Arizona miner., 1867-12-14
The Railroad What It Will Do for Us.

 diced person, and demonstrated by the |. ?.
 R. Co.,, r.. D.. that the route from Kansas
 City. on the Missouri river, through Kansas,
 Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern
 California, to san Francisco. on or near the
 line of the 3jth parallel of north latitude, Is
 the best and cheapest one over which to con
 ,truct a trans continental railroad it Is time
 that the people living along the route should ! go to work and inform Congress and the peo-
 pie of the whole country of the advantages ! possessed by this route over all others, and, ! also of the resources of the, to them, almost unknown country through which the road is destined to pass in this Territory. The pco- plc of New Mexico are fully alive to the i'm portancc of the subject, and arc laboring with all the energy they possess to forward the | advancement of the roaG from Pond creek, its present tcrminus, to and through their Territory. Let it not hereafter be said that
 tbe people of Arizona, who have bearded the
 Apache in his den, and who, after years of
 bloody and relentless war waged upon them
 by the most savage, daring and trcacherous
 tribe of Indians on the continent, Ca tribe
 that, for hundreds of years, has crippled and
 impoverished whole States in Northern Mex
 leo, and retarded the progress of civilizaton)
 were negligent of their duty in regard to this.
 We are about to emerge from the long and
 terrible contest masters of the soil of our be-
 loved Territory, which is now consocrated to
 freedom and civilization by the blood of hun
 dreds of our citizens who have fallen bravcly
 in order to clear the track and make the road
 safe for those who follow after them. The long night of strife. murder robbery and bloodshed that has hung. death-lilse, over our
 beautiful land will soon disappear, our Terri tory will emerge into clear, open day, and our
 brave and hopeful pioneers will bc rccom-
 penscd for their tolls and priyations when - they see the locomotivc-that swift and un- . tiring messenger of iyiliZaton--coursing : over tur mountains, moaas and valleys drag n ging after it carloads of intelligent worker, a and capitalists who will settle n our Territo- C ", open up and apply its vast resources tC II the upbuilding of powerful State and tn,
 enriching of the nation. Dwelling houses l., school houses and churches will % up as i Is by magic; quartz mills, saw mills, furnace Q and factories will be erected on ever, strean e in our country; the hum of busy inGustr,
 will be heard on every hilltop and in ever, tt valley herds and focks will graze and iattci y upon the luXuriant and nutritious grasses : without, as now, having to be guarded an, " watched, as q cat watches mouse to proven " their falling into the hands of the omnipres = ent, ever-watchfu Apache. When this grea
 work shall be accomplished, all these thing . will surely happen. Then, the pioneers--th :, men of unconqnerable will and iron energy ' who first advanced boldly into the wildcrnes VI and confronted the fierce and terrible Apach, :" will be thrilled with joy at the picture of 1T dustry, happiness and prosperity spread or '; before them; and, when the Angel of Deat
 commands them to repair to the promise ifs land-thc eternal resting place of earth's goo he and noble, they will take one farewell glan, to at the loved friends and scenes around then 'Il' and, with the proud consciousness of havir 'ip done their duty well and noby for ciyilizatio to and humanity, eXclaim, Good angel, tai oo us home Our mission is fulfilled Pea, |, n has spread her white mantle over tie Ian in and the power of the Apache is broker dy fare"Gi
 nd osno" to our re"ueIs the great lhtcre moi the people of.the Atlantic States take in Il ate building of national railroad upon the rou
 now being surveyed by General Palmer al
 party, through Central Arizona, we print t we following extract from letter written by N eX- Joseph Copley, highly respected citizen ist Al.eghany City, Pennsylvania, to the edito re- of the Pittsburg Gazette. MT. Copley is l.. the opinion that the northern route W cen prove failure, on account of the barrennC in- of the greater uortion of the country thron nds which it is located, and the great night of { will mountain rances over which if masses Ar
 describing and following the Union Pac: yed Railroad of toe Platte to Cheyenne City, a We Its PaGhc end to the summit of the Neya ,en- mountains, he says:
 Ari- But greater typographical contrast tn vsu that between the regions which lie behi
 and before the tracklayers on this road, wh, VI they now are, is not to be found on the sr lsit face of this planet. The plain over whi ,een they have just passed is one of the smooth ont and most extensive in the world: while { rho mountains just before them are lofty, preci
 tous, and rugged to the last degree But oht our bold California friends have actually s ood mounted the Sierra Nevada range. it woi .ona not he safe 10 say that our friends of ,t i. Platte road cannot surmount the triple rar at the base of which they have arrived 'oc- shall take it for granted that it can be do lose But there is one thing that they cannot ,