Arizona miner., 1867-11-02
Railroad Meeting at Santa Fe.

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 A large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of New Mexico assembled in Santa Fe on the afternoon of the 2lst of September ls57, for the purpose Of consulting with Gen eral Palmer, Treasurer Of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, in relation to the resources and advantages of New Mexico as Continental Railroad route. His Exccllency Governor Robert B. Mitchell was chosen President. The President read the following communication from Hon. John D. Perry, President of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division:
 UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY. E. D.. OFFIcE-North-w of Fifth and Elm streets.
 St. Louis, July 27tb, ls67. To His Excellcney the Governor and citizens of New Mexico.
 GENTLEMEN This company have now in progress surveys from the line of their rail road along the Smoky Hill River in Kansas, from Pond Creek towards Santa Fe and AL buquerque, ria, the Raton Mountains and Fort Union, and intend pushing through New Mexico and Arizona to San Francisco. On sending their Chief Engineer, Gen. " ". Wright, into the field they supplied him with letters to several of your prominent citizens, informing them fully of the purpose and de- sign Of our survey, and requesting them to communicate their information to the public. And now to further contribute to the sue cessful prosecution of these surveys, we have deemed it advisable to send General William J. Palmer, the Treasurer of our company, who is fully advised of our plans, wishes and prospects, to meet our engineering parties and accompany them as far as convenient to New Mexico.-General Palmer will confer personally with your citizens in regard to our suryeys. trust you will aid him with your friendly council and cooperation, thus assist ing us in our endeayor to open up your coun- try, and develop it's resources ty the speedy construction of our Railway thithcr He is fully acquainted with and authorized to state the views and plans of this company.
 Respectfully, etc.
 JOHN. D. PERRY,
 President.
 General Palmer and the surveying party will soon be in Prescott, and we earnestly hope our citizens will be prepared to give the General and the engineers cordial reception and all the information possible, in regard to the portion of Arizona bordering the pro- posed railroad route. The company desire knowledge upon this subject. They wish to know all about the resources of the county mineral, agricultural and pastoral, in order that they may decide, intelligently, which of tho two rival routes--nnw being examined and suryeyed-is the best one upon which to locate and build their road. We feel assured that the 35th parallel will be the route adopted, for the following reasons: 1st, It is one thousand miles shorter from Albuquerque to San Francisco than is the 32d parallel. 2d, The country through which it runs contains millions of acres of good farming and grazing lands, extensive beds of coal. vast forests of timber and hundreds of gold, silver and cop- per bearing lodes of quartz, with an abundant supply of water and climate that is unsur passed by any other in the world.
 The meeting passed, among several others, the following resolutions:
 Resolved, That we believe the yearly cost of maintaining troops now used in NeW Mer- fco and Aris0na alone, in futile effort to keep down the Indians, is sufficient to snbsidze the whole of the proposed Railroad from the Smoky Hill in Kansas to San Fran cisco, on this route; and that the principal of the money thus annually expended. if assist ed by the Government in loan to this road, secured by mortgage on the property, would instead of being as now entirely unrenumera- tive, be in our opinion not only more than compensated by the greater economy of trans pOrtation of troops, supplies and mails for the Government, but would be refunded, directly, principal and interest to the Uni ted States Treasury as the same became due, and that it would besides open up to the na- ton innumerable sources of revenue.
 Rssolosd, That by this route the rich prov inces of Chihuahua, Sonora and Durango can be easily and cheaply reached by branch roads bringing the trade of Mexico again into its former channels towards St. Louis, induc- ing those social and political relations which will more closely bind US 10 the neighborine republic of Mexico, and affording certain safeguard against any future European at tempts at the invasion of this portion of the continent.
 NEW NANE.-The San Bernardino Guard tau, in copying an item from the MINER ir