The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-25
The Pacific RniIfond.

FROM tke Hefold.
The act of Congress passed 70 aid the great en-
terprise Of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans by continuous line of communication
by railroad, requires one line to be constructed
from Omaha, on the Missouri river, opposite
Council Bluffs, TO San Francisco This main
line was, by the act to be constructed by two
First. The Union Pacific Railroad Company,
which is to construct the line from Omaha TO
the eastern boundary of the State of California.
General John A. Dix is President, and John j.
Cisco Treasurer of this company
Second. The Central Pacific Railroad of Call
fornia was, by the act of Congress, to construct
the whole line from the eastern boundary of
California to San Francisco. But it has assigned
so much of the line as lies between Sacramento
and San Jose lone hundred and twenty miles),
TO the Western Pacific Railroad of California.
The road from San Jose to San Francisco has
already been completed Qortynine miles) by
local company.
The Union Pacific Railroad has fifty miles of
road completed from Omaha westward. The
Central California is at work from Sacramento
eastward and the Western California from San
Jose to Sacramento. Both are making good
progress.
There is also the Union Pacific Railway Com
pany, Eastern Division. lts charter says rail
way, not railroad.) The company had at one
time General Fremont for its President, and
Samuel Hallett for its financial manager. John
ID. Perry Is now President, and William j. Pal
called the Kansas branch, and was formerly
known as the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and West
ern Railroad Company of Kansas This COM
pany is authorized to construct q road from the
mouth OF the Kansas, westward, to connect with
the main line of the one-hundredth meridian of
longitude west of Greenwich. It has finished
sixty miles OF road to Topeka, which is q little
east of the meridian of Omaha. Omaha is on
the ninety sixth meridian, and Topeka ninety
five degrees forty-tive minutes. The main line is,
therefore, about sixty miles in advance But as
the line from Topeka to the one-hundreth meri-
dian is longer than the line from Omaha to that
meridian at the point OF junction, the main line
from Omaha is, in TACT, some eighty miles in ad-
vance.
The one hundredth meridian is two hundred
and ioTty-siX miles west OF Omaha, and it is ex-
pected that the main line will reach that point
by the 1st of july 1867. Thence TO Laporte on
the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains is
three hundred and five miles. The mining inte-
rests of the mountains may, therefore, look at an
early day for essential relief in the matter OF
travel and transportation.
The permanent location Of the main line has
been made for the first two hundred miles west
from Omaha; and the route to Salt Lake, in
cudlne the passes through Che mountains has
been carefully surveyed and mapped though
surveys are still going on with view to ascar-
tain whether better grades can be found. All
the results obtained are exceedingly favorable,
and show no difficulties which may not be easily
overcome.
This great work is so essential to our safety, as
well as our commercial prosperity, that no effort
should be spared to expedite its completion.
New York will become, by opening communica
trlbuhon for the products of Asia and Europe,
and has, therefore, an interest far transcending
that Of any other city in the work itself, and in
its speedy consummation.