Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-04
STRAIGHT RAILROAD TALK.

He is a civil engineer Of over twenty
Eve years. experience in railroad build
ing-having been of the party that ran
the first " line" on the Boston and Wor-
cester Railroad. Having been incess-
antly employed in railroad construction
since that time, he may be accepted as
from his experience likely to be we'll in
formed as to the way railroads may and
should be built, and having been con
nected with the Union Pacific Railroad
since its practical inception he speaks
by the card of the doiugs and intentions
Of that company. He has been " trav-
cling" for knowledge, on this coast, as
will appear by the subJoined.
From this engineer we have again the
assurance that the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company intend to "move on" to
the Pacific with their own track laying
force. The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pauy will claim that under their charter
of incorporation, from the United States
Government direct, they can traverse
the Continent on their W subsidy
hook, without being obliged to stop be-
cause and when they hook on TO the
Central Pacific Company.
This engineer directed our attention
to an article in Thursdays S. F. Bulie-
tin, headed " Progress of the great Rail-
way" which he said contained gross
mistatements. He said that be was as
tonished at some of the statements, as
he is confident that there arc thousands
| of the Bulletin's readers on this COAST
if it has the circulation it claims-wbo
must recognize at ono their falsity.
As for instance, from the Bulletin:
"The hill and mountain section to be
encountered BY the Atlantic builders,
extends for nearly 500 miles. The state
ments Of teamsters and pioneers make
the difficulties to be encountered of q
very formidable character. But the
Judgment of a capable engineer is quite
another thing. OF the real difficulties
OF the Black Hill section, less is really
known than Of any other section in the
great work. But besides timber, water
and stone, these most important items,
the appropriation for mountain work is
greatly increased, and the encourage
ment is sufficient to insure the utmost
energy. If the completion Of the work
should be delayed beyond 1870, it will
probably be on account Of difficulties
encountered on the Atlantic end. 1t is
now moro apparent than ever before
that the line from this side will be fin
ished to Fort Bridger before the track
layers are seen approaching at the other
end"
Our informant said that the first and
last sentence of tho above quotation
which he marked inadvertently on our
copy of the Bulletin, not dreaming we
would publish it-make out al incon-
sistency which all will appreciate as
decidedly rich, on a second reading. If
the Union Pacific are expected to move
FIVE hundred miles west from Cheyenne,
how is the "meeting" to be at Fort
Bridger? And every man who has
crossed the Plains ria the proposed rail.
road pass, knows that the difficulties
are not so formidable" as intimated
and q more thorough system Of surveys
never was adopted than has been car.
ried out to a full report of the various
proposed Rocky Mountain passes. Our
informant says that the object Of such
disparaging statements as above quoted
is to help the sale Of Central Pacific
stock in New York; but investors there
have already come to q correct under.
standing of the Dutch Flat newspaper
puffs. From Cheyenne, for a distance
of one hundred and fifty to two hundred
miles, there is, in fact, rarely encoun'
tered anything worse than what il
known as "easy mountain railroad
grading"
Our new railroad acquaintance, a vet.
ersn in the corps, was astonished to
notice that many people on this side
had had their minds abused against Mr..
Durant, the " big injun" of the Union
Pacific, owing to the outrageous attack
made upon him in the United State.
Senate by ". N. Stewart. He asked
us, in all simplicity, who this man
Stewart was,-that he felt ready to rise
in the Senate and denounce such Q man
as Durant in language that had not the
remotest application to the Union Pa.
cifc Railroad Chief? He says that the
mass Of the people, indeed, little know
how many and great difficulties Duran,
has met and overcome in his manage
ment of the great enterprise. Only less
credit is due him for his services in thi,
work, than is awarded Cyrus W. Field
for cable labors. Again and again has
Durant met and struggled with what
appeared to be at tho first look unsur-
mountable obstacles in the way oi
building the road. This engineer
seemed to know something of the
Dutch Flat Railroad management, fol
he took pains to tell us when,
where, and how Durant had in
vested large sums Of money Of his own
drawing, for the Railroad enterprise,
and for nothing else ; that be has estab.
lished n grand system Of credit for the
Railroad purse; that he had not taken
/ Government money or bonds and used
them in private speculations,-to buy
up and %monopolize the coal oil market,
for a season, or anything of that kind
The intimation was given us, that II
in obedience to the coal oil and ribbon
| shop keepers in Sacramento, another
assault was made on Durant, by Stewart
or any other Senator, there would BE-
even a moro decisive reply than was