The Kanzas news., 1858-12-11
Teffsrson City 3 Neosho Valley Rail-
road--.Ietter From Ii aFix


road---Lsetter From rs 1y.
On last Saturday we. received letter
from e Asnss datsd yatt.
Dcta5er sd. only fortz-oas days travel
|ing ss.is.ance %. J,sfay us;isss y from which
We lssskea feE szsFseta for tie purpose of
lsyihg before our readers the prospects of
the Jefferson City & Neosho Valley Rail-
road. an enterprise of the greatest impor=
lance to this portion of Kansas. Mr.. Army
speaks of the causes which prevented his at
tendance at the Railroad meeting advertised
% be Held aFahis.pla "a October last. and
n-takes-apt the-subjjsct of the prospects
for, the construction of the road sEes
ssOur Railroad project is becoming more
and more feasible every day. An arrange.
ment viii be entered into In few daEs with
the Pacific Road and the Ossge Valley r.
Southern Kansas r. r. Co.. by which our
road viii Be put under contract nextyear it
We fail n obtainingla q grant OF land but ]
am confident from news just received from
member Of the Land Committee in Con.
gress that there Is no doubt of our obtain
ing special grant for our road next winter
II you will take 3 map of the Eastern Rail-
roads and examine il, you will find that all
1he .sTRUEK RoADsi' run from East to West,
and converge towards the 38thz degree of
latitude In that latitude we are, and our
line runs West. in the direction which will
give the best and most practicable route to
Santa Fe and to the Pacific. / have avaled
myself of all the information Ieould obtain
in regard to the three routes to the Pacific,
and am satisfied that the central route be-
tween the 38th and. Sch parallels is the most
practicable. IF Capt. Gunnisoh. when he
crossed the mountains on the. 58th parallel,
had continued vest instead of striking north
10 the 41st parallel, be would not have re-
ported as he did. Fremont, after his two
last trips, expressed himself as entirely sat-
isfed that road could be made running
between the 38th and seth parallels better
than any other route, and il has been DEM
onstrated that there are less obstructiens on
this route across the Rocky Mountains than
in the Alleghanies. r,. ek $500
..Carson's Valley, on the Western brink
of the Great Basin. has become populated.
and. the fact of a Railroad being already
talked of between California and Carson s |
Valley is sufficient to establish its practica.
bility in the minds of the people who know
the route. e..e.Er o.45 a.fr ,1=a 5 s5-a-
s'The discovery of gold at Pixies Peak
will 6ll up; Western Kansas, and will con-
meet the population of Kansas with that of
Utah, and there is no doubt that the whole |
country along the belt extending between
the 38th and seth parallels of latitude will
soon be filed with people, and with the peo-
pie comes the Railroads. 4, |
son the route we have surveyed from
the Pacific Railroad through Missouri and |
Kansas, we find in every county determin-
alton on the part of the citizens to construct
our road Independents of any Pacific pro-
ject, being satisfied that the road is required |
TO open and develop .the agricultural and
mineral resources. of our own country, that |
it will pay, and can be made. All are con-
WINGED that this road, when constructed,
must take the Santa Fe trade, and that f.
nally it will go farther.
1--WE expect to attend the meeting of the !
Directors of the Usage Valley & Southern
Kansas r. r. Co., to be held at Butler,
Bates Co.. Missouri, and from there go di- /
rect to Washington City, and 1 hope that
before the end of the session we will obtain t
a grant of land for every Railroad projected t
in Kansas. a,,~sa w. F. NJ. Army,
Pres't of Jefferson City & Neosho Val
ley R. R. Co.