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Show THE WESTERN PACIFIC. The San Francisco Chronicle states that work has been begun on the Western Pacific at Beck-worth Beck-worth Pass; that 200 men are employed there; that this force will be augmented from time to time "in grading, tunneling, making road-bed, etc." It is easy to trot a team through Beck-with's Beck-with's Pass; to the west is the open Sierra valley and thence on there are no engineering en-gineering difficulties ,. .until American valley, thirty-five miles frorrf Beckwith's, is passed. From there on down the North Uqrk of Fearer river there will be sure-enough business. Jt is a grand canyon, much of the way will be through the side of an almost perpendicular cliff, the river will have to be bridged probably half a dozen times, and it will be altogether as stubborn work as railroad' builders ever meet. But the highest grade will be but sixty-five feet to the mile, and with the road finally completed, it, at its highest point, will be 1,600 or 1,650 feet lower than the crossing the summit of the Sierras by the Southern South-ern Pacific. We do not know the route east of Beckwith's Pass. By going down Long valley twelve miles there will be found an open way through the hills to the east; by turning south it is an open country, or a country of low rolling hills far out into Nevada. It is said that the construction company expects to complete the work in the Feather river canyon in two years and that by that time all the rest of the road will have been finished. |