TABLE OF LENGTHS, COST, ETC. 
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Table showing the lengths, sums of ascents and descents, equated lengths, cost, &c., 
routes explored for a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific. 
of the several 
* These are the estimates of the office, those of Gov. Stevens having been brought to the same standard of increased cost with the other routes, 
and his equipment reduced to that of the other routes. His estimates were $117,121,000 and $110,091,000. 
f Supposing the route to be a straight line, with uniform descent, from the Un-kuk-oo-ap mountains (near Sevier river) to the entrance of the 
Tah-ee-chay-pah Pass—the most favorable supposition possible. 
} Tlie estimate of Lieut. Parke, for the construction of a railroad by this route from Fulton to San Jos6, is $82,812,750. Adding $2,025,000, the 
office estimate for the route from San Jose to San Francisco, Lieut. Parke’s total estimate from Fulton to San Francisco would be $84,837,750. 
§ The estimate of Lieut. Parke for this route is $59,005,500. 
The sum of the minor undulations (not included in the sum of ascents and descents here given) will probably be greater for the routes near the 
47th and 49th parallels than for the other routes. 
With the amount of work estimated for the roads in this report, the equated lengths, corresponding to the sums of ascents and descents, have but 
little practical value. With a full equipment and heavy freight business, the sum of ascents and descents becomes important. 
