New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-17
tcpoSs THE COYTINENT


First class tickets from New-1Hk 10 oah
" Francisco, $50; second-class, $40. palace
Gear will leave tonight to go TO sacramento
without change. Extra charge Tor aoupie
berth and double seat, through, S|S'' MS
standing announcement is now placardeo IN
front of the Broadway ticket offices. AS tne
two Pacific Railway Companies have alreauy
found it for their interest to put on uaiiy
through cars, fand establish passenger rates az
etsO and $40. the public will cheerfully wait
mill arrangements can be perfected for the
fulGllment of their much heralded promise to
carry emiprants from ocean to ocean Tor
S5O But we earnestly trust that thh
will soon be done. California and Oregon
want settlers from the Atlantic COAST
our Eastern States want labOrers from
China the companies want the additional Trans
continental business which the filling up Oh our
maintain and Pacific States will give them. III
thew were to carry out free every emigrant
who will Open farm or a mine, or build saw
mill or a factory anywhere upon their long line
tbev would find it permanently remuDerative,
lust as English roads carry business men VINO
settle near them to and fro gratultously Tor the
sake of the fares paid by their families.
Freights from New-YOrk to San Francisco
now stand:
First class .:.............S 80 per 100 pounds
sT,ird class ............ 6 50 per 100 pounds
Ordinarily, freights of the first class from
New-Yo to Chicago command about 81 81
per hundred but the war just now raging pc
tween rival lines has brought all classes down
to % cents per hundred. A declaration OF
peace. or a truce between the belligerents liable
to occur any day, may reestablish old standards,
and increase correspondingly the rates across
| the continent The ordinary freight time from
| ocean TO ocean is now from ~ to IL days; ultl-
! mately, it should settle at from IL to 10. he
label California Pears" has already become
familiar at the leading fruit stands OF 81 LOUIS
| Chicago, and New-York; but nearly all the
| fruit thus far has come by express. The two
| companies are still dsputing for the possession
of the 53 miles of road between Promontory
and Ogden, Utah; but the engineers OF both
are examining it and making estimates of It's
value, and we trust that the matter will be
adjusted amicably, and without detrlment 10
| the public.
| Under the reduced freight and passenger
rates the business of the line is rapidly increas-
| ing. But both of the long roads must depend
chiefly, for several years yet, upon through
! rather than local traffic; and their success, 80
| far as stockholders are concerned, depends upon
the solution Of some interesting and unusual
business problems. Nothing short of the high
est capacity will prove equal to their practical
management. The Central we understand, con-
! 6dent that it has the Right Place, is searching
eagerly for the Right Man. The Union Pacific
| has already secured general superintendent
! of ripe experience and eminent ability in the
person of Col. &. G.. Hammond, long known,
! especially through the West, in connection with
the Chicago Burlington and Quincy. That was
| a non-paying line when be took charge OF 1t ;
| but under his management it became one OF
the most remunerative roads on the continent.
The Union Pacific Company seems to be NOV
ing in the right directiOn-ayoiding the pitfalls
which at one time proved so nearly fatal to it,
and seeking to conduct its affairs upon those
sound and strict business principles which alone
can secure the favor and confidence of the
public The Central, 7too, always conservative
and cautious in its management, gives pleasant
indications of growing liberality. Both compa-
MES, we hope, will be wise enough to abandon
all projects for extending their tracks, and max
ing two parallel roads only short distance
apart from the Missouri to the Pacific. Let
them devote whatever spare cash and energy
they may have to building or aiding North and
South lines which will serve as feeders, and
give them heavy and permanent local traffic
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