Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-09
SAN DIEGO.
The Road from Memphis-What We Nay
EXpect-Plain Talk.

By permission we are enabled to lay
before our readers the following very
interesting letter:
SAN DIEGO, CAL, August 25, 1873
Your favor Of the eleventh instant Is al
haud-als0 the copy Of the Memphis
APPEAL. The tenor Of the article you
call my attention to, in that paper, Is
what we have been very familiar with
in San Diego for the past four years.
Indeed, it sounds as though il had been
prepared by our jealous neighbOrs above
~, at Santa Barbara. Only, they are
claiming to be the western terminus Of
the thirty-fifth parallel railroad. The
most Of the article, Sd far as il refers 70
California, is 10 style and words exactly
what the San Francisco papers pub
Iisbed week after week last fall and
winter. when their famous railroad COM
mittee o. one hundred men were dis
cussing whether San Francisco should
run the Central pecific across the bay,
or whether they should build q new
road through this State, and meet the
Atlantic and Pacific road. They con-
e7Iuded, o. d part Of the committee did,
70 raise ten million dollars and cOnsOh
date with the Atlantic and Pacific.
They sent a delegation TO st. Louis, had
a fine time, and that was the end OF the
mattel. The committee OF one
hundred" " broke up in a row.
When the Southern COnfederacy" be-
comes a first-class nationality, and has
the means and credit to build railroad
from your city to within twenty-five
miles of San Francisco, these mOneyed
two-per-eent-per-mon men might, per
haps, venture to build the last twenty-five
miles. The APPEAL speaks OF the At
lantic and Pacific, and Texas and Pa
cific railway, forming a junction on the
Chirty-fifth parallel, until 'they met the
line uJgU being constructed from san
Francisco There is no ''such line be-
ing pushed rapidly from the Pacific"
There are roads now coming down the
coast, owned by the Central Pacific
which company will not very likely aid
in any competing line. The San Fran
cisco papers have, for years, secuted the
idea that Scott or any parties, would ever
build the thirty-secood parallel road.
When the eastern end was commenced,
they said il would 20 10 San Francisco.
Vow. since the work on this end is go
Eug on, and vessels are coming into our
I,aV with material for the road, they
have to give up and admit that this
may be a commercial place OF import
apce vet. The Texas and Pacific COM
uauyis charter, and their fifteen millions
iand-graut from congress, compel them
TO build on or ne-rthp thirty-secOnd par
allie, and 10 te~uIih. atSan Diego. The
magnificent gT. Il 81 and that this bsy,
thar company gets through the Mem
phis and El PasO road from this city,
will. IN a few years, be worth at leasi
five million dollars. Mr.. Scott and his di-
reetors. when here, assured our people that
The road would be built long before the
sime limited in his charter, and That
san Diego was the terminus. Also thai
ne should run here from Fort Yuma (or
Colorado river were his words by the
shortest practical route. The report o
Scott 20 the directors a few months ago
states that they had selected 'rOute
No. l." which comes in from the north,
which ne said Twas commercially fifty
miles shorter than the direct line east
Z am satisfied that the article you seui
me was a hearsay one, without the
slightest foundation in fact. We, here,
look at Memphis as one the Mississippi
river tc7-Blini OF our thirty-second par
allel road. By reference TO the map you
win see that a road from Memphis 10
San Francisco ria FL Paso will bea long
route between the Pacific and YOU
place DIR. Scott probably got the con-
tract Of the Atlantic and Pacific road
for less than one million nVe nundreo
thousand dollars. He can make II
feeder to his road east from 81. Louis,
and can run IL into the thirty-secoDd
D4raIIel road 10 this place. Having the
contract Of II he prevents any other
company building a competing through
road, and he thus helps the credit Of his
bonds now on the market. The article
in the APPEAL is 50 absurd, so far as any
action toward really aiding or building
a railroad by San Francisco, that not
single paper in that city will have
fbe "cheek' even 10 cePy Il. All rail
roads from the east coming into Califnr-
MA must pass through "Ssn Gagonio
Pass" ia San DIEGO county.