Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean written by United States. War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Vol 6 written by United States War Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Vol. 6: Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War in 1854-5, According to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854 Sir: In Obedience to instructions from the War Department, I have the honor to submit the accompanying report of the exploration and survey in California and Oregon, conducted by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, United States Topographical Engineers, in 1855. The prepara tion of the report has devolved upon me, in consequence Of the severe and protracted illness of Lieutenant Williamson; and it is due to myself to state that I have performed the duty with extreme reluctance, partly because it was not originally designed for me by the Department, and partly because it properly belongs to the officer by whose forethought and professional ability the expedition has been brought to a successful termination. Wishing to convey Lieutenant Williamson's ideas, as far as they are known to me, I have been guided by his recorded field notes, and by his Opinions expressed to me in conversation, in preparing the portion Of the report which relates to regions traversed by him. During a part Of the field work I was entrusted with a separate party, with instructions to prepare a written report Of the results Of my examinations. For any Opinion given in this portion Of the report he, of course, is not responsible. At the completion Of the survey for a railroad route from the Sacramento valley to the Columbia river, the season was so far advanced and the animals were in so jaded condition, that Lieutenant Williamson considered it impracticable to make any examination Of the Sierra Nevada until the ensuing spring. Before that time, orders were received from the War Department, directing him to return at once to Washington to prepare the maps, profiles, and reports Of the explora tion already made. The second survey contemplated in his original instructions was consequently omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Vol 3 written by United States War Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Vol. 3: Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4, According to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854 Three of the principal centres of trade upon the. Mississippi river are St. Louis, Memphis, and Vicksburg. To these cities converge railroads, constructed or proposed, from harbors upon the northern lakes, from the principal ports upon the Atlantic Shore, and from those upon the Gulf of Mexico, uniting the interests of the northern, middle, and southern States. From the above mentioned places railroads have been projected, and several are in process of construction, west ward to the extreme limits of {the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, each with a purpose of forming a link in the great chain of communication which must ultimately lead to the Pacific ocean. The question immediately arises, which of the various routes shall be at first prolonged; or, can there be found a location for a main trunk that may be advantageously united with several of these branches, affording nearly equal facilities to interests so widely diffused? Nature seems to point out such an intermediate location near the parallel of thirty-five degrees north latitude, referred to in the preceeding instructions. Following the south bank of the Canadian river for nearly one-third of the whole distance to the Pacific, -we pass into the valley of Rio Grande del Norte, near the centre of New Mexico, where the soil is the most fertile, the population is the most numerous, and the mines are the most productive of any part of this interior portion of our possessions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Reports of Explorations And Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable And Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean written by United States. War Dept. and published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of explorations for a route for the Pacific Railroad, near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels of north latitude, from St. Paul to Puget Sound.Vol.1, Part 2
Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific O written by United States War Dept and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...Trunk road was extended as the first step towards a Pacific railroad, and because its failure is an example of what may be apprehended by a like incomprehensive treatment of our own Pacific project. Extract from a speech of Hon. James A. McDougal, delivered in t/ie House of Rcprm-nttitivef on the 29tt of May, 18.H. "The line from Halifax, through the British possessions, to the Pacific, is a project contemplated by our northern neighbors, and in it they have the support of heavy English capital." DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. IS and decayed. The amount of the cost of this renewal would absolutely construct and equip a road of medium class, with ordinary management reaching the Pacific in ten years, and, if necessary, even in five years. This preliminary road would not make a passage of the same obstacles by reduction of surface, nor adopt so direct a line as a Grand Trunk road; but select a route giving the most rapid results to first outlay, by at once answering the present needs of the nation. It would also accomplish that first step towards the construction of a grand road, which would eventually insure its completion without great loss to its projectors, or, more properly, to the government finding means for extending it. A doubt exists in the minds of practical individuals whether the traffic of a Grand Trunk overland railroad will ever support its running expenses. Hence, there is an experiment to be tried. Government is not particularly interested in the question as to whether the commerce of the Pacific seas will pass over this line, when built, or continue to be borne by clipper-ships around the southern extremity of South America. Government is interested in the solution of the problem only so far as the...
Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys Vol 7 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Explorations and Surveys, Vol. 7: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, 1853-6 No. L. - Report of explorations from San Francisco bay to Los Angeles. No. 2 - Report of explorations from Pimas villages to the Rio Grande. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississipi River to the Pacific Oce written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...greater local variation than the tem Note by Lieut. Abbol.----This subject is fully treated in Chapter I of the General Report. perature, being greatest toward the coast and northward, less on the southern than northern coast, and least in the interior. Geological structure.---The geology of that portion of California and Oregon under consideration has been given somewhat in detail in the accompanying geological report. It will, therefore, not be necessary to repeat what has already been said upon the subject. The general characteristics of the geology of this region may, however, be said to consist in the great prevalence of comparatively recent volcanic rocks, and of a soil derived from their decomposition, in all the mountain ranges. In the valleys, and on the flanks of the coast mountains, tertiary strata, generally of sandstones, constitute the sub-structure, and give character to the soil. As compared with the valley of the Mississippi, and the more northern of the eastern States, the Pacific coast is much more recent, the greater part of it having emerged from the ocean since the middle of the tertiary period. LOCAL BOTANY. COAST MOUNTAINS. Clz'mate.--The climate of the immediate shore of the Pacific is quite unlike that of the interior, a difference dependent upon its proximity to the evaporating surface of the ocean, the ocean currents, and the prevalent winds. It is much more uniform, cooler, and more moist. The uniformity of temperature which it exhibits is due, unquestionably, to the equalizing influence of the nearly constant temperature of the wide expanse of open sea which lies adjacent to it, and over which the winds blow inland, almost without intermission, throughout the year. These winds, which are loaded with moisture, ...
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