KANSAS AND THE COUNTRY BEYOND.

Via Cameron, (Hannibal and St. Joseph R. R. to Quincy,) Toledo, Wabash, and Western
R. R., Fort Wayne and Pitisburgh R. R., and Penna, R. R., via Allentown to New

York. Miles,
Kansas City to Cameron, . : . ; : . . 55
Cameron to Quincy, . : . ; ' ‘ : : 170
Quincy to Springfield, Illinois, : . ; / ; ; . 4
Springfield to Fort Wayne, ; : : : ‘ : ; 268
Fort Wayne to Pittsburgh,,. 6 . ‘ ‘ ‘ . 820
Pittsburgh to New York, as before, . . : : : : 431

1358

From Kansas City to Philadelphia the foregoing distances are
respectively 76 miles less, to wit, 1282, 1813, and 1283.

Distances FRoM Kansas Crry to New York, THROUGH THE STATE
or New York.

Kansas City to Chicago, via Quincy as above, . . Y . 490
Chicago to Buffalo, via Southern Michigan, &e., . ‘ ; 588
Buffalo to Albany (N. Y. Central), : ; ‘ . . 298
Albany to New York (Hudson River R. R), . ; : . 144
1470
Via Dunkirk and the New York and Erie Railroad.

Kansas City to Chicago, ; : . . 490
Chicago to Dunkirk (8. Mich. Lake Shore, &e. y . é . 498
Dunkirk to New York, : . . . . 460
1448

It will be seen from this at a glance that the Union Pacific Railway
of the Kansas accommodates quite as well the trade and travel of the
basin of the Great Lakes as of the valley of the Ohio, — that no loca-
tion on the farther bank of the Missouri could have been more fortu-
nately chosen as the starting-point for a great road across the conti-
nent than the mouth of the Kansas river. All the great lines east of
the Mississippi can reach it with equal facility and at very nearly
equal distances. By two of them — one crossing the Mississippi at
St. Louis, the other at Quincy —the difference in distance between
Kansas City and New York is but one mile; and the difference be-
tween the routes through St. Louis and Chicago, from one of those far
distant points to the other, is only thirty-two miles.

 

LETTER XX.— Branch Roads— To Galveston from three Points in
Kansas — To Denver — Down the Rio: Grande into Mexico— To
Guaymas— To San Diego—LHffect upon Mexico— General Remarks.

ALLEGHENY Crry, August 6, 1867.
A CAREFUL examination of a good map of North America will con-
vince any one who will make it that so sure as the Union Pacific