Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-11

Lshedl several hundred miles further Stages also, and
all usual land conyeyance would be each end Of the
national territorial road.
My idea is that the road should be built by the United
States by the creation Of stock hypothecaed upon the
puoc lands and payable at fixed period at the Federal
treasury and that adequate force should be put
II to do the work at We think nothing of evying
an army OF fifty hundred thousand men for
here is an object of moment TO the United States
anu 70 the WORLD than many wars; and should be IN
favor Oh seeing army of laborers employed upon it
once ana the work done in years, instead OF pd
diing Ut 1t for lifetime And why not We have
inc money and the men and on line Of 200 miles
there would be room for go 900 work without ell
bowling each other. 1t would only be forty to the
mile. The presumption system would give the money and
the settiers-the right kind of seters-men who would
defend themselves from Indians and raise provisions for
the supply of the road and occupy it both Sides and
from one end to the other the first they were
lowed to do The Indian title should be extinguished
on breadth of fifty to hundred miles, and mile re-
served for the different tracks OF railroads and for
mon road and for Geographic lines 1t is work for pos
tery and for three continents and should elevate
ourselves TO the grandeur Of the occasion The main
street in the city which Alexander the Great founded to
supercede Tyre in the East India trade five miles
long and thousand feet wide, with colonnaded and
covered footway OF hundred feet each side There
were men of ample ideas in those times and slit was
not the age that built epyramds From the summit of
those pyramids said the conqueror Of the Mamelukes
" forty centuries look down upon u.s." The time will
come when forty centuries look back upon this road
and they should not be left to epne the mprodence
which would dwndle it to the petty calculations of Job
| bers, corporators, and spectators.
repeat, deem all schemes of making this road by
mixture of public and private means; giving lands or
money TO companies to make it, and then let them own
it, conveying for the United States gratis and doubling
upon the people to make it up getting in addition to
their other profits interest upon the of construction
and which cost betrayed by the United States
and all this crowned with monopoly Of the road deem
all such schemes to be fundamentally unwise unjust to
the community mpolitic, and vicious hold that the
United States should build the road xtures and
let out the of it for periods of ten years to
contractors who VIII carry all freight public and private
rssponsbs bidder C. afs e oo ae
tract and furnish his and them; and if un
der bid at the end of his time superseded the
sor to take all his stock at valuation
1t is an illusion and cheat to suppose that contrac
tors will carry for the United States gratis They will get
their pay somewhere, and ought and the fair way and
the only ineligible way, and the only way for each par
y to know what they about is for the United States
TO pay like an individual for all that done for it. 1t is
the only way to save the people from being and
piundered. Besides, what is the GoYemment-our Gov
ernmen-but the people Why rob one pocket to put in
the other why rob individuals in detail give to the
community as Government, especially when it is very
certain that the individuals double charged will never get
back any part of their money? The United States nav
their ocean steamers for all they carry and that enor
mousy, and to the establishment of oppressive monopo-
es why not pay their land steamers fairly and eouita
bly, instead OF throwing the burden upon the travelling
anu the business community? This road is to be long
one ana intended for universal and travel freight
upon u should be made as cheap as possible Besides
our own trade anu our travel the trade and travel of
Europe with Asia should 20 upon it, free road-tbat
is to say road which, like the ocean or river charges
nothing Tor It's uses the first great step towards cheap
transportation and for the Government to nav like nd
Vduais is the second and completing step to that Cheap
ness. ~
4 now add some notices the line of country over
which this route would pass with view of showing the
iacty OF making the road, and the capabilities of the
country for continuous, populous and powerful settle
ments all along it.
!. TIE KANSAS RIvER.Its mouth is in lat 49, Ion 941
elevation OF the country 700 feet above the level of the
Gulf OF Mexico Its head is in lat 80 Ion 1O3 eIeyo
ton about 600 feet and its course Ibe Smoky Hil1
fork nearly straight and skrtng the latitude Of 80 All
the way Il has four forks all close together and par
that be called valley which is nearly on level with
the praires on each side, is fertile grassy and wooded
The two main forks, the Smoky Hill and Republican
lwhere the United States is establishing fort is in
latitude % degrees 3minutes, longitude SO degrees "a
minutes elevation 926 feet about the Gulf of Mexico
Fremont describes the streams fist of Jnel nc too
70 be forded and the country beautifully watered
with numerous streams and handsomely timbered some
O. the oaks five six feet in diameter the soil rich
back vegetable mould. Higher up and half way up the
Smoky Hill fork he describes the country os still ossi
latng to northwest Missouri the river HAVING nn;eo
breadth of so to 100 yards with many small
ins TO- wooded with OOH large ems the usual yare
hes oil timber common TO the lower part of the river Tho
mouth OF the river is in communication with tho r;h I
popuous country of Missouri with supplies az eve L;d
at hand and transportation easy up the Kansas river nv
'er ana over tne clean level prares raversed by
annual thousands of wagons.
2 The UPPER Arkansas AND ITS VALLEY Ra,,,s
Fort near the mouth of the HueYfano as noint a. a.
line and its latudeis about So longitude 1904 and eov
ton above 600 feet Its head is about latitude "a and
there are several Puebos above where Indian corn thr
grain, ana vegetables grown and cattle sheen and
horses are raised which shelter and feed themselves al
the winter There is wood upon the river both above and
below the fort and is forbade any for some hun
dreds of miles. Ii has the aspect of settled conntrv
and Fremont speaks of travelling both above and ho
the fort along broad Edgon road Soil good for cpl
| tiyation.
g. HUERFASo, OR ORPHAN RyER.-The mouth is inst
above Bents Fort and therefore il has about the
geographical position IL comes In from the Southwest
and it's head is in about latitude 37J and longitude 1881
elevation not known, but considerable "a il has 10
falls IL flows through open country trayersabe on
broad space, having the Sierra Mohdda or Wet Noun
tan the west and is the line Of approach 10 the Pass
Ell Sangre de Christie and others which lead tbrouob th
Sierra Blanca, lin which it heads into the head valley
OF the Del Norte Fremont found no snow in this Pass
A. The VALLEY ST.. LouIs.-This is the head valley
Of the Del Nore, about between latitude 81 and 80 and
between longitude los and l07-eleyation mot known
Fremont and Leroux both describe IL as rich and beaut
full valuable in ITSELF and the more so as being half wav
between ST. Louis and San Francisco The United States
have the Fort Massachusetts, and filing up with
settlers 1t must have area of 600 or Oo0 souare
miles, is nearly surrounded by grand mountains and
must be one Of the finest and most picturesque mountain
valleys in the world Fremont found but little snow in il
s. Tue Pass Coo.cHA-ToPE OR FL Puerto latitude
believed to be 49, longitude about I07A
hardly less than 1000 feet 1t is continuation of the
ST. Louis valley narrowed down to eight miles level and
no obstruction but dense forest Of large pines Several
trails lead through it, and many from il towards the
West The first western water is the Rio Compddrr n
branch Of the Grand river fork Of the Great Co
lora10 From vyha Tero vtolla