...unreasonable in amount. The companies •were moreover "required to operate and use said roads and telegraph for all purposes of communication, travel, and transportation...as the public and Government are concerned as one continuous line, without discrimination of any kind," and it was expressly enacted <;not to be lawful...

...besides by express provision of act of Congress (See 12th US Statutes at Large, Sec. 12, p. 495, " The whole line of said railroad and branches and telegraph shall be operated and used for all purposes of comm unication, travel and transportation, so fnr as the public and government are concerned, as one...

...builders of the railroad from the Missouri River to the west coast, and the statute required that the line "be operated and used for all purposes of communication,...are concerned, as one connected, continuous line; * * *." Consequently, the first transcontinental railroad was jointly constructed by the Union Pacific...

...furtherance of this scheme section 12 provides that " . . . . the whole line of .said railroad and brandies and telegraph shall be operated and used for all purposes of communication, travel and transportation, as far as the public and government are concerned, as one connected continuons line " By act approved...

...Railroad Company and the roads of three Southern Pacific Railroad Companies and their connections should be operated and used for all purposes of communication,...transportation, so far as the public and government were concerned, as one continuous through line; the gross earnings to be divided between them in the...

...Texas & Pacific R. Co. and the roads of three Southern Pacific R. Cos. and their connections should be operated and used for all purposes of communication,...transportation, so far as the public and government were concerned, as one continuous through line ; the gross earnings to be divided between them in the...

...grades and curves shall not exceed the maximum grades and curves of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ; the whole line of said railroad and branches and telegraph...government are concerned, as one connected continuous line ; . . . . [SEC. 13. Provided that the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company might extend its road...

...States, so that, when completed, cars can be run from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. * * * The whole line of said railroad and branches and telegraph...are concerned, as one connected, continuous line." Section 16 provides " That at any time after the passage of this act, all of the railroad companies...

...act to aid in constructing the main line of said railroad and telegraph ; " by the twelfth section, that " the whole line of said railroad and branches...Government are concerned, as one connected, continuous line ; " and by the fourteenth section, that the Union Pacific Railroad Company should construct a single...

...grades and curves shall not exceed the maximum grades and curves of the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad ; the whole line of said railroad and branches and telegraph...are concerned, as one connected, continuous line. . ." Opinion of the Court. The fifteenth section gave to any other railroad company then or thereafter...