The Placer herald., 1863-12-05
Uulon Pacific Railroad.

Ground was broken upon the eastern ter
minus OF this work, AT Omaha, Nebraska, on
Wednesday last in the presence OF about
1000 people. The Sacramento Union in
speaking of it says:-
That the Act of Congress which provides
for the building of Pacific Railroad author
lied the location of two roads, and two start
ing points on the Missouri river. One OF
those points was at the mouth OF the kanl
sas river; the other point was to be named
within certain limits, by the President, who
seems to have decided in favor of the Omaha
CITY, which is located on the opposite side Of
the Missouri river, and on the North side OF
the river Platte, just above its mouth. The
two roads, therefore, start, one on the Mis-
souri, at Kansas City and on the south OF the
Kansas river; and the other on the north
side of the Platte-and they are to unite at
which would bring them together about six
ty miles west OF Fort Kearney. The south
branch is located mostly in Kansas while
the north is in Nebraska. The distance they
will run before uniting is about 800 miles.
The object in thus bissectng the Pacific Rail
Road west of Fort Kearney appears to have
been to settle local jealousies, equalze local
interests, and, at the same time, connect dl.
rertly with the railroad systems of Iowa and
Missouri. The Kansas branch will connect
with the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, and
the St. Joseph and Hannibal road, which
run directly, or indirectly, to St. Louis; the
Nebraska branch will connect with the rail-
road system of Iowa, which concentrates on
Chicago.
The Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western
Railroad Company of Kansas, chartered by
that State, is authorized and empowered by
the Act of Congress to build the Kansas
branch Of the Pacific Railroad. This compa
ny have had some difficulty with contractors,
as the first parties with whom they entered
into contract failed to comply with the
conditions. second was thereupon enter
ed into; lawsuits followed, but they were all
decided in favor of the company, and not
many days since we published statement
that a large number of men were at work on
the line-that supply iron and rolling
stock had been purchased, and that forty
miles Of the road would be in running order
by the lst of January, 1864. The Act of
Congress requires the Kansas company to
have 100 miles of the road finished within
two years from the time said company sign
fled in writing its acceptance of the Act of
Congress. That notice, we think was given
early in the fall of 1862, which would allow
the company until next fall to complete the
first 100 miles. After that time hundred
miles in a year are to be completed until the
hundreh degree of longitude is reached
From that point the Pacific Railroad proper
begins; the Kansas road and that in Nevada
are called branches.
FESCEs.- Alta copies from Wilson
Flint's article on fences, written from the
State Agricultural Society, and published in
the Union Of Monday last, and adds:
1T is right that this question should be
discussed fran the dollar stand. point, with
careful and correct array of the figures on
each side. Mr.. Flint, however, looks at only
one side Of it, and draws his statistics from
that area which is most in his favor The
policy that might lie beneficial in Sacramento
would, perhaps, be perncious in San Diego.
The majority of the people along the coast
south Of Santa Cruz, would object strenuously
to an abolition Of the fence laws those coun-
ties could be exempted; and the people Of
no large district demand the abolition. -
Public sentiment, however seems to he chang
ing, and probably the farmers Of the north
ern and central parts Of the State will, within
a few years, demand that cattle no. grain,
must be fenced in"
WASuOE GRANITE There is n preat deal