The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-09-24

tsins breast, II ssi3gs ihe ponderous trains around crags and cisiss. where the eagle built her nest. # dives lFe q sEallos on ,he wing :hioggh darkIiug forests, it rock, YOU to sleep AaToss tiIe pillows of . prairie. il scsrns the deserts wrath and dTe4ry sands. ii sweeps across tbe horizon indifferent 10 frost or fire, the Ice kings toncn ar the sna Gods power, its echo Is the tread of empire i. swallows the ground in 6erceuess and rage. and is resting place IS only in the aide reaching depths of space. ~..4 y
 Before it is the half fedged village. The nioneeFs hut. the unbToken sod behind itA garden dotted with vast commercial cis . the abode of scieRce and of arr, oeeSoS rats cn.:ufe and i.ftv refinement. Of all that can contribute tc ihe comfort or luxury of maH. ......
 Far to the north and washing the extreme portion If Uncle sam's tlomsIn IS s narrow Friih. which geographers call BeTing's Straits: IL is the boundary between America and Asia. and through this narrow channel flow and mingle all ihe waters of this mighty globe. On one side are the Arctic and luiian Oceans and the stormy Atlsn- tic, au the other The Sea uf kamsksika aod the placld waters of the Pacific, and through ih,s strip of water the white whale da,hcs to escape his fearless pursners into that open polar sea that Sir John Frank lin sought, and the fearful eyes of our own Dr. Kane iongeG to behold. There are 70 lceberrs in this channel. ss the warm cur rtnis of ih- Pacific infringe against this cea-i and the waters flow iHt0, not cut of the Aruc Ocean. The resul; iS mild at- mos here, The lsoJhremzl iiue drawn by I.nr~~f3 0dgpIt across the channel, showing a mean temperature of forty five degrees
 Thirty yea heace whes this Nation NiIl number more than two hundred millions of ,se fls. the travellers from tae United States NiI 20 to Europe by going ;o Asia Huge fefry-boats. such as oOavey the Central Pa cifc trains across the Bay al Benieia. will take the trains of the Grand Trunk Of the Globe across BheTiag's Straits. and our children will visit ihe shah cf Prrs.a, drink tea with the Mikado If Japan, iiri wi.h The Emperor ,f China. and hob nnb with the Orienials. as naturally aud as much a mat ter of cour-e as we visit Niagara CT the Yosemite or the Grand CaaSon of the Colorado. |. There are now comp eied nr in course of cousirucfisn the following trans Co ntinen- ;4l lines The Can allan Pacific. the North ern P4ci6c, me Central ansi Union Pacific. lh. Atisn;ic and Pacific, ihe Texas Pacific. and their ajiunct>. The Missouri i'scihc. the Kansas Pacific, the Chicago, Rpck Island and Paciic, and don't klpw, V hat beside, but it seems as though ihe great railway routes were getting Co re emIDentiy Pacific
 Ladies sad Gratlcmen: The isolation which has so long held in cheek ihe growth Ol our Territory iS abou; io Dc dissolved by t~n a these Trans-C Continental lines rfoss- iag her borders We are at last upoL the eve of wonderful charges and develop meuts, and cannot do better in eonclu- ding this mesgre address than by quoting the lines of Whittier.
 "I hear the tread of pioneers,
 Of Nations yet to be;
 The first low wash af waves where soon
 Shall roll human Sea-"