The Great Pacific Railroad.
{"newspaper_name": "Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1804, "word_count": 331, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9635000228881836], "ccnet_perplexity": [893.9000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Mr.. WHITNEY, the protector Of the
contemplated railroad from Lake Michi-
gan to the Pacific ocean, announces in
letter that it IS his intention, in the course
Of the approaching summer, to make re-
.connoisance Of the country over which said
rail road would run, as far as the Rocky
Mountains. He will leave New York
about the Goth Of the present month for
Green Bay, accompanied by several young
men Of education and responsibility. From
the latter point he will follow the lake to
Milwaukee, and from thence win strike
across the country to the Missouri river.


The length Of rail road completed and
now in use in the United States is said to
exceed Eve thousand miles, and the average
cost per mile is about twenty thousand dol
lars. The road proposed by Mr.. Whitney
could not exceed two thousand miles in
length; and, assuming twenty thousand del
lars as the cost Of construction per mile,
would require IN expenditure of forty mil
lions Of dollars to ensure its completion
Should the road ever be made, it is sup
posed it would be on or near the parallel
Of e Q north Latitude.


However visionary the project may seem
at first sight, its Importance must be con.
ceded when we reflect upon the great rev.
olution in trade and commerce which the
completion Of the road would be sure ts
effect. Not only would the whole of oul
trade with China, India, and the Pacific
Islands, pass over It. but it. would be thu
route for the trade Of all Europe with 4hos,
countries. But little is known Of the ex
tent Of this trade by our people generally
but it is conceded to be vast and increas
ing. We have not doubt that the chile
is now living in Iowa who will yet see al
active land trade carried on between th,
Atlantic and Pacific States, over road OF
route passing through nearly the centre 0
our State.