Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1863-10-27

ggHgDAY. ooEoBER q, 1gss
RAILROADS.

are being ccnatructed all over the world and
especially. - the United States, within the last
decade Neither internal, nor the prospects
OF foreign war, has any influence to retard
the onward march Of progress ID this particu-
Ter. Contending armies may run over, tear
up or burn. cars, roads and bridges, but no
sooner has the dust cleared away from the
wheels Of the cmquerors chariot, than the
laborer with bis spade and his az is repairing
the iBjury5 and very soon the track Of The
tpoiler isIobliterated.
When few years ago Whitney attempted
todireet the attention of Congress to the fea-
siBility Of constructing railroad from the
Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. people
regarded him Chimerical ifnot an insane aeii-
ta4oT Of impossible theories Thos H. Ben.
ton in3ths Senate Of the United States, met
the same opposition, but being possessed Of
aHindomilqble will, be would not be silenced.
spHnging 10 Els feet on one occasion when
be had been spaartiag under the snsers and
ridicule Of Senators for harboring such
thoughts be exclaimed, Solitary and alone,
eEnid the SCOTS and jeers of my opponents, /
set this ball in notion" That bah Is stili
rolling Rnd viii continue to roll until the
great scheme first conceived By Whitney and
dfterwaFd shaped and given tangible form bv
Benton, shall have eliminated in the COM
pietionl q q railroad from ST. Louis t. Salt
Lake With branches leading from thence to
San francisco snd Portland or some point
on Puget Sound. TheEshall be realized the
lirephecy of Benton when he said ii his great
1T. Louis railroad speech, that the time would
-eoms when all these things would be brought
about, and advised that d colossal statue ofl
Columbus be carved from the granite ii IN
Dependence Rock; the tallest peak of the
Rocky MS, 70 be used as It's pedestal. with [
one band POinting to the west and SAYING to /
the flying paasengers stheve Is the east, there
s. LEdias7 WIRES aao T .slsg9 baae9b
ALREADY are sections completed and shef
cars running on both ends ofths great Allan
tic and Pacific road, furnishing material for
she construction d that portion which remains
but > short time will siapse until
81, Louisiana Sacramento will be Joined to-
gsther BY iron bands That is fixed fact
and1needs no further comment. The next
gIeetWOEk 10 Be accomplished il connection
With this enterprise, is the northern branch. /,
Tie Columbia River must Be tapped by rsil-
road from the Atlantic side, and the question
IS, when shall this be efEecsedP A grand /,
trunk road is in contemplation from Canada
70 Bellingham Bay, BY our English co,ssins,
md unless we beetir ourselves they will head
10 of and take our legitimate trade avay
rom Us. Our duty in The matter then is to keen
{ before the eye Of the world that the dis. j
lance rom Salt Sake to the nayigable waters
IF the Columbia IS only about seven hrndred ]
Giles and that tie Pacific railroad passes
through Salt Lake City. That distance, how i
ever. may be shortened one hundred miles bv |
apping the road at City Of Rocks, and thai !
Boise Basin, Warren'a Diggings, Florence, /
)ro Elmo, Elk City. Bitter Root, Colville. Au. 9
burn, John Day and other irexaustible mines !.
q THE regiOO, give this route sufficient i'm f
'orsance to arrest the attention Of capitalists \
nd induce railroad men to come and see US Z
nth their iron horses, bring US provisions
nd tsks away our gold IN exchange. The RI
features Of the enterprise E
re TOO veil understood BY the class Of indi. 2
iduais TO whom we allude to require word : :
rom us; Hour space would permit we might "
ddues.a thousand reasons why this thing 10
non ps alfsnded 20 ct once, but We have is
Of Io eel Attention to the matter we deem hi
iiiclent. All must recognize the necessity. 8
BAD Thing The expresses bring us the ia
ews Of the dsslsaetion BY FIRE Of WeaveryiIIe y y
Al On he lsh Of this month. The FIRE 8
r5sse oul in China house,a consumed T
yer sixty buildings. The aggregate loss i VI
tinased at 1896, 600. Kinds Hotel Com. 50
ock q Martins Stable, Goldstein & Lanpe's d.
rick, the Trinity JoassnaI pFintlng-ofice. GaL th
tage Co. 3 Stable, N X Hotel, and MANY re
Their large buildings were destroyed. Our le
id friend Dave C0p6on Of the journal has lot
eeR flo svs;osl46 If eororai Hros tuif;r 49,. 80 ii