Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-06-15


by oxen, then the nearest railway
point. In those early days lumber cost
1915 per thousand, and the freight on
some locomotives brought here from the
East was $4,000 each. m hao.7 aal
The purchaser for the company, @. w.
Frost, expended almost six millions of
dollars in 1868 for miscellaneous supplies
though he had nothing to do with buy.
ing heavy articles like track-iorn and To-
comotives. Everything was done upon
the jump; no foresight could cover all
contingencies. Down from the end of the
line would flash telegram Send US a
thousand striking hammers--a thousand
men are lying idle;' or awe want mile
of iron pipe; y and off Frost would post to
Chicago to gather up the articles and hur-
ry them out for twelve or fifteen hundred
miles, Once he telegraphed to New.
York plow.maker: "Ship me instantly a
hundred iron ploas, and three thousand
steel plow-points" The manufacturer tel
egraphed back to friend here, asking If
the purchaser for the Union Pacific had
gone mad. Becoming satisfied, he sent
the articles, with a message to Frost: 81
never was so proud Of an order in my
life; but in Heavens name what do you
want Of three thousand pow-points?"-
They were required for ooscning a guam
tity of mountain gravel so hard that il
would wear out dozen points a day upon
a plow, and one driven through 1t would
leave mark OF steel grains in the lurrow
like charcoal tracing upon :. table cloth.
In estimating the libcrality of The gov
ernment endowment it is but fair to con.
slider the enormously increased expendi-
lures which remotcness, rapidity Of con-
structicn, and carrying forward everything
fom one end of the line involved
The equipment is unquestionably good.
The locomotives from the leading shops OF
the Feast, are the very best. The sleep
ing cars are without exception the finest |
have ever seen. The sills are Of Mchi-
gan oak, the sides Of whitewood the in
terror finish OF ash ana Dioak walnut. A
locomotive costs sl5, 500; day pass
enger car, $4,000; a freight car $4,000.
There are l47 locomotives upon the road,
and 27 more are contracted for 36 pass
cnger coaches, with "a building, and
enough arranged for to swell the aggregate
to l20 l,efore September; II sleeping
coaches with a large number under way,
and 1000 freight cars
Forty-eight hundred mcn.arc regularly
operating the linc--an army commanded
by Webster Snyder the surerindent, and
from 1900 to 400 for the time, with
seven trains two steam shovcls in smooth
ing and finishing the bed, and substituting
permanent bridges for temporary ones on
the western divisions. One passenger
train and three freight trains run each
way daily, including Sundays. The pres
ent receipts amount to about s27, coo per
day are rapidly increasing The officers
stationed here are Gcn.G. Nj. Dodge, late
member Of Congress from Council Bluffs
District, Chief Engineer; W. Snyder,
General Superintendent; Ii. NJ. Hoxie,
Assistant General Superintendent Il.
Brownson, General Freight Agent, andJ.
Budd, General Ticket Agent. 'a "'rttt
SCENES ON BOARD. a "
The ladies are sewing or crocheting, or
reading "Oldtown Folks" "Gates Ajar'
while the little black walnut tables in
front of each scat are scattered with that
confusion of spools, worsted, wcrk-boxes,
and books in which the feminine heart de-
lights. Some are writing letters to the
friends at home-:n Boston, in Maine, in
Philadelphia, in Vermont, in Ohio. Some
are leaning back drowsily, with tfcir heads
on pillows, reveIing in the prairie scenery.
The gentlemen are playing whist, or read
ing, or talking politics, or going forward
to smoke. One lady, returning to her
far home in Puget Sound, has laid her
tired baby upon the seat, and is trying to
soothe it. Just her, the track is smooth
and the wheels run quietly. A gentleman
begins to hum "IIome, Sweet Home;" his
wife joins him; then the lady on the next
seat, and so on, until, from every part OF
the coach many voices swell the chorus
and give the song with a heartiness OF
feeling that moistens some eye-lids, and,
at first startes the tired baby into open
eyed wonder, but seen lulls it to a quiet
slumber. a..f.e.t t,o.W ss4
THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE MIssoURI---now II
is BUILT.
The railroad bridge over the Missouri
is building below the Cozzens House, and
opposite the port of Omaha, which is
known as Train-town. There was speclua'
ton in the eyes Of George Francis four
years ago when he brought several hun
dred acres here for . nominal price. The