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33d CONGRESS, [SENATE.] Ex. Duu.
1st Session. No. 52.
REPORT
OF
THE SECRETARY OF WAR,
COMMUNICATING
Lieutenant Williamson's report of his surteys to ascertain a practicable route
for a railroad to the Pacific ocean.
MARCH 20, 1854.-Referred to the Select Committee on the subject.
APRIL 3, 1854.-Ordered to be printed.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, March 17, 1854.
SIR: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th in-
stant, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of Lieutenant Wil-
liamson's report of his surveys to ascertain a practicable route for a
railway to the Pacific ocean, dated.January 12, 1854.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
JEFFERSON DAVIS, Secretary of War.
lon. D. R. ATCHISON,
President of the Senate.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
January 12, 1854.
SIR: In obedience to instructions from the War Department, dated
May 6, 1853, (a copy of which is herewith transmitted,) I lelt New
York on the 20th of the same month for California, and having arrived
at Benicia I organized a party, and commenced at once operations in
the field. At the end of a little more than five months from the time of
leaving Benicia, I arrived at San Diego, having completed the exami-
nations required. I there discharged my party, and proceeded with
my office corps to this place, arriving here on the 26th of last month.
I have here established an office, and am busily engaged in making
the necessary computations, and compiling the maps and sketches,
which will form the basis of a full report, showing the results of the ex-
pedition. My instructions, however, require that I should present a
skeleton report to be laid before Congress on or beibre the first Monday
of February next, As I have had as yet time to make only rough es-
timates of the altitudes of the passes examined, and none of the maps
are in a sufficiently advanced state to accompany a report at this time,
I fear that this report will be necessarily meagre and unsatisfactory ;
but as my instructions do not permit me to delay beyond the specified
time, I have prepared the following sketch of my field operations,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.usccsset/usconset20665&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)