Broke ground at Sacramento January 8, 1863 Laid first rail October 27, 1863 Sacramento to Roseville (18 miles) Constructed in 1863 Road opened as follows: To Newcastle 31 miles January, 1865 ” Auburn 36 ” May 15, 1865 ” Clipper Gap 42 ” June 10, 1865 ” Colfax 54 ” September 4, 1865 ” Secret Town 66 ” May 8, 1866 ” Alta 78 ” July 10, 1866 ” Cisco 94 ” November 9, 1866 ” Summit 105 ” July, 1867 ” State Line 278 ” January, 1868 ” Reno 294 ” May, 1868 ” Wadsworth 329 ” July, 1868 (362 miles constructed in 1868) ” Monument Point 667 ” April 15, 1869 ” Ogden 743 ” May 10, 1869 Driving last spike, and opened for business from Sacramento; distance San Francisco to Ogden, per time card 883 ” May 10, 1869 Relations with Western Pacific It has already been noted that the line from Sacramento via Stockton to San José was not part of the original plan, and that the rights, grants, and franchises of the Central Pacific in it were assigned to other parties in the course of the Congressional fight. The original assignment of December 4, 1862, was to a group of men which included Timothy Dane, the original projector, and president of the San Francisco and San José Railroad, Charles McLoughlin, and A. H. Houston. In 1864, the first assignees having waived their rights, the Central Pacific Railroad made the same assignment to the Western Pacific Railroad of California.[126] The Western Pacific Railroad in turn let contracts for construction to Houston and McLoughlin, but by 1867, McLoughlin had become involved in litigation regarding his contracts and asked that all arrangements between himself and the Western Pacific be canceled.[127] This led the Western Pacific to enter into a contract with the Contract and Finance Company, with the result that substantially all the stock of the first-named corporation came into the hands of the Huntington group. McLoughlin retained the federal land grant; the federal subsidy, however, of $16,000 per mile, reverted to the Western Pacific as did the local subsidies, and through it passed to the Contract and Finance Company. The railroad from Sacramento to San José was opened September 15, 1869; on June 22, 1870, the Central Pacific and the Western Pacific filed articles of consolidation. Lack of Terminal Facilities