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destinies of such, a region as tliiSj when it shall he tapped by 

 a railway. At present it is completely land-locked. 



The price of carriage for machinery^ to say nothing of 

 setting it up, is enormous. Labour must be dear^ when all 

 manufactui^ed goods, as well as food, are at least twice the 

 price they are . at the farthest limits of the railways. Yery 

 few enterprises have a chance of succeeding under such 

 disadvantages, but with the completion of the railway all will 

 be changed ; and I cannot help predicting that these moun- 

 tains will at some timej not far distant^ become a great centre 

 for the manufacture of iron, fi'om wliicli rails will be supplied t, 

 to railways ramifying tlirougli Texas to Memphis, to Vicks- 

 hurg and to Galviston on the coast ; down the Eio Grande to 

 the city of Chihuahua, up that stream to Taos, and into the 

 heart of Colorado ; perhaps also along the 32nd parallel, and |^ 

 do^vTi to Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, if not still 

 fiirther to Toquivampo or Mazatlan. 



After a ride of thii'ty miles over a most uninteresting 

 Saturday, plaiu, almost reduced to a desert from want 



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