The border vidette., 1908-05-16
SOUTHERN PACIFIC R. R. Co,
What 1t Has Done and the feats It's
 Engineers Have Performed.

AC Cnis tlme or the year when the whole country seems unsettled, owing ! to commercial disturbances, and con- siderable stress is being put on the part the railroads are playing in tho game. let us take q resume of the situation. note what the roads have done. and see if the attacks being made upon them demand the censure they are getting.
 It IS not my intention to furnish anything relative to any of the roads but the Southern Pacific railroad, and what have to say is simply what any fair minded, unbiased citizen of the United States should be willing at all times to say If he can but appre- ciate the magnitude of the work this road has done.
 "In the early history ot our coun- try. 1t is we'll known fact, that great hardships were endured by our fore fathers in their endeavors to travel, and when arrangements were decided on to open up new localities the main obstacle to he considered was the best and most comfortable mode of tran sportation. Railroads were not in operation. wagon roads had not even been made, and the country to be travelled over showed a crude state of affairs. The spirit of the early set- tiers was however undaunted by such conditions to overcome, and when all was m readiness the stakes were pull ed, tents packed, horses harnessed to wagons. and the onward march of civilization began. In this way com munitles were established, and society became settled fact, and, when the needs and necessities of the future be- gan to be the prevailing topic of con- versation, they finally resulted in or- ganizations of committees which de- veloped plans which eventually were for the good of everybody. As time passed new ideas and inventions came and went. some for good, and some of no good, but out of the whole round of ideas none were evolved that have brought more comfort and satisfaction to the human race from that time to the present day than the proposition of the building of railroads in this country.
 "Foremost among these l bring to your atteotion the Southern Pacific railroad, and refer you to the great achievements accomplished by the efficient management of this company which engineered and carried to com pletion the building of che greatest and most complete trans continental railroad in America. Beginning at New Orleans, the Queen City of the the south, the road was pushed for ward till the Lone Star State was reached. Here for days a tourist can travel in comfort and enjoy the de- licious southern air and min gle among and see typical Americans, fer no people ever were prouder of their native state than Texans. Crossing the lower border of New Mexico, the road jumps into Arizona, and the view given to tourists across this terri tory IS an ever changing and attractive one. The famous Salton Sea, made memorable by the great achieveEsent of the engineers of the Southern Pa cine railroad in curbing it's overflow. at time when the whole country doubted the success of such a gigantic undertaking, and at such an enormous expense to said company, is q sight we'll worth the visit of any one from any part of the world. Speeding on the road carries you westward till the ouh AiSSCu iauu OL V tIlIOTula ls Tedcu- ed, and within her bounds you are carried till you are at last brought to face that grand and glorious sight, which no one has ever forgotten whose eye ever gszed upon it, who ever saw it's foamy surf, or enjoyed the pleasure of an afternoons dip Tn it's briDy deep The Pacific Ocean,"
 H. NJ. CHAPMAN.