The daily union., 1852-05-13
With regard 10 the harbOr of San Diego. Major EmOr


With regard TO the harbor Of San Diego. Major Emory
says;
At present. San Diego is all things considered perhaps
Of the best coast from Calao Pugets
Sound, with single exception, that OF san Francisco
able this. The harbor of San Francisco has more
water bu that OF San Diego has uniform climate bet
Direction However the com sercial metropolis be
San Francisco, owing 10 the greater extent and peri
saen,o San Joachim unless indeed San Diego should
be made the terminus OF railroad leading by the route Of
the Ga the Del Noe. and thence the Mississippi add
the Atlantic"
SURVEY MAJOR COOK.
Major Cook OF the I'd United States Dragons explored
the same country, and in his ethcial report says
eft the river (Ro Grande) when in view of point
marked on tke common maps San Diego. on The Del
Noe, and the distant view towards III Prso proved tue
country be unbroken and comparatively level"
After describing the country thence TO San Diego. on
the Pacific, usually isVe. Major Cook concludes hs
report as follows:
I" The Rio Gande bottoms for hundred miles above.
and a. The point where s are well rat, Of amo,,
every kind but by this wonderfully level route the CONT
men. nay be passed with scarcely View o. gIsae @
cattle while working and in winter The route from Ten
through country a5oundng In exceedingly rich
SURVEY OF THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION
John r. Bartlett, esq. the present chief of the Mexi-
can boundary commission, under date OF September 81
1884, writes the Secretary Of the Interior as follows
am enabled state, with great satisfaction, that
from Ajo de vaca, route far practicable for road
railway than that known Cooks road that the dis
ains TO be crossed infinitely less height and
pass and lastly. that there s saving in the distance
Colonel Cooks road, nearly TO the San Pedro. !.
will that Lieutenant Whpple had wsgoo, Mr.
Gray and myself smother and Colonel Graham three ma
king five In ALL which came through without difficulty"
avido IN tha
tire feasibility OF the route.
San Diego the Pacific vicksburg and Jackson Mis-
sissipp; Montgomery. Alabama; and Charleston, South
Carolina are all in direct line from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific. of nearly thirtytwo degrees north latitude FL
Paso del Noe about fifty miles south OF this lne and
would curve the road 10 that extent
By the treaty with Mexico we have the privilege OF
constructing railway the Mexican side OF the Gila
if we find il either necessary or expedient TO do So
GRANT OF LAND TO CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO.
All that is necessary to be done to insure the COM
pleon of this entire road is for Congress pass the
bills reported by the committee granting lands 70 Mssis
spp and Louisiana fer the construction of the road through
those States, and TO grant also 10 the Territory of New
Mexico and the State OF California tract of land e9uva
lent to thirty miles in width each side OF the line OF
the road with the privilege OF locating the land on the
northern side OF the road in the event that il runs
the Mexican line 10 prevent its location on the south
side Such donation would enable the legislatures OF
that State and Territory 10 put the road under contract for
it's immediate construction
By granting the right OF way and the land 10 the State
and Territory, and permitting those local governments TO
control the construction of the road not only perform
bounden duty TO those infant republics, but avoid the
objection OF establishing system OF internal improve
ments by the federal government AT the same time we
bring aid all the influence of Stale prde State in
erest, and State wealth; and the States by their local
legislation induce private enterprise and private capital
to enlist in the same cause While this powerful conbi
nation of ineres, and of capital cannot fail of success
will bird the people OF the American Union together by
mutual senteres stronger than all the ties OF federal
legislation
The integrity aud perpetuy OF the Union demand the
construction OF This road Nature has not only prepared
The surface OF the earth for the reception OF the castron
horse, with all his paraphernalia but excavaed the
Rocky mountains for his transit and profusey strewn his
path with all the necessary material to perfect his ggan-
tic
ROADS ALREADY CONSTRUCTED.
In fact one half Of the road is already finished There
is now continuous line of railway from Waerville,
in the State OF Mane through the States OF New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, 10
New York 4l0 miles
From New York, through the States OF
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, District OF Columbia, Vir-
ginia, and North Carolina. 10 Will
minglon--,bence by steamboat TO
Charleston, South Carolina go