The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

with being thieves, robbers and cut
throats-enemies at last.
Horace Greeley on Wednesday
evening, the 18th inst, spoke before
the American Geographical and Sta
tistical Society, New York, on the
Pacific Railroad. He was introduced
in an elegant speech by the Rev. J.
P. Thompson, President Of the So
ciety.
Mr.. Greeley said that he was not
the advocate of any particular route.
He wanted the road to reach the Pa
cifc, and if it were in connection
with the network of railway in the
States, it would of course lead to
NewsY ork. The Northern route had
the advantage of less heavy grades,
and the Southern route of no snow,
both very considerable, The great
trouble was the lack Of timber; there
was not on any route enough for the
ties, He was in favor of the Pacific
Railroad generally. Itwas present
necessity; we could not afford to wait
until the Millennium for everything
One hundred thousand people had
crossed this year in one way and an
other, and on an average these per-
sons could have afforded to pay S10o
more to have gone by railroad
Here was S10,eO0,OGO lost this year
by the lack OF it. Had the United
States mails, always been carried
overland, the Government might
have had them carried cheaper, and
he thought the Pacific Railroad
would have been by this time nearly
completed. The Pacific slope had
now 100000 inhabitants, exported
s5O,0OO,OO0 Of our GOLD per year,
and imported nearly S5O,0O0,OOO of
our and European manufactures
Thers would be much greater travel
than now, if the Pacific Railroad
were built. He thought the Road
might DO business of $20,000,0OO
the first year. The permanance of
the gold deposits of California was
an element in the value of the Road.
We had only washed out little of
the gold, and had scarcely touched
the goldbearing quartz. The best
process for extracting gold from
quartz now in use in California, ex-
tracted only one-third of it. The
Rocky Mountains were fnll of gold:
and if there was a railroad thither, SO
that provisions might be afforded at
less than four times their value, a
large number of men might be pro-
ftably employed there in mining
There was in Carson Valley ore
which was wa goned over the Sierra
Nevada, and 200 miles down to navi-
gable water, whence it was taken to
San Francisco to be smelted, A
railroad from Carson Valley to San
Francisco would pay of itself, and.
must soon be built, Pacific Railroad
or no Pacific Railroad. The United
States Government was now paying
$5.OOO.000 a year, which could be
saved if there were a railroad across
the country. He was convinced that
Pacific Railroad would pay in one
year after it was completed, and the
benefits which it would confer upon
the country were incalculable, espe-
cially in securing large emigration
of women to California. Mr.. Greel-
ey traced on Mr. Schroeter's large
map the route which he travelled land
several of the improvements recently
applied to it. The alkaline waters
there might be the providentially ap-
pointed means of making the ties of
the road endure 100 years. The
mountain difficulties are not so great
as he had supposed: he thought not
greater than those presented by the
Alleghanies to the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad. If the Govern
ment should effer to pay to that COM
pany which should agree for the least
money to build and stock the railroad
within ten years, such sum as might be
necessary, not exceeding $50,000,000
the road. could be built, and the Gov
ernment would save $50,oG0,O00 by
it in ten years afterit was opened
He thought that more than anything
lsethe Pacific Railroad would tend
to make New York the center of the
world. We had the labor unemploy-
ed and the capital idle. He asked
that no effort shonld be left untried,
no energy untaxed, until the road was
accomplished.