The Placer herald., 1858-11-27
The TehuaItepec Rorte.

The TehuaItepec Rorte.
The following interesting letter from Mr..
Sibell, who acted as agent for the Tehuante-
pee Route, on the pioneer trip, will be read
with pleasure. 1t has been kindly furnished
us by Wells, Fargo & Co., to whom we are
indebted for many similar favors. The wri-
ter describes what he has really seen and ex-
perienced, and we commend his remarks to
the attention of our readers.-S. f. Herald
ACAPULCO, Nov. 5th, 1858.
Messrs. Wells, Fargo d. Co., San Francisco.
Gentlemen:-In relation to tho new Te-
huantepec route, which is now attracting so
much attention from the travelling commu-
nifty of the Atlantic States and California,
having come over the route from New Or
leans TO this place, shall be enabled to i'm
part to your President, on my arrival at New
York, the particulars that may have bear
ing on the interests Of your Company
Thinking that resume of the journey, as to
the time made on this, the pioneer trip of the
Observation-Disclosures Company, would be
Of interest to you, take the liberty of here
with sending the particulars for your use.
The correctness as to time made will be cor
roborated by the bearer and other passengers.
Through the Hon. Emile La Sere, the Pres
ident Of the Company, (who came through
as far as Suchil,) had authority to act as
their agent in taking charge of the United
States mails from Venosa to this place.
where they are now awaiting the steamer
Golden Gate from Panama, for conveyance
to San Francisco. The following is the time
made:
Left New Orleans, Oct 27th at O'Clock, A. NJ, in
steamer Quaker City, and arrived at the mouth
of the COatzacoalcos River, Oct. 30th, 6 A. NJ
Miles, Time.
$40 2d % h.
Left same place and day. o'clock,
A. NJ and arrived at Minatitlan,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ, % oh.
Left Mnatitlan same day, o'clock
r. NJ, per new steamer "Suchil,"
and arrived at Suchil, Oct. 3lst,
10 o'clock, A. NJ, 95 81 h.
Left Suchil, (by mules 62 miles,
and wagons 54-l16) same day,
IL NJ, and arrived at Ventosa Bay
(on the Pacifc) Nov. I'd, 6 p. M, lI6 I'd 6 h.
Left Ventosa in steamer "Oregon,"
Nov. Sd, 9 A. NJ, and arrived at
Acapulco, Nov. 4th 8 P NJ, 800 Id II h.
1873 IA
Add for stoppages at intermediate
places (ofwhich Is hours were
at Ventosa. night of Nov. 3D. % h.
making to this place s days II hours.
You can now add, when this is received,
the time made by the Golden Gate, and
think it will prove to you, that this route is
destined to be the one of all others for Cali
fornia interests; and running as it does thro'
a beautiful country, unsurpassed by its mag
niicent scenery, particularly from Suchi;
through to the city Of Tehuantepec, (9s
miles.) The healthiness Of the climate, and
the shortness of the time required for the
journeys. make it the most desirable route
for travelling across the continent. OF course
the mule part, (being the first sixty-two miles
from Suchil, } is not in sufficiently good order
for wagons; but if one-h half of the work that
has been done in the last ninety days is ex-
pended on the road for the next three months,
it will all be in fine condition for carriages.
In the above time made-in this, the first
trip-it should be borne in mind that twenty
hours were lost on the road, from Suchil to
Venosa,) by the arrangements not being
perfected, tiIc dScHlo uoI eAPcCIiiiS phSscH-
gers, but only the mails; but as the company
had permitted several persons, (out Of hun
dreds of applicants to accompany the mails,
mules had to be provided as best they could.
In my opinion, the transit over this part,
(SuchiI to Ventosa,) will be performed nert
trip, in one and a,half days, and that within
three months it will be done with passen-
gers and mails), inside of twenty-four hours.
These and other delays obviated, with the
proper connections at this point and the time
can be made inside of fourteen days. un-
derstand the company will refuse for the
present to sell tickets to passengers, and in
this they are wise; for to persons unaccus-
toned to mule travelling, sixty two miles will
give them "Jesse." There are ten through
passengers; the mails and new Orleans pa
pers of October 9th, containing news from
England to 18th of October-which if you
get this, say on the 18th inst-wil make but
twenty eight days from Europe to San Fran
cisco. Yours, very truly,
w. E. SHE'LL.