APPENDIX HH. 



RAILROAD ROUTES FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



[By Capt. J. H. Simpson, Corps Topographical Env.tnkkrs. r. S. I 



As it may be e: 



spected of me, on acco 



unt of i 



niv ex 



[durations 



over differen 



riuiisot' the country 

 Ocean, that I shoulc 



lying between the Ark, 

 I express my views in i 



■elation 



id' Mis 



sissippi Ri 



vers and the ] 

 monof oneo 



railroads across the 



continent, 1 do not km 



>w how 



I can 



better do 



so than to ir 



as a portion of my i 



report, the following le 





eh 1 a 



ddressed < 



>n this suhjec 



citizen of Buffalo, J 



anuarv 20, 1859, when 



1 was ; 



It Can 



i]> Floyd. 



At that date 



not made the explon 



fore, premise rli.it w 



hat 1 have said in this 







ftsinofUta 



h, and I will, 

 middle or Be 



railroad route, I am 



constrained, from the . 



jxperiei 



ice 1 r 



low have, 1 



to modify, so 



to state that, while 



[do not consider (as 





reporl 





introduction 



report) my route ac 



ross the Great Basin § 

 in Beck with, from the i 



, milron 

 south ei 



d rou 

 idof ( 





o believe th; 

 Lake to the 1 



to strike and cross the Siena Nevada, will be found to be practicable. \\ hat should 

 be the line from the Humboldt to and across the Sierra Nevada is a question which, 

 probably, is more open to doubt: though I should gather, from Captain Beckwith's 

 report, that even in this section his grades do not preclude the practicability of the route.* 

 I will also premise that, as the accumulation of the snows in the hi-li mountain- 

 passes is more due to successive snow-storms, and non-meltino- of the snow, and thus 



continent, on then 

 I now present the 



•oss the U»ite<l States, from the Atlantic to the Pi 

 Camp Floyd, Utah, Jan 



to receive by tin 

 ilroad, which yoi 



