The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1843-04-13

DOL every Thing was quietly performed m
order and in season. On nalicing aecu-
raiely her mode Of daing business. Mr..
h. and his wife were both II lie opinion
this was The most valuable help lie had
hired. This led him 10 see how some
farmers lost lime. They w.uld hurry 10
distant field. and soon end they had left
some important TOOL behind; boy must
be sent for u, and The men must SIT and
wait.
THE PROGRESS OF RAIL ROADS.
The American Railroad Journal was
commenced eleven years ago in The city
of New York. In . recent number. the
editor gives brief sketch Of The history
Of his journal and Of Railroads, which ex-
hibiis several interesting facts. Al The
period the journal was commenced. ac-
cording 10 The editors showing, The whole
amount Of Railroads complete and in use.
was comprised in the following list
Baltimore and Ohio 90 miles.
Albany and Schenectady ~
Charleslown & Hamburg, ab't2O
Mauch Chunk 0
Quincy, near Boston, 9
OF these % miles only were upon any
Of the main lines Of rail roads.
The editor goes on 10 say:
Let us now compare the present state
Of affairs with this humble commence
ment. There are now between four and
fre thousand miles Of railroad in nse in
the United States, built by The expendi-
ture Of nearly one hundred millions Of
dollars. Eleven years ago there we're
but about one hundred miles in use.
There are now probably more than fire
hundred locomotive engines in use, near-
~ all Of them made in tins country. Ele-
ven years ago The few engines in use were
imported from England, and were Of The
oldest patterns. Since then fifty or more
American engines hsyc been sent abroad,
some 10 Russia, some 10 Austria, and Sc
veral to England. Had this fact been
predicted, even in The most indirect man
ner, in the first number Of the Railroad
journal, il would have sealed It's doom.
Eleven years ago dead level was by
many deemed necessary on a railroad,
(see p. SO, vol. III and grades Of 30 feet
10 the mile were hardly thought admissi-
BILE. Now, engines are in daily use
which surmount grades Of 60 and 80 feet
to the mile.
Eleven years ago inclined planes with
stationary power were considered the ne
Plus ultra OF engineering science. Now
/ ihey are discarded as expensive, inconye-
nient, and incompatible with the free use
of railroad.
Eleven years ago it was thought that
railroads could not compete with canals
in carrying heavy freight, and even much
more recently statements to this effect
have been put forth by authority. Now
we know that The most profitable Of the
Eastern railroads derives one-half Its in
come from bulky freight, and that coal
can be carried more cheaply upon a>rail-
road than in canals.
Eleven years ago the proftableness OF
railroads was not established, and, dis
couraged by the vast expenditure in Sc.
veral cases of experiment 10 an .untried
field, many predicted that they would be
Improbable. Now il is already demon
strated, by declared dividends, that WE'LL
constructed railroads, when !diyested Of
extraneous encumbrances, are the most
profitable investments in our country.
The New England railroads have paid
since their completion 6 to 8 per cent:
several other roads and I per cent.
The Hudson and Mohawk, Of fifteen and
half miles, costing about one million one
hundred thousand dollars, paid in 1910
seuea per cent. on that enormous outlay.
The Utica and Schenectady and Syra-
cuse and Utica pay 10 TO II per cent.
The stock of the Utica and Schenectady
Railroad has never been down 10 par since
operations were commenced in 1886, and
| has maintained its stand without tiuctua-
ton at higher rate than any other spe-
cies of stock during all our commercial
revolutions.
Eleven years ago there were but six
miles Of railroad in use in the vicinity OF
Boston. Now Boston has direct connex-
ion with web Of railways one thousand
! f,ro hundred and three miles in length.
all of which except about "a miles are
actually in use. being greater length oil
railroad than there was in the whole
world eleven years ago.
|. DR.. Claiming, in one of his latest all
dresses. saws with as much beauty as