Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-22
RAILROAD TO MEXICO.

The special City 0fMeXicO correspond
entOf the New York EUening Nal, in q
letter of July 9th, furnishes the follow
ing interesting information concerning
the great enterprise indicated by the
above title. General ROseerans and
General VIM. b. Palmer had Just arrived
in the City Of Mexico. The correspond
ent says: [ understand that their
especial object here has been to ex-
anime the feasibility Of the route "eon-
ceded'' last year, which was to run from
a point on the Gulf of Mexico not further
north than Tampieo, to any part deemed
most eligible from San Bias to the
mouth of Zacatula River, on the Pacific
Ocean, with branches to Rachuca,
Queretaro, MOreliaj and Guadalajara.
This law was MeXico's free will Offering,
to induce capital and skill to give her a
main line of railway though the Re
public, prepared by her own members
of Congress, and on account of their in
experience Of American ways of doing
business requiring some amendment.
JuaTez notified General ROsecrans, in
the last part of December, 1871, that he
would recommend the desired modifca-
tons to Congress at its then approaching
session. The " concession - was to be
made to General Rosecrans, WHO, early
in the spring, took General Palmer with
a party of engineers to examine the
whole route. From one of the en-
gineers Of this party 1 learn the follow
ing important facts:
We arrived at ManZanillo on March
18th ultimO. ItisasmaU port. but of easy
entrance, perfectly land-lOcked and hav-
ing good anchorage and twenty-fOur
Of U~nNau NTH. N-~- Lv.--I--G ~
shore.
"Thence to Colima is a level, sandy
road, winding among a prOfUsiOn of
tropical forest trees, along the shore of
the Pacific to the Rio Armaria, about
twenty miles, passing by the salt wells
Of Acayucan and the summer bathing
town of the same NAME.
"From the Rio Armaria to Colfma is
fifty miles inland, ascending the
Armaria by a gentle grade for the line
of railway, although the stage road pas
ses over a spur of billy range. Colima
and its suburbs contain from thirty-fve
thousand to forty thousand inhabitants,
and is the capital of the State of that
name. 1t has, besides its local trade,
considerable commerce with the interior,
in imported goods and the sugar,
cotton, coffee, saltand tropical fruits, the
produce ofthe State, which, with cheap
and rapid transportation, might easily
doubled. 1t is uncovered in gardens
Of palms, mangoes, bananas and other
fruits, and SAUNDERS beneath the
shadow of the lofty and often snow
crowned summit of a live volcano, from
at our first sight of it, we saw
lowering into the heavens a giant
of black smoke. No scenery
n Dur own favored land combines so
many elements of beauty, grandeur and
sublimity a that of COlima, which is
we'll worth a visit from the far distant
,ity of New York.
"FrOm Colima our line of travel
wound east and north, skirting the base
If the volcano from the smoke, but ever
Using toward a sunshiny sky passing
even formidable ravines, called barran-
but by the waters for ages descend
ng from the sides of the volcano and
Implying into the Rio Tuspan, along
he east slope of the bank of which we
Ound a railway line could be carried.
wedding the crossing of these barran-
and reaching the beautiful valley of
IapOtlan on the table lands-abOutsiXty-
light miles. YapOtlan contains ten
thousand inhabitants, and is a great !
PRODUCER ofsoap, which it sends to Man
anillO for local export to other Mexican
of the Pacific, which it also
COlima and many districts of
he interior with that article of prime
necessity in civilized countries.
"Thence to Guadalajara, one hundred I
niles through a pOpulous and productive
ountry, over a road generally level, but t
rossed by a few low ridges. Besides
towns and villages, we pass 2
be city of Sayuba, celebrated for the !
of carbonate of soda, and
and Santa Ana Acatian, argicuI-
Iral centres, G~uadalaiara is the queen =
the Western States of Mexico, a city u
f seventy-five thousand inhabitants,
landing on an elevated slOpfng plain. c
IS prosperity and cOmmerce have been e
ecaying for the last few years in con-
squence of the civil connections and b
he growth of Tepicl, Colima and Leon, A
n interior city Of thirteen thousand in
abitants whose enterprise in manufac- II
Tres has taken away many artisans L
ON this capitol Of the State Of Jalisco. Il
he houses in Guadalajara are massively
nd solidly built, mostly Of stone or
Lher material, succeed.
4" The railway line from ManzanilIO to :,
-uadalajara viii not exceed two hum u
red and forty miles in length, and ex-
ting traffic and travel will pay well y
it'll a large margin of certain increase q
o o as the operation of the road puts 81
in motion.
" From Guadalajara here there is but d
ne range of any magnitude to cross, p
nd that is one in sight of this present NJ
over which there are several
,Od passes and elevations from twenty re-
20 hundred to three thousand feet. h,
1.-THE greater part Of this division of m
line would pass through a rich and
valley two hundred miles
ng and fifty miles wide, producing in ~
,undance corn, wheat, barley, beans -
| kinds of garden vegetables and fruits,
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs,
ID containing neariey two million of "
habitants. Among the cities in it and az
its TANKS are: On
Inhabitants. re-