New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-25

comfortably as, he can 20 from New fork 10
Chicago. The days of the stage-coach tollng
for weary days and nights over stony deserts
and aIkali plains are gone by. An outlet 70
the markets of the country is provided for the
products of the Territory, and, what is OF as
great importance, an inlet fer the machinery IL
needs to deyelOpit mineral wealth. Inc roao
does not stop at Tucson. 1t is already eraded
ffty-nine miles east of that point and another
section will be finished in May. By the end Oh
the season large part Of the gap between
Tucson and Ell Paso, on the Rio Grande, where
junction will be made with the Texas Paclnc
line, will be closed, and next year or the year
after we may look for the completion OF the
entire line.
This great enterprise, having its basis upon
the Pacific coast, has not attracted the attention
it deserves upon this side of the Continent. Its
managers have sought no eclat, have made no
appeals Il Congress for aid, and have not
troubled our money markets with importunate
efforts to place their stock and bonds. Con-
trolling the means required for the work, and
believing in the importance and future value
of n Southern transcOntinental line, they went
ahead in a quiet business-like way TO build
their road as fast as they could Somewhat OIL
their recent remarkable activity has been ocea-
stoned no doubt, by their desire to make their
junction with the Texas Pacific at point as
far east as possible. By building TO FL Paso
they will be able to obtain a second eastern
connection, if desirable for the AtchisOn, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad, soon to be opened
through to Santa Fe, can easily be extended from
that point down the valley of the Rio Grande
| to FL PasO.
Without anticipating now the influence OF n
second transcOntinenta line upon the prosperity
of the Pacific coast, and its importance to the
development of the vast interior districts which
it will make accessible to settlement and enter
prise. we may call attention to the openings
| for men of energy and small capital along the
completed portion Of the new road in Southern
California and Arizona. Agriculture in that
region can only be carried Oh by irrigation, but
there are many spots along the valleys OF the
streams where it is exceedingly profitable
Two crops can be raised in a season and the
proximity Of the mining camps secures good
market. In many localities fruit culture and
sheep raising are valuable industries. Inc
mining resources of Arizona are undoubtedly
very great, and their development has barely
begun, The heavy expense Of wagon
ing machinery and supplies across noun
tains and deserts has prevented the open
ing of many silver mines which can be profit
ably worked, now that railway transportation
is available and new deposits of orc will I'M
doubtedly be discovered in districts that have
hitherto been so remote as not to be worth eX-
ploring. Persons desiring to see the country
along the new line with a view to settling
| sbould o,o frat tn Gan Francisco and there buy
what is called "land-seekers ticket" to
which is attached n coupon emitting the holder,
in case he purchases land of the company, 10
credit of the entire cost of the ticket toward
bis first payment