North Platt 1867 Was a Frontier town and many hard cases come the after the civil war the carried the law on the hip and was not slow in inforcing it their gamling hall was running in full Blass and large cards hung in the wall withe the the photo of kinfe and revolver withe the code of law this all dispute settle with gun and knife and linching combined them the Building round house but not finished yet as Sqade of Soliers garding the Platt Bridge Sevin hundred hostil Indian South of Platt River told by the Indian trader to look oute for them the were getting ugly Bording up of door and window and using ties for Brest Workes. We stope the linching our aful sufering for 3 nights and dayes blizzard Road Bloked to grand island snow 10 feet dep with dead leakey wood living
Jack & Dan Casment track layers took his track men oute to North Platt in the month of March 1867 Getting think reddy to lay track when the whether permited the end of track a short discance West of North Platt Put up a large Building this was well stocked with Pervision for men and Beast Beside laying suplies of track suplies reddy to start Buidling as soon as the weather permited our outfit was made up as 3 sow Belly Pasinger Coaches one for sleeping 2
A gang of mormon come to North Platt goin to Salt Lake
Comencing laying track our Foremen were most all milatary men
Jack & Dan Casement Contrastor
Col Wilcox Sectary of Suplies
Cap Cleton and horse Dilever of Suplies
Cap Mulvey tie hauling
Michel Guilford forman of track laying
Foreman Haull tie laying
Caplain Weed tie laying
Jim Daily forman of spiker
Paddy Miles liner and finisher
Killroy heder
Royan heder
Wilhelm Blacksmith
Two cooks
One Baker
One Butcher
herd of beef catle herded along
2. Waiter for table
1 Engin Enginear and fireman
2 herder
Blind Tom the horse that Pulled the iron Car
John the coloured man who drove the mules hauling Water to drink
Comenced laying track April 1867 layed from one to 2 mile a day gaining up to 8 mil on a test day making camp By correling our Waggin half-cicle pulling against our outfit cars putting our stock inside and watchen gaurding our news of 4 thousant indian under Chief red cloud was on the War Path near Rauling Wyoming at Oglally recived a consment of the first Brige loading rifles a company of Panee Indian scouts organezed By the goverment equiped with good horses good guns the Spenser Caribin Comand by Mayjor Frank North and Brother ther duty was to scoute around and keep the hostil from rusling on us unawer done good service a half Breed name Charly a Paunee Indian Scout were great friends he caried his bow and arrow and also a spencer Caribine and new well how to us them in one rade the Panee scouts captured 90 horses from the histole Sioux Brought them in to our camp and herded them in aboute 2 weeks the owners came and got them the proved to be Freighter horsed the hostil indians captured distroying and killing the whole outfit
Building UPRR
Starting laying track laying from one to 2 miles increasing to 8 miles a test day against CP track laying Indian Signels at Ofallens Bluffs by day and night on Frighter Seeking help our Preparation to meet chiefe red cloude heading East with four thousant indians recieved a suplie of arms called Burnside rifles Bridge loader indians running off the grade stock and horses correlled our stock making 1/2 Cirkle our stock inside our picket at night