New-York tribune., 1868-06-01
6fhcd freight

to Abnnser9ne of troops, mails and
treaty supplies for Indians. of S25I 30 +ba Treoo
The total annual saynE SECTION Of the road 4s7
miles long, between Fort Wallace ana albuquerque
| would amount to 81 ,OS3,Sl2 IN nor cent Of the
oDneneation for services rendered 10 th9 Govern
ment is retained by the SecTetaly tro} o r d n;S
and applied to the paymenS ~ IN aid of tbe roads In
odnn 70 to the facts above set forth. the House Mill
@r,i Tommittee found that this annual saving Oh
"a Zoo S3 Ionld not only keep down the interest on
IoodI d H he loaned to build the Kansas Pacific
Poa1 to 4i6nouerque from Fort Wallace put would
iido noSG an annual sinking fund that would redeem
pLod pLoNuo % ond over and beyond that would, In con-
tion with the retention of 90 per cent OF the 10V
ernment transportation money W. whGS sT Carry
! principal and interest OF the loan III OLA 'o"A' "
SIt iii strike most men that the sooner the 10Y
ernmen aids this road TO get 10 Ie
and un1nestionable. the better 1t Will Dc Ior our
| Treasury und our tax payers -, r.. 80
| The House Military Committee moreover, 1ounu
| that n nroportional saving IN the pubic service,
ennalIy large if not much greater than that above
set forth would be effected by the Road al inc way
| west of Albuquerque to the Pacific ana weIi they
might come to this conclusion upon evidence IKE the
| following which was placed before them Inc sur
veyors of the Road in November last bought Oh 1ne
Cen Grants order 200 pounds of pork and 81 pounds
of salt at the cost price at Fort Yuma OF s4I but
had to paw in addition, the cost OF the wagon trans
portation of the pork and salt from Yuma to Bowie,
which was $l33 in gold nearly three times the hrst
cost of the articles and five times as much as the
| freight by rail would have been all the way rom
| San Francisco if the road had been in operation
Every pound of TaJiOns and every pound Oh forage
consumed by the Government at Fort Bowie cost tne
Treasury at that time % cents III coin t0r transpOra
V. The duty Of the Government to develop the re-
sources of the country to assist the people in the ac
| emulation of wealth, and 10 increase the taxable
property Of the nation until the Public Debt Is ex-
tingushed requires that it should aid this Railway
| Immediately to get to the Pacific.
I9ref. DudleV RaXter. his paper read before
the London Statistical Society on the Results OF Ral
| way Extensions showed from parliamentary returns
! that there were carried by railway in England in
1865 251 SG3OO0 passengers and ll4,593OO0 tuns OF
goods-and that this traffic ,cds ne'V, not previously in
| ersteRce and tCGS impossible UithOat rdhCdys.
He also showed that had the railway traffic of Eng
land in the single year 1861 been conveyed by canal
and earth roads at the present railway rates 1t would
have cost three times as much as IT did that instead
of ESQ 600 1000 il would have cost fl0SOOO0 dndh that
\ there ,6ds Sdring Of f72000000 year. more than the
Whole taxation Of he United Kingdom:
railways upon the export and import trade OF the
Kingdom was to increase 1t from tSo5OoOOo IN 1883
to 100000 IN 1850 ana ne ueonsia @ Ie gIJf
man in America. that e increase OF nations imports
and exports Is IN strict proportion 10 me dereopment
lie likewise showed the benefcent influences of
| railways on the working classes OF England " In
creased facilities of transit led 10 increased trade
Increased trade gave greater employment and i'm
proved wages the dminutlon IN the cost or transit
and the repeal Of fiscal duties cheapened provisions
| and the immense nOOu OF NHiCu bCt
since 1850 raised the incomes and the prosperity OF
| the working classes to an unprecedented hight" -,
| Second: Mr.. Baxter, crossing over to France with
the axiom that the commerce OF country ln-
creases in direct proportion to the improvement OF
| its railway system, and that railway development
is one of the most powerful ana EVIDENT causes OF
great increase in French commerce coteinporaneons
with the increase in the number and elclency OF the
railroads of France. In that empire there ere but
IS miles of road open in 1881. There were l34 miles
in operation in 1865 The growth of French exports
and imports from fS2.520OO in lS4O to ES9Sli
Mr.. Baxter says that, while travelling through
France, he everywhere heard railways assigned as
8 e aso saws that M Fachat French statstcan
calculated the saing TO the nation byrdioay conveyance
TO be e4O,OOO.OO0 year.
