The Cecil Whig., 1869-08-21

The agents of the Kansas Pacific Railway,
present, in another column, an enterprise
possessing features which seem to merit
special comment. Having built their road
from Kansas City to Sheridan, and fonnd
it 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, Messrs. DABNEY, MORGAN &
Co., and NJ. X. JEsUp & Co., Bankers and
Merchants Of high reputation, now tender
through our columns, a loan of Sc, 5000
for this purpose.
These gentleman state with clearness the
reasons which have induced them to give
this loan their endorsement. The Kansas
Pacific Railway now runs through the cen
tire of Kansas, and is in successful and
profitable operation for over four hundred
miles. We remember the country through
which it passes as a wide, open plain, ap-
parently as boundless and rolling as the
sea, known only to 4 few tribes of wild,
rowing Indians, and occasionally to a ven
turesomc squad of stage guards and herds
men, who ministered primitive hoSpitali-
ty every fifteen or twenty miles, Topeka,
Salina and Manhattan We're little more than
the geographical designations of towns
that hoped to be. Hays, Ellsworth, Shcri-
dan and the twenty stopping places now
upon its time table, did not exist, even in
the imagination of the pioneers. Denver
was mere cluster of mining cabins and
Indian huts. The Cheyennes and Arrapa-
hoes held solemn council or high revelry in
its ways. There was no law but a great
deal of rude, summary justice, which
grieved sober believers in hapeas corpus,
and trial 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.
Rocky Mountains, whose hills glisten in
snow while their sides are clothed with
deep and rich midsummer greenery.
| 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 ne
cessary to build 220 miles of road. The
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 a
great expense. Private citizens are quite
ready and willing to build another, especial
lv when those who ask their aid can show
as good balance sheet as the Kansas Man
arers. St. Louis is on the natural route
from New York to the Rocky Mountains
and San Francisco. 1t is the metropolis OF
a mighty Valley of the Mississippi; and
the extension Of this road is a new and i'm.
portant step in the great highway between
st. Louis and San Francisco. The Union
Pacific (Omaha) Road has as much buSi,
ness as it can manage; and we have grave
doubts whether it will be able to keep opeI
thorough route amid the midwinter snow
and ice of the Sierra Nevadas. 4 thorough
road must finally traverse the warm cGun
tries of New Mexico and Arizona, along
the thirty fifth parallel or below it. Gen
eral Palmer has surveyed route where
snow rarely falls-every mile of whicl
opens rich mining deposits 1t embrace