The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-12-17
less, may be regarded as well

less, may be regarded as well
managed. q
The foregoing statement Is
also a virtual answer 10 your
fourth question. A road such
as Your questions contemplateS
with an income of 500 900 per
annum. will pay 6per cent. and
have sufficient surplus TO pro-
vide for more substantial i'm
provemenls. That is, the road
90 miles long TO the Tallahatch-
ie river. The construction OF
! Rail Roads is, much cheapen-
ed within The last few years.
| believe that many companies
are ust at this time committing a
serious blunder in the purchase of
iron rails, attending too much to
weight and not enough to quail
| ty.' A moderate sized rail- weigh
ing from so to so tons TO the mile
of good quality, is better than a
much heavier raj Of inferior quail
ity'-and it is worthy of remark,
that nearly all the railroad iron
sent to this country from England
for the last few years, is very in
ferior.
Your next step will be to employ
a good, Woodworking, honest En-
gineer, and let him survey your
route and furnish you with the
quantity OF excavation, embank-
ment, masonry, bridging, &C. ne
cessary, and then your knowledge
of the price Of labor will enable
you TO guess pretty well at the
cost ofyour road.
| am very favorably impressed
with the idea, that your road will
pay reasonable dividends, aud es-
peclalIy if completed to New Or
leans. The conviction is strength
ening upon the minds of intelli-
gent men, that Asiatic Cholera is
now permanently seated upon the
Mississippi river. "it your road
should be required to do the bust
ness of travel alone naS done upon
tho river, it wouId support itself
independent OF cotton and Ier-
chandise."
/ .sh!ng yol much SUCCESS n your con-
tempsatod enterprise, am, gentlemen,
Very respectfully, your ont s'v't,
NM. l.. MITCHELL.
Chief Engineer Western and At!aatic
Railroad, Geo. !
DAVID s. WHITE, and others, Comm.t,ot,
Como, Pamela county, Miss.
ENoE;EEs's OrFEcE, Colunbia, S. o.
Columbus mi .dc3nvllle Il. r.,
May I'D, 1850.
| Messrs. J. -. WALLACE AMI others:
GEXTLEMEs At the request Of
the Hon. John Bolton O'Neal, /
undertake 10 answer your ques-
Tons contained IN letter bearing
date april Goth. The graduation
over country such as you de-
scribe would be easy and the cost
small IN comparison with other
items. With an average price Tor
negro labor OF SO per month, and
corn at 50 cents per busAsl, the
| graduation may be executed OF II
cost not exceeding $4,000 per mile,
timber $500, laying down 5000,
iron weighing 60 pounds per yard
5000. in all $500 per mile.
Adj for depots anl water stations, s.. 900
locomotives TOO
Passenger cars Iht
Freight ears 50l
In all, $4,000 per milo, or for
$50 miles So. 800, 900.
! Our road is just in progress Of
construction, aud your 2nd ques-
ton cannot be answered fully.
The graduation will cost about 2000
| Timber IuDu
Laying track 400
| Iron, 81 pounds per yard, $500
Add uepots and e.ter ststioas 800
! locomotives 700
| Passenger cas- loo
! tro.ght Cars SOC
In ais $50
Engineering will cost about $50
per mile per annum, during the
progress oi construction.
Locomotives, / TO every 10 miles
cost about 5 500 each.
Passenger and Mail cars, l to
25 miles, cost from TO $4,000 each.
Freight cars. from / TO every mile,
cost about 5000 each.
The expense of repairs depends
| greatly upon the original mode OF
construction, but is also influenced