Arizona citizen., 1871-09-09

tion of your fleet"
 The Central Pacific Railroad having
 swallowed all the smaller fry of iron
 thoroughfares hereaways, the meal
 can be digested at leisure, and will be
 so far as extensions south are con-
 csrned, until the universal uproar
 about anti-subsidy takes a reaction.
 Say what you please, it is almost ad-
 missable the way the movements have
 been made all round. Going south,
 there seems no use or chance for other
 parties to chip in. The main trunk of
 the Central tor Southern) Pacific is
 graded by branches building or sug-
 gested for every nook and corner, both
 next the coast and east of the range.
 The charters can be held good on
 short sections constructed annually.
 Should the Atlantic and Pacific (35th
 paralleD extend rapidly west, the
 people here might hurry along accord
 lngly regardless of other a1d, but now
 these Californians push out piece of trunk or branch as leisurely and not
 unlike so many chess-players. If
 local community threaten to occupy
 the land with a road of their own, the
 big company can reach paw over the
 ground and hawl in the chestnuts as
 quickly as cat playing with a mouse.
 The Oregon end of their interests will go ahead uninterruptedly-th actual settlements of the country constitute
 business to justify it. The coast south, however, is quite easily favored
 by steamer transportation-the settle ments being so near the beach as 8 rule. It were mere pastilne in con- parison, to build the southern road up the San Joaquin valley, whose arid regions have no business to pay railroad at present. So, you see, in reason, there Is now no opposition nor will be to the great central power. Milton $. Latham headed list of men of money to connect the Vallejo route via Southern Idaho with the Union Pacific at Ogden, but such a detour suggested at once to anyone conversant with the proposed unin- ha bited route, as 1t Were, that the move was but grand bluff game to sell out the "short route to Sacra- etc., and quit the business. San Francisco will hereafter as heretofore build nor extend no aid worthy of note directly to rail- roads beyond the limits of her own streets. She has way of her own that will not change short of a gen. eration to come. She has been selfish outside improvements ex- cept mines, and is very guarded on that score of late years. Now comes Won Schmidt's tunnel at Lake Tahoe, under the auspices of the Central Pacific Railroad, which will do away with the expensive snow shed system ill the Sierras, and end all nonsensical talk about an opposi- tion overland road anywhere between the Columbia and Colorado rivers, md the cream of the local trade of the coast will in the meantime be hedged by thls great machine to the like geographical extent. People may fancy other conclusions, but the facts seem everywhere written by the very mountains or eternal hills. You pays your money and takes your choice.
 The political mill is running lively throughout the State, and there are so many local causes of various kinds to produce certain effects on election day, hat they would puzzle a Philadel- ohia lawyer and exhaust the space of , volume to unravel and present be- ore the readers. The heads of the tickets will doubtless be ] scratched considerable i'll favor of the | while many close calcula- ' ors on either side are surely of the 1 belief at present, that the entire Re S publican ticket will come in from 1 hree to five thousand ahead But t hree short weeks sometimes constitute s . long enough period to reverse all l uch opinions, and there is many 8 lip a twixt the cup and the slip anyhow. c Iaight, holding the Governorship four I 7ears, has much to answer for, of a curse, though there has been many l worse ruler than he; while Booth, his comes on the stage with | lean skirts, clearer and better intel | ect, and an unexceptional speaker and l. ,erson generally. .Haight has the y Iearty contempt of large breadth of f, he rank and file of his party, for his W n, x,;,,o. boo,, o,,oo oc b1ooIy oc anu of |