Map of routes for a Pacific railroad /
Summary
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855.
"This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state."
In manuscript ink on verso: "Maps showing boundaries of proposed territory of Arizona belonging to the [illegible], Department of the Interior."
Annotations in ink at lower center.
LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth, minor discoloration horizontally along lower right half and along upper left half.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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