an elaborate calculation of the money saving arising
to the French people out OF the greater Iapdty OF
movement by railway, ana values ~ at to.g&oV
| worth fvepeEce sterling an hour " .,
| direct result of the increase OF the facilities OF
motion in France was an increase of the amount OF
| labor throughout the country-a corresponding in-
crease of laborers' wages-an Improvement IN the
condition of the working classes physically morally
and sOcialiy-a diminution of the distance which
separates employed from employer, and the man who
works only for himself from the man who works for
French workman's children, in his clothing in his
domestic life and even in his amusements, there is
now an improvement which raises MN nearer " his
Third: In Belgium, Mr. Baxter found the law of
railway extension TO hold good, as he had found 1T
lin England and France. In 1885, the total imports
and exports Of Belgium were only ElO70O,UV. A
law authorizing the construction, at me erpeHSe OF
The State of railways between all the large towns IN
the 9dOm was passed In 1884, and was carried out
by the Government without loss OF time. Trade at
received great impetus, ana ltS progress since
has been more rapid than IN any other country IN
Europe. The exports and imports rose from tlO lOO
900 in 1885 to f97 10000 in 1864. Railway develop
mept i'm Belgium, greater than even IN England, -
making thai little kingdom the workshop Of Europe
and the creditor country OF the w0rld. ,
Fourth. Now contrast with the splendid results Of
the wise gridironing by the Governments OF France
| and Belgium of those countries respectively with
lines of railway with the waste OF time, labor ana
cantaI in the United States in tho trade and travel
across the Plains to the Rocky mountains and the
Pacific slope. In 1865, there were ~ freightng
firms in Atchison, which shipped II 80 pounds OF
merchandise and employed In its transportation 4V
wagons, 1874 mules 27,G75 oxen, and oSoo men.
From Nebraska City, tho " fTelghtageD across The
Plains in 1865 employed ll,119 men, 1881 wagons,
1OI&3 mules and 1886 oxen. The merchandise
| transported on a walk by this enormous, and enor-
mously costly, machine Of transportation was but
1900 tuns What was the value of the loss of the
time and labor Of that army of young men, merged
by false system, the fruit of false economy III the
hoofs of sluggish cattle in the yokei
| Finh: THIS Pacific Railroad viii add to the pro-
ductive of the United States the lands Oh
both sides of it through the State Of Kansas 1t has
already furnished outlet to the East for the beef
cattle of Texas and the Indian Nation, Thirty
thousand head shipped over IL IN the short sea
son that followed the opening of the line last year
The road will establish trade In coal hardly second
to that which has enriched Pennsylvania and given
American manufactures their present degree of deve
opment. The bitumnous coal OF Colorado and New
Mexico is equal to that of the Pittsburgh field. 1t
exists in beds from 10 to l6 feet thick. accessible by
drifts in the sides of cafons and OF course cheapv
worked. The road Will penetrate coal-ield at @ ,no
| junction of the Ration and Rocky MOUnlna,nnrs
which is known to, be hundreds q 0W West.
! miles in extent. All of Kansas sha u. nesE
| orn Missouri Northern Colorado ana Western
Nebraska will be supplied by s ana tne DtnySr Yer
field. An immense trade in rue iuOo s oo,hasst ~
Denver and near The Raton mountains iron ~ ore tb