The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-07-27
RAILROAD MATTERS.

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad ball is rolliag,-and gathering strength as it rolls. The great majority of the people of San Francisco are red-hot in favor of building the road, as soon as possible. Scores of meetings have been held in that city; every phase Of the railroad question has been discussed, pro and con, and it delights us to be able to publish to our readers the cheering news that the friends of the Atlantic and Pacific enter prise have carried every point. Subscription looks were opened on the 18th inst, and, in les than half an hour, twenty-five gentle men subscribed sums aggregating S2O0,0O0 One gentleman said he was prepared to sub scribe S5OO,OO0 for Mir. Hayward, who was then absent from the city. One firm offered to furnish all the ties that would be needed between San Francisco and the Colorado riv- CT, and take half the cost of said ties in stock. So that, the great enterprise has, at last, been put upon the market.
 Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and many oth- CT points in California, will. without doubt, lend helping hand.
 The proposition is for San Francisco and California to build the road to the Colorado. and when the entire Atlantic and Pacific road is built, to be partner in the company. The people of St. Louis will also own stock in the entire road, which, it is thought, can be controlled by the stockholders and pre- vented from being controlled by a monopoly. The ides, is not to allow rich men to take most of the stock in the road, but to induce small traders, mechanics, laborers, etc., to be- come interested in 1t. And & very good idea this is.
 The Route
 Of the A. & P. road is, without doubt, the best that exists anywhere between the Mis- souri river, and Pacific Ocean. In Missouri, the road runs through country unsurpassed for mineral, farming and grazing resources The Indian Nation, all know, consists of ex- cellent farming and grazing lands. The DOT tion of Texas through which the road will pass is fully as good for farming and grazing purposes as any portion of the west. New Mexico furnishes a route that is fanked by mines, farms, grass and timber; our own Ter ritory-Arizona-o tempting induce mcnts, in mines. timber, farming and pastoral lands; while California gives the road route that is tempting in the extreme. Snow-to any great depth--falls but at two points up- on the entire route, and an engine need nev- CT be detained on account of snow. And this route will run through the heart of the Contincnt-one end resting on the west bank of the Mississippi, the Father of wa ters; the other on the Pacifc-the Monarch of Oceans the first end at St. Louis, which city is more closely connected with Cincin- natl, Pittsburg, Louisville, Memphis, Boston, Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, New York and other great eastern business cen tres than any other city of the West; while San Francisco calls to her wharves and streets not only the trade of the Pacific slope, but of the Islands of the Pacific; the Empires of China, Japan, the Indies and much of the trade of Northern Mexico. Finally, branches from tho great main trunk will be built, through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, to bring in and accommodate Mexico, whose people will then become more cnterprising, more Americanized, and, of course, more civilized; so that, in less than five years from to-day, people may expect to behold, north of Prescott, rirer of iron, floating upon which will be more passengers, more valuable goods, more rich ores ,-more precious things than has ever foated upon the bosom of that great watery artery-the Mississippi The Thirty. Fifth, or Atlantic and Pacific, will be the great road of North America.
 Other Roads.
 Surveying for the line of the Texas and Pacific. near San Diego, is going on.
 Stanford, Crocker & Co.,, are pushing their Southern Pacific road towards the Colorado.
 Pueblo, Colorado is now connected with Denver and the East, by railroads narrow susge, which it is proposed to extend into New and old Mexico.