Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-05
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sent, in another column, an enterprise possessing
features which seem to merit special comment.
Having built their road from Kansas City to
sheridan, and found il a profitable and promising
investment, the managers now propose TO con-
tinue it to Denver, and thus open up the trade 70
the Rocky Mountains. That much, it Is hoped,
will be completed by June next; and its agents,
Messrs. Dabney, Morgan & Co., and n. X. Jessp
4 Co., bankers and merchants Of high rsputasaon,
now tender through our columns, a loan Of Vs.
500, 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 through the center of Kansas, and is IN sue
cessful and profitable operation for over four
hundred miles. We remember the country
through which il passes as a wide, open PLAIN,
apparently as boundiess and rolling the sea,
known only to a few tribes Of wild, rowing 1ndi-
ans, and occasionally to a venturesome squad OF
Safeguards and herdsmen, who mDistered 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, sheri-
dan, and the twenty stopping places now upon its
e-tabe, did not exist, even In the i'm agination
of the pioneers. Denver was mere cluster OF
mining cabins and Indian huts. The Cheyenne
| and Arrapahoes held solemn council or high rev.
elry in Its ways. There was no law, but great
deal Of rude. summary justice, which grieved
sober believers in hdbeds corpus and trial by jury.
Now, Denver is as neat woll-bult, and comfort
able 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 trimmed and fringed II with the noble
Rocky Mountains, whose hills glisten in snow,
while their sides are clothed with deep and rich
midsummer greenery.
IL is nov proposed to unite this city with the
East by an extension of the Kansas Pae nc Rail
way. To do this it VIII be necessary to build 22O
miles Of road. The managers wise not to de-
fer 1t, IN the vain hope Of being able TO induce
Congress to vote them large subsidies. The gov
ernment has built one road TO the Pacific at
great expense. Private citizens are quite ready
and willing to build another, especially when
those who ask their aid show good bal
ance-sheet as the Kansas managers. st. Louis IL
on the natural route from New York TO the Rocky
Mountains and san Francisco. 1t is the metIop-
oils of the mighty Valley of the Mississippi, and
the extension of this road Is new and important
step in the great highway between st. LOUIS and
San Francisco. The Union Pacific COmaha) road
has as much business as II can manage: and
have grave doubts whether 1t will be able 70 keep
open a through route AMID the midwinter snow
and ice Of the Sierra Nevadas. a through road
must finally traverse the warm countries OF New
Mexico and Arizona, along the thirty.iiith paral-
lei or below it, Gen. Palmer has surveyed a route
where rarely fails, every mile OF which opens
rich mining deposits. IL embraces the oldest
towns on the continent. The country demands
such road. ana this extension is d step toward
completing it.
Il Is interesting 10 note the progress ef rail
way which draw its business from a country ten
years ago conceded 10 the bgg 40 and the sborig-
nes In April the K4t ~ts I'D earned IN gro-s
income. s2t7,9li a., Of which % 2el 81 were bal
anced by Expenses, leaving net proat of sl2i,
G23.,s In Nav the earnings were s222, l63. 4G
the expenses :lr7. 9s7.77 leaving prort of :li4,
1850. Two months aggregate. .23s, 3 81.
There are Re roads In our older and riper States
that would 10. be content with good result.
But The truth T. these new countries have much
growth in them We have but TO touch our
we-t,r "a prair G. and hill= with the iron wand,
and cities spring up, towns cluster along the
streams aud highway and road plains blossom
with wheat, nm ana barley. schO1l-houses and
olluiale, take ine place Of the blOck-house and
Tia, fart. and the great rivers disturbed by
steam and watar-whecl. So our civilization has
marched over the pralTi-s, Il advancing over the
plains and IL a few months We shall have the
vast treasure, 81 Colorado and tie gold countries
F under contribution. The President, In las last
III 4uguraI pointed TO those hills the .sstrong
bpx," whose treasures would pay the national
debt. This railroad Is the key to open 1t. We,
Therefore. lolk with pleasure upon this effort OF
private citizens 70 carry another road 70 the Pa
oiiic. We must have at least three railways
across the continent. We must enable the North
.ru and Southern and Middle States respectively
10 reach the furtherrst West by the most conven-
lent way. We look upon the State OF Kansas
with interest not far removed from affection.
This child Of tear. and blood, and agony now
marches to the dignity and grandeur of en-
pire, and well deserves the psDud, fond name Of
the Massachusetts, OF the West" To tins road
she owes much of her prosperity and, that
rs owners propose % carry 1t TO Denver aud wed
the Rocky Mountains TO the Mississippi Valley,
We hail them men 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 high
interest gold, has many years 20 run, Is secured
" by large grants OF Land and profitable railway,
and l. ind,r-ed by men whose word gives IL the
force OF an irreragable guarantee -Ne5r FORK
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