The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-29

TIM WAYS AND MEANS.
The company has Q right 70 issue its nst mortgage
bonds TO amount equal 70 those Of the United Stated
issued IT, the same to DO Of tenor date and
character a interest with the bonds issued bg the gov
ernmenI The distance from the terminus It Omaha TO
the California State line u the eastern bass Of Ne
vada Mountains il estmstsd by the surveyors to be
miles, and supposng the company 70 cross The whole Of
this ground with their track they will have received
Saos GOO y bonds from The and have &C.
bonds, constituting prior and nrst lien upon the
property.
alternate section Of land for twenty miles each side
or the road making In all twenty sections, ID equal 10
nv V sne e Ana h lana aSS hcsSss M
Guiding all the mineral deposits gives the company the
right to all the timber It may need on any government
land within ten miles OF the road either side OF the
entire land grant, from Omaha the OF the
Nevada mountains About and quarter millions Of
estimated 10 good arabic land or the Platte
valley the reports OF the engineers say that the portion
east Of Fort Kearny els not excelled by any coun-
try Of similar extent ON the continent for It,
port Of q dense population y, Over the Black Hills
20 tho Laramie plains the country Is rough and broken
stone arc moderately abundant To the west Of the
Black Hills the road laid out for considerable
distance through the valleys o. The principal streams
and thor trbutaries From Salt Lake City the line viii
pass dry deserts or broken mountain ranges for two
hundred miles TO the valley Of Humboldt river where
arabic land Is again reached or this valley Fremont
ssys:--"Its own immediate valley a rich auvium.
beautifully covered with blue grass herds grass clover
and other nutritious grasses But ON the other side
gives general IDEA Of the territory through which the
road has 10 and the dculues attending construc-
ton II 10 interesting TO learn that from the base Of the
Rocky Mountains TO tho summit distance Of thirty
miles, the average Ii only seventy three fest
For 1 mss q s.s mo SoSd
e44206, 600; nrst mortgage bonds ~ 20s 900; land
grant 20 osz 600 acres my $40 making total
rnosrBcr or PoPuIAuou AND rnAvrTc
The increase Of population ia the West is already
that in 1880 there viii b. according to this radio, ten
millions Of people In the States west Of the
Mississippi, and the extension and ma, compile
ment Of the country and improve the value Of land
the outskrs OF Western civizasion 70 speak, and in
best lands ef Illinois were purchasabIs a. ATTY cents per
acre and In 1860 the Illinois Central Railway Company
selling their lands o. an average Of twelve dollars
With respect TO the business prospects Of The road
amer It's completion have but scanty data which
scs however and make due allowances for the impetus
70 our China trade which the opening Of line con.
e,Ss Nor. than I've sundrsd and twenty shoussnd
annually, including ship: going round Cape
and China and overland trains and stages In addition
The passenger trane IL very heavy, and nearly equal
ana pss:.e ~ the great mining regions q d.ss NOS
aad Nevada cannes but develop features In the
trad. and q sss ooanr sDd sSvo q
the facs that Westward the march of empire takes ~
way
NATURAL vyAruREs on run COUNTRY
Omaha the capital Of NebrAskA Territory and the east
ern terminus OF the Union Pacific Railroad situated
the Missouri fortyons degrees fifteen minutes
north latitude fifteen males its Junction with the
Platte Il Is very nearly In the middle front
OF the Territory and 1000 above The level OF
The surface OF the Territory gradually rises the north
and west and u Fort Kearny, It's miles west, the Gle
walton 400 feet II nowhere sttans elevation that
can olled mountain bat rises gently series OF
ov table lands and rolling hila The general direction
Of the Missouri river little east Of SOUTH the Platte
has The gsner direction OF northeast though varies
very much In its course, running sometimes south and
even southeast Almost ali OF the larger streams
Of the Platte ow into n In the northern part Of the
Territory few now directly into the Missouri the Mis-
sour river therefore does nos Affect the topography Of
the eastern part OF the country except within miss
OF 10 blu IL divide being usually from 70 miles
from the river In Nebraska In Iowa anscs The coan-
try much further east.
The tributaries Of the Platte on lie north side arc quite
large and divide the country into several distnct val
ey1 each one having " own water shed and varying In
~ features with the Of the stream The argess Of
thcss within the first one huudrsd mlss are the
Elkhorn on the east and the Long Fork on the west
valley Of Rapillon, and between the Ekhorn and
the Long Fork thss Of Shell creek South OF The Platte
river The streams which nov into generally small
The only ones Of any importance Skull Greek and
SALT crock The other streams Of any sixs either
tributaries Of these dow lnto The Blue, Witch o
tributary Of the Kansas river II viii thus b seen tnaA
geographically, the Platte = The moo mporans river
Of Nebraska Il has no other importance however, -
" stream very apso and shalov changing W. shaa-
mel onsn. 10 obsUuossd In I'll dIrsctions visA shkt
Inc sand para snd " 700 dssssrsss n alloy u ~ psns