New-York tribune., 1871-04-08
IN IMPORTANT OUTLET FOE WESTERN
PRODUCE.

Some Improvement upon our present means
Of Transporting the surplus products Of the Western
markets and ports Of this coast s specially
desirable, and must be devised Now. half-and some
times than hathe cost or most OF what we eat is
made up OF the high rates for land carriage from the
fields where is grown TO the towns and villages where
II IA consumed Our great Source OF supply for broad
stn provisions and the like lies on the other slope OF
steer which sells for s25 at the railroad stations Kan
sas t5 here wheat, which can be bought IN Wis
sTs 81 1s in and corn Of which there is surfe
at 40 TO 90 cents per bushel in ten Western States
e4 nd speP Gs are Tany looking for cheaper
outlet the our railroads. with the addition OF
canal part of the year, unable to move all the
produce which the West has to spare rather by the
limits Of the aggregate capacity OF three or four trunk
lines, freight charges kept nigh enough to repress
traffic to its present volume The surplus OF these ten
populous agricultural states is increasing much aster
twenty years hence we shall need double our present
facilities various pans are PrCGsea
Canada, uniting Lakes Huron and Ontaroi canal over
the Aleghanes lift boats from the Ohio 10 the Chesa
peake steamtowed barges down the Mississippi to the
Gul and others Of equally unpromisng aspect IL is cyl
dent however that need some more constant, rela-
ble and modern device, such a. frstcass low-grade
railroad. unfottered by expensive consolldatlons
the extension to the Ohio River OF the old
established and successful road through Central virginia
under the new name and organization the Chesapeake
and Ohio II iroad" which must have important bear
ing on this problem OF increased transportation and
war this line would doubtless have been in operation to-
day doing and profitable business which the older
lines either cannot do, refuse tn do at reasonable
rates The advantages OF this route for way passage
across the Aeghanies were known and appreciated 80
years before seam-railroads were introduced ana az
though its merits seem for time TO have been oDscured
by the war might have been expected, II has lately
been taken in hand by eminent merchants and cap
itasts OF New York, who are rapidly pushing me ROAD
to completion. About 400 men are now engaged on the
line. and the iron will be laid on 100 miles TINS summer
leaving miles TO be laid TO establish another
trunk line between tide-water and the Oho' which VIII
be accomplished by the middle OF 1874 ,
The Company claim and apparently with the best rea-
sons their line has advantages for carrying large
can rival These are a. very direct route. the dis
rO% Ssarn ns as ho s
Louis, Memphis, Chicago, and intermediate points.
9 The grades are remarkably lighless than those OF
our most favored roads-admitng, for freghting pur-
Of fuel The hills OF West Virginia abound IN buninous,
camel and spln coal equal to any found IN the Gon
iron the ores for which also found adjacent 10 the
road a. Light capital and debt charges, Whlle more
uuder a combined debt and stock charge of $lOOCOlO,
upon which interest dividends are to DC PAID the
will have but about 900 OF the former to provide
for and like amount Of the latter to share the
and in this country heavy reghts can be hauled
profit at cent per tun per mile would appear
cheaper freghts and still retain argin OF profit for
outlay of capital, this new line is that one. -,..
claimed indeed that all the conditions Tor nlghy
interchange OF productions exist here in the greatest
perfection The iron and coal are In demand at eher
end OF the line for East and West markets. The mans.
facre be carried on with les7 cost tnsn az any ~
present iron ccnters The tobacco OF virginia anu
Kentucky the cotton Of Tennessee and Arkansas, the
cattle and provisions OF the states D0Tderlhg on ns
Ohio the and breadstufs OF the states bordering
on the Upper Mississippi and the Northwest Lakes, can
all find short and inexpensive route 70 the eNeOPei
Chesapeake Harbor IL is not improbable that line OF
EnropeaR 81 R tis so new trnE line TO the Middle
and Western States. From the waters OF mo Lower
can be moved tr1ng cost to all cosstwise ports Ill
Guiding New-IOrR.