Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-04-08
The Pacific Railroad.

Inc EattIC ndtttuttus !
1t has become a settled matter Of fact
that a Northern Pacific Railroad will be
built whether the extreme Southern route
presents greater facilities, is more album
dant in timber, and the route shorter, is
not the issue before the people; the
North, with its capital and energy, will
never consent or aid in the construction
Of a road so remote from themselves, and
which will serve to bind the great wealth
and progressive energy Of the Pacific
coast in indissoluble bonds of affinity with.
the extreme South. We take a progress
sive and financial view of this important
matter, aside from politics. Judging of
the extreme Southern route, as we do,
we also believe that the projects of the
u~luraists of the North will meet with as
little success and favor and Stevens far
Northern route, exposed, as it is, to the
ftful elements, becomes every day more
chimerjcal, and soon must become an ex-
ploded idea.
Knowing as we do that an iron link
must bind us as a nation to the Pacific
coast, and being aware of the spirit of
improvement that exists in the North, the
facility with which energy and capital
tunnels mountains, builds plains, traverses
p%rairies, and breaths the warm breath of
life into the " Iron Horse" we feel as
sured that this +" consummallon SO devout-
ly to be wished tor" is not far distant.
A railroad route to be popular must be
central nature must aid in It's construc-
ton. Such a great natural t~horoughfare
does the great Valley of the Platte pre-
sent. From a point twenty-three miles
west Of Bellevue to the South Pass, n
distance of over eight hundred miles, it
is a continuous, level plain; the Valley,
along this great portion of the route, Is
rich in agriculture resources, and has an
abundance Of water.
To the river towns it will become a
matter of consideration and importance,
where, or at what point upon the Missouri
river, the Railroad will leave. In a pro-
ject of such magnitude, and being under
the immediate jurisdiction of the govern
ment, the influence of individuals, towns,
or communities, can be of bu, little avail
the Valley of the Platte must be reached
by the shortest route presenting the great
est facilities. If, then, nature designed
the Valley of the Platte for the great
thoroughfare across the plains, it, upon the
!, same principle, designed the valley of the
PapplIlion, in Sarpy County, as the na,ur'
: al outlet from the Missouri TO the Platte.
Far-seeing men who Speculate not rapid
| ly, but invest surely, selected the plateau
5 al The mouth of the Pappillon as the
; great natural terminus of the Pacific R.R.,
. and Bellevue sprung into existence upon
: that Plateau. without false clanior CT I'm.
j natural speculation.
The great limestone Strata cropping
out here at the rivers edge, secures the
river to us for all time to cone" By
, the valley of the Pappillion a railroad
can be laid 10 the Platte Valley at Elk
horn without open cutting, and at no poin
: will the grade exceed ten feet to the mile
q The terminus, and the vicinity of the ter
minus, of such a road, must naturally be
, come a great provision mart, and for thi
Q Sarpy county is eminently adapted it !
,s emiuently a farming region, rich in II
resources, and more accessible by natura
lhoroughfare than any other portion c
"a the Territory The valleys of the PAP
- pillion, like a network of arteries, stretc
over The whole county, and gatherin
- their energies closer and closer, unit
they pour their concentrated wealth. thrc
one channel, like the great /" .doTta' {
=, the human body, into the lap of Bellevue
" T~ELEGRAPn TO UTAn.-On the 24t
ut, Mr.. Wilson introduced the folIowin
"' bill into the u. s. Senate, TO f~aciiitaI
communication with the army of Utuh
" BE II spaetsd, That the Secretary
i War be authorized to contract for the e,
is tension or use of an arm of the electro
l." magnetic telegraph from Missouri or low
10 such Western Military posts as is nj
cessary for the public service, and |
authorized to appropriate a SUN not e,
n ceeding FIVE hundred thousand dollars