuld be first corn ing the road for the Wabash Co., and v/as inclined, of course, to let thei have their way in regard to whicn part of the work shuld be first com er cominr pleted. Then as I understand it, tiie Wabash Co.* is getting th'^ benefit of this line and whatever traffic there is on it or coming to it, withoul giving us in percentages more than one-half what anybody else would give us. It is run and used as a part of their system; its superi' tendent is ' superintendent of the Wabash lino, and has been nearly ever since the Boone lie ^as completed, and has been allowed to use and run th"* road, the same as thougi: it bel-iiiged to the Wabash Co. I upposed all the time that they would be able to carry out our original agreement and take it off my hands. Now, however, the Wabasii Co. has gone into the hands of a receiv er, and I suppose it will be Impossible for them to take it. but in making the settlement for the road already turne over to them, and whic they have accepted from me, all these questions and eq ities s.iould be considered. It is not only the cost of the road, or that portion of it from Des Moines to Waukee, that hhould be taken into consideration, but the equities of the case should be dul considered. When I commenced the work, or even when I completed it, I had no more idea that I was to carry and take care of it than tnTt I was to carry ani take care of the whole Wabash system. Of course I never should have touched the road cost of the road, or hhould be taken into be dul considered. ;ed it, I had no more or put a cent intlo it or build a mile of it had I at any time suppos 3-"d that it was to remain on ray hands. You and Mr, Hopkins thoorughly understand the position of affairs, and all the circumstances and a reements under which the road was built and why it was built, and I think that in the settlement with me I should be fully and entirely re'mbursed, so far as possible, for all my outlays and for sup-rintendance anci care of the work, the in^^rest on the sum that has been expended there, is now very conside- •I am ready to turn-the road over the Wabash Company and if I M turn the whole or it over to the company, all I re-iuire or expect ^ would be its actual cost with a fair allov/ance for interest, superintendancs, risk and insurance, but if they only take from me such part as they desire making their own-selection, then, of course, I want a pro rata price per mile for it, with a fair allowance for contingencies as above mentioned^ and for the good-will and use they have had of it, and really in my opinion, I shvald have damages,.and.I believe any fair court or company or arbitrators would give them to ma. I nope-you*will thoroughly consider all these points in making your settlement and will allow me the amount I he.ve calairaed for this work in my previous letter and proposition submitted to you. Very respectfully yours, ■ - , ' • " G. M., Dodge :ry: j, i \. r- , * J' 1 f* r . , - . ^ Ij ~ . j fj "r : bfg t fjr i " -O • IPW C'K, - lurf t Tran,; (/ihtrtoiln f>i»w (utn . «»;■ nonio'; n»Q irqyI - nr-IJon tunleM pds t ru niW r.j •itfai nio4o4nJtTo9 ruJ rtnlr no9»0 erti nl n. rl *00 htiKfnV cii4 • »r 4«iMir imv i^nood ei oe9 :oat »afl •dJ oJ inwif ...t ito If v> -di rj bod I TrtO ^t^io^ein^nco mdJ qu bno m» mnoo Jtof' fl i*a J.' iyo Jt vnli^o: rl o4oXo*,/)o bno ,sbruNli bj«U rt 4roo biu.r ii 4-rtw 'MmlM ,4l)rt nl •qeno. liioT. f ... 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II ooo^inao I bno -io f)Mt utr , iJ Ol f. o Offtol d Phi tol odl -o.*inci f' Ih. irlll LO h/0 L'f --err. IXo ,or f.r-il b#Jop'00 ovril gra.t .♦1 10 I'- 'l-oo *10 -Iron #»i5 lo |i 00 odJ \fno |ou ol If •bPiofclL-:ee lurf ^( < I.'mM«u:P6 o-b } noilol o<f sfuo»i« I- ..! ,o<idi/OV ol ionloM eoC .conl b»»t>n«»m,tno I rwrfr vboinblertoo i»b od biwoiiii oto- ©ilJ lo orlllyp# onl ol «oe I lodi pobi o'lo ! on bod I ,11 bflnldMO I roih* novo 10 , Iiof «.il4 V; o'.pI pa "4 ro* ! .♦< I nndi i| lo oi. e ".Uii v**"»d fvrt'* p,;| bodei/o4 pvrrt U a. nor on X oa-iwo" 10 .(«oi.-;Ye dr odoW e|o,t»<' oul b'o.oqqyL mill ^to 10 I bmi Jl lo of lot o bXKif -0 II ol/ni Inot o .t4«i 10 .pt .''d VP n!*v:ei oj OOtr Ii Jr,il lo n€}lJ*tf>r 111 bii^loifbrtu gfi -yiio.l enliUioI' . il. hue udt no't r. 1.1 .inlrtu 1'biu/ lJ (or-d r l • . ' rZ-rnvj! 0 oa.: XXM, hb« .t.alrlljr t' m-vfll.'.' P(..' ftl .V.II dfTjill I ,.T|e.fK (:0« jl gn* bise JXlrnf not f 1-»1 Of 01 .Xrilino ^;,p JJi l 0<f I m »nJ f ito-n ' il To Pior.' a oorob'iolol mnj 10I tsnii yt; /Xn 101 -'•Mt-.c /iov *r.ii f i j,. . . j ."•,ob'''Oq;:f ff ' nrui lodi ciup *uW nc If pio September, 1884. 99,.>: GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPAITZ Jackson, fciss ., Septe . 8th, 1884. Gen'l G . Iv.. Dodge, 195 Broadway, New York City. My dear ^ir^ Knowing your success at organizing Gonstruction Cos. and your admirable management and protection of the interests of your Stockholders and associates, I am induced to bring to your notice a project with which I have recently become identified, with the earnest hope that it may excite your interest, and enlist your distinguished , abilities. I forward you, with this, the Charter and Prospectus- of the Road. These papers will give you in detail full inforriation. I have Just returned from a reconnoissance, extending to the Sea Shore, and estimate that 15000 cubic yards per mile are most liberal figures, within 40 ft. or 0.8 grcdes. In quantity and quality no similar forest of long-leaf pine exists upon the continent, which for a year or so past, has been attracting the attention of the lumber men of the northwest who have bought large tracts ol' these niagnificent pine lands - in sonie instances, as much as 100,000 acres in a body - of just such lands as ti.ose with drawn by the Government for this road. Many others have been on visits for the purcliase of more of these lands, ani have only been stopped by their withdrawal by tiie Government in favor of this road. I desire to draw your attention particularly to the char acter of labor secured to the Go. by the last Legislature, and the favorable terms of the lease, extending to 1891. Also the liberal appropriations of Dtate lands, independent of those we expect to ac quire from the U. S. Government - say 650,000 acres. I will commence the Surveys immediately and will put a force of some 200 convicts to grading, as soon as i locate a few miles on this end of the line. Hoping to receive an early and favorable response. I am. Very truly yours, B. H. Green, > ', ' Chief Engineer . 101 New York, September 9, 1884, Hon. W. B. Allison, Dubuque, Iowa. My dear Senator I am very sorry I was not able to see you when you were in the city, and v/ere kind enough to call at my office. Mr. Granger has told me all his conversation vvith you a d what you said to him about Teller and his promise to give us our patents as soon as matters quieted down. I am told there has been filed with the Secretary a protest against tne issuance of these patents or certificates for the patents, 3i;jn9d by a majority of the Senate com nittee on public lands, or at least by messrs. Hill, Van ^'''yck. Slater, Morgan and Walker. They ask the Secretary not to take any action touching the back bone Land grant, during the vacation of Congress, alleging that there are certain legal questions involved which req ire adjuciation in the U.S.Courts, vihere they propose carrying the matter in December next. Of course this is only for the urpose of securing further delays in order to get another lick at us next session. There are no legal questions whatever, except what have boo!"i decided b ythe Supreme Court of the United State,s and I wis i you would bring to bear on Teller all the pressure you can command, as I want a decision from him. He hqs always said that if we beat the forfeiture in the House, there would be no delay and no question abotit th.e issuance of patents, but we do not get thorn. Tt would seem to me pretty hard if I am to be forced to fight tne Senate to get what belongs to me; and I don't want to do it, in fact, I cannot do it. Will you be kind enough to write Teller a letter, and when you go to V/ashington, see him and do what you can to get him to do what is right in this matter. Very truly yours, G.M. Dodge. 103 Hr'iOt New York, September 11, 1884. Solon Humphreys, Esq., Receiver, Wabash, St. Louis ?f. Pacifi -. Ry., 54 Exchange Place, New York. which you of way, the good-will of which I had to obtain be purchased and Lhe road to the entire Northwestern Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of Mr. Ho\7q* s letter of September 10th, which you have referred to me. Mr. Ho'w seems to assume that the first cost of the road, Des Moines to Waukee," is to be taken into consideratJ.oa. My a3re3me:it was to take the risk, build the entire road, Des Moines to Waukee and to Boone, and turn it over as an entirety to the Wabash Ry. Co. for a fair remuneration x^or my outlay, ri ?k, u >e of onoital, . but I never agreed to turn over any small part of it, or allo\7 the Wabash Co. to take such portion as thjey would consider of most value to them, or as they might select from either end or center of the road, and leave me v/itn a piece of road on my hands, at any outlay of over half a million of dollars, which I could not utilize in any way. The partcular value of the road between Waukee and Des Moines arises from its giving an entrance into the city of Des Moines. No company could today purchase such an entrance into the city of Des Moines for less than $150,000. The right of way, the good-will of the 'Chicago, ^ock Inland and Pacific Ry. Co., which I had to obtain before vve could build the road, could not n-^w be purchased and Lhe road built for any such sum. My w ork gave an entrance into the city to the entire Northwestern system and our rights in the city were obtained by the promise made to push out to Boono^ and on to the North, in Lhe Interests of the Wabash Co. These were the inducements by which we got into and through the city. And now to ask me to take for all these advantages only their simple cost, without any remuneration for the right and incidental benefits attached to the property, is not to be for one moment considered I think were I to take the cost of the whole property and add a fair percentage for risk, superintendence and insurance, the least that should be offered for the best portion --f it would be the pro rata per mile of the entire cost of the road. This I have figured and it amounts to over' $15,000 per mile, without adding anything for superintendence, risk and insurance. The interest o ' the capital expended has accumralated all the time, and the net earnings of the road have been nothing to me. Mr. gow in his letter seems disposed to be fair, so far as he has any knowledge of the faots-you alore know more of them, and I make these suggestions to you, which I think will appeal to Mr. How's judgment. The road undoubtedly cost more than it should. Wny? My contractors and engineers were taken away from the road to the exLension of the Des Moines & Northwestern, understanding that all these roads were being constructed in one interest-that of the Wabash- and they came back to my road late in the season which was a wet and heavy one. Every contractor failed and this threv/ our work into the winter, when all kind of construction was most expensive; and finally the rodd was built by labor. cost each of more t.han double the cost of the firlast tliree quarters of the road t quarter. This was no fault of mine. Again, after I .ook charge of the work, the line was changed, and a bridge, a fine structure, was built at a cost of $125 I knew nothing of until we had reached a we could not back out. ,000, something point in construction where 104 .>■ ■,<1 .ri I kept no separate account of cost of arty portion of the ro d, my books showing he" total cost of the \>fhole line, and those you can examine if you desire. "But what I wish to fcmpress up-n you, .is that the cost of a Small portion of the rocid is not what should be considered in malcin{T this settlement. The settlement should be made upon the basis of the actual value of the entrance into t e city, which l'have given to the Wabash, and the agreements .you made with me. With all "these facts in your .possession, and your knowledge ■ nd understanding of the agreements originally entered "into between myself and you "as the representative of the Wabash Co. 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C. F. Meek, Esq., \/ Das Moines, lo-.va. Dear Sir:- In movinc our office from 195 Broadway to No, f,. Broadv;ay, a good many of our papers v/ere disarranged and mislaid; and in entering up the earnings of your road for the last few months, I find I am short reports for the 3rd and 4th weeks of May, and the 2nd week of July. Will you he kind enough to send me duplicate reports for those weeks? I am in receipt of yours of September 9th, giving information in regard to the Narrow Guage Ry. system of T^es Moines and vicinity which gives me just the information I v/anted, and for xvi-iioh I thank yoii. I have also received by express check for $2,0C0. As it is uncertain just what tlds money will be used for, I have thought best to return unsigned. voucr.er you and to send you merely Treasurer's receipt for the amount and when it is disbursed disbursed I I vwill properly account for it. I am glad to note what you say about the improved crops pros pect earningSj shall be glad to ha/e here thousand dollars per month, mentioned in your letter of 8th to General Dodge. Referring to your letter. General Dodge desires me to say to you that for the present he wishes you to pay absolutely nothing to the Wabash Co., under any circumstances or on any account, until his settle ment with them is concluded. We onw one-quarter of these terminals and they have really no right to charge us anything as interest or rent for our use of them; and, under an circumstances, it seems to me t;.at their charge, even were it a just one, is exorbitant. In the first place, I don't thinlc they would have any right to charge us at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, and I don't understand by what right they could go on purchasing property and spendigg money and charging us one-quarter of the exper.ses of the same without some authority from the General, The interest as now computed by the, , amounts to $522 per montl,, which is really what it costs us to enter and do business in the city of Des Moines; which for a short narrow guage road, looks to me like an enormous price, especially when I reflect that the Diagonal gets just as good facilities and as much business in Des Moines from its entrance over the B. & Q. road at an expense n6t to exceed $100 per month. It would look as though at this rate, it woulcbe better for us to abandon our terminal facilities and rights, and hire an entrance from some other road, I notice that your reports for the second quarter of 1884 would give not earnings for the six months $971,000 provided the rebates on through freight were inside of your estimates, which is encouraging. Where does the :'2,0CC sent me come from? The express package con taining this money came here with $5,00 charges which I paid. I take it that it was a mistake on the part of the agent in Des Moines, in not cheeking it D.::., but could not get the charges taken off at this end of the line. You could probably do it, and if so have them return the amount to me. If nob, please send me a five dollar bill and charge your Gen, ^ Dodge ^ was very glad to get your dispatch dispatch - ^ j ^ T 1 of ^ ^ the AW. + 12th "U. + iH announc announc- o IT ing that the corn crop was out of dan er, especially as on that day and night wo had wery severe weather and frosts, in this section of the country. Truly, J. ' . Granger, September, 1884 195 Broadway, New York, ^^ept. 18, 1884, Gen '1 G . . Dodge, Dear Sir : I leave for the South to-night, to go over ftnd in spect the Erlanger System of Dgiiwaysj and before ^ le^-ve, 1 desire to inform you of the reasons for my trip and the situation of the affairs of that Syndicate. The newspaper reports v/hich have stated that i was to take the place of t.p, Scott, are all wrong. The fact i§, that all business of the System, has heretofore been submitted by the local management in Cincinnati to the London office, the greater part of the stock of the Company, being controlled in London, the officers of which are all residents of that city. They:found it difficult to handle the property at such a distance, and so they have formed a Committee of three persons, residents of New York, to consist of, Plock, the banker for the Erlanter System; Isasc Lartin of Iv.artin and Smith, and myself as the Railroad man. This Committee is to have full authority to act upon ail matters that come up, except such :.s they themselves, shall see fit to refer to the London office. I am now going «1est to make a thorough examination and inspection of the roads and to see what condition tl:ey are in and what they are doing. I expect to return here some tine during the first week in October. Iv-y address for the present will be, care of John Scott, Iv.gr. Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific R'y, Cincinnati, 0. I do not intend to take any active charge of the business property, simply to be one of an Advisory Committee, with headquarters in the City of New Ygrk. Referring to our conversation at Saratoga in regard to the affairs of the T. & p. R'y, I think. I mentioned to you that have writ ten to r.r. 'Varner, and he has prepared figures in accordance with my suggestions to him, and which I mentioned to you at the tinie we dis cussed this matter. Ti.ey prepared an answer to my letter, but after ward found what a blunder they had committed , and have withheld the paper. t'r. Hoxie has now taken it back to -^t. Louis, in order to correct the mistakes by a readjustment. It is a very severe com mentary upon the management of the Poor T & F. road that, while they have been running it under an arrangement for a division of rates, they could not, until cSlled upon by a Director for information concern ing this civision, ascertain that a serious blunder had been com mitted. Ti.ey must have taken at least half a million of dollars away from that Co. during the year 1883. That is to say, if the lowest percentage th.at is awarded to the U. P. Co., on Chicago bus iness under the Tripartite ■"•greement, iiad been given to the T. & P. Co., by the iron Nointain Co., on business exchanged at Texarkana, 108 ■ it would have made a difference in favor of the T. p. Co., on the business of the year 1883, of over ,.;)500,0G0 in net earnings. I hope to see 'you imiLediately on my return, and discuss these niatters with you. I an, sorry to hear that you are under the weather, and hope that you will soon regain your usual health. Yours truly, F. S. Bonds. H . ■n.' • • 109 .N I , -f New York, September 18, 1884, Chas. Francis Adams, o' .,ioO Pres. Union Pacific Ry Co., rnlC ire<l t'B eriJ 1©^ ©v/i©! I Boston, Massachusetts. bM lat'vXtalt Ic n:Ut l>r«l t 1 ■novjMt ©rii Dear Sir:- ri't©q©n lopf*- • on ©ifP r , • A • * I haiid you herewith a letter from Mrs, A. Hills of Warren, Ohio, requesting passes Omaha to San ^'rancisco. The husband of this lady was killed by the Indians durin- the construction of the U.P, road, and, after his death, she was at my instance employed on the road as telegraph operator., but on account of her health, was obliged to give up her position, n I think it would be no more than justice to furnish her the trans- » pohtation she requests. She has always pressed the Company for some re muneration on account of the death of her husband. He was a very nble man and one of the best engineers under me, and fell in the line of duty. I hope the reuqest reuqest she makes will be granted, granted, ..'i' Your* truly,,. ■ v. ,' *f' ■ ,* •" : ift,' ' ' < . Your* truly,,, in - ("J .^1 T I©* 'I 1© 41 n not im lAbm# ?nii x .. G. m. Dodge, biw / b«on i ^ laiotm'a n 'id rqu f ? Jmi . vii u.b . , - ** i^bqi/rd nuol'iOB • rtl .nolslvjb ..I...' r n ic uapiotni U/ ustX.'ia » tXa.l in ©tu . ujt ii©9<f hiirl oi tl i rff «ont tint tab no •oD.'f.TT fi(ii i 59bn«?ra •! ietlJ ©aaitwonvq inrnmi ^ .j i ' .T ©dj oj irevir ci»©cf bud in©aio<rt$li twJbmt •©©-tic./d Jf btjinrtawi® a« Milwrd no ,.aO nloJni/oM (imI OtiJ \« to ©Htuiicyrf Mli fio #oO .T «ij to tevat 1 •Ononottlb B bbm «'v: Tii OfO , I ,«'^.!|irnAO Jor fl| 0-^0, > fl j HOYO to ISOOX niMI\; ©I d . ftJl^ BBoU Bfti/OBlfe " ,n'i i«n ':M no fiodalbBM. 1 iodi imb iBdiaow Olid nofemr tn© ""t i«.iJ • • ■"h ©J tnxoB am t ..lifitoii ' r j- jj iuoi nl©!^ ifooi nooi i. onuoV 110 ^ 4^3BX ,0f New York, September 18, 1884. ^ ..cbA L. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Dear Sir: ' I leave for the South tonight, to go over and inspect the §rlangee System of Railways; and before I leave, 1.desire to inform you of the reasons for my trip and the situation of the fiffairs of that syndicate. The newspaper reports which have stated that I was to take the place '^f lir. Scott, are all v;rong. The fact is, that all business of the System, has heretofore been submitted by the local management in Cincinnat to the London office; the greater part of the stock of the company bein^' controlled in London, the officers of which are all residents of hhat city They found it difficult to handle the property at such a distance, and so they have formed a Committee fif three persons, residents of New York, to consist of Plook, the banker for the Erlanger System; Isaac Martin, of Martin and Smith, and myself as the railroad man. This Committee is - to have full authority to act upon all matters that come uo, except such a s they themselves shall see fit to refer to the London office. I am now going west to make a thorough exa ination and inspection of the r^ads and to see what condition they are in and what thay are doing. I expect to return here some time during the first week in October - My address for the present will be care of John Scott, -gr. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Ry., Cincinnati, Ohio. I do not intend to take any active charge of the business or property, simply to be one of an Advisory Committee, v/ith head-quarters in the city of new York, Referring to our conversation at Saratoga in regard to the affairs of the T. & P. Ry,, I think I mentioned to you that I have written to Mr. 'Vanrer, and he has prepared figures in accordance with my suggestion to him, and which I mentioned to you at the time we discussed this matter. They prepared an answer to jny letter, but afterward found v/hat a blunder they had committed, and have withheld the paper. Mr. Hoxie has now taken it back to St. Louis,, in order ro correct the mistakes by a readjustment. It is a very s vere commentary upon the management of the poor T & P road that, while, they hjave. been running it under an arrangement for a division of rates, they could not, \antil called upon by a director for information concerning this division, ascertain tha'. a serious bliinder had been committed. They must l.ave taken at least half a million of dollars away from that company during the year 1C83. Th t is to say, if the lowest percentage that is awarded to the U.P.Co. on Chicago business under the Tripartite Agreement had been given to the T. & P Co, by the Iron Mountain Co., on business exchanged at Texarkana, it would have made a difference in favor of ti;e T. ^ P. Co. on the business of hhe year 1883 of over $500,000 in net earnings. I hope to see you immediately on my retvrn, and discuss these maitters with you. I am sorry to hear that you are under the weather and hope that you will soon regain your usual health. Yours truly, Frank S. Bond. lUit New York, September 22, 1884, C. F.lvleek, S^pt., Des Moines, Iowa, Dear Sir;- I have just returned to the city, havinc, as you know, been under the weather most of the summer. I had a confidential interview with :,'r. Humphreys and he showed me some papers, letters, &c, as coming from Iowa and St. Louis, and from them and my conversation with him, I find that the impression prevails that you are not giving close enough attention to the Narrow Guage roads, Mr, Humphreys seems to have that opinion, and called Mr, Talmage's attention to it. He seems to think thit you are looking more after politics than railroads. They believe that to obtain business for these roads, requires a great deal of attention and consideroHble time spent upon the line of the road. 9) write you thisnot knowing what the facts are, and would like to hear from you upon the subject, I write confidentiall , believing you should know what is being said, I think they have an opinion that if closer attention was given to the Narrow guage roads both Des Moines fJorthv^estern and Des Moines Northern, they could be made to earn money enough to take care of their interest charges, but they proba" ly do not know as much abou . the details of the matter as I do. Please treat this letter as entirely.private and write me fully in regard to the subject of it and what your prospects and intentions are. Yours truly, G. M, Dodge. X13 September, 1884. War Department, V/ashington,Sity, September 23d, 1884, General G. Dodge, late Iv;ajor General of Volunteers, fl95 Broadway, New York City, Sir • In answer to your communication of the 26th ultimo, for warding a letter from George Bailey, late Lieutenant 1st Alabama Cavalry, concerning a charge against him, I have to inform you that Lieutenant Bailey receipted to J. K. '<Ving, Captain and A. Jil., ^':arch 21, 1864, for $300.8l/l00 quartermaster funds which he has not accounted for. It does not appear that this matter has ever been brought to the attention of the -•ar Department. Your own secret service accounts covering the period from December 9, 1864, to December 1865, are on file, but nothing is found therein concerning the >1^300.81/100 in question, which was turned over to Lieut. B.ailey in IV.arch 1864. In order to remove the charge Lieut. Bailey should make a sworn statement setting forth the disposition made ol the ^300.8l/l00 received froni Captain V.'ing which statement should be endorsed by yourself to the effect that the funds were disbursed as stated,by your, order; that the expenditure was necessary for the public service, and that Lieut. Bailey sl.ould receive credit therefor. be taken. Upon receipt of the papers called for,prompt action will Bailey. A copy of this letter has this day been mailed to Lieutenant Very respectfully, Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of '•Var. 115 New York, Cctober 10, 1884. W. 5. Nicholson, ^sq,, Dear Sir:- New Orleans, La. I an in receipt of yours of the 7th and return herewith. duly executed, the lease and rent notes as requested, You will notice that I made an interlineation in the lease, before ^ saw that it had been signed by Nrs. Williams, which I should not have done, but suppose it will be all right. Please call their attention to it, and have them agree to it. By the time this reaches you, Mrs, Montgomery will probably be in ^ New Orleans at 124 Milan Street, I want her to see that the house is all right and everything in accordance witi. the agreement, before this lease and the notes are delivered. There is a question in my mind, whether I should pay rent for a house, until it is ready for my occupancy, I don't know what your customs are there in re atlon to such a case; however, it really makes very little difference. Very truly yours. 0. M, Dodge, < oo 3 (^o Fort Worth, Texas, ^ec. 9, 1884 Gentlernen: Your Directors beg to submit herewith Ihe following report of the condition and operations of the Company during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1884. The roadway, machinery and rolling stock are in ex cellent condition, showing good care and mianageinent. The crops along the line of the road,, have this year been much below the average, which has had a edpressing effect upon trade generally. Under these circumstances it is gratify ing to note .the favorable increase ofbusiness over the preceding year, the general business of the road having increased 25 per cent. This is due to the settlement of the country along the line of the road, and to the growing disposition on the- part of the cattle men to ship their stock both North and South from a breeding to a grazing country. The policy of the manage ment has been to ket.p the road-bed and rolling stock in good condition, thus enabling the business of the road to be handled with safety, dispatch and economy. There has been ballasted with stone and rock, a con siderable portion of the road-bed running through the black lands especially between Hodge and Decatur, the expense of which bettermient has been charged to operating expenses. The killing of stock upon the line of the road, has added largely to the operating expenses for this year. A system of gradually fencing the road has been inaugurated, and I would recommend the completion of the fencing already commienced, at as early a date as possible. I call your attention to the necessity of extendi.ig your road from Wichita Falls, its present terminus, to a point North of the enclosed pastures. 'When we first constructed the road to 'Wichita Fall, it was surrounded by an open country with plenty of pastures and an abundance of water; but during the past two years, the country has rapidly settled up, and for a long distance in advance of the terminus of the road has been fenced for agricultural and pastoral purposes; until now it is very diflicult for stockmen, after reaching 'Wichita Falls, to drive their cattle to the open country. I believe this exten sion is necessary to inable us to hold our extensive cattle trade which comprises about one-fourth of the gross revenues of the Company. I also believe that this extension will draw to us business from the Northern part of the ^anhandle which now tends toward the Kansas roads. "T1 124 The Company has in its Treasury a considerable quan tity of Bonds, being the balance of the amount authorized to be issued on the construction of the first 110 miles of road; the sale of which, together with our surplus cash on hand, would enable us to build 30 miles or n.ore of road and would not in crease our bonded indebtedness, and would add very little to our fixed charges. It will be seen that the surplus earnings of the road for the year 1884, were, over and above its total expenses, about 15 per cent of the gross earnings, .which is about 3 per cent upon its Capital Stock. It is recommended that this surplus be held in the treasury, to be used if necessary in the above men tioned extension of the road, rather than to make this extension by the issue of bands upon the new line, which would materially increase our fixed charges• I take pleasure in calling the attention of the stock holders to the reports of the Superintendent and Heads of Depart ments . I also take pleasure in being able to report that the operations fro the year have been conducted without serious accident, and to call your attention to the faithfulness and attention to dury of the General Superintendent and other offi cers under him. By Order of the Board of Directors, President. I was at General Grant's hous^ one time wl^n^h^etspoke to me about a. letter that ^ had written'-to Iiim soon after my visit to ■ President Lincoln. : On Decmeber 10, 18S4, I \7rote him the following letter-giving him the full particular of'the matters he had spoken to me aboutL t • • "I was not aware, until my visit to you on Sunday "that you were writin- a history of the "'7ar of the Rebellion." I know of tl.e articles to bh published in the Century Magazine. During my visit to you at City Point. I m'-:'t with g.n incident that may be news or of interest to you. You will doubtless remember that while I was rocovering from, m.y wound received at Atlanta, I visited City Point and was at your headquarters a week or ten days and saw the Army of the Pbbomac; was up to see the battle fought on the north side of the James, and brou^-ht news of v/hat I thought was a defeat, but which your dispatches-made a victory. '7hen I was ready to return to my command at Atlanta, 'I met orders from Gen. Sherman which stopped me at Nashville and ordered me to Vicksburg, and befo e I reached that command,you ordered me to relieve Gen. Rosecrans, in fommand in the department of the Missouri with a view of taking my troops to Thomas at Nashville. If you remember, when I left 'City Point you suggested I should return by Washington and call upon Presiderit Lincoln, and sent me on your boat. Cen. Rufus Ingalls, your chief quartermaster and Maj. Cyrus Boyle of the !^ritish army, I think at that time in command cif Canada was with me. I was a very young officer, inexperienced in meeting the world, and with a great reverence for position and authority; hence I hardly knew how to reach President Lincoln nor what to say to him when I saw him. I had only a day to spend in Washington '^nd after breakfast I went directly to tlie White House, where in the anteroom I met Senntor Harlan of my state, who took me to Mr. Lincoln. The President met me cordially and asked me to wait until he had dismissed the crowd. When ho took me into the room back of what I now know as the calinet room, he took d'-'wn a book called the "Gospel of Peace." Tt was a •,'ery funny b~ok and ho read from it and laughed heartily until he made me perfectly easy and at iiome. He took me down to lunch and pumped out of me everything I had seer, at City Point and all my opiriions of the army and officers there, and f' nally asked me abuuptly wl.at was my opinioi" of tJie situation at City Point my epi-4i1o)is nf then^ 1 tunti on-al..XiJLy^£aln.t, and what results were to be expected from the movements there. My answei^ to him was, briefly that I had no doubts as to their success. In detail, as I remember it my answer was, "You know out west we believe in Gen. Grant. TTe have no doubts, five him time and he will win; in what way, or how, I don't know but you may depend upon it ho will succeed." President Lincoln jumped up from his chair, took both my hands in his and aald, "I am thankful to you for saying so. " I was very much embarrassed, but it made .such an impressiong upon me that I never forgot it. ^ plains the or, me with was Raw!ins Gen. when v/ar the After fl pressure the that said he and him, to circumstances the related I ^ very:great. were Washington at time that at complaints and my from came Richmond around results to as correctness My that"all fact the from and thee, seen had I what from not faith before long had west, the in you with long so been had who us of remember I results, final the. to as any"doubts minds our from driven . 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Will you ascertain for me whether there are on file in the Army o ' Records, my letterb-oks from May 20, 1862 covering my command'at.the Post of Colum'us up to July 1, 1866, and the letterbooks of the head quarters of the Central Division of the Mississippi from July 1,* 1862 '—to October 1, 1862, and also from October 1, 1862 to November 15, 1862, ' when 1 was in'command of Dodge's Division District of Corinthj and from November 16, 1862 to July *?, I860, while I was in command of the District of Corinth; and from July 71, 1863 to AuguSt 17, 1864 t ■ ' while I was in coinmand of the Left Wing 16th Army Corps. , If these records are missing, I have copies of them and would like to replace them; they cover about 500 folio ledger size pages. I find these reporcs filed away with my books and papers, and ~xi <it is a question in my mind-whether they are simply copies or'the originals. I am inclined to-think they are private cppies kept for my own benefit. If not, they are records that should be on file in the • ■ , 4 ■- St. I War Depar,tn0ntii.fln < ,i :'i 1 ti r x- " i l .nna .oWlaO oJ IncJ ne^lo b ixvml I . ^ Xfl 04 n truly, j ^ xeel Sui , ;f io?; ve4J i«i/ i brul ih»r> . „ .s ^ t J m G. M. Dodge ^ p-b to Jf.ojn rt iwert • .J jw, ,1001 a* ■i" ^ I. hfiJ rj i.tn ••.ifIdu'-n,' Major General U.o.V. . ' . iJ wcMx. !;/•■ ! 1 f ivHtni/ufO to xd • iW •anorvbw na ti «t J toaqx'! .X»w iail4o Xft* wtna tw >oo<T I, if fo <*trt eeatnanoT wilj to nbfr. uJwnr; e44 no notwot ItdkMt 94tf '1M tfertJ t' ^r.ear 4o'i woit •» a ew bno olxij .to o4 xleh'J to ^ 130 f f r>&n*7 j.'i New York, December 19, 1884, General U. 8. Grant, New York, ** ' • • Dear General:- Referring to our conversation of Sunday last, I have been looking over my letterbooks and find under date Nov. 29, 1863, a letter to Major R. M. Sa*yer, A.A.C* the following extract which may be of interest to youL "I have with me sick and well, 12000 men, 9,000 in one command and 3,000 in another. This includes the 111th Illinois (in relation to which, since my last rep-rt ot its detention to you, I have-received no orders) but does not include the 122nd Illinois Infty. that I left at EastporL. Of this number four regiments will soon be moiinted, say ^800 men," In a letter to General Sherman, dated Nov. 23, I stated as follows: "I am in receipt of your letter of Nov. 18 written at Bridgeport. If a fight comes off at,Chattanooga and we are not in, we shall be sadly disappointed, but take it for granted that it is for the best. Burnside no doubt is fighting before now, as Longstreet and Hill left long ago. The Tennessee is so low-that Roddy fords the river and runs over amid back. He has one regiment on this side near Florence. As soon as I get "my regiments moiinted, I will use him up. As it is, I hove to wfetch^^ all points from Decatur to Florence. It keeps my mounted men busy. This'country is loaded with corn and wheat. Not a pound of bread or meat do I draw, but run the mills and gatlier the stock; and if you required, I could supply your command from here, when cars fun, with all the storage you need. I had failed until today to wake up anybody north of Columbia. I assuir.ed command over that Pioneer corps and told it to go to work. My bridges are all well under way and had I had the tools when I halted there, would bedone now. I have sent a mounted regiment around to Eastport to be gone eiglit or ten days. My infantry are so that I can Con centrate them in 12 hours and at the same time hold the road from Columbia to Decatur. My troops are very healthy. Only seven real sick men. I have picked up already stock to refit 350 teams and to remount one and nearly mount two infantry regiments and-have about 800 in corral. I will soon have all my teams driven by negroes, relieving 400 enlisted men. I have heretofore forwarded my prisoners to Nashvile; got your order tonight and they will Inreafter go to Cairo. If is not safe to send couriers to Eastport by Florence. I heard of a Lieutenant and five men going through and tiust they got in, but fear tliey are taken. I often hear from Bragg's rear, but the news is eight or ten days old. They are evidently troubling and prepared to fall back, the products collected in Cooas Valley show that. They appear to fear an advance by Brant by way of Guntersville or Decatur more than any other way. The rebel forces on the south side of the Tennessee are obligee to forage on this side, and we hnve now got most of their boats and several of their teams," https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/03a961b105face436e68ea2a8e81de2e.pdf e59fe6a5b19b1bee2ce09268b295110f PDF Text Text 135 • 188S The family of General John A. Logan desire you to accept this grateful acknov/ledgment of your expression of symi^athy and condolence. - ■ ^ . •. -I 137 1886. Leslie J. Perry who was connected with the TTar Department, unearth a very important letter which was the cause of the reports made in 1861 that General Sherman was insane. This letter was written by General H. WC Halleck to General George B. McClellan;^ and its chief importance lies in the fact that it was the pretext for the absurd canard rife at the beginning of the war that Gen. '.7. T. Sherman was insane. It is popularly but wrongly supposed that Gen. Simon Cameron, the Sectrary of ^ar, ihaldentally, and wholly innocent of any intentional wrong, gave origin to the damaging story. The letter will be found in Scrap-book 10, page 116. 139 New York, January 12, 1885. Genl. G. M. Oodge, Ht. Worth, Texas. ■ Dear Sir:- I telegraphed you today regarding the enclosed letter from Mr. Maverick which looks to me as though it needed some attention. Mr. Montgomery certainly could not have gone very carefully into t::e details of this tax business, or the fact that these taxes were still unpaid would not have escaped his attention. You will remember that you directed him to take charge of the property and look carefully after the taxes, and it was always understood here that he had done so. Had I suspected that he had not done so, I would, of conns'^ havegone over the previous records and ascertained this fact. I spent Saturday with Judge Dillon at work on the papers for the defense in the suit of Probst against the Pacific Ry. Impt. Co. He dictated affidavits for myself and Mr. Calef to sign, declaring that on the 29th of July last, we resigned all official connection with that com'pany and hereinafter ceased to have anything to dowith its affairs; and that since that time and up to the present time, the company has had no offices in New York and has transacted no business of any kind to our knowledge; hence he clai s that the service of papers is not good. As the service is also made on Mr. Calef personally, he prepared a demurrer for him to sign setting forth the above facts, and claiming that the Court had no jurisdiction over him so far as he was personaly liable for the damages claimed by probst. The Judge does not fedl at all confident and I think he fears that a Receiver will be appointed. I have your telegram saying that no papers had been served or: yon, SlW I agree v/ith you in thinl.ing that Alex ^-^ayer is behind this suit and is using it as an inducement to force you to settle the old suits, for interest on the stock and bond subscription. Mr, Mayer came here a few days ago to see me, while I was at Judge Dillon's office, so I missed him. I should like very much to see him but don't like to send for him for fear of exciting his suspiciscn. The Judge went thoroughly into the actions of the company at the time of its didsolution or change of location, and as he was present at the meetin" understands tiat evrything was regular and in good faith. Ho promised to obtain and send you for your information a copy of the summons and compliant, which I trust you have received before this. I will watch it closely and advise you of any furtiior developments. Very truly yours. Of. E. Granger. ^41 ■ 4 January, 1885. Office of 0. L. Houghton Wholesale Hardware, Stoves, Miners' Supplies, Fire Armsj and Ammunition Buckeye Mowers & Reapers, Rakes, Sheep Tanks etc. IRON . STEEL . Manufacturer of Tin, Sheet Iron & Copper Ware . All kinds of Fire ^rme & Ammunition a Specialty. Las Vegas, N. M., 31st Jan, 1885, Morgan Jones, Esq., Prest. Ft. W. & D. Ry. Go., Ft. Worth, Tex. Dear Sir: Allow me to call your attention to the following concerning the extention of your road to Las Veg^s, and if it interests you and you think anything of the scheme, I would come to Ft. Worth and as I am confident I could do afford you the necessary information to enable you to determine as to the advisability of further investigation con cerning the matter. It would be the very best paying road to the mountains and would control a larger area of productive country than any road in N. M. and run throiigh the center of the finest county between Texas and the mountains. It would be an air line almost to the best Pass over the main Range and would (whenever you desired to extend) control absolutely the whole of the Rich "Taos County' & the San Juna Mining region and all Western New Mexico & Northern Arizona and by extension into Utah to Salt Lake, it would be a trunk line of the first order. I am pre pared to assure you that $400,000 of bonds of this coxanty the largest and best in the Territory can be got for the road. The road would be entirely exempt from taxation of any kind for 6 years after its completion, and If the road was built on beyond this town over the range it would pass through Mora County and Taos and pass through fine coal and timber region. Then latter Counties would furnish another $100,000 and they are very rich in agricultural resources - for a mountain country - This distance from Las Vegas to Taos, by route of line would be say 90 M. It is a project that offers the very finest prospects and I sincerely hope you will look well into it and not regard the foregoing as the usual puffing of small town Railroad projectors. A Denver connection could be made from here or some point above here , by a much better route than the Atchison road. If you will be good enough to answer I shall be greatly obliged. We have every assurance ^ Very truly, & firmly believe that the 2 0. L. Houghton. Bonds referred to,$400,000 .J can be carried. Gross Blackwell & Co. ) 143 January, 1385, Dubuque, Jan. 31, '85. Gen . 8 . M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. Dear Sir: I beg to invite your considerate attention to the enclosed prinLed i'age, and in connection therewith, to the subject of getting into print the history to which it relates. The page was printed to use in a canvass in this city, for subscriptions. The canvass was made to satisfy some doubting friends here that subscribers could be got for ti:c History. It effected that object^ and a few of those friends afterward placedtheir names on a paper guaranteeing to any . printer v. ho might .inner take to print the Pi story the sums so subscribed in case the sales of ti.e work should not produce enough to pay his bill, within the specified tin.e after publication. No further aid 'was obtained within the state; but outside the State ^ secured a few hundred dollars of guarantee. I. pledged th.ese amounts to a Chicago house, and th.ey undertook the printing. The work went on vepy slowly however, and was pooi'ly done. finally, a little more than a year ago, the house failed and no printing has been done since. Investigation proved that the stereotype plates (between 700 and 800) that iiad been made were in a very bad condition, and unfit to print fromi. I cannot comipel anybody to miake them right, nor ctn anyone compel n^e to take then.', and I think they will have to be abandoned. Meantime, the re presentatives of the failed firm are holding on to my securities, (a part of wl.ioh are not now valuable) and will probably contin'je to do so until they lose hope of my recognizing the job in any way. My wish is, to maice without delay a contract with another iiouse for my printing. For a'oout ,'3,500 cash and guarantee, I can obtain a good job, and have 1,000 copies of the history delivered to nie, ready for sale, with 60 days tine in which to pay the indebtedness to the printer. I can use :J)2,000 of guarantee in this way, and I want to raise it from lowans living outside of Dubuque, I have thought over tl^e men to whom I can with seeming propriety and likelihood of success miake applicatim in this con.ection. They r.umber only eight. You are one of that numiber, and to you I now submit the question whether you will give your nan.e in severality, as a guarantor to the printer for $250.00 of the debt to be created, I to have 60 days in which to sell books, anl make the money to pay it. A less amount would be accepted; but we absolutely need tl;', an.ount asked for. As a security to all, I shall put the His tory into a ti'ust, wit}-. Hon. 0. R. Shiras of this city as trusteeand possibly son,eone moi-e faviliar tlian he with tlie printing business associated with };irn. But tlie s :bstaniiol control of the matter would rest with the Judge. He has been intimately coniiected witl^. the past efforts to get the history into print and is till willing to be help ful in securing that object. The 1,000 copies of the "istory to he received under the pro posed arrangement will produce enough money over costs of selling to pay our debt and 60 days is time enough in which to sell them. Kore than one-fifth of the number will be sold in Dubuque, as we know by actual canvass. I have met uany former li.wa soldiers in Chicago, some of whom have giyen me their names as subscribers. Wherever Iowa soldiers are found, or those interested in them,.the book is . wanted. Alrost any Iowa town will average as well as Dubuque in sub scriptions, and I think some will do better. That our guarantors will have no call made on them for mioney I hold to be certain. Any call that might be miade would first cocie to the trustees, and they would use all mieans in their power to satisfy it, without passing it on to the guarantors. I wish you would write to Judge Shiras on this point, and also on any other concerning which you would like to have explanations. he will cheeri'ully answer questions, I trust you will not refuse to be of service in this Hiatter. I think it has claims on you. v Very respectfully yours, A. P. Wood. .'t . j ' ' i ; v'-iV '""v • I ' 145 New York, Feburary 8, 1885, N, C. Reldenour, Des Moines, Iowa, Dear Sir;- T am in receipt of yours of the 4th Inst. I neglected to state in my last letter that if your expenses were any more than the amount of the check therein enclosed you could either draw on me for the balance or adv'se me of the amount due upon your return, I enclose with this a joint letter to Messrs. Hayes and Talmage ®ho are the representatives of our roads in St. Lou-i s adirtfeiing them as to whom you are and what your mission is so that in case you should have' any trouble or desire to make any change in your route on returning say to Council Bluffs instead of to Des Moines, you can arrange to do so. T am perfectly willing that Col. Kinsmans body should be buried shere he desired that it sliould be but th^nk that his request should settled the qrostion. Still T hhink there should be snme more definite information as to what that request was. .Didn't he say that he wanted to be buried at his home? If my own feel'ngs were consulted I should say and I think his soldiers would say that he should be buried at his own home w..ere people would have some local and social pride in the matter. At Des Moines he would soon be lost sight of but at CounCl Bluffs he would be the most prominent soldier buried there, T do not know that it is best for us to be around begging the Legis ature for a monument, T think ^t more than probable that money enough to purchase such a one as would be suitable could be readily raisBfl by subscription among his old comrades. T know this could be done were he buried at Coundl Bluffs but the 23d and 4th Towa regfldiBnts would be the best judge of that matter. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge< 147 February, 1885. Evinston Alaclina Co., Fla Gem. G. M. Dodge; Or would it beguile us into believing Old Time had had a lapse of memory and was turning the leaves of his Calender backward if I wei'e to address you as "Friend Ocean?" I have lately been applied to for Gelecte Fifield's address but as I have heard nothing of her for many years, when she was teach ing in Columbus, Neb., I thought possibly you may know where she can be found. If you know her address or can trace her will you kindly inform her th t by con.munieating with her German friends in Columbus, Ohio she v.ill hear of some property which has been left her. Hoping the past thirty three*, (can it be'.) years have brought to you as many sunny days as to Your ancient friend, Ella Richardson Whittemore. Feb. 16, 1885. 149 Ofiice of Thfc Texas & Colorado Railway Improvement Co. No. B'way. New York. Karch 2, 1885. To the Stockholders of The Texas & Colorado Railway Improvement Company.- Gantiemen: At a meeting of the Board of Directors held at the ofiice of the Company on Feb'y. 20, 1885, the following Preamble and Resolution was unanimously adopted subject to the approval of two-thirds of the Stockholders: Whereas- The Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. entered into a contract of date April 29, 1881, with the Texas & Colorado Railway Improvement Co., by which said Improvement , Co. agreed to construct on the terms therein shown, the road of said Railway Co. from Fort Worth to the Canadian River, and has constructed the same from at or near Fort Worth to Wichita Falls its present terminus, a distance of about 110 miles: and. Whereas- The said Railway Vorapany desires to construct and equip a portion of its said line of road, to wit- from Wich ita Falls to Vernon in Wilbarger County Texas, a distance of about 50 miles, or so much of the said 50 miles as the said Railway Com pany may conclude to construct and equip; and has asked this Com pany as respecting the said road between Wichita Falls and Ver non, to waive and relinquish its right to construct the same under the said contract- Now ThereforeResolved- That this Company assents to the request of said Railway Company, and hereby consents to waive and relinquish its right to construct and equip under said contract, so much of the Railw ay of said Railway Cou.pany as lies between Wichita Falls and Vernon, or so much thereof between said points, as the sai3 Railway Company may construct under this waiver; but, upon the express condition that the said contract shall except as to the said road between said Wichita Falls and Vernon or so much there of as the said Railway Company may construct and equip hereunder, remain in full force and effect. The purpose of the Railway Company as expressed in the Resolution, is to build anuequip its line of road from .Vichita Falls to Vernon or so much thereof as may be deemed best, without call ing upon the Stock holders of the Improveir.ent Company for any fur ther assessments. The Railway Company has a surplus of bonds now in its Treasury, the proceeds of which can be applied to the construction of this extension, and which, together with the surplus earnings of the road not needed for payment of interest and operating expenses, it is believed will be sufficient to complete the work. Kence the Railway Company sees no necessity for calling upon the Stocriholders of this Company for assistance. 150 The effect of this Resolution is only to u'aive this contract as respects this lioiited distance, and the construction will obviously increase the value of the outstanding secur ities of the Company, both stock and bonds, as it increases the mileage of the road and therefore its business and earning:, capacity, without a corresponding increase of its obligations. As a resident StoCiiholder of this Company you are requested to assent in writing, to the purport of thei forego ing Resolution. Very respectfully, G. M. Dodge, President. 151 March, 1885. 159-163 La Salle Street. Room 95. Chicago, 3/31/l885. Genl. Mi. Dodge, F. W. Texas . Dear Sir: I wrote you several days ago at Lew Orleans. will A V.'e have given the Machine a trial and it is more than satis factory. We desire however to give it a more severe test in a-few days when the weather will be warmer as it promises now to be. I wil! keep you advised of all the tests and hope to see you here soon. A partie from New Orleans who is building a Brewery has been here and is desirous of purchasing a machine as he is much pleased with the prin cipal. I may have to go to New Orleans before the contract can be closed. Can you do anything for me in the way of transportation? It is going to be a important contract and I would like to take one of my men with me. If you can send me passes for myself and one, you will oblige. Yours respectfully. E. G. '.Vheeler. litK [Ci_ A 153 April, 1885. WABASH, ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY CCIiiPANY, 195 Broadway, Solon numphrays and New York, Apr. 6th, 1885. Thomas E. Tutt, Receivei's. Gen'1 G. M. Dodge, Fort Worth, Tex. Dear Sir: I have received your letter ol' the 31st" ult., and I am very sorry to learn that you have been sick. V.r. Humphreys brought me the contract you referred to, and I have examined and i.andeu it back to him with such suggestions as occurred to me. The contract requires IVr . Wilson to pay only ;ji3,000 a year, for the use of all our property and plant; in other words, he pays six per cent on $50,000 valuation. This property has cost us about $400,000 and he has just as much use of it as we have. I do not think the iVabash will agree to this. There are several other reasons why the contract should not be accepted. It gives them the use of the property for 50 years, at the same time gives them the right to discontinue its use on notice. The basis of such an arrangement of course, would be a rental which should be determined by the value ot the property, and as its value constantly changes, in case so long a contract was nade, it should pro vide for revaluation about every five years. I would advise this Company to accept a lease from him, if he would pay us six i-er cent a jear on $100,000 and give us the right to have the property revalued, even once in ten years; but, if we are to be.subject to his withdrawal, we should have the same privilege. I believe the directors of the Texas Pacific have arranged to go down over the line next month. I think it would be a good thing for you to meet them and go over the matters to which you refer. There is such a prejudice here now, in connection with every thing connected with Texas, that I think we shall be free from any new competition in ..he way oi' new railroads, for some time to come. Yours truly, A .L . Hopkins. 155 April, 1885. COMPMIA LIiaTADA DEL FERROCAP.RIL CENTRAL MEXIGANO Mexico, April 10, 1885. Gen. G. M. Dodge, New York. My dear General: I enclose copy of a letter to Mr. Gould for your information, I was away from this City quite a while, scouring the Interior for Business, and with great success. Will write you and Mr. J. T. Granger at length the first chance I have. Thus far have been the busiest of mortals. Very respectfully. T. Masac P. 0. Box 177. 157 April, 1885. The f'issouri Pacific Railway Co., Executive Pepartruent. St. Louis, April 11th, 1885. Personal Gen. G. . Dodge, Fort Worth, Texas. Ky dear General: Your personal letter of the 1st is received. "Am glad to know that you are better but sorry to see you are not yet on your feet. Mr. McKair of St. Louis made a trip to New York to meet Mr. Gould at the suggestion of Mr,. Hunter offering to compromise Hunter's 'Claims for :j50,000. in cash, which I understand M'r. Gould did not accept but made a counter offer to pay $50,000. in G. H. & K. First Mlortgage Five per cent Ponds at par which Hunter of course refused, I do not think anything more, can be done in that direction. Cannot you do something to have this natter settled, as I believe it should be settled and think it would be greatly to our interest .to have it done, V/athen has started on his surveys and I will keep you advised from time to time as I get his reports. Am glad to hear progress of your construction and about the cattle business and also that the change in the methods of the Locomotive and Gar Departments suit your ideas. The T. & P. Directors will leave Philadelphia on the 25th inst. for a trip over the line reaci.ing Marshall on M.ay 25th., and I trust you will be able to join them. Yours truly, R. S . Hayes . 159 t New York, April 16, 1885, dear General:- - _ ■ I am in receipt of your telegram of yesterday directing me to ask Mr. Hopkins to outline sucl; a contract between the Northwestern Ry. Co. and the Terminal Co. as he would be willing to approve, and send the same to you. In answer to the telegram, I sent Mr. Meek, at Mr. Hopkin's request, asking if he was dealing with M. Hughitt and if so on what termas. I have the following: "Am dealing with Hughitt indirectly and expect to be able to get him to use Des Moines terminals and take Boone road before long. I will be in New York Tuesday morning t talk to Mr. Hopkins in regard • to terminals. C. E Meek," Mr, Meek also telegraphed Mr, Hopkins that he had received a telegram from me informing him that Mr Hopkins would not approve of the contract witli the Diagonal in its present shape and that if the agreement with the Diagonal was now renudiated, it would alienate strong friends who were working with him to effect the sale of the Boone road to the Northwestern; and further saying that there were reasons why the contract should be signed which he could only explain in person, and that in order to do this he would at once come cn to New York, arriv ing here on Tuesdya morning. Mr. Hopkins replied to this telegram that if it could be shown that there were good reasons outside of the contract why it should be signed, he would approve it,provided a clause was inserted under which either party should have the option of terminating it on six months* notic instead of one year's :otice, as it now fetands. To this we have no reply, Mr. Hopkins further says th t before beginning to draw up such a contract between the Northwester Co. and the terminal company, as lie would approve, he prefers to await the arrival of Mr. Meek ad learn from him exactly the he would at once give me tl. willing to approve. It seems to md that the Northwestern corId far better afford to purchase the Boone road on the basis of a half million valuation than to pay the nine or t«n th usand dollars a year which the terminal comnany would charge thorn for an entrance into Des Moines, because, b the purchase of the road at an outlay that would represent an expenditure of interest of •^3h,000 per annum, tl ey wouli sa- e that $10,000 per year tlicy would pay the toi'minals company and a very large amoimg ot money, far greater than the remaining $20,000 of interest charge, in increased rates and freight on the tonnage they would take out of Boone anc Des Moines. It seems to mo that if Hughitt has any real irbent-ion of going into Des ' oinos, tnis is the far preferable mai ner and if it was properly represented to iiim, I should think as a business ma. he .vould prefer to pui'^chase rathoi' than loasc. These questions, however, will be thoroughly discussed with Mr, Meek on his arrival i.^ro. Mr, Hopkins further says that when ti.G Northwestern before made for the purchase of tiiis road, Mr. Hughitt told him in so many words that It was liis intention to purchase it, and made Hopkins promise that at least for the present he would not sign a contrac allowing the Dia';'onal to enter Des Moines over our road, and this I believe is one ol' tho lituation; and thr t if then th'^ught desirable, outline of sue! a contract as he would be consiciGTcit'lons thcxt hcivs xnducsd hi^i to wlthhoXd liis q. -prcval ox tho contract; and my belief is further strenethened by the late telegram from Mr. Meek intimating that the Northv/estern is Jigp/in- endep-voring to obtain entrance ihte. De-s Moines. ■ t -i :] I After Mr. Meek's arrival hare, I will write/ fully.-pf )inm dissensions and conclusions.' . i -V ■ ,oO .V* Yours truly, . ^ ' Pi.J • ; fi ' . . Jnon J , J. T. Granger. r, nl an o;. 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Jal c- » r.. *r-a! j' ' t tfnrlb \ftil' t/ntChU --f .a * J bl': dfi I , Vi <.J riqo'i ■1 ;e.,» .r, .ia *0" . f iJ ^ 1. ► ' ■ i ' vl IIP ; J I nc .'!• iiJ iul r.iUJii ; ».Tt • 111 mill tiiol 1114*^1? ,1] • I oj lik iri|.i->i, t ,r In c. hj t '■ * Ir fsggj 1 ;. , J. . . nj .1 1 ,1 . UPff , i bluov oa 1ri.f.0-4q iol . anr,' ni».J ■'••i|/ , - ■ r.c'j •> ff) ipvo, .uttrtlu^l 'IfJ Ki o. April, 1885. M. Y. April 21, 1885. Dear General: ' I enclose the kind of letter you sug£;ested that I should send you which I hope is all right. I suppose Granger has given you the result of the meeting the other day. Ivr. 'A'alters told me about it and that he had proposed a 20^ call. I believe that v/ould have been a good thing for while but very few would probably have paid up, it would have given them the chance and let the company out. V/ith all the talk they made not a soul has been to see me since I got back and only one; lot of the stubs sent here for transfer and that by J. A. Kohn ^ Go. who sent it up by a boy. I think there wont be anything more done or said and the thing will die out and 'meanwhile the 4 ten will be finished. Felsenheld made a splendid report about the Road which was very satisfactory to all. I think the way '^alters talked to them at the meeting did a great deal of good. A party told me that 'Wallace who used to be in 'office had been rather thick with that Com mittee but that is all that I have i;eard. Now I am more afraid about our Land Grant than anything else just now. f.r. G. does not seeu. to remember about the contracts and all the resolutions that were passed and I am looking for Iv^r. '''dieelock daily who I hope can get the matter in better shape. It would be a shame after all -the fights to lose it now and we will get the whole of it in time. I was in V'ashington with Judge Dillon and Barnum when Tiller signed there. If you were only here it would help matters particularly when Wiieelock is here. i^-very stockholder in America has been building on this D^ant and if anything presented the issue of B--as later it would make an awful hurt and suits and trouble from the whole of th.em. Judge Dillon is very much an noyed about the shape it is in and I suppose has written you or Granger has about it. The Barnum side would also make a fuss about it. Salterter and all the Philadelphia Directors of the Texas Pac. will be over there next week. They leave Saturday night and will go over the whole road. ^'e have settled the.Cowdrey and K arie Sanison suits so now the Mo. Pac. is free from all litigation and the stock and Consolid ated Bonds beyond any question. The !•'. K. & T. works are closed for the election and no trouble anttei anticipated from any one and the foreign holders are all quiet. I believe the big deal of the future is going to be in Union Pac. but whether to go down or up I dont know. I believe it was a bad move letting Kr. Gould and Sage out. They close the office here on the first of B/iUy discharge all the force but Ham and he is to get a su.all office to attend to loans and look after their niatter on a small salary. The Union Trust Go. will i^ay coupons and transfer stock. I think K'r. Gould and Ir; Hopkins will soon niake a trip west but whether they will go to Texas or not I dont know but they probably will. W'ill telegraph you when they go if you should wish to meet them anywhere. The Bond niarket i§ getting very strong and the stock market will feel it soon. Perhpas you will have seen Whcelock on his- way up. He ought to be here tonight or tomorrow morning. Very truly, A. H. Calef. 163 April, 1885. Council Bluffs, 4/26/85. Dear Gran: Friday and ^'r. Galloway sent me word that Ivr. Adams would like to see G. P. "I'right and myself at Transfer at 9 l/2 o'clock. We went down and met him there in his car and by appointment Mess. Dey and Coffin ol' the ■'■owa Commission were there. Mr. Adams read Chapman's letters and referred to passage of Resolution. Mr. D. said the latter went thro so quick he knew nothing of it until it was passed. After talking with "^r. Bey some time the conversation be came somiewhat general and ^ave me a chance to say that 1 did not approve of Mr. Chapman's course neither did the majority of our people and while Mr. Chapman had worked himself up to the belief that C. Bluffs was being greatly injured. I as^ed M:r. Adams to wave the spirit and unkind tone iianifested and the blow struck at Des t-oines and hold an interview with Mr. Chapman and his friends. Mr. Adams at first said he did not see how he could to and see a man who had attacked-him so uanecessarily but Vvright and myself finally obtained his consent to meet I-r. Chapman at 9 l/2 next day. Our next mission was to see Mr. C. and consumriicte the arrangement. He thought it strange Mr. Adams should come and send for n;e instead oi' the Mayor. I explained that by saying that 1 presun.ed I was sent for because I was a brother of one of the Dii-ectors and we mollified him as far as possible-and worked for nearly an hour to have himi decide upon some plan of meeting IviT. Adams and every tinie we remindegl him of the necessity of this he would branch off on some general statement of grievance and I then realized for tiie first time that Ivr. Chapman was a sick man. This matter had so absorbed his thoughts and been dwelt upon so much he could not take a reasonable view of it. He finally said I will call my committee together and send for me and some plan would be agreed upon. I met them in the afternoon. Chapman, Haas, Stewart, Shugart, Merian^ and Loomis of Bradley Imp. Co., Sclioutgen, Hill of Empkie Hardware Co. and half dozen others who represented firms who ship goods from this point. None except those I name our old or representa tive citizens. TI.ese men claimed to have grievances as shippers and have been Mr. Chapirian's supi^orters in h.is course toward U. P. I found Stewart, as it always is, anxious to fight and he seemed to he the leader of tie party. -I stated to them that ^r. Adams was grieved at the uncalled for treatment he had received. After promising to come and give his personal attention to your grievances you have struck him another blow. I said "Gentleinen when you want favors of an individual or corporation or even when you want to obtain what you , think is properly due you, is it not ti;e gentlemanly way to approach them by a committee in an amicable manner, and have you ever done this7" Ctewart answered 1 always begin by pounding. I answered that lie by that course would do this city irreparable injury. I battled with them for two hours and think made some change in their feelings as Haas cane and said to me i think now tiiree fourths of our men would be for peace« 1G4 They agreed that Chapman and Kaas would accompany '."right and myself to. meet h'r. Adams party and bring theiii to Board of 'i'rade rooms where a committee appointed by Nr. Ohapmian would meet them. vVe carried out this prograirime and Saturday- A. 1. at 10 the meeting was held. hr. Chapman, Stewart, Haas, Tom Evans one or two men froni the Bradley Inip. firm, Sl:ugart, J. J. Brown, N'.r. . H. K. Pusey and several others. N:r. Everett was also i)resent, he and a nuuber of others present were there in addition to tl.e iiien selected by N'.r. Chapman. , VPnile these men were presenting their grievances I stepped around and requested soii.e of our citizens to come around and meet Wr. Adams alter he was through with the "shippers"- Casady, Blooii:er, Biersheim, Phillips, "allace and others were introduced by me to Mr. Adams and Nr. Calloway, and they returned to the Broadway Depot where their car.was waiting. No time to drive them about the city as I had planned . Mr. Adams and Mr. Calloway and Mr. Ames-all treated me very cordially and said they should be glad to communicate with nie relative to any matters that cone up which effect interests of City. After they left C-eo . "right went to Chapmans and I to see Spencer Smith to try and turn iiiatters into a .more peaceful channel. Smith said the "Shippers" grievances which Mr. Chapman made so miuch of and talked about so miuch fell flat. The River filling they found had been abandoned and other matters Mr. Adams proposed to leave to the iowa Commissions and be governed by their decisions. These men who had worked themselves into a rage over ijetty annoyances or agravations occasioned by the ill,feeling of subordinate officers realized when they camie to talk with Mr. Adams that it was asking too much of him to investigate personally all these matters. He told them the local management would correct any wrong. He made a good impression, so did Mr. Calloway who said but little. Mr. Adams said you are favored in having a director, why dont you con sult him about these m.atters? other one of the board. counsel ?/ith. hini miore than with any This interview was a decided defeat of Mr. Chapman and his war party and V/right says they met again that evening to kick themselves because of the unsatisfactory result and have decided to put their .griev ances on paper and submit them, to Mr. Calloway as suggested by Mr. Wright. They no doubt realize now that they began at the wrong end. In convei'sing with Spencer Sndth I found he had a .grievance and it seemed to nie a real one and which if corrected would turn all the other niatters of difference into a peaceful channel. . The Non pareil gets very little work from U. P.* Their monthly bills will not average f^lQC while those of Rep. & Ferald are four or five thousand each and these papers are being built up by U. P. and their prosperity is crushing him out. Many of his presses are idle and his bindery only partly in use. lie has h.an as.surances from Mr. Calloway and your self that it should be corrected and the Nonpareil have, at least ^1000 per month but he thinks the Omaha papers have such a hold through clerks in the offices and other ways that orders from those in authority, if given are not obeyed. This is a wrong that ought to be righted and it is so much of a snag in the way that 1 have addressed a personal letter to Mr. C. today, giving amt. of Nonpareilbills each month this year and put the n.atter before i.im so I think he will give it his p)ersonal attention. 1G5 Sheet rf 2 ^11^ April 26, 1885. G. . Dodge In exacilning into this niatter I see as never before how much injury is done us thro the prejudice and ill will of those in minor positions and cherkships . For instance an order will be made out to Fonpareil for a job of printing by the proper officer.; and in passing thro the proper channel is changed to another paper. Storekeeper and Stationery Agt. seem friendly to Nonp. and say they ought to have more work and promise they shall but for some unaccountable reason they get but a pittance and then generally that which is bid for and prices of last job run about thus. Reb. 2B5,Herald$2£5- Konp. 75^,E. City times 70^^. The Nonp. got it and made about .-1:8 out of the whole job. When any work is given Nonp. the Oimaha papers know it before the order reaches Nonp. office and when any bidding is .done the differences in prices is much as indicated above. Carrie came thro safely arriving this morning Very truly, N. ?. Dodge ; '.vt 167 On the .morning of April 27, 1885, I received a disp^itch from Wt. lucGregor stating that General Grant had.died that morning at 8 A."., It fell to my lot to taRe an important part in the arrange ments for the funeral. There was a great contest as to wherGeneral Grant should be buried. Many wanted him.buried in Washington, others wanted him buried in Galena, Illinois, but it was finally decided tijat*he should be.buried.in Riverside . Park* in New York, and a temporary tomb was erected there to receive the remains. The funeral was.a very large and impressive one,' the military and other organizations turning.out. ' The streets were, lined with people, wliO had gathered from all the. States. In a letter to the. Boston Journal, I gave this short tribute to General Grant: "Geh. Grant is measured from two standpoints. First, as a soldier and commander; second, as a civilian and statesman. As a soldier Gen. Grant was modest, retiring, unassuming and easy of approach, seldom, if ever, si-owing «gager; standing by and. supporting tho.ie in whom he tmsted, or upon vrhom'he liad placed responsibilities, even in their failures, if he believed that,they carried out his commond to t e besi of t':eir ability'and "with the full strength of tl-e forcesunder them. He had no use or sympathy for an officer wiio in battle or holding nny position did'not use to the utmost limit and fight to the utmost strength every person under liira. Witi. Gen. Grant suci. action on the part'of an officer covered a multitude of omissions. His strength of ch-racter is well illustrated by his reply when asked what he cldiraed f6r the Battle ^f tlie Wilderness. It is well known that Confederate officers maintain the opinion that if this battle had been fouglit unc er any other comiPand,' the results ensuing would have caused a retreat ■ instead-of a.n advance. Gen. Grant ans'wered .tliat all he Maimed was that after the battle the Army of the Potomac would never fear Lee, and that Lee's losses could never be replaced, and thai the Union troops would have a much smaller force'to meet in the rest of the campaign-than they encountered at the be;'inning of the Wilderness fight. General Grant's fame came from tl.c fact that he was generally victorious, and finished successfully the CJrtil War, but the vital question is. Why did fc-e people, , with unerr" g instinct, lick to tliis Tinhnown man when thefq were inany others more prominent in the field. ■vlio wore gaining, wnil^t he was under a ban, even after his first great victories? What led them to so fir;.;ly support l.im-through all the time ho was in the mist of a storm of abuse? My ansv;er is that'Grant ^as the first commander who cave the North to understand that he would use the force placed under him for al it was worth. They said: "here at last is a General who will not temporixe, who will not compromise, and who will fight at.every opportunity, regardless of numbers, and -will attempt to capture every strongl:old of the enemy and beat dovm ..is armies by main force. Gen. Grant believed tht the North had superior numbers and stronger sinews of war, which, if properly used, vmuld cause the victory to finally rest with liim. Superiority of numbers and equipment would not succeed unless used with a determination and continued force commensuaate with their strength. Grant saw this; saw that the nation demanded action, and saw it and demanded -lis services, no matter whot the'critics, strategists or officials said of him or of his acts, and today the world admits that his methods in war are- the only ones to bring quick and sure success. It was Grant's determination in.every battle to use against the enemy every gun at his command, and when liis battles are studied it is wonderful to see how he marshaled his forces. They prove t.,at he had the genius for concentrating and fighting his command upon a givsna point; therefore, it was mathematically certain that in the end he would win. He tied to'hiraself with hooks of steel all those who served under him, from the fact that h.e sunk his own personality ..in liis endeavors to give credit and nonor to everyone who successfully took part in any battle under hin.. Gen. Grant as a statesman: As the years pass by and his acts are measured by the results of his administration, it is being m generally admitted that he was equally as great a statesman as he ^ was a soldier," * I Years after before the Loyal Legion of New York, I delivered an address upon General Grant, which appears later. " ' Soon after General Grant's funeral, the Grant Birthday Association of"General Grant was organized, of which I was made President and up to the time of the death of Mrs. Grant, on April 27th, we had a banquet; generally five or six hundred people attended these banquets. Statesmen, diplomats and distinguished citizens from all over'the United States attended it and the finest orators of the country delivered speeches on General Grant, The Mexican Government was represented at these banquets bixt its ambassaiJor,to this country, Mr, official staff. The plates-at the banquet coat $20--the souvenirs given generally cost about .,$10 each and were very remarkable. Many attended the dinner for the purpose of getting one of the souvenirs. 169 In the meantime other organizations had taken this matter up, the Republican Club, the Union League Club of Brooklyn and others, so that on the death of l.Irs. Grant we turned our work over to the Republica Club of New York and discontinued our Association. In later years the attendance at the banquets grew less on account of the number of clubs that took the matter up, whose members naturally v/ould attend instead of going to our banquet. Then they made tiie price of ti:e and banquet much smaller, generally held them in their club rooms. NOTE: Page 5, scrap-book 24 see Anecddtes of General Grajit. 1 /i May, 1885. N A. Rosefl, Auditor, New York. May 6, 1885. Ft. Worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- Af^er the Ft. Worth & Denver City Baord of Directors act upon the resolutions which lave Been sent, the Construction Account which you have heretofore carried in rny name can be carried in the name of the Ft. W. & D. 0. Ry. Co. All you will have to do is to Chang'- your heading in the books. I want this account kept entirely separate as though it was done with another Compny and a settlement made between the Construction Account and the Operating Department the same as though they were two separate concerns. For instance. When ever freight bills for which the Construction Account ewes the Railway Co. proper, are turned over, the amount should be charged up to Cost of Constn;! ction and be offset by a credit to the Treasurer for ^he amount of money necessary to pay them. That is to say, the T.easurer will be charged with them just as though the money had been collected and returned to him, and he can be given credit as though he had sent you a check for the amount, although it is not necessary to make the exchange of ftinds. The material which v/ill be turned over by the Texas & Colorado to the Railway Co. can be accounted for in the same manner. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge, G(n.'l. Manager. The followin resolutions were sent enclosed in letters to Morgan Jones, President, copied on pp 16 and 17 this book. Resolved--That the Treasurer of this Company is hereby authorized and instructed to issue and deliver to G, M. Dodge, $340,000 of the Stock of this Company, to be used in payment for the construction of the saia road from whichita Falls to Harrold, an d to fulfil the contracts made in the sale of securities by direction of the Company. 173 May, 1885. New York. . ■' > 'i May 6, 1885 Morgan Jones, President, Port worlh & Denver City R'y, Ft Worth, Texas. Dear Sir: I enclose herewith a report of the action of the Texas and Colorado Railway ImproveraentCompany, making a proposition to your Company for a full settlement forsll work done, and for the cancella tion of the Contract between them. I also enclose the necessary resolutions to be passed and acted upon by your Board of Direcotrs. Please be careful to have the Board act upon them without changing them, as they have been acted upon by the Texas & Colorado Board here, and I don't want to be obliged to again call them together. It will be necessary for the Stockholders to act upon and ratify this settlement, and I wired you today to publish a call for a meeting of Stockholders to be held on the 20th inst, for that purpost=. Hoave as many of your Baord of Directors present as possible, and see that your call for the meeting is perfectly legal. I will send you from here a written notice of acceptance of the call for the meeting from the New York Directors. I will send instzuctions to Mr. Montgomery to turn over to your Company all the Town Sites from Fort Worth to Wichita Palls, and such bills receivable as he nay have on hand and will direct him to follow out your instructions in relation thereto. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. ' President. P.S. On reflection I have concluded to have the pnoposition submitted to your Company in the form of of the resolution of the Texas ^ Colorado Improvement Co s. Directors, and sent by the Ass.'t. Secc'y. of that Co. to your meeting^^ proper person to bring it before the G. M. D. 175 May, 1885. C. L. Frost, Sup't, New York. May 7, 1885. Ft . Worth, Texas, Dear Sir:- You will have to send us so as to be here by the 1st of June, $42,000 out of your earnings. If it does not come in you will have to get it out of the banks there. In addition to this you will have to send us out of the construction fund in your hands $16,671.36 being the amount Mr. Grangerpaid out to you from the funds on hand here, which now stands on the construction books to my credit. On returning it here, it will be charged up to me and leave the Treasurer's account all right, I don't know whether or not you have money enough to do this and pay all your construction expenses, but if you have not I will try and help you out in some way. This money should be sent so as to reach us by the 1st of June. Start it in ample time, so that there will be no delays. Whatever money you have on hand you had better send at once and keep on sending it along as you get it in. While in St . Louis I saw Dr. Smith, Treasurer of the Misouri Pacific Co., and he said that he could allow the freight accounts for freight over their system to stand for the present; of course whatever back charges they have paid out for us in cahs, we will have to repay. i'ours truly, G. M. Dodge. 177.,.. Now York, May 9,1885. Gen. John W. F;ller, Toledo, Ohio. My dear General;- I am in receipt of yours of Februory 11th. I have been sick in the south foi? bhe past three months and only returned here a few days ago; hence my delay in writing you. If you sent me your official report of the Battle of Atlante, it . is among my otiier records in Council Bluffs. I have with me only my army letter book, and find nothing in it giving a separate account of the losses in your division at that battle. Referring to the battle, I find the following: "I cannot speak too highly of officers and men during the engage ment. It was a critical moment f r our armies and any fal lure on our part to have checked the advance of the enemy in our rear would have proved fatal. With three brigades disposed in single line, numbering some 4500 men, over one-half of Hardee's Corps, viz: Walker's, Bates' and a portion of Clebourne's divisions, was met and driven back with great slaughter, leaving the dead and severely woiinde in our hands. During the engagement on my front, prisoners were taken from 49th different regiments, 8 brigades and 3 divisions. 351 prisoners were captured, not including those taken by General Mersey's Brigade on the line of the 15th Army Corps, 8 battle-flags and some 1300 muskets were captured and turned over. 322 of the enemy's dead were buried in ray front. Where all did so well it is hard to part44ularize. General Fuller had a critical position and he handled his conmrrd with great skill and good judgment. The Brigade commanders. Col. Rice, Merrill, Mersey and Sprague v.'ere everywhere duty demanded, and by their personal exertions and presence gave their officers and men that advice and encouragement that enabled them so well and bravely to hold their lines. Batty. !'. 1st Mo, Arty, and the 14th Ohio Battery massed in the center of the 2nd division, by l.olding fast and working their guns, even when the enemy were 150 feet distant and were pouring upon them a terrible fire, aided effecturlly in driving back i.is advancing columes, more especially division upon which they had a direct and point-blank range,* I am. Truly, G. M. Dodge, May, 1885. MADISON CITY RAI]-WAY COMPANY James H. Zearing, Superintendent. Madison, Wisconsin, May 13th, 1885 Dear Gen'l: I received your note of 3d inst. and was very glad to hear from you. I had felt anxious to know how you endured the .trip to N. Y. and glad to learn from your letter that you arrived feeling as well as you did and that since your arrival you had no bad attack. I hope you will continue to improve until I hear of your perfect recov ery. I should be glad to kno- that your indigestion was being re moved as it has niuch to do in causing a tendency to attacks of the gout . It would be well whenever symptoms of it appears to take freely of-the dalycilate of soda which will neutralize the acid formed by tb.e indigestion, which parsing into the blood disposes of the gout. It is of very much importance to guard against over eating and eating too rapidly. It is best now not to crowd the appetite as by this time you have made considerable blood and you will gain strength faster to just eat as much ac the stomach will easily digest. It is possible the tincture of Golchicum may affect the stomach, if you think so it might be well to take it in smaller doses but not suspend it entirely. It should be continued for several weeks. Ithink it would be of much benefit to drink freely of the Wankesha water. I corresponded with the proprietor of the springs and he reconmiended it should be procured from his agent in New York. The agent is P. Scherer & ^o., No. 11 Barclay St. I wish you would bet some and use it. I hope you are getting regular warm weather which will be in your favor. The weather is good here now, though it held very cold up to a few days past. If the weather holds rough on the sea-coast I think it would agree with you to spend a month here. The lakes at Madison are beautiful now and you would be delighted with the yachting and fishing. I was out an hour last evening and caught fourteen fine bass, a few of them the gamy black bas.;. They take the hook now very quick and it is fun to land them. Ihc fish here are as good as I ever ate. I could make you quite comfortable here and the s.ring Waters here are the same as Wankesha. Be sides this I have picked up some new points in Bazique. I had an interview with Mr. Pusey at Chicago, I gave hin, a fair state ment of the business at the Brazos, with what in my opinion could be done there if he took an interest. He seemed quite favorably dis posed toward the enterprise and decided to go down and look it dver. Gen'l. I would be-very glad to hear from you soon again. I hope you found Granger much improved so that you will not be compelled to overtax yourself with business. Give Granger my best wislies. ^ P.ei pectfully yours, j|l J. R. Zearing. 181 Uv'a«qunX •iiiliU'vfSir 10 . ci.iJ T ■ f r.n. ■ Broadway New York, Hay 18, 1885, ?. Tl I ,«idiiir.D answered takinf^ care P. S. Bond, Esq., • 26 West 22nd St., New York. Tr Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of April 24t., which I have not answered on account of my absence. The mofst successful system of maintaining and taking care of bridges on a completed road; I have found to be as follows; The bridges on tne entire system are under the Chief engineer or some competent head who is a judge of bridges and knows all about them; he appoints an inspector for each division of the road, say 800 miles or thereabouts to a division. This inspector is a practical bridge man or bridge builder, it is not necessary that he should be a scientific one, but he should be, a practical workman vrho knows all about timber and all abou the strains on a bridge, and who can test it and examine it in all its parts and report upon it. • Next oome the btidge foremen, who have bridge gangs uncer them on each division of th-> road,and who do the actual work. This- bridge gang generally works under the Superintendent of the road or the Division Superintendent who gets his plans, orders, Scc. directly from the Chief Engineer or Chief of Bridges not from the inspector. The division inspector exam nes every bridges or. his division carefully once a month, or it may be it takes him longer. Where the bridge needs any imaediate repairs or immediate attention of any kind, he at once notifies the foreman of the local bridge gang, who goes to the bridge end makes sueh repairs as are necessary to make it safe, and generally if there is nothing more needed than a stick of timber or somethinf- of that kind, he puts the bridge in good shape without waiting for superior orders. But, whether the bridge needs general reprairing or a general overliaulingj or there is need for any large expenditure upon it, the course .^ursued is flifferent. The inspector in his monthly report to the Chief engineer makes a report of the condition of every bridge by its number. If any local repairs have been ordered ypon it, he so states. If a bridge did not need any immediate local repairs, but would soon he so states. He gives a careful detailed report of the bridge and its condition throughout. If the bridge needs any general repairs, he states the fact. The chief engineer in order that he may see whether the inspector's report is right, send s acopy of uis report to each of the foremen of the local gangs who give the points mention ed in his report•immediate•attention and send in another report or take such action as is necessary. When general repairs of any kind are needed, the chief engineer the inspector and the foreman go together and examine the bridge and decide what is to be done, on the ground. It takes about a year when you start this system to get the bridges in proper shape, especially the minor ones so that the inspector's report on them can be checked up before the repairs are made, butwthen in operation, it will be found that from his reports, the bridge gangs almost entirely maintain the bridges; and you will find that when you get to this point the cost of repairs will be about the same each n.onth, and you can almost determine the percentage it requires to ke/p the bridges in repair and maintain them properly. S There is another great advantage in this monthly inspection, in the case of iron and stone bridges; if a wash-out or anything of that kind takes place, it is soon detected. If the bridge is out of carabre, if any rods are loose, or if its strains are unequal it is detected immediately, because as a general thing an inspector will wait till a train passes over it and from his levels will find out where the strain falls. Mr. Garvey of the Texas & Pacific has adopted this sytem partially or fully, and I think has blanks for reports, "■cc. When I was in Texas last he told me that the bridges on tliat entire line were in good order and needed no overhauling. He had got them in hand so that he coufid repair them with the regular bridge gangs without any extra force at any time. In this system you have got to eliminate you r bridge inspection and bridge repairs and maintainance from your roadmaster or superintendent, because the system once entered upon must be followe d out completely except in the case of extraordinary floods when the active direction of the supei-intendent and chief engineer is required and the Resident Engineer acts under the direction of the General Manager or Superintendent. . There is a complete check, you will notice, in ^his system. The road-mastep watches the foreman, the foreman watches the inspector, and the inspector watches both. I have always been_in the hatit of taking for inspectors some first-class bridge foremen; practical bridge men who understand repair ing a bridge economically, know the quality of timber, and understand all kinds of "patching up" as we call it. I have found that this syten. of reports and checks is a very economical.onel if your inspectors are competent men you have one invariable system oi repairing your bricges. Whereas, if all repairs are made as the foremen of the local gangs dictate, they often pull your bridges to pieces, take out good timbers and leave poor ones,, and do a great deal of unnecessary wor; , and are'not systematic, and as you know lose and waste a great deal of timber. Your inspectors in their reports make A statement of jafet the quantity of timber needed, and you have a perfect check upon the local foremen, stopping waste and loss. . t The local foremen also soon work into tlie system of repairing or putting in temporary bridges, &c. under one plan, and in case of any great washout or injury of any large bridge which forces you to bring them all together, they can work under any one chief and accomplish almost twice the work they do when in the habit of working separately. Truly, ,G. M. Dodg-. . ^. 1 r ; f I " ; q J r'li- of* .6til,! lo t Xfl.|or!03 >n» a:i iHa ffW htta nn ra-io i o.u lojpeGhrtl eh.' . . . wihf iio ,enofc Acf at 4ehw j-r} oj aieJuv/ aiaj rroq cuf - i^f ^ r juorfu aeHmJ jt eerto totila ei.' aecyMij ni nesblttf /Hd wrij »|(l hnuoJ w* lUv j| nl _ „ .ill; hi'w % . I ' artlthni .tl a- r>,tj eaiMieJel) trnmta rwr wo* . 1x7 * ' Jt'otlJ .lie.' .i 'w^ ilriQei iii ■ ' ' 11 1885. 183 Chicago, May 25, 1885. 3600 Michigan Avenue, Dear Gen'l: I was about writing you this morning in relation to Wheeler and his enterprise and have this moment received your letter of 23rd inst. I was much interested in the perusal of your letter and can see from it that you still have a fight on hand with the rebel gout. But I have confidence, based on my knowledge of your past history, that you will beat the enemy if it takes all summer. It is a fight with guerillas and you know what they are, they are more liable to attack the outposts (as the great toe) than the main body. But by hammering away at them and cutting off their supplies, they can be cleaned out. I feel confident that as soon as summer weather is well on the improve ment will be more rapid. I would continue the colchicum regularly, but in small doses, so that it will not affect digestion. I think your diet is all that can be desired; this together with your strict adherence to temperance principles, will bring good results. I am looking forward to your becoming eminent as an Apostle of temperance. To attack the enemy in his entrencr.ed camp, towit: The Union League Club, will require the utmost courage and skill. I would suggest that if they make an obstinate resistance you should fling in a few double baziques at them, they will soon surrender. I had an interview with Wheeler last Saturday. He had started his machinery the week before, but as I was out of the City, I did not see it at work, he proposes starting it next week when I will see it work. I found from the interview, that in consequence of a patent having been obtained several years ago on his principal im provement, by another party, it cut him off from the use of it and he could do nothing. The parties here who had furnished hirn some funds had shut down on him in consequence oi the older patent. He repre sented that he had made a contract with the owner of the patent to assign to hin. for a consideration in stock and that he now wanted to go to Cincinnati to close the matter up, but that he had no money to pay his expenses. I let him have enough for that purpose and he started. I saw at once that if tiiere was any value in the thing at all, it all depended on that patent. It covers the use of the cold spray. Wheeler claims two improvements, one the perfect exhaustion of gases from his cylinder and the other the cold spray. The first is only a question of a few more pounds of fuel the last is of great im portance and the only thing that gives it superiority over other machines. If he gets control of that I would say that a good amount of money can be realized out of it. Wheeler is extravagant and spends money uselessly if he has it. In the condition of things he should not have spent that iJSOO. in three weeks. Now if his statements are correct there is no need of using but very little more money. It is this, 1st - A party agrees to build the machines at cost and 25^' payable 184 " when sold - 2nd - Parties agree to take three machines as soon as they can be built, at an agreed price that will yield a profit of 50^. No money needed in these transactions. It will require ninety days to build them. Wheeler must be supported for ninety days, then money is in the treasury. Wheeler makes these statements positively and says he knows he can carry them out, he should be held to them. It is probably he will go to New York from Gincinnatti to see you. Mrs. Montgomery called and informed us Mrs. Dodge aid Annie are in the city and will call. I hope to see them. We gave Gen'l Logan a magnifi cent reception Saturday night. His fight at Springfield was well managed. Yours.etc., ' In yl J. R. Zearing, I. I ,.U.v .. . »(<" . 'l'. I V,' ■ . . t.i. I' 1 r, a. . ' -■ v' • • ' W.' / •■ r ' ; J, ■. .. I. '/ C i ^ I J- V '1, "i . d: ; .n r , : . ■ J J . ■ .:d • »' ■ . ■ '.yr • . ' J '.l'w,.' . M , -vj / ;; j ; rr . . ■ /> ./ . • ■'•J l i'i't ■ f n i. ' 1 0 . ,'1' \ I' '(« J ■ ■ «>- : ' :>u ■ '■J i> t nvt.: . ;f ' '**1 i. f -'o p y i- ) ■' ¥ ■ .1 i- it "i y #«•'? .■ » ' I* ."J . r. ■ 'I • ; ' . ■ I ^ . >.■ ■ i' ;,i <■ •' ■ ■> - . J , ' c: I ' '*'.1 .V . . I > . \.i . r • 185 ^ -i'J New York, May 28, 1885. R. S. Haye§, Vice-President, New York City. Dear Sir:- I think tt important that Bonn should provide to spend say three hundred thousand dollars in bringing up the grade and ballasting the New Orleans Pacific as I suggested in my letter. If they do this, it will save more than that amount in wear of irona nd equipment in two years. If they could give the Texas and Pacific fifty miles of steel west of Fort Worth and fifty on the north line and east of Marshall, it would put that road in excellent condition. The bridges on the eT tire road are in good condition. The road-bed of the T. p . proper is in fair condition and steel as suggested will put it in excelent dondition and ought to bring the expenses below 65 per cent. The New Orleans Division if ballasted and brought to original grade will more than pay for these improvements in two years. West of the Atchafalaya you may have to rajase the banks but I woulc fight now. Floods and balast the road; also if the river and harbor bill fail to pass, I would complete the work begun by the government so as to protect our front, and if v/e could use the stone the government has on our ground, thi.s can be dene for $25,000. The road is well in hand and the discipline good and now is the time to put it squarely on its feet. Unless you take radical measures to put the New Orleans Division in good condition by October, it will cripple the earnings of the entire line. Yours truly, G.M. Dodge. June, 1885. C. L. Frost, Sup't., New York. June 9, 1885. Fort Yorth, Texas. Dear Sir:- I notice the great falling off in our May earnings caused by the lack of movement of cattle. Of course you appreciate the necerfity of keeping our expenses down to the very lowest point. We now have no surplus to keep back us and no bonds in the Treas ury, and the road has got to take care of itself or go under. You must not hesitate to cut down your expenditures at any and all points. I wish you would send me a list of the bills you owe on account of the road proper. As soon as I hear from Mr. Ross and get a strtement of what is owing for transportation of construction material, I will try to arrange some way by which we can get it into the Tr asury. You will probably have to take it in bonds which can be sold in the future. You must do everything you possibly can to build up this country into which we have lately gone, for I am satisfied that we shall have to depend on the growth of the country for our support. The earnings will not justify us in attempting to build any more road for at least one or two years, and we will have to wait until we can raise the price of our securities before we go forward. On this account I want everything done that is possible to build up our terminus and get the country round it settled up. It seems to me that the press of Texas ought to work up that ou try for agricultural purposes. If we get a good crop out of it this season it will be a great advertisement for it. I find tha the Fort Worth papers have considerable circulation, but think that you ought to make some arrangement to have somebody up in that country write something for almost every issue of the Giveston News. Whatever that paper says about Texas is widely copied, and every judi«t. clous article in it is worth a great deal to us. Yours truly G. M. Dodge. % 189 June, 1885 X4.49 Lexington Avenue, N. Y. City, June 18. Mr. J. T. Granger. My dear Siri have Gen'l Dodges note from you regarding a photo, front face, of Gen .*1 1Blair that Gen'lD. suggested me writing Mr. Boyles about the loan ol' one he has. I called down yesterday at No. 1 Bdway, taking with me a large bearded front face photo of Genl. Blair in uniform, and also two new positions, photos, of McPherson, that Genl. . E. Strong sent me, thinking that Genl. D. was in the city, but it seems he is not, so I will go on and copy off these as also a new Howard. During my my house to inspect place pretty well e been at home at the picture and stated I ought to make him photo Genl. Strong also and will copy trip down town yesterday Genl. Sherman called at my war relics and photograph's. Mother filled my xplaining what she could. I regret not having time. The Genl. once more examined the "Generals" that he liked the McPherson very well except that more smiling, but I will make a new head from the sent. I have borrowed an excellent Genl. Howard it in place of the other face. I could not find Mr. Boyles address in the Brooklyn directory and I am not acquainted with him but if the Blair I have just borrowed is n:t satisfactory after copying it I will try to hunt up Boyles and secure the loan of the photo he has. I guess his B. is off the same negative as the one I have just secured. You might if you think best send this note to Genl. Badge. By Saturday next Mr. Anderson will have the U. P. R. R. Ft. Sanders photo in a shape to be examined. Will the Genl. be in the city soon? As Mr. A. would like the Genl. to inspect it. Please advise me and oblige. I ani. Triiy yours. ^ James E. Taylor. m 191 June, 1885. D. T. Gorbin, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 520 First National Bank Building. Chicago, 111., June 25, 1885 Wy derr Sir; The machine and process is a perfect success. Owing to an accident to some of the Packing House Machinery we did not get started until this week. This is a small machine which I estimated would cool 100 hogs in 36 hours. ".'e put in 200 and closed our doors at noon, Monday and at 8. A. N'. Tuesday morning our room was 28° and we had to open the doors--20 hours and 4° below 32° which is 6° lower than any other process ever has or can go. The meat was in splendid con dition and every one is surprised as well as delighted. I an. surprised myself as I would have been satisfied if I reach 30 in 36 hours. The dry air I get is a very great advantage both for Packing House and Brewers. You will I think hear of tliis process very soon now, and I hope to get your money out very soon that is if you desire to go out. Yours truly. Genl. G. U. Dodge. E. G. Wheeler. *■1 t * V 193 June, 1885. Chicago, June 29th, 1885. 3600 Iiachigan Avenue, Dear Gen'.l: I had' opportunity last week of seeing Wheeler's cooling process in operation and presuming you .vould like to know about it, I write you. The machine was at work all last week and worked well. IV^eat was hung in two rooms side by side, one room being cooled by '"heeler's process and the other by the old process. The meat in Wheeler's room was uniformly cooled in one fourth less tii e and the temperature reduced five degrees lower than by the old process. The cost of cooling is somewhat in .favor of Wheeler 's process, but would be miuch more so in localities where ice is more expensive tl-ian in Chicago. I would think the process adopted in the k. Worth establishment would make it a success. The parties handling the mieat cooled by this process admit it comes out of the room in better condition for cutting up and curing than by cooling with ice. Wheeler secured from the patentee of the salt spray exclusive use of the process, so that I believe now there is some real value in his system, if it is so, I do not aeewhy he should I believe now there is not aeevfhy he should not commence realizing some inccane fromi it at once. I hope Gen'l you have been improving in your health so that at present you are in a comfortable condition. Yours etc.. J. R. Zearing. K Vn1i'-' J ■ I ■"<'/" '• .m, 1 ■ ' ,»h., . 1S5 July, 1885. Headquarters I^'ilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1885. 1. At a stated meeting of the -Acting Commandery-in-Chief of the Order, held in the city of Philadelphia, ^'ay 6th, 1885, a Charter for the Gommandery of the State of Oregon, to be stationed at Portland,was issiied to Gompahionsr-- Of the Comn.andery of the State of Pennsylvania: First Lieutenant . Kapus; Firet Lieutenant Wm. Ralph Abercrombie". Of the Gommandery of the State of ^-ass: chusetts: Brigadier-General Nelson A. Miles; Captain Franck E. Taylor. Of the Gommandery of the State of California: Brevet Brifadier-General Lewis G. Hunt; Second Lieutenant Stephen J. Mulhall; Major Dewitt G. Poole; Brevet Major J. W. McMurray; Lieutenahb-Golonel Rodney Smith; Captain Gavin E. Gaukin; Captain Benjamin B. Tuttle; Colonel Granville 0. Haller; Captain George D. ^^ill; Brevet Brigadi'-r-General Thomas R. Taunatt; Captain Eli Lundy Huggins; First Lieutenant Medorem Crawford, jr.; Brevet Major-General John >. Sprague; Major iilliam A. Jones. II. In pursuance of the Constitution, the Acting Coihmander-in-Chief directs that the Gommandery of the State of Oregon be organized in the city of Portland, at such time as may be selected by the petitioners III. Transfers of the Companions named as Charter Members will be dated May 6th, 1885, and forwarded to the Head-quarters of the Order. IV. Official con.munications sliould be addressed to Captain Gavin E. Caukin, Recorder, pro-tern, Portland, Oregon. V. The Co. mandery of the ■^tate of Minnesota was organized in the city of St. Paul, June 5th, 1885, and in accordance with the Constituti n, the Acting Commandery-in-Chief directs that the Commanderies of the Order tender greetings to the new Commandery. VI. Official coii.munlcations should be addressed to Bvt. Ma jor-General John B. Sanborn, U. S. V., Cor.mander, or Bvt. Major Geo. Q. White, U. S, A., Recorder, St. Paul, Minnesota. By con.Miand of Major-General Winfield S. Hancock, U. S. Army, Acting Commander-in-Chief. ' John P. Nicholson, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. V., Official. Recorder. Recorder. 1S7 July, 1885. HEADQUARTERS SOCIETY OF THE ARI/Y OF THE TENNESSEE. St. Louis No., July 20, 1885. To the Members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee: The Eighteenth Annual Reunion of our Society will be held at Chicago, 111., Wednesday and Thursdry, September 9th and 10th, 1885. The Annurl Address will be delivered by General John B. Sanborn. All the arrangements for the meeting will be under the charge and (21*' rection ofthe following Local Executive Committee. ' Who will give due and timely notice of the details of their arrangements. .Gen'l A. L. Chetlain, Cha Gen'l W. Q. Gresham Gen'l Wm. E. Strong, Capt. Gen'I.Jos. Stockton, Capt. Gen'l J, B. Leake, Capt. Gen'l Rob't W. Smith, Capt. Col. Wm. H. Bolton, Capt. Capt. Rich's S. Tuthill,Gen' Gen'l A. C. Ducat, Gen'l C.'l. August Jacobson, Maj . Capt. Martin Beem, Capt. Col. J. Mason Loomis, Capt. ,Col. W. B. Keeler, Gen'l Capt. Martin Beem, Col. J. Mason Loomii ,Col. W. B. Keeler, Maj . Capt. Capt. Gen'l -Capt. J. C. Neeley, Capt. irman. Capt. W. 3. Capt. F. A. Bragg. J. W. Rumsey. C. i'. Matteson, Jno. F. M.cAuley, A. N. Reece. P. Iv'cGrath, 1 John. McArthur, Jolin A. Logan, Geo. Mason, J. G. Everest, A. T. Andreas. R. N. Pearson, D. H. Gile, Scribner, Becretary. Dr. 6. W. Nixon. Maj. G. L. Paddock. H-aj . J. A. Fitch. Gen'l J. E. Smith. Col. J . A. Sexton . Col. M. L. Barnum. Capt. J. B. Rumsey. Dr. E. Powell, Capt. R. liV. Pike. Capt. B. W. Underwood Capt. G. A. Busse. Capt. J. W. Letton. Gen'l Sam'l Fallows. Officers who have at any tin.e served in the Army or Departm.ent of the Tennessee, are, by our constitution, entitled to membership and are especially requested to attend. L. M. Dayton, Recording Secretary. ) A. Hickenlooper, Corresponding Secretary) W. T. Sherman, President, 198 01 fice of Corresponding Secretary, . Society Army Tennessee. .Cincinnati, July 20th, 1885. I have the honor to enclose herewith tl.e official notification of the tine and place of our next re-union; and inconnection with which, desire to call your special attention to Article 3rd of our Constitution: "The Society shall meet ones in every year, and those officers -who, for any cause, are unable to attend its n.eetings, v.-ill be expect ed to v/rite to the Corresponding Secretary of the Society, and im part such information in regard to themselves as they may desire, and which may be of interest to their brother officers." And also to request, that if, since the date of oun last meeting, the death of any member has come to your knowledge, you will at once advise me of the fact, and, if practicable, obtaii and .forward a sketch of the.life and military services of such member. , In accordance with instructions of the Society Reports of our Annual Meetings from September, 1677 to Octobex-, 1883, Nos, 14 to 16 inclusive have been re-printed in two handsomely bound Volumes of about 500 pages each, and are now ready for gratuitous distribution to paid-up members. About 400 Volumes will be sent to Chicago for deliver^^ .to members attending that meeting. To other paid -up members they will be sent either by mail or express, but as they are too valuable to be lost by misdirection, you are requested to advvse the undersigned to what address and by what .express .company you desire to have .them forwarded expressage C. 0. D. New members or others, who have never received the first two .VolumesNos. 1 to 13 inclusive, are requested to so state. Deliveries can be made by mail, but is is not advisable, as the regulations require a separation of the volumes and an iinsealed wrapper, thus greatly increasing the liability to loss or damage; if, however, this is the only chanrxel'of communication with your pl-ace, you will plaese so .state, and transmit forty-four cents in stamps with which to prepay postage. A. Hickenlooper, Corresponding Secretary, Cincinnati, 0. July 31 1885 199 Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Headquarters Local Executive Committee, Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, July 31, 1885. The following Comiiiittees are appointed .in charge of the Society of the Arrny of the Tennessee at its eighteenth annual re union at Chicago, Wednesday and Thursday, September 9th and 10th, 1885. . . ■ . . Committee on Invitation and Reception. General J. B. Leake, Chairman. General Robt. W. Smith. General W. Q. Gresham. General Samuel Fallows. Colonel J. H:ason Loomis. General B. Hancock. Colonel Owne Stuart. Captain J. W. Rumsey. Captain B. K. Callender. Captain D. H. Gile. General John E, Smith. General John A. Logan. General John t'.cArthur. General Arthur C. Ducat. Dr. E. Powell. Hajor S. C. Barrett. Captain J. T. McAuley. Lieutenant W. S. Scribner. Captain K. L. Lutz, Committee on Finance. Colonel J. A. Sexton, Chairman. Captain Isreal P. Rumsey. Hajor C. H. Dyer. Captain F. A. Bragg. Lieutenant J. W. Porter. Captain J. C. Neeley. Captain B. W, Underwood, Captain J. E. White. Lieutenant W. G. Mead. Committee on Transportation. General Joseph Stockton, Chairman, Captain J. G. Everest. Captain C. T. Matteson. r. a jor . J. A. Fitch . Lieutenant A. N. Keece General W, Colonel W, General A Committee on Banquet and Toasts. Captain R. S. Tuthill, Chairman. E. Strong. L, Barnum N. Pearson. Colonel Aug. Jacobson. Dr . 0 . W. Nixon. Major W. L. B. Jenney, Coii ir.ittee on Hall and Excursions. Major George Mason, Chairman. Colonel W fv a jor Geo General J, Captain W Bolton, Paddock. Reynolds. Ruff. Captain G. A. Bussee. Colonel . B. Keeler. Ca.Aain P. McGrath. Captain R. W. Pike. Captain G, A, Emerson. Lieutenant C. L. Pratt 200 Con:niittee on Decoration. Captain Martin Beem, Chairman Captain E. P. Tobey Captain C . V'". Laing. Lieutenant E. P. Fisher. Capatin Holmes Hoge. Captain C. H. Cooley. Lieutenant. C. L. punting. Gomrnittee on Printing and Badges. Captain A. T. Andreas, Chairman. Captain A. J. Harding. Captain J. L. Bennett. Lieutenant-Colonel B. T. Wright. Lieutenant T. '!!. Setton. Dr. J. K. Zearing. Lieutenant F. C, Wilson. The several Comiilttees will obtain their badges at the rooms of the Executive Coumittee, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, on the morn ing of the 9th of .September. The tickets for. the Banquet can be obtained of tP:e Committee on Banquet on and after the morning of the 9th of .September. Ladies of the families of members.can participate at the Banquet. Officers who have served y/ith the ftrpiy of the .ennessee, and who wish to join the Society, will apply to Colonel L. Dayton, Re cording Secretary, at the rooms of the Executive Committee, on the 9th of Septem.ber. Kembers desiring .information in relation to hotel accommo dations, transportation, etc., will address the Chairmen of the respective committees. The Committee on Transportation will in due time issue a circular-letter to the members, giving the reduced rates of transpor tation on all railroads running into Chicago. A. .L. CHETLAIN, Cahirman Local Executive Gomudttee. W. S. SCRIBKER, Secretary. •»> -/r «•. * -;{■ -;f p- • -v; Ait 203 August, 1885. OMi.F.A BELT RAILWAY GO. Ofi'ice, Rooms 25 & 26, Kebraska National Bank Building Omaha, Neb., Aug. 1st, 1885.. Dear Genl: I am in receipt of your favor 24th inst. earnings etc. Your ques^icns are hard to answer are so many contingincies aside from the fact that learned out here concerning the L. P. except from the earnings this fall will be less than last year at same time the volume of traffic is greater with To thoroughly understand and appreciate tlie situat the ground, it can't be explained .at least I am sa in regard to U. P. sati.sfactory there nothing can be observation. That there is no doubt, few except ions . ion, one must be on tisfied I cannot. Through business froui and to Colorado and California has be sides the southern route the D. & R. G. ( Denver to Bel.t Lake) with its east and west connection, this covers Gal. New Iv^exico, Utah, Nevada and California. The Northern Pac. competes for Nontana and Oregon. The G. B. & Q. in southern Nebraska and the C. & 11. W. in northern and north west Nebraska get their full siiare of local business out a,nd in the state. The C. & K. are pushing towards the Black Hills via Shadron, so that Deedwood and other points in tlie Black F.ills along with Butte ,Iv ontana, are the saniO as eternally lost, to the Union Pac. The local traxfic along the short Line n.ust be created whibh under the present traffic manageiuent of the Co. will develope very slowly. The policy seems to be to turn all attention to Competing points, and let the local or new competitive points take, care of themselves until some other line gets into that vicinity, and then its always too late. I tell you that the Oregon Short Line is not a mistake it has business resources which if properly fostered and developed by the U. P. R. K* will make it as important a line for revenue, as they have in the system. The movement of grain, flour, stone, fruit, stock, lumber, coal, ore and other local products will be immense providing the Co. will give the subject,which is vita], ordinary attention and proper encouragement. The people in Oregon want Mdse.,all kinds of agricultural iinplements, furniture, machinery etc. in fact every-thing that is manufactured. Including Wyoming Coal, and in return give for ship ment lumber, grain, flour, stock, gold, and silver ore and bullion, fruit, etc. Not a car should go east over the short line empty. There is no end to the lumbei' in Eastern Oregon and as you well know, there is no other lumber timber on the U. P. from Huntington to Omaha, but there is no necessity for hauling it east of Cheyenne, but the lum.ber 204 for all points west of Cheyenne should he supplied from Oregon. There is scarcely a lumber yard between Granger and Huntington. A country cannot develop and become prosperous without markets, and ^ markets cannot be established without towns and towns cannot be built Wi without lumber. One of the first things for a Ry. Co. to do, should be -to help build up the towns by supplying material and encourage capital to invest in the local towns, and stop squeezing them to death in their infancy-. The Oregon short Line and Utah Northern interests are simply neglected, left to run themselves as far as the traffic is concerned, and while the operating expenses must be kept up whether earning any money or not, there is but one resutl. The Colorado traffic history of the U. p. has been repeated •in Montana and is today being repeated in Idaho and Oregon. You mark my words. Simply burnishing up old muskets and having dress parades, never yet won a battle and attending Pool meetings and printing tariffs will never create business for a Ry. or even hold what they already have. Both proper and necessary, but only preliminary to the real object to be attained. The U. P. interests in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Oregon are great enough to require the undivided personal attention of the Broadest man they have in the entire traffic Dept. instead of being represented by one or two clerks with out experience or brains or authority to use them even if they poss essed those qualities. The business is there the question is will they ever discover it before its too late. The crop prospect in Neb. is very flattering and the tonnage to be hauled to market greater^ than any previo'us year. This is true also along the system in Kan- ^ sas . The increased milage of B. & M. and C. N. W. in Neb. on both sides of the U. p. strikes country heretofore tributary to U. P. and will at least divide the business, which is another contingency effect ing earnings. So that taking it all in all. I should not consider it safe to expect increased earnings on any part of the system as com pared with last year, and I am satisfied the expenses (actual operating) are greater. Yours very truly, J. M. Eddy, , .'ti' i' /■ . ■ \i.>i 2C5 August, 1885. Au^st 'IBBS • Morgan Jones, President, Port Worth, Texas. Desr SirtI am in receipt of your favors of 23d and 27th of August. I wired Mr. Frost to get all the bids he could on ties and make con tracts for them , extending payments over as long a time as possible. I have not yet received from him any statement of his action. I am in favor of hard pine ties for Texas roads. We have contracted for two locomotives, but it will be the middle of October before they will be ready for shipment. Wo could have bought locomotives weighing 79,000 lbs. for prompt delivery ani for less money than the contract price of the engines we have ordered, which weigh 86,000 lbs. I think it is a mistake to use such heavy engines, but they wanted them and insisted upon them so I ordered them. In all these matters you must look after the finances. We have now no bonds to sell and nothing from which we can expect any revenue except the net earning,s and you are a better judge than I of what vve can do in the way of renewals and ballasting. we must first take care of the interest on our bonds. I don't think it is wise for us to talk of or think of any further extension at present, or at least until we get movement of our securities, which I intend to have some time in the fall, if I can make the arrangements. In regard to inducing emigration to the Panhandle I think it would be well for you to get up in our office a neat, well printed and well-worded circular calling attention to that pary of the country, and have them distributed in the States you mention. Put in this circular a clause explaining how the State lands of Texas are to be obtained by new settlers. This last I consider a very important point. The circular r^ould be made up with a very little expense, and I think with you that the results would be good. The trouble about getting the a sistance of the Houston & Texas Central people in such cases seems to be that nobody there is captain. There are two par ties and both are in court. In my opinion you are the only person who can do anything towards getting their lands put on the market. It must be done there. There is nobody here who wi]l take the necessary action. Please keep me fully posted. I Isa e here for the west the latter part of this week and shall be gone some time. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 207 September, 1885. The Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas. 1 Sept. 4th, 1885. Gen'l. Dodge, Dear Sir: I expect Ross back todcy, and I will have papers attended to immediately. Rumors are about that G. C. & S. F. Ry. expect to con trol our Road next election. Prom what I learned while in New York, I am inclined to believe an effort will be made on their part to get control of the stock. I want to say that I want you to protect me, or put my stock in the same trade as your own. Should anything be done aa you are on the ground and know what is best to be done. If anything should happen that the S. Fee Ry. should get control I want to get rid of all my interest in it. I do not intend to say that I am acared. I only write this to provide against accidents. Carey wants to sell his interest, please issue balance to of $18,000.00 to me, or keep it in your name and give me a due bill or receipt for it. Britton told me yesterday that Gordon says he is going to build the white Oaks Road. If the coal is as good as represented that is the best opening in this country I wish you would see about it. If you think best I will go up and make an investigation oi the coal there. When I was there over a year ago the coal was not developed sufiiciently to judge oi it. I can get about four good men from St. Louis to go into it. Howard and Harrison, and I think Nicholls will join, arid Kerns if we want them. Howard and Harrison s.>oke to me about it when I came through St. Louis. Things on the Road are running fairly smooth. Earnings for Aug. are a little better, about $44,000,00 I think, Harrold is dull we want more settlers in that country. Kind regards. Yours truly. Morgan Jones. 209 Septercber, 1885. Sept, 7, 1885 New York. G. P. Huatin^ton, Esq., K'lills Bldg., City. I have tried to sec you several times in the past two weeks but have never been able to meet you. I am going away to night and send my Secretary, Kr. Granger to hand you this letter and talk with you in regard to the lands in the Fanhaf^iltLe of Texas owned by your Company. I want to know if some arrangenient cannot be made by which these lands will be put into the market on some terms. There is now a large immigration tending in that directio.i from the North-west, and the Fort Worth & Denver is going to make a great effort to increase it, and if you would put any price or terms on your lands there we wo Id state it in our circulars, and I believe it would help very materially in bringing go^d citizens into that country. There is a great growing demand for- lands in that vicinity and in my opinion this is a splendid time to put them in the market and sell, and ^ hope there is soiiie arrangement that can be made by which your lands will be offered to settlers. Yours truly, G . M . Bodge ., 211 September, 1885. The Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company, Treasurer's Office. J. T. Granger, Treasurer, 1 Broadway, New York, P. 0. Box 1763. Sept. 8, 1885. Genl. G. M. Dodge, Dear Sir: I today succeeded in seeing Mr. Huntington and had quite a talk with him in regard to putting into the market the lands in the Panhandle belonging to his Co. He says it is their desire and inten tion to put these lands on the market, b.^t they cannot do it until the lands have be n examined and graded by their land experts, who have already been ordered frOto SanlFrancisco'into that country. He thiiiks they may be even now on the ground, but if not they soon will be. As soon as they make a report on the lands the Co. will be ready to sell them and willing to join you in any advertising which may be thought mutually advantageous. Mr. Huntington expressed himself as very favorably impressed with that country and the value ol the Ft. W. & D. as an outlet from it. . He asked a great many quest ions about the road its length, equipment, debt, earnings, physical condition and management, and seemed to take considerable interest in it, and was of course pleased with the good showing it makes. He made a memorandum to write to Texas at once and hasten the classifying and grading, and I believe he will soon be ready to sell the lands. A. J. Kohn & Co. No. 19 Broad St. the same parties who made such a kick against the T. & c. Settlemen have published a call asking the stockholders of the American to meet at their office this after noon at 3:30. I have consulted Judge Dillon about this and he advises that I send an unknown man there to ascertain "hat their grievance is and what they want. The Judge believes and so do I, that were I to go myself I would come away no wiser than before. I will let you know the result of the meeting as soon as I have anything from it. Wessrs. Hill, Wing & Shoudy, Attorneys for the Plffs in the suit against the Pacific, are after Mr. Humphreys, demanding fziom him an affidavit in regard to his connection with the Co., his resignation and all the circumstances attending it. Mr. Humphreys is very much exercised in regard to tnis and has consulted me about it, and I have advised him to consult Judge Dillon before he makes any answers to their interrogatories. I have sent all mail of interest to you in a separate package by Express care Meek, Des.Moines. Yours respectfully, J. T. Granger. September 16, 1885. 213 Fairfleld, Iowa'. .Sept. 16, 1885 ' Gen. G.M.Dodge, New York City, N.Y. My Esteemed Friend & Sir; I I want to sincerely thank you for your recent letter, I hope you will pardon any seeming delay in acknowledging , arising out of re peated calls av/ay from home since its receipt. I am asked to allow the publication of your letter entire in the Midland Monthly, or would you authorize me, the occasion arising, to otherwise giwe it publicity? ^ The family are in fair health and were likewise greatly pleased at what you said and in the way you said it. It would be great pleasure to us to have you stop and see us, if anytime, you may be jja^sitig throu^.thou^ we are not unmindfull however of the pressing demands on your time. I am. Yours truly. Rollin J. Wilson, 217 r roJ.'. oO «owol Council Bluffs, Iowa, OctolDer 10, 1885. S. R. Callaway, Esq., * vX tmrno"' Genl. Mgr. U.P.Ry., Omaha, Neb. ' Dear Sir:- I visited Omaha and founc you were absent, lut I saw I'r. Blickensderfer and "explained some things to him. When you build the new bridge, it will cover the table lands bordering the river on this side witi. settlers. The lands are mostly above high water and have been laid out in lots every since 1861. -They are known as the Brown's Addition to the City of Council Bluffs. As soon as occupied, the city will want communication through this addition to the soath side of our approach to the bridge. V/hen we built that approach we agreed to give the city this communication,- north or south as they should require it; and the city would probably wait until your bridge was built and people had settled on the lands and demanded it, before calling on you. I wish to suggest to you that before widening your approach, you put in one or two passages- say one on^4th St. Brown's Addition. This could be uti ized for the passage of our road and street car traffic to the South track of your road bridge, and thus save one passage. I also think that by taking a little trouble at the beginning, you could at the same time you arranged with the City for the passage under your tfack, also arrange for the city to open ICth Avenue through to the river, thus giving yov a street for your street car line that would go directly to the transfer. If you desire to obtain the earth to fill your approach where we obtained it before, I believe it can be done at little expense..Mr. Wright, your old 'attorney, and my brother Mr. N. P. Dodge control m-^st of the property "and could be of aid to you in procuring it. Either of them will be glad to aid you in the matter, I make these suggestions, as I am the -only one now,, 'who das a full knowledge of our old agreements, right of way. &c. connected with the building of the old bridge. It will be an easy matter -as soon as you make your plans, to meet the city authorities and arrange with them what shall be done so as to avoid trouble hereafter. • . I regret that I could not see you, but I will have to go east/ My sickness here has detained me longer than I expected. I have explained pretty fully to Mr. Blickensderfer, whiit in my opinio;i should be done to protect us in the future. Yours truly, • . ' ' j 0 ^ M. Dodge # V' ■ {'. Uv a. r- * "■ ?'■ ' ' '' " e JKrJ TVtlftoi' iTj'il r.s oi me • I .."In. .jlex vm no .. nliqai fvo .vir% JnaS r.i-7 nl.u' begfoeio en n* . oon «« alif bSoi I ..ijlhr 'Iv oJ euiiafiff *>(1® aiufw|t , .'ft dllLfhinoor. u(,j Cnrno' saw Mr. Blickensi' - St '■ J r . , ife'il p.s oi wfn4 aj tmiio ) <f0a bXuo9 w(i eei nl.i* I t bne , 10 .♦ vj ee nnfiR 'iJ oJ zlqn-' . 'i • wlwX \>a (TP kW.j# e.'J S0HS ^ Ktmwf i r'A.Air beofoeio en n* coon «« alif bSoJ a tp wbiriiiff (*no u%u4 blif> . i-^Xffrt .|Xw^ o<7 (.« or. tUbbin o,|® wiurw^ i*»iii/t Xiio«k/ieS . !i 218 r , JI I'srfoJoO ,n\/rl J" " Council Bluffs, Iowa, Octo"ber 10, 1385. General E. Strong";, v r ^ „ Dear General: ' *■ ' While in Chicago at our late 'Reunion,' I re'ad your very interesting paper on the death of General McPherso; . As I stated to you then, it is the clearest and most accurate I have ever seen. It agreed with my reoailection. On my arrival home, I referred to my official data relating to the battle of July 22rid and to my notes on the death of General McPherson. ,I find that "your account in all the principal points coincides with my data, and I thank you for putting in such admirable form so full and interesting an account of the events of the 22nd and the sad loss of our great commander. I also thank you for your truthful description of the fitting of the 16t.. A.C._ on that day. Although only three Brigades of it were on that part of the 'field, ye^., by their gallant fightin , they that day save(4 our army from great loos and defeat, repulsing Hood's well planned attack in our rear. As Blair well said, "The Lord placed Dodge (meajiing the 16th A.C.) in the right place that day." The loss of McPhe.rson was such a shock that I think all failed to placed the victory where' it properly belonged. Especially unfortunate was his .loss to my Corps, for he was the devoted friend both of it and myself, and ho saw the onslaught of the enemy, .and the magnificent fighting with which my corps met ti.ree times its number and drove them back to the .woods. KcPherson was killed, without doubt, after one o'clock P. D. I find in my entry of that date, that I opened the battle at two minutes after twelve hi. I immediately sent Capt. Edward Jonas, A.Dw/ to General Giles A Smith, requesting him to refuse his left and cover the ground between General ^'uller's right and his (Smith's) lihe, informing him that the enemy were far in his rear. He said he would do so. As the battle progressed, and I saw no movement on the part of Genei'al Smith, .1 sent, I think. Col., Tichenor, a.d.'c. to Smith, to inform him that the enemy mere passing my .rlgl^t flank, whicli was opposite ; is center and rear, and requested him to refuse his left Immediately or he would be cut off. Col. Tichenor returned to me at 1 P.H, saying that Smith was ju.st being engaged, that he had received orders to hold his line, .and that troops would be thrown into the gap. My Aide returned over the same road McPherson waxs killed upon close to 1 P.M. and 'evidently after you had taken the order, to General Smith to hold firm. General McPherson was not aware as I was that the enemy were passing around Fuller's riftht and swarming into the Vroods between the IGth arid 17th A.C. Nor was I aware that General McPixerson was on the field. I was watching my right flank, knowing its exposed condition, and also seeing that the enemy overlapped Fuller on the right as well as Sweeny on my extreme left. Soon after 1 o'clock, reports came to me from both flanks that the enemy were overlapping them. General Blair came in person for aid while I was heatily engaged, and said he could not get to General Smith. I told him that as soon as we chocked this (the second) attack, that I would turn one Brigade of Fuller's on them, and I request^^ ed him to try and reach Smith so as to help Fuller. As soon as he check^^ the second attack. General Puller swung one Brigade sharply to the right 221 October, 1885. The Fort Worth & ^^enver City Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas Oct., 1885. Gen'l G. M. Dodge, Dear Sir: I have just returned from Elpaso. I did not go any further than the organ mountains. I met several persons who had spent some time in the White Oak coal fields among them was P. F. Barr who was sent them by the Sante Fee folks; from what I can learn of the coal fields it will be best to spend not less than several thousand dolbrs to prove up the coal before building a Railway. Gordon has bought and paid for what is known as the Williams mine which is badly broken up, the coal cropings is very extensive, extending many miles. There is a new charter gotten out by some Elpaso parties and right of way obtained through town in the name of the Chicago, St. Louis and Elpaso Railway Go, their plan is to build from ElPaso to a pass in the mountains about 130 miles from Elpaso and 35 miles from White Cakes where they think they can get plenty of coal. Then across the Pecos valley in a N. E. course through the corner of the Pan handle of Texas, and into Kansas, they claim that parties Interested in the Chicago B. Quincy are encouraging them and will help them to build. They want me to join them, but I dont like their plan, dont think they will accomplish anything. No subsidy of any a/c can be gotten just now, on a/c of this new project, I find that the tlexican G. Ry. is paying $7.00 per ton to the Sante Fee for their fuel. The T. & P. ought to build this road. Of course it is still more important to Huntington. I will wait developments for the present. What do you think best to do? Please write me. Our business is not as good as I expected. Oct. so far is not much better than last year. There is about $6000. on hand, $5000 of which will be sent to New York today. Orr & Mail owe $4300., Rayden owes 11 or $1200.00 for freight. Frost has some private arrangement with him. There should be nearly $20,000 net for Oct. I have still 20 Bonds on hand, 60 was paid for grading 30 for Building Tanks and Depots etc, 72 sent to New York. Deduce out this 10 Bonds paid to Kerns by Granger total 172 Bonds. Expenses on maintainance of way, cannot be cut, with safety, other expenses can. Round House and a host of snail expenses is what counts. Cattle loading outfit at Harrold is an expensive outfit grass burning is a heavy item which can be lessened. Killing of Stock is another if the money spent on Frosts can the last three months was put in fencing, and protection against fire, it would do more good. In making out the Statement of the cost of construction how do you want the securities to appear? How would it do to charge everything as cash and paid for in bonds and stock, or charge Grad ing and Bridging with so much bonds and stock? Please write me in regard to this. How do you want the two miles of renewals with steel to appear and Cars charged to stock cars, also Rolling •^tock Hoping you have got entirely well. Yours respectfully, Morgan Jones. . • ■•h . ■ o,/i (. ' ■ r rm-' 4 V -jC ■'/[ . . ',iT^ ■ ■ <jn • • , • i ' •' ■ "A ■ ^ • i'K • : V ^ ' • ' I ' -'i... /■ '■7. . ■ '!! • ■ 1. ,. ♦♦<4'' ,/ ; .. - i .. ... 