The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-09-24

Irim, sWedtN engineer Ns'o stSed "i'h "19 hand upoG ihe throttle of the engine, GOV cred with the dust and steam and smoke 0t the snsdowy distance across ;he Continent, and in whose sure eye and nrn grasp hie
 aud lImb had been secure, so far as de- pended on human activity and vigilance From Albuquerque toward Prescott, the road was completed for 29 miles, ald saw the grading parties as Tar out as Fort WiBgafe, and saw them throving dlTi Wi'h- m a mile of the Continental Divide, hun dred and twenty i've miles from Ai0e- ! aueraue. and about 500 miles from Prescott | We followed the Railroad pegs down the valley of the RlO Puerco of the West 70 ! CsrzZp Greeks, and the Little Coiorado zs ' far as Brigham City-A hundred miles from i Prescott, where We left ,he route wiieh goes up tbe wash of the San FTaLcssco range. II is a natural route all ilie Way. oi easy grade god cufva ute, ard as favorable ' for railroad buIloing as could be desired ! 4 frw years ago we celebrated inc 10O.h ] birthday of our national existence, and II now appears that We have increased iB that number of years 10 such an extent iuat we number fifty millions of souls. and il we g.
 on Al the same rate for the next fifty years
 Ne shall number five hundrei millions ol | | Where wlil yau pus themi Not as,urediy ! In Iiiiuols or Uh.n, Rhode Is.aud or New York Neither the great States uf the East.
 uor that country wh.c1 fir the1a- Jew
 years has been known a. the G-ea; West ! wiil receive or retain the buik of thss ac- cessi0l tO our population, buf tbe country kno1u as the Far West, between the Rocky | Mountains and tne Pacific Ocean, which I.l a n mental railroads, and this wilderness of tu- day will soon be transformed lltU great and prosperous States, rich in commerce, uggI- cullure, manufactures and inning Bot lt
 Is not to induIgr in specu'auons or con jec'ures as Co the state of things fIty years hence that we are to consider tonight; U
 IS whether those of Us wbo are falling lRio toe sere and yellow leaf and thase whose dhy years are behInd, In-FeaI ot before ths m, whether they shah reaizs The anticiPailOus uf a noble future. AoCunley, iu hi, HIs-
 tory of England, states that ol aii inveauuns
 the alphabet aud the printing press alone excepted, those ibveHtiun, NhIrh Ai'rIdse ] distance have done most ioT the evil zsiiuu ] of our species.
 ! Every improvement of the means of loco-
 motion benefits mankind morally and iatgi-
 leciuslly as well as materially, and not on :
 facilitates The interchange of the vlFlous productions uf nature aud art, but binds. | together all the branches uf the human ! family. h the l5th century tue Iahabi- taujs of London were for almos, every prac- { teal purpose further from Reading than | they afe now from Edinburgh aus further from Edin burgh than they now are from i Vienna. and in order to Nesve little of tho
 traveller and historian Bean into SO forcible and philosophical su essay, l shall state
 that 9 years SEQ santa Fc was further fri ni ! New York aud about as in accessible as
 Alssks in Siika is today.
 Facilities of communication with cur selves and our neighbors Ihe1 not only
 make lis wiser and better men intellect
 ually, but are the grand source of pros- | perity, and the canal, the railroad and tbe | telegraph have all been instrumental ia pro
 duo .ng these results by annihia,iug distance ! In lSi9, when we got Lousianna. there
 were about two millions of people west oi
 tre Alleghanies, but it took seven weeks 10 reach what was then called th. western cities. and in lSi2 when il bCcamc nect,sSary
 t0 send gun from New York to BaiIaIn. for purposes of defence. it took SIX weeks 10 get there. and cost a thousand dollars now you could send a musket in half day and a nsn to shoulder it, and the cost of
 transportation for man sud muskst would
 not be over el0. Last year there were transported from the grain growing cities Of the West Co the seaboard cifias Of The East, nine miiliO3s of tuns of bread-tufTs at
 cost of less than half a cent per mile, and this question of the cheap and qmck trans. portation of food $ of primary importance
 to the human race. The population of the
 Ess; eat the meat aad bread ralsed in the Wesi, and since t requires halt 2 lon of
 meat and bread Co subsisf a stout. able bodied working man Tor year. f. was | shown llsl year by the Railroad Commission
 that a working man iu Massachusetts who 1 received two collar. per day as wages could pay ihe railroad freight fnr 1 GOO mlits on 1 al his meat ard bread for one year hy less | than his wages for one day. It!s becorn ug ! apparent. then. the railway system of thr | United States i, the great means for tb. distribution of food. and this question n,v, ! Co pfOdrctIon is paramount to ail afhrr. ! for mankind does not go up on Itz feet. II goes ike an army on it. belly. and ahrn the comnl,SaTir5 give out ynu- army i. , beaten without a battle
 The first railroad ccns'ruc-ei in fl.;.
 rsun'ry ws- three miles bong. built m ogln
 cy. Massachusetts. iH 1923. Iu.t about fh.
 time tt.y ,he ManchcsieF raliroad in Ftc- land astounded the world wifh the pht.pa, :. non of .ocomoiIou
 The first s'eaE train Ia Aa.rrsca was Hn excursion ,Fssis an the Mohawkand Uuason railroad, from A b4ny ;o S henectady. Neu
 York. ID 1881. TAe loc motive was ca,I,d T the Joha Buil, imported from Euglana q,
 well a. the engineer, John Hsgpisn. ax.
 prcssiy for ibi, road spd 4t large ex,,ans.
 Her cylinder was 5lk incheg with lG jpcb
 rs k", her wheF!s ! feer, the nuIlcr lad
 9 copper tubes, i ct long and i inche. iu diameter. ana the whsie weigst of tite enZIne vas four tons. She carried her ss.i oi wood n barreis. ani iEe ears were old sage coach bodies st oa wheels TI.re were sixteen passengers nu board, some of whom sre .till living. Mr. Sidney Diian. the President of the Uul1n Pacific fsaslroad ana Tnurlow Weed, smong ihe number Old BiIl Seward WIS also On board. :, e made SIX miles an hour and the pa sena.r, were reg. rded ss very vputGresome hs contrast to thi. the trains now rus between
 New York and Philadelphia. % miles. in l06 minutes aRd make three -toppace-. and they are now building locomotive. and fY- ing the road bed SD ss Co make the run tf- tween those two cItjes in sixty minutes. tfat Is mile and half a minute. The quick est run ever male between New York ana San Francisco was e3 hours aad some min. utes; and l fully believe that within txo years AB excursion train from Prescott .o New York wIll make toe lrip Tn 50 honrs
 What is The position of Prescott as re- raryi. R4iiway c5mfuuui-sff.nf Sl. s .