Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-03
TIFF SoUrEEPE ROUTE.

When the Southern Pacific line is completed east it will make one of the most attractive routes for tourists and pleasure seekers on the continent The scenery Is said to be magnificent. The New Orleans Picayune has the following iu relation to this line;
 It has perhaps occurred to many of our readers that the Southern Paclnc own line via San Antonio is being de- laved longer than was anticipated. The reason is not merely heavy rock cutting, but leavy bridging. The bridge across the Pecos river Is likely to require some time vet. but false work Is to be erected about 300 feet long, which need not de Iav the track-layers from this direction more than three weeks. A tunnel ls, we believe. vet incomplete, but we do not suppose there Is any reason to cause delay much beyond the middle Of No vember. The San Antonio Express re- uorts the conclusion of the labors oi Mir. <. E. Mosby. Division Engineer, and his assistants, leaving only two
 narti.s of engineers lu the field. The ends of the track are only fifteen mlles anart The end is complete to the Pc COG river. seven hundred and ninety nine miles west of New Orleans, and the west end is finished to a point winch | can scarcely be less than four hundred | and forty miles west of Fl Paso. LoZer, | fine last station which we have seen named. is three hundred and fifty-elght miles east. and track-laying has been l continued more than two months slnce | 4bat noint was reached. StrOwb-ldge ! -ook off his three thousand Chinese | workn,en. the drilled force with when ba has built the Southern Paclhc thus | far and went back with them 10 Call- ! fornia to rush forward the construction from Mohave Junction to The Needles
 on the Colorado rlver, about two nun dred and fifty miles, where he IS to meet the Atlantic and Pacific track com l i'm, from Isleta, in New MeIlco. We fon't know what force Is left on thls | end. near Eagles Nest, but presume II
 Ia ,uita small. as the rock work and | bridging would cause such delay tha' track-layinE could not be utilized. The
 rock cutting must have been heavy all the
 way from Del Rio, 741 miles west of New | Orleans. Workmen have been blasting nn overhanging rocks along the road
 thence to Devils river, fourteen miles TUT tber west. They have blocked the move ment of trains by falling on several o' casions and the expense or remoVlns
 them was considerable, to say nothlhl
 of the danger of their falling on pass D ing trains. The trip between Devil River and Eagles Nest, a distance O | tifty-six miles, will always be grea
 pleasure to travellers, because the eA ai traordinary curves and bends will o3tl . necessitate slow movement and eAhloi r the splendid scenery to the greatest au
 vantage. The Express says that iroI .,
 Seminole to River Bend, b mics tn
 track hugs the river at an elevation 2
 200 feet above the water. The altituu
 above sea-level Is abo at l,5OO feet an b the air Is delightful. We suppose ID f Seminole referred to Is about ten ni't
 this side of the Pecos. On the otht
 side of the Pecos the bridging IS hea'.
 Seven hundred and ten miles Hest
 New Orleans the road to Eagle Fa' | diverges. Track laying began at il , junction August 25th, and as the dl