The Nevada journal., 1860-12-21

will run finally at one hundred feet grade.
There are many miles of this line where
the grading of the permanent line will be
comparatively light, and not expensive The
balance will consist of heavy work-deep
cuts and high embankments.
Let the line be graded permanently wher-
ever the grading is light and inexpensive !;
and wherever heavy cut or succession of
heavy work presents itself, it is proposed to
use grades of as high as two hundred and
fifty feet per mile, and run around or over
them, forming connected line, which can
be built ready for use in twelve months !;
using the same to run out iron and ties for
the work beyond, and for the transaction
of the present Wasnoe, Carson Valley and
Salt Lake business.
Let the iron and ties be such as will be
nsed on a permanent road. Meantime,
should these appropriations be procured
from Government the work of grading for
a permanent road can be carried on, and as
far as finished, the track moved over on to
it.
If the work of grading procuring ties,
and laying track can be done here, no diff
Guilty will be experienced in finding par
ties in the East who will furnish the iron
and equipment with which to lay the
track, upon the most favorable terms.
The construction of the present roads in
California has given rise to erroneous i'm
pressions as to theactual cost of railroads
in this State.
1t is proposed to do the grading, ties, and
track-laying of this road by County and
State aid, in the following manner:
Nevada County,. ........... ........S3O0, Zoo
iacer county tv-.-................. 23O,000
Sacramento County y.......-......-... 10000
1t is proposed to ask the Legislature, at
its coming session, to grant bonus of
S25o,00o to the company who shall first
build a railroad to the State line, over
which single engine will haul load Of
sixty tons of freight.
1t is not proposed that the Counties be-
come stockholders, but issue their bonds
receiving in exchange therefor, an equal
amount of the bonds Of the Railroad Co.
1t is proposed that Nevada County allows
Sl50,000 to be expended on the main line !:
the remaining Sl50,000 to be expended on
road in that county to connect Herewith
1t is proposed that Placer County allow
100000 to be expended on the main line.
and $4,000 toward other roads in her lim-
its.
That Sacramento County allow the $3.50
600 to be expended on the main line.
With this aid, responsible parties will
enter into contract, and place such road
in running order, in twelve months from
breaking ground-six months being allowed
in which to make surveys and necessary
preparations.
1t is also proposed to ask the Legislature.
in view of the increased cost of operdtilp
a line ACROSS the Sierra Nevada, to author
ize this company to charge for through pas
sengers and freight; fifteen cents per pas
senger per mile, and thirty cents per ton
of freight per mile which is only about
one-sixth the lowest rates at which freight
is now carried to Washoe
i Way passengers and freight, or local
business to and from these counties at the
usual rates.
The business that such road will per-
form will necessarily be large the present
business transacted by teams must be seen
to be appreciated 1t is not unusual to
meet or pass three hundred loaded teams
en- route for Washoe in a day, loaded with
an average of two and half TONS
1t is estimated that not less than an
average of seventy-fYe tons per diem has
passed over the roads TO Washoe during
the past season.
The lowest rates Of freight, by OK teams.
is six cents per pound, or Sl2O per ton !:
and when these roads are bad, double and
treble these rates are paid.
This business is constantly increasing,
and it is believed that the effect of the con-
struction of this road will nearly if not
fully double it.
But by far the most important business
to be performed is the return freight of
silver ore to Sacramento and San Francis
co. 1t is well known that none but the
richer ores are worked or sent away. con-
stituting small proportion of the ore
taken out, by far the larger portion being
the less valuable ores, which are thrown
one side, to remain until the richer ores
are exhausted, in the hope that meantime
some less expensive mode of extracting
the silver will be found.
We're a railroad constructed. ore could
be laid down in Sacramento and San Fran
cisco at $50 per ton. The miner of mod
crate means, who owns a claim but is not
| able to put up mill and work it, can send
the product of his claim daily to Sacra
mento and San Francisco. There will be
no necessity for selecting and separating
ores as at present, as all will be sent down
and separated at the mills Lelow.
An estimate can scarcely be made of the
proftableness of such road for no in
stance of a road with similar business
exists, 1t is believed that its profitable
ness will exceed that of any known road
in the world