'j ' ' : •/ iff . . i.Tti. .,, 'A' ,1/5 .' ; 4 ' ' ' ' ,1 "" i- ''' ' ' ' ' ' ".irf,'- j •»••• ■ /a - r . r • ' . . ? : •• ■ ■ ,I ! :c ' ■ •r'-'V. , • ^ • ■ . . .1 ^ ^ • . . I*'.' ' , ,> '■ ; - .U^ , ■ . v;-v * V, ' • i • V ^1' ^ ■ • .•.4: ■. V. . ■ . - ■ • ■ ' ' ' ■ '"j vrf. li V ■ 'c, ' ■' ;-i ,r ' ■ r ' ir r. . ' • : 't.- . ' 1 n.. f r > •; ^ J •' i) '• %• i: . f-' '■ 1-: "■ ■' T' . .♦♦V L'V : yf ;TC- ; .VJT, I C 'U r.'; J i;i ■ V 1;-. ?.'■ ' , ■ .;rr II I 'v '< ; > (.'l . . .•^3- October, 1885. Chicago Oct. 17th, 1885 3600 Iviichigan Avenue. Dear Gen'l: In reply to yours of 12th Inst would say that I applied to V/heeler fora view of contracts. He was unable to find any but the Supplemental contract, of which i took a copy and enclose the same. He says the original contract'was written on a small piece of paper the back of a telegraph blank and in an informal manner,, but as this contract refers to the original as still being in force it might become of importance to have it. I have urged him to look further for it. t'.atters are getting badly mixed up. I have been working to get Hately Bros to close up their contract for a machine in con nection with the adjoining packers. As soon as this was accomplished I saw a way to get your money out. We had hoped to close it up this week, but in the fore part of the week some lawyers came around with an old judgement against Wheeler, trying to attach '^'heeler's stock in the company. They went to Hatelyswith the matter, and it so disgustdd them that they kicked back on closing the contract. We are ncv; trying to get an extension on the collection, but it will be hard v.-ork to get the Hateleys up again but as it is of the utmost importance it must bedone. The stock oi the company is $300,000. Wheeler has been holding all of it until this week, the company made hiiii turn over ftl38,00^ ol' it as property of the company. Corbin has issued to him !;fl2,100 this makes a little over half of the stock out of his hands, the balance he is liable to dispose of in any way to raise money for his personal expenses. I think the best way i^to have him issue to you enough stock to represent your half interest which as I understand the con tract is one half of all the stock of the company and then give some one here your power of Attor'ney to receive the samie and use it for you. It will require close and promipt work to save your interests. Yours etc.. J. h. Zearing. 225 October, 1885. • St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21st, /85. My dear General: Thanks for your good letter of 15th inst. which duly reached We all regretted to hear of the illness cf Mrs. Pusey and Miss Annie, and trust they are improving rapidly; it was the first intimation we had of their sickness. I expect to remain in the west until near Christmas so as to close the various little matters, which need attention, intermixed with some quail shooting. Hoxie looks better and is in better health and spirits than I have known for some years, and after the experience we have had, he does no carry his business from his office. The reasons of my resignation were many, but principally I was sick, tired and weary and having enough money to keep me in funds for six months or a year, with sul'ficient friends to borrow from, in case I was short, I determined to try a rest with freedom from re sponsibility. Ever^'thing was in good shape for the change, the or ganization complete, labor troubles about over, the proper-ties in good condition and bright prospects ahead, so that I could well be spared with I'oxie to tumble into my vacancy. I have not yet "made my pile" to retire with to my satisfaction, and so expect to get to work again in some way or other in six months or a year, with full vigor and vitality and with the experience of the past. I have hardly yet started on my career as a loafer and am a little uncertain about its success, but as soon as I get to liew York I will hunt you up to show myself and get some "points." I hope you have recovered from your attack oi' last winter and can enjoy your self in the rising marAet in 'Aali St. I am only afraid tliat the "boom" will be rushed too quickly, and consequently the greater reaction. There seem.s every reason for a good healthy reaction from the stagnation of the past few years, but not enough reasons for a sudden inflation. If you should come west before Christmas, I hope you wil come to St. Louis and give us a day or so. "Ve will all enjoy it, and endeavor to make you also do so. I have no definite plans for next year except to enjoy myself as I best can, either in this country or across the waters, until next summer or fail, when I hope to again find some harness to get into. Gov Brown and his family are of course much "broken up" by t];elr affliction, but the Governor seems, and I know he will tale pleasure in reading your letter, when I next see him. Both Iv'rs. rioxie and the Doctor join me in kind regards to yourself and family. Yours very sincerely, R. S. Hayes. ■< . 1 , ,, A. * k * I T ' t" '•'u f -l- -:.. • .1V. , 7h/- -i» ^ ^ i^l ^ y ' ^^-T'-^^Sunday, ^'^Sundav. Ontobar October 25,. 1885. Rflb ^ I met Gen. Hohn A. Logan this irorning at 5th Av. f^otel, " Loom 41; his son was with him, and we discussed the Atlanta Cam paign. I had informed him on the 21st of the reason he was not appointed to the command of the Army of the Tennessee when McPherson was killed. The conversation drifted into the reports of the Battle of the 22nd. He said that Sherman was all wrong in his ac count of the recapture of fiercer and Smiith's line and DeGress' Bat tery; that he came to me in person and got forcer's Brigade and led it into the fight, and it retook the line. He also said that the troops that I sent him on the 28th saved his right, when Buckley's Brigade had given away. In speaking of the capture of Snake Creek Gap, he said he was present at my interview with McPherson in of Resacca, and took part in the conversation when I proposed to at tack and carry Resacca; he also said he had always been under the be lief that it was Sherman's own desire in appointing him to the CoiTimand of the Army of the Tennessee, and therefore he was greatly as tonished to know Thomas' part^^n the matter,- that he had the power afterwards to have reL.j^'^^d Nashville and won that Battle himself; but he liked lre*i«4j*^and wouldnot interfere in the matter. Logan told me he was writing a history of the cause of the Rebellion and should take it from the Comimencement of the Government to the close of the Rebellion; also that he was writing a history of the UrtVu l^teSpwas personal to him and his comrades. ■ iyr\ 229 October, 1685. THE WHEELER REFRIGERATING MACHINE GO. First National Bank Building. Romm 520. Ghicato, Oct. 27, 1885. Dear Gen'l: I had interview with Wheeler to day and told him I had bought your interest, and wished to know what that interest was. He replied that it would be one half of his interest after the debts were paid and all contracts complied with. That is he had 150,000 of the stock of the company and he wa^ owing over .^20,000 after the indebtedness was paid out of the stock one half of the remainder would belong to you. I then asked him how much stock he was silling to transfer to cancel your claim. He replied that he did not want to transfer any afe it might take the whole of it to pay the debts, tha t he would make the stock pay the debts if it took the whole of it. Ke then said he would be willing to sign over :j|;45,000 of the stock to satisfy your claim. This is a pretty small coirpensation for what you have done. The question to decide is, had we better take it. It is very small but in addition to its own value it would carry with it a fourth interest in the 150,000 of stock that the company hold. Unless you can persuade him to a better offer, my opinion is, from what I can see, that it would be best to take it, it is probably that or nothing. He is getting deeper in financial difficulties every day, new executions coming^'out. I think l:e has assigned all his took to keep it from attachment. But he could probably now release the 45,000 stock, after a while he will not be able to do it. The prospect for a contract with the packers at stock yards for building them a machine, has been looking very favorable the last . few days . If you approve of settling on the above basis and send on the assignment I will attend to it. I will await reply to this letter. Yours, J. R. Zearing. 231 October, 1885. The Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas October 27th, 1885. Dear General: I have just returned from Auston and San Antone, The Santa Fee folks tak a good deal about extentions, but from what ^ hear they are divided as to the points to extend from. I hear that most of them want to extend from Coleman County north, follow from Ft. Worth to Gainville . I hope they will not extend from Coleman County north, it will be a serious matter for us. If they extend from here to Gainsville it will not hurt us much. It will be a competition of the M. K. & T. I wil try and keep posted on their plans, and let you know as to Round House expenses. It is about the same as usual. We went over it when you were here, but did not suceed in making much changes. The only reason why I called attention to it, was a pile driver and wrecker we are now making why Frost should build or experiment on things he knows so little about, I never could under stand. The only reasonable thing is an engine bought of Cowan, and the Flat car. The other part is a good deal of money spent for very little use. It was this and changes on his private car, that caused the trouble between us a month ago. It is no use suggesting anything to him, he knows it all. The new engines got 'here a week ago. They look good and strong, we have not used them yet. I hope they will be as good as No. 1 & 2. I will quietly see what the right of way would cost to get in here. It will add greatly to our opperating expenses etc, etc to build our own line here, it should ohly be done as a last resort. The T, & P. & M. P. should be our allies and I hope you will succeed in making satisfactory arrangements with them. I will try and see Thugmorton and Wellborn and I will write to Culbertson who is a friend of mine. I will get Van Zaudt to see or write Coke and Maxey, I have no influence with them. In regard to our line in Indian Ter, I am a little bothered about the Santa Fee western extention. I do not think it wise to extend into the Pan Handle unless we can get some connection, but we cannot afford to lay up a let the St. Fee head us off. If I understand your instructions, Kr. Ross will send you rough statements to morrow, that you require. Yours very respectfully, Morgan Jones. 233 October, 1885. The Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas. October 29th, 1885. Dear Genera}.: Are the statements forwarded by Ross what you want? Mr. Hoxie wrote me yesterday in regard to expences of Engr. hurt last spring. I think it policy to pay it, what do you say. We are a little short of stock cars at present. I wrote Newman to get some from St. Fee, I also wrote him to see if anything can be done to com plete with the H. & T. C. at Albany. They are getting the trade be longing to our Road on a/c of low lumber. I think I can compromise a goose bunny, a big one, for a annual pass with Tom Wagner. I wish you would give specific orders to have the right of way plowed. I am tired talking about it, and there is some fencing that ought to be done, instead of paying $200.00 apiece for bulls. Please write me what line of policy you wish defined in annual report, in view of uncertain developments, we had better say nothing, only speak of reports. A party here is working up the Brownwood Ry.scheme. This scheme will be a benefit to us, and the system. They have got bonds for considerable right of way. I am not sure but what we can do worse than taking it in, as the route is through a paying and settled county. This will put us in a more independent position in the cattle trade. I think it will undoubtedly pay fix charges on say $15,000. 6^ bonds per mile. I looked up an entrance for F. W. & D, Ry. today, and think most practical thing to do is to get the city to let us come in on Elm St. which will bring us from Trunty bluff to our Yard. This will take a very high trestle and Bridge across Trusty bottom, but I believe it will be the best and cheapest. I would at least like to have a line run, to get the levels. This would cross the St. Fee grade on Elm St. at an angle of 43^. We would only have to buy a few hundred ft. near the River. The only expense this side of the River, would be damage to lots and small houses on the St. I think most of them can be settled very reasonable and I think the City Council will give us the right on that Street. At least I can try them if you think best, write me what you think best to do. Yours very respectfully, Morgan Jones. 235 October, 1885. Jas. A. Evans, Consulting Engineer, Office, Room 390 - 20th ^t. Denver, Colorado-, Oct. 30th, 1885 To Genl. G . M. Dodge . . I ^ Dear Sir: In answer to your telegram of yesterday asking "What kind of a line would it be from Colorado City thro Ute Pass up the Platte through.Weston Pass to Leadville through Quebec pass to Headwaters of the Grand River, down the Grand to the Coal basin, across White River to the Colorado." I think it would be an extremeiiy;^.rough one. As a means of setting forth with some attempt at clearness this opinion, the attempt will be made to look the matter over in some sort of detail. • Starting from Coloi'ado Springs, the first thing to do is to get into the South Park; the only way to do this is found by means of the Ute Pass by way of the Fontaine-que Boulle and Manitan Greek. The elevation of Col. Springs 6100 Ute Pass 9500. I am in formed by parties connected, with surveys lately made over this ground that a gradient of Z% can be had here but from a close aquaintance with these mointains I should think it would be at the expense of pretty heavy work in grading and considerable development of line, always a costly process in these and all other similar mountain countries. From the Summit of this pass, a descent will have to be made into the Park ard the drainage of the Platte. The Elevation of the Platte where the line would probably strike it about 8800. Starting from this crossing a considerable stretch of favorable ground can be had. I should think 40 miles at least, which favorable condition would continue until the necessity for making the ascent out of the Park by the Weston Pass becane necessary. This Weston Pass is not in the Main range but in the Mosquite spur more formidable if any thing than the main backbone of the Continent. The Weston Pass has an altitude of 12000. All the passes north of it in this spur are still higher, as Horse shoe Pass, Mosquito Pass, the latter 13200 ft. The Weston is a flat topped pass, so that there is no good way of reducing its altitude by tunneling. • I am of the opinion that a gradient of about Z% (by pushing the line up the Park Northerly and then doubling back) can be had over this pass, with moderate grading for mountain work. 236 tie had Objective point a much better line can pasa whiov^^T ,® coming of the very considerable elevation of this Shall refer to further on. ^PProach to 1+ return for the present to the ^'eston Pass. The itseir^^®' due South Park as before intimated is conparatively irici^ epn ^ great measure to the Superior altitude of the Park feet and also the facility for the development of line dls.tance,. ^2? be .The Shall "'S-de the\LProb« ^'^ation of Leadville is lO^iOO. Idont think the distance h ^han 11 miles and the worst broken country of any we ^ to notice. The slope being cut to great denth bv Iowa, Illinois, Empire and California., jhis section ^ Wece Of line. ^hrt ^h Pw at Leadville. dij.Py bp I am sure that i CuV® Waston Pass there ^ summit. If this is a fixed point iv, anv t can be reached in a much better is no necessity for making this r^' tK Weston Pass tnere xs n.. necessity for makin' thir Tt. ^ summit. 'S this ^ould be to preserve as much as possible tho bp Of b Oupboss the D. & S. Park at Divide, altitude to ?lth '■bf! l-eol!'- of tl-e Park) maintain my elevation ! "bere Proi;®aa, cut off (an old and abandoneri'„.®®P to the right, °^ll^nii|raaJnion until the country in the ArCsari»d°>»'-e) still "ohbh^t and then parallel the p. 4 R. valla, caught ah is plenty of room in this valie, fo°\®bout 10 Slles ^ thuss:. tn a The + nr/^ two U te Pass ^ tern Pass ^3, 1/2% \ ..J^sadVille ^la-ftrte. Un!'>0Srv^®<^nardi line would prove to be the rk K,. "^^What longer. "^®^test altho in a "P ^ Rc\ fun ^ money has been spent by a Qq ^Uch ®^Uch over this country in plain sight or the the to from 20.,000 to 25,000 dollars and i om very visible y Of valuable facts to show for it. Afraid not «y old boys are on this survey in suhnR./n ^^ken, ^^ve taljtced freely to them about it, thinkir. cap- the hint might there'^^i^f^^^S to Leadville, and in view of your messap-e as eettin«^ hea^i Headwaters of the Grand through Quebec pals |®ttinj^ This much ? P®^haps it is not of great importance. ^ thfi mouth Of certain however you cannot strike the Grand river above the Eagle river, to do that, it would be necessary to par- Sheet •I h:< October 30, 1885. Gen. G. M. Dodge. allel the D. & R. G. as far as Red Cliff to which point their line is operated at present. The next important feeder of the Grand R, is Roaring Fork to reach this drainage from Leadville will be found a matter of con siderable difficulty outside of the Tennessee Pass occupied by the D. & R. G. the summits are high and the country very much broken. The grand river between mourth of Eagle R. and Roaring Fork is somewhat close although it is believed to afford sufficient room for a line. Up the Grand R. from mouth of Eagle River are several close and difficult canons but as these are outside of the discussion they deserve but a passing notice. From Leadville to drainage of Roading Fork, I should regard as the most formidabel country to be found in these mountains the most ■ costly and most continuous. The valley of Roaring Fork would be a most desirable drainage to occupy the best mining activity is found at Aspen. Some 18 miles below, coal of the best quality in great abundance, the valley from its altitude susceptible of cultivation. Considerable business is done to and from Aspen to Granite on the D. & R. G. and St. Elmo on the D. & S. Park and no doubt much more would be, if facilities for trans portation were available for low grade ores now effectually embargoed by the cost of wagon haul. Froiii the mouth of Roaring fork the Grand is an open valley as far as it would be desirable to occupy it by the line you indicate which would be to the mouth of Rifle creek a tributary coming in from the north and cutting through a valuable coal field for its almost entire length naking a summit at the head of the creek. Altitude 7800fD. (altitude of Grand R. at mouth 5500) you can take the drainage of Pi-ceance Cr. and reach White river with easy Gradients and light work indeed once within the drainage of Roaring Fork the line to White R. |190)miles) would be a cheap line to build. The valley of White River is wide and open as far as to Col. line (95 miles) beyond that it be comes closer but not so as to prevent a cheap line being laid down it clear to its mouth. White river empties into the Green but a short distance below the mouth of the Uintah a tributary coming from the V/est follow ing this up to the mouth of an affluent (Strawberry I think) we shall strike a line run by Mr. Reed in 1864 for the U. P. R. which Affluent heads with the Tunparagos and affording access to the Salt Lake Valley. Coal. You will have gathered from what has been said that the first coal field on this route is that in the drainage of Roaring Fork, this is a coking coal of excellent quality and the smelters of Aspen draw their supply of coke from there. 238' It is visible on the Grand at mouth of Elk creek all along Rifle creek, or White River below the mouth of Ri-ce ance Gr. and again on the White River near the Colorado, Utah line. I cannot give reliable information as to quality and character of the coals outside of the Roaring Fork Coal but from the comparatively small amount of geolo gical disturbance should expect to find them lignites of variable quality such as Rock Springs and Gou.o Coal of the U. P. system. Being on this subject I will now indicate a line from Col. Springs to mouth of Roaring Fork that may be of use sometime. The line via Leadville that I have already referred to as avoiding the Weston Pass, you, by referring back find in the Valley of the Arkansas via the Leonard! cut off as it is locally called. I would cross the D. & R. G. Ry. at Granite follow:the Twin Creek to Hunters Pass all. 11700 ft. on the other side of this pass and clooc by, we will .find the upper waters of the Roaring Eork follow it down via Aspen to its mouth. This would avoid Leadville which might be considered a dis advantage but more in seeming than reality but 1/3 of the business of that place would .be no compensation for the Cul-de-sac in which we would find ourselves in these mountains. -CautionAs I have stated elsewhere there has been considerable money spent over some of this ground and I am told that an expert was here during the season whose .name I have forgotten, but a New Yorker, who has given a favorable report of the country without seeing it. If this report should fall into your hands you will take it cum-granasalis. to you. Hoping these hastily compiled notes will be of some use I am. Very truly yours, Jas. A. Evans. . ,1 1. I .'',,1 i I'IT 't ? ■It.: .* ■ ■ \ . i-in 'X .f « • » . ■ ■.a, Nov. 1885. Morgan Jones, Esq. , President, 239 New York. Nov. 4, 1885. Port worth, Texas. Dear 8ir:- I am in receipt of your two letters of recent date, and I agree with you in what you say about the extension North. As I wrote you yesterday I had a-long talk with Mr. Frost regarding the policy I wanted him to pursue in Texas. I instructed him to consult with you fully about everything and he promises to do so. .1 think if you bring up the question of ploughing and fenceing he will agree with you, though he seems to thiric we are in no danger from the lack of it. I should not hesitate to compromise a grass suit with an annual Pass, unless it would bring trouble in some other way; if it did would prefer to psy money. Are they bringing in any more grass suits against us? Mr. Frost wanted to fence a long time ago, saying that he could save the cost of the fince in the reduction of the amount paid out for cattle killed. I gave him authority to go ahead with his fencing and supposed he was doing it. I have written him in regard to the' fencing and ploughing on the right-of-way, We will send you some black proxies for the yearly meeting. I am going to a sk for them in the names of Frost and yourself, so that one or the other of you will be there to vote them. Of cours^if you are there they will be voted in your name. Write all your .personal friends as soon as you receive the blanks and get their nroxies. Mr. Mayer and his party here want two Directors. I sunnose however they will be satisfied with one. I think I would not raise the question of the change in relation to the election of Directors. ■Ljet that meeting go. In regard to the Annual Report, all I should say in it fast Sas the country is demands that the it, policy and as of is the necessary Company to ia protect to extend our interests in the Panhandle. I should show clearly the necessity ^h^ch whit''warbullt°^a°d it was built, and the increase extension, in our revenue the difficulties from it. I under ^ notwithstanding the year had been a poor one. the Company had done remarkably well. I would also mention the development of the Panhandle and what the future promises for the country and the Conoany. I would also state in it ^hafwe werf orking harmoni ously with all our connections, and that the Comnanv to to harbor all ini'avor our resources of the Brownwood for the purpose road, but of going is it ahead not best In onr for usr>w« direction if we are obliged to do sci ?f you c?n d? ^nrthing t'o^ar^ 240 ■ encouraging them or aiding them in the construction, I should be glad to have you do so. Or if.you feel,disposed to go in and build it your self, or take an interest in it, it would be agreeable to us. The ' Texas Sc Pacific people I think woul'.' like to see the road built, as it would be a feeder for them and would enter a territory that the St. Pe is now virtually taking away from them. Notwithstanding that financial matters have stnrted up here, it is very hard to float such things just now, and to get good men to ppt their money into them. There would be very little profit in the contruction for $15,000 per mile in bonds, taking into consideration the price at which they would sell. You will note that our own bonds sell at only a few points above 80, and we have a road which earns and pays its interest. It may be possible that they will get the road partially built and then get into trouble, and if they did we might find some way of stepping and taking it. How would it do for them to build it and then to "enter into a traffic agreement with us, allowing us to run it and pay them 40^ of its gross earnings'? I would not want to guarantee any interest; I should rather build it than do that. • My idea in secxaring our right to go through the Indian Territory, is in order to carry out an agreement I have alrea-iy made, giving us the right to use it. if necessary, keeping in the Panhandle until after we pass Mobeetie. TherOTore i want the right to cross through the Territory keeping to the west of the westerly line of Montague County the same as provided in the bill which was introduced into Congress last session.. Mell'ourne and •^hrockmorton ■both understand the matter fully. In regard to the right of way through Ft. Worth'allowing us to come into the city over an independent line, when Mr. Frost was here I told him to have nissell rxxn such a line without attracting any public attention. My idea is that we better get the right of way throug h the City before we commence surveying, around there, so a;j not to alarm the St. Pe people, or raise any opposition. If we once get through the city we can work ourselves through the country beyond. I told Frost to consult with you freely unon these matters anb whatever conclusion you two came to, to act upon it through the city under McLaughlin, but probably Rissell can see where it could be improved upon. I think in putLing any line through there or surveying for one, we should question of stock yards as I have heretofore wribLon you-e yours truly, ' G. M. Dodge. . j.' .b-b ■ / ' 241 November, 1885. BARR'S PATENT, .V.T?ODGHT-IRON RAIL BRACE. James A. Evans, Civil Engineer. Denvei', Colo., Nov. 8, 1885. To G. M. Dodge, Wy dear Sir: I send you hereirith map of Col. with the line I think the best marked thereon. You will notice two lines to White River from the Grand River divide. One by the Agency the other by the draifiage mentioned in my former letter. The one via Agency being shorter will have a steeper grade but will reach a better country and tap the most extensive coal field. The descent by the shorter line can be made v/ell enough. The characteristics of the line will be as thus: From Col. Springs to crossing of D. & S. P. at Hill top, moderately heavy work, say |:17,000 per M. From Hill top to Granite same. From Granite to Asper same as all' other crossings of Continental divide what may be called heavy, say at present prives ( which are low) $25,000 per mile for grading bridging and superstructure. If done in favorable season of year. From Aspen to Western line of Col., Cheap line; should think 11.000 per mile would cover cost including some expensive bridging which of course would have to be done. Very truly yours. 125 miles @ $17,000 50 " " 25,000 205 " " 11,000 380 " " Jas. A. Evans. $2,125,000. 1,250,000. 2,255.000. 5,630,000.= $14,816 per M If there is occasion would like to demonstrate this. The line for Grades would be better to Salt Lake than present D. & R. G road. J. A. E. As to reaching Leadville. You will see that all the passes above the crossing of C. & S. P. at Hill top are high, more so than at Main Range, c nsequentl^' best way of reaching there with this line is to follow Arkansas Valley. The distance being too short from top to Leadville. All passes in main range below or south of "Hunters" drop you into "Taylor Park" where you are in a pocket between Mairo Range and Elk mountains another spur more formidable than the range itself. In main range North of Hunters are a Higher and more, difficult of access from either side. J. A. Dont know Saquache Pass. y . "t V ^ . Hv■1 1 : ' ■ o;.- i J »..■>' 1 , 'J: . i . . . .. : ■ .,i ■■ ' , f 1 i, . It) ■ .t ' ■ ; ' .. ; ! .*#1. yj i . I , i ■ ; ' 'in t , '•» ■ Ln. j ■ * ' ■ '1 ' . / < ' ■ w ' n' . 1.1 ti ' t. r. »J ■ • ■ - t . 1 V. • ■ ' '.mil . J , .r.^. 'V,. ■» 'r n ■ , ) -< . . ji • • : .) 'h; ( t 'l './J. . o ' i .i 'X<' '■> ■ . ■ •h U' CJ t ■ -A'Tl" JOC < vx. tj.y V,''" ' '' ». * I ^ 1 ■ ■ ■' . ' *J! t . i"' ■■ ■ ■ ■ ' "> " ) ,<( ■. . . t : i: /,j*. . , ^V.;. • i - > ' '■«/ ' : i t ,1 ■ 1 . . l-'i. \ ''ft-i- 'v ?»; : > ■K-' nW'./:. ■ ' . -1 . , 1- • .w¥J ¥ii3!' , i J ■ ■ 1 . ■ ■ -1 17 '■ V.-.I !,»u * M ' 7 ', <Ai 243 (New York, November 16, 18 ;5, Col, F. D. Grant, ' ' 3 East G6th St., New York, • ■ " ,'v?«" " My dear Sir:- ' . Referrinjt to General Baldy Smith's letter in the November "Century" if you will turn to page 127 of Fol, 7 of the Reports on- the conduct of the War, you will find General Grant's Ifetter of Nov. 18, 1863, and you will also find it in„Van Horn's "Life of General Thomas', page 168, Van Horn in "s^a¥ihg this battle takes the ground and tries to prove by quotations from letters and labored criticisms,■that the battle was not fought out as originally planned and he evidently was inspired in most of his criticisms by General Baldy Smith tl.ough he does not quote him upon the order of November 18th, bu does upon other orders. The order to Sherman of Nov. 18th, I don't see published. It may appear in his "Memoirs" What I suggest after reading General Thomas' official report and General Bal^y Smith's letter, and Van Homo's labored attempt to prove what Smith asserts in his letter, is, a foot-note in addition to the orders of November 18th to Thomas and Sherman, if you can find it in the Generals' book - something definite as to the order of attack upon the center, to prove that it was the original intention of Slierman's attack at the north end of the Ridge to weaken Bragg's Center, so tha. Thomas could attack the center with every probability of success. There must be some such order o- note from General Grant written on the 18th or sent on that date, in which he distinctly sets fortl: that fact, for it was all the time in his mind and in his conversation and it was known to Sherman and o'.hers as shown in their reports. This fact published with the two letters of Nov. 8th shows conclusively that the battle was fought substantially as Dlanned, Referring to the map of the campagin of 1863, sent by Comstock to Sherman, which yoi^ asked me about, I find that Sherman refers to it in a letter to Corastcok dated April 5, 1864, printed in "Sherman's Historical Raid," by Boynton, p 148, in which letter Sherman says: "That map sent to me contains more information and ideas than a volume of printed matter," and "from that map I seo all," It seems to me It is very im ortant to obtain a copy of that map or else a copy of a similar one which you say is in General Grant's official report. It etidontly is the key to the campaign of 1863 or shows the plan which governed their movements. In the "Memoirs" a person could look at it and see the whole thing much clearer than it could be shown by the text of the book. Yours truly, G, M. Dodge. % 244 .fmev r) . New York, November 15, 1835. from B. S. Wathen, Esq., - , .C ."S . Henderson, Texas. r ' . . ' . " Dear Sir;- \ ' ' ■ Is your health sue]; as to' permit you to make a trip for me, from Harrold, Texas, north to Dodge?. If it is, I should be glad to have" you make the journey, stating at your earliest convenience, making a careful, yet confidential examination- of the country. V/hat I want to ■ ascertain is the character of the oi-^ntry from both an engineering and commercial point of view,, starting say from a point near Grostock, travelin north to Mobeetic; thence tl.rough the country which -ives us the best outlet to Dodge City, I am told that the country above Grosbeck, say at a place called Quana is very rough and it is possible you will have to sweep so as to get into the river valley there; but what I would like is to have some person travel over it, as far north as you thir.k would be necessary to determine what the country would be and to ascertain'the probable expense of building in that country. My idea is to keep in Texas just'as far as possible before crossing into.the Indian territory; keeping ain view the object of mutiny the roads running west in Kansas; for instance, the Gouffld system or the A.T.- -S.F, system '7hen you make a report, send me a map, making it as full as you can and also tell me what you "tihink of the prospects for business through that country. Of course I do not confine you to the points or limits ~ _ mentioned, but you understand the general direction I am seeking to A cover, ™ I want you to go without saying anytx:iing to anyone, or allowing any person to knov/ what your business is, or at any rate, do not allow anyone to know that you are looking at the country for me. If you want anyone to accopany you, take them along and" pay them and whatever you think the service is worth I will pay you, I enclose passes over the Fort Worth ana Denver and Texas 'and Pacific roads, ' ' i » 2 ' H-'O r il ifolttr rmt ' ]. Very truly yours, . ■ e . • ;" n G. • ■fe in *1 ,-,y nil-.! Irtoillo r* r.-zy-'io'* ill o! '.r J kjavoi.rwon 10 'Ai\J n.ayjir'lmrytMO "dJ -aj M.; . ] oj . WO Dodge. iq lo mj/IoY .1 f'.t H oi\o inn Ir .tI.U aXorfv -J . . 'xfaiU '>o narhn on» AO'ii bluoo noairn a oM nl 10 .Ufi Oiii y.f 9d h'rno ncd* nrgBn/o dowtt n ,»3b<y uoT 0 245 frZI- , IMW^'XXJXWCi^w No,- I.Broadway, ca..Y ■ i\ New ^ w York, J. Wi ax« ix Nov^. v •-18, • J-W 1885. .iJnno In oJttmlcUie rt-^.on'X n ■■: ■ * . * i r. ,,. iT , •nt ,'r'>|au. -j..oo mtUo X- nJrvJ'i'; r • ■r-iJ rj -jn- . j,vir I l-'.- nr •■ •; ,; f -^n/o ' UO'^ ^MiiJ ItfOY 0^ Oi • ; :iiqn ,'^nAj c<;^r~: "r- r'rro!Jrnfi.iJWt» .IJ 'Ir;Ini B. S. Wathen, Esq., , '»• f't i- '-' Henderson, Texas, Dear Sir:- In my letter yesterday I gave you instructions in relation ■' ' ViJ rJ jC i; I0OY 0^ n r'rro!Jrnfi.iJWt» Oi. It; Inl vour trip from Harrold to Mobeetie and the that vicinity. When you get up there crossing of the Canadian river in and ascertain the crossing of the river, take up the line which you ran for the IQssourl Pacific where it would cross the river, near the 100th meridian. You have heretofore written of the methods of getting from Ford to Comanche counties to that point, with a vie.v of going south into the Panhandle to meet the F!.. Worth & B.C. After crossing the Canadian on this line, strike west, keeping south of the Canadian River in a south-westerly direction to the Pecos, then pass T/est of the Pecos, cross the Sacramento Range into White Oaks Valley working toward White Oaks, making a co'nection there with the surveys we have run from El Paso to White Oaks. My idea is that in taking the line you recommended from Anthony West, we should carry that line as far west as Comanche or Ford County, then turn south, so as to avoid the ^ndiav territory as muchi as possible, and get in.o the Panhandle of Texas, south of the Canadian in the vicinity of Mobeetie, west of ir or east of it was it may be easier, then work to the westward, passing over the West portion of the Panhandle, passin'' through, as good country as you can find, getting into the mineral country around White Oaks. We have a regular survey from ElPaso to White Oaks, so you need not look thiUt country over, '^'his would giye the shortest and most direct line from El Paso to St. Louis via the Mo. Pac. Railway and is nearl all tlie way through a country which i^ susceptible'^of cultivation and away from the Indian territory, as we would cross through hut a small strip of it, I want you to look carefully at the country anr report what it is capable of in the way of mineral and agricultural products, coal and everything which goes to support a railro-d. I su^^pose you will have to get guides along '.he route, and if you should happen to want any money you can draw on me and I will see that the draft is paid. Work through tJie country as rapidly as you can and when you are through make two reports, one on the Ft. Worth & Denver line, and one on the Missouri Pacific line. In looking at a map of this country it would seem as though after crossing the Canadian river you would mak-'toward Fort Sumner, then seeking a pass tnrough the mountains either north or south of that country get into ti.e White Oaks valley. How far north that valley extends I do not know, but I suepose a considerable distance North of White Oaks Springs. B suppos" you will have to give the country between White Oaks Springs and the Peco - a pretty careful examination so as to find a feasible pass through there. That is really the key to this lino, as I do not believe that there is any country along ST^uth oi the Canadian R, but what is easy to get over until you reach the Sacramento Ra ge. It is possible you may be forced south to the Rio Honda, thence up seek ing get into ST^uth oi the Canadian R, but what Sacramento Ra ge, south to the Rio Honda, thence up that stream and down the Ellarpsa^ but you have a better knowledge of that country than I have. in your reports' pive distances and a rough estimate of cost. I wrote you to treat as private my other communication. There is no objection to your saying that you are going into that grountry to finish the examinations you made last spring. Yours very truly, , . , . . ' G. M. Dodge. - ; : i G a irr >0 rtoUf'/p-f ;:t » a" I irJJ \ .;I al ipvl t -ai riinriO •iW "nlrnnit e fin" oj blon-iaH m-iJ « 4J lo priCiioTO niaitf»o«« >fHi fnatW qir i/o^ nm*W •f'tnlolv »)c»w Jt a-t a.'" )!'♦ l iUAarlM rrf.t aaif ur>\\ jloidw anTX n ^ ru arfaJ • ruilbliaiR oiOOf •dJ jnri oiU luoin tluov ■J ban* aot'i 16 abOrhtf^w mtiJ 16 •loloJmful avoii ijoY etij o.tftt 1© #!▼ » (.Jlw ^Jr.lnq dMiU oJ Cfi.iituoo prionrmoO . >• iio rtPibanaD iJ nltiiOKO "oJlA ^ itfioW .1 fiJ rlb.taiUia*! L o ni lorlf* naXbaraO ".U lo HJuno ilqaajl aHla.t ,f>rtiX o.tn©n?*<ioa.'' PifJ . ono ,i"oa1 oiU lo iaair uaaq ntniJ »jl.f BtlJ- oS oS noX-c-Mlb noX-c-<yilb d< ^ Of m niAr^ |rjC«0 o%'taV. 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''aoaii: I uofum fiimroo " ti-jtn-li ^aw tfih' fl liaaa « in' . not .i .r,. tftroa aw ta , -af fit odi aotl • 1 il i"at itO'01 no v.iim»o Oai ia >'''0X oi i/O" Jitm I . : ■ bfiA Xaoo ,nioi/uotrf faiaifnaltna fina tMoril/ir lo x** octJ tti lo a; « oi lit ifox acoq iffc X .b otffat n itoflhdi ot ««o;S iloMw * aJ i . cgi niV! Y» X"* '^i rtw«h bXnolin 110% IJt r ,rijL/-n nrV nofa aoGlij- ie • tfaq o| ilattb a i iryiJ of-'i fllw t ''fW na ita rta rir g >rai nae 'S9% r.a \ri "lii . - iHot !,f trtff r. ' . ■* , lavo vtJmuno ia..i ioor ion brort .jo ^t.ip • ] '' o y -rv -r i''. If -inw. '>'* I#, ditot ,if aft4 no a,10 ,aiior;At owi a^laat lir-txit ' ♦arrlt nfllnal tttmaiUt! oui ' rt?5»o,h' fa maaa Mwit it yt.'nioo at ii Ic qr.a n ia -iilrfooX ill 'Todi ^tonwr itAf bta»of iTae bfnwr iioy trrli '"ibiifiaO odi nrlfaoio • i " itimroo i-ili 10 tUwna to diion taiijlo anXainifo p.ii .. w^x .i tiar^ a . ' iott o-' f f b raiifrt Y^ffaa ui i14lori tal tor .y^'Xhv ailal oilffT a i t*» :;iliqn r4«o ailrtW lo liiirl aoOAiflft a/dotoM nnoo a '' :o«''^ua X in' •alaO oitdr r!*aw#ad xiifW^o arfi oi owo4jr|F^' not ' noqqua • X finaol 0 brill ri nO oa ir»lir.ih atp flatno 0 oool ' .j bun in iitof ir»o -f, t RP , . u j -.p/l Pdi cllnot a! ionr •otadi nuotili ac- .1 n ,* ,7 iiB? n.rrr) P(ii o iKi/t f (oXr 'jt.'frtioo vria a| .V avalf o,'m,:3niaac r.,i (cnmt wo; Xiim* lovo ri %»n . 'r. ' r "!• rtinof baf>T^': td yom noY oX^farop el il .i n .oX:to r -to.fiarf a ^rni i/oy ind ,p-TiaXXf c..." .r-of, mcmi u crwo i oii <100 , »*• j PI 247.r.,- November, 1685. Law Offices of HENDERSON, KURD & DANIELS, 606 & 608 Main St Specialties; Mercantile Collections and Practice in Federal Goufcts. Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 19th, 1885. Genl. G. M. Dodge, New York. Dear General; Your kind letter of the 16th received. You invite me ideas as to probably action of our Legislature on the liquor question. I can do so in a few weeks. While we have a strong majority in each House still we do not yet know the intention of the elected in the liquor question. It is well known that the personal views of ExCongressmen W. G. Thompson (Line Co.) and T. W. Eurdick ( Co.) are anti-prohibition but it is not known whether or not they will vote their own views or stand by the platform promises of their party. It is possible that there are enough anti-prohibition Republicans elected who with the Dem. can change in some degree present law but I very much doubt it. Some of our public men are for a modification, at coming session, to this extent I. E. let probihition stand as the rule but let of 5,000 and upward have local option to regulate, etc., A mutual friend of no mean power and sagacity leans to this co\u?se. I would be benefited by such legislation in my Dist. but do not favor it at this session for the reasons; 1st In our State platform this year we promised to give present law a fair trial. 2nd If we violate that promise we will be in hot water with the extreme temperance element to hold which we have lost so much. I see nothing to be done but to hold to present statue for two years more, when, at present rate of change of views, there will be but few who will oppose a change. In brief; I admit the possibility of a modification this session but do not look for it and doubt its wisdom. I shall hope to see you often during the winter. I see no radical legislation coming from our legislature this winter unless it be. 1st, The selection of R, R. Commissioners is likely to be left to a vote of the people. 248 2nd. Arbitration Board for miners and other laborers may be provided for. Very truly yours, D. B. Henderson. u ' 'lO.'.' » I f I I V . liV< . . V' b't< '■ :v: -V- 'i . V,- - . • I ' • ■ . ; 1 ' . , • # . I ■ . .1 ' ') .u: : I ' ..I, ' « ill ' ,. ■ . •. ■' '1 .1 . -Ol: . . 'no : . ' 1 I idri(i 1 ; M(vob,' ■ 'X' \k . ■ . 1 i • J"* T I ' . ■ . ..t .J . - I '.I 4 . ; . 'v; u : 1} ' it' •' ■ »t .. . i ' ?■'. ! - vbi ' ■'■''t.irf ■«• , i , ■! , V . •> f \ 'j t /i v : fk' -- . , "■ > , 'unr. :-, 'r.i'i • >■ wf > ' • Hi' ■ ^ ' I ■ ' 1 r„ . »• f f. ; r. ■ ■ 'ii.i 249 November, 1885. Daily Globe Office, Council Bluffs, la, ¥ov. 24, 1885, My dear General; t I owe you an apology, but press of essential matters after theOlose of the campaign induced the apparent neglect of your very kind letters. I thank you most heartily for your very kind words cf congratulation. My only hope is to deserve the confidence of the people and do my full duty, as I can understand it. The editorial which resulted from your first letter I think will bear some fruit. I find this so far, quite a barren soil, but am in hopes that a little more digging will resutl in something definite in the way you suggest. I believe a letter from you that I could publish, over your own sign ature, would have a splendid effect; and do more than any one thing else in arousing a proper spirit. I intend to give the question of re-organization of our military system in this state some special attention, if I can get a hearing at Des Moines. It is practically useless now, either as to mobilization, or a nucleus for the mobili zation of the population fit for military duty in the state. I think any one who can assist in breaking through this indifference in any of t the states will render a public service. I have been trying for two years, to editorially impress upon the people of Western Iowa, the necessity of more liberality and intelligence by Congress of the de fensive affairs of the general government, in the hope that if a public opinion was prperly directed Congress might muster courage sufficient to deal patjrioticaily with this whole neglected subject. We are not very fortunate now,in our representation in this quarter at Washington, so far as the initiative oi such measures is concerned, but I think that the vote of this district Aill be in the right military direction. Ivy dear General, I shall be gliid to co-operate with you in any way you deem most advisable to review the "Old Giuttrd." We have now a new post made up of the best material here, and as soon as they get into proper working order, they will co-operate in this matter. I have no news, and hope you are entierly well agan. I have read the Grant Chattanooga Artidb, and have been studying it with the view of making some editorial comments, but have not reached that point. The death of Gen. McClellan was a severe blow, to me, for the reason, that he condescended to be my friend when I was a boy in the service; and among the last letters written was one to me, speaking of matters in con tinuation of the friendship of intervening years. Do you meet Gen. S. W. Crawford at your club? He was formerly commander of the brigade to which I was attached. I met him at Antietum dedication Sept. 17, 1880. Yours sincerely, Jno. H. Keatlfy. 251 November, 1885. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Nov. 25, 1885. Ky dear General: I wrote you pretty fully yesterday, I found time today, to give Gen. Grant's "Chattanooga," another reading; and have selected the portion in which he refers to your services in that period, for reproduction in the Globe of Friday. We issue no paper tomorrow. There are not many magazine readers here compared with the population, and I thought it right and proper that our people your old neighbors and friends should know exactly how Gen. Grant regarded you. That is the reason I took the liberty I did with the article. The record we made in the service, whether in exalted rank and responsibility, or in the humblest stations is a legacy worth preserving. Sincerely your friend, Jn6. H. Keatley, n7 '•X 1 Broadway, New Yorl:, Nov. 25, 1885. C. F. Meek, Esq , Des Moines, Iowa. Dear Sir:- , - : 'T K' j'.S Ti" ro r ' : ^ t ■ ' • T I understand that Mr. Stickney who built the railroad from St. Paul to Mona, has gone into a 99 year agreement with t.;e Central of Iowa to dd their business int- St. Paul, the building across from Mona to Maniy Junction. Now it seems to me it w^uld be a good scneme for us to build from Boonsboro to ."Webster City and on up to Mona Junction,- and thus get a straight line from St. Paul to Des Moines, and then by a connection with the Ocaola branch, get, a line ti.rough to Kansas City. " ' Mr. Stickney represents goqd parties in St. Paul, and if you have 0.^ ■ "time you might go up there and see hi , and see if we could not work up this scheme turning our line arid the Oceola line, into a standard guage t ' * '■ I and cominblng the three. I He now some kind of a roundabout way into Des Moines over the Diagonal, but the line I suggest would give the best possible route for Kansas City or from St, Paul to Des Moines. Whitehead who has the Ft. Dodge road has been anxious to lease the narrow guage running to Rockville City and offers to take in our little line to Boon-^. What do you think of such a scheme? I suy^pose be would lease it to the Ft. Dodge road. I think during these times, we ought to get up some combination by which we could either extend our line or sel] it out. Let me hear from you upon this subject fully. Yours truly, Cr. M. Dodge. 254 t'.riTvtNIOM New York, Nov. 25, 1885, , pas: ,vr«0M .r> . Frank V/. Palmer, ^sq., . .. - . oT ,r a ' js'^f My dear Sir:- I am sorry I failed to -ee you when you were here. -I met Mr.' Ingham this morning and he told me why you wanted to see me. I believe the best newspaper property that can be bought today is the Council Bluffs "Nonpareil." It has the best field, and the least opposition of any newspaper I know of, and it, can be made into a valmble property if properly edited and would become a power in western Iowa for Council BluffTj would also be a very good location for you politically. There is no one in We -tern Iowa how stands head and shoulders above everybody else in political matters, and tliey need someone of that kind, I look upon the Oma o RepuMiftan as also a first class property but it has never been a successful newspaper. The trouble is that the HeToald and the Bee are too enterprising, and have the run of that country Of course with you in charge of the Republican, it might be different, and Omaha is growin- city and a good distributing poin;, but not in my opinion as -b-od a point as Council Bluffs. You, however, are the best judge of the field in that country. At the Bluffs you would haveto make a hard and long fight for business. I believe, however, thqt in either place you would be successful, and I would be glad to see you take hold ou t there, I think at the Bluffs you could get the stron support pf M all the railroads, and have no doubt tlist nt On i >. you could .ibt_i.iu aid and assistance from the Union Pacific if you wanted it, though t];ey, I thi k, are a good deal tied to the Herlad, If I mistake not, Kimball is an owner in the Republican, but I .don't know. Yours very truly, ; , •. G, M. Dodge. . ■ , "■ T vZ 9cKT o.' I au I aOHl 10 • ffflO'Oq •arirp w'vtiArt flWMKf kBOw •'hoG r.Bd o w od §nti 0S40tr luo ffi Ojikf rj melio boB \4tO eliirriBrn •t Pi t a itin: lo jtita.t inii* • rieoil .bfni >ofl n*>Mnr(MiJwp nime (|ti ncpiij niwufc itnliW 1 ,.bfn :f rlap luo -i'> 4|r, bfiroo «»« hoMff xrf , irwl J0i»X4ixii I l .i rmgy ur>x inotl inprt on ,8 uf ,8 i<Kfir.9oa<I » New York, December 4, 1885, Theo, R. Davis, Esq., Asbury Jfark, F.J. Q«t»T .oD •feiJNrU ,lit.'AO*! • mie tMCt >cDear Sir:-.' O' kioih nM«f ^rMi Jo; .oO MS#t MlJ nan fUno ■ J This morning IIreceived'ft letter that I have no doubt'will be of data • interest and adldtto yoqranu X therefore enclose a copy of it. It gives a detailed and distinct accoxint of the part of,Mersey's brigade in recap turing the De Gress Battery, and the position of the regiments. As I understand it, you intend .to place Mersey's Brigade in this position in your panorama, and I therefore enclose a copy of the entire letter, with a copy of the statement of Mr.. Jonas who forwarded the letter to me, and who, as you say, and as I informed you, let that Brigade to the attack. .. i tot ».ii I J ml I ii'i JJ 1 r Truly, G., M. Dodge. • yo^ T : Oii J ilnj J'lvab I .rxtttlJ . -*■. ai* \ r. i.r.i'i JcuJ n ar-'ii o"' J 1 iw(J fOJr*sitqr*fi o- Btifiijinr r> ^rtr won fs J find iii.iU ' 10. . >■ .1; . 1 « / .lolh .. . ii'iiJ -.'iKMi o., ' hly .V, T i o-Jaoh Jeo® . .J 'ji* Xi,h T 'v •n-PW ..n.jkt' 256 ,J".OnX New York, December 5, 1865. J. W, Jennings, Esq., Monuell, Uvalde Co, Texas. Dear Sir;- .utrdi •Hi «09ifr .'..T Has tbe Texas Pacific Co. got any lands around you tberd, agric ultural lands, which it would pay to purchase with some Land Grant bond? I means something that you can recommend, and that you Could sell, I don't want to hold the lands, but I want to use the securities and get lands that I .Can sell out I think you wrote me .once 3bout lands on the West side of the river thatj were'a. good purcihase. Please write me about them .imraediateiy^" la Y«l"0 » proton® I >nn .nnfTKniiwi x nl oj I . I received'youcT lettey today.i Aiflnglad .to' liarar y)ou raije'doing .igtar; well, e tfut rry y.ou . had sudh ,a' si 9®e. I don't, expect, to build raryr railroad jus^^ now. If you sell any stone laiy^^Dpiff a good price for it. Granger has gone.'rt,Q'Oirexas,,rbnd I have vvritten him to try and hunt you up a compass ancchain and send it to you there. I don't think we have any compasses separate, but I believe we have a transit that has a compass in it. I am laiG up more than half ti.e time now with rheiamatism. Am bent most double today. I would like to come down there and spend part of the winter- with you, if I dared to. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. r 3V New York, Dedember 6, 1865. Col. J. H, Keatley, Dear Keatley:- I enclose an article 1 cut out from tiie "Globe" ; I suppose you wrote it. I have no objections to your letting Sparks down as easly as possible, but he is a crank, and I think nearly all the Democratic papers are begin ning to see it. Ih nearly all the cases you cite he was over-ruled or had his orders withdrawn. But what I want to call your attention to are his orders in relat. ion "to the pre -empstead, homestead and timber claims. His suspension of the issue of patents in these cases is working great injry to the settlement of the country and to innocent people. Of course there may be rascals who employ fraudulent means in obtaining lands under the pre-emption, homestaed and timber claim laws, but you and I know that 99-lOOths of these claims are made by poor people who are on their places. The best evidence of this is the settlement west of the Missouri River- and I think that the best way to show ilr. sparks that he is injuring himself and everybody else is for the people out there who know the facts, to present them in a proper liglt. I notice that the N.Y. "Sun", tie Omaha "Herald" and I believe a good many papers in the Territories have taken the case up. It has been brought to my notice by the people writing me - old soldiers and others who are on the gro\md. In short, I don't think r:e should ruin thirty or forty thousand people for thepurpose of punishing one thousand. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 259 . (P -O'.o'* , 'inY • New York, December 8, 1885. R. E. i:ontgomery, Esq., Ft, Worth, Texas. ... v: , . n • K'Y v.Ait - J'i J? 'I Dear Sir:- • |h rriiim^ooo n 3nl}laai .il . . i ..'.JA niiJ {?.) . i'- , i J.I. iJCi t\. • t . It. I Won't you send me a description of the lands I own along t-he • • • t • line of the Texas & Pacific-Ry. ,• which stand s in ynui name as Trustee » , • I believe, describing section, parts of sections, towns, counties, etc These lands are in V n.' n'fi ll/'"' . 0b»H Iff ow LSinJ ( Jli.' •1st,' Lambert-, quoted at- IOC acres. * w *i« i a. 2nd, Millsap " " 260 " , • t 3rd. Clyde " " 160- "• * : • * A-' 4th.' Hermosa- " " 640 " * ' •''flf!! f? inviil •Oh.-. 5th, Toyah and lands surrounding it. ^ , - Give a little history of each town, so that I can file it in my* book, showing what lots have been sold, what the prospects of the country and what yoii recommend concerning the lands. If you have a town plot of r each of the towns, send thsm here, marking the portions that have been sold. If I have missed any of the lands I own on the line of theT Jc P • I in the fordgoing statement, just tell me what they are and describe as before mentioiled. There may be 'some small pieces Which I have omitted. Of course I have a list of all the bodies of lands, which list you sent previously but although I have a list of these towns along tie T 3c P I have no description of ti.em dhowing how they ahe located. « Please inform me irl whose name all these lands stand, and whether the taxes have been paid for 1804, and when the taxes for 1885 are due. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. ^60 ,.,4 New York, December 9, 1885. 514 miles. 125 miles. 125 miles. on i X 150 miles. •oXlotf miles., miles. 150 miles. ,244. • 288 1157 miles miles. Jay Gould, Esq., p'.;/ r ■, .E .c New York City. De-r Sir:- In making a comparison of distances from Stl Louis' to El Paso, via (l) your lin , and (2) the Atchison on Topeka & St. Ee, I estimate as follows: 1. . . • St. Louis to Anthony, Mo. Pac. 514 miles. Anthony to Crooked Creek, Clark- Co, Kas. 125 miles. ^ on^x Croo]-;ed Ck. to Mobeetie, "J/heeler, Cb'.Tex. 125 miles. Mobeetie to New Mexican line. Deaf Smith ovoXlotf t Co, Texas 150 miles. New Mexican line to Ft. Sumner, N.M. 90 miles... Ft. Sumner to IVhite Oaks 90 miles. IThite Oaks to El Paso 150 miles. 1,244. 2. ' ■ ^ ^ ^ St. Louis to Kansas City, Mo. Pac.' y. • 288 miles ' Kansas City to El Paso, Atch. Top &^St.P\ 1157 miles. 1,440. Difference favor Missouri Pacific"! 196 We have had this line examined in detail, either for the" Mo. Pac. or the Ft. Worth & Denver City Co. from Anthony bo the Mew Mexican line; we knov; what the country is from New Mexican line to Ft. Slimner, and also from White Oaks to El Paso, because we have had a detailed sur-^fc vey of it, which leaves a distance" of 90 miles that We do not know from actual examination. I judy^^e that the only piece of what, you may call heavy work, on the entire line, will be probably the 25 miles across the Guadaloupe Range, between Ft. Sumner and "IThite Oaks Springs; the rest of the line over the entire distance from Antiiony' througl-, is similar to what we would find in Kansas or the Indian territory. Crossing the Canadian might cause some little heavy worl;, but not much. The couiitry fran Crooked Creek to El Paso is very sparsely settled, but it is all a fine agri i Itural cbuntry, and as soon as you strike the Cuadaloupe Mts. you find minerals, coal and timber., I ain in hopes in the course of 30 or 60 days, to have a reconnoisance from the Caradian river through to White Caks, and this in connection with ITathen's surveys of last s\iinmdr, will give us a detailed report of what the cost of a line will be. I eniklose a rough map with points and distances marked on it - the line in blue, distances in red. t ,« r. Yours truly, - . • - . . .Dodge. , line rr Mil 3 ai iol •Hi Mlw hnm i 1 blaq xHmd aMUld »ll vniioT 261 December, 1885. THE FORT WORTH & DENVER CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. Fort Worth, Dec. 9th, 1885. Gen. G. M. Dodge., New York. Dear Sir: In accordance with your instructions I came here to attend the annuaJl meeting of the stockholders of this Company, held yesterday, and report the following result thereof. There were represented in person or by proxy 26,349 shares of stock of which Messrs Carter & Winn, Attorneys, of this City voted 7,715 shares, in opposition to the votes of the other stockholders. There were present at the meeting Messrs. Jones, Frost, Eddy, Smith Felsenheld, Brown, Carter, Wynne, Granger, Ross and our Attorney O'Neil, in whose name I put 1300 shares ol proxy'sin order to give him standing in the meeting. On Monday morning, soon after reaching here I held a council with our friends and Attorney and wired you result ther-eof referring yoj to specilied articles in statutes of Texas which seamed to indi cate that our new by-laws were not properly adapted and suggesting com promise aluding also to provision in Texas laws by which a minority by piling all their votes on one or two directors can obtain repre sentation in the Board. Receiving no answer to my telegrams I could only adhere to and act upon my original instructions which were, in three words, "keep, Meyer out . Not knowing how many proxies they had we could not figure them out, and if it came to an election they would certainly have put him in, .so we had to make up a program and stick to it and it could only be take ground that by-laws are legal and we are bound by them and there can be no election. And having once made this stand in the meeting we could not go back even had we could not go back even had we wished to do so but all our friends stood up and voted solid and we carried all our resolutions and voted down theirs. After they found they were beaten they were"going off mad" as they had threatened if we declined to hold an election, but I asked them to stay and hear one more resolution which was the one authorising amend ment to Charter for extension etc. I explained to them what a benefit such a through connection would be to the city the State ana the Road and asked them to vote for it. They replied that their instructions did not extend that far• I asked them to waive instructions and vote for it on principles of general good, and after consultation they said that Mr. Wynne would assume the responsibility and vote all their proxy's for it. This carried it by a handsome majority. Mr. Garter is aaid to be quite angry at this action of his Colleague. 0 9 Mr. Ross will soon send you full report or c-copy of records of the meeting. Whether or not it will stand I cannot say, but if it dont we are no worse off tlra n before. Mr. Pelsenheld declared he would not sit in any board with Mr. Meyer and the opposition to Mr. Carter (our director here)is just as decided . % He is not a popular man and is represented as very pug nacious. Their instructions were to elect A. J. M. Carter and if possible, Wynne and they would not deviate from them.. You have doubtless conferred with Judge Dillon and read the revised statutes bearing upon this subject, providing that direct ors shall be elected annually and that by-laws shall not be changed except at annual meetings and by a vote of 2/3 in value of all stock outstanding. On this they claim that our by-laws were illegally adopted and any action taken under them would be illegal and any refused to elect directors would be in direct violation of the laws of the State. Our answer to this is that our charter, which antidates the statute law, gives us the right to change by-laws at any special or annual meeting etc. but I fear there is not much force in it so on the principle of "act firstand fight afterwards," we stuck to our by laws and let the election go over The election of the Texas men they wanted would have been as bad here as letting in Meyer in New York. If you compromise, as sug gested in my telegrams a airector can resign at next meeting and one of their men be put in. o'^'^eil says he can keep it in court for two years. The questicns to be considered are, what will be the effect of such a fight upon the securities and future of the road; and will actions of this stockholders meeting and present Board Directors be perfectly legal and stand the text of the hard legal fight these Jews will undoubtedly give us. All your dispatches about figuring on proxies and Directors came too late to be of service. I will write you of any further developments. Yours truly, J. T. Granger. Vl-.j .'-•■J J J ^ J December, 1885. Geo. D. Chester, D.D,, L.L.D., Pres. Judge Henry Jerningham, VicePres* Ben. v;. Austin, Secretary. NORTHl"ESTERN LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Sioux City, Iowa. Original Poems, Essays, Opinijns and Sketches from the Literary, Political and Artistic 'Vorld Solicited. Also Autograph letters and Documents of Distinguished People. Secretary's Office, Dec. 15, 1885. Gen. Grenville iV-. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir: As a slight expression of their esteem, and in token of their appreciation of your ability and of your destinguished services in the various honorable positions you have filled, the members of this society have unannimously elected you an honorary member. Very respectfully yours, Ben. W. Austin, Secty. 265 December, 1885. TREASURY DE PART^'-EN T, Office of the secretary. Washington, D. G., Dec. 16th, 1885. Personal. I/.y dear General: Replying to your of the 14th inst. I regret to say I have no records or papers available which show what officers were serving on your staff at the battle of July 22d, 1864 in front of Atlanta. All my army records are in Germany in care of my son Harry Dodge Tichenor. According to my recollection the following officers were serving on your staff at the time named: Lt. Col. Jesse J.-Phillips, 9th Ills. Infty., Chief of Outposts. Capt. J. 'f. Barnes, Asst. Adjt . General. Kajr Norman Gay, Surgeon Ha jr. Caniobell, 64th Ills. Inf y. (Killed in battle July 22d) Ha jr. Ross, 1st Hich Artillry, Chief of Artillery Capt. Geo. E. Ford, 4th Iowa Infy, Aide-de-Camp. Capt Teideman, 9th Ills. Infy, Chief of Pioneer Corps. Capt. Thos C. Fullerton, 04th Ills. Ipfty., Inspector General. Capt. C. C. Carpenter, A. C. ^.,Chief Commissary. Capt J. K. "'ing, A. 0. K. , Chief Quartermaster. Lieut. Geo. C. Ti-chenor, 39th Iowa Infty. , (Aide-de-Camp and Acting (Judge Advocate. Lieut. Edward Jonas, 50th Ills. Infty. Aide-de-Camp. I regret my inability to give you more definite information. Will you kindly give me your opinion of Mutual Union Telegraph bonds (6*®). They are I believe sinking fund bonds. Guaranteed by the Western Union. I have a few thousand dollars to invest. I am, Trusting you are in good health and attended by prosperity. Sincerely yours, Genl. Tichenor. Gen . G . M. Dodge, New York. 267 New York, Decmpber 17, 1885, Chas, TiVheeler, Esq., Secy. Denver & N.O.Ry. Co., Denver, Colo, Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yovrs of December 5th. I suppose the paper's you refer to came during my absence, as I have been away from the city during the s ring, summer and most of the fall. I will sign the papers when they get here, as requested. As to the Ft. Worth & Denver, it is still in our control, and whenever the Denver & NEW Orleans see fit to come towards us we will meet them, as agreed. Cur business during the year shows a surplus of about $43,000. over and above all interest and expenses.We built during the year 93 miles, so that we have now nearly 150 miles of road. We have got the right of way virtually secured from where we are to the crossing of the Canadian river, and are only waiting for somebody to come towards us from the north, to go toward the:.. I only v;rite this to you for yo" r ow information and not for publication, because I don't want to have any idea get out that we are going to ewkend until we can see our way to a connection. We will, of course, push along through the Panhandle as fast as the country demands it. The papers are full of all kinds of stories about extending our line which have no truth in them. Truly, 0. M. Dodge. New York, December 17, 1885. Spencer Smith, Esq., Editor The Nonpareil, Counci' Bluffs, low-^. Dear Sir:- On my visit to Boston yesterday I met our people, especially Ur. Galloway, with v/hom I had a talk concerning the matters you wrote me about. He says that he will give it attention. The trou^le seems t to be that there are a great many people wanti- g the same thing, but I impres ed upon him the importance of giving our side of the river a portion of this work. I think the administration there at present are disposed to everything for us on that side of the river that they can. They aee what is true economy in the management of the road, but like other matters, what they want done can't be accomplished in a moment. I also impressed upon him the necessity of running our street cars there every five minutes, and I think on his return he will be over there and will look into matters of that kind. What I write you in this connection is strictly confidential and not to be made use of in any way or published. I prefer that the people out there should make known what they are doing or propose doing in their own way. It is impossible to do anything with the Mexican Central road. They are so poor and in such a condition that it is useless for me to ask them. Truly, G. M. Dodge. 271.,•, December, 1865. KEW CRLEAIIS PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. E. B. Wheelock, President's Office. President. New Orleans, La. Dec. 22, 1885. Gen' 1. G . Iv.. Dod^^e, New York. Dear Sir: You ask me about Gov. Sheldon. Ithink him a good man and have no doubt but he and Gov. Brown will achieve perfect accord. Sheldon was once a law partner of Juuge Pardus and once a member of Congress liom La. and lately Governor of New ^'exico. He no doubt represents the court. In regard to the lands you wrote me about, I have been waiting from day to day foi- six m nths to hear the lands appraised. I will do all I can to protect your interests and so will Capt. Greene in helping you to locate your bonds as soon as possible I am without a dollar in money with whieh to do anything and will be until an appraiser is appointed. In the mean time I have reason to be lieve that some of our backbone friends are not idle. Very truly youi-s, E. B. Wheelock. r< ' V New York, December 26, 1885. Mr. Theo. R. Davis, Asbury Park, N.J. Dear Sir:- I send you herewith photographs of Maj. Barnes and Lieut. Tichenor, of my Staff, and of Col. Mersey and Col. Rice, who commanded the two bridges of the IGth A.C. on the Battle of the 22nd, and also a photograph of myself. When youare through with these please return them to me. I enclose a copy of a letter from Jonas, that came since you were here, which gives pretty near the exact facts as to what part Mersey's Brigade took in the re-capture of De Gress' Battery, and I enclose a correct list of my Staff at that time. Lieut. Col. Phillips and my personal staff were all with me that ddy, and a portion of the general staff, but who these latter were it is impossible for me to say. If I receive a photograph of Jonas I wil"! send it to you. I have no doubt that what Jonas says in regard to Mersey's brigade is true, and if I understood you rightly he in his statement agrees with what Logan said as to leadin Martin's Brigade; but there is no question about Mersey's Brigade having captured DeGress* battery^ and one of his soidiers having burst one of the guns while trying to turn it on the enemy. If there is anything more you need, please let me know. You will notice I have marked the names on the backs of the photograptB Truly, F. M. Dodge. 275 December,"1885 360C Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111, Dec. 25, 1885. Dear Genl: Yours of the 23rd inst. received. I have hoped to bring matters in the IVheeler case to a "point before this, where I could write you something definite. As yet there is nothing decided. I will however give you statement as to what has been done and in prospect o~f doing. Our work her tofroe has been to close a contract v/ith a certain number of packers, to put up a machine and cool their hogs at a certain price. The contract was closed'and signed. " The contract was a favorable one and v;ould have netted the comiJany v40,000 a year. A condition of the contract was that the company must shov/,' on or before the fifteenth of December, that they had the money "to put up the plant. It would require $100,000 to build it. The Company were unable to raise the money or make any showing of thei'r ability to get it in tine to put up the plant for next summer use. That con tract consequently failed. About a week ago riegotiatioris were opened up with the Farwells to furnish the money. This is now being worked will know in a few days the result. Their proposition is a very arbitrary one and will leave but little for ".'heeler. But I think it is the last chance for getting anything and I think it best to urge '."heeler into it. They offer to furnish :j;;i00,000 to put up the plant to carry out the first contract with the packers. They ..ant the 'company bo issue to them 100,000 in Bonds, 5 years, 6 % and give them a majority of the stock. They will then elect themselves Directors and take full control. This propositicn would give '//heeler 60,000 in stock. Its value would depend entirely on the fair dealing of the Farwells. They would have it in their p'ower to manipulate things so as to make the stock worthless or if fairly dealt with, it could be made of par value. They say they will" make the stock good. They know all about the value of* ".'heelers interest in the patent and claim rather than pay much for his interest they will go and negotiate with Holden the original owner of the patent for the use of the salt spray. This spray is the only thing that is of any value. '.Vhen Hdden sold to Wheeler the license to manufacture machines under his patent, he reserved the right to manufacture for hiniself, so that there is nothing to prevent him from forming another company at any tine and competing with the Wheeler Co. Then a provision in the contract required the Wheeler Co. to have sufficient capital at all times to build all the Machines required or the contract could be revolted by Holden giving written notice. Parties here claim that Holden can declare forfieture for reason that the "/heeler Co. Failed to raise maney to carry out contract with packers. The only value '/.'heeler has is the difference between his con tract with Holden and any lew contract that might be made with HcMen. Now that by the exijeriments nade here with the machine, it has proven to be of great value, Holden would be very stiff on a new deal. -l^S 276 I asked '.''heeler if he closed a deal with the ^arwells, what amount of the stock he would turn over to satisfy the claim from you. He replied he could not give any as it wouH take it all to pay the indebt edness. ' He still claims that you should pay half of all the debts he l.as contracted. 't'y opinion is that we cannot depend on getting any thing out of him except under couipulsion. I have taken legal advice, which says, That when Theeler sold his interests to the Company for 300,000 of stock and the stocic passed to v.'heeler, that your claim under the contract entitled you to one half the stock, and can be taken whereever found. Now Theeler turned one ,half of tl:at stock back to the company and is now held by tiie com.pany." If the Farwells put in money and build the plant at stockyards, this stock would have value and could be attached. To attach it now would drive parties from putting money in and leave the stock worthless. The matter is so Important that to morrow I will gel the opinion of Judge Dent, who is considered very high as a corporation lawyer. If son.e of your companies have Attorneys in steady employ if convenient it would be well to get an opinion on the* contract. I wish you would as soon as you receive this give me your views of. th.e case. At present the policy seems to be to wait and watch. If however on further legal advice to-morrow I get encourage ment to do so. I wi'll step in and open independent negotiations with the Farwells, turning over to them the power to obtain a majority of the stock under the contract. As yet I h.ave been afraid to suggest any thing that, way, as seeing conflicting claims would scare them a way. I will write'you fully in two or three days results. Genl. We have been building and operating some railway v/ith the Van Deywell Electric N;otor. '//e have a street car line in operation at South Bend Ind. and 1 have built and have now in operation on the Exposition Irounds, New Orleans, three fourths of a mile of track carry ing passengers. Everything works with ease and without interruption. I ani satisfied it is the best rco'tor that has been invented, it has great power and easily operated. If we could get the '•'ew York Elevated roads to adopt it, it would give then ^.ood satisfaction. 'I understand they have" tried the Daft t.otor and is not perfectly satisfactory". I know our" t.otor is far superior to the faft. The company is so situated that for influence in getting t..eir motor on those roads they could afford to give an interest that would be satisfactory. If you could give the matter some attention yo'u would be well pleased with results. Yours etc.. J. A,' Zearing. A. ferry Christmas. 277 December, 1885 D. T. Corbin, Attorney & Counselor at Law, 520 First Nc.tional Bank Bid. Chicago, 111, Dec. 28th, 1885 Dear Gen'l: I write to let you know the result of interview with Judge Dent. His opinion is, the contract is not very strong as against Vheeler, and it is very doubtful if the stock issued to ""'heeler could be attached. If there is a deal got up by vdiich V,'heeler is likely to make anything, then Dent advises to be ready to interpose obstacles to prevent its consumriiation, unless "'heeler will give a fair division. Tliis he thinj^s can be done. Dent wishes me to get from you your best ''recollection of the first contract, if you have not a copy of it. Also an itemized statement of the amounts of money you let I'heeler have since tl.e last contract. Also copies of any correspondence between you and V.'heeler r-elating to the business. Also if any quarterly or other report ixis been made by '.Vheeler to youaccording to terms of contract, if so, send copy of same. • Also amount of interest accrued on payments to Wheeler. I think Wheeler is anxious to u.ake the deal, I mentioned in my last letter with the Farwelis. By threatening to break it up I think will bring '«heeler to terms. He yet refuses to say that he will turn over any of the stock to satisfy my interest. Dent says if upon further investigation he concludes th^at the stock in the Treasury can be held under the contract then we will negotiate direct with the Farwelis for its delivery and supplant Wheeler. Anything will be justifiable a.n the case. Yours, ,J. R. Zearing, 279 December 1885. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Deer. 28th, 1885. Dear Gren: Mother wants lue to exi^ress to you her thanks for the Christ mas present you sent to lier. I have been hoping she would feel able to write you herself but she says sh.e is too feeble. Of late she has been growing more homesick and when she had poor nights the thought that she was not in her own home worried her and I have thought best to let her return and today being warm I took her down and tpnight she will rest in her accustomed place. I have a good"girl from one of m.y farms who will be kind and attentive to her and with Rasmus and L'rs. ".'atson in the house at night she will be well cared for. I ex pected Julia down today to.stay with her a few days but she cannot come conveniently just now. I wish you could get a permdt for her to use your family pass as if mother grows feeble and weak as she has been doing she will need to be here considerable and is so situated she cannot leave her fariiily long at a tine. I rather expect their refusal to perndt her to use it came about from others using it and the conductors must have been instructed to confine its use to members of your own family. Mothers noi-mal condition is more feeble now than ever before and I qannot but feel it is the beginning of the end and yet when I think Mow many more years her mother lived I think it possible for her to live sometime. Old people die so often near their birth days I shall have more courage if mother pulls thro January. Christmas passed off pleasantly mother and Phil were particularily favored. I will write Annie miore about it if I can find timie. The business men of the City have shown considerable interest in reorganizing the old Board of Trade. Held several public meetings which resulted in obtaining nearly 100 names and an entire new set of Hien put in to control it. Spencer Bmith, Frest., L. Everett, V. Prest. and I was put in as Prest. of Executive Committee. If we do not accomplish rr.uch, one thing is certain, it will not be used to poind any one for private ends. In form.ing our Conimittees we put Geo. Wright at h.ead of Fx. R, Com. and I also had Frank Pusey put on. The Union Pacific has a man over here feeling ai'ter the lands and lots they want to increase width of their Eight of '^ay. I con trol considerable of the ground and its far better for them to let me know just what they want instead of approaching mie in a blind way and then leave it with some land Agt. here. They would save money if they would put it in the hands of Geo. Wright. He is the best man for that purpose I ever saw. Today this Ri^ht of man was over and stirred up tne Real Estate men by getting a price on lots in a tier of blocks just east of Reservoir, rerry Add. and sought out the owners and agents of bluff land where earth was taken for cr^^sent rrsde. I desire to see U. P. get what they want at a fair price but to stir up the Real Extate Agts. is the worst way of going about it. I shall do what I can to influence economical managment at house but the bills sent to you I knew nothing about until they come in and those that were for refitting and refurnishing house had to be paid. If you have ordered a halt it will probably check it until it breaks out somewhere else. The house is elegantly furnished and you ought never let a thing which belongs to it be taken away to furnish elsewhere. Very truly, N. P. D. f'' ..Nim Gen. G. M, Dodge, yj New York, N. Y. General: In late nuii:bers of the "National Tribune," many correspondents of the 1st and 2d div. 15th A. G. assert tl.at no portion of the 16th A. C. assisted in regaining the line lost by Smiths iid Div. 15th A. G. and De Grasses Battery of 20 pd Farr®^ts along the Decatur N. N, in front of Atlanta, Ga., July 22d, 1864'. I am positive that ct the time of the break in Smith's 2d Div. 15th A. C., Gen Logan was at Sweenys 2d Div. 16th A. G. and led in person, the 2d Brig - Nerseys - or at least the 66th 111. and 81st Chio, to re-enforce Smith, and formed it on the right of his Div. immediately nortli of the R. R. charging with that Div. and coming- to the lost work at the Battery. I would respectfully ask, if you remen.ber of any portion of Sweeny's Div. being sent as re-enforcements to the 15th Corps at that time? looping Deneral, that I have not intruded upon your tiii.e, I remain very respectfully. Your Obdt. Servt., A . E . NcGreary, (Late Co.# ) (81st O.V.I.) Emporia, Lyon Go., Kansas. https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/cc32411e60bdf1aefc5adfb09f4f96da.pdf bfc43acffacdb6bd6a34f0f9ecc9cb3d PDF Text Text 283 S"!" 1886. After the.Civil War, Qeneral Logan and his familj- were very close griends of mine and whenever I went to Washington, I v;as generally a guest at his hp^se. General Logan.had gathered a very large and attractive collec tion of souvenirs of the war, one of the best I have seen. I think w . . . ^ ](Jrs, Logan has placed them in some rausexim. His house was always full of guests, especially of old soldiers who had served 7^ith him. .After the War General Logan retiirned to Congress and was a United States Senator from Illinois. Dui-ing the time he v;as Senator t I had a great many bills before Congress in the interest of the different railroads I was connected with and whenever Logan vould see • • t me he v/ould ask what I \yanted and would, help me except one time when i ■ . ' ' • ■ . I had a very important bill, I forget now which one it was, and I went '' ' • - • . s to see him in relation to it. Logan turned on me very sharply and wanted to know why I had not let him knov that I was going to ask for this legislation. He said he had made known in the Senate his opinion on this bill and the people who were opposed to it wore friends of and he would have to oppose me. I safid to him, "Well, alright. General, I am sorry but I can't, ask you to change your views on the matter, but I think if you should look into the question thoroughly, you would change your mind." I said nothing more to him about the bill but when it caae up in the Senate, Logan got up in support of it. After it had passed the Senate, I went to thank him and said I was surprised to see that he had changed l^iis views. He turned on me and said, "Well, Dodge, you know I couldn't fight you. We have been friends too long," and then he said, "I looked into the matter after you spoke to me and while I did not become fully convinced that you were right, with ray wi/-.h to serve you, I changed my mind." Wlien General Logan '.7as a candldatfor President • at the time Harrison was nominated as VI ; President, lowas was presenting the name of All'ison for President. I happened to go tAto the Pacific hotel and saw General Logan and I'rs. Logan sitting together and Logan called me over to them and said, "Just as I expected; whenever I wanted anything, Iowa turns up*against me. and went after me very sh&rply, Mrs. Logan trying to smooth the matter over but I told'him that he was mistaken; that Allison was not a candidate then as against h-'m or and that lo'wa would be for him but, as you know, Harrison was nominated and Logan was made Vice President and both of them were defeated. Since the death of General Logan, Mrs. Lo.-^an and her family have been very close friends of mine and I have seen a great deal of . them. Whenever it is possible Mrs. Logan attends the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and takes a great interest in them. 3hef is very popular with that army. The fact is Logan was an idol of the Army ; his action on the battle-field and his magnetism always captured the soldiers. Mrs, Logan never lost-an opportunity , . . to stand up and defend her husband and promote his interests--no • j j 1: 1 ; i a more devoted wife elrer lived, . ' ' ' . . : 11 T .'U(J <c i •: ' ; t.ift; I ".b.'lf. UiO „ a- jitiri', hXuOV « /h J !i "1 rju efteo ^'1 "tir Jiuf XfL' a.1 ' 'i , f. S,;.! -,.1 J ran oj T Met b ' T ■ ■ , , r* .ti», im bet '. t** , I' ;! , '. .an V, ' h -"I oeJ r r 1 !"♦ ,ice I T i : I : ''J •f-iav. ^tc»' 285 January, 1886 Austin, Texas, 2nd Jan., 1886 Genl. G. M. Dodge, , New York. Dear Sir: Enclosed please find map of Texas with outline of proposed R. R. from Red River to Padre Island to a pier and Breakwater on Padre Island where 30 ft. of water is found less than 250 yards from the shore The breakwater would be made of marine Rock distant some ten miles from the ' work. As regards the Breakwater, I propose to make on the plan of dumping loose rock six hundred yards in front of the Pier to protect shipr.ing at the Pier. The Breakwater would be put down in 45 ft. of water on a clay bottom. The Breakwater in Deleware Bay is made in this manner. The marine insects in the Gulf of Mexico would soon knit the wbole together in a solid mass. This Rock wall would be 1000 yards long, 150 ft. at base, 50 ft. at surface, sunk in 45 or 50 ft of w water. My friend the Ron. John Hancock, has spoken to me of you and I wish to attract tlje attention of men who would assist me in promoting this great work. The importance of a proper sea port on the coast of Texas needs no comment. texas alone with her 1500,000 B/o immense Cattle interests, wool and various products, the share oi this trade which would go over the pier at Galveston wharf rates with tonage dues and port charges, ported to the Gomp. would pay on an investment of two million of Dollars, cost of pier and breakwater you will see a short line of R. R. from the pier will coniiect with S. P. R. R. at or near Uvalde, Texas. This line across the Continent is some 1100 miles shorter than to New York. The S. P. R. R. could only have been built through arid deserts and unsettled country without local trafic. The object and purpose of this road must have been to compete with the Gape Horn Route for the carrying of grain from California to few York and Liverpool. It can only do this by going across the Continent on the shortest line to Connect with the Atlantic. My object is to run the R. Rail to the end of the Pier whe;e cars will discharge. Cars along side of the ships. This is quick route for new crop of teas which seek the English and American markets. This route would place Tea in Liverpool several days in advance of the Suez Route by fast steamers. With six states of Morthern Mexico the Pier would be the natural outlet and call your attention to the map of the Continent the Upper Rio Grande Valley at in mines of low grade silver with from 30 to 70 $ of lead, which with transportation and proper facilities for moving it together with coal mines good Goolez oohl is made on the Mexican Side of the River. The salt in the Laguna Madre is made annually by solar eva..oraticn sufficient to supply Texas and Kansas. The largest class of refridgerating ships could come to the pier and save an iniportant item of marine riSK, known to commerce as Bor risk 1/4 of one per cent on all ships and cargo would be a very considerable item from its In case of *ar with Mexico it and Coolez station for U. S. ships of war. 286 The possibilities of the Trafic incident to the pier cannot be shown in this letter together with the cost of construction in finding em ployment for our over stocked labor market is of very considerable import. I beg to refer you to Clias. Mac Donald of 52 Wall and to E. N. Smith &. Bros., 180 Wm. St., New York. Trusting I m.ay be able to attract your consideration to this important work not only in the interest of Texas and also a stride towards -a transportation for the Commerce of a part of the British liast Indies and Australia trade. I am. Very truly yours, John Wiiiett The charter for Pier and Breadwater would only cone from Congress and propose to raise the money from private sources asking no aid from Govt. State and T •» a certain guarantee against competition in the future. W. ^ . i' : ,1 ' -i , • i ' . t , i f.. •_e ■ •i . ■f 1 ■yy ' ' ' ' ' t' , •*' ; ■ , , , 1 f ' : , ' y * r . ' • ' , ■i ' ' 'A* . ' i ■ ■■I ; V' ' !■ i t ' i- ■ 1. I i ,v J . ■ '' ■ ' '''"i 1 - ■ ■ ' 1 , ji. i : *1 . J , • - ■ . .5'. , ■f. • ' .V 'i i." ■ 'i'^5 ' . I I- c I'l ' /:I ■. ■ ; . ■ I' -i;-' ,U ■ ■ : 1 h; ■ . . S 'vf ' It '■V ' V New York, January 2nd, 1886. S. R. Callaway, Esq., eneral Mgr. U.P.R.RY., Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir;- You will doubtless remember what I said to you at Boston in relation to obtaining Right of "''ay &:c. for the Union Pacific on the Council Bluffs side of the River, I have today a letter from my brother at Council Bluffs in which occurs the following: "The Union Pacific Co, has a man over here feeling after the lands and lots they want, to increase the width of their right of way. I control considerable of the ground and it is far better for them to let me know just v/hat they want instead of approaci.ing me in a blinpd way and then leave it with some Land Agent here. They would save money if they would put it in the hands of George T7right; he is the best man for that business I ever saw. Today this right of way v/as over and stirred up the Real Estate men by getting a price on lots in a tier of blocks just east of Reservoir, Perry addition and sought out the owners and agents of bluff lands where earth was taken for present grade. I desire to see U.P. get what they want at a fair price but to stir up the Real Esfclifee Agents is the worst way of going about it." I think as I have said to you before that whatever you wish to accoiplish on that side of the River could best be done through your Attorney, Mr. Uright, far better than by having a stranger looking around among these people. Mr brother also writes that there has been formed at the Bluffs a new Board of Trade with good men at the head of it and in any policy that you might want to adopt there or in anything you might wish to accomplish on that side of the river, which would need the aid of the city or the citizens of Council Bluffs, I believe it would be well foD you to consult them. Very truly yours, 0. M. Dodge. 289 January, 1686. New York. January 3rd, 1886. Hon. E. John Ellis, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of yesterday and in complicance with your request, send you such maps of the road as we have on hand. The line laid down to Dodge City is an imaginary one, put on by the people in the Panhandle. We have not yet made an examination close enough to enable us to say exactly when our line should go and we cannot fiilly determine this point until we ascertain what connection., we can make v/ith the roads going West, and for that reason we v;ant as much latitude as we can get, west of the mouth of Beaver Creek for one line throug h the Indian Nation. If the foads which are projected through Kansas should start 'in West of Coffeeville and go southwest we would have to bear more to the east for a connection but if they should enter Southern Kansas and then turn south after' they approachthe Western Boundary of the Indian Territory then we would ourselves have to bear more to tiie West. The amendment I sent you covers this ground. I send you copies of our Annual Reports for the years 1882-3 and as soon as our report for 1885 is ready, say in the course of ten dayr will send y u that also. These are the only official records we have and I trust they will serve your purpose. During the year 1885 we built 34 additional miles of road so that our terminus is now at Harrold 145 miles from Port Worth. Very truly yours. G. M, Dodge. January, 1886. 281 New York. m January 9, 1886. D. Pelsenheld, Esq., San Francisco, Cal. Care Schoole Bros. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your let'er in relation to your resignation as a Director of this com any. We got into a peculiar complication and we had either to holv. another election and allow them to elect three directors or compromise with them and give them two through resignations. Declining this we ran the risk of having a receiver put onto us. They clearly had the law with them, and I thought it better to allow them to elect Mr. Mayer in New York and Mr. Dahlman in Ft. w. Before wiring you I consulted Mr. Walters thinking probably he would be willing to go out, but I soon ascertained that if he went out he would sell all his interest in the securities of the Company, and I thought you would rather go out than have us lo. e such a man as Mr Walters, especially after your letter Mr. Granger in which you indicated your willingness to resign in case we found it necessary to make any chang*., to maintain harmony among the stockholders and Directors; so I wired you and am very much obliged to you for your'prompt action in the matter. I want you however, to take just as much interest in the roau as formerly, and you can do just as much good as though you were in the Board. I am told that Mr. Mayer is going to Europe in the Spring, and if so he will probably then want to resign. I am glad you wrote to Mr. Huntington. We are not getting the amount of immigration into the Panhandle that we ought to have. I think it comes from not properly advertising it. i wish you woul write Mr. H, Tell him that you learn there is an immense emigratior out West over the T. & P. a great deal of which could be turned into t lO Panhandle if they had some live man in Ft. Worth to repres nu them. I would go and see him but I don't appear to make much head way with him. He seems to hold old ideas about me. I would like to hear from you and learn what is going on in Railway Circles in California. There are half a dozen Companies apparently reaching for that country. What ever became of the Bridges Syndicate out there? and their rights? Who owns them now? Earnings are keeping up fairly well as you will see by the enclosed copy of statements presently reported to us. There is a heavy cold snap in that coiintry now and I would not be surprised to see our earnings drop off for January. Let me hear from you when you have time. Truly, C. M. Dodge. 293 January, 1886. Fort ".orth, Texas, Jan. 16/86. (Personal) ^iy deer General: Absence in Austin has prevented ce frori; answering your favor of 7 th inst. sooner. I send you here-with a list of the property owned in fee simple and also that loaned together with data and book and page where the sari;e is recorded. i The deed to the Brown 4f): acres (in litigation) Mh. Morgan has and also the deed to the 40 acres imn.ediately north. We own the coal under Lat 4 Sec. 1 Town. 83 R. 27 and upon this the Town of Coal Valley is situated. We also own a large inter est in the Town of Coal Valley itself and 1 paid for am abstract of the same instructing to examine into it carefully, but lave iiiislaid the abstract . When I go north J- can easily get a copy and will look into the matter carefuly, and straighten it up. We are safe on these lots as we have occupied them with, out little dwellings since 1866, and while I have never placed any particular value on this pro perty it is rising in value. I return you your map, and have marked the leased land in blue and the fee simple land in yellow, and you will see that I hi ve included some land in Section 5, that ^ had forgotten. The yellow and blue marks on the bottom are where I was experimenting with colors, having to do the work myself. Wherever I have marked the acreage on the list it is accurate, but 1 have loot my map that had which show ed the acr-eage accurately and give you .the inforination in my possession. And now answering your inquiries. The N. | of S. W, ^ Sec. 2, 84, 27. 1 have marked on outside property, because the coal has really all been mided on it, and we had to abandon the shaft on account of water, but it can go with the mine if you wish and let the land in Sec. 5 go with the outside property. I have narked the . line correctly through Section 2, and marked with an X the location of the shafts, the western one havinc been abandoned. + tla 1 t + Lat. T * ko. 8 described further as to the your 40acres letter. imuiediately You are west right of in Lat. stating 4 Section 1 is the same as Lat. No. 5, which I properly described ad and descriptions A ^ ^ unintentionally as ^-I 27. had no I nap duplicated with me these to guide tractsme + V, + V, Lave never claii:ed a^y particular value to the 20 year leases that have expired or will expire this year, but you are mistaLn as to the value of the 30 year leases, which have 10 years yet to run. S f list I send you now) and you will see that it adjoins the shaft we are now working, and as a matter of fact we will be using the coal next winter. Sease No. 8 (not shown on this map) may prove valuable. Lease No. 6 I cant locate, but if it is on this side of the River it is valuable, but the one next to our present 294 sha:-ft is good. You understand, of course, tfat our present shaft is on N. E. i of S. E. I Sec. 2, Town. 83 R. 27. My proposition is and what I meant was to give you ny interest in all the leased land and the mine and property in fee simple in Sections 1 & 2 Town. 84 R. 27 for your town sites on the Tex. ^ Pac. Ry. (excei^ting, of course. Camp Rice and the Rio Grande Property) you to take the mine just as it is with all debts and assets but 1 want my I interest in that Brown suit if we win it, and this wil] leave you and ^ still to own together the land in Sees. 5, 32, 26,&22, colored yellow . • • This is exactly the proposition made before except that i give you the 40 acres in Sec. 2, while we retain together the property omitted in Sec 5. i Please give this matter your earliest attention, so 1 will know your decision and greatly oblige. Very truly. R. E. Montgomery. P. S, I have also finished Frank a list of the property but not as full as this, so I will have letter press copy of this letter mailed him, and he can easily get maps there. If the winter continues the way it has been lately there should be some money made this winter. In reading over my letter I miean that the property I wanted from you in Texas was the town sites at Lambert, MiHsap, Toyah, Hermona and the'McLaughlin Section at San Martin. I believe this is the same as my former proposition, but am not sure •' >' ■ •t. 4 , t , >1; . ^ » January, 1886, THE TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY, Dallas, Tex., January 21st, 1886, Genl. G. M. Dodge, No, 1 Broadway, Ner York ^ity. Dear Sir: Yours of the 15th inst. reached me to-day. i shall return to St. Louis in a day or two and get the stated account under the con tract with the Southern Pacific people,.and shall open a correspond ence at once. directe kr. Warner to make it out for me, as soon as possible. I have only been waiting to ascertain the result to open the correspondence and I intend to press it with vigqr, and if I do not'get it voluntarily adjusted, shall try the Courts. I n.ote what you say about the scheme presented for re-organ ization. 1 have not seen it. I agree, with you that the people who own the stock and bonds should get together and have a voice in re organization. i have great faith in the outcome of the Texas and Pacific, and I assure you that so far as within me lies, I shall contribute everything I can to bring it out of its present difficulties. I think, perhaps, there is some misapprehension about the authority conferred upon the Receivers. We are authorized to apply all the earn ings to the improvement of the property, but by existing orders are limited to one thousand tons of steel rails pei'month, and we are not permitted to purchase that many unless we can pay for them out of the earnings. There should be a millinn and a half of dollars spent upon the proprty during this current year. have not seen my way clear to purchase but one thousand tons of steel rails as yet, one-half of which is delivered, and the other hall' will be delivered within a v/eek Now that the weather is improving we will put them in the track as fast as they arrive, and put down the sound rails taken out of the old track at such points as they are most netded. The earnings are holding up well thus far; the earnings for January decided Improvement on the corresponding weeks in last one who u is believe going to we give have his an undivided excellent attention, General Superintendent backed bv greatand energy, to the improvement of the track. oacmea oy great operauJi'Sf the fTrtt";? Sntht^' Yours truly, Jno . G . Brown, Receive r. January, 1886. W. B Strong, Ea 297.. New York. January 21, 1886, Prest. A, T, & St. Ry.Co., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- I regret that I was not at my office when you called yester'(\ay I have heard from our people in Texas that you were making surveys from some point upon your line into the Panhandle of Texar, with a view of building in that direction. I desired to ta?.k with you upon this subject and to ascertain how much foundation there was for these rumors and if you were at liberty to tell me confidentially what are your plans in that direction I am prepared to go North to meet any road coming into the Panhandle and desire to do so, but there is no necessity of building, or adding to our present line until there is an opportunity to work in connection with some road coming into or through the Northern portion of the Panhandle, If you are at liberty to give me confidentially, your views upon this subject I shall treat the information so and be very dad to hear from you . Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 89, Januai-'y, 1886. New York. January 22, 1886. Morgan Jones, Es q., President, Fort worth. Dear Sir:- I want to know from you, confidentially, and fully how matters are moving along down there since I wrote you about the duties of the Auditor and Cashier. Does Ross now act as Auditor subject only to the. orders of the Preaident or is he still under the orders of the Auditor's Department entirely divorced from the operating department so that he audits accounts and keeps his books under instructions you give him? Does the Cashier fully imderstand that he has no right to pay out money except upon regul:'rly approved and audited vouchers, and that no officer of the company has a right to go to him and draw money upon a memorandum receipt and that paying it out in any other way than upon such audited vouchers and payrolls, except upon a direct order of the President would render him personally liable for the amount? Of course the cashier has the right under certain restrictions and directions to place money in the hands of an Agent properly authorized to transact business for the company, such as the settlemen. of claims for cattle killed, for loss and damage to property, but such officer or agent would have to account for such money with proper vouchers in a reasonable length of time. From what I learn I judge that Mr. Frost has been in the habit of drawing money whenever he wanted it and putting in no vouchers until he got ready, I want the cashier to understand fully that he is personally responsible for money put out in such manner and his bondsm-n would be held liable unless it was applied to the legitimate uses of the road. These ma ters want to be held close and not allowed to run loosely. I suppose there are exceptional cases where the superintend ent has to order money paid with ut getting an immediate voucher for it or possibly where a bill has not been credited but in 999 cases out of 1000, a bill can be vouchered and audited before payment and in the general course of business nothing should be paid on a bill until it has been through the auditor's hands. I want to hear from you laiy in relation to these matters. I write you about them in order to get at the facts, not because I have heard anything about them. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 301 . V - I I » - i • i January, 1886. Dear Gren: Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jany. 25th, 1886. Do you think the U. P. R. R. will extend their Albion branch up Beaver? The engineer party has been at work this winter staking out the line about 20 miles and stopped near the Lockwood family's home stead and if I thought it probable U. P. would extend that branch I will help thm hold their lands awhile longer. What do you think of a boy of 18 being left with six brothers and sisters all under 13 (and the youngest one year old) to take care of. Kis father died Jany. 4/S5. Last baby borne 11th same month. R'.other died Jany. 17th, '86. I'is father and grandfather marched with Shermans Army from Miss. River to sea, also two Uncles, one now an inmate soldierfe home Washington. This boy has no near relatives able to aid him and I having rendered the family some assistance he naturally turns to me for further aid and advice. They have several tracts of land which I am procuring an order to sell to pay debts to myself and others contracted during their sickness. The Eastern Roads centering here are ready to give us better passenger depots at least soii© of tbem and we are about to make a move for a Union Depot that will answer for both local and Transfer business. We think the Eastern Roads are ready for it. Do you think the U. P. would run to it for their passengers? We want the location as near business as we can get all the roads to agree upon. The most convenient point for them to meet would be some where north East of the old Power Building. Write me what you think about it. If U. P. would not join would a Union Local Depot be of any benefit to City over Separate Depots? We nust have from the R. R. better passenger Depots. Yours, N. P. Dodge. 303 February, 1886 Fort Worth & j^enver City Railway Company. Fort Worth, Texas. Feby. 6th, 1886. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Dear Sir: I am glad to find that our securities are looking up. I hear that the A. T, & S. Fee Ry. will be extended to the Canadian River without a doubt, but ^ have not learned to what point, or their crossing place. I would like to have a horse back survey made through Green County,from what I can learn without going over the ground, I think a better route can be got by crossing Red River a little beyond Vernon, thence up a valley through the Greer and into the Pan Handle in Collingsworth Co. from them I learn a better route can be got to the v/est than our old survey. I have asked IV'.ontgomery not to spend much money on the old surveys untill we look up the county a little more. I would suggest that we get Wathen to look it up, or Murrell may do if I can go with him. The Fort W, & New Orleans boys say they will finish to Waxahatcha by the 1st. of April. I am not very intimate with Oscar I».urray. I do not think he feels any particular friendship to our Company. I judge this from his actions with Frost last year. I expect to have a talk with him, but 1 would prefer to reach him through Newman, he will do what Newman wants him. 1 will watch cattle matters. I have just returned from Seymouy Bailee County where I brought 65,000 acres of a Pasture at Sheriff sale cheap or about |l.50 per acre, fine land. I intend to form a syndicate to colonize it as fast as possible. Write me what you think about the route through Greer Goiuity. Oo you want to make any contract with the W. U. Telegraph Co.? It is to our interest to keep it as it is. Yours truly, Morgan Jones. m 305 February, 1886. New York. February 10th, 1886. Morgan Jones, Esq., President. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of the 6th in regard to a reconnoisance into the Panhandle of Texas and through Green Coiinty. If you could get Walker to make such a survey I should be glad to have him do so. I tried to get him some time ago but he said that his health was such as to prevent hie going but since then he has been at work for the Texas & Pacific and if he is at liberty maybe able and willing to undertake the work. As to going through Green County, I do not want to consider, that Unless we are certain of being allov/ed the Right of Way through it. Do you underst .,d that we could ru n our. line through Green County without permission of the General Government? If so, we should, of course, examine that line. - Evans is making a strong effort to build down to the Canadian Paeifte River from Denver, and I think he is getting a good deal of encouragement from people who can furnish him money if they want to do so. If he should be able to come there, we would have to meet him • Our people here do not believe that the G. C.N. S. will build to Paris, and say that if they do they will fight them, not only them + in 4 the South from Dallas west from right Ft. along worth side and of Brownwood. them, but also by attacking I should like to have your news immediately upon the aurstion of our going through Green County without spe cial Lgislation. There seems to be a great squabble in Washington over the bills prantinnget mpt through though we are Territory, pusing hard.and 1 doubt whether any of them soon ]aiow fully all that these companies are goin-' to do from the North toward Texas, and you must keep fully posted as to the intentions of the Santa Fe people. poszea as to Wathen cannot make the trip you speak of I could get Mr George walcott to do it. He is an old N. P. and T. & P. engineer and very good on reconnoisance but if any one goes up there it should be done confidentially without allowing anyone to know ^ what he is going for. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 3€7 Feb. 1886. New York. Peb'y. 11, 1886. Morgan Jones, Esq.,Prest. Fort Worth, Texas. Dear Sir;- I think you had better start Mr. Murrell up North and let him make a reconnoisance on horse-back, passing through Greer Co. as you say, on the way up, and proceeding to a crossing of the Canadian River, having in view first the meeting of the Gan Francisco rbad that is building west■ throiigh the Territory and second the meeting of the A.T (Sc G. road which has the right to cross into the Ian handle where Wolf Cr ek Crosses the boundary line between the Territory and Texas. You will have to decide the question yourself about our right to go through Greer County. But whether we have this right or not, Mr. Murrell wants to examine a line, on his return, that would leave our line somewhere near where the Town of Quanah is or where our main line crossed the Red River, so that if we were going to meet the Denver & New Orleans road as well as the road directly North, we would have to build but one bridge across the Red River. Mr. Murrell will understand this knowing where our objective point.is. I want him to make a thorough reconnoisance of the line, and give an estimate of quantities and cost. This latter he would do approximately of course. I also want him to state what the rrades would be. . . o He wants to be instructed to say nothing to anyone . To none of our employees nor to anybody where he travels. If we parsed through Greer County I suppose we would come back on the line that starts from Quanah or somewheres in Collingsworth Co., and the line would be common from there up. It is impor tant in going up to pass by Mobeetie and Ft. Elliott and get into goa af^rlcultural country# He wants to sond on with his roport^ a good map.jof the country showing streams and distances, so that I can make up my mind as to just, what we can build road up through there for. Mr. Murrell wants to look at the line not only from an engineer ing, but from a commercial point of view, because when we build up there we wart to control the business. 'Vhile he is up there he want to ascertain where tbe engineers of the Southern Kansas ( which is t". line that & is S. being F. ) ertended are coming Vest in, from and Red also Rock where will the enter San Francisco the Panhan_Je Murrell was at Mobeetie with Montgomery once, and I have letters• from Montgomery indicnting that there was a very feasible line through u f 1GG # We want a line if possible, on which we can hold our grades down to one per cent, even if we have to give distances on it. 3G8 ■Jv.C- f , i Mr. Murrell wants to examine the streams carefully and indicate exactly what kind of bridging it would take to cross them. Also the kind of bridging we would need to get to the Canadian River region and out of it, and what kind of bridge would take us across that stream . I send him (per you) a map and copy of part of Mr. V/athen's letter which was sent with the map, which shows what country Mr. wathen has examined. I want thir map of 'Vathen's returned as soon as Mr. Murrell is through with it. On this map Mr. -Vathen's reconnoisance is marked in white dashes on the blue and you can follow it, commencing at Anthony and going West ot Trinidad, and also diverging and going down tlirough the Panhandle. Y^u will notice that they are continuous, and that he covered most of the country North of the Canadian R. It seems to me that in going North from Mobeetie he would have to follow almost the stage road that runs from Ft. Elliott to Ft. Dodge and get across the Canadian somewheres near the road. You will notice on the map that Wolf Creek crosses into the Panhandle in Lipscomb County, and the Southern Kansas R'y. has the right to build to that point through the Territory from Kiowa Kas. or some point near there, and as 1 understand it they are making a survye on that line, and I think they are pointing for Mobeetie, What ■ ■ " . I want examined Is beyond the Canadian to the divide North of it; Wathen settles the line from there North and Northeast. ^ Of course if you had time it would be a good thing for you to accompany Mr. Murrell, I am. Truly, 309 February, 1886. The. Fort Worth & Denver ^ity Railway Company, i'ort Worth, Texas. Feby. 11th, 1886 ^en. Dodge: I have been thinking about a plan to build our road to the Canadian River. I notice our Bonds is quoted at 87 l/2 G. C. S. F. 2nd 96. How wotLd it do to issue a circular offering all stockholders of record 2,000,000 of our bonds and 2,000,000.00 of our stock coupons cut of for 1 1/2 i/ears at 1.01 to be paid in installments of 10^ in evehy 30 days with 10^ to be paid on application. When ttls is done the stockholders cannot complain that they had no show. Wljere this is not taken, we can form a syndicate with better grace to take the securities and build the road. I would be willing to do all work for securities, if it is thought best for me to resign the Presidency. There is going to be a great deal of work done this year. I am.goin^ to *^t. Louis to bid on a road there in a few days, will leave here Saturday night. Please write me there for a few days, say untill the middle of next week. Very respectfully, Wiorgan Jones. 311 j||||^ Febrviaryj 1886 'Ilie Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas. ieby. 13th, 1886. Gen. Dodge, Dear Sir* I think it is a mistake to send our light net earnings over the wire for Jan. This come from putting off payments so as to pay Nov. interest also from the hahit:.of not voucling and accounting for monies paid out, as for instance legal expences paid out last fall and never vouchered untill January. There is a party here working :iuietly in the interest of the A. T, & S. Fee Ey.,they are looking up the Corsicunn and Sabine Pass and the Ft. W. & N. 0. I am sorry to see this as I had my eye on these for the ^'t. W. & Ry. Our present inactive policy is bad for us all round. IVe have no money nor are we likely to get any unless we put ourselves in different shape. I suppose you know that the Frisco is going to commense work from Fort Smith to Paris and the . C. and S. P'ee is going to extend to Paris or Red River. The Contrail has an Enge. Co. between Roberts and Paris. I start for Dt. Louis to-night. Yours truly, korgan Jones. 313 February 15, 1886 Council Bluffs, Iowa. February 15, 1886, H. Esq., Mason City, Iowa. Dear Sir:- T am in receipt of yours of February 9th for which please accept my thanks. We have been trying to make a comb'nation with a view of building from Mason City to Des Uoines and thence obtaining a route south to Kansas G^ty, This In connection with the route to St, Paul and It Is the li'ne for your people to advocate. I have no doubt that during the coming summer we shall extend our line to Mason City. I do not know anything about the line from Ft. Dodge but It seems to me that the Interests of your people lie with the direct connection with Des Moines. T suppose th-1 the line from Ft. Dodge is to cover the old line that was partially graded through there by Duncomb and others. K am not prepared to state positively what we will do unt^l we conclude some negotiations now under way but as I waid above T have no doubt that we shallbe able to bu^ld this summer. T write this to you confidentially as I do not want to set forth our plans nor do I want to Jlace myself in the attnude of antagonizing anyone, Very truly yours, G. M. ' 'odge. t- ■ ' t . 'y 315 Feb. 1886. New York. February 16, 1886, •' John Evans, Esq., Denver, Colo. Dear 8ir:- I am in receipt of your letter of recent date and should have answered it before this, but I have been awaiting developments here. We are ready to build to a connection with you at any time you see proper to go ahead. If any of the Northern Companies come into the Panhandle I shall push right alon ; with my line so as to connect wherever they cross one. I am in hopes you can arrange to build to the C-nadian during the coming season. If times grow better it se^ms as though we ought to be able to do so. If these cattle people would themselves take hold and do something, instead of talking so much the could help us, but notwithstanding the fact that I have built a road into the Panhandle for the purpose of doing their business they give me very little and want that at very low rat.,, yhey drive from Southern Te xas, all the way up, and last year more than ever before, whilst we gave them just as good rates from Ft. Worth to Ilarrold as we gave to Wichita Falls before we built our 34. mile extension. The cattle business will support a Railro d but a very short time and it is not a paying business. One car load of cattle pays as much as three car loads of cattle. '-Vhen we go into this, if we do, we want to be sure that we have funds enough on hand to make the connection for if either of us were to stop it would leave both roads where they could not pay their interest. I would like to hear from you upon the subject and know what your prospects are. Very truly. G. M. Dodge. 317 Feb. 1886. HfeWr Yorkr ^ w Februarj'- 17, 1886, Morgan Jones, Esq., President. Dear Sir:- You appear to be somewhat nervvus as to what other roads are going to do in our vicini'.y in Texas, but under the present railroad laws of the state of Texas and the present earnings shown by roads there, I do not think you will see very much building during the coming year. I am in confidential communication with the Presidents of the A. T. & S. F. Ry. Co. and of the St Louis (?-: San Francisco Line and know exactly what they are going to do. Neither of these compan ies are in accord wiPh the G. C. & S. F. Co. but when either makes up its mind to strike the Panhandle I will know it first and will be ready to go forv/ard to meet it. I have a friend in Topeka and one in Chicago who keeps me fully po ted as to any demonstrations toward our Territory, The great trouble with these companies is going to be in getting through the Territory, whilst they have the right from Congress they cannot build until they get permission from the Indian:- and this I do not believe they are going to get. We can go ahead and build up into that country if you think it would pay us to do so, but I am afraid that if we did we would not be able to pay our interest. You want to keep watch down there and I will be on the lookout here. Our affairs here are now all in good shape so that we can strike North whenever it is necessary, but this you want to keep to yourself. What I would like to do is to -tap some of these roads on our main line, going toward Denver instead of building two branches. The Gould in erest will only bull:: in self defense and if the G. C. 8c F. build Some of the lines people attribute to them they will be antagonized by both the Gould and Huntington interest and a lively fight they will make of it, and I would not give much for the G. C. & SF. after they get through with it. The Gould interest thinks that the Fort Worth & New Orleans is being built in the interest of Huntington but the latter denys it. If the A, T. 8c S. P. should get the line you designate, they ^SG our lino to connGct with thGm unlGss they got a. connection by going through by Denison. Yours truly, G.M. Dodge. February, 1686. 319 Council Bluffs, Feby, 17/86 Dear Gren: I aiii glad to hear so favorable report of your health as Kr. Wright brings, he was pleased at the atteiition you showed him, said he was beginning to get acquainted with you. For a few weeks past I have been suffering with my head, the back part of it seems tender and the muscles extending down the neck. Not painful but that depressed and uncomfortable feeling which keeps me from getting over four or five hours sleep, and I cannot apply my mind to business matters without tlus uncomfortable feeling being increased and while I have been troubled with my head before off and on yet it never located itself so as to make the muscles tender so I feel it when I turn my head. I speak of it particularly because you have had more or less trouble with your head in the past and may be able to make some suggestion. During the cold weather I had my hair cut and folhwing that came the stiff neck and this tenderness of the back of head an(i I have thought I took cold and it would go away but it seems to effect my head more now then at first. I have taken no advice becuase I have so little confidence in ability of physicians here to deal with such troubles. Neither can I leave here now if I can avoid it, and being well otherwise I hope by keeping out of doors to get rid of it. Very truly, N. P. Dodge. 321 February, 1886. THE FORT WORTH & DENVER CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. Private Feby. 22nd, 1886 General: I am glad to hear of yours of 17th inst. that you are in communication with the A. . I'ee and San Frisco folks. It is true I was getting nervous over our prospects with the G. C. & S. Eee threatening the west from the South. The San Frisco from the N. B. and the A. T. S: S. Fee from the North and the Gainsvill extension from the East. They would leave us pretty dry. The Henrietta folks are crasy, they offer ^50,000. to have connection with Gainsville. Dr. Lewis is about the worst agitator. I think he will stop. I gave him a talking to. He did not seem to realize how it would hurt us. Mr. O'Niel thinks we would not run much risk in running through t-he Territory.if it was decidec to belong to Texas our right is all right. Should it be decided in favor of the Government it would in validate the bonds on that portion oi the road in the Territory, but a right got by Dongress afterwards would cover the case as fully as if it was got before the road was built. I should think if we find a much more favorable route through the corner of.the Territory it would not affect our bonds to build a few miles through the Territory. My opinion is that our extension would not pay us at first but that we should make some provision topay our interest for a short time. Still I believe it will be policy for us to extend on account of the danger of G. C. & Fee and the Ca±ral. I think it safest to occupy that territory. If we intend to hold on to this road I would like to extend or controll a line into the long leaf pine. Hurley of the Ft. W. and New Orleans is now in Houston having a consultation with the Central folks. The Central is making some advances to them, whether with the knowledge of Mr. Huntington I cannot say, but I an- certain that Huntington is not to blame for tte commencement of the enterprise, it was not encouraged by him, but now it will be completed as far as Warahatchie. What do you think of it? This is as far as these parties can build it. Do you consid er it policy to controll it? If not, it will drop in the hands of the Centrall. I would not want to own it, unless I coulu tiei it onto the Ft. W. & ^enver. You know best about this. Yours truly, Morgan Jones. P. L. Excuse this hurried scribble as it is done in a hurry. M. J. .. - . - February 1886. 323 New York. Pebruarj^. 26, 1886. Morgan Jones, Esq., President, Port Worth. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of the 22nd inst. I do not see anv great advantage to ds by obtaining the Pt Worth & New Orleans road but I do think that is would be an advantage to us to have the H. & T. C. come into Port Worth. It seems to me that when the proper'time comes we should expend all our energies in pushing North. Pt. Worth is a distributing point and a short line to any other point will not materially aid us. I have no doubt that, in time, the Denver and New Orleans Co. will get into such shape that they can come s outh when we can connect with them and that line, with one running toward ' Dodge city would give us all the control we would want. I have no ioea that the G. 0. & S. P. will get into our Territory. I think their whole fight is toward Paris and the North west from San Angelo. I think a good many of these Ry. schemes will die out. Thev have sprung up on the principle that it was easy to raise money, but I have not yet seen a single new scheme which could raise anv unless it had some great turnk line behind it. uxixt.t>b It is yet an open question whether the A. T. & S. P. or anv long line of road to carry which would earn us nothing. and «nH . see where ^ we would anxious have for to is go, to provided get a report we should of those maLsurvevs up our minds to build north. snoura make to people have only been allowed, as yet, tL'paJhaidl'ef and ^oul^dl^t help us^'i'n'^.^"?,e^v .cner?rbun'I Very truly yours. G,. M. Dodge, 325 March, 1886. John Evans Esq., Pres't, D. T. & G. Ry., New York. March,3, 1886. Denver, Col. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your favor of Feb'y. 27th. We are willinrr to renew our contract for using the entire road as one line, or for a joint traffic arrangement if it is though best to do so. I very much doubt, however, our ability to get the South west roads to come in under the present circumstances, and I also doubt the advisability or the policy of our trying to do so. In the first place, the Texas & Pacific, a very important link in the line, is now in the hands of a Receiver; and in the next place, since these agree ments were made five competing lines are concentrated in Ft. Worth read^ to take our business from there, a d the question is whether or not it would not be best for us to be independent and free, rather than tied up to any one of these lines under an agieement ot prorate with them. In my opinion we should be able to get a great deal more than a pro rate from them. The Texas & Pacific, Mo. Kansas & Texas, Mo. Pacific and the Gulf Colorado Y St. Fe, are now at Ft. Worth and the Houston Y Texas Central will be there by the 1st of April, so you see the advantage of our standing there with an independent line. If we do not do this, our ture policy would be to make an arrangement with the Texas & Pacific and get the rest of the roads to come in also if possible, as this would give us a through road to New Orleans, Galveston and all points in Texas. I donUt know that Mr. Gould would be willing to come in and agree to pro rate after the concentration of the competing lines, and it is saic that the A* T. & gt. Fe have obtianed or will obtain the control of the Gulf Colorado Y St. Fe road, with a view of extending their line from a point near Denison to a connec'ion. However, all these are points for af er consideration; the great question for us is to la^^ the basis for obtaining the money to complete the two roads, ".'e will have to get it upon two separate charters and our separate issu' » of bonds, although we can do it as one continuous line if the parties who furnish the funds would so prefer. I can raise the money to consti'uct my end of the line any time that I know you have made your arrangements to meet me either at the Canadian River or at the Texas State I.ine. You don't say anything about how far the coal fields lie north of the Canadian River: that is to say , who far south of Denver do you find merchantable coal? You speak of coal south of the mountain^ but you donit give the distances. Can't your man there send me a map of that country with distances marked upon it? I don't care about seeix.^, your special maps of location, all I want is for him to take a State map and mark the line upon It with distances to the Canadian River and the Coal fields. 326 In presenting this question we would have to give an estimate of what the gross earnings of the road would be, and to do -that the coal question would be of very considerable importance. I would like to know from your people the lowest price at which they think this coal could be mined: I could then estimate how long a haul it would stand to compete with other coal coming .into Texas. ^ Please write me fully in regard to these points at your early convenience. I am. Truly, G. M. Dodge, 327 No 1 Broadway N.Y. March 6, 1886. George P. Tyler, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa, Dear Sir:- I see that you attended the meeting of the Texas Sc Pacific Bond holders yesterday. May T ask what is your idea as to the policy of the Wister people? How do they propose to raise money for the repairs and equipment of the road? There is nothing plainer than the fact that the road has got to have money, It has been allowed to run down for the past five years, not a single dollar be^ng spent on -t, except what was actually necessary to keep the trains upon the track. It cannot rema^'n in that condition much longer and do business, and as they vote against Receivers' certficates, I should likn to know their plan for raising the necessary f\inds. Of coiu'se every day that the road is allowed to run as it is, the less ability it has to make any net earnings. It looks to me as though they 'ntended to spend the net earni'ngs in fixing up the Eastern Division of the road allowing the other two divisions to be wrecked. I may be mistaken in ths, but as my interests are In the other two divisions, T should like to have your opinion of the situation. I certainly am in favor of issu'ng Receivers' certificates in a reasonable amount and at a fair rate of Interest, and hav^'ng the pro ceeds expended upon the two divisions. The N.O.P, and Rio Grande divisions, if they were cut loose from other (the Eastern) division would get from other roads an allowance of two miles to one for all business they did, wh'lst now thsy only get a pro rate from them, which is all wr-^ng. The Eastern d^'vision could not earn its interest except for the new business wh^ch the Rio Grande Dlv-s^on takes to it, and for which that division gets nothing. In my opinion that is not ra-? Iroadlng, T think the Eastern div^s^on should give the Rio Grande at least two m^le haul for one, for everything which originates upon or comes from the Rio Grande division. Moreover, it "s thmu-^h the Rio Granc e div^*sion that the road gets all its money from the pools in New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico and California, I write this to you confidentially and don't want to be quoted upon the subject, but I am very anx^'ous to have your views on it. Truly, G. M. Dodge. 329 No. 1 Broadway N. Y. City, "arch 8, 1886. Gov. John 0. Brown, Receiver, Dallas, Texas. My dear Governor:- I sent Mr. Granger to the bondholders meeting in Philadelphia yesterday, as T wanted to know exactly what was done there, and he made a verbatim report of the proceedings, a copy of which T enclose herewith tor your information; please read and return it to me. There was nothing whatever said in relation to the scheme or manner of raising money without the Issuance of Receivers' certifi cates, but you will notice that they sat down upon the Receivers certificates. Some of the bondholders claimed th't they were to be put out at a per cent. 4. I don't know nor can T find out what their ideas are, but it seems to me that if you are going to handle these roads you have got to take active steps and raise some money at once. I don t think it is necessary to put out an 9 per cent certificate. I tiiink one bearing 6 per cent per annum could readily be floated here. I believe it is true economy to repair the road immediately but it is possible the bondholders prefer to come in and contribute the funds themselves instead of issuing Receivers' certificates. You will notice that a statement was made at the meeting trat it represented very nearly the entire bonded Qebt of the road. I do not understand that, because they certainly are v-ry small owners; it is possible they may have proxies. The opposition to the issuance of certificates seemed to be led by Gen. VJistar and his followers. They took entire control of the meetin'" and carried it through to suit themselves. You may know how they expect to raise money and if you do T would like to hear from you what it is, because it appears to me to be a critical time in the affairs of the Texas k Pacific Co. Please inform me also if you think the Court will ^ssue the Recevers' certificates in the face of such action ma was taken at this meet-ng. If you are not permitted to issue certificates, how are you to get money to bu'ld up the Rio Grande and the New Orleans divisions? What you wsmt to guard against is this: the Eastern division, whilst ifc is earning net money from the business which comes from and originates on the Rio Grande and N.h.P. divisions seems disposed to allow those divi ions to go to pieces, whilst the net earnings of the Eastern division will take care of it. Now there Is no question but what any railroad expert would givethe N.O.P. and Rio Grande divisions, for all business originating upon them, two for one. There are so many reasons for thi s that T do not care to enter into an argument upon it; tut there is one very potent one that T will mentionthat is, that it is through the Rio Grande division that the road gets all the money out of the pools, T think the receivers sliould take into consideration the fact that whilst the road is earning net money from the business given it by the N.O.P. and Rio Grande dlvis'ons, it Is all being used on the Eastern division. Truly, G. M. Do ge. 331 Inarch, 1886 . THE PORT WORTH & DENVER CITY RAILWAY COMPANY March 13th, 1886. Gen. Dodge, Dear Sir: In answer to yours of 8th inst. I. do not think an extension of 50 miles would add to our earnings very much, and it will be a question whether it will pay interest on the extension. Still I think we ought to accupy that Territory and it would be policy to ex tend, I could build and equip for $15,000. in Bonds or build with out equipment for $13,500. per mile, but I would think it best to put in some stock so as to provide for the first 12 months interest it is better to have a surplus in the treasury than be cramped. My idea would be to build slow for the present and not let construction material interfere with the business traffic of the Road. The fact of being at work will tend to draw business and keep it. The business north commences in June or July and keeps up untill Oct. or 1st of Nov. I means beef shipments. We are likely to get all the early beef at Harrold and if we get to Quanah by 1st of §ept. we will get all the trade we would get by going there earlier. • But to get there by 1st of Lept . it will be necessary to commense at once, Bissell and Granger will be back to-morrow and will report to you as early as possible, Our business is very light now on account of the strike. Yours truly. Morgan Jones. 333 New York^; March 13, 1886. Gov. J. C, Brown, Receiver, Dallas, Texas. Dear Governor: T am today in rece^'pji of your favor of March 8th, with enclos ures of your statement and petition to the court, a skinc auti.ority to issue Receivers' Certificates. T notice by the papers that you are getting ahead of the strike, of which T am very glad, for you want to settle these questions and are now in a position to do so once for all. Tt seems to me that this is a ver"' good time to make some changes in the employees of the company who have been on the road for a long time, especially in the Department of Motive Power. The Motive Power of the road in my opinion is worse off than any other part of it, from the fact that the men who were in charge of it have not had the right nor authority to control their men. The -master mechanics have virtually been under the orders of their employees. T have had a long talk with Mr. Geo. F. Tyler of Philadelphia who is a very heavy holder of N.O.P. bonds. He fully agrees with me in holding that you ought to be allowed to put out Receivers' Certificates for an amount equal to that asked for in your petition. T understand that Gen. V/i tar has been or is down there witii you. You want to understand fully that the whole Philadelphia interest is looking out for but one object, and that is the protection of the h-^lders of the Consolidated and First Mortgage bonds. There is nothing more certain than this. They never yet have taken anyone into the Committee to represent the Rio Grande d^v^sion. The holders of the Rio Grande Div. and the N.O.P. Div. bodds want the road put in order this year, and it can be done as economically t>y issuing Receivers' Certificates as in any other way. T think Mr. Sheldon asks for entirely too much, but the aount you ask for seems reasonable, and w'ti.; it the road can be put in shape to earn consider able net earnings, and then w^th these earnings and what you ask for you can do the rest of the work; but you must take the position with the courts that the Eastern Division rau-.t pay for the use of the Rio Grande Ry. eve if it does not pay for the New Orleans Div. The Rio Grande bonds are very firm and are being bought by people who seem to think that no matter wh&t is done on the road, they will br^ng what they are selling for now. There is a large English Syndicate buying them as well as one or two heavy syndicates in the Street and T don't expect to see them much below 50. They hold up veil in this depressed market. T would like to know what Gen. IVistar's views are as to the stock and the N.O.P. ad R.G. bonds. I don't know *hat the court will be disposed to act against the bondholders,but you have as yet had no voice or action on the part of the bondholders. T understand that Judge Pardee Isas been over the road and if so he of course can see the exact pos^t-'on of it and act upon his ^vm Judgment. Truly G. M. Dodge. 