The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-10-09
San Joaquin Valley Railroad.

The Alta learns from prominent officer ol the Central Pacific Railway Company that as soon as the Western Pacific is com pleted (which will be very soon), half of the men employed there now are to be transferred 10 the line of the San Joaquin and Tulare Valley road. Probably the other half will be placed on the Oregon and California road. Both arr necessities, but Of the two the south ern road is probably the most pressing. Aside from ibe wants of the great agricultural rv- zion between Stockton and Tebeechepah Pass, Southern Utah, Nevada, Colorado and all oI Arizona, demand railway communicA- ton with the coast as soon as it can be se- cured. No new railway would be more profitable, nor open up the way Co q greater number of important branches. The main trunk, passing through San Bernardinn to Fort Mohave, would invite | branch through Nevada to White Pine, another to Los Ange. les and San Diego, through this State, and another great branch. connecting with the main trunk somewhere in Arizona, running to Southern Colorado and the Park region of that splendid and rich Territory, whose re- sources are so rapidly doubling in the east, as the Kansas Pacific approaches Denver. Our last dispatches say the Branch Mint at Den yer has received for the month of August past more than twice the amount of gold re- ceiyed for the corresponding month of last year Other parts Of the Territory show an equal increase under the railway inspiration
 But II is generally conceded that tine le.t parts of Colorado lie far 10 the west of Den. yer and on the waters of the Colot..do and Rio Grande. There are the great Parks, and still west of these gold and silver mines, of which little is known, but quite enough 10 ! give them the reputation of fabulous wealth. The trade Of all this region, together with that of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah; must ultimately follow in the same direction l with the Colorado river and find it's way to the Pacific through California. TLe railway | proposed is just what is needed to secure it A road over that line would be open every | day in the year from San Francisco to the ! Mississippi river. It would very soon people Southern Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and the vast country of San Bernardino. and 1t would. | if conducted on liberal business principles make real estate in the San Joaquin valley. 20 miles south of Stockton, nearly as valu. able as such property now is within ten miles q th.t city The Ate questions whether this road can be built without assistance | from Congress. We do not. Congress WAS
 not called on 10 aSsis; the iBnumersbie roads | bl tne " coIcth ctattt, running through re- gioDs far less promising for traffic than this is. and there is no reason why any compan,
 with means to do the work should hesitate here without such aid or, in fact, without | aid from any source. We understand that the city of Stockton is to be asked for aid. and several of the valley counties. It is to
 be hopef neither viii grant the request. The road is sure to be built and sure to pay. | whether so assisted or not The counties
 vii! only increase their debt unnecessarily by | giving away the money demanded. Let them
 husband their means for county roads and ! improved educational system As for Con.
 gressional aid, Congress, ws trust, has given
 its last dollar in bonds to aid railways, or in
 lands either, unless the doBees shall be re- i quired to sell the lands so donated at A fixed | price per acre, and that not to exceed g 90
 m currency. Too much of the public domain
 IS already y locked up in the hands Of these
 vast and heartless corporations. It may b.
 stated as an unerring rule that line If local
 railway which will not pay without county
 aid would not pay with it. This one would
 pay well to any company competent to build
 lt, and we may be sure the terms Of operating It will be no more liberal with than without
 the gifts solicited from the counties-Sqera-
 "sSnto Union, Sspt. H.