The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-08-04
street Railroad.

The latest branches laid down in
| Nashville, including equipments, five
feet gauge, cost per mile, $500. BY
adopting a three feet gauge the cost is
! lessened about one third, and can be
built, including equipment, building,
etc, for =, 22l per mile, and furnish a
very commodious ear, six feet wide, and
thirty-two inches in the clear, between
the seats. Track estimated a. follows:
7 rail, il lbs. per yard, S9Oper ton, de
liVered, cost per mile. slii. 81
Cedar CrOSs-ties, 1850, i16 and n.
long at - cents each..-.-.........-.-... 500
Spikes, 6x7-l6 by in long, 30gQ lbs at
; cts per pound .,................ IoJ.OJ
Oak plank, q in. by in. wide. 2j'60
Spikes, 6 in 7-l6, 2sO lbs .......-... 1896
Grading, 1910 cubic yds, at - cts per
Laying track. .....-..-............... 5ui.OI
Total cost per InfIc...................-sn 2i 90
One ear every fifteen minutes. for fif-
teen hours per day, making sixty trips,
at two passengers per trip,,l 10 passengers
at cents each, makes 81 per day, mak~
ing clear profit of s. per day, aud 5G5
days per year, equals SlO95, or a diyi-
dend of p per cent. on the original in
vestment, whichFwill induce any of our
enterprising stable keepers to stock and
run the road, and pay back a handsome
interest to the builders of the road.
There are three ways by which we can
have the road:
LIST. BY general subscription of
enough TO build it, and present it to the
town.
ID. Let the property holders sub
scribe, and receive certificates of the
same when paid, and lift ever pays more
lot a. f.,1F
uidate the certificates. Family tickets
80 per year.
81. Let the property holders pay 70
cents per running foot on their fronts,
and the work will soon be accomplished.
Now who is there that has 900 feet front
would not pay Sl20 TO run street rail
road along his front, even If ii barely
paid the expense of management?
There are many good and sufficient
reasons why Columbia should have a
street railroad:
lst. Many of our streets have no side
walks and at present the railroad ! the
cheapest investment.
ID. 1t will learn our citizens that
time i money, of which, many of them
now seem utterly obliyiOuS.
81. II will furnish TRANSFORMATION 10
Church on the Sabbath, which Is much
needed. both in very warm and wet
weather.
4th. 1t will raise the value OF property
in Columbia in > years 100 per cent. and
double the population in the same time.
9Th. IL Will pull down all of orr old
churches and build new ones worth
from $4,000 to so, 600 each, and no one
will be the poorer for it.
9th. 1t will save the ladies more than
&, O00 each year in shoes and dresses,
and promote the social aud religious
character of Columbia, whereby we shall
be able to make all of our needed i'm
provcments in reason No. ,.
eth last, not least, our fellOW-traV-
elers from distance, are handed quiet
" and pleasantly from the Depot to the
Hotels, and will go away remembering
US kindly Therefore, we vote for street
Railroad, and to let the job out to the
lowest responsible bidder, and have the
whole under the superintendent OF
somebody who knows how TO have the
lob done up with neatness and despatch.
1t is proposed to commence at sShep-
pard IL HarrisOn's store, and run along
the centre OF Market street to Garden
street, north with Garden street to Free
street, thence east to Main street, thence
south, crossing the Square, and west
along Market street to Garden, south
to Mechanic street, west 20 High street,
and south to the corporation line; thence
along Campbellsville Pike TO Pulaski
Pike, thence with the Pulaski Pike
north to Main street, thence along Main
street to the Square, making about :