835 . karch, 1886. THE FORT WORTH & DENVER CITY RAILWAY COMPANY March 18th, 1886. Dear General: I sent you Bissell's report by Pacific express yesterday. The maps will be sent as soon as they are finished. I had a long talk with Merrill today; he says that a practical route cannot be got north from Donley County, but that we would have to go as far west as Arm strong County. This wouIj. make a circuitous route to the north. He claims to have been over that Country so much that he knows what he is talking about. I rather think the best thing to do, is to build to Quanah and stop for the present, untill we can make some connection. "West of Hardeman is all in large pastures," and the country west would not give us much business. Nothing new in strikers circles. There are two assemblys here, 101 and 78 . From what I can learn 78 is very dissatisfied and blame 101 for precipitating the strike without suffi cient cause. Do you remember the Hendricks property -joining that bought a year ago7 The Compress has bought it. It is 4.60/l00 acres for $10,000. We can get 2 acres of it by taking it now, at same price, as the Compress Co. can get along with 2 6/l0 acres. I think we ought to take it, "Write or wire me what to do. Yours very truly, Morgan Jones. oS7 March, 1886. The Forth Worth &■ ^enver ^ity Railway Company, Fort Worth, I'exas, March 21st, 1886. Gen. Dodge, Dear Sir*. I sent you the maps last night by Pacific Express. I dont know if the horse back trips has quite covered the ground you wish. I understand that the old surveys have pretty well tested the ground north of the old survey to the Canadian River. I am told that Mr. »«ashburn's instructions were to cross the Canadian at a point much further N. E. than the line adopted. I do not think much more information will be gained by sending Granger there again, what do you think? The new coal shaft shows up very satisfactory. It has about 16 inches and 22 inches of coal separated by 6 inches of slag or slate in the middle and the quantity is much better, now they want a branch built out to the mines. I want them to sink one more shaft in another direction. I think Mr. Gould's policy will sin this tine. It will be better in the long run to fight this thing out now. It is only a matter of time untill they will give in. Most of them would now if they had any excuse to get out of the order. I believe the order is nearly ripe for a bust up, if there was a leader that they had confidence in who would make the first break. I enclose you some clippings out of the Gaxette which will give you an idea of public opinion. Yours very truly, Morgan Jones. P. S. A'e are having an early Si;ring beef carrle is going to come out earlier than last year, and I think more of tuem. I dont know what to think of stock cattle, there are no sales. Ne^T York, March 22, 1886. W. H. Abrame, Esq., Land Co;:j:u ., Dallas, Texas. . Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of 17th inst; with enclosures as therein stated, and thank you for your kind and prompt attention to my applica tion for the purchase of lands, as well as for the concession made in the price. The location is very satisfactory. I have advised Mr. Sage to send in his securities and t,ake up land with them. I told him to send them direct to you and take your judcment upon location. I suggested to him that perhaps the .balance of th lands north of Big Springs would be a good entry for him to make, but your know better than I do. No doubt Mr. Sage has written you before this. I aide advised Mr. Connor to send in his securities and you will probably hear from him soon. If you do please do the best you can for Hern both. It is important that we get in enought securities to take up our quota of lands before August. Very truly yours, n. M. Dodge. . 341 March, 1686. THE FORT 'VORTH & DENVER CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. March 24th, 1886. Dear General: I wired you yesterday that Merrill says that no practical route can be got from The Texas line, north to the Canadian until we go west of Donley county. I had a talk with Merrill again this morning at this office with Bissell and Granger present. Merrill says he run several lines, and that the notes should be in our office of that country. I have changed my mind about sending Mr. Granger out there, until I hear from you further. The ravines and hills etc. are running East and West end it will be difficult to get a line due north. I thought best to run a line through the Woods place into town to see what it will cost. I spoke to the owner about it. I told him we drily wanted to see what it cost to get into Town but dont expect to do anything more. I want to look up some interests I have in New Mexico and Colorado, it will take 10 or 12 days, and if you dont want me here for that length of time please write me by return mail. Your letters in regard to 'Pown Sites to hand and I hope will accomplish result desired, iis soon as Montgomery returns I will consult with him about it. Have written Eddy to day. Business is very light, otherwise things moving smoothly. Yours very truly, Morgan Jones. P. I enclose you C 's report of coal, which is correct as far as thickness of coal is stated. 343 March, 1886, New York. March 26, 1886. Morgan Jones, Esq., President, Fort Worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of the maps and report of Mr. Bissell. It is about as I supposed it would be from my knowledge of that country. I have marked upon the map in red the lines which I conside* the most feasible, one running up Spiner's Creek and another turning North West near Clhrendon. It seems to me that these lines should be carefully examined^ they keep us in Texas and run in the right direction. If we could use the one going up Spil].er's Creek we would not lose much distance because we could use the divide between Pra irie Dog and Salt Creeks for our. line going iVest. If we have to use the old line until we get to Clarendon it would be a very long distance out of our way. There is in my mind no question but what we will have to meet some of these roads near Wheeler or Hemphill County, but we don'o want to run too far out of our way to do it, so as to make our line so long from the Canadian to Ft. Worth that they would be induced to put a line in to the East of us. I wish" you would talk freely with Bissell and Murrell about the lines I have marked in red. You ought to look up all the maps and Mr. Murell's prelim inary surveys through that country. They are with you or Mr. Law, They would show what country has been thoroughly developed. Then I want those lines .put upon this map and their report and statement of your ideas upon it, returned with the mpa, to me. I would also like to have placed upon this map the distances between important points, especially upon the lines I have marked. There is no objection to keeping a ood bright man up in that country thoroughly developing it. It is a question in my mind, however, whether Granger has had enough experience in this preliminary work to undertake this alone. Of course Murrell has and so has Bissell, but I suppose you don't think you could spare Bissell again. How woiid it do to send Murrell with Granger and let them make a trip up there together. There is another point that needs consideration. Whom have you in Texas able to take charge of the construction of this extention. My inclination would be to send Mr. Wolcott from '^.uincy. 111. Whatever work is undertaken hereafter in way of construction, I want kept entirely separate from the running department, so there wil be no friction whatever. Yours truly. G. M. Dodg - • 345 March, 1886 Charles P. Adams Jr., Pres. Elisha Atkins, Vice Pres. Henry McParland, Sec. & Treas,. Oliver W. Mink, Comptroller. (Post Office Box No. 5287.) THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Equitable Building. Boston, March 26, 1886. Gen . G. M . Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York. My dear Sir: I have to acknowledge receipt of your favor of yesterday, , which I have read with interest. As you say, there are indeed indications of trouble among our employes. I do not know how I can better set forth the policy that I have indicated to Mr. Callaway, and have iterated and reiterated until I am weary, than by sending you the enclosed copy of a letter which I sent to him this morning. I wholly concur in your views. You say that half of our employes could be discharged without hurting the road. I do not htink you appreciate the condition in which the Union Pacific came into my hands. As a trivial contribution to your better information on this point, I enclose you a copy of some special reports which I recently had printed. I believe I have not sent you copy before. The simple fact is, as I have at last ascertain ed to my great cost, S. H. H. Clark did not know what a railroad was. He thought he did, and Mr. Gould thought he did; but the man was utterly incompetent, and not over honest. His weakness with our employes was soraetiiing incredible. He turned over the orad with its force in a wholly demoralized condition and materially in a condition which could not stand six months hard work. Why the thing did not tumble to pieces of itself is now incredible to me. It will take years to get it into good shape. I should be willing to pay you a handsome compensation if you would go out and pass two months on the line of the Union Pacific quietly taking notes and sending me reports. I do not believe as yet I have got to the bottom oi the rottenness. I remain. Very truly yours, Enclosure Nos. 5 & 6. Charles F. Adams, Jr., President. 347 Ilew York, March 26, 1886 < Gen, W. T. Clark, Matt Morgan Stuflio, Burnett "!7ood Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dear General: I enclose herewith photographs of Col, Mersey, Gen, Rice, Maj, Barnes and Col, Ti^henor. The first two were Brigade Commanders whom you win remember, and tJie other two were on my staff, I also enclose a photograph of myself in uniform and one without uniform (as I am now), TThen you have used these please- retrun them to me as they are all I have. I have no otj.er photograpi.s of any of my staff. I may get a photograpn of Capt, Jonas who was my Aide at the time. I enclose a list of my staff from 'whici. you can obtain the addresses and get photographs from them. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge U''' ■ ■> ■r^ ' ' >' r.- ^ . f 349, April, 1886. New York, April 1, 1886. W, T. Walters, Esq., Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir:- I have been ov- r to Boston and met there Mr. Strong , President of the A. T. & S. F. Ry. Co. His company is about to construct an extention of their road from Kiona, Kansas, to some point in the PanHandle of Texas crossing the Canadian River just above Mobeita and I have arranged with them that we shall build an extension of our ^'rom our present terminus to connect with them at some point, to be hereafter agreed upon, so as to give us a continuous line through the Panhandle, into Kansas, which of course would be very beneficial to our road, but for the present it is a confidential matter. I shall first build 50 miles with the oroceeds of the bonds we can issue upon our recent 34 mile extension, and which are alreadj'^ authorized by the Executive Committee but what I want to ask of you is your opinion as to the better way of negotiating these Bonds • ye propose to issue but vl5,000 per mile upon, the 50 miles to be billt and this would bring down the rate per mile on the entire road to say vl6,000, which, I ihink will be an easy matter fdr us to take care of. I have, as yet, said nothing to anyone about this. as I am in such a position that it is not prudent for me to do so and I write you this because I think you are entitled to know just what IS ping on, and what my plans are. I have no doubt that the end of th^ matter will be that the A. T. & s. P. will get our Road. I would like to hear from you about this. w"uj.u j.iKe Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. Nevf York, April 5, 1886. Hon. JoiiH Chapman, Counlcil Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I saw your inaugural yesterday for the first time and noticed in it your recommendations in relation to the high water anc the hest method of relieving the bottom lands from it. Having had a great deal of experience in thaLbottom, I believe I know as much about high water as any one and I desire to suggest to y.ou that in my opinion the proper way to overcome the difficulties mentioned by you is to complete the levee once commenced up near the grounds of the C. & N.7/.Ry. Co. and carry it around to the embankment leading to the bridge, following the hightable right around. That would keep dry all the space inside of the embankment unless it was from back water coming in from below the bridge. Also allc-.v me to suggest that it would be a great mistake to make any waterways through the embani-onent. All such passage ways as are necessary should be above extreme high water. You and I would not agree as to v/hat high water is but tlicre is no question but what the high water of which you speak \7as comparatively lower at Council Bluff than at any other point on the river from Sioux City to Kansas City; that is , the extreme rise above any other higi. water ever known was not as much there. Tnoever has tried to make you believe that the water below the bridge was three feet lower than that above it is mistaken. If there was a difference of three inches I am much mistaken. It is possible that the water may have piled against our banks there and so'have risen a little higher there than below the bank, but the ridge running clear ar-ound the Brov/n track was above high water all during the great flood and I think this is true also of the ground around where the water works machinei-y stands but of this I will not be certain. What Council Bluffs needs is to- protect the levve against the River so as to throw the entire river through the space under the bridgeg then all the ground soutn of the levee, between there and the railroad tracks will only be subject to overflow from the water which backs up between the grade and the very small local drainage could be very easily taken care of when once the streets of the city are graded. I do not write this to antagonize anyone or open any discussion in relation to the theories hold by others. My only desire is to suggest to you the only practical means of keeping the water off of the city. Of course it does not require any Juore water way to pass the Missouri river at Council Bluffs than at Bellevue and if I mistake not, the water way given by the new bridge at C.B. is much larger than that at Bollevue, or at Blair. I hooe you will meet the Union Pacific people and come to some agreement wltii them so that the levee can bo compieteu and made permanent. At points whore the low water slougiis strike it, it should be rip-rapped on tiie outside. I should think it could be ttid up to the old North-west grade and ran along uyon tha t until it strikes wliat is known as the Brown addition table; then follow that around, A sufficient protection at first could be made by riprapping with willow 352 slios, that- it v;ould billow and in a yea. or tv^o it v;ould come so matted that it -.vould protect itself. Across the low sloughs it wants heavy work on tliO high table it doesn t re^^ii^e veyy muCy. The heavy work Si-ould be put in where the levee runs paralle. with Lhe river east and v/est. The attack on the levee from north of the water-works down to the old grade on ti.e Brov/n tract would be very slight but from this point,, say where the levee would turn south to the'point where a connection would be made with ti.e- present levee, heavy work would be' required and very careful construction across tie high Vater sloiigiis would be necessary. ■ Very truly yours, • - . r . 11. Dodges, w - , • . . i i f. • - Jk. A A y • »-' # • m « ■ # W 0' • ^ - t ^ ^i , i • * /* oV - . . X• • kid. j. 1' I'''VX■ i • ^ Ou . - ' . iiv . . Iwili ot rj IJ.:; ^ 'j C. , ■ ■ • . ..nl j.i . :i. . -r. . . V * w (4*k 0 ■ »!' * • • XX'' 0*t. A t ^ • ■ «. #. 1 / iJ' Xi^v ^Xl 1 O. I Hi » ' - . I '» ik« om iAiigo ov 'p 0.4 kjj .yons ^iPSi*coori ; i. s- o.i f*'i I i .. mii.: cl aum'w. ;l li, J' '41 ' '.v r o(''C' '.' ■•Oi' .V • Jr«xh'lcai uo.. ^ 'i S " ii lii .Ji? ' . 1 -tC'x' . 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' ■ •' '■ • ViX.. - u- 1. -. -r" iC V .■ i J ' .1 • • • . _ , ' i" '.ri J t."*') I .1.1 '■J.W au- , I .; t. i . i ".'r- I . ' . IIi"" .i. ' 'vl .d I' ll' . V ' 4 vMv- New York, April 6, 1886. Hon. Jams: TTileon, U.S.Senate, Uaskincton, D.C. I'y dear Sir:- I enclose herewith a dispatch from my personal friend Mr. E.B. IVheelock of Marshall",. Texas. Confidentially, I suppose that he fears some opposition will be made to the confirmation of Mr. Regan on account of his action in protecting the Texas & Pacific Railway property from the strikers. If there are none but political objection to Mr. Regan's confirmation, I will take it as a personal favor if you will have him confirmed. I am well acquainted with Mr. Regan and know him to be a very competent officer and I know that during our troubles in the south, hd has shown himself to be a brave, active, careful and considerate man and I do not t.,ink he has gone oulside the instructions of the court. He has, of course, been placed in a very difficult position. Please show this letter to Allison if it is necessary, and, if consistent for you to do so, drop me a lino in reply. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 355, i'Sf Ilevf York, April 9, 1886. II, P. Dodge, Esq., ' . " Coui'.cil Bluff3y lo.va. ■ T • - Dear Sir:- '. , . I am in receipt of yours of recent date in regard to U.P.Ry. Co. and have forwarded it to 'ir. Ames. We were all very much surprised at the actior of the Legislature as I.'r. Chapman had written to Mr. Adams and LIr. Adams had replied to his letter, telling him he expected to be in the west very soon, and would take up and consider all these matters. I know that the present management of thq IT.P. has no loca feeling, either for or a ainst any town and it must be evident to Council Bluffs that thing;s ha,ve been .tending towar.d tnem. Of course if the citizens of C.B. desire to antagonize and fight the IT.P. it is an easy matter for them to do so. We all knov/ that such a fight would result only in an injury to C.B. I took up this matter witl^ Kr. Ad.ams some time ago and laid before hi;., the grievances of the people of Council Bluffs and he then assured me that when ..e went west he v/ould see our citizens there. It seems t me that the Board of Trade should take up this, matter and when Mr. Adams arrives there, if they have any grievances let them lay them before him. There is no use of going into ancient history bu let them show just wherein the Bluffs fias been discrimi nated against and what the present management is doing that is detrimental to the city. They should also, tkke up with him the question of protecting the city from the floods of the Missouri River. It loo" s as though the Government and Cong'ess were both determined 6o make a settlement with ti.e U.P«Co. and it is all non sense to talk about the company not paying its debt fn full. If i-t can float a 3f< bond, I do not see, where th're is any, harm to anyone; 3'f. and 4'^- bonds are now being floated all over the country by railroads of standing equal t-^ the U.P. Of course a settjLement between the U.P. and the Gcv ernment would put the Ry. Co. in a p.oiition wli'-re it could do a great many things -wliich it ow cannot; no-matter how much it mi:-int desire to do for C.B. txiey could not spend any money there so long as it is held as it now is under the Thurman bill and every act of the legislature, sucl. as the rece t one, will further prevent its doing anyt..ing for tiie city. T wrote an article for the Des Moines Register in reply to an editorial published in its issue of April 2nd, but T do not know whetho or not they will print it. In my opinion, if the citizens of Council Bluffs had shown half the interest or the industry in taking caref of the roads entering there from the east as they have in attacking the U.P. they would have accomplished a groat deal more th n they have. It is well known to tiie citizens of C.B. (or if it is not it ought to be) that every road ending in C.B* would today be in Omaha if it had not been for the stand' taken by the U.P. on allowin them to cross the bridge and meet ing them at its eastern terminus in C.B* Tvro roads have already gone int o Omaha one north and one south of C.B. because of the position the U.P. has taken, and I now see no reason why the U.P. should stand in the way of all the other roads 'oinr there, if C.B. takes no interest in the defense the corapnny has made for it. The trouble about all 356 these matters is,that there has never been any decided, concerted M action of the business men of Council Bluffs. Their effort has ^ generally been to accomplisi; their desires in some other such as building another bridge, instead of '~oing directly to the manage ment and la;/lng their compla nts before them., Witliin on'y the last few days, parties vhio are b"' ilding a railroad in Nebraska or contemp- •lating extnnsions there have been negotiating with the U.P. for the right to cross the bridge when it is completed into C.B. and the. Company has given them a ssurances that they were considering' the matter, and that in all probability they would be allowed to come in over, thje bridge I submit their statements and I think the Board of Tradq. -^nd tVe city officials should take .them up and when 1!e. Adams arrives there abouththe 20th of this mont; , they should meet him and h<ave prepared what they want to lay before him and discuss the (Juestions as business men. I want Ur, Chapman, Mf. Carson, L!r. Pusey and llr. Keatley in this matter. It seems almost a .fatality that wiienever anyone undertakes to do anything for the. Bluffs andgets matters in shape, it .rls.es. up and - stops it. • • Very truly yours, G. 11. Dodge. P.B. Since writing the above, I. have received the following dispatch from Mr. Adams at Kansas City: "Poppleton wires me that Resolution has passed both houses of • iowa Legislature. Will you at once see about it. and d-^ what you can as this foolishly precipitates action and will make it most difficiilt ^ for me to adjust matters. It forces tl.e Company into ,a position of ^ antagonism whether we wish to occupy it or not." . ^ You see from this what his disposition was. Mr. Carsop -^ired me that the resolut-ion's onuld be held off until an interview was had with Mr>. Adams. I think that the business men of the city should take up this matter. I can say to you, in the strongest terms .tiiat in my opinion this is a crises in the -ffairs of Council Bluffs. Mr. Cotteway today sent, me the following telegram: "Mr. Kimball telegrai-hs in reply to your message that he knows of no case in w. ich a higher rate is charged from San Francisco toCouncil Bluffs than to Cmaha, upon the same class of freight." This ought to sottle the charge of discrimination against C.P. . G. M • • • •' g.i?..; 1V '; » ■ , :o.thi y,- ni ■ ' ^ * Ufc i ' lil '■t.J 111 ,1. 10 .hifj'if Jr.! oiu' .1 . i ■ Y fU'l f J ^ u.. ... < iT. ,,t • • . i J I. ( 4i.' ' . , ; , 11'' ' •*- ^ ' J L . 0 [ H t i 'li i: > ^ . , -h; • • " . ' . ■ 1 ' rt . «j ■ 'i' '; ' ' . ' * '• i •' I t?v . . ." , rv.- I . r: j 'I ■ - .r 'I' .' - "J " , ' f . r 'fc • , , ^ ■ ' ' ' * • •' t- ' , f> '-J uh . ti.. .' . ■. 4 . aj > . < I T ■ . i t. i J ...JJ . : ' '1 .» M . , ■Vt.' . . . »'f 4 . . ... >- '.i O.., lyo I York, April 10, 1886. John T. Baldv/in, Esq., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Bear Sir:- I am in receipt of your letter and one from Mr. Pusey upon U.P. affairs. IVhen I wired, I was under the impression that the Resolution had only passed one branch of the Legislature. Of course if the citizen of Council Bluffs propose to strike first and place the companay where it is impossible for the to negotiate witli them, I have nothing to say. That is a qLiestion for them to decide. I can only say that in the end they will find that they have made a very great, mistake. I know what the feelings of Mr. Adams and of Mr. Calaway have been upon this matter. IThen you talk about stockyards, you kno./ how impossible it would be for the U.'-. or for any other company to refuse to give trackage to such yards, no matter where they might be located and especially is this the case where private capital has been put into stockyards, as was done in Omaha. Our people were never in favor of the yards there. I still think that the leading citizens of C.E. ought to meet Mr. Adams upon his arrival there and lay their grievances before him, and, if possible, undo what has been done, and get into friendly relations with the U.P. If it is, as you say, the cesire of Mr. Chapman to drive the U.P* out of Iowa, i is the greatest mistake he ever made in his life and I think sue., a statement must come from i.is temper rather than his judgement. As to high water that is only a question of fact and one easily ascertained. The new bridge at C.B. whdn it is completed will certainly afford passage way for a great deal more water than the bridge at Bellevue or the one at Blair. TOiat should be done is to protect the table-land, as I suggested to you and Mr. ilright when you were here, but I don't suppose they would listen to me in the matter. Very tru ly yours, G.M. Dodge. 361 New York, April 13, 1886, Wra, T. V/alters:- I think we are to escape a flood in Lower Mississippi so that we will have a good season to repair road. The Rio Grande people will get together and reconunend an issue of certificates say 350,000 or as much as is needed on that division for the year. The N.O.P. should do the same, say issue 500,000 for that division and put it up. In the meantime we can reorganize on a fair basis. Wistar wrote to Kidder & Co, that the eastern division had an offer in writing for their bends and were disposed to take in. Do you know who mads it and what it is? I consider tliat the :Gastern division for the futtire is the weakest and most vulnerable point and is rot entitled to over 4 percent on the consols. Mr. TIewcombp should advocate some such, propositions as this. Rgduce the bonded debt of the Rio Division to $20,000 per mile the same as the New Orleans Pacific, issue a mortgage to cover the whole road, give the Eastern division 4 per cent bond on full face of consa»ls; On the Rio and N.O.P. divisions 3 per cent B. bonds for $20,000 per mile and make say a 6 or 8 per cent assessment on the stock. This would in time give all parties the full face value of their investment, fix the fixed charges on the entire road under 61,500,000 and give us plenty of money to put it in shape. Preliminary to this, issue certificates to do this year's work, and let each, division have an expert to see that the money is properly spent on permanent improvements. Ballast on N.O.P., steel on Rio and bal last and steel on the Western. Bondholders will accept a three per cent bond for face of bond rather than a 5 per cent for 5C to 60 per cent of face and an income for balance. Can you not present this to your friend, Mr. May who represented the Rios, who is favorable to It? Yours very truly, G. M. Dodge. is properly on Rio and balof bond 363 New York, April 13, 1B86. George F. Tyler, Esq., Philadelpl.ia, Pa. Dear Sir:- I sawy today a letter from General Wistar, to Kidder Co. of this city in whicli he states that they have had a written offer for the T. °-P. Consols, which they are disposed to take. Do you kno'w who made that offer and what it is, or is it a "bluff"? I am satisfied that neither the Rio Grande nor N.O.P. bond-holders will accept any such proposition as they have put forth. The fact is that the Eastern division ts the most vulnerable division of the road, and least likely to earn its iinterest, every point on it being competitive or likely to he so withint the year, I wrote llr. Walters and suggested to him a basis upon which I thought th.e company could be re-organized and it ./as presented to the representatives here of the Rio Grande Division, who are favorable to it. I do not want to put out ray opinion is this. Resume the Rio Grande Division bonds to (>20,000 per mile and issue a mortgage, as they propose, upon the whole road. Issue Series A at 45^, for ti-e consols and Series B. at 5" % for the Rios N.O.P. D'vis'ion. If thdy were based on (20,000 per mile the 4,>*s woulr of course be for the consols at their face. This, in time, would "ive everyone par for his bonds and would keep the fixed charges so low that tl.e road would always be able to meet ther... Then, assess the stock 6 or Qf,, What I want to more particularly suggest to you is the necessity of' the N.O.P. Division bondholders petitioning the court to authorize the issue of say (500,000 of Receiver's certificates upon that division for the pu pose of putting it up in good shape. I am satisfied that we are to have no high water this season and that amount of money spent there this year in ballasting and raising the banks would put it in condition to take care of itself, and that amount is about all that could be economically spent upon that division for the present. The holders of Rio Trande Division bonds should do the same . 1.350,000 should be spent upon that dtvisio-', and, if the eastern division needs it, spend a like amount there this year, (l,500,000 should put the road in fair running order and next ydar, if it is necessary we could spend that much more upon it. aut the court will not do anyti.ing until the bond-holders appear. Therefore the holders of Rio and N.O.P. Division bonds should apply to the court to do this. I understand that Kidder ^ Co. are gettlnr- a very large response from Rio Grande rdivision bond-helders, and this will le their disposition. If something is not soon done to put these two divi3ion3 into better con dition, then we think the road will soon get into such bad order th^t it cannot be operated. Let them raise the money, separately or eac^ divi sion if they wish, and appoint some one to see that it is properly and economically expended in permanent improvements but I would have no fe«r but that tho receiv-^rs -culd expend it wisely and "rell for Garvey, their engineer, is an ablo men. The ro-^d needs steel and ballast; its bridr^os, equipment '-c. are in fair condition. I write this to you confidentially T +V1Q+. tho n.n. P.bondliolders should move as the holders of Rio s amount of would put about all present. economically but that tho engineer, is equipment '*c an al , are for I tj.ink that the N.O.P.bondholders should move as the holders of Rio s have done and have their respr^sentative pppsent It to the court. I would like to know what you think of t!:is mode of reorganization. Truly, C. N, Bodge. Denver Colo, April 19, 1886. Gen'l. G.M. Dodge, Pres. Ft. Worth & Denver City R.R. Dear Sir: I have been awaiting an answer to my last letter to you. But in the meantime have been busy closing up our business and getting my contract with the Denver and Texas Railway Construction and Improvement Company in shape. I have also been at work upon closing up a traffic contract with the Colorado Midland Railway Co. which will give us a through line by standard guage track to Manitou Springs, Leadville, Aspen and GlenwoodSprings, four of the most important business points in Colorado, not on our line already. The contract has been agreed upon and is now being put in shape for ratification, about which there seems to be no doubt. The Midland people have the money and have let contract s to build from Leadville to Aspen and now propose to build from Colorado Springs, where they will connect with us, to Leadville, so as to haul their material for their whole line, over their owp road. My advices f:om the money men in New vork are that when the labor difficulties in the Soutlw est are settled we can raise the money for the through line, i.e. for yours and our ends of it together. Have you done anything sincejou wrote me last? By the way, as to the coal on the south side of Emory's Gap. I had a call a day or two ago from a reliable man, who is now sinking upon the outcrop, near our land. He thinks there is a good vein, has already spent $1000 and is going ahead. It is about 100 miles from the Canadian River. Please write and let me know if it is worth while for me to come to New York to raise money now. We have a clean sheet upon which to raise it and a comparatively cheapline to build. Very truly yours, etc.. Jolin Evans. 367 New York, April 19, 1886, Chas. Adams, E sq., Pres. U.P.Ry. Co., Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir; I have received a letter from my brothei' in Council Bluffs, written after he had had an interview witl. Chapman. He says the resolutions passed by the legislature are held in such shape that if I.'r. Adams corrects the abuses existinr; r.t the Bluffs, they -.vill not injure him in Congress. Mr. Chapman says that Mr. Calloway has never visited Council Bluffs and he expresses the desire that if Hr. Adams comes to Omaha he will come over and se'^ the people of C.B.. He says a visit of this kind woi^.ld Inspire yood feeling. The citizens th.ere, as a general thing, are friendly to the company but there is no questi-n but that they have a great mdny judt grievances w}:io]. have been caused more by negative rather than positive acts of the company and a full understanding should be had in relation 'to them, end, if the actions of the citizens of C.B. are incorrect, it should be so kliown. They say positively th.rt there has been discrimino tion against Council Bluffs, i" not from San Francisco east, certainly from C. B. West. I have had letters from people in ""ashington who are very friendly to us and th.ey are very much exercised over these resolutions, and do not see their way clear to act under them, but if the people of the BPuffs were satisfied, there woulr be no' further trouble in the matter. Very truly yours, G. I'h Bodge. 369 New York, April 22, 1886. Mr. B. S. Wathen, $ Mo. Pac. By. Co., rrreenfllle, Texas. Dear Sir:- The trial of the case of Hunter, Sanpson "• Wells, vs. the International Railway IiTiprovement Co, is set down for early in the month of June. We will hereafter get notice of t'e exact date. It will be neces.sary for you to be there and testify on the trial and I write thrs early so that you may let us know if it is possible for i^ou to core, and mako whatever personal arrangements that may be necessary. If your health is such that yor- can miake the trip, there is no qiiestion as to gettin- authority for you to leave pout work there as tlio people wl o '^mploy you are thr ones who are mo^tlj' intereste in the outcome of this suit. If for anjt reason it is absolutely impossible for you to come here, I will send our attorney, who has cJ.arge of the case here and is thoroughly familiar witli it, to take your deposition, but we prefer of course to have you come here and go upon the stand. Please advise me fully in regard to this. Yours truly G. M. Dodge .'"i s ■'» . .t.«w . .. • ,o ■ . 4 '•V . ■, t'. ft ■h. . 371 April 1886. New York. April 24, 1886. Mr. 52i50. p. Tyler, Philadelphia. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter and am a good deal surprised at your statement. You all seem to run before you are hurt. Ho., you can accept any such terms on the only division earnings its fuxl interest is more than I can comprehend. Before you do anything, or come to any of these conclusions let us wait and see what Gov. Brown has to say. Judge Pardee will issue these certificates and hold the whole road responsible. Hp is thoroughly opposed to any disintegration and it will be a hard matter for the eastern divi ion or any other divisions to bring it so that without the aid of the stockholders, the other division... and finally the^ court. I beg to say, and I think we can prove it, that without the New Orleans Division and the Rio Grande Division, the Eastern division would not earn anywhere near its interest, and the moment it is out way from these two divisions it would have to go at 1^ to two miles for one. This would pay interest alone. I think I understand this bid of the Iron Mountain fives, whibh don't worry me in the least. If they will only sell that division to Mr. Gould, it is all I will ask. In my opinion he will give you a 2^ bond at par, very quicily for the New Orleans division. Yours very truly, G. M .Dodge. 075 April, 1886. The JWJ Ranch, Edwards County, Texas. Post Office Address: IV'ontell, Uvalde Co., Texas, Apl. 27 th, 1886 Dear Gen'l: Today the rain is coming down in torents. I think we have had a full inch of rain in the last six hours but I am delighted as we wanted it for crops and grass. My corn is knee high and oats and soraghun. look fine also garden. We have been cattle gathering for a month with vei'y good results, although our cattle were badly scattered and our horse stock very thin. Gould not rush them,it will take us all of next month to get them all in as the rains have miade plenty of water on the mountains and the stock will not seek the streams as the grass is splendid on the mountains and we have to htint both the valleys and mountains,;which makes very hard work for horses, uses them up rapidly. I am not getting as good a crop of calves as I expected owing I think to lack of bulls. We have not half enough for the Ho.of dows we have. We have branded 21 calves and they are all doing nice ly. The jfirst six heifers but sad to say the next six are all bulls, and I am now only one heifer ahead, 10 bulls and 11 heifers. I am not through _plowing or sowing yet I can put in sorghum until July and make a good crop. I only got in about five acres of corn but expect to get in 15 of sorghum and millet for roughness.With this I can keep my horse stock in good condition. I shall in the fall cut out all my old cows and beaf cattle and turn them on the field as soon as crop is off.in a few weeks they will be fat when I will market them and fill their place with young cattle. I think Jones must be mistaken about the movement of cattle for yearlings are selling here now at :ij8.50, one dollar better than last year and 2500 have passed out of this canon north bound in tie last week. They are driving. I presume the strike has something to do with the offers of stock to the roads. Stock men are most tiidd when there is any fear of interuption in transportation. I am afraid this strike is not over for its a fixed fact if Mr. Gould succeed now the Knights of Labor organization is doomed and he must succeed or the arbitrary power of this organization will exert such dictatorial influence that the whole fabric of popular Government will be menaced and the strong arm of the General Government will have to put it down by force of arms and a deal of blood shedding. I trust he may be successful. Were I unimployed, I would volunteer to run one of his engines and I would do it or bust. I wrote you in my last that I was sorely in want of money. I have not a cent, am running my ranch on my face. Dont know how long it will last, but hope you will send me some soon. I expect todays mail to bring it. I am kidding goats,now have 50 of the finest kid I ever saw. Rave haa an offer for my culls of old goat stock. Think I will sell keeping nothing but the finest in this way with the two iine bucks I have I will have a very fine flock in a year or two more. 376 I shall let them leave about 150 nanies for fall kidding. • I must get some nore bulls they help keep stock together and the per cent of increase is enhanced. This section that I have improved is very fine land and the improvements are good. It's worth ^30 an acre to day as a farming section. I have a field of 40 acres nearly cleaned up whicl^i is as pretty and good a piece of land as you ever saw in Iowa. I think l/2 of it 320 acres is susceptible to agriculture and the balance to fruit and grass. I have l/2 an acre of as fine a stand of alfalfa as was Peter Smith's we saw on Trinity bottoms, l/2 an acre set with Bermuda, which this rain will bring out, and the place looks splendidly. I cant see that I have done so much, but everybody says they never saw sucn a change in one year. Had I not have broken down in health I would have accomplished a deal more but I have had to work against every kind of embarassment, having so many old squatters and thieves, murderers and Mexican labor with bad health nearly knocked the stuffing out of me, but I am daily getting health and strength, but my Dr. says I must not overheat my blood nor work to hard or I will have a set back. The 7th of this m.cmth I had to go into San Antonio to see my Dr. thought I was going to pass in my ci.ecks, caused by over heating my blood and hard work. One of my white laborers got on his ear because I asked him to help push a wagon over to the field to save time in getting up a yoke of cattle. He replied he did not propose to make a mule of himself. I told him his skin was too fine for this kind of work. He had better take his pay and find a softer job. This broke up my fencing gang ^ so I had to take his place and as it was a very hot day and I was deter- PP mined to show my men that I could get along without them if it became necessary as he was the oldest hand on the place. I kept my end of the work up but at night you would have thought I was just out of the river, every thread of clothing was dripping with perspiration that night and the next day I had to pay for it, but I forced discipline on the ranch and no one has questioned my right to have things done my way since. I expect the Walker Co. men here this week to look at the Stone Lands. Gold fever here still high, they are finding it all over. I doubt whether in paying quantities. California rilners-in here prospecting. One of them Ross and old employee of Browers at Las Vegas. Genl. there is an honest old settler on your Section 79, which is your S. E. Section. He wants to buy; he supposed he had settled on a state section. Has made some very fair iniprovements, its a good Section, farming and range land. I have notified him that if he stays he must pay rent he has a few cattle and flock of goats, does not in terfere with me.much though if he was off I would put my herddr over there with the goats and a 100 head of cattle as its a fine valley with plenty of water. lie wants to know if he goes off if you will pay him something for his improvements he has a very fair log house 10 acres cleared and w611 fenced with cedar rails. Its a section you cant afford to sell now at any price you can get. When you sell you want to sell all of your twenty a:., one ranch improved and stocked. This place will catch sonisbody for big money, if we can get it consolid ated which will be do e I think this winter. I can get 20 sections ^ down in the south line which will maxe a dandy ranch and easily fenced. M My own judgment would be to pay old man Lee something for his improvements, it would not be much to you but a deal to him, as is been done by his own labor and he located in good faith, is not a bulldosing squatter. Please let me hear from you soon. Yours truly, J. W. Jennings. 877 May, 1886 UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. Construction Department. Chief Engineer's Office. J. Blickensderfer, Chief Engineer Omaha, Neb. May 5, 1886. Genl. G . Mi. Dodge , Nol. Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir; Some time ago I received from your daughter Mrs. Pusey, a copy of Genl. Die's report on organization etc., of U. P. R. R. being one of the papei s I inquired for of you, in an earlier letter. M.rs .■ Pusey in sending the fceport, said: "This is the only copy of this particular report he (you) has, so in case you wish to keep this one in your possession please consult him, as I do nbt know but that he wishes to own it himself." As I desired the report in order to bind it with others and thus complete for myself a full set, I wish thus particularly to ask whether you wish it returned to you, or whether I mah keep it and have it bound for myself. The second copy which could not be found among your papers, being the report for 1865, I have had the good fortune to obtain since I wrote you, from Saml. B. Reed, Esq, and thus I have if I may be permitted to kc-ep the one from you, a complete set. What do you think by this time, of the prospect of Oongressional Legislation regarding the extension of time to U. P. and other Pacific Roads, for the payment of government subsidy. I should be glad to know your views. Very truly yours. J. Blickensderfer. ■ ,.vV»' ' V' . s Ne-i7 York, L'ay 11, 1886. LIr. Morgan Jones, President, Ft. ^.7orth, Texas. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your fasror of May 6th in relation to the visit of Messrs. Strong, Snyder and Seeley to Ft. 'Jorth. I l.ope you v^ill be able to make a trade with th' Texas ?c Pacific at once, so tiiat we can be free there; then in my opinio , we will have to make arrange ments -with the Santa Fe read, for if the Texas & Pacific persists in making sucj. a charge against us it will be impossible for us to meet it. Anyhow, I am disposed to get independent of them if possible. Three or four parties to deal with, and all of them quarreling, makes a very unpleasant state of affairs. I have talked ibo the M. K. T. people about our payments there, and they think -.vo are now paying -bout itwhat is ISri'^ht. ri'^ht. I would' be -willing to leave th-^ whole matter to Mr. Hayes if the T.-'c P would agree to it and abi^:e by ' is decision, but I do not suppose they "Tvould be willing t o do any such tl.ing. Evans is here and has got his project into such shape that I think he will be able to come to meet us, and I also think Mr. Gould will build his Southern Kansas line to a junctior with u :. I wantto put an engineer party in that country from Quanah north, as son- as you can find a man fit to do the work. I want-to run a line up to the point where the Santa Fe comes i - or, the south of the Canadian, and see 1"" we con find a good crossing of the Canadian in Hutchlnson County, running up to the Junction of the Rabbit Ear and Beaver Creeks, or to a point somewhat west of that in Sherman county on Beaver I will, in a few days send you a map giving some idea of where this line should be run. Yours very truly, G. M. Dodge. 383 New York, May 11, 1886. Mr. N. P. Dodi3e, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir: I ..otice that the Union Pacific bill is coming up in Congress. The citizens of Council Bluffs should in some manner make knov:n to their representatives and senators in Wasliington the facts in relation to the passage of these resolutions, or tlicir delegatior in Congress will be controlled by the billas it now stands. The leading citizens ,of Council Bluffs should send a letter to the senators and members, or the Board of Trade shou ld take some action which -would break the force of these resolutions, and show exactly -why and i.ow they wore passed. George Carson and Col. Keatly, as Senator and member should -write to Washington in regard to these resolutions, that is, of course, provided they have changed their views. As I understand it the resolutions were simply passed because they h-d a spite against the Union • Pacific--not because they were opposed to theii' metnods and settlemotxts. I am. Yours truly,G. M. Dodge. 385 New York, Hay 14, 18G6, Hessrs. Dillon & Swayne, 195 Broadway, Rew York. Gentlen-en; - Referring to your favor of yesterday I hand you nerevvith two old contracts between the International Railway Improvenient Co., and other parties. One you will notice is made and executed by Henry HcLaughlin,. Acting chief engineer. The other is unsigned on behalf of the company but you will recollect that these are only copies, and therefore not necessarily signed by both parties. You will notice, too, that each of these copies bears in the lower left hand corner the words,"Approved. G. H. ^odge. President." The printed form was first made to be used by J. H. Sddy, Superintendent of Constrauction wh-^ was I'r. TJashbuxn's predecessor or directly in charge of that work while Washburn had charge of the Pacific and Texas Colorado Railway Improvement companies in addition to his general supervision of the work of the International Railway Improvement company. Hr. Edd:? was afterward proiuoted to be General Superintendent of the H. K. "r T. Ry. Co., and ^--r. 'Yashburn then signed contracts as chief engineer of International Railway Improve ment company, but I am not certain that he had any new contracts printed for that company and bearing his printed title as chief engineer You will notice that the one I send you was originally a Texas ?= Colorado c-ntract changed for the use of the International Railway Improvement Go. Trusting that these wi 1 prove of service to ycu, I am. Very truly yours. 389 New York, May 17, 188C, B. "TTlieelcck, Esq., New Orleans, La. My dear Sir:- I have been away ever since you sent me tiie dispatch about iexas and I wired you to draw upon me. As soon as I received your dispatch about the Taxes on the land, I want to the N.O.P. office and saw Lr. Gould and Judg e Dillon and others there and laid the facts before them in the plainest terms, and the result of the interview was that Mr. Gould advanced the money to pay the taxes in full. He claims that he did not fully understand the matters. As I understand, it h- agrees to take land at $2.00 per acre in payment of the amount ad vanced but that is a matter between him and tiie Trustees, 'Vliat I want to tell you in relation to the matter is ho'w it came about. The Judge was very much pleased at getting the money but you are going to have up hill work all the time to get money to run ; cur concern down there wh re you have ob tbtain it from the !,'Missouri Pacific^ or from Mr. Gould. It always takes a personal appeal. 1 should like to know a little more about the lands you have settled for me. Cannot Greene or some one write me about them? I v7ould like to know if they are a choice selection end also In v/hose hands I shall put them in order to have them properl y cared for,trespassers kept off of them, taxes paid and the lands put properly upon the market when I am ready to sell the..:. I suppose you are very, busy but I would like to hear from you in this subject. I suppose you are posted as to matters in 7/ashington. 17e are in liopes of getting the patents of the rest of the land but you know how uncertain all these things are. If there are any choice selections of land in Louisiana to be covered by these bonds, I thir.k I am entitled to them for the 7/hole fight and woi-k has virtually fallen upon my shoulders, even to having to raise every cent wi.ic.. is raised, although my interests, compared with others is now very light. I would like to know what you tliink Parder is goiing to do ./ith the Texas ^ Pacific. '.Tliv don't he authorize the issue of Receiver's certificates and put that down there wh re from Mr. Gould. 1 should settled for me. liopes of getting the patents of uncertain all these tilings are. land in Louisiana to be covered '.Tliy don't he authorize the issue oi Receiver s certificates and put that road in order? I would like to hear from you occasionally Ycurs truly]; G. M. ce 391': May, 1886 Charles F. Adams, Jr., Pres. Elisha Atkins, Vice Pres. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. Henry Mc^'arland, Leo. and Treas. Oliver Mink, Comptroller. Equitable Building. (Post Office Box No. 5287) Boston, May 18, 1886 Cen. G. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York. My dear General: In your reply please refer to No. 8-58. I have to acknowledge receipt of your note from the Union • League club, of yesterday. As you will see by the papers to-day, the consideration of the bnion Pacific funding bill has been specially assigned for June 5th and 8th. I am informed from Washington that the feeling is very friendly towards it, and unless some radical change occurs not now ahticipated the bill will pass the House by a large majority. My informant, who is quite well informed, further states, that, "Could a vote on the bill have been reached this morning, my judg raent is not twentyfive votes would have been cast against it. Cool headed members concur with me in this opinion." Under these circuustances, the game would seem to have reached the stage at whrh no point must be lost. The action of the Iowa delegation may be of importance. I wish, therefore, that you would give such time and attention to the matter as is desirable. My own feeling is that things are going so well that it is very dangerour to interfere with them. Accordingly, I propose to keep perfectly quiet, and hands off. It will riot do to have it suggested that we have a lobby on the spot. Nevertheless, you are discreet and well acquainted with many of the western members. I am sure anything you can do to aid us I shall be greatly obliged for. I remain. Very truly yours. Charles F. Adams, Jr., President. V't 3S3 May, 1886. York. . ' ,« - May 18, 1886. Mr. Morgan Jones, President, Port Worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- I enclose a tracing of the Pan Handle of Texas, showing the lines which I wish you to have examined. The proposition is that the Wichita road, (Mr. Gould's line) , the Denver & New Orleans and the Ft , Worth & Denver shall all meet somewhere on the Rabbit Ear or the Beaver. To do that we must start from some feasible point on our line as far west as Clarendon, and try all the crossings of the Canadian river on the lines I ha ve indicated in pencil. I only indicate these lines as being about the ones I desire to have examineu but I particularly desire to have the crossings in Potter and Hutchinson Counties thoroughly e xamined, especially in the latter county. It seems to me that we made some preliminary examinations and had at tacked the Canadian in these counties unsuccessfully. Mr. Murrill will know abou this. The maps and surveys of these examinations should be with you in Ft. Worth. It seems to me that these lines could be sufficiently examined by reconnoisance, instead of biy instru mental sur-^^s. I think from a care ful reconnoisance we could tell pretty nearly what could be done I want information about this line just as soon as possible. Gov. Evans is very an ious to have us keep as near our old and original line as possible, but it seems to me if we are to connect with roads coming from the east it would be better for us to make the connection furt^'er east. I would like to hear your views upon this this subject at once. If the Missouri Pacific will give to the Denver & New Orleans and to us the traffic contracts they talk about there w 11 be no trouble in negotiating the securities to build the ' line through to Denver, but I have my doubts about their doing all they talk about. Mr. Gould will push west on some one of Wathens' lines which are marked upon this tracing in black dashes, to some point in the public lands, or in the northern part of Texas, which Evans anu myself may agree upon as a connecting noint for the three roads. What I write you about this is of course confidential, and for your information only. It does not at all interfere with anv arrangement we may have made or will make with the Atchison road. Yours truly. G. U. Dodge. 395 Nev^ York, l.Iay 18, 1886, Mr. David Keene, Care Dillon Swayr.e, City. Dear Sir: I return herewith Mr. Law's deposition. I have r-ad it care fully and in my opinion the answer to all his statements is that in it he swears that he was nothing but an assistant engineer and therefore would naturally knov; nothing about the orders sent to Mr. 7/ashburn, nor what contracts nor agreements were made by him, nor the tei'-ms nor con ditions on whicl] sucu contracts were or could be made. I do not suppose anyboj^y will claim tiint Mr. '.Vashburn could make contracts dov/n there, and go on and do the work without authority from sonobody, and the question which will come up is wiiat authority did he have? and nobody but myself can tell what orders were given him. I tiilnk that if the testimony of any of our sub-rdinates if offered the str ngest will be that of Mr. Wathen, who was chief engineer, a: d received orders from me, as did Mr. TTashburi , ai.d v/ho preceded iiim in charge of the work in Mexico. I have a letter from Mcrgan Jones, the President, who saw Law in Port ^orth.' Mr. Jones says that Sa:..psell was there with Law ano that they expected to bring him to New York as their witness. Law told Jones that he would sear to notning that would injure me personally, but evi dently Sampsell is trying to get out of him whatever he can that will be benelicial to himself or his case. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. SG9 New York, Llay 25, 1' 8G. LTr. E. B. W^eelock, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir: I received your dispatch and also your' letter enclosing one fro Capt. Greene, and I wired you to make selections of land to cover •*•1 Cir0,000 rn nnn or nr> 5200,00c OOnn nnn of nf •hnnr'a bonds. Tou say in your letter you can reserve 75,COO00 acres. Do you mean that many more in addit'on to those ^ have already applied for, or is it inclusive of the former applications? Nhen must the lands be paid for? I see they have been appraised. In making select!-ns for me, attertion sl-ould be given not only to t2ie quality of the land, but its location sl.orld be such that it can be readily gotten to market. This should be kept constant-- ly in viev;. I look to you to -.vatci. tiiose mttters for me, because you are on the ground and know exactly vh.at shoi-ld be done. . I notice Green says that he has made additional applications for me. I suppose that i'r. Brakenridge will have tiie benefit of what selections have been made for me, and t.,ot he will loch at t2:ose as well as any others. *I think that matters in Washington are in good shape if we can get action. The trouble is to get opportunity for a report, or to get time in the lyouse. The w .'^le temper of the house has" clminged relative to land grant roads, as you will see by the report of ti:e Committee on the Pacific Railroad. I am told the Pacific Railroad bills \Yill pass the house, with very little opposition. You Icno'w that for years they iave bee: pounding that company but the company has not been near Washington and the chonge in the rrttitude of result of the oommitt ee's investigations. I have matters in Wasiilngton as closely as I could and I wi.y we s..ould not succeed there. Let me hear from you about tlxese matters. Yours very truly. been looking after can see no reason G. M. Dodge. 403 May, 1886. The American Telegraph and Cable Company. 195 Broadway, New York, May 28th, 1886. G . M . Dodge, Esq., New York. Dear "^ir; At an Annual meeting of the American Telegraph and Cable Company, held May 26th, you were elected a director of the company for the ensuing year. Yours truly. Thos F. Clark, Secretary. f ' 405 . ■' Kew York, June 8, 188G, Mr. •/. T. ^Valters, Baltimore, I'd. Dear Sir: I think that the New Orleans & Pacific bond holders should have a committee to look after their interests in the re-organization of the road. I haveno faith In tne scheme of ti.e lYistar committeo going through. Tt is sue., an iinjust one that I do not kno-v of aybody e: cept the holders of the consolidated bo; ;ds who will submit to it, and nov?, since the decisions of the courts in these matters, and since the receivers have received authority to buy steel for putting the road in perfect order, I think th.e matter is liable to remain in the Receiver's hands until it can be seen wi.at the road can be made to do, and it seems to me that t is is tlie best policy for all concerned. The stockiiolders will certainly nevnr submit t^o any suci; agremenet as the Wistar committee has put out, and they can keep the road in the courts a long time if they see proper to do so. I hope, therefore, you will not turn in your New ; rleans Pacific bonds. Let us have time and more daylight in these matters. There are a great many things I could tell you personally which I cannot write you, and .vhic.. I think, would induce you to keep quiet Tor the present. Please trout ti.is as confidential, and let me hear what you think of it. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 407 June, 1886. rOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S., Washington, D. C., June 8, 1886 Dear General: Yours 7th received. Under the instructinns of our ^tate Legislature our delegation (Reps) agreed on Saturday,when the bill was up, that we would follow the said instructions, although the opinion of all the Republicans, I believe, is that the bill is the best that can be done for all concerned. Ma jr. Holmes, of the Com. wiU vote for the bill, but Hepburn, Lyman, Congar, Fuller, Struble and I all agreed as stated above, although I have expressed freely my own judgement. All agree that to vote for the bill will put us in the defensive and in close distr. like my own, Fullers will be dangerous. .Ve agreed however to pass on the first call so as not to influence any vote against the bill. On receiving your letter this A. K. I showed it to Col. Hep burn and suggested a re-consideration of our plans, but he stands firm. The same as to Lyman. Now a vote will not be taken until the Legislature bill is disposed of and I suggest 1st that you write to Col. Hepburn, or come 6n here. 2nd That you get Senator Allison to see him. 3rd If you can get the writer of the resolution, the State Natl. Legislature, Clayton I believe, or Carson, (dont remember which) to telegraph tia t he acted on rumor , it would help. In your letter you say that the writer now knows that he was mistaken. 4th It will not be safe new , after the agreement, for one of us to shoot off. If we could get the bulk of the delegation to pull to gether we could do so with greater safety. It is proper to sbate in this connection, that the indications were, Saturday, that the bill would carry by a good majority. ^hile some claimed that its fate being upon the action of our delegation. Judge Cary of Wyoming is one ol the latter class. I do not know who the roads have here looking after the matter, and, until I got your letter did not know that you took any interest in it. Indeed some of the members noted that the roads would not be content with less ti:^n a ninety year extension. In haste , Genl. G. M. Dodge, New York. Yours truly, D. B. Henderson. UNITED STATES POST OFFICE Council Bluffs, Iowa, 4 J .r, . June 9th, 1886. Dear Sir: In conversation with your brother about business matters this morning, the subject of my confirn^ation was mentioned. It seems the situation of the case is about this: hr. Vaughan and his friends have tried in every possible manner to prevent my confIrri.ation and have endeavored in various ways, to black-mail me, and 1 ha.ve taken th.e position that I would rather lose the postoffice than to contri bute to him in any manner. He has been persistent in his efiorts to defeat uy confirniation, but se far as I know, has but little aid or encouragen.ent from any responsible parties. When my petition for the office was circulated, it was signed by about 1600 persons, patrons of the office--ffiostly democrats. I was also endorsed by our entire democratic delegation of this state in congress, and many other prominent democrats. Since taking the office, my republican friends have endorsed me very strongly, by addressing a joint letter to Senator Wilson, asking him to report favorably on my nomination. This letter was signed by such men as John Beresheim, N. P. Dffiidge, J. W. Chapman, Horace Everett, N. D. Lawrence, W. F. Sapp, S. Farnsworth, E. L. Shugart, John T. Baldwin, George F. Wright and others. I received a letter to-day fron, a friend of mine living in Des Moines, in which he enclosed a letter he received from Senator Wilson, under date of the oth inst., containing the following, in reference to the action of the Senate Conmittee: "That case has not yet been taken up by the Committee for definite examination as correspondence relative to it on both sides has been somewhat voluminous and extended and seems not yet to be over, but the case will be considered within a short time, and I have no doubt that a just result will be reached when the Coimrittee gets at the case in its order; and I can assure you there is no disposition on my part or that of any member of the Committee to do other than justice, in accordance with the rules of equity and fair paly, to persons whose cases come under our supervision." 410 This indicates to nie that Vaughan and his followei-s are still afterusii and if you can conscientiously drop the Senator a line, in niy behalf, am of the opinion it will do much toward giving him a more favorable opinion of me than he now has, and I assure you I will appreciate anything you do, for I would rather almost anything would happen, than to have this man Vaughan, who has cost us all so much to squelch, recognized as having influence enough to secure anybody's defeat by the United States Senate. Acting upon the suggestion of your brother, and knowing that you are somewhat acquainted with our local affairs, I write this letter, and if you see proper to drop the Senator a line, I assure you I shall take pleasure in reciprocating the kindness whenever an opportunity presents itself. Very truly yours. Theo. Bowman, Gen. G. U. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New Vgrk. ' ,,.s. ' ^ • - fi . / ^ X • " fj '' ■v-'j \ ' ' .t'' V / . •' *■ 'ilr 1. *" ■ _ 'v , , , , t I. . . v: / •; '• : . 1 1 . June, 1886. 411 House of Representatives U. S., Washington, D. G., June 10th, 1886, Personal. Hon. G. M. Dodge, Washington Building, New York. My dear General: Your letter of May 24th was upon my table for some days. I have improved the time by examining the subject discussed by you and agree with you in both propositions. 1st the the bill reported by the Com. on Pacific roads is the best present disposition of the Union Pacific indebtedness and 2nd that the joint resolutions of the Iowa Legislature are probably the result of very inconsiderate action. I think the entire Iowa delegation so regard the matter, with the exception perhaps of Mr. Maver. But my republican colleagues have carefully considered the matter of our instructions am; have concluded that it is our duty to obey the instructions of the Legislature, If the matter should not be disposed of at session, I .think all of us would during the coming campaign discuss the matter with our people, and I have no doubt find such a condition of sentiment, after they learn the facts, as would justify us in voting for the proposition. I have conversed with Maj. Lyman, Mr. Conger, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Holmes and Col. Henderson who have each expressed the opinion above expressed by me. Your friend, W. P. Hepburn. 413 June, 1886. Council Bluffs, lo^-a. June 16, 1886 Dear Gren: . On receiving your telegrams asking for Keatly and Carson to wire delegation in Washington, I went to Mr. Pusey who has been acting as Prest of Citizen's Com. and handed it to him knowing it would be useless for me to apply to them to sign such a telegram without some favorable action on part of this Com. Mr. Pusey called the Com, together and in eve they handed me a telegram to send you in reply but it asked you to come here and seemed so foolish and impracticable that I declined to send it. Later I went, down arid saw Mr. Pusey and •found that the action of the Com. was not in harmony with his views but rather those of Stewart who is a most difficult man to handle. He promised to wire you personally and after I laid before him the situation as I saw it he seemed very desirous that all opposition to U. P'. should be withdrawn and 1 left him feeling that he would not let matters rest as they are. Monday A. M. Mr. Galloway sent Mr. Burns for me to go to Omaha and see him or to appoint a tin.e and he would corne and see me, I of course went right over and saw him and advised with him and Mr. Burns the best course to pursue to win this Committee over to the sup^^ort of U. P. and get them to destroy so far as possible the effect of the resolutions. We arranged for Mir. Calloway to go over and meet Mr. Pusey, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Evans and inform them something of what he proposed doing on this side River in event the Co. got the legislation they soiight. We thought his simple statement to them in confidence would be sufficient to have them turn about and work for the Co. He met them yesterday P. M. and Mr. Pusey and Mr. Evans seemed satisfied but Stewart want to bargain with Mr. Galloway which he could not do. Mr. C. would make no bargain but told them that a Round House was to be erected and the switching across bridge of the through trains to be stopped and he would favor a track up Ikth Ave. to the Ag'l. Ware houses. Said the interests of the road demanded these and he would favor joining with the Iowa roads in a Union Depot this side of the old Power building which we learn the other roads are desirous to do. After this interview they (Mr. Galloway and Mr. Burns) came to me house and we talked the matter over and I requested Mr. Burns to come up this A. M. and see Mr. Pusey and see what more could be done. He came and saw him and also had a private conversation with Mr. Stewart and a meeting of the whole committee was held this alternoon at which Mr. Burns was to be present. The result of which I have not heard but shall feel like moving out of the city if they do not withdraw their opposition and send Mr. Pusey to Washington to undo the mischief they have done. I had Mr. Beresheira go and see Mir. Stewart this afternoon. H&as and most of these men are so favorably impressed with Mr. Calloway that they would be willing to put the interests of C. Bluffs in his hands and it would be a burning shame if Stewarts opposition should prevent our being placed agin on friendly terms with Union Pacific. 414 I have not felt so blue for a year as when Mr. Galloway failed to convince Mr. Stewart that the interests of G. Bluffs lie in our help ing them in Congress. It is fortunate for us that the U. P. has two such level headed men as Galloway and Burns in whom the people have great confidence and this opposition of a few removed and it is so practi cally, as I understand Stewart is the only man who stands out. There will be but one feeling and that of friendliness and hopefulness as regards our interests. Knowing that the U. P. officials in control ere not men who will sacrifice the interests of the road to favor any point. I hope before this reaches you G. Bluffs will be working as one man for the interest of U. P. and thus for the interests of our city for they are in a large measure identical. Yours, N. P. D. - • , 1 ■ ■ 'i \ ^ iiA ' .■ .i , iv '-y f* ji's • * •' ' /' • j LA, /■' J..U June I7th, 1886. 415 Washington D.C. June 17, 1886. Gem. G.M.Dodge, N.Y.Gity. Dear Sir: Yours of the I5th Inst., relative to the nomination of Thos. Bowamn to be postmaster at Council Bluffs, is at hand. I think that matter will be settled within a short time in accordance with your suggestion. The President has withdravm the first nomination of Bowman, which was in place of Armour, suspended, and renewed it in place of Armour, whose term will expire of the 1st of July. This takes out of the case the consideration of the questions involved in' the matter of the suspension and leaves it standing merely on the fitness of Bowman | and now see no reason, why there may not be a favorable report Yours truly. James F. Wilson. 417 June, 1886 Council Bluffs, Iowa, G/ib/SS. Dear Gren: Mr. Burns stuck to that Citizens Com. until he got a favor able action withdrawing all opposition to U. P. and I suppose a tele gram signed by Keatly, Carson and others has been sent to our delegation at Washington asking them to vote for the bill and possibly some one may go on from here. Mr. Pusey cannot leave(Officer is away). If he could go he would be the man. I aii. glad this action has been taken before the bill came up and have no doubt our people will work for U. P. interests here after and there will be no more foolish moves to injire them. Very truly, N. P. Dodge. 419 Hew York, June 21, 1886, Hon, D. 3. Henderson, House of Representatives, Washington. Dear Sir: I am informed by letters received from Council Bluffs, that the Citizen's Committee, ;vJ.o have had the matter in charge there, have finally concluded to appeal to tiie members of the legislature to vote for the U.P, bill, and that Keatly, Carson and others vill send requests for the members of congress from Iowa to support the bill before the House. Till you be kind enough v/hen this comes befor the House, to do what you can to get the delegation to work in harmony with this action While it was the action of the state, you.will understand it was really the action of Council Bluffs. Yours very truly, C. LI. Dodge. V T IT f"'TTTTTT ^ "^4 421 June, 1886. The Denver & New Orleans Railway Construction Go. Operating TIIE DENVER & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD. Office of the Auditor. Chas. Wheeler, Auditor. Denver, Colo., June 22nd, 1886 Gen'l. G. Dodge, Fields Building, No. 1. Broadway, New York City. Dear General: I have been here fixing up the ^^idland traffic contract ever since I left. Did not get home until after Clark, Geo. Gould and I/r. Kerrigan had passed over our road and gone East. I have been expecting a letter or dispatch from you as soon as they report, but hear nothing yet. The ti'affic contract between The Denver, Texas & Gulf R. R. and The Colorado Midland Ry . has been ratified. It gives us a line to Leadville, Aspen and Glenwood Springs, via Colorado Springs, They have a large force of men at work on the line and are said to have plenty of money to build it through without delay. This will help our through line to the Gulf very much. Have you any suggestions to n.ake in regard to our matters. Have you any idea of what we can do with the Mo. Pacific Co.?- I have a correspondence with the Gen. itanager of the Rock Island extensions. They propsoe to build to the Ban Handle of lexas. Please drop me a line and say if we can do anything in our matters if I come to New York now. Very truly yours etc., John Evans. 423 June, 1886. House of Representatives U. S., Washington, June 22, 1886. Gen'l. G. lii. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, N. Y, Dear General: Yours of yesterday at hand. I shall be very glad to receive such expression of opinion from the people of my district as will justify me in disregarding the resolutions of the Iowa Legislature in relation to the U. P. extension and leaving me to act on my own judg ment. I, in co;:mon with my Colleagues, have felt bound by those resolu tions, and yet our judgments have all leaned to the opinion that the resolution was ill advised, and hasty. I hope no vote will be passed at tills session, but that it goes over until Dec. when, in my judgment. it will be better understood, and the Iowa delegation all feel justi fied in foting for the bill. Yours truly, J. Lyman. a j <f 427 June, 1886. June 28, 1886. Toperville, Washington Co., Utah. Dear Friend and Relative: You will excuse me forwriting to you at this time. I have thought you would have written to me before this but never mind I am only a self-made man of over 50 years, on the frontiers, an Invincible defender of the same. I prize much the name of our self-made men and their achievements in peace or war. I have long been acquainted with Henry Dodge of Wisconsin and A. C. Dodge of Iowa and many others of our self-made men. I have got a fine group of their likenesses now before me. .1 send one of mine to you. I will give you a kind in vitation to call and see me in my mountain home where I am altays ready to welcome niy friends. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain. Yours truly, Capt. A. E. Dodge. The great weslern explorer. I have done a few things in ray life. 429 June, 1886. Colon, U. S. 0., Jvine 30th, 1886 General G. M. Dodge, 195 B'way, N. Y. ■ Dear Gen'l: Having heard of you interesting yourself in the construction of a railroad running from Buenozeras and extending into Paraguay, I now write to fender my services as contractor or otherwise profitably located, as I am thoroughly aclimated to these climates and speak their language somewhat, having been in Peru and Botivia for eightt.en months and have been here on the Isthmas ot Panama for over two years a part of the time with the Panan.a Railroad and the balance of the time con tracting on the Canal. I had two of my old foremen from the Texas & Pacific with me. Now since I am settling up with the Canal, I would like to make a change and get in a little healthier country than this, as I can assure you it almost depopulates itself annually, although up to the present my health has been quite good. If your Southt,American scheme does not go on I would like to get something from you in the states. You will very much oblige if you will favor me with an answer Yours very resp'y., C. Christopher. 431 July, 1886. J. I. Polk F. M. Hubbell Office of POLK & HUBBELL. Des Moines, Iowa, July 2nd, 1886. G. M. Dodge, Esq., New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: Our Kr. Hubbell has been to Ut. Paul since we saw you and had an interview with ¥r. Merriam and his associates, Nr. Livingston and Mr. Oakes of the Northern Pacific Railway. They say they have a written proposition from Mr. Whitehead, to consolidate with them, which they have under consideration. They are willing to entertain a proposition from us to con solidate and say they prefer to trade with us than with Mr. Whitehead. They proposed some terms for a consolidation which they want us to submit to our friends, and let them toow whether we desire any modifibation, and if so what. One of our firm will go to New York just as soon as we can learn that Mr. Joy is there with a view of closing the transaction with the Wabash folks. We could not get a promise from the St. Paul gentlemen to trade with us, but they said at various timessduring the Interview that they preferred to trade with us upon the terms there talked, than to accept Ivr. Whiteheads proposition. Yours truly. Polk & Hubbell. Dictated by E. M. H. ■ . .•.v..!".. 433 July, 1886. Office of R. E. Montgomery, Fort Worth, Texas. Camp Supply, I. T. July 3/86. Gen. G. M. Dodge, New York, Dear Sir: I have been up in Southern Kansas for two (2) weeks on a little prospecting tour, and think that I can perhaps give you some information that may prove of interest. The Southern Kansas has located its line definitely about 12 miles south of here so as to enter Texas in the Southern or SouthEastern portion of Lipscomb County in the Ban Handle of Texas, but beyond there nothing definite is known. They have graded from new Kiowa to the Salt Fork and are now on the heavy work this side of the Cimanon where they have some that runs 70,000 yds. to mile, but they will keep a 1 grade (52 8/l0 to mile) at least up to the Texas line. They were stopped for a few days on account ol some right of way trouble, but I heard before I left Kiowa that it had been settled and ithey would go ahead, and I know the Contractor has orders to push the work, and they expect to comii.ence laying track about the 1st of September, and they will have or rather expect to have 175 miles from Kiowa built by the 1st of June next. I think they will keep on the old Survey of the -ktlantic and Pacific R. R. on the north side of the Canadian and go to Alburquerque, branching at the most convenient crossing of the River to El Paso, but this you probably know more of than I do. I expect to be in Tascosa about one week from today and shall then return either back through thi°^^"®^^8^^the Pan Handle or eise follow the line across the Staxed Plains to 'Clarendon. The Northern portion of the Pan Handle is being quite rapidly settled, and it would seem to me necessary to protect your interests to push forward and occupy the Territory before it is taken from you. Very truly, R. E. Montgomery. 435 July, 1886 OMAHA BELT RAILWAY CO. Office', Rooms 25 & 26, Nebraska National Bank Building, Omaha, Nebr., July 4th, 1886. Dear Genl: ■ I have your favor 26th ult. and we are very glad to hear such good news from Annie, and hope she may continue to improve until entirely recovered and herself again. I presume the suit you mention is the Hunter Sampsell(?) case but the amount of Judgement seems out of all reason, as far as I know the case. Think you had better taken the case to a "Cross Timber" Jury in Texas. Mrs. Eddy is in excellent health, weighs 153 pounds and cant no more pass a pair of scales without getting weighed than she could an ice cream parlor twenty years ago. She is anxious to know your new name, thinks its hard to improve on some of the old ones of 1873 and 74. I send you the report of Gov. i^'arren of Wyoming, which if you have not seen may interest you. Warren is an old personal friend of mine and I think the best Gov. Wyoming ever had. ' Business in the west seems good in every branch. Neb. es pecially filling up rapidly and crops throughout the state fully up to the average with a greatly increased acreage. The Railraods in the west generally seem to be doing a fair and satisfactory business, but the North Western seems to be picking out. the best territory and occupying it rapidly, today they command the best cattle shipping in Neb. and when they are established in the vicinity of Fetterman they will have the cream of the stock business for the present at least or until Some other line gets into that Country. I cant understand why By.Capitol does not pick up this *.>maha &■ Northern Ry. scheme, build from Omaha to the North west and establish a local system with t^maha for an eastern terminus, buiid branches as required but push the main line northwest at least 200 miles at once. It can be built for say not to exceed |;14,000, and will pay 6^ on ^20,000 Bonds the first season, and in two yet.rs pay dividend 2 to 4/o on same amount of stock. Omaha (Douglas Co.) will vote $200,000. in 5^ Bonds, and local subsidies can be outained all along. The Town Lot Dept. is worth $500,000. on first 200 miles. We made a survey two years ago but the matter has hung along ever since. Mr. Gould has had it under consideration, also the old Nickel Plate Construction Co. and now Fairbanks, Kent and other Chicago parties are discussing it. Clark has really been at the head of it and we have been waiting for him. He thinks the Mo. Pac. should or will bui d it when they get ready, but in the meantime some one else is bound to get the line and subsidies unless action is taken soon. I have sold out my interest in the Pac. Hotel Co. in order to give attention to putting this scheme through and if possible getting some of my friends interested in it. There is big money in building it and excellent returns for the cost in operating it. It will cover ground unoccupied by other lines and do more local traffic than any road in the state. The Omah?i Belt Go. can furnish ample terminal facilities in Omaha under a contract which does away with the most expensive part of construction. I presume that $250,000. subscrip tion can be secured in Omaha and no question about the subsidy being carried provided it is built by a separate organization. I dont think the Mo. Pac. can secure the Douglas Go. subsidy. The people are afraid business would be carried direct to St. Louis without touching Omaha etc. This Gity is improving wonderfully this year, increasing in population faster and more building going on in shape of first class business blocks than any town of its size in the west. Jobbers are locating here from Ghicago, Peoria, ^t. Louis, Milwaukee, Pittsburg, etc. Two new Packing houses going up at the stock yards which makes that industry give great future expectations. Will you taxe hold of the Omaha iM Northern Ry. and form a syndicate to build it. Clark says Mr. Gould and Dillon.will, or offered to furnish half the capitol. Its .a prize to whoever picks it up. If I could do any good by going to New York with maps, pro files and estimates etc. I would do so. If you could be in Omaha one day you would find that you could submit any proposition you desired to our Omaha people and by giving assurance the line would be built could ^^et all you asked for. The matter is hanging fire here now and I will be glad to get an expression from you by wire on receipt of this. ^ery truly,yours, J. M. Eddy. ■ ■ ■ };• gv , .V , .u:t 't U'.... • • • S' " ..u f.':. .urV.ul v; 'I . » 'i iiy; : PL 437 July, 1886, T. I. McKenny, Dealer in Drugs;-, and Medicines McKenny's Block. Olympia, W. T., July 17, 1886 Gen. G. M. Dodge. Dear Sir : Presuming on old acquaintance, I again write you, althou^ I am rather sensitive about writing a second letter when my first is unanswered. But as you had a great deal to attend to about that^ time I will pass the seeming slight over. I wrote in regard to this as a future objective point, in J<ly Gould's railroad system. I sent you charts of Puget Sound; also advertisements etc. made by the agents of the N. P. R. an.I the time they contracted to bring their road to this place (Olyrnpia) and I wrote you in regard to their subsequent bad faith. The principle points I aimed to make in my letter were 1st. The Union Pacific have and Uninterruped outlet the year round with the Pacific Ocean to compete for the .Chinese and Japan trade. This she can only have by coming to Puget sound. Sho\ild the road go to Portland or even to Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia still there is the bar that can never be passed by the China and Japan Steamers. Besides should the roads stop at Portland, the Columbia River is frequently frozen between that place and Astoria for weeks every or nearly every winter. 2nd. If your directors should elect to come to or near this place where the N. P. R. R. Agreed to come there can be secured one and a half miles frontage on the Bay(where the great eastern could anchor) with fifteen hundred acres joining the frontage. I know whereof I speak. Your friend, T. I. McKenny. N. B. I trust my explaination was sufficient to relieve you of the « July, 1886 441 Petaluma, July 28, 1886. Gen. Dodge. Dear ^Ir* Excuse me for troubling you, but I would like to know if you are the same gentleman at whose house I stopped at Port Leavenworth, Kansas, a good many years ago when a child, as I came from New Mexico to my Uncle Caleb Baldwin in Council Bluffs, Iowa. I am his wife's brother's daughter, and would like to know if you can give me any information about my father's military course or if you can tell me who father married. I have learned -.she was governess in a family by the name of Marten who was quarter master stationed at Fort Leavenworth but he is long since dead. Do you know where any of the family can be foimd as I would like to corre spond with them in regard to my mother of whom I know nothing and I am longing to know something about her. Father's folks dont know anything about her. Can you give me the chaplain's name or Adjt. who probably married them? Can you tell me when father enlisted? I have found two gentlemen wi;o were, in the army with father; one is Senator Lowe and Major ITiittlesey. If you can give me any inform ation, it will be thankfully received, asdl want to learn all I can of either of tnem. Hoping this wont put you to any trouble and you willanswer at the earliest possible date, I remain. Yours respectfully, Mrs. Anna StClair. Which was Anna Barr.' 443 July, 1886. THE FORT WORTH & DEmHilR CITY RAILWAY COJ.IPA^IY. Fort Worth, July 19th, 1886. Genl. G. 'h Dodge, New York City. Dear Sir: Imagining that some information and ondits about the Cattle busi ness in Texas and its tributaries might be of interest to you - I send the most reliable of what I have gathered. In the extreme South of Texas and in most of the coast countries, rain has been abundant, grass good and cattle in fair condition. The notable exceptions when it has been verjr dry are the Counties of Neucfies, part of Cameron and Duval, and some parts of others farther North rain has fallen in spots apparently, a stretch of country along the Ri© Grande running tisv/ards San Antonio down to Victoria and over to Buville, with the exceptions named, has been the favored country. The lov/ price of stock cattle and dull market has driven Southern owners" to fattening beef for market and many have been sending calves for veal to Chicago and St. Louis. Their success has been siich that they will prbbably begin shipping direct -to market instead of as here tofore, breeding stock to be sold to Northern Ranges; some few are sparing their heifers, claiming that they take on more and better flesh, on the principal of a Capon; v^hile fattening and marketing has only been tried by a few their success is knoHn, and all of theabove will obtain more largely next year. The calf crop was large, and the Cattle men, while not making mon ey, are holding their own and are safe, financially. Coming farther North-and towards the center of the State, the drowth has been ruinous in Erath and some adjoining counties; families are moving back to Missouri and Kansas, coming up to Brownwood and Angelo, and that Section parties are offering yearlings at :''3.50 per head; there is neaither water' or grass, and the mortality has been fully 50^ and over. The crops are burnt up and the reports are so bad that I can not fail to believe they are exaggerated, and now coming up towards the Tex. & Pac. and up into the Panhandle, the condition of things are bad. In the first plaae I have heard it rumored that the Francklyn Cattle Co. was going' to liquidate.;; and the stock men are generally in very bad con dition; they have spent all their money and have a great deal of paper out, and many of their cattle are dead and dying;the Ranges were over stocked last year, the cattle did not get in good condition to pass thro' the winter, which was a hard one- and when the northers came and they drifted down against the line fences and walked up and down and as the weak ones fell, the strong tramped them to death, in places cattle were piled so high they were even with the tops of fences; it is not too much to say that 7bf. of the *- cattle died and 25f:' of the range cattle up to this time. When Spring came they were all so poor and weak that they could not be worked and before they gained strength, hot weather and the drowth came. 444 One man put in 7000 head of cattle and rounded up less than 1300; another, 5000 and got less than 600; another 2500 and every ond dead, and again another the sane. These are all facts, but they are kept as qiiiet as possible for various reasons. ■ IToich of the winter trouble is due to the fences, as when cattle drift against them they don't turn back and face the storm; in the ol d days, cattle might drift 300 or 400 miles in a storm i'f a long one, or 100 or less miles, but whatever it was the tellings would drop out in the sheltered places and live, and when the storm was over, their owners could ride after them, turn them and bring them back. Now even with the scarcity of v/ater, men are stopping driving their cattle to it and prefer waiting for rain, as when the cattle come in sight of the water, they make a great rush, many are trampled, others drink too much, are weak, get mired, and die there, and the loss has been so great, men are deterred from it. Ahd now I must make another division, along and adjoining the line of the T. & P. 'Vest, crops and grass are in a much worse condi tion, or comparatively worse so far as heard from, than thej'- are in the Pan Handle. East of the r. I.' extension to Red River, crops and the country generally are in much better condition than 'Vest of it. The Grain crop is very small. Corn is poor, but there is still chance of a large cotton crop. In some counties 'Vest on T. & P., Stockmen claim that now rain would do no good as the grass has been completely burned out roots and all.' Other' parties claim that it can not be so as it never has happened and never can. Murrain is rumored to have appeared in places in the Indian Tery- and on the border of Texas amongst the cattle; and fired are sweeping over the prairie. I look for a great business' next year with the North Tex. Rang es thinly stocked and the Southern ''Ganges over 'stocked- thein will be a great early movement of cattle, and certain precautions will be taken that will lensen losses should this occur again. The cattle business will also be pretty well cleaned out by next year- the weak ones will be dropped, and those strong enough to re main in, can get money and credit; and stock Tzattle will show strength and some advance and maybe something of a boom. ' The above is as near as I can give you the condition of thin^^s in Texas. In the Territories, the holding of cattle and general con ditions are so different from what they are here, that only an approx imation of the physical and financial conditions can be made, and that would take an even longer letter than this if you care to hear about the matter. I am, Yer:; respectfully, John Adamsen. The Thermometer has been standing at 106 to 112 Pahr.for the past weekiI 1 445 Hew York, July 28, 1886. C. F. Lleek, Es4.» DSs Lloines, Iowa. Dear Sir: I had negotiations for purchase of Des I'oines and Northwestern in good shape, but As..ley kicked on the ground that he had learned from you and Reynolds that the .road could be sold to otj.ers for more than to us, finally ti.e committee referred the matter to Wells and Ashley; the former will go out to examine it. V/hat I desire to caution you about is to let Wells draw hid own conclusions as to the value of the road, if he comes back with the idea that it is worth more than my offer-, the road will be tied up indefinitely but if he accepts my offer, I can get it free, widen the guage and e.:tond it to Sioux City and thus help me out. The Wabash is in no condition to do anything with the road, but no title can be given except the Wabash and Polk and Hubbel agree. I want Wells to come back believin; my offer of $459,000 in bonds is all the Wabash interest in the road is worth, the earnings of the road, its condition and the disadvantages it labors under will make him see this, unless ho is made to believe t.at it has a great future So please be careful and do all you can to help me out. Very truly youis. G. V.D-^dge. irU U ' ^ I w J. ?J. Eddy, Esq., IIe".7 York, July 29, 1885. . .. * ' . X V k i Omaha, IT.eb. Dear Sir: ' W W • I .. 4 w , t*. - » ■ .tji. lit Jt 4 y • * J i-i ■ ■ . t , . ■ V i_ r. t '1 I.A,' -V L'V." tl a ().i I ,u' .1.; i ii I am in receipt of your recent favor encloslnc description, eGtiiuates and maps of the proposed road of tho Omaha- Northern Rail-ay Company and have riven the same veiy careful examinati-n. Tbe estimates seem to. me to be out« of the way in this, you - estimate steel 8F. tons, 52 lbs to tl.o yard at "^35 per ton at Cmaiia, maki ing no allo'.vance for sidiny:. On such o road as that it ivoulo be nec essary to use 56<or 58 lb-Steel, and it would require at least ien per cent for sigins •ohich would make about 100 tons por mile and that steel could not be laid down in Cmaiia for less than ^40 or :*:42 per ton and steel is wortii at the mills ^35 per ton and in the west -30 cash. Again there is no mention in this estimate of an allov/ance for freight ci.arges, which could not be less than ^-1,000 per mile and you make no estimate at all for equipment wh.ich would be anywhere from vl,500 to 152,000 per mile, 00 tiiat it would make the 'Wi:Ole cost of your line so reat that to meet it you would have to issue bonds to the amount of at least ^20,000 per mils, provided that the material and labor could be kept within the figures of your estimate. The question which arises in my mind is tnis; now can an agric ultural country pay interest on a bonded debt of v20,l00 per mile where there are ti;roo roads running through the same territory within a wid h of eighteen miles for t;.e entii-e distance? I can see very ."lanly how tlio original propositioii would have paid, but now that the northwes tern has occupied the country from Scribner to Humphrey, it seems to me that it forces you into so small c ompass that there is not business enough out of a purely agricultural country to make earnings sufficient to meet the interest on ti;eir bond. There would be no difficulty in my making the arrangements Jrere if I c-uld convince the people that the road under the restrictions named, could earn tuis interest. The next best move in the m tter in my opinion would be to«get road under the restrictions named. The next best move in the m some traffic arrangement there out of tho Rock Island, C. 0 or the 3t. Paul by whici. tiiey would give us say fifty per cent thS same as tliey give me at Des koines for all business -we brought them and all business that came from them to us, that is all busines originating or received upon our line. A traffic arrangement of this kind would be very valuable and float the bonus and the road could be built. Out side of tliat I cannot see any profit in building the road unless it would be to sell it after it was completed as you suggest, but in such Cases as that I am always afraid of the combination of these roads not to buy it, the 3a...e kind of a combination as they made against the sale of my 3t. Louis, Des N.oines and Northern road; where they were all very anxious to have me build tho road and t..en ki.en I got it built went into an agreement to squeeze me to death, and there were more interests went into this Deo Woines than there are at Omaha. 448 Again I 'do not vaifderstand vdiere you can get 25,COO cubic ^ yards of earth -.vork per mile in that country, it must be very heavy \7ork, because if my judgment of that country is Torth anything the Ian running up the Pappillion or up the I'aple iTOuld not exceedmore than te or twelve thousand cubic yards to the mile, I suppose it oomes 'fi?om the heavy country ou have to take in getting to^ these streams. If I take hold of this road, it would be' with' people wl-o are independent of all Railroad interests anu it would be -well for you to ascertain from the Chicago people with whom you and l-r. Clark have been negotirting wiiether or not they would go into a deal on such a basis. 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Madison, Iowa, July 25, 1886. Dear General G. M. Dodge: Please pardon me if I am too hasty in writing to you as I cant get dates that will help me in my claim for rheumatism on my pen sion. I want, if you please, to give me the time you was wounded. I was then suffering much with rheumatism. I was laying at the head of the little ditch that run from the main line out to the outer works that was used as skirmish line. The wright wing of the 7th Iowa was out at the outer line and as you and Capt. Ratter came of the little ditch into the ditch of the front works you patted me with your sword and said to get down into the ditch that I would get hurt if not killed. Then you went to pull a chunk out of the works,we told you that we had just stopped it up that the Rebs was firing thru it then you took a glass and was looking over the works when you wao struck square in the fore-head. Ratter sent for a stretcher and I helped to place you on it, then stepped back to where I had been lying,got my coat and gave it to Capt Ratter to put it under your head. In a few minutes Capt. Ratter brought back the coat and said that the General was not dead only slightly hurt. Had Atlanta of fallen the boys would not of cheered any more than just then. There was quite a lot of blood on the back of n.y coat and no chance to wash it out. I wore that coat thru the entire campaign and when mustered out at Louisville, Ky. left it hanging on one of the beech trees in our camp. Therewas lots of the boys that called me Capt. Dodge after that. I have the corporal strips of from it yet, gave to me for volunteering to help work the guns of battery First.Mo. on the 22nd of July and volunteered to advance the line where you was wounded at front works yet I get no arears tho all my affidavit that got my pension on varicose veins is proven since Sept. 1862. The little ditch I spoke of was dug in the shape of a rail lence. I am doing Guard Duty here at the Prison, which is about all I am able to do tho I look to be very able bodied. I weigh 220 and am proud of the service I gave to my Country and if they dont give me any more pensionall right. I only have nine in family, my wife and six children and old aged mother who gave four boys to the war. Now you see from this poorly written scrap that your blood that started with old Billy, or a part of it, did reach the Sea and the one who carried it reached the Sea and home but not until he gave a part of his own blood on two different occasions. Now please give me the date cf your wound and let me remain youf Comrade Forever, G. W. Yeocum, Co. D. 7th Iowa. To Maj. General G. M. Dodge. ' ;} 451 Omah, July 27, 1886, Genl. G.M. Dodge, New York. Dear Sir:- During past three days I have been riding the country to find a line that would herd the Little Papi]lion, and get into the Big Papillion valley, cutting off about six or seven miles distanceSuch a location can be made but at the expense of heavy work,sharp alignment and using 125 grade both ways. Mr. House has run preliminary lines all over the ground trying to get from Mo. Valley to the Big Papio valley, and thinks his location ds sliown on the tracing I sent you the best route. He has been over the ground as shown on the map in blue line, and says there will be no engineering difficulty or heavy work except in crossing the Elkhorn near Pontanelle, and that the Maple Creek Valley in Dodge & Coifax Counties and projected line through Stanton County also through Platte and Atelope Counties as shown on the map I sent you is the finest and most productive in the State and give a large local business etc. The three inportant features are: first money can be made in Construction; second money can be made in operating it; third: Its geographical location makes it very desirable property for the follow ing roads to own or contr^:- Mo. Pac. Ry. Wabash System. B. &. M. Ry. C.R.I & P. Ry. U. Pac. Ry. Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. It will be good property to sell 6r keep, a combination not always attain able. Each of the above named Ry. Companies wouldbe soliciting agents for west bound business, and always stand ready to protest against any through rates from competing points made by U.P. or C. & N.W. and thus place the Omaha Northern in better shape than if it ovmed a line to Chicago or St. Louis, or was owned by siny single Chicago or St Louis line while it would supply and control all of the Omaha business. I h ve talked with Sage of the C.p. I & P., Smith of the Wabash, J. T. Clark of the C. If. £.St P., Holdridge of the B. &. M. and they are all of the same opinion. Such a line would be a good thing for the Union Pacific because the territory is bound to be occupied by some one and it is be ter to by by a friendly than an unfriendly & competitive interest besides the fact that it will give business tothe Bridge at Omaha instead of at Plattsmouth or Blair. Yours truly, J. M. Eddy. July, 1886 St. Louis, Des Molnes & Northern Riilway Company. 0. F. Meek, Superintendent. Des Moines, Iowa, July 31st, 1886^ Genl. G. M. Dodge, Prest., New York. Dear Sir: I have your favor of 28th inst, When in New York Mr. Ashley asked me if the D. M. N. W. would pay interest if it was standard gauge and I told him it would. I did not say anything to him about what couid be done with the road in the way of selling. I dont see what Runnells could mean by telling him that. R. knew the C. B. & Q. wanted it, but they have not 'indicated to him or any one that I know of how much they wpuld pay for it and when I saw Fitter I drew his attention only to the Boone road. Runnells could not have understood the situation. All I care to do in this matter is to help you, and I will go to any extent to do that. I understand what you want as to Wells, and will carry out your wished. Patter has not been here yet. I suppose whatever you do with D. M. N. W. you would be willing to sell the Boone road to the C. B.& Q,? As I telegraphed you the outlook for crop in this state is very slim. We had general showers yesterday which will bring out all the late corn if it shall mature before frost. A very safe estimate is one half a crop for the state, or, 20 bushels per acre. I travelled 125 miles in bug ies ins.-ecting fields, and this is a very liberal estimate for the ground I went over. We have carried the tax in all but six townships on the Qlear lake and Mason City line and are working those up to vote in a few days We may only get 2 l/2^ in first two townships north of Boone; which are yet to be voted. As soon as we get through will give you amount of subsidy voted etc. Yours respectfully, C. F. Meek, Supt. 455 1886 To the Investors of the Colorado Midland Railway Company, Gentlemen: The purpose of the writer is to give you information in regard to the project known as the Colorado Midland Railway. He undertakes to do this of his own free will. There has been no influence brought to bear upon your informant to take this co\irse, either by any party connected with The Colorado Midland Railway nor by any outside Railway influence. Your informant has been in the railway service for nearly twenty years . In that time he has seen numerous railway projects commenced and finally abandoned; some on account of the dishonesty of the projectors; others on iaccount of the dishonesty of the officials employed to carry out the project. It is with the latter that he proposes to deal. Operations were commenced upon the Midland Railway in the spring of 1883 by engaging a corps of Engineers, with your present Chief Engineer in charge of the party. For two years a corps of Engineers had been kept in the field almost continuously, and in the spring of 1886 the expenses of the Company amounted to almost $100,OOj. How much had been accomplished in these two years is a question quickly answered. It has been said by one of the best known Engineers in this western country, and one who is most thoroughly acquainted with the section of country over which your line passes, that the information collected in those two years could have been obtained in thirty days, and without the expense of employing a corps of Engineers. The reason for the expenditure of so much time and money is easily found and is embodied in the Pay-Rolls and Vouchers on file in the office of The Colorado 456 Midland Railway for those two yeahs, When the spring of 1886 arrived ^ what had been accomplished? There was not one foot of located line ^ from Leadville west, and but a very short piece from Hayden's Divide to Manitcu. This was about all there was to show for the expenditure of the §100,000. In the spring of 1886, just passed, the Colorado Midland Rail way sprang into life and activity. Three Million Dollars had been raised and deposited for the purpose of building what is called, The Western Division. A Construction Company had been organized with H. D. Fisher as its President, and as soon as the snow should disappear active operations were to begin from Leadville west. A corps of En gineers was organized and sent to Leadville, and preparations were being made to commence locating the line as soon as possible. A number of well-known Contractors were requested to hand in bids for the work, name- ^ ly: Orman, Crook & Company; J. A. McMurtrie; Clark, Lipe & Company; A. Douglass & Company, and Smith & Ripley, of New York, Prominent in all the operations of the company up to this time was your present Chief Engineer. One of the present firm of Orman, Crook & Company was a former partner of that Engineer in railway construc tion in Kentucky. J, A. McMurtries was the lowest bidder for your work from Leadville to the mouth of the Frying Pan. There was no question raised as to his ability to perform the work, but he did not get it. Your Chief Engineer's former partner was on the ground, and it was your Chief Engineer's determination that Mr. Myers should be interested in the contract. Mr. McMurtrie as the lowest bidder was approached and requested to take Mr. Myers in with him as his partner, and Mr. Mc Murtrie refused. Orman, Crook & Comipany were requested to do the same ^ thing, and they yielded in order to secure the contract; and now Mr. 457 1886 Sheet # 2. To the Invesors of the Colorado Midland Railway Company. Myers stands out prominently as one of the firm of Orman, Crook & Company. Your informant is prepared to state, and can produce evidence in confirnation of the statement, that Mr. Orman has said he wo\ald retire from active business as soun as he finished this contract. The majority of railway Contractors are not in the habit of predicting their retirement at the beginning of a contract. A great many uncertain elements enter into a contract such as Orman, Crook & Company have imdertaken, and nothing short of the light of revelation or the keys of the treasury box of the Railway Company could induce Mr. Orman to make such a prediction. Mr. Orman is a young man, and it may be said that young men do not easily retire from active business. The average Railway Contractor is ambittious, as well as the average business man; and so long as money-making is t e all-absorbing object among the people of this country you will always find the Railway Contractor in the ^van. Permit me now to call your attention to the Engineering ex ploits performed on the Colorado Midland Railway up to the present writing. Your Chief Engineer takes to himself the credit of having accomplished what little has been done, and if he is satisfied with his exploits, and you do" not demur, all that remains for you to do is to put your hands in your pockets and pay the fiddler, perhaps a great deal more than the music is worth. The line your Chief Engineer is most in love with is that which will cost tne mo.t money to construct, and in the future, be the most difficult to operate. The writer is prepared to prove that your Chief Engineer stated last October, in Leadville, in the course of a J ■ 458 ' ■ conversEtion (whether he was drunk or sober I know not), that he did not care a damn what the wor.. would cost, as that matter could be easily explained after the work was completed. And, further, to show that he intended just what he said, allow me to call your attention to the main proofs, which any Engineer of ability may be able to discover on an examination of the routes he proposes to take. From Colorado Springs to Hayden Divide the only way west is through the Ute Pass; and the only Engineering difficulty encountered between Colorado Springs and the Mosquito Range is through the Ute Canyon; and even here it cannot be said that there is any very difficult engineering obstacles. You will find a line upon paper in the office at Colorado Springs surveyed last September by your Chief Engineer, from Cascade Canyon to Manitou, a dis tance of four miles. Upon examination of the profile of this line you may be able to count thirteen tunnels, the total length of which is about^j^ one mile. This line was surveyed on the south side of the canyon. Taking into account the great amount of curvature, complete circles, half circles, and tunnels one on top of another it became ; Alarming as to the difficulties involved in operating such a line in the future, to say nothing of the great expense of its construction. While such a line presented numerous difficulties to a successful operation your Chief Engineer proceeded to make an estimate of its cost. The writer of this made a suggestion that it might be well to examine the north side of the canyon, and he gave it as his opinion that at least one-half of the tunnels might be dispensed with, unless they desire to retain them as ornaments to their line. Your Chief Engineer took charge of a party this sprirg to make a survey on the north side of the canyon. What the result of ^ 459 1886 Sheet # 3 To the Investors of the Colorado Midland Railway Company. such a survey was I have not been able to know. Your Chief Engineer did not wish anybody else to have charge of such a survey. In the Ute Canyon survey you will find mystery enough to rriake one comfortable for a life-time. Prom the head of the Ute Can yon to the Hayden Divide there are no Engineering difficulties. It is, what may be called, an undulating country presenting no difficulties in alignment, and no serious expense in construction. From Hayden Divide to South Park there is a choice of routes. You may descend from the Hayden Divide into the Platte River,--something over a thousand feet, go through the eleven mile canyon with an ascending grade and finally emerge into the South Park. This was your Chief Engineer's route, and your Consulting Engineer, Mr. Hutton, agreed .with him. Why this route should have been taken when a better one was at hand may be difficult for people living at a distance to conjecture. The other route is a natural divide between the Arkansas River and the Platte, with no ascending or descending grades to carry your line into South Park, and which is still more desirable as a question of expense from the fact that tnere are no eleven mile canyons nn this route. An Engineer looking for difficult and expensive route in this country may easily find them while hundreds of thousand of dollars may be thrown away in the gulches and canyons of Colorado. They are almost bottom less. Through the South Park there are no difficulties, but in leaving the Park your Chief Engineer seems to have fallen very much in lovewith the Mosquito Range, and especially with that part of it which presents the greatest difficulties. From a common point in the South Park there are two routes to Leadville, but your Chief Engineer has discovered a third one. Let us look a little into the merits of these routes: 460 Route No. one lies south of the principal range, a low divide between the Arkansas Valley and South Park. South Park Railroad runs ^ over this divide to Leadvilie andGunnison. This divide is so far be low the snow-line that the South Park Railroad Company never find any difficulty in operating their line all the year round. From this divide a light descending grade will carry you into the valley of the Arkansas, and then you have a water grade to Leadvilie. Any Engin eer in the State who happens to be acquainted with this section of the country will say that this is the route that the South Park Railroad should have taken to Leadvilie, Route No. two is by way of Western Pass, and is a snowline route. The route by way of Weston Pass would probably be some five or six miles shorter than route No. 1. For ten miles on each side of Weston Pass it is a country of canyons, gulches and snow, I Route No. three is your Chief Engineer's favorite one. This goes through the most difficult part of Mosquito Range, with a four per cent ascending and descending grade. On this route would be a tunnel which it would take two years to complete, with perhaps some ten miles of snow-sheds. This I understand has been abandoned. This was the route recoajnended by your Chief Engineer. There are no engineering difficulties between Ute Pass and Leadvilie, on route No. 1. You have no tunnels and it is clear of snow, while on either of the other two routes you have tunnels, can yons, gulches and snow. As stated before, route No. 1 may be some five or six miles the longest, but it has everything else in its favor. It may be worth while to uake a comparison between the two lines al ready operating between Denver and Leadvilie. The distance on the South Park Railroad between Denver and Leadvilie is 151 miles, while 461 1886 Sheet # 4 To the Investors of the Colorado Midland Railway Company, the Denver & Rio Grande Railway is 277 miles,-- a difference of 126 miles in favor of the South Park Railroad. The South Park has three summits to make between Denver and Leadville,--Kenosha Hill, over 10,000 feet; main range north of Corao, over 11, 000 feet; main range Freemont Pass, 11,320 feet. Except the divide between Denver and Colorado Springs, the Denver & Rio Grande Railway has a water grade to Leadville. The South Park Railway gets only 40 per cent of the Pool earnings, yet it has 126 miles the shortest line between Denver and Leadville. It cannot haul freight or passengers between Denver and Leadville, or Leadville and Denver as cheaply as the Rio Grande Rail way can, notwithstanding the great distance in its favor. The inference is plain; avoid summits, gulches, tunnels', and snow; even shouM it have a tendency to increase the distance. I will now call your attention to the line from Leadville west. That part of the line is now under construction, and it will soon be too late to remedy its defects. The Contractors are now at work on both the approaches of your tunnel. They enter the range with an elevation of 11,,520 feet, and at that part of it, which is the storm center of the surroiinding country. An axiom among Engineers in this country is, if you get into the snow, get out of it as soon as you can. Your Chief Engineer has taken the opposite course. As stated above he goes into the mountains at an elevation of 11,520 feet above sea level. At this elevation you have aiow in your neighborhood all the year round. From the eastern approach of the tunnel (to a point about three miles distant) going east you will find about eight miles of line all in the snow. Your Chief Engineer has accomplished this feat in 462 oi?der to keep within the limits of his report as to the dista:-!ce be tween Leadville and the main range, which is about 17 miles, as your line is now located. A direct line from the tunnel on a three per cent grade would increase this distance perhaps one and one-half miles. Such a line would carry you out oi the snow limits. Such a line as you now have cannot be operated on both sides of the range without between 15 and 20 miles of snow-sheds. Your Engineer has four or five loops in the Immediate vicinity of the tunnel right in the snow. You will find also that he has a few more tunnel sites on the west side of the main ran.ge, even as far as the mouth of the Frying Pan; 40 miles from the main range he had a tunnel, an unlucky Engineer made the location there this spring and threw out that tunnel. The tunnel was in red sand-stone, and a very pretty thing for the Contractor. Your Chief Engineer did not seem to understand how it was abandoned. Gentlemen, the above facts are for your information. These facts have not been comm\micated to any person in Colorado, and if they are not sufficient to move you to action you may find that while you may gain in experience some of your friends in Colorado will have your money. If you find the above statements suificiently important to call for an examination or an investigation you are at liberty to use the writer's name. But I would request that my name be kept out of such an investigation until you are compelled to produce it. Fred ^:ack 463 August, 1886 - PRESIDENT'S OFFICE Frank S. Bond, Pres. The Associate Railways. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Ry. Go. Charles Schiff, Vice-Pres.(Lessees of Cincinnati Southern Ry) 336 K. Alabama Great Southern R. R. 295 M. New Orleans & North-Eastem R. R. 196 M. Vicksburg & Meridian R. R. 142 l/2 M Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific R'. R. 189 M. (St. Paul Building, Cincinnati, 0. 1158 l/2 M Executive Office:(34 St. Charles Street, New Orleans, La. (51 William Street, New York, N. Y. Cinninnati, 0., Aug. 2nd, 1886. My dear General: I have your note of July 2ond which has been forward to me here I regret not seeing you when I was last in New York, as I do not expect to return there before the last of this month or early in September, till then I shall remain here unless it be to take a trip over the Road, which is as far as I shall go from our headquarters. What about Texas & Pacific? I am glad that the Wistar plan has apparently failed. In my opinion, it was unjust to every interest; the Rio Grande, New Orleans Pacific, Income and Land Grant Bonds, and the Shareholders. While I am not familiar with the details of the Stockholders' agreement that I see referred to in the papers, I have read, hastily, the reorganization agreement submitted by Messr-s. Fry, Lehman, Kill, Rice & Greenough, and this seems to me the fairest of all the plans of which I have any know ledge. The new Committee of which Mr. Olcott, of the Central Trust Company is Chairman will I hope, formulate some plan that will be fair and just towards all interests, although I do not think there need be any hurry about carrying out such an arrangement as I think the true in terest of all parties will be pronioted by continuing the property in the hands of the Receivers ior at least a year longer, for the purpose of ascertaining what its earning capacity is; meanwhile permitting the Receivers to issue Receivers' Certificates to put the Road in good order, I am going to taxe up these different plans, and look them over so soon as I can get the time, and may the perhaps have a word to say in reference to them. Yours very truly, Frank S. Bond, Gen . G . M. Dodge, No. L. Broadway, New York. President. August, 1886. Society of the ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. '' ' • ; Headquarters Local Executive Committee,) Harper House, ) Rock Island, 111., August 2d, 1886 ) The following Coii.iriittees are appointed in charge of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee,•at its nineteenth annual reunion, at Rock Island, Wednesday and Thursday, September 15th and 16th, 1886. Local Executive Committee. General Ad( Colonel H. Major L. M Captain H. Colonel D. Major Geo. Add F H. B. Dr. S. C. Plummer, Sanders, Burgh Buford 3. Sudlow ). Reid McCleiland Captain John Peetz Captain W. c. Bennett Captain A. Weingartner Dr. J. B. Morgan Chas. H. Reese, Esq. Alonzo Grout, Esq. Chairman. Major H. C. Connelly. Dr . Pi Gregg. Colonel Henry Egbert. • Captain J. W. Brackett. Colonel Wm. Clendennin. Capt D. Fillier. Captain D. b. Moorehouse Colonel W. E. Btevens Captain J. B, Fidlar Hon. P. O'Mara Major M. L. Marks. A. L. Carson. Invitatiou and Reception Dr. S, C. Plummer, Captain T. J. Robinson, General A. C. Litchfield Colonel P. W. McManus Major R. C. Connelly Captain J. W. Brackett Major L. M. Buford Colonel T. J. Baylor Captain J. G. Butler Captain A. L. Varney John P. Van Patten C . H . Deere Chairman. Major Geo. P. MicClelland Morris Rocefield. Math Rogers W. B. Ferguson, Esq. Hon. Thos. Murdock. D. T. Robinson C. H. Reese C. S. Ells Hon. Geo. H. French Howard Bubtis Amos Altemus. Finance . Captain John Peetz, Chairman. Captain J. M. Beardsley Martin W. Burgh. Captain W. C. Bennett Captain August Reimers A. . Willienis, Esq., C ♦ F. Ilemenway. .. ^ Transportation. Capt. H. B. Sudlow, Chairman H. D. Mack. Banquet and Toasts Dr. P. Gregg, Chairman lajor J. M. Beardsley Colonel Henry Egbert Colonel H. E. Brugh. General add K. Sanders Dr . F . L . McKinnice . Hall and Excursions. Major C. W. Hawesj 'Chairm^ Colonel W. Clendennin. Ca:.tain D. B. Moorehouse. Captain J. W. Blaisdell Captain J. E. Fidlar IV. S, Knowlton. Music and Decoration. E. H. Eown.an, Chairman. Captaion Robert Fbdiler ' Phil Mitchell Captain D. Killier E. W. Spencer Colonel Henry Curtis ' 3. J. Keator Lieutenant A. . Williamson J. R. Mills Captain H. C. Cleaveland ' ' J. M. Reticke Keator Mills Reticker, Esq.. Badges"and.Printing . Dr. S. C. Plummer, Chariman Captain J. MontgOD:ery ' Hon. P. O'Mara MI. M.. Sturgeon, Esq. The several Committees will obtain their badges at the rooms of the Local Executive CoraHiittee, at the Harper House, on the morning of the 15th of September. The tickest for the Banquet can be obtained of the Committee on Banquet on and after the morning of the 15th of September. Ladies of the families of members can participate at the Ea.nquet. Officers who have served with the Army of the Tennessee, and who wish to Join the Society, will apply to the Recording Secretary, at the rooms of the Local Executive Committee, on the 15th of September. Members desiring information in relation to hotel accommodaticns, transportation, etc., will address the Chairmen of the respective committees. The Committee on Transportation will arrange with railroads for reduced rates. The meiiibers of the Society of the Xrmy of the Tennessee are respectfully requested to inform Major L. M. Buford, the Secretary cf the Local Executive Committee Rock Island, Illinois, by the 3d prox. whether they will attend the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society in * order that provision may be made for their entertainment. S. C. PLUMMiER, Chairman Local Executive Committee. 4G7 August, 1886. All Official Letter to this Office must be .addressed to the "Second Auditor of the Treasury and in replying to Letters frou. this Office the initials on the upper left-hand corner should be referred to. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Second Audito]^s 01 fice, R • Washington, D. G., August 2nd, 1886. v General Grenville K. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. I have the honor to inform you that there is a charge of $17,099.95 standing against you on the books of this office on account of Secret Service funds placed in your hands during the late war, as follows: On March 18, 1865 the sum of $5,000 was advanced to you on the requisition of the Secretary of War,- and in April 1870, on the settlement of the Secret Service accounts of General W. S. Rosecrans, you were charged with $12,099.95 received from him December 9, 1864. The Secretary of War reports that you filed vouchers in his office for $14,190.30, which leaves $2,909.65 to be accounted for. Before making a formal settlement and certifying a balance of $2,909.65 against you, I think it proper to ask for such informatior as you may be able to furnish in relation to this matter. If you have any vouchers or papers please forward them to the War Depratraent for proper action. Although so long a time has elapsed since the charges herein n;entioned were raised on the books of this office I do not find that your attention has ever been invited to them. In explanation of this apparent remissness I am informed that it was always understood tint your accounts were duly rendered to the War Department and that, owing to the peculiar character of Secret Service accounts in general, it was deemed advisable that ti.ey siiould remain in the custody of that department. It is only recently that the Secretary has reported the amount of your disbursements--hence this late call upon you. Very respectfully, Wm. A. Day, Auditor. 471 August, 1886 St. Louis, Des Moines & Northern, Railway Company. G. F. Meek, Superintendent Personal. Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 4th, 1886. Gen'l G. M. Dodge, Prest., New York City Dear Sir: Gen'l Swayne, Mr. Wells, Cols. Row and Blodgett came up yesterday from St. Louis, and I took them over Des Moines Northwestern. It may be well tor you to know that General Swayne looked more closely into the matter than Mr. Wells. The General asked me a great many questions and I tried to answer them all to your purpose. He wanted to know what I thought the road would do as a standard Gauge. I told him it was hard to tell, it might earn interest and might not. He wanted to know what Polk & Hubbell had in view and where they were going to raise money and how they expected to make it pay. I replied I did not know. I showed them that the com crop is practically a failure, and the disadvantages we were under being in a country in which older r'oads had built up good towns end had control of the trade etc., etc. They were pleased with the looks of the country, but the record of the four years just past offset it. Mr. Wells did not express himself at all. My judgement is that you had better have a talk with General Swayne as soon as he .returns. He will be there by the time you re ceive this letter. Col. How and Col. Blodgett talued in my presence of the matter of selling. Col. Blodgett said he thought 5000 per mile would be about right. Col. How said he thought that if sold he thought the Wabash ought to have a traffic arrangement as favorable as could be made. They asked me what I thought of your proposition, I told them I didn't know v.hat it was. When they told me I said "On the basis on the past four years that is as much as it is worth. I think the scheme for Central Iowa to ta^ze Des Moines and St. Louis should be worked, as that woula relieve them from any embarrassnient whatever in parting with the Des Moines Northwestern. Yours respectfully, C. F. Meek, 473 Hew York, August 11, 188' lilr. E. B. Wheelock, New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your two telegrams, the first asking what action we intend to take now that th.e Senate had declined to vote upon the hili granting us our additional lands in Louisiana. The reason this bill did not pass t/.e Senate was the position position take'" by Eustis and Van 'Jyck. Berry will also sign the minority report with. Van V^yck. If -'re cor.ld get proper attention to this bill early next session, I do not believe there -.Tould be any troij.ble in passing it, but it is necessary to appeal to all the Senators you know in the matter so when it comes up it sliall have prompt attention. Ly only fear is th.at it will not receive this proper attention. You are in a position to have inf^.uence with all the Senators and you know, of cours'^, that I shall do my part. So far it has been managed very "ell but as soon as I can see some of our friends who are no'./'"'Ut of the city, I shall suggest to thnn Ihe idea of going direct to Lamar and tryin^ to get him to '^ivo us the balance of the lands for '■:'hich "re have paid the entrance fee. Lamer I think is disposed to aid us but Busits may be able to keep him from it. Cannot you se-"^ Busits there and have him look at this matter as he might to? It is a great outrage upon us thht after all v/e have done to build that ro^-d and rut value into tliat country thoj'" should try to take from us wl.at was giver us for compensatio'-- for doirg this. Van Wyck'3 position will have very little weigl't in Washington but Eustis coming fro," the Btate w].ere the land grant lies will carry a great deal of force and it is very important that h'"' slould be set right upon it wh'lst he is at home and all of your friends irho V« 4 ma ^ 14 rrt ^ ^' +1 l-i4 mimht to? It is build that r take from us but Eustis coming fro," the Btate w].ere the land grant lies will carry a great deal of force and it is very important that h'"' should be set right upon it wh'lst he is at home and all of your friends '.rho know him and should go to him and see H tl ey cannot influence him to do what is right by us in the matter. I feel convinced that if he thoroughly understood the facts in this matter he would not be against us. Cod knows that I have had trouble '^nough 'with this business and they are now fighting me and leaving me b'^cause I did not give them the whole land ';'rant Instead of only the entire portion that we received. Referring to "our second telegram about making deed to Sands, and bonds, therefore, I am waitin" to hear fr-^m some of my friends who ut bonds in with and as soon as I "et word from them, will advise you and c^nd you "^ist of memibers, Verj' truly y-tirs, G. M. Dodge. 475 Nev; York, August 14, 1886. To the Board of Trustees of tie Soldiers and Sailor's Homo, Quinjty, 111. Gentleaen:- I understand that Col. M. Lh Bane is a candidate for the position of Supt. of the new soldiers and Sailor's Home, now being erected at Quincy. Col. Bane was a physician and practiced his profession until the breaking out of the T7ar. But during l.is services in the army l.e lost his arm whicii disqualified him from further efforts in that direction. He served in my commiand for three years and I can speak of him and his qualifications for tne position he now seeks from personal knowledge--of his ability and qualifications, as well as of his record as a soldier. He possesses in a high degree all the qualifications that .vould naturally fit i.im to fill such a position as that for which he applies His record and comiuunds in Lhe army, and his life since the close of the TTar have eminently fitted hiia to discharge the duties of the sit uation he seeks, and I wish to say thai I can endorse him in every way, and in Liie highest terms, with great satisfaction, and trust that you vfill see proper to give him the appointment. I knov/ that if you do you will never gret it. Very respectfully. G. n. Bodge. 477 ITevV York, Aurrust 14, 1886. Gen. . W. Belknap, TTashincton, D.C. Tly dear General' I enclose cppy of a letter I received from the T/ar Department relating to my secret service accounts and which you kindly offered to investigate. I have a distincl recollection of this mattei' being called to my attention several years ago and it seems to me that it ^ was during the time that you were Secretary of '.Var, and at that lime I made a full stateme t of the matter to the 77ar Department nnd received a reply stating that my explanation of the apparent dis crepancy V7as perfectly satisfactory. I have not the original papers by me now, but they are probably among my army records in Council BluJ'fs; but if the papers I sent to the "fer Dept. are on file there, I should like to get a copy of them. It seems to me that they should have been forwarded 6o the Treasury Department with the account. I shall be very much obliged to you for your aid in looking up the mattei'S. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 479 New York, Auf;^st 18, 1086. examined, William A. Day, 2nd Auditor Treasury Dept., Washington. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of AuyiTst 2nd in reyard to balance which appears to ny debit on the accounts of the secret service fund in your department. If you will have the records of the War Donartmert, examined, y you will find that this matter was called to my attention several years a^o, and that I the -.vrote to the Department . showin- how this money v/as spent, and made affidavits or in some way, I do not exactly remom.ber hov;, explained the apparent discrepency, and T received a Ifetter from, the War Dept. statiny that my explanation was satisfactory I do not kno ; that I have now any records relating to th'^se accounts as th.ere is one box of my army papers missiny and I think that these papers would naturally have been stored in that box. However, when i go home to Council Pluffs, I v/ili endeavor to look the papers up, and will advise you if I find anything bearing upon the case. 1 do kno./, however, that I made a satisfactory statement to the "Tar Department in relation to this debit again t me. I suppose you understand that it was impossible to always take vouchers for expenditures on secret service account. Such vouchers were never required i>'§ us by tiie 77ar Department; all they re>-iuired was tiiat v/e siiould make a pi'oper statement of our expendi tures. Where it was possible to take vouchers w3 always did so and when we received such vouchers we always returned them to the Depart ment but where we received no vouc..ers v/e sim|jly sent a statement of the account to tiie Department. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 481 Ke.v Y6rk, August 20, 1886, Morgan Jones, Esq., Fot?t Wortii, Texas. Dear 3ir:- I have ueen in ""oston for a v/eek past and met there Mr. Seeley and Mp. Strong, end I have found thad they are ready t,o go in v/iti: us at any iimc I say the v/ox-d. I made an arrangement, -ith them for a meeting point sonie'.vhere soutii of the Canadian river, as soon as they get a report from their engineer, stating ;7here they desire the meeting point to be, and I am to be notified of it and to send some one up there to see if the point selected is satisfactory to us. They hawe agreed to bear as far '.vest as a point nc I'th of Clarendon and to build to that pfliint by the first of July next year. They calculate that this siill requaire 90 miles of road moi'o than they had intended to build, bu . tney provided for this additional distanc whilst I was there. Therefore we siio. ld be arranging our mattei'S so as to keep right on to'waj d them. But I don't want to do anything on this extension until I get some other affairs fixed up. I write you this confidentially, and dent want you to say anytning about it to any one. You want to keep in harmony with the Santa Fe people, although I did not tie myself u- with theis in any way, I positively refused to do this, and they do understand it. I am in iiopes that our eaiviings will siiow up better for the x'emainder of this year as at present they are certainly discouraging. About 1400 tons of steel wil be on the way to you by the end of this week, part of it by steamer. This will give you the 16 miles you will need to build into Ver..on, by the first cf October. Vie will push an additional amount of 120C tons as rspidly as ^ possible, commencing next week. Ue i-ave ..ad a great deal of trouble in getting this steel started, first by two break downs at the mill and tien by being obliged to send it to New Orleans. It has been almost impossible for us to get vessels to go to TTev/ Orleans, and we are now paying $4 p ton for its transportation from Jersey City to New Orleans. Hovve«rer, you can depend upon our doing everything possible to have it go forv/ard and reac.. you in time. Very truly youis, G, M. Dodge. 