The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-13

track for So per cord for assorted kinds and Cross
ties tor from 81 to $3.50. Two hundred and hfty
found belt Of red cedar, about thirty miles wide
and twenty-five miles long. From this the COM
pany have cut one hundred Thousand cedar cross
ties and telegraph poles-enough for several nun
dred miles, and probably enough to reacn the
Rocky Mountains. This cedar grows in the canons,
whereit is most probable that the wild fowl have
dropped the seed, and, protected from ire ana inc
cold, blcak piercing winds, they have been nurseo
into life, and once securing foothold, soon rear
ed their heads to bid defiance to oil the elements
combined, and now they are found ready to make
glad the hearts Of the Pacific railway pioneers.
THE WATER QUESTION.
Water is easily reached all along the road by
digging from eight to twenty feet The company
have constructed water stations at convenient DIS
tances and with station houses ofa Blzc ana chaf-
acter not excclled by any OF our ita: tern roads:
The water is pumped up at present py nann az put su
the company will soon Introduce Wlndnnls Tor
that PURPOSE, the perpetual winds that go hoWllng
over the Plains furnishing all the necessary power.
RAILWAY SHOPS AND STRUCTURES.
The company have built shops at Omaha for the
construction and repairs Of their cars anu engines,
that bid fair to rival, in efficiency and build those
of any Of our Eastern roads, They are all OF br1ck,
and are all 80 laid out as to enable the company to
extend them indefinitely. The company are now
running twonty-one locomotives, and noxt summer
will increase it to ono hundred. They have now
only three hundred cars but in less than q year
will have use for two thousand. BY March next
they will be able to turn out from thor own sh9Ps
OF Omaha one car o day, and proDaoly soon dooole
and even treble that number.
y THE DIVISIONS. -==
The rnad Will be divided into working divisions
of about ono hundred and fifty miles eac ana a.
though the same cars will run from the Atlantic to
the Pacific without any change OF their freight,
the engines will only run over one dlvlsloR FROM
Omaha to the mountains there ls TO- pc no grace .e
there for tho west go through just tho same. !, On
their return the MI down grade will enable thom
to bring back any quantity of coal or stone for
ba]lasting the road. The first working division
terminates at Grand Island one hundpea ano
have nearly completed brick round-house tor
their engines, and shop for REPAIRS. The next
relay or ond Of division will be near Cottonwood,
where similar brick buildings will be erected. Inc
brick are made at Omaha, although therels pony
of the finest brick-clay all along the road, upon
the bluffs or terraces at tho edge OF the prairie
bottom,.
The loan and sand make an excellent bank tor
the track and the surface forming kind OF paste,
does not easily turn into dust, and soon covers
over with grass; thus, in great measure, keeping
down tho dust which is such a terrible plague to
all travellers It is the intention OF the company
to ballast the entire length Of the road with finely
broken stone similar to the Pennsylvania Contraf
Railroad On their reaching the Rocky Noun;
tains they will send return loads of stone OIL all
their construction trains.
an AIR LINE.
No road ever yet built runs on so straighta line
ma this East of Columbus there is an air line OF
eighty miles, without the slightest DETECTION; while
in the last; two hundred md fifty miles OF track
there is probably not twenty curves in the entire
distance. not All cmbankment over twelve feet
high, and not cut over that depth, with only
bridge in haK days rido. This road has every
advantage that will enable it to make tho fastest
time Of any railroad in the world.
HIGH SPEED.
On it's return the late excursions. train was COM
posod of nine cars, and, to show the guests what
could be done, it ran at tie rate Of mile minute,
or sixty miles per hour for come time. Five hun
dred and fifty miles from Omaha to tho mountains
can be run in fourteen hours with perfect safety,
and allow for passengers to stop and get meals
and the engines to supply themselves with wood
and water. From New York to Chicago, by way Of
Pittsburg, is 911 milestime 80 hours; from Ohl, III
cago to Omaha, by way of Northwestern, is 497
more. md time "a hours; making 1868 miles in ID
hours, or three days from New York>to Denver
CITY. One week to go from Wall street, spend
day in a Colorado gold mine, and return to the
Brokers' Board.
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