Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-09
CONE, NOW.
Development and Dccay-W Wonders Of
Western Wilds-MeHHtaiRs
and SHOWS.
The NarroW-tsaage OF the Rocky Noun
taias-Mexieo Invaded.

FREMONT House, COIs., Juno :, lS72
This whole western country was left
unfinished hY the plastic hand OF Onl-
Impotence; but the process Of develop
ment was steadily progressive, as Dar-
win would haveit The "Great Ameri-
can Desert even when I was poring
over the pages Of Olneyis geography in
a lakewood country school, wds f'the
uneNplured regionsin the sandy desert
became the b0nndless prairie. Travelled
by emigrants who lighted cagnp-fres.
and then after few years. men Of dar-
ing conceptions and capable of marvel
lous deeds devised a scheme which, ex-
ecuted, has not only transformed the
physical appearance Of the country, but
modified the climatic and hygrometical
laws governing its condition. Electrical
currents have been established by rail-
way and telegraph lines that may di-
rect the course of rain-stOrns, and nere.
az ia California, the line Of demareation
between wet and dry seasons becomes
constantly less and less distinctly de-
lined, and the rainfall in each successive
year more uniform, through winter and
sumner months. Wherever trees are
planted there are rains and heavy deu-s. I
The enterprising owners and mana 1
gers 0f the Kansas Pacific railway,
owning as web an imperial domain, Z
have established at intervals along the
route OF their road experimental farms
and gardens. EmigTants need incur no I
hazards. At every alternate station
there are barley, wheat and eornfields, I
and all descriptions Of grasses are seen
growing luxuIianuy in these unwasted I
gardens. It is palpable 70 every one l
that natures progressive tasks steadily, |
a
prepared the 4" Unexplored Regions''
most suddenly for the most advanced I
conditions of civilized life. Why this
sudden change? Why has the quantity 1
of rain that fails constantly increased in I
ard western wastes as railway lines
have been extended. There have been 4
rainstornls each afternoon since my ad-
vent into Denver.
TIE NARROW-GAUGE.
If people here do not speak falsely,
the narrow-gauge road aecOmplishes
popular and business purposes even
more successfully than was anticipated.
] saw tram Of thirty cars going over
the mountains to Puebla, one
hundred and twenty miles distant,
yesterday afternoon. Tt was heavily
freighted with merchandise, miners
tools and wagons. Officers Of the road
say that il costs One-half less to maintain
and operate the road, to keep up the
irackway and secure crOss-ties for this
Ihan broad-gauge roads, and that the
iron viii never be laminated By the
Hght drlVlng-W So well satisfied
are these people with this system OF
that this whole country ,
VIII be traversed in all directions by ;
dlese roads The owners of this Puebla ,
and Denver line are extending it to ,
santa fe, and have vast concessions of
lands from Mexico, that the line NAV
reach JuareZ's capital In crossing
mountains and penetrating districts in
which timber is scarce, and even the !
Of iron is most costly, it is
9asy 70 see that enormous gains are ef-
eeted BY adopting the narrow-gauge 9
'ystem- The Older States win soon {
ave the uniform gauge Of four /
eer eight and one-half inches, while 4
Ms new world Of the West viii have
nore numerous highways, Of greater I
engfh and less cost Rates Of freight ?
.harges VIII be lessened, and the narrow v
;;ause may yet become the railway Of I
he people.
CONE NOW. n
It IS needless 10 tell your readers, i'll Z
hey would know what this country is, 81
nd what il was before civilization be- cC
an its ravages and these frightfHl IN ri
0aus upon natures perfeeti0ns. that
hey must come West even now. An m
ther year wiz finish railways and \
luild towns and villages, and open a
arms everywhere. A mighty govern a
nent squandering hundreds Of millions y
with lavish hand, turns its
nee benignly upon this favored -
and. The West viii exist no +
more forever, and those who would :
&c the plains, and buffalOes, and <
lks, and countless antelOpes, must :
raverse the continent during the .
ext few months. There Is not else
where in the world such scenery as this Z
yhich | contemplated this morning at U
Uurise. / saw Pixies Peak seventy L
niles away, and an endless mountain a
ange, crowned with snow before break p
~ this morning, and / was almost
lOzen BY the bare contemplation Of the b
rigid spectacle. Think how delightful ii
transfer from the humid, heated vapor u
ath IN which one lives through the "
ummer months in the lOwlands Of the a
dississippi, to the cold, clear atmos-
here which one inhales, even where 1 y
OW write, nearly six thousand feet I,
bOye the level of the sea. II not con- =,
sut with this modest altitude, the trav- ?;
Ter can reach a spot where ice and snow n
ever melt, seventeen thousand feet n
boye the ocean. Visit Denver be-
3ne civilization has done its :,
'0rst and then, when flowers -
loom everywhere, and grain-fields -
nj Villages and cities spring up on ev- z.
~ hand, and are gilded with silver ~
nd gold extracted by the ton from these =
lountain wastes-then visit Denver u
nd think what stslden changes are
'rought by the hand of human energy. \
saw almost the last Of his race, with his u
ideOusly painted face and red blanket. | Il
.aggering by when was writing these to
~ words. Darwin again! The Red e
nd Black disappear (rOUge et nOir) and u
bite wins the empire Of the world.
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