483 New York, August 20, 1086. J. R, Carlton, Post Adjutant, G. M. Dodge, Post G.A.P.. Beresford, D.T. Dear Sir:- In th early part of the current year I sent you, as a present to your post, a crayon portrait of myself, in the nifdrm of a Llajor General of the U.S.Volunteers. I have never received any ackno-vledgement of the receipt of this picture, and I wiite to ask if it came safely to hand, Tlie clerk ;vho -was with iae when the portrait was shipped has gone abroad and I am unable to find in my letter book any record of the letter of transmittle, or any receipt of the S^apress Company taking it. My ippression is, however, that it was sent via Adama Express Co, and I will be very much obliged to you if ycu will at once make inquiiry and advise wiietlier or not it ever reacned your Post. With kindest regards to yourself and comi'ades, of the G.A.R, T^uly yours. C. LI. Dodge, 48-5 August, 1886, All Official Letter to this Office must be addressed to the "Second Auditor of the Treasury," and in replying to Letter from this Office the initials on the upper left hand corner should be referred to. TREASURY DEPART^'ENT . TR Second Auditor's Office, Washington, D. G., August 21, 1886 General G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, Sir: New York City. I have the honor to inform you that your letter of the 13th inst. in relation to your Secret Service accounts has been referred to the Secretary of War. If you have settled those accounts to the satisfaction of the '"ar Department all that the Accounting officers re« quire is a statement from the Secretary of War to that effect. Very respectfully, Wm. A. Day, Auditor, by TR. 487 Nev^ York, August 31, 1G66. Morgan Jones, Esq., Port T7orth, Texas. Dear Sir:- In flrawing up contract for the completion of our road from Quanah to the junction with the Atchison, Topeka 5: Santa Fe, we make it a condition that each 1-8th owner shall control and hold 2000 shares of the capital stock of the Railway company, and put the proxies in your hands, as President otf the Company to vote at all elections, un til such time as the road is completed, oi^ until some future fixed date to he hereafter agreed upon. Therefore I have sat aside l-8th of this construction stock for-youi friends in the south, and I want you to designate who is to ta' e it, and you want to place in their hands or have them ret together a sufficient amount of stock to control 2 7.00 shares. The contract will he made on a hasis of ^1500 on honds and J20,G00 in stock, per mile of completed road, and they will be given an additional camount of one million dollars in stock for the purchase of equipment. This stock will he part of th.at wzvich we can issue on the first extensio' , You, of course, can take no direct interest in the construction company on account of your position as President of the Railway company The parties who will go in will probably he Mr. Walters, of Baltimore, Mr. lv!ayer and tho Itutten interest in New York, Connor, Dodge and two interests in Boston if they want the... If they do .ot, taei-e are other parties here vfho stand ready to hack them. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. Lv't*. 489 New York, August 31, 1886. Solon Humphries, Esq., Dear Sir: As I had only a few minutes talk with you, I will make a memo randum of what I think is important to look at; First: The position of lir. Joy on the Polk-Hubhell proposition, that he will accept it, provided Polk and Hubhell will endorse tiie bond s individually. Polk and Hubell notified them that the whole matter was in my hands. The Purchasing Committee should accept that proposition now before I ~o west so that I can make the arrangement with the Sioux City road. Second: You remember tnat the 7/abaoh railroad, the St. Louis, Des Moines and Northern and the St. Louis, Des lloines and Northwestern have entered into agreements to place the terminal property in Des Lloines into a sei-p. rate company. That terminal company was organised, all the papers dravm and the Trustees of tiiO property, L'essrs. Howe, Dodge and others, were instructed to deed the property to the terminal company, each of the company's holding there interest in the terminal property. This nevei was done on account of the Tabash going into the hands of a Receiver. The time is no.v ready i . seems to me when that proposition should be carried out and L!r. Llonroe should be instructed to deed o ver the property to the terminal company. T he other companyds all stand ready to make the deed as soon as the 77abash does. I think this matter was delayed if I remember rightly by Polk and Hubbell on account of tiie idea tljat the T7abash would receive the pay of the one quarter interest that belongs to t..e ot. Louis, Des Lloines and Northwestern; but tliat matter, it seems to m , could be arranged, at any rate it seems to me this terminal property should be put in slmpe, whilst the-people who control the Tabash understand the matter. Very truly yours. .G. M. Dodge. 491 August, 1886, Aug. 31, 1886. My dear General: I have been sick in bed nearly ever since your noble gift of a crayon portrait of yourself came. I did not expect to receive a picture so superbly set, but treasure it all the more and have hung it in the place of honor in my oflice over my desk and am prouder of it than any picture I have ever had. Hundreds of your old friends have seen it, and are delighted with it, especially those who fought under you as soldiers. They say it is a magnificent likeness and they talk by the hour of it. I assure you General, I am grateful beyond expression for this token of your friendship and I shall prize it as I do very few things. You have been one of the strong and true friends of my life, one of those who have helped me most. I have loved the-best. Your counsel and friendship have been invaluable to me and your person al liking for me one of the proundest things in my life. I /wish I could do something for you. I would do it as willingly and as loveingly as I would for my father. If ever I can serve you or any of yours, believe, it will be a pleasure uncommon for me to do so. True stead fast friendship is rare in this world. Strong and steadfast friend ship like yours is rarer still. I want you to know how thoroughly I appreciate it, how grateful I am for it, and how proudal am of it. This my first day out of bed. I start to-day with Mrs. Clarkson to take our two boys, Coker and Harold, aged 16 and 14, to put them in Philiips Academy, at Exeter, U. 11. to prepare for Harvard. We will be at Exeter ftom the 4th to the 8th or 10th. We will be in New York the 10th or Ikth. Hope to see you. I hope you are well. Gratefully yours, J. S. Clarkson. 495 lieiT York, September 7, 1886, E. B. Wheelock, Land Commissinner. New Orleans, La. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your favor of August 27th informing me that you have fonvarded to Judge Dillon deed of lands in Louisian, imrchased by Genei-al Dodge, to be paid for v.'itn 167 bonds. I have been obliged to take tv/o bonds o different numbers from the ones I gave you and must therefore ask you to kingly make the follov/ing change. Instead of turning in to the Trustees bonds niimbers 3821 @ 3822, I vrill deliver bonds nxambered 3672 3 3675. I trust this v/ill not materially interfere with your record or prove any incenvenien ce to you. Judge Dillon is still out of town and I have thex-efore been unable to receive the deeds which have probably be-n in his possession for*- some Lime. I enclose herewitvi Gen. Dodge's check for 054.06 covering Lhe balance due your office as per statement of account, in your favor of August 25th, receipt of whici, please acknov^ledge. SometUae ago you v;rote us recommending a party to take charge of these lands, tosee th-at the timber was not stolen from th m and that the taxes v/ere regularly paid and assessments 'ept d~v;n as iovx as possible, and by direction of General Dodge, I wrote you asking what this party would cJnrge for his services and wh; L kind of a contract , in your oplniong, it woul bo v/ise for us to make witl him. To this letter I have received no reply and will thank you to advise rao on these points. Very txnily yours, J. T. Granger, Private Secty. i'<e-.7 York, Septemter 7, 1886. Hon. John Dillon, Trustee New Orleans Pacific Land ("rant, bonds, 195 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir:- General Dod^e has purchased an amount of j!60,235.93 acres of land in Louisiana, covered by the New Or'leans Pacific Land Grant for which he agrees to pay in first mortgage land grant bonds of the New Orleans Pacific Railway Co., in accordance with terms made by I.Ir. B. !7heelock. Land Commissioner at New Orleans; who writes us that he has made deed for these lands in my name and has fohWarded the same to you for delivery. I therefore hand you herewith the above named bonds, numbered as follo'ws: 3811 to 3820 3672 to 3675 2571 to 2630 3001 to 3030 3709 to 3724 3633 to 3634 3615 to 3618 2794 to 2800 2727 to 2933 3783 to 3789 3913 to 3914 2888, 2"50, 2546 - 2781, 2010, 2782 - 2780, 3794 to 3806 10 bonds. 2 bonds. 60 bonds. 30 bonds. 16 bonds, 2 bonds, 4 bonds. 7 bonds. 7 bonds. ^ bonds. 2 bonds. 3 bonds. 3 bonds. 1 bond. 13 bonds. 167 bonds and ask that you will deliver the deeds. Very truly yours, John T. Granger. New York, Sept, 10, I086, S. R. Galloway, Esq., General Llanager U.P.Ry. Co., Omaiia, Neb. Dear Sir: I leave here Saturday night for the west and my time will be taken up in Illinois and Iowa unfl about the 20th and between the 20th and 30th I want to make my arrangements to make a trip over the U.P. and some of its branches. I shall have with me my daughter and two or tiiree other people. I would like, if it is convenient, to arrange so as to take a car in v/hiCii we could live, so that I can stop at the different points at suci. time as I vrisn, so as to get posted thereon. I would like to have'you write me at Des moines, Iowa, care of C, P. Meek if it will be convenient for you to fit me out. I s..all want to spend quite a time on the road and I write thus early in this matter so as to put you to as little inconvenience as possible. Very truly yours, C-. !!. Dodge. 'JUrX'.*'" 501 New York, Sep .. 10, 1886. Samual Carr, Jr. 47 Eqiiitable Blclg., Boston, IJass. Bear Sir: Referring to the circular of the Intei'national Railway Improve ment Company, sent you a fev; days ago, the other Boston subscribers are as follows: - George B. Clapp C. B. Lancaster, Baker & Morrell F. L. Ames 0, Ame s F. G. Dexter, Elisha Athins. 500 shares 500 shares 500 chares 2000 shares 750 shares 500 shares 500 shares 05O,OCO. 50,000. 50,000 200,000. 75,000. 50,000. 50,000 They should eacii sign the Circular for 2.% of these amounts. We sincerely hope that you ;v*ill be able to get them all to sign, as it apoears to be the best way to unite and fight this judgment collectively rather than at extraordinary expense individually. Veyy truly yours, J. T. Granger, Private Secretary to President, Seotember 11th. 1886. 5G3 New York City, September lltli, 1886. Dillon & Swayne, 195 Droadway, N. Y. Dear Sir:- we have made up a detailed statement of the organization a. d operations of the Oriental Construction Co., and hand you the same herewith. The Scrapboo]: sent you yesterday shows the original documents as made up and put out from our office in the Western Union'Building. And the letter book herewith contains many letters and telegrams relating to the transfer of this work from the Inter national to the Oriental. Any further papers or documents that we may have relating ttiCreto are at your disposal . Very tiaily yours. C. M. Dodge 505 September, 1886 WAR DEPARTIv'iENT, Washington,City. 3852 September 11, 1886. General W. W. Belknap, No. 1420 New York Avenue, City. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication of August 18, 1886, forwarding a letter from General G. M. Dodge concej'ning his secret service accounts and I have also received General Dodge's letter of August 13, 1886 to the Second Auditor of the Treasury upon the same subject. In reply, I have to inform you that General Dodge stands charged on the books of this department with secret service funds to the amount of |2,909.65. A copy of all the correspondence upon the-subject found on the files is herewith; no record having been found of any communication from the department informing General Dodge that his explanation of the discrepancy was satisfactory. General Dodge should file receipts from the parties to whom the funds were paid, and if he cannot file receipts, he should submit a sworn statement of the disposition of the funds including therein the circumstances which necessitated the expenditures. It will be noticed that the amount charged against him is $2,909.65 and in his letter of January 6, 1868, a check of $2,809.65 is mentioned, which is $100.00 less than the balance reported by General Dodge in his account current for January 1, 1866, copy here with. Very respectfully, L. G. Orcun. Acting Secretary of War. Enclos. Copy of account current of Januaryl, 1866. Genl. Dodge to Chief Clerk War Dept. January 6, 1868 Chief Clerk War Dept. to Gen. ^odge March 6, 1868 Genl. Dodge to Chief Cler War Dept. March 8, 1868. Genl. Dodge to Chief Clerk War Dept Feb. 26, 1879, Nevr York, September 13, 1886. Llorgan Jones, Esq. , Port Wor th, Texas. Dear Sir:- I have your favors of Sept, 8, 1 G86;when Mr. Montgomery was here he spoke to him about the lack of notification, that one subsi y In Vernon depended up^n our reaching there upon any specified day, and he distinctly dis"claimed any instructions or intimation tliat he should notify this office and stated, thit, of his own volition, he changed t^.e limit of time from August 1st, (as per your instructions) to October 1st, I Very much fear this misunderstanding is going to cost us either serious litigation or loss of the subsidy. Your judgment as to the best method of using the second class steel is all right, and put it just where you think it will do the most good. General Dotq '.vest out of immediate reaci.. so that we could not consult .vith him upon thi^, but I knovr that he wants you to do just vrhat you think best about it. The purchase of the steel was an after thought and rather forced upon us by lack of sufficient frei. fill a vessell which chartered agreeing to give her a certain amount and therefore we will do the best we can witii^ it. Ill have carefully read your letter of September 9th to General Dodg e in regard to local rate on cattle from Texarkana to Cairo as charged us by tiie Missouri Pacific and will do what I can to straigh ten it out here but I fear it is beyond us to effect any change of importance. Very truly yours, J. T. Granger. 511 Sept. 1886. Broadway, N. Y. Sept. 19, 1886, J. M. Eddy, Esq., President, Port Worth, Texas.. Dear Sir:- I have just wired you a dispatch as follows: "Jud^re Dillon says Section thirteen limits issue of first mortgage bonds to sixteen thousand per mile. Take steps to amend section thriteen of charter under article forty on hundred and eight and following, so as to give t'e right to make a mortgage not exceeding twenty five thousand per mile. As the charter gives ho privileges which a new companj'^ could not secure under the general law, the attorney General should have time in perfecting this amend ment, if it canrot be done let me know so i can take next best course, Bee Pet6r smith imiriediately on this matter. How much right of v;ay has actufally been obtained under this chnrterV Call notice of meeting of stockholders under article four thousand two hundred and twenty as soon as amendemer.t is affected. Suggest next best course instead of taking it. Answer quick," I write this to coi;firm the above , If the Attorney Geneial will consent to this amendment, i and I have no doubt he will) there should be no delay a out it as the bonds are in the hands of the engraver. While we are getting this amendment we might make any others that are really essential. None however occur to me just now. The counsel here say that if no right of way has act ually been procured they see no advantage in this charter over a new one obtained under the general laws of the state; and if a new uharter was obtained we would be free from the 3 ye.-^rs objection, hence my inquiry as to how much right of way has been obtained. Do not let these inquiries interfere with the speedy pro curing of this amendment authorizing a mortgage not exceeding twentyfive thousand dollars per mile. Very truly yours. Dodge, President, 513 September, 1886. Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas. Sept, 22nd, 1886 Gen. Dodge, Dear General; Your favors of 18th inst. just to hand. I have been to Dallas and saw Gallraith and Gurner, they are very nice to me person ally but they want us to change our shipments when Frosts returns. Frost has been to the City of Ikhxico the last three or four weeks, he left his car and t^rs . Frost down there . I explained to them that we could not dictate to these cattle men, which way they shall ship, and if we attempted to do so, we would only drive them to Worth and the Frisco. If I had time I would go and see New man, but I cannot leave here now, we laid over two miles of track to day, and we will get into Vernon before the 1st of Oct. If we dont get delayed on the schooner of steel which has come to hand at New Orleans. The Vernon folks do not want us to get into Vernon. I am.rather expecting an injunction from crossing two sections of school land. They have served notice on me not to go on these school lands. I am satisfied they would like to get some excuse not to pay this subsidy. Webster Snyder very kindly oifered to lend us four n.iles of steel if ours did n not get' in in time. Frost has never treated Nr. Hoxie right. However,Hoxie treats me pretty mean, I think Cowen is making mischief between me and Hoxie . Cowen tr-ied to get out of the Galveston water contract. I paid near $30,000. for him, now he is mad at me for press ing him for a settlement. When you return to New York I would like to meet you in St, Louis or Chicago if you will let me know in time. I have some matters I would like to talk over. Our business is still light. Hoping you will have a pleasant trip. Yours very truly, Morgan Jones. 517 October, 1886. Kaj . Genl. G. . Dodge, Council Bluffs Charleston, 111., Oct. 14, 1886. Dear Genl.: I have been trying to find out your adaress for several years but could never get it until this fall at the reunion of the 66th 111. at Paris, 111. You gave me a coiiaiiission in the 1st Ala. Gav. at Decatur, Ala. and being in the field was ordered to duty by you without being mustered. When I was mustered out I was mustered out as a Segt. be cause I could never get to a mustering officer. 1 am in a fair way to get my pay now, but may need a certificate from you. Do you re- \ member anything about It? Before my commission I was acting as I orderly Sergt. of your escort under Gapt. Conkling. Please write n.e for- I may need your identification of your signature, that is to my coDimission. Hoping to hear from you soon I am yours, Sincerely, J. C. Brooks, Drd Lieut. 1st. Ala. Cav. 519 Ne-.y York, October .20, 18SG, S. P. Prackenridge, Esq., 34 3t. Charles St., New Orlenas, La. Dear Cir:- I have just returned from a long trip to the TIest and find time to reply to your esteemed favors of September 28th and Octobei' 21st. X am favorably impressed with tlie idea of purchasing a considorable amount (6f Louisiana lands you refer to vn.icii would advantageously fill up the vacancies in the selections of New Orleans Pacific lands selected by you xor oho synoica e represented by I.!r. Cranger, but can ot ..rite you anything definite in regard oO it until I have fully ccnsulted all parties izi interest.. The lands deeded to L'r. Granger are owned by foui* or five different paroles and while some of them are willing to go in and furnish sufficient capital to purchase tiiese intermediate sections, I cannoo answer for all of ohem, but I will consult t^-om at oioce and write -you furthe^- upon tii- subject as soon as practicable. ^ I should be very glad to have you send us a map shewing just v/hich ^ , t^sse lands you 7culd reco.iimend us to purchase, .vith the lowest price tiiey could be obtained foi* and on what tei'ms we could purchase them. Some of these people might go in if they did not iiave to pay all cash but c uld allow part of the purchase money stand for a long oil .e at a low rate of inoere.it. I'y inea would be to select one particular portion of these lands and buy up all the intermediate sections or as mnch as the amount of money we could raise would p y foiw Then if we could raise more money later on, we could go on buying alternate sections and work witxi the intention of getting one large solid body. Please consider this and write me which portion of the tract would bo in y.our opinion the best to first start on. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 521 Now York, Octo'ber 29, IGSG, lir. Ucrgan Jonoo, Pre . , Port Worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- , . . I have i.ad an interview with J.C. tiils morning and tnere is not a word of truti. about the stories which ycu have heard down there in relation to the Missouri Pacific building west of our road. They intend to build only to Ilenriette and if we want that road from Henriette to Gainesville we can get it and ext-^nd it ourselves. These stories are coning, I think from people whose imaginations are greit or whose wishes are with their imagination. I have been up to see Mr. Hoxie twice. He is a very sick man. He had a relapse on Tuesday but this morning is better. This is confidential, I believe he is going to get, well l;ut they are greatly worried. Matters I'lere are getting along all riglit. Very truly, G. Dodge. 523 Kev; York, November 1, 188G, I.Ir, I'organ Jones, Pres., Fott Wort-L, Texoo. Dear Sir: I have got evorything in s..ape here anc. I am ready oo go to v:ork.. Svans thinks he i.ao succeeded in i-is negotiations to m^'et us at the Canadian River. Pearsall vritiidraws his resignation and .vill remain as Vice President. He takes $1000^0 of the stock in the i ev/ coastruction company. You should continue to send i.im copies of the .;"eekly report of earnings. The feeling among every one here is tli the success oi Evans puts our i''oad beyond any harm. Kimball of the Union Pacific told me if ue v/ould complete it through he would guarantee us 1000 cars of freig.-t per .uonth to tide water from the U.P. alone. I think you make a'mistake in putting all the increased earnings into the month of October. They should be distributed through Septem ber and October, the time the material was carried so as not to make so great an increase iic November. If it is not l," o late have it done. It is easy enough for the... to rectify their September earnings so as to include a portion of this increase in it.' If y-)U close your trade with Montgomery, the right of way wants to be obtained to the Canadian as quickly as possible. As soon as I get my construction ocompany legally organized, I will appoint Bissel to take charge of it. I -vish you would see wha'. he is willing to do it for. He will have to have somebody, there to keep his accounts but I want them very simple--not elaborate. I want to Icnow ".'ho it is going to be before the ap;"ointment is made. Of course he wants to be a tho - oughly responsible party as he will be a check on the expenditures. Very truly yours, G. !I. Dodge, 525 Ne.v York, November 3, 1S83, 3 . T. Smith, Esq., Omaha, Neb, I.!y > ear Sir:- I would like to have your experience on the use of a 52 lb. rail v/ith a 36 inch splice bar. Does it make a track over which you can nm your heavy cars and locomotives, say a 45 ton engine? What I vvish to get at is on branch roads -with present grades, do you consider that track as strong a track as would be made by using 56 lb, rail, v/ith the old common short splices? These new splices you knov/ rest upon three ties and the old ones rested the joint on one tie only, I will be very much obliged to you if you will v;rite me fully your opinion on all these points. Very truly yours, n. 1!. Dodge, 527 Hew York, Iloveraber 3, 18G6, LIr, Yorgan Jones, Pres., Port Worth, Texas. Dear Sir:- I wish you to ask for bids iuaiiediately on ties, the two sizes, 6x8 and 7 x 8, 8 ft. long,- delivery to commence the lit of January at the rate of 50,0CC per month for the first IOC miles; also on bridge timber, piles and telegraph poles, also obtain from the different companies tlieir best rates from Hew Orleans, St. Louis and Galveston on aterial outside of the state, besides their rates on timber, ties and other material obtained in Louisiana arid Texas. Get the lorrest cash price so we ca figure down close. Then we can determine liO'.v to lay out tr.e v/ork. You can divide up your ties, ' timber, kc. Get some in the East part of the state and some in the south-west. You also want to see to the repairs of the cars on hand i as to get them on their feet if possible before January Ist; also \7rit? me vrhen you think the steel sh"^uld commence to arrive so we won't be delayed again as were were before. I wisr you to give t^.is matter prompt attention and if" you have not time to do it yourself, a trusty man sh-uld be sent around to look up this matter provided you cannot do it. Very truly, G. hi. Dodge. 531 November, 1886. Gen. G. M. Dodge Sheet #2, I should be glad to have the letter of introduction to Painter as soon as convenient. Also, I told Col. Eddy that I would speak to you in reference to your correspondence with him and let him know if you are willing for him to forward the letter to me. I did. not go back to Cincinatti from 1\/,arietta to see Col. Chamberlain and Gen'l. Noyes, for the reoson that it will be more con venient to see them when I go out to see lv.r. Seed, Mr. Blickensderfer, Captain Smith, Maj. Barnes, etc., all of whom I found it impracticable, for one reason or another, to see on this trip. If you have any directions to give or suggestions to make, please be free and frank about it as I wish to consult your interests and wishes to the letter, as far as it is in my power. Very truly yours, N. E. Dawson. 533 Ft. 'Vorth & Denver City Railway CoHipany. Treasurer's Office J. T. Granger, Treasurer. 1 B'way, New York. November 11, 1885 Mr. Morgan Jones, President, Ft. '.Vorth, Texas. Dear Sir: I notice from your recent letters that you want to delay getting into Quanah as long as possible. I have no desire to reach there, except for the purpose of landing our material there. My plans are to make a connection with the Atchison T. & St, F. about the first of July and then to build beyond their to the crossing of the Canadian, no matter whether Evans gets there or not, because our reaching there will control all the business in the North Test and give us an out let to the East via Atchison, Then again Mr. Gould is build ing down in this direction and is going to cross over near our crossing on the Canauian and the Rock Island is going to do the same. Both of their crossings will be right where we cross the Canadian. Goulds Road is to go down through Kansas from Fingsman, to Luka thence to Commanche County then through Clarke and Meada Center into the No Mans lands on the Beaver and follow that Route down to the crossing of the Canadian about towards the in there of trade where we cross it. The building of these Roads towards the Northern part of the Pan Handle will put an immense emigration in there and if we are at the Canadian we can catch a good deal of trade. As I now understand it, you have about ten miles of steel on hand there and we should make that steel build 50 miles of miain line. That would be six miles beyond Quanah as I understand it so that our nev, contract would really commence six miles beyond Quanah. '.Ve will have to have on these two hundred ndles at least ten miles of sidings and for that you should take the iron out of the old track. It seems to me that now would be a good time to make that deal from Decatur to the coal mines. However it may not be as imiportant as we thought It would be for if Evans gets down we will get coal from the North inside of the year. With that line out there 12 miles it would be a good protector to our line. You must press the question of our independent line into Ft. Worth. It will not do to let that line alone entirely. If they are not going to let us come in, then we must arrange to build our own line. Very truly yours, G. Ml. Dodge . 535 Pan Handle Construction Co. New York City, November 12, 1886. C. F. Meek, Esq., Des Moines, la. Dear Sir: I have organized a Construction Co. for the exten sion of the Ft. 7/. & D. C. R.R. from Quanah to the Canadian River a distance of about 200 miles, and have organized it under the laws of Iowa and made you Secretary. I enclose with this Articles of Incorporation and copy of instructions for the proper course for you to pursue in putting them on record, also copy of notice which is to be published as soon as filed and recorded as stated in this paper. You will have to have a small sign which you can put up near your present office and that will be all that will be required of you except to put up such statem.ents as we may hereafter send you and are required by laws of the state of Iowa. Please be very careful in carrying out the instruct ions as noted herewith and to attend to it immediately. Please wire us as soon as the articles are filed, and mail notice published so that we may proceed to business. Very truly, G. M . Dodge, President. 537 November, 1886. UNION PACIFIC RAILV/AY GOiyiPANY. Construction Department. Shief Enf^ineer's Office, Personal. Omaha, Nebraska, Nov. 13, 1886. Genl. G. M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: Your note of the 9th inst. asking for extra copies of certain reports received. I am sorry to say I have not an extra copy, outside of those in my bound volume, of either; but S am not without hope that I can find them, and if I can, will most cheerfully supply you. You are do^ibtless advised of the proposition to reorganize the engineering department of this road by appointing Nr. Bogue as Chief Engineer, and myself as Consixlting Engineer. To this, I have no obje'ction in itself considered, altho' I do not admit yet that I can not do fine work, or can not organize the service as well as most men. Yet if this Company chooses to relieve me of responsibility and place it upon other and younger shoulders, I shall make no objection. But I do object to that other part of the arrangement, which proposes to pay me but ^4000 per annum for retaining my services. Instead of diminishing my pay they ought rather to increase it, not because my responsibility is changed, but because I think I have served this Company for much less than is usually paid; and I have no idea they can ever get another man to do for them what I have done at anything like the same pay. You are yourself aware that I held out a long time when I v/as appointed Chief Engineer for larger pay, and only yielded under a sort of tacit understanding that the rate should be the beginning rate. Had it not been for the financial embarrassment of the Company, I should long ago have asked for an increase of pay. I should be glad to hear from you on this subject at any time; But to be placed on a par with an ordinary Division Engineer, or at best, but little better, and for such a ra^e to give the benefit of my thorough luiov/ledge of the country and matured experience, seems to me exceedingly humiliating, especially when I could no doubt many times in five minutes save them the whole of a satisfactory salary many times over. Very truly yours, J. Blickensderfer, m 539 New York City, Nov. 17th, 1886 ^',r. W. B. Strong, Boston, Mass. Dear Sir; I am in receipt of your favor of the 15th. I have instructed my engineer to run to pretty near the centre of Carson Co. that is to the centre of the lands bought by your people. We have to rise the plains from Clarendon to get there and I have instructed my Engineer to make the run. As soon as that is done. I will have him go and see Robinson so he can talk intellignetly of what he can do. I have no doubt but what we can reach the plains on the new line, but I want to be sure, before I send him there. Possibly I amy go to see Robinson myself, as I go west. Cannot you send me, or have Robinson send me a map showing about your line and the proposed extension west if you have it from Kiowa? I am printing a map of the Ft. W. i D. C. R.R. taking in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana , etc. to show the different connections and I would like to put your line from Kiowa through Barson Co. as nearly correct as possible. Very truly, G. M. Dodge. 545 New Yor'k, November 15, 188G. iilr. 3. n. Galloway, Gen. I'gr. U.P.Ry. Co., Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favors of the 11th and 12th:j There is no great harm done through the loss of the photograph. T can probably have it replaced. I return herewiti. the letter relating to Mr. Tright. Of cours I did not need this to convince me where the trouble was. I think Mr. TTright makes a great mistake. He will make up some morning and find tiiat these people whom he thinks behind him "not there." Please accept my thaiiks for your prompt' com'-liance with my request to furnish me a sample of the new splice bar. I presented my views in relation to the roads "exkenso" to Mr. Adams. It was my intention to shov/ the report to you before you left but the day I was to meet you I was called away by a tele gram on accounk of the sevei'e illness of Mr. Houie. I know you v/ill be glad to hear about Mr. Hoxie. I have been there twice a day for a week or ten days. He is a very sick man but he seems a little better tnis morning. He has great nerve and great vitality and I hope they will be able to pull him through; but he is a skeleton. What I write you about him is for yourself ohly because no matter what is said, it is exaggerated. He has the very best medical advice and his friends aroxmd him and if r'ood attention, care and prayers will biilng him through, ho will fetch it. Very truly yours, r. M. Dodge. 547 New York City, Nov. 17, 1886 Mr. Morgan Jones, Prest., Ft. Worth, Texas, Dear Sir: If I get down to Ft. Worth by the first of December and remain there until after the annual meeting, .do you suppose our Hcatters will be so far advanced that .ve can let the contracts Pqp everything needed for the lirst 100 miles say for grading, ties bridging, etc., etc. You have no doubt received my dispatches today in relation to examining and accepting the road and sending a statement to us here and I have today sent to Mr. Ross, Secty., one million dollars of these bonds for executinn. Please have them signed sealed and returned here as soon as possible, cutting off the Decem.ber Coupons leaving on that for June 1887 . This is necessary because if I close negotiations now pending I will have to deliver one million dollars of these bonds immediately, or along in Dec. and with the bonds on the 20 miles and the bonds in the hands of the Treasurer of the Com pany I can borrow, I can get along until we get track laid to Quanah. It is possible I may have to borrow what bonds you have also Mr. Walters will let me have his. The Railway Co. of course will not have totake care of the interest on these bonds until a year from now. Very truly, G.M. Dodge. 549 New York City, Nov. 18, 1886 I enclose confidentially my understanding of the conditional sale of the securities I have made to the N. Y. Syndicate and copy of the supplemental mortgage reducing the bonded debt. Mr. Beamon will no doubt come to see you about the mortgages etc. and will want to draw up the agreement between the syndicate and the Company. I tried to see you today but you were out and it is possible I may be ingaged all day toDiorrow. Will you therefore drop a note to Beamon and tell hini when you can see him? I wish you would see him immediately if you possibly can so as to close the matter up. As I understand it the only thing he wants to see you about is that the t^ortgage and charter are all right. If he wants to go on and draw up the agreement you can go ahead, being governed by the enclosed memoranda.. Please do not allow anybody to see this memo. or know anything about it because for the present it is entirely confidential. Very truly, G . M . ^odge . Conditions of Sale. One million Dollare ($1,000,000) of Bonds to be on or before January 15th, 1887. All of this one million dellver-ed on or befoi-e December 1st, 1886 to be at a price of 81% and interest and all delivered after that date, flat. The option on vl,250,000. of Bonds, or so much there of as are earned to be delivered on or before July 1st, 1887, at a price of 89% and interest. If the above option is accepted, a further option is to be given on ^1)750,000 of Bonds, or so much there of as may be earned by the construction Co., to be delivered on or before Dec. 31, 1887 at a price of 89% and interest. Tiie amounts named are approjiimate, the intention being to sell to the Syndicate all bonds issued for the Construction of the Road from the 200th mile post to the Canadian River at tie rate of splSjOOO per mile. It being impossible now to determine the exact distance which is shown on the map to be about 190 miles. 550 The Company agrees to limit, by a supplemental Mort gage, the issue of bonds from Quanah north to $16,000 per mile The Company also agrees that by Resolution of the Board of Directors, the entire issue of bonds from Fort Worth to the Canadian River, when the Road is completed to that point shall not exceed $18,000 per mile. Exchange The Bonds issued to be listed on the New York Btock -I- 551 New York City, November 18, 1886 Mr. F. E. Bissell, Ft. Worth, Texas Dear Sir: I hand you herewith your appointment as Chief Engin eer of the Pan Handle Construction Co. to take effect the first of December which is about the time that we will get in running order. I want you however to look after all our matters td that'time.. This appointment does not interfire with your clos ing the work of construction to the 200th mile post. The con tract for the work to be done by the Construction Co. will coiiimence at that point and the work up to tha"t point will be done by the Railway Co. The most important thing for us todo now is for us to get our suryeys completed so we will know exactly where we are to go. As I understand from your letter there will be no material change this side of Clarendon. The thing to look after now is Lo see what changes are necessary to be made from Clarendon on to reach the point suggested in my letter to Mr. Jones. I am in hopes of getting,to Texas in December, but in the meantime I wish, you would consult Jones in relation to all matters and be governed as far as consistent by his advice and keep me posted on all question of importance. I enclose with this Telegraph Frank No. Q. 170. which please use for Pan Handle Construction Co. business only. I suppooe you fully understand that our great desire is to build this Road with the greatest possible economy as our means are limited and we must not let our expenditure go beyond them. Very truly yours. G . M,. ^odge, 559 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register November 24, 1886, Wednesday, Morning Edition. Death of Mr. Hoxie. H. M. Hoxie, the Great Railroad Manager, Died in New York Yesterday, After a Severe and Painful" Illness of Qver^ix Months. The Long, Hard St|iitin in His Contest With the Labor Riots Doubtless the Fatal Cause ♦ He Will Be Brought to Des Moines for Interment. And Will Be Buried by His Son in Woodland next Friday Afternoon. The News of His Death Received here by His Old-time Friends with Great Sorrow . , A Useful Ended. For months the public has known of the serious illness of Mr. H. M. Hoxie, First Vice-President and General Manager of the Missouri Pacific Railway. Never of robust health, his hard work, under the stress of remarkably duties for the past ten or twelve years, and fin ally the strain of his great fight with the labor riots last winter, proved too much for him, and his indomitable will was finally so broken that the physical system yielded, and he became an invalid,giever to re cover. He went to New York to gain the best of medical aid, and made a brave fight for life, but against hope.. Friends here in his old hOrae, where he lived for twenty years, and was known and admired for his true worth, watched for news from his sick bed with anxious solicitude for the last two weeks, ^:hardly daring to hope, as message after message came, telling of the heroic and yet unavailing effort. Yesterday forenoon came the following dispatch from Gen. Dodge, one of the nearest and best friends of his life, telling of the end; New York, Nov. 23--J,. 3. Clarkson, Des Moines: - Mr. Hoxie died this morning about 2 o'clock. lie passed away quite concious and brave to the last moment. For six months his sufferings have been beyond conception. Twice under the surgeon^ knife, hie bravery, his vitality bore him when all else failed. History will pldce him as having accomplished a great work and having died in defense of a principle. G. M. Dodge. At the same time Judge John Mitchell, who is a couuoin of Mrs. Hoxie, received a dispatch frou the bereaved wife teliiair oi her areat ioes, saying that according to his request and her own desire, he would be brought to Des Moines and buried by the side of their little son, Seward, their only child, who was born while they lived here, and who died at three years of age and was buried here. The news spread over the city, and everywhere it was received with regret, while to the esrly settlers, those who knew Mr. Hoxie, when as boy and man he lived twenty years here, it came like a personal grief. For no one ever lived in Des Moines who attached to him more or mor. lasting friends than Mr. Hoxie did of the best people in Des Moines and Polk County while he spent his boyhood and early manhood here. 560 These friends had all followed his upward career in life with pride, and with undiminished affection, and his frequent visits back to Des M Moines, to visit the Plom. Thomas Mitchell, with whom he lived for sev- " eral years, arid to whom he was as dear as a son, and to ffudge Mitchell, and all old friends, kept the bond of friendship constantly strong. Mrs. Hoxie, wi.o was known-here as well as her husband, and to whom he was married here, was also spoken of on everyhand with the tenderest sympathy. The Hoxie's - Mr. Hoxie, his wife, and his mother - was for years known and loved in Des Moines as few people ever have been. So the news of this death of yesterday came into many homes in this city like the news of the death of a loved kinsman. In all such homes he had been with his wife and mother a loved and cherished guest, and the tidings of his death, in the prime of his power, fell on all such hearth stones as a shadow of sorrow of their own. Strong men who had braved with Mr. Hoxie in his youthful days the hardships of pioneer life, and who had learned the true gold of his worth in such times, talked of him with tears in their eyes, as one man among hundreds of thousands to be accredited with rare integrity and nobility. The death brought lip vividly the young Mr. and Mrs. Hoxie, the days before he was married, when he was a mere boy, and when she was Miss Patrick,- and the days when they were married, and went to housekeeping in the house he built - and which is still standing on the South side of Cherry street, between Tenth and Eleventh- where their only child, little Seward, was born, and where three years later he died, and the days when Mr. Hoxie was known to everybody, and liked by everybody, and by everybody called "Hub." The good old days came back very vividly, and eyes grot! moist as they talked with endearing terms of the young man, his young wife, M and their little boy, and what a cruel loss to them the death ol the " latter was, and how they left with him in his little grave in '.Voodland much of the joy and nearly all the hope of their lives. One could see how strong and tender the bonds of friendship still remained, the bonds that drew the dying man, turning from all, his myriad of new friends in later years, to ask that he be brought here to be buried among liis old friends,, and to sleep by his little son. It was plain that a man who could form such friendship, and hold, it with increasing tenderness, through twenty years of absence, was of more than common strength and more than common worth. To Be Buried In Des Moines. In the afternoon Judge Mitchell received the follwoing dis patch from Gapt. Hays, wno so long served with Mr. Hoxie in late years and was one of his closest and dearest friends, telling of the arrange ment for the funeral: New York, Nov. 23. - Hon. John Mitchell, Des Moines: Mrs. Hoxie and party will leave New York with the remains of Mr. Hoxie, Wednesday night at 6 p. m., via New York Central, and will be in Chicago Thursday at 9:30 p. m., and will arrive in Des M^oines via Rock Island on Friday noon, the 26th inst. It is desired to have the body taken to the Episcopal Church for services, on the arrival of the train, and the interment to be made in.the Hoxie lot alongside of his son. Will yori please arrange for the luneral and services, and notify his family? i It was Mr. Hoxie's wish to have a quiet funeral. It is also Mrs. " Hoxie*8 desire. R. 0. Hays. £G1 Sheet # 2 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register, Wednesday, November 24, 1886, Morning Edition. Judge Mitchell will make the arrar^ements as desired, today and to-morrow. The Hoxie lot is in the old part of Woodland Cemetery. Expressions of Friends. The leading friends of Mr. hoxie in this region are the Hon. Thomas Mitchell and Judge Mitchell. The former is the uncle and the latter the cousin of I>-rs. Hoxie. Mr. Thomas Mitchell, wto lives near Mitchellville, could not -be seen yesterday. Judge Mitchell expressed the sense of deep affliction and grief it w&s to him and his family, and said it was like a death in their own home, so near and dear had Mr. Hoxie been to them all. He told, with much tenderness, of miany things in the life of Mr. Hoxie, but did not feel that they should go into public print. He gave in main the particulars of Mr. Hoxie and his life, •printed in another place. Other old-time friends were seen, and the views of some of them are given below: Major Hoyt Sherman. "I knew and admired Mr. Hoxie and the news of his death was a great blow -to me, though not so unexpected as to many of his friends, as I saw him while in New York recently. .Yes, I knew Mr. Hoxie when he was with Mr. Thomas Mitchell, and they togeth.er were running a way-side inn and entertaining the pioneers of this portion of Iowa. I knew him when he became clerk of this county, discharging those duties with a fidelity that was a part of his nature. I khbw him during the trying times of the war, '/hen his invincible courage made hin^ respected and lov ed by all honorable men and feared by traitors and desperadoes. After ward, when he was engaged in the mighty task of constructing the Union Pacific, I knew him and knew of the obstacles he had to overcome in carrying out that project. When all the material had to-be shipped from St. Joe, Missouri, either by land or water, and when hostile In dians were threatening the lives of the workmen. Then came the more prosperous tines when his abilities had won him deserved place and honor, and in no single instance did he fail in the full and exact performance of his duty. In every situation to which was called through life, no matter what the responsibilities nor what the dangers, he proved more than equal to all and won by successive steps the high honors that crown ed his life. He was one of the strongest, purest men our country has ever produced, and his death leaves a vacancy that will be long in fill ing both in the hearts of friends and in the affairs of the nation." Mr. Thomas Hatton. Yes, Sir; I was a-warm frined and admirer of Mr. Hoxie, though perhaps not so intimate with him as some others were. When I first came to this city it was during the progress of the war and he was at time United States Marshal for this district. Times were lively even so far north as this and 'the position was no sinecure, requiring a man of iron nerve to fill it adequately. This Mr. Hoxie possessed to an unusual degree, it being a common saying that "Hub" Hoxie feared neither man nor devil, and he proved that to be the case in many an instante where a weaker man would have failed signally. 5G2 It was the custom of Copperheads to send out challenges, to the Federal officers in those days, and in many instances it was all aman s life was worth to take thern in charge, but Mr. Hoxie never failed to bring ^ his man. He was also a man of unbounded energy as his after life £ amply testified, never hesitating when once he had undertaken to do anything until it had been accomplished. He had a happy faculty of holding friends when once made, and it was act all faculty as he poss essed those qualities best calculated to draw true men to him. Few men could die leaving more warm friends, all of whom will sincerely re gret him." Judge P. Ml. Casady, , . • upon being interviewed last evening, iriated the story of Mr. H. M. Hoxie s career in Polk county, from a long personal acquaintance with Ijim and his family. "I first knew Mr. Hoxieysaid the Judge, "when he was a boy of 16. That was when I came to Des Moines,' in June , 1846, was young Hoxie was living here with his parents. His father and brother were both living here at the time, and Mr. Hoxie was engaged in mercantile life. H. M. was the oldest of a family of. three boys and two girls. The family remained here for two or three years afterwards, ana then remov ed to Van Buren county, where Mr. Hoxie purchased a farm, having sold out his business in this city. Soon afterwards he died there and "Hub," as we called him, came back to Des Moines. His mother returned with hia and then went to California .wher-e on of the daughters was living. "Hub" went out to Thomas Mitchell's and began work there. I have seen it stated that he was a hostle.r but that hardly expresses his position. Re superintended the business and looked after the guests in many ways, ^ was in fact .clerk of the tavern which was quite popular and sometimes ^ had many arrivals. He had the entire confidence of Mr. Mitchell and and was highly prized about the house. He continued inthat capacity and made many friends until in 1856 he began his political career by being elected clerk. He had taken no active part in politics before that time but had become known and liked ail over the county. He was re-clected without trouble . When he was elected he built him a house in the city. He had the native lumber sawed and put up a house down on Cherry street, west of the Wabash depot. Before his term was out as Clerk he ,had begun to take an active interest in State politics and was Secretary of the Republican committee and afterwards was made chair man. In a short time after the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln he was re warded by the appointn.ent to the office of U, s. Marshal for •'■owa which was one district. It was at a time when that office presented many duties, for during war times he was called uponto make many arrests. It was a trying position, too, for he had to deal so often with men whom he personally knew but he never flinched from duty. As County Clerk he .possessed the entire confidence of all who knew him. He was pop ular. He always was well liked by the oppsition party, for he was just as good to one man as, to another. He was not much of a politi cian until he csme into State natters, and then he was very strong. He knew almost everybody in the State and was at home with the farmers as well as with the politicians. He married a niece of Thonas Mitchell and the influence of Mr. Mitchell had much to do in putting him for ward. I know little of his career from the time he was Marshal, but I next heard of him when he was engaged on the Union Pacific railroad, He was Superintendent, and actively engaged in the work of construction. Here he made quite a reputation and won his great honors in railroad work. Sheet # 3 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register, Wednesday, November 24, 1886, Morning Edition. "He was of an executive turn of mind, always ready and willing to work. I never icnew him to be idle and he had a will that knew no obstacles to the accomplishment of what he undertook. He was married during the time he was county clerk. His mother went to California to live with Dr. Fagen and his wife, and then came back here on the death of her daughter. ■ She lived with us a short time and then went to Texas where her don was and she died there. The oldest daughter married Dr. P. B. Fagen, whom all the old settlers remember, in 1846 and afterwards went to California, where she died, leaving two children. Melvin B. Hoxie is now in the land office at Grand Island, Nebraska, or was a short time ago, and the other brother, Capt. Wm. H., is at Corning. I think H. M. Eoxie will long be remembered by the people of Polk county for his visit here in il82, when he attended the Old Settlers* meeting at Thomias Mitchell's coming with his wife in his special car from St. Louis. He was then thS same genial man that he had been Hany years before when he worked for Mr. Mitchell at the hotel. Mr. L. H . Bush. Mr. Koxie was considerably older than I, having been born December 18th, 1830, and having and having come to Iowa in 1845, if I remeitber rightly. Our family came to Iowa in 1849, and amiong my •earliest recollections of the place is that of seeing Mr. Hoxie on the streets. The title "Hub" was on abreviation of his name, Plerbert, and was given him by his more intimate friends and afterwards he was better knc;wn by that than any other. He was a mian of great executive ability and whatever orders were given him were always carried out to the letter. As Clerk of the Courts, as United States Marshal and indeed in all po sitions of trust with which he was honored he was distinguished by this characteristic making himi a moat valuable public servant. Another great trait of his character which always drew me to him was hie faith fulness to those whom he felt to be friends, nothing being withheld from them, while on the other hand he was just as firm against those he knew to be treacherous. This trait of his character brought him many life-long friends, from whom he never turned in his allegiance to take up with the new, and who will mourn him to-day as a brother lost . Mr. Koxie was an ardent Republican, and always took an active interest in the doings of his party. Both from his wonderful personal strength and from his wide acqu;intance through the district, almost every ac quaintance was a friend. He was a power in these matter, and most of the old politicians will remember him .through them. Many of the best traits of his character can be traced directly to his mother who was one of the most lovely women I have ever known and whose influence for good was not bounded by the circle of her acquaintance. He had two sisters, the elder of whom, Mrs. Dr. Fagan, died at an early day in the history of the plac.e, the younger, Mrs. fioyt, being now a resident of Portland, Oregon. Both the sisters were beautiful and accomplished •ladies and were general favorites wherever known. His two brothers, M. B. and W. H. Hoxie still survive him. Mr. Hoxie left Des Moines shortly after the close of the war, but he never lost the warm regard he had felt for the friends lie had made while here, and any of them were always sure of a warm welcome wherever he was found. 5G4 He was one of the strongest men I have ever known and his death "brings much more than a mere local loss. To his friends he was always more \ than an acquaintance of the hour, and not one of them but will feel .that his is far more than an ordinary bereavement. Mr, Hoxie's Career. H. M. Hoxie was born December 18, 1830, in Wayne county. New York. .He came with his father and family to the State of Iowa in March, 1840, and settled at Montrose in Lee county, and came to Polk county in November, 18:45. His father, for a time, kept a store in what is now East Des Moines, and young Hoxie, sptent his tine in the same as a clerk. After his father quit mercantile pursuits, and removed from Polk county back to lee, Mr. Hoxie lived for several years with the honorable.Thomas Mitchell, and took charge and assisted him in the transaction of his business. In the year 1855 he was elected clerk of the district court of Polk county, and served in that capacity for two terms. Shortly after the expiration of his term of office as Clerk, he was appointed by President Lincoln United States Marshal for Iowa, which office he filled during a large portion of the Civil War, and managed and conducted the affairs of his office with great dis cretion and ability. He was a terrible foe to secret traitors, and exposed and arrested large numbers of the Knights Golden Circle in iowa. He wrs also Chairman oi the ^tate Central Committee of the Republican Party, and displayed great talent and executive ability in the organization and conduct of the political campaigns during his terms of office. Shortly after this he determined to quit politics j and embark in railroad pursuits; and about this time he became interest ed in tlie great project then formost in the minds of the public - the construction of the Union Pacific Railway. He continued his connection with that road ;intil the completion of the same, and the junction with the Central Pacific. After the completion of the road he filled the office of Division or Assistant Superintendent, for a time, with n,arked success and ability. After serving in this cap acity for a time, he resigned, and severed his connection with the road. He then came to Des Moines, remained for a while; and then em barked in railroad pursuits in the state of Texas, where he was con tinually engaged in the management and construction of the road until what is known as the Southwestern Combination was completed, when it became necessary to remove his headquarters to St. Louis. He became connected with the great Gould system. At one time the Wabash road was connected with it, and Mr. Hoxie was made meinager of the vast con solidated system, with over ten thousand miles of road to operate. It was a Herculean task, but Mr. Hoxie proved equal to it, and for a long time it, the largest mileage ever operated by one man. After wards the Wabash was taken from the system, and Mr. Hoxie made First vice-President .and General Manager of the Missouri Pacific system. It was on this system that the great strike of last winter occurred, and Mr. Hoxie was called to meet and settle it. It lasted for two months or more and never had a man a more gigantic task. It was a fight more than against some fifteen thousand desperate strickers, although that was a very great contest in itself. It was a fight , ' as Gen. Dodge expresses it, for a great principle, a fight made for the right of property to be pro tected, a fight for the safety of all property in the Rei)ublic, and he knew it and knew what a great struggle it would be. 565 Sheet # 4. November, 1886. The.Iowa State Register, Wednesday, November 24, 1886, Morning Edition. He gave to it all the power of a will which has now become historic, and his struggle and his victory will stand for time as a land mark in the adjustment of difficulties between capital and labor. He made the fight practically alone, and the victory was all his own, But it cost him dearly. Never,robust, it sapped his strength, and left him an easy prey to a lurking and insidious disease, which speedily developed itself and gradually completed its fatal result. He had had a great deal of kidney disease and now there appeared the added trouble of biliary calculus, commonly known as gall stones, for which he had to go twice under the surgeons knife, and suffer from the exhausting pain of so extreme a resort. For months it has been a fight for life, but attended by his.faithful wife, a woman whose devotion to her husband^ and whose good heart so largely the achitect of his career, are the admiration and praise of all who her, and by Capt. Rays a friend like a brother, he fought it off day by day, and night by night, trying and hoping for the best , but as bravely prepared for the worst. The great struggle in the fight had cost him too much strength. Even a will so indomitable could not rally against so desperate disease, and he had to die. Between him and Capt, Hays and Dr. D. F. H. Smith, both for a long time high officials in the Union Pacific System,there had form ed and ardent and steadfast friendship. It began in Texas when Mr. and Mrs. Hoxie offered their home as the home of these gentlemen. When the headquarters were removed to St. Louis, the friendship and the home under one roof kept up. The three men were brothers, and their friendship continued to the last, and only to prove stronger. Mr. Hoxie's Marriage. Mr. Hoxie was married to Anna M. Patrick, a niece of the HOii. Thomas Mitchell, at the latter's house,in thds county, in October, 1875. Of this marriage there was born a son - Seward Hoxiewho died at the age of about three years and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. The/ Fatal Disease. Calculi are stone-like concretions that form in different parts of the body, often about some undisolved particle in the fluid, which holds the matter of the concretion in solution, or as a deposit upon some hard surface, as, for instance, the tartar which collects upon the teeth. The fluids of the body may deposit concretions in most of the vessels, organs and tissues. They are left by the blood in the arteries and valves about the heart; by the saliva in the mouth and by the bile in the gall-bladder. Calculi deposited by the bile in the gall-bladder, the liver and its ducts, are known as biliary concertions and gall-stones. They are generally of a round or oval form, and of various col ors, as white, yellow, brcwn and dark green. Usually they are soft, and sometimes brittle and easily pub/erized to an unctious powder; their size, in some cases, reaching that of a wall-nut. Biliary calculus, which is commonly known as gall-stones may generally be presumed to exist when successively severe pain suddenly arises.in the right side beneath the border of the ribs:^. and when in a few hours jaundice comes on, showing that some ob struction has existed to the outward flow of the bile. It may be relieved by large doses of opium; but this treatment is attended by much danger, for oftefPthe most expert medical hands the results are fatal. Gall-stones, when impacted in the ducts, are sometimes fatal, but frequently find their way into the intestines. The Associated Report. New York, November 23, - H. M. Hoxie died at two-thirty this morning at his rooms in the Metropolitan Opera House. The cause of his death was exhaustion, consequent on the operation preformed on him June last by removing gall-stones from his system. He has also suffered kidney disease for' g the last thirty five years. He has been very week for the last seven days, but the doctors had great hopes of his recovery. There.will be no funeral service in this city. The body will be embalmed and taken to Oes Moines, Iowa tomorrow, and the fimeral services will be held there on Friday afternoon. Mr. Hoxie had a son who is buried in the plot in the Cemetery in Des Mo.ines and before he died he expressed a wish that he shoiM be buried by the side of his child. f . H ■ J, . 'I. ! ♦ I * 1 ) • ■' ■ J 1 . ' ■ r.'V 1 -A t}? 'ia *■ t'- ■ •, *,uj. 567 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register, Saturday, November 27, 1886, Morning Edition. Mr. Hoxie's Burial. The Funeral Yesterday of the Late Mr. H. M. Hoxie. Laid at Rest in His Old Home by the Side of His Child. A special Train from Chicago, Accompanied by Many Friends, Brings the Body from Chicago. Another Special from St. Louis Brings all the Leading Railway Men of the Southwest. And Many Leading Business Men and Other Friends to Join in the Loving Tribute. A Remarkable Group of Noted Men about the Grave. A Sorrowing Concourse of Old Neighbors Join Tenderly in the Last Sad Rites His Final Rest. Few men of this nation have been honored in death as was Mr. H. M. Hoxie, on the oaccasion of his burial in. this city yesterday. From all parts of the Union there came men who represented not only the wonderful system of railroads in which Mr. Hoxie had won the clief honors of his life, but ministers, merchants, bankers, lawyers and laboring men alike were .there to pay the last sad tribute of respect to the honor ed dead. No great class was without.its representation, and that from its best blood and brain. The interpid courage and clear-headed sag acity of this man had won for hlDi a distinguished place among his fellows, but his great heart left him no room for the envy that so often pursues eminence. ?;herever the path of life had led him he went with a stern ness of purpose that knew no failure, but with a generosity and kindli ness that made friends of all encountered. The fruits of this life could be seen In yesterday's gathering, where had gathered many of the most noted men in the land to tv.stify to the high esteem in which they held their deceased friend. The Scene on the Platform. Here at Des Moines, where were jet many of the friends and com panions of Mr. Hoxie's boyhood and early manhood, the feeling was es pecially strong, and long before the arrival of the expected trains the crowd began to gather at the Rock Island depot. Seldom have the best classes of the city been so thoroughly represented and in such numbers. They crowded the long platform waiting patiently for more than an hour in the bitter cold that they too might be permitted to pay this slight honor to the menory cfa departed friend and townsman, who had honored his friends, all his town in the great struggle of life. Hundreds were gathered there and the depth of the sorrow that had come upon them and was testified in every word and action, no light word being spoken or laugh heard from that assembly during all of the long wait. The larger part of the gathering was furnished by the old settlers, who were out iniforce to receive all that was left to them of their old companion in the struggles that redeemed Iowa from a wilderness. The tender ness of the ties which bind these heroes of frontier life together is something more than mere friendship, and to them the loss bore more than ordinary weight. 5G8 Marshal BotKln was present with a squad of police, and rendered most efficient service in the handling of the crowd. The Arrangements, ^ •for Des Moines had been placed in the hands of Mr. H. C. Townsend of St. Louis, ai'id Mr. C. F. Meek, Superintendent of the Wabash Railroad of this city, and the excellence of this choice was shown in the admir able manner in which everything was provided for. No detail seemed to have been omitted, and, notwithstanding the size of the crowd,no confusion was noticed, save for a short time just before the arrival of the first train. The Special From Chicago, bearing the remians and nearest relatives and friends was delayed some little time at Altoona awaiting the arrival of the Wabash special from ^t. Louis, which had been delay ed by breakages in the engine. The train bearing the funeral party proper had been kindly tendered Mrs. Hoxie by the C. R. I. & P. road and had left Chicago at 10:45 the previous evening, arriving here at 11:40 yesterday, making a quick run. The Missouir Pacific special from St. Louis preceded it by a few minutes and was palced upon the pass ing track south of the main line, while the party helped to swell the crwod upon the platfcm. Arrangements were then made for the process ion to form on third St. a double line of old sbttlers forming from the track to the hearse to receive the deceased in due form. All the hacks and landaus in the city had been secured for the occasion, and were in waiting for the reception of the funeral party. The Arrival of the Fvinerai Cortege ^ was heralded by a hush that swept over that vast assemblage, leaving them silent and motionless. The engine had been tastefully draped in mourning and the nximber board beneath the headlight bore initial "H" worked in black upon a white ground and surrounded by a circle of deep biack. Instinctively every head was uncovered as the casket containing all.that was mortal of H. M. Hoxie was lifted from its resting place within the car and handed reverently to the pall bearers, Messrs. D. K. Fergusson, H. C. Eaastick, W. H. Newman, and B. W. McCullough of St. Louis; Thomas F. Withrow and C. H. Chappel of Chicago; and P. M Casady and Hoyt Sher man of Des Koines, all old and trusted friends of the deceased. The Funeral Procession was then formed on Third street, headed by a platoon of policemen under command of Marshal Burns, directly behind whom came the old settlers fully one-hundred in number. Next came the carriages containing the pall bearers, then the hearse, folEwed by carriages containing Mrs. Hoxie, K. B. Hoxie of Schuyler, Nebraska, and W. H. Hoxie of Corning, Iowa, brothers of deceased; Hon. Thomas Ivitchell and wife; John H. Hoxie and wife; Mark Iloxie; Chester Thorne and Wife; Judge Mitchell and wife; and Mr. Ira Mitchell and wife. Following them was a long train of representative railroad men from all the important roads of the West and Southwest, and a large number of Missouri Pacific employees by each of whom Mr. Hoxie had been loved and admired. A long line of ^ carriages bearing citizens, closed one of the most imposing funeral ^ processions ever given a Western man. The walks all along the line of march were thronged with citizens, who silently added reverential honor to the man who had so honored them and their city. 569 Sheet H 2 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register, Saturday, November 27, 1886, morning edition. At The Church the crowd had begun to gather some tine before the tine set apart.for the services, the side aisles being filled as the nave would have been had it not been held in reserve. The altar and pulpit were crowned with the most beautiful and elaborate floral decorations ever seen in the city. Upon the altar were two pillows of Easter lilies and whote roaes, bearing the inscriptions, "In Memoriam" and "Not Forgotten." In front of the chancel rail were four large crosses of beautiful flowers, and flanking a most elaborate centerpiece, tastefully combining the cross, crown and anchor, and bearing the inscrijition, "H . M. Hoxie, from Em ployees." The crosses were made of Easter lilies, white roaes and im mortelles, artistically arranged with moss and evergreens, and were,the tribute of the employes of the Missouri Pacific. The procession was met at the door by Rev. Dr. W. H. Van Antwerp, who preceded it down the center aisle, read ing the opening of the Episcopal service. The cas ket was of rich black velvet, bearing upon a plain silver tablet the inscription, "Herbert M. Hoxie, aged 55 years and 9 months. Died New York November 23, 1886," and was literally loaded down with the choic est cut-flowers Chicago could produce, the loving tributerof the gentle men friends in that city. The service was that of the Episcopal Church, simple but beautiful, and read in an impressive manner by Ur. Van Antwerp. ThB sermon was omitted at the request of Mrs. Hoxie, as it had been her husband's wish that the service be as quiet as possible. The choir consisting of Mr. and Mrs. MI. L. Eartlett, MUss Tillie Cooper and Mr. John McCauley, with Miss Fannie Crowley at the organ, added:much to the beauty of the service by the exquisitis manner , in which they rendered its solemn music. , The procession was then reformed and proceeded to Woodland Cemetery, where the remains of H. M. Hoxie were lovingly laid to reat in the beautiful lot where sleeps the loved son whose death so nearly broke a father's heart. The wall of the grave was lined with evergreens, and the freah earth from the vault covered with the same material. The grave is under the shelter of beautiful evergreen.trees, and with the profus ion of green, much that is dreaded in burial, was avoided. . It is a pretty spot of ground, and over twenty years before Mr. and.Mrs. Hoxie had buried there their little three year old boy Seward, and so.sanctified with that which was but sweetest and mo.t sacred in their lives. Often afterwards had their feet come lovingly to the place, the shrine of their parental love. The grave of the father had been made by the side of the son. The grave of the child had been decorated with flowers by lov ing hands, and about the name Seward was a wreath of beautiful roses. The body of the father was lowered by tender hands into the green leaves, and, with the words of the sympathetic rector and the tears of many eyes unused to weeping, left to its final rest. 570 The scenes ahout the grave were notable. The distinguished . visitors from abroad mingled close about the vault with the earlier t friends of J/ir. Hoxie among the Des Moines people. All heads were uncov ered and all faces showed personal grief. Grey heads were plenteous, and the presence of so many noted men made a scene of dignity and pathos never seen except at the graves of heroes, rulers and the most famous men. Nearly all the cities of the West and Southwest had contributed from their noblest men to the group, and it was a gathering such as is seldom seen in any community or about any.grave. There was the tenderest sympathy for the stricken wife^ and there was hardly a face in the group not touched with tears. It was a loving burial, and proved again how sweet and noble are the rewards of a true and useful life. Among the kindred present were H/'r. Hoxie *s two brothers--Mr. M. R. Hoxie, of Nebraska, and Mr. W. H. Hoxie, editor of the Gaxeete, Corning, Iowa. The Visiting Delegations comprised many of the most prominent railroad men of the nation, besides men who occupy exalted positions in almost every walk of life. Those upon the Chicago special were A. Kimball, Vice-President Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, Chicago, 111.^^ Thos. F. Withrow and wife. Gen. Solicitor, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, Chicago. H. F. Royce, Gen. Supt., and wife, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, Chicago. H. B. Stone, Gen. Man, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, Chicago. C. H. Chappel, Cen. Man. Chicago & Alton Railway, Chicago. J. W. Midgley, Commissioner South-Western R'y. Association, Chicago. Geo. Schiver, Traffic Manager Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco. T. H. Wickes, Gen. Supt. Pullman Palace Car Co., Chicago, Illinois. C. A. Garcelor, Supt. Pullman Palace Car Co., St. Louis, Mo. Dr. D. S. H. Smith, Treasurer Missouir Pacific Railway, St. Louis. W. H. Newman, Gen. Traffic Manager Missouri Pacific Railway, ^t. Louis. Orson G. Murray, Freight Fraffic Manager Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Douis. H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. A., Missouri Pacific Railway, ^t. Louis. L. A. Emerson, General ^astern Agent, Mtissouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis. A. T. Lemist, Coal Agent, Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis. Frank Ferris, Commercial Agent, Missouri Pacific Railway, Chicago, Illinois . W. W. Pinley, G. P. A., lines in Texas, Dallas, Texas. B. W. M.cCullough, G. P. & F. A., lines in Texas, Dallas, Texas. Col.-Fisher, Live Stock Agent, lines in Texas, Dallas Texas. H. C. Logan, Pacific Coast Agent, San Francisco. The Missouri Pacific Railway private car on this train was occupi ed by Mrs. H. M. Hoxie, John H. Hoxie and wife, Mark Hoxie, and Chester Thorn and wife. The special from St. Louis bore the following: 571 Sheet # 3 November, 1886. The -^owa State Register, Saturday, November 27, 1886, Morning Edition. Missouri Pacific Officers and Employes. A. W. Dickinson, Supertendent Terminal Facilities, St. Louis G. Mesliex, Assistant General Passenger and Ticket Agent, J. J. Portis, General Attorney. C. G. Warner, General Auditor. Geo. C. Smith, Assistant Secretary. D. W. E. Outten, Chief Surgeon. 0. A. Kaynes, Inspector Locomotive, Car Car and and Machinery, Machinery, ^ Abram Gould, Purchasing Agent Wm, E. Jones, General Claim Agent, . S, L, Iligglyman, Tax Commissinnei? Samuel Irwin, Master Car Builder.- ■ • '' ' ' • Clarence Howard, General Foremian Locomiotive Department, • « J, C. Nicholas, General Baggage Agent. < ' i'' , J. E. Clemments, Assistant Engineer. • . . ■ J, C^Connor, Com'l Agent. Col, Thos. Essex, Land Commissioner, S. Ford, Private Secretary Mr. Loxie. W. A. Drips, Voucher ^lerk, R, S, McAllister, Central Agent American Refrigerator Transit Company, E. S. Barrievas, Clerk and Local Treasurer. M. Roberts, traveling engineer. R. B. Coodel, Brakemian. • . . . L, D. Hopkins, passenger conductor. Mr, Healey, locomotive engineer. • ' ' G. H, Harrison, locomotive engineer. - ' H, D. Wilson, special traveling passenger agent, • W, H. Morton, Passenger agent, J. Daley, paasengei- department. P, McGlynn, clerk. General Traffic Department, • '■ » ■ L, Wemmer, clerk. General' Audi tor' s office. , _ < . Thos, Furlong, special agent. T • » ' ■ W, K, Bixby, station agent. < ' • V. R, Sqmler, Transportation Department. ' * J, H, Dowland, Secretary S.L., F. S.&W, Ry, • • ' W, H. Newman,- General Traffic Manager. ' I " Thos , VI. K. V. R, J, H, S, H. Smith, Local Treasurer. 0. G. Murray, Freight Traffic Manager H, C. Townsend, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. J. Herrin, Superintendent, S. L., I. Mi, & S. Ry., V.'esley Campbell, private attendant of H-. k, Hoxie, B, W, McCollough, General P. and T. Agent, Texas lines Dr, J, E. Ennis, General Agent, Chicago, • C. A, Guinochio, Marshall, Texas, Frank Mosby, porter. Wm. Mosby, porter. Special Committee of Employes. G. Murlier, Ass't General P. and T, Agent chairman, 0, A. Hayes, Machinery department Samuel Irwin, Transportation department. ji,.. 572 James Denyvan, Auditing department J. B. Clements, •'Engineering department Delegation from other Railways. C. M, Hays, ^sst. Gen. Mgr. W., St. L. & P. Railway. James F. Hpw, Agt. Receivers, Wabash Ry. K. H. Wade, Gen. Supt. Wabash Ry. Geo. W. Parker, Gen. Mgr. Cairo Short Line. S. W. Fordye, Pres, St. S., A. & T. Ry , L. A. Fuller, Supt. Pacific Express. H. W. Hibbard, Gen. Frt Agt. Vandalia line. Z' D. Wishart, Gen'l. P. A. St. L. & S. F. Ry. ''•luyli'f F. D. Barnes, Conductor Pullman Car Co. , .U*, M.S. Wasson, Gen'l Agt. I & St. L. Ry. incl.-i/' J. W. Branch, Pres. I & St. L. Ry. .n, C. K. Sherman, Gen'l. Mgr. I. & St. L.'Ry. y * J. W. Maas, D. P.. A., L. & N . R. R. ^ M. Sweeney, Supt. Trans., Mobile & Ohio Ry. Wells H. Blodgett, Gen'l Sol., W. St.^,. & P. Citizens of St. Louis. M. M. McDonald, Attorney. ' Dwight Treadway. ' i V,. P. '^reely, B ..rnham Grocery Co. " . 0. P. Greeley, Burnham Grocery Co., J. M. Gilkerson, Gilkerson Grocery Co. . W. H. Cook, Cotton Factory. Rev. H. A. Stimpson, Pastor Pilgrim Con. Ch. D. K. Ferguson, Pres't Mechanics Bank. Wm. Nichols, Pres't Com'l Bank Hon. E. 0. Stannerd, Pres't Stannerd Milling Company. M. M. Buck. J. H. Knox, Pres't Nat. Stock Yards. ' ' W. P. Nelson, Citizen. Webb M. Samuels, President St. Louis elevator. D. P. SI attery. President Merchants' Elevator. J. IT. Maxon, .President Lindell Railway company. Capt. H. C. Haarstick. President St. Louis and Mississippi Transfer Company. A. A. Mosher, General Agent Travelers' Insurance company. J. N. Buffinger, capitalist. Jas. S. Manson, comraissi n merchant. A. Seigel Gas P'ixture company. C. E. Ware, Woodward &. Tieman Printing company. R. Bagnall, railroad contractor. , E. 0. Kannard, ex-Governor of Missouri. , G. M. Dilly, Palestine, Texas, i- ^ W. P. Coleman, Rich Hill. Mo. ' E. P. Cowan, lumber merchant. C. A. Ginnoccio, Marshall, Tex. ' ' J. M W. H C. E R. B E. 0 G. M W. P % ■ • R - . .r. , I 1, . Valley Of the St. Louis delegation in Chicago, Mr. Gaston was made chairman of the committee on arrangements, while, as stated before, Messrs. Townsend and Meek had charge of the arrangements in Des Moines. 573 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register, Satiirday, November 27, 1886, Morning Edition, A Notable Funeral. The burial of the late Vice President Hoxie of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, in Des Moines yesterday, had many things about it to prove the great esteem in which he was held throughout the country. Two large special trains of six or seven cars each came to P>es Moines, carrying a large number of the leading railway managers of the Western States, and of the leading business men of St. Louis and Chicago. There were striking features about this whiii will bear witness to the country of the value that Mr. Hoxie was to the public, as attested by those best qualified to judge. There is no rivalry so sharp in business, producing more jealousies or rival ambitions, than that of the railroad world. Mr. Hoxie represented on of the most powerful and-one of the most aggressive of railway corporations. He represented it in its most enterprising and aggressive form; yet that he did so in a manner which -retained all his manliness, and inspired even his competitors with be lief in and admiration for his manhood, was shown by the fact that near ly all of those with whom he was brought in conipetition stopped from their busy work and came four hundred miles to attend his funeral, and to pay their tribute of respect and esteem to one whom they knew to be unusually worthy. The large company of men who stood around Mr. Hoxie*s grave in Woodland Cemetery yesterday represented the controlling powers of the business interests of the West; represented hundreds of millions of dollars of capital; represented the life of Western trade. Such a group of men; such a lot of faces and heads of strong men, seldom appear about any grave except that of Presidents and men highest in power in the Government. But here was a man who, in the business world, made a wonderfully aggressive record; made a fight for a great principle affecting the rights of property; who represented in his activity the sharpest rivalries of business and trade, and yet who had, with it all, such a nobility as to challenge the admiration and gain the affection of those who were naturally his rivals. It was a tribute such as few men are ever paid, and such as few have proved the worthiness to have paid them. It is not only a striking tribute to the great worth of Mr. Hoxie, and a striking and conclusive evidence of the gratitude in which he is held for the great and successful struggle that he made for the maintenance of the rights of property, but it is also a pleasing evidence of the good heart that is in the breasts of the men who control the cor porations popularly pronounced to be soulless and heartless. It showed to the public how good after all are the hearts of the strongest and most aggressive of men. Those who could have seen his burial yesterday, and seen the large group ol strong and famous men gathered about the grave, and seen how deeply affected they were by the death of one they had learn ed to respect and value so highly, would have seen how safe is the rep utation of Mr. Hoxie for time, for the good work that he did. They would have seen, too, the evidence in this, that the man who made the great con-test and won the great victory for law and order, as against the menacing elements of socialism and anarchy, was not stronger in his 574- great ability in compelling and holding public admiration than he was ^ in drawing to him the best and strongest men as his friends. The death and burial of r/r. Hoxie both teach lessons of great value. He gave his life .to discharge his trust. He knew the cost, and yet did not falter. In doing this, he showed that heriosm is not found alone on the martial field, but that it is developed when it is needed, in every time of turbulence or danger. The tribute paid to him by those who came suhh a long distance to his funeral, the tribute which is being paid to him in almost every American newspaper, show that while he gave his life as a sacrifice for principle, the sacrifice is appreciated and will be remembered. Not alone the leading railway men of the West, but the leading business men of St. Louis, coming from the scene of his conflict and victory, gave, in this evidence of yesterday, a token of their appreciation of such Service as he rendered, and of the gratitude in which they will remember it. . , . I, ■■ I. .- e ■ t • , ' • j vt ' i' M t , . i ' . ' • . / * I , i f • '' ' ' J : -VisJrj 1 ' -f# f V , v ' • ' i :](" Ai i'r.i. ■ . ■ ' It J J ' .1. ^ ^ • • • ■ -"■K -.'fi.' * Iv. , ."t I 1 .»■ . ■ { ■ / • i. ,1 '*r, ■ • ■ ; i :' : : - T , ■ n I • ; , . I ! ■ ' • I ' • ■ • V t, ) ' I ' A t* M * t ' I, . p. ' ■■c.'"' L - I.. .. . . ii ' ■ P, , . I n ' ;'(v' , ■ , i ; n. !- , ■ ■ 575 Sheet # 4 November, 1886. / The Iowa State Register, Satiarday, November 27, 1886, Morning Edition. Everything was arranged for with the moi;t exacting care, and nothing happened to add a discord to the entire ceremony. This was no easy matter but was managed with that ability foresight and execution which must always mark the successful railroad man, and the result reflected much of credit upon those who bore the burden of management. But a short time was taken for rJest and the different parties started on their homeward journey. Mrs, Hoxie accompanied the St. Louis party, which was increased b^v the addition of the genetlmen from that city who had com on from Chicago. The Chicago party return ed directly home. Mr. Jay Gould Not Present. It was reported that Mr. Jay Gould was cf the party, and some of the evening papers last night said he was with the party. But he was not. His brother, Mr. Abraham Gould, was with the St. Louis party. Captain F.. S-. Hays, Mr. Hoxie's great friend, was not able to C' me. He had watcheu with Mr. Hoxie through his long illness while really sich himself, and was so worn down that he was unable to come. Dr. Smith, of St. Louis, who with Captain Rays formed a part of Mr. Hoxie's family for over twelve years, was with the St. Louis party. The Friend of Forty-five Ye ars. Among the most honored guests of the day was Hon. Thomas Mitchell, of Mitchellville, who had been a second father to Mr, Hoxie ever since his boyhood, and who mourned his loss as though he had been his won flesh and blood. Tribute from Bt;one County. On yesterday Judge Casady received the following letter from a committee of the Old Settlers* Association of Boone county expressing their grief at the common loss; Boone, Iowa, Nov. 26, 1886.--Judge Casady, Des Moines, Iowa:--The pioneers of Boone county send condolence to the family and friends of the lamented dead. Hub Hoxie, which they cannot express in words. We all knew him as you did, noble, mr;gnanimous, robust, honest, wholesouled, warm-hearted man. We have partaken of the hospitality of the old Mitchell homestead when Hub was chief, and we have hatthis volunteer aid with ox teams in getting out of the interminable sloughs and deep snow drifts of the prairie waste, miles away from that ever open shelter and home for all who come, whether they had money or not. We also knew him in public life and have watched his career since manhood and have been proud of his achievements. Bury him tenderly beside his dead boy, with whom the father's heart was buried in the by gone days. He has an enduring monument in the hearts of all the survivors of pioneer times. Peace and rest to his ashes. Will you personally express our tenderest sympathies to Mrs. Hoxie. John H. Hull, G. W. Crooks, A. L. Speer, Gommi ttee. 576 Outside Expressions. ' M Where Mr. Hoxie's Parents Are Buried. * The Keosauqua Republican has the following paragraph: Mr. Clark, in the Gate City of Tuesday, mentions the recovery from a severe attack of sickness of H. m Hoxie, one of the great railroad men of this country, and in speaking of his early history says,"HoKie*s father was one of the Iowa pioneers. He got so far ahead of civilization that his was the first white family to cross the river at Des Moines, and he waited with his wife and children on one side while negotiations for treaty were going forward on the other side, when it was signed old man Koxie hurried across and H. M. Hoxie,. the boy was along." Mr. Clark's history should have concluded "with the removal of old Mr. Hoxie from Oes Moines to near Kilbourne in Van Buren county, where he died, was buried and where his body remained until a few years ago when his son came ani had it taken up and re-interred hear H. M. Hoxie's Des Moines home. Mr. Geo. C. Duffied of Pittsburg, assisted the son in the removal of the remains. We are informed by Mr. Melville R. Hoxie, now in the city, that ■-the body of his father was removed to Chicago and buried by his'wife, and not brought to Des Moines, as stated above. Mr. H. M. Hoxie at that time expected to remove his son, buried here, to Chicago also, and intend ed to make it his own burial place. But as he grew older his love for his old home returned with so much force that he decided to be burfed here, and left a request to that effect. A Ridiculous Rumor Contradicted. ^ The St. Louis Globe-Democrat in its sketch of the life of Mr. Hoxie had the following timely contradiction of the absurd story that Mr. Hoxie was at one time a hostler: An .Early Lesson. Mr. Hoxie was always averse to notoriety and could rarely be drawn into conversation with reference to himself, and the story of his life is known to very few people, even those with whom he was closely associated and who came in daily contact with him, having only an out line of it. During the great strike in the Southwest a great many stories and anecdotes, with tr. Hoxie as the central figure, were given wide circulation, and among them were many at which he laughted heartily the one with reference to his experience as a hostler in Des Moines, seeming to afford him the greatest amusement. A Globe-Democrat reporter who saw Mr. Hoxie daily during the strike, once asked him if there was any thuth in the hostler story. "Not a bit," he replied laughing heartily. "The facts are that while with Mr. Mitchell on his Iowa P'arm, I acted in the capacity of aanager for him, his interest being quite large for those days, and it was my duty to ride over the place and see that the work was done, and the only rebuke I ever received from him, which was a mild one was for dismounting from my horse and doing some work myself which*1 properly dene. While engaged inthe task Mr. ^itchell road up, and I could readily that he was displeased, thouo-h and sight f of 7? the men, he turned to me together, and said: and 'I when do not out expect of hearing vou to do the work. It is your duty to see that it is don^- t^at is^aU.' Sheet #5. 577 November, 1886. The Iowa State Register, Saturday, November 27, 1886, Morning Edition. "I made no reply, but ever afterward followed his instructions to the letter. It has also been stated that when I went to Mr. Mitchell's I walked, and the inference was th)t I had no money with which to ride. This I have never denied, either," continued Mr. Hoxie, again laughing heaikily, "but the fact is that I had been very successful in the West, and when I went to Mitchellville had over $2500., which I then considered a fortune. And.in addition to saving this sum I had regularly remitted to my Mother, ray Father having died when I was quite a lad. No, I never served as a hostler, but if it had been necessary I would have done so, and endeavored to do it well." Gave His Life The Globe Democrat says event deeply to be regretted, not long the field of labor of the de There were elements of martyrdom where will recognize. The fatal charge of duties imposed upon him under his charge from the rage of The seeds of death came while he defense of law and right." To Duty. : "The death of H, M. Hoxie is an only in St. Louis, which had been so ceased,but throughout the country, in it which true and brave men everydecease was contracted in the disby his efforts to rpotect "property organized vandalism and roughianism. stood bravely at his post of duty in Missouri Pacific, The Resolutions of Regret and Gratitude Adopted by The Company. On the day of Mr. Hoxie^s death a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Pacific Railway was held. The President brought tb the notice of the Board the recent death of the First VicePresident and General Manager, Mr. Hoxie, and therefore it was, upon his motion. Resolved, That the death of H. M. Hoxie, First Vice-President of the Company, and General Manager of its railways, is deplored by us not leas from his great -value to the business interests in our charge than from affectionate respect inspired by the manliness and integrity of his whole personal life. That his death is recognized as in a large measure due to his faithful maintenance of private right against anarchist passion during the organized attack upon the property and business of this Company which was made early this year. .That his firmness in that crisis did more perhaps than any single cause to preserve results of industry in the United ^^tates from a wave of spoilation and disorder which no other interests could pro bably have withstood if the rights of this company had at that time been overthrown. 578. That we share the sorrow of his family and those who are cherished by him with a feeling of sympathy for them which is enhanced by our knowledge of his worth. That a copy of these minutes be sent to Mrs. Hoxie as a token of personal regard. The Days Before Death. A New York Letter telling of Mr. Hoxie's last days Says: "After a faithful trial of the ordinary remedies for this trouble,Mr. Hoxie submitted.to an operation not long ago. For a time this seemed to have been productive of good results. Soon, however, the symptoms of the disorder again appeared, this time much more virulently than at first. The poisonous matter generated by the disease found its way to all parts of his body, and it was not long before his skin bedame of a dark brown color. He was almost unrecognizable, and friends who had not been with him steadily during the stages of his sickness were greatly shocked at seeing him, he himself gave up hope of recovery and prepared for the end inthis he was methodical 'and business like, as in any of the transactions that had made hi:ij well known. His only anxiety was for his family. He took every precaution possible to secure the comfort of those dependentupon him. .His niece, in whom he took a great Interest, was engaged to be married, but the event was not.to take place until winter period. Mr. Hoxie was very desirous that she should be married before he died, and fearful that the end might be near, he requested that the ceremony might be performed at once. His wishes were obeyed a little over a week ago, the marriage cccunlng at the Broadway flats apartments in the Metropolitan Opera Hou$e, where he had taken up his residence. After this his strength began to fail rapidly. It seemed as if he had been sustaining himself upon nervous force alone until he should have accomplished the projects nearest his.heart. His condition was so low at seven oblock last evening that the physicians announced that death was near, and the members of his family sat up with him through the night. He expired just before 3 o'clock a. m., but his death was announced until long after noon." Mr. Hoxie's Successor. From a New York Special. One of a party of railroad men at the Windsor Hotel tonight said; " It is quite likely that A. A. Talmage, of St. Louis, will be Mr. Hoxie's successor. Mr. Gould is always on the lookout to advance clever men to posts of responsibility in the management of his railroad system; and Mr. Talmage, it is well known, possesses marked executive ability, and his ideas and methods of managing rail road affairs are entirely in accord with those of Mr. Gould. Yet nobody can tell with the faintest degree of certainty who Mr. Hoxie's successor will be, because in regard to those things Mr. Gould is extremely reticent and non-committal. It is quite possible that some M of his young lieutenants whom he has marked for advancement because ^ of his ability will be selected for the post. The royal road to favor in Mr. Gould's eyes is only through hard and persevering work. After all, the death of Mr. Hoxie does not leave any difficulty in the management of the M. P. systom, he had placed the subordinate administration in trust worthy hands, for nobody better than he knew how to select men, and so his successors will find no reforms necessary." 583 (1^ November, 1886. Newspaper clipping. The iowa ^tate Register Saturday, Nov. 27, 1886. Tlie Tribute of a Friend. We print today a letter from General Grenville M. i^odge, in which he pays the tribute of a long-time friend to the late Mr. Hoxie . The letter will be read with interest everywhere, both because of the fact that the tribute is paid by so distinguished a man as General Dodge, and because of the fact that he perhaps better than any other, knew of the great vork of Mr. i^oxie in the political and railroad fields. The two gentlemen, who had been acriuainted previously in political and social life, became thoroughly identified with each other in railroad work in the building of the Union Pacific road. General Dodge was then chief engineer of the great enterprise, and by his skill and engineering that great enterprise found a path across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean. When the future history of that great enterprise shall be truly written. General Dodge will be given credit for a great ' - work to last for time. While he wj'S in this position Mr. ^oxie became connected with the road. The two served together there in .very im portant trusts, and doing so demonstrated the remarkable ability of each of them. After the Union Pacific was built General ^odge and M.r. h Hoxie became connected with railroad enterprises in the Soulth, and were the first nien to take up the work of railway development in Texas. •They pioneered together there in very dangerous and ticklish times. Northerners in a State ol' the South directly' after the i-e bellion, with savage Indian tribes to the west of them to deal with; with yellow fever in suiririier to right, and with many other disadvantages and ob stacles which would have appalled the hearts of any men less indomit able than theniselves. Their companionship in railway building and operation scarcely ever had an end. When Mr. Gould elaborated his great system in the Southwest he found these two strong men of great service to him, and they remained very prominently identified with him and his railroads constantly afterwards. They had demonstrated genius in railroad building and operation; and Mr. Gould, with his genius for financiering and railroad building, was quick to utilize their ability. A very large part of his phenomenal success in railway en terprises may doubtless be traced to. them. In tne light of these facts, so well known to everyone ac quainted with the two gentlemen, or with their operations in railway work, the letter of Gen. Dodge, paying a 1st tribute of friendship to his devoted friend, will be of especial interest to the public. Gen. Dodge is too busy a man to write n.ucJi for the press, and the fact that he stopped in his busy career to give to the public, through a newspaper, this article in regard to Mr^ Hoxie, is but another evidence of how highly and constantly he r^-garded him. The estimate of Gen. Dodge, who, as a soldier and a corps commander, n.ade his name famous by his own bravery and great generalship; who was the trusted comrade •and counselor in war of Gen. Grant and Gen. Sherman; and who displayed aftcjr the war, equal genius in creating great enterprises in internal improvement; and who is noted as a judge of men, and who has had re markable opportunites for exex'Cising his jaugment, is an estimate sece ond to no one who could write of Mr. Eojcie. It is of peculiar value to the public, coming froii, such a source, ana ail wl:o know of the 584..- great heart of Gen. Dodge, as well as of his illustrious.career in military and civil life, will treasure this letter as one peculiarly worthy to be preserved. '* • • * : . t- . -V "■t ■ . . .. ' > < ■<H' i r .'V' ,- ^ -K " November, 1886. IOWA STATE REGISTER, DES MOINES . Nov. 28, 1886. My dear General: I received your letter on Friday and published it in Saturday's p?)er, giving it conspicuous place on the editorial page. But the funeral was at day earlier, or on Friday, instead of Saturday as you expected. We accomplished your desire, however, in getting it before the railway men attending the funeral by mailing a copy to the address of every one who was here. Mr. Meek attended to procuring the list of names and had his desks carefully address, a copy to each gentleman, the list you have doubtless seen as it was printed in our report of the funeral. I had 30 copies of the paper sent to you. Your letter was a noble one. It came from a great heart's affection for a dear friend. It pleased the general public to see a leading reailroad man showing appreciation of Mr. Hoxie's great work and sacrifice. It also greatly delighted Mr. H's. personal friends. Mrs. Hoxie ordered a hundred copies of the i?sue containing it to send to her immediate friends. It was remarkably well expressed. Many have spoken to me about it in this regard. It was condensed about as much as the average writer would get into ■5^ column. Mr. Rennells(?) who is so excellent a judge, says it is one of the finest tributes one friend ever paid another and that the closing part of it is as eloquent and delicate a thi.ig as he ever read. It all comes from your heart and so could not fail to be strong and tender. It makes death a real and vivid thing to all of us when such strong men as Hoxie lie down never to rise up again. I feel I am getting old when men who have most great reputations in my own tin.e are dying off on every hand. The new generation is here and soon all of us who were young in 1860 will be gone. But how good it is to have true friendships to turn to and true friends to bury us when we die. Cordially yours, J. S. Glarkson. 587- New York, Mover-lDer 27, 1SG6. Mes srs. Polk ?c Hubbell, Des I.!olnes, lo'ja. Dear Sirs: I have just retumed from an interview with the Purchasing Committee, Mr. Ilubbard and Mr. Swayne who have our matters in charge are favorable to turning the road over to us, but withint the last week a difficulty has arisen between the first mortgage bond folders and the purchasing coojnittee and tnoy say tliey will take no further action in any matter until ti.ey know exactly what ground they are standing on. Wnat I gathered confidentially is that if things do not go to suit them, they propose to step down and out. However, Oenl. Swayne says that the differences are foolish ones and will no doubt be raada all riglit in time, for there is no doubt w will get the order. I have worked at this every day and got to this place whore I am stopped. It is a good tliing we got the order out on the foreclosure at the time we did. I -.Till be in Chicago about next Thursday. My address will be the Grand Pacific Hotel. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. 589 Nobember, 1886. IOWA STATE REGISTER DES MOIRES. Nov. 28, 1886. Dear General: I see you have had your man appointed as Mr. Hoxie's successor, thus again demonstrating your power in high places, and also your capacity and inclination to take care of your friends. I have no doubt Mr. Clark is the man for the trying place. I now want to suggest to you that this opens the door of oppartunity for a good and faithful friend of yours and mine- Mr. Meek- one who has served us both with rare devotion and ability. Mr. Clark couid get no better man for his assistant as General Manager than Mr. Meek. You know he has the railroad and the executive ability, that he has remarkable skill in the manage ment of men, and as remarkable skill in dealing satisfactorily with the public and that he has unexcelled ability so far as I know, to care for railroad interests in politics and legislation. He has the rare quality of being strong at every point in practical rail road operation and in popularizing and protecting railroads with the people. He has saved the railroads crossing Iowa millicns of dollars by his skill and duration in preventing adverse legislation in the last two Legislations of this state. I have never known a man his equal in this work. In the practical railroad work and management as you know he is equally competent. He is a man capable of managing any rail way and only needs an opportunity like that which would be afforded as Mr. Clerk's assistant to send him to the front. M;r. Hoxie told me twice that he wanted Mr. Meek for his assistant and he said once he had desided to offer him theplace. Afterwards he told me that he found others - Mr. Gould, I suppose and probably yourself wanted him kept here. Can you not help him to this place? You know his great capacity as well as I and his great personal merit and know how admirably he would fit into the work as assistant Gen'l Mgr. I should greatly dislike to have him leave Des Molnes . But I am so much his friend as you are also, that I want to see him gaining the promotions he so richly deserves. He only needs your active and powerful help to get him into a place where he can show his great ability. 590 You and I can help him to the front. Let us do it to help such men and such friends. Cordially yours, J. S. Clarkson. November, 1886. Iowa State Register. Des Wioines . Nov. 30, 1886. Dear General: I wrote and telegraphed you at New York last Sunday suggest ing if Mr. Clark, Mr. Hoxie's successor, could not be induced to appoint Mr. Meek as his assistant. It is the very place in which Meek can show his ability and gain promotion. Mr. Hoxie told me twice he wanted Mr. Meek for Ass't. Gen'l Mgr. and once he told me he had decided to appoint him. He said afterwards that he learned that others - probably Mr. Gould, and possibly yourself - did not want Meek taken from Des Moines. Now that the chance has come again I feel that Meek is the man for it. You know of his ability. He is thorough in his practical knowledge of railroad operations and also in the management of men, while in meeting the people and in popularizing railways with them I do not know his equal. He has the ability to manage a large road and only needs opportunity to demonstrate the fact. He has another great value and capacity to railroads in his rare ability in public affairs and in representing and defending them before Legislatures. You know I have been in position to judge as to this sort of work. I know of no one who can equal the wdrk that he did in this line in the last two Legislatures in Iowa. He did more than any dozen others to prevent adverse legislation. He has remarkable ability in this line and such a man will be needed in this position. The St. Louis Globe Democrat of last Saturday had the following paragraph: "To 1 ill the position properly, Mr. Hoxie's successor on the Gould system must be more of a politician than a railroad man. The Legislatures of Missouri, Kansas, Texas and other States will be disposed to quarrel with the railroads during the com ing winter, and the chief man of the Missouri Pacific will Inve to do a great deal of fine work to keep the law-miakers from doing their worst." Of course this is a wrong view in part but that a man who can do that sort of work is needed in those states there is not the least doubt. Mr. teek is the very man for it. He is for it , and excellent for every duty that would be required of him. As to his fidelity, you and I will know. He has served both of us with rare devotion and ability. We should help him up and I hope you will be able to do it in this instance, as I know you are powerful with Gould Railroad. Can't it be done? Cordially yours. (Over) J. S. Glarkson. 593 December, 1886. Barrett Bouse, Long Acre Square, Broadway and 43d Street, Barrett Bros, Proprietors. (Personal) New York, Dec. 7th, 1886, My dear General. My heart is overflowing with gratitude to you for your kind telegram of the 4th inst. a^ivising me that you have kindly arranged for a situation for my son ^rank Clarence, with an engineering party under your Mr. Bissell. I have sent your telegram to my son, at St. Louis and he will no doubt start within a few days for it. Worth and on his arrival 'there will present a letter from me introducing him to you. If he does, I beg you, dear General, to say to him in a kind but firm way that you have given him this opportunity on account of your friendship for me; that you know I am in failing health and am most anxious on his account as I have had great hOj-.es of his success in life, and that if he will be industrious, studious, earnest and .faithful he will achieve success and comiriend himself to your favorable consideration otherwise you will have no use for him; that above all things he must not drink nor associate with vicious pers ns of either sex. I have faith that he will do well. Mrs. Tichenor and our other son, Harry Dodge, are in Europe and if my health improves so I can make the trip I shall join them after a while. If Frank (my son who goes to you) shall conduct hiniself well he will in due tine inherit some means, if however he shall act badly the share intended for him will go to his brother who is a model boy. health continues very poor but I hope to be able to see you here on your return from Texas and express to you in person my deep gratitude. I have read your beautiful letter respecting poor Hoxie. It does you great credit and is being extensively copied and commented upon. Whenever I can render you any service at Washington or else where please let me know. Faithfully your friend, Genl. Tichenor. Genl. G. M, ^odge, Ft. 'Aorth, Texas. 595 December, 1886. Omaha, Decer. 9, 1886. Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, 1^. Y. Dear Sir: and 18th obligations to you for your two letters of 17th date excent they would have been answered at an earlier of one of mv ^ business and the occunence of the sad death in Oregon. * accidently while in the service on the I'^alheur river retirement^t make of ^"r. ^^dams designs in regard to my desip-ns to kppn . ""^^'thy of consideration. If t>be company are entitled tn retained for an indefinite time at 2/3 pay, they pornosition tairpf out consideration for what they propose, but if that ?esiSe ii Smphf requirement that I must permanently lonf Lo will be of no material benefit to mL I had "to chanpe mv Pvno°^+ mind that unless unforeseen circuiristances occur close of IShR T ^ that I should not remain in Omaha beyond the in J^.issourl whPr>o ^^"^e contracted for and am now building me a residen®e make mroSnlnPn? children are located which I expect to fore tha? I o- 1888. You will see theretirr.e and thnt Hpq? retire from the service of the Company at that of some caoahi p tr Sn was one reason why I wished to secure the services succeed me UnriP^"+i! would become acquainted with "the work and then coSSro? Cear^ circumstances the idea of retirem.ent in a solicited contimip terrors for me, and I could not, if ever so much beyond that tinp imip ®®rye the Company even as consulting Engineer irSssouJl ^111' Ihe privilege of retiding bush " is e<-'nppi-ii° udage that a "bird in hand is worth two in the step'down and rm+ + upplicable here. I will cheerfully agree to salarv for thp ut the end of 1888, if they will continue my present allhoL? is What I would much prefer, that t ?np cri VP y would allow me to reside in ii'issouri I would after sation. ' them such service as I could, at a reasonable compen- + npp + pd n,p^ regard for Mr. Adams, and feel that he has nnt cpp +V, ^^i^s^'^lsly» but not knowing my personal designs, he could +?npi L proposal however well intended would be of no pracregard np^-nd ior all the gentlemen connected Bccount, with the and Union on account Pacifid of Railway my high Shall endeavor to accommodate rriyself to their wishes even if they C8ri2iot Q.Ccoiiiniocl&t© thGUiSGlvcs to my circ\injSt8ncGs # A'ith many thanks for your good will I am. Yours very truly, J. Blickensderfer. 597 December, 1886. Union Pacific Railway Company, Office of the General Superintendent. Omaha, Nebr. Dec. 13th, 1886 Gen. G. M. I^odge, My dear ^ir: There has been a desire expressed to get a small history of the Union Pacific and its auxiliary branches in its early days and I have been assigned to look the matter up, being employed in the General Superintendents office. I have been referred to you as a gentleman likely to be thoroughly posted in the subject. If you could give me any assistance in the way of dates etc, I should be great ly obliged. If you will let me know when you are to be at home, and when I may see you, I shall be very glad to come and get anything in the way of information you may be so good as to give me. Perchance if you wexe connected with the Gnion Pacific in its early days and construction you may remember my father, General James H. Ledlie. It Was, of course, before the time when I was old enough to remember anything about it. We want this little history for reference here at the office is the early records are so very incomplete. Yours, George H. LeSlie 5C9 ITevr Yr^rk, December 13, IBS'!. Mr, Chas. Francin Adams, President Union Pacific Ry. Co., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir;- I have no doubt that the Inter State Commerce Bill is to become a law in about the shape it i.as been reported upon by tlie Conferencfee Committee, but whether it is a burden upon the railroads, ''will in my opinion, depend a '^reat deal upon the construction put upon it. All that the railroads want in it is a man of exp'^rience, ability and intecrity, and I know of no better man fitted for the position of Commissioner undwr the provisions of the bill than Peter A. Dey of Iowa Cty, Iowa. His ability, his experence and his integ rity would questioned by no one who has any knowledge of his work. He is a Democrat, and it seems to me the'. ,if the President -as fully informed about him, he would appoint him. I would bery mucl like to have your views unon this subject. I do not suppose that anybody connected witii the railroads advocating his appointment would be very much In his favor, >ut it is really only that class of men who know who are peculiarly fitted for this position. Very trr^y yours, G. K. Dodwe. 601 December, 1886. - V , . A r ■.?/ <•? Mr. J. M. Phillips Requests your presence At the marriage of his daughter Emma, Frederick W. Voswinkel Wednesday afternoon December Fifteenth, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty Six, At two o'clock. One Hundred and Five Bluff Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa. is 1.1-. ' f ■m-j G03 Ne;7 York, Decem'ber 27, 1S86. I'r. George H. Leslie^ U.P.Ry. Co., Omaha, Neh. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours Becemher 13. I have a complete his tory of the Union Pacific Railroad and everything connected uith it from the date of m^y first work upon it, 1851 or 52, up to the completion of the x^oad in 18GG, or when I left it in 1S70. These papers are all boxed up here in New York and if I Icner/ exactly what you required, I would have ray secretary look through them and pick out what you want, if I have it. I don't expect to be in the Bluffs again for a long time. lir. Blickensderfer has a comnlete set of the reports of the engineers connected with the foad.from 1862 onward. I presume you could get a good deal of information from them if that is the class of information you desire. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 605 New York, December 31, 188G. l.Ir. Peter A. Day, Iowa Cit-y, lova. Bear Sir:- I have no doubt but what the Inter State Commerce bill will pass in about the shape ti;e Conference Conmiittee has reported it, T have not as much fear of the result of it, as have a -reat many people, especially if it is properly administered. I have for tiie past ten years been of the '~>pinior. that the National Government would finally have to take the supervision of the railroads in the United States, more to protect the capital invested in them than to get justice for the pu>-lic; for the people are certainly not at present sufferin:^ fro railroad discrimination against them. There will be a flood of applicants for the positions under the bill and I think the success of the measure depends entirely upon the class of men wi.o are made commissioners. They s/iould be men of experience, ability and intecrity and you possess all those qualities in an eminent decree and every one who knows of the manner in which you performed your duties in ti.e Iowa^ Commission would^not hesitate to recommend you; but the question -hich rises in my mind is, what policy should be pursued to secure your appointment, if you will accept it? '.Vhehter great pressure v/ould bring it about, or whotiier a si;:.ple statement of facts by your own state officers and by united application of our congressmen, would not have mere effect. You have a great many friodds in the East who would be glad tc reco mend you and I write this to you, to ask you confidentially what efforts if any you propsoe to make and if I can do anything to aid you. I expect to be i; Washington during the latter part of next week and the first of tlie wee' afterward and would like to hear from you uoon this subject if you have any plans or have done anything, It is possible I might be able to sbmeti.ing to forward them. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 607 General John A. Logn died at Washington in Decemher 1886. During the Civil War, and ever since. General Logan and his family .have heen close, devoted friends of mine. I :vas ti.e youngest of the three corps commanders of the Army of t}:e Tennessee and Logan was apt to criticise his brother officers. I knew he often criticised me but at the same time he did not fall to give us all credit for what we did. He had a magnetic presence on the field that you very I seldom saw in any other officers. Men who stood on the firing line. when he rode by would turn and cheer him and lie was considered the most representative of the Volunteer officers in the Army. He had been a very prominent character in I"!.linois and in Washington and from the time he entered the service until the end of the war, he had a great personal friend in General Grant. While General Sherman appreciated Blair and Logan for their loyalty to the country and for what they had done in arousin • the country in the beginning of the war, he did not look upon them v;ith the same favor that General Grant did, though he never failed to praise them for their services. Sherman leaned more to educated officers, and Logan used to compliin because he thought Sherman was more friendly to me than he was to him. The fact that Sherman did not piaCe'^ Logan at the head of the Army of the Tennessee when McPherson was killed showed more plainly than anyt ing else his views in the matter, tlough tl.ere is no question in my imind but what Sherman would have placed General Logan at the head of the Army of tl.e Tennessee if it had not been for the protest of Thomas _ , X, * , , X . X., and the personal quarrel between Slie^siaSMv-and Logan during Sherman's absence in the campaign from Vicksburg to Meridian in the winter of 1803-4. ' „.(T General Logan had a great help-mate In his wife, who was a veiy able, cultivated lady and who was an excellent advisor for him . She had just the dispositi n that General Logan needed to steer him straight T • . . . . and he leaned greatly upon her. She was devoted to him and to his work. In scrap-book 10, pages 61 to 70 inclusive can be found accounts of Logan, and Sherman's statement in relation to his difficulty with Logan and hov/ it was made up. After the war, Sherman and Logan both being friends of mine, I endeavored to bring about a settlement of the difficulties between them. Knowing the real reason why Sherman did not put Logan in command of the Army, I felt that it was due him io make it known to Logan and see if it could not make a difference in his feeling in the matter. g It was a great disappointment to Logan, of course, and to all the Army of the Tennessee tl.at he did not take command, I'y correspondence with Logan and Sliermar. did not seem to result in any settlement tl.ough both of them expressed high opinions of each other. It was a great satisfactirn to mb that Sherman brought the conciliation about himself , ■ I. ' ♦ • and on December 20, 1886, General Shorma in a letter to T^iitelaw • ' Reed set forth fully tlie circumstances of that conciliation and is found in scrap-book IC page 65, There was no officer in the field who was more prompt than Logan to respond to any call upon him to help id battle. The tliree Corps commanders of the Army of Ihe Tennessee all responded promptly to any call upon the other wit out waiting for orders, especially Logan. He would not only, send us troops, if his line was not fighting,| but would come with them himself. Blalr was the same way. At the great battle on the 22nd at the request of Logan and Blair, I sent troops to ti.reo parts of that fiold. https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/87fa207bc993caf2e902e5b4097adca2.pdf 8a5813b5d0af0e5e3251c71860f5c388 https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/85f8bf9cf22c9a755edb7f8298ff4708.pdf c693146dc7826fd9e12bff95004f31aa https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/b75fea98e227414dad7fab90ebabb8b6.pdf ab04ce7f5498df8be6c126cc9e02edb4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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President of Oregon Navigation Company Property Union Pacific, Port Worth & Denver City, Denver Texas & Port Worth,Denver Texas & Gulf, and other Roads. 1888 - 1889 r ■ ■ I' 1888 Panora, Guthrie Co.^ Iowa, General, I corne to the conclusion to drop you a few lines again. Well I heard of you when you past through last fall but that is all the good it done me. I suppose you forgot to let me know. Well General here is something else this tiaie, this is no pension. Here I send you a circular and a wood cut so you can see just what it is, Mr. Roberts and I studied it out. You remember I would ride of nights to help to watch the enemy off from you and your men when you were asleep of nights. Now that day is past and you are a railroad man now, and here is a fire extinguisher, a complete one. When you lie down at night to take your rest you need not have any fear of your passengers burning up when there is a railroad wreck. ""ith Kensal and Roberts patent in your Gars, I have a correct model made stove ana all you just ought to see it, I know you would say that is just the thing. If this wasn't Democratic times that makes a man so hard up I would put it in my grip sack and come and show it to you. Now General, look it over and let me know what you think of it. I will close by saying it is a complete thing Yours truly. J, A , Hensal. RAIL-WAY HERALD. Vol. 1 Panora, Iowa, Jan. 1, 1888 No. 1. Pire Extinguisher, J. A. Hensal and Ceo, Roberts, inventors, Panora, Iowa. This fire extingusiriec is especially applicable for use with car heaters, and is designed, in event of a collision or overturning of a coach, to automatically extinguish any fire existing in the heater, and therely prevent a conflagration. The extinguisher consists of a cylinder, supported by a suitable frame, (a) firmly bolted to the stove top at (b), Figure 1, sectional view. Through the top of frame, slides a vertical shaft, (c) encircled by a coiled spring, (d), to the base of shaft is secured a piston, (e), which supports a rod, (f), swelled at lower end to form a taper valve, (g), to which is hinged a pitman,(h), which in turn is ^^ninged to a hinged stove cover opening downwards. Fig. i shows the piston elevated, which compresses the spring, (d), closes valve (g) etc rn making the machine ready to receive its charge of water when poured into the top oj cylinder. The spring, (d), being slightly compressed, keeps the valve, (g) water-tight. «Vater nay be drawn off for use at the stop cock (i). This, however, is replaced by the reserve supply above the pistbn, which flows through a valve into the lower receptical. The piston is held in its elevated position by a trip device shown clearly in Fig. 2. The trip, (j), is placed in a slot cut in shaft, (c), where it engages with the edge of frame, (a), thus holding the spring, (d), compressed. From the trip a wire leads upwards through the shaft, the upper portion, (k), being protected from meddlers by a case indicated by dotted lines, and set loosely upon the lower part from where it will be thrown by any unusual shock, thereby throwing the trip, re leasing coiled spring and precipitating several gallons of water into the fire, extinguishing it. No matter in what position the stove is placed the water will be forced onto the fire by the action of the released•spring (d). As will be noticed by the above engraving it -does not present an imsightly appearance, resembling a common stove frum very much. 7 January, 1888. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Thos . T. Eckert, General M.anager. NunLer Sent by Rec'd by B 169 Norvin Green, President^ Received at Produce Excha. ee Jan. 3, 1888. Dated Phila . , Fa. 1/3 To Genl. G . M. Dodge, 1 B'way, N . Y . Our ollice will be open. Your plate expressed you New York. J. W. Lewis & Co. 9 • January, 1888. THE WESTERN UNION TEEEGRAPH GO^.PANY. Sent by Re c'd by NorVin Green President Che ck. Received at Pro^.uce Exchange Jany. 4, 1888. Dated Baltimore « Nd. ■ To G. E . Dodge or N.r » Meek, No . 1 B * way, N . y» ^ My son and I will reach New York sone ti, e Wednesday. I think Mr, Meek should stay by all means untiJ we come. Yes I will take the note of the company without any collateral for the ten thousand, W. T. Walters , 11 (}i 1888 , January, House of Representatives, Dictated. Washington, D. G. Jan. 7th, 1888. Gen. G. M. Dodge, #1 Broadway, N, Y, City. My dear General: Your note received, Mr. Glarkson will not be able to visit New York with me, but I will.be there with our friend, on Tuesday morning, and call at ^1 Broadway. Should anything transpire to delay Mr. Meeks coming to R. Y., kindly telegraph me. Senator Allison is just home from Iowa. The information from him and several quarters indicate the rernomination of Senator Wilson probable without opposition. The scattering influences which have been manifesting hostility to him are rapidly dying out. In haste. Very truly yours. D. B. Henderson. 13 . January, 1888 Oskaloosa, Iowa, Jan, 7, 1888. My dear Sir: Your note received saying the portraits will he sent. I am glad of this for I wish the hook to do you as much honor as possible in every sense; an honor I feel that you richly earned, hence I want . good portraits. The sooner the prints can he sent to the Iowa Printint co at i^es Moines, Iowa the better. I hope • to have the hook ready by eand of next month. It is now in press. Yours truly, S. H. M. Byers. Genl. B. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, N. Y, January, 1888. MARIETTA COLLEGE. The best educational advantages olfered. Exijenses moderate, two courses of study. Free scholarships to aid worthy students. The next year in College and Academy begins Sept . 8th, Winter term Jan. 5th, Spring Term April 12th. Catalogues sent on application, John Eaton, President. N'arietta, 0., Jan. 10th, 1888. My dear Gen: I thank you heartily for a copy of your paper on trans continental railways. It puts in authentic lorrn important data that ot}erwise might have been lost and is exceedingly interesting. Very sincerely. Yours etc., John Eaton. January, 1888 United States Hotel, Bobton. Tilly Ilaynes, Proprietor. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Dear Sir; Boston, Jan. 11, 1888. In reply to your letter of the 10th would say thi t your letter addressed to Lynn was delayed a little in reaching us but as soon as it was received it was forwarded to our office in Philadelphia with instructions to forward you the plbte as soon as the imprints for Essex History could be printed. If you do not receive the plate this week, please drop a line to our office 54 North 6th St. Fhila., Pa. Respectfully yours, J. W. Lewis & Co. 23 V Janueary, 1888. J. W. Lewis & Go. Publishers. Nos. 52 & 54 North Sixth Street. Philadelphia, Jfjnuary 14, 1888. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Dear Sir: Yours received. We merely mentioned the fact of having sent the plate, that your Secretary might not come if that was the object of his visit. We will make you 3000 impressions on propeir paper the size of Gen. S. R. Curtis, which is enclosed, for f35. As we are doing other work for you, we give you trace prices. It might be done for a trifle less if you favored using an inferior grade of paper, but you would run a risk of injuring your plate. The prints could be furnished you in a few days, as we have our own presses. Very truly, J. W. Lewis Sc. Co. Philadelphia, Jany. 21st, 1888. Gen. G. M. -t^odge, 1 B'way, N . Y. To J. W. Lewis & C©., Dr. (Please ackg. my) (check,herewith :) (N .E .Dawson) Publishers, Nos. 52 & 54 North Sixth Street. 3000 prints from steel plate, sent Iowa ptg. Co., Des Moines, Iowa. |35.00 Thanks. Rec'd. Payment 2/l7 J. W. Lewis & Go, 0^ January, 1888, J. . Lewis & '-'o ., Publishers, Nos. 52 & 54 North Sixth Street Philadelphia, Jany. 18, 1888. Gen. G. M. i^odi^e, 1 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sir: Yours at hand. We will print the 3,000 impressions, and forward to Des Moines, Iowa, within the next three or four days. Vi'ill also mail you a few prints. Very truly, J. W. Lewis & Co. 27 January 2oth 1888. Trinidad, Colorado, January, 2o 1888. Gen'l G.M.Dodge, Pres. C.& T. Ry Con. Co. No I Braadway, N.Y. I have yours of the I6th and note contents. I will not refuse my medicine notwithstanding my antipathy to Alopathic practice. When Mr. Meek sent me telegram from N.Y. asking me to wire him Just vhat I wanted to bring track up to one and a half miles per day, I felt like replying that I wanted a little more executive ability in my head, although my real wants were motive power, which I supposed he well knev/. We were trying to lay track with < a disabled engine, No 4, and supplying her with No 6, which latter engine has had more than she could do. I sent the Santa Fe engine up the Canon once but she spread the rails so badly it was not safe. I had been promised one of the new engines every day last week.Finding that promises amounted nothing I went to Denver on Friday night and found no engine ready.I was told that I had better take one of the old engines, that it would be some time before the new one could go. I told Mr. Grover if he sent me another old engine I would couple it on to No 4 and ship them both back to him. He then said they had not received the head lights I had shipped them a week before and notified him.We sent to the D.& R.G. Depot and found the headli^ts had been there some time. I was then promised the engine should be ready on Sunday. She was run out Sunday and Kirk reported she foamed so bad ly and was so full of grease he could nothing with her.But they thought she would do better Monday and promised she should start for Trinidad in the mornihg.I went to the shops Monday morning and found the engine still delay ed, the headlight not on and no syphon connection which I had requested should be made of Saturday.I met Mr. Grover and felt like telling him that I was satidfied from the first that fje did not intend either of the new en gines should leave his line, and asked him what he proposed to do. He re- plied that he had decided to send cue of the first Ft.Worth engines, No 2 reed some months ago. I held my temper and told him to send it immediately;^^ He s<a.id the syphon connection was to he put on and eveiy thing put in good shape and she y/ould leave positively ,on Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock and take the new water car with her. Monday evening everythingappeafed to be in order and feeling I could do no more I returned to Trinidad. I waited im patiently until yesterday (Thursday) morning, and then telegraphed Mr. Grover asking what was the matter.I had no reply, but last night the engine and water car arrived. The engineer stated that he left Denver Wednesday noon with a train for Pueblo, and it took over 3o hours to make the trip. The engine had to go into the Santa Fe shop iiiimediately for repairs, but I hope to be able to send her to the front toni^^tl I do not wish to criticise or complain of anyone, but I do think I have done all in my power to provide the necessary means with \^hich to accomplish something. I have not depended on any one to do for me, but have^l^ followed up every order as closely as possible. V.-hen matters go wrong in my absence, a remedy is app'lied but time is lost. I have anticipated your sug gestion to run men to the fronb in the morning and bring them in at night, wie havevpeen doing this with over So men ever since we bagan the track. Sometimes it is late in the night when they get in, then they refuse to go out.Sometimes it is stormy and cold and we have had nothing but coal or flat cars for them to ride on. The men, some of them, the best, wont stand this. We have had to keep some men at the cote ovens to take up and put down rails every time a train passes. I have written and wired Criver & Adams several times for the crossing. It was shipped last week and I am following it up with a tracer. These men at the crossing are up sometimes all night as we sometimes have a train at midnight and one at 4 a.m. I wrote Mr. Jen-^^p nings a long time ago for switch locks and keys, failing to get them I wired to for a dozen'on the 4th of Dec. I had reply saying they were invoicing and would make them after they got through. Estlmtes on New Mex. work have leen sent. Bradbury has a big rock out on hand, yet I do not think the track will be interrupted.We have made devW elopments of water at Apache Springs that will give us So.coo gals, daily. 4!he spring I supposed to be Dead Mans Guloh is small, yet I have directed further investigation. This 4s a few miles west of Mt.Dora. Some other springs show good, yet are far off and away below the grade.The lakes here have all dried up, and of course the Springs have been effected by the dry weather. Immediately on receipt of your telegram,I wrote Bissel in relation to the depot and section houses, and replied to you. I gave him the size of the depot at Clayton, the only one we wanted, and a list and location of all ofher sidings where section houses only are wanted, and suggested they be so located as to be out of the way, when depots were to be built and at the same time convenient to use for depot at pres ent . Bissel is doubtless across the line by this time. He was in 3 miles of line last Saturday. The track is in bad shape, so reported, and con tractor has wired B. for permission to lay up ten days at state line and back fill. I don't believe Bissel will do this as he wants to c atch the graders. Kurd got around again and is out, but it was a close call. My trackmaster is some better, yet day before yesterday we thought would be his last. I am yours truly. N.R.Gibson. ' 'v,.. •; .< 'eJ K'>S-'v' ■<■ .^v* r^ ..' < •ji.Tt'.i''.■-?*, . '■ I •_ ■■"" ' ■•.. <*■ , - ' f Jan. 21, 1888. Wr R. E. Montgomery, New York. ' Jan. 21, 1888. Ft. 'Vorth, Texas. Dear Sir; 'Vhen Mr. Meek was here M. Hill saw us here with a view of obtaining an interest along our line for irmigratiori and towns, and I think he will go to Texas and see you . I offered to sell him everything north of the Canadian that we had interest in, nnd advised him to buy one half of yours. They have plenty of money, and if they would give their attention to it I think would draw a good deal of immigration onto the line. As to immigration matters, they are entirely in the hand of Mr. Meek, and he ?aid when he was here that he was going to turn them into the passenger department. Adarson has no cori'iection with the immigration dep t. now, and has not h.ad any since the 1st of November. Up to that time he was in the employ of the Construction Go's, and they are going out as fast as possible. Yours truljr, U, M. Dodge. The map must bo to opei->ating department consult Meek about it. New York City, Jan. 23, 1888, C. F. Meek, G. M., Dear Sir: Mr. Sprague was here today. He says they have abandoned the Maxwell grant, that their lowest drilling showed only about 4 ft. of coal at a depth of 175 feet, and their upper drilling only about 3 l/2 ft. at 285 feet down; and that it wont pay to open either. He 'says that it would cost $100,000 at least to put in shafts, houses, machinery, He says that the coal measure dips to the south very strongly and the dyke crosses it. He thinks the best coal is up the Purgatoire about eight or ten miles above Thompson Mines, and proposes to go in with us up there. He says he has examined it, and that there are 8 ft. veins. He evidently, is posted, for he had his superintendents looking up that country thoroughly. Of course, what he says about the Maxwell grant may be for a purpose, but it i.s very important to get at the facts before we go to much expense. Sprague also says that the dyke runs riglit back of the Thompson mine, and that that will pinch out, and that they now have 8 inches of bone in their vein. I suppose Jones will be there with you, and in view of these facts we do not want to tie ourselves up with the Maxwell people until we know thai the coal is there. The Maxwell people notified them of some discoveries by Mexicans in Long's Canon, They examined that and found only 1 to 2 ft. upper vein. Sprague says he thinks the heavily workable coals are about 15 miles up the Purgatoire and about 3 to 4 miles back from it, and that the property has been boiight by some people from ConnellsvilLe, Pa. He is going to open his Santa Clara mines. They are in the mountains about 6 n.iles to the east of the Rio Grande road. He is trying to get Moffatt to build the road up to them. Those mdnes have been examined. All this leads me to think that there is more money in our opening the Forbes mine than in opening up the Maxwell I suppose the only way to test the Maxwell matter is to go down with a well until we reach the coal and see what it is. He thinks the Sopris mine is better than the Thompson, but that the former is right on the Maxwell grant. I do not see why we cannotstrike, on the Maxwell ; rant somewhere, the Sopris vein. -V V In these coal matters we want to have plenty of time, and take them up for consideration carefully; and the better way is to get from Pels the right to examine these matters before we enter into a contract. . "There can be no harm in telling Pells just what Spragur ^ays about it. Their supt. told" me when I was out there that they had a 5 l/s ft. vein. Sprague says they never had more that 4 l/2. Of course it will not pay us to sink a shaft for a 2 l/2 ft vein. Sprague proposed to go in with me and purchase these mines 10 miles up the Purgatoire, and lease them to the 0. C. & I., they agreeing to give us at least 50 cars of coal a day and as miuch miore as we want. He says these mines are easily reached and easily developed. Yours truly, G. M. hedge'. IVashington Building No.1,^roadway, N. Y. Jan. 24, 1888 Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Prest. U. P. R.R., Boston. Dear Sir; If you have the Information will you kindly inform me the result of l.he surveys from Ft. Steele to the Bear River, running up the North Platte and through the North Park: and also of the survey from near Rowlins'to the Little l&na^e River ano thence across to Hayden on the Bear River, thence to Glenwood Springs. Was a survey made this way, or a reconnois ance . If you have not •theinformati -.n, will you kindly refer this to Wr. Bogue, the Ch. Eng., and ask him to give me the outlines of.it. If I-understand the question there was no trouble about reaching the Muddy Pass on the North Platte Survey-, but there was trouble about getting from the, North Platte over onto the headwaters of the Yampa so as to reach the coal measures.. Yours truly. G . 