Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-06-05

one hundred poiais 1t a time, at.
no thought the PurehaslRg aseiit O
the Union Pacific wts crazy. BaI
every six mnle team, drawing q
plough through tho dislhleefated
granite Of the Black Hills, ground
one Of those points 10 pieces in tive
hours, and the three thorsand wers
needSd. --
Two hundred and siSiy-hVe miles
were bnilt in 1866; two hundred
and thirty-five in 1867 while since
Jan. I, 1868, i've handtel and sixty
miles have been bnilt, equipped, and
put IN onerau9n, One thousand
nnd eighty miles IN .hrec years and
qnaflerl That will do TO brag Of
Meantime, the western part Oi
the work has been pushed with sim
liar energy. Tho heavy grades OF
the Sierra Nevada were encountered
soon amer leaving Sacramento. In
November, 1860, tho road was
opeici to Cisco, nlneiy,f6pr rifles
from Sacramento, and within eleven
miles Of tho summit OF tho noun.
tain rangc. Early In 1903 the sum.
NIT tunnel was COMPLETED, and dur
ing that year and tho four months
of 1869 ,hc road has been cifrled
rapidly down the Truolsec and Hum
bolt valleys, and TO tho meeting
point ut tho head Of Great Salt
Lake -..r-.lf. -.r-l .s.
II has been said lhal the Govern
ment endowed theso constructing
companies too literally. Lot Us SEQ.
IL gives thom ono-half the public
land on twenty miles each side OF
the track. This is royal domain,
and is an absolute grant. But
through this encouragement tho
railroad has boon built, which brings
the adjacent Government lands into
market, and gives them n vnlro
which otherwise thcy rould not
have for fifty years. Already all
Government lands along tho line Of
the road have boon inesaaael in
price from 81 25 per aero 10 SO 90,
so that for Che one-half area which
tho Government has left it will get
.s much as IL wonld without the
road have got for tho whole. In
this respect, therefore, tho railroad
has been tho donor and Uncle Sam
has made q -good.thing Of it. Then
as TO bonds; tho Government docs
not glSe these, but loans its credit
for thirty years, one-haH tho ac-
count of tho railroad against tho
United States for transportation Of
troops, mails, stores, and tho like,
to,bo applied to tho payment of the
interest and principal of this loan.
The Quartermaster General that in
this transportation for the year
1867, the Government paid the rail
road two million dollats less than it
would have had to pay for tho
transportation Of the same materia!
by wagons. The saving for 1868 is
estimated to have been moro than
in 1867; and as tho mail account
creascs ycM'ly, whilo tho freight
charges will be from time to, time
reduced, it is fair to say that the &C,
tual saving to tho Goyornmcnt will
gradually and steadily increase.
The road to the Pacific is finished
scyeh Years earlier than the statu
tory limit. In this seven years
there will bc.a saving to the Gov
ornmont of not less than fourteen
million dollars III transportation, for
which the Company should have
credit, as bcing duo solely
to tho remarkable ohergy which has
built the road so much within the
time allowed, while within thirty
years sthe period Which tho bonds
loaned to, the Cefnrapy, haze 70 run,
the, ,sttihg will, at thc above, rate,
foot us sixty millions, or more than
double tho total amount Of the loan.
Be this as It may, tho grand fact
Il, remains "a tEhSt tho 'Pacifc Railroad is
built, That the work is done seven
years aar5 sooner than was expected,
and that the gold seeker who went
out round the Horn in 1919 may
now return to the atlantic in d
Week, without othor conveyance
than rail cars and, an occasional
ferry boat. . a5at so.gaT q vsai