Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-03-27
WHOLE NO 26S4:w

much more tractable than white, al
most If not quite a. efectual, man for
man. and about so per cent. cheaper.
In addition to Chinese laborers there !,
are about 1000 whites employed tall
that can be obtainedl 1hoare paid an 8
aEefage $40 per month, and are also
boarded, which the Chinese are not
200 horses and mules, and as many
carts are used, and $50 kegs Of Blasting
powder, costing "a per keg are daily
consumed. These forces are used on
the building Of the road alone, and are
exclusive of the force employed on the
portion finished. For about fifteen
Sierras the road has had to be run
through solid granite drilling and
blasting, therefore, are constantly kept
up, and all along this route there are
three gangs Of lsborefs, each Of which
work eight hours, the night and day
through all the seven days of the week.
The earnings of the road have been
as follows, IN gold In May and June,
when It was running only TO C0lfax,
sixtystwo miles, the receipts were $685.
600, for the first month, and S67 ,O00-
for the last. In July, Alta station six
ty-nine miles, was reached and the re-
ceipts were S75, 900; in August the re-
ceipts were $l12,O00; in September,
$4,000; in October, $l27, 900, f---
Fourteen dollars per ton is the rates
on freight to Cisco passengers, So, so
each. The receipts from freight now q
are about four times, as large as those
from passengers These prices may,
perhaps seem high when compared
with the tariffs on some Of your eastern
roads but they are low, indeed. when
compared with those charged By snaih
ike OK or mule teams. Already the
merchant and mine owners of Nevada,
are affecting saying Of about 20 per
cent on the freight bills Of their sup
plies, and when the road Is. completed ae
TO that State they will save a. much
tboth In money and time, while perish
able articles, which formerly suffered
greatly through the rough carriage BY {
teams over mountain=foads, viii now
be delivered to them uniDjured- IL
Illustrative of what people who are with
out railroad communication have to
tpay for freights, I may mention the
fact that last season s., ,000, 600 worth
of goods we're purchased and sent via. /,
the Missouri river to Montana; the
tfreightage upon these was 5000 900,
or one-third Of their entire valus.-
Wells, FsFgo& Co. charge seEenty-iTsi
Ecents per pound in gold for stage
freight from San Francisco to Salt
Lake, seven hundred and twenty
miles, and fifty cents TO Austin, three
hundred and twenty miles. Teams
charge about one half these rates from
Sacramento. In the year 1864 dull
lone, by the way-the President of the
;EGould & Curry mining Company esti-A
mated that had there been railroad
running to Virginia City, the CON- Z
bpany would have saved in that
year alone, nearly $4,000 goo IN gold
ION freights. The cost Of Transporting
goods TO the mines of Nevada might
with truth be called terrible. At least
SIC, ,O00, 900 per-year is Thus run away
with aud in view Of these facts the
wonder that the companies, on even
such an unparalleled rich lode as the
Comstock, can struggle under such
burdens. pay Sl3 per cord for 6rewood,
S, so per day in gold to laborers, and
yet pay monthly dividends of from 2
to 5 per cent in gold The cost of
working the paying mines Of Nevada
viii be reduced fully one-half when the
road is built, and thousands that can
not be developed now, because Of the
enormous expense, can and viii be
when the road is buiit. All that have
said on this subject about Virgins
City applies with double force to Aus
tin and its mines, which 166 miles fur
| ther distant from Sacramento. Had
the mine owners Of Virgins city and
Austin been actuated by business fore
sight, they would have subscribed sill
the requisite funds for the building Of
the road but they were not. The
stockhoider IN them to-day does not
tknoW that he will be such tomorrow
so many buy only TO gamble in stocks b
and he Is opposed to having his divi-
dend reduced even for month, no
mater how much the company might
be future gamer by assisting IN such
an enterprise as this railroad! -s7sss 3.
Their narrow sightedness in these
things is forcibly illustrated in the way
they have sighted another project
that of the ''Sutro TunneP'-Whieh all
of them fully believe would reduce the
cost of mining one-half at least, yet
which they have all so far neglected TO
unite upon and put through, causing
the enterprise to be offered in other
markets, when it should be kept at
horne and the profits pocketed BY Us.
In addition to the profits that will
Aow co the Central Pacific Railroad
Company from the the running Of their
road, the immense landed grants Of
Congress will have placed in Geir pos.
session millions of IS fine Agricultural
and timber lands as can be found with
in the limits of the United States, from
which they viii draw vast reYenues.-
Nevada is almost destitute Of timber.
and, even for hre-wood, S13 per cord
has to be paid by the mining compa-
MES, and for the more valuable used
for timberiDg the mines and for other
purposes, from $40 to $50 per cord is
charged in Virginia City. The amount
required for timbering q mine may be
guessed when i state that it has been
asserted, and never contra
dicted, that to, timber the Gould and
Curry mine took more lumber than was
used to build Virginia City, town Of
frame houses that accommodates Is, ,O00
inhabitants. All the timber required
by the State of Nevada eanbe supplied
by the railroad company for at least
fifty years, and the income they will
derive from this source alone will
pay . fair per centageI on the cost OF
the entire road throueL the Sierras-
1 have here briefly touched on this
road, which, to US of this coast, is Of
more importance than any other sub
iect that can be discussed. and what
facts have given will doubtless inter
est your readers, for large part OF the
stock is held BY New Workers, we be-
ing, as usual, too poor to keep it all at
home. 1 have not gone deeply into
the subject offacts and fgurse, for they
would be tiresome and unnecessary
prominent facts only have been touch
ed upon. But if those of your citizens
who own interests in the Central Pa
cifc Railroad do not receive larger
profits from it than are derived from
the stock Of any other road, not even
excepting the Panama Railroad, then
facts and figures ViH lie, despite the
proyerb to the contrary, and have lost
their Y1sa for making calculations.