1. . Dodge . r ■ ■ ' ".f* .S. -N' ■ . Januarjr 24, 1888. Denver, Colorado, ^an. 24, 1888, Gen, G.M,Dodge, I Broadway, N. Y. City. Dear sir: I have arranged with Mr. Wilson to go over our line and write up its agricultural and other important features for the Register, and other papers. He started yesterday. He will write an article concerning climate as soon as « he reaches Ft. Worth, this will preface the articles, to follow, in regard to the agricultural possibilities, of the country. I have also arranged to get these letters into the different newspap er unions o in the Northwest and middle States, and I think I can get them in, in the most part, as reading matter, without cost. I met the man yester day who can reach and partially control all of them. He has been at the head ^of the Western Newspaper Union for a long time. I expect to put them in the St.Paul Pioneer Union, the Chicago Newspaper Union, and the Western Newspaper tihion, and possibly in some more of the union newspaper territory, I think I will use Wilson to organize colonies in Iowa to locate along our line and carry out my plan of county organization there. I know he would be very useful in getting up general literature concerning this coiin- , try. It may be that I might use him in organizing Dakota, although I don't want to give him too much as our work must be thoroughly done in all of these States. The work of organization will be started at once, and the material furnished by Wilson will be the ground-work for our advertisememts, as he is a practical farmer, a fine writer, and understands the transportation prob lem thoroughly. Very respectfully, C.F.Meek. (Copy) January 24, 1888. ^ Mr. James Wilson, 1^^ Ellis Hotel, Ft. Worthj Texas. Dear Sir: Denver Colorado, Jan.24, 1888. I send you herewith some data that may De useful in writing up that country. We want to show, first, that^s available for agriculture, and that it is, as we believe, unsurpassed in agriculturil resources. 2nd. That the climate is a healthy one, that the winters are mild and inexpensive, and such that farmers will not have to spend all thdy make by the summer's work to get through the winter, as they do in the northern States; that lumber and fuel are available, and cheap, and that land can be bought at a very low figure and on easy terms. 3d. That the transportation facilities are ample, and that the geog raphical location with reference to tide-mater is advantageous. ^ 4th. That the people of Texas are anxious for immigration, and that uhey will heartily co-operate with newcomers in the developememt of that country. Of course it is important to find the proper time for seeding:--that is something with which you are most capable to deal, and it is exceedingly important that people going in there should know when to plant their crops, and you may be able to offer some suggestions also to enable them to meet the conditions better than has yet been done. I am satidfied that the rainfall is ample, if crops are planted in the right time. Incidentally our road should be mentioned as about to be completed, calling it the Denver, Texas & Ft. Worth or Pan Handle Route, and that the policy of the Company will be to build up the country and facilitate its de velopment in every way, both in assisting immigration and in getting farm products to the best markets, at such rates as will insure to the producer Setter that living profits. I need not call your attention especially to the natural advantages Qt our line with respect to markets for farm products. All the country in he Pan Handle will be from two or three hundred miles nearer tide-water than Chicago is, and practically the same rates are made from New Orleans and Galveston as are made from the New York andeastern sea-pprts to Europ ean markets, and we will be able to reach the New York market by ship from the gulf ports on a basis quite as favorable as the Middle States, and one still more favorable that Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Dakota. The Atchison.Topeka, & Santa Fe line has been already built into the Fan fiandle. The Rock Island will build a line into ^exas, touching our line about Witchita Falls, o in all probability. They will also connect with us at dome point in New Mexico. I give you this in order that you may show that railroad develop ments are assured to this country, although you will see for yourself that the location and relative position of our line gives it a controlling position, and consequently it is the most desirable one ofr settlers to locate upon. I trust you will be able to make such a showing for the country oni our line as will make it attractive to farmers in the North, and give them the desire to settle in and develop it. Yours very truly. C. F. Meek. . . . ■ 0 i -J J rl t r ' -.Ur Jan. 26, 1888. New York. January 26(, 1888. T. E. Blssell, Ch. Dear Sir:- I received your dispatch asking if Gibson knew that you were to do the bridgirg and track-laying to the Cimarron. As I wrote you before I have sent both of you material so that you could continue track laying until you meet. If Gibson can get south of t'le Cimarron, all right; and all right if you can get North of it, the idea being to keep at v/ork until you meet. On Dec. 6th, Mr. Gibson wrote as follov/s: "Moore is delivering ties from Oak Creek south to the Sierra Grande, and piling from the S'ame point to a5:. far southeast of the Sierra Grande as he is willing to haul, say about 10 miles. He will also deliver the tinier for Oak Creek trestle, and we will arrange to put that up as soon as the timber is on hand. As soon as I can spare a pile-driver, will send it to Kurd's division, so that it may drive as far east as the men deliver." You want to co.-.runicate freely with Gibson and keep posted as to how far south his bridging and ties are being delivered. He has both written and wired me that he sent you profiles and list of stations where section-houses were to be, and where one depot is to be—at Cla ton. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. January, 1888. '.Viliiam H. Plunkett, Pres. James W. Hull, Sec. & Treas. James k' Barker, Vice Pres. Incorporated 1851 spESHIRE LIFE INSURMGE CO. of Pittsfield, ^;ass. Michigan State Agency, I.oom o, Iv^echanics' Block. M. Early, General Agent. A. F. R. Arndt, Special Agent Detroit, January 28th, 1888. General G. M. Dodge, New York. My dear General: You cannot imagine, how ri.uch pleasure it gave me, to see and meet you once more, at our last Reunion in September last at this place. I think that I speak the truth, when I say, that almost daily I have thought of' you, and wished to meet you once niore. The many kind favors you were always so ready to grant me v.hile I had the honor to serve in your Comcjand, end the pleascnt hours I had the honor to enjoy in Company with your esteemed sister Miss Julia, I shall every throughout niy life remember with extraordinary pleasure, and assure you, wish and pray, that you and youi'S may ever be blessed with good health, tiue hap^jiness end prosperity. Now my dear General, will you allow me one luestisn? The Presidential election is approaching,. Amongst the most prominent Candidates for President and Vice Pres. I have seen our esteemed ex-Governor Genl. Alger's name nientioned, and in my opinion, a better, more able and honorable man, the republican party could not place upon their ticket. I have heard from prominent gentlemen, from Illinois, Indiana, 01:io etc. etc. and all speak well of him and favor the General, and I am very anxious to know the feeling and prospect in New York. The General is one of my best friends, and I take a great interest in his behalf, and if you would be good enough and give me your idea in this miatter, I should consider myself under many obli gations and beg to remiain. With miuch respect yours, etc., A. F . R. Arndt. Washington Building No.l 3'way,N.Y. January 30th, 1888 Hon. W. E. Chandler, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of "January 28th. li.y experience with the class of Eepuhlicans that you speak of is, thatthey /ill vote anyhow. The trouble about that class of men is, that when they had power they done nothing but when they get out of power they want to do everything. There wereten times the ouLrages committed in the South under Republican administrations that htere has been under Cleve land's, and we did nothing: we sometimes investigated but we never acted. You are as fully aware of this as I am and I cant understand the policy of making faces. That is all it amounts to; it only makes people mad, and I think if you keep on with this policy that you wont lose 8 or 10^ of the Repub licans who. would stay away, but we will lose 25^ of them who would stay away from the polls on.that kind of a platform. We have got-to appeal to new interests; to the business inter ests of the.country, and if we can't carry this country on a protective tariff I don't see upon what we can carry it. I am not in favor of prohibition, but I am in favor ■of putting into the platform the strongest kind of an antisaloon highlicense resolution--it never will lose us any votes; it will make us plenty. Iowa is a sure state on square pro hibition; it is surer to-day than it ever was-- I am sorry to say this but it is a fact. Prohibition in Iowa pro hibits, except in a few large cities. Iowa is a different state from the eastern states. When wc make a law there we can enforce it in nine-tenths of it. Ky experience in eastern states is, that any law that is against the commer cial interests o f the state can't be enforced at all-- take, for instance, Waine and Rhode Island on prohibition. You and I stand on the platform of whatought to be done, but you and I have always been too practical to fight only on a winning one. . New York state can be carried on a square tariff and high license platform. There is no doubt of that in an honest square fight, but whether you can get an honest fight out of New York City P.epublicans is more than I can say. I am, ■ Very truly yours, G j' y . Dodge . January 30, 1868, Hon. D. E. Henderson, New York. Januarj- 30,' 1688 Washington, D.C. Dc-r Si}':- 1 have a letter from Mr. Montgomery, whom I wrote at your instance when here in relation to selling out his interest in the town sites. He writes me th.-^t he is willing to sell one-l.alf or the who^e of. it; the price he rets is vl00,000 for whole of this amount he has had to pya out for rig t of way, town sites etc., about ■'1^50,000. His agreement with ur was to pay the Company for right of wr.y and to pfiy ■;5,000 for each County and ^20,000 for our interest in the town sites south of 'Vichita Palls. You in addition to pay what he owes the State on town sites, wlach is about ^lI'lOjCOO. The Southern Kansus people sold $110,000 worth of property at their Canadian tovm and >,:60,000 at Pan-Handle City. If I understand "'r. ."lontgomery rightly it seers to me that he is offering this propert at almost"nothing. The trou e with him is, that he has taken a good deal more than he can carry and if any party wert in and took his property, his towns and his contracts, they certainly would make a very large amount of money out of it if it was properly handled. Then, in addition to ths arrange to takr the towns north of the Canadian to the State Line and rrom there what can be pot to Trinidad, there is a very large amount of money in it. I think they could arrange to buy all the tovms on the line. In making a settlement with Mr. Montgomery they would have tosee at the r-me time that the Railway Co. was satisfied, and that the debts that he owes them were taken care of. had no idea Mr. Montgomery would be willing tosell out at any such price, ut ho writes me that he is worn out and sick, and the worry of meeting his payments makes him 'illing to let it go. +V, ^ be very glad to have a very active company get hold the whoL line' Montgomery has not got the capital to work up Let me hear from you on this as soon as possible. There are off^unti?^T®h off until I hearfrom your people. matter up, but 1 will keep them Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. Wabhington Building. No.l B'way,K.Y. Feb. 3, 1888 A. F. R. Arndt, Esq., 3 Mechanics Block,. Detroit, fni-dU) Dear Sir: I have yours of the 28th ult. and note with very great satisfaction your expressions of personal regard. The pleasure you profess to have experienced at our meeting in Detroit I heartily reciprocate. I note what you. sap in relation to Gov. Algirer. I know hini ^ erscnally and believe him competent to fill either of the positions you name; and if he should be nominated for either, I could support him heartily. But T suppose that he like m.y self, is looking to success in the next campaign and chiefly concerned that, when our convention comes, the leading republicans of the country will get together and se lect the man that they believe is best calculated to carry them to victory. '.Ve in Iowa are, of course, friendly to Mr. Allison, but if either place should happen to fall to Michigan, you would find that Iowa would give Gov. Alger just as hearty a supr> port as she would her own son, Mr. Allison. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. M 51-;: New York City, Feb. 4, 1888 • N. R. Gibson, Oh. Eng., Dear Sir: I expected to be with you before this but am detained here, waiting for a suit in court which I have got to attend as a witness. I have written and appealed to you about pushing trach I know from what De Remer is doing that his organization is wrong in some way, but it is too late to change it now. It seems to me you should have your ablest man, say Wood, right at the front, this month, to be looking personally after things, especially your gridging, to get it out of the way. Then again, I think the ri.en could be induced to work longer hours as the days get longer, so as to use all of (day light in track-laying. You know exactly the condition of your bridging, and your material and ties, and whether there is any thing to stop you from putting your track-laying up to two miles a day. Put the company right square behind De Rouner, and where he lacks, supply the deficiency. If I can get my tracks connected by Llch. 1st I can make up the extra expenditure in cheapness of surfacing up, and in getting material to complete the line. You have the power, and the only thing that seems possible tostop you is the weather, and you must fight that. Yours truly, G. v.. Dodge . }'u i.i:L Feb. 6, 1888. R. J. Duncrm, Esq., Kew York City, Feb. 6, 1668. Supt. Ft, Worth, Texas. De r Sir: Yours of the 1st to Gen. Dodge, Pre;t. P. H. Const. Co. about air br-^kes for engines has been : eferred to me. The Gen'l. has not proveded for air brakes for our engines, so I send your oder direct to the IVestir.ghouse Company at Pittsbing The Construction Co. is now putting air brakes on all new locomotives. The last two , which went from Cook L. & M. co., Patterson have them on, also those shi;3eed to day from same place. (£() The four from the Rhode Island Co. do not have them. We expected to have to handled good many cars from other road which have air brakes upon thar, and, if we have air brakes on the engines we ca n put these cars next to .the engine and help brake the train with them. Yours truly. J. T. Granger, Treasuier. February 6th 1888 Des Moines,February 6th, 1888. 8en. G.M. Podge, No I Broadway,New York City. Pear General;- i have your letter enclosing one from Senator cHandler. I was very glad to have both letters. I return you the Senator's herewith. I presume you have seen the articles that I have been having in the Register on Sundays for several weeks. For fear you may not have seen it I enclose one in which I made an analysis of the election ta bles since 1880. I wish you would look that article over and send it to Sen ator Chandler. < My-theories may be wrong, and so may his; theories very often are. But the cold facts of election figures are something we must all accept,you and I, Senator Chandler and all. If he can see anything in the gradual ahd remorseless diminution of the Republican vote, under the con stant platform of the "Bloody shirt" and old war issues, to justify him in any hope to make gains in the future on the same line, he is a more sanguine man than I can be. There is no longer a majority in the Northern States to respond to such a platform. The young men who have the activity and enthus iasm of the country, are ayainst it. ilhe tariff too has lost its power very largely in the Eastern States, but it is growing remafkably in strength in the South, among the old confederates most of all. The (luestion is how can we go into the South and gain thhse recruits, the Southern Republicans, all of them, so far as I know, advise the course that I do. Indeed I am their pupol in: the matter. All of the Southern Republican papers, so f- r as I hawe seen, are- opposed to . Chandles's election bills, which with a Pemocratic House and a Pemocratic President, stand no more chance of passing than they do of being added by popular consent to the golden rule'. More than that, if they were passed they would only make the Solid South still more solid. We t> \J must 'break the rebel line in polities by a broader policy and on issues not reviving the old guarrel. The Republican party has Just one chance to restore_itself,to a power and to add to the greatness and grandeur of its name. It is admit ted by all students of the tariff question, free traders or protection ists, that it is a question that will heher be settled until the Repub lican party settles it. Mr. Moore, the larsee merchant, the best free trade writer in this country, admitted to me last December, that this great problem can be settled only by the Republican party,because the American people will trust it to sett tie the question because it is a stickler for American interests. It cal lessen the tariff and have the ^ people accept it, wher the Democrats, because of a popular distaste of notions them on account of their free trade could not. The South, grov/ing in protection sentiment realizes the fact that Mr Moore stated, and, because of its own material interests, is drifting toward the Republican p^rty. It is left then for the party at onee to use this opportunity to recoup itself in the South for its losses in the North, and to pacificate the country and remove all sectionialism doing so. Mr Chandler's resolution to inquire into the Jackson election was . . probably good enough. But I do not believe that half of'the Republicans ' in the country will sustain his bills to take charge of the elections in the Southern States. We cannot go backto- that, not do I think we should if we could. We cannot thus make a precedent which the Democratic < . I party once, fully in power, could use for interfering with New England or Iowa elections. I have never advocated prohibition for the National platform, and I wish you would say so to Mr Chandler to correct his impression. Pro hibition can be enforced only under the police laws of the States, and therefore, is a State question. The recent decision of the Supreme court made this very clear, and it has been the constant position of the Re publican party in Iowa in enacting prohibition hare. I also enclose for -our reading an article in reply to one of Mr White's about "the slums" (or workingmen's) district having gone for Blaine and the brown stones for Cleveland. I hope he will keep up the dis cussion on this ^ine, I cannot imagine why New York Republican papers do not take up such things as this in the Tost. We engaged Mr Wilsibn and sent him Sodth. He has been gone two weeks and J expect letters from him very soon. He will be a good man for the work. I will write for the paper soon an article calling the attention of Iowa people wishing to go to a warmer country ,to the Pan handle region. The fearful blizzards of this winter are going to send many of our Northwestern people to warmer countries. Mrs Clarkson and the baby send their affectionate regards to you. The baby talks a great deal about you and you have a solid friend in him. Cordially yours, J.S.Clarkson. Feb. 8, 1888. New York: 8, 1888. :.Tr.Morgan Jones, My dear Sir:- ^ I have your letter from Trinidad, and also one from Mr. Meek from Denver. The arrangement that was made here with the C.C.& I. Cu, was that thejf should form a separate company, for the coal on the Smyth & Civot canon, of people in our enterprise with those engaged in theirs, and that they would lease from that Co. the coal, payin"- 10 cents rayalty and. all the profit above, say, 25 cents profits to them. I also got a. conditional agreement out of them that if this wc done they would furnish me the rails to lay the 12 miles of roa d and take our D. T. & pt. Worth bonds in payment for them. My idea is that if there is plenty of coal on the south side we could coptrol it ourselves throurh the Maxwell Grant, If there is plenty on the north side we could get them interested, ai: get them to open that up, and in that .way could reach that country, I have not got money enou"h in m.y C. & T. 0. Co. to build any more line than I have now under contract. ^ <+ The work up there has been very ostly, as you cou]d ^ee Cib-in handled very poorly. The fact of the matter is that to hiS if to do fact work. Bissell is far superior • Texas line n up , respect. and only lately I have got not a profile had ai. estimate of it. Rissell yet from hasthe always been ahead of him. "isseii nas thP Ci^orLncr'Lde?^a''coal^comJ°nV"^ r r X. T company and at the same oppoeite time we the could Smyth & ieh?' 5he nLk island gf to fret Its coal out of that country- a?d yw'^ni^'nnrb none of the mines »H1 be able to sionlv MR h oars of oosl a day where would we ret them now" The"c' r ® ^"ndred people evidently Intend to monopolise the coal' au^gf'ihg'sgpr'is Moffat was here yctsterdayand he s'^ld that or. neasures to have thrt — uuKc neasurftft to . examined, and nee whether it would nav Purgatiore Piople, or whether he couldVerhold Jf^t ? 5° with the C. C. j the important thinr to independent of them. But whether it would the important thing to me is'that if wf in f"^®P®"^ent of them. But our rails without. payin<. cala for tJL .2? t'' "P.^^*®^® ''® ^an get ordered Gibson to make on survey urtheri k°^ ^ mine and malfote a location location and get ri?htlrbt nf ® ^^® ^hom] Tompson insists to m« that thsy find borelnp, of over 6 fsst of coal agd gg.v S "»*■' i*> »»!> to work that coal from the shafj So Saims undortako «e Claims that their exploration on the Smyth Civet Canon land show tney can get from 7 to 9 feet where it can be worked very economically. They claim that they can put out coal up there at a cost of 50 cents. That is the statement Sprague made to the meeting that was called here of hi"^ stockholder and of a. few of ours. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. Washington Building. No .1 B' way ,i:. Y . Feb'y 9,1888 Hon. 'ViTi. E. Chandler, U.S.S., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I enclose a personal letter of I/r. Clarkson, editor of the Des Koines Register, in relation to the position he has taken for the future of the party. I think, myself, his posi tion is pretty strong; and I may have had something to do with his taking it, for when Kr. Clarkson was here some weeks ago he appeared to desire my miews, and I talked a great deal with him about it. You know I have been a great deal in the South since 1870, and I have watched the course of things there pretty closely, and I must say that so far as I can see everything ' down there indicates that the policy which Clarkson advo cates is our true policy. I think he makes a good point on the article of The Post. Please read and return, with such comments as you see proper to make. I always like to hear from you. Ani glad to see you taking such a prominent position in the Senate. Yours truly, G . K . Bodge. February, 9th, 1888. Trinidad Colorado, February, 9th 1888. C. F. Meek,Esq. Gen, Mgr. D.T.& Ft. '.V. R.R. Denver Colorado. Denr Sir: In the matter of the Summer Resort and Coal Lands, I promised to I write you about, I will state as follows: A syndicate composed of ES solid and prominent business men, in cluding GoV. Adams, T. B. Collier, Co. Treasurer, Senator Barela, Mayor Krille and many others as good, have purchased through me, form the Max well Land Grant Co., 5S0C acres of land in Townships 33-34 S. of Rg. 68 w/ and Twp. 34 s/ of Range 69 West, comprising the whole of the most beauti ful natural park I ever saw, with abundance of the purest water that man ever drank, as clear as crystal and as cold as ice, and also, if nasty spring v/aters are, as you observed,necessary to a surarier resort, from the famous "Stonewall" issue springs of sulphur water wthat when tasted will aake a man who does not indulge in anything stronger than -whiskey, remem ber them everlastingly. There are also magnesia springs not so \inpleasant to drink but greatly beneficial. But I tell you, when anyone sees the Pork, with its lakes, trees, clear mountain streama, and surroundings and scenery, the snowy Range within eight miles, the Spanish Peaks within twelve miles, the most sublime scenery in the world, they will not -think springs a necessity. Good drives amongst beautiful scenery can be had in all directions drive with a sixteen mile of ^^asy grade round the Park. The Park is a perfect gem In a setting of the most sublime scenery the world afiords. 1 have been in England, Wales, France, Spain, Portugal, Australis, New Zealand and several countries of South America; have seen some of the most celebrated and finest pieces of scenery in the world and can truly say i never saw anything to beat the South I'ark and its surroxmdings. LasVegas, Hot Springs, Manltou and the Palmer Lake District combined do not ccme near it. In the property of 5200 acres the syndicate are v.'illing to give an. undivided l/3 interest to secure the Denver, Texas & Ft.Worth system and to have it advertised "by that Company, provided the road is in op eration to that point within ten mdnths, and such excursions run and r rates given as will encourage travel to the resort. When the southern people know that in two days they can be trans ported from their hot countries to a beautiful Park in a cool climate, from vdienoe they can make daily excursions into the Snowy Kange add in dulge in a snow-ball match if they wish, I think there will be a rush such as has seldom been seen. I think gave you some information as to designs of another R.R. on coal lands in the vicinity of this Park, to which they could run with an extra mileage of 2 1/2 miles.If I have not so informed you I will do so, but the syndicate see and prefer the advantages offered by a line connecting the Park with the Southern States. ( As to coal lands, I can offer several bodies outside of our Grant, of from 1000 acres to 2000 acres with openings on each quarter section, well developed to show the vein, vhich is from 5ft. to 8 ft. within short distances of your line. (Tan also get some good lands located and filed on in such a manner that your Co. will not be known to be in transactions until they are com pleted.Prices range from|40 to $50 per acre. Please reply and any further infoi^raation as to the Park or coal lands required by you will be furnished at once. Respectfully, R.B.Holdsworth. Februr^ry Ilth, 1888. New York. February 11th, 1888, C. F. Meek, . General Manager, Denver, Colo, Dear Sir:-- We send you nearly all the Pan-Handle pamphlets we have. I don t t;iink it is best to print any raoro until it is changed to fit the present situation, that is, the completion of the road; and if you will go to work, or have someone there change it so as to fit the road as completed, both the Ft. Worth & Denver and the A. T. & G. F. we will have a lot oi' the printed here. I suppose you understand that the Houston & Texas Central people are about opening ,all their lands in th Pan-Handle for settle ment, and also that the New York & Texas Land Co. have declined to mate any leases, so that all their lands are open to settlement. This makes about 6,000,000 of acnes t'lat have heretofore been sliut up. There also ought to be put in the pamphlet what amount of Innds the Gtate h.as classified and opened for settlement in the counties through which we run. The basis upon which the pamphlet was got up is very .'^ood, but it could be gr a tly i.mproved upon with the knowle dge we have of the country and business, especially the coal proper ties around Trinidad. Colfax County, Now ''lexico, also wants to be more fully written up, and the new towns, along the line there. I should think Wilson could take this pamphlet after he gets a little more knowledge and fit it to the country ju,^ t as it is. 'if you had time probably you could do it yourself There has been' a big demand for it. If we should print any more I would put on a little more attractive cover and h.ave an advertisement of the Ft. Worth & Denver R y. on it. Very truly yours. G . M. Dodge. Feb. 13, 1888. Mr. Pet6r Smith, New York. Feb. ^3, 1888. Ft. Yorth,Texas. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of Feb'y. 8th in relation to coaj. in Co, All the veins ".hat you speak of I had examined years a^^o and tested. Of course any coal is better tlian no coal; but that coal all slack and is very poor In carbon. One ton of Colorado coal will give as much head and make as much steam as two of the Jacksboro, and from the moment we open into Colorado I do not believe the Texas people or roads will use much of their local coal product. The proper place to start a line for the Jacksboro mines from would be Decatur, and save distance in building and run in o,a' our road to Ft Worth. That would put the line all the way in the coal development, of large or small veins. Any good operator of coal will tell you that to handle a 12 inch core that is to be taken cut of a mine,separated and wasted losts more t an to handle a four-fcot vein of coal, and that cost has to be added to the mining of each ton of coal. Yours truly. G. M . Dodge. Private. Feb'y. 13, 1888 Hon D. B. Henderson, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I notice the Oklahoma bill of Springer. I do not know what chance it has of passing the House, but-I sup pose you understand fully that if a bill passes giving a terri torial government to Oklahoma befor.e the Indian title is extinguished there will be.a great rush in ther regardless of the rights of the Indians ahdwe will have trouble on the border. The government will be powerless to interfere when the territorial government is formed; and what ought to be dore first, and before any territorial government is organized is to have a commission to either purchase the lands of the , Indians or by treaty get title of them. With that kind of a bill passed and the kind of a rum pus it would cause on the border all immigration to the Pan handle would be stopped, and every one going into the South would be frightened away. I know the character of those Indians well enough to know that they would not tamely submit to any such nonsense as that. I had.a talk with Allison about this when he was here. I wish you would see him. Yours truly. G. ^. Dodge Feb. 14, 1868. New York. Feb'y. 14, 1888. A. A. Robinson, V.P., Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of Feb'y. 9th. If you make a print on our usinr the right of way at Pueblo o n the same terms that you use that in Denver, I do not know that I will make any ol:jectlon. In drawing the contract you should make it so that we can use all or any portion of the loup line, paying for what we use. My ii ea is that t-ie way we will handle our trains will be to,.use only one side of your loup; that is, we would run into the Union Depot corain^ from the South and run around the west side of the loup so as to go through the local depot; and on coming from the north we would run by the local depot and so on to the Union depot on the same side of the loup; thence by the D. 5: R. G. south to Trinidad. I am also ready to carry out the agreement on t-^e 15th St extens'on whenever it is drawn in detail. I expect to go west this week to be gone until the middle of March. You c^n get up these agreements; and T will have them signed as soon as I get back here . Befo:e saying positively that I will accipt them as they are, I wou'd like to present them to my people in Denver, and get their ideas of them, whic', will not delay the matter. We expect to commence running through about the 15th of Mar h and we will want to be.let onto your loup at that time, even if the agreements are not all executed. You will notice that in the agreement I sent you I put in a wheclage and an arbitration clause, and you will have to put them in your other agreement. Don't you think that the 15th street extension should be drawn in one agreement, and the right to the entrance of the depot and the use of yoiir right of way in Pueblo a separate one? It appears to me it would be better. Yours truly. G. M. D'dge. Washington Building No.l B*way,N.Y. Feb'y. 14, 1888. Charles Francis Adams, Brest., U.P.R.E. Boston, Mass Dear Sir: The St. introduce a bill restrictions of o a mile irom the o structure. '.Ve o suppose we can ke from passing laws presentatives in restrictions are This would force or 1/3 of a mile that is building Paul people have got McShane of Omaha to for a bridge at Omaha which has left out the ther bills requiring them to be one-third of ther bridges. This is dangerous to our ught to have at least that limit. I do not ep anybody from building bridges, or Congress , but you ought to comimunicate with our re- ''/ashington and have them see that the sam.e put in this bill that are put in all others, them to cross either 1/3 cf a mile below us above the present wagon and R. R. bridge at the Bluffs. Yours truly. G . W.. Dodge I dont see why Congress should authorize other bridges at Omaha, which is a direct attack upon their pro' perty, when we have a double track bridge and will allow anybody to go over it who will pay for it. Personal New York City, Feb'y. 14, 1888 Mr. John Gline, Panora, Iowa. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of Feb'y. 11th. I have an interest in the 0. U\. & K. W. but the trouble has been that we have been unable to get a title on account of the difficulties of the 7/abash. As soon as we get that title we intend to broaden and make it a first class road. But when that will be it is now impossible to say; we hope this summer however. We have been waiting now nearly two years to have ■ the road given to us and put in a place where we could take care of it. I send you a pamphlet giving a description of the Pan Handle of Texas. The road will be completed through from Denver to Ft. ''orth about the 1st of fv'arc)'., and you cantravel over its entire length say from the 15th of March to the 1st of April. If you go through it you will find that country as fine as you ever laid your eyes upon,and I do not hesitate to say that it has a great future. There are so many ways of going that it is hard for me to advise but probably the best way for you to see the whole line would be to go to Denver and there see Mr. Meek, the General Manager, who will give you all the information you want. Then pass down through the coal fields into the agri cultural country, and so on south. The country is being opened for settlement,lands are being offered for sale, and after the 1st of April there will be no difficulty in getting locations, or in getting a good view of the country. I never advise any person to leave, Iowa, but if they do want ot get into a better climiate I know of no country that has the advantages of that along the Pan Handle route from Denver to Ft. Worth. Lands are cheap, can be bought at from $2 to 1^5 an acre and as fine agri cultural land as any in Iowa. You can go direct by the A. T. &■ S. F. road from Kansas City to the Pan Handle of Texas, which is about the same distance as from Omaha to Denver. Yours truly. G . M . Dodge. February, 1888. Iowa State Register Des Moines. February 14, 1888. Gen . G. W. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New Yokr City. Dear General: What are we going to do now? I did not expect the Blaine letter for a month yet. It was not best for the party, and expecially not best for Alxison, for it to come before that time. But now it has come, and the impatient friends of Allison and other candidates who. wanted it early, must tell what we are to do. My plan was to leave Blaine silent until after the delegates had been largely chosen, and then there would have been a Blaine line or columnto turn wheapever it was thought best. In that way Allison could have been nominated, Blaine thought very kindly of him, and in a letter which I received from him today, written at Florence on the 25th of January, he (expresses warm gratitude to Allison for the friendship and loyalty he has shown to him. I was in a very close place. I could see through to the end, and by one,plan see success for Allison. That was the plan I have indicated above. Rut Henderson and others of Allison's friends began to distrust that I was not alertly watching the movenient of the tide and that action oh my part would come too late. This made it impossible for me to urge upon Blaine as strongly as I would have done otherwise not to take any action until such time, as I have stated. But now what such friends of Allison wished to come, has come, and the fight miust be made for Allison on his merits. No time is to be lost. Doubt less Sherman has m.en going 'today into every State, supplied with money, to work for his nomination. iloney is very dangerous just now, when the party is dazed and indifferent as to candidates. Soriiething should at once to organize for Allison if we are going to make the fight. If you believe we should make it, you should see him at once or take the preliminary action on your own part to put the machine in motion. Iowa of course will respond to him with a unanimous delegait must be influences outside of lowa that will nominate him if he is chosen. You know how to touch and organize these in fluences. C. E. Perkins is ready to help in it, and that means a great deal. I came home irom the Committee meeting at Chicago sick ^d am confined at the house with an inglorious attack of Germian meas les. But I shall be able to get out wry soon and if necessaxv I will go any place for a conference that is suggested. Now is the time i? lor hew lork and to organize the elements there for Allison mnrw f* ^ iT.ajority of that State, or even a strong him fr early, ? delfcgates I think he there can be can nominated, be secured for him and will declare for 01' course you have thought of all these things, and have no doubt moved in them, but I want to give my views and to show my readines to cooperate. Write or telegraph me if there is anything for me to do outside of Iowa, * | I believe that with $25,000, Louisiana can be carried for Warmouth in April. A union could be luade with the ^VicEnery Democrats to elect him to one of the two U.S.Senators soon to be chosen there, and to get his influence over the registers of the election who con trol it all. A majority will be cast for Yarmouth at the polls, and if the registers can be induced to count it fairly and not throw out 30,000 votes as they did for Elaine ir- 1884, Warmouth can be elected. Is it worth while to try it? I get my facts from Mayor Roche ahd ' Col. Davis at Chicago who have just returned from New Orleans and who investigated the situationtlioroughly. Tlie situation in the Legislature here is not so dangerous as it was, but still it is very serious. Headway is being made againS.t the extremists, but they still have a pledged majority in each house for for all.the ultra measures. Some of the sensible members are getting frightened and dropping away from theni. If Senator Wilson could be induced to write a letter for publication advising against extreme legislation, and would write private letters to a dozen of his best friends in the Legislature, urging caution and pointing out the injury that woulu result to the party fro mi hoodlum legislation, it would hove a powerful and perhaps saving influence. Can he not be induced to do it? He certainly ought to be willing to do this much for the party, il not for his friends among railroad people. For I assure you that the legislation • threatened will n.obilize the 30,000 i railroad mien of the State against the party-, and make thousands of sensible Republicans indifferent and apathetic. Gov . Larrabee is m.aking a life and death personal struggle to bring the Legislature to his positions. His course is beyond comprehension. I wrote the editorial article about your Texas country, so as to attract attention to it and to get hold ol' the Iowa people who have nade up their minds to go to a warmer country. No doubt you have seen it. *ilson has ii.oved more slowly than I thought he would. I have telegraphed him. that he niust have somie letter here for publication by Sunday at the latest. I would give several sections of your Texas land, if lowned them, to be with you today and have a talk over the situation. Coridally yours, J. d. Clarkson. Cincinnati, Ark. 'f 0® Maj. Gen. G.M.Dodge:- My deer Sir:- I ha"ve a favor to ask of you, but you will want to knov/ who I am, 1 commanded K Co.9th Ills Inft in every engagement from Ft Donald son to Atlanta including Shilohaand Corinth and received three gunshot wounds in left shoulder and breast at Ft Donaldson, and lead the advance of the army through Snake Creek Gap and also commanded the detachment of • the 9th that did cavalry duty at your Head Q,uarters from Resaca to Atlanta. I called on you at your rooms at the Grand i'aciittic Hotel, Chicago, at the reunion of the Army of the Tenn, Sept 1885. You then told me if you could ^ ( ever be. of ser-vice to me to write you. Seeing your name as one being at Washington, 1 concluded to write you. I have been a resident here over 21 years, and a Republican at all times and under all circumstances. Ej friends here are pushing me forward for an office under the coming Administration.(But the Republicans in Ark. have little influence in National affairs). My friends want to send me as Consul to some commercial or manfg. city in England (my old home) the towns of Sheffield and Bradford are both in my native co'onty Yorkshire. Will also say I have the endorsement of out State Central Committee, also Judge m, H.H.Clayton, also Judge I Tarken of the U.S.Court and every prom inent Rep. in this part of the State, yet I would be proud to have your endorsementalso in the shape of a letter to Senators Cullin from my old soldier state. 111., and also assistance in any other way you may think best. I have also the endorsement of our Dept. Commander F.K.Robinson and my G.A.R.Comrades. I never knew the taste of any kinds of intoxicating liquors. In any shape either as medlolne or drinks, nor never used tobaooo in any ahape or form. For mj. record since I left the Army. I refer you to E.C.Kerns of St louiB, Judge I Tarken of the U.S.Court or Judge Wm H.H.Clayton. Kow Genei'al,! would like to go back to England to represent this country,the home of my adoption; no one man of the old 9th Ills. Infty. did any more for it than I. Lly Company K lost more in killed and wounded than any other in the Eegt. or from the State and I lead in every one of the engagements it v/as in during the war. You once knevif me well and at one time offered me Lt'. Col. [position in one of the coloured Eegt. then forming. I am without any family, except my v/ife. My children are dead and I have no kin in-the U.S. I have written enough, so will close. EespectiSully, James Sates. , • 1 ■ ( . I ;v': ■ "iv:' .1^," February I4th 1888 Topeka Kansas, February 14, l888, Gen'l. Granville M.Dodge, Dear Sir:- I was the best clerk you ever had at Hd. Q^'s. Left Ting I6th A.C. and was with you longer than anyone. I was the smallest youngest and sauciest at Hd.Qrs. i was always raising h-1 with the other clerks and was the cause of the great international(?) Quarrelhetween Spencer, Chief of Staff and Major Harry Stone, Chief of Artillery, I being the cause by introducing them to the same female; was with you when the "Johnny" scalped you in front of Atlanta; was with you when at KenI esaw, etc., etc. I remind you as to above to stiffen your bump of Memoriculmemory. t was so d-d sick while at Hd. Q^s. at Kenesaw, that to this day I get sick when I think of it, and I spue, v/hen I think of efficiency of Doctor Gay, today he is an imbecile in Columbus Ohio. I have concluded that Uncle Sam owes me a Pension, and I want you to remember that I was clerk for you at Corinth, Pulaske, Athens, Cila, Kenesaw etc.,Can you get that "Studying capP on and remem ber? I am now clerking in this office and have been for some time. Can you give me the address of J.W.Barnes AAG, Geo.C.Tichenor Aid-de-Camp, and you remember how pretty was George. I was a Sergeant Co. I. 81st. O.Y.I, the Regiment that "saved the day"every time, very fleet footed. Hope to meet you in Columbus,Ohio, when all the Poli ticians will walk in on the shoulders of the G.A.E. Yours ffiost respectfully. C. J. Bell. C. J. Bell 625 Kansas City. / Mi.! Fe"bruaty I5th, 1888. Denver Colorado, February 15, 1888. Gen. G.M. Dodge '•'"i i| I Braadway, W. Y. City. *''' Dear Sir: The enclosed letter from Mr. H. H. Holdswotth,Trinidad, is respectfully referred to you. You would have to build about thirty miles of road, to reach this park. It lies ei^t miles beyond la Junta, where the South Fork of the Purgatoire branches off. I wrote you q.aite fully of the importance of building this line to La Junta,last week. I am not yet prepared to give my opinion in regard to extending the rOad from La Junta to Stonewall. Yours respectfully. C. F. Meek. General Manager. 4 » •-5 • , V i ;• 1 ' I '' ■ ■■ ■ ' < ■ '' -r'H ^ '■ - February I6th t888. Atlanta Ga, Feby I6th.l888. general G.M.Dodge, No I Broadway, New York City. Dear Sir:- I have your favor of Feby 7th in which you state that you notice pn page 31 of the "Mountain Campaigns in Georgia" a full page illus tration of "Jackson's brigade of Confederates assaulting the greater patt of Sweeny's division under Gen. Corse. You state that as a matter of fact General Corse had no connection with your corps, (the I6th,) of which Sweenny's division formed a part at the time of this battle. I will state in reply that Gen. Corse was down there in Aug ust, 1886, and I went with him to the battle fields of Kennesaw Mountain, Allatoona, Lay's Feiry and Missionary Ridge. General Corse told me that he was that day in command of Sweeny's division. He went across the river with me ana showed me the location of the Federal batteries. He said tliat he had sixteen guns which opened upon the Confederates as soon as they began to charge down the hill, and also opened fire upon them from his infrmtry who were in the woods on the east bank of the river. I of course presumed that General Corse had a thorou^ knowledtge of the Lay's Ferry battle in the publication of the text as well as the cut. Yours very truly, Jos. M. Brown. February I7th, 1888 Omaha, February 17th,1888. ^ Dear General The reports we get regarding the health of Mr. Potter, who is now in New York, are so conflicting that many of his friends are wor ried. I presume you know v/hether he is improving or not, and I will be glad if you will let me know your views, and especially if he is improv ing. Vllien he left Omaha, I considered him a very sick man, in fact in worse condition than he realized. He has done a giant's work ©n the U.P. in every Dept. showing an improvement in every direction, in truth the only GenD. Managei*, the U.P. has evex* had since it was operated, and your people in W.Y. and Boston must take care of him and not compel or expect him to cai'ry the entire concern tvventj'-five hours every day. The same sh shovel that undermined Clark and Callov/ay, is digging away under Potter, ^ and he knov/s it also. He is an honest, earnest and capable worker, and while he is in sight,things are in dress parade order, but when the"cats awc^y the mice will pl£>^" in other v<ords a large healthy school room with the master absent, first frolic then fighting. They already have the March election Slate made up, a new Prest. and new Genl.Mgr. and are living under the idea they will soon be able to shout "The King is dead, long live the King" etc. I hope he may soon be able to return to Omaha and continue the good fight he so earnestly began, Yours truly, J.M.Eddy. 89 :• February, 1888. F^AL ESTATE AGENCX ,v,Jw N. P. Dodge & , Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2/l8, 1888 Dear Gren: Can anything be done to induce the U. P. to build on their ground on this side instead of enlarging their shops in Omaha^ I learn that in a few days about 50 of their engines will make their home in the new round house. It set,ms to me now is their opportunity to utalize their ground here and would be a saving every way for the Company. They have in addition to what they formerly owned the 40 acres which they bought of mc on north side of their grade. The citizens here are again organized as a Board of Trade and are active and ready to take hold of anything that nroniises to help City. A hotel is now the topic also the Union Depot, both projects revived. There will be a good amount of building done this year and the outlook for a prosperous year is promising. The work on new bridge moves slow on account of delay in arrival of material. It will be nip and tuck about sinking the large pier before ice goes out. They have it ready to sink but weather warm. Very truly, N. P. ^odge Please write me what you think about this shop matter. '"/K ' , * ■ February, 1888 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dictated. Washington, -0. C. Feb. 21at, 1888 Genl. G. I/!, Dodge, #1 Broadway, N, Y, Dear General: Replying further to your letter in respect to the Oklahoma Bill of l^'r. Springer, I J)eg to say that I have made a very thorough in vestigation of the situation here. The Committee are very strongly in favor of the proposition of giving a Territorial Government to Oklahoma. I find that the Western Representatives generally are in tensely zealous for the passage of the bill. Such clear-headed men as Ryan of Topeka, cannot be influenced by the suggestion that there is danger from the Indians by pursuing the policy indicated in the Springer bill. Major Warner of ^.ansas City is preparing to make a strong argument in favor of the bill. I believe it has but one q)ponent on the Committee, and that is Major Baker of Rochester; he will submit a minority report. It looks to me now as though it was more than probable this bill would pass the house. It is liable to come up under what is known as the two hour rule within a few days. The discussion within the two hours rule will consume that time, which will throw the bill on the calendar as unfinished business; then it will be several weeks before it is reached, and with an active opposition it might be thrown over the Session. Very truly yours, D. B. Henderson. ' if: «-.t aftML ' ■ i. i •' j 'M New York City, Feb. 24, 1888 Wr. F. S. Bond, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City. tJear Sir: I was at Des ^,oines to look in to the situation there, Larabee is simply making a personal fight on all the rail roads. He goes to every member to influence them, goes be fore the committees; and the advice of his friends has no effect upon him. Every one that was supposed to have any in fluence with him has written him. and been to see him. That is the case with the Senators, Members,--in fact, every one; but he takes the position th^ t he knows what he is about; and the infortunate thing in the whole matter is, that just as they had got things in shape so as to beat the two-cent bill and to hold the miaximuin rate bills, they went into this freight cutting business from Chicago; and that beats all the arguments in the world; because a comnun legislator says if you can afford to carry the stuff at this rate, then why shouldn't you ii.ake a maximum rate something near it. Of all the follies that were ever committed, right during the session of a legis lature, while all our people were trying to hold them, to open a freight war right into the State and through it, was something thot no railroad man could very well meet. How ever, the State is being educated to the fact that the kind of bills they want to pass wont help them very much; but you know both parties put in their platform, and went before the people on" the two-cent bill. There are a great many things that have caused this rate War in Iowa, and for which, to a great extent, the railroads responsible. I cannot write you these things, but when I see you, I can explain them so you will understand themi fully. Yours very truly, G. M. i^odge. New York City, Feb. 24, 1888 Col. Abner Taylor, Grand Pacific, Chicago, 111. Bear Sir: On arr-ival here, and consultation with H'r . ¥eek, I find that the wheat which he wishes sowed along the line, ought to be sown in September, which gives you plenty of time for oreoartion. If you could put in some millet and sorghum,or vegetables, near one or two of our stations, this Spring, that would help. We are organizing a pretty extensive system for inducing emigration into the Pan-Handle. Our emigration agent is Gen. K. A. Caiiieron; and he will call upon you when he is in Chicago. We want all the owners of the lands, especially of large bodies, to co-operate with us, and to state a price upon thdir lands, so that colonies can be planted upon them. Fending his arrival there, will you notthink of the matter, so far as your Company is concerned, and say if you can cover por tions of your land, when you will open up, and the price, time, etc. I enclose a pass over our line.for you, so that when you arri\e here, you can to on through; but if you come to Denver, wont you be kind enough to call upon ¥.r. Veek, the General iv^anager, if he is here, andconsult withhim in relation to the opening oi' the Pan-Handle. Kr. l^'eek will be glad to give you any information, and any assistance, that you might need in the matter. My address will be Denver, for the present. I am, Trply yours, G. M. Dodge . New York City, Feb. 24, 1888 t/r. T. J. Potter, N.urray Hill Hotel, N. Y Dear Sir: ; i t y. I con.e over the line fron. Onaha to Denver, and found it in good condition. It has coine out of the Winter in good shape, and looks' well. 'Whilst at the Bluffs in Omaha, I heard a good deal of murmuring among train-men, on account of the proposed change of having themi run through to the Bluffs, they still wanting to shift crews at Oniaha. Of course, if that is done, it would take away a good deal of the saving. I heard incidentally that Hackney was inclined to give into them. I think that this would be a great mistake Dick inson was up the line. I uidn't see him; but I saw ^lickensderfer, and asked him about it; and he told me that there was a great deal of feeling, but that he was thoroughly opposed to giving way to it, in any way. He said train-men are having too much "say" on the east end now, and I saw that Blickensderfer was very anxious and fearful that they might win in this. I merely write this to you knowing you.probably are thoroughly posted in it; but it looked to me like it might bring on a crisis, and I tfcin^ it ought to be miet at the proper time and B1ickensderfer•s views becarried out. We have got our third track into Trinidad, and if you are in want of coal, I think we could make an arrangenient to furnish jou any amiount you miight want. You know the Trinidad coal is first-class. I merely suggest this, and do not know that you need any, only from what yuu told me, that you were hard-pressed, when I was there. From what I hear about the developments in the mines around Leadville and over in Gunnison, I am more disposed to think we should hang onto the South Park line. I talked with. Bogue, who has been looking into the question and he seemis to think, on a pretty thorough further examination, he can find you a good line out oi that country bythe South Park Road. The development in there all seems to be south of the Grand Fdver, and tributary to us. I hope to hear that you are improving. I hope you wont, under any circumstances or considerations, allow business, or anything else, to interfere with your health. I would like to have a word from, you telling mie just how you are getting along. Nr. Ord fitted me out nicely. Wr. Kimball is at Kansas City; and I saw V.r. Cameron. Very tnily yours, G . . Dodge . Feb.27th 1888, '.Vashington.D.C, Feb.27, 1888 -y dear General:- 1 ouis of February 9 is at hand iwith enclosures. I return you the letter of Clarkesen and I have also read the newspaper articles,(which T retain.) I do not think there is anything to quarrel about nor much to differ about. The fact that the Kepublican party has been losing gro\ind as. Clarkesen says proves nothing. We shall lose still more if we abandon our principles.- The party existed (I) to resist the extension of slavery; (E)to prosecute the war; (3) to emancipate the slave; (4) to give him suffrage, and we may say genferally-(5) to secure the results of the war as expressed in the I3th, I4th, and T5th amendments. The tariff has only been an incident of these great labors. Announce now that you make it the main q.uestion and abandon the attempt to enforce the I5th amendment and give up agitation concerning its violation and the party goes to pieces like a dissolving cloud. The tariff as the only or main issue will not hold it togetiier;fio I tnink we should agitate, call attention to violations of the Ibth amendment and exiiibit the fact that Congress has the right to control Congressional elections. 'Ne shall not in my judgment gain anything by submitting without protest, made continually and on every proper occasion against the oompiete destruction of a fundamental principle of our Govern.t;ent.I tliink we shall win on both issues. If v;o abandon eithez- wc are gone surely. Our pro sent prospects are good. Elaine's withdrawal hurts some, helps more. The party is harmonious an'd united. In. the absence of a Hew York : man who can surely carry that State we shall nominate a western man. I should •like to see Sherman President, but if he cannot carry New York we must take some one else. Allison is strong. Gresham perhaps would be stronger, but Har- ^llll rison is also a candidate and tnere is local controversy about tliese two men. jng-alle would make a strong candidate. let us keep the/^question open until June and then Noninate deliberately the men then deemed the strongest. 100.. ir we ai^e beaten it will appear that the prohibition parti' again done the work, nevertheless, I am in favor of setting the partj a- ^ gainst the saloons and taking the chances. If, however, the Prohibition ists do again make a Democratic I'resiaent the Republican party will most » likely dispense with prohibition as a part; principle as Clarkesen wishes us to do v/ith the I5th amendment. Gome over here and spend two or three days with me at my house There is no one here but Mrs. Chandler and my. little boy Jack. Yours very truly V.'.E.Chandler. 101 March, 1888 Trinidad, Colo, Mar. 7, 1888 Mr. Fred L-. Ames, U. P. R.R., Soston, Mass. Dear Sir: I have been out here nearly three weeks trying to get my tracks together, and we have had very squally, snowy weather, which has delayed us, but I will close them up between the 12th and 15th. We have built a very line road here., but tb.ere is about twice as much rock in it as I expected, which will add great ly to the cost of the grcding. Otherwise we will come out about under our estimates. think the rock will nearly double our cost per mile on the grading. mevever we go three feet below the earth here, we strike rock. We are going to have a good road in every way, and the outlook for business io good. The.y are opening m.ines all along us. The C.E. 6: Q., and the Rock Island are here, and the Missouri Pacific, all looking for min ing property on our line. We ax'e very much in need of money, and I wish the Boston parties who have not sent in their seventh assessment would do it. When I am away, in New York they are entirely depentent on our assessments to meet the drafts. I judge Potter is very sick, .as no one 'sends anything to me that is encouraging. It is unfortunate.. Wi:at this Brotherhood strike will develop into here, I don't know, but I don't see how the U. P. Railway, being a United States charter, can very well refuse to take anything delivered to it. The G. B. & C. I think were hasty in their action. Whilst the Brotherhood presented all.the claims they could, I guess there is no doubt but what they were willing to con promise on the classification. On our road, they are nearly all Brotherhocd. The local superintendents are entirely without orders. I advised them to sit perfectly still, and do nothing until they got orders. But I wired Kimball, that negative action wouldn't last long, that the Brotherhood would force a subordinate officer to act in some were undergot them. possible they Height make a mistake, unless they instructions. I am. suppose belore this time they have Truly, G . M . Dodge 103 March, 1888. Union Pacific Railway Co. Omaha, March 8th C. F. Adams, Jr., President. 1. J. Potter, 1st Vice President. Dear General: I received and forwarded your letter to Mr. PoLter, but doubt if it ever get to his attention, as he has not been able to consider any business matter for a week or more. I fear his ill ness is too critical to proloiig any hopes of again seeing him in Omaha or that he will be able to leave Washington alive. The news today is most discourgging and indicates he is gradually sinking. I trust, however, that before night we may get report that his con dition is more favorable . Very respectfully and truly yours, T. M. Orr. To Genl. G. M. Dodge, Denver, Col. ICi March, 1888. Atkinson, Holt Co., Nebraska, March the 10th, 1888. Gen. Dodge. Dear Comrade: I have been thinking of writing to you for some time, but I could not find your letter, so I wrote to my old friend, Mr. Pusey at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and he sent me your address. Well, General, do you remember where you and I were twenty-six years ago at Pea Ridge? I belonged to the 36th Ills, and you belonged to the 4th Iowa. '^ell. General, I will tell you what I haave been thinking of, as you and I will not live forever; it is this: We have a nice thrifty town of 1200 at the head of the Elkhorn River, and the land is a nice, sandy loam, the prettiest place in the world for a soldiers' park and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mo. Valley R. K. from Council Bluffs, I-wa, runs right through our town. Now, I will tell you what I have been thinking of,--buying a hundred and sixty acres of land, say about three and a half or four miles from town,and calling it Park Dodge or Gen. Dodge, and appointing you General Manager, and erecting monu ments on drill ground, or anything else you.or we may think proper, on the one hundred and sixty, or say, of one half for the 4th Iowa and the other half for the 30th Ills. We can buy the land for two thousand (2000) dollars, that is suitable, and have you for President, or at the head of the Park, and the land itself would stand there as a monument, and it would not cost much to fince it in with a wire fence and I would suggest that any soldier could erect a slab or mon ument but especially the 4th Iowa and the 36(?) 111.; and the first thing to do would be to buy the land. Well, you write to me what you think of it, and what you would give to buy the land. Yours respectfully, Scott Brownlee. Oh, yes. General, I captured a silver watch of a rebel major in front of Atlanta in 1864. Do you know of any one I could sell it to,, and I would put the money in the land for the park. I was offered once a hundred dollars for the watch for a relic, but at that tine I thought I would not sell the watch. A man in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered me when I came home from the army in 1864, one hundred dolhrs, but I would sell it now and put the money in a Soldiers' Park. I think a park up here would be nice, to tell forever valiant deeds that you and the 4th Iowa have done. I can hear the roar of musketry yet at Eikhom tavern of the 4th Iowa and them black ovei^coats, and you should be proud, and generations should call you and the 4th Iowa blessed. Gott Brownlee, of the 36th Ills. (Over) I forgot we have brick bank in Atkinson that cost six thousand dollars (|6,000). Do you not think it would be a nice place for a Soldiers' Park? Do you remember what you said at Rolla, ^io., in December of 1861, when you were passing our regiment? You said, "There is a good looking set of men to be shot at." You mustered us for pay the first. I wish I had a chance to vote for you for President of the U, S., so and the 4th Iowa- -- -- - you deserve it. Karch, 1888 107,! Alps, ri. v ., On road, Ivar. 18,1888 N:r. Charles F. Adarcs, Dear Sir: Boston, Iv'ass. I learned of the death of I..r. Potter the day before yesterday. Then I saw him in New York, I had no idea but what he would get well, he was so plucky, This is a great blow to us,- in fact to all the railroads- and how and where we are to replace him I hardly know. It seems to me that R. S. Hayes, would come nearer fill ing the bill than any one else, if he is willing to take hold. Potter had so individualized the road our here that seine one ought to take it who csn follow his policy very nearly. I believe Vr. Hayes would come vei'y near to it.. You know him personally and know all his qualities. I don't Icnow whether he would undertake so lar^^e a job. I shall close my gap here this week. Yours very truly, ^ . K. Dodge , 109.. N'arch, 1888. 1\(".ILITARY ORDER of the LOYAL LEGION of tlieUNITED STATES, Headquarters Coniir-andery of the State of Ohio. P. 0. Box 86 Office of the Recorder. Gen. W. T. Sherman, U .5 .A Commander . 1st Lieut. A. H. ^:attox, U.S.V., Recorder. Cincinnati, N'^arch 20, 1888. Genl. G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. Dear Genl: The Ohio Commandery, Military Order Loyal Legion of the United States has requested me to extend to you a cordial invitation to attend the Fifth Annual Dinner and reunion of the Commandery, which will take place at the Burnet House, this City, Wednesday, Ule.y 2nd, We will esteem your presence a great honor and assure you of a cordial welcome. This is Ohio's Centennial Year ana the occasion will be made doubly interesting on that account. The attendance promises to be large and several of the noted men of the War, of the few still living, will be v.ith us. Genl. W. T. Sherman, our Commander will preside. Please make an effort to come. The Ohio Comdy. will be proud to entertain you as its distinguished guest. Hoping for a favorable reply, I am. Respectfully and Cordially yours, A. H. N'attox, Recorder. 111^ ; Iv-arch, 1888 y.r. D. H. Moffat, Pueblo, Colo., ^:ar. 21, 1888 PERSO NAL Pre^t. Denver & Rio Grande R.R. Co. City Dear Sir: Before I leave, I want to say one word about rates. I hear some talk about our cutting rates. "Gutting rates" is carrying at a price per ton per n.ile less than anyone else, and at a loss. Our Local rates, in Colorado, are yours. In Texas, they are the Texas Association rates. Our through rates, in every instance that I know of, are more per ton per mile than any of them, are getting to-day. Therefore our rates here are in no se.-.se a cut. Again, untilwe came here, no road ever made distinc tive rates to Colorado. Their lines and interests were in other directions. Our lines and interests are distinctly Colorado and Texas, and our lines run to those States only, and I wish to pre dict that the rates we make will add to your business, in build ing up this State, ten timies what it ever would nn old conditions, and you want to so consider it. K:r. Smdth said we wer-e only 150 .ndles shorter to tiaewater than other roads. Very well, but no one ever thought of making a rate on that distance until we came I ami, truly. G . L. Dodge. 113 March, 1888. Port worth, Texasy, March 25, 1888, Donald Fletcher!, Esq., President Chamber of Commerce, Denver, Colo, Dear Sir:- I have received your dispatches, asking me to be present at Denver's Jubilee over her nevr achievement, and to pai'take of Denver's hospitality on that occasion. '■'»hile the honor thus conferred is -deeply felt and appreciated, it will be impossible fcr me to accent the invitation, owing to important engagiments made before i cam: west. i wish to say, that, though ai:sent, I will be in cordial sympathy with your celebration of this importah era in the grand march of Colorado to the first position of all th: western states; -^nd in hearty accord with t]ie t: "butes you will pay to those heroic pioneers of the mountains and plains who have for .long years -beon doing yeoman service in building up your ewestcrn empire where every vacility of civilization exists, and only the touch of human power, and the moving multitude, are necessary to make it a great country in manufacturing, in minerals, in agriculture, and all that goes to makr- a- country storng and great. It wap long ago discovered that the best results in the development of your vast resources could not be realized by sole dependence upon the transportation facilities of thexbng'rail line between the /tlantic and I'acific Oceans, with all the con-flicting interests of three thousand five hundred miles of territory, which had to be fostered and protected in every mile by roads making up the .'"I'-eat continental linos, necessa ilj'- confining nearly all the re sources and comr';erce of Colorado to her own borders and dinirishing her importance to that of a local station on a through line. * In 1873 a Railroad was projected, fromthc Gulf to uolorado, upon the principle th-^t to unite the great mineral producing ranges and vallles of Colorado, and the great fertile plain^ of New Me-ico and Taxas with the Gulf of Mexico, and hence bring our Colorado and our Texas into close commercial relations, with the minimum cost of trasportation, with eastern America, and European sea ports, and giving to the service of the larger portion of the territory wesi of tho Missouri river a commercial and distri" uting centre which, enjoying the advantages of tide-water an short rail ratQE, should yield that territory like advantages. The panic of .that year, however, stopped this, in common with ner-rly all other '82 the men Who proj ected the first enterprise built the roads from Denver to Pueblo 124 the^falT'Sf 1^888 Wichita Falls, 14 miles. Again, in tn^i. took r up work, and 5 h.eve expended projected twelve millions the first of dollar- enterprise two millions of which came from citizens of Denver, in r^iving'to Colorado the channel of commerce that shall enable her to take a poistion as the grc.at manufacturing and commercial state of the •1 St, with natural advantages superior to any of those of her 114 eastern sisters, so rich and prosperous. It nov; reru?Lins for the people of Colorado to create a business empire; to open your collieries; your ore deposites; manu facture as you an; do the the commercial business of your territoryon a basis that carnot be reached by any"other commercial center, a a reap the rewards, we have opened the way, and we believe that, being ambi ious to grow and be great, the burden our rails shall carry wixl mark 6olorado's progress in greatness. I bespeajk the efforts of every man interested in the growth of Colorado, i'n.the direction in which geography and natural causes have led these men to expend twelve millions, to the end that every ththe of value and every enjoyment of prosperity may come to Colorado, and to Texas as well. It is hardly a year ago since came to iienver and present d this project for the development of Colorado tollr. D. H. Moffett President of the Kio Grande Rpilroad, and torir. T. J. Potter ' the then Vice President and General Manager of the u. P. and I wish to say that a good deal of our success is due to them. I believe these two great lines, which have already done so much for Colorado will be foun ' working constantly and faithfully for her Grand Railroad Company have, in every way seconded my efforts, and enabled me to close two years woi-: in one. the + 1, impossibility 4 Meek, of my our attending, General I Manager, have rsked who to fully extend understands to you and your people, personally , any regrets, and to answer for me in my absence. I am. Very respectfully. Your obedient Servant, G. M. Dadge. ■A* ,• x . .WiiJc.A 115 March, 1668. ^ worth, Texas, March 25th, 1888. Hon. Jolin , Evans., Denver, (Jolo: Dear Governor:- I received your dispatches, and the urgent dispatches of the President of the Chamber of Coratnerce in Denver in relation to my presence at Denver. Eromthe different dispatches, it woiild look as though they would be disappointed if I were.not there: but you know when .vas in Denver 1 told you of my engagement, first in Texas with the Texas & Pacific, and the Houston & Texas Central, - in Gt Louis with t'le Cotton Belt and Missouri Pacific, then in i^es Moines, and then in Chicago with the Western Union Telegraph people and these people, have all made arrangements to meet me upon the day set, and it is all important to our interests that Mr. Jones and myself shotild meet these people and close up everything; and i write this confidentially so that you may see that the reasons why I cannot be in Denver are very important, and are a groat deal more important to the interests of this road than ray presence there. Some of these parties have made two or three appointments with me in the last six weeks and x was unable to meet them on account of my duties along the line. I tried hard, to postpone some of these arrangements so as to return from here, but I found that it only led me into difficulties, and JL have it up. Everything down at this end looks prosperous to us, and all Dolorado has got to do now is to stand firm, like yon and i have stood for a great many years, and she will win -the great battle. Vei-y tiaily yours. G. M. Dodge. ■ Mch. 1888. Trainii'ast, Mch. 27, 1888. Mr C. P. Meek, General Manager, Denver, Oolo. Dear Sir:- I discover a dispotition, especially on the South end, to branch off and make expenses before there is any necessity. This is apparent in talking with the different he^ds of depart ments. Pev/lin seems to think that all he hag to do is to employ men. If find it is more difficult to get "dates" for his seven men than I used to when he was by himself. He has now seven men in his employ, and he has les: business than he had when he had only one, and ho still thinks he has got to have more. Mow, you do not want to listen to any of these thircgs. If you are going to get any service out of him you have got to hold him right down. And you must also advise him that Mr. Jones is the (Japtain; that the cause of all the expenditures, so far as the h'ort worth & Denver is concerned, is got to come right under the suprvision of Mr. Jones. And as l have said to you privately, 1 v;ant to say nowj you must consult Mr. Jones in all your arrangements, especially in any increase of expenditures , lou take Hewlin's office today; he has two travelling passenger agents. I do not know whether they are chargeable to hirr: or not; at-any rate, there is no necessitj'' for them at Fort north. He has now four clerks, a shorthand re porter and car recorder, and the business he has to do this month is much less than he h'^d to do a year ago. I know Hewlin will say he is preparing for business to come; but it is better to take care of that when it comes than to pay wages a month or two in ad vance. He has had nothing to do with the work of the organization; and whilst you people in Denver worl: from day-light to mid-ni.^ht, their work hardly extends over ten hours per day . 1 think that you havo got to look around for a strong traffic man, and when you get your rain' made up you want to consult Mr. donds and myself about it. I think Newlin is a very useful man under a strong control, but he needs good advise dally. Yours very truly, G» M. Dodge, President. I' ^^7T 119: April, 1888. WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO., Freight Department Joseph M. Brown, General Freight Agent, J. L. Dickey, Asst. General Freight Agent. Atlanta, Ga., April 6, 1888. Gen. G. M. Dodge, New York, N. Y. (No. 1 Broadway) Dear Sir: "The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia." In your favor of Feby. 7th you say; "I notice on page 31 a full page illustration of "Jackson's brigade of Confederates assaulting the greater part of Sweeny's division under General Corse." No doubt you wiH welcome any suggestion that will tend to increase the historical accuracy of your future editions and, as a matter of fact, Gen. Corse had no connection with my corps (the 16th), of which Sweeny's division formed a part, at the time of this battle. It was some months latey and after the Battle of Atlanta, that Gen. Corse succeeded Gen. Sweeny in command of the 2nd Division of my corps." I answered you shortly after receipt of the above that Gen, Corse had informed me in conversation that he was in charge of affairs on the Federal side at the battle of Lay's Ferry. I have quite a mass of papers, which include copies of orders, reports, correspondence, etc., pertaining to the Atlanta Campaign which I got from the *ar Records office oast summer. I have not had time until to-day to look through these with the purpose of sending you copies of some papers referring to the Lay's Ferry affair. I send you copies of the above signed by Cen. Corse, from which you will see opposite the pencil crossmarks the statements that would in dicate that Gen. Corse was in charge of the Federal affaris at that point. Cf course, I readily appreciate that in so great a number of encounters-at-arms and other military operations which ensued over twenty years ago, one would be apt to get somewhat mixed in his memory, and I think you will agree with me that these reports seem to justify the title which was placed by me under the picture referred to. I hope you will be down here sometime, and we shall be glad to take you over the W. & A. in a much pleasanter as well as more ex peditious manner than was your journey in the spring and summer of 1864. With my kindest regards, believe me. Yours very truly, Joseph M. Brown, G F & P A Washington Building. No.l B'way, N.Y. April 11, 1888 Dear General: I enclose my check, for Twenty dollars for the Grant Birthday Dinner. The regular U. P. Stockholders' meeting occurs in Boston about that time, andit is possi ble that this may prevent my attending. Ishall make a great eflort to be there, however, and I want a place reserved for me. I will ask you to attend to this for me, andif my absence cannot be avoided I will have the pleasure of know ing that the money is expended in a good cause. . Very truly yours, G . U. Dodge. Gen. Wm. T. Shei-man, Chairman. ' ii\r' ■v: ■ 123 Nev/ York City, April 13th, 1888 A. E. Bateman, Esq., 11 Wall Street, City. Dear Sir: Replying to your inquiry of this date for information in ragard to the Denver, Texas & Ft. fl^orth R. R., the middle division os "The Pan Handle Route," Denver to Ft. Worth, I desire to say, that it consists of 250 miles of main line and branches as follows: Pueblo to Trinidad 90 miles, made up by laying a third rail along the road of the Denver & Rio Grande R.E; Co.; From Trinidad to the Texas State Line 137 miles, and the followin g branches; Long's Canon branch 16 miles, Walsenburg branch 7 miles. On this mileage it is proposed to issue 11:4,400,000 First Mort gage, 5 per cent, 40 year, gold bonds,'coupons payable semiannually in months of May November, $1,000,000 if which are applicable to the third rail and equipment from Pueblo to Trinidad, •^200,000 to the purchase of valuable terminals in Pueblo and Trinidad, and the balance to miain line and branches as above. In regard to the earnings of the property, it is im possible to give definite statement at present, of the whole line-, as the road has just been opened for business; but the future prospects for earning on this road are remarkably good, as it opens'up and connects for business two very productive portions of territory, each of which desires the products and comn.odities of the other, and of which both supply and demand are practically unlimited. I refer particularly to the coal and ores of Colorado and the Territories of the North-west, which will be carried south and exchanged for the valuable lumber, cattle, and fruits of the South-west; the transportation of which must necessarially bring in a very handsome revenue. The passenger and tourist business of the road going South in winter and North in sutmi.er, will also be very large and will produce a handsome revenue. Our reports from the terminis of the road show that already the through business, both freight and passenger, is very promising, and it must necessarially grow with tiie country. The through business to all tide-water points. New York, Boston and all points South, to the State of Colorado and Territories of Utah, Wyoming, Montana and New ^exico, must hereafter take this route as it is 1300 miles of rail against 3000; and we see the effect of theis now by Ihe business leaving New York by steamer to all Interior points west of Missouri, an entirely new routing of this business. For that portion of the road v/here the third rail is used, and of which l/2 comes to us through our partnership, we can base our estimate of earnings somewhat upon what they have been heretofore, and they have been as high as |7,000 to $8,000 per Diile per year. - The road runs to nearly all the valuable coal mines south of Denver and east of the main range, such as those of Walsenburg, Trinidad, Engleville and up the Purgatoire and Long's canon. From one of these mines last year the freight on coal and coke was $825,000. We enter immediately into all of ti^.ese mines and take l/2 the revenue. Besides the mines named three very important ones have been opened on our line since we started, one by the 0. C. & I., one by the C. B. & Q. interests, and one known as the Thompson mine. These companies estimate the out-put of coal and coke for 1888 to be double that of 1887. The country of southern Colorado and north-eastern hew hexico, through which the line runs, has just been opened for developments, and is rapidly filling up. It is well adapted to agriculture and grazing, fairly well watered north of the Raton Range. South of the Eaton, along the tributaries of the Giniarron, is a remarkably fine agricultural country. Our general manager, kr. keek, estimates the earnings upon this line at $5000 per miile per year fromi its coal, ores, coke and domestic products. The $4,400,000 bonds above r-eferred to, can be sold and delivered in block, and you are unauthorized to offer themi within the next 30 days, is not sold before that time, at a price not less than 85 and interest. In addition to the foregoing," I might give youtheFixed charges per mile $1000. Estimiated gross receipts per miile- •#>5000. Estimated gross expenses " " 3000. Estim.ated net receipts per mdle 2000. Trusting that this infoi-mation is what you desire, and holding myself ready to furnish anythin additional, I am. Very truly yours, G . M . Dodge, President. • rijkA- , April, 1888. WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO., Freight Department Joseph M. Brown, A General Freight Agent. J. L. Dickey, Asst. General Freight Agent. Atlanta.',; Ga., Aoril 13, 1888. General "G. M. Dodge, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: I have your favor of April 9th, and think you have clearly misapprehended the meaning intended to be conveyed in my previous letter. I will now state that General Corse was down here in August 1886, and spent a week with me. We went to Kennesaw, Aliatoona, Lay's Ferry, Missionary Ridge, General Corse told me in conversation that he was on Gen. Sherman's staff during the time of the Atlanta Campaign up to the period the army reached Atlanta, and that during the siege he was put in command of the division formerly commanded by Gen. Sweeney. At Lay's Ferry he told me that he was in charge of the troops which made the movement against that point. He stated that he was sent down by Gen. Sherman to conduct the operations there. He went across the river with me to the top of a ridge on its west bank and said to me: "Here is where I had my batteries." I asked him how many guns he had. He replied, "I haa sixteen guns." I asked him about the infantry and cavalry forces. He gave me the numbers, using in each case the personal pro noun , " I." All of his conversation was clear and explicit to the effect that he was in charge of the troops making the movement. One of the papers which I sent you in my last letter was a copy of one signed by Gen. Corse in which he refers to the movement about Lay's Ferry, and also to a body of cavalry which "I" (he) sent down to Rome. I therefore thought that my meaning was perfectly clear when I remarked that a man's memory sometimes became indistinct as to details details after twenty odd years, and stated that the official documents were the best evidence of some details. The point of course intended to be conveyed was not any doubt as to the fact that you commanded the corps; not any doubt as to the fact that Gen. Corse did not assume command of Sweeny's division until after its arrival before ^i-tlanta; but that in the hurly-burly of the time, and the after memory of it you may not have impressed upon your mind the fact that Gen. Corse that day was in charge of the. troops making an important movement. . I believe this is about as clear as I can make it. Yours very truly, Joseph M. Brown, ■ G #• f A 't 127,1 New York City, April 21, 1888 C . F . Keek, G . M ., . Dear Sir: There is no end to the fights we have got on our hands on rates. All our U. P. Stockholders, have notified me that they are against me and Mr. Dillon is in here raising the Devil because, he says we have injured what he owns in the U. P. $1,000,000. This all comes from Kimball. And this is why I wired and wrote you some tinie ago that it was necessary to see Kin,ball. He must be shown wherein his interests lie in distributing fr'om Denver instead of taking low rates on a long haul. I want you to see him and get in alliance v.dth him, or, if you cannot, let me know Why. Mr. Kimball's positinn is not tenable. I know that; but as.long as he is the representative of the U. P., and the directors and stockholders of the U. P. own nearly 1/4 of our road it is necessary to meet the question. Mr. Dillon, our President wont serve any longer in the Company on account of the cut rates. Of course it is the pressure of all the roads combined and I will meet it right here, and fight it out. But I want comiparisons of rates and reasons for giving them. They comie to me with all kinds of statem,ents. Twelve cents on a hundred pounds offreight fromi New York to Denver is v2.40 on a ton, which people here think is a pretty strong discrimination. That amiounts to $48.00 a car. They claim that on their proposition, and on our classification, it is.20 cts. as you claim, I want detailed statements of these things so that I can mici t these questions in detail, and I want a card made up for m.e on former and on present rates, ano on classifications, showing what the diffor-ence is. Also, what it gives us over our line per ton per n,ile on our rates. They positively deny here every position you take as to paying rates. Yours truly, G. W. Dodge. 129 April 21, 18B8, Charles Prai cis Adams, Pre::*t., U.P.R.R.Co., Boston, Mass. 1888. Dear Sir:- 'Ir-. Dillon v/as in to see me and showed me a letter you wrot to him about ou rates out of Denver. I shall be in Boston on the 24th, and I can take that matter up with- you. It seems to me that the positioi. of the question has not chanced since we proposed to build our road to get a sh rt cheap route from tide-water to Denver which the U. P. could use and distribute from Denver east and west, using our r-tcs and getting your locals, instead of hauling from i^'ev/ York to points on your line, and taking a through-rate proportion of it. Now is it good railroading for the U. to cut all its rates from Omaha West for the uurpore of protecting the-small amount of through business going from New York into Denver. So far as my experience goes it is a very small amount, only a few cars per day. It s(-ems to me wha t'lcy should do is to maintain their local rates and let this tiirou h business (which ve-are legitimately entitled to on the short-line and water route and the law rate for which we can carry it) go over our line at a good paying rate, :->nd then let the U. P. take it at Denver and run a hundred or more miles cast getting as much for doing that as they would for hauling it from Omaha to the sane point. . Mr. Kiraball ■:ays that your business into Denver is C3>000,000 and that our hate v/ill take ^1,000,000 away from you. I say that if he will abandon t e desire to keep this through business and take it and distribute from Denver, instead of losing a million he can add a million on the same amount of business; because you certainly can, using a short line to tide-water, get a much greater rate from all points in the interior than you now get in hauling it to tide water points by the lon^- rail route. I would like for Mr. Kimball to suggrst what we shall char^-e per ton per mile on 1300 miiles, ( the longes rail we have from the" water to Denver) to protect the late that is all rail from New York to Denver. I ill have with me when I get to Boston, what we receive per ton per mile for all our through business, and I will be perfectly willing then to leave it to you whether we would be justified in adding to it to proteci, the all rail routes to New York. It was the distinct understanding between Mr. Potter and mv- self Vat he would handle the business of the U. P. from Denver as"" the distributing point, using our short line and low rates to enable him to get - larger sum per ton per mile than he was getting by distributing by so long a rail-route to the East. Our rates and our distri— oution were fixed last December. Mr. Potter was consulted in relat on to them and he offired no objection. There is one jtoint whore I can see that these rates might haj?® the U. P. but that is beycnd our control. Pittsburg and Cincinnati are using the cut rates to New Orleans, and then using our rate thence to Denver, claiming the right to make the same rate into Hew Orleans that St Louis does, claiming to be about the sane distance.. This of course would take some business out of that country which would naturally go by way of t;.r U.P.; but that is not a cut of ours, and was a question that was raised before wc opened our road. In the meetin- at Galveston we,tried to protect that as much as we could by making the differentials between Galveston New Orleans the same as the Texas Association and agreeing;; that the same rate should be made from New Orleans as from Chicago and from Galveston as from St Louis. « Now what Mr. Kimball should do is to immediately enter into an alliance with us, take the benefit of our water and short rail route Denver and use it all over the U. P. instead of trying to de feat it by pro-rating or by lowering his rates and using the 'all rail lines from I'e.v .York to Denver. In tlkat way he can get the benefit of the entire difference that the water makes in the rates. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. ■ h/Jr'J V:'-' <■ . X April 26, 1888. Morgan Jones, c, o C. P. Meek, Denver, Colo. New York. April ^"6, 1888 Dear 8ir:- I spent two days in Morton and had an interview with the Union Pacifio people. They are all agreed here as to their true policy and that is to put up their r- tes-,go into an alliance with us and use our road for their thrcu:;h business totide-water. Eut they do not feel lil:e taking the action in the East, and want Kimball to move in it. The anumerts in favor of this are so many and so strong that they were unable to usCcessfully resist' them. * Then I went to see -r. Strongtronf" of the Santa Fe, and he.met m me by telling me that I had struck hisroad t-.e hardest blow it had ever received since he had been at the head of it. I sat down and reasoned witli him, showed him my rates and told him what my agreements with him. were before I went into this. I also showed him that if he would take the same course that the U. P. would, and put up the gates at Chicago and the Misscuri River and let me do his business from tide-water, he could make more money out of it than he does now. In the '-nd he was 'onvinced that the. e was something in this and ielegi?a§tted out to his people to hold still and go no furt. er until he could get out there and see them. It seems to me tE^at we could make an ari^anger-icnt with the Santa Fe people to haul all their freight out of Texas over our line, so as to protect their locals--hauling it for a certain per cent per ton per mile and letting them get their full rates or. it, delivering it to them at Trinidad or Pueblo. I am opposed to any fight, just as you are, and the course we ave taken by not nneeting their rates and cutting under them has mollified them a"good deal. But unless they come to some agreement with us I am in favor of meeting their rate. You know I told Meek when I was there trat his time was en tirely too last. I think he should bring his tim.e down so he can make IS a mistake to advertise a faster time than you can mal'e. Yours truly, C. M, Dodge, 133 New York City, April 30th, 1888 G. F-. Keek, Esq., General Manager, Denver, Colo. Dear Sir: I never had the time to take into consideration as I ought to have done the rates that you originally made out of New York. Ky own e:xperience in these matters would have told me that you could not get any more by cutting the rates 25^^ than you could by cutting them live. They should only have been cut just sufficient to protect our interior Texas rates, and this gives us something to drop on as they met them. The very day that the all-rail lines came in heie and gave the four cents difference, they got all the business that was not before that time routed by us. Of course, you may have ideas about these matter that somebody out in that country is going to act upon sentin.ent, but I want ot say to you very plainly, that they are aJ.l going to a ct from pocket; and thei-e is no question now but. that we ought to go into anything that will give us business, rather'than.to pose as the friend of any countrythat wont stand by us even a week. After the rate was cut I think it was a mistake, after you had taken your ground, to have Sanderson meet it until you could have made a cdeal with these other comioanies, because, bringing your water rate to the same rate as all-rail wont give you the business. There is a strong sentiment in this country, especially during the hot months, against sending anything through New Orleans; and all these roads from Denver in here have strong combinations. I went to see one or two m.erchants here who had orders from their con signees in Denver, and who said that they would not send their business by us even if ordered to do so; that they would rather lose the trade than to do it, on accountof their long and old relations with tht other companies. Take Arbuckle, for instance, with his Coffee business, which is very large out of here to Denver, he wont send a car by us if he can help it. You have got to appeal to that country individually, that is, men have got to go and see every merchant there; arti , from what I see here, they promise our men fair things and give their business to someboay else. I write this becauoe we want to be careful hereafter. I don't see where we are in any better position this moment than we were before we opened, so far as getting business is concerned. We could have opened on their full rates and taken as mucli business out of hei-e as wo do to-day on the cut rate. The amount of influence that the Iviorgan Line ana The Texas & Pacific has here certainly ought to give us the few c ars that we get. There are about sixty (GO) cars per day of Tide water stuff going from New York to Colorado, Wyoming, etc., and we don't get one-tenth of it. Even on our cut rate I find that the all-rail routes took more buisness out. of here be fore they lowered than we did. Very truly yours, G, M. Dodge, President. ... ''i' 135^; iv;ay, 1888 Washington,Building, No.l Broadway, New York. New York, May 3rd, 1888. My dear Mr. Byers: I have been absent for some time, and bavennot yet had an opportunity to look over,fully, your "Iowa in ^'ar Times." I have, however, read what you have said of me personally, and wish to thank you for the very complimentary terms in which you speak of me, and my acts during the war. I fear you have overdrawn the credit to which I am entitled, but it is a very great satisfaction to know that one who has looked into the records, so thoroughly as I know you have, feels that way towards me. I wish a 'copy of the book sent .to my brother N. P. Bodge, of Council Bluffs, Iowa; a copy to my sister, Mrs. J. T. Beard, Mapleton," Iowa; a copy to - Mrs. Abner C. Goodell, Salem, Mass, and a copy to Miss Betsy Dodge, Rowley, Mass., placing in each book sent one of the enclosed cards. Bend bill to me and oblige. Yours very truly. d. M. Bo dge. Hon. S. H. M. Byers, Oskaloosa, la. i r' .. .1 . , ; < ■ P'V' 3-br la? Hi;I May, 1888 Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 8th, 1888 G. M, ^odge, Ssq., New York. Dear General: As wired in answer to your inquiry, a final dividend of 10^ is now paid to the stock-holders of the Pacific Nat. Bank. Pour dividends will go through the hands of your brother Nathan, so he told me to credit him with that amount. I regret it did not come out better, but I tried my best. Not looking over the papers relating to private dividends, after I made an error in believing it would pay par; thinking last dividend was 20^ but it was 15^ only. Then I found in fianl examination, that you, in shares in name of A. W. Street, yourself and Mrs. Bodge, you did not receive yoin? full amount of last dividend of $1125. Such occured for reason of having sent you draft of $2000 and $1000 .and neither dividing receipt from you and Mrs. Bodge nor check in my hands, it remained unpaid. But you have to have it now. Again, the notes of Mr. Baldwin and H. Henry, Bsq., remain unpfild, as I tolk you when the mining stock referred to is C. S, for 440 shares at ^plOO, in the Clipper Silver Mining Co. Utah ty., signed by S, T. •^mith, B. C. and B. F. Jones Sec. and Ireas. 'If you and the other stock-holders want it, I will forward it to you. I may add that head-quarters of said Mining Co. was at Kansas City, Mo. I have remitted dividend to F. L. Ames, Boston, Mass., Mr. Dillon and Oilman, Sons & Co., New York. Yours, I credit as above mentioned, to-morrow, and cancel C. Ss. and am waiting for rest to send G. Ss. for cancellation. These are heirs of Coolbaugh and Fuller trustees, lately appointed Chief Justice of the U. S, Supreme Court. When all is done, I shall be glad. Truly yours, John Beresheim. i OQ ' C * Washington Building No.l B'way, K. Y. rif;ay 8, 1888 Charles Francis Adan.s, Brest., Dear Sir; Boston, I/aso. I enclose you my I'eport for 1868, and in it you will find the original map, made by Van Lennep, of the coal measures around the month of the Medicine Bow and near Carbon. I liave marked on pp. 80, 81, 82, 83 and 84 the report of Van Lennep on each out crop as shown on the map. I would like to have a copy of the map made, because I wish to place it in my re cords. There is a copy ofit in the U. P. By. office some where. From it you can get a prenty good idea of the coal and where and how it lays. It secnis to me that these coal outcroppings should be thoroughly studied. Van Lennep has* probably given them more attention than anyone else, and his report will be a good guide, for hdspent a month right in this neighborhood Yours truly. G. M . Dodge. May 9th,1888. Gen'l G.M.Dodge, No I Broadway, N.Y, Dear Sir: 141 ' Trinidad,Colorado, May 9, 1888. I have this day exp.ressed to you aaps, profiles and approximate estimates of the Purgatoire extension, Apishapa Line and Little Chicaso Canon. Referring to the Purgatoire line from the Thompson mine to La Junta I would suggest that the Santa Fe people (Mr. Robinson) be interviewed with a view of building but one line. I have it from reliable authority that the S.F. are developing some fine coal above La Junta between there and Stonewall and have fully decided to build to it this season.They have ^ already taken up the Costilla Pass with a view of going over the range. If Mr.Robinson will arrange with you for trackage from Trinidad to La Junta, and you can build this extension for bonds, ^ would not hesitate to recommend it.Local business is fair and the C.C.& I. might be induced t o furnish the steel. In connection with this, there is a Park organization here that contemplate extended improvements on this property just west of Stonewall. They propose to give you a third interest if you build up there this season. Digressing slightly there is another organization here who propose the erection of rolling mills at this place. They were looking over the ground yesterday, and I understand they partially decided on the lands north of the Santa Fe, Just east of cement works. With this situation would it not be well to put in our crossing of the Santa Fe and extend out line around to the point of the hill where our Pueblo location turns to the north. We could then switch out of this track almost any place to reach the mills in good shape. Trinidad and Las Vegas people are now warmly agitating the building of the Canon line of to Las Vegas. "Smelter" is strongly talked here and the Rolling mill people are looking to Elizabethtown near the Las Vegas line for their iron ore. I have suggested a local Co. to grade bridge and tie, and then the Pan Handle may put on the steel and operate. I am yours truly, .• ■ I i :"' N.R.Gibson. s'. i. ' im) .ill . • 1 US . ' . I.f; : Ww'fi ■ \.4 i / . I . . ■ V f. \ ti i. ''4 ' ' ' " I '' (yC ''j It ■ » > , " y ■ ^ 'i. ! • i ■ . . I ll'nv tu. , 1 I • -'y :, ' .■■i'/io, '4*' •i ":1 -. ' 4. ■ J . f ■ ' <' I si •'< ■ . ^4; .l -j ' ■> V ' „ ,S I ■ <1 ; . , s ■ '.4w. W'i , ,,y) ' V ' ■ . • . ). , j' ;} I '« ; . t . " i V ■ 7 !i»i' n ' 4 .•■ n 143: May 9, 1688 r^orcan Jones, Esq., President, New York. May 9, 1888 Ft. worth, Te'xas. Dear Sir:- I received yorir letter today and inm ediately wired you to see Meek and tai:e up the matter you write about, and not to hesitate. I met Mr. Pullman todaj', and he said he had ..heard very favora ble reports of iMeek from the railroad men who met him in the meetings, and from all the traffic men; and he also said that we were doing as much sleeper business as ony other road of our class, which was much more favorable then he had expected--but, from your letter, I should judge that we were not doing much. I have been writing f.Tcek fully daily, and I enclose a copj?' of one letter written some time ago. I have got tiiir.gs in good shape here. Have got the U. P. in with us, and the A. P. & 8. F friendly, and all the lines, ar.d kep them from jumping on us; and I think week'., success with Kimball will be very beneficial to us. I am sorry about McCormic; I was in hopes he would turn out well; Sanderson has done so poorly and made so many mistakes. Both of them are very important men and we mu st replace them immediately if they are not competent to take care of Our matters, or as soon as we can find somebody to replace them with. Mr. Dillon has concluded to hold on to tlie Presidency, after getting other natters settled. I think it is better, prob-bly, for him to do so for a tine, and we .ill put you in as second vice-presi dent, which will give you authority over the whole line. V/hat do you think of making a committee of Evans, yourself and Meek to control the entire policy of the operatir^g and traffic, departments and the expenditm es on completed road, that is, the regular routine expenditures of course, any new construction would have to come here. The Company has already sent Meek a letter that he shall malie no expenditure of construction, or anything outside of the routine bu.-iness, to exceed ylOOO, unless an ^'stimate is first sent here ai^.d the reasons "^iven therefore. But in dict.ating the general policy of the road it needs piopl® rlgtit tbtCre on the line; it is too far for me, to understand matters as you do, and with you holding the authority of second vicepresident and watchin- the operations. Meek would cor suit with vou an the time. Then, you three together could discuss and conclude or any thing that cme up that needed action outside of what was required by you and Meek. This would give us a chek on the whole lire of road and we could keep posted on what was going on all the time. I notice that for th first three wc:e):s of April the earnin"-s of the F. W. & D^C. are .,50,701.35, an increase of 9,^14.62, and that wo carried ,9,897.08 less construction material this year than in these three weeks l.ast y ar, which makes a total increase on commercial 144-. ' business for the three weeks of vl9»411,68. This is avcry fair showing for an off month--the uestion is, how will it affect tV;e net? Let me hear from you on these questions imir.ediately, because as soon as Granger returns we will have the hoard together and on the committee I will want to act, if you approve it, and wire any suggestions that you may have to maJre. Very truly yours, G. M Dodge. <> " M- 145; ■ Hew York City, 9th, 1888 0 . F. Meek, G M - , Dear Sir: I have been meeting a good many of the R. R. people here, Mr, Pullman, Gov. Brown, and others, and I am very glad to hear them bive you credit, as they do, for the judicious way in which you handled matters in the pools. They all speak highly of it. But thei*e are other things there that seem to me to need looking after, quickly and sharply. One of these is our passenger business. We must be at gi-eat expense, and we do not seem to be accomplishing much. Our trains are too fast. All the people-say so who are conversant with the subject, We are nevei' on time, and that must be ,you know, very demor alizing. You want to get your time schedules down to what you can n,ake . It is reliable railroading that tells. Then again, I hear a great deal of criticism of McGormicks way of handling matters, and of its being expensive. You must let Jones take hold of these things and help you out until you can get a person who can attend the pools. I know you think Jones is slow and tl^a t he does not appreciate things, but you will find, as they pan out, that his ideas are as a general thing pretty good, and he can be of great help to you. People here who have our securities, rely upon him more than upon any other man, they have known him so well and so long; and I know that he feels nervous over- the way the operat ing department is handled. He says we are throwing away a great deal of money on our passenger agents. As you understand we have got to show net earnings on the south part of this road or we cannot stand up in the fight. April comes in only ^65,000. a nionth, and that with all the added mileage over last year together with all the through freight over it. It shows we have carried freight very low," because if we have averaged 15 cars a day of through freight over the line, the through freight alone should have earned us more than half of this. The reports we get of the business being done is very satisfactory, but when the report of the proceeds that it brings us comes in, it is very unsatisfactory. I speak of these things very plainly because I know that now is the crisis in our work, and not with any disposi tion to criticise, but rather to help you along in it. I want you to take it up in the same spirit I send this, and criti cise anyti:ing I say to you. I get it from what I learn from people unconnected with the road, but who are watching it very thoroughly. m Pulirrian says we are getting a fair average of passenger business, which is veiy gratifying, but he thinks wt have entirely too fast a scedule for a new road. You know it is very costly keeping up a road bed on fast trains. I notice that in the new advertisement of rates by Chairman Etch that he does not allow the N. Y. differentials, as between Chicago and K. Y. and N. Orleans and N. Y. I thought in the agreements, when we stipulated to put up our rates, or m.ade our commodity rates as stated in your letter, that they would allow the difierentials between v.'ater route, and all rail. That is what Newman wired. Is ti.at in accordance with the agreement you made at St- Louis, and does it protect us? .1 Yours truly, ' G. M. Dodge . . m. . 147 May lOth 1888. Trinidad,Colorado, May loth 1888. Gen'l. G^M.Dpd^e, Presdt.C.& T. Con. Co. Dear Sir: I have this evening yours of 7th in relation to ties and timber and final settlement with DeRemer. In reply I can only, say that the whole mat ter is in fair condition for favorable settlememt, but it takes more time and labor thaA I ever supposed it would. To get everything correctly I am obliged to count all the ties laid in track and those not yet in but distibuted, and inspect and measure up much timber that went in structure that were changed from the original plans and bills toward the last of the track laying when the track was pushing the bridging and could not wait, and ma terial that we have since used in completing bridges not yet quite finished and filling orders form Hagen, etd.,etc.. In the business I have had serious ^ difficulties to settle. Mr DeRemer said at onoe when I stated your propos ition to take all balance of material for bonds, that if we could give him money enough to pay his bills and settle with his subs for these ties,he would take the balance in bonds .He could ni)t get these ties without the mon- ' ey. The subs would have levied on them at once. I did not have the money to give him. The D.5- R.G. wanted 4o,ooo ties badly, we had 5 cents royalty in i them and I had to look out for this.The D.& R.G. were approached, but would not give more than 4o cents. The royalty would leave DeRemer but 35 cents. This he said he could not take in bonds,hence I was obliged to let him sell them, the 4o,ooo to the D.&.R.G., and I hold him for the stumpage. The D.&R.G t getting 'these ties now and until they get through my difficulties in getting at final and total quantities are only increased. I will not leave the matter until it is satisfactory and accurate to the last cent. We will have but little timber and lumber on hand when we get I 148 ' 1 through with branch lines we have decided to build, and as I figure it we shall have but about 32,ooo ties left, all of which Mr. Grover wants, and ^ Mr. Meek says the Co. will give 4o cts. for. I must have time to settle this business and bring it all out straight without suits or other difficulties. Thompson is grading and bridging the Grays ^''reek line for bonds, but wants them promptly that he may borrow money on them if he has to. I sold him five of our poorest mules at |I5o each and what wagons I could spare. Of course I take this in grading but make a good trade and it saves that much money. He did the side track grading in the yards here and I had intended to have him do the Chicosa Canon work, also for bonds and expect to sell him the balande of our mules and wagons. '^he grading here to the mills is needed in a'hurry and as there is like ly to be trouble or delay on right of way matters on Grays Creek may bring 3)hompson in here to do this vwrki l am ^using the C.C.& I. people to secure the right of way through Wiles on Qrays Creek, and expect to have so^ some difficulties. We may have to use considerable money, I can't tell Just yet, but think it will take jpSooo or ^4ooo to settle right of way and I have the cheapest right of way line too. i do not feel disposed to give the Chiposa work to Bradbury.He moved in the side stales on the long high bank this side of '^layton without asking Penin and when he discovered it our dnly defense was a deduction in quanti ties which was made. The same think was done in two places on his Pueblo work, which Waddell did not seem to know anythin about, as he never reported it, and Shields only discovered it 'some two or three weeks ago. I discharged Waddell 1st March for his errors and negligence, and should have done so long ago. Bradbury personally may not be at fauly but this occurred on work that was not sublet but done by himself and I have no body else to find ^ fault with but him as principal. If I can find men that ^ give satisfaction I'd rather give them prefer - ence over those who do not. Of course this is private. I have no desire to 149 ■ Bay anything to displease Bradbury, but the Cos. Interest is with me parakmoiiiit to all others. Mr.Dorsey was here today and \anfortunately I failed to meet him.He came in last night hut did not let me know he was here until noon. I was then with Meek and Smith who came in at noon to settle the depot matters and when I got through I sent Swiggett out to h\mt him up. He found him at the hotel apparently much displeased because I had not been up to see him, and got no satisfaction as to when I could see him or where. I went up to the hotel immediately but could not find him. I learned he was going away on the eve ning train, and I went to the S.&.F. depot, but the train was behind time and as Dorsey was not there, I had to go to the round house with Grover, so he got off without my meeting him. Since 1 have let off so much of my help I am very much pressed with work, but will write you as often as possible and endeavor to keep you fully posted. I am yours truly. N'.R. Gibson. 'OV. ' 151 ^'ay, 1888. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Dictated . Washijigton D. C. Vay 13th, 1888. Genl. G. . Dodge, 1 Proadwty, N. Y. City. Vy dear General: Since writing you on Friday matters have developed which change our plans about coming to New York. I want to suggest a few points to you for your consideration. We have just learned that Judge Gresham spent two weeks in Ncw York last summer stoppiiig at the Filth Avenue Hotel, sitting at f. r. Platt's table, and we have some reason to believe that their relations are quite friendly. Is there not danger that a combine may be formed between Gresham and Phelps, the latter for Vice President and that Hr. Platt may fall in with this progranmie? This should be looked into at once and we have no one capable of handling it but yourself. Froiii all that we gather about New York it looks to me as though the Stalwarts and Sherman ii.en were massing their forces be hind Depew simply to get to Nap Gin. and this should hcve attention. I hope you can find ti.i.e for an early and thorough consultation with ^■r, Platt. 7/e sr.ould h. ve him with us thoroughly and s on enough to prevent a dangerous combination against us. In haste., Sincerely yours, D. B. Henderson. 153 Approximate estimate of line from Rolling Mills to Ehicesa Canon Cleaning 5o acres Earth 76£56 o yds. loose Rock 44367 " " Solid " 26390 " " Bridging Io27ooft Piling 5780 Ties E2ooo Steel 652 tons Spikes per mile Bolts " " An^e bars " Track laying 8 miles Rigiit of way 5o acres Engineering and contingincies 76256 c yds, 44367 " " 26390 " " Io27ooft 5780 22000 652 tons 8 miles. |5o .00 I5c 50C I.IO 35 .00 65c 45c 5o .00 5oo .00 5oo .00 42o .00 425.00 5o .00 $18194.45 4/I0 per mile. Total 25oo.00 11438.40 2<:iI83 .5o 29o9o .00 3594.50 3757.00 99oo .00 32600.00 4ooo .00 4000.00 3360 .00 3400.00 25oo.00 13232.24 155 Kay, 1888 5th Ave. Hotel, New York, Kay 14, 1888. General M, Nodge, No. 1 Broadway. Dear General: The receipt this morning of the Annual Report of the proceedings of the Society Army of the 'i'ennessee at Detroit, Sept. 14 & 15, 1887, remind me that our next meeting will be at Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 15 & 16, 1888, and that it is made my duty to name two "Kembers" to read at that meeting papers of interest and value for future historic reference. After scanning the list of living members, with a full knowledge of what has gone before, I have settled on you and Surgeon Hartshow of Cincinnati. You can choose your own subject and what I add is mere suggestion. The Civil War which we shared was only a link in the great chain of our National Development. Important events preceded that war which have fairly crystallized into History. The World did not stop but went on and you were directly an agent in the conse quences. The Pacific States had to be brought into close harmony with the older eastern communities and you did much to build up the Union and Central Pacific Railroad, the pioneers, followed by four other Trans-Continental Dines, now in full operation. Onthis subject you can say much that will have "Historic interest." I ask you to do this, and it will be printed and perused by thousands in the Great Future, who cannot hear it read, but who will be edified long after you and I are gone. Simply write me that you will be at Toledo, Sept. 15, and I will assure you of all else. As ever your friend, W. T. Sherman. m ■ New York City, May 16th, 1888 Marshall M. Cilliarri, Esq. - Richniond, Virginia. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of May 14th. As you under stand, we have got our' tracks together and ai'e running our road, and it is doing fairly well. , "Ve are at work now on our build ings and cleaning up, but we have so large an application fashort spurs to coal mines and other industries in that country which it is in.plrtant for us to build, that, it is delaying us in making a final closing of our work. Our negotiation in' Euro e seems to hang there, but there are other people '.vho are now bidding for our bonds but they want'them too cheap. Ti.e great trouble hos been, that the six per cent bond on the southe end ol the road, which has paid its interest thirteen times out of the earnings, has hung here between 80 and 90 when it ought to be selling at 110. It is by far the cheapest bond on this market, but it is a case where bonds were turned over to a syndi.cate and they poured them out on the "street" in New York instead of selling them to in vestors. They are being rapidly picked up by people who' know about the property, and when they get up where they belong our five per cents will stand a much better show for sale. I could distribute a portion of the five per cent s now, but a large n.ajorfty of the stock-holders in the Construction Companyare desirous for me to hold hteni in The Trust Company, as they think that with the demand for bonds we can sell them in a body in Europe, or some piace, and not have them slopped over on this market. Of course, if I distribute tliOm some people would sell, and, if tliere was no market for them, there is no telling what they would sell for . As to what we shall distribute, my idea is that , as near as I can teLl--you know it is almost impossible to tell exactly what can be done before you clean up so large a work-- we will have about 125^ in bonds and 125^ in stock to distri bute upon the amount paid in. Of course, I don't want to be held to this, but that is as near as I can tell now. I cant authorize this until I get a final completed road. I suppose it will take me 90 days longer to get my shops up and my spurs in that we are building. Then as soon as theyare done and the Company accepts the road from me, .-.hich no doubt they will do the moment I ami ready, it will be tiriie, ii the bonds are not sold, for the stock-holders to decide 'whether I shall distri bute themi or hold them, any longer. I am pushing the work out there just as fast as I can economically. I have discharged all my forces, excepting just what are needed to tend to the contractors now on the line There is no necessity of pushing the work, as I did the track, beyond the economical point. The earnings on the line up to date have been very satisfactory. I suppose our earnings on the through line for the month of April will be about v150,0vJ0, which is beyond what we expected. Very truly yours, G. N'. Dodge, President. ^ Jit* t I ^ ; ■ V" •. ■ May, 1888. Dear Comrade: 159 Leavenworth, Kansas, May 27, 1888, I am in Kansas and I am in a bad fix and I want you to help me. I helped you in '64 when you got a scalp wound in Go .E. 7th Iowa Inft. I got shot very bad when I tried to carry you out of the pits. Colonel Passett(?) says you would help me for it was trying to save you that I got crippled. I have got a big family. Use your influence to get me work for the government. I cant get no pension for I cant find no person that belonged to my company. Colonel Passett is all that I can find that knows me. I think that if you can remember when you got shot in the top of the head you could remember me. You fell in my arms. You are a good soldier and you wont refuse me this. From your comrade, Randolph K. Waters . First Brigade, 4th Division, 15 Army Corps General Dodge was our Division Commander. 191 June, 1888. N. P.Dodge W.W.Dearborn. N . P. DODGE & CO., Real Estate Agents. Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 4th, 1888, Dear Genl: I write to have you engage a state room on one of the Atlantic steamers which call at Queenstown. The City of Berlin (Quman line) sails on 21st July (Saturday) this is about the date I want to go, I mention this steamer because Carrie writes that one of her school mates went over and back upon it and says its the best boat on that line. If we can get a desirable room on the steamer which sails on that day (2lJuly) in Cunard line I presume that would be better. I understand the German Steamers do not land passengers at Queenstown otherwise I should mention that line which Annie says you think well of. A steamer sailing on V.'ednesday would not sail as there is not sufficient time for us to reach it and spend one day in N. Yohk without starting on Sunday. My object in wanting to take a steamer which leaves passengers at Queenstown is to have the privilege of landing there, if I decide hereafter to do so and go up through Ireland thence thro Scotland and England spending some time with Mr. Pusey and party. I must get back by midcile of October and I want to see those Countries and make the best use of my time. If the Glasgou Steamer "City of Rome" sailed at that date I might go on her and miss Ireland but that sails on the 11th which is too early for me. If you cannot secure for me a desirable state room on the Cunarder which sails 21st or on City of Berlin (if you think that steamer is a desirable one to cross in) you can communicate with me by telegraph advising me what steamer to take. I have interviewed Annie thoroughly about travelling abroad and also have conversed with Dr. Lawrence who is an enthusiastic European travellfer. They both advise me to take advantage of Cooks tickets but travel independent of any party. Dr. L. said he found that he received better attention and always struck a good hotel and they seemed to take extra pains to plea® him when they found he had Cooks coupons. He said if he should go tomorrow he should take one of his trips over again as every hour of it was full of interest. It began at Glasgou and took in Scotland and England (one of Cooks tickets with no limit to time). Then cross ing Europe he took in I'rance, Belgium, Holland and part of Germany and Switzerland. In talkipg with him and Annie I have planned to land at Queenstown, go through Ireland on some one of the Routes indicated in ^J^closed leaf thence to Glasgou and thru Scotland and England as in dicated. I understand I can take my own tine and make as many side excursions as I wish, but I should have to decide before I left New r 192 . York the route I would take as far as London. If you see any ob jection to this plan I shall be glad to have you state it. Aould it nbt be well for me to take some letters. I could drop a line to Mr. Allison and also to Jno. Ekenna and I think each would cheerfully write me a general letter and I could also procure one from Govr. Dr. Lawrence said he found such letters very useful. Annie also informs me that Carrie and I can occupy a state room to gether, if proper, it would make it pleasanter for both of us. You will know about that as well as these other matters I have written about and will know how to arrange them. Yours, N. P. B. Let me know amount you deposit to secure stateroom and I will remit, also when is balance to be paid? «"hat clothing do I need to take this trip? I have but one suit now (a dark brown suit), 7;ill a scotch mixed with sack coat be best to travel in, what do I need extra on steamer to be comfortable? N. P. t. ■ t t 5. ■ '' • -I r . I. .1 • , > V -■ ''' ' ■ 'I,. ' d'-- i- •" —V ■ . ; • ' ■ - : 1.; vJ/ - - •' • ' .i , ..mi-. » June, 1888, Omaha, 6/4/88, Genl. G. M. Dodge, jjear bir: I have heard it intiniated tJna t the St. L. & S. F. Ry. contemplate making a change of Genl. Supts . You would confer a great favor upon me, if you will recommend me to Genl. Winslow, and Jesse Silegman. I am satisfied I could fill the position with credit to them and myself. I am very anxious to get away from here, as 1 cannot keep my family here on account of niy wifes health. Anything that you can consistently do for me, will he appreciated. Yours truly, R. Blickensderfer. 195 June, 1888. The Colorado & Texas Railway Construction Co. G. M. Dodge, President. No.l Broadway, New ^ork City. June 7th, 1888 General E. F. ?;inslow, Pres't St. L. & S. F. R*y. Dear Sir: I enclose you a confidential communication to me. I con sider K'.r. Blickensderfer one of the best men we have ever ha,: on the U. P., and would regret to have our company loose him; but he seems determined to get into a more southern climate. He is a strong, robust man, was educated as an engineer and hos been all his life engaged in railroading. He has been long on the U. P., working up trrough all the grades until now he has the best division upon it. He is a man of great nerve, has excellent judgment and is a thorough disciplinarian. I think the only fault found with him on the U. P. was that he was too strick a disciplinarian, which, in my opinion, is not a fault. :Please treat this communication as confidential, and return it to me if you are unable to consider it favorably. I am. Yours truly, * G . M . Dodge. Jan. 9, 1888. Dear Sir: These came to me today on my return from the Pacific Coast. No change in the position, or any Other similar one, ds intended. Very truly yours, E. F. Winslow. 197 ' June, 1888. REAL ESTATE AGENCY N. P. Dodge & Go. Council Bluffs, Iowa 11th, 1888 Dear Gren: I have received your letters with plan of ship and am greatly obliged for the trouble you have taken to secure Carrie and myself comfortable berths. You have omitted to state the amount that I should remit to you. I understand the price is ^250., whether you make a deposit to secure it or full payment. Please inform me. I am fading up and posting myself and probably shall not fully determine miy route until near time of sailing. Carrie has friends who have spent considerable time in Europe and I have request ed her to get fully posted on the details of travelling and desirable places to stop so as to relieve me part^ of the care and thought. During the past six months I have tried every expedient I could hear of (except medlclent) to overcome my sleeplessness. I ^ seem to get my rest, generally, but its a doze rather than sleep. I W am more and more_impressed that I need a change of thought more than anything. ^ly mind is in a rut, and that rut not a favorable one for health. I worry without a cau^e and with- mothers condition before me. I am resolved to make an effort to overcome what might have a similar result. I am thankful I can take this trip and take Carrie with me, without leaving anything behind to cause any special anxiety by my absence. Fortunately Annie had a pa^d hich had not expired to take her to Denver, otiierwise the one you enclose not coming before her departure would haye inconvenienced her. In letter received today she inquires for it and i send it on to CqI. Springs. Very truly, N. P. Dodge. 199 J;ine , 1888. Leavenworth, Kansas, June 11th, 1888, Gen. G. M. i^odge. Dear oir^ Yours of the 7th came to hand today. Tlianking you for your willingness to help me witii you influence to get a situation in the Government employ. General, I am in no condition to perform man ual labor. I was wounded 22nd July 1864 in front of Atlanta. I have had my pension claim on file lor 8 years but have not got it" as yet. I am a cook by trade but cant work at it enough to make a living at it. I belong to Co. E. 7th Iowa Infantry. When you was wounded rn the head I and John McGorlnick, son of Lieut. KcCormick, who was in command of Co. E. 7th Regt. Iowa, carried you by Col. Passett's orders O-.t of Rifle pits .you was looking through a port hole when you fell backwards. I was drummer a noncomissioned that day we was in 1 Brigade 4 Div. 15th Army Crops, formerly 16th Corps. I was examined last by Pension Board at Lincoln,Nebr. in April last and pronounced unfit to do a half a nj:ins work. Iv'jy witnesses, Lieut. John McCormick and son enlisted with me at Keokuk, Iowa, John . Knight, 2nd Lieut, and they tell me at Washington, D. C. they arc dead and if I cant get those proofs I cant get no pension. I could do messenger work or Post On ice carrying work as my wounds is in my eye, shoulder and left are. Sabre but and 2 buckshot in arm. Post Waster Lynch is Post Master of Leavenwacth, Col. James Gillis at Fort Leavenworth and General I.ierritt are the ones to look to for a Government situation here or I would go anywhere I could get a place if I could get transportation for myself and family, as I can only scratch along to get something to eat. I will send a certificate of State Iowa. If I could see you General, face to face i would be glad to talk over old times about you and Gen. Sweeney and the rest of the Officers. Help me in any way you can. Excuse this long letter. I remain. Yours truly. R. H. Waters, 201 New York. June 13, 1888, June, 1888. James F. Hov/e, Esq., V.P. St Louis, Mo, Dear Sir:- I received yours of June 8th enclcsing the terminals. I have read it over carefully twice and ./ill take it with me on my way west. I excpct to start west tomorrow evening, and will be in "-Chicago until about the 20th. There were two things in the agreement that struck me as unusual, the first was; the wiping out of ownership for non-payment of rental. Can that be done v Take two roads like the hoone Road and the North-west" and there is no telling what straits they might get into, and I would not like to put myself in the position of allowing the ownership wiped out for nonpayment of rental. They might bbe pro hibited from use of grounds'by nonpayment of rental. The other point is, you draw a clause that no lessee shall be allowed to do business for any other road within 25 miles of Des Moines. That would cut me out of all my St. Paul business, which is about all the business I ha ve. '.Vat that the Intention? It seems to me that we should be allowed to do our regular business the came as we have been doing ever since we owned the terminals. Very truly yours, G. .M. Dodge, Please answer to Grand Pacific, Chicago. President, • """'■••'id 203 June, 1888. ATCHISON', TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILROAD CO. Office of the President. Boston, June 14, 1888. G . M . Dodge, Esq., Washington, Building, Dear Sir: #1 Broadway, New York. On my return from a rather prolonged absence at the west. I find yours of the 1st inst. waiting reply. Mr. A. A. Robinson, 2nd Vice President, has been connected with our Company since 1871, much longer than any of the other officials By correspondence with him, you could probably obtain the information you desire in reference to our Road. Col. I!. C. Nutt, President of the A. & p. Co., office at 95 Milk St., Boston, is fully acquaintea with the history of his Road, and I have no doubt will take pleasure in giving you the facts in connection with it. Yours very truly, Wm. B. Strong, President. ■ ■■ June 13, 1888.5946 Princeton Ave. Chicago,111. Major General G.M.Podge Pear General: I have for some time been trying to get the address of Genl. J.A.Williamson. I was down to see Judge Tuthill. He gave me the address of Col. Cornelius Cadle . I will enclose his letter. No one can feel more sorrov/ fur Genl Williamson that I do. Poor fellow, I often called on him when he had his office, his conversation would always be about Genl. Podge to me. I doubt if anyone on earth thought more of anoth er than General Williamson did of you, and I do not doubt but that he,had good reason. I always thought a good deal of him and I hdpe and trmist t that he will have a pleasant life in the warld to come. Well dear Genl I had been told by Captain Manning, a year a^o that you had left this v/orld and I told him not to believe it, that id such happened he would see something more than a newspaper paragraph. While talking to him he told me that Jir. Taylor on the next floor from him was getting a lot of steel engravings of you. I we 't down to Mr. Taylor if I could buy one with Genl Podge's consent; he told me if he had one he would give it to me vut they were all gone. I hope dear Genl this will find you and Edl yours in good health. We are all v^ell ;uid Gren-ville Podge and his brother W.T. Sherman Pixon is five foot nine , seventeen years old next March. One is named for you and the other for Genl Sherman. I sent Sherman to Grant Orr Vollege on Wabash Avenue. I should like to make a lawyer of one or both, but don't know what to do . With my kind regards for yourself and family and hope you are will and" in good health, and with my good wishes for all % I am,sir,yours truly John Pixon. 207 June, 1888. Executive Departnient. Charles F. Adams, President. T. J. Potter, 1st. Vice Pres Isaac E. BromleyjAssts. to Gardiner . Lane: Pres. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY CO 40 Equitable Building, Boston, June 20, 1888. My Dear General: Enclosed please find the copy of your report on the Union Pacific railroad for 1867, which you were kind enough to send me a few days ago. I think you asked me to return it to you, which I now do. Please acknowledge receipt. Thanking you very much for the use of this document, I remain, etc., Charles F. Adams, President. Gen. G. M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York. Enclosure No. 659. V ' 'if209 June, 1888, Howley, June 24, 1888, Dear Cousin G. M.: The War History of Iowa came safely, should have acknowledged its receipt ere this, had I known your address, which I have since learned through correspondence with Cousin N. P. hence the delay. We were all much pleased with the Book and particularly interested in reading the story of your heroism during the dark days of our Civil conflict, and were very glad to possess the record of one of our name, whose thorough knowledge of military discipline together with undaunted courage, participated so largely in saving our country from ruin. And now please let me thank you, for remember ing us so kindly amid your business and care. While I remain as ever your cousin. Betsie P. Dodge. '.''.L'Jlf ik 211 ^ 1888.June . Council Bluffs, Iowa, 25th day of June, A. D. 1888, We, the undersigned owners of Lots 2, 3 and 4, Section 33, Township 75, Range 44, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, hereby agree to con vey to the Cnion Pacific Railway Company the amount of land appropri ated for right-of-way for the embankment leading to the bridge, or in all 12 68/100 Twelve & 68/1OO acres; and also to receipt in full for our claim for damages for earth taken and also for all damages for, appropriation of right-of-way, for the sum of Ten Thousand Collars ($10,000). Upon the payment of the said sum of $10,000 we will convey the said 12 68/1OO acres and receipt, release and discharge the said Company from all claims for damages of any kind or character whatsoever, https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/b27016167f08328487c1893b0eb4effa.pdf 9797f7c9eb5e990157b82766182cdeb5 PDF Text Text 213 July, 1888. Salein, July 1, 1888. K'y dear Friend; The delay in acknowledging the receipt of the book sent me has been occassioned by tne illness of N'r. Goodell,which now covers nine weeks. I will give you further particulars after I have spoken at length of this acceptable present. The contents of this interest ing and vcluable book will afford me great pleasure as well as instruc tion. During the War my interest in the soldiers from the ^est ex tended to every part ol that division of our army on account of your connection therewith. Many times in later years I have wished that I could read just the history connected with the Army in the West, but I have never had time to select therefrou^ the required information. It has now come to me and be assured that I shall appreciate the care ful reading I can leisurely indulge in. I remember so plainly an evening when our daily paper brought to our household the sad news of the wound in your head, my mother exclaimed, "Grenville Dodge has received a death-wound. I never thought that he would live through the war. . Plow I pity his Mother'." I rem.ember that I did not feel so sure of the fatal-wound knowing that you came from a long-lived, sturdy ancestry. I am glad that you are willing, after so much hesitation to give to the public your war record which has been so honorable andnoble Future generations would obtain it in an imperfect history and it is so miuch better to have it accurately recorded. Ishall, if life is spared, read with a deep interest the history to be given by Mr. Dawson for public reading. Again I must thank you for the kind remembrance. 