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"THE C. P. say they can lay ten miles of track in one day and Mr. Durant has telegraphed $10,000 to say they can't do it!"
This was the excited greeting by George Stanton, when Terry met the pay-car in the latest "roaring" town of Blue Creek, at the base of Promontory Point on the U. P. side.