Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-22
THE NEXT PACIFIC RAILROAD.
MazatIan the Objective Fortnight
Hundred Miles Shorter than Jay
GOuIds MOnOPOIy-FOm Scott Left
Out i'm the Cold.

GOuIds MOnOPOIy-TOm Scott Left
Out i'm the Cold.
Galveston Correspondence Of the New York
sun.
Yesterday 1 spent the day with ex-
Speaker Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Tom
Scott. Nh. Scott was returning from Mex
leo, where he had been comforting with the
Mexican authorities.
l don't tell you anything Tom Scott said,
but I tell you some important railroad facts
which l got from Vice President Allen of
the Iron Mountain Railroad, OF what is
called the upper end of the Mexican Pacific.
Mr.. Allen does the thinking for Mr.. Mar
quand and the "bOys on the street" in New
York.
eThe Mexican Pacific Railroad" said
President Allen, @will be the next road
which will unite the States with the Pacific
ocean,
"How?" l asked.
This way: The Iron Mountain and
Texas Northern Central Railroads now run
from S.. Louis straight 70 Austin. The
Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad, with
Mr.. I. W. Pierce's road, runs from Kansas
City via Houston to LUling, only fifty miles
from san Antonio, and Mr.. Iierce's road Is
graded clear up to San Antonio. The sur
Vey Of eighty miles to the Mexican border
to Laredo, on the Rio Graude, has been
made by our railroad engineers. Govern
ment engineers have also made the survey,
and the Secretary Of War and the Govern
ment at Washington deem il a military
necessity, in the face Of apprehended
trouble with the Free Zone robbers and
bandits, that this eighty miles Of road shall
be built
aWhat then?~ asked of a Mexican Off
cial high up IN the confidence Of the Next
can Government, who stood by.
"The rest. said he, "will be done 10y
Mexico. This eighty miles Of American
road brings You to Laredo. Here he
said, handing me the official Mexican map,
athe Mexican Government takes the road,
and pushes it 500 miles TO AlaZatlan, on
the Pacific coast, making line from BOs-
ton, New York, and Philadelphia to the
Pacific ocean, 500 miles shorter than Jay
GOuld's Union Pacific"
"Thpn the Mexican Government is to
build this 500 miles Of roac2' remarked
inquiringly.
ayes. sir. We passed 4 law granting a
subsidy of $500 for each kilOmetre, or
$1,000 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
"How is the country between San An
tonic and Mazatlan on the Pacifc?' 1
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 a
rich old city, and tie country around Du-
range IS very fertile
"Wbat do you mean by very tertiie!' l
asked.
"Why, l mean DurangO-'he State Of
/ DurangO-is the best cotton country in the
world. Gotten there is planted only once
/ in seven years. The crop springs up itself.
| They only have to knock down the old
| stalks, and by the middle Of April the
/ growth is a foot high, producing a bale to
! the acre in the fall. The soil there Is allu-
vial With irrigation they can raise three
/ crops a wear there. They now haul their
| cotton 700 miles to the city Of Mexico, and
| then make money
"What else is there inDurango?' l asked.
sDurango has rolling mills, an iron
| mountain. and pine timber on the north,
/ and cotton. sugar, and wheat and corn in
abundance
HAS MaZltlan a good haTbOT?'
zone of the finest on the Pacific coast,
/ and on a line 500 miles shorter for the box
! of tea and package Of silk from Canton TO
! New York than the Union Pacific, Kansas
! Pacific. or Tom SCOTS Texas Pacific road.
! The Mexicans are deeply in earnest about
/ this road. and 30 Will not be three years be-
| fore IL is completed
! ks Mr. l..-.-s T.yag Pacific road runs