Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-11-21

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s superiority of The new over th,
d old system
n Q"The Denver & Rio Grand,
+ Railway (aarrow gauge) remainI
e open, Notwithstanding the snow
: 1t has not yet tailed single daJ
: In getting a train through between
| this place (Omahs) and Denver
although it crosses the great Di
vide, next to the highest roaG
pass in the world, and two hun
dred feet higher than the Sierra
Neyadas On the Central Pacific. ,
] Henry G. Srebbens, New
York capitalist, says:
1 ''ln my opinion it will be i'm
possible TO resist the weight of
testimony III lavor OF these rail.
ways, over any other gauge, and
! certainly ngree with you, