Report Of The Board On Fortifications Or Other Defenses Appointed By The President Of The United States Under The Provisions Of The Act Of Congress Approved March 3, 1885

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. ...Norte makes a bend to the SSW., Mowing through a mountainous country, and the railroad passes more directly to El Paso, meeting the river at a station called Rio Grande, 37 miles SIC. of El Paso. £1 i'lwo, a town on the Rio Grande del Norte, about 1,420 miles from its mouth. It is the junction of four railroads--Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Mexican Central Railroad, connecting Kansas City with the city of Mexico. The Southern pacific Railroad has a junction with the Texas and Pacific Railroad at Sierra Blanca, 92 miles east of El Paso. The latter branch runs to New Orleans, while the Galveston, Houston and Harrisburg Railroad forms the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The Southern Pacific Railroad diverges from the boundary line, which it meets again at Yuma on the Colorado River. The boundary line then runs due west on the 31 47' parallel of north latitude for a distance of 100 miles; it then bends at right angles due south for 30 miles, to latitude 31 IP north, on which parallel the line runs to the 111th meridian. The only point on this line is the small town of Nogales, the terminus of the Sonora Railroad, which connects with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Benson by the New Mexico and Arizona Railroad, 88 miles long between Benson and Nogales. The road runs thence to Guay nas, on the Gulf of California, 205 miles from Nogales. The valuable mines of the State of Sonora, Mexico, and its excellent fruits, will render this frontier town of great importance. The excellent harbor of Guay mas is thus provided with good transportation facilities with the United States. The boundary line then goes to the Colorado River, at Pedricks, in latitude 32 29' 45" N. The Colorado River rises in the Rocky...