1 have but one criticism to make and that is to call attention to the absence of the autograph. When you visit me I shall ask you to write upon the blank leaf your name. To return to the illness of Mr. Goodell. Aft,er a winter of constant work, with little or no exercise and recreation, he was seized with a severe attack of dyspepsia - - Mrs. Goodell to Gen. Dodge. (Latter part missing) 215 July, 1888, REAL ESTATE AGENCY N. P. Dodge & Co. Council Bluffs, Iov;a, July 2, 1888 Eve. Dear Gren: I came in from K. this eve and find your letters. I think •the Rep. convention nominated the strongest ticket that they could out of the names presented. The men Harrison and IViorton will grow in favor as they become known to the masses and will not have so many things to explain as defend if they had more political record. I was glad the resolution offered by Roulette of ^Jaine was passed so unanimously. It had a better efiect than if attached to original platform. I think the true principle is to repeal.those old internal revenue taxes. They are a hindrance to Temperance cause. Please read enclosed letter and return to me. I think you will indorse every word of it. I have about made up my mind to go direct to London, stay there a week or so. Then go to Antwerp, Cologne, Frankfurt and to Lucerne and spend most of my time as he recommends in Switzerland. I hope I may see you in New York, shall expect to reach there Thurs. eve (19th). Had I better stop at Murry Kill or some other hotel. A'hen I return home I may take the N. Germara Loyd, at any rate I wont engage any return passage now. N. P. S. I shall send draft for last installment C. I eons. Co. The one (10th) just received I cant remit for before I go abroad. 217 : Personal New Yoi'k City, July 3rd, 1888 Chas. Francis Adams, Esq., Boston, Il''ass. Dear Sir: I wish to suggest in relation to matters at Washing ton that, on a hill so important as ours, without full debate and full discussion on the floor of the House and a continuous one, there is very little probability of our ever passing the bill. - There.is a minority there which, when tell you all about because I had loqg talks with them all be fore I left, that are determined to fire their ammunition at us. A great deal of it is hew, or, perhaps you might say old dress ed up in new language, and my suggestion would be, to go to no further expense in Washington except to hold our position with the bill, that is, that it shall be held in justthe exact posi tion that it is now,' ready to go up at any mor-ent; and that Kr. Outhwaite and his followers shall pursue the same tactics against any bills that this minority are desirous of obtaining until we have a hearing. I think we should have this under- ^ standing. It is a disgrace to Congress and to the people that, with a till supported by the Government that is a settlement forthe Government, can't obtain a hearing on account of the position of one or two men whose motives are thoroughly understood--but, what I want to impress upon you is, the importance of Outhwaite's holding his position. It is a very strong one, and, if he holds it, before this Congress finally adfourns they will have to act upon our bill. I think Hanna should be communicated with on this matter; I have co'mmunicated with all myfriends and they will support Outhwaite in holding that po sition. There is no question but what we had a two-thirds vote in that House to take our bill up, and I believe we had a majority to pass it, but there is no question but that there would have been a great deal of dodging on both sides when it come to the final vote. If you are coming to New York I wish you would let me know a day or two before-hand,be cause I wish to see you and talk to you about these matters and explain to you sonie things that are not known, I know, to any of our people who have been in Washington. Very truly yours*. G . M .. D(%e , July, 1888 ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. H. C. Nutt, President. H. W. Oardiner, Sec'y and Treas. F. E, Hancock, Auditor. 95 Milk Street. P. 0. Box 3372 Boston, July 5, 1888. Gen. G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New Yorlc. Dear General; I have your note of the 3rd instant together with a copy of the correspondence with Mr. Strong. I am at loss to understand i'rom your letter in just what line you want statistics and facts; is it in regard to dates, cost of con struction, or development of traffic; and how far back, and how vol uminous do you want these statistics to be? If you will indicate in some way in what line, I will take pleasure in giving you any information, either personal or official, in my power, but I do no want to deluge you with a ii.ass of matter which would be of no use for your purpose. Can you not indicate by a series of questions Just what you will want, something like an interview, and I wil take pleasure in answering you if I can? Yours very truly, H. C. Nutt, President. 221 ■ July, 1888 The Canadian Railway Co., L'ontreal. 10th July, 1888, G . M . Dodge, Esq., Washington Building, No , 1 Broadway, New York. Dear Sir*. Mr. Van Home is away from home and will not return for ten days or more. I therefore write to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst. The information for which you ask has never yet, so far -as I l<now, been got together in a concise form and so published. I cannot therefore refer you to any work which will assist you. If, however, you can put your needs in the shape of questions, I think it would much simplify matters and enable me to form a better idea of what you want. I will endeavor to give you the correct replies. Yours truly. A. Piers 223 July, 1888. p New York. July 3rcl, 1888. N. R. Gibson, Esq., Chf. En^;., Trinidad, Colo. Dear Sir:- I received your letter in relation to the Chicosa line. I think we better build to the Chicosa station first, so th.. t they can handle the lusiness, and then we can 1 uild from Trinidad afterwards. Mr. Spra^uc has ft. rails, or whatever wired you, if they can' to let you put in some ft. later to yo to Besli yourselves, "/on't you •layiny out thes e mines and at the mines, suffi .to . put additionrsl rial instructed Danforth to let you have the 3,000 is necessary for the Smelter" switch, and, as 1 t roll them now probably they will be williny of the Beshoar there and yet the 3,000 ^ - oar. However, that you can arrange between require additional siding at Beshoar? In you want to -et in sidings, both at Beshoar cient to do tlie business so that we won't have s in afterwards. Somewhere about the 9th or 10th I can let you have the balance you need to )ay of De Remer. I want to get these matters settled up arsoon as posrible. I have received no map with proposed line around to uhicosa mine from Trinidad and from Chicosa. I want one showing the topoo-raphy and its direction of the line; also the Rio Grande Railroad,"^ Yours truly. G. M. Dodge, President. 'm 225 July, 1888. New York, July.11, 1688. C. P. Meek, Ge . Mana^^er, Denver, Colo, Dear "^ir:- I have a lettei- fran ?.Tr. Robinson in which he says if we buil up the Pur gative he v/a^ ts the privilege of joining us; therefore in your ag;eement for the line from Trinidad west, you want to reserve the right to let them, in, as well as Rock -l-sland, if we desire to do so, ^'ou understand that they also have the right to use the rolling mill spur. With the completion of the Chicosa branch, I shall build no more branches, nor spurs. I want to get my matters there closed up. I have made an ag eemont with Mr. Sprague to furnish the steel fo all the sidings, and main track for the Deshore branch. I wired Mr, Smith as to how much siding we ought to put in; he says that they have always obliged them to pil, in their ov/n siding, or pay for ii; while Mr. Sprague claims here, that they furnish them the sidings. I am perfectly willing to furnish what really ought to go in to the capitalof the branch, but it seems to me that i ought^not to pay for tracks for the aecomodation of their local work,switching etc. at the mine. I wish you would communicate with Mr. Giboon and^ Daiiforth in regard to this and get some settlement on it. Mr. Sprague also agrees to furnish 3000 feet of steel for the smelter branch that goes off of our mdin line at Pueblo, I have .also bought from him for cash four hundred (400) additional tons that I am ."oingto lay in the Ohicosa branch from Chicago to the mine. If I could trade bonds for ten (10) miles aiorc of steel, I would mate t!:c co nnection from Chicago right through to Trinidad, u I have not the money to pay cash. Yours ti-uly. G. M. Dodge, July, 1888. Loran W, Reynolds, Esq., Boone, Iowa. Dear Sir: -• 227 ." J ■ : a. New York City. July 16th, 1888. I am in receipt of yours of July 11th. \ I am doing just as fast as I can. I had my arrangements parctically made on my road for widening the guage ready to go into an agreemv^n; on the Coal when those Commissioners' schediQe came out and frightened everybody out of their boots. What effect it will have on me, it is hard for me now to say, but I am in hopes that Iowa will see the folly of this and give us a fair rate for doing the business. There is nothing more injurious to the future of Iowa than this system of jumping upon every dollar of capital that is sent in there to invest. If the people of Iowa had the same amount of money invested in these properties, or even a tithe of what they have in their own properties, it would be entirely different; but it is an easy matter to legislate upon and destroy property that one has no interest in, and the owners of v/hich are thousands of miles away. I am on? of these who have never objected to proper legisla tion for railroads; was in favor of the-inter-state commerce Bill, but, I do object very seriously to carrying these matters to such extremes. It cripples every one that endeavors to do anything for his own state. Yours very truly. G. M. Dodge, :rm 229 New York City, 1 Broadway July 16th, 1888 H. C. Nutt, Pres't., 95 Milk Street, Boston, MaSi Dear Sir: On my return to the City, I find your favor in rela tion to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and beg to say that the points I desire to obtain, are facts of historical interest, such as the following;- Who first suggested such a Railroad, and under what circumstances; what were the first steps taken looking to incor poration of the Company; when was it incorporated; who were the principal incorporators, and first officers of the Company; when were the first surveys commenced, and facts of interest con nected with them; what financial or engineering difficulties, if any, were overcome; facts relati.ig to the progress of the work, and to tl;e cost o'l the construction; when was Road com pleted; what was the character of the' country penetrated by the line, including topographical and other features, the pro spective future of the Road, and the country through which, it passes, from commercial and otht.re points of view; also any points of interest relating to persons most intimately iden tified with the construction and success of the Road; what developments in the way of towns, cities, agriculture, manu factures, etc., and what books or documents can be consulted with confidence, as to reliability, and where they canbe procured. These are some of the points suggested to my miind at the presnet moment. Very truly yours, G . M. Dodge. 231 Mew York City, July 16th, 1888 Hon. Wni. B. Allison, Dear Senator: I notice that the Evening Post and the Times are trying to creat the impreseion that the Senate vill be divided on the tariff bill. They are also trying to divert the fight from the tariff issue to outside ussues, and at the same time iriaking large and boastful professioms of what Cleveland can do in other states besides this. All this is for the purpose of holding things level here. ■••he tariff question is troubling them here in New • York jUSt now, especially frightening a great many of their followers as well as their leaders. They are telling outsidei's here that Cleveland or some one is going to do something to break the force of this free trade cry. What I wish to suggest to you especially is in meet ing the Ivills bill to treat only on the Internal Revenue, on sugar, and on such other commodities ^s are foreign to this country- that is such as will in no way come into competition with the producer and manufacturer here. Those commodities you can put on the free list. So far as rates are concerned, on any of the rest of the items of the bill, I would leave them as they are now under the law. The moment you begin to raise or lower the same things that Wills has attacked, that moment, on the stump you have to go into long explanations and argunients to meet the question of differneces. But with a clean-cut bill such as I suggest, I and such as everybody can see and comprehend, as against the long-drawn out K'ills bill you can see what advantage the re publicans will have. Evidently the sentiment, which was a little against the republicans right after the Chicago Convention, is drifting to wards the tariff plank in it more and more. I write this merely as a suggestion, knowing that you and Aldrich both like to get the views,of an outsider, who is a looker-on. Yours truly, G . W. Dodge . 283 July, 1888. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Western Associated Press, and the New York Associated Press; re presenting the Prominent Newspapers throughout the United States, Acting also for the Reuter, Kavas and Wolff Agencies of Europe, and the leading Journals of the British Provinces. General Offices : Chicago and New York: Cincinnati Office N .W .Cor.4th&Vine Sts. Rms.3 7 4 (P.O.Box 532) W. H. Chamberlin Agent. Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 1888. N'y dear General; Yours of the 16th with inclosure for "A Corporal's Story" is received, and P send you the book by this mail. The editor of the Century wrote me some months ago, that they were compelled to crowd my article out, in consequence of a purpose to shorten the war paper-s in the Century but that it would be printed in their book. "Battles & Leaders" which is now appearing in numbers, and which you doubtless see. They have not yet got to 1864. I do not yet see my way clear to being at Toledo ^ept. 13 My op^;ortunities for getting away at ail are limited, but I know I should keenly enjoy that reunion. Yours truly. W. H. Chamberlin. Gen. G. M. Dodge. V- - 235 July, 1888. Old School-mates of Gen. Dodge by Mr. Converse, July 20, 1888. Porter Dodge of Peabody inlisted in the 35th Mass Infantry was taken prisoner at the Battle of. Antetum and was shot dead on the dead line at Andersonville prison, After his enlistment his wife in herited 20,000 dollars by the death of an uncle in Cubajshe hired a substitute but when he reached the Reg. Porter was a prisoner and never knew of his wifes legacy. 1st Art 35th Infantry, 35th Infantry, 1st Infantry, , Nathan Walton - died in Andersonville. RicJiard Wheeler- Killed at Cold Harbor. George Bancroft- Killed at Cold Harbor. Robert Andrews,-Killed at the Wilderness. 2d Infantry, Co. G. William Andrews, Killed At South Mountain. "I'i <M- — 237 July, 1888. New York. July 21, 1888. W, T, Walters, Ksq, Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir:- I am gettinc ready to make my exchange of stock with the different Companies, and am all ready to .make the exchange with the Denver, Bexas and Gulf. I enclose you an agreement for pooling the stock together with a copy of a letter. I have submitted this Pooling Agreement to several of our largo btock-holders here, and they approve it; An who have seen it in Philadelphia also approve. The idea is to put cur stock wherea, few of us can handle the Road I wish you v;ould look this over care fully, and write me what you think about it. The Trastee certificate will pass road is doing well; improving in business signs fail, we .ill have all we can handl are getting betterrates. Have concluded Union Pacific, and if they were not such benefit from them, uur trouble h'S been Houston Texas Central people have be n up contract for coal, but have beei"x unable to of the inability of mines there to si pply tlie Stock iiix change, our steadily , and unless all e; especially of coal, we our agre erent with the cowards , would get a great South nend b^isiness. The to Colordo trying to accomplisli much, on account them. I have authority to make a contract of 10,000 tons a month at 1.15 but doubt if I can get it without going to oolorado. The Missouri Pa cific and the Rock Islands are going to eat up all the coal there. The first month(s earnings on joint business gave us "^33,000.00 Trinidad north, if ve had carried all that we were entitled to under the conti'act, tl.at is, one- alf of the to. nage, it would have given us ^45,000, but we were not able to carry a quarter; still we got our percentage off from what the other compc^nies kept. There is considerable kicking by peopl' who want distribu tion (f bonds. About three-quarters d" them want the bonds held in a body to sell. If I had the Denver " Ft. Worth up to where they belong, i could negotiate the Denver, Texas & Fort "'orth at 85, which would net 82.50. Our net earnings for May ©n Ft. worth & Dcnvei Cjty was ^37,000., which was very good cor. side ring. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. July, 1686. New York City, 1 Broadway, July 26th, 1888. Jaraes T. Howe, Esq., St. Louis, Mo.^ Dear Sir:- Referring to the agreement between the Des Moines Union Railway Company and the three other Companies, I have not returned it signed on account of the criticism made upon it by Gen. Swayne, In reading it, I did not like one or two clauses and tried to have them amended. Gen. Swayne took the agreement down to his country place, and has kept' it a long' time. I send you his criticism upon it, which is as follows:-- "My criticism on this agreement is short, sharp and decisive The whole agreement is radically and fundamentally wrong in that it 'divides its rental of terminal and depot privileges on a wheelage and not a numerical basis. Every other agreement of this kind that I ever saw, or that you (Gen. IMge) evrr saw provided for payment of rental numerically anong the parties thereto, Wheelage, from month to month, is fluctuating and too much so to enable it to form the basis of assessment or determination of a rental, upon the payment of which the interest on bonds is dependant. This agreement should provide that each company should pay a certain fixed proportion of this, which may be greater or less as in accordance with the strength in business of the Company, so that the amount of interest on the bonds is secured without any resort to arbitration, or the possiblity or privilege of such resort, which would have the effect of staving' off and delayinf^ payment of a portion of the rental beyond the time it would be needed to meet interest coupons. The maintenance account may then very properly be left dependant upon a wheelage basis. I am willing to take the agreement and, on its preamble, draw up what, in my opinion, would be a fair agret)ment for the conduct of the business therein specified, and submit it for approval, but I am not willing to in any way tinker with this, it being in my judgment too radically wrong to warrant such an expenditure of time. I myself ' argued for Judge Blodgett just such a case, where some road wanted to enter his depot on a wheelage basis, and we ot out an injunction to prevent it b-sed on just the above grounds. Judge Blodgett too will knows the danger a. d instability of a wheelage basis to use it in ;-n agreement as important as this. Judge Blodgett is now in Eurooe or I could se tie it with him iimnediately ^^lirope, and I T dislike to sign one with is his very objection. much opposed I am to opposed this agreement, to the sections in it thAt give the right to sell ti e stock; otherwise have no objection. I suppose Judge Blodgett drew this on our agreement at Des Moines to use a wheelage basis for everything. In trying to negotiate the bonds here, I findthat the crit icism is that there is no certainty of any payment of the interest. There is no guarantee, actually by any Company. The fact as, we are responsible for the i- 'erest, but do not receive the benefits we ougn to in the sale of the bonds. Let me hear from you in regard to this. '' r -'-^iery truly yours, G. M. Dodge." 241 July S9th 1888 Trinidad, Colorado, July 29th 1888. Gen'l G.M.Dodge, ? President. Ijear Sir; . . . I have yours of 26th in relation to line at Las "^egas. This matter has heen talked of for quite a while and I have met one or two from Las Vegas With Messrs. Jaffa & Ghappell of this place.They have the business in hand and at my suggestion propose to organize a local Co in connection with the Maxwell people. I have suggested this plan that the Ft. Worth may not be known in the transaction, unless you desire it, to obviate any question with the Santa Fe. This local Co. is to grade, bridge and perhaps tie, and then offer it to the Ft.V/orth to put on the steel and operate. I have prom ised if I can find the time to make reconnaissance and organise a party for I preliminary sur"vey.I will meet Mr .Pels and confer shortly. The Maxwell people should take some bonds,the Moro people have no money and will have to contribute lands. This will be a good line for the N Ft.Wobth. In my judgment Trinidad is the point where this road with Ft. Worth must make its money. It is legitimately our town. You have made it and should claim it. It is building up wonderfully and the Las Vegas line via Elizabethtown will secure and make tributary to this point an immense terri tory as yet undeveloped. The iron mines at Elizabethtovm are showing up good, and that ore must come here. But of all this the future will tell. Mr.Woods has not been with me since June 1st. I have been trying to economize and let every body go that I could possibly spare. I will see if I can get Woods, if not some one else, but must get through with my press ^ of work before ^ can do much in that direction. Jaffa understands this. If you have any suggestions in regard to this whold business, I should be glad to have your views and wishes, pri-vately and fully. These people seem anxious to have my advice and say they will do just as I say Please let me hear from you. I am yours truly N.R.Gitson. V":v;or i ' i ' : .u * j- ■ "v"-' V-.i ' / i ' *. i. ■ > <i" t, y.. '' ■; • / 111 . ..tii' . 'a : ■ . ^ . (I A'J'-. 1 'V.f > , "I jn.. . .1 ■ ;|'i . •■fti' , ; .-.ri / • J I . 'l? . -t'*. * ';■ ■ r/ i '"i j ' A; *!i ■i :-1^ j; - r../', ; ■aT'' kT*'.a tr ' • ^ i I ■liy.. ' -Jj i ■ I . ■ J "j : -h : ' ,1 ! , Ki ' ■ I r' ^ • ; V . t . ■• . '(f f V r:. I J JikjiiL.-. i ' 'iu. I t 'ltd 243 July 3Ist, 1888. Denver Colorado, July 3Ist, 1888. General G.M.Dodge, No. I Broadway, New York. Dear Sir: In regard to the demoralization of rates existing "between New York and Missouri River, I have thought it wise that we should not meet these rates without first conferrring with other lines and making an effort to reach some sort of an agreememt for the maintenance of rates, as all lines are watching our movememts, and would take occasion of our first cut to make a general "break, which could only result in a long period of demoral ization. There is every indication that the lines west of the river are trying to maintain their agreement with us in good faith, and some of them are trying to correct the difficulties existing east of the river, and should we cut the rate from New York to Colorado points, it would open the entire dituation to a general scramble. While we may lose some busi ness in taking this position, I deem it wise, cnsidering everything. We Kannot afford to have our line regarded as a wildcat institution, having no regard for the stability of rates; especially not, when we are trying to estableish a business with out connections. Indeed it appears to me, by holding steady at this time, it will hejp us in making favorable arrangments by making apparent our good faith towards agreememts we make. I have been in hopes the people east of the Mo. River would get together and come to an agreement, and t understand there is an effort being made to accomplish this result. When it is done, I believe we will have no trouble in getting business with our established differentials. If it is not done, I have given notice to the associated lines that we must come to some agreement that will put us on a parity with them and their eastern connections in the matter of rates. Yours respectfully, C. F. Meek. General Manager. August, 1888. New York. August 2, 18oS. G. P. Week, Psq., Gener;il 'knnager. Denver, '-Jolo, Dear 8ir;-- Referring to your letter of July 28th, I an willing to go into any agreement on branches as to the maintaining and paying interest upon them that is agreeable to the Rio Crcand, we rontrolling the poli cing of them and running them where we build them and tliey where they builf them. The branch going north from Trinidad we must control, because it might some day be a part of our main line. The Grey's Creek branch thht you speak of is entirely independent of the Ergleville. If you .vill look at the original contract you will see that I pay a certain round sum for everyt'^.ing between Trinidad and Pueblo, including Engleville. You know that we had that question gup and the distances showed 105^ mi les. Now, in putting in the Beshoar branch my understanding witli Smith was, to save cost of the third rail up to Engleviile. I wouid put in the Beshoar line arid be paid for it the same rate per mile I pay them, that is, it would deduct the pay on the same number of miles that the neshoar is from miy total mile age on their line, and would be a deduction of the amount that I pay them on the agreement, if they want to use it that way. The under standing was that t'ne business from it shc;uld go into the joint pool. Is t]ie Banta Clara branch that they are building to Cucharas broad gauge, an' can't wc get our proportion of the business over our other branches without paying interest on that12 miles. mile! 'Ve might might some day extend our line from Trinidad north along the base there to other coal mines, and tlie question is, burdened with that additional 12 miles of the busines! when built. without wliether we would want to be if we could get our proportion However, it is a matter settled Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. 247 Augsut, 1888. New York. August 5, 1888. Hon. V/. F. C ody. My dear Sir: - On my retiim.to the city my friend, Kr. Rierdstat sent me your kind remembrance'- . Ti takes me back a great many years , and later, to Omaha where in company with John Collins I visited the fair grcxinds of that city to see your first exhibition and pass judgment upon it. Since the, I have watched your and successes; you a?e a representative of those men, so often written about, and so little known. Men who from 1853 to 1874 were my guides, and whose judgmentI always followed, the ^vrf of the plains, Bridger, Reynolds, Palladay Gee, Adams, Fontenelle,- and last but not least, Lieut. Cody, these are the ones with whom I individm lly cam.e in contact. Y(!U have made history for them and for yourself, and I honor you for it. I have heard Sherman, Sheridan, Crook and Auger say many kind things of you and j^our work with them since -the war, but I knew most of these guides of the plains before the war; \fehen their personal courage saved many lives, at times when their acts and deeds would probably never be mentioned or known. North and his regiment of Indians was with me until I completed the Union Pacific Road. If there are any of them with you now, I should be glad to meet them. They were faithful soldiers and success fully flid their part in guarding that portion of the road that was alloted to them. If my duties will permit I shall go down and see you personally but if not please receive my thanlvs for your compli ment and talce the wish for the act. I am, truly your friend. G. M. Dodge. 249 August,1888, Ily deer "rs. Sheridan: New York. August 7, 1686, I received the sad news of General Sheridan's death today, and it ccms after al3. so unexpectedly that I hardly know what to say or do in the immediate presence of your great bereavement; and the nation's loss . I v;as closely corr ected with Gen.. Sheridan at the beginning of the war, and tested his sterling friendship ere he was l:nown to fame. That friendship, cemented by mutual labors, sufferings and aspirations in a common cause, continually grew in strength and fervor with the passing years not only in military life but after I had returned to civil pursuits. To us who knew him in the two-fold character of the soldier and the genial, happj?- man, the blow comes with double force. To you and liis dearest ones I could offer such words of cheer as comes from a heart that loved him; m.y sincere sympathy goes out to you in your grief . No matter where I turn I see a loyal nation mourning for him. Sincerely your friend, G. M. Dodge. August I7th 1888. 251 Denver Colorado, August I7th 1888. Gpn'l G.M.Dodge, President. Pear Sir: I have your two letters of 7th and of ISth.I have just returned from a trip to las Vegas, having rode and tramped over some 22o miles of line. Will have to make another trip to country above Elizabeth town before begin ning survey and making report.Referring to line from here to connection with Chicosa branch, I can fully satisfied the grading alone on Trinidad line will not enable you to bond the Chicosa branch. Track would have to be laid and connected with Chicosa branch, wfhen ^both could be bonded. t sent you about June I2th a statement of all rails, angle bars. bolts, spikes, etc., received and expended. This will show you fully amounts delivered to Grover,Bissell and used elsewhere Some two weeks since Mr.Grover returned us at Pueblo fifty (5o) kegs of spikes, and I expect Mr. Meek will arrange to supply a fev/ rails to make connection with D.&.R.G. over Fountain bridge. I am yours truly. N.R.Gibson. 253 August I8th, 1888. Denver Colorado, Aug. I8th,l888, General G.M.Dodge, No I Broadway, New York,N.Y. Dear Sir:- C.W.Merchant,our Live Stock Agent at Amorilla, is authority for thJ information, that the Southern Kansas has made a deal with the people of Amorilla and the Amorilla Town Site Co. for the extension of their lifie from the Panhandle City to Amorilla the coming season. He says the deal is confidential for the present hut that it has heen made, and the Santa Fe have agredd to have their track into Amorilla within 9 months. The arran gement provides that one-half the townsite of Amorilla shall be given to the Santa Fe Co. We are giving the Santa Fe live stock from nearly 260 miles of raad and I think you should impress upon Mr. Strong the fact that in event they go to Amorilla, they cannot expect to get this business from us. The bus iness which v.e will geive the Southern Kansas at Panhandle City will in crease constantly, and will amount to a great many times more to thdir Company than anything they will get by the extnesion of this line for a short distance. Yours respectfully, C.F.Meek. General Manager. 255 August, 1888 Nouqultt, Mass., August 25, 1888, My deat General; Mrs. Sheridan desires me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of August 7th expressing so much sympathy in the great loss she has recently suffered by the death of her husband. It is very gratifying to her to know that you were one of qais personal friends, and her grief is partly assuaged by the assurance that you feel so deeply for his family in their great distress. M. V. Sheridan. Gen. G. M. Bodge, No. 1 Broadway, N. Y. ' ' ■* •, yt' - • 4*.. >■ > . .. 'f'i -• f,. ' * August, 1888, 5th Ave. Hotel, New York, Aug. 27, 1888 Dear Genl. Dodge: I am glad you are going to take your daughter and friend to Toledo. I cannot go on Monday. My new house makes it highly in convenient to go at all, but 1 shall drop all engagements and go out by the Chicago Limited .Tuesday morning, Sept. 4, arriving at Toledo at night, get to the jfioody House in tiiae for three or foiar hours sleep as much as I need. I shall surely, if alive, be there on time. Please go as you propose Monday evening, leaving me alone Tuesday for I assure you that nothing taxes me so much cs to talk in the rattle of a Railroad car in full headway. I move into my new house, 75 Aest 71st St., Saturday, Sept.l, and will start thence Tuesday, Sept. 4, by the Chicago Limited, New York Central at 9 a.m. arriving at Toledo Sept. 5 at 3 a. m. I think it is a bigger job to manage .a family of four females than an army of a hundred thousand men. Truly your friend, W. T. Sherman. September, 1888. Chzmonix, Septr. 9th, 1888 Dear Gren: I do not remember from what point I wrote you. We came through the Black forest from Baden Baden to Schaffhousen and spent one day at the falls of the Rhine which of course are tame by the side of Niagria but they have a way of illuminating them at night in differ ent colors which made them look very beautiful fromi the hotel (Schwerperhaf Hotel at Newhausen). Then we went to Zurich and spent a day or two then to Lucerne where we spent three days, the weather being cold and cloudy.Instead of continuing on to Interlarken and Geneva, I decided to change my route and go over the St. Gothard R. R. to the • Italian Lakes to see if we could not find sunshine and warm weather. It was a beautiful day when we■crossed the nountains and having seats i^i an observation car we took it in so far as a R. R. trip will per mit. We stpped at Lugarno over night and took a Sta boat ride on that lake and on Como. Stopping at Bellagio we had a splendid view of Lake Como from the Gardne and Grounds at top of the hill (^•illa Serbellonc), from Como we crossed over to Lake Maggorie and staid two or three days at Pallanya, visiting the Borromcan Islands. On the 1st Sept. we left Italy and came over into Switzerland via the Simiplon pass by Deligence. We ha d a delightful ride and weather favorable for taking in the scenery on the Italian side but when we got to the top, about at Napeoleon Hot the weather which had been threatening changed and enveloped us in a snow storm and we missed the view fron. this side and descended for an hour or so in the storm when it became dark and rainy. That Simplon Gass road is one of the most wonderful carriage roads I have seen. I am told it was built by Napoleon in 1800 to 1806 and there were 30,000 men employed in constructing it. *e spent Sunday at Grigg in the Rhone Valley and Nonday went down 5 m. to Nisp by rail. Thence by mules to St, Nicolus, there we took carriage for 3 l/2 hours to Zermatt. Then mules again for the Riffel alp Hotel over 7000 ft. up right under the shadow of the Latterhord. The snow mountains all about us and the Glaciers reaching far down the valley below us. Here we visited the Findland Glacier and climbed 3000 feet farther up to top of Govner Gvat, 10260 feet from which one has a magnificent fiew of Mt. Rosa, BreithoraMatterhorn, etc. whose peaks were still over 3000 ft. above us. .Mt. Rosa and the other peaks around to Iviatterhorn were so close to us we could see the relief buts on their sides, only the Glaciers in the valleys intervenied. From Zermatt we came back to Rhone valley and here to Ghamont: vhich is one of the good points from which to visit GlaCiers. We cross ed Glacier Du Bosoous yesterday and tomorrow will take in the I»lsre de glace and two mountdhs which give a panoramic view of the Mt. Blanc Group day after we go to Geneva and work our way back to Lucerne, expect ing to go from there direct to Parci about 24th Sept. 262 You see we have been on the go all the time impossible to do otherwise where there is so much to see that is interesting and new. I an. feeling well, ca.l^hdt sleep as many hours as I did on ocean and in country towns of 'England but Carrie and I can take a tramp up and down a mountain of 3 or 4 hours and not get used up. I have not heard from my family since 10th Aug. but hope all goes well at home. At Geneva I expect to get some letters but it is not probable I shall received any mail that has been sent to me care Munroe «Sc Co., Paris until I reach there. It has been a' cold and wet seasons throughout Great Britian and western Europe and farmers have not been able to save their hJay and grain except in a damaged condition. I.should think it would effect prices of breadstuffs in America favorably. Yours, N. P. D. '. .': . v:; ■ '» ' ' ''■v. - ' ' ♦ 4 I* ' 4 r- ■ ' • •' . ' it . ■ ' 'J . • ■ ••• ' . 1 ► ' r t ' ' **' u -r -f. , - ' ' ■ ■ -V- *"''i _ „ ' Sept., 1858. Chicago, Septeiriber 8, 1888 . J. 8. Coleman, Esq., Ucm'r. street Cleaning, New York City. uear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of Sept. 3rd forwarded to me by Mr. Granger. it doesn't seem hardly necessary for me to answer such a letter, as there is not a statement in it, so far as 1 have knowledge, that is the fact, and 1 would pay no attention to it were it not for our long acquaintance. In your con tracts we knew Mr. Adamson only as on of yoeir firm, if he ever represented himself as our agent it was without our knowledge, anu he never had : anything from me or the company that would give him the shadow of authority to act so. we were notified and al ways understood he was a full partner with the sane rights the others had. at any rate, it was so reported to us and to all our employees, and he always acted as such. The settlement of your contracts was made with the engineers in Texas, and no objection was made to them, when Mr. w shburn was killed, your firm sent Mr. Adamson down t ere to take charge and settle up. At any rate, those are the representations made to me. i was never notified differently in ang wa-, shape or manner, nor that Mr. Adamson as your jpartner had not the same rights as you or anyone else connected with the firm, and x had no knowledge of the firm's affairs. If you have any different idea from this you want to dis abuse your mind of it. i assure you no matter what represenatations hnve been made to you, there is not a shadow of truth in the charges you make in your letter; and you nor :nyone else ever heard from'^me or anyone about me, anything to bose such beliefs or charges upon. ' i never head of them until about a year ago, and I called Mr. Ad-'mson s attention to it and he, in the most positive manner denied h ?! represented , stated, hinted, or in any way conveyed a v that he in any way represented anyone but him elf and the firm. It is very singular, knowing me as well as you did, that about it. Anyone connec'.ed with me woula have told you that thero was not a word of trxith in it. I am. Very truly yours. G, M. Dodge. 265 1888, Sept. Letters, etc. used in Speech by G. M. Dodge Before Army of the Tennessee, Sept. 1888. They and their subordinates were determined to build a first class road. To place this fact beyond question, I will read to you from a letter of the i'resident, touching a question which had arisen of aaving money to the detriment of the line. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 20 Nassau Street, New York, Jan, 15th, 1869, General G. Ni, Dodge ^ Dear Sir; J have your favor of to-day and most heartily sympath ize with you in your indignation at the course of Durant. I have tele graphed .as you suggested that no alterations be made in tbe line of Road as finally located and have also written Durant a letter encloshim a copy of the instructions of Browning, I think he will do what he can to remedy any changes he has made in line. Durant has been as furious in his demonstrations as any one well could be generally but has Hill now made no important changes in your line, I think we may find when the committee get out there that the changes may not be as radical as you now suppose, I know that Durant has wanted to take the full charge of the line and have it run to suit his notions which are to con form the line to the surface of the country with grades and curves up to the limit of the Law, but the strong support which your line has re ceived from our Board has prevented changes. I hope you will feel that though the Dr. may want power and exercises it without judgment frequently yet the Board of Directors are strongly your friends and I hope you will not let your feelings against Durant lead you into any demonstrations against the road. We would like to place you in some position on our road where we could have your influence in the govern ment of the road after it is completed. If you will write to Blickensderfer- to let the location conform as nearly as possible to old location and-these changes that Dr, has made to save time and get ahead of the Central we will change hereafter - but now we better let the changes be accepted where the line is not radically bad. Yours.Truly, Oliver Ames, Predt, Another private letter lets in a side-light upon the exhaus ted financial condition of the company at the time the connection of the two roads was effected, which is instructive as well as interesting at the present day. N. Easton, May 11th, 1869, Gen, G, M, Dodge; Dear Sir:- I wrote you this A, M, in regard to the state of our affairs here. We have raised money quite as liberally as we expected and paid up an immense amount of bills but there seems to be no end to the demand for money on line of road, and we are exhausting the means ;2&6 of all our friends to help along the road. I hear nothing from Duff or Dillon since they have been out there. We have written them fre quently to get some reliable information as.to.how the funds of the Company were being spent and what amount is wanted to get the road run ning smoothly, but we have yet been unable to find out anything reli able. Dillon telegraphs he wants $500,000 at once, you telegraph you want $500,000, and Duff telegraphs he wants $100,000 and Snyder will take all we can raise. A'e do not really know what is wanted nor where it is going. If we could see plainly just what is wanted we could go to work with more certainty of reaching a result. As it now is we are just as much in the dark as we were be fore the committee went out. Snyder in consenting to these large orders by hrost has neglected that close supervision that his duty re quired, and should not have allowed. I wish you would report.to us as we have no hope of getting letters from Duff or Dillon descriptive of the state of the road. The bridge we hear nothing from yet. If we press this we must get money I think by a separate organization and we ought to have a bridge imir.ediately if we have a big travel. Yours truly, Oliver Ames, Prest. P. S. We expected to get a telegraph from you when the last spike was driven that the principal office of the Company might know that the road was connected. We this P. . too late to get it into the evening papers have a telegram from you, signed Dodge, Duff, DiHon and Durant, saying the work is done. It would have been just as well here for Duff to have brought it here in his pocket. 0. Ames, Pres't. About a week later he wrote me very much more fully, and said:- I am so thoroughly sick of my connection with the road that I propose to get out of it just as soon as I possibly can. If I could go out to-day I should be a happier man." I have plenty of evidence to sustain this beyond question. The President, Oliver Ames, and the ^oard of Directors sustained the Engineers in building a road of the lowest grades and lightest cur vature, the country would admit. When some of those interested desir ed to use the macimum authorized by law and the Board invariably stood by for the lines of the Engineers, those offering greatest commercial value. The instructions given ne by Oliver Ames and Diciney Dillon, one at the head of the Gon.pany, and tlie other at the head of the Con struction Compnay, were invariably to obtain the best line the country afforded, regardless of the expense. Oakes Ames once wrote to me when it seemed impossible to raise money to meet our expenditures. Go ahead. The work shall not stop if it takes the shovel shop.'' The Ameses were manufactures of shovels and tools and their fortunes were invested in that business; and, as we all know, the shovel shop went. When the day came that the business of the Amesesshould go or the Union Pacific, Oakes Ames said:- "Save the credit of the road- I will fail." It took a man of courage and patriotism to make that decis ion and lay down a reputation and busineso credit that was invaluable in New England and one that had come down through almost a century. To him it was worse than death; and it was the blow which, followed by others, put him in his grave. 1888, Sept. Extracts of Letters, etc. used in Speech by G, Ni. Dodge Before Army of the Tennessee, September, 1888. To emphasize these observations, permit me to quote a brace •of paragraphs from a letter dated Jan. 6, 1859, addressed to Hon. John Sherman, C., and made public through the National Intelligencer. It was from his brother, then unknown to fame, and is even yet one of the most remarkably instructive short papers to be found in the liter ature of trans-continental railway construction. He gave many weighty reasons why a railway to the Pacific should be built, but thought it could not be done unless done by the nation. "It is a work of giants," he sententieusly declares, "and Uncle Sam in the only giant I know who can or should grapple the subject." That paper alone, in the light of later events, would stamp its author as a far-seeing states man and an enlightened engineer, notwithstanding the following rather pessimistic declarations: "It so hapijens that for the past ten years the Sierra Nevada has been crossed at every possible point by miners in search of gold, by emigrants going andcoming, and by skillful and scientific men. I, myself, have been along a great part of that range, and have no hesi tation in saying that there are no passes by which a railway, to be travelled by the most powerful locomotion now in use, can be carried through the Sierra Nevada, xinless at the extreme head of the Sacremento, near the town of Shasta or Fort Reading, or at the extreme head of the San Joaquin, near the Tejon."- "I now assert my belief that the great railroad; will not re ceive enough net profits to pay interest on its cost. Yet I will not attempt an estimate of either the cost of the road or its income. I believe the cost ill not fall much, if any short of ^200,000,000, the interest of which (Government bonds, say five per cent per annum) would be :Jl0,000,000," Less than ten years before. Gen. Sherman lad suggested a different method of disposing of the Indian. '^'riting to his brother he said: "No particular danger need be apprehended from Indians. They will no doubt pilfer and rob, and may occasionally attack and kill stragglers; but the grading of the road will require strong parties, capable of defending themselves; and the supplies for the road and maintenance of the workmen will be carried in large trains of wagons, such as went last year to Salt Lake, none of which were molested by Indians. So large a number of workmen distributed along the line will introduce enough whiskey to Kill off all the Indians within 300 miles of the road." 23d, 1868. The deviations of the route from the straight line, are as follows:- Straight line from Omaha to head of Oalt Lake, . < Line of Railroad from Omaha to head of Salt Lake, Line of Railroad from Omalia to Ogden Cit-y Straight line from Omaha to Cheyenne Railroad from Omaha to Cheyenne S^traight line fron. Cheyenne to Green River Railroad from Cheyenne to Green River Straight line from Green River to head of Salt Lake Railroad from Green River to head of Salt Lake. 885 Miles. 1118.7916 " 1031.8584 " 475 517.919 250 329.76 156 186.828 Miles If All the rail-road line between Omaha and head of Salt Lake is south of the straight line, except the part from Omaha to Loup Fork, 90 miles, and from Medicine Bow River to North Platte (River), 40 miles; altogether, 130 miles. The points v/hich are at the greatest distance south of the straight line are, first, in the Platte Valley, west of Port Kearney, where the road is 40 miles south; second, in the Black Hills, near Dale Creek, where it is about 50 miles south, and again at the head of the Muddy Fork, on the "rim" of the Salt Lake basin, where it is about 45 miles south. The entire location is between the 41st. and 42nd. parallels, except 120 miles in the bend of the Platte, which lies between the 40th and 41st. parallels. 'vt> 'V" ' J . * , ■ 1-. I October,1888. RW,".' ■ 269 York. Remarks of General Sherman on a rnotionx'to retu. n a vote of thanks to General Dodge for his paper read before the Societj' of the Army of the Tennnessee at Toledo, the 5th day of September, last. General Sherman said:--"This paper I regard as one of the most valuab"e which has ever been read before our Society. The state ments that it contains I know of my own knowledge to be true and veritable. The Union Pacific Road could not have been built, at least the time it was built but for the force v/hich the Aiwny had educated and prepared to execute this work, and I recollect th.at I myself ordered two regiments of infantry and two regiments of cavalry into such positions as would guard the working forces on this road, regarding as I did then, an d ever have since as the most important National work which has been consummated since the close of the war. The men were engaged in it as General Dodge has remarked, were vilified and traduced, but history will eventually do them justice and give them credit for the great work which they executed." 10/10/88 Dear General: Above I hand you Gen. Fuller's recollection of the siibstance of what you said. No doubt it is sufficient to recall to your mind all -ou said, which please send to me as soon as you can conveniently do so, and greatly oblige. Yours very truly. N. E . Dawson, Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, 75 17. 71st st.,r:.Y. Gen, Dodge has Just returned from the West. ' f.J Septeniber, 1888. UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C. Sept. 23, 1888/ Sunday morning. My dear Mr. Dodge: After reading part of your recent paper before the •^rmy of the Tennessee at its last reunion, I said to myself I am glad that I know General Dodge. If you have this valuable paper in its entirety, I should so much value a copy of it. Respectfully yours, Joseph S. Morgan. Gen'l G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York City. - \ if* . Jj' W "m • • • , . ♦ ,-i- •* '.M A.r- ^ aV" • p.V; ;v4;;2; - October, 1888. October 17, 1888. New York. Ron. John Evans, '"'Mi '' • \ Denver, Col. Dear Governor: In about two weeks we will have our pooling certificate out and ^ want to have it distributed on the D. P. & G. ■ To do this we must make a deposit of so much of the stock as is signed with the Mercantile Trust Go. As soon as it is out I can make a deposit of four or five millions of signed stock, v.hich will give us a chance to get our certificates listed and put on the market. I propose to list the certificates and not the stock. Wont you have yoi.ir people give this attention? I'c'e now have in all the stock of the Ft. W. ^ D. C. except, I think about six thousand shares. Their total stock is nine millions and as near as 1 can tell there wi_l not be over 6000 shares out. I succeeded in getting in two millions' of it yesterday that was on the street, thus making it pretty clean, and I think on that showing we can drop that stock out as soon as we get the trust certificates. The directors passed a resolution proposing some day to abandon the Rio Grande, which enables us to issue :||:15,000 on the main line between Pueblo and Trinidad. That is a matter we had better say nothing about. It is done so that, under Wells* opinion, wherever we build branches or main line, we can issue a main-line bond. Yours truly, G. . Dodge . October, 1888. Headquarters REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, No. 91 Fifth Avenue, New York, Oct. 17th, 1888. Dear General; I am not able to go down town.today and see the gentlemen we talked about. A diarrhea has put me on my back for the day. Can you not see them and get their views and wishes? Couid you not see Mr. Pullman and talk with him. He is a power to help. Mr. Quay is anxious that he should ask Run to come on here for a day. He can help us with the other interest of which I spoke to you last night. Hastily, J. S. ^larkson. I' v., - 277 October, 1888. Mr. Genl, G. M. Dodge, Omaha, Oct. 20th, 1888. You are cordially invited to participate in the opening of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Wagon Bridge Oct. 30th, 1888. A splendid Stage Coach and team will be kindly provided by James Stephenson for the party to join in the Trades Procession. E. F. Hooker S. S. Stevens. James Stephenson. Kindly give notice of your acceptance. Below are the names of those who are invited to participate and to occupy the Coach on this occasion: James Stephenson, Col. E. F. Hooker S. S. Stevens, M. C. Keith M. W. Claire Capt. W, "V, Marsh Capt. C. B. Rustin, Jerome WcClintock Frank Murphy Harry Deuel Joseph Sheppard, W. H. Quick A. Kimball W. B. Strong E. M. Morsman Capt. N. T. Spoor H. C. Nutt E. R. Bullens, W. J. Maxwell Webster Snyder Gen. G. M. Dodge. S. H. H. Clark i:' m October, 1888. Headquarters REPUBLICAN NATIONAL GOr/MITTEE, 91 Fifth Avenue, N. Y Oct. 20, 1888. Dear Genera}.: Mr. Miller is here and I want you to see him. He starts today to Indianaoplis at 3 o'clock. He will remain here to see you. 4— '-r E80 Headquarters, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMiVITTEE, 91 Fifth Ay.enue, New York. Oct. 20, 1888 Dear Generd.: I have your note. The man who has ^een West is coming to see me in ten minutes. I will answer your note and send by special messenger as oon as I have seen him. But I am sure this matter will not be arranged until you and I take hold of it and put it through. The pre^ifei^l way Is to find definitely what these people want and what they will do and then submit it and get it accepted. You will hear from me soon. J. S. 0. > ■> ■ . -» . t , .I'■ October, 1888. 281 Nev/ York. Uctober 1888, C. F. Meek, General Manager, Dear Sir*-- Denver, Colo. Tlicre i; a very stronr; criticism made here on the aar'nin^js as shown by the F. 6: D. Q. the T. & k. w. and the D. T. G. Take the month of September and the D. & N. 'V. with tv/ice the distance, earns less t an the D. T. & G. v/hilst it has joint earnings on about equal mileage of the D. T. ,*•: G. in addition,. " There is certainly something v/rongabout this. There appears to be piling up to the u. T. & G. the benefits of the South line, and I fear it is'in the percentages and that you have no protected the u. T. & k. "J. Then again, 1.don't know what percentages yoii are charging the D. & G. for their Pueblo rights, which are all owned by the u. T. F. W. Then again, the net or the u. He F. W. which is a new road, is less than the net of the D. T. & G< which is the old road. As I unde sland it, nothing passes Pueblo that the D. & F, Y. don't get 50^-, on; whatever percentage there is less than th'^t is all due to the coun ry between Pueblo and uenver; and, if I remember rightly, you have never charged up the percentages due the u. T. & F. "V. for the privileges it accords in Pueblo, which have cost the D. . & F. W. a great deal of money. These matters are very carefully and thoroughly criticised here by people who own the stock, and I am unable to explain them. Please talk this up with Yr. wheeler and let us see what the exact st-tus of the matter is. very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. 283 October, 1888, Fred L. Ames, Esq., Bo! ton, Mass. Dear Sir: - The New York Time morning that, on November of the Missouri Pacific, Mr. Pearsall irrmediately of people slopping over o no buyers. Today matters This nearly fills up our it, as I do not want to are on t' c five per-cents New York. October,'27th, 1888. s had a telegram from Pueblo B'riday 1st, our road would go into the hands which frightened people here and, although denied it authoritatively, it had the effect n to us 100 or ore, of our bonds, and with look better, as good buyers hcv e come in. pool, and I believe v;e had better increase ave the bonds go off while these people A man left today for London who has been here two weeks examining matters thoroughly. He has taken back with him letters from Judge Dillon showing our legal status throughout, and he was well p"eased. The earnings on our middle division are showing our interest an 1 a little more. Carl Pollitz, who is examining the road for the German Banks who b ougiit our bonds so long ago but .id not take them is now in Colorado, and has been on the road"a week giving it care ful examination in detail. I do not see how he can make ang'thing but a good report, as our business is fine now. I enclose you copy of letter received from General Manager Meek today. I have been prodding him, up and writing there about tficir expenses, and about working for business--you can see what he says. October car reports show a very heavy increase, nearly 60^ . Our eaj'nings for September were only about ""lys.OOO. estimated, but they write that the actual will probably be from lOr to 15;^ more, which, takinr into consideration the vellow fever scaie, will be very favorable if it comes up to that. " It seems to me that these Boston peopt who are invest ing thcr money could not do better than to put it in our six oer cents. During all this Atchlson and Missouri Pacific deoression IJonnflv country, and it has caused Of a It. continual .0 are dripping.of in the South bonds. weo?crrA rreat many people who had our bonds around Boston, and a few of them and in t at way we got a great many on the do^n market, to protLrtheir stock-' got it.^ you copy of pur earnings sheet as far as we have Let me hewr from you on this. Very truly yours, G. M, Dodge. 285 Octbber, 1888. C. R. Cadle, Jr., New York. October'27th, 1888. Blockton, Alabama. " Dear Cadle:- I have a f;reat many Ic tens from Ransom parts of one or two of which I will send you, written after the battle of Pittsburgh Landing. I first knew Ransom v.'hen I became a cadet at ^Corwich University in the year 1849. We were thrown into the same class, and from our first acqiaintance became close friends; and our friend- 'ship lasted linbroken until his death. Ransom was always the same; as ture as steel to any one he liled. Thei-e was nothing too much for him to do for his friends. Of an enemyhe said very little, but always aboided him. He never desired any controversy with aiiy one, but was the most' particular and most careful man about his honor and integrity, that- I ever met. Even in his early boyhood, if anj' boy or girl or any one else, ever inpugned im, directly or indirectly,, he'resented it immediately. No matter where, or under wbat circumstances, or what the danger, if a comrade was in troiible Ransom would jump in to help While at the University we often had hard fights with Hanover, Middlebury and other places, and while we were largely in the minority, and while some of our boys ..ould run and get out of the fight. Ransom never did. , • Ransom went West on graduating, to visit his uncle, George W. Gilson at Peru, Ills. 'Afhile there he wrote me to. join him, which I did. his brother Dunbar was with us, and if I remember rightly we lived together in the same house for over a year, until I left to follow my profession. W' ile at Norwich, Vt., for the br adking of the rules in run ning the guard and going to a dance, most of our cln5 s were -^ent to Lewtary vt, ac a punlrhmertt durlnc the vacation. Itwlfa iaSe ticthodist school, and while there we wore our uniforms, we were abooed and often insulted bg the students there, but being on our 'ood behavior and taking advice of the President of ihe school^ who Te.aa, annhHe°ir or six strappincblg followr rarip S™ tanoJd out ?b„ the fellows " who had pitched into us. We =>11 were »hded all flnrhnv^iS 1? and whinoedo ^ fencers and understood standlr,,: tocether and defendlnc oursel^r.^^ . i .. got back to back in that fight on our way to church that Sunday and we laid out the crowd. Of course we all thought we would' be" sent awny, bu' it GO happened that a Miss Chase, one of the Principals of the school saw the whole thing, and when vie were called up she appeared as our defender, ar.d the resuQt was that the President of the school, instead of dismissing us, complimented us on our behavior under the provocatioxi. That was a time when a comrade was attac];ed, ard the only on in Ransom's life, that he hesitated about coming to the rescue as he always told me. At the time we were at Peru, there were riots along the ills. Central Railroad, which was tlien in process of building, and we manned a couple pieces of artillery that were al. Peru and went over to aid in nutting down the riots, and, I tliinl^, stayed there about a week to ■ keep the peace. We were looked upon as "Regulars" and we had more influence in effecting that object, and the immense number of workmen had more respect for us than for the militia companie's that came from other points. We carried th<re the drill and discipline that we had learned at the University, and of course were much better drilled an' had finer discipline in the Company. ally T, but V, he was ^ alwyas Ransom in communication at Peru, I never with saw me, much and I of hold him a perso larme n- •i.A ^ number of letters from him, written after I entered the war, for fverv^^ im, he saw I had been in a conflict, no matter how small or larre he would always write me. He was always anxibus to get with me ' finJllv^fSi application to that end, and as vou kniw. River LpWUi on? on" the Red corps .hcn'he u'?hrco'n™! for some time incapacitated e for firiH owing to a wound which taking care of the Corns durinrn m. - service. It was anxiety in on his death. After he ooko to the Me brought It, an' he had great desire to .-et' nto thoughts were for he used to ray/"What .0 can L"wSen tocMhe"!"'''''' of anjr man l'^ever'laS?°'^He''rosLbled^hlUr"tf '=°™"ndlng as that been told that his disposition 'hnhi+ ^ ^ I have in the line of his fa tS^s i know closely f by Grant, Sherman, fTcPh;;son and thought^ tact with. I have heard Crant sneak n-F if °+f he came in conGen. oherman and -cPherson, and the records again, as also thought Of him in their asking.for his p^omotionr"'^^ ->econd my personal Division appliL^on. of tk.e 16th I^Ld^aLed^for Corns nnri t J lake command of the ^ -ore happy „an than Raneo. was when he report°ed'"Se'.' Hrhal'been Cadle -2- in a good n.any battle; had be. n wounded two or three times and felt that he had been rather unfortunate, but thought ti.at when he got into the Atlanta camapign he would have great opportunity. Ransom was a natural born soldier. I trust you will not fail to furnish me with a full transcript of your remarks on the occasion you mention. Yours truly, G . IV!. Dodge ' k ^ ,■ .'tf »*' " V ■,Vt 289 Octdoer, 1888, Manilla, Iowa, Oct. 29th, 1888. Dear Gren: I am on my return home from Mapleton where I have been to spend Sunday with mother. Found her Saturday eve dressed and lying on the lounge, quiet from the influence of opiixm but more rational than she has been for months. She talked with me about being very sick, feeling weaker and more sick than ever before. Suffering as she was from a cold on her lungs which keeps her coughing, a loose cough showing the collection of phelgm in the lungs which feels sore and her mouth and tongue are quite sore. She has not taken any solid food for a week, has no appetibe but they coax her to take a few spoonfuls of wine, oatmeal gruel etc. several times a day and this is all the nourishment she takes and is gradually growing wea..er. Her appetite commenced to fail about two weeks ago. Then she would be on her feet all day and was difficult to control. Now she carmot walk across the room alone and seems to swallow even fluids with some difficulty. This is occasioned by her mouth being sore and dry I think. Saturday night she talked to me about dying seemed to have a great fear of death and they t611 me she has always expressed such fear during her sickness. I encouraged her what I could. She thinks she is dying a dozen times a day. In this respect she is like her father who olten in his last sickness would say at night he should not live until morning. It is a part of the nervous disease with which she is afflicted. Saturday night she rested well with the help of morphine but Sunday afternoon she grew very nervous and the condition of night before was completely changed. She thought the soreness in back and lungs was caused by a severe beating she had received and ta|ced of it incessantly and wanted me to find out sho had beat her. She finally settled down on one of the family as the one and then she began to plead and beg me to take her away. She clung to me all the afternoon like a frightened child, held my hands, put her arm around me, kissed me all to get me to take her home to her father so she would not have to stay there another night. At night a half of a grain of morphine quieted her and she slept through the night and was not dressed and on the lounge until between 9 and 10 this morning. Before leaving I went in and sat with her awhile and she was quiet, dozing off and on, begging of me to stay with her. The impressinns and prejudices are but temporary except her desire to go home to her father and mother. Whenmt controlled by morphine her nervousness asserts itself and she shovvs strength and vitality that indicate she may last for some weeks unless the lung trouble should develop into pneumonia. I intend to go up again next Saturday if she is alive then. Very truly. N. P. Dodge October, 1888 THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB Tuesday Evening, Oct. 30, 1888, My dear General: Genl. Dudley and I came up liere to the Union league Club to have a conference with you on several important matters. We were told at the door where you had gone, so have re turned to send a note asking if we shall be able to see you anywhere tonight. We will wait here.for your answer. The Natl. Com. and the. Finance and Advisory Com. both formally requested me to-day to take entire charge as to seeing the two men we talked about last night. I have full power to act. and full authority to make pledges. It is in good shape now. The two men know I am their friend and that they can rely on me. I want to confer with you as to how to proceed. J. S. c. The Ass'd Press dispatches say to-night that Clarkson has asked Englow to recall lest. 293 October, 1888. Tuesday luorning, Oct. 30, 1888, Dear General: We have reached Down through the newspaper gentleman who was with us when you called last night. He is willing to use the matter, and have it come in a cable, if we can convince him of the reliability of our information, or rather of our informant. Would you be willing to see him, and convince him of the reliability, and would you, under his solemn pledge of honor, give him the name. He is extremely anxious to use it, says it would insure our success No time is to be lost. What do you say? J. S. C. Have you heard from the two other men, one of whom you were to see, and the other you were going to telegraph. J• . \ V j- V.-i 2S5 October, 1888 Headquarters REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, No. 91 Fifth Ave. Officers. Chairman; M. S. Quay, Vice-chairman: J. S. Clarkson, Treasurer; W. W. Dudley. Secretay: J» Fassett. Executive Committee. John C. New J. S. Clarkson A. L. Conger, Garret A. Hobart Samuel Fessenden, George R. Davis J. Manchester Haynes, M. H. de Young Wm. Cassius Goodike Ex Officio M. S. Quay, W, W. Dudley J. S. Fassett. New York, Oct. 30, 1888 Dear General: .1 have your two letters, one enclosing a ^500 check and the other telling of the news you have. It is certainly true that the Democrats have some new courage today, but we are sure it comes from their faith in some per fected scheme for stealing. We expect to know by tomorrow morning what the new scheme is. I hope you may be able to see the man in New York. I believe if he knew he could have the guaranty I spoke of, he would help and you are the man to convince him. He is timid but it can be arranged so that no one but you. Quay, and,I shall know of it^ I also hope the Boston man may come. Do you know whether any of the people you know who help Richard Crowley the Republican nominee for Congress in the Niagara Dist. -Of this State. He is a strong man and will appreciate help and he can be wired. 297 . November, 1888, N. Y. , Nov. 2d, 1888, Dear General: I was sorry to ha^e missed you but I was out raising money and had good success. We have nothing really discouraging and have so much that is reassuring which I cannot mention here that ..we are more confident than ever. J. S . G . ■ 4. ' '. ■ ' ''i \ ' i ■ t '■ X ' . 4.' November, 18c8. 289 Ilcvember 2rd, 1888. New YoJ'k, '.'essrs. Thos. Branch & Co., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:- I am in receipt of yours of November, 1st. Mr Carl Polliz has just returned from an examination of our road for the Berlin Banks, ard I understand that he is verj'- much pleased with tlie property. J- have not seen him yet and I on ly know this from what others have told of whathe has said to them, we are waiting; for their decision. There is also an ii;nglish par-ty now who want the bonds, but there is a growing disposi tion among some of the stock-holders to distribute the bonds on our earnings. Mr. Meek v/ires that our earnings for uctober will be 023O,OOO"Dr more and that for November they will run upto ^300,000. I send you a copy of a letter he wrote me in relation to matter out tliere. we have also lately made some very favorable arrangements for business. The line clear tVirough is showing to earn its interest on each division. There is a great desire among the large stockholders to have our bonds plw ced in Bunpe, and not distribsited and put on to thir market, j. shall distribute my stock just as soon as the Mercantile Trust Co.,can get the certificates to issue. They are in the engravers hands, but they are very slow. I send you copy of our earnings, statement up to date with the October earnings estimated, -^nd the net as far as we have got them. The September earnings they write us will probably be increased to about "*200, 00. Our' net earnings are generally two or three months behind on account of difficulty in obtaining joint track earnings. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. President, November, 1888. WAR DEPARTMENT, Quartermaster General's Office, Washington, D. 0., November 3, 1888 General G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York. Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, in regard to the Book containing the names of Corps, Division, and Brigade Commanders compiled from the records of this office and recently published by Burk and McFetridge, of Philadelphia, Pa. It was expected that in a work of such magnitude some omissions would take place, and it was for this reason that the Quarternaster General requested that errors be pointed out to him. In your case however, the record is correct. The records of Oificers are given in a consolidated form, covering the periods of service in each particular instance, as far as shown by the records of this Office. Dates of assignment only are given. If you will analize your record you will see that General C. S. Hamilton, was assigned December 1862, when he was relieved by General R. J. Oglesby in April--1863, On July 7th, 1863, you assumed command and you in turn were relieved by the assignment of Colonel A. Mersey in August--1863. This Gificer was relieved by General E. A. Carr, September 3, 1863, serving until October 15, 1863, when you again took command. August 19th, 1864 you were relieved by General T. E. G. Ransom. Very respectfully. Your obedient servant, S. B. Holif(b--cr. Quarteriraster General, U. S. Army, 2945 F. 1888 ■303 November, 1888. Mapleton, Nov. 7, 1888, Dear Gran: I came ap here yesterday to see mother. Find her much same as when here ten days ago. She must be weaker but I see but little if any change. She appears quite different at different times. Last eve when I came she was flighty, knew me but soon when I arose to go out of the room thought I was Uncle John and would inquire i'or her father and mother. She was somewhat under the influence of morphine and soon went to sleep and had a comfortable night. The day before and previous night she had been restless and sleepless and when nurse went oixt of room to get her something, rose up from her bed and walked across the room and out into kitchen after nurse, exhibiting and un natural strength. This morning she is quiet and more rational and laugh.ed when I asked her about Father's trying to put me in the Harrison Log Cabin in 1840 as it was passing our house in Tapleyville and I kicked and hallowed and would not go in which pleased Father, he being a Democrat. T]qis goes back to my earliest recollection, being only 3 years and 3 months old. Mother's mind when at its best is very weak, everything said to her as well as ones presence makes but a momentary impression. She talks to me about her being so sick and feeble but hopes she will be more comfortable, wants to know where she is many times during a day and questions about my family are hardly answered before asked again. When more restless and excited she wants Julia or some one close by her holding her hand or lying on the bed (if at night) for she is up and dressed and lays on the lounge all day), thinks she is going to die right away. This was a peculiarity of her father in his last sickness. When calm ana rational we think her end may be near as it would seem to be the natural change be!ore death. If you could see her now asleep (I am writing sitting by her side) she would look about as you saw her last and as you would like to remember her. Her face a little thin but shows a good color. Mother has jur-t awakened and turn ed }:er face toward me and said, "Nathan is this you. I am so glad you come to see me", and Julia comes in and aske; her if she will have a little soup and she says, "I will try a little of it," and now she is sitting up taking a few spoonsful of soup. I mention in detail that you may know how rational she is at times. Now she is asking me if Julia is married and who her husband is and also how many children I have an(i their names and asks me about Nathan and I remind her that 1 am Nathan and she says, "Oh yes I know it but my mind seems to wander so since I have been sick," etc. While it would be a pleasure for you to see her a^in alive. Especially when she ap^^ears the most rational and to her it would be a momentary satisfaction, I cannot urge you to leave your business and make the long journey as I would if her mind was stronger. r While I have been writing the above sentence she has aske^i again the names of my children and after repeating them again to her I ask,"Do you remember them?" She says, "I do not seem to it is so long since I have seen them." If no acute disease sets in like pneumonia I think she will live sometime. There will be a gradual weakening of the physical system until the heart will stop action from sheer exhaustion of the vital powers to act, I would not be surprised if she saw her 87 birthday in January and she may go much sooner but to me having in view her whole life and her wonderful vitality anu strength and of her parents I do not think she is so near her end as one who has less know ledge of her life would think.. Her last resting place will be by tlie side of Father and having no home now at the Bluffs I shall probably have the funeral exercises from the Cong. Church. I shall go home tomorrow and return again in about a week if not called sooner. Very truly , N. P. Dodge. .':3C5 Nov. 10, 18S8. J. M. Null, Esq., Poit '^Torth, Texas. Dear Sir:- Herewith I hand you a deed to rae, covering four leagues of xan in ^""isher County Texas, known as the Gillispie County School land. Will you be kind enough to sent it to the proper officer have it recorded, and returned to irte with bill for recorder's fee. I would also like to have pu obtain from him ard send me a statement of all trusts mortgages, or encumbrances there ai-e uoon this land. Very truly yours. 0. M. Dodae. Please say also whetlier or not there is a legal description of the larid conveyed. Novemtier, 1888. 3G9 New York City. Nov. 12, 1888 Hon. W. 1'. Cody, Uy dear Sir: On my return to the City my friend, Nr. Bierdstadt, sent me your kind remenbrance . It takes me back a great^many years; and, later, to Omaha when in company with "John S. Collins I visited the fair grounds of that City to see your first exhibition and pass judgment upon it. Since then, I have watched your fortunes and successes. You are a representative of those men so often written about, and so little knov/; men who from k853 to 1874 were my guides, and v.hose judg ment I always followed - the voyageurs of the plains - Bridger, Reynolds, Lombard, The two Janis'es, Palladay, Gee, Adams, Fontenelle, North and, last but not least, Cody. These are the ones with whom I individually came in contact. You have made a history for them and fo.r yourself, and I honor you for it. I have heard Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Crook and Augur say many kind things of your and your work with them since the war; but I knew most of the voyageurs of the plains before the war, when their- personal courage saved many lives at tiiiies when their acts and deeds would probably never be li.entioned or known. North and his Regiment of Indians was with me until I comrr plated the Union Pacific Road. If there, are any of them with you now, I should be glad to meet them. They were faithful soldiers, and successfully did their part in guarding faithfully and successfully that portion oi' the Road that was allotted to them. If it is possible, I shall go down and see you personally, but if not, please accept my thanks and take the wish for the act. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge . .' ' < ' I.' *' "li,- 311u November, 1888. Headquarters DODGE LIGHT GUARD, Company A, 5th Regt. L.N.G., Organized May 3d, 1887. A. W. Cowles, Capt, V/. E, Aitchison, 1st Lt J. W, Dixon, 2d Lt. H. Wells, ^eo. A. W. Cowles, '^'reas. Gounttll Bluffs, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1888. Gen. G, M. Bodge, Dear Sir: I understand that it is eustomary for the Governor to attend ' the inauguration ceremonies at Washington every 4 years and tta t some company is taken along as his escort, at the expense of the state. We propose to make every effort and bring all the influence to bear that we possibly can towards being the coii.pany selected to accompany him in that capacity next spring. I feel confident that no company in the state can furnish a better appearing or more gentlemanly body of citizen soldiery than .we can turn out or that can beat us in the field and I write you to ^ask that you will use your influence with Gov. Larrabee and Gov. Alexander in every and any way, which in your judgment will tend to bring about that result. It would be a big thing for the Dodge Light Guard and something of which I am sure youwouH personally be proud, as would the people of Council Bluffs generally. I have ordered the Flag you told me to procure and expect it here before many days. It will be a beauty too, will write you more fully in regard to it when received. Please do all you can for us and I assure you General, it will be appreciated. Yours most respectfully, A. W. Cowles, Capt. 313 Novenilrer, 1888. Headquarters DODGE LIGHT GUARD Company A. 5th Regt., I. N. G. Organized Way 3d, 1887. A. W, Cowles, Gapt. W. E. Aitchison, 1st Lt J. W. Dixon, 2d Lt. H, 0. Wells, Sec. A. W. Cowles, Treas, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Nov. 23, 1888. Gen. G. W. Dodge, Dear Sir: The Copy of your letter to Gen. Alexander is received. Thanks. At a special business meeting of the Co. last night we or ganized a stock Company for the purpose of placing ourselves in proper shape t-o lease the Masonic Temple Hall for an Armory. The capital stock of the Company is $2000 divided Into 400 shares of $5 each. From 60 to 753hares of unpaid stock will be taken at once by the mem bers of the company and we can sell fromlto 3 shares each of stock to the best business men in town. Have just sold 2 shares to J. L. Stewart of Stewart Bros. These shares of stock will be assessed $2.00 per share payable the 1st of Jan. 1889 and more than likely we will not have to maive another assessment on them during that year, but the idea you see is to make provision for funds if we should need any. We have elected you President of the stock company and assigned 10 shares of unapid stock to you knowing that you will surely be pleased to lend your name and in fluence to that extent. Please sign the articles of incorporation and return them as soon as possible. We will issue the certificates of stock and send thern on also for your signature as soon as the articles are placed on file . I can see General that this plan is going to build us up wonderfully and will enable us to have the best armory of any company in this part of the country. I was sorry not to be able to see you and talk this all over befoie you left but have been exceedingly busy ever since Wonday and you no doubt the same . We are going to pay $1200 rent for the Hull but I am satisfied we can get from $800 to |1000 back by sub renting it and hope to do better than that. We expect to put up a nice gun rack and will use a little money say from $100 to vl50 fitting up a parlor etc. so that when you visit us again we will have a decent place to see you in. These men outside of the company who take stock will constitute the honorary membership and will always be welcome at drills and be made to feel that they are interested in the welfare of the Dodge Light Guard. 314 Trusting that my earnest efforts in organizing .this com pany and thus building it up will meet with you approval and support as I am confident it will, .1 am, dear Sir, . Your most obedient servant. r, 1 I A. W. Cowles, Capt. Dodge Light Guard. s ^ f ^ 'vi' ^ y * f ' . V,> >'4 ■,y* >Ki r .■ • . 315 November, 1888. New York. November 27th, 188 8, Gov. J. C. Brown, Esq., Dallas, Texas. Dear Gir:- I enclose you a Clearing-House plan that has been pre pared here. This is only preliminary. Of course, they will ask us to join. What we want to accomplish is, to make a line from D' nver to New Orleans that will not be broken or interfered with through any of these arrangem nts, and how this is to be done I don t exactly understand. Of course, it is for your interest as well as for ours to get an agreement thatis lasting, so that I will have no inducement to try to push to the south-west, and so that you can use our line for the north-west. The arrangements that we are making are "oing to bring considerable business to your line; that is, it is going to in crease riglit straight along as v/e make ai'rangements with the out side lines. Before you come East I wish you ./ould talk this matter up with Morgan Jones and get his views. The only offer I made on the car was in D. T. & R. 'V. bonds. 1 hfve got no money to p-y for a car, but if I can trade you in bonds I will do it. It is for my own individual use and not for any company i Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. 317 November, 1888. Denver to Ft. Worth and the Gulf. Ft. Worth & Denver City Ry. ^o. Denver Texas & Ft. Worth R. R. Co, Denver Texas & Culf R, R. Go. C. R, Meek, General Manager. Denver, Colo., Nov. 26, 1888. PERSONAL General G. M. Dodge, No 1. Rrcadway, New Yokr, N. Y, Dear General; Answering you letter of the 21st inst. from Council Bluffs, in regard to the policy of our getting an interest in the South "Park road jointly with the Union Pacific, paying one-half its interest, and maintenance on wheelage, or such portion of the equipment as would be used iri our business; I have gone over we conclude; this matter carefully with Gov. Evans, and 1st. While it would give us the advantage of a rate-making j)ower on products of the mountains, it would not admit us to Aspen and other heavy mineral producing centres. 2nd. With our present arrangement, and without any cost of maintenance or interest, we are participating in the mountain busire ss via the Midland and Rio Grande roads, bringing ore from Aspen, Leadville and other points , to Pueblo and Denver, in connection with the Midland road, and this arrangement^,if made with the South Park, would, as a natural consequence, disrupt existing relations between our line, the Colorado Midland and the Denver and Rio Grande. 3rd. We consider we are stronger with all mountain and plains lines friendly, than we would be with a half interest in the South Park and all other lines fighting us. 4th. The line woiild necessarily be under the control of the Union Pacific, and no arrangement could be made in which we would not suffer some disabilities, with respect, especially, to local business 5th. We do not beJieve the South Park would add enough to our busineso to warrant us assuming the obligation of paying $63,000. per Annum and our portion oi the maintenance. I question very much whether it would be practicable to operate a ;iece of property, taking such portion of the equipment as - we would need in our business; leaving it to them to determine what 318 we need. The only way this could be done successfully, in my judgment, is to operate the property on joint account, and divide the business equally arbitratily; but even could this be done, I do not believe there is enough in it to warrant us in making the arrangement. As to what alliance, offensive or defensive, we could make with the Texas L Pacific; What we should have with them is a traffic contract, giving us a rate making power, as iar as necessary, to protect our interests on through business between their territopy and ours, regardless of any agreement they may hereafter made with other companies for the main tenance of rates, or placing their rates or revenue in a Trust; this could be done without menance to them. The agreement should be made in consideration of this Qompany not building to New Orleans, It should protect them in our territory and us in theirs, against every sort of combination, trust or agreement that may be made. Gov. Brown will likely raise the question of making this an exclusive arrangement, which would shut us out on the Southern Pacific. This should be avoided. In addition to this, we should have an option to take tracka^ between Ft. Worth and New Orleans on a fair basis of compensation, with absolute rights as to rate making power on business between New Orleans and our territory, and indei^endence, if we desire it, in handling bus iness under their police control. If Gov, Brown enters a Trust, Association, or agreement, sub ject to a traffic contract with us, giving us rate making power, it would make us a factor necessary to the successful formation of the Trust, and hence give us the advantages that r;ight be derived from this connection; but we should have the option of following our interests in the matter of joining this combination. We should in any event, have an option extending S years, or more, for making the trackage arrangement, I will talk with Finley in regard to the matter, and, after seeing him., write you agAin. Perhaps it would be well for you to take the matter up with Gov. Brown on the basis of making a traffic con tract and getting an option to take trackage, and the negotiations be ing opened we can then meet and discuss all sides of the question and probably consummate some arrangement. I will see Goddard in Chicago, if I go this week, and do all I can to make a permanent arrangement with then, on California and Texas business. Yours very truly, 0. F, Meek, General Manager. 319 November, 1886. C. P. Meek, Esq., New York. November 27th, 1888 . General ^^"ana^er, Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: )n«^t tftis I wired you about Hag^^^in. I saw him and had a lorn _talk witn him. i see a ^reat many difficulties in the shipping oftftis matt, and s see the advantages of obtaining it; First, Haggin insists that ther.. shall be no transfer; Second, when it goes aboard rhip there s^iall beno hooks-, or anything of the kind, used in handling; it must be handled either by derricks or by men. It comes in bags that weigh about 100 lbs. He says that Baltimore has been the most advantage'ous place for him to ship from because it goes right aboard ship from the c-^rs without any re-handling. He wants to try our route, and he evidently wants to see if he cannot beat the Union Pacific down to •'•8.00 to the River. He said that Hill, of the Uani'oba, wanted to take It for '!!'8.00 to St Paul. He is goin; to make me a proposi tion as to what h will give it to us for for the year, but*, as I wired you, he is to give it for two months. He is anxious to get some bituminous coal to mix with the Rock Springe coal, and, if we could agree with the U. P. so -s to haul him some of the Trinidad coal that he can use in his grates and save the large wast of the Rock Springs coal that goes through the grates, it would help us. You had better take this up with Kiraball. It is not very much Trinidad coal that they .vant, but just ' nopgh to keep the Eocl; Springs fromwasting. He says his matt as Liverpool end takes their assay in payment. My idea is, that if tlr se parties go into the agree ments that they are contemplating the two months deal will be again t him instoad of for him; but 1 see h cares more for the way his material is handled than t?io rate. If we could reduce the loss 1^ from that of Baltimore it would carry his fneig?;t. The capacity of their mines if 8,000 tons and they are taking out about 6,000 per month when they can get the coal. He is to be here all the week, that 1 Bora";ou''!asi''nfrMP"° ■■■" "spatohe, : I am, very tmly yours. G, M. Dodge President, November, 1668. New York, . November 27th, 1888. Morgan Jones, Esq., Pres't. Y. ''h & D. C. RY Eort worth, Texas. De- r : -- I have been watching the out put of coal. All of you pressed mc to death to get these branclies in, and wc are not getting coal inough from them to pay for the grease on on the wheels. The Beshoar only gave us 106 cars in October,and up to the 22nd of November onl.; 118, with scarcely any coke. In fact, the C. C. & I Co. are giving usnothing.' ^hc Chicosa mine is not doing much betterj it only averages'6 or 8 cars per day. -Is there not some way to remedy "this? It seems to m e that the people handling the mine ought t have : nown what they could do before we got up' there. J- would not have laid out this anioiuit of money in putting the roids up to the mines unless they were goin- to turn us out some business. We are running w-y behind in our pool. The surprise mine has also cut off most ot its output, ^at we et from the "^.^alley mine is generally used up by the company, so that for commercial earnings we have got avery little. Is there not sora/ way to fore the i-'orbes mine up to 20 or 25 cars per day and also the Beshoar? We ought to have out of these mines a,'"id coke ovens 200 crs of coal per day. Even the Pranceville mine does not average much over ten or twelve cars per day. It put out 395 cars in October, and it is not avcra ing over twelve cars so far, in November. Yours very truly, G. M, uodge, President. gV"?''. '■ ■■ *'/ ■ 'T' .1 1 gt iV : >. v'v■ ■ 323 December, 1888. 1449 Lexington Avenue, New York City, Dec. 1. Genl. Grenville M. Dodge. Dear Sir: I have been quite busy this year in spare tln.e executing war subjects and I have just finished in Indian Ink an 18 X 25 inch size composition a mate to the Genl. Fullers subject I executed of holding his line on the 22nd of tfuly. The picture I have just finished is: Death of General James B. J/"cPherson, worked out from a description of his orderly. I should like very much to call upon you with it as I think it will interest you to see my treatment of a subject so near associated with your opperations on that Day. The scene or thicket is worked out from a photo" of this spot. The Rebs are hurrying through the undergrowth and blazing away at the Genl. who is mounted and in the immediate foreground and falling back. The orderly is being unhorsed by a limb of a tree in his mad rush from the firing. i had the pleasure of a visit from Genl. Jhon . Fuller about a month or two ago and he referred to you calling upon him in Toledo and to your desire to see produced a picture of your entire corps engaged on the 22nd. I should lixe to work out a sketch of the scene if I had an inducement. Genl. Fuller seems anxious that I make this sketch for you but I should like the portraits of some oi your staff and authority from you. Drop me a line stating when I can find you in at 1 B'dway and I will take the WcPherson picture with me for your inspection. Genl. Fickenlooper to whom I wrote about it has ordered a photo copy off it and possibly may purchase original. I am truly yours, Jamies E, Taylor. December, 1888, 325 .. . 3^- ; 1449 Lexington Avenue, New York ^ity. Dec, 6, General Grenville W. Dodge, Dear Sir: Your kind favor received in reply to my note regarding making a design of the 16th Corps engaged in the 22nd of July, '64 near Atlanta and I am much gratified to know that you are desirous to have the piclitire made and a corx'ect one at that as far as possible. Of course an actual sketch of the entire scene of your fight there is indispensible and you are correct in your resolve to have R^oser, I - suppose or some other Atlanta artist or a Photographer make a picture of the spot under your eye. I will at once start a sketch of the Battle from the notes you gave me and when you return to N, Y. Please notify me and I will call with it and you can make suggestions for changes'in the grouping so that I can be ready to work out the picture soon as sketch of ground is received. I enclose for your acceptance Picture No. 2. Genl. Fuller's fight is the other one linished. Death of McPherson during the progress of your fight. Your subject when finihsed will make the trio of A. the 22nd of July series, I worked this out from descrip tion given by Genl. McPherson's orderly A. G, Thompson of Georgtown, 0. In whirling out of the way Thompson came in contact with the limb of a tree and was unhorsed and captured and after crawling to the dying General, who lay gasping, the Reb., Capt Richard Beard demanded to know who the officer was, Thompson telling him it was his beloved commander Genl. McPherson, etc, etc. But all this is familiar to you. Howdoes the composition strike you? Genl. hickenlooper, who I believe received the last order, the one for mower to straighten his line parallel with the dirt road, from McPherson and had just left him, to whom P sent a photo of the scene, writes me to know what amount I wish for the original, it is in Black and white 18 X 24 inch, which fact shows H. must be pleased with the composition; which as you know Genl. is necessarily an imaginative picture, but I copied the location from a photo etc. Drop mie a line when at leisure and oblige. Yours etc., James E. Taylor. i December, 1888. 327 Mapleton, la., Dec. 6th, 1888 Dear Gren: Mother has failed very much since I was here a week ago. Her cheekx are sunken - eyes partially closed (when awake) andlook unnatural. She sleeps and dozes most of the time has lost all inter est in what is going on around her, calls for no one unless roused from her stupor then is as apt to call for her mother or sister or Alonzo or some one of her early comipanions. She however recognizes Julia and myself and asks for what she wants and seems rational, but very weak. Lies very quiet, breathes easily, but appears, as she is, very weak. Ker voice is no longer clear. Her pulse is weak, flesh warm and natural, ta^es a few spoonfuls of nourishment, suffer no pain and I apprehend will within few days pass away in her sleep, which I believe was the case with Aunt Scott. No morphine has been given her for several days. You having seen her so recently it does not seem to me necessary for you to take the long journey here to attend mothers funeral. Neither do I think it necessary for those of your faii.ily who are so faraway to con.e. I shall not expect any of mine here, and shall only advise themi by leLter. I presume we shall have a gather ing of Julia's neighbors here and some simple service, and as simple and quiet one as can be plsn led from the church at C. Bluffs. This will give mothers old friends an opportunity to attend and view h er remains. I have not consulted Julia but write as I feel about it myself. If however it is your desire to be present or to have any members of your family conie we shall want to be advised as it would probably make a difference in our plans. Its not improbable you may hear from me by telegram before this letter reaches you. Mr. Beard has just returned but I have not had opportunity to talk with him. Very truly, N. B. Dodge . ■ i!" d ; >1 329 December, 1888. Mapleton, Sunday Eve, Dec. 9th, 1888. Dear Gren: There was another change in mother today, preceptable this afternoon, when at- intervals she began to breathe hard with her mouth open. This would last for a minute and then she would stop breathing for a minute or two then a spell of hard breathing, this has increased until now (evening) every breath is with a moan, her pulse just pre ceptable, she is undoubtedly dying. For nearly a week she has been in a comatose condition, most of the time sleeping like a babe, breathing so easily taking but a few spoonfuls of nourishment each day up to two days ago, since then none whatever. Today the nurse and Julia changed her clothes but she apparently was unconscious of it. She is but a skelleton, Julia says she never saw such a sight. Her hold on life alter all she has been through is remarkable. My friend E. E. Harkness with whom .I dined two weeks ago to day died Thrusday of pneumonia, taken the day after I dined with him, a great loss to his family and to th.e community. Tuesday, Dec. 11/88 I left Mapleton Monday about 10 l/2 o'clock. She was still breathing but her limbs growing cold and the end apparently not far off. She had lasted so much longer than .we supposed would be possible we thought she might breath on until night and so she did until 10 o'clock this morning. When I left I made an effort to call her back from her last sleep but no sign that she heard me so I gave her a kiss and bid her a last good-bye. I came down to arrange for having her brought here and meet an appointment I haa made for today. Mr. Beard and Julia leave with her remains tonight and arrive in morning. I shall have her brought to my house until funeral, time of which I have not iixed because I cannot hear from you, have sent you three telegrams toni^t^'^^ A'ashington, and one Norfolk and hope to get reply Julia said she v.ould call in some of her friends and neighbors to see mother after she was laid out but have no services at Mapleton. We secured a casket there and the undertaker will take his hearse and pall bearers will be selected to take mother to the Depot. Upon her ' arrival here siiall have the hearse take herto my house. and nr.H E^a. Tm ^ ^avc I aid not nut telegraphed think it probable any one they else would but have come written to funeJal your andwife I dont see hov. you can get here but if 1 receive telegram you are coming I shall await your arrival. j ^ uumxag 330 I am nervous and sleepless but hope to overcoiue both. Very truly, N. P. Dodge. Wednesday NoonYour telegram from Washington received this morning inform ing us you would not be able to come to mothers funeral. It has been appointed for tomorrow at 2 P. K. Imother looks well in her coffin, one covered with black broadcloth silk lined, sets in my front parlor with head toward your crayon. I have sent vou Nonpariel and Bee with notices and.will send Globe. N. p. D. ^ 'j:-' h.' ■■ 331 December, 1888. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Number 59 ch Sent by F.D. Rec'd by Bx Norvin Green, President^ Check. 16 Pd. Received at Corcoran Building, S. E. Cor. 15th & "F" Sts., Washington, D. G. Dec. 1888. Dated Council Bluffs, Iowa To Gen. G. M. Dodce Willards Ho. Washington. Mother died at one this morning. Brought here today. Can you come, when will you arrive. N. P. Dodge . 1888. My mother died at Mapleton Iowa, at the home or my si srer at, the age of years. I had been there to visit her about two week before her death. Siie recognized me but was not fully in her right mind. Of later years I had been away from home so much that I had seen but very little of my mother but no one appreciated more than I did her great worth and what she had been to us. It was her good training and her advice to me when a young boy before I left home that was one of the principal reasons for my success in life. Shewas a woman of v^ry strong Intellect and always stood for the best. During the Civil "iVar she was very patriot's taking part in everything for the benefit of the solcHers. My brother has written up in what the women did in the Civ^l war, the part my mother took in it. She was a great helpmate to my fatlier and she was looked up to as long as she lived. She lived in Cotincil Bluffs and Omaha and stood high with all the citizens. Tfl Writi"ng my brother from New York on my mother's death, I sent the follow'nEt »> <->- there to visit her about two v/eek 333. ■i ?ton Iowa,at the home of my sister at s ■ ■ ,'^4 v.i ■ 335 mm December, 1888 . Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dec. 13th, 4 P. M, Dear Gren: We have just laid Mother away in her last resting place by the side of Father in 7«'alnut Hill Cemetery. The mourner-s and pall bearers Messrs. Lyman & E. A. Spooner, Wr. Haverstock and Mr. Hazelton all Mother's friends, came to my house, where Mother's remains have been since yesterday, at 1 l/2 P. M. also Rev. Mr. Crofts,from here we followed the:'hearse in carriages to the church where the exercises were held lasting about 3/4 of an hour. Mr. Crofts seeing Rev. Mr. Mackey in the church invited him into the pulpit. After singing "Nearer My God to Thee", Rev.Mr. Mackey read appropriate selections of scripture. Then Mr. Crofts made a prayer v/hich was very touching. After the prayer he m de some remarks referring to the usefulness of r;;o'ther's life and the love and respect which she held in this commiunity. In one or the other lie thanked God I'or the children she had brought into the world, spoke particularily of your services in beh.alf of your country and in the development of the great north west. Referred to the love of the children for their mother giving her the same care and attention which she had given them in childhood and youth. He had arranged for Fatlier Rice to make some remarics but I suppose seeing Rev. Mr. Mackey there he changed his plan. Most of those present were Mother's friends - a good many elderly persons - Father Spooner, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Swan, D. C. Bloomer, 'Jno. T. Baldwin, the two latter went to grave. Then there were Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Turley, - Mrs. Conant and a good many others. Mother's cheeks were sunken and I could see as they passed by and looked at her they were disappointed, one shook her head as much c'S to say that dont look like her. Mrs. 3wan went twice to see her. Mrs. Brewer the colored woman was there. After Mr. Crofts remarks and the viewing of the remains the coffin was covered and we proceeded to the cemetery. MiT. Pusey and Mr. Beard, Julia and myself in one carriage, the two Mliss Phillips and Nathan and GrenvilJe in another, M^r. Baldwin, Mrs. Chapman end several other carriages followed. Ella and Eettie sent beautiful floral offerings one a wreath we send to you, the other a cross we send to the Aunts at Georgetown. Mrs. Conant sent a beautiful boquet of ripened grain which we left on the coffh. Very truly, N. P . Dodge. DeceiTiber, 1868. Dear Gren: The floral wreath I send you was laid on N'other's coffin at niy house and reniained there until the closing exercises 8t the grove Inasmuch as you could not be pr'esent we thought you would be pleased to receive this nemento. Very truly. Council Bluffs, Dec. 13 th,. 4 P. Ifi. 339. . Eecember, 1888. I Extracts fron. letters received by N. -f. i^odge soon after the death of his mother, Julia T. Dodge, who died Dec. 11th, 1888 at ^'apleton, Iowa, and referring to her life. G. I/. Dodge writes from New York Dec. 17th, 1888. The day mother died and I should have received despatches I was away and never got them until the next day and could no4, leave in time to reach the Bluffs under three days, and I. felt I should not hold the funeral. I was greatly disappointed as I have been amking all my arrangements to be present, and had tried to keep you and Julia posted as to my movements. Mr. Pusey got word same time I did and he said I would feel better to see mother as I last saw her than as she would look in her coffin, but, notwithstanding that, I was very anxious to see her in her last resting place. Her life to go out so quietly and peacefiilly was a great consolation and her funeral services were very interesting to me. When I look back as long as I can remember and think what a lovable, helpful mother she had been to us all, that in all our lives not a jar ever occ-u-ed. Think it was a family that each one tried to do his best for tiie other, and that, mother was so true and loyal to us all and especially to me and mine. I cannot but feel.that it was a great life full of good. I rememiber what General Grant said to me when he came to see me out on the Union Pacific R. R. after seeing 'father and^^mjother, in talking of old times and what he had dnne for me. He said. After I saw your loyal father and mother I knew where you got your devotion to duty from.. You came honestly by all your merits. I knew there was something behind you besides what we all ssw." I am thankful so many could be present, but I shall always regret that I could not be, and I shall always be thankful for my trip to Mapleton to visit her in her last days. Mrs. N. P. Dodge writes from Northampton, Mass. Dec. 14th, 1088 I returned from a walk this afternoon to find your letter about poor dear mother Dodge. Heaven to her will be the meeting of dear old friends whom she has known for years and she will be happier than she ever thought she oould be. "Eye hath not seen It, ear hath not heont?r"i^ beautiful place that I'l! Christ entered went into before the heart to prepare." of man to conceive the She will bear about her no longer the weak body and the splritTo Tn rrS^rl' me it would S" be going . home I Cannot to friends, understand and to why grow one in dreads those thinrs death. we are hindered in growing in this worlu, inowledge\nd ^Sve fo^ th^^ ' more 2 death, shall neither wipe away sorrow all nor tears crying, from our and eyes, thev shall and there see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. She was so proud of the General, so anibitious for her chndr«en Carrie and Neixie join me in love and sympathy. children. 340 Jno. Lockwood Dodge, son of N. P. -^odge, writes- from Harvard College Cambridge, I'.ass. Dec. 16th, 1S88. Your letter -conveying the news of- Grandmas departure from this life was received yesterday. Accept i^y sympathy in this your hour of sadness. You along know what a good mother she Ins bean to you as you ha-ve been nearer to her than any one else. You must be satisfied with the peace and rest which came to her in her last days. Such a death after such a lorig and useful life robs death of its teri'ors and reminds us that after all it si but going to sleep to wake up in a better world. I think we riiake a mistake to mourn over such a peaceful de parture at the end of a useful lii'e, since it is but the natural change we all undergo. With my condolence and sympathy, I remain your affectionate son, Nellie Dodge, youngest daughter of N. P. Dodge, writes from Northampton, feass, Dec. ICth, 1888. We were sorry to hear of the death of Grandma. Death is always sad, even if they have finished their work on earth. Phillip Dodge, son of N. P. Dodge, writes from Easthampton, Mass,, Dec. 15th, 1888. I received your letter telling me of Grandmas death. I shall think of her as sitting in her rocking chair in front of the big coal stove in the dining room, with a cat always near her. And we bpys would always ask for a doughnut or piece of pie and she would trot to the corner cupboard and cheerfully bring it forth. To pay for- it she always had an errand for us to do. William Webster writes from Franklin, Idaho Territory, Dec. 16th, 1888. Your letter received a day or two ago and today a paper giving an account ol' your mother's death. It brings back to my mind how much she has done for me and how kindly she has always treated me, especially at tines when I was out of health and discouraged. I feel that I have lost a friend that can never be replaced. Mrs. Ella Pusey, daughter of G. m. ^-^odge, writes from Denver, ' Colo., Dec. 17th, 1888. The loss of a mother is always a hard loss to,, endure, no matter at what stage of life it comes to us, and in the loss of yours I sympathize with you, but I cannot but feel that for her it is much better to be at rest, and I feel thankful that she had a painless and peaceful death. o41 , December, 1888. Sheet No. 2 Extracts troiL letters received by N. P. ^odge soon after the death of his mother, Julia T, Dodge, v,ho died Dec. 11th, 1888 at Kapleton, Iowa, and referring to her life. Mrs. G. M. Dodge writes from New York City Dec. 19th, 1888. Your letter received giving news of the death of dear mother Dodge. It is well the end came so peacefully, and it is seldom we find one so faithful induty, earnest in spirit as she was all her life. Her memory will be held sacred and lovingly by all her family and friends. Mrs. Letlie Monl^gomery, daughter of G. M. Dodge, writes from Bay St. Louis, Miss. Dec. 21st, 1888. I thank you very much for your kind letter and papers telling of dea Grandmothers death and burial • It was indeed a sorroiv to me that I was unable to attend the funeral and pay the last loving tribut of respect to one who wa^j so dear to me, one who had ever been to me as a loving mother. I cannot realize that my grandmother is gone from us, at same time I feel thankful that she is at rest and free from all pain and care and sorrow. I am glad I went to see her so recently. - What a dear, noble woman she wes, a life so good and useful. Aellmay her children and grandchildren rise up and call her blessed. ^;iss Carrie L. Dodge, daughter ol' . P. uodge, writes from Cambridge, Mass. Dec. 22nd, 1888. , Grandma is at rest. I only wish that when I die that people will look back on as much good in my life as she has done in her life. Hers has been such a busy and active life. Shows what an ambitious mother can do for her sons. Miiss Sarah E. Hunt writes from Danvers, former home, under date of Dec. 22nd, 1888. Mass., mother's death was I duly f paper received. with the It not is unexpected pleasant to tidings think that of your the clouds mothers that shadowed that clear mind sre lifted and that the tired bodv is at peace. A noble woman which did her life work nobly'. A blessed memory and helpful examply to us who knew and loved her. Mrs. A. C. Goodell of Salem, Mass., Jan. 4th, 1889. 1,. y ^ during the thoughts last few have weeks. been In with imagination you many times, I have I-may been at say the constant- bed side of my dear oid friend^ sorrowing and sympathizing with her children I l.ave listened to the words of consolation from her pastor and followed wUh/yoS'"'' ^ lived these aad scener ^oord of vour^Mfft^^n«t\^ how sad the closing of ths chapter in the re- h^rnJi belore, for our ! dearest muet have iriends been. draw Heaven us so near must seem the thresldiold nearer to L you thev than cross the mysterious boundary, that we seem left only a little way be hind , ^ The lessons of life were -^13? learned b: the faithful wife, the devoted, loving mother. The influence of her bright and useful life willshow us many mottoes written upon the sbhool room wall for us to read and study. God taught her well, and in moulding her life gives to those who knew and loved her a precious legacy. Rev. H. 3. DeForest,.Pres. of Talladega College, Alabama, writes Dec. 27th, 1888. By papers received this evening I learn of the death of your honored mother. So stroke follows stroke. Death is always busy, and we know not how soon we may be calxed to join the great company passed on before . ay we be as well prepared as some v/ho have gone and may we leave as fragrant a memory. How full of grand service was your mother's-long life, 'till infirmity destroyed her power to help. Now she lives in blessed in fluences. I think with.great pleasure of her. From H/iiss Lydia Phillips, 84 years old, and iviiss Cynthia Phillips, 80 years old, mother's sisters living to-gether in Georgtown, kass, near their old home, a joint letter penned by the former and dated Dec. 23rd, 1888, Your tlioughtful kindness in sending us the cross from our 'dear sisters coffin touches us deeply. We felt that you realized that to no other would it be ii.ore precious and we are very grateful to you for this kindness. .Your living care for your dear mother is at an end in this world. We trust she is at rest on the other shore, and no more wear isome days and nights. As you now go over your shole life wit^' her from childhood to th.e changing scene our sym.pathy goes with you. Irs. Anna J. Hutchinson .of Province town, IVass . writes under date of Jan. 14th, 1889, "The weary wheels of life stand st-ill at last." What a hs-Ppy release for the spirit to be free from suii'ering and find rest. You will all miss her so much. She has been such a care and anxiety and you will all be rewarded for your devotion, kindness and patience which you have bestowed on her. Abbie A. V.errill, wife-of Amos Merrill, of Peabody. Wass. writes as follows under date of Jan. l-Dth, 1889, Your mother s death was not a surprise as I had learned of her failing health and removal to the home of her•daughter. No children ever had a more devoted mother or one miore ansious that they should grow to honorable manhood and womanhood. In this regard'her fondest hopes were fully realized. I feel luite sure that in her last days she Wc s the recipient of loving and tender care. I have none but pleasant recollections of her and often recall her quaint sayings and quiet fun. Indeed her name has often been spoken in our home. X,- , X. , ^ truthful obituary notice was never written. How ^hankful you must all feel that she was spared to you so many years and at the last should pass away so gently and peacefully. Her ympathy + and extend same cherished, to your in our brother hearts. and sister Please and accept their ourfamilies. 1888. 043 Christmas, 1888. Dear Ocean; . ' I dd not intend to wait so long after t'other's death before writing you the particulars, but I only reached home four days ago, and Grenville's coming and getting my house in order again has taken more time than I .thought. I shall never cease to be thankful that you came when you did to see her for your memories of her will be so much more gratifying to you than to remember her as I do, so long dying and so changed in her looks that her old friends when looking^^ at her after she was gone all said "I should never have known her." She showed her long mental suffering and so wasted that it was almost impossible to handle her without hurting her. I do not think she was conscious the last three days of her life, nor did she suffer al though to those around her her moans were pitiful. Friday morning was the las^^i% was taken from her. bed. hra Kimber changed her and although^so weak she was helpless, she wss conscious. She looked up at me said "Julia" and held hold of my hand the last she spoke rationally. '.Vould .call to "Betsy (her sister ) to get up, also "Brother John to get up." and seemed to be back in her child hood. She never failed to recognize Nathan or myself when ever we aroused ner. She slept most of the time. When awake she kept her eyes closed and when no longer able to talk would move her hands about trying to take hold of some one's hand when we would put our hands in hers she would clasp them with the same grip that she always did and hold tiem tight till she was asleep again. Sunday morning ■she was unconscious wc could more her lift hop hands and she took no notice of it. About l/2 4 we saw she was dying, she•moaned with every breath until 3 o'clock konday niorn. They still ring in my ears. Then she would have times of labored breathing and for few moments at a tijie would not breathe at all and so it cantinued till Tuesday morn at 1 o'clock when she passed away without a strug^^le. I laid her out in Black Satin, one of my neighboi'S sent me a white rose and she looked very sweetly but so tired. I did not have funeral here but sent round to few of my friends who had been kind to. her to come and see her at 3 o'clock end to mrs. Chrismaa (whom you met). She read selections and made a beautiful prayer. Everybody said they never attended more simple and beautiful services. At 1/4 4 we sent her body to Depot and kr. Beard and I went with it to the Bluffs. Nathan I think wrote you about services there. I was sorry you were not able to come but as it was not pOoSible it was far better for you to comie when you did. Frank came from Denver which was very nice in him. It seoiied sad as long as our family had had homes in C. B. so many years when kother came to die, there was no home to take her to . Still it niade no difference to her, as she is now where she has begged and pleaded so many times to go, to her Father and kother and we feel assured she is happy in their company. I can not tell you how miss her. waken in the ni^.ht listen for the knocking and calling but so thankful she is happier than all we could do for her here co^^id make l.er. I trust. 1 did all I could for her comfort and am thankful now, oh, so thankful she was never removed from under S4i (Ks;- my care and I hope in time that the past year of her life will be .f blotted from my menory and !• can reniemoer her as. the bright and devoted I/other- of former years whose life wss- spent in caring for a nd rafeing us to be an honor and comfort to her in her old age. N'r. R;ackay canie to the funeral and ¥ir. Crofts invited him to take part in the exercises which he did. I received your ever thoughtful Xmas remembrance and after all you have done for me and mine the past year felt you were more than generous. I appreciate it and only wish it could be shown in other ways than by words. If I could only make your Xmas as happy and bright as you have ^Iways iiiade miy life and the lives of many others I should feel I had at least paid a part of the indebtedness'^I hope and still think there are brighter days in your future. You can always feel assur-ed wherever -t am or have ahome in sickness or health it will always be a pleasure to mie to do for you or assist you in any way it will do you the most good. You will see by. letter Lr. Beard has written you it seems bes-t for us to make a change and now the one thing that has held us here is broken, we shall go to Denver soon alter the Holidays ^nd take a room until IVr. Beard finds a location. We think we can live an economically in that way this winter as to stay here and keep house running and shall be near Eddy who at present is not well and I feel anxious to be near and. care for him. I hope if it is possible to assfet Jim in any way to position till he can decide what best to do you will not hesitate to do so. Grenville is home for holidays, the happiest boy in town and a marl.ed improvement in him every way, straight as an arrow, api^reciative of his- advantages and although has been honiesick will return w.ith renewed spirit to his work . He nakes fine looking boy in his uniformi and the greatest coDipliment they can pay me is to say as many do who have seen his pictures,he looks like his Uncle Grenville. I received letter I'rom Betsie Dodge. She spoke of the uiarked resemblance when you were a boy. She also wrote her ^.oth.er was quite sick and in similar condition to ^.other, wearing out only very peaceful and no desire to live. N':Other has a great many things many of hhr clothes I have sent to the Aunts that will maxe them comfortable. Nathan thought it not best to divide them at present, I shall pack everything up, but I send this Autograph Album ol hers to you as I know you would prize it and one of the nicest things she had. She never had given it to many to write in but Nrs. I<CBHaliaiw', wife of Supt. Public Schools there in the Bluffs, was so appropriate and beautii'ul. I must close as we are going to IVrs. Chrismans to dinner. If there is anything in particuler you wish of Ivothers let me know. We all send you kerry Xmas. Gren ville will write you. Aff. Your Sister, Jule , 1888 Directors of the Ft. Worth ^ Denver Gfty Ry, Elected Dec. 13. Morgan Jones, President T. W. Pearsall, Vic© President J. T. Granger, Treasurer A. J. Mayer W. T. Walter J. P. Smith Wm. H. Harrison J. M. Brown Wm. F. Somerville Ft. Worth New York. Baltimore, Md. Ft. Worth. PRESIDENTS REPORT, FT. WORTH & DENVER CITY R. R. The gross earnings were The operating expenses were Net earnings Ratio of operating expenses to earnings Fixed charges Surplus after payment oi interest $669,754.69 573.401.53 $296,353.16 55.7% $185,580.00 $224,002.76 The road and equipment are in good.condition, 11.6 miles of new steel rails having been laid, 64760 new cross ties placed in track, 1600 feet of new sidings added and $4628 expended on new equip ment. Also, the company completed during the year extensions from Vernon in Willbarger Co. to Quanah, 28,4' miles. The Pan Handle construction Co. have constructed during the year, commencing at the 200th mile post, 170 miles to Get. 31. The Ft. W.& D. C, will be completed to the state line by Jan. 1st, and the through connection made to Denver by Niarch 1st. The financial statement of the Ft. W. & D, c. shows that after paying interest and also $61, 606.54 for taxes, insurance, re newals, and terminal facilities, it has a surplus of $49,166.62 for the year, which carried to the balance of income account gives a total surplus of $224,002.76. The road has operated during the year from 163 to 200 miles. It pays interest only upon the bonds issued upon completed road which has been operated commercially for three months. As completed road ■ has been added the earnings show not only an increase in gross, but also an increase per mile. The increase of gross earnings for the year was $246,564.88 and the net earnings $126,295.46, or $683.02 per mile of operated road. The total fixed changes per mile when the road is completed is limited to $1080. The net earnings per mile upon the road oper ated during the past year was $1527.39. Under the mortgage the road is limited to $18,000 per mile, 1st mortgage bonds, upon the main line. No bonds can be issued upon extensions or branches under this mortgage. 846; ^ The interest upon securities issued to the Construction Company under its contract upon road that is used for construction purposes only is .paid by the Construction Company. The earnings of the road up to the present time have been entirely from local business. About the 1st of March a connection will be made with .the road building south from Denver, and after that time the entire line from Ft. Worth to Denver. About 800 miles will be operated as one line, Known as the Pan Handle Route, and the Ft. W. & D. G. Division will not only have , the earnings locally but also the earnings of all the through business passing over it between the Gulf and Denver. Col. Henderson is anxious to make a little money in land or lot speculation along the line of the roads Meek is operating and has some plans for doing it. He is coming over to see you and Meek about it. I hope there is a chance for it and I would like to go in with him. I.am sorry not to be able to meet Meek in New York, but hope to see him as he shall go home, I go back to Iowa; after a month of investigation in the East, strongly impressed with the idea that it is very doubtful if the Republicans can elect any man President this year. Cordially yours, J. Glarkson. ■ I ' * V* , " yM , •' i .. •'I 347 December, 1888. Headquarters DODGE LIGHT GUARD, Company A. 5th Regt. I.N.G. Organized May 3d, 1887. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Bee. 13, 1888. Gen. G, M. Bodge, Dear Sir: Yours dated the 10th with Drft. for $115.00 received and the same has been placed to the credit of the Cq. in the Citizens Bank where we do business. The Flag came today and is a beauty, we shall prize it highly and take good care of it. As soon as the certificates come back we will proceed to issue the stock and get the thing in working order. I am sorry you could not come and attend the funered of your mother this afternoon. I was there, and thought how much you probably would liked to have been. The service was very nice our minister Mr. Cro*%s spoke so well., and mentioned yourself very feelingly. She certainly has lived a very, useful and long life and is now at rest. I will send you a Nonpariel to morrow and occasion ally as I note anything in them that I think will interest you. Again thanking you lor your very generous support which I assure you is appreciated and is very encouraging I am very truly Yours, A. *. Cowles. Capt. B. L. G. • f f' Dec. 1888. New York. Dec. 15 1888, (Jscar Phillips, Esq., Holden, Mass Dear Cousin: — I an in receipt of yours of the 12th inst., which I found here on my return from Washington today, i expect to be here all of this coming week, and will be glad to see you or hear from you at any time. My movements are very uncertain, and it would be well for you to wire me and ascer tain whether or not I am going to be here before you come, than to depend upon what I am writing now, as I often have to go out on an hour's notice a.;d be gone for a week or two. I suppose you have heard that fTother died on the '11th inst. and was buried at the Bluffs on tl.e 13th. I was out to see her- only two weeks ago, and hap lened to be away and did not get the telegrams in time to rach her funeral. Please remember me kii:dly to your people. Very trul y yours, n. M. Dodge. j' " • f. '*'■ 851 December, 1888. 1449 Lexington Avenue, New Dec. 15, 1888. York Dity, Genl. Grenville M. Dodge, Dear Sir: engag®'^ I6t» I have the large sketch made of the Xi^ the 22nd of July, *64 near Atlanta. Holding staff and orderlies in foreground center. Mercey Brdg, Wilk^s^ BatTter ies Genl & Staff. Drop me a line if you when I can call with it. There's plenty of life in it. find Yours in haste. J. E. Taylor. .. from ®y last P. S. I sent you a 11 X 15 Inch just finished of Death of ^icPherson, to Willards Friday. Did you get it? ,.■1 '■ ).« ■ ■ V >'n; "'ML.'- - 853 December, 1888. Denver to Ft. Worth and the Gulf. Pan-Handle Route. Ft. Worth & Denver City Ry. Do. Denver Texas & Pt. Worth R. Co. Denver Texas & Gyif R. r. Co. C. F. Meek, General Manager. Chicago, 111., Dec. 20, 1888, General G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Dear General: I have your letter of the 15th, enclosing extract of letter from Charles Francis Adams to you. We are working cordially with all other lines, and I believe, with a great deal better faith than some of them toward the restoration and permanent maintenance of rates, but it must be conceded that we should be allowed to use the resources at our command in establishing the strength of our line. Monroe, in his letter .to Mr. Adams, appears to take it for granted th.at in using our St. Louis line, we do.:not maintain rates. This, however, is not the case. Up to this time we have used this line on an equality, so far as rates are concerned, with other lines, and it is simply a question of our ability to se cure business with the longer time required. I admit that we.have had some difficulties in holding business with the slower time, and we are here for the purpose of asking a differential, via this line, on Chicago business. We expect to work with the Rock Island, via Falcon, and Missouri Pacific, Via Pueblo, and with the Gnion Pacific, Via Denver, but I do not believe that it is for us, in our present situation, to introduce any geographical reform, in the freight situation. These long lines have been recognized, and are considered a factor in all complications that are constantly arising, and lines having ability to make them either realize their benefits in the business they get, or in substantial recognition in other directionsfrom lines vjhose interest it is to have them abandoned. I could not justify to you any failure in making such con nections as these. The rate on fifth class, which forms the bulk of the shipment from Dt. Louis, and intermediate territory, to ^enver, approximates ;pl. per hundred. Of this we get 51 per-cent from Ft* Worth to Denver, resulting in revenue to us of 12i mills per ton per miile. So far as Mr. ^unroe citing this .as the most glaring example of an illegitimate route, he perhaps forgets the Northern Pacific line, from Chicago to Dan Francisco; the Canadian Pacific line, from New York to San Francisco; the Giieasapeake M Ohio line, from New York to Chicago; any of which make almost as pronounced a case of indirect routing as this, and each of which is allowed a differential. Two of them are recognized as routes entitled to a differential by the Union Pacific, and accepted as such by them, | This question cannot be settled by taking from weaker lines their sources of revenue. If anything, it should be the policy of the stronger lines to strengthen, in every way, the lines which are forced to cover a large territory to sustain themselves. It is like trying to apease the hunger of a starving man by taking away his bread. We must shape our policy so as to gather the-best fruits from any arrange ment that may come out of the apparent general desire among all rail road people to correct abuses, and we must stand firmly to this policy. We do not propose to be the cause of any increased demoralization, not shall we stand in our own light by resisting the restoration and main tenance of rates, but we must be allowed to use the tools we have for bringing out of it strength and support for our new line. Il the heads of the strong lines will give their ^^anagers instructions to pursue a pdlicy of liberality towards the weak lines, it will be much easier to make an arrangement that will be lasting. It certainly cannot be done by the course intimated by H-r. Monroe. Very respectfully, C. F. Meek, General Manager. ■ > .v'V Dec. 1888. Chas. Francis Adams, 355 New York, Deo. 27, 18oS. Boston, Mass. Dear Bir:- I am in receipt of Mr. J. s. Cameron's letter. When I war. in Omaha ai.d brought thir question up they presented fi[q^res there showinc that the Republican "■''alley Branch was a burden upon the U. P. not earning its operating expenses and interest. I then (cannot I'ead balance of page.) the main line a great deal more than its percentages of earnings of these lines, and t hold tliat in fair treatment to t'".e U.P. the branches should receive full pay for 'what they do for tin mselves and what they do for the U.P. In other words they should sell to u," their business at t're best pay they can get, instead of the arbitra: iss which we have been in tiie habit of putting upor: thera. Probably Ihis branch s' .ows the poorest to the U. P. of any because it has the least haul over it. My proposition to sell the Omaha R. V. business going east from Omaha does not interfere in any wa3^ with business coming over that line to stations on t^^e U. P. I tal:e it the great bulk of the business on the Omaha R. V. line is east of the river, and a great portion of its merchandise comes from east of the river. On that business the main line virtually gets nothing, the haul being so short. Again, don't you suppose with this kind of showing if we would sell this business to a line east of the river, it would give the branch much more than we allow it? Yours truly. G. M. Dodge. 357 -rr December, 1888. Jacob Stein, i'armerville, La. C. . Elseman, New Orleans, La. JACOB STEIN & CO. Farmerville, La., Dec. 31st, 1888. Dear Genl: I arn in receipt of your kind letter, it is far more than my merits deserve. I do not know that I shall use it in Peru but I may and at any rate I am very grateful to you for it. Do you recognize the enclosed?.. Sometime ago I saw an article on this man Tumblety in connection with the Whitechapel murders in which it was stated that he was arrested in ^t. Louis during the war for adding to his other outfits the uniform of an Army Surgeon. I recollect him very well and also about his arrest. he used to parade about St. Louis in 1865 in yellow breeches,high Isoots, velvet coat and military hat. One day I was standing at the window looking down fourth street from our Hd. Quarters when i saw him coming to-wards Washington Avenue arrayed in a gorgeous brand new U. S, Army Surgeons Uniform. You happened to come into the room at the time and looking over my shoulder observed him and asked who he was. I replied "The Indian Herb Doctor" "'.'.'hat is he doing in that uniform," you asked and added, "arrest him and bring him up here." I did so and you reprimanded him severely and 1 think then released hin, it is a matter of no consequence, but 1 remember it and thought it might Interest Yours, E. Jonas. 859 1^''^ 1888. After we had finished the road from Galveston to Denver, the question was to turn the business of Denver through Galveston, and for the purpose of doing this, I wrote the following letter to the Denver papers "The obtaining of navigable •-ater, 25 to 30 fefet deep, at •three points on theGulf coast. New Orleans, Sabine Pass and Balveston, solved one of the problems that has been desired for years by the transpor'tation interests west of ti.e lakes. Already the roads running north and south betwee Clucago'and the L'issouri river have established tlieir southern tei'-minus at New Orleans, and are building up that port as first in tlie exportation of ooLton and cereals, and.are making such inroads unonthe eastern tide water cities in exports, imports and immigration that the entire commercial interests of those cities is arouned, and they are endeavoring to stop the Soutliern turn of the commercial tide. The question arises, how can the country west of the Missouri river take advantage of the deep water at Sabine Pass and Galvesto.^? The export of cereals west of the Missouri is drifting towards Galveston until it stands.next to New Orleans in exports of cotton, yet little has been done to faste the trade of Kansas and Nebraska and the mountain states to that port. Today their west and north bound traffic is hauled east and west for thousands of miles to and from the.Atlantic tide water points, while'right at their door lies a great port, competent tO' receive and handle all their freight, but lacks tiie capital and ocean facilities to command this trade in a regular uniform way. The battle for this trade now lies between the Eastern tide water ports and the Gulf ports; but the Gulf ports are so weak that they cannot control it without united, persistent, energetic efforts of the merchants, exporters and importers of the moutain states. Colorado is the center of those states, and Denver is the controlling business center of the mountain region. It is also the center of their capital and wealth and it is now time, for Denver to come to the front and make herself the trade center and representative of all the mountain-state. She has direct rail communication with Galveston by the Union Pacific, Denver fc Gulf Railwayi only eleven hundred miles to the best harbor on t];e Gulf of Mexicol If Colorado merchants combine and arrange to Import and export througi: Galveston using their liberal traffic rates and their tide water differentials for one year, it will establish regular freight and passenger sailings from the Gulf ports, not only to Europe, but additional steamships to the Atlantic states. No individual action will do thi s; it must be through an arrangement made by Penyer.