Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-22

fore, are constantly kept up, and all along
this route there are three gangs of labor
ers, each of which work eight hours, the
night and day through all the seuen days of
i the week. a.fs
The earnings of the road have been as
follows in gold: In May and June when it
was running only to Colfax, sixtytwo
miles, the receipts were S65,O0O for the
first month and SCI, 200 for the last. In
July, Alta Station, sixty-nine miles was
reached and the receipts were $4,000; in
August the receipts were $4,000; in
September, Sll4 1000; in October, s l27, 0OO
Fourteen dollars per ton is the rate of
| freight to Cisco; passengers, $3.50 each.
The receipts from freight just now are
about four times as large as those from
passengers. These prices may, perhaps
seem high when compared with the tariffs
of some of your Eastern roads; but they
are low, indeed; compared with those
| charged by snail-lke OK or mule teams
Already the merchants and mine owners
of Nevada are eliecting a saving OF about
20 per cent, on the freight bills of their
supplies. and when the road is completed
to that State they will save much more,
both in money and time, while perishable
articles, which formerly suffered greatly
through the rough carriage by teams over
mountain-roads, will now be delivered to
them uninjured Illustrative of what
people who are without railroad commuui-
cation have to pay for freights, | may
mention the fact that last season So, 100000
worth of goods were purchased and sent
via the Missouri River to Montana; the
freightage upon these was S2,0OO,0O0, or
one-third their entire value. Wells, Fargo
e Co. charge seyenty-fve cents per pound
in gold for stage freight from San Francis
co TO Salt Lake, seven hundred and ten
miles, and fifty cents to Austin, three
hundred and twenty miles. Teams charge
about one-half these rates from Sacramen-
to. In the year lS64--a dull one, by the
way-the President of the Gould and
Curry Mining Company estimated that had
there been railroad running to Virginia
City, the Company would have saved in
that year nearly S2,000,000 in golt ON
freights The cost of Transporting goods
to the mines of Nevada might with trutI
be called terrible. A. least 100000 600
per year is thus run away with; and In
view of these facts the wonder is that
the companies, on even such an unparal-
leled rich lode as The ComStOck. can
struggle under such burdens, pay SI3 per
cord for fire-wood, $3.50 per day in gold
to laborers, anu yet pay monthly dividends
of from to per cent in gold. The cost
of working the paying mines of Nevada
will be reduced fully one half when the
road is built, and thousands that can not
be developed now, because OF enormous
expense. can and will be when the road is
built. All that have said on this subject
about Virginia City applies with double
force to Austin and its mines, which are
l66 miles further distant from Sacremen-
to. Had the mine owners of Virginia
City and Austin been actuated by business
foresight, they would have subscribed all
the requisite funds for the building of the
railroad; but they were not The stock
holder in them of to-day does not know
that he will be such tomorrow, $50 many
buy only to gamble in the stocks), and he
is opposed to having his dividend reduced
for even a month"; no matter how much
the company might be future gamer by
assisting such an enterprise rs this rail
road. Their narrow shortsightedness in
these things is forcibly illustrated in the
way they have Sighted another project
that OF the ''Sutro Tunnel"-which 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 tire enterprise t., lie
offered in other markets, when it should
be kept at home and the profits pocketed
by US.
! In addition TO the profits that will flow
to the Central Pacific Railroad Company
! from the running of their road, the immense
landed grants of Congress will have placed
in their possession millions of acres of ms
fine agricultural and timber lands as can be
| found within the limits of the United
States, from which they will draw vast
revenues. Nevada is almost destitute of
timber, and, even for firewood, Sl3 per
cord has to be paid by the mining compa-
mics, and for the more valuable used for
timbcring the mines and other purposes,
| from so to $50 per cord is charged in
1 Virginia City. Tie amount required for
timbering mine may be guessed when
state that it has been repeatedly asserted,
and never contradicted, that 10 timber the
Gould and Curry mine took more lumber
than was used to build Virginia City, a
town of frame houses that accommodates
$1,000 inhabitants. All the timber re-
quired by the State of Nevada can be
supplied by the railroad company for at
least fifty years, and the income they will
derive from this source alone will pay fair
percentage on the cost of the entire road
through the Sierras.
have here briefly touched on this road,
which, to us of this coast, is of more i'm
portance than any other subject that can
be discussed, and what facts have given
will doubtless interest many of your read
ers, for large part of the stock in it is
held by New Workers, we being as usual
too poor to keep it all at home. l have
not gone deeply into the subject of facts
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and necessary-prominent facts only
have been touched upon, But if those
of your citizens who own interests in the
Central Pacific Railroad do not receive
larger profits from 1t than are derived from.
the stock of any other road, not even ex-
cepting the Panama Railroad, .han facts
and figures uiH lie, despite the proverb to
the contrary, and have lost their use for
making calculations.
1t was thought at first that the deep
SHOWS of winter would greatly impede
travel upon the road in the Sierras, if it
did not actually suspendit. But the an
ticipated trouble from this source has
easily been overcome by snow ploughs
and cleaning parties, although very heavy
falls have indeed occurred this winter
have been three times over the road,
once III last january, III ueep snow, again
in July, and third time this week On
my second trip | had very good opportu-
nifty to see the work thoroughly, and can
testify that it is built in frst-class style
throughout, and my winter trips have
convinced me that snow can put no OBJ
stacle in the way of the road that cannot
always be easily overcome.
OF the gra ndeur of the mountain peaks,
many OF which rise to an altitude of from
1850 to 1900 feet; of the deep and often
apparently fathomless gorges, of the gigan-
tic trees; OF the crystal lakes, mountain wa |
terfalls, and rivers; of the lights and shades, |
and of the gorgeous views from the tops of
some of the peaks; Of the rarified and clear
atmosphere; of the bracing and delightful
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