The progress of the county to its present high state of development in this, or in other lines, is fairly well measured by the evolution of its transportation and highway facilities whose first entrance for proper facilities beyond the original trails and the tourist was of course the arrival of the U. P. "Trans-continental Railroad." This long preceded the establishment of Kimball county as a separate entity and the first twenty years cf railroad history of this community belongs to that period when it was part of the mother country, Cheyenne.

But inasmuch as the only railroad line which enters within the borders of Kimball county is the great Union Pacific, and considering the importance of the railroad to the community, it's only fitting that enough space be allotted at this point to devote some attention to the organization and building of

tin-- wonderful system. What this meant to Kimball county can be fully impressed upon the minds of any citizen or friend of this county, or any reader of this work by a moment's reflection upon what cost, loss, ami inconvenience the counties without a railroad have undergone.

The interesting story of the inception and consummation of the dreams of the "Transcontinental" rail-builders who gave this wonderful system to the great west, can best be distinguished in the words of one who played a leading part in the scenes of those days.

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Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific railway from 1866 to 1870, the period of its most active construction, has narrated the story of "How we built the Union Pacific Railway" in such form that it consumes forty printed pages, so that the portion of it quoted hereafter will form but a small part of his narrative :