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Identifier: louisianapurchas01stlo (find matches)
Title: Louisiana purchase exposition, St. Louis, 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: (St. Louis, Woodward and Tiernan printing co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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THE BEAUTIFUL FESTIVAL HALL AXD CENTRAL CASCADES. (See Page /.) The Union Pacific Railroad and Louisiana Territory. WHILE the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, its trials and triumphs, are a part of the history of the UnitedStates, the important part played by this railroad in the development of the Louisiana Purchase can hardly be esti-mated. In the building up of this vast domain, it has been one of the chief factors. One hundred years ago the population of the region was estimated at 20,000. Up to the inception of the Union Pacific (ini860), it had increased to 3,233,529. In 1900, it numbered over 13,000,000 of inhabitants. In this wonderful growth, with itsstupendous increase in all the many-sided phases of commercial, material and intellectual prosperity, the Union Pacific—as aglance at the map will show—has had a conspicuous share. It has opened up vast regions of fertile country to settlers, andbrought great areas of what was an unknown and unproductive wilderness