Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-08-20
A sTEP TO TIE PACIFIC.

special comment. Having built their road
from Kansas City to Sheridan, and found it
profitable aud promising investment, the
managers now propose to continue it to
Denver, and thus open up the trade of the
Rocky Mountains That much, it itishoped,
viii be completed by june next and its
agents, Megsrs. DABNEY, MORGAN & Co,
and NJ. X. JEsUP & Co., Bankers and
Merchants Of nigh reputation, now tender
through our columns, a loan Of SO, 5000 600
for this purpose.
These gentlemen state with clearness the
reasons which have induced them to give
this loan their endorsement The Kansas
Pacific Railway now runs througs the
centre of Kansas, and is in successful and
profitable operation for over four hundred
miles. We remember the country through
which it passes as a wide, open plain, ap-
parently as boundless and rolling as the sea,
known only to a few tribes Of wild, rowing In
dians, and occasionally to a yenturesome'
squad of stage guards and herdsmen, who
ministered a primitive hospitality every
fifteen or twenty miles Topeka, Salina and
Manhattan were little more than the
geographical designations Of towns that
hoped to be- Hays Ellsworth, Sheridan
and the twenty stopping places now upon
its timetable, did not exist, even in the
imagination Of the pioneers, Denver was a
mere cluster Of mining cabins and Indian
huts, The Cheyennes and ATapahoes held
solemn council or high revelry in its ways.
There was no law but great deal of rude,
summary justice, which grieyed sober be-
levers in haJeas corpus, and trial by jury.
Now, Denver is as neat, well built and com
Portable as Hartford, with schools and
churches, rows of brick stores, hotels and
tasteful dwellings, which recall the luxury
and comfort of the East Nature has rim
med and fFinged it with the noble Rocky
Mountains, whose hills glisten in snow,
while their sides are clothed with deep and
rich midsummer greenery.
1t is now proposed to unite this city with
the East by an extension of the Kansas
Pacifc Railway To do this it will be
necessary to build 220 miles of road The
/ Managers are wise not to defer it, in the
vain hope of being able to induce Congress
to vote them large subsidies. The Govern
ment has built one road to the Pacific at a
great expense. Private citizens are quite
ready and willing to build another, especially
when those who ask their aid can show as
good balance sheet as the Kansas Man
ayers. St. Louis is on the natural route
/ from New York to the Rocky Mountains
and San Francisco. 1t is the metropolis Of
the mighty Valley Of the Mississippi; and
/ the extension Of this road Is a new and i'm
portant step in the great highway between
/ ST. Louis and San Francisco. The Union
/ Pacific Omaha Road has as much business
as it can manage; and we have grave doubts
whether it will be able to keep open a
/ through route amid the midwinter snow and
ice Of the Sierra Nayadas. A through road
must finally traverse the warm countries of
New Mexico and Arizona, along the thirty
/ fifth parallel or below it. Genera. Palmer
has surveyed route where snow rarely falls
every mile Of which opens rich miningde-
posits. 1t embraces the Oldest towns on the
continent. The country demands such a
road, aud this extension is a step toward
completing If.
I II is interesting to note the progress Of a
railway which draws its business from a
country ten years ago conceded to the buffalo
and the aborigines In April, the Kansas
Road earned, in gross income, $2l7,9l4 40,
/ Of which sos, 29l 81 were balanced by ex-
ponses, leaving a net profit of SPACE IS.
In May, the earnings were $222, lG3 46; the
expenses Sl07, ,9S7 II, leaving a profit Of
! |sIl4.I75 SO. Two months aggregate,
/ S238, ,7gS 81. There are few roads in cur
oder and riper States that would not be
coutent with as good result But the
truth is, these new countries have much
growth in them We have but to touch
our Western prairies and hills with the iron
wand, and cities spring up, towns cluster
along the streams and highways, and broad
plains blossom with wheat, corn.and barley:
school houses and churches take the place Of
the block house and the fort, aud the great
rivers are disturbed by steam and water
wheel. So our civilization has marched
over the prairies, is advancing over the
plains, and in few months we shall have
the vast treasures Of Colorado and the gold
countries under contribution The Prosi-
dent, in his last Inaugural, pointed to these
hills as the strong box, whose treasures
would pay the National debt. This railroad
is the key to open it. We therefore look
with pleasure upon this effort of private
citizens to carry another road to the Pacific.
We must have at least three railways across
tie continent. We must enable the North
ern and Southern and Middle States re.
spectiyely to reach the furthest West by the
most convenient way We look upon the
State Of Kansas with an interest not far re-
moved from affection. This child of tears,
and blood and agony, BOW marches to the
dignity and grandeur Of an empire, and vel
deserves the proud, fond name of ''thc
Massachusetts of the West. To this road
she owes much OF her prosperity; and now
that its owners propose to carry it to Denver,
and wed the Rocky Mountains to the
Mississippi Valley, We hail them as mel
doing great National service, and earnestly
hope they will receive from our people
prompt and earnest support The loan they
offer is certainly good one. 1t yields higI
interest in gold, has many years to run, il
secured by large grants of land and
profitable railway, and is endorsed by mer
whose word gives it the force Of ean ire
fragable guarantee. .-Nelg York Tribune
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