Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-14
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FROM THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN.
The following letter. which has been handed to for
publication will, considering the from which it
comes read with interest this tme when the ques
ton of the eligible Railroad to the Pacific is
occupying so large share of the public attention
SANTA Fr, MARCH 81, 1853.
SIR find the following sentences in letter addressed
| by you to the Santa Fe Gazette
writer in me New York Tribune who processes to
have visited Fort Laramie in lS49 and then and there
Mr. hit Carson quotes that gentleman as in favor Of the
Carson prefers the through Utah. and have claimed him
friend the New Mexican route wish he would write
TO soon as may be- and give me his opinion with ahe
testimony which his valuable experience and sagacy such
| subjects supply"
You are perfectly right in claiming friend to
the route through New Mexico. consider il far far
preferable to the route through Utah Territory know
but route the continent which be travelled
winter and summer and over remarkably level countr
and that the Rio Grunde del Nore within
fifty sixty miles Of Santa Fe and from thence as direct
to the California Mountains the nature of the country
will allow. The pass known walkers Pass" through
the mountains is q good one, and has very abrupt
ascents or descents. There is hoher pass higher up
which is nearly il not quite good Walkers" That
comes in somewhere about Of the "Four Creeks"
and Dr. NAGLE OF Santa Fe, has mentioned to me the
fact that reliable and intelligent man, old noun
aneer aud whose statements know are to be depended
upon having passed from the Vegas Of Santa Clara and
after making his due west, reached the Tulare
Valley, passing a country which, to use his own
words, he could drive ten-mue team through anywhere
THERE'S Of doubt that the trail from Albu-
querque, by Zuni along the headwaters f the streams
that into the ella, and then crossing the big river
about the "Mohave and so is the easiest road that
be found The only objection that know Of is, that
great part Of the country along there is very barren in
fact bad that the wolves can't make living and then
il into the Tulare Valley ut its very southern
remty, and you have to up three four hundred
miles to strike the bay Of San Francisco that IL you
could make little northng il would be better Mr.
Fremont had always expressed wish 10 to examine
the country along the southern limit Of the basin and IL
his explorations had not been stopped that would have
been his next enterprise.
On the other hand do consider the road by the South
Pass as almost impracticabe. have no faith in it.
The lie early and late in both the Rocky and
Snowy mountain countries II is easy enough the
cent Of the Snowy mountains going up from the eastern
SIDE but the west il falls right of and it's like going
up ladder to get out Of theCafornia valleys the top
Of the mountains any where that know Of far north
AS to the SHOWS you folks that live in the States know
nothing about them. Why, sir 1t SHOWS harder and
longer and faster and Of il high up in those Caor
MIA mountains than perhaps in any other place in Gods
world am not alone in my opinions upon the subject
about which you have written 10 Any old noun
taneer that knows any thing about i viii say that the
southern route through New Mexico is the best 49,
| am, sir, yours very truly, T. CAksoS.
To WN S. ALLEN, Esq, ST. Louis
One additional fact may be properly appended to Mr.
Carsons interesting letter We have already announced
the arrival Of Mr. f. X Aubry in California from Santa
Fe with several thousand head Of sheep Mr. Aubry left
Santa in the osry part OF the winter and we presume
took what i known Walkers route, that general d
recon Az all events he had with him eight ten wa
and he is understood to have performed the journey
with them This if correct gives that there
is nothing the nature Of the country to prevent the
rpcton OF railroad along the indicated and from
st Louis TO the Pacific Even without the surveys and
ben looking at what has been done the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad feel assured that obstacles are likely
to be presented which cannot be overcome