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Re: Ну если...
>>>Это же вы утверждали, что я писал "малопривлекательная местность" про Великие равнины.
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>>Ну вот Вы писали:
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>>>Разговор шел, что обе дороги связывали густонаселенную часть страны с побережьем на другом конце страны. И обе дороги шли через малопривлекательную для жизни местность. Если вы дадите себе хоть немного труда поинтересоваться тем, как там с населением в этой самой Юте, то легко узнаете, что это и сейчас малонаселенный штат. У которого 80% населения сконцентрировано возле хребта Уосатч.
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>>Вот карта:
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Transcontinental_railroad_route.png
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>>Дорога начинается в Омахе, идет по Небраске и Вайомингу. Это что, не Великие равнины?
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>>Да и в Юте дорога проходит через Promontory севернее Great Salt Lake, в 106 км от Солт-Лейк-Сити, который возле хребта Уосатч.
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>Чего доказать то хотите?
Два тезиса:
1) Пока западную часть страны не освоили, дорогу не строили.
Памфлет, выпущенный 2 апреля 1868 г. компанией PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Beyond the western banks of the Mississippi and Missouri are more than two million square miles of the American Union. In 1860, less than half that area, east of these rivers, contained more than twenty-seven millions of people.
It is now twenty years since Col. THOMAS H. BENTON, the distinguished Senator from Missouri, introduced a bill to the United States Senate for the construction of a road to be of iron where practicable from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean. At that time, the difficulties in the way of building a railroad across the Rocky
Mountains were thought too great to be surmounted, even with the help of an unencumbered national treasury, and the Senator's humbler project failed for want of support. But then, the Pacific coast was a wilderness, dotted only here and there with furtraders' posts, and had no attractions for a resident population.
Now, it is divided into powerful states, with large towns and cities, and contains nearly a million of inhabitants, who are actively engaged in all departments of production and traffic.
2) местность, по которой шла дорога, была привлекательной.
Про земли вдоль дороги, которую компания собиралась продавать для компенсации затрат:
The lands for two hundred miles west of the Missouri river belonging to the Company which are now surveyed, amounting to two millions of acres, are susceptible of the highest cultivation, and will be sold at low prices, and on favorable terms of payment.They are mostly in the Platte valley-every foot of them subject to tillage, are well watered, well drained, and the soil is very rich.
The lands extending from Fort Kearney to the eastern base of the mountains require irrigation to secure crops, but they are covered with a growth of buffalo and bunch grasses at all seasons of the year, and afford the finest pasturage in the world. At the base of the mountains, and along the valleys of all the water-courses heading in the granite formations, the lands are good, and well adapted to settlement, and the valleys of the mountain streams of Colorado to-day afford a better recompense to the farmer than any gold mine in that Territory.
The lands on the Laramie Plains are high, but are mostly well watered, and vegetables, small grains, &c., thrive well. The valleys of Green River, Black Fork, and the streams east of the rim of the great basin are from one to five miles wide, well watered, and will support a large population.
Ну и про север Юты, по которой прошла дорога.
The valleys of the Weber River and Great Salt Lake are already thickly settled,
and yield immense crops of grain and vegetables, while for fruit, they are perhaps unequalled in the United States.
COAL.
The best Coal yet discovered near the line is situated about 500 miles west of the Missouri river, and extends south along the Denver Branch to Colorado, and has been used by the people of that State for years. The veins run from two feet to sixteen feet
in thickness, have good floors and excellent slate roofs, and are easily and cheaply mined.
Crossing the Laramie range of mountains and striking the Laramie Plains, the railroad immediately enters the great coal field of that country and runs directly through it for over four hundred miles. This coal region has not been fully developed, but no doubt exists that it is the finest coal field west of the Missouri river. The veins run from two to twenty feet in thickness, and are easy of access, often lying above the grade of the road, and have a dip that makes them cheaply and easily drained, while
the supply for all time to come is inexhaustible. After crossing the Wahsatchi range of mountains, coal is again found along Weber valley sufficient for all practical purposes.