The Weekly Butte Record

ALL TOO TRUE.—The N. Y. Post says that the Pacific Railroad was to be built on a Southern route, the farther South the better, has been a foregone conclusion with the government for some years. Money enough has been spent in the exploration of Southern routes—at least two or three of them being through Texas—to build many miles of the road from St. Paul to Puget Sound. One million of dollars spent in Texas engineering, seven hundred and fifty thousand spent in printing the surveys. ten millions paid by General Gadsden for a strip of desert territory outside of our own boundaries. since the railroad was impracticable in that section of country with them, a quarter of a million spent for a wagon road over the said desert, another quarter of a million spent for Bactrian camels and Bedouin dromedaries to be used where there was little water, another quarter of a million spent in digging artesian wells where water was so scarce that even camels could not live—all these items added roughly, amount to twelve millions of dollars, and are exclusive of the sum we shall soon have to pay for organizing Arizona into a Territory, and for supporting the Utah troops yet to be sent into that region the protection of the settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad.