Year: 1867

Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division

 General Palmer and party started from Fort Whipplc on Tuesday last, for the pur- pose of looking out route for the railroad from Prescott to the Little Colorado, tid the Agua Frio ranch and Camp Lincoln on the Rio Verde, from which place, or from point on the river about 10 miles above it, they think they can find pass through the Mo gollone range of mountains. Several of our old citizens accompanied the party as guides. They will go as far as the Little Colorado, where they expect to meet the surveying party. when all will return to Prescott. The country between Prescott and the Rio Verde is an easy one over which to build road, and we doubt not but that it will be the one adopted, should practicable route be found in the region of country close to the Verde, and We have great faith that such an one will be found More than year ago, Captain Washburn, who it will be remembered, com handed Camp Lincoln for a long time, and who secuted considerable through the coun- l try north of that post informed Us that he knew of an excellent pass over which rail | or wagon-road could be built with great easa, and at little expense. If such a pass does exist there is no trouble whatever in reach ing Prescott from the Little Colorado. We have travelled on top of the divide, of the Mogollone range, from about thirty miles east of the settlements of the Rio Verde, to the Rio de Los Milpas, which divides the Mogollone from the Sierra Blanca, and we know that there are several deprcssions in the range through which the iron horse could run. The pass spoken of by the Captain is about 10 miles above Camp Lincoln, and that is the very place it should be, as the summit of the range opposite that point is low and level. About 20 miles south there are high peaks, and the ascent from the river is very difficult But if We remember rightly, from this point, for about 40 miles north, the mountains arc level and not much higher 1 than the mesa at their northern base We 1 have great faith in the adoption of this route as it is the most feasible and direct one we know of It would run, for scores of miles, i through a forest of as good timber as eye ! ever bcheld, and would not have to cross q ] canon, creek or river that an Indian could not jump over, until it reached the Verde, i which is large stream, but easily bridged This route would run through a splendid az ricultural, grazing and mineral country, with as fine climate as any portion of the globe. In fact, the advantages and inducements of fered by the country bordering the line of the 3jth parallel in Arizona are as great. if not greater than those offered by any other section of the known world, and General Palmer and the gentlemen who accompanied him here, acknowledged that fact

 Two hundred miles of the road was built l the past year, and by the lst of next month, the cars will be running to Pond creek, from which place to Santa Fe it is but 4O2 miles. Should Congress grant the necessary aid the coming winter, We have been assured that work will commence upon the road at two or

 three points in this Territory. If so, it is more than likely that the praiseworthy am

 bition of the Company will be crowned with

 success, and the Union Pacific Railway, L. D..

 be the first road over which an engine will

 run, carrying with it the glad tidings that

 the East and the West-the Atlantic and the

 Pacific, are united in interest, in destiny, and

 in the praiseworthy work of developing and

 building up every portion of our common

 country