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Here for your enjoyment is an old map of routes for a Pacific railroad / compiled to accompany the report of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Sec. of War in Office of P. R. R. Surveys ; G.K. Warren. It was taken in 1855.
Railroads.
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."
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