The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-04-17

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rortat;on by rail. cheap. eaectiye. ana "a s.
mmediatcly made appiicable ID the ciaims
81 mil md r,;l;tary service acro.. TIA con.
t;nert might ench IL rors;Aa,ad - Z mnre
Sssnltorv trestment on the snh;ect thsn i
ro,. ,eom;re,l. a commerc;al ,a;lrosd- =,
one .dsnted n mov;re the ;nmen.s fre;Sh,.
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20 The claim. AZ : I.,rs - .na tsra,,rh
transportation. Such 3 ,cea i veil oS.rt-
ed to the development of tho.s ro,,ta. ! c-rs.
the continent which extend ove, nndrlst;n~
and broken surfaces, and REQUIRE the jabcS
Of reduction to practicable eralienes nv I'M The
excavation Of cuts, and the erection 81 ens
bankments, before the locomotive can be
made of use: routes over which the SUPER
structure must necessarily progress 50 Slow
" ns only to keen pace with the progress Of
settlements. Structures Of reasonably per-
manent character. under these continecn.
cies. being the surer economy from the ont
set. In nv own view of the question. d
road up the Republican fork Of Kansas riy.
er. through q yery fertile and well timbered
region, but passing over an undulatinp sur.
face. would Be described Al an Agricultural
railroad, and would eventually reach the
South Pass. Numerous other roads Of aimi-
lar character could find direction toward
the Upper Platte valley, and the same i'm
nortant point from thu whole eastern border
further north. But an experience of over
fifteen Years of the bnld;nr. workace. wear.
denrec;ation. and renewal Of railways. has
rendered Il evident 10 me that no estimate
~ the cost Of 4 nermanent road over a route
Of nearly two Thousand miles of broken sur.
foces can he deemed reliable. and that the
rail and steam mower mnst take Mace by
tbose ;rrecnlar hnt nroor>ss;ve stens hy
-h;ch ,ho nroct;csl ..,ant of th;s ,o,;nn bo.
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the fo.t hills are e. reached. ali dif6culties Of
th;. n.t,ro o,e ovsrcome II "a .bont svs
HUNDRED and th;rtv miles from Missonri riv-
er.to tn Rlack JJ;l,s. and over this d;stance
the rou,e ia a nerfectlv f.t Main. or oravel
.ubstrsAa. -
The published REPORTS of the War DEPART
mont ls.ds tho r.odsr IN ;nfor ,hot frors tho
entrance Of the Rlnck Hills to the Soutb
p,se = ,o;lro.d nou.t maka a r...oco of .one
Of The rontes ~ the natural WAGON road used
bv em;orants. The horomet;c nrof;le NJ
Golone7 Frer,ont ,aten over the old e,n;.
Grant rn.d vs. made tho ha.;s ~ = dets;led
e.t;mate: and nv the srstem Of conated dir.
profile. the line WINS much lenrthened. and
lost, The same report offered the deduc.
tio,. that the onlv nracticable method then
known of reaching The plains of the Great
Basin. from the South Pass was to descend
Green river. and thence rise aeain from n
much lower plo;n than that Of the South
Pass, over the Great Wahsatch mountain
range. placing the line under the further II.
ability of subsequent descent to the level Of
the Salt Lake valley. .o-a7 ~ -
Nv own report removed the objection to
thu, norton Of the route thronoh the Rlack
Hi, because I adonted a different line Of
exploration. ayaihnr mvself Of oll aide. hill
apnroaehes of a section Of country over s;x-
tv miles in breadth. Rut was nnable tn do
more than suggest an entire change in the
system of location regarding the lines west
Of the South Pass - II - o',
Instead of descending the rnn;dlv fall;nc
valley Of Green river. which would be de-.
cidedly against that important and we'll
known rule of railroad enp;neer;np never To
surrender height accomplisned in mountain
appronch. and while The summit was still
unsurmounted. / proposed heading Green
River valley. and bv the line Of Tie foot
hill snrinos. passing over tho Wnhsatch
mountains to the waters Of Snake river
The Grand summit section of the continent
having thus been over como without d;f;.
Guilty. and by low grades. the massage from
Snake river to Oregon and Puget Sound. aud
and from Snake river to the plains Of the
Great Basin. was yery highly nractic.ble.-
But by reference to nv Feport Of 1854, it
will be seen that I apprehended the route
from the South Pass to the head waters of
the Snake to be an untimbered, unerasscd
plain-a portion of that terrible region
yearly trayersed by our overland emigration.
and SO graphically described by Colonel
Cooke, Of the Utah army. 1t was explored
the present season, and found not only to be
adapted for the route of wagon road.
avoiding the deleterious and unrrassed re.
gions OF the south, but also 10 be 4 most
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