Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific

ROBINSON. Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1850. 117pp. +two folding maps. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine label. Very good. 

First edition.   A favorable report given by the Committee on Roads and Canals to emphasize the economic advantages of Whitney's railroad, which would "make the United States the centre axle of the commerce of the world." The first map "shows the position of our continent as compared with Europe and Africa on one side, and Asia on the other, placing us in the centre." The second map shows four proposed transcontinental railroad routes: the Northern Route, the Southern Route, the Galveston Route and the St. Louis Route.