Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-12-30

made upon mules finding their own food VA ich had al
ready travelled on the same condition, ons thousan
miles from the frontier Of Missouri and the Sc mule
thus already travelled long and hard without otl Ter fo
than the grass aorded) made the double dst MO y
the rate Of forty miles day still finding their own Sod
and, the return, bringing packs on their backs
performance must stand for proof that the whole mot
tain region between the Upper Colorado and the valley o
the Upper Del Norte is well adapted to travelling, and
that in state Of nature and also well supplied with nu
tritous grass; and this clears OF the Rocky Noun
tans from which to the Little Salt Lake it is all open
practicable way not limited to track but traversabe
on any line Loaded wagons travel it in state Of ma
ture. The valley Of the Colorado is either level roll
ng the Wahsatch and Anterria ranges perforated
by incessant valleys and from the Little Salt Lake t.
the Great Sierra Nevada explored by Fremont last
winter, the way nearly levela succession Of valleys
between the terminated by superb pass
debouchng into the valley Of San Joaquin. Fremont,
referring to previous Indian information, says Of it:
"When the point reached found the Indian informal
ton fully verified The mountain suddenly terminated and
broke down into lower grounds barely above level of
country, and making openings into the vaeyf
the San Joaquin. entered into the FIRST which offered o.
ing time to SEARCH entirely Of provons
and living upon horse which led by open and ost
level hollow thirteen miles long upland steep dough
be called hill over into the valley of small afent TO
Kern river; the hollow and the valley making toether
miles"
Of this adventurous winter expedition It WIS the che
rished desideratum Of the central route. fulfilled its
last condition And this completes all ht is necessary
to be shown in favor Of the smoothness Of the wayts
equality Of surface throughout the whoe ne although
it atains great elevation and lands Jou in California
in the rich and settled valley Of San Joaquin proxmate
to the southern end Of the gold mies Not tunnel 70
be made, mountain to be clmbe hill to DC crossed,
swamp to be desert poveable sand to be en-
countered in the whole distance and all this equality OF
surface barometricay determined by Fremont well
vsiby by his eye: that this line for road the
longest and straightest in the world is also the
md
asf4YR i b 2g s 91g an ns ana
Rivers to be passed distractions to roads, to be
by large applications of skill and means and
here again the central route is most favorable The en-
tire line is only crossed in its by the streams in
the valley of the Upper Colorado and those
able width with solid banks and stone for bridges On
this side Of the Rocky the of the rivers
parallel to that Of the road the Kansas the Arkansa
and the Huerfano being all in its line Beyond the val
ley Of the Colorado river at ALL only small streams
In this description of the country have relied chiefly
Fremont whose exploration, directed by authority
connected with company swayed by interest wholly
guided by himself and solely directed to the public good
would be entitled to credit upon his own report unsup
ported by subsidiary evidences but he has left the
credit Of his report to his word alone. He has done be-
sides what other explorer had donehe has made the
country report ITSELF Besides determining elevations ba
and fixing positions astronomically and
objects with practised eye-besides all that
be has applied the daguerreotype art to the face Of the
Wild domain and made it speak for itself Three hundred
Of these views illustrate the path Of his exploration and
compel every object to stand forth and show itself it is
Mountain, gap, plain, rock forest grass snow
where there is any, and naked ground where there is
no) all exhibit themselves they for Daguerre has
power to conceal what is visible to exhibit what is
He pencil to substitute fiction for
fact fancy for memory. He is machine that works
pattern and that pattern the object before him and
this way has Fremont reproduced the country from the
Mississippi to the Pacific, and made it become the reflex
Of its features and the exhibitor Of its face pre-
sent and vewabe to every behoder and that nothing
may be wanting to complete the information subject
IF such magnitude, he has gone back to give the
finishing look at the west end Of the line, which thirty
thousand miles Of wilderness explorations in the last
Twelve years al at his suggestion, and the last half
his cos authorize him to believe is the and
good route for the road which is to Atlantic and
The Pacific and to give new channel to the commerce
of Asia.
ALI the other requisites for the construction and main
enance Of road, and to give it employment when done
been shown in the view Of the country-wood water
;tone coal iron; rich soil to build up settlements and
ties give local business and travel along its course
well at tina great terminating pointaand to
ect it without Government troops add to this pictur-
ssque scenery and entire region Of unsurpassed sau
bry The whole route for the road between the States
IF Missouri and California is good-not only good but
,upremely exceent and it helped out each end by
water lines Of transportation actually existing and
BY railways projected in progress At the Missouri
ind there is railway in construction to the line Of the
State and steamboat navigation to the mouth Of the Kan
,as and up that river hundred miles. At the Cali
rna end there is the like navigation up the bay Of San
francisco and the San Joaquin river and railway pro-
ected And thus this central route would be helped out
once by some three hundred miles at each end
it with the great business populations Of California
and Missouri at which latter point would be in central
with the great business population Of the
Union.
And hold it to be in the order Of human events
the regular progression Of human affairs that the road
will be built and that soonnot by public but private
means by company Of solid men, asking nothing Of
Congress but the right Of way through the public lands
and buying the way not granted. Such enterprise
would be worthy of enlightened capitalists who know
how to combine private advantage with public good and
who would feel laudable desire to connect their names
with monumental enterprise useful than the pur-
suits Of political ambition, glorious than the con-
quest Of nations, durable than the pyramids and
which, being finished is to change the face of the COM
The road will be made, and soon and by individual en-
erprss The age is progressive and utilitarian. It
sbounds with talent seeking employment and capital
seeking Investment The temptation is irresistible. 70
reach the golden California to put the populations Of the
Atlantic and the Mississippi valley into direct commu-
RIGA, and to own road Of to the East Indies
such is the grandeur Of the enterprise And the time
has arrived to begin it. The country is open to settle
ment, and inviting it. and receiving it. The world is in
motion, following the track Of the to its dip in tho
western Westward the torrents OF emigration d-
rect their COURSE and the country between Missouri
and California is to show the rapid expansion Of the
human race that the ages of have ever beheld II
will all be settled up Settlements will promote road
he road will aggrandize the settlements Soon il will be
line OF towns cities, villages and farms and rich will
% the man that may quarter-sestion on its
rack and squares in the cities which are to grow mp
lpon it.
But the road beyond the Mississippi is only the half Of
he whole; the other half is this side, and either In
progress or completed Behold your own extended iron
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