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Cprr Photographic History Museum: High Cost and Challenge of Building the Cprr

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Contains the text of a Lewis M. Clement's 1887 statement to the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, which gives a clear and succinct accounting of the costs incurred and the problems encountered in building the Central Pacific Railroad.

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building a transcontinental railroad, railroad bonds, transcontinental railroad, central pacific railroad, construction of the central pacific railroad, financing the central pacific railroad, central pacific
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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