The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1854-04-18
LATE FROM SALT .LAKE---GREAT RAILROAD
MEETING AT SALT LAKE CITY.

| MEETING AT SALT LAKE CITY.
The Western mail has reached st. Louis
bringing dates from the Salt Lake City to the
Goth of February.
What may be termed great Railroad meet
ing was held in Great Salt Lake City on the
3Ist of January The citizens of the city and
county (ladies and gcntlemen) met in the
Tabernacle. Gov. Young presided, and other
officers were apppinted after which the Chair
man explained the object of the meeting. A
Committee, composed of Orson Hyde. Prof.
harrington, J. Il. Haywood, Orson Spencer,
and Geo. Smith, were appointed to draft reso-
lutions They retired for that purpose. Du-
ring their absence, memorial adopted BY the
Utah Legislature, and addressed to Congress,
was read in which they give their best views
on the subject of railroad from the Missouri
river to the Pacific ocean. They say:
Without preface. and with all due Difference,
| in our Judgment, the route in question should
commence at Council Bluff City keep up the
main Platte to its South Fork, and up the
South Fork 10 the proper point for diverging
| TO the summit Of tho Black Hills in the neigh
borhood of what is known as the Box Elder
Pass; or commencing near the mouth OF the
Kansas, and keeping up that stream to the Re
publican Fork, and up that 10 where you leave
| it TO reach the same pass.
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of distance between the Missouri river and said
pass by tho two named routes to be verv trif-
| ling, and the grades would be equally low, and
| the amount of timber, grass, quality OF soil,
climate, and facilities for settlement are almost
| or entirely identical.
The Box Elder Psss is wide, low dopress-
| ion in the Black Hills, with very gentle ascent
and descent; from this point the route is across
the southern portion of the level, well watered
and grass Larame's plains, to the Medicine
Bow Butte, thence by gentle grade across the
summit of the Rocky Mountains called Brid-
| gers Pass. Here tho route reaches the east
ern out-crop of the rich and thick bitumnous
| coal beds of the extensive regions drained by
the waters of Muddy and Bitter creeks. whero
rong indications of rich iron ore beds were
also noticed, and pur.ues its easy grade across
Green River near the mouth of Henry's Fork
| and across Bear River and Weber River by
| its lower Kanyon into Kansas Prairie. and
down the Tmpanogos or Provo River into
| Utah Valley.
| From the mouth of the Kanyon to Provo
| River by the north end of Utah Lake 10 Wal
ker's River Pass in the Sierre Nevada, the face
OF the couatry is nearly dead level, with the
exception Of shori isolated ranges of mountains
which could easily be turned, ifany were found
on the limo.
Fion all we can learn, Walkers River Pass
is tho most eligible in the Serre Nevada, any
where north of Walkers Pass, which is near
| latitude 80 deg. and of course much too far
S ,uth. Between Walkers River Pass and
Ssn Francisco, on a direct line, there is no un-
sual obstacle.
| The most casual inspection ofany late map
| will demonstrate the route above indicated to
be tho shortest. most direct, and most central
that can he located between the Missouri Riv-
o. and San Francisco, by way OF any practical
mountain passes now known.
| From the Box Elder Pass 10 tho rich valleys
skirting the west base of the Wahsateh noun
tans, Independent of the inexhaustible coal
heds and strongly Indicated by The iron ores of
| Bi ter Crock, thorc are more favorable loeal-
ties for so,ilcmouls on and near the line iodi-
Gated. iha1 on any other between the SHINE
parallels of longitude, un'ess a route is made
extremely crooked, and solely to accommodate
such locations.
he mouth Of tho Timpanogos or Provo
Knnyon opens Immediately upon the eastern
edge of Utah Valley, and near Provo City,
which will. ere long. be rich and powerful,
II rough skill and labor. well applied to its a
bundant resources. This is the most eligible
point for branching through rich chain of for
tnnately located valleys to Oregon on the one
hand, and San Diego on the other. From Ion
| gtude ll3 deg. 81 mn 10 tie Slerre NeFaua,
there is but little chance for settlements, of
much Importance on any route.
The Deseret News concludes the account of
this meeting thus:
"Ths meeting was got up on very short no
tice: and although tho weather was cold, and
much snow on the ground. and 70 fire in the
Tabernacle, yet that large place was filed,
and so great was the interest felt upon this
subject, that even the ladies would not remain
at home. The frat citizens of the place. both
male and female, were present, and all voted
with spirit and resolution that said, they wan
ted the railroad this way. and intended to have
II, ifp ssible."
The independence Messenger says:
"The Conductor reports that the mail party
which left Fort Laramie for Salt Lake City
January last, have not beon heard of. Fears
are entertained that they have perished, as
there is immense quantities of snow beyond Fort
Laramie. For the last six days the mail party
coming in have experienced an unusual guam
tity of disagreeable weather"
We see no mention whatever of Col. FIRE.
monts expedition
MOST FIENDIsH CRUELTY.
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