Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-07
HANNIBAL JOURNAL. JULYo7, 1853.

the hepUOican,) ana QiSo OetieT reasons
than We could assign for our faith. that lhsl 4
Hannibal and ST. Joseph Road over north a
ern Missouri. will become an important
link in The great Pacific Road.
The concurrence also with The views Of =,
/ Maj. Buckln in his report. will be seen and ,
appreciated on the same subject. y
! 20" clearly understands his subject.
\ Let Us look al Col. Benton's routs IN its
details ST. Louis is in latitude 50 deg, 81,
49, Kansas 80 deg, o. 40;" Walkers
Pass 30 deg, L., l2'; and San Francisco
81 deg, IA range of four degrees Of lati-
7 tude. nearly. l.
Col. Benton proposes TO 60 from ST.
! Louis. through Kansas and Walkers Pass
TO San Francisco. Kansas lies about 40
) miles North of ST. Louis, and Walkers
Pass about 20J miles south OF ST. Louis
hence, in going from st. Louis southwest
: 10 Walkers Pass, if you first 90 40 miles o
: the north you must travel back south again,
r making clear loss of 50 miles. But after
he goes off 10 the north 40 miles, when he
ought 10 be going south, let us see where /
Col. Benton next steers. Instead of turn
+ ing oil SoUihwardly towards Walkers
: Pass, when he leaves Kansas, Col Benton
i goes west up the Kansas 400 miles. and is
4 full % miles north Of ST. Louis, when he
turns I, the south. He crosses over The |
i Arkansas river al Bent's Fort, and enters
j the valley Of the Huerlano river Just above.
Here ! must stop and make a remark TO
h show the supreme folly of running off no,1h-
9 rordly when leaving ST. Louis instead of
bearing off syuh1est directly toicariS Walk.
( er'S PoSs, where he is obliged TO go TO get
IS through the Mountains.
Hannibal will have a good connection.
!, east, with the city Of Philadel phis, and with
l.. all places north of it, in less than two years
Hannibal is So miles RcQJ CT Kansas than 81.
~ Louis IS Hannibal can be reached from i
e point on the Kansas road as low down as
is BOOnville, far nearer than can ST. Louis q
4 helkuk rs many miles nearer TO kalsdS than
70 is ST. LOUIS! Even Burlington, in Iowa,
+. with its beautiful system of roads passing
~ through Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and
Id thence eastward, in many directions, .an
construct a road 10 Kansas on as good or
H. better ground than ST. Louis, and II ,cOuid
be ten miles shorter Ii is 30 miles nearer
:. from Burlington TO the head waters of the
~ Kansas, where Benton's road turns south
to go over TO the Arkansas river, than il is
IS, from St. Louis Even from Galena and
n, Dubuque, a road would reach that point in
IN the Valley Of The Kansas, 700 miles west
from 81. Louis, by passing over the same
distance as would one from ST. Louis! Most
'Ie of them shorter than the St. Louis road,
Ia, none Of them longer!
of And what a crooked road he has thus far
made of it, From ST. Louis, instead OF
going southwest directly towards Walkers
nd Pass, he starts off TO the northwest to Kan.
nd sas; follows up the Kansas, west; then
is turns southwest; then goes off TO The north
he again, until he actually reaches n point %
miles north Of ST. Louis, although he is
60 { travelling TO Walkers Pass, lying 200 miles
lie south of St. Louis But let US follow the
iri, RAMS Horn Route in silence and humility
ST. denton is a man Of head, and especially oil
h0ughtr
THE TRUE AND DIRECT ROUTE FROM ST. LOUIS
hg That my views may be comprehended
we distinctly, desire The reader TO know that
TO esteem il practicable to run Railroad west
IA from almost any point at the base of the
AlIeghenies from Pittsburgh to the Lakes,
- to almost any point at the base of the Rocky
'h' MOuntains--you may, al greater or less
in expense, run railroad across the Mississip
pl dlloN UHt|cCeT you IHedSc.
res If Col. Benton must oppose any route that
i, would favor the views OF Maj. Pie ps, why
80 not start at least as far south as Fort Scott!
ice even Fort Scott is thirty miles nearer
nd Hannibal than ST. Louis Cars from Cali
lornia arriving al Fort Scott could adyan-
re tageously take road and go east ria Han
-, nibal, leaving St. Louis far away 10 the
right; and so can they also from the mouth
lite oil Salt Fork, 6ld Burlington and Gqlena can
OF not! Three roads running from tile valley
err OF the Canadian from point where inter-
n sected by latitude SO, longitude lO0-one to
N Memphis, one to ST. Louis, and one TO Ham
-, nibal-would be of nearly equal length.
uu If the road were 10 defect little too far
Ter TO the south, a road by the way Of Mem
ell phis, Knoxville, Lynchburg, Washington,
in, Baltimore, Philadsl phia New York, and
M Boston, would seize the California trade
g for the road lcOud be the shortest the road
la' is as short, the grades as good, and the
Ia climate better, from Memphis TO New York,
n than from -. Louis TO New York. To give
Ike Memphis an advantage, therefore, would be
n madness. 70 willingly allow road 10 run
northwest from 81. Louis, before going south
west, and thus allow the great Pennsvya-
ird MIA, New York. and New England Gamma.
led MES 10 run road across North Missouri
ur. and intercept the California trade west of
he Missouri and convey i, over to their roads,
T.. would be foolish. A fool or knave, could
~ only thus act, after his attention had been
ey called TO 1t, and yet claim 10 support SAIXr
Nv LOUIS INTERESTS