CHAPTER III. 
THE KANSAS PACIFIC RATLWAY. 
THE more advanced of the two Pacific railroads yet to be 
described is that which passes through districts already made - 
known’ to my readers in previous chapters; it is therefore — 
unnecessary for me to go over the ground a second time. 
The Kansas Pacific Company has completed more than 400 — 
_ miles of road, reaching to the borders of Colorado, and expects 
to complete its branch through Denver to the Omaha line, 2 ~ 
distance of 321 miles farther, within the present year. 
In the meantime, the Southern Pacific of California, which 
stands in the same relation to the Kansas Pacific as the 
Central Pacific of California does to the Union Pacific (or the 
Omaha line), had laid eighty miles of road in March, ’69, and 
is fast “locating ” a farther section, which is to pass through 
the Panoche Pass, in the coast range, into the Tulare valley, 
and west of Tulare Lake to Tehachapa Pass, in the Sierra 
Nevada. 
The Report of all the surveys referred to in this book 
has just been published, and now lies open before me, form- 
ing a small volume of 250 pages; not written in the high- 
flown, exaggerated manner of too many documents of a similar 
nature. which we yearly receive from America, but full of in- 
formation, which, although usually too condensed, is forcibly 
put and justly represented. 
2 So extensive a surveying expedition was probably never 
