Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-07-31
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R1HA VANTAGE.

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trans. Sierra railroads. Genuine com
petition in Pacific Railroad building, is
now the order of the day. There are two
branches" so-called, striking westward
from the Missouri river, which renders
rivalry at that end, and along so far as
fifty miles this side Of Denver, an imme-
diate race for a prize goal. But the chief
instigator for the work Of through-road
building is comprised in the fact that, "as
you build consecutively you W is
legally said by Uncle Samuel to the Union
and the Central Pacific Railroad Compa-
MES, respectively. This brings about q
National Prize match; and the people of
this Union will witness during the present
and coming year, a most gratifying exhi-
bition of enterprise, in the securing for
ownership Of as much Of the 6rst grand
continental railway as each rival can OBJ
tain. We are Of the opinion expressed BY
the Stockton Independent, that the Pacific
Railroad will be completed in 1868. Our
information, which is authentic, places the
intended working force Of the Dutch Flat
Company, in this State, next year, at a
higher figure than that specified BY the
Independent. Next November, $4,000
Cinnamon will be working on the survey
from Crystal Peak toward the forkins
place from the Humboldt. And next
Spring, while the more experienced noun
tain railway laborers will be drawn back
to service on or near the summit" not
less that thirty thousand Asiatics will be
grading the road bed in Nevada; and it is
confidently expected that, If the Austin
route is adopted, the locomotive will make
its regular % hours trip, in September
1867, from navigable tide-water in Cali
fornia to the capital of Lander county
The thought, the promise, at first, as
tounds; then it exhilerases, for the pur-
pose is within the bounds Of demonstra-
ted probabilities.
So far as the work in Nevada is con-
cerned or involved in the prophecy, the
experience and accomplishments of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, in Ne
braska, since October last afford thorough.
assurance Of the feasibleness Of such rapid
construction as we have described. Indeed,
with the army of workmen which the
Dutch Flat or Central Pacific Company
will command, in our borders, next year,
even greater lengths may be run by the
locomotive than is enclosed in the survey
from Sacramento TO Reese River. Un-
doubleday the work on some portions Of
the line indicated-from the Truckee foot
bed to Austin-is much heavier than the
present Union Pacific Railroad work but
the immense advantage in the number Of
lively spades and picks in our State,
Counting two Cinnamon for one white
man, over Durant's corps of human ex-
cavators and graders, will more than tell
equality on his ratio-msrch Of construc-
| ton since he began business from Omaha.
We do not think there is any danger Of
a demoralizing consolidation" between
the Union and the Central Pacific Railroad
Companies. We do not see very well
how there can be. The two organizations
do not stand in such q common plane Of
amiabilities for private aggrandizement as
did the two telegraph companies. Besides,
the competition between the two compa-
MES pushing from the Missouri to the
mountains is bound to remain genuine.
There are such enormous interests pend
ing, to the East, IN the completion within
briefest time Of either branch, that the
jump for the possession Of the travel-pre-
cedence will continue to be animated by
sincere ambition and resolution until the
royal degree of Denver is reached and
passed.
That the Union Pacific Company expect
to make Nevada" before the Central
whistles I'm here" on our eastern line.
is evident from the fact that the former
have surveyors making observations, and
even sticking pegs from Great Salt Lake
hitherward. The Omaha papers speak Of
"ten thousand men or more as certain to
be on the platte emoankments this Fall"
and afterwards during weather that allows
of railroad turnpiking, "until the pass is
reached" When the extraordinary efforts,
the mammoth plans of the Central Com
pany for 1867, are understood by Dix,
Durans s Co., will they not be likely to
double their
Strength Of arm and power Of spade !"
Now they claim they are constructing q
mile and a half per day; and that means
three hundred miles a year, with a liberal
discount for inclement seasons.
We have not commenced to realize the
act Of the successful completion of the
work Of laying the Atlantic Cable. This
very success will, in innumerable modes,
contribute to infame zeal on the part Of
those who have the work in hand, for the
rapid construction of the great iron CONT
nent-spsnning highway Of America.
Nor should we omit, in this connection,
to notice the fact that the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company promise sharp work on
line next year, despite the unfortu-
nate failure Of their bonus bill at this ses-
sion Of Congress. A righteous rivalry is
created, and is bound to hold zest in this
project Of locomotion /; and i~ncalculable
are the benefits NEVADA is to gather from
the incoming enterprise and ultimately,
when the Placerville road is built, from
cheap passenger and freight trsnsporta-
ton.
The legislation Of Congress this session,
with the single exception Of defeating the
Northern Pacific Railroad Bill, has 6eensl
most propitious toward the consumma.
tons we record for the recent mast in
Pscihc Railroad building and hone for in
the immediate future Tn ..[..-