The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-09


Cars already running from Sacramento eastward
to Cisco, SO miles. PresdentOf the Company
Ex-Governor Leland Stanford, Sacramento; Vice
President and Financial Agent, G. P. Huntington,
New York; Superintendent of Construction, Chas.
Croker, Sacramento Consulting Engineer, Geo.
!. Grey; Resident Engineer, S. S. Montague, Sac
ramento.)
Sacramento to Cisco. ........... 90 miles.
g to Summit of Sierras, los g
to Salt Lake City,. 625
Nights ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
Sacramento ion tide waterl...... 0 feet
CISCO .......s...........6 ,OS3 =
Summit OF Slerras. -...... 7,O42 :"
In addition to the subsidy of land and
bonds from the United States, this company
receives a donation of land from San Fran
cisco of $500, 900, in per cent. 3O-year, gold
bearing bonds, and from Sacramento thirty
nine acres of land withiE the city limits, in
Guiding 1900 feet of water front on the Sac
ramentO river.
From San Francisco to Sacramento, 1913
miles, the Sacramento river is nayigated at
all seasons by frst-class steamers, similar to
those on the Hudson. Ultimately the CON-
pany expect to lay their track to Oakland, a
mile and half across the bay from San
Francisco at present the western terminus
is Sacramento.
Thence starting eastward 1t soon strikes
the foot hills of the Sierras. In climbing
this abrupt, lofty range, it gains the enor-
nous altitude of 1000 feet in less than 100
miles. A peculiarly favorable route, where
no elevation is lost after the ascent once be-
gins, alone enables it to attain so great hight
In such short distance
The present plan eontemplates in all about
2, 400 feel of tunneling, and one grade of ll6
feet per mile-the maximum allowed by she
charter. ibis will be for only three miles
and half; the company believe they can
readily run passenger trains upon it 25 miles |
per hour, and freight trains II miles. No
where else does the grade exceed LOG feet to
the mile.
After reaching the summit of the Sierras
the heaviest work will be done Thence the
line passes down the eastern slope, along the
rrgckee River, and over the desert to Salt
Lake. 2t9
Track-laying east of Cisco will begin next
spring as early as the season permits. Win
'er storms on the summit are so severe that
! few miles of track will probably require
covering by steep roof to slide the snow off /
Town the mountain side. By Spring the ex-
'avations and tunneling will be so far ad-
'anced that the graders can keep constantly
n advance of the track-layers, and cause
hem no delay The company are sanguine
If having the road in operation to Humboldt,
80 miles from Sacramento in 1867. and to
Salt Lake in 1869. From. the eastern base of
be Sierras to Salt Lake, the route is not alb.
alutely decided u2on-though the line given
n the map is deemed the most probable one.
The company are pushing forward the
york with the utmost zeal and energy. They
cal with no contractors, but as corpora
ion build the road. They have now 10000
zen upon their pay rolls. Their laborers
re nearly all Cinnamon, singu.arly indus
rions, peaceable and trustworthy, and after
ew months experience quite as efficient as
rishmen, even upon the heaviest work.
The company labor under the greatest DIFF
culties, as it takes several months after or
ering to receive rails and other heavy sup
lies from the East. They have erected an
lie depot buildings and machine shops in
acramento. Their locomotives are. made In
an Francisco, whose boundaries turn out
achinery unsurpassed in the Union. Thus
If their road is sohdly and substantially
uiIt, comparing favorably with the best and
dest railways on the continent. !
The portion already running does an i'm
ense business. and proves very lucrative, I
Irrying passengers and supplies for the
eat mining regions of Eastern California,
evada and Idaho. The running expenses
e only 90 per cent. upon the gross receipts.
be charges in gold are 10 ceuts q mile for
Oh passenger, and Is cents mile per ton
r freight. /
cALIFoRNIA CONNECTIONS.
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