The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-06-09
TRANS-CONTINENTAL.


Next Railway to the Pacinc--A
Route Eight Hundred Miles short
err Than the lay Gould Monopoly.
lGalvesion Correspondence n. Y. SUM-
Yesterday I spent the day with ex-
Speaker Grow, of Pennsylvania, and
Tom Scott. Mr. Scott was returning
from Mexico, where he had been con-
ferring with the Mexican authorities.
l don't tell you anything Tom Scott
said, but / tell you some important
railroad facts which / got from Vice
President Allen of the Iron Mountain
Railroad, or What is called the upper
end of the Mexican Pacific. Mr.. Al
len does the thinking for Mr.. Mar
quand and the "boys on the street" in
New York.
'The Mexican Pacific Railroad"
said President Allen, will be the
next road which will unite the States
with the Pacific Ocean"
"How?" I asked.
This way: The Iron Mountain
and Texas Northern Central railroads
now run from St. Louis straight to
Austin. The Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad, with Mr.. T. W.
AicISC IOdus AuHS IIOu AAoHoaS StIy
via Houston to Luling, only fifty
of eighty miles to the Mexican Dor
derEto Laredo, on the Rio Grande,
has been made by our railroad engi-
neers. Government engineers have
also made the survey, and the Secre-
Washington deem it military, neces.
- o@ hon cd
trouble with the Free Zone robbers
and bandits, that this eighty miles of
road should be built" ,,ss
can official high up in the confidence
of the Mexican Government, who
stood by
"The rest said he, hwill be done
by Mexico. This eighty miles of
American road brings you to LAREDO.
He Here he said handing Eh me THEFT the 9
Goyernmenttakes the road and pushes
cific coast, making a line from Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia to the
Pacific Ocean, 800 miles shorter than
The Mexican Government il to
IIll6 lulleS VI IOdO l. lCc
marked inquiringly.
Yes, sir; We passed law grant
ing subsidy of So, 500 for each kilo-
metre, or $4,000 for each mile built.
The contract has already been let to
the International Railroad Company
of Mexico, and work has commenced
from Mazatlan toward Durango"
o'sHow is the country between San
Mz-o<1.- H.
cifc?" I asked.
Splendid. sir, and almost a dead
level. The road will sustain itself
from local freight and passengers the
entire distance. The country is full
of beef. Monterey is rich old city,
and the country around Durango is
very fertile"
What do you mean by very fer
tile ?'' [ asked. IS
why. / mean Durango-the State
of Durango-is the best cotton coun-
try in the world. Cotton there is
planted only once in seven years. The
crop springs up, itself; They only
and by the middle Of April the growth
is a foot high, producing bale to the
acre in the fall. The soil there is
alluvial. With irrigation they can
raise three crops a year there. They
now haul their cotton 700 miles to the
the city of Mexico, and then make
money"
What else is there in Durango ?"
I asked.
Durango has rolling mills, an iron
mountain, and pine timber on the
North, and cotton, sugar, and wheat
and corn in abundance" .
HAS Mazatlan good harbor?"
sssOne of the finest on the Pacific
coast, and on line 800 miles shorter
for the box of tea and package of silk
from Canton to New York than the
Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, or
Tom Scott's Texas Pacific road. The
Mexicans are deeply in earnest about
this road, and it will not be three
years before it is completed"
As Mr.. Scott's Texas Pacific road
runs west from Dallas through the
barren 'staked plain over noun
tains and through desert; as the Mis-
souri, Pacific strikes Indian nation
and stops, and as the Kansas Pacific
runs into Colorado and becomes sim
ply feeder to the Union Pacific, it
appears certain that the first rival
Jay Gould will have in his monopoly
line to California will be the Mexican
Pacific railroad
This Mexican Pacific railroad heads
of Tom Scott, and it was this great
project which recently brought the
Pennsylvania Railroad King to
Mexico.