The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-04-27
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
 RAILROAD.

As<%&A~&S S<@~&<H Important Movensnt-A Cornrnittee ol
 One Hundred 10 bs Appointed
 Tn Suudav's Cal we reported meeting of citizens 10 take steps for the general pro tectioY of San Franciscu's interest-raiiroad and otherwise. Yesterday afternoon these twenty gentlemen met again, al four 0 clock Within the next thirty days the Directors oi ,be Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and the Mayor of St. Louis will visit Sun Francisco to ascertain what our citizens are willing to do in aid of the projected railroad. com mittee of one hundred citizens will be appoin- ted 10 confer with the men from the East, ana will also we are informed. devote their atten- tion ceneralv. to tbe protection of our eiiy : interests. Yesterday afternoon the naihes uf the committeeman was made out; oui as ii is not certain that al who have been aP- pointed will accept, we refrain from puoiish- ing it at present. The movement is an l'h- portaut one, and will be watched wllh uhe greatest interest.-STa FraacsSc9 Cft1f-
 The San Diego Unioa has an article headed s.The thirty fifth parallel route, and par- rates the fact that MT. Gibson, one oi Fay master Stantou's party. while en rotrte from Camn Apache to Camp Verde i'll this Ierr1- tory, found snow in drifts of five or SIX leet in depth in some places. There Is, we pre- spne no exaggeration in the statement of Mr. Gibson. IL is well understood here that the Pavnaster's outfit left Camp Apache to cross the Morollon range to Camp Verde, that snow was encountered, and, fearful of getting into difficulty and cold, for which the party and escort were lily prepared, they turned back and came the long route via. Phnnix and Date Greek to Prescott.
 The Union and the Tucson Citizen have re- ferred to this matter in a chuchling kind of style and we do not blame them /; if they think we don't have snow in this neighborhood, they are mistaken. The San Francisco Mountains. 75 miles Northeast of Prescott, have had their tops covered with snow for three months, and the Thirty-ffth parallel Rail road will doubtless run close to the base of said mountain, either North or South of it.
 Yet. since the Paymaster left here, horse men and wagons with men, women and small children have come into Prescott from New Mexico and report that they had no trouble from snow. There is not as much snowfall near the line of the Thirty fifth parallel Railroad as on the Mogollon range, or on the Sierra Prieta. Prescott is some (, 800 feet aboTe the sea level. and in leG5-6G, we had a depth of three feet of snow here, which lay for three weeks. while north of us as far as we could see, say thirty miles, with the exception oi the bill tops the ground was bare. We have had foot of snow fall here within the last 1 two or three weeks, yet there is none visible now, except a very little on the highest mounta in tops.
 All we claim is, that the route of the rail- road on the 35th, as surveyed, is route where no snow falls in quantities that will obstruct trains in Arizona.
 Near the San Francisco Mountains, on the diride between the Rio Grande and the Col orado, is belt of country perhaps twenty miles wide, where travellers passing to and ire during the past eight years have reported finding snow, not enough however to prevent the passage of wagons. If there is any place where the Kansas Pacific, or the Atlantic and Pacific roads will be troubled with snow it is North and East of Santa Fe, not in Ariz ona. Prescott is not a seaport-we wish Ii was-Oranges, bananas and other tropical fruits will not grow bere-we wish they would. But fl the 35th parallel Railroad i; built. there will doubtless be branch road from it cia San Bernardino to San Diego, and we can ride down and enjoy those fruits and the sea breeze But what if.that road Is ney- CT built We are not hoggish. Let the Southern Railroad go through and we shall be happy The Atlantic and Pacific will run sixty or seventy miles North of us who live in Prescott. and as the lower road will ruu through the valley of the Gila, track about twice the above distance will give us railroad connection with San Diego that way, which would be very satisfactory. Let us have railroads, but above all Let us have peace and good understanding of these matters