The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-11
Bishop Elect Of San Francisco.
JOHN HARRINGTON, Pro Secretary.
THE MAIL STAGE ROUTE ACROSS THE CON-
TINEVT.

York within seventeen days travel Of California the
Sacramento Union says
press in the State 10 manfesting in this enterprise.
Some twenty days since we wrote an article upon
the feasibility OF the undertaking, and assumed the
positions that Pacific railroad was hopeless ex-
that the only thing which could at present be done
'or California in Congress was to get through
blu for telegraph line, another for line OF posts,
and good wagon road from Missouri to California.
They would prove tho pioneers to the great rail.
road. Subsequently we have read with pleasure
several able articles upon the enterprise. among
them one In the State journal, from which we snail
take TIE liberty of quoting.
The following are the estimates, quoted from the
State journal that have been made OF the costs Of
such road by some Of the officers Of the Calif0rnis
Stage Company, who are perfectly experienced and
CAPABLE.
From the best information we can procure, and,
Sacramento Is the headquarters Of all California
staging, consider eur statistics pretty reliable,
il will take about seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to stock the line and nut up the necessary
stables and other conveniences.
For daily line each way, the route would have
to be divided into one hundred and lfty stations,
twelve miles apart, with q stable, ten horses and
two sets OF harness at each station AT every fifth
station, or sixty miles, it would require Concord
coach and it would need about two thir IS as many
more coaches placed at intermediate stations, to
guard against any serious detention from accidents.
The cost of these equipments may fairly be est.
mated as follows viz:
so coaches, at $3.50. ...................$3 So, 500
800 sets Of stage harness, a. $50. ..... Is. 900
1900 horses, at $l75. Northumberland 1882 500
$50 stables. costing say $4,000. ....... 1926 900
Blacksmith shops and other incdentals. .l07 900
Total. $3.50, 900
A daily lire Of one stage each way would require
. hostler at every station; two drivers at each
sixty mile station the usual number of agents. &C.:
the wear aD6 tear Of stages and harness, and the
feed Of $500 horses, which latter throughout the
whole route will cost fifty cents each per day. This
would give as monthly running expenses, something
like the following:
GO drivers, at SIS. - 500
$50 hosters ct $50. Observation-Disclosures. 1900
1900 horses, 30 days, ct SIS. ............ 22,500
ARentS, &C. ................ OSVUV
Wear and tear, rs per cent. per annum ON
$4500O0. Observation-Disclosures. 10,50O
Interest on $3.50 900, at one per cent. per
m0nln. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1y50O
Total monthly expenses. .............. .$57 500
Such line, in addition to the necessary letter
mail, could comfortably carry nine through pas
eengeis per day, each way, which number would
make 460 per month. and at $3.50 each, would
amount to the sum OF $72 000 or profit Of $l4,500
per month more than the cost of running the line;
and that too without taking into consideration the
pay for carrying the United States mails.