The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-04


We extract the following article from the Boston Daily
Advertiser 1t is very pungent and comprehensive re-
view OF the scheme 10 which it refers. We do not de-
sire 10 have ii understood thai endorse all the sent
ments and critical opinions here expressed but at the
lime. there is so much shrewd native good sense
10 tho suggestions. that we think readers will be
Obliged to for laying this g Boston notion" before
them
day's paper Col Benton's bill to appropriate some two
hundred millions of OF land, together with the
co, aud Utah. not required Tor expenditures therein, for
certain purposes of Internal Improvement in the west
proposed IN Congress; but it is not sngle project
Colonel Benton, the last session. strenuously op.
embraced u number Of distinct subjects His present
scheme embraces quite as msny, WIS an iron railroad
mediaeiy opened and constructed leading from 81 Louis
70 the bay of San francisco; also, common road of
through the whole distance oil hundred feet In width
his common road also be opened aud constructed inn
mediateiy also, ghout the distance line OF
telegraph wires, for which IS TO be set apart space
hundred feet wits Besdas this RAILROAD OF thousand
mites IN length, 10 be subject toll Tax beyond what
shall be necessary provide for repars-the highway
which 70 DO kept IN travelling order at the expense OF The
government and be forever tree from toll and
the telegraph extending the extent OF lnehese
TO be three branch railroads. with three branch common
roads, and three branch telegraph lines each leading from
the main lines above mentioned to Santa fe distance
OF psobaby onr hundred miles ono to The tide waters Of
ded miles and this other the city Of Great Salt Lake,
The distance Af which will depend the location OF the
| main lines Of railroad ard highway,
he bill provides, in addition, for several other objects,
such tho Indian title the lands be
APPROPRIATED establishing mails by coaces and hoTsees
presses the said line of ghway establishing military
stations, and making donations of land to solers the
routes OF the said roads. NlaE.a taarS .a#
cit hardly conceivable that Colonel Benton be
serious in proposing exravagant project IL 1t be a
serious proposition, TO he plan by which the
shall dvest ITSELF possibe OF it's
vol the public lands, and in method wasteul and
| usele IS be
made trial OF the project of national road, and
here named. both account of tue extent OF population
who had occasion and the diff Guilty OF other
OF travel But the experiment proved costly aud unsals
factory and was long ago abandoned The present
Ject only for road OF vast dimensions but
Tor far expensive work accompany II, and to
der 1t vaueessa railroad through country,
and where there is business-oi more than
four times the Of any railroad in existence To this
proposed add the still further useless expenditure of
establishing telegraph through the tract oil country
with the appendage OF strip OF land hundred feet wide
through the whole distance. This great work is to be
opened and constructed Immediately. II has been found
in practice indispensable in establishing railroad OF
moderate dimensions 1t first and open It after
wards, and impossible do either Immediately We trust
that Congress, before committing itself to part of so
sul useful work any part OF the world which
any analogy the character of the which
extends with either OF the schemes here proposed Should
they find that there is precedent for such work, they
may think unwise TO make experiment on so exPen-
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