THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 97, 18 January 1868, Page 5

THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILWAY.

A San Francisco correspondent of tlif Panama paper, writing on the Stli Hoverc ber, says :—“ Everybody rejoices in near accomplishment of the great work constructing the Continental Railroa The average rate of progress per day hi been often stated; but the recent telcgraj announcing the completion of the first 6(! miles on the other side of the Rocky Mouj tains, conveys a more definite idea of prj gress than any prospective statement. Y| have now something tangible and certaii The great work moves on every day wit,,. an augmentation of force gathered from, experience, as well as by any I of material resources. Cheyenne City—just ahead of the trace-layers—is located h at the commencement of the foot-hills of the gteat chain known generally as the Rocky Mountains. The succession of | ranges and spurs beats different names. Old hunters generally describe them as the | Black Hills. In a few days the road enters I these hills, and then the “trouble begins.” | Tite engineering difficulties are said to be | hardly less than those overcome in the' "J Sierra Hevadas. It is noticeable also that 1 as the contractors on the Atlantic end enter ! the mountains, the builders of the Pacific 1 end are beginning to emerge, and will soon f be out on the great plains of the interior basin. The hill and -mountain section to be encountered by the Atlantic builders, extends for nearly 500 miles. The state- | ments of teamsters and pioneers make the difficulties to be encountered of a very for- f midable character. But the judgment of a capable engineer is quite another thing, j Of the real difficulties of the Black Hill | section, less is really known than of any other section in the great work. But be- . sides timber, water, and stone, those most important _ items, the appropriation for mountain work is grsatly increased, and the encouragement is sufficient to inspire | the utmost energy. If the completion of j the work should be beyond 1810, it willdß probably be on account of difficulties countered on tho Atlantic end.” M