New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-23


The opening of new railway routes means more
farms to be worked, more tools to be made moro la
Dor to be hired more food to be bought. Every mer
chant mechanic farmer aud laborer, has therefore
direct interest in tho speedy completion Of the great
Pacific Railway which is TO bring into market the vast
and fruitful tracts Of the great Western plains, with
all their luxurian products, and Is to Afford speedy
and safe transportation % persons and property to the
hitherto almost inaccessible mountain territories. IL
is matter of public interest that another link III this
national chain has been put under contract for speedy
completion. Already, the Pacific Railroad OF Missouri
CONVEYS the traveller go miles from ST. Louis to Kan
sas City, whence the Missouri River Railroad Oeased
BY the Pacific Railroad Company for term OF years)
will carry him to Fort Leayenworth. From Kansas
City the Onion Pacific Railway proper will further
convey him 40 miles TO Fort Riley aud Junction CITY,
distance of 420 miles from the startng-point upon
the Mississippi. Thus, from the eastern limits oil
New England 10 the very heart Of Kansas, there Is
continuous line Of rail, with no intervening break
vha,eyer-an advantage which no other route to the
Great West can Offer
From Junction City, the line is to be rapidly ex-
tended. contract has been entered into for tho
completion of a distance Of 80 miles by January ],
Is6-: the iron for 6G miles being already purchased
and in process Of delivery. When this contract is
completed there will remain less than 200 miles be-
tween the locomotives whistle and the shadow of the
Rocky Mountains at Denver City. It will thus be
seen that, in a little moro than one year from this
time there will be a railroad in operation for dis
TANGO of GO miles west from tho great commercial
city of ST. Louis
Junction City, the present terminus OF the Union
Pacific Railway is now the starting-point for the
overland stage and express lines to Denver, Salt
Lake City, and Santa Re.
A meeting was held recently at Pittsburgh at which
the contract above mentioned was entered into At
that meeting many of the leading railroad minds OF
the country present. and expressed their deter
mnatiOn to carry this great work forward with the
utmost diligence. Such men as Col. Thomas A.
Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad Thomas L. Jewett
of the Pittsburgh and Steubenvile, and Judge Hugh
J. Jewett Of the Central Ohio, exGoy. Dennson, X.
NJ Shoemaker and w. H. Clement OF Ohio, and John
ID. Perry G. s. Greeley and Others of St. Louis, are
not the men TO enter into any unwise or mpraetcable
scheme, nor, having entered upon any great work, TO
suffer II TO languish in their hands Mr.. Shoemaker
was at that time appointed Chief Engineer of Con-
struction on the work, and Col. Wright Gen Sher
the position Of General Superintendent.
We have here no space to attempt any estimate OF
the great results which will follow the completion OF
this railway route from the Atlantic to the Pacific
by means of the overland mail and the railway, so
far as completed letters are, even now, being carried
from Denver to New-York in five days-a speed never
before accomplished attempted. The celebrity OF
movement of which this is but a sample has caused
the transfer to this route of tho great British letter
mail for China via San Francisco
The great advantage possessed by this route, as we
have stated above ia the fact that there is by it no
wearisome staging between isolated sections OF rail,
but continuous line of railroad from the Eastern
States to the furthes point yet reached By the iron
horse.
An advertisement elsewhere in this paper gives fur
Their information respecting this greatwork To that,
and TO the officers of the road commend those OF
our readers who are personally, or through their
friends interested in cheap and rapid transportation
to the mining and agricultural districts of the wonder
fnl West