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Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Subjects: Pacific railroads Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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f the route, &c. 2. Recapitulation, and comparison of routes. 3. Cost of construction. 4. Description of route from Pimas villages to Colorado river. 5. Thirty-second parallel route, from Mississippi river to San Diego and San Francisco. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. X MAPS. 1. San Francisco Bay to Lob Angeles. 2. Pimas Villages to Kio Grande. PROFILES. Route from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles.—Route from Pimas Villages to Kio Grande.—Route from Fulton to SanFrancisco Bay, andjto San Diego Bay. LITHOGRAPHS, o Page. PlATB I. Guadalupe Largo, and San Luis harbor Frontispiece- n. South end of Santa Inez mountains, and San BuenaTcntura vaUey 7 rH. Warners Pass from San Felipe 13 IV. View on the Gila below the Great Bend ^ 19 V. Valley of the Gila, and Sierra de las Estrellas, from the Maricopa wells 21 VI. Valley of the Aravaypa from Bear springs 25 Vn. Porphyritic statue, Peloncillo range 29 Vin. Mission church of San Xavier Del Bac 35 * From original sketcbes by A. H, Campbell, Esq.
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No. 1. REPOET OF EXPLORATIONS FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO LOS ANGELES. GENERAL EEMARKS. Havins secured the services of the assistants authorized, and procured the instrumentsnecessary for the prosecution of the field duties, the party sailed from New York in the mailsteamer of the 5th of October, and arrived in San Francisco on the 1st of the following month.To organize and furnish the party with the required stores, camp equipage, and transportation,detained us until the 20th of November, when we started from Benicia, crossing the Straits ofCarquinez to Martinez, and proceeding thence by the wagon road to the Pueblo of San Jose atthe southern end of the Bay of San Francisco, where we entered upon the field of survey fordetermining the practicability of locating a line of railroad from the Bay of San Francisco toLos Angeles, lying wholly west of the Coast Range. From San Jose, the initial point of the survey, we followed along the Santa Clara valley toa tributary of the Pajaro, and thenreportsofexplora07unit

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