Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-05
The Central Overland Route.


Tae claims of this route to the patronage
Of the Government, and its great superiority
over the southern, are thus presented 10y the
Territorial Enterprise;
Gas year after year passes by, the Infinite
superiority Of the Central Overland Route
over all others, becomes more apparent
/ Nature has given certain indications to u1 y
/ whi.h to Judge of the feasibility of the diier-
/ eut routes. when desiring to pass from one
/ poiut to another Man never errs when he
/ follows the guide boards" that nature has
placed hy the way-side of the journey
/ In phvsica or geographical point OF view.
/ Viewing this matter in the latter sense, aOun-
/ d4nt statistics can be produced to show that,
/ although inyidous companions have been
made v interested parties between the Cen
tral and other routes, yet it possesses claims
so far transcendiug the bogus pretensions OF
its rivals as to render any deteuse Of them
almost work Of supererogation.
The immense travel of this year, apart
from the fact that for the past ten years with
hut little intermission) it has been as great,
should convince not only individuals but also
the Government that their influence, al
though arrtyed against, cannot efaee or Oh
scure its merits to such u degree us TO induce
those who are Influenced solely ly the desire
to travel upon the route possessing the great
est advantages from taking it. In fct, the
superiority Of this route is such that persons
/ from the Cherokee Nation, Arkansas and
southwest Missouri. take this road in prefer
ence To the Butterield, which should be near
| er for persons from there who desire simply
/ 20 come t. California 10y the nearest route
from their immediate locality. Facts OF this
nnture speak volumes, and could the same
amount of patronage be showered upon this
rs upon more favored localities, an exhibit Of
speed woUld be presented by the Cen
tial Overland Mail that would astonish all
those "old fogies" mt Washington who receive
their information through distorted channels.
Our claims have been SO long overlooked
that it would be useless to expect too speedy
Il recognition of their merits. But one fact
should be borne in mind, that no efforts no
matter how well severed in, can for any
| length of time divert travel from its natural
/ channel
1t certainly stands to reason that the most
direct route from the main body of the At
antic States to the central portion of Califor-
MIA ought to be, ceteris pariJus, the best.
Now, when it is proven that there's motewater,
more grass, more timber and fewer deserts on
the Central Route than on the Southern, it
would seem that the question was settled
and it would be, were it not for the leading
strings into which the Administration has
been put 10y members of Congress and mem
bers OF the Cabinet whose interest lies direct
| ly in favor of the Southern line.
In reference to the shorter distance of the
Central Route, it is not probably known to
the generality Of our readers, that the road
between Salt Lake and California has been
very much shortened, by the discovery of a
new route. 1t was explored by order Of
Sen. Johnston, of the Utah Army, and is
300 miles shorter than the old route along
the Humboldt river 1t avoids entirely the
Great Salt Lake Desert, and has plenty OF
water and grass. We have no detailed de-
scription of the route, but believe that it runs
by Camp Floyd, through Gen Johnstons
Pass, aud between the two deserts of Sewer
Lake and the Great Salt Lake 1t has been
travelled by emigrants the present season.