The American" Railways. — The great overland route has remained open since our lust issue, passengers and mails arriving in time. Ere long we shall have two, and a little later three overland routes, and the snow blockades will not trouble us. The A'lantie and Pacific route, on the Thirty-fifth Parallel, will probably become the favorite. For the rest, recent action on the part of the Central Pacific Railroad (our end of the trans-continental road) in trying to grab Yerba Buena Island in our Bay for a terminus, has disgusted our citizens, who at this moment are expecting a delegation from St. Louis, iv reference to the building of a new railroad from that city to San Francisco. St. Louis is connected by a network of railroads with all the Atlantic cities, and of course all this competition will be good for the traveller by our route, in reducing the the fares, and making the companies anxious to secure passengers, by every means in their power, by special efforts for their comfort, and by accelerating the speed of trains. — News of the World.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 126, 28 May 1872, Page 2
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