The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-09-15


mining district for over thirty years, and'has J
been attended withigreat success. The road
is two feet gauge ,sand up to- last accounts
four engines had run ffty-seven thousand
miles over il without once starting from the
rail- It.bas been held that railroad Of less
than four feet eight inches guage would be
unsafe, but experience shows that ON rail-
road less than haf this ghage there has
been an entire exemptionIffom accident On
the road described ga1single tram takes, on
an average fifty tons of goods and one hum
drcd passengers. We refer to the success of /
this English experiment, for the reason that
the system seems well adapted to our own
country. TIE development of the Columbia
River trade; and the prospect that Montana
will draw the bulk of her supplies from this
| quarter, will lead to the establishment of
steamers on the Upper River, to reach which
portages will be necessary. These portages
in some instances will be but mile or two
in length, and with railroad of narrow
guage can be overcome at a compar-
atively trifing cost. The cost of grading
on road of this description would
be less than half that of the ordinary guage
road and difficulties Of construction can be
more readily overcome. Following the Eng
lish example, the people of Norway have
fifty four miles of the narrow guage railroad
in operation, and so well pleased are they
with the success of the experiment that
| 4bar IF
struction.- A road of this description can be
put down in districts that would not warrant
the cost attending the other road. With a
narrow guage such as is here described the
cost for land rails, ballast and other mate
+ rails is of course much less than on ordinary
railroads. The.original cost of the English
, road constructed on this principle was less
than $40 900 per mile. Should the projects
, now being agitated in relation to the navi-
: cation of the Upper Columbia be carried out
: a railroad system such as is here sketched
d may be made an important agency in over.
Il coming obst, cles that now appear f"rmidnb e
,,r misunderstanding radicals, who desire tc
= make States Provinces, and to keep then
l. under military control, the Washington In
D, 'eti,gencer says: How long time is t.
y. elapse befyre the expenditures can be pu
Edown within the limit of the revenue will
depend upon p litieians and-hot fnancicrs
. If the returning Southern States are to b
" kept out of their proper place in the Unio
~ ands kept as provinces under military rule
vi the expenditure will continue to exceed ou
~ revenue; while the expense, of military OF
a. cupaton, and of swarms of.paid ScirA of
=. GERS, will become: drain on the Treasur.
'u This policy will,also effec ually destroy q
y" til sc sources Of prosperity in the Sout
!" from which reimbursement of any portic
Vi of the cost of the wDr and If recons ructit
Ai' might be effectea.,' The fact that Preside
" Johnson Acknowledges that" new drnge
''e threaten u.s." evidently having reference
ga the finances of the country in the futur
.o ,o W uldiin dicate that. he duly appreciates t
be Importance of speedily getting rid of'ti
her military rule. 1t is evidently as necessa
us to the General Government as to the Sout
ern States themselves that the latter shor
lite. be speedily restored, and brought unt
ets their own economical civil government
bill vast are the payments necessary TO be ma
the now by thes National Government, that
'm Secretary of the,.' Treasury can, notwi
The Estn ndi ing the large daily sales Of seventh
rel ties, find money, for liqSidating only TWEEN
Eve per centoof the claims by large cree
led ors,, p,iatiue off the balance with certiica
"" of Indebtedness y so: that it seems evid
we that Immediately anth meeting of Congr
} be another goyernr.entI'loa is likely to-
ieye called for.s Thebalance of,the last serie