Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — What Our Imaginary Southerly Pacific Railroad Costs. [ARTICLE]

What Our Imaginary Southerly Pacific Railroad Costs.

The Albany Journal says that it may not be generally known that we are building a Pacific railroad. It. is rather an airv, unsubstantial structure, the rails being laid no where, except in the imagination; but it has already cost us a good deal of money. The road was begun aboiH four years ago. As our Government is a Government which legislates always for the South, and never for the North, it was a foregone conclusion that the railroad must be a Southern railroad. It must connect with Charleston and Mobile, instead of New York or Philadelphia, and must link the States which talk of forming a Southern Confederacy to California and the Pacific coast. We began by sendingout a corps of army officers to survey the Southern route. The first route they surveyed was a route through Texas. The second route they surveyed was a route through Texas. The third route they surveyed was a route through Texas; and so on to the end of the chapter—every one of the dozen routes, with but one or two exceptions, being a route through Texas. This Texas engineering took out of the Treasury about $1,000,000. The printing of the survey cost $750,000; the Gadsden purchase, consisting of a sandy desert, agreeably diversified with rdeks, too barren of vegitation for the most part to support a field-mouse—all for the moderate sum of $10,000,000; a wagon road $250,000; the camels from the East $250,000, and the Artesian wells along the route $500,000. Grand total $13,000,000. ot7”2Pwo deer of the Albion species have been caught in California. One of them was found not to have a hair on iIL other than white; even his eyes were white, resembling those of a glass-eyed horSe, the pupils of his eye* being of an orange color. The other one was also white, and was of enormous size, being three times the weight of an erdinery deer.