In City Hall Park in Manhattan, the announcement was greeted with the firing of 100 guns. After more than six years of backbreaking labor, east officially met west with the driving of a ceremonial golden spike. Durant, Sidney Dillon, John Duff, Union Pacific Railroad,” and trumpeted news of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The telegram was signed, “Leland Stanford, Central Pacific Railroad. The point of junction is 1086 miles west of the Missouri river and 690 miles east of Sacramento City. The last rail is laid the last spike driven the Pacific Railroad is completed. on May 10, 1869, announcing one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of the century: The telegram arrived in New York from Promontory Summit, Utah, at 3:05 p.m. A pile of American bison skulls in the mid-1870s.
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