^as^a commercial body, to organize and comDlnS tTne commercial Interesos sister mountain cities of adjoi' ing states, in which ti.eir merchants shall a 1 combine to ship through eoiae importing comraercinl house in Ga'lveston which is financially able to act as agent of the manufacturing and expoerting houses in Europe, as a beginning; to arrange throug. its agents to direct and command all shipments made in the different parts of Europe destined*to points west of the Missouri river, to those ports in Europe that have ships running directly to Galveston. To accomplish 'PFT! / S60 1888. this will require a stiffness of hackhone and deafness to the argu ments on the part of Colorado merchants, that will be used by every manufacturing and shipping house in Europe, they now being linked to djteamship lines destined to Eastern points. T:!e ocean rates to Galveston are the same as to New York, and when the order goes forth from the merchants of the mountain states for their shipments by this route under any and all circumstances, Europe will soon fall into line; steamships will soon be put on by the great European lines and your regular-sailings will grow from one to two a month or one or two a week, as the business may dictate. This will cause the same system to be adopted at the f^ulf ports that is now used at the Eastern ports. Importing commission houses at Galveston will represent the manufacturing and trading houses of Europe; these commission houses will sell by sample and order the goods direct, for a small commission, giving the credit of the importation and the shipment to the buyer. This movement once started, those roads which now have lines from the mountains to the Gulf-and to the East, now neutral in the great battle going on, will soon lend their aid to induce traffic through-the Gulf ports and will no longer try to force the routing of merchandise from its natural channel. They, have gradually given up the attempt to prevent the shipment of cotton and cereals through these Gulf channels and it is now only a short step for them to yield the passenger immigration- and merchandise imports and aid in builfling up a port o the Gulf that shall be to all the country west of the Missouri, what New York and Baltimore are to the^^ country e^st of the lakes. Denver will then be to th*- moutain states what Chicago and It. Louis are to the lakes and Middle-west. In making the surveys for the Union Pacific line in 1866 to 1870, it was necessary for me to run lines along the east base of the Rocky moun tains, which extended from the Arkansas river on the south to the North Platte river on the north. I even saw then that the topography of the country was peculiarly adapted for a north and south trmk line which would reach from the British possessions to the Gulf of Mexico in an almost direct line, folio -ing the eastern base of the Rocky mountains until it passed south of the Baton range, and thence running in a direct line across the plains of New Mexico and Texas to some deep water port on the Gulf. Gince then, I have advocated the building of that line. In fact, I have built a great portion of it, and now you have a direct,•continuous railroad from the Yellowstone river to Galveston, a line more direct than any line of its length in this country, and one of ligh curvature and grades. Now, with deep water assured, with a railroad line built and in operation, witn grades of only 1 per cent per mile, and with an almost steady fall _rom 8000 feet to the water, the question rises to all of us who have fought to accomplish this great result, why the people whom it so benefits, so steadily persist in trying to route their'business against time, distance, grade and their own interests, and more especiall the interests of their own city and state. I appeal now to them to take advantage of their greatest and best opportunity and make Denver and (ffalvsston, what, under the Government and the great expenditure of capital in uniting mountain and Gulf, they were intedded for." ■ ■ ■ . .. ... . ' . V Jne- t ■ S61 Council Bluffs Veterans* Ghildrens' Christmas. ify young Friends: Several years ago when I made the little donation for a Christmas to the children of the soldiers who had served with me and with others in the army it was with a view not only of giving you pleasure and making you happy with the little presents that you got, but that you might remember why it was given and that it might bring vividly before you the fact that your fathers and brothers and other relatives served their country so well; that you might be told of and have kept fresh in your memory their deeds. The fact that many of them died in battle and from disease contracted in our cam paigns, and also the fact that many of them served their country so faithfully and so well that it was saved; and also to bring vividly to you that you should hold sacred their memory and the history oi. what they accomplished for you and for their country. You should be taught in the schools why your fathers and your brothers died, and why they served in the army. The history should be so impressed upon you that it would be of daily mention and ever present with you; and you should always keep in your home or where it could be seen a flag of your country no matter how small, and hold it sacred from the fact that it was the flag your fathers fought for and i^reserved. Then you should look to the future. This country gives you and all others an opportunity which no other country in the world gives, and if this covintry ^ country should ever need your strong arms as it did your fathers' in its defence you should rally to its 3upi)ort not waiting to be drafted. Wone ol the many assertions that are made that people are onnoyed or oppressed in this country should find lodgment in your brain as its legislation its laws and its government has been always and in all cases to help the poor, the unfortunate and the down-trodden. The whole effort of the government and the people is in behalf of its people. Two laws alone sh'JW the tendency of our government; one the homestead and the other the pension. And as you go forth with every thing to help you--schools, churches, charities, everything that is good to guide youj there is no reason why you cannot rise to the highest position in this government, and everyone of you if you are industrious and honest hold a worthy and honorable place in your country and in society. You have got to be absolutely born bad to go wrong. As you read the history oi fhe country in which you live it will tell you that it has grown steadily, strongly and far beyond the gi-owth of any other country. It has grown so rapidly in the last ti.irty years that it has astonished the world, and that development could not have occur red if it had not been for the war. The war taught the soldiers who served in it to be self-reliant. It taught them to take hold of great enterprises, to take great risks, and wi.en they laid down their arms and came home and startea life anew they by themselves and by their example put energy and confidence and success not only in themselves but in others around them, and you see in the growth of the country what they have accomplished in thirty years, a growth and accomiplishment that under any other condition of affairs and any other experience 362 would have taken more than a hundred years. The country has been settled, occupied, organized and law is administered in all parts of it from the AtLantic to the Pacific and from tfe Gulf of Mexico to the British possessions. It is bound together by lines of commerce and by sympathy of states and government so that another test of its strength is not liable to occur. It has had the greatest test that any country in the world has ever had--a civil war where one-half of its people were aganst the other half, but where the result of the war held the country more firmly together and more united than it ever was before--a greater success than any such war h;.s ever conferred up on any other nation in the world. Therefore whilst the war was a great calamity it was a gre at blessing, and while you look upon the loss of your fathers and your brothers as an individual grief it was a national benefit. And now, my little i'riends, as I pass through the world leading a busy life my comfort and pleasure come to me often just as it has here to-night--in seeing the pleasure and happiness of others ana especially in seeing how well each community, each army organizatioi ■tries to take care of those who are in need, who have lost their best friends, and it makes me feel and say that the world is good and its people must be happy for they never tirg of doing good, and while you are young and cannot coiiiprehend the reasons for many things, still you are old enough to appreciate the good and iorget the bad, and to always be hopeful, to feel that il you help yourselves others will help you, and to bear in mind idleness is one oi the greatest evils and brings crime and many sorr-ows, therefore besure to Ix ve some object in life; keep to work.at sometning, and above all things be sober, honest, in dustrious and cheerful. Keep these great principles ever present and your life will be worthy of your brave fathers and brothers, and you will live and die happy. i n! <• 5/ ■ , . ..i https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/ad6a5415fb55ac1e41d6dca883dfa9e0.pdf 0b888fd0631e46a8a561956b07359a1d PDF Text Text mi 363 N.E.Dawson to W. H. Byers, Editor of Iowa in War Times. # 1. "He was commander of great v/orth, and a subordinate that any commander could ^jlace - implicit confidence in, for the reason that he was always just where he was wanted the most, and ready to do his part at any time and under all circumstances. He was valued by his superiors and also loved by his subordin ates. He knew how to command, and also knew how to win the esteem and confidence of those under him. I have heard those of his command say that he never asked.his men to do any act that he would not dare to do himself. He was brave in battle and never refused a challenge from his enemy. In fact, he was an honest, upright man, and heroic sol'- dier, and stood at the head of our army as commander of men. I have the greatest esteem for Gen. Dodge, and my only regret is that; I did not see more of him during the war." Such is the language of a letter just received from an ex private soldier who served for only a short time under Gen. Dodge. During that short period of service the impression made upon him by the extraordinary personality of his general was so deep and strong that it remains undimmed for more than a quarter of a century. What wonder is it, then, that soldiers who passed the principle part of their whole'service under Gen. Dodge strive to exhaust the vocabulary of praise when he becomes the topic of their convex'sation?. But it is not along the private soldier who observed and esteemed Gen. Dodge. Our most successful generals were among his greatest admirers and warmest encomiasts. "We all regarded Gen Dodge as one of the best officers of the army; a man of great practical common sense, of dis tinguished gallantry, of patriotic spirit, and of military genius. He had the confidence of all his commanding officers as well as the love and respect of all his inferiors, and especially of the soldiers v/ho served under him. Whenever he was entrusted with a military duty, all knew that it would be faithfully and effi ciently performed; and, withal, he was a very kind-hearted man." Thus has spoken one whose services in war and in peace fill a large place in the annals of his country; one wliose patriotism and gallantry in the year 1863 prompted him to the sacrifice of a limb, and the tender of his life, in honor and celebr-ation of the natal day of his country. I refer to Hon. E. F. Noyes, son.e time governor of Ohio, afterwards Minister to France, and once prominently spokeri of in connection with the presidency of the United States; a general who won his stars in one of the most gallant charges on record. "It was easy," said Governor Oglesby once in my hearing, speaking of his first meeting with Gen. Dodge early in the war, "for any one with the slightest observation to find out that Gen. Dodge had unusual capacities as a military officer. He was zealous in every project with which he was connected. I found him to be a tireless, active energetic officer, v/hose heart and soul seemed wrapt up in the cause of the national union ." Gen. Grant's trust in Gen. Dodge is well-known. It was evidenced by the responsible command he gave him during the Vicksburg campaign; and so completely was Gen. Grant',s fudgment in assigning him to that command vindicated, that, not content with officially placing Gen. Dodge's name at the head of all his recommendations for promotion,- for the great victory at Vicksburg- he was wont to miake him the subject of remark and unqualified praise in private and con fidential conversation in his domestic circle, and among his immediate friends and kinsmen. I base this statem.ent upon a private letter, which I have seen, dated July 11th, 1863, written just one week after the surrender of Vicksburg, by a relative of Gen. Grant who was then on his way north in charge of the General's little son, now Col. Frederick D. Grant. And the strength of Gen. Grant's reliance on him increased with time. Direatly after the battle of Chatta nooga he wrote the authorities in Washington: "The best suggestion I can make would be to promote Dodge for Steele's command," and, finding that this recommiendation was not heeded, he soon turned to Sherman, who was about to open the Atlanta campaign, and said in a letter of instructions to him, "I would recommend leaving that portion of the IGth corps in the field to the comrr.and of Gen. Dodge." Still later, as that campaign drew toward a close and the Lieutenant General was contemplating a prospective march to the sea, he fixed his eye upon Gen. Dodge for the command of that expedition; but an almost fatal shot frorii the enemy interposed to negative that design. Then no'sooner had Gen. Dodge sufficiently recovered from his terrible wound to resume active service than Grant wrote from City Point to his chief of Staff in Washington, Gen. Halleck: "Whilst I was in Washington, I urged the removal of Rosecrans and the substitution of Dodge for his place. I would like you to urge this upon the President." Grant's desire when President to palce Gen.Dodge at the head of the War Department is a matter of record; and, faithful to the end in his belief in Gen. Dodge's worth, when he cwmes to writing his memoirs, he exhibits a marked satis faction in reo-urring again and again, to the varied and signal services to his country rendered b:,' Gen. Dodge during the War. 365 Sheet :]? 2 Not less outspoken and unreserved are the next two Great figures in the military history of our country, Sherman and Sheridan. Sherman's memoirs are accessible to all, and I need not quote. Yet I am tempted to give in full one selfexplanatory letter, v/hich, coming all unasked as it did, ill ustrates the great commander's forethought, and his continuing interests in those who served faithfully diring the "time that tried men's souls." HEADQUARTERS ARIY of the UNITED STATES. • Washington, D. G., April 20, 1887. To U. S. Consuls. Abroad: I have just learned that Gen'l. G. M. Dodge is about going to Europe, where he may leave his child ren at school whilst he returns to America where he is actively employed in Railroad Construction and Management. I take great pleasure in commending Gen'l. Dodge and family to the courtesy and protection of all /^jnericans, especially such as occupy official station, because General Dodge is one of the generals who actually fought throughout .the Civil War, with great honor, and great skill, commanding a Regiment, Brigade, Division, and finally a Corps d'Armee, the highest rank com mand to which any ol'ficer can attain. He was with me in the West, esnecially in the At lanta campaign where he was severely wounded close to Atlanta, and I therefore think that he, and especially his children, should experience the attention of all officials of a Govern ment that might have perished, had it not been for the blood of just such men as General Dodge. With great r'espect etc., W. T. Sherman, In a recent conversation with Gen. Sheridan about the circun.stances under which he became acquainted with Dodge . in the early days of the war when both were unknown to fame as •military men, he said: "I met Gen. Dodge first at Rolla, in the organization of the southwestern army for the movenient which resulted in the battle of Fea Ridge. He was in command of the 4th Iowa In fantry and the post of Rolla. His regiment was a very fine one, composed principally of farmers and farrrier's sons. As chief quartermaster and chief comrtiissary of the army, I received great assistance from him during the difficult movement on Pea Ridge, he being tt en in comniand of a brigade. . I often had to supply the army by taking wheat from the stack and threshing SG6 it, aiid then taking the wheat to the Ciill, and grinding it into f-io.ur; and the same way with corn. I feel confident I never would have been able to carry on this slow system of getting supplies had it not been for the assistance rendered by Gen. Dodge and his regiment. They ran the mills and the threshing machines." Sheridan alos said that at Gen. Dodge's first battle, Pea Ridge, lie "did splendidly," and was "spoken of by officers and men of the army in the very highest terms." The War Governor of Iowa, than whom no one watched miore closely, discriminatingly and affectionately, the rise of Iowa Soldiers and officers during the war, took frequent occasion to put on record his admiration of Gen. Dodge's soldierly qualities "Gen. Dodge is one of the very best ndlitary nen froivi this state." He "is emphatically a fighting man." "He is undoubtedly,and utlconditionally loyal." "In reference to Gen. Dodge, I would say that there is not a more gallant soldier in the armiy, nor one more worthy or capable." "He has that energy of character, and capacity to commiand, as will enable him to discharge any trust assigned to hin.." etc., etc. It is not diff mieifibers of Congress from record, on various occas clarations as,- "Brigadi mianding the i;.ilitary dis m.and" under Gen. Grant in was refused for the'reas comimanded, the left wing could not be dispensed v; icult to find the diffe.rnet senators and the state of Iowa, and elsewhere, on ions during that period, with such de er-General Grenville Iv!. Dodge, then comtrict of Corinth, sought an active comthe operations against Vicksburg but on given, that his services where he then , were of the highest importance and • X t " ith. "What these services were are best miade known by the official fact that Gen. Grant named his first entitled to pro motion from the rank of brigadier to that of major-general. Again: "Since Gen. Dbdge has had a separate command in the southwest a long period, he has never been censured officially, or by the public, nor niet with a noticeable reverse, or miisfortune; he has commanded at times from twelve thousand to fifty thousand troops; now commands twenty-one regimients and five batteries; of whomi nearly eighteen regimients and three batteries have re-enlisted as veterans, mainly owing to his per sonal exertions and personal influence over his comiviand. He had raised from, the material found in the coimtry occupied by him, about four regimients of white troops (Tennessee, Alabama and V.ississippl) , and five regiments of colored troops. With in the last mionth, he has organized nearly two thousa id of the latter. Since he was placed in command of Pulaske, he has re built seventy miiles of railroad, re-mounted his original mounted force, and besides has officered three additional infantry re giments, and has turned over- to the Government about two thou- 367 Sheet § 3 sand iTiules and horses taken Irom rebels, and numerous bales of cotton. This, and niuch more, has been done in the midst of successful military operations against rebel detachments and Guerillas." And still again: "It has also been stated by an army officer that Gen. Grant had placed on official record that to Gen. Dodge more than to any other one man he was indebted for his successful siege of Vicksburg." Said Senator Grimes, on the 10th of August, 1863: "There are very few officers the equal, and none the superior of Gen. G. M. Dodge of this state, now and for a long time in command at Corinth, Mso. He has always been selected for the most responsible posts, and has always filled the highest ex pectations formed of him. I have failed to see the first man from tiie army, officer or private, who did not s^eak of him as the most active watchful officer in the service, known to them." "He now," writes another statesman, "holds the very important command of Corinth and surrounding district, being, in fact. Grant's left flank, on which his safety depends. He keeps no newspaper correspondentto 'write him up,' but his sup erior officers have expressed their opinion of him by always giving him command in advance of his rank." One of our greatest jurists. Judge Dillon, renowned for his calm, discriminating judgment and conservative temper, writes in the midsummer of 1863: "He was among the first to enter the service in this state. No officer in the service from Iowa has aci^uired more just and deserved distinction; no one has.been more faithful, dnd I may and should add, more useful and efficient. His great experience, his sleepless vigilance, his unconquerable energy, and above all his solid judgment and great practical talents render him not only a safe but a successful commander." . ' On relinquishing his command of the left wing of the 16th corps. MajorT-Ceneral Oglesby, solicitous for the best interests of the Union service, wrote to President Lincoln, July 3d, 1863, as follows: "Gen. Dodge is not a resident of Illinois, and I have no personal desire for his promotion, aside from my wish to do the best I can for the comii.on cause. I therefore in every point of view, as a military man and one, too, who deeply sym pathizes with our country and is anxious to end the war, declare you need have no hesitancy in nominating him Major General of the- U. S. V. I know of no officer at this time more deserving, nor of any who seeks the honor less. I am willing to be held responsible for his official acts," etc. The above by no means exl^austs the record of observ ation touching Gen. Dodge's military life, while that touching his civil life is still more Voluminous. It is, howevfer, amply S68 sufficient to serve the purpose nov- in view, Surely such a consensus of encomium cannot have been elicited by less than such a combination in one man of qualities and parts that, if directed by an ambition for popular applause and personal advancement, m.ust have brought the one in whom those qualities were combined, the meed of highest official stat ion, and the widest renown; and before we cannunderstandingly probeed to a view of his life, or of any considerable portion thereof, it is necessary to inquire whether this naturally to be expected sequence has resulted, and if it has not, why not? The answer to the first is that, in the sense in which popular favor and reward have been extended toward many who have sought and reached high political honors and ofiicial power, they have not been extended to, or more properly speaking, as we shall see, have not been accepted by him. Then why? The answer to this will unfold the secret to his . stupenduous success in whatever lines of enterprise he has under taken, whether civil or military, and place In our hands the key to a character than which few can be contemplated with miore de light by conteniporaties and students of character, or which can with more reason placidly await the calm censorship and unbiased finding of posterity. Loyalty is the one work, loyalty in its widest sense, which embraces both fidelity and capacity-- which will most nearly describe the key-quality. Loyalty permeates every act of his life; loyalty to his parents in childhood; loyalty to his employers in young manhood; loyalty to family, kindred and friends throughout life; loyalty to his Government always, and loyalty to duty as he sees it. It was a loylaty which was apt to forget self; a loyalty which yielded an habitual obedience to superiors in authority, and exacted entire obedience from inferiors placed under his control; a loyalty to friendship, prompting him to suffer uncomplainingly for the pranks of others at college, or the mis doings of friends or associates in later life. XL was this loualty to his Governmient and to duty which induced him to listen to the urgent appeals of his friends, who believed the cause for which he had fought for four long years was endangered, and accept an election to Congress after having persistently resisted their utmiost efiorts to persuade him to an acceptance of their support fur an election to the United States Senate at a time when he could not see such danger. In the one case, he thought the interests of the government were safe in other hands; and in the other, he was in doubt aboj.t it and overcanie his aversion, for the time being, to entering the political arena-- an aver sion to self-seeking, by the way, already hinted at in some of the foregoing quotations, and of which we shall presently learn still more . With an understanding of this great motive-quality of his character we are prepared to follow hin, through his military life, witnessing with less of surprise, but with all the greater 369 Sheet 4 aduiiration, the long sucoession of faithful, tireless service and heroic deeds, to the end of his military career. Indeed, were it within the scope of sucn a work as this, it could not but be a pleasure to follow hit on down throughhis management and control of colossal railroad and other non-military inter ests to the present time. The beginning of the war found G. M. Dodge, at the age of thirty, engaged in the business of freighting across the plains. This, however, was but one of several large inter ests in which he exercised a controlling ownership or manage ment,-- banking, mierchandizing and real estate being the chief. The house with which he was connected had established the first store at the place where the city of Denver now stands. Although reared under the political teachings of the party which opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln, and which revolted against it, his father having been an office holder, and ardent political worker for the advancemient of that party (but who repudiated its teachings and lead when Banks and Rantoul left it-- espousing the cause of the Republican party at its first organization), he was ready at once to drop his bus iness interests and go to the support of the Governmient with all his energy from the moment that the thunder of the first insur rectionary gun at Fort Sumter was heard reverberating through out the land. And it is not wonderful that the state and national authorities turned to him for counsel and aid in that dark and trying hour. Of a singularly modest and unpretentious demeanor, wholly devoid of ostentation, ye.,, young as he was, he had already become a man of mark^in the West; and he had attracted the attention of the solid men of the East by the faithfulness, directness, skill and loyalty with which he had admiinistered every trust confided to him. Not only this, but he counted among his tried friends the plainsmian and mountaineers-- not one of whomi was quicker on the trigger or a more deadly shot than he, an accomolishnient which, with others of a kindred sort, insured their profound respect, while his gentlemess of dis position and kindness of heart won their love and devotion. Even the rude Indians, whose hunting -grounds and villages he entered and departed from "at his own sweet will," were subject to these somie influences, and these san.e emotions,-- and no red warrior or chief ever yielded to pale-face a truer fr-iendship or a warmier devotion than Logan Fontanelle, chief of the Omiahas, to the yoathful, enterprising and daring engineer. For, young as he /was. Dodge had been long among them--a fact from which immeasurable advantage accrued to the Government during the great Indian war which he was deputed by the Lieu tenant General of the Army to conduct as the collapse of the Rebellion drew near. Upon attaining his majority he had already, though a !Iew Englander, become a pioneer on the border; and soon there after a conspicuous figure in pioneering railroad construction 870 between the two great rivers of the N.ississippi valley; as, after the war, he was in pioneering it across the great plains and mountain ranges towards the western shores of the continent. Again and again, on one mission or another, he had traversed the great plains,, and probed the Rockies in search of their hidden defiles and passes. Still more, he had found time, with all his other affairs to raise and drill a company of mil itia, for the command of which he was well fitted because of his military training at Ilorwich University, whence he had grad uated in the same class with the brilliant and gallant General T. E. G. Ransom, son of that brave Colonel Ransom, who fell bravely leading his n.en at Ghapultepec. Between the young Ransom and himself there existed the most romantic affection, ending only with Ransom's untimely death in the valley of the Coosa. .A brother of Hanson's is now, as for a long time he has been, in the General's employ. It was that institution (the Norwich University), founded by the once renowned Capt. Par tridge, which, among its other good soldiers in the war for the Union, can boast the name of Ivajor-General Terry, now of the United States Army. It is not at all demand at such a time, and of himself and company to should accept his personal time being, the proffered service on the frontier, patriots, ready to sustain no arms, no equipments, no prosecution of a military sive . strange that such a man should be in that, upon his tendering the services the governor of the state, tie latter service, though declining, for the . company, believing that he required its The state had no end of .enthusiastic the cause of the Union; but it had anything but men" requisite for the campaign, either aggressive or defenThe Iowa border was in danger, and the most impor tant duty of the hour was to obtain arms and munitions of war. Gen. Dodge was selected by Gov. Kirkwood to wrestle with the problem of equipping the first half dozen Iowa regiments-- a problem which had already proven to much for the Iowa senators and representatives at the Capital of the Nation. Armed with an appointment on the governor's staff, as aide, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and equipped with a letter of instructions from the governor, he set out on his mission Lay 9th, 1861. He first visited Sydney, in the extreme south west of the state, ostensibly to organize some military comioanies, but probably more than anything else to get on the track of'some arms stolen from the state of Nebi^aska, which were reported to have been secreted in that vicinity. It is interesting in these days of universal rail road comimuni cat ion, which this man has done miore than any other one to produce, to follow himi for a mjonth or two, and note in detail some of the features of his journeyings a quarter of a century ago. We find him breakfasting at Sidney Pay 10th, having come there by stage froiu Council Bluffs since the previous morning . Sheet if b On the 11th he ^ups at Glenwood. On trie 15th the stage puts him down at Eddyville, and he takes the trc.in over the newly built railroad to Keokuk. Thence he must have taken a steamer for St. Louis, where we f^nd him snugly provided for at Barnes' on the 21st; on the 25th he is at Leavenv/orth; on the 26th in St. Joe, and on June 3d he registers at Barnum's, again in St. Louis. June 6th finds him on the way to Baltimore, fare v30.- Gleepers, buffets, dining cars, air brakes, etc., etc., then unknown. He reaches Baltimore on the 9th; goes next day to Washington, registering at Willard's. He departs thence on the 16th for'New York, whei'e he remains until the 25th,- except that he "takes a run" to Hew Haven and back, to Albany and back, to Pittsburg and back, etc., etc. We next hear of him in succession at Davenport, Iowa, Alton, 111., St. Louis, Hannibal, Palmyra, St. Joe, and his home in Council Bluffs,- where we find him early in July. Mo one who knows with what marvellous energy Gen. Dodge pushes any project which he takes in hand need be told that this was not a mere pleasure "excursion." When the destiny of the Ntion seemed trembling in the.balance, it cannot be sur prising to such as know him, that nratters which originally engrossed his attention were for the time being, forgotten or ignored, and that he becan.e so nearly oblivious, even to those domestic ties which with him, as with G.en. Grant, were singularly strong, as to impel a well-mieaning but son.ewhat alarmed kins woman to take down her favorite author and quote in a letter of warning, " "■'< Now how are you dealing with this wife of yours, -if -sv i;- Do you Forget that she lives in the house, away from the excitement of the world which so much interests you, and the most excitement of the day is that which throws the warm bolld into eddits as she hears your step at the door? Do you ignore tb.e fact that she has a claim upon your time?" etc. But if this all-consuming zeal was bad for his private business interests, and discomforting to the dear ones at home, its results to the public service were most fortunate. On arriving at Washington, he lost notime in securing an interview with the Hon. Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War, and ac quainting him with the object of his mission. He endeavored to impress upon the Secretary the importance to the State of Iowa, as well as to the Union cause, of an immediate compliance with the state's demands, in order to enable it to protect its southern border from rebel invasion. The reply of the Secretary was, 373 She e t # 6 .'-j V - j A number of Influential Iowa people, and among them certain trusted friends of the Secretary of A'ar, were antagonistic to Curtis. Looking around for an available candidate they settled upon Dodgeand besought him to permit them to present his name to the President for that appointment, and Secretary Cameron se conded their efforts but Dodge refused his consent to this arrangement on the ground that he distrusted his qualifications for so important a command. Cameron then as if to meet Dodge's modest estimate of himself, offered him a captaincy in the regular army. This was declined also,- because he felt that its acceptance might conflict with his obligations to the Gover nor Iowa. Finally, Cameron telegraphed to Gov. Kirlcwood, saying he would accept another regiment from Iowa provided Dodge could have the command thereof, to which proposition Kirkwood acceded at once, a.id hence we next find Col. Dodge organizing the 4th Iowa infantry,- of glorious record. I first learned the elements of this bit of unwritten • history (the substance of which I have since verified from good authorities), fromi an old gentleman now resident in Washington, then a prominent citizen and politician of the West, a trusted friend of and on intiiiate relations with President Lincoln, Secretary Canieron, Fitz-Henry Warren, and others then influential with the Administration. This old gentleman characterized Dodge as at that time the miost retiring man of great ability he ever was; and described, with much merriment at the idea. Dodge's refusal to accept an appointment from the Secretary of War because of his doubts about being qualified to fill it satisfactorily. Col. Dodge on returning to his home in Council Bluffs, entered with characteristic energy upon the work of organizing and drilling his regiment, and also Dodge's Battery which he had been authorized to raise. His old company, the Council Bluffs, Guards, became company B of the 4th Iowa. The men of this company had imbibed the patriotic spirit of their com mander, and it was with no little chagrin that they had vainly sought admission into the 1st, 2nd, and 3d regiments, success ively, of Iowa volunteers. The governor declined to accept them for either of these r'egiments through fear of stripping that exposed portion of the state of its citizen soldiery. Dodge's former first lieutenant, E. H. Craig, now became captain of the company; C. A. Wheeler, 1st lieutenant; and W. . Eingman, his former orderly sergeant, its second lieutenant. The last named subsequently inmiortalized the name of Col. Kingman by seal ing with his life-blood his devotion to the cauoe of nationality and union. The adjutant of the 4th Iowa, Lieutenant J. A. Williamson, rose eventually to the rank of Brevet Vaj. General U. S. V. Col. Dodge had learned that there were some howitzers at Ft. Kearney, and he procured an order' from the generalin-G-hief of the army for their delivery to him for the use of his artillery company; this order however,, reached the command ant at Ft. Kearney a little too late. That officer had already sent then to anotlier post in obedience to an qrd?r from his department commander, and they were now beyond his reach. 374 Informing Col. Dodge of this fact by letter, he tried to console him with the remark- "I do not know what duty you are ordered upon, but il' on the plains, the howitzers could have been of no possible use to you, as they were all mounted on carriages•for flank casern,ents." So thatj in at least one case, he was out flanked and checkmated. But not for long; for before any portion of it was mustered into the UnitedrStates service, and before the. end of that month, we find him conducting a forced march at the head of infantry and artillery (Gapt. Clinton's Section) in. the direct ion of the Hidssouri border. The whole southwestern portion of the state of Iowa was in a ferment caused by the threatening advance of a large force of rebels under Feindexter. The rebel rendezvous was in Gentry County, Missouri, and their numbers were at least five times greater than that with which Dodge had set out to meet them. But the knowledge of his coming and the rapidity of his approach threw them into consternation and caused them to fly in all directions. Tiiey knew too well his terrible energy and determination to suppose there could be any fooling if he should come up with them, and they did not wait, to take the chances. As for Feindexter himself he was not until at Pea Ridge, eight months later. The vigor and rigor of D.odge's march on this expedition cost some lives,- but no equal number of lives pro bably ever accomplished more in the way of future security to the action in whose defence they were sacrificed. On this expedition. Col. Dodge first exhibited a faculty for which he was afterwards distinguished above all other commanders during the war, and which, .later on went far to make him of such exceptional service to Grant in the Vicksburg campaign and Sherman in that of Atlanta. It was the faculty of collecting information about the enemy. His spies and scouts swarmed through the camps and country of the enemy. One(after wards Lieut. Teal of 4th Iowa Inft.) went into the chief camp or rendezvous in Gentry County, Missouri, and having gathered what informiation he wanted, managed to entice a rebel . outside of the lines, then covered him with a revolver, made him a prisoner, carried him to Gen. Dodge's headquarters, and tendered him such hospitality and accomnodatio.is as could be offered at Dodge's bevouac fires. Returning by easy stages with his victorious soldiers to Council Bluffs, Col. Dodge soon completed the organization of his regiment and battery. Without awaiting the slow methods of the Quartermaster-general's office for clothing and equipments, he pledged his own credit lor what was necessary to fit them for the field. The all-important requisite of discipline, drill, and instructi n in the duties of a soldiers life,'were neither forgotten nor neglected. He infused his own ardent and tem pestuous spirit into his coniaand-- .a spirit which remained with and actuated them all through the war, as was abundantly 375 Sheet if 1 *' ' • attested in the March through Arkansas to Helena, at Vicksburg, at Arkansas Post, at Lookout Mountain, at Ringgold, in the Atlanta campaign, etc., all of which was after Dodge himself had been called to other fields of service, and after their glorious deeds under his lead at Pea Ridge. Early in August, Col.Dodge set out with his forces for the seat of war and reported at St. Louis on the 13th of that month. He preceded under orders to Holla on the 24th. Here the measles broice out among his soldiers, and with other camp diseases, threatened to play havoc. Notwithstanding Col. Dodge's care and precautions, the disease gradually increased in virulence in the camp; and his ov/n health at length was seriously impaired by his arduous labors, and his efforts to alleviate the sufierings of his men. Mrs. Dodge came, and sought with success to nurse him back to health; nor did her womanly heart permit her to forget the other sufferers in camp. 7/ith a few other ladies who had come from their Iowa.homes to be with their loved ones in the hour of suffering, she visited the hospitals, rendering what h^Ip she could, bestowing cheerful words of encouragement and receiving the dying messages of more than one poor fellow to be conveyed to the dear ones at home. . On the 9th of October, command of the post of Holla, talents and enterprise fro which in so high a degree. His scout as to the movements of Price, Mc Missouri. ' He comnianded expedit several times engaging the enemy wherever he niet them. In Decem though not dangerous wound, from weeks; and on January 21st, 1882 of a brigade in the army of the Col. Dodge was assigned to the Here he exhibited the soldierly he was afterwards distinguished s and spies kept him well posted Gulloch, etc., in southwestern i ^ns to Houston, Salem, etc., , whom he always defeated ber he received a painlul which he recovered in a few , was assigned to the comraan.1 southwest. It is necessary to a full understanding of events which transpired within the next six or eight weeks, to go a little i'-.to detail in reference to certain baneful influences which found their origin about this time. When Halleck superseded Fremont in the command o f the western department, he projected what became known as the South western Gampaing and under orders from the President, placed Gen. Seigle in command. The organization of the army for that movement, however, was substantially under the direction of, or at least the troops forming the expedition^, reported to Gol. Dodge commandant at the post of Holla, the point from which the exoedition was to set out. Gen Seigle proceeded to organize the command into brigades and divisions. ^ore than half of these troops were Germans, or of foreign nationality, and their officers held their comii issi ns from Gen. Fohn C. Fi-emont instead from the United States Government,-- Brig-Gen. Asbotl: and Gol. Osterhous comiianding divisions. S76 '"hen the American- troops arrived there was a great deal of feel ing among their comrnanding officers at the prominence given to the officers commanding the German troops who, as they thought, were not justly authorized to command them. Especially was this the case with the officers who like Colonels Carr, Jeff-. C. Davis, etc., were graduates of -^'est Point. This matter was represented fully by those officers to Gen. Hallock. A full statement to Gen. Halleck was also made by Col. Dodge, who son.ewhat criticised the organization, thinking the troops should be more intermixed. About the time that Siegle had completed the organiza tion and, as was undex'stood, was on the point of marching, Gen. Hallock assigned Drig-Gen. Gurtis of Iowa, to the command of the expedition. Thsi created great feeling among the German troops, and when Curtis arrived on the gi'ound he found this feeling amounting almost to an open mutiny. Instead of putting his foot down at once an nipping it in the bud, he rather cater ed to it, endeavoring to overcome it by the nistaken policy of giving to Siegle and his German officers and troops more privi leges and immunities than they were really entitled to; which course excited a similar feeling among the Americans, without al-laying that among the Germans. He also continued in the mis taken course that Siegel had inaugurated, of organizing the German troops into brigades and divisions, putting over them, officers that Fremont had commissioned, and the American troops into brigades and divisions with American officers over them. To make n.atters still worse he selected for his American Divis ion commanders Col. Jeff. C. Davis and Col. E. A. Carr, experienc ed and able soldiers but both of whom were subordinate in rank to their brigade comiuanders. One of the brigade conm.anders declined to serve, and was assigned to another comiiiand. Col. Dodge, however, deemed it his duty to the cause to serve; but he sent a letter to Gen. Curtis stating that he understood his rights in the matter,, but waived them. At the san.e time he requested that a ruling be made upon the question by the Department Commander. 'Vhen that ruling was had of course it was against Gen. Curtis, whose reasons for niaking these assignnients was stated to be that officers of the sane rank, though of prior commissicn or juster, must waive their rank lo officers'^of the same rank who had been educated at 'lAfest Point. battle of a disaste gallantry fastness there in grievance as one wi The elements of discord were fast ripening when the Pea Ridge was precipitated. We shall see how narrowly r was there averted by the diligent watchfulness, , self-forgetfulness, devotion to duty, and steadof Col. Dodge, who alone of all the prominent officers Curtis* command had any substantial ground for a against him, and he did not entertain the grievance llfully intended on the part of Curtis. It was during this expedition that Col. Dodge fii'st met Capt. Sheridan of the quartermaster's department. A friendship aprang up between them, born of their mutual earn estness in tlie cause of the Union, mutual support of each other in the performance of their duties, mutual tastes, and mutual diplikes of all that was selfish or ungenerous. 377 Sheet tt 8 There appeared to be some want of cordiality between the command er of that army and its quartermaster, and at length Capt. Sheridan was ordered to other fields of service; after which he and Dodge were never again closely associated officially. But the friendship there begun has never weakened. On the contrary it has strengthened with time, and is warmer than evei-, now that the one, after the lapse of a quarter of a century, is at the head of the United States Army and the other, of colossal business interests. In the mioven.ent on Springfield, Gen. Dodge was in commiand of the advance, and captured that city on the 13th of February. The enemy retreating southward, he had the advance in the pursuit, and was in the engagement at Cane Creek February 4th-and of Sugar Creek, February 17th. He also defeated Gates* comuiand at Blackburns' Itiills, Ark., February 27th. We come now to the battle of Pea Ridge, the details of which, of course, are most properly treated of in dealing with the life of Gen. Curtis, in chief comn.and, there . But the de cisive influence exerted by Gen. Dodge upon the result of that battle,renders it almost impossible to avoid a brief recapitula tion of some of its details especially those directly affecting the latter. Gen. Curtis' army was divided into three parts; the 1st and 2nd divisions under ^en. Siegel at Cooper's farmi, about four miles fromi Bentonville, Ark.; the 3d division, under Col. Jeff. C. Davis, 14 miiles northeast of that town, at Sugar Creek; and the 4th division, under Col. Carr, 12 miles south of Davis, at Cross Hollows. In case of an advance by th enemy, all were to untie promptly at Cavis' position on Sugar Creek. From each of these divisions large foraging parties were out in var ious directions, when, about two o'clock on the afternoon of ^.arch 5th (a cold stormy day). Gen. Curtis received through one of Col. Dodge's foraging parties, the astounding news that the combined rebel armies, all under Van Dorn, were rapidly approach ing, their advance being them only about twelve miles distance, in the hope of interposing between the scattered divisions before they could unite; in vhich case they must, one after another, fall an easy prey. Curtis sent imimiediate orders with all haste to his division commanders to concentrate at once on Davis, at Sugar Creek, and call in their foraging parties to the same point. The fourth division, according to Curtis's official report, was in m.otion within four hours; but Siegel, with the 1st and 2d divisions, deferred his march somie eight or ten hours longerand even waited with a regiment and a battery at ^entonville until about 9 o'clock (Van Dor i in his report says 11) next day, appar ently for no other purpose than to disconcery his commiander or, possibly, exhibit his skill in retreating under fire. The enemy appeared and endeavored to cut him off, in which they did not succeed. , The running fight which ensued constituted the engagemient of the 6th of N'arch, the unnecessary afiair costing us a loss of som.e twenty-five men killed and wounded, and re sulting in a good deal of confusion and weary marching, for 378-' nLW.^7'''(K' the 1st and 2d divisions, '.vhich, after once reaching Sugar Creek, were sent back to Siegel's rescue, all of which might have been avoided if Siegel had promptly obeyed his orders. The balance of that day was consumed in closing in and taking position; and throwing up defensive works. After a tiresome and exhausting march, Dod, e and his men were busily engaged in felling trees on the roads to the east, in order to obstruct the advance of the enemy by that flank. Having completed this duty, and knowing the country thoroughly. Col. Dodge about 4 o'clock P. ti. went to Gen. Curtis, who was wuperintending the building of a battery at the point where the main road ascends the hill north of Sugar Greek, and told him that in his opinion the enemy were evidently working to the right, and that there was a good roa .. leasing into Gross Timbers Hollow from Bentonville to his rear; that htere was a gorge through which that road passed which, if blockaded, would be a great source of delay to them. Curtis, unable for some reason to find some one else to do the work, turned to Gen Dodge after a short time and said, "You know the country, go and do it." Col. Dodge remarwed that his troops had marched and worked all night and day, and were worn out, but he would od as directed. Taking five companies of the 4th Iowa and two of the 3rd Missouri cavalry, heset out, striking Little Cross Hollows about 9 P. M. and felled all the tinber he could. Having gone in advance with the cavalry, the infantry under Capt. Nichols got off the track taken by the cavalry and moved towards the Benton ville road,making west until they struck the enemy. In follow ing- to get them beck, Dodge barely overtook them, in time to save them from cai^ture, as they could plainly hear the enemy moving down the road toward our rear. On retui-ning to camip. Adjutant Williamson remarked that they had not struck a picket on their whole flank. This alarmed Col. Dodge, and he went at once to Gen. Curtis, it being then about 2 o'clock A. M. of the 7th, reported to him what he had done and what he had found the enemy were doing, and gave it as his opinion that the enemiy would strike on Curtis's right and rear; and also told him that no pickets were out on the right;- afterwards by a change of front the left. Curtis seemed to doubt all this; where upon Dodge went back to his camp; but he could not rest easy. About sunrise next morning he received an order to attend a council of war at a church some distance in the rear of his position in the then line of battle, and between him and Elkhorn tavern. He was so confident that the attack would fall on Curtis's rear and right that, proceeding to the council, he gave orders for his command to break camp and follow him. At the council nearly or quite all but himself and Gen. Jeff C. Davis were for retreating. Curtis had fixed to fight fronting Sugar Creek but had made no provision for- defence on his right,- the vulnerable point,- which was all open to the enemiy's advance. Curtis appeared to be listening for the views of his Lieutenants without specially conJciLting himiself; but Davis and Dodge declared that they had come there to fight and that it would never do for themi to refuse now, since they had an opportunity. He told Curtis that retreat would ruin them especially in Iowa. Sheet # 9 379. While discussing the question, Col. Boyd of Carr's Division, who was picketing at the Elkhorn Tavern, sent word that the enemy were driving in his pickets. This was then di rectly in the Union rear. Curtis coming out saw troops stand ing on the road and asled whose they were. Dodge told him they were his. Gen.. Carr, who comn.anded the division, was present, and Curtis immediately ordered them to Elkhorn Tavern. Dodge led his command there with all speed, and in a few miinutes was hotly engaged, and fought with varied success on the extreme right, which his position became in the new formation which Curtis preceded.to make. At noon Gen. Dodge received orders to retreat slowly; but. sent back word that if he did, the day was lost. He urged that, if allowed to he could, and would, hold his position, and received permission to do so. He held his ground until dark, and when the fight of the day was over he had not a round of amniunition left. He had lost nearly onethird of his command in that _position. All of Price's army, about 12,000 strong, was pitted against Carr's Division. The second brigade of Carr's devision, on Gen. Dodge's left, gave way about two hours before Dodge went back from his position, which left Dodge's brigade alone to withstand Price's whole force. The enemy had got on both his flanks far to Dodge's rear, and one battery on the new line established about dark by Curtis, which was playing into the enemy, sent about half of its shots into Dodge's rear. Discovering this, he sent Lieut. 7/illiamson towards the Elkhorn Tavern to report the state of things to Gen. Carr, supposing him to .be still there, and 7/illiamson on his way ran into a regiment of the enemy, who fired upon him, but failed to hit him. Dodge then moved to the rear, to put the enemy who had passed around his left flank in his front. It was at this time that Curtis came on that part of the field with reinforcements and met Dodge moving, as he says in his official report, in perfect line, his men, "dressing on their colors in perfect order" toward the rear. Curtis desired to know what was the trouble, and was informed that Col. Dodge was entirely out of ammunition; and had held his position after everything to his left had fallen back leaving him to be surround ed by the enemy. Curtis directed him to charge back, which he did without hesitation, erroneous as he regarded the order, while Curtis went back to hurry up his reinforcements and re take Elkhorn Tavern, to Gen. Dodge's left. Gen. Dodge assured him that the enemy had possession at that point, that they had occupied it with several batteries, and that it would be useless to attempt to retake it with any force v/hich he could get upon the ground at that time. Part of Asboth's forces were got up and pushed against the enemy at that point, but the enemy's artillery fire was so hot that they were imn.ediately forced back. Gen. Asboth being wounded in the arm. As for Col. Dodge himself, he had charged across the field in perfect line to his old position, the enemy retiring befor him; but after dark, Curtis having failed to clear out the enemy at the tavern, he was moved back again, and took position in the new line that was forming to the rear. 380 .1 ' Gen. Curtis told Dodge that Siegel had been ordered around to his aid at noon on that day. Jeff C. Davis and Gusterhaus fought and defeated the enemy at Lestown, in the open country, the right rear of the previous night. Siegel had not been in the fight at all during the day. During the night Davis placed his division behind a rail fence; Gen. Dodge's line was formed in his rear as reserve, and from midnight till daylight they stood shivering in the cold night air, without fires or food, without sleep and almost exhausted, whils Siegel's troops, wlio were fresh, were sleeping soundly. During the night Siegel and Asboth desired Curtis to call another council of war and sent Gen. Bussy to him with a view to having one called. Dodge protested to Bussy that it was no time for a council, and reminded him that Curtis's orders were out for the next day and they must fight it out on that ground. Iv:orning came; Siegel's men deliverately got their breakfast, and failed to get into position until after 7 o'clock. About 7 o'clock the enemy opened a battery on Curtis's right, which enfiladed the rail fence behind which Davis's troops were aligned, and drove them directly back upon Dodge's men in the rear. Things were looking squally about that time. Curtis, who was lying on the ground waiting for Siegel to get into position and open fire sent for Dodge to come to him, and asked him what he thought had better be done if they failed to drive the enemy, since the enemy being'between them and the north, they were to all intents and purposes surrounded. Dodge replied, "Put my command at the head, and we will cut out to the'west to wards Pinesville . The enemy certainly are weak in that direction, for we hear nothing from them." Curtis said, "That is what we will do." , Soon after this, Siegel moved into line, Davis reform ed his men in their position, and Dodge, leaving his reserve po sition, r:oved again to the extreme right. I\('eantime the artillery on both sides had been actively at work for some time. At length the whole line moved forward,--the enemy gave way at all points, and the victory was won. In this engagement, what is called the third day of the battle, comparatively few men were lost on the Union side; the fact being that the enemy only made a temporaty defence to cover their retreat, which had commenced durins- the night. A pursuit was ordered. Wiegel followed the enemy to wards the north. Dodge pursued in the direction taken by the enemy's artillery on the White River road, and if he had been permitted to keep right on would have captured the whole of it, as it went without any considerable escort. 381 Sheet if 10 But after Dodge had pursued about two miles, he received from Curtis peremptory orders to return to the battle field. Arriv ing there, he was shown by Curtis a letter he had received from Siegel advising him to get back with his whole command, as Van Dorn might recover and resume the offensive. Curtis remarked that he could not stop him, and that he had got as far as Keitsville; that he desired Dodge to hold the battle-field for, if it was abandoned, the enemy might occupy it and claim the victory. Curtis said that he was not going back,- he was going forward,- and that iiegel must return. Col. Dodge camped on the battlefield. Gen Curtis succeeded in getting Siegel back by the evening of the next day, and soon thereafter Curtis with the main body of his army moved southward again, leaving no room for question as to who was entitled to the victory. Not until the battle was over, the pursuit suspended and Dodge settled in camp did he realize the severity of his wounds. They had given him so little concern during the con tinuance of the struggle that he had not even reported them. Every field-officer in his brigade had been killed or wounded, and four horses had been shot under him,- three of them killed. One of these, according to his Division-commander's official report, had been struck by no less than twenty balls. The wonder is, therefore, not that he had been wounded but that he had escaped so many perils with his life. He had seemed to bear a charmed life in the midst of danger, but now thatpeace and quiet reigned, a reaction set in which left him prostrate. To add to his sufferings and the peril of his situation, the wound which he had received some months, before relapsed in sympathy with the general break-down of his physical system, and he was sent to Keitsville in the charge of a surgeon. Friends notified his wife, who on the departure of the expedi tion from Rolla had repaired to the home of a relation in St. Louis in order that she might be where she could easily com municate with her husband, and she hastened with all speed to his assistance. A perilous journey over the rugged hills of South west Missouri at a most inclement season signalized her womanly anxiety and heroic determination to be by his side. Under her gentle and tireless ministrations he rallied, and at length was able to be conveyed by easy stages to St. Louis, where he gradually but steadily recovered. On the way to St. Louis, at Lebanon, March 27th, 1862, Major Gen. Halleck telegraphed him that, he wai§ made Brigadier General at his (Hal],eck s) request, for his services at the Battle of Pea Ridge, that being the first promotion made. Having sufficiently recovered to resume active duty, as he thought, on the 12th day of May Gen. Dodge reported by telegraph to the War Department for orders. On May 27th orders came to report in person to Gen. Halleck, before Cor inth; and for that field he promptly set out, arriving there on the 6th of June. Then, under orders from Halleck, he proceeded to Columbus, Ki5^., and reported to Gen. Quimby, who, June 11th, assigned to him the command of that Post, and the responsible duty of superintending the rebuilding of the Mobile & Ohio R.R. 'which ,had been wholly destroyed by the rebels in their retreat southward.- Establishing his headquarters in the house recently vacated by the rebel Gen. Bishop Polk, Gen. Dodge with charact eristic energy, set about getting the affairs of his command well in hand. On the 12th, he went over the railroad on a hand car to a point 64 miles south of Columbus, staked out three large bridges to be re-built, and laid his plans in a general way fro completing the restoration of the road and putting it again in running order. a body of consummate both Ealle danger .■ friend he came near and I took About the middle of June he had a sharp skirmish with rebels, in -which he managed his forces with such skill as to call forth the hearty compliments of ck and Quniby; and here he again found the post of Alluding to the affair in a letter to an intimate said;- "I got a shot through my vest and jacket that being a settler; but a miss is as good as a mile,- the crowd that was opposed to me." V/ith such energy did he push his railroad work that as early as the 26th of June he was enabled to ride over the road to Corinth, upon the first through train. In recognition of this signal service to the cause. Gen. Halleck assigned him, two days later, to the command of the Central Division of the Mississippi with headquarters at Trenton, Tenn. Gen. Cuinby had come to rely so much upon his skill and enterprise that on hearing of Gen. Halleck's purpose to put himi into a new command, he telegraphed the General urging tnat Dodge be not takenaway from him if it could be helped. At night of the very d::y on which he established hiS headquarters at Trenton, Gen. Dodge received an order from Halleck by telegraph to move with his division to Hickman, go by river to Cairo, and thence proceed to Richmond, Va. The report was that McClellan had been whipped. With his accustomed promptitude. Dodge moved at midnight with his division, eight thousand strong, including five batteries of artillery. He had marched about thirty miles, and made arrangements for em barkation, when orders came to halt and about-face. He after wards learned that Halleck had set aboat twenty-five thousand troops in motion for the same destination. Gen. Dodge returned to Trenton and there he had two original problems to deal with. One was the question of how to meet the guerrilla warfare,which was then causing all our g€;nerals so much trouble. At that time the country which con stituted his district swarmed with guerrillas. Desoerate evils require desperate remedies, and he proceeded to apply the only remedy that would be effective there, and that was, to shoot the guerrillas as fast as they could be caught. The event vindicated the means adopted. 383 Sheet # 11 The other question was one of discipline in his own ranks, and^this he solved withequal completeness and even greater promptitude. During the month of July, he finished work on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, built stockades at all its important bridges and stations, and put it in shape for continued mili tary use. Besides, during his command at Trenton, the capture of Dyersburg, Huntington, O'Brien, etc., were effected; and Villipigne was defeated on the Hatohie river by troops under his command. Later, his command was enlarged, and he again estab lished his headquarters at Columbus. ?diile in this command, Jaulkner and his forces were captured near island No. 10, and also a camp of state troops and conscripts, some 1400 in num ber, about 23 miles west of Madrid. In short, Gen, Dodge displayed such energy, skilb and success, not only in action but in administration, as to attract the attention of Gen. Grant, who, at length, had again resumed command in that quarter on the promotion of Halleck to the comrnand-in-chief of all the ariiiies. On the 29th of Sept ember, Gen. Grant assigned him to the command of the 4th division, district of West Tennessee. About three wee^s later (October 24th) Gen. Grant telegraphed him to report in person at Corinth and assume command ol' the 2d division. Army of the Tennessee, the division that Grant had organized at Cairo; and about three weeks later (Nov. 15th, 1862) that of the district of Corinth. His duties here were of such a complex and respon sible nature that it would require more space than can be given to the description of them in a volume such as this. Enough that both as an administrative and executive officer, he more than met the expectations of Gen. Grant. The relation of his command, as the protection of Grant's left flank in the movement against Vicksburg, has already been mentioned in the words of Gen. Oglesby. He occupied a very similar relation with refer ence to the right flank of Gen. Rosecrans, and both of these commanders very largely depended on him for their information touching the movements and operations of the enemy on their respective fronts. The faculty which he had displayed so not ably in his first expedition upon the borders of Iowa, and again during his command at Rolla, Mo., and on the Pea Ridge campaign, here found its highest development and placed himin the very front rank as a systematic, reliable and accurate student of rebel military operations. His scoiits swarmed through the rebel country, and his spies were to be found in every camp and important city in the interior of the south. Necessarily, his command was generally widely scatter ed throughout his large district; but so well did he keep it in hand and so well posted was he as to the movements of the enemy, whether in large or small bodies, that scarcely a single out post or detachment of his comnand came to grief during the long period which intervened from the time of his taking command to 384 the fall of Vicksburg on the one hand and the disasterous battle of Chickamagua on the other. On the contrary, if any rebel force, whether large or small dared to invade his territory, his concentration against it was sure to be speedy and overwhelming,- if not overwhelming by force of numbers, certainly so by force of momentum and skillful handling. Forrest, Roddy, Ferguson, and others in their turn were met and vanquished in engagements which rose not to the full dignity of battle only when the enemy failed to exhibit the necessary staying qualities; while Tuscumbia, Florence, Grenda, etc., responded obediently to his sumiions. His enterprise embraced every phase and feature of successful was. He completed the fortifications about the City of Corinth. He rebuilt railroads needed for the Union service, and dest.rayed those needed by the enemy. He made Unic^n soldiers out of contrabands and loyal refugees,-- and sunoorted the families ana friends of these refugees, in thou sands, out of the proceeds of their own industry, which he caused them to apply according to plans marked out under his own di rection. ' He sent spies into the camps of the enemy, and caught and hung the spies of the enemy when they came into his camp. He helped to give Grierson a good send-off in his raid back of Vicksburg, and Streight on his less fortunate one to the rear of Bragg. The Confederate Government estimated his de struction of stores, grain, bacon, etc., cribbed and housed along the line of the I.emphis & Charleston railroad between Bear Cre^-k and Decatur, for the purpose of subsisting Bragg's army,at :|21,000,000. Lastly, but by no means least important from a military point of , he repaired in person to Washington, in response to a call of President Lincoln, who desired his counsel touching matters connected with the construclion of the Pacific railroad, and especially his advice with reference to the selection of the initial point of that great national highway. Gen. Grant's frank acknowledgement of his own indebt edness to Gen. Dodge for his abundant measure of success, has already been noted. Creditable would it be to Rosecrans had he been equally frank and just. But there was little in common between these two commanders. Grant was ready both to receive and to acknowledge aid from whatever source,-- and Vicksburg fell. Rosecrans scouted and scorned Dodge's warning of the approach of Longstreet untiltoo late,--and Chickamauga resulted. The authorities in Washington instantly turned to Grant and ordered him to the relief of the defeated, shattered and beleaguered army of Rosecrans. Still physically help less from a terrible hurt, then recently received. Grant had himself borne at ;jnbe to the steamer at the Vicksburg landing, and, as fast assteam could convey him, hurried to the pointof danger. As in the noment of victory he had remenibered whatever of subcess he owed to Dodge's services, so now in the presence of a new danger he did not lorget in whom to place reliance. 385 Sheet § 12 Writing his instructions to Sherman, who was bringing for ward the re-inforcements he had ordered to Chattanooga, he says: " The division thus relieved bring forward under Gen. Dodge. He is an able officer, one whom you can rely upon in an emergency.' Counting upon' the prospect of a desperate struggle at Chattanooga, Grant wanted his best fighting material; and Dodge responded v.l th his accustomed promptitude and alacrity. But by the time Dodge had traversed with his command half the interven ing distance, Grant had become convinced that to subsist his forces at Chattanooga ha must have increased transportation facilities. The Nashville & Decatur railroad must be rebuilt. He wanted Dodge at Chattanooga because Dodge had few equals as a fighter. But he must assign Dodge to that railroad con struction, because he had ^ equals in that lin.e of service. Had Gen. Dodge been possessed of a consuming ambition for personal advancemient, he must have regarded this as a great misfortune; but as his whole soul was wrapped up in the cause of the Union, he at once, and without a murmur, stripped him;self for the work before him. His command was quickly scattered along the line of the road, and under his own personal direction the work of rebuilding went on with unparallelledrapidity; in conse quence of which Dodge rose rapidly to even a still higher plane in the apiireciation of the Victor of N'issicnary Ridge than he had- -if occupied in that of the Victor of Vicksburg. Not only did he build and guard that long line of comn.unication, but for ninety days he subsisted his widely scattered command, consisting of some,12,000 troops, with some 6,000 animals, off the enemy's country. Establishing his headquarters at Pulaski, he completed the entire line within about forty days, including 183 bridges, trestles and other structures. During this period also he captured Decatur, Ala. , in a well planned night attack, with all its garrison. On the 4th of Way, began Gen. Sherman's ever-memorable campaign against, Atlanta. As his vast army moved against Joe Jolinston's position at Dalt n, Gen. Dodge in the command of the left wing of the IGth array corps, a command which he had held since the 8th day of the previous July, led the advance. On the 9th of May, Dodge had driven the enemy back on their rail way at Resaca, and was eager to plant his corps astride the road and force the enemy either to battle or retr-eat; but in this he was overruled by his superior in command. He participated in the battle of Resaca, a few days later, and.substquently, in all the great battles of the campaign. At Nickajack Creek, Sallas (where his corps repulsed a dangerous night attack), Kenesaw Mountain (in the assault of which the men of the 16th corps reached nearer to the enemy's lines on the crest than those of any other), and in numerous smaller conflicts he greatly dis tinguished himself. At the battle of Duff's Mills he defeated an assault from the entire corps of Gen. Hood. Not long after he built at Roswell, Ga., a bridge across the Chattahoochee, which was a marvel to all nilitary men because of its proportions and ■V ' • ? the speed with wich it was conv leted. It was a substantial double track structure, 1700 feet long, 12 feet high, and was completed within about three days from the time 6f his arrival with, his corps after a forced march of 30 or 40 miles. Over this bridge the entire army of the Tennessee, with all its trains and artillery, passed in safety. About this time he received his commission as K^ajorGeneral, bearing date of June 4th, 1864. The morning of July 22d, 1864, found Gen. Dodge's corps considerably dispersed. In Closing in around the City of At lanta, Gen. Dodge's corps, which held a position on the right of the army of the Tennessee adfoining the left of the army of the Ohio, becoming cramped in that position, was ordered toa position on the extreme left. One of his batteries had been placed in the line of the 17th army corps. A brigade had been sent to Decatur to guard the trahs. Another brigade had been placed in reserve about a mile, more or less, in rear of the left of the 17th army corps. Two brigades were on duty at some distance-- one at Rome, and one guarding the armiy trains en route from Roswell to Decatur, a portion of which took part in the battle at Decatur. The balance of Gen. Dodge's command v/as mioving to take position on the extreme left. The head of this moving column having come up to the position occupied by the brigade in reserve behind the 17th corps, halted for noon lundi . Gen. Dodge, who had been to the left personally to select the grounds on which to take up his position, had just returned to his com mand, preparatory to leading it to the position selected. Be fore ordering his command forv/ard, he accepted the invitation of one of his brigade commanders to lunch with him. While thus occupied, the enemy appeared suddenly, marching in heavy columns from the rear. In an incredibly short space of timie Gen. Dodge's command, springing to their arms, formed in line of battle. Their position was in an open field, without shelter of any kind. The enemy coming out of a dense wuod which skirted this field, pressed forward with splendid spirit in vastly superior numbers. The attack had been totally unexpected fromi that quarter. The calculation of the enemy had been, to completely surprise the army of the Tennessee, and, by the fury and momentum and weight of their attack, sweep irresistibly over whatever force they should come upon. Riding rapidly up and down his lines. Dodge encour aged his men to stand fast, and quickly inspired then, with a determinatinn to hold their ground or die in the attempt. It was one of the fiercest fought contests of the whole war. A rebel Brigadier-General who . was present at that battle but not a participant in the struggle at that particular point, is now a United States Senator. I heard him say , in a conver sation about that battle only a few days ago, that the thunder of the artillery and the noise of the small arms of that strug gle between Gen. Dodge and his assailants, was the most deafening, incessant and frightful for the time it lasted, of all his exper ience . 387 Sheet # 13 While the struggle was go.ing on, Gen. KlcPherson, comrr.ander of the Army of the Tennessee, rode up and watched the progress of Dodge's battle. He was acconipanied by a single aide, the rest of his staff having been dispatched in various directions; This aide has left on record his impressions of the fight as seen by Gen. KcPherson and himself. He says;- "The scene at this tinie was grand and impressive. It seemed to us that every mounted officer of the attacking column was riding at the front of or on the right or left of the first line of battle. The regimental colors waved and flutter ed in advance of the lines, and not a shot was fired by the rebel infantry, although the movement was covered by.a heavy and well directed fire from artillery which was posted in the woods and on higher grounds, and. which enabled the guns to bear upon our troops with solid shot and shell, firing over the attack ing column." "it seemed impossible, however, for the enemy to face the sweeping, deadly fire from Fuller's and Sweeny's divis ions; and the guns of the 14th Ohio and Welcker's batteries fairly mowed great swathes in the advancing columns. They showed great steadiness and closed up the gaps and preserved their alignments, but the iron and leaden hail that was fairly poured upon them was too much for flesh.and blood to stand, and before reaching the center of the open field, the columns were broken up and thrown into great confusion. Taking advan tage of this, a portion of Fuller's and Sweeny's divisions, with bayonets fixed, charged the enemy and drove them back to the woods, taking many prisoners. m Had the 16th corps given way, the rebel army would have been in the rear of the 17th and 15th corps, and would have swept like an aval anche over our supply train, and the position of the army df the Tennessee would have been very critical." It is not too m.uch to say that here, as at Pea Ridge, Gen. Dodge saved the Union army fron. a terrible dis aster. As already stated, his command was temporarily scatter ed and he had present Iiere only about 4500 mien. He fought under the disadvantages of a surpoise by a force three or four times as large as his own, a force, too, comprising the very flower of the Southern armiy, under their best leaders, who had pitched upon him with a full determination to win at all hazards. That he should have been able, under such circumstances with such a force, to meet and hurl back in confusion such an enem.y, and in the end maintain his ground, is one of the most diffi cult events of the whole war for the belief of sober minds. In the charge, which he ordered direct and without waiting for the order to go through the usual channels, he took prisoners representing forty-nine different organizations, besides repre sent nine brigades and tl.ree divisions of the enemy. Hard fighting was done after that, during the day, but theie is no doubt that from that time on to the close of the contest at dark, the enemy's fight was for the purpose of safely getting back into their lines in front'of Atlanta. The enterprise on which they had ventured, coming out of their lines and.marching around our flank to our rear to ac hieve it by a cat-xike spring, ahd been decisively defeated by Gen. Dodge and his men. Could they now get back into their works in time to save Atlanta, all would not be lost. That was the victory they now strove for,- and strive heroically and long. 'Mzen the next small hours cam.e they had won; that is, had regained their own defences. But it was no fault of Gen. Dodge's that they were permitted that measure ofsuccess. He not only continued to hold his.own position until the end of the i'ighting, but sent relief to and helped repair the broken line of the 15th corps, later in the day, and then shared in maintaining that line intact to the end. Not only were his men invincible when fighting under his iir.mediate direction, but so well had he trained .them that he could count on them when they were left to their own resources. Hood had sent out four cavalry divisions, along with his infan try forces, and two of these divisions were pitted against Dodge's isolated brigade at Decatur. The battle there was fierce and prolonged, but as the shadows of evening were lengthening a courier came with a welcome note, hastily penciled upon a soiled crumpled and ragged piece of paper, whiach read as follows July 2kd, 1864. 6:30 P. M. General: The enemy have fallen back and are reported in line of battle on the south side of the town. I have thought best not to return to town without orders, as I cover our trains better where I am. A prisoner reports that four (4) divis ions (of cavalry) left Atlanta this morning; two attacked Decatur and two had gone to destroy Roswell Bridge. Col. Reiley's bri gade is 3/4 of a mile in my rear a.-^id right. Respectfully, your obedient servant, J. W. Sprague, Col. Coradg. Maj . Gen. Dodge, Comn.anding the 16th Corps. Gen. Dodge's loss in killed and wounded was larger than that of any other organization of equal numbers engaged that day; and on that part of the field where he commanded in person he lost no prisoners. Of Dodge it has been often said, that he never com plained of his subordinates. He was, and is, one of the most considerate of men towards his subordinates (in this respect being an exact counterpart of Gen. Grants but I have learned of a single case where he did complain, or at least establish ed the lact thrt he could be "vexed." The case is mentioned in a private letter which I have seen written, less than a week after the battle above described, by Capt. W. H. Chamberlain, then a member of Gen. Dodge's staff. 389 r ■■ ■; Sheet #14 As it also describes and illustrates the discomforts resulting from the situation and movements of the army at that period I canndtdo better than quote. "That night (26th} we had orders to march at night. Our tents were struck at dark, and the wagons went off. The troops were to move at midnight--16th corps first, 17th next, and 15th last. '.Ve lay down on the ground and waited till mid night. Then in the darkness and the dust we started on another grand flanking operation, from the extreme left to the extreme right. We had to find our road as best we could, and such a time as we had you never saw. We left an orderly at.every cross-roads to direct the head of tlie column which road to takb, and then would push on and find the next road. When our orderlies were about used up, we began to build fires at the forks in such a way as to indicate how to go. At a little beI'ore daylight we came to a place where we intended to bivouac, , and we stopped. Long after daylight I awoke and found that the troops were still marching in. Our wagons were away be hind, and no breakfast was there. Finding that we could not miove for an hour or more, I went to our hospital and got my breakfast. "At 9 we started, and if we had trouble at night to find roads, that trouble was increased ten-fold in the day. Gen, Dodge roade all over the country-- across fields and everywhere, to get roads, and finally succeeded in getting through. We began going into position at 4 o'clock of the afternoon (of the 27th), and continued on in the same business until after dark. We had to drive back the enemy's skirm ishers and establish our lines. Oh, what arunning to and fro it took! Gen. Dodge was never still. At the front all the time, he personally superintended every movement, and only left the field after dark. We had some Lively skirmishing, lost none, but killed a rebel captain. Gen. Dodge left me and Lieut. Tichener on the lines to see how they were established, and we had the delectable privilege of staying out an hour longer without our supper. We soon found this was but the smallest of our troubles. When we started in, we couldn't find the way. It was all dense wood, no roads. Finally we got out into the roads which we knew, and then discovered that we didn't know where headquarters were. What a search we had'.- but no success. After nearly an hour wo found an ambulance belonging to our train, and I learned that po headquarters had been established. Gen. Dodge, who had also been hunting the headquarters, came up about the same tim.e. He was very much vexed to find no headquarters and nothing to eat. We had eaten nothing since breakfast, and had been very hard at work. He sent an orderly to bring something, but went to sleep before he returned. The orderly brought some ham, bread and coffee, which he proceeded to demiolish." etc. In the battle of Exar Church on the 28th of July, only a portion of Gen. Dodge's corps was engaged. They had been sent by Gen. Dodge to the assistance of the 15th corps, 390 and the latter received Gen. Logan's hearty thanks for the prompt assistance thus rendered. Gen. Dodge's connection with this campaign terminated on the 19th of August. In a correspondence of theCincinnatti Gazette under date of Aug. 20th, 1864, I find the following reference to the event. "There are thousands of sad hearts in the 16th corps today. Its coiunander lies low on a bed of pain, wounded, by a rebel bullet. News of a defeat could hardly give more pain to the hearts of the oificers and men of this corps than the.announce ment which they have heard today. Gen. Dodge is wounded, and to his many friends in the North who have watched wLth highest gratification the record of his brilliant career in the army, and have read therefrom bright promises in the future, this news will come with a shock of disappointment. Scarcely have we time to realize the loss of the heroic NcPherson until a se cond blow deprives us of the presence andprestige of this tower of strength to this portion of the army,--the vigilant, unweary ing General Dodge. Happily, I can say that, beyond taking him from the field for a few weeks, there is no cause foj? alarm. Very fortunately the rebel sharp-shooter sent his deadly missile a half inch or so too high, so that instead of penetrating his brain, it inflicted an ugly wound on the top of his head. The General, as was his invariable custom, wiching to make apersonal examination of that portion of his front at the left of Gen. Corse's division, went out there this morning, accompanied by Capt. Ford of his staff, and one or two orderlies. Not content with the view from the front line of the works, although there is constant danger there from flying bullet's, the General, following a little trend, made for the purpose, walked out to the picket line. The pickets of course were intrenched, and have little port holes i..a,de by setting two boards on a parapet, with their upper edges touching, their lower edges thrown apart, and then covering them with dirt. Through one of these Gen. Dodge was looking, when some rebel perceived him, and fired with almost fatal effect. The ball struck the forehead at the upper edge, over the left eye, tore off a portion of the scalp, and then, passing backwards, tore a gutter two or three inches in length through the scalp. The skull is not fractured, though it re ceived a severe stroke. He was immediately conveyed to his quarters, where he now lies. He will be sent North as soon as practicable." For some length of time after receiving his ound. Gen. Dodge was unconscious, and supposed to be lifeless. The first news of theevent sent northward reported him askilled. This telegram was published in all the papers of the country, but fortunately for the General's wife, his consciousness re turned in time to have a telegram sent directly to her giving the true situation, and this telegram reached her before she saw that which appeared in the newspapers. Gen, Sherman had a car prepared es.iecially to carry Gen. Dodge to Nashville, whither his wife had hastened to meet him. From there \;rs. Dodge accompanied him to Greenville, 391 Sheet # 15 Indiana, where under the best medical treatment attainable, he rapidly recovered. ^IJhen the General had recovered sufiiciently to travel, they went to their home in Council Bluffs, and then -visited his birth-place, and friends in Massachusetts. While East, responding to a wish indicated by Gen. Grant, he visited Grant's*headquarters at City Point, and remained with him for ten or twelve days. Gen. Dodge was the hero of the hour, and was accorded an ovation whever and whenever he appeared in public during his travels in the North and East. I have been looking back through the pages of the Boston Journal of that year, and I find the. follo'.ving therein: "ivaj.-Gen., Dodge, attached to the Army of the West, arrived in this City, and is at the Parker House. He has been in over forty battles and skirmishes, and has been three - times severely wounded, at Rolla, Pea Ridge and Atlanta. He has just returned from a visit to Gen. Grant, where according to his report everything is progressing finely. He v/ill re turn to his post on Monday next. Gen. Dodge attended the great Union meeting at Faneuil Hall yesterday afternoon, and was personally complimented by Mr. Everett, v;hose eloquent allusions to the hero drew forth most enthusiastic applause. On another page of that paper is a report of the ■meeting referred to, from which I quote the following para graph: "Mr. Everett on being introduced was received with rounds upon rounds of cheers. Before entering upon his speech, Mr. Everett remarked that he was sure there was one najTie which Mr. Loring would not have omitted froui his list of those who had done good service in the Union cause if he had been aware of his presence-- "Maj-Gen. Dodge, who honors us .with his presence." "Loud calis were made for Gen. Dodge and as he ascended the platform, he was greeted with trem.endous cheers, which were renewed as I. r. Everett pointed to the General's forehead, saying--* Straight from Atlanta, gentlemen, with marks of honorable warfare upon his brow--straight also from _Gen. Grant in front of Richmond, who has assured himi that he feels that he is master of the situation.'--Mr. Everett then spoke as follows." etc., etc. Returning to his comn.and as soon as he found himself fit for active service. Gen. Dodge was assigned by Gen. Sher man to the command of a coluim designed to operate fromi Vicksburg upon Mobile from the rear. While en route to take this command, a dispatch over took him at Cairo, assigning him to the command cf the Department of Missouri, vice Gen. Rosecrans, relieved. This comniand was given Dodge by the President of the United States at the instance of Gen. Grant, to whose urgent request for that assignmient I have already alluded. Very soon after assuming comrnand, pursuant to his orders, he received orders from the General-in-Chief to send all the troops he could spare from his Department to the assis tance of Gen. Thomas at Nashville. .Vith his accustomed prompt ness, he obeyed the order to the very letter--indeed, he stripped his Department of all its organized troops. So thor oughly did he obey the spirit as well as the letter of the order, that he retained nothing with which to hold his Department ex cept the partially organized regiments of Missouri State Militia. Who knows but that this prompt action saved Thomas from a .disast er, in place of the glorious victory he won shortly after Gen. Dodge's troops reached him? In view of that splendid result achieved, and in view of the risks he had taken in hisown Department, it must have been a great satisfaction to Gen. -^odge when, long years after wards, his attention was called to a dispatch on file in the War Department, addressed to the Chief of Staff at the Lieutenant General's headquarters in Washington by the Lieutenant General' himself from his headquarters in the field, and which reads as follows,, under date of December'Sth, 18G4:- "Please direct Gen. Dodge to send all the troops he can spare to Gen. Thomas. With such an order he can be relied upon to send all that can possibly go. U. S. Grant." In this difficult field, "the grave of generals," Gen. Dodge went to work with characteristic energy. He prompt ly stamiped out the re.bel sentiment that had been allowed so long to cominate the State. He gave encouragement and new life to the loyal people, and protected them. Long before, he had learned by experience how to deal with.guerrillas and bushwhackers, and he made short work of these people in Miss ouri. He raised forces of loyal men in each county, for the preservation of peace therein, and soon restored order through out the State. In Arkansas the rebel Jeff. Thompson surrender ed to his forces , with some 10,000 men. He found the military Prisons full of men charged with crimes, and rebel prisoners of war. He ordered that men charged withcrime should be tried by court martial; if found guilty, punished, and if not, set free. To avoid the expense of feeding so many rebel prisoners, he gave them an opportunity of enlisting in the United States army fo service exclusively against the Indians on the plains,- a propositi n which many of them accepted with alacrity; and thus was originated a new feature of our service which proved not only lo the governmeht, but also of the utmost utility in putting down the Indian war which was then raginc; on the plains. ^ ° V before the close of the war, the "Department of Kansas and the Territories" was merged in his command, thus re lieving Gen. Curtis previously in command of that Department. This addition to his comiijand and to his responsibilities was also at the instance of Gen. Grant, and it was with a view to having him conduct the Indian War. The Indians of the plains 3 S3 Sheet # 16 had united in hostility to the government from the British provinces on the north to the Red River on the south. Gen. Dodge's acquaintance with the Indian character has already been alluded to. Probably no other living man was so well qualified by experience, by knowledge of .Indian character, and by native courage and capacity to deal withthe question pre sented. Although in the dead of winter, he immediately proceeded to collect men and material for what was then conisdered an impracticability, namely, a winter campaign against the Indians on the plains. His preparations were completed with almost inoredible speed, and in a very short time all the stage stations fr^m Leavenworth to Denver were restocked, stockaded and nammed, and the stages running regularly.. The details of this campaign would be intensly interesting, but would occupy too HiUch space for a volume like this. Enough to say that Gen. Dodge was as successful here as he had been in all his previous undertakings. The was having closed, the Indians of the plains having been quieted, and there appearing no further occasion for his services in a military capacity, he desired to turn his attention to civil pursuits. The Union Pacific Rail road had been projected, and was in process of construction. It had been a subject to which, all through the war, he had devoted much ol' his attention, and in which he felt the greatest interest. A trans-continental railway.had been a pet scheme of his from his early boyhood. Soon after he, a mere boy, came west, one of the letters to his father was published in the local paper in his native to.'n, and is still extant. He was writing fromi LaSalle County, 111., and in it is this prophetic sen tence: "When the various railroads under contract and con templation shall be completed, it will be the center of all the west--giving direct communication by the Rock Island road, with Wisconsin, Iowa and Oregon, ior this is the true Pacific Road, ahd will soon ^e'built to Ccunci.1 Bluffs, where a road from,St. Louis will meet it, then from Council Bluffs to Dan Francisco--this being the shortest and most feasible route." All through the War, Durant, Snd Reed, and Dey, and Dix and others, had been in cori-espondence. with him touching the great scheme of a Pacific Railway. When the- war drew to a close, they wanted him to take the management of its surveys and con struction as Dhief Engineer. This work was in accordance with his tastes, and with his early training. No wonder, then, that he desired to resign his commission in the army, and that he Uiged Gen. Sherman, now in command ofall the trans-Nississippi Department, with headquarters at St. Louis, to let him off. At length he received a letter from Gen. Sherman, which I give in full, as a fitting conclusion to the sketch of Gen. Dodges career he has since run as a railroad and business nan. 3S4 "Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, St. Louis, M'ay 1st, 186G. Maj-Gen. Dod^e: Dear General: I have your letter of April 27th, and I readily consent to what you ask. I think Gen. Pope should be at Leavenworth beiore you leave, and I exoected he would be at Leavenworth by May 1st, but he is not yet come. As soon as he reaches Leavenworth, or St. Louis even,. I consent to your going to Omah.a to begin what I trust will be the real beginthe Great Road. I start tomorrow for Riley, whence I will cross over to Kearney by land, and thence come into Omaha, v/here I hOj.;e to meet you. I will send your letter this morning to P.ope's office and endorse my request that a telegr'<^ph message be sent to Gen. Pope to the effect that he is wanted at Leavenworth. Hoping to meet you soon, I am, Yours truly, W, T. Sherman, Maj-. Gen. • Dodge s fan;ily consists of his wife and three doughters. The oldest daughter is now thewife of Mr R. E Montgomery a lawyer of Fort \Vorth, Texds; and the second is the wife of Mr. Frank Pusey, son of fex-Congressman Pusey of daughter; still living -with her parents, has display considerable literary talent, being an occasional contribute to some of the magazines. Gen. Dodge's palatial home irj Council Bluf .t s is unsurpassed by any in that city for the elegance of its appointments, and the generous hospitality for which it is distinfre^a^rons?ri are a considerable portion of each family year. are The at General's home, which they o°fXi Lunen™or"tha^yest?°""°" -e Citv and business headquarters are in New York great cart 0^^^ necessary to spend a within fr the scope of time. this, work, It would to enumerate be interesting the g^eat if jLlroad it were „"?s tne sLates east of that great river, as well as in-Mexico He has spent considerable time in travel abroad, and his corresrange'of observaUon! hnf but he is an exceedingly entertaining (writes as he writer. works, with Had impetuosity; hi devoted 385 'if- p .• : Sheet jj 17 his life to letters, as he has devoted it to affairs, there is no excellency in literature to which he might not have aspired. I have already noted his aversion to political pre ferment. Only once could he be persuaded to accept office. He served one term in Congress, where he at once took a high place, but he resolutely refused a renoniination,- which would have been equivalent to a re-election. Born in Danvers, Ma^s., Ai)ril 12th, 1831, he is now 56 years old; and a reii.ark which I heard made by a long-time friend of his, whoiri ,I met at the capital a few days ago, is a fitting sentence with which to close this sketch. This friend of Gen. Dodge had last met him not long since, and his remark was to the effect that Gen. Dodge was a j younger looking man today and stronger apparently than he had ever been before within his recollection; and, judging, from his anoearance now, he had the possibilities of a gr-eater future than he had seemed to have at their first acquaintance many years ago . Correspondence with the author of the "Battle of "Custer's Last Ha-lly>" etc. 220 Maryland Ave., Northest, Washington, D. C. February 5th, 1887. John Mulvany, Esq., Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a letter from Gen. G. M. Dodge jOf New York, in which he encloses your communication to him of the 80th ult and requests me to send you a copy of a statement which Maj. Jonas, formerly of his staff, has made to me in re ference to Gen. Iv.ersey's charge and restoration of the line of Gen. Logan's corps which had been pierced by the enemy,during the afternoon of the eventful 22nd of July, 1864. Preliminary to complying with his request, pei'miit me a work of dissent in reference to sorrie expressions in your letter: "The demoralization of the army when Logan took comii.and," "He rallied the broken army and enthused it to vic tory," etc. Evidently ti.e historian of the Omaha Republican, from whom you quote these expressions, has drawn freely on his imagination for his facts. The truth is that whatever demoralization there was in that army on that day occurred after Gen. Logan took com.mand, and was so insignificant that, in each case, the break was promptly, almost instantan eously, repaired. Logan did his whole duty, like the brave, comiffi'n-sense, able general that he was; but it will not tend to enhance his fame, not add historical value to the work of the writer or artist to disparage the conduct of the army 396 which had received its training under Grant, Sherman, UcPherson, and its peerless trio of corps comn.anders. Pro bably no other battle of such magnitude and importance was ever fought and won against such odds with less of demoralization than occurred there on that-day. To illustrate: Three brigades of the 16th corps marching in rear of the army of the Tennessee from right to left, had halted for a midday lunch, all unconscious of the presence of an enemy anywhere in thtt direction, or of any danger in that quarter. Suddenly froni the thich wood which skirted the open field in which they were bivouaced, behold the unheralded enemy issuing in dense, charging columns, full upon themi Impetuous, unexpected and apparently irresistible as is the attack, those brigades, at the command of tlieir chief, spring instantly into line and give back blow for blow (and the carnage is terrible) until, at length, the quick eye of their leadei' detects signs ol confusion in the enemy's ranks, and he," with proii.pt decision, orders a charge. The bayonet does its bloody work; those massed colunns are shattered to pieces, and their remnants pursued into the covei- of the woods. Iv.any standards, and prisoners from each of forty-nine regiments but of the sixty-two composing three rebel divisions of three brigades each, are the trophies brought back be Dodge's men. It was then at Iv.cPherson, who having at the first sound of battle mount ed his horse and galloped for two miiles in its direction, arriv ing in time to witness the latter portion, of this "more than magnificent fighting of the 16th corps," gave vehement express ion to his admiration of the splendid performance, drew rein for another part of the field,-- and is not seen again alive. His' death became known, and Logan takes command,-- but the crisis is past; for in the success of that first assault lay the enemy's hope of victory. There is much hard fighting yet to bedone, but the whole army is now on the alert and in fighting trim, with no.necessity for rallying or being rallied other than at widely separated points where the eneny gains some momentary ad vantage . One of' these breaks occurred about four o'clock in theline of a division of Logan's corps, which gave occasion for the charge of V.ersey's brigade, one of Dodge's invincible three which had already so successfully repelled the first rebel on set. Upon indications of the massing of a strong force again in Dodge's front, Logan had sent him a reserve brigade of the 15th corps-- Kartin's. Kai'tin had barely ari'iveu when Logan galloped up to the commander of the 16th corps and requested as sistance to re-take a portion of his line which the enemy had just taken. ^!artln and liersey were at once dispatched on the double-quick. Martin, according to his own report, was re pulsed in his first charge, but Mersey carried all before him,- and now I give you the statement of Maj. Jonas. "The incident of sending a brigade to the loth corps happened, I think about four o'clock in the afternoon. The assault was continued along our entire line, front and rear. 397 Sheet § 18 At the crossing near the brick house tiie 15th corps had been supporting Decree's battery of heavy 20-pounder Parrotts. The Confederates assaulted them so furiously as to break the 15th corps at ti.at point and capture the battery. The 15th corps had^suffered tremendously, and were for a few moments, at that portion of the line, a little bit demoralized. Gen. Logan snet to Cen. i^odge for a brigade. I was sent with it, having been over the ground, to conduct it to the point of the line where it had been broken. We double-quicked'the whole distance deployed from column to line as we crossed the railroad, and without stopping a moment charged and re-took the works with several gun's. Mersey was immediately joined by the men of the 15th corps who had been driven out, but who were not se demor alized but that, being encouraged and inspirited by Mersey's action, they joined us and partook in the assault. I said to Cen.'Morgan L. Smith; "Cen. Dodge has sent this brigade to your assistance, but expects its return the moment you can spare it." Smith answered; "Present my compliments to Cen. Dodge and say that his brigade has done magnificently and shall have 'full credit in my report." 'Col. Mersey's was wounded in that charge, and the command devolved on Col. Phillips, who made a report of that act ion. Cen. Dodge does not request Hie to sent you that, but I will take the liberty o'f quoting a sentence from it: "This deployment having been promptly effected, the brigade was order ed to charge, which it did in the most prompt and daring manner, i-etaking the works from which the second division, 15th corps, had been driven, and capturing about 109 prisoners. The bri gade occupied the works at this place until evening." I might say a great deal more, but I think I have said enough to show you the fallacy of any idea th t the army of the Tennessee was deii oralized. To that extent I have over-done Cen. Dodge's request, for which under the circum stances, I hope both you and he will pardon me, I am. Yours respectfully, N. E. Dawson. Royal Ins. Building, Chicago, Feb. 17, 1887 N. E. Dawson, Esq., Washington, D. C. My dear Sir: Your communication on the battle of the 22nd of July to hand. Cen. Dodge's fight must have been a brilliant one and, withal, a very picturesque one. -a it Your letter gives me a graphic account of what Col. Mersey's brigade did during the teniporary break in the 15th corps, but, although I got a great deal of information from it, I yet fail to see Cen. Logan anywhere in the fight. Notwithstanding, I must sincerely thank you for the very valuable information you have given me. I it w.re not asking too much of you, I should be greatly obliged to have you pen mie your most graphic recol lection. Fervently thanking you for your great kindness, I have the honor to be, Respectfully yours. Jno. lulvany. 399 Jan. 1889. C. -8,^ Meek, Esq., New York, New York, Jan. 3,- 1889. Denver, Colorado. Dear "ir:- I received your telegrair,, and have also received your letters about the a ount due from the Construction companies to the Railroad Companies. I am tal.ing these m.'-'tters up here, and will coon sko'.v you the exact status of them. I charged nothing against your account for equipment, but there is one thing certain, that I have sent to Mr. Bisscl and "'^r. Gibson a certain number of miles and have tons of steel rails that were on the line .of the road from Quanah to Pueblo. They are not in the main ti^ack or siding thay my con tract covers, they therefore must be in the hands of the Company. Again, as to m.-terial turned over; !ir. Gibson and Mr. Bissel c>iec; ed all the material, excepting the Eol. om material. That, I checked v/hen I was there myself with Gibson, Bissel and hayncs, so tliere can be no question about that, but I have t'ne data here to make out full statement of these maters, but I wish to say to you and to Mr. Bissel, that akii.g the bills that come in to me against the Construction Company for the worlv that" you have done for them, if it is costing you the same to do woi'k on your own lines there is no question as to where jDur net earrings will be at the end of t}ic year; for I must say I neve r saw such ch.-rges upon work. Tlic two l)ills that Grover puL i:: of about ^18,000 for grading and back filling etc. on t}ie line from Trinid:^d to Polsom, of course, are simply bills piled up against the Constru tion Comps.ny without doi.g any work for them. On April first when I turned the "/ road over, the li^.e from '^rinidad to Folsom was all up in good sliape, was fully surfaced and back filled, I having spent about i' ^20,000 on it to bnk fill and hold it up outside of my contract. ^ The agreement, which was made for a half tied portion of it which the conir^ctors wore olilired to do, and which war done by Grover at a certain jdce , that price was paid, and that is all there was to be done on that line by the ConstructionUomp-ny, hut it seems Grover turned in the Pay Rolls of his section men besides turning in the price per tie for every tie he put binder in the agreement with Gibson for Deremar. The other bills outside of these may be correct, but I think you will fird when "r. Bissell checks up the steel on that line that f c Railroad Company has used several miles of steel that did not come under my contract. I am, very truly. G. M Do dgo, President. 401 Jan., 1889. J. ■ . Clarlcson, My dear Rhet; Few Yor, Few Y9rk, Jan. 3, 1889. I received tlie Register with the article, "The loss of a Billion of Doll, rs" marked, and apprecin'.e fully what you say.- The trouble about the Railrosd situation as I view it is this: First:- We know nothing of the effect of the inter state Coranerce Lav/ in applied in its letter and spirit. There is no road that does Inter-State Commerce business that has yet applied it as I know of, end I do not iaiow of any but what has persistently violated it in its spirit if not in its letter. I believe myself that if it was applied porperly anr? under the liberal interpretation given to it by the Inter-State Commission, that it would prove bene ficial to the Railroad and hurtful to the people; no it is simply hurtful to both. I also believe, if applied, it would remedy a great many of the difficulties that exist between the strong aiid wean lines. 1 am not in accord r/ith the general view, that the lack of Gainings comes from the cuttirjg of rates. I think that in the last two years the strong lines added too much mileage in unpro ductive countries. Their managers saw this and had to make some' excuse for over-building and it was laid to the Inter-State Law. In one year, in two at the outside, the country over which the new lines are built will have settled up and produced so much business that the trunk lines will come bacl: to theirearnings on their in creased mileage and increased tonage; then, we will hear no more of cutting rates. We have got to wait patiently until that tiem, and I do not believe we.can stop adverse Strte le islation until the people in the St'tes where it recurs become interested in our properties. I think the objective point of all Railroad; should be to induce -eople who have surplus monies for investment in the States throiu h which their lines rtin, to induce them to put a small portion of if into the roads. Wlien this is doi^e, hostile legislation will cease.e . It is pretty- hard to ob'.aln an unjust adverse le'~islation East oi Chicago E River. .—I might almost ast of the Mississippi r\ 4. -U D , ' — v-ww VJ. i.ix OO J. iD tt X U On the Pacific coast investment in local roads has creot eastward until it covers Colorado--there j ,, ... . . ~ — .w.. \j1 between Colorado and the Mi.-sisaippi River, what we need is to induce people to take an interest in the properties that is developing their country. V .. ^ of those who think that Railroad proper- tics or transportation properties arc going to the dogs. I think thev are going to prove, in tire, one of the most reliable and best paying securities out side of Covernments, of an'-ahin in the world People that hcandle the properties have got to drop their perLnaUt" a o personal matter. ^ freight, not takg it Ss ' beoi a great deal of criticism against the Managers of the roads, in the '."est especially, those leading out of Chicago--that are specul.^ tor s. I think this comeE moro, from the fact, that Chicago being a great speculative center, people there catch on to what is going on the the Railroad inner circle ard act upon it, and this is charged to the managers. However, there is one thing certain, that t':e gr eat row they have kicked u^ over th Inter-ftate hill, over the cutting of rates and over exuuees from lack of gross and net earnings, has awakened the stockholders and owners of the property all over the world, so that the leading repre sentrtive- bankers of America and Europe, who have mostly negotiated the securities of these propertio: . have served notice upon the managers of those properties, holding them responsible for them, and saying that unless they come do-vn ot business and get fair rates ftr what they do, no matte.r what anybody else does, they will ask, at the annual meeting, lor proxys on their stock, and put men in their pjaces, who will take their view of j the que-stion. There Js no question if this should occur, t-iat on most of the roads they.woul' obtain a majority of the proxys; and I think this latter action has had more to do in bringing roads to their senses than anything stna else, and I am very glad to see the owners of propert^^ lookinv after the operators of it. x i This is confidential to you, of course, if youcan get anything out of It to help you along in the editorials in vour line,you are welcome to it, but not as coming from me. I am. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, 405 January, 1889 HEADQUARTERS ARMY Of the UNITED STATES. Jan. 4, 1889, General G. M. Dodge, Union League Club, General; New York. General Schofield desires ir.e to acknowledge, with thanks. the receipt of your paper on the "Transcontinentd Railways." Very respectfully. Your obedient servant, Jno. Pitchin, Aide-de-Camp. 4G7. Jan., 1889. My dear Cousin Nev/ York. .. . Jan. 5, 1QS9. I saw in the Georgetown paper the death of Aunt Sophia. It is hardly a month since I went .west to see my mother for the la t time and heard that Aunt was failing . How well i remember the kindness sliw used to show me in my gay days and how I used to long to go to Rowley and be among these people who took so kindly to me. My tramps over Rooty plain are the bright pleasure spots in my life that I always think of and Aunt was very pleasar:t to me. I thust Uncle is well. Please remember me to all the family, ai d while we re ;ret to see these old people who we have looked up to so often , depart one after another, still it is a pleasure to know that they go to sleep quietly without pain and have around them their family -nd friends. I am, truly, G. M. '!~odge Betsj^ P. Dodge, Rowley, Mass. January, 1889/ Washington, D. C, Jan. 6, 1889, ^^y dear Old Comrade: I thank you with all my heart for your kind and brotherly sympathy in my great sorrow Genl. G. M, Dodge. Sincerely yours, J. M. Schofield. 413 January, 1889, Gen. J. W. Puller, Nev/ York. January 8, 1889. Toledo, Ohio. Dear General I am trying to arrange to leave sometime this month for the South and TTest. I intend to go by the way of Atlanta, and stop over there to get a sketch of the ground over which the 16th corps fought on the 22nd and to look about f^.e city for two or three days. From Atlanta I shall go to New Orleans, ■U:ience to Texas and then to Denver. If you could join iiie somewhere enroute, I would be pleased to have you do so and, on reaching my own territory, become my guest. I expect to get my car at New Orleans. Please let me hear from you immediately on receipt of thie. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. January, 1889, 415, January 8th, 1SS9- New York. Messrs. Schuster & Co., Bankers, Berlin, Germany. Gentlmen:- I take pic sure in acknowled^^in-; the receipt of your letter of December blst 1888. I or. also zlad to receive the information that the examination of Mr. Politz was so satisfactory. After Meeting Mr. Politz, I was satisfied he had made an extcr.sive and fair cxarnin tlon of the road. 1 would be in favor of any re-organizat■on-that it was possible to make, but the fact is the bonds upon the upper division of the D nver Texas ar.d Gulf were lone ago distributed, and could not under anyre-organization be obtained. The earnings on tha t divisionsirt; e the road was completed are shov/ir.g so favorably that none of tliese bond holders would give up their bonds. One stock on the entire raid has been issued, and was distributed December 8th, 1886, I have no interest comparatively ^ in the upper division, something like C'13,500 in cash, my entire interc.^t lies in the middle division and the bouthern division. I have laid your letter before our people and their conclusion is the same as mine as to any re-organization, ^ Our attorneys differ with Mr. Politz about the mortgage, they seem to thirk it covers the point he r-^ises without question, but there is no objection to the Baord of Directors declaring on t'-e point lie suggests. We are gradiially constructing the su'.in line Pueblo to Trinidad as the development of the coal property requires, we are not constructin • twenty-fiv miles of this main line North fr-om Trinidad and have ,-already completed 5 miles scuth from Pueblo, v/hen this line Trinidad to Pueblo covers the thrid raildistance. The mortgage provides for payment for it without materially increasing the rate per mile upon the completed road, J- am anxious and , hould be greatly pleased to con nect ourselves wMh your group of bankers and capitalists as I l;now the benefit it would bo ot our property, ar.d for this reason have done all in my power to aid in the negotiation, but youask of me and my company impossibilities. 1 have to deal with over a thousand stocb-holde; s. They are demanding the distribution of their bonds, and it is impossible with our earnings, future pros pects togetJier with the amount of money they have already exnended on this props ty, somothin- over "TS,800,000, in cahs, for which they only get about *4,500,000 in bonds aid ^4,300,000 in stock, leaving th.em liardly the stock now selling at *60 in this market as a profit, I take the liberty to enclose a statement of our earnings for November and December, I also send under a separate enclosure statement made by ''^r. 8, Tii^man as a member of the gov erning committee of the New York Stock Exchange, who spent 'bout three weeks on t'ne property, examining it, in its physical and 416 financial conditions, nr^d its p ospects for the year 1889. I trust " ou and the people you repres.ent will see clearly our position; I have no doi:ibt you are already satisfied as to the value of the bonds , and I trust that the fact I st-^te will enable you to close the nocotiation. Tiaanking you for your letter, a;.d wishiny you the compliments of the hew Year, I a~, respectfully. Your obedient servant. G. M. Dodye. President. . I. I . i A'' . ^ 1 Mf'ii ' 417 January, 1889 New York. Hon. J. C. Brown, January 9, 1889 Dear Governor: I exiDOct to start South some day during this month; I will probably have to stop on my way at two or three points, and especially at Atlanta for a day or two; from there I shall go to New Orleans. I want to meet you at some place where I can have a day or two with you, either at New Orleans or at some point on your road. I shall be gone South a month or two, and I would like to buy your car for my own use, and I think you ought to sell it to me for the D. & T. Fort Worth bonds, they are better to you.a good deal than a car. If I can not buy it, I would like to get the use of it, at any rate. after I get to New Orlet.ns if it is not engaged. Please let me hear from you and what your movements are going to be, I don't want to miss jOu; unfortunately I missed you here in New York. I am. Very truly yours. G . W . Dodge 421 ^ January lOth T889 St. Louis, January 10, 188? .Vy dear Dodije: 3IIE Laclede Street. Please don't "be deterrad from reading this letter because of its length, for the details are necessary to preface a request for your advice and assistance to lose no time I begin by telling you that I have a son. (John n. Pope) just twenty-two years of age, strong and vigorous In hsSilth and of pleasant and attractive manners and appearance. Be has energy and ability and great ambition to succeed as a railroad man; I have always in tended him for a railroad man and gave him one year in the Manual Training School Machine Shops and afterwards a c-omplete course of Civil Engineering at the Polytechnic School, from which he graduated last June. His last three j vacations he has spent in the field with Engineering parties of the Mo. Pac ific, so that he is a good practic^il enginees in the location of i-ailroads. "or the last five months he has beoa in Kansas and I.T. on engineering work for that K.E. I thought that a practical knowledge of engineering would be of advantage in any position he might hold on a H.E. As for the rest, Genl. Sherman knows the boy well and can tell you an^jthing you wish to know about him. I omitted to say that he has fine literary abilities and would make an intelligent secretary for a high E.R. official. What I want to ask you is your advice where cand in what position on a 'R.B. it ia better for his future that he shall begin on and next that you will tell me the beet raod for him to try and get such a place on and tiiat you use your influence and knowledge to get him this position. He is st still in tiie field in Kansas, but will go when and where it is thouglit best for him at a momenta notice. Will you do this for me? Let me hear at your early convenience !■ hear of you often haVe not seen you for a long time I knov/ that you are prosperous in a -.vorldly sense and I hope you are so in every other sense* As for myself I am living auietly here and am in fair, physical health* As you prohahly know I had the unspeal-cahle misfor tune to lose my wife last Spring and ti:^ world gives me little pleasure since. As I don't know your address I send this letter through Genl. Sherman. As ever your friend Jno.Pope. Gen. G.M. Podge v.*.'. ivit ' January, 1889. Toledo, Jany. 10, 1889 My dear General: Your letter is just at hand and i hope I may be able to join you, either at Cincinnati or at Atlanta. Just now I am suffering from a severe boil on my leg, which impedes locomotion, shuts me in doors- but I think I shall soon be able to travel. I hope it may be latter part of the month when you. start but of course your own affairs must decide that. Please let me know soon as you can just when you will start, that I may if possible, arrange to meet you. Yours truly, John N. Puller. 425 t-M, January, 1890. Subject.-Financial outlook Organization. Exe cut ive De par tme nt. Charles F. Adams, Fres. IV. H. Folcomb, Vice Fres. Gardiner iv.. Lane, 2d Vice P. L. Anderson. TIE UNION PACIFIC RAILA'AY CO. 40 Equitable Building. Boston, January 11, 1890. .V.y dear General: I this morning received a cipher telegram irom you, of wiiich the. following is a copy: "There, is one point in the Trinidad country that we have not protected. It requires 15 miles of line, 8 of which is over the main line between Trinidad and Pueblo, on which we are entitled to issue bonds; the other 8 woula have to be paid for by bonds in the Treasury. I am informed that the Denver & Kio Grande proposes to occupy this country, which under no circumstances should we allow. If I find any attempt towards that by them.-^ should occupy it for the Fort 'florth. Under circumstances ^ do not wish to issue anyorder on ' it or taae any responsibility for any new work except upon approval. I would like your appr-oval if 1 think it is necessary to occupy this territory." I at once replied as follows •' "District referred to can be occupied as proposed if you are satisfied the case is urgent and work necessary, but do not act except for clear cause as we are unwilling to incur construction lia bilities at present and until all pending arrangements are matured and financial matters adjusted. Are you likely to return to Des Loines?" As you of coarse appreciate, loaded as the hnion Pacific now is with unfunded debt, we are extremely loath to engage in any new work of construction not absolutely necessary. You know how easy it is to i)ile up a large floating debt through disconnected bits of con struction each small in itself but in the aggregate soon runniny into the millions, i am glad to say that everything look favorable so far as getting rid of our floating debt is concerned. We have not yet taken any steps towards negotiating the collateral trust bonds secured by the 0. R. & N. stock; neither have we as yet negotiated the bonds represneting the construction of the Oregon Extensions Co. and the Washington & Idaho. Togetner these will aggregate not lar from *16,000,000. This is a large sum, and we wish to approach the question of funding it cautiously. On the other hand, the company has nearly |lO,000,000 coming , in between the present time and the middle of Wiay. ,'^8,000,000 of this will be paid in by our stockholders on the rights recently issued. Nearly ^2,000,000 more will come froni notes of Decker, Howell & Go. With this large sum coming in, we feel con.paratively easy during the next six months. Oiu? old issues of securities are all very high, the Oregon Short Line 6's selling at about 115 1-2, equiv alent to about 113 and interest. Our K. P. Consols have disappeared from the market. Under these circumstances we do not feel lixe hurrying the negotiation of the bonds secured by the Navigation stock. We think there will be ample time to do this between now and i-'iarch, and of coiarse the issue oi' rights has temporarily depreciated the value of our 0. 3. L. & U. N. consolidated bonds and also the stock, so many rights convertible into the two having been thrown on to the market at once. This will soon adjust itself, a.d as soon as it does so the field will be clear for the larger negotiation, which is to follow. On the whole things here have an encouraging aspect, and it is now merely a question of traffic and operating expenses. If the first is managed by Iv'ellen with as much energy and intelligence as he has heretofore shown, and meanwhile operating expenses are kept down by Holcomb, 1 have little fear that the future will be satisfactory. Wy main fear is about operating expenses. Everything which -reaches me directly and indirectly froii. the line causes me to believe that a very considerable degree of uncertainty and demoralization prevails throughout the operating departments. The Kansas Division and the St. Joseph & Grand Island are about the only divisions which move along smoothly. The others seem to be in a state of greater or less demoralization. Especially is this true in Oregon, where C. J. Smith has not yet succeeded in getting hold of the situation. I have no doubt he will do so if he is left alone, for he is intelligent, ener getic, and ieels that his reputation is at stake. Nevertheless, the process of education is a costly one. Under the most favorable circumstances I fancy that it is going to take thewhole of the year 1890 to get our ooerating organi zation working smoothly and efficiently. Should any more changes be made in it, of course the existing demoralization will run over into 1891, I remain, etc.. Charles F. Adams, President, m'i. January, 1889. Frank S. Bond, Esq., New York. January ll2, 1889. V.P. Chicago, Milwaukee, Bt.P.R.R. Wall St., New York. Dear Sir:- Wil] you he kind enough to send me by bearer, another copy of the Inter-state P.ailwayvA: sociation agreement as I wish to sent it out to our people in Denver. I notice that the roads over which I do most of rny business Viz. the Houston, Texas Central; tho Texas Pacific and the Southern Pacific are none of them included in the agreement. Wli3'- is this ? It v/ould not be proper for us to go into any such agreeraei^t unless our connecting lines, or the roads over which we do most of our business are also in it, as I am only a link in the chain. I do little or no business over any of the roads mentioned in your list, un less perhaps it is the Union Pacific over which I do some business North of Denver under an agreement. If you will look -at the m.ap of our line herewith enclosed, you will sec how this is . However, I am willing to do anything I can to I'.elp along the agrerment, no matter v/liether my connections are in it or not , I think tliat one clause in tlie agreement renders it very uncertain and is perhaps fatal to it , and that is, that every road mentioned in the list should :ign the agreement. Row, supposing for instance that the Texas 5c Pacific, or the Houston 5c Texas Central, that all of whom I have agreements which we are carrying out and always have carried, out, never having gone into any of" these cuts, should not agree to any of tlie conditions I should ma]:e with you? Another tiling, how do you ever expect to get the Chicago Sc Alton to sign? It scerns to me j^ou have put into the agree ment conditions which make it almost impossible for you to carry it out. why not pxit into it that nine-tenths of those roads should agree to it because tliat the parities ;'ou have with jrou if any one of them stays out it cannot injire you to anj'^ extent. I think you should amend the agreement so that if"you get the Great Trunk Lines west cf Chicago into it, and somi one of the other lines stays out, it woul'l not force the agreement to become void, because it is commercially under a proper plan and on a iroper basis. I wlch to say to you in cor fidence that I heard today of one road on. the list that said they would not sign the agreement I write this to you in confidence and should be glad to have a re ply from you this evening, addressed to me at the Union League Club lam, . " Very truly yours, G. M Dodge, President. January, 1889. Chas. H. Wlieeler, Es q., New York. PI Jan'y 12th', 15o9. Denver, Colo. Dear Sir:- ^Goneral Dodge directs me to say to j^ou that ho desires to exchange his Interest in the stock of D. T'. & G. R. R. Co. (^11,003.72) for stock of D. T. & P.?/. R.R. Co. and that again into ?!ercantile Trust Co.'s certificates under the pooling agreement. Wil] you, he kind enough to see Mr. J. S. Brown, and send the requisite orders for such exchanges. I do not find among tiie General's papers any certificate representing his ownership of the stock. The General also made the following cash advances on behalf of the company. Oct. 6, 1884 Dec. 3, 1885 Mch» 26, 1806 Dft. J.S. Brown " P. A. Keener, Trustee Wm. 'lath C183.05 324.50 83.45 591.00 Does he get anything for this? Yours truly. J T. Granger, Private Secretary, January I3th.,1889 431 Washington, D.C.,January I3th.,I889 Dear General:- I reed your letter enclosing one from C. and returned same to yesterday. I note what he says and how he feels. I still have faith in something being done for him, although what I have heard within a day or two, i think, the Interior Department will not be available. I have not changed my mind about it, and I should think a strong, cap able, business man like Clarkson, with plenty of lawyers about him, is a better man for the Interior than a mere technical lawyer, who will think that he is a Judge in disposing of every case in the Department. Very ti-uly yours. W. B. Allison. To Genl.Cr*M.Dodge No I Broadway, 3"■XNew York, 433 January, 1889, New York. January 14, Ibc Q. '.'cssrs, Dillon Swayne, 195 Broadway, City, Gentlemen:- In ^uly 1S87 I entered into an acreement with Carpenter & "alroy who had brought suit against tlie Anerican Railway Improvement Co,, in which cut they had obtained judgement against us, which you had carried to the Supreme Court of the United States on writ of error, ohat I would give them a certain amount of New Orleans Pacific Lands grant bonds to cancel the judgment, and agreed t:iat When they had done so, we would dismiss the writ of error in the Supreme Court. I am today in receipt of a letter from 1.cssrs. Ilov/e jrentiss of .'.ew Orleans enclosina a certificate of the clerk of the u. a. Circuit Court, Eastern District * • the judgment in the above named case had been satisfied oi record. Will you, t erefore, if you have not already done so, take whateve: steps may be necessary to c arr''^ out our portion of this agreement, and dismiss the suti from the U. '^.upreme Court? Yours truly. G. f. Dodge, President. i-- ay- ' 435 January, 1889. Mew York. January 15, 1889. Xy ^JL Ail— J. 8. ClarJcson, Esq., Des ?'olnes,Iowa. / Dear'Sir:- V I am in receipt' of yours of January 9th in relation to the Interstate Law. I don't tidnk anyone can detcrnine today froro ohe fact t. at it has never heen executed either in spirit or in letter. I .lavc thou^^ht a good deal about the amendnents and I t ink one important one should be, that no change of rate, either 'to advance or lov/er ti should be made except on notice of the same as now required in an advance of rates. I aldo think for the who have to lay in a stock of and towns, that there should road could liaul anything of i or manufacturer could measure My experience of cutting "rate made peopl- more mad from the them by having on hand stocks had to pay a higher rate for t would run a line of tlie same protection of jobbers and merchants. goods ahead in the in erior states be a minimum rate fixed, that iao ts class below that rate. Then .Jobber his loss just as in a Railroad war. 5 in Railroad wars, is that they have proitive injury they have given of goods at the time, that they to obtain when some broker or jobber •_oods into his town. For instance, within two years when the low rate was made on coal and com modities, west of 'the Missour River from Chicago and Eastern Points, brokers that we didn't even know the names of, or would load cars and hip them to distributing ^oints and then send orders to the Railroad Co., to deliver to the ner-ons they had sold them to, not only getting the benefit of the low rate<^ but using the cars as storage room; of course ir. such cases thev hand, hand as t..ey had undersell no rents any and person no expense aving whatever. that class I of know goods"'on at the time of the gr at cut in rates from "ew York to Californ^ra d to Colorado points that it drove a rood man^ merchants ont nr / and came very „,ar banhruptlnG eSnc of the2 IUIb not raJSf It it is ha o steady rate and a fair one. dlamourlnc o for in mIowa lowa in nmo-J" believe that Congress wil] amend the law undch?hh"roviSltahf'th° l«hodahRai\io°d''°'"''''= ' hhh^roph" th?'^«,e° ^oa' -crroLl'as hoy'"" law, tnat hvfi r ally hh is all -there is in noolirg unless vou take a mnncy pool, whicli ir seldom done. * u o. „ ou uanc a ,„va- pich V, I T send ^ pink you this is really new agreement'in based u on this Mew York idea a of cooy routin- of the / tonnage rather than pooling t'le money from freights* ^ To protec'. the people of the agricultural states 436 V there must be some amendment ot the law controlling tb.e Water Line and bringing that under thevcontrol of the Interstate Law, as it is now, all cities located upon Water Lines, tide water and ].ake that have got independent lines of transportation will do all the' distribution, the jobbing and the manufacturing, except from states t'vat have the material within themselves to manufacture. So the drift of everything and of all the biiycrs is to the Tide Water cities and all the Lake: Cities are reaping the benefit from the Interstate bill, and depriving all the interior jobbers and manufacturers of its benefits. The Tide Water Cities get low rates on large ton-^ge', then they have the Interstate Law to pro tect them to disturibute. You can see the working of this in States that ar purely agricultural, land in st?tes that are mineral. In the 'Vest, take Colorado for instance; as against Iowa; Colorado i.as within itself minerals of all kinds, and capital is seeking that State for manufacturing purposes on tJvat account and will have the benefit of raw material without transportation, they then take the benefit of the Interstate law for their distri bution. Take -Iowa, it has no minerals except coal, and everything it .manufactures has to be transported to it, under the "provision of the' Interstate law, and has to be distributed under the same provision, ard there is no percentage between the two rates for the middle, man, the manufacturer or jo;ber, and that is the case with everything in Iowa, and as long as the law stays as it is today, the jobb rs and man-ufactuners will drift to Tide 'Vater Cities eud Lali.e points, and to states where the raw miaterial can be ob tained without transportation. I hold that in Railroad Transportation the same things should obtain as in manufacturing or jobbing, that is the man who invests vlOO,000 is jobbing and hauls his goods to him by the train load is entitled to a better rate, and should be allowed to have a be ten rate than the man who has got no capital invested and only liauls a ton. Railroads must have this erivilegc or thev irinteSorstator™^'' ^''''®''^ jobbing and ubild up industries ' You will find by.looking over the different towns take the comodity. rate how on ^car-loads and combine farmers to and buv others a car load of goods in Chicago or New York, because the can obtain it -^s cheap as the jobber does and obtains the sam.e rate uoon it as he' does to some distributing .:oint near them , Like Des^Moines for instance, a. d you have no idea how this business has grown in the last two years. It used to be, that it was better foi tSen to ItSS^w v''' jobber, now, it is better for them to buy get SS+ a o car r. load rate upon together, it from obtain New York sufficient to their to resident lad a car and mdthic business is wipinr out the job bers verv re f^^icient, and this lntorat;tc la.'riaidly ana fom^rirycjd'yon S?d^ Sid s, 1 because communities, I hold that the in changes this matter in it require vou cannnt to brrefit + brth withou' the other, The amendments tS't SrfLceSsaS^^'^rSi ninro°d'"'you°ml-h? a.Y" "culty now lo that Ivery how tho i.ar=h«ad brLendS.°° " different view of 437-n. There has got to he a radical change in the law for the purpose of protecting the Railroads of the United States against the foreign Railroads. You r.-meDber you were with mc wiien I dis cussed this with (Jullden he ad-mitted t: is but his reasons for not going into the amendment of the law was that his constituents at Chicago demanded this loophole for the purpose of holding down rates to the none paying b:^sis on the trunk lines. He was willing to ask an amendment that would protect San Francisco agains . the Canadian Pacific, but not one that would,protect the Lake Shore against tne Gran ' Trunk. But to make this law applj' e aiallj^ and hon* estly, the Water Ro-ds that are competitive to it, and the foreign roads that are compet tive to it must be controlled by some means. Verj' truly yours. G. 1J[. Dodge .'