Collis made America much better by being involved in all these projects that affected the american people in such a positive way. Now people from the south were able to travel to the west because of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Major Wickham was able to get Huntington involved in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, because of Huntington’s involvment this railroad became a success. This railway was from Virginia and in West Virginia there is a town named after him. He established a coal business there as well. He later expanded it to the Newport News where he first visited in his early years of business as a young man. Huntington was such a smart man that they called him the “financial genius.” When the panic of 1873 happened, Huntington was
