Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-13

WHICH VIC aAS
consider the Pacific Railroad" is only
once mentioned, and then to speak Of the
fact of bonds being loaned to the Central
Company. The communication with the
Pacific" which the Atlantic considers, is on
a railroad route described and distsnced as
below. Let our readers take the sub
joined pointings Of the route and mark
the same, as read, upon their United States
map, if they have one in their Office or
house, and they will obtain a clear idea Of
the path which the new Boston company
of capitalists propose to make clear and
quick by the iron rail and the running To-
connective. The localities and distances
are as follows: From the Mississippi,
above St. Paul, TO the western boundary
of Minnesota, thence to the Missouri river,
$50 miles-over the table land known as
the Plateau du Cateau du Missouri, where
q road may be constructed with as much
facility and as httle expense as in the
State of Illinois. Crossing the Missouri,
the line strikes directly west to the little
Missouri-,he Wah-Pa-C hau- Shoka-the
heary tim6ered river Of the Indians-l3O
miles. This river runs north, and enters
the Missouri near its northern bend,
Seventy miles farther carries US to the
Yellow Stone. Following now the valley
Of this stream $50 miles, the town of Gal.
latin is reached, ut the junction Of the
Missouri forks and at the head of nayiga.
ton on that stream. The valley Of the
Yellow Stone is very fertile, Astounding in
pine, cedar. cottonwood and elm. The
river has a deeper channel than the Mis-.
souri,. and is navigable through the sum-
mer months. At the junction of the Big
Horn. its longest tributary, two hundred
and twenty miles from the mouth OF
the. Yellow Stone, in midsummer there
are ten fee. of water. The Big Horn is
reported ~navisable for $50 miles. From
Gallatin, following up the Jefferson Fork
sand Wisdom River, 40 miles, we reach
the Big Hole Pass of the Rocky Noun
tains, where the line enters the Valley Of
the St. Mays, or Bitter Root Fork, which
flows into the Columbia. The distance
from Big Hole Pass to Puget Sound will
be about $50 miles making the entire
distance from St. Paul to Puget Sound
only about 1000 miles! This is l43 mile
shorter than the route surveyed by Gov
Stephens; and makes a saving Of 50(
miles from Chicago to the Pacific over tn,
Central Route" The distance from tn,
navigable waters Of the Missouri to tn,
n~avigable waters of the Columbia is les,
than 800 miles. The n~avisable waters cas-
Of the Rocky Mountains, so converge ant
approach across this route, that the Who'll,
line from ST. Paul to Big Hole Pass ma,
be put under contract at once and prose
cuted with equal facility at the same time
Iron, locomotives. material of all kinds
provisions for laborers can be delivered a
any point along the Yellow Stone to with
in a hunred miles of the town of Gallatin
and they can be taken on the Missouri &c
Gallatin direct, by portage around TIT
Great Falls. The climate along the rout,
on the Yellow Stone and west is mildel
than in the State Of Illinois. At the head.
waters of the Yellow Stone there are hot
springs, in which the explorers and engin'
GERS, Lewis and Clark, cooked their meat
Coal beds, iron ore, gold placers abound
while the timber is abundant and Of tn,
best character for service, the wild grasses
are luxuriant, and water is clear and copi
Gus from end to end Of the survey. Eish'
teen inches of snow is the greatest depti
ever noted-(fourteen years observation.
in the Big Hole Pass Of the Rocky
Mountains.
It is claimed that this line is the " nat.
ural highway of the continent" The dis
tances between the centres Of trade an6
San Francisco, and Puget Sound, will ap.
pear from the following tabular statement
10. Miies.
Chicago to San Francisco.