Arizona citizen., 1877-06-02
RAILWAY CALCULATIONS.
What Appears to be the Purpose of
 the Southern Pacific Railroad.

the Southern racine Railroad.
 THE CITIZEN has heretofore called attention 10 the fact that one of the main purposes of the Southern Pacific Railway Company, is to make a con nectiOn with the City of Mexico from some point on the line Tn Arizona There is hardly doubt but the com pany have a pioneer surveying party now in Sonora, and that it passed ur the Santa Cruz Valley. Col. R. J. Hin ton came 10 Yuma on a special train with the President and other high off cials of the road, and we take thIs from his first letter from Tucson:
 The Santa Cruz rises in Mexico Along lts valley is the principal road travelled thither, and il iS down it thai the civilization builders of the Central Pacific have already "blaZed" their path of commercial conquest toward Mexico. In other words, the South. ern California; Pacific people will, il is understood, run their projected road to the city of Mexico. The general understanding is that Governor Sian. ford and his associates will build the road east from Yuma for over one hun dred miles during the present year and then it is believed that there will be road constructed at no distant day sOuthward 10 Tucson, and thence to ward the Mexican line.
 A correspondent of the New York World, who writes from San Francis co and seems to speak as though he had access 10 the best sources of rail way information in this connection, in a late letter, made these statements:
 Tine contracts are already awarded and the iron on the way for one hun dred and forty miles of road eastward from the Colorado. This will carry il to within one hundred and twenty miles of Tucson. The steamer line which runs steamers from San Fran cisco to the mouth of the Colorado, in the Gulf of California by way of Ma zatlan, has been bought out bodily by Stanford & Co.,, and will either be withdrawn or will run on the coast of Mexico in connection with the road more than likely the latter. If this i> the case, il will bring Mazatlan with in eigh; days of Us, Acapulco ten days, and Panama twelve to fourteen days. The latter DOT. iS now from eighteen days 10 three weeks from San Francis co.
 We see editorial statements to the same effect in leading papers. The programme is a large one but not be- yond the ability of the company to ex- ecute It is also well known that the members of the company boast of their ability 10 build railroad; of their purpose 10 cover lhe whole Pacific coast with their lines; O. their ambi- ton to rank foremost as railway bull ders and managers. To accomplish their designs, they cannot afford to wait until immediate business de mands roads, for what they will lose by building and operating their roads in advance of commercial wants, will be more than made by privileges grant ed and gifts made by the people zeal ous for such means of transportation and above all, they must in this age occupy the routes at an early day or others will What seems little now will prove much In the future. Yu- ma has given a couple of hundred acres of land to this company, and Tucson the same When Yuma gave it but a short tune ago, the people there feared 10 make it absolute, lest another company would get there first. The documents were scarcely executed till the locomotive whistle was heard in Yuma, and it looks as if much soon CT than any of us here anticipated, we will hear the same enterprising sound in Tucson.