Widening embankments between Columbus and Omaba $9,000 For freight and passenger depot at the proposed junction with 10.000 For engine-house of brick or stone at said junction. 40,000 50,000 For engine-house at Green River of brick or stone in addition to materials already on hand............ 20,000 For engine-house of brick or stone in the vicinity of Wahsatch or Evanston.... For replacing cottonwood ties in addition to repair account.. 20,000 100,000 500 Widening pier and changing bridge at Crow Creek 1.000 6,000 For masonry and erecting bridge at the Little Laramie.. 3,000 For improving abutments at Rock Creek... 1,000 For repairing masonry at Medicine Bow bridge. 2,500 Rebuilding and repairing masonry of Bitter Creek bridges. 21,000 15,000 For widening pier at last crossing Black's Fork.... 1,000 Piers and abutments at Black's Fork, eight hundred and seventy third mile............... 3,500 Piers and abutments at Black's Fork, eight hundred and eightieth mile.... 12,000 Masonry at crossing Big Muddy, eight hundred and ninetieth mile. 7,500 Masonry at crossing Big Muddy, eight hundred and ninetyfirst mile.... 5,500 Masonry for four straining beam bridges between nine hundred and forty-sixth and nine hundred and forty-ninth miles, including filling trestles. 15,000 For abutments for six 40-foot straining-beam bridges on nine hundred and eighty-fifth to nine hundred and eighty eighth miles, inclusive 2.400 500 Arch culvert... Filling trestle at Weber River bridge Filling and replacing with permanent water-ways ten larger 3,000 14.000 Filling trestle on nine hundred and seventieth mile... Filling two high trestles on nine hundred and seventy-first mile. Filling two high trestles on nine hundred and seventy-third mile. 11,000 12,000 32,500 2.000 2,200 For abutments, filling, and putting in straining beam bridges at nine hundred and sixtieth and nine hundred and seventy-sixth miles.............. ..... For filling and replacing with permanent water-ways ten small openings of trestle-work between Yellow Creek and Piedmont... 2,500 For filling four large trestles between nine hundred and fortyfifth and nine hundred and thirty-fourth miles, inclusive. Filling trestle at nine hundred and sixty-eighth mile.... 2,000 500 1.500 33,500 For abutments, bridging, and filling eighteen trestles between For filling and replacing with permanent water-ways seventeen smail openings between Piedmont and Bryan............ Abutments at crossing Big Muddy, nine hundred and twentyseventh mile... Abutments at crossing Biddy Muddy, nine hundred and twenty-third mile............ $7,000 9,000 3,000 32, 600 3,700 16,000 For filling and putting in three culverts between Piedmont and Bryan... For filling and replacing with permanent water ways forty Filling and replacing with permanent water-ways twenty Filling three other large trestles and putting in culverts be- Filling and replacing with permanent water-ways thirty-seven Filling eighteen other large trestles between Laramie and For filling and replacing with permanent water-ways one For filling and replacing with permanent water-ways twenty- To change line to original location at Uintah Total Promontory to Omaba SURPLUS MATERIAL AND SUPPLIES. After examining the lists of rolling stock, material, and supplies on hand submitted by the company, and making a liberal allowance for the immediate future wants of the road, we find they have a surplus amounting to about $1,800,000 in value." In appendix B will be found a list of the maps, papers, and statements submitted by this company. In concluding this report, the commission desire to state that both the companies are doing a large amount of work on their respective roads, and are day by day bringing them nearer to the standard required by law. This great line, the value of which to the country is inestimable, and in which every citizen should feel a pride, has been built in about half the time allowed by Congress, and is now a good and reliable means of communication between Omaha and Sacramento, well equipped and fully prepared to carry passengers and freight with safety and dispatch, comparing in this respect favorably with a majority of the first-class roads in the United States. Respectfully submitted. HIRAM WALBRIDGE, C. B. COMSTOCK, Hon. J. D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior. Commissioners. The disposition of the Rush Valley military reservation, Utah Territory. JANUARY 27, 1874.-Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. The Secretary of War has the honor to invite the attention of the House of Representatives to his letter of March 6, 1869, recommending that, as the Rush Valley military reservation, Utah Territory, "is no longer required for military purposes, its disposition be authorized by law upon such terms and such manner as may be deemed most advantageous to the United States." As the disposition of the said reservation has not as yet been authorized, a copy of a letter from the commanding general, Department of the Platte, relative to the matter, is herewith transmitted, and the recommendation contained in the letter above referred to is again made. WM. W. BELKNAP, Secretary of War. WAR DEPARTMENT, January 23, 1874. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE, SIR: I have the honor to inclose a plat of Rush Lake military reservation. I learned while in Utah, from the register of the land-office, that the lands of this reservation had not been open to sale or sold; but private parties informed me that several mills and other buildings had been erected thereon, and that the water-courses and lakes were of great value to smelters and mill-owners. As the military make no use of the land, and exercise no control over it, so far as I know, I think it should be transferred to the Department of the Interior, for sale or settlement, under the law. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, The ADJUTANT-GENERAL, U. S. A., E. O. C. ORD, Brigadier-General Commanding. Washington, D. C. (Through headquarters Military Division of the Missouri, Chicago, Ill.) P. S.-I have to add that the great value of a portion of this reserve will induce-if it has not already induced-interested parties to try and secure a large share of it without having a just claim thereto; and that, on account of the scarcity of water in the vicinity, and its necessity to mill-owners, as far as practicable the land should be sold, with a due regard to the interests of all concerned, and only after a careful survey and division of the water-privileges into small lots. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, [1st indorsement.] E. O. C. ORD, Brigadier-General. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION MISSOURI, Chicago, December 27, 1873. Respectfully forwarded for the action of competent authority. This reservation was established by troops from the Pacific coast. I am not familiar with its present status, and can only say we have no troops stationed thereon. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 7, 1874. Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War with the following report: The United States military reservation at Rush Lake Valley, Utah Territory, was declared by the President February 4, 1855. The subject of the abandonment of this reservation was laid before the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War, in letter of March 6, 1869, with recommendation that, as it was no longer required for military purposes, its disposition be authorized by law, upon such terms and in such manner as might be deemed most advantageous to the United States; but no legislation appears to have been had in the |