172 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 



The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has promised to 

 build twenty-five miles of railroad, from Los Angeles to Ana- 

 heim, within two years, and has commenced the work. 



Congress has given 12,800 acres per mile, for a continuous 

 railroad from Sacramento to Portland, and 170 miles of the 

 road in California, and 203 in Oregon, are in running order, 

 leaving a gap of 209 miles unfinished between Redding and 

 Roseburg. Short as is the gap, and valuable as are the roads 

 in the Sacramento and Willamette Valleys, with considerable 

 bodies of rich land in the Klamath and Rogue Valleys, yet 

 the progress of the work is very slow, and fears are enter- 

 tained that the connection will not be completed for some 

 years. The work is entrusted to two companies, one in Oregon 

 and one in California, and each is required to finish twenty 

 miles every year, and to reach the line before 1876. 



Congress has granted to the Texas and Pacific Railroad, 

 12,800 acres per mile along its route in California, and 25,000 

 acres per mile in Arizona and New Mexico. In Texas the 

 land is the property of the State, and the Legislature has given 

 a large quantity, enough, it is said, to secure the comple- 

 tion of the road from Marshall to the western border. The 

 distance from San Diego to Galveston is 1,500 miles, whereas 

 that from San Francisco to New York, by the Middle Pacific, 

 is 3,300. But from San Francisco to New York by way of 

 San Diego and Marshall, the distance is 3,600 miles. The 

 grades on the Texas and Pacific are better than on the Middle 

 Pacific, and there is no danger of snow. An Act of Congress, 

 passed on the 2d of May, 1872, provides that not less than 

 one hundred miles must be built annually, from Marshall west- 

 ward, and not, less than ten miles before the 2d of May, 1874, 

 and after that twenty-five miles a year from San Diego east- 

 ward, and that the whole road shall be finished before the 

 2d of May, 1882. Congress has granted to the Atlantic and 

 Pacific Railroad Company a subsidy of 25,600 acres per mile, 

 for a railroad from the southern line of Missouri to Fort Mo- 



