The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-25
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COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC
STATES AMT PACIFIC


Among the persons who have given most attention "a
the grand project Of uniting the Atlantic States and u.
western coast of the republic by Of the improved
roads of the present day. is Dr. o. NJ Wozencra Of Cali
forna After making exploration Of the whole rOu,
including minute examination of one OF the chief pas
Of the Sierra Nevada he has devoted large part Of hi,
time for six years past in keeping the public attention d.
rected to the necessity and feasibility Of the object
statement furnished by Dr. Wozencra which is CONTAINED
m the official report of Captain Beckwth, shows that ia
Mobiles Pass there average depth of during
the winter of but six inches; that il would thai
the mountain barrier that guards the western slope The
continent will be of easier passage than the comparatively
dminutve range that separates the Atlantic from the val
ley of the Mississippi.
The whole subject Is now assuming practical and en-
crossing importance from the fact that act OF The M
Congress has provided not indeed for railway, but ia
pioneer good military aud wagon road and for the COZ
yeyance of the public mails directly across the country
The particular route or routes that may finally be adopted
for a railway and the by which that communiCs
ton may be established will be now more than heretofore
subjects of discussion In the mean time the plain, open
roads with military protection, for which liberal approp
atoms are made, viii be constructed, and enable the class
of emgrauts which countries mainly need to peops
the shores of the Pacific they have peopsd M
great States Of the interior.
An address of the gentleman above alluded TO- made be-
fore the Mechanics Institute of San Francisco contains many
interesting details the subject lie proposes near
the central parts of the present domain Of the country and
gives among other for his preference the following
statement:
"You may trace line from Washington to San Fran.
cisco another from New York TO Mobiles pass In the Stern
Nevada mountains, and you have embraced the entire
route and what is remarkable the entire route from New
York TO Mobiles pass does not vary from airline more
than one degree it then defects but two degrees in order
to reach its terminus passing through belt Of country
from extreme to the other which may Justly be termed
the great railroad belt of the country inasmuch the re-
sources of the country have demanded their construction
you will perceive That they have accordingly been
struce all through the eastern section OF cutting through
il in various directions forming perfect network OF rails
and finally traversing it in direct line from east west
for at least wohrd of the entire dist TO the Pacific
all of which has been done without any Interior view
come xion with the contemplated great Atlantic and Pa
cfc road but simply in order to meet and fulfil the exist
ing and dly-ircressng demand OF travel and
nlerce.'
The question Of route routes however, will be pra
cay and finally solved in the roads be CONSTRUCTED
and the vast travel and INSTRUMENTATION that they will
produce.