Report of a reconnaissance and survey in California, in connexion with explorations for a practical railway route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean in 1853

Report of a reconnaissance and survey in California, in connexion with explorations for a practical railway route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean in 1853 Williamson, R. S. (Robert Stockton) 1824-1882 creator Blake, William P. (William Phipps) 1826-1910 United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. text dcu Washington s.n. 1855] 1855 monographic eng 61, 80 p. : map, profiles ; 24 cm. by R.S. Williamson. Also published in: Report of the Secretary of War communicating the several Pacific railroad explorations, v. 3, report X. Includes the "Preliminary geological report by William P. Blake, geologist and mineralogist of the survey." Plates: [1] General map of a survey of California in connection with examinations for railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean made by order of the War Department, by R.S. Williamson ... [2] Route of a survey from the Pimas villages on the Rio-Gila to Mesilla on the Rio-Bravo-Del-Norte with a view to determine the practicability of a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, made by Jno. G. Parke ... With: Parke, John G. Report of explorations for that portion of a railway route, near the thirty-second parallel of latitude ... [Washington : s.n., 1855] n-us-ca California Surveys Geology California Railroads California J66 serial 738 HE2771.A17 Wagner-Camp (4th ed.), 261:3b House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 33rd Congress, 1st session, no. 129 rc 01000751 DLC 830309 20260227111901.0 rc 01000751