■ a ; ' Jaruary, 1889. '' 'JC New York. January'- 15, 1889. General John Pope, St Louie, Mo. My dear General:-' I was V ry glad to receive your letter sent in care of General Sherman. I eas not 'beforo aware that I'rs. Pope had died, I have been absent a good deal of the time and missed the announcement of her death in ihe papers; I can appreciate fully the great loss to you. Of course anything in my pcwor to to do in Ijehalf of your son I will be glad to do, I tl:ink you have taken the right course in preparing him for any position on the Railroad. It is an important question, in making a decision as to what his future should be, whether he prefers to work himself up through the engineering department or to go into tlie operating department. Unless a young man is somewhat permanently fixed in the engineering department of some truni: road v/hich needs his services on complet-^ ed road, t}:e uncertainties of building and running new lines are apt to throw him out of employment. If he has a taste for the op erating department, with his present knowledge of construction, if he can st-rt in the office of any of the General Managers or Sup- ®^I^tendants, or -in tlie Freight department, he would soon grow, if he has got the tact and ability. If you could get hlra under '^r. Clarke of the Mo. Pac., he could not go with a better man. I mi.ght say the same in reference to the .Atchison, Topeka f: Santa Pe Offici als, ^or tliose of the U.P. Of course they all have a great many application s, but they are ■ 1 looking for men of ability who have fit..ed themselves for the service. In any direction you see proper to act, I wi''l do what I can to aid you; I think, however, if you should show this letLer to any of the gentlemen I have mentioned. It would be all that is necessary. They all know you, and I don't think it really needs anything from mo to help you. I trust if you ever come East you will come and see me, and I shall endeavor the next time I pass t^irough St. Louis to hunt you up. I snail never forget my service under you, and how kind you were to me, or how advantageous your kindness was to me. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. of the +i' Un'.on Pacific; Wednesday he has to tJntire see Vice charge President of that liolcomb road and T will spea]: to him in relation to your son. ' G.M.D. 443 January I5th 1889 Chicago, January I5th 1889. Dear General; Many thanks for your kind letter of hearty friendship. I ap preciate all tliat you say and I treasure your friendship and your will as dearly as that of any man in the world. I hope always to he worthy of it. I agree heartily Vi^ith you as to Senator A.and the importance of keeping the Senate strong. It vitally necessary to the party, if we are • to consider that, and v/e should. It should also he a to him. But after all it may have to he done. I think it is sure to he done. If A. does not very soon, let it he known that it must he. Still that mi^t keep Iowa from having a Cabinet office. I have a feeling amounting almost to a knowledge that will not select me, and I certainly would not want to he in his Cabinet if he did not ear nestly desire it. I believe he has a feeling that a Cabinet officer must « have had training in public life at 7i'ashington. He told me himself that this lack of training on his own part was v/hat prevented him from taking a portfolio under Garfield when it was offered. tr It is a perplexing puzzle and I do want Allison injured in it. "V I can take care of myself. But I presiime something definite and positive should he decided soon, and we should agrwe upon something emphatic to that end. Any one who is going into the Cabinet should know it pretty soon. I tele graphed Allison today I would come on to Washington whenever he telegraph ed it was advisable. Cordially yours. J. S. C . 445^., • January 18, 1889 My dear Dodge; ; 3I12 Laclede Avenue, St Louis, January 18,1889 Many thanks for your kind and most welcome letter of the I5th, I most gladly avail myself of your proffered help in the matter. My son greatly prefers the operating department of the railroad, "both "be cause it opens a much v/ider field for knowledge and promotion and is more to his taste. Ke is a young fellow of literary/ taste and capacity and has a very engaging appearance and attractive manners which would make him acceptable and popular in any company.With his energy and ambition added thereto, I have the utmost confidence in his success if he has half a chance. If he can get a place in the office of Me Clark or any oth er General Manager or Presidant of a railroad, I shall ask no more as I am certain he will succeed. I do not know Mr Clark nearly so well as I do many other high officials and if you will write him on the subject I shall be greatly obliged. My son has been a member of an Engineering party of the Mo.pacific and in the field since Sept. last. I do not know when they will be trrough their present work, but with this other field work he has done in the last two years, I think he will have had enough experience of that kind for the present. Whilst I should a little prefer for purely personal reas ons that he should be with Mr Clark on the Mo Pacific, I am not at all wedded to it and shall most gladly send him wherever you think it best or can get him the most promising place. You 5®® I avail myself of your kind ness by throwing the burden on you, but ttie fsct is that 1 know well that you can do what I wish far better than I can. If then you will get him a position in the office of Mr Clark or any other railroad resident I shall be under the deepest obligations to you. His name is John E Pope. I will write you in a few days a letter which i promise you shall have no business in it as I want to say something to you about your pamphlet on Transcontinental railroad building, which I read v/ith great interest and satisfaction. I have always maintained that the feel ing and action of the Government and most of the politicians against the projectors and builders of the Pacific railroads, was a monumental out rage on common sense and well earned gratitude As ever your friend. Jno Pope. Genl.G.M.Dodge V ;' , 'i ( Jiv-. ^ ■ 1 .||j . January, 1689 75 West 71 St., New York, Jan. 19, 1889. Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, New York . V.y dear General: I regret having been "out" when iV-est.rs Vi,iiiiams and Ryan called with your letter of introduction yesterday afternoon. Please don't coHiprornise Hae with n,y personal friends Ammen, Daly, Hoyt and others wlio are engineering the Nicaraugua Canal. New earth exposed even in Illinois makes chills and fever; in Nicarau gua, Lat. 13® or 14° N., every man can make his own calculated. I can do the same but do not wish to be quoted either pro. or con. As always. Your friend. W. T, Gherman, General. January, 1889. Charles P, .Adams, Es q.,; 449 .1^ Poston, ITass. New York. January'- £0, 1889 Dear Pir;- I am in receiirt of a note from "/ashington from Dr. Story dated January 21st. He seems to be there for the p- rpose of pudlng the funding bill through the Senate, It seems to me that this is bad policy for us, unless they know that it can be put through t:ie house. He.^.ys^hat Iluntington is there, and that he has seen Allison and others and .that he thinks they -arc against us. I wrote Mr. Story thrt I did not feel like asking my friends to stand up in the Senate and vote for a forlorn hope. If we have any assurance that the Democratic caucus will c" change their views there is no trouble about my friends but I do not think that we should try to use them on some tk;ing v/hich we know we cannot accomplish. It is only wasting pur strength and in my last talk with you that I understood to be your idea. I had no idea that this till was to oe pressed in the Senate after the action in t ~e House. I am told, conf identiall"^r^ that there is no possibility of our getting firoug h the House. I have bent all my energies and have so written "'r. Story, to prohibit anybody else getting through, who has been in partner ship with us and get a rule to allow us both to go before the house, and after we got it there defeating us, and proposing to put through their own jyersonal scheme, and I trust you will so instruct Mr. ''tory. I do not see anyrcaron why when the Oklahoma bills and Union Pacific were put together and every friend of the U. P. stood up to the fight, it should be co, promised because one Oklahoma man had the power to hold the hotise for seven dai's. It is only evidence to me that they went into the agreement"with a view of shutting us out, and we should not for a moment submit to it. Very truly yours. G. M, Dodge. January, 1889. "iansfield Story, Esq., New York. January ^1, 1889 Wooinle^ s n tel, Washington, u.u. ■ , Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of January 21st. I do not understand the policy of tryinc to press through the Senate a bil] 'which by no possibility can be cot throucb the House. It seems to me to be usinc our friends for no results and I thin!: ^'r. Allison and a goo many others in the Senate look at it the cane way. "if there was any probability or possibility of passing this bill throu h the two liouses it would be another thing; but I understand that und^r the rules and with the people opposed Lo us there is no oossibiitv of getting this bill through the House and I do not think we should demand of our friends ifforts from which no results ban be exuected. Let us go to them only wlien we are going to get results. I think the action of the democratic caucus of the House showed very clearly where they stand in the matter, and i an told confidentiallv that thev do not propose to change. ' " j to cay that no person who had the benefit of tiKo rule by which tl:ey propose to out us both through get=- through singly. I refer, of course, to uklahbma. The Demo cratic " caucus laid down for one abstructioni.t in the Hou:e. It seems to me we should not recognize such tactics. We ought to defend our rights Bid our position against all caucus. Yours very truly. G. M. Dodge. January, 1889. Boston, Mass., Jan 21, 1889 Dear Sir: In accordance with the suggestions of several mem bers of the Associated Alumni and Past Cadets of i^orwich University in and about Boston, an informal meeting of "N. U.',* men was held Jan. 19th for the purpose of considering the feasibility of an Alumni meeting and Banquet in Boston. At this meeting suflicient enthusiasm was manifest to war rant such a meeting a success, and Tuesday, Feb. 5th, at 6 f. M. has been agreed upon as the tin.e for the same. You.are herely most cordially invited to attend this raeetingthe place hereafter to be announced--the expense not to exceed ^2.00 per capita,--and you are asked to notify the Secretary of your inten tions at once. Dr. JOSEPH STEDMAN, *59, Pres. of N. U. Alumni Association. Col. GHAS. H. LEWIS, '55, Pres. of the University. Col. KENRY 0. KENT, '54. GEO. D. THOMAS, *76. CALVERT K. MELLEN, '84. CHAS. H. NICHOLS, '86. N. LOUIS SHELDON, '84, Secretary pro tem, Norwood, Mass. ■ ' A''A;'''- January, 1889. ' 'New York. January 2?, 1889. } E. Dickinson, Esq., Gen. Sup't. U.P.Ry., Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir:— I received your letter only three days ago on my return here, I was at the meeting in Boston. The question of re-organization did not come up there before the Board. It was mentioned to me by Mr. Adams and Mr. Holcombe, but I saw no dispo sition on the part of either to make any changes on account of Mr. Blickensderfer--in fact, his name was never mentioned. Now, what I want to say to you as a friend, which I think you ought to thoroughly understand , that when the Board placed Mr. Holcombe in charge of the road West of the Missouri River they proposed to sustain him in everything he does that per tains to his duties, and which includes, of course, the right to employ or discharge any man. It would be impossible to maintain any discipline on a line of road when an^/- employee could appeal over the head of Mr. Holcombe; and my ad ice to you as c friend, which I think I have shown mysslf to be for a great many years, is, that if you have any grievances , or think that you are to be in any way injured, for you to go squarely and frankly to Mr. Holcombe and settle them with him. I am perfectly willing that you should show this letter to him, for he knows that I am your and every man s friend who has been on the U. P. road for as many years as you have. I look upon him as a practical railroad man who has no personal interest, only to carry out his duties in relation to our road; and that should be the effort of all of us. It should be the desire of every man upon the road to atand up for the prop erty, especially when almost every man's hand, as well as the Government is against uc, because they think they can attack us with imptinity and we cannot strike back. I hope to see an "esprit du corps" on the Union Pacific that will defend its property— not only against the attacks of its competitors, but against the uqjist attacks that have been made upon us by the politicians, and when its employees look only to the power West of the Missouri, so far as the physical management of the road is concer ned. Very truly yours, G. M.Dodge. Januarjr, 1889. Thos. L, Kimball, Esq., 457 'Nev? York. January 22nd, 1889. Gen'l. Manager, U.P.Ry.,Co., Ornaha, Nob. Dear Sir;-- I am in receipt of yours of January 29th and wired you today in reply. I am very much gratified at the opinion you have of my Toledo paper, and I know that it will be pleasing to you as it is to me to know that all over the country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from leading business and railroad men and capitalists, I am receiving similar conmendation. I believe now that it is about time for the Union Pacific road to plant itself upon its rights. I have been disposed to do this for some time, but loyally—as everyone else connected with the road is, have felt disposed to follow any policy that we all thought for the best. At the last meeting in Boston Mr. Adams, who has done everything in his power to bring the Government and the Company together, told me he had come to the conclusion that it was best for us to stand on our rights. Mr. Holcombe was present at the meeting, and I think we all agreed, that after March 1st, we would look after the U. P. on its merits and in the interest of its Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. 459 . Y ^ January, 1889. New York. ^ January 24, 1889. Hon. Ed. 0. Woloott, Denver, Col. ^ Dear Sir:- I know that it is a little premature to be speak favor for any one with the next adminttration; but I have a great desire to see President Harrison send Col. P. D. Grant as Minister to China. No doubt there may be other applications, but I think this ap ointment would strike you as a very competent and suitable one to be made, especially when we cons ider the strained conditions between the two nations. It don't seem as if there ought to be any necessity for any pressure for President Harrison to recognize Gen. Grant's family. I know how the Chinese nation would look unon this, and I know that it would be received with great favor by thep; when the proper time comes. Or if you see it in your way to aid in the matter I will take it as a great personal favor, if you will do so. I have two motives; one, ray old friendship for Grant and for his family; the other, that I am very anxious that the relations betv/een China and this countrj*^ shall be upon the mend instead of upon the strain that they now are. I am. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 465 January 27th 1889, Stockford,Wilmington,Del.Jan'y 27,1889 My dear General; I am much obliged to you for you kind letter of the 25th and for the complimentary words it contained concerning my review of Sher idan 's Memoirs. Of course it would have be en out of place for me to aake a personal explanation of any greater.length in a notice of Sheridan's especially if it had enlarged my own performances in ©onnection with him. I regret to say that I have not a scratch of a pen from Rawlihs to you though 1 found in his letters one of your letters to him, which was both interesting and important. I hcve sent it back to his family, I never received from you any of the letters mentioned by ^you, and I regret to add, that not one of Kawlins friends, to whom he must have written, has ever sent me a scratch of his pen, andyet I think I am justified in saying that his memory and fame are safe. I am only delaying the publication of my book about him to get access to the Records of the Rebellion which ought to have been published long ago. If you can lay your hands on the letters Rawlins wrote you I hope you will let me see them. With kind regards. Yours veiy sincerely. J.H.Wilson. Genl. G.M.Dodge . Mas/- "" , ^ , ' : -•'e ,, •I -<1 467 January 27th T889 St. Louis, Mo. Jan'y 27th 1839. Sunday, P.M. My dear Gener-il; Your letter of 22d was received on my return from Texas, I want to thank you with all my heart for it. To know you have ever been my friend, and that you are such now,- affords me more pleasure than can be ex pressed by my pen. 1 need not tell you of the causes of loss in-earnings nor of increased expenses, excdpt to say that many miles of branch lines, only, half built, have been turned over to me to operate. No section houses, no cat.le hards, no fences, no cattle guards, etc., etc., etc.. No repair shops for cars or engines, compelling their haul hundreds of miles for repairs etc. All these things Mr. Gould seems to overlook. I cannot allow the physical condition of the property to decline. God knows it was hnd enough when I toolj it. I have worked hard and honestly to improve it, endeavoring meantime to secure loyal, faithful of ficers and employees in all dep'mts. And I firmly believe this system is thds equipped today. In the long run this will tell. Meantime there is much fault found with the expenses etc., 90 much so that I am almost disc^ouraged. True t feel we had perhaps too much passenger train service, but with all the extra work put upon me in way of making settlements of old disputed imitters is it not reasonable some things should be overlooked? I have done Just as I would do if I owned personally the whole property. Have tried to look after and develope the local business giving but lottle of my time to through traffic believing the life of any road must depend upon its local trade. Am I not right? But why write thus to you-- you know it ail. Again, before closing I desire to thank you foi yeur friend ship and to say it is appreciated— I am blue, blue as one can be. TSver yours, S.H.H.Clark. January, 1889, W, H. Holcomb, Esq.| Omaha, Neb. iK '> Mew York. January 28, 1889. Dear Sir;- Replying to your favor of the 25th, the Denver, Te:as & Ft. Worth road has 859 miles of main line, and the bonded debt is as follows:- Ft. W. & D. C. $8,086,000 6 percent bonds, $18,000 per mile. D. T. & Ft. W. $4,500,000 5 " " D. T. & G. 5 " " Of these bonds about 250 of the Denver, Texas & Ft. Worth 4n the treasury of the Compan3''. The bonds were not sold but distributed to the subscribers who furnished the money for the construction of the road. The actual cash cost of the road and equipment are more than the face of the bonds . whatever profit there was in building the road was in the stock which was issued at t e rate of 20,000 per mile. The road today is equipped at the rate of about $2800 per mile. Of course we think there is a good future for the road It is finely built, has greatterminal facilities, has no floating debt, and on the upper divisions no interest on bonds is payable. This gives us over a years commercial use of the new road, enabling us to get everything in shpae before we have to pay fixed 0 harges. A good many pc ople are trying to pick up the new stock trust certificates of which they are outstanding about $17,000,000 at 17 or thereabouts. In this we think there is not much chance of loss and a pro bability of a large increas; and if we should do a fair business there is no doLibt that this would be the case. Very truly yours , G. M. Dodge. We shall put on the road about $600,000 additional in equipment fur ther we shall issue an equipment bond similar to the U. P. bond 10 and 20 years to draw 6% int. that covers the equipment only. G.M.D. January, 1889. 47a New York". January 28, 1889, Hon. J. V. Parwell, Winsdor Hotel, Dear Sir:- Referring to our conversation as to upon what terms the Ft Worth & Denver City Railway would allow a branch road leading from it to develop the coimtry to the West to run over it into Ft. Worth or to do businessover it to the North, would sayj if the branch started off say as far North as Decatur or any point above it, we would be willing to enter into a contract on th.. basis of so much per train mile, we paying all expenses; or upon the basis of joint ownership Decatur to Ft. worth you paying half of the fixed charges, interest, insurance and taxes and basing the ' maintenance of the road upon the wheelage. I enclose one of our contracts. No, 4, which will show the basis of that class of contracts. Of course it would have to be changed to fit this case, but you can see the scope of it, and our Denver to Rio Grande contract. This contract with the Denver & Rio Grande is a little different bedause we there furnish the money ourselves to broaden the road; but it will be the same except the joint business coming in, say from Decatur to Ft. Worth, you would not have any interest in the local business xinless it was business that came from some point on your line to some point on ours; but ont any interest betweeriDecatur and Ft. Worth. Then again for all business going North of Decatur on our line from a"* 1 points on your line, and from our line to all points on your line North of Decatur we would enter into an equable and permanent rate agreement; so as to give you the opportunity to do business to and from your line to our line, and give us also the same right ; and divide the earnings of much business upon a fair mileage basis. I also wish to say that if you pxpose building a new branch in that territory where our line would save you cap ital on mileage you will have no difficulty in entering into an equable agreement with us. I make it a pbint never to build a road parallel to another or that interferes with its business. If I can get fair terms to route my business over that road. These agreements only apply to trackage between the Points. You would have to obtain independent terminal arrangements at Fort Worth or go in with us on a joint purchase. The contract I hand you is of course confidential, but you can get from it the basis of such agree ments as you desire. I am. Very truly yours. G. M, Mge January, 1689. w. H. Holoo;nb, Esq., 475 January 30, 1069. New York. Vice President, U.P.P.P.Co., Onaha, Neb. Dear Slr:- The Colorado coal and iron people ivere in to see me about their BesEemor works which -^re laying idle on account of the cost of obtain ing^ ore. The uenver.& Rio Crand charged them 1 3/4 cents per ton per mile. They wa.t to open their works anP keep them open all the year roimd, wldch wruld be of great advantage to all of us. My plan v/ould be if they can get the ore delivered at a price hat they could afford,te-give-t-em-a-eeH- nd we could get the laul over our toads we could afford to give them a contract for rails we want in our local country there ah^ West, so as to keep them running, "say, 100 to 200 tons pe day; and also encou age them in running their pipe and snail iron a. d rail mills. This they can no do on present Ea tern tariff rates and build up in the interior their manufactories. manufa ctories. The Hessenier plant is an immerse one. They tuld me that they were willing to run their rail mill even without any profit at a fair cost for t'e purpose of Jceeping their other in dustries going. They say th at the Uhugwatcr ores contain 10 per cent of magneosc and they arc very fine ores, a. d if they cai": get a rate from the (Ji ugwater over the u. P. and over i s to Bess emer they w 11 immediately open the mines at ^hugwater ai d commerce shipping the ores and open their Bessemer works. I had always supposed that t'.e Ohugwatei' ores were impractiable, but thry claim that t'ey are as good as most of their ores. rov the purpose of opening these mines and making business for o\ir line north oi oheyenne, wo better make a very rasonable rate on th se ores; the cars haulin them could lead back with coal from Trinidad if j^ou take it so far north as oheyeiine or with whatever material wo could get. i wired our Gen. Freight Agent, Finley, to get into communi cation With your p'ople and see what he could do; and I write this to you asking you to give it proper atte:tion because I think evei^ time we open a mine or ai industry upon our line it is worth a groat deai more to us than any other business we can get. I asked them to gi.e ae a rate that they could afford to use, but the ) rties here were nOt able to do it. I leave for Now .^rleans Thursday night and will reach theria out the 3rd or 4th or rebruary/ Telegram will reach me at At lanta on Monday or Tuesday, Letters at New Orleans, care of "r. . Wheelock of the T. & P. Railway Co., but you can commu nicate with our Denver people direct upon this question. V©ry truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President. January, 1889, 477 .. New York January Sj , 1889, Mr. uhas. wheeler. Sec., • . . Lienver, oolo . Dear sir:- I enclose copy of resolutions to be p ssed by the board of Directors and by the stock-holders at the comins meeting, declaring at an- ei'd the supplementai contract of April 15/87 which explains itself; but the stock having been exchanged and the Road having come under the control of the nine, voting trustees. Judge Dillon (thiough he does not think the supplemental contract no.v applies ) thinks we ought to so declare in order that whenever we wish to do ai'iything that no one can plead this contract as Mayer has done in the suit he has brought against us. I also enclose -a resolution and a mortgage to be adopted by the hoard of Directors and stock-holders of the Denver, Texas and Gulf, which also explains itself. This is to cover the equipment that the Denver, Texas and Gulf has paid for oul of its earnings and the bonds upon it, when issued , will go into the treasury of that Company. The Colorado and Texas construction Company is used only as a vehicle to et the bonds legally out; and it is used instead of the makers of the equipment , whom we might have tr-ouble in getting to assume the authority, we Inve done this with all the other Companies, so as to put bonds into the Treasury of each for the equipment that they have paid for out of their earnings. Judge Dillon says that these equipment mortgppes onlv have to go befo,e boards of Directors; but as you are roir- to have a meetlnc of stook-holders, you nay a= well also have'them acted upon at that meeting . woe. +]' Kvans that the board you proposed to make for for a few days ir- order that to act the upon stock-holders these papers would I am have now to sendinr adjourn and I wisl; that when the stock-holders meetin'- adjourns, it ad- ' future day so i can get to Denver, o be there at the time of such adjourn meeting. I mav h-ve likr ^dfttion to p-pcrs already sent, which we would i'LhiS hcaoh Denver none time durl„c thi month here tonl;:ht of p;brua;y: ard e:pect '^''- to Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President, :.";s s February, 1889 Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 10, 1889 Capt. John A. Grant, G. N".., Dallas, Texas. Dear Sir: Won't you please inform Gov. Brown when you are vritin to hill that I met Peter Smith here with a view of sending him to Austin, and I find he has been down there the past week and seen all our Northern friends . He seems to think matters look favorable to us, and will go down again if necessary. I would also like to know about when theGovenor expects to return here. I shall go to San Antonio Tuesday, and I shall arrange so as to see you and him. and our peo/'le together "on my return here. I have also called up the question about the packages of freight. ¥r. Finley is now in Dallas trying to arrange with t;r. Hinton in that matter. They will explain the trouble to you. It seems to be in the loading of the freight in too Hiany cars in New Orleans. Howevei', I have called for a statement of it from hr. Duncan and will sent it to you. They all appreciate the inportance of it and, no doubt, will comie together on the matter. I want you to allow n^e to put in a switch near the, bridge. I will put 6.00 to 800 ft. lead from the switch lead before Ispur out of it, so that my switchers will never go onto the main track in switching in our yards. IVe are transferring our potatoes lumber, and everything of the kind in our yards so as to use our own cars, and this is increasing on us all the time. That is for your benefit and ours too, and I th.ink ii' you will look at the n.atter carefully you will see that with this lead there is no trouble about getting onto the main track with switchers. But as to that I am ready to do anything that will protect you in it. Yours truly, G. M. Dodge. 483 February, 1889 Fort Worth, Tex., February 11, 1889 Mr. S. Tilghman, Dear Sir: I caroe up over the T. & P., all the way by daylight. They have had on it two months of rain, steady, but I found the road in good strong condition and pretty smooth, It is ballasted with sand and gravel for the whole ? 00 miles that I came over and is in very fine condition. The equipment is in fair condition. Their extraordinary expenditures as and their entire maintainance of way for December was only $53,000. I think during the year 1889 the road will be operated for miuch less than any year heretofore. General Manager Grant told me that on the item of bridging etc, (whichgoes into the operating expenses) he vould ;Save $600,000. It would be a great advantage to the road if it were fenced, as the claims for cattle killed are very large, as also the foreign car claims, in 1888 amounted to nearly $200,000. I do not see with this present physical condition of the T. & P. why for the year 1889 it should not earn the intereston both mortgages, its bonds, and something besides. You cannot tell anything about it for 1888, as during more than half of that year the extraordinary expenditures have been going on, but now they are about all closed out. After I get over the M. K. Sc. T. I will write you. I think our earnings for January will be larger than for December Meek says our- net for November was $45,800. ? Yours truly, G . M. Dodge. February, 1889 485 Fort Worth, Feb. 11, 1889 J. F. Dillon, • ir-! 195 Broadway, N. Y. My dear Judge: I went over the land question thoroughly for two days in New Orleans with Judge Horn. I. You want to send an order down there to settle with these settlers. They are piling upon suit after suit, in a great many cases where their is no question as to their right to the land. And in other cases whei-e they have no rights, but Mr. Brinkhurst, whom I brought down here, told me that those suits could be easily settled by giving to the people who really have title to the land that portion which had been assigned to them-. Now they bring suit for portion adjoining that instead of the land their improvements are on. Now in a-dition to the 60 or 80 acre, farm that the imiprovements ai-e on, they slip over a number of acres that we have entered. Judge Brinkhurst, and Mr. Wheelockadvised that we square up,Most, of these settlers are willing to settle, and you know when you go t'f cannot with a settler whom you are likely II. I found that there are still about 250,000 acres of land due us from Washington, about which there is no conflict, all fine timber land, and as soon as I get back I propose to go and get the patents on it. The 77,000 acres is nearly all good land. There are 17,000 acres of it that are parts of the sections, good timber, that Mr. Gould and ourselves own. There is no question as to what we ought to do in these cases, that is, pay the tax, enter the lands, have Mr. Wheelock select from them sufficient lands at $1 an acre to cover our expenses, and as soon as we get out 250,000 acres and can offset the bonds coming to us on the if you think proper, put it into a receiverihands releasing the lands that we are to purchase from litigation. By putting this property in a receiver's hands you simply cut off the owners of it bonds fron. entering themi, because when the lands are in a receiver's hands they are of no benefit to the people who put their money into this property, for you cannot use the bonds in entering the land. And I want to say to you frankly that I am opposed to any such movem.ent until we have all our lands that are not in conflict, and have received the )3onds due on them and those who desire to have had an opi)ortunity to use them upon the lands. Judge Howe is clearly of the opinion that the momient wt go into the receiver's hands so far as a bond-holders right to apply them upon the land is concerned it is gone. There is no trouble about handling these lands if you look at the thing in a business point of view, and with a view of our getting the m.oney to nay off the taxes and the entries; and for what money we put in we can get a clear title. willing to wait until after we have made our entries and then if there is on of carrying the property, by its going into the receiver's hands, 4&6 and the court allowing it sold if the court has power. But I do not see how a court could wipe out the bond holders right if there is any upon the land by limiting any portion of it. At any rate I am clear that we should get out this 77,000 and 250,000 acres, and the bonds upon it and make our entries before it goes into the receiver's hands. Yours truly, G. Iv.. Bodge. February, 1889. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The '.VesLern Associated Press, and the New ^ork Associated Press; re presenting the Prominent Newspapers throxaght the United States, Acting also for the Renter, Havas and .Volff Agencies of Europe, and the Lead ing Journals of the Bxitish Provinces. General Offices ) Cincinnati Office CHICAGO AND NEW YORK) N. W. Cor .4th tc Vine St's,Rms.3&4 Cincinnati Office Cor.4th tc Vine St's,Rms.3&4 (P.O. Box 532) H. Chamberlin, Agent. Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1889. ^.y dear General; I am requested by the Ohio .Commandery Loyal Legion to pre pare a paper to be read probably at the meeting in i^'-arch. I want to write upon the characteristics of the skirmishing during the Atlanta campaign, and to dwell at some length on the 4th of July affair in which Gen. Noyes lost a leg. Are you sufficiently at leisure to help me with soa.e information as to the orders which brought about that engagement, what command opposed u^, etc? And wiil^you kindly refresh my recollection as to the facts when you were wounded? Were you alone in that reconnaisance, and was it at the main line of our works, or out at the skirmish or picket defenses? I want to have the exact facts . I can not tell you how thoroughly I enjoyed ra y day with you at Atlanta. I put on record a little sketch of our visit which appeared in the Com. Gazette of Feb. 9. I mailed a copy to you. With regards to Ivrs. lii-ontgomery and your traveling companions I am. Yours truly. W. II. Chamberlin. Sir'-r' . ... February, 1889 Jay Gould, Esq, Dear Sir: 49^' Fort Worth, Feb. 12/89 I came over the T. & P. from U by daylight. I had with me the General l!r. Grant. In my opinion he is a first he shows that in the work upon the road. Orleans to Ft. Worth had had upon it in tinuous rain. It is a strong track, re be run over safely at the late of 40 mile that the physical condition of the road is all right. ew Orleans to Ft. 7/orth Manager of this road, -class track man. I think The road from New the last two months a conasonably smooth, and can s an hour. I do believe in its track department Its transoortation departm.ent is not as - satisfactory but when I brought up the questions upon that the'anfewers were that, I. They had 50 locomotives bought in an early day of not to exceed 32 tons each and of coarse that held them to 12 or 14 cars. II. I think that in the reorganization the road should have been fenced, as I see a great percentage of the cost of trans portation is in cattle killed. III. In the past year they have contended with the low rates, but this has not been so much against them, as ti e fact that during that year theyhave laid (the payments going into operating expenses, the claims of the three previous years. You understand what that means. You SDoke to me about a low amount of tonnage per train mile. I brought this up and I find that it comes from the fact that in their train miles is included every mile of trains used for construction material handled during that year. Also tha train-miles of the gravel-trains used on the New Orleans division, while the tonnage applicable against this is only the comn.ercial tonnage for which they get pay. Now I think after looking the road over carefully, that the year 1889 will show a very great gain upon its net earnings. There is very little to spend east of Ft. Worth upo: road. They are now using only l/3 of ,,a man per mile, which force holds their track during th.ese rains. The entire bridging is new. Tl:ie road is nearly all new-tied, and the expenses will come principally upon the ties needed in the Rio Grande Division, and the replacing of the iron on that division with steel. I can see no reason why the operating expenses in the year 1889 should not be brought to65 percent. Mr. Grant, the General Man ager , says that he can bring it lower. He said to me that in the bridging itemi alone, that has been put into the operating ex penses for 1888, he could save ^200,000. I do not pretend to criticise the traffic depart ment, but so far as the physical condition of tlie road is con® cerned I want to say to you that it is better than that of any road I have seen in the South unless it be the road from Ft. Worth to Denver, which, being a new road and on a good soil, is almost, perfect. ■ • I want also to say in behalf of the T. & P. that there is an esprit-da-corps and discipline upon it that I have not seen since we completed it and-the last six months, show a lower ex-, pense upon track th.an any previous year that it Itb s been run. The maintenance of way for December last was something over ^50,000 and for the last six months of .1888 it was for below that of any year before where there were any betterments made upon, the road. I do not believe you can improve the physical manage ment of the road. I think you can, possibly, the traffic de partment . I think Lhe influence should be brought to bear entirely upon the traffic department. The great expense in the general offices comes entirely from Lhe condition of a road in a receiver's hands. The officers of tl:e court and the demands of court in these matters have run that up.. You will find it to be very much less for the year 1889 after the road falls into the -hands of a president. Yours truly. G. U. Dodge . 497. ; February, 1889. Boston, February 25, 1889. W. H. On behalf of this co mpany you can approve appro priation for Butte as per your Mo. 285, but obtain explicit assurance from Haggin that the Anaconda Works are not to suspend on account of arrangement with the copper syndicate of Paris. That they intend to do so has been stated. C . F. Adams. 4S9 February,*1889. Omaha, Feb. 26, 1889, C. F. Adams, Esq., President, Boston. Referring to our conversAtion this P. U. at Omaha, I infer that if the proposed improveiiients and extensions are made as shown by the maps and reports, additional power and equip ment is purchased, and a suitable machine shop is put up at Anaconda, and equipped with the necessary tools and machinery, thab we shall have free use furnished us of all water required by the railroad com pany at Anaconda, and that you will concede all the business of your comipanies to and from Anaconda and Butte to the O^ion Pacific and Northern Pacific jointly as against any other competitive' lines. It is understood tiiat the railway company are making large expenditures for the mutual advantage and benefit of your companies and the railroad companies, and that in consideration thereof we shall have all of the business produced by your companies, including all products going out, and machinery, supplies, etc., that are being shipped in. For how long a term are you willing to agree to give the business jointly to the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific roads as against any other competitive lines if the rate of ten dollars per ton on matter Anaconda to Chicago, and 40 cents per ton on ore from Butte to Annaconda is put in efiect as of January 1, 1889, We infer that you are willing to make tliis arrangement, a nd are going ahead with our plans for construction, purchasing new pow er, etc., but would like this assurance from you that we shall have the business on these rates for specified tin.e, which we would like to have you name, and that the Anaconda works shall not be shut down, or tied up, by any arrangement with a copper syndicate of Paris, France, as it has been stated you intended to do. Yours truly, W. H. Kolcorab. t-' , '• .f I ^ 501. March, 1889. New York, March 1, 1889, W. H. Kolcoiiib, Esq., U.P.R.E., Omaha, Dear Sir: There are two subjects I neglected in my hurried conversation with you at Omaha that i desire to call you attention to. One is the length of tiii.e that is taken transporting stuff from Anaconda to Chicago, the other is the length of time in adjusting and auditing my reclamations. In both of these interest is quite a serious matter. I am satisfied there is much more time taken in transporting the stuff than is necessary, and it could be greatly hurried up, and unquestion ably there is more time occupied in adjusting and auditing my reclam ations than Is necessary. If in this latter you will allow me six per cent interest, it is alx righL, but if you don't do that please hurry up these adjustments, and don't keep my money tied up as hereto fore . In fact I see no reason why we should have any considerable amount to reclaim. I think it would be much better foi- you and for me too, if the net price was collected, and save me the trouble of making reclamations, and you the trouble of auditing them. Please give these matters your attention and if possible remedy the difficul ties . I have written to Daly our understanding as to the railroad and he will facilitate you in every way. I hope you will go to work immediately, and drive it to completion as speedily as practicable. Yours very truly. J . B . Haggin, I\arch, 1889. Saint Louis, Mo., 1 Mar. 1889, Gen. G. M. Dodf New J Dear Sir: ork. Lately I have had occasion to examine into several pro jected Rail Roads, among them the line from El Paso, to ^hite Oaks. You will probably remember, that in 1882, I made a survey for you between these two points. Several beginnings have been made towards construction, and they have now got 10 miles of steel laid, and have the grading . done 10 miles beyond present end of track. The contractors (Morris R. Lock & Co. of Illinois), are not likely to £0 any further with construction, as they appear to owe for all labor and material that so ffir have entered into construction of the line, and the officers of the company refuse to deliver to the contractors, any part of the local subsidies, until after all claims against the x-oad have been paid off or released. The local subsidies consist of promissory notes amounting to :5l000,000. given by the citizens of El Paso and 73 acres ofland at that place for terminals. The officers of the company are now looking around for re sponsible parties who are able to build the line. From conversations had with them, I understand them to offer the 10 miles of finished track, the 10 miles of finished road bed, and the 73 acres for terminals at El Paso and all their franchises, free of all debts and encumbrances, to any responsible party who will complete the line, about 165 miles to White Oaks. At current prices for labor and material this road can be built and equipped for •frlOOOO. per mile. The local business for the first 100 miles would not amount to much, but alter completion to White Oaks, I think it would earn suflicient to pay running expenses, and interest on the above amount of bonded debt. I think it can certainly be counted on to do this the second year after it is built. The cost of maintenance will be less than ordinary. If some arrangement can be made, whereby the steel and fastenin^^s can be paid for in the first mortgage bonds of the Company, at about 95 cents; or the whole amount of ^jjilOOOO. per mile placed at about the same figures^, there would be a fair profit in construction; and I believe a good strong probability that the stock wou*ld soon have a value worth considering as it seems pretty certain the "Rock Island Co'.' -will come to El Paso, over that line. If the subject matter of this letter is found to be of any interest to you, or your financial connections; I would be very glad to hear from you at your convenience. . . . The project has now reached such a stage in its existence as is likely to invite attention. If it should turn out that money can now be raised to build this road, I would expect to give my personal attention to management of construction both generally and in detail. Very truly, Henry . Laughlin. ' ■ . u' ■ i' ■ i March, 1889. 5C5: New York, March 2, 1889. W. H. Holcomb, Esq., * U .P .R .R .Co ., Omaha. My- dear Sir; I have your favor of the 28th inst.. In reply thereto I beg to state that you now have free use of water from Warm Si;ring creek and that in your new worv.s or shops you can have the same with such increase thereof as may be proper or necessary for your purposes. Further than that you have all my business in conjunction with .the Northern Pacific, and will continue to have it. I have refused to make any arrangement with or give any encouragement to any other road, and do not desire that any other build either to Butte or Anaconda. So far as it is in my power to discourage the same i will do so. My view is that I can better afford to support two roads than three, and therefore 1 aii: not disposed to make any arrangement with a third. As to the transportation of matter for any length of time at the rate proposed I am willing to say-this, that ^ will continue it as long as it seems fair and reasonable, and as long asthere is no decrease to any one else. You can have the business for -ewo years anyhow, and perhaps we might agree for a longer period. At any rate we will have no difficulty on that subject. As to shutting down or tying up my works, ti.at is impossible It can.lot be done. There is only one thing that will tie them up or shut them down, and that is that I cannot produce the copper at the price I can sell it for. I do not see much probability yet ol arriving at that point. I have never contemplstted shutting them down and no proposition can possibly be made to induce me to do so. Yours truly, «T. B. Kaggin. 507 March, 1889. Carmel, Maine, March 5th, 1889 Gen'l. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Respected Sir; While seeing a reference to your name in a Washington paper "The National Tribune it occurred to me that possibly son-e advantage might arise from correspondence with you that might result in benefit to myself without injury to you. . .Be pleased to kindly notice some references to myself. My name is Geo. E. Dodge, a native of this state. Can trace back to ancestors who settled in Mass, to one of three, brothers who emigranted to this country. During period of my minority I was trained a farmer, receiv ing a high school and academic education. Am naturally possessed of much mechanical ingenuityi am now residing on and owning a farm. During the late war I served sone 3^ years in every gradd from private to Commander of Co.,was seven times wounded in action. Was in Command of Co. during last Campaign,was in fights before Rich mond and Petersburg!!, Va.,was present and witnessed the scene at Surrender of Lee's Army. During season of about 1880-1 was engaged in business on Red Cedar River, Wisconsin for Pitcher, Halez & Co. lumber men and mill owners. While there a branch to Minn, and Chicago R. R. was built, extending from Monominee junction to connect witii this road, extending a distance of some 10 or 12 miles up the Red Cedar River to Red Cedar Palls. F. W. Pitcher of t!;e firm referred to took the contract to build said road. Two long truss bridges were to be constructed on this route. I was called upon to take charge of the building of those bridges as Master Mechanic which I did to tiie complete satisfaction of all parties concerned. The bridges were accepted without reference to a single fault. I subsequently learned that these Bridges were counted as among the best of their kind in that section. In the htale of Maine we have to endure a long cold winter vith sudden and seveie changes and many other things unfavorable to health and prosperity. i have resolved to change my place of residence with a view of finding a more favorable place where to engage in business and subsequently to fix upon a place for permanent home where the future of the place will appear to be favorable, where a plant is taking root with prospect of large growth. m. I have some property here in shape of farm and lands. Sale of such property here is slow at this season of the year. Sale can be made in time; I have small available means at this time. I beg leave to ask if there are not many chances on your line of K. of which you are President for such as I am, some place of trust under you that would be fitting to one of n>y capacity. I am ready and willing to do honest labor till a permanent location favorable presents itself. Will you kindly notice this matter and give me an opportunity to prove myself. Will pronptly notice a call from you. Very respectfully. Geo, E. Dodge, P. 0. Carmel, Penobscot Co., Maine. ■ ■ ^ Kl' . . . ■ I*: 1." i' .'.'' , . "j y < r- • ..-.tiv'?) ;p' March, 1889 On the road, March 6, 1889 T. K. Du Puy, Esq., General Mane^ger, C. F. & I. Co., Pueblo, Colo. Dear Sir: P.eferring to rny conversation to-day; When I first came to Texas I "met the G. F. & I. People, and immediately saw the im.oortance of their plant to this country, and I entered mto arrangements with then, that I would build our main line from the Fountains to their works on the Mesa, so as to give it a broad gauge line to them; I also agreed ot let in, over that line, the Missouri Pacific and the Atchispn 5- Topeka, which I have done. I was assured then by Mr. Sprague and by M.r. Danforth , both, that I should have our share of their business. .AfterwardsI made a contract v.ith Mr. Sprague as to building to Beshoar,.or Grays Creek as you call it---that track you have. He agreed to put out for me, if I would build that, not less than 300 tons per day for 90 days, and after that put the increase up to 1,000 tons, stating as his reasons for being willing to do this, that they were under contract to pay royalty up to 1,000 tons a day .- Soon after we comnenced doing business here, I met Mr. Danforth and also Mr. Sprague, and they both said that after I would get the third-rail into th.e old mine at Walsen's they would r-ive me the business out of that mine, or at any rate one-half of the business out of Walsens. Mr. bmiith put that track infor me for that purpose, but up to to-day none of these promises or agreen.ents have been carried out with me . They promised me half of the out-nut out of the Santa Clara Mine when it was completed if I would arrange for trackage to it. I therefore went in jointly in that track with the Rio Grande for the purpose of reach ing the i»anta Clara M;ine and the Rouse Mine. The Engleville Mine I did not build to, because it was my understanding that the Rio Grande would broad gauge that them selves, but that whenever it is done I have the right to go to that Mine also. What I ask of the G. F. & I. Company is, that they shall give me one-half of their business between Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and all joints South, to Trinidad, that we reach. I opened my line into Texas for all the products of the C. F, & i. Co., upon the same rate that any other person gets, and in pursu ance ol t; e: policy that I have always pursued since I came to Colorado, I have been endeavoring to get your blast furnaces agoing, and shall continue to do so, but I do feel that our Com pany, now that it has got to this plant, and to all your industries between Denver and Trinidad, that you should give us one-half of the business, especially so when under my contract with the Rio Grande Company it is made their duty to turn it over to me. I am. Very truly yours, G . M.. Dodge . 1 ri\ I. oc . !/aroh 7th 511 'A'aLhington March- Vth-/^^"^- My dear Genl; : I have only time to say a word to you. We must put Wilson in if possible and I think it is. I v/ant to see iou within two weeks and do all I can to help him in counsel with ^ou. There are some important things to he looked after very soon. Y/ilson will pursoie a careful, wise and conserva tive course, there is no douht about this. His election does not mean expin-. sion although I- think the natural course eventually will result in an easy money market. I will-see you sometime next week if possible and will write you more in detail tomorrow. hincerely yours W.B.Allison. henl. H.r. lodge Council Bluffs Iowa. i.' 513 March, 1889. DENVER,TEXAS AND FORT WORTH COMPANY. . PRESIDENT'S OFFICE No. 40 Wall St., N. Y. March 9, 1889. General G. M. Dodge, Esq., Denver, Col. Dear Sir: We held a meeting of Board of Directors yesterday and author ized the President to sign the Map sent here by Mr. Bissell, showing our located line from the Purgatoire River North fourteen viles toward Pueblo. During the meeting, the question of earnings of the road was taken up, and on examining the statement made by Mr. Wheeler, showing earnings and expenses for each road for the month of November, the attention of the Board was particularly called to the high ratio of expenditure to earnings on the Denver, Texas & Gulf Division which is nearly 79^. Cannot something be done to bring this down to a basis which will be more satisfactory and give us something as net earnin,:^ s on that line? It seems to us that the expenses of this Div ision are entirely too high, and that some means should be found to stop them. Another point I wish to call your attention to, and ask you to investigate, and if possible remedy, while you are in Denver, is the great delay in sending here detailed statements of the operation of the entire line. The report for November was received here only on the 5th of March, although I understand it was ready to be sent forward and was handed to the General Manager for trans mission to the New York On ice on or before the 19th of February. This we hardly think right, as in our opinion, the report should be sent to us from the Auditor direct as soon as it can be prepared. The custom is with Union Pacific that the General Manager has nothing to do with the accounts, except to approve bills, and the Auditor sends his statements direct to the Boston of.ice in Boston as soon as they are made up, without waiting for their examination by the General Manager or any one else. The Union Pacific with all its ramifications has its accounts audited, made up and sent here within forty days after the expiration of the month covered by the statements of account. We think that the reports of this road should be here within thirly days, and then we will know what we are about. If you agree with me in this matter, see that these suggest ions are complied with. We also think that Mr. Rich should make up and send in the accounts of the operations of joint track and pool balances at an earlier date. Cannot these be hurried up? 514^:^ Mr. Wheeler writes that the work of moving to the new building has delayed and embarrassed his force somewhat, and promises to endeavor to give us full reports at an earlier date than hereto fore. Still, we think it well for you to take this matter up while in Denver, and do what you can to iave it remedied. Yours veiy truly, Sidney Dillon, President, ; . ■ . 01 v."' ..'s ,,, 'sC • '■' '■ -u' 515i,,c Karch, 1889 Texas, ^'archl5, 1889 m.OF.AV.DA: Takin^^ Amorilla on the East, and the '.Vhite Oaks Railroad on the 7/est, look up the country carefully from Amorilla through Deaf Smith and Farmer counties; entering New ]V'exico and getting as direct a line as possible to the Rio Hondd--thence up the Rio Hondo into the White Oaks Valley to a connection with the White Oaks Railroad. It would be important to run to about the center of Deaf Smith County, then southwest through Farmer, until you could take an almost direct line to the mouth of the Uio Hondo, or go to the south line of Deaf Smith and strike into Ft. Sumner-and work south through the Fecos Valley to the Rio Hondo. Then examine all the country as far north as the first standard Parallel in New Mexico, and as far south as the Rio Hondo; get its agricultural capabilities, its population and every thing in it that would support a railroad. Then carefully examine the. timber on the line of the Rio Hondo, and all the way down that range of mountain to the Sacramento, and see the possibility of getting the timber onto that line. I want all the country developed in reconnaissances between the 33rd. and 35th. Parallels and east ol' the White Oaks and El Faso Railroad, and thence on a line leading to Amorilla. I want to ascertain its agricultural possibilities, its mineral, specially its coal and its timber, and what there is in it to support a railroad if built through it. 521. Warch, 1889 On the Road, March 18, 1889 A. A. Robinson, Esq., Vice PresL. & Manager, A. T. & S. F.R.R., Topeka, Kas. Dear Sir: I recieved to-day the map showing the properties of the Ft. Worth & Denver and Santa Fe' at Forth Worth. The properties of the Ft. Worth & Denver are outside of the Mortgage; those of the Santa Fe' I understand are under it. My idea would be to form a Terminal Company, put these two properties in at an appraised value; that is, an appraised cash value to-day; put upon them a Bond, showing that value, at Five (5) per-cent, each Company taking its proportion; then arrange v/ith the Houston A Texas Central and^the' Cotton Belt to come into the property upon a certain rental, and maintain the entire pro perty ourside of its interest, its taxes and insurance,- upon wheelage. Interest above capital invested, insurance and taxes over and above rental, to be paid by the Ft. Worth and Denver and the Santa Fe according to ownership. There are two or three pieces of property that we would have to buy there, andone or two that you would have to, so as to make it a complete block. ^ This Map don't show the entire own ership of the Ft. \'orth & Denver; where our Round House stands we have made a trade so that l^e own it. 'We have got to maintain some shops there at present; I suppose we would have to do that inde pendent, but these are my views. Now, criticise them, and see what we can do. What I think we ought to do is to combine the 4 Companies I name, and anyone else that came in there; run the entire property under a Superintendent that we all should agree upon, and when ever we made betterments in tracks, buildings, or anything else, let it be paid for by the two owners and added to their capital. Mr. Jones proposed to Mr. Scott to make an exchange turning in the same frontage that we own on you, against the same frontage that you own on us, and the building at $500., they to take it or let us move it off, and fix a value for the balance that you own on us over and above the frontage that we have on you. I think you have a n.ethod of n.aking Blue-prints; won't you take the map and send me a copy of it in Blue-print? I am, Very truly yours. G. M . Dodge. 523 N'arch, 1889. Tanora, Guthrie Co., Iowa. ^''arch 18th, 1889. General Sir: I noticed in the paper your trip to Atlanta, upon that sacred ground where Mcilierson fell. I would like to mkke a few remarks about that day's battle if it is not out of place and it is still clear be fore my memory. And it is this: Do you remember of me reporting to you just about the time you gave Sweeney, orders to move out. Benny, Whitehead, and I that morning rode out in the direction of •'-'ecatur and run across a Reb. deserter and he reported about Tardee lying upon that hill and gulch. I hastened in as quick as possible and reported to you what I had learned. You had just left the troops and I at once told you. You was by yourself going in the direction of McPherson headquarters, when I reported it to you, you made no reply. I then turned and went back and General Sweeney was just starting and I rodei along beside the General and just as we past that little log hut to our left, you re member just as we came into the opening there was a few stray shots over in the timber to ourleft. The 17th corps had a hospital just across the hollow and they were moving it. Directly there were more shots fired in that direction of the hospital we could see the smoke. Sweeny spoke to me and remarked, "I wonder what in hell that means." I then told him what i had learned. "The hell you say. Did you report it to Gen. Dodge?" I answered'^Yes." "Where did he go?" "In the direction of headquarters." Just about then five or six shots more were fired. The General then turned to me and spoke. "Suppose you ride over in that timber and see what that is.! I was riding to the right of the General. I spurred my horse out and made a half lelt wheel and dbwn the hill I went and across the ravine I went and up in the timber but not far when my eyes fell upon the three lines of the enemy. I was upon them before I knew it. I was in close shooting range before I knew it. I cant see why they did not kill me but I think I deceived them as 1 was fressed in butternut. I whirled my horse as quick as lightening and spurred and down into the ravine I went. They then let loose at me and up the hill I went but it is useless to state that I reported to Sweeney. They fired about fifty shots at me;they were in plain view of our men. Before I got up our boys fired a volley before I got up. So opened that great battle. Now General I have given you the facts in this case whether you remember about me reporting to you or not I do not know. If Sweeney is living and you get to see him and read this to him I feel positive that he will remember it. Now Gen. I suppose you will get tired reading this as it is poorly written and spelled. Please excuse. J. A, Hensal. I suppose you remember the reunion the next day at Gen. Sweeney's quarters. I suppose Fuller and Barnes do. Did you ever know that I bantered Gen. Fuller for a duel at De^atur, Ala. If Gen. Stevenson is still living he can tell you all about it as he was eye witness, or his Adjutant, Armstrong, I think his name was. Good-by. .r .. ^ > r A 'I.K M ' - . . >v-,. ri ' ■ ^ ■ h' r 1-;-^ r'* •iJ- •■' 'A 52S.:^ ' ^ March, 1889 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Western Associated Press, and the New Yokr -Associated Press: re presenting the Prominent Newspapers throught the United i^tates, Acting also for the Renter, Havas and Wolff Agencies of Europe, and the Lead ing Journals of the British Provinces. General Offices ) Chicago and New York) Cincinnati Office N. W. Cor.4th & Vine S-t's, Rms.3&4 (P.O.Box 532) W. H. Chamberlin, Agent. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 19, 1889. My dear General: On behalf the Committee of Arrangements for the Sixth Annual Dinner of the Ohio Commandery to be given at the Gibsen House in this City on the evening of April tenth in honor of the Sixth Quadrennial Congress of the Arder, I take great pleasure in extending you a formal invitation to honor us with your presence on that occasion. From the Ohio Commandery and from the Delegates to the Congress there will be quite a nuiiiber of men who served with you or in adjoining commands, all of whom would be delighted to welcome you. I sincerely hope your plans will allow us the pleasure of your presence. Very respectfully yours, W. H. Chamberlin, Chairman Com. Arrangements. Gen , G . M. Dodge. • '.'arch arth IG89. General G.Iv',Dodge, Tew York, N.Y. Treasury Department, VTashington March £Oth 1869. My dear General; I am glad to get your note of congratulations, though bi'ief I know they are hearty. You know without me telling you that there is no man on the earth whose friendship and good wishes I es teem more highly than yours. I shall hope to hear further from you when you reach New York and shall be very glad to see you in' Washing ton, and to serve you at any time. Titrs. Tichenor joined me here a few da^s ago and your name sake Harry will be here soon. We shall ey^-pect you to advise us when you come here. Please remember me kindly to Mrs. Gilbert and Blossie Sincerely your friend, Geo. C. Tichenor. v-r p . S-. YM , "I " . , - ' ■hr < .;V ' ■ - '= t 529 :arch 31 1889. Council Bluffs, Iowa "arch 31 1889, Bear 8ren; Yours from V/ashington is at hand. I will see.Mrs. Osdorne and let her knov; you do not care to sell your property at present, "but are in terested in their Kospit-.l work and will "be glad to contribute toward their current expenses. I think I will take the responsibility' of making your contribution in four payments ,^E5 each quarter," I shall do the same with Ilome of Friendless .Shall go down and look it o-ver some day this week and take that occasion hand him ^25 for you-. These are non sectarian and worthy institutions which are contributed to by our, citizens generally. I am obliged for your generous offer to procure transportation for me.over Union ~acific when I want to go west. Buring the summer or fall I would like to go out to Fuget Sound, stopping at Salt Lake, and take Lockie and Uarrie with me. This is what I have been thinking of during the ^winter. If you should be going out with your car, we might take that oppor tunity, otherwise we will take passage in regular train and probably not go until latter part of August. I think I m?y spend next winter either in Southern California or Florida, and I am thinking some of another .trip to Europe, but when I go again I want to take Lockie with me and perhaps Carrie, and former does not graduate for a year so I am not thinking of going until '91. I find I am growing restless and nervous. I think the aches and pains I have in my bi'east and about the heart are from weakened nerves and connected with the stomach, for my general health is quite good.. I feel the need of more cheerful social life. My disposition tends to impatience and with mother's last years before me I want to get out of the train of thouglits and wearing cares which experience of past years are now more than ever showing their effects on my nervous system, , My life here has been so devoted to my little business and.to some degree a selfish one. Have been out as little in society and taken so little part in public affairs, I have missed the social life so necessary for the cheer of advancing years. With habits fixed I cannot well pick it up here and I have been thinking I might check these tendencies by travel ing more; to make it cheerful I must have one or more of my children with ■ me. The children will be home ^bout 1st. July and I expect to be here and at 0 Lake until 1 go west. 'Alien I can get out of doors more I expect to feel very much better and get my mind off myself. Grenvllle Beard has left for Utah. Julia will go to Maple ton in two weeks and expects then to go to Benver and Folsom and stay at latter place while Mr. Beard's stock business"lasts, In sale of stock at Mapletun I reserved out her mare Beck and tnere were two other colts left over. One was Beck's colt, this she asked mo for 80 Mr. B. could have a team at Folsom. I let her have it and the mares br.ve been Gent out by Yr. T. The rei:.ainine colt I have sent up for aao if is one I can use will buy it myself. Very truly, K.P.DodiSe. Mr Beard has been here ovex" Sunday and appears well . .V> v'F fe;,;, ^ ;• f-' '' . V • I ' t. . ,,, ^iarch, 1889 Omaha, Mar. 1889. Gen. G. M. Dodge, My dear Sir: I am writing some sketches of the history of the u. P, Ry, in the early day, and am anxious to get a full but brief report of the Engineers. You were Chief I would like to get any documents you have, or articles printed in Magazines or newspapers to make up a sketch of your life and connection with the road. If you have any such and would send them to me I would return them to you. I am writ ing these sketches for a localpaper but I intend to put them in book form very soon. Please let me hear from you. Yours truly, Geo. *. Frost. April, 1889. Peter A, Dey, Esq., 533 • 1^/ \t New York. April 1st, 1389. Des Moines, Iowa. My dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of March 29th. If there was anything in my letter that you could take excepti to I regr^et it very much because I did not write it with any such intention. I t was the furtherst from my mind or thought. I merely wished to call the attention of the Commission and your attention to the great difficulty we had in doing anything under the three classes; but with no desire to criticise, except in a proper manner, the action of the Commission. Your long acquaintance with mo will maintain me that I never write anything ihat any official could take exception to, personally, intentionally, and to you, I know it would be impossible for me to knowingly do it. I am glad to learn what yeu wrote me confidentially. I do hope that something will com out of the troubles in Iowa, that is beneficial all around. You know that the Iowa Narrow Gauges fell to me through the inability of the principals to pay for building the m. I was simply a Contractor; I certainly would never have initiated the schemes, but whilst I have got them, I have got to try and take care of them. I had a long talk with Governor and council on the matter, a d whatever i do with my roads, I am obliged to keep them running. I wrote Mr. Smith a long letter, the same tim that I wrote you. When I foxind that Mr. Smith could pot get there until Tues day evering and that I would have to stay over Wednesday to see him, it see ed impossible for me to delay my movements as I was under appointments at Gpicago and Boston. I shall be out again the first of May and hope then to meet youw X was in hopes that the people of Iowa would change their views upon this question (and I do yet bbelieve that they will) but see that you take a very despondent view of the mattrr, and we will hav to do the best we can under the circumstances. Please send mc a copy of the letter I wrote you; I find I did not retain a copy. j x ij.nu i I am. Yours truly G. M. Dodge, April, 1889. Hon. Wm. Larrabee, 53?::/ New York. April 1, 1889. Dec Moines, Iowa. Dear Governor; I have the honor to enclose herewith, agreeable to the promise I made you in reply to your request of March 13th last, an auto graph letter of Gen. Grant, dated from the Executive Mansion Oct. 24th, 1871. As to my commissions, they are all at my house in Council Bluffs, and it will be impracticable to send you one before I return there. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge, April, 1869, Geo. P. Brown, Gen. Manager, New York. ' April 1st, 1089, Chicag) , 111. Dear Sir:- I received your letter enclosing Mr. Perry's which is substantially correct. James, the porter, has been here and shown me what was to be turned over in the car, and what we waited to retain of the equipment, that is, the cooking utensils, linen, blankets, etc; and he will make out an order. 'Whatever of linen, towels, etc., that goes with the car, he ought to have marked properly, about the size of the Pullman mark. I imderstand that he has an arrangement to correspond di rectly with that part. I don't think it is necessary to change any of the chairs except the two large ones; I think those should be taken out of the car and perhaps a couple of folding chdrs substituted. Those racks that are to be put in, want to be put in very carefully so as not to interfere with the head room; and the desk wants to be as deep as possible so as.to give plenty of room for papers. He says a heater is to be brought to the car. Does that mean that the heater is to be changed, or are they mere ly going to repair the present heater? It takes a long time^to heat the car up and when it is once heated, it is heard to shut it off. There ap ;eared to be something wrong in the heating aparatus. It did not work right. I don t wish to make any more expense upon the car than is actually necessary. I think he has everything else all right, with the changes I suggested. Yours, truly, G. M. Dodge, G. 5S^ April, 1889 - UNITED STATES SENATE Washington, D. C., April 1st, 1889 Genl. G. M. Dodge, New York. My dear General: I have your late letter, and earnestly thank you for your kind prefers of aid. I have letters from Messrs, Perkins, Robt Harris, J. Thurston, W. B. Strong. If you would kindly write me a letter to the President, and to *latt or Hiscock, I would be very glad. And /A if I could through you get one froi;. Mr. Depree it. would be a great aid. Doubtless your own knowledge of the situation would suggest to you where a lever might be placed that would be effective. Again thanking you for your uniform kindness, I am. Your friend, >1^. P. Hepburn. .I.-'-. 541 .1-.; April, 1889, His Excellency, New York. April 3rd, 1889. The President of the United States: Sir: I have known the Hon. Wm. B. Hepburn of Iowa for a great many years. I understand that he is an applicant for a place in the Interstate Commerce Commission, and I wish to say that I think Mr. Hepburn has made a study of this question and had a good deal of experience in such matters. His unquestioned ability, integrity and fairness would make the appointment satisfactory I think to all parties, what the Commission needs Mr. Hepburn is eminently fitted for. He is a very thorough investigator of whatever subject he takes up. That is his reputation in both private and business life. (Cannot read rest of page .) G. M. Dodge. ■ ■; m- April 4th 1889. Gen. G.M.Dodge, New York City, My dear Sir; 543.- state of Iowa Executive Office Des Moines. Your esteemed favor of the 1st inst. with Autograph letter of Gen. Grant for the Autograph collection in our State Library at hand . and for wliich acce^. t in; ti.ankc . This letter from our greatest-Soldier to his intim ate friend and one of his most trusted Generals will he- of double interest to our people and will be treasured by them, I also desire to thank you for your kind offer to comply with my request to finish your portrait for^Ipitol. It is a pleasure to us that notwithstanding you are absent so much from the State that your interest in it does not abate. Yours truly- ^ ^ ^ f) April 5, 1889. 545 Denver Colorado, .April 5th, 1889 'General G.M.Dodge, Wo I Broadway, new York, W.Y. Dear General; Mr Parkinson, Manager of the Rational Sugar Company, who has established several large Sugar plants in Kansas, is willing to take hold of the matter on our line, and has shipped 20 "bushels of seed for trial pi.anting at stations on our line. I have arranged to have it distri"buted to farmers "between ^Wichita Falls and Pascosa, and when it is grown to have it inspected, so that analysis can "be made of the cane and then made of the producing pow er of the soil. At the proper time I will advise you. It is v/orth our prhile to take an interest in this, and get up a Company, if necessary, to do "business, lir Parkinson writes me he thinks Texps is the "best territory for cane. If this is true, vie ought to be able to establish a heavy frei^it business in this line. Yours very truly. C.F.Meek. April, 1889. 547 Mew York. April 6th, 1889, Spencer Smith, Esq., Railroad Commissioner, Der Moines, Iowa, My dear Sir:- It will be impossible for me to set down in a letter and show you the practical effects of A. B. and C. rates but if you will go and see Mr. Martin, he will show you how it affects my road. It is simply impossible for us to ask a G rate and get any business. You quote the Illinois law. You say that the most stringent part of the law was taken from • Ills. law. Why not give us their rates at the same time that you give us their conditions? There is only one effect of the action of the Railroad Commissioners of Iowa , It is simply to bring down other roads to their local rate, and then to drive to tide water or to the country that produces raw material, all the jobbing and manufactures of the agricultural stdes. Of course this is a slow process. It won't come in a day; or a month, or a year; btxt it will come, just as certain as you maintaii the rates you put on and there is no possible way of benefiting a small community at the expense of a great community. The laws of commerce and of transportation are so intimate that we cannot divorce local interests and protect them as against the great inter sts that the Interstate Commerce Commission make under their law; Understand me: 1 don't criticise your action. I have no doubt that it was taken with the best intentions, but I submit, have you not tried them long enough to see that they don't succeed? They simply mean the breaking down of other rates which certainly are now low enough for the maintanance of properties, and I believe that there is nothing so det rimental to the business and the success of the country and the community as forcing roads to a non-paying basis. You take it home to you self, and then apply it to Railroads I know that my roads cannot expect to earn much; but I would like to have them earn enough to keep them running, but I don't wnnt to see others get into the same position that I am in. Very truly your friend, G. M. Dodge, 549>• . -.4 April 1689. New York. April 6th, 1889, Col. G. C. Tichenor, Asst. Sec. of the Treas., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- You are aware of my long and intimate acquaintance with Texas and its politics since 1870, and aslo of the very largo interest s we have in that country. You also know my great desire that ~ood app-ixitments shall be made in that State by the Republican Party, for I think there is a show in some of those districts to make large gains. Permit me to say in relation to the South Western district that there is no man whose advice you can follow more safely than that of Calvin G. Brewster. Mr. Brewster rai for Congress -nd was defeated by Crain but by a very small majority and after entering the canvass at almost the last moment. I have head that he is an gplicaht for the position of Collector of the Port of Corpus Christ!. If he is so, you can make no better appointment, nor one by which you can add greater strength to the party in the district. "l have no doubt that if Mr. Brewster will stand for Congress at the next election he can carry the district. He is very popular; not only with the citizens of his own district, but throughout Texas. No one stands higher than he does as a citizen and no one has been more loyal in his political affiliations. He has always stood for the Republican Party in his State. While I have no desire to interfere locally in Texas matters, I think it is due from me to say to you this much; because it is best for you to know who are the leading, reliable republicans of the State and Mr. Brewster is one. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. April 6th 1889. dear General: (Yashington D.C. April 6th 1889 Your thpu^tful letter of the 5th came this P.M. and I have just wired you that I can not come for the 27th. I see clearly all that is in your suggestion, and there is'much hut I accepted for Chicago, for April 30th, Centennial Celebration of Inauguration V.'ashington, and thus far' I have hot seen a moment for preparation. I doubt if I will see it.The pressure on me for office is-- is well no words will tell you what it is. I go home on Tuesday or 'A'ednesday and must go t.o seVeral towns in my Dist. to give hearings about P.O.'s. With all this I will neith er have the time to prepare for or to go to New York. I regret all this, the more since you have been so thought ful and kind as to make arrangements for my coming. I will not attempt taanks. It only shows that you never forget those whom you like. Sincerely yours, P.E.Henderson. ■tb , , ■ ■ ■ ■, '■ ■ ■ I ' < :i ''S April 7th, 1889. 553 Washington P.O.,April 7th,1889. Gen. G.M.Podge, New York City, N.Y. My dear General Since v/riting you yesterday i have seen Senator Allison, and have talked the matter over fully. He agrees with me that I cannot possibly vome to Hew York on the 27th. After all, my great work should be in the west, iie who has a nucleus of strength there will best command the eastern situation at the proper time; and my engagement cannot safely be disturbed with Chicago. By the way, 1 have recently learned that your friend, General Ketchum, is not only for Reed, but is working actively ^^l^him.I fear that New York is set for Reed, and the influence of New York may capture Pennsyl vania, as both States desire to name the Speaker. It will be a bad day for protection, I fear, if this supposed condition proves to be correct. It looks as though the east felt that it must tie itself up for an eastern man. This is illustrated by the adoption of the two-thirds rules by the New York delegation. Can you not see General Ketchum and correct that situation? He is a power when he goes to figuring, and it hit me hard when I learned, as I absolutely have, that he is plowing the field for Reed. I hope to see you some time during the sximmer. Very truly yours, P. B. Henderson, A* 555 April 1889. P. M. Hubbell, Esq», New York. April 8th, 1889, Des Moines, Iowa, Dear Sir: I had a long interview Friday with Mess. Ashley and %bbard and went over the entire ground with them. They were at first very tenacious; , but I said to them that it was an impossiblity for us to pay ar.y money on the road, or at any rate, for me to make any such payment, and that any arrangement that was made, must be an arrangement that prolonged the debt and provided for the payment in Bonds, They seemed to be more averse to taking bonds on the North Western than when they saw you. I then suggested to them attain, the scheme of consolidation of the three roads and it seemed to^'strike Mr. Hubbard very favorably and they said they would take it under consideration, I suggested ^15,000 per mile; J3,000 Of which, to remain in the Treasury with balance to be used in maintaining the road and broadening the guage. The ^^3,000 in the Treasury might be used if necessary to take care of the interest and take up the line from Harvey to Albia, and pay them the cost of that material and use that also in broadening the guage. They were back today and said that they ould be willinr to put the three roads in, provided, we were willing to let them have fu stock of the Des Moines North Vrstern, Thcv thought if they took their pay in bonds and we did not carry out our original deal, that the purchasing committee ought to come in for their interest in the Des Moines North Western. Thev however exnrpocp the opinion todav^t we could carry out your original proportion of paying about ?50,000, It would suit them better but I told them f expending ^50,000 the past ye-r and at least ^75,000 which must be expended during the coming year" it was imme to raise the money to pay the interest and capital ith the present position of the lov/a Commission on rates. good rrooa a deal } better than if they remain together separate. can I be took made in, to or pay course a the plan of the Wabash Western using the lines from Harvey to Des Moines permanently, on a fair rental. This would leave the consolidated Company owning the entire Terminals. I don't want to go ahead on these matters without your full views, and think that when you receive this if you look upon the matter favorably, it would be well for you to come on here. I shall be in, or around New York until about the 27th when I shall start West I feel very certain that they are evidently in a condition to make some kind of a deal with us. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President, April, 1889. 561 i.< New York. April 11, 1889. Charles Francis Adams, Esq., Dear Sir:- In answer to yoiis of the 10th I wish to state that when I saw Mr. Littler In Washington, at your request he seemed to think that there was some doubt about the Union Pacific Company's carrying out the agreement made with him by Mr. Potterw I then stated to him that you had authorized me to say to him toat you would carry out any agreement that Mr. Potter had made, and I wished to know from him what the agreement was, so that there should be no question about it. He then told me that the compensati n was to be ^PIO, "00 and expenses. I think they wrote you about it, but am not certain bout this. At any rate I't said to Mr. Potter that I would write you the facts and that I had no question but that you would comply with Mr. Potter's agreement and I also think I sent some of his expense vouchers. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. '■> A- y, ' '-V- s ■'/v. - ; if v' ■ April nth 1889. Gen. G. M. Dodge, One Broadway, New York. Dear General:- 563 - I Washington D. C. April Ilth 1889 Senator Allison said to me last night, that you had mentioned writing to me and receiving no answer. I have received no letter form you since I have "been here. Is there anything I can do for you? You know there is nothing in the world that I can do for you, that I would nibt do at your request, or in your interest. I had hoped to see you and talk over some mattei'S, and suposed you would he over this way before long. Mr Meek was here for a few days about three days ago. I sent for him to talk about the Superintendency of the Railway Mail Service. He would have made a splendid General Superintendent, and I think he had some fancy for it, but he said he intended to stand by you. His loyalty to you is beyoud everything else. He said there v/ere especial reasons for not leav ing you just now,but said nothing further. I was so driven with work that I had little time to talk with him. v Is there anything I can do to serve you? Anything that I would do for my father or brother, I would do for you. I want you to feel that there is no one in the world to whom I am more indebted, to whom I am of more sincerely attached, or whose friendship I am more proud. I expected to be in New York last Sunday, when I hoped to see you. I do not think now that I can get away very soon. Are you coming to Washington before long? Your friend. J. S. Clarkson. 5^7 April, 1889. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL, WASHINGTON, D. G. April 15th, 1889, Gen. G. M. Dodge, No. 1 Broadway, New York City. Dear General; I have your letter of the 13th. I will look up the matter of the subsidies for mails to South America. As I understand it now on hasty examinatian, $500,000 was app^»opriated on the recom mendation of the last republican Postmaster General, but w£s not used by Postmaster General Vilas, who decided that it was not a good thing to do and that proper economy in the interest of the people required that it should not be used. I thoroughly agree with you in the matter, and will look after it with all the diligence possible. The way to extend American comnierce in any direction,is, first, to extend the American mails, making the one the forerunne-r of the other. I am in hearty sympathy with you in the matter. I note what you say about Meek. He has passed through an awful affliction lately, which was enough to have shipwrecked him, but he has the true stuff of naturla greatness in him, and while he is young and sometimes impulsive, his judgment invariably turns out to be good, and he is willing to learn. He knows how to obey as well as to command. I look to see him not distant in the future at the very front in railroad life. It would have been a great pleasure to me if he could have been here, he would have made a great name for himself, but it was clearly against his interests to do so, and therefore we concluded that it would not be best. Very cordially yours, J. S. Glarkson. 569 April, 18B9. New York. April JS, 1889, Charles F. Adams, Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of April 17th. I had arranged to go over to Boston to see you last Tuesday evening, but found Mr. Ames here, which saved me the trip. I have had three interviews with Mr. A mes and have seen your communications to him, and while of course I am ready to accord to your wishes, and the decisions of your people, whate. ver thej'- may do, and to fight on any line they may select. Still I think that they key to the whole situation is for us is to capture the D.T. I have presented my views fully to Mr. Ames , and I wish to say that they were made up independently of those of any one else, and without any knowledge of the negotiating that had been going on or of any thing that had been done. I am going to Washington tonight upon matters in which the U. P. is interested and which Mr. Ames will explain to you. i will not return here until Saturday, and will try to come over to Boston on Monday night and whatever decision you reach then I will support but, after seeing your letter to Mr. Ames I am more than ever convinced that the policy which I have ^ieretofore indicated is the one we should adopt. I have no faith in the Northern Pacific people. I do not believe that they ever intend to treatus fairly. They attack us and our subordinates in every sneaking, intriguing way, trying to demoralize them. They have done this especially against Mr.Halcomb whom I know they fear, because of his knowledge, and who, I think is doing his level best to take care of his properties. I think he has made some mistakes, but to me, that amounts to nothing. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 571 April, 1889. New York April IS, 1889, George M Pullman, Dear Sir; I saw in this mornings papers the decision of Judge Gresham on the Vestibule Train. I congratulate you upon your victory because I think that it is due in justice and equity to you. You have done so much for quick, safe comfortable transportation in this country so far beyond any other country that it is due-to you that in this • country at least, you should be protected. I don't any more for the people who receive these benefits than I do for the Railroads for 1 hold that your comforts adds a great deal- percentage to the travel of the country and I think as this: Railroad companie,. only took to the burdens of not to the traffic, such comforts being and in nearly forty years observation I believe ttu t safe, comfortable, ac ommodations to the public have added fifty per cent to the renenues of the passenger departments of all trunk roads. I am. Truly, G. M. Dodge • April I9th 1839 573 Toledo, April I9th 1889 ?fy dear General; Our club house will open about May 1st {near Put in Bay near lake Erie). The Bass v;ill begin to bite about the IOth--perhaps a little earlier this year, as the season is earlj?. If you can run up and try it for a few days, I think you would enjoy it. We usually have enough there in fishing season to make a pleasant party and to get up a little game in the evening (with a limit). Very few ladies if any, go so early, so you won't need any gloves nor dress coat. It is always a free and easy time. I can get all the fishing tackle you can use here and have it ready. I can meet you at Sandusky any day, d)r you can come here and we go from here. The N.Y. Central train which leaves N.Y. at 6 P.M. will get you to Sandusky about noon or here at 2 P.M. Now if you can get away for a little while, I think you would enjoy it. Bass fishing is just as much f\in as Blue fishing, when they feel like biting, and the west end of Lake Erie is really a beauti ful place. Jay Cooke comes to his cottage (near by) on Gibralter Island every season, and the Pelee Club are only 8 or 10 miles off, and we meet them often on the same grounds. The Pelee fellows are more toney I suppose than our crowd. Bob Lincoln, Anson Stager, and Genl Sheridan, when the two latter were living, were generally on hand, with a crowd of wea-lthy fellows fi'om N.Y. and Chicago, Now think this over and say you'll come. It will giT/e me great pleasure to entertain you. My trip with you is a pleasant remembrance every day. Yours very truly, John W. Fuller. 575 April, 1889, New York*. April 22, 1^889. The President, Sir: A friend whom I have known for over thrity years, whose state ments on any subject with which he is acquainted I would have no hesitation in endorsing, asks me to write you in behalf of one of the mo t gallant men in our army "Capt. John G. Bourke of the 8th Cavalry. Of him my friend writes: "Graduating with high honors at the Military Academy in 1869, two years later he became Aide-de-camp to Gen. Cook. As a gentleman, a scholar, author and soldier, he is my ideal of an American soldier, and in all respects worthy of your confidence, re spect, and admiration, " "I have known him long, intimately and well, and have been a close personal observer of his brilliant services in Arizona, Nebraska, Wyoming, and other territories." "Bourke*s frinds have asked for his promotion to the rank of Major in the Adjutant General's Corps." etc. I can add nothin to the force of this presentation of Capt. Bourke*s merits, but I very heartily second my friends desire that your Excellency may confer this promotion upon him as I personally know that his statements are true. Very truly yours, G. M.DOdge. April, 1889, The President: Sir : 577 ^tew York. April 22, 1889. I am requested by a friend to write you in behalfof Mr. A, Wasson of Gainesville, Texas, who wants to be appointed U. S. Consul at Paso del Norte, Mex. My friend, whom I deem entirely trustworthy says that "there is not a more upright and honorable gentleman in Texas" Also he has splendid business qualifications and has some knowledge of the Mexican language and customs and laws. He is thoroughly reliable and will make an excellent Consul if appointed." He is a thorough Republican . I should be very much pleased, both on account of my friend and Mr. Wasson if the latter could receive the appointmer t he desires. Yours truly. ■ G. M. Dodge. April, 1889. 583 New York. April 26, 1889, Charles P* Adams, Esq., boston. Mass. Dear Sir; I have been watching this market very carefully since I came home and I find that the setters of stock in it have been Vil]ard and Brayton Ives. I bought stock all day yesterday and today and most of it c comes in from those sources. It is long stock which they are selling, They are not buying so far as I can see. Evidently they think they have some hold whereby it is not necessary for them to control the O.T. I do not change my opinion and I hope they will let go and that we will own. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 585 April, 1889 No. 75 West 71st Street, New York, April 28th. My dear Gen. Dodge: Since I saw you my publishers- the publishers of my fathers Memoirs- have been sued by the publishers of the so called Howard book for damages for the following statement in our circulars; "We wish to warn the public against spurious lives of General Sherman, hastily written and usually most unreliable, but in geniously advertised. One especially is beingsold on the strength of its being written by General 0. 0. Howard. The general repudiates the statement that he is the author of the book," They claim that as Gen. Howard wrote the introduction and revised the book that they were justified in claiming him as a joint author. I am anxious to aid our publishers of course and want to collect evidence to prove that the book mentioned is a collection of piracies on other works. For instance the plan'of the Memoirs is followed and just so much quoted as to leave the question of violation of copy right in doubt. Now 1 want you to forward the enclosed letter to J. E. Taylor the artist. Probably Taylor has had photographs of all his pictures copyrighted, in which case this book would be a gross violation of his right, as the illustrations include copies of his following pictures. "Grossing the Big Black," now in our possession but belonging to U. S, "Death of McPherson." "Ba;.tle of Atlanta", and "Corps Gonimanders Army of the Tenn." These last two pictures belong to you. If Taylor's copy right has been violated, he might assign his cause of action to us for the purpose of a counterclaim. For this reason I would like to have his address. Excuse this hurried letter. Yours very truly, P. T. Sherman, Mfiy, 18891 York. May 4th, (L889. D. B. Henderson, Esq., a,-,; Dubuque, Iowa, My dear Henderson: The Northern Pacific intend to concentrate at Tacoma. As I understand, the Southern Pacific have concentrated at Portland. The only other Company that rui.s into that country that is of any importance, is the Union Pacific, they concentrate at Portland, but of course will reach both Tacoma and Seattle, but this line //iU be extended from Seattle to the connection with the Canadian Pacific. I have visited and seen all that country, but which point is going to be the point is beyond my comprehension, in Washington Territory. The Northern Pacific makes Tacoma its harbor for all its foreign commerce, but Seattle without any support appears to be building right along and they say growing. There is a road now projected that the Hills of Man itoba is behind, that runs from Spokane Palls to Seattle, passing the Cascndr Range, at the Snolqualme Pars, and they have the money raised as I understand it, to run from Seattle up to the Canadian Pa cific, but have not raised any money to run from Se-ttle to S-)okane Falls. Yours truly. G. M. Dodge- 593 May, 1£89 Hon. John W. Noble, Omaha, Neb, May 6th, 1889. Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C, Dear Sir; I wish to recominend for the position of Government Director of the Union Pacific Railway, Mr. C. P. Meek, of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Meek is an educated, practicle railraod Manager; has been brought up in the service from boyhood. He is a man of cultiva tion, education and great experience; and the kindoof a man who can be of aid to the Government and to the Company in all questions that can arise in the operating Department of a Railway. I make this reoommendation from my knowledge having been connected with the Company from its beginning, and he would know what the Government needs and what the Company needs. As to Mr. Meeks standing as a man, as a Republican, I can refer you to all the Delegation from the State of Iowa and Colorado; and I only recommend it because I know that what we need in the Board is that class of men, not men who are placed there without any knowledge of a property, and I do know, that if placed there flaat he would serve the Government to the best of his ability. I am, yours truly. G. M. Dodge. May, 1889, C. F. Meek, Esq,, Kansas City, May 7th, 1889. General Manager, Denver, Colo. Dear Sir:- I met President Strong and Vice President Goddard and Robinson, and took up the question of trackage from Fort Worth to Galveston, to Brazos, and to any other points they might reach. First, upon percentage of the rate made. Any rate that affected them locally, they to have a voice in making it. Second, on the question of our making the rates entirely from any joints outside of their road, and from any point to or from our line, and to and from their line. If the point be competitive then they to have a voice in the rate, but all the rates shall be as low as made by any one else. ^ suggested that they should fix a price which they should load, unload and take care of all terminal charges at Galveston, and we pay them so much fo hauling a car loaded with our business to Fort worth; this of course, would be haulinc^ at so much a car without regard to classification; and in this case they would have nothing to say as to the rate of cars, this would only apply to business passing entirely through their line to us. or from us, not to business originating on their line for us or from us. I also took up, in connection with this, the rate of an option similar to what they have on the S. P. to at any time run our trains over their line, either upon joint ownership so much per train mile. Under any contract that we should make with them, their desire Is to protect the integrity of their nronerty under the Inter State Act. ^ said that in the new deal with Mailorv. thev this contemplated contr ct, and Mr Goddard and Mr. Robinson said they would put their thoughts on the question into writing. I wrote them that we would block out the basis for this negotiation. this + v,4 question I want in you all to its consider phases, with and your block own out hands with of Juda-e department Wells your plan for an agreement. Of course if we enter into this agrfflnent we will have to give up this line of business which oo.p.„. 5§6 would help us, and he also told Goddard and Robinson, both of whom I had talked the matter over with before I saw Strong, the same thing, and their views as to the policy concurred with his. Yours very truly. 'MJ 't'-' '.f, t' r»!' 597 N'ay, 1889. Office of J. W. 'AINKLER, dealer in All kinds of grain and live stock. Woodward, Dallas County, Iowa Stock for Western Ranches a specialty. Woodward, Iowa, May 7th, 1889. General G, M. I'odge, Des r.ioines, Iowa. Dear General; There is a controversy as to the troop that recaptured Degrasses Battery at Atlanta, July 22, '64. Believ^ing you to be the proper person to know will you please inform me. I am of the opinion that Rercer's Brigade, recaptured it. I am positive that I was present and assisted in getting guns in position; was also assisting to fire san.e when one gun was bursted. I was at that tinie a ember of Co. e. 66th Ills. A reply will greatly oblige you. In F . C . Sc. L ., J. W, winkler. May, 1869, St. Louis, Mo., May lOth, 1889. P. M. Hubbell, Pres't., Des Moines & No. Western Ry., Des Moines, la, DearSir:- Since I have been West I have spent a great deal of time in looking into the present condition a;.d the future of the Des Moines, & North Western, trying to make up ra y raind what was the best policy for us to pursue in the future., the interest upon the debt owning the purchasing coramittee being now due. We have placed upon the property in betterraents something like ^75,000, taking its entire earnings and giving to it our own personal credit a coxmt to make this su m, and the road is now owing us personoLj ly the greater portion of the amount, I cannot see my way clear with this condition of affairs, with the Legislation upon us in Iowa, which has virtually reduced our rates one-half, and our earnings in proportion, to take upon us any additional burdens. If the Purchasing committee is willing to give us an extension of the debt and interest, say for five years, so as to give us a chance to turn around, I would be willing to continue the running of the road, and endeavor before that time to widen it, or if the^- would turn over to us the Terminal Bonds, so we could have something to raise money upon, instead of having to raise it upon our personal names, to carry the road, I would be willing to pay the interest dUo upon the debt, but with the understanding that if the dett is extended, and we broaden the guage, they shall come in and take fm the debt the bonds of the broadened guage, we agreeing to guarantee the payment of the Interest of the bonds for the time of the extension. I have given a great deal of attention to this matter: ever since we have received the rcud. Have worked in every way to raise money to broaden the guage- I have lost nil my time and all my efforts, and so far there has been a continual pounding of us by cut r*Q.u6s^ on• For the coming year, even if we don't broaden the guage we have got to spend fully as much as we have done the past year to I'wLl ?eerLfS l°n'""ne'irr™!" " have got to handle the property with that fact in view. aware that we have got our expenses down to the verv Jrr, eot to run in the face of the Iowa Law, that ,us liable onerous to heavy one fines, for fencing and we have the got road- to if go not before done the it Legislatue makes and ask them to relieve ufe on account of our inability to roraply wi'h the law. If we got this extension, I am willing to take up the matter of the widening and consolidating of the three interests, or of doing it separately. I am. Truly yours. ^lay, 1889. DENVER TEXAS & FORT WORTH RAIL ROAD--PAN HANDLE. C. P. R'ieek, General J/^anager R. Denver, Colo., May 14th, 1889. General G. M. ^odge. No. 1 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. Dear General: I am in receipt of your favor of the ICth from St. Luiiis, and note what you say in regard to the Texas & Pacific working with us. There are already some indications of a change of policy in relation to working with us, but i proiiose to hold them right down to -business. They can get nothing for Colorado via their Missouri Pacific connections; they cannot make the time by their route, and they will lose a great deal more than it comes to, but I think we should be patient for a time until we can n.ake firm alliances else where. Cannot you arrange with i^r. hunting ton for a contract that will give us the rate-making-power both ways on the Southern Pacific between Houston and New Orleans on Colorado business? If we can make the alliance with the iaouthern Pacific, it matters little what the Texas & Pacific does, as they can get no business by their Mineole route to Denver. A joint agency between the Mq, Pacific and the T. & P. in New England, means that we will get nothing from that territory. I aiii glad, however, they propose to maintain separate agencies in New York. I note v/hat you say in regard to your conversation with Finley and Lawder; Your idea agrees exactly with mine, and that is the policy I had marked out; that is--if the Association does not treat us fairly, we will tame the offensive and protect ourselves, withdrawing from the agreement, but I do not went to do this until we get an independent outlet to the Gulf. Until this is done, ovr position is comparatively weak. We cannot afford to have it in the power of any line to step in and change our policy should we open an offensive campaign to protect our rights. This makes it all the more important to close a contract with the Santa Fe'. I am working on this. We cannot rely upon the Union Pacific standing by us very strongly on the differential matter; they say they will, but if it comes to a point, they are going to protect their own interests. The Rock Island will stand by us in what is fair. I note what you say in regard to the default of the Cotton Belt on its First-Mortgage. I sincere y hope this line will become independent of the Gould interest.' The most fortunate thing for us is the resignat-ion of R'r. Newman Irora tue ^iissouri Pacific. Were he to remain, I am satisfied we would shortly be alienated in every inter est from the Texas & Pacific. The stock business has commenced to move lively, and we are pressed for power. I am to-day trying to borrow 6 engines from connections. - Our 8-engines, between Trinidad and Texline, are hauling but 12 cars and making very poor time with these. We made a trail trip with a Rio Grande 53 ton engine on the 11th and pulled 25 cars through, making an average of 14 miles an ho\ir. This is our great weakness. I wish we coaid malie a trade with some flat road that could use our light engines, and buy some of these Baldwin engines, which will-do double the work. With these engines we could reduce the cost of our train ser vice from 33 per-cent to 50 per-cent. As soon as comparative statement of Engines is made up 1 will send it to you. We are obliged to do a great deal of work on our engines to keep them in shape, while these • Baldwin engines on the Rio Grande run with the lowest minimum of expense 'for repairs. Unquestionably, these are the best engines that evercame west. Very truly yours, C. F. Meek, General Manager. , . .3, ' , t, V ■ J . f -v May, 1889. New York. May 17, 1889. 'V'i' fit I*-''j'/iil > ' . * T .■ ii'Y Chas. Francis Adams, Esq., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- I saw a strong inclination on the part of Messrs. Harris, Bullitt and Billings to take up immediately this trackage and traffic arrangement. Before we decide to close the contract I would like to get better posted on that country, and its traffic; this I can do whilst I am there to attend the meetings. Beiore I start I wish you would dictate your ideas and your understanding as a memorandum for me, so I can take them up with Holcomb and Kimball, and we can discuss them, and get all the bearings and by the time 1 get back we will be ready to clo.se. Mr. Dillon saw Mr. Harris after my interview with him. Harris seemed to think that whilst thajr said very little they would do all they could to aid us, and also said that Bullitt and Billings were willing to enter into contracts upon the basis, which I outlined. I am. Truly yours. G. M. Dodge. 605 New York. May 17, 1889. Solon Humphreys, Esq., 54 Exchange Place, City, Dear Sir: We own the Des Moines & No. Railway Des Moines to Boone, 42 miles and one-quarter of the ue s Moines Terminals. The Des Moines Terminals are occupied by four companies. They cost originally about ^500,000 dollars. They could not now be replaced today for Ol,000,000. In order to connect with the St. Paul road and to get at the coal fields of Boone County, and the fields between Harvey and Des M iies considered the best coal fields in Iowa, it is necessary to broaden the guage of our road. The cost would be about vl50,000. V/hen broad'-ned this would allow us to take the St Paul into Des Moines, and would enable us to furnish that road with most of its coal in the Western portion of Iowa. It would put i;s on a par with all the trunk lines for coal bound West to the Missouri River and to the Union Pacific which have its coal fields supply for about 300 miles west of the Missouri River. If we can raise this money there is no doubt but that we can take care of the interest upon 12,000 to 15, 000 per mile. As a narrow guage it has always taken care of itself, its maintainence , and it has always been in fair condition, we have traffic arrangements made with the St. Paul, and if we had the : broad guage we could increase our traffic largely with them. There is not question but what the broadeningof the guage would be a great benefit to to the St Paul, as well as to us, it would enable them to enter Des Moines without break of bulk, and to also run passenger trains into Des Moines. Parties who own the coal fields at Boone, propose if we broaden the guage, to build six miles of road to mines, that have an output of 1,000 tons per day, and this traffic is under contin uous contract to Mr. Reynolds. Boone coal fields have 3 to 4 foot veins. The coal fields betwren Harvey and Da: Moines run from 4 to 7 foot, veins. I suggest that the money should be raised for broadening the guage, by taking in partners with us in ownership, or by borrowing the money on long time and guaranteeing the interest. I am. Truly yours, G. M. Dodge, President, May, 1S89. 607 New York, May 17, 1889. J. W, Winkler, Esq., Woodward, Iowa, Dear Sir:- I have your favor in relation to a controversy as to the troops that recaptured De Cress's battery at Atlanta July 22nd, 1864, A reference to my official report of that battle and other records, confirms your recollection that the recapture was effected by Mersey's brigade. This brigade formed South of the railroad line, charged and retook that portion of the line South of the railroad. At the same time Wood's Division of the 15th A.C. recovered possession of that North of the railroad, Mersey's brigade lost several in killed and woiinded, and his own horse was shot under him during the charge, and his brigade captured about a hundred prisoners. Gen. Morgan L. Smith, commanding the division of the 15th A.C. whose line had been broken by the enemy came after its restoration and thanked me in person for sending Mersey's brigade to his relief, and spoke in enthusiastic terms of the gallant and resistless charge made by it. The brigade was conducted to the point of daiiger by Capt. Edward Jonas, of my staff, under my orders. He reported the brigade to General Smith and remained long enough to witness the outcome of the charge, and I suggest that you write to him for any i'u^ther details you may wish to obtain. He now resides at Farmers™ ville. La., to which address your inquiry should be addressed. I am. Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. May 17,1889, 609 New York City, May 17th, 1889. Peter A. Dey, Esq., Des Moines, Iowa. Dear Yr. Dey: I expect to leave here some time about the 5th of June on my way West. I expect to go to Oregon, where I shall stay at Portland a week or ter days. I would be very much pleased to have you take the trip with me as my guest, if you have the time. I cannot say certain what time I will start, but I will endeavor to give you a few days notice. I think it very certain that I shall go, but you never can be certain about Railroad affairs. However, my intention at present is that I shall go about the time mentioned. It will give me great pleasure if you can come along with me. I am. Truly your friend. G. M. Dodge ■ -.-y, Rfay, 1889. '■ 'V. , Ir Denver Texas & Fort Worth Eail-Road--Pan-Handle Route, C. F. Meek, General Manager. Denver, ^olo. May 18th, 1889. Genl. G . M. Dodge, President, New York. Dear GeneraJ.: Mr. Holcomb was here yesterday and after going over the situation thoruughly,we had the following understanding. 1. We to accept U. P. switching schedule. •2 U. P. to give us all unconsigned business for Trinidad, Pueblo, Colo. Springs and Colorado Midland points, .3, U, P. to increase coal supply froni our mines and give us all the coal business possible. 4. U. P. to work Oregon, Wash. Terry. & Montana business to and from New York, via our line to Denver, as far as possible. &. U. P. to join h.ands with our line offensively and defensively and work with .us in every way possible. 6. U. P. to refund switching charges until Rio Grande accept the schedule. After conferring with our people here fully, I decided to tie up with the U. P. first going to Mr. Bmith of the Rio Grande, and telling him that indications were New York pressure would compel us to accept D, P. terms on switching. i let them infer thaat if it was done it would be by your directions, sot aht i might change our plans in case any great obstacle arose. Smith was very mad, and said he would retaliate on us for bad faith; and that he wodd consider the payment by us of switching charge as cutting the rate on joint track business. I told him that would not be true, as with the present statue, business was topped, and, as we pay the switch ing charge out of our proportion and that we pay it, not to shippers, but to a railroad for service performed. From his talk I take it we may expect hostilitieL, and I concluded that we may as well, first as last,have them declare openly what they have thus far illy concealed i. e. that they are hostile to every interest ofours. I figured * that in event of a fight resulting from the dead lock on switching question, we would lose the U. P. alliance and they would not work with us. Mr. Holcomb told me this would be the case, while, by staying with the Rio Grande, we would gain nothing in business or strength of any kind. I think had we continued to stand against the U. P. oxsr future relations with them, would be strained Hfhile, by joining them, we begin at once to get 10 or 12 cars of business per day. We are not now getting, and increase our business with them steadily. The Rio Grande can hamper us on joint track to a certain point, beyond that we can enforce our rights. They can begin a war of rates; this will ruin them long before us, as it will effect their entire system. They will not attempt the. They could break their pooling agreement but we are prepared to enforce a fairer division of the business, even, than we get by that. We cannot afford to let them bull doze us; as, after over a years eBperience in pursuing a patient and peaceful policy. We find their hand still heavier and a growing disposition to treat us with contempt.. We dont want a fight, but we are in sl.ape, if they seek one, to whip them, and they will treat us better, i am constrained to believe, when they see we propose to pursue a policy at least of self respecting independence. United with the dnion Pacific, and with that company, carrying out the policy outlined, which they must do, we will be much stronger than we are or could be without them, even with the continued concealed hostility of the Kio Grande, as against an open enmity of that Company. But they are not going to fight us, unless they wish deliberately to ruin their own company. I enclose you a message from ^-ellen which I received after my conference with Holcomb. What we want now is the. Union Pacific to give us business and they must doo it as we have taken great chances to help them out. We have also shown them that we are an important factor in Colorado matters and that our companies, stand ing together can wholly enforce.our rights and just dues. For politic reasons I have given the inference tia t you are responsible for our actions, and that your action is based on the justice of the Union Pacific's position. I have consulted freely with the Governor, Kountz, Brown and Wells, all of whom support ny position strongly. There will doubt less be trouble, there would be that in either event; but after the smoke clears up, we will have a strong friend and ally, which would not be the case had we stood with the Rio Grande. . Yours respectfully, C. F. Keek. May, 1889 • State of Iowa,' Board of Railroad Commissioners, Des Moines. Peter A. Dey. Spencer Smith Frank T. Campbell W. W. Ainsworth, Secretary. / Des Moines, May 21, 1889, Gen. G. M. Dodge, New York. Dear General: Your letter of 17th just received. I think that I can make the trip with you as suggested about June 5, as I do not now know of anything to prevent. Should you decide to go notify me in advance and where I can meet you. Thanking you for the remembrance. I am Sincerely yours, Peter A. Dey. 617 H'ay 25th, 1889 Washington, D. C. IViay 25th, 1889 My dear General: Your invitation to go to Tuget Sound with you is a great temptation. I would dearly love to go to tie West, where I have never been, but most of all with you and in your car. But it is not j)ossible. I could not leave for so long at any time and just now I could not get away, because Mr. Wanamaker is'go ing away for a w^ek in a fc!W days, and has asked me to be sure and stay here in his absence and I must do it. I am anxious to get ti.rough with my task here and leave. I am simply on detail from the National Committee, to see that some of the men who fought with us so splendidly last year are rewarded. After I have done that, which will take about ten months longer, I will give up my clerkship, and go back to business. Except I could not desert them who followed us so faithfully in ti.e great campaign of last year, I should never have b. en here, and I long for the day of release. I hope you are wtll and am glad you are going off for a long trip Always yours f '4. u* ,#5'' '< ' r . V / May So, 1890. 619 Waahinti-ton, D.C.May 26, 189C. Gen. G.M. Dodge, TJo. I Broadway, W.y.City. My dear General; I return you Painter's letter. I have seen Coke, and he informs me to-day that he has seen Mr. Abbott, the Member of the Ft. Worth district. He promises to do all he can in your behalf. Mr. Coke has been twice to see Mr. Hare but failed to see him'^ ^e says he will see him at the earliest opportunity. I have yours relating to the- mat ter of the proposed amendment to the trust bill.' It is still in the hands of the Judiciary Commitee. I do not know what they are doing about it. I think they have come to no conclusion. i W.B. Allison. ' 'I ' • ■ ■ ' a ^ 621 May, 1889 Webster City, Iowa., May 25, 1889 Dear Generai: Gov. Larrabee has sent me the letter by Gen. Grant, for my collection. It will answer my purpose most admirably, but one upon but one side of the paper, would be more convenient as well as more interesting. You see the glasses rest down upon these MSS. and I can show but one side. In some cases one side has to be printed and tljs t detracts from their interest. If you have and can spare a one page letter, I will be very glad to get it and will return this. Otherwise I will use it. With many thanks fcr your great and repeated kindnesses. Faithfully yours, Ghacles Aldrich. Gen. G. M. Dodge, C. Bluffs, Iowa. P. S. Can't you copy and send me in your own' writing, one of your most noted military orders for my collection? I will give it "a place of honor". I put in tne best meniorials of Hoxie that I could get. Haven't you the first script of one of your reports of a battle? That would be most interesting. I am the only man in Iowa who is trying to save up for the future with memorials of an event I arranged the Rebel money you sent me long ago, ■""'.I .., : ' • ,■ Niay, 1889 . . ^ • \ . ■ CUSTOM-HOUSE, NEW YORK, CITY, Collector's Office, New York, May 28, 1889. My dear Genl: Meny thanks for your kind response. Platte has the credit of being "the power behind the throne" Col Erhardt of course will determine and I think if you can induce either the Secty. of the Treas . or Col Tichenorto say that my retention will be agreeable it would be of large assistance. The office i hold is Acting Dis bursing Agent and Chief of the 10th Division of the New York U. S. Customs. Ivy office is known in Washington as Acting Disbursing Agent. I furnish Bonds to the amount of $100,000 to the Collector I might niore properly be called the Collector's Paymaster. Do what you can for me and oblige. Yours sincerely. E. B. Hart. , i -» * . 625. May, 1889. Phoenix, May-Slst, 1889. W. J. Murphy, President Arizona Improvement Company, Phoenix, Ariz. My dear Sir: In'compliance with your request I submit the following in reference to the agricultural and horticultural resources of the Salt River Valley, Phoenix as a comniercial center, and the earnings of the Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. Under the canals leading from the Salt River there is covered 250,000 acres, about two-thirds of which is reclaimed, i.e., a has water spread over it, and one hundred thousand acres is now cul tivated, which is being increased every year by thousands of acres. The judguient of those most competent to pass upon the matter is that the flowing of water in the Salt River is sufficient to serve all the lands now under the canals, and that with a proper system of reservoirs to impound the storm flood watei-s the area of land in the valley could be increased by at least two hundred thousand acres. The Agua Frio carries sulficient water to irrigate from seventy-five to one hundred thousand acres between Cave Creek and the Mountains for one crop. This land could be utilized for two or more crops by water storage, which will, in time, be done. Under canals from the Gila River in this county 69,000 acres are covered, and canals now under construction will increase this amount tb 650,000 acres. Only about 7,800 acres in this Valley (the Gila) is under cultivation this season because the canals have onlv been completed a short time. To all this land Phoenix would be the natural point of supply. British U U Columbia n to the Isthmus ^"301110 of Panama. Coast In can this be readily territory traced it from extends from the Colorado river east for more than a hundred miles in the Counties of Yavapai, Yuma and Maricopa. The district has hardlv been prospected, but great mines have been uncovered in it, such as the oenator, Congress and Vulture, which are now employing large forces Of ,„en, to say nothing of tho Harqua llala Mnes'iauJf ^cgveraS? which promises to be one of the richest ever discovered on the Coast The T'on^enf.h"^ .orked; the silver Lnefol" Tl^ f^dred len. Harcuvar Mountains employ several 1^ difficult matter to obtain correct data as to the think the following will be found to be not far froii. correct. 626' Grain Alfalfa Fruit Other products 60,000,000 pounds 60,000 Tons. •1,000,000 pounds 5,000 Tons. There was driven into the Valley last year from the Counties of Graham, Coohise, Pima, Yavapai and Gila, some 15,000 head of cattle to be fatted for market, and as the alfalfa pastures ol this locality mai-:c the best grazing i:-. Arizona it is to be expected that this Valley will become the feeding grounds for the Territory. Cattlemen must uti lize this field for their ranges are becoming overstocked. So that hereafter, unless the season is remarkably favorable, there will be no marketable beef cattle raised upon the ranges, conseguently all the al falfa raised in this section will always find ready market at remuner ative prices . In conclusion permit me to say that all products in this Valley are rapidly increasing. If proper encouragement were given to our fruit growers tlie exports of fruits in five years thim would be something enormous. It will be more than doubled in the next two years as it iS. Yours very truly. Commissioner of Immigration. T. E. PARISH, The N'aricopa and Phoenix Railroad, as you :.now, is a close corporation, and I can give you no official earnings. As to their earnings one house has paid them a monthly average of ||;800. and it does not do one-tenth of the business of the town. To place their net earnings at "^75,000. per annum, would in my judgment, be much below the mark. I think it reaches $100,000. -I 685 June, 1889. Naron, Kansas, June 10, 1889 Mr. J. Hensal, < «> . 'i ■ Dear Friend & Comrade: Yours 9th IViay at hand;was glad to hear from you for I have never heard a word from any of the Scout boys since the war ended, only Tim, I saw him in Memphis in 1867. Well Jim you must know that I am very old now and my eyes are dim and hands unsteady and my body nearly worn out. When I saw you last I had no idea that I would be living until now but I am still on deck and kicking. I received a letter from Miss, a short time after I left Pulaski and one from Genl. Dodge dated at Pulaski, directing me to report to Genl. Daney at Memphis and I went to Memphis and guided Genl. B. H, Grierson on his raid thro Miss, and in Dec., 1864 when Hood was trying to take ilashville i was atRipley, Miss and went from there to Booneville to cut the telegraph wires and destroy the Rail Roads and was ambushed and my horse killed under me and he fell on my leg and hip while on a bridge and crippled me for life and they came very near getting me tho I made my escape and got back. I had cut the wires and burned Booneville and five cars and damaged the track consider^ible. When I got back to Memphis in Feby. 1865 I went to my family not able to do any more service and this is what or a part of what I done after i left you. My wife that 1 married in Corinth is here with me and one of the best women that is living today and is the mother of 8 children of which we have raised 6 and 4 is with us yet, 3 girls and one boy who is 19 years old. Jim I will now tell you what i have been doing since the war. I want back to my old home in Checkasaw Co. Miss in July, 1865 and found that every thing I had left gone and destroyed, only my land left, all my improvei/ents burnt. In 1867 I moved to my old home in Miss, and lived there until 1878 but it was not pleasant living there for there was always drunken fools ready to insult one who fought for the Union and that got me into difficulties and some bad ones. So I sold out there and came here and have been here 11 years and have not been able to do any work that required walking since the war and as I am and always was a farmer and as I have had so many failures of crops that I am in bad shape financially tho not suffering. Now Jim I want you to sit down and write me a long letter and tell me all about yourself and how the world is using you. Jim I have a warm place in my heart for all whx) went through the war like you and suffered for OUT' Government and would like to hear from any of them that I know. Where is Bill Callender? Now Jim I never got a cent for what the rebels have taken from me and destroyed for me, though on that score I guess we are 6S6'< about square for I was a bad one myself when my dander was up. Nor has the Govt.. given me a pension but rejected my application notwith standing my injury, rejected on account of muster, though I was mustered at Clear Greek Gamp 3 miles south of Corinth by Maj. Taylor of Genl. Rosencrans staff but was not assigned to a Regt, but made chief of scouts by Rosencrans. Maj. Taylor lost his books at Chicamauga and there was no return made of my ulster, therefore I am left. If I had beep assigned to a regiment it would have been all right but there is no record of my muster. Now Jim I am going to take my case before Congress when they meet next winter and I want you to give me an affadavit as to what you know of my service and what you know of me and about my turning over my command to you at Pulaski, Tenn. and what you know of Genl. Dodges order for me to .go to Ills, at that time If you know anything about it for he did order me to Ills to look after the Knights of the Golden. Circle and to have some deserters arrested and sent back that the Knights were concealing. This evidence I want is to go before Cong, and not before Pension Dept. so if you will write to me what you can sign I will have one drawn and send to you or you can draw up one yourself or if I draw one then you can draw one by it leaving out or adding onto one sent you. Now Jim dont fail to write to your old friend and comrade . Yours in F. C. L. Address Noran, P.O. Pratt Co., Kansas. L. H. Noran, James Hensal, Panora, Iowa. t Telegram June, 1869. Gen. G. M, Dodge, e37 New York. June 13, 1889, Care 0. R. & N. Co, Portland, Ore, Pressing telegraphs from Chicago: "Wrote you May twentieth offer for Kent Building declined. They will take one hundred and fifty thirty cash, balance five per cent, nothing else, no bonds. Do not know present offer. J.T.Granger, 701 Portland, Oregon, June 27th, 1889, Charles F. Adams, Esq., President h.P.Ry, Co., Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- r wired you from Puget Sound and also from Spokane. I don't think it is necessary to go into details as to what is needed in that country. You are coming to that country shortly and will come to the saem conclusion that I have haaza, so far as to the necessity of our immediately reaching the sound. As to the Cou^r d Alene country, the developments are monthly increasing and the old mines gaining in richness and width; and it is only a question of putt ing lines to reach the mines as they are able to give us contract on the ores. I think we should handle this camp with a view of controlling the output by reaching the new discoveries as soon as we get our line run in there, and I am more convinced than ever that we should immediately enter Into a coriract with the Manitoba to bring them over Mullan Pass and help us to maintain all the O.R« & N. property. I am. Truly yours, 0. M. Dodge. 703 Bn the Road, June 27, 1889. 'M: ■yj f". rr^ 8^ ?!t Chas. p. Adams, Pres., V ^ U.P.Ry. Co., ' • ,vr,«ov, m-v^a lo Boston, Mass. Dear Sir:- I have looked over as carefully as I could th.e situation ifi Montana, and I wish to submit my conclusions. • The situation there is different nov; from at any other time. There are outside of the Montana Union two railroads at Butte to compete for the business. There is no question in my mind but what the deal between Mr. Oakes and Bagcin includes the Northern Pacfic's going independently to Anaconda and I have no question but that Mr. Oakes will oppose any improvements that will go directly to the benefit of the U.P.Road. I think, first we should build a 2% line from Anaconda to the two mills, not for the benefit of the Mills, but for our own and to save great expense in operating. Witl. the new line built, we should handle to both mills the same amount of tonnage we do now, with onehalf the power. We are handling there four cars to a train to reach the upper mill; with the new line, whic requires but a very small amount of wor'i, and which gives us the use of all our tracks at the upper and lower mills, we sh uld be able to handle eight or ter cars. As to the new stations and the new shops at Anaconda, I should be governed by the position of Mr. H aggin. There are some very fine terminal ground s at Anaconda, which I have no doubt in less than a year or two years, we will need. As tq the place itself, it is not long before that place will have from 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants in it and in all probability will bocon.o the Capitol of the State of Montana. The entire population west of the moimtains is centering at this point as against ^^elena, and v;e all k w the ability of Daly to carry emything in that territory when he wishes. Second, at Butte we could immediately put in the switches to the Parrott mines, I mean the switches to haul the ore from Butte Hill to that mine and as soon as the Bosto: and Montana Smelter decides upon tin location of its row smelt r, we should enter into contract for switcliing all their ore. We should also put in the new switch back of the present Boston and Montana smelter to gain that groijnd. Unless we put in these switches on the Butte liill. Northern Pacific or Montana will do so, and will immediately be in position to g toliaggin's property. If we cover this plant there will be no inducement for any other company to parallel us, as we can do switching for them much cheaper than they can build and do it. We would tlien cover all of the mines on the Butte Hill and stop the teaming, wva-<U These expenditures should be/^immediately regardless of what the U.P. day. The N.P. should be notified that we propose to make these expenditures anr tliey shoulc be forced to a decision whether they propose to go in, pay us what they owe us on the Helena business, pay immediately take possession of the property. I prefer to own the property with them there as competitors, than to ha ve them in * with the right to cripple us wh le they handle their line aeainst us I am informen that tlie total amount that the N.P. has ever wiStL in thl3 property Is flSO.OOO, whilst they have received the full benefi o without ielnj obllGed to carry any of the capital. It seems 7C4 is. ¥8 SiS^h^fFfui! ^RSSpSirSnd^l^lFeif ES^Ssfiht. ^ Vfiien .ve consider Butte Ib.s giver' to the^U.P. about $2,000,000 of revenue yearly, and this outside of all of the Anaconda business, it seems to me it would be far better for us to be in possession at Butte Jli'l and at Anaconda when we have to make'divisions of that business as we certainly will have to do as soon as the N. P. and Kanitoba are planted at Butte and Anacnnda. There is no question as to the valur of the Montana Union. I think Naggin would pay you $1,000,000 for it, of course as handled now on a pro rata mi eage where it is justly entitled to a very large arbitrary, the earnings do not show what it would do as ,1 '■ e( ' I ' ■ f\ ' \ The swi -ching charges for ore off of t. e Butte Hill and off all materials and supplies going on to tl.e Hill should be remunerative.- The switching charges at Aconda to the smelters are also fair, though the low price of 40 cents for handling ore from the mine to the smelters is objectionable. Within the last six months the Haggin people and the Boston & Montana people have bought ore in the mountains witt.in fifty miles of Butte which will last them for twenty-five years. The heaviest of the ore veins are situated to the west of ^naconda ano from this you can see how necessary it is to preserve all our plants at Ana conda and increase our facilities there. Ilaggin is now making an expenditure on a new mill of about $300,000 The Boston & Montana are about to make an'expenditure of the same amount on an additional mill. These people would.not have "nvested one half million of dollars if trhere was any question as to the future of the supply of ore to that camp. I was told by one of the best posted mer at the Anaconda -ills, who has been there ever since it started and is an expert, that copper can be manufactured -under the Haggin plant at from two to three cents per pound, I hav- no doubt that if you sho. Id go to ^-ontana and look at the problem as it presents itself today, t..at you would not hesitate a moment in putting new switches to maintain our control of the Butte Hill and at Anaconda Mills; and if Haggin would put into writing what we proposes, you would build the station and shops at .. naconda. • ' Truly yours, » , ^ G< M. Dodge, Jii.i. * fc J •X-*' • trl O ' ^ bfl': lol o.i c .. .ilq Ll.'J 1«V09 feiU rierti 1ef|p|#.(0 uOHM o- ino wr n» ,iii/ oJ n6 mmim IfM *!•?<»» iimt? l>iuo» .Jl 06 ><:ii bilrKi . •iAiMi miJ <|*4« bitn XfIR w J^tU b«|1|ion trifuir-- .1.S! ortT ye.li ifijJwiW toie|»«b e oj iHf |uo;l» v.e .j M' .< q j .■(••njBMcf .KaoniBiw nrwIeR nnofoif »iW »iw no no ntf ntf MO MO mi mi %jtq ,nl tAl on on oi OJt MtKtOKi i'lV'iuii itJJw Jnc*1IO#nl Ji 00 OV 01 <10.iX aBTOJUMIBOO naitntttq tftfnUi MMilJ rtrnmhrnrnt mmrtf it # Mm X«lfrftf ^OOO^O^il tl xXAnqoiq til UMnovnl 41 mu I0 tfitf xtttft 04 SHinftJo -filo .) lortJlo • n^ood ita\ sninj i.ij Jn.w orielnl XBffrttf ,000,0^x1 •! tXAPqoiq . 4l *|«4l4O0 *14 I0 ^0 04 bontloo "fllo juort Ill On the road, June 30, 1889. Hon. George L. Tlchenor. Asst. Secy . of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. In the last month I have visited most of the minin" districts in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and portions of Colorado and have looked carefully int the Effect of placing duty on lead ores from Mexico. The discussion of it has created new life in the mining interests and started many news industries. A decision in favor of The American miners will have a favorable effect in all these countrie . I believe it is a question, on the one hand, of increasing the American mining industry, and on the other hand of reducin';' the American Mining Interests, especially in the West, to the necessity of importing clieap labor, and even then they will not be able to compfete with Mexico. I believe the Administration should not hesitate as to their action, as a matter of justice. It is looked for by the miners and by those interested in mining as in line with the protective policy of the party, and will give life to an industry that will require it. It will popularize the Administration greAtly in all the mining countries, and will effect favorably the orga nization of the new States. G. M. Dodge. https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/6301f9f76e41edceab58805990ef5914.pdf 068ca628c5a0b1e12e011b9702ad2695 https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/d9a2f2ed3864dc17b9092c26910fe95d.pdf d193a70d0474cc521ff6a7c6d7733abe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. 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