The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-07-10
About Railroad Routes.

Ing Tn the wake of D. E. Hoffman & Co, and | taking comfort from the one-sided Memphis Convention, announces its faith in the early | completion of a Southern Pacific railroad upon the 32d parallel route. This is perfect ly legitimate, and we cannot blame our broth CT of the Desert, for whistlng to keep his | courage up, as we'll as that of his fellow sui | ferers of Cactus land But we do blame him | for asserting what he ought to have known | to be a falsehood, | C., that, on the 35th par allel route, ''snow has been known to fall to | the depths of 30 and 40 feet" Now. we defy | the editor of the ArizoaqB, D. E. Hoffman, or any other man, to produce one single, re- liable person, acquainted with the 35th paral- 1 lei route-who will make oath, or even assert, | that he has ever seen four feet of snow-much less thirty, at any one time--wnter or sum- mer, upon any portion of the route surveyed by General Palmer through this portion of Arizona, which is the portion of the 35th parallel route upon which these gentlemen have located their imaginary snow-banks. There are men in this vicinity who have trav- eled the route at all seasons of the year, and their unanimous testimony is, that neither themselves nor their animals were ever in the least inconvenienced, or their progress retar- ded, by deep snows. General Beae, Lieu tenant Whipple, General Palmer, Dr. Parry, Major Calhoun, Colonel E. B. Willis, and many other reliable gentlemen, who have, at various times, passed over the route, have at tested to the entire pfacticability of the 35th for wagon or railroad route, and for men who have never in their lives been within 100 miles of the route to contradict the state foolish and malicious.
 Fearful that our route cannot be smothered by snow, the advocates of the 32d, in the re- cent Memphis Convention, struck upon a new idea They boldly asserted :ha: @the-c IS no running water, and but four or five springs on the 35th parallel in one stretch of l50 miles, and in another of 300 miles," This may be called "the dry idea" and, no doubt, was given birth to by some member who was dry and wanted drink, which he, no doubt, got. If this be the case, what, in the name of common sense, becomes of the 30 and 40 wv VI oAV"' SoudIigr NHere deep snow falls, water is pretty plenty, but these reliable CD thirty-secohders would have the world believe that our snow is different from all other snow, in that when it melts it makes no water! Again, "on the 35th, one fifth of the line Is over arid desert, and two. thirds over a barren waste, n while 'on the 32d, about one-tenth is desert and one-tenth to l., l. ments compare with those of real explorers
 Messrs. Bunk, Eicholtz, Colton and Bell surveyed and explored the route of the 32t parallel and, in their reports, say that 'i runs through country, in which, for 90t miles, timber for construction or fuel, is ex ceedingly scarce" And, again, "the amoun of arabic land from the Rio Grande to tn, mountains in California, on the route (Gila is very small"
 Now, Beale, who has traversed the conti nent on every known route, says of the 35th l" It is the shortest, the best timbered, tn best grassed, the best watered
 of any line between the two oceans wit (which am acquainted" And, again: "I crosses the great desert (which must b crossed by any road to California; at it "narrowest point; it passes through cour "try aboundng in game; it is passable alik "in winter and summer"
 Whpple in his Report of Explorations O the Both, mentions, "among the advantage of this route" its temperate and saIubrou climate; its freedom from heavy snows; tn large amoant of timber and fuel upon it's es tFemities and interior portions; the conyen ent distribution Of stone for construction th general plentiful supply of water; the con paratiye great extent of arabic valleys alon the route, and frequency of spots adapted t settlements.n
 "it will be perceived that the parallel ( 30 degrees is particularly favored by rail The valley of the Canadian, the Zuhi regiol the vicinity of the San Francisco Mountain and the Acquarius Range, have evidently large amount of precipitated moisture Th arid deserts, between the Mississippi and tl Pacific coast, are here contracted to their na roweSt limits; consequently upon this rout there are more springs, more streams, an more woodland than eaa De .Jound npoa iiass bgrs frOrerse2 fuytJes s,,,tb