New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-18

soldlv and substantially comparing fayorably with
the best and oldest railways on the continent
The portion already running does an immense busl-
ness and proves very lucrative carrying passengers
and supplies for the great mining regions OF Eastern
California Nevada and Idaho; Inc dhnln s
are only - per cent upon the gross receipts Inc
charges IN 0Od are 10 cents mile fer each passenger,
aud 10 cents a mile per tan for trcDh.
CALIFORNIA COSNECfIoNS.
The Pacific Railway proper has no forks on the
western end Another road over the Scnas ron
Virginia Nevada and Carson, via Placeryilie, 10
Sacramento OF San FTanose0, Is chartered, ana may
ultimately he built. IL has q Immigrant, but no
money endowment from the United States.
The Oregon Legislature has lso guaranteed 8, :
OOGOO0 toward the construction If a road from Port
land in that State 10 Sacramento. such line Is
greatly needed. as Winter navigation between Port,
land and san Francisco is peculiarly difficult and
dangerous and there Is 40 good haTbOr on the racine
coast between the Golden Gate and Puget Sound.
MAIN STUM-CNION PACIFIC.
Omaha, Nebraska to Sa LAKE C{, Ct@h Cars al u,
read, running nom Omaha westward beyond crossing OF
the North Plate-2O5 miles. President OF The Company,
ecu. JONI 4. DIX Ne~Gor' NicelrSsdeHi GeGtf ERA!
Kneluccr Cen. g. NJ DODGE Of Iowa. Superintendent "
Construction and Running; sAMuEL b. REED omaha)
omal. to xeamey Stallion SisEaNch' loomc.
10 Crossing Of North Platte .-...-.... 2s9 d.
do Eastern base ~ Rocky Mountains. OF do
ao Highest summit crossing Sis do
40 '"' 7 nisnT my sroiE ga iEyEl '''' o'
Oulaha lVbltti
Eastern Base Rocky Meuutail. ............ 453l do
hishest summit crossing ................. .5@ 90
Ills line is rrocrcssing from Omaha westward with
rapidty never before eQralled in building railways
II used to be thought great feat to lay one milc oil
track per day; but here two miles and even two and
a-halt have been laid. The work is now closed for
+ tie Winter with the cars running about 800 miles
west from the Missouri. They will probably reach
the Rocky Mountains next Summer. At present oil
supplies come from the East, save ties and bridge
tmbefr. which cut on the Missouri, above Omaha.
As yet there is all-Iail communication Eastward.
The map shows the Chicago and NOTth-N estern Road
I'll lint
sppi 20 Council Bluffs, opposite Omaha. But this II
anticipating by few weeks. gap Of Is miles yet re-
mains untitled the west end of that line. In Feb
ruafy, however the cars VIII run 10 the Missouri.
Hitherto the nearest railway connection has been at
St. Joseph 21J miles from the river. IL has cost the
company about 81 900 apiece for transporting l0cOmO
tiVes and sl75 for each platform car, from st. Joseph
10 Omaha By steamer. Two bOats, loaded with iron,
have snaggcd and gone 20 the bottom Haste and the
high prices Of transportation from tie East fully
double the expense Of construction. The company
find That tCS alone cost them 81 - to 81 30 apiece.
They now employ some 80 locomotive. made IN Schc-
nectady, " " Lancaster, Penn, Paterson, n. D., and
Boston.
Thus far the company have issued no bonds. r. G.
Diuant both nOminally aud actually builder OF the
road has enjoyed long railway experience, and pos
sesses rare energy and executive ability. lie repre-
sents tue heavy resources OF the Grant Mobilize, an
association OF capitalists formed Tor the prosecution
OF this great national enterprise.
The Platte Valley where the work is now going on,
y ncomparaby tho most favorable railway route in
the w0lldarlost9 dead loycl from its junction with
$40 miles The grade averages only about seven feet TO
Wien len the mountains Si6 reached rolling mills win
be erected Tor making rails, iron dug from the hills,
and ties eut from the forests. Though the highest
srnnlitcrpfspe contemplated is more than 5000 feet
above sea-evc II is believed that no heavier gIadc
than 50 feet 10 the milo will be required.
The company design building branch TO Denver.
Their main line passes nearly 100 miles north Of that
city
down the eastern side of the Sierras and find smooth
sailing this road will strike the Rocky Mountains
and hard work Still, Messrs. DuFant and Dodge ca
geci 10 re0ck Salt Lake ch he locomotive by JdRadrg
1863. Cneyamplcd energy has been displayed thus
far and the completion of the connecting line across
Iowa viii greatly facilitate future progress.
The section already opened enjoys a heavy traffic.
Passengers charged ten cenfs per mile and reghts
IN proportion.
Ia October several hundred Members Of Congress,
ana other leading citizens from various parts OF
ne mon. with their families, went on grand ex-
enrslon 10 The then western terminus, 275 miles be-
SonI omaha They We're accompanied by photo
ksapheis; DahuS OF music and portable printing
VII qlch supplied the cXcnfsOists with daily
iuoluhg newspaper, containing the Associated Press
th V'ainea by tapping tho wires wherever
pey cnahcp0 To be. They took now lesson in
geography, hunted buifaloes camped among the In
.talls Witnessing war dance and n sham fght by
ghc fHWnees, learned something OF the extent and
PeaIH Oh lhe far West, and returned home delighted
WIN tue grand pleasure ride of 1900 miles
Next Summer, when the locomotives reachos 4ba
mountains, pleasure travel from tho Atlantic and Mid
ole states viii begin to set in that direction Win
I'VE years many tourists and families from ever,
ciYilzed nation viii abandon the old resorts for The
unnumbered mineral and hot springs, carved and
sculptured rocks, mountain parks lofty peaks cafar
acts, snowy ranges, big trees, and lakes among fLa
eonds'-the twenty Switzerlands in one with incom-