Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-06-18
The southern Paeilic Railroad.

This southern institution which the Govern
ment has fostered at the expense Of other and
more feasible routes TO the Pacific, has been
sold out and has become exclusively Texas
enterprise. The sale Of the twenty miles in
running order, iron, cars, track and aPPurten-
anees, was made al Marshall, Texas, on the ID
inst, and the property and charter which have
been estimated to be worth one hundred millions
of dollars wss knocked OF to Dr. J. NJ San
ders, of Harrison county, Texas, for the sum of
forty thousand dollars
A Texas company took the Road of the
hands of DIR. Sanders, and organized themselves
into stock company under the laws of that State
L. P. Grant was elected President, Benjamin
Long, Vice President, and E. A Blanche, Chief
Engineer An injunction had been sued out
against the purchasers, but as bOnd of half
million was required to give it force, the injunc
tion did not amount to much
EsThe history Of the Southern Pacific Rail Road
in brief is this. The Democratic Administra-
ton looking only through Southern eyes, about
four years ago sent out corps Of Army Officers
to survey the route They surveyed three
routes, all through Texas, taking out Of the U.
S. Treasury about million of dollars. Next
the surveys were printed IN seven magnificent
volumes at a cost of about S750.OOO. Then
Ge1. Gadsden was sent to Mexico to buy strip
ofIlnd of Santa Anna to build the Road il, and
the barren, rocks and sandy deserts cost the
United States round ten millions wagon
road had to be built preliminary TO the rail road,
and for this enterprise and its branches Congress
appropriated quarter Of million The Tex
ssroute led through dry desert, and Canels Of
the Desert must be had to traverse it. com
mission was sent to Egypt in pursuit OF Camels
to build the Pacific Rail Road with, and dOz-
en- or two were in due time slung safely ashore
at Galveston at the cost TO the United States of
about another quarter of q million. Artesian
Wells were the next necessary in the Texas
Rail Road scheme, and deep boring was begun
under another appropriation OF a quarter OF a
million. Now a Territorial Government has
become i necessity to the Pacific Rail Road, and
a military force must be sent to Arizona to look
after the Canels, Indians, and saEages general
", the bills of which viii foot up another hall
million.
Here we have 4 grand tOtsl Of Sl3,OOO,OO0
expended and to be expended by the Pierce and
Buchanan Administrations in aid of that grand
humbug Of Gov. Walker and company of
bankrupt spectators, known as the Southern
Pacific Rail Road, and which Texan specula-
or has just bought in for the enormous sum of
s4O,OOOl In view of the facts and figures
above stated. the Albany Journal pithily re-
marks;
The condition of the Southern Pacific Rail
Road may therefore be said to stand, so far
Expenses and Liabilities, Thirteen Million Dol
lars. Assels, sundry Camels and Arteslan
Wells, seven volumes of Surveys, sandy Ter
ritory, and some Arabs. Let no captious North
erner remark that this Thirteen Millions would
have built the Rail Road from St Louis or st.
Paul westward some hundreds of miles already.
That might have been done, but where then
would be our Southern Pacific Rail Road