The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-07-30
From the y. Y. Tribune.
A STEP TO TIE PACIFIC.

The agents of the Kansas Pacific Rail-
way present, in another column, an en-
terprise possessing features which seem
to merit special comment. Having
built their road from Kansas City to
Sheridan, and found il profitable and
promising investment the managers
now propose TO continue it to Denver,
and thus open up the trade of the Rocky
Mountains. That. much it is hoped.
will be completed by June next; and its
agents, MessIs. Dabuey. Morgan x Co..
and NJ. X. Jesup & Co.. bankers aid
merchants of high reputation, now ten
der. through our columns, loan of
S6.5UO,OOO for this purpose.
These gentlemen state with clearness
the reasons which have Induced them
to give this loan their Endorsement.
The Kansas Pacific Railway HOW rans
through, the center of Kansas, and is in
successful and profitable operation for
over ionr hundred miles. We remem-
Der the country through which it passes
az wide, open plain, apparently as
boundless and rolling as the sea, known
j only to Il few tribes OF wild, rowing In
dians, and occasionally to a ventufes0me
squad of stage guards and herdsineH,
who ministered a primitive hospitality
every fifteen or twenty miles. Topeka,
SalilIa and Manhattan were little more
than the geographical designation of
towns that hoped to be. Hays, Els
worth, Sheridail, aud the twenty stop
ping places now upon its time Ia BILE, did
not exist, even III the Imagination of
the pioneers. Denver was "a mere clus-
ter of mining cabins and Indian huts.
The Cheyennes and ATrfIpahoes held
solemn council or high revelry In it's
ways. There was no law, but great
deal of rude, summary justice, which
grieVed sober believers i'll habeas corpus
and trial by jury. Now, Denver is as
neat, well-bnilt, and comfortable "a
Hartford, with schools aud churches,
rows of brick stores, hotels. and tasteful
dwellings, which recall the luxury and
comfort of the East. Nature has rim
med and iringed it with the noble Rock V
Mountains, whose hills glisten in snow,
while their sides are clothed in deep
and rich midsummer grecnery.
1t is now proposed to unite this city
with the East by an extension of the
Kansas Pacific Railway. To do this,
it will be necessary to build 220 miles
of road. The managers are wise not to
defer it, i'll the vain hope of being able
to induce Congress to vote them hrgc
subsidies. The Government 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 can show as
good a balance sheet as the Kansas
managers. ST. Louis is OIL the natural
route TO the Rocky Mountains and 5nn
Francisco. 1t is the metropolis of>the
mighty valley of the Mississippi; aud
the extension of this road is new and
important step i'll the great highway be-
tween st. Louis and San Francisco.
The Union Pacific (Onaha) road has as
much business as it can manage; and
we have grYe doubts whether it will be
able to keep open u through route amid
the midwinter snow and ice of the Sicr-
ia Nevatlas. n through road must final
ly traverse the warm countries of New
Mexico and Arizona, along the thirty
fifth parallel or below it. Gen. Palmer
has surveyed u route where SNOW rarely
falls-every mile of which opens rich
mime deposits. 1t embraces the oldest
towns on the continent. The country
demands such road, and this extension
Is steptOward completing it.
1t is interesting to note the progress
of ii railway which draws its business
from country ten years ago conceded
to the buffalo and the aborigines. In
April the Kansas road earned, in gross
income, S2I7, 9l449, of which 1913, 26I 81
were balanced by expenses, leaving Il
net profit of Sl24,7I2SS. In May the
earnings We're S222, l63, 10; the expenses
SlOL9SI.U, leaving profit OF SIl4,-
IIo.6J. Two mouths aggregate, $685.
1851. There are few roads in our old
er and ripper States that would not be-
content with us good result. But the
truth is, these new countries have much
growth i'll them. We have butte touch
our Western prairics 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, and the
great rivers are disturbed by steam and
water wheel. So our civilization has
marched over the prtirics, is advancing
over the plains, and in ii few months we
| shall have the vast treasures of Colora-
do and the gold countries under con-
| tributiOn. The President, III his last i'll
augural, pointed to those 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
citiZcns to carry another road to the Pa
| ci1ic. We must have at least three
railways across the continent. We
must enable the Northern and Southern
and Middle States respectively TO reach
the furthest West by the most convent
ent way.
We look upon the State of Kansas
with an interest not far removed from
affection. This child Oft tears, and blood,
and agony, now marches to the dignity
and grandeur of an emire, and well de-
serves the proud, fond name of ''the
Massachusetts of the West" To this
road she owes much of her prosperity !;
and, now that its owners propose to car
ry it to Denver and we'd the Rocky
Mountains to- the Mississippi valley, we
hail them as men doing great national
service, and earnestly hope they will re-
ceive from our people prompt and earn
est support. The loan they offer is GER
| tainly good one. 1t yields high inter-
est i'll gold, has many years to run, is Sc
cured by large grants of land and Il prof
liable railway, and Is indorsed by men
whose word gives it the force of an ire
| fragablc guarantee.