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Show I HAT KAST AND WEST RAILROAD Mr X' '..id. i cont'.-iiiiari.-?i are pn .-.-ihg th.-ni.rlv. s on the suh'iert !.'t ly tn ..t. -1 of in llaj Eur.-ka ii-', ai.d -in. i dwi-Il uptii in the IIku-ai.d IIku-ai.d an r-a.-t and w. st railro.ul that will pa.-.- tiiroii'di or m-ar to a large in in ih, r of the principal mining dis-Iivl, dis-Iivl, in I't.iii and Nevada. The LV.-i..- .' ! u-ih: ron.-lnd.-sthat t..1.- pi' j . l i f.a-ih'.', and en our-ag-1 it. The Virginia V.,-r(1(.'. con-1 -:d, r- that -u.-h a inn- might U- budt in thi.- g. in r.it:uiirhut think.-! ithanliy pr.jb.t! Ir. This cold-water view ufthe i .-nij. i-t brings to mind r.LTUiiil kiud-i kiud-i ri d cpi--.--inn- ntt'-ml by other gl-eat :u'-u in p.'.t y.-ars, having reference lo proi'-ct-d triumphs of .-team. Win n an overland railruad W;w l"ilu-p-a. l, more than twenty-two years ago, how it was ridiculud, snec-rcl at, and di- l.irul au engineering imposi-liiiity. imposi-liiiity. Even K.-foro that time, alter it' urn had been applied to river and eoa-ting' navigation, when the ques.-liim ques.-liim was rai.-t.-tl in the DritUh House of Commons of aididiziug a tteani-ship tteani-ship line betwe-en England and the I'nittd Stat, s, the then Lon.1 Stanley and laic Earl of Derby, father to the pn sent Earl, who worthily won and wore the ufic';the Rupert of debate," dc laml from his place in the House ot Commons that if ever a steamship crossed the Atlantic he would "cat his hat." The imiM-iblc steamship result re-sult has been accomplished, but the Earl died without performing his gastronomic gas-tronomic feat. This new east and west railroad is not only probable within tine genera-lion, genera-lion, but is actually in progress, although al-though our western neighbors do not Heeni to be aware of the fact; and there U to-day lesri to be done Uj complete com-plete the road than the Pacilic railroad rail-road had to do between Sacramento and Laramie. San Francisco is in-t in-t ere.-Uil in it; St. Louis is interested in it; and business men of large means are ready to invesL in it; while every county and precinct through which it would pas.s should lend their aid lo make it an accomplished fact. But whether they du or not, the road will be completed and running before Mr. All'. Doten's heir counts his filth summer at an end. This wc predict, not on the uncertainties of mining camps, but on the certainties of increasing in-creasing population and the demands of commerce and progress. |