Year: 1875

! boundless agricultural resources, Chi
hushua, Sonora; On its right and along
its course the enormous fields Of gypsum
destined 10 restore our wasted cotton
lands; its vast prsiTies Of mosquito aud
buffalo grass, not long to be destitute OF
happy hOmesteads and millions OF do
mestic kline; the silver, and gold, and
copper Of New Mexico and Arizona,
now uselessly lying almost idle, but
which, if once the whistle ol the loco
motive wakes the echoes of the Organ
Os, the MOgOyars, and The Chiricanhui
ranges, in whose sides lie the fableG
riches that tempted the brave Spaniards
four hundred years ago to seek their eX-
ploration, denied to them then, as now
to us, for want of highways. The
problem is solved; the savage
Apache and Camanche will no long
er be dreaded; sure civilization
takes place. The enormous expenses
annually devolving upon the govern
ment to a minute degree cease to exist.
True economy will be reached when the
mule and OK teams are done away with,
and we will have no occasion to cape
with establishment when We are told
that official records exhibit the cost of
transportation for the last thirty y-seven
years at seven hundred and fifty million
dollars in the United States territory,
and taat four weeks OF the expenditures
Oh this account in 1923 would actually
pay the interest on the whole Of their
bonds necessary to build and equip the
road. And no subsidy is ssked-nOt one
dollar, not an acre-tO guarantee this
interest. 1t offers first-mortgage bond
on its track and property, and its entire
income for government transportation.
Could there be more ample security,
unless more than enough was reasonably
demanded US. We regret to see that
Colonel Ed. Grassland does not appear
to side with the people for whom he
drew his sword, who doubtless prizes
that act more than any other of his life,
and whose heart is as true as steel, as
this writer well knows, for ne was with
him as a comrade. take this impTes.
sion from his local paper, the Paducah
Rentuckioa; and this raises the query if
Beck is kinkey too, and other Of our
Kentucky friends. Mr.. Beck surely
ought to know how proud all OF Us south
ern men are OF him; how we admire
his courageous course i'll congress, and
how deeply We regret that so soon his
figure will fade out of his seat. We
know, or believe we know, that his is
unpurchasable integrity, and We lsud
his probings of scoundrel contractors
and Indian bureau thieves; but we have
thought him capable of being q leader,
and that, it his sanction is lent to this
great road, as he can and may, rightfui-
ly and magnanimously, give it, the
Democratic party in 1876 will not be
charged with giving stone in place of
bread to its present constituency, Ten
nessee will, we believe, be found, where
the interests Of her citizens demand.
There are true men in her legislature
who know how to accept the boon OF
this great proffared enterprise, which
calls up her coal and iron, and prompt
settlement of her unOccupied lands, and
that wakes up all her toWn1, and in
fuses new life and hope throughout her
boundaries, and those Of her sister
States, east and south Of her, and will
take care that her representatives will
be backed by their constituency in Civ
ing support TO the Texas Pacific.