The Phoenix herald., 1879-05-03
RAILROAD RACKET.
whe Different Lines EOi.lfin,
Towards this Territory.

/ ne lOiloN my. from Inc Iooot'
Post, written 10y r. T. Strain, will b
IF interest to cur readers:
The race of the railroads Is for tn
Pacific. of course gathering as muc'
'rcight by the way as possible. Til
\tchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, j
Which the capital of Boston is largel.
Interested; The Union Pacific, hend
ne southwestward at Denver City
lie Te.is 2 .citic, backed by conce.
rating l.I4roads from this side of III
iissisSippi: and the Utah road soUli
ward through Arizona to the Gulf G.
California, are all striving, the frs
.hree as rivals in the race, to reacl
The Pacific at a point whence tn
ocean passage TO Yokohama viii l.,
very much shorter than by Way OF
an Francisco.
llcn there is Il e Southern Pacif
ltnilr,ud, asking ior no public a.
that mas pushed rapicly down throgii
southern California to Yums Oh the
Colorado,and is advancing At the
rate Of one and a halfto two ard !;
half daily into Arizona, into who's
Aither southern corner it viii come
oy next winter Starting cut ind,
pendtntly from the Pacific at Sm
Francisco, as if that farther c0as,
would reciprocate the benefit Of tn,
bold movement by which the cont
nent WAS originally spanned, itcomes
eastward with view to meet all til,
.taerroads al some convenient point
on their way westward, pursuing
line below the snowia!ls which oh
sluct The Union and Central Pa
ciiic, and throwing open TO settle
meat tier of future States in which
the vast stores of mineral wealth ~,
supplemented with the most magnit
iceAt agrio cultural opportunities. :
faithful reference to the map wi
show four great Terr.t rites and Stale
lying in almost a periccJ square,
which practically include all the arc;
of ali this unparalleled future activ
lily. and are to be the scenes for many
years OF combined railroad and min
ing enterprises such as are not to be
found recorded in the history oi
any country They are Colorado and
New Mexico on the east and Nevad,
and Arizona on the west; Oh dividing
them differently, Colorado nd Ne
vuda on ,hAnorlh and New Mexico
and Arizona on the south. The up
per ones are com paratively better
kuown and more populously occupi-
ed because trunk railroad has for
years traversed them to The Pacific
IN this square might properly be in
clude Utah, which has eAi pyed its
railroad connection too. The prob
lem next to be solved is how to open
the lower half of that Territory to
railroads and connect it with both
The Pacific and Atlantic
The schemes mapped ont and not
much more, hy Gen. Chalmers in the
house and senator Jones in the Sen
ate require much familiarity with the
map to lie properly comprehended,
and are not un1iily characterized as
a system. We dismiss from consid-
Grafton for the moment the Govern
ment aid asked for at least a portion
of them, and refer to the gen raj out
line of the plan proposed only as a
striking illustration of what is in
progress III that distant part OF the
country. Somewhere in Southern
Arizona, the Nchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe and the deficclihg Union
Pacific, reinforced by the Texas Pa
cifc on its westward way from the
south, viii join the Southern Pacific
and over lis tracks find Pacific ports
at San Diego and Guaymas. This
latter Territory OF Arizona formed
the richest slice of the Gadslen pur-
chase Of 1888, and within it are
known to be treasures of metallic
ore tlat VIII empty whole ponula-
tious into is tecming valleys for the
Development Of the rich outcropping
mines to he found there. By the
Beautiful Santa Cruz valley the Utah
road and The DENVER and Rio Grande
road, As well as the Atchison, Tope
ka AMI Santa Fe road, viii lind az
easy way down through Sonora to
Guaenas on the Gulf OF California,
and westward 10 Yuma and thence 10
san Diego. 4 single year viii wit
hess a change in consequence Of a
movement in population thither,
that will almost establish q miracle.
The railroad magn&;cs of the At
lantic as well IS the Pacific coast
know very weH what il is that points
ali their advancing rails III that sin
Gle direction. The transportation
business Of that rich district Of mines
is the prize for whose possession they
make hss.e and contend The trade