Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-21

s,reams which are numerous and large, az
we'll as the intervening rivers, arc traVer'ed
at right angles.
The dirsc. road from Denver to Salt
Lake City. following the line OF the tor-
tieth degree. pursues the diame.e OF tne
circle, (of which the above road Is the cir
cumference,) having q course u east
and west. The through distance 10 4O3
miles. This road starting from Denver
ascend, Clear creek to Empire City; it
crosses the Snowy Sierra at Berthoud's
Pas, and descends Immediately into the
Middle Park. The whole distance from
the Snowy Sierra to the Sierra wasatch
is across the valley Of the great Colorado,
descending the bank Of White river to
Green, and then ascending the bank OF
Wintah river to the Wasatch. This road
then traverses q continued succession OF
parks and valleys, free from any consider
able attitudes, other than the two Slsrras.
It pursues q river border continuously
through q country depressed among noun
tsins. covered and protected within them'
fertile in soil and genial in temperature
through the year.
An imperfect statement Of the expense OF
time and money saved in the working Of the
existing line of daily coaches over the shor-
ter road, gives the following result in 4 sin
gle case. This will rise to an astounding
aggregate when extended to include the pres:
ent great and continually swelling volume OF
individual travel and transportation:
No. l-Denver to Salt Lake
City by Bridger's Pas,...6l2 miles.
No. 2-Denver TO Salt Lake
City by Berthoud Pass...4O3
Distance saved............ 2O9 miles
Stations on road No. l..... 81
Stations on road No. 2..... 81
Stations sayed.......... IL
| Saved in constructions Of
stations at $1,000 each. .Sl20,9OO
Saved in expenses Of main
tenance at $500 pr. mon'h 5000
Saved in l4S horses at Sl75 25,OOO
Saved in forage........... 5000
| ~S ,SZu
Saved in time both ways...2 days.
ing $50 trips per year. l5o,57o
or one hundred and fifty thousand FIVE hun
bred and seventy miles, as the United States
mail coaches now travel.
"To this is to be added the economy re-
sulting from the decrease Of time and ex-
penses the increase Of speed the favorable
influence OF the climate; scenery and soil;
the growth Of population and way travel the
superior excellence, safety and convenience
Of the road; the timber, fuel and water in un-
interrupted abundance and good quality the
compact, sheltered and attractive farms
which nature assumes with the parks"
I quote thus literally from the Netos to
show what an advance has been made in
ideas concerning the location Of a railroad
through the Rocky Mountains.
A few legislators have taken it for granted
that the railway engineers had but to follow
the Indian trail, or at best the somewhat less
zigzag route Of the early emigrant's wagon.
Such a heightened out road would, perhaps,
cost less per mile, but the aggregate cost OF
| construction, as well as the daily cost OF
many useless hundred miles running ex-
penses, would involve IN expenditure waste
full beyond calculation.
1t is now demonstrated beyond controversy,
that the straight route through the center Of
the United States possessions is the one that
should be FASTENED through first.
The central division being entirely in the
Rocky Mountain gold region, will, Of course,
be the last commenced and finished. The
delay is no disadvantage, however, (unless
i vn have TIM much of it for which We re-
momhor that the Who'll. region was n track.
inss mount,;non, w;lderness. ten years AGO.
!, vii he ssan thai il reouires , far more
,hornnob rsconno;s,nce and careful survey
,hsn ,be otbor d;v;s;ons which RIM for most
n.r, ,hronah , hs,,.r Known and Iess noun.
p .;nnna pos,ion of,hs coUmtrv
THE WESTERN DIVISION
The construction Of this division, from San
Francisco to Salt Lake City, Utah, Is in the
hands Of the Pacific Railroad Company OF
California. and is being pushed forward as
only Californians, accustomed to tunneling
or removing Mountains, know how. They
have full ten thousand men employed, but
from the mountainous nature OF the country
through which their road passes, almost from
its commencement, we cannot expect the
rapidity OF progress, as shown by the number
Of miles completed, that we see in the east
ern division.
I met Vice President Huntington, Of the
California company, in this city a few days
since, and was confidently assured by him
that his company would have the cars run
nlng from San Francisco 70 SAT- Lake CITY,
Utah, within TWO and one hall years from
this date.
Describing the nature OF the work on a
portion OF the western division, q friend who
mas recently oeen over the ROAD says: