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Map of routes for a Pacific railroad /

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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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01/01/1855
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Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble), 1830-1882.
United States. War Department. Office of P. R. R. Surveys.
Bien & Sterner.
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Library of Congress
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