Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-10
Wednesday,

Califsrnia md sh~ pacific Railroad.
The People Of California and the neighboring
Territories, Oregon and Washington. appears
10 have taken up the projec. Of Pacific Rail-
road III Z manner at once practical and full Of
the promise Of early success. Associations
have been organized and . condderable fund
subscribed to spread information OF the re-
sources and inducements Of those countries,
through the Eastern States and Europe, With
view % influencing . large emigration Of per-
msnsns settlers TO their shores. They propose to
make the advantages Of the Pacific soil and
e.imass 10 we'll understood among the classes
Of Eastern emigrants that the immediate dc.
mand Of additional facilities for their transport
tation viii manifest itself, and by the combined
sIertions Of their allied Congressional delega-
tons next winter, 10 secure the passage Of such
wishes Of those portions Of the Union whose
interests are most largely concerned In an over.
land route 70 the Pacific. Tbs necessity for
some such action as this il shown in the dispo-
sition Of the appropriations made last Congress
for the Improvement Of communication between
the old States and the Pacific. While only one
Northern route is provided for, appropriations
for two wagon roads we're awarded the South
and New Mexico, another road opening the way
along the Southern boundary line Of Kansas IL
ordered, aud recently VIC are told that the over.
land mail contrac; will without doubt, be given
to some company proposing to carry it from a
point no. above Memphis, Tennessee. The
Caliiornians are disappointed. and indignant at
this diversion of means for which they specially
labored last Congress. and have pcti,ioned for
many years, TO ends in which they cannot feel
an interest, or If they d. it is one which the
South may as well understand first as last
Is adverse TO its sectional designs. They de.
sired the establishment of these routes and
this mail line that their State equally with Ore
gon and Washington territories might be bene-
fitted by the einigrati0nal advantages they
would confer. To afford them these advan-
tages II is obvious that they should have been
ordered as nearly in the present lines of over
land travel TO the Pacific as would be consistent
with the natural facilities Of the country they
must cross. II Is from the Northwestern States
that the Pacific regions have derived and must
continue to derive the main body Of their over
land emigration every year
The unexpected divergence of the Wagon
Roads, has awakened an anxiety to know the
fate Of the Pacific Railroad, or military road,
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piedgcd-whether it, TOO, will follow the over
land mails, and the favor Of the administration
be chiefly conferred on Southern route. 1t is
feared that il may be, and so much to the ex.
clusion Of the rights aud interests Of the Pacific
dependencies, that the people there are moving
in the matter, as already explained They desire
to awaken the attention of the people OF the
Eastern and Northwestern States to this subject;
TO thus forward along our Northern lines OF
communication with the Pacific, continuous
and increasing emigration Of families to settle
the shores of our Western Ocean. For such an
emigration, moreover, California offers, now,
greater inducements in the way of lands and OPP
poruniiies to laboring men than ever before
market, and such is the cheapness Of living, not
outstanding the continued high price Of labor
there, that all who go to establish themselves
permanently on the SOIL are prosperous and
contented
We have received from the New York Exec
u,ive Committee OF the California Association,
number of their pamphlets in which these OPP
portunties a attractions to emigrants are set
forth, evidently in spirit of fairness. They are
being distributed very generally through the
Eastern country, and translated into German,
will be scattered through Europe. The advan-
tagcs OF California and her sister territories, for
emigrants seeking their homes in the wide West,
once properly understood, there will doubtless,
follow such a tide of Eastern emigration over
land us will, besides bcneft,ing the States thro
which it must pass very speedily draw after it
Eastern capital sufficient to start the Pacific
Railroad from the right point and with the right
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