The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-28

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proxina.s tsts.a,e Of The entire COS. .
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A railroad once made, esnnscsins III
Atlantic ~ Pacific, through I AsahAy
iahsbits4 4astioa % the eoesincNs, uil
tssnelblss a1Ikee the eomasrce, trayeh An,
eocial iatseeepsse Of the world. Europ,
4 and Asia uiA be brought, in effect, mucl
nearer . tach other, and we sAall be mncl
nearer . Aaia. Travelling lines wild no
only be shsftensd, has thsy will be nact
more speedy. healthy, and inviting. by IN
terposine the variety Of land scenerv for til,
dapgcrs and msuotcny % the sea. j. j,
not possible for your eompit,ee to max.
any estimate at peconiary results which vii
grew oct Of sash : stimulant to es,erio,
conmsrse. but they are confident sach I
iins Of Dnnunicasioa viil bs largely aug.
nented ~ ass eleneats Of foreign inter.
comm sncatiop.
Results within cur ewn country are more
easily aYroximated. TIE travel across the
coatincaa WilEo ~ she railroad.
/ You ca nou 70 from any Of our cities "a
St. josesh. Missouri, by q railroad, for
thirty -Est dollars. The remaining, say two
thousand, miles to San Frasciseo, as three
ceats Per MID, (seasly double the rates eu
tha side MoSl b. sixty dollars: add fel
meals and extras, ten dollars; total from
Eastern cities, BY railroad to San francisco,
one hundred and Eve dollars. A passaes
by any Of our foseiks routes sosts nearly
two hundred dollars. By railroad ysu could
80 in six or eight days. 1t would BE much
cheaper, gAioker and safer for passenger
Travelling from ocean to ocean, and they
would all take the railroad route. This
demonstration - irrcsistible and uncontrs.
vertible. II the. ex.remcs would choose
this route, intermediates or way travel be-
tween the cities of the Atlantic and the
Pacific y ould, a .torfiori, adopt this route.
There is, A. all know, a creative power in
a railroaa, which viii double or treble the
present California travel. There would
then be At least one hundred thousand pas.
aengers passing each way, or two hundred
dolars each, for the section west Of tho
Miss UT, line, amount to
The sum $le 900 COO
All The gold wusM 30 transported by rail-. ss
ard pay three per cent. on ATTY miilians. 500 600
The masb AZ prices heretofore exeesded by ".E
land aud ceean.. i.scc cooo
Trans portation ana. m un,tons'oi war ll
same Is Il now cVsts for wsy and through
transioFtaton... ..............-.,...... oOVo,o ,oeo
go, COO 900
Freights will divide; some will 60 round
by water, but n very large portion will 20
by rail. The distance from Boston TO ST.
Joseph is nearly as great a. from St. Joseph
to San Franeisco. It ID obvious, therefore,
that freight transported between the Mis-
sis.ippi valley and San Francisco would no,
60 or come by ous Eastern cities, but it
would travel directly across by rail.
Where the distance to San Francisco by
rail is 1900 miles (say from Missouri and
lowa) ut two cents per ton per n,.e, frcights
to and fiom San Francisco would be as
follows: .l .-. -.
A Aton.............$4o 90 Bbl Of Flour. SEQ
100 ibs............. 2co NIL Of PORK. 90
! ie............:... COW Il ooo) ibs.. 80 %
Bashei Of grain GO bs las Eox goods lsoo ibs 500
To determine the cos, from ocean to ocean
il is sufficient 10 add 80 per cent. to these
figures.
An inspection Of these prices will furnish
come means Of judging what will 60 by rail,
what will travel by ocean. =.
The interest, risk, insurance, and trans.
porfdfion by water will average, say Ave
per cent. The 6rst three items being much
greater by water than by rail, valuable light
goods will 60 cheapest By rail, while cheap
heavy goods will 70 cheapest by wnter. A
package worth one dollar, weighing less
than one pound, would 20 from New York
to San Francisco by rail, ~ the freight,
three cents, added 10 the risk, insurance,
and interest, would probably be less than
five cents, the sum OF these items BY water.
Therefore. svery,hlng worth a dollar
pound would 90 by rail. ..
A dollar's worth of cloth, silk, gold
silver, notions, and many articles Of mer.
chandise. will weigh Less than pound and
therefore, go from New York and San Fran.
cisco though by rail. Besides, the difference
between ten days reenrns and ninety days Is
Of so much importance to mercantile opera
ton, much greater share would 60 by
rail. In fact, wa are told that over three
hundred MS are annually forwarded by
one express company, At from twenty to
thirty cents . pound, requiring, a. nov con.
veyed, from twenty five to thirty days.
How much moro then would 70 at three or
four cents a pound. II conveyed in ten or
twelve days? Certainly ten or twelve times
~ much. Without much doubt, therefore,
the through and way freight, and the way
passengers on the Pacific Railroad, would
not be less than ten millions q year, which
added to the sum before mentioned, mike
the gross proximate income per annom
$50, ,OO0, 900. a.a lra. 80
This sum 10 sufficient to pay current cSpen..
ses. and also a fair dividend on the csti-
mated cost, $l20, ,000, 900.
II IL be said the items which are here emu
merated are over estimated, il mag be replied
that before the road can be completed an
other decade, Of our history will have trans-
pired. and Westers progress will more than
compensate for possible errors.
Besides, this estimate makes no account
Of new elements Of business TINT will be
created by pew channel OF commerce, so
important to other nations Of the world, and
so sure to develop new industrial pursuits
in our own country. This creative power Of
railroads has never been over estimated, end
the only mistake railroad men havs made IN
the productive results OF their investmests
has grown out OF the multiplicity Of rival
roads, and shs consequent reduction, Of
prices.
A Pacific Railroad il not liable to com.
petition, for IL others are made, they will bo
too remote to compete for local business,
and they will not be undertaken for the
through business until IL has been clearly
demonstrated that there 10 enough 70 we'll
compensate two Or more roads.
THs rLAs OF BxxcrIiox.
Tour committee hare found the greatest
diversity 81 opinion ~ to the mode Of accom-
pitching the object. and for ysass the iuvsn-
tive genius Of lnsn has been directed 70 schs-
mes for constructing Pacific Railroad. II
il generally conceded that Govssnneut must,
in some way, encourage tbs work, 70 induce
pYiyata capital to take hold OF ;t.S After