The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-15

srsv into the wilderness win create for Itself popula
ton and sfc-on the ctner hand, settlements have
spontaneously formed niDg up every vacant space
ana crying aloud for railways before they come sucn
the with the railway that We mentioned. ~ nas
been long established want, and Is only now beginning
to be newly sstablished fact The route originally
surveyed by American engineer, whose name Is emil
nent both sides Of the Atlantis for h mastery MIND
De Witt Clinton. he laid down the route - early a.
great pathway was not only ei BY The inhabitants along
gneer Of the Union. OF course every argument that
could be applied in ISIS applies oriori, and with enor
The tract through which the new rail passes has be-
come very popuous, very forrishing Y crowdng with
passengers, teemipg with prcduce The New York and
Ohio and Assssippi Railway connects Cincinnati with
81 Louis There therefore two pieces Of line from
are wide gusgc different from that OF any other
neced with them they had consequently, on arriving at
70 70 py uss ns
mediate spaces the direct route At angels more or
less oblque BY tho formation Of the Atlantic and Great
Western the two important broad guage lines made
INTO enc and thus great railway OF the most approved
construction csnplees the passenger and tran, line
from New York to the Missouri river The frst section
Of tho new line 10 have been psned this month;
whether not that expectation has been fuy carried
The susject but there no doubt Of It's speedy working
r indeed, il has not already commenced nCnton sid,
in 1873, Gin military as vel As commercial view, the
result Of such railway would scrpss the powers Of cal
ulaiion,' be Was dealing with figures which
would now appear miniature in the comparison. Il
which, a. we have said, proceed IN very obnque
direction, tho annual trans from East TO
West ard back again, amounts 70 60 0 000 on, this
in tie absence Of direct route. There Doubt Also
which the new road win penetrate leaves their
dormant. Thus, while they are unrrcv!ded with .
Of bringing their oduce readily 70 Market the
Of the produce itself far less than il would be-
Hence the new line forms key not only TO An immense
traffic East and West between tie Atlantic and the Ms
slssppi and the Missouri but II Is key also to vast
OF settlement and cultivation in the central region
through which passes In order 10 appreciate what
have ssd let the reader take good map Of the
States and he will that with ST. Louis and New York
for the extremes the united inethe portion 10 which
particularly referrng-passes through the
States OF New York, Pcnnsy and Ohio, tho very
Of the United States 10 this explanation we have
sad nothing with regard 10 what called the "mcrs
OF the line We have already explained that one Of the
advantages anticipated from the particular mode OF
Sng affair that the works being solldly con.
structed from the Grs there will not be the Usual Ame-
rcan charge for renewals ard therefore, that the Ame
Of dividends which the average exceeds the
British by about than sxly per cent viii Of course
be enlarged Our sole purpose ct present
has simply been TO describe the line and the facts which
| called II into existence.