St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-01-17

dusky peoples in China and Japan, ant
our own citizens even in the Genesse,
Valleys; the gold mines which yielt
fifty millions year; the fifty thousand
Chinese who swarm in the young state,
leaving their women and children al
home, and even shipping their dead five
thousand miles home to be buried the
Geysers, where hot water and steam shoot
up from the earth in thousand places
roaring, like a huge steam ship blowing
off her steam the wonderful Yosemite
Valley where Switzerland is compressed
into an area of ten miles. where stands a
waterfall, sixteen times higher than Nj
agara and twelve times higher than Bun
kcr Hill Monument, and where solid
mountains Of granite rise perpendicularly,
without 4 seam, for three quarters of a
mile: the big trees, older than the
Christian Era and with trunks % and
80 feet III diameter: to speak fifty OF all
these would fill volume.
THE GREAT RAILWAY.
Along these great states of the future,
runs our first Pacific railroad. The main
stem starts from Omaha, Nebraska, but
three Kansas forks leave the Missouri
respectively at Atchison, Leavenworth
and Wyandott. The present western
end, is Sacramento. where passengers
take river steamers for San Francisco,
l2O miles. But the ultimate terminus
will be Oakland, two miles across the
bay from san Francisco.
NIGHTS AND GRADES.
Tie road runs through almost every
variety of climate and country. Its nights
above sea level are
omaha, 1hnO feet.
E4-trrn hose Rocky Nount.ins, 500 .
Highest 'unmit Rocky Mountains, $500 -
salt Lake Ci Y, 1870 :"
Simmit of ii IRA Nevada, 1000 -
On the California end, coming East
ward up the Sierras, the track rises
seven thouoand feet i'll less than a hun
drcl mile, But so favorable a route
has been found, that the heaviest grale
ZIG Zee; to the mile, is only three miles
long. No other grade exceeds LOG feet
to the mile.
Ou the Nebraska end going westward
upon the valley Platte for more than
five hundred miles. the track follows a
,,.,tur,I ,,.aJ. ot loss than sover foot to
,ha mill.
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Tn. r,,J :. Lr;I+ b,. two d;st;,ct cor
nor,tio.. The Tni6n Pacific Comnonv
'.,,,,,,,..,1 of \a,v Y,rL and Hostop can
rolls. .,ort. irom Omaha vastu.orI
IT,. CortraI Ip,c;,i. mo5a mn of CoI;tor-
,,;., ,..,n;,,I;xts comes from S,cromento
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H., ,,,,.,r,,,oon, In;.cJ S.o+os honJs
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.:,-.oo,, ,i,,,sorI IoI,,rs f,r orc~,. ,n;I.
rn;.L,I yyLrr,. thc ron+e i I.veI and thr
n,.,Jinn I;rbt. th;r,v-two tbonsond fo,
every mile along the toot-hills. and forty.
cirbf thousand for every mile in the
mountains. where heavy rradinr is re-
uuireJ In addition to this each com.
pany i authorized to issue and sell It's
own bonds ior Inc same amounts pei
ln''e' l u'Ss ooiiS, as " mortgage upon
tie ROAD, nave priority over us indebted,
ness 10 The government. IL Is Inc mos'
muili'Ieent endowment any pupilc wore
ever receivtd' pNt no greater thah 'h'
enterprise deserves.
PROGRESS ALREADY MADE.
Nearly twenty thousand laborers ar,
cmnIoy.d rpon the main stem The dis
turc. from Omaha TO San Francisco i
about seventeen hundred miles. On tbi
end the locomotive roing westward. ha:
reached the Rocky Mountains in Colora
do. The one coming eastward from Sac
ramcnto has penetrated the Sierra Neva
das into the state of Nevada.
The most rapid railway building il
the world. has been done along the line
One mile n dov. was formerly consider
ed fast track-laving but here two mile
and even two and n half have been lai,
f,r v.a.ls torrthar About ono thou
sand miles remain to be constructed.
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,c-o A., ,,,> ILL 10 o1o,o1 ~,
the Great hirh,yay opened from Wester,
Enrnpc to the Celestial Empire and tn
far;he,t Indies. Alreadv.the largest ant
finest steamers in the world connect wit
the western terminus. plvinr month";
each way between San Francisco, Chin
and Japan. They are of American bull
and ownership: the largest are of nearl
5000 tons burden, and have cost abou
one million dollars apiece.
As far as completed. both ends of tn
road are choked with passengers an
freight and pay enormous profits. An
| think there is no man living who full
comprchemds what the value of the grea