Litchfield enquirer., 1869-08-12
- A STEP TO THEPACtFIC.

THE agents of the Kansas Pacific Rail way present, in another column, an enter prise possessing features which seem to merit special comment. Having built their road from Kansas City to Sheridan, and found it to be e profitable investment, the
 Managers now propose to continue it to Denver, and thus open up the trade to tho
 Rocky Mountains That much, it is hoped,
 will be completed by June next: anal it's agents, Mes IS. Dabney, Morgan & O., and
 M. K- Jessup & Co.,, bankers and merch-
 ants of high reputation, now tender, through our columns, a loan of SC, 500, 900
 for this purpose. These gentlemen state with clearness the
 reasons which have induced them to give
 this loan their indorsement. The Kansas
 Pacific Railway now runs through the cen
 tre of Kansas, and is in successful and profitable, operation for over four hundred Emiles.4 We remember the country through
 which it passes as a wide, open plain, ap.
 parently as boundless aud rolling as the
 sea. known only to 8 few tribes of wild ,roy- ing Indians, and occasionally to venture some squad of stage, guards and herdsmen,
 who mlnistered a primitive hospitality
 every fifteen or twenty miles. Topeka Salina, and Manhattan were little more
 
 that hoped to be Hays Ellsworth, Sheri-
 dan, nnd the twenty stopping- places now upon it's time table, did not exist, even in the imagination of the pioneers. Denver
 was mere cluster of mining cabins and Indian hnts.1 The Cheyennes and Arrapa- hoes held solemn council or high revelry in it's ways There was no law, but great deal oR rude, summary justice, which griev-
 ed sober believers in hdbeds corpus and tri. al by jury. Now, Denver is as neat, well
 built and comfortable as Hartford. with
 schools and churches, rows of brick stores,
 hotels, and tasteful dwellings, which recall
 the luxury and comfort of the East. Ma ture has trimmed and fringed it with the no .
 ble Rocky Mountains, whose hills glisten in snow, while their sides are clothed with deep and rich midsummer greenery. It is now proposed to unite this city with the East by an extension of the Kan sas Pacific Railway. Toldo this, it will be necessary to build 220 miles of road. Tho 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 8 great expense. Private citizens are quite ready and willing to build another, especial ly when those who ask their aid can show as good balance sheet as the Kansas Managers St. Louis is on the natural route from New York to the Rocky Mount aims and San Francisco. It is the metrop- oils of the mighty valley of the Mississippi; and the extension of this road is a new and important step in the great highway be- tween 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 through route amid the mid winter snow and ice of the Sierra Neyadas. A through road must finally, traverse the warm countries of New Mexico and Arizo- na, along the thirty fifth parallel or below it. Gen. Palmer has surveyed Q route where snow rarely falls -every mile of which opens rich mining deposits. It em. braces the oldest towns on the Continent The country demands such asroad, and this extension is step toward completing it. tLJJ 3ArEaW3It1
 It is interesting to note the progress of \ railway which draws it's business from a country ten years ago conceded to the buf- lalo and the aborigines. In April the Kansas road earned, in gross income. S217, ,914 49. of which $93. .291 61 were bal. snced by expenses, leaving tiet profit of SPA, 622 88. In May the earnings wera &232, l62 46; the expenses S1O7. .g87 n. leav. Ing profit of ,Sll4, ,175 60. Two fnohtha aggregate, $32s, ,79S 56. II There are few roads in our older and sriper states that H lO 2obi9smSd5 yisi3aa 5ns iiso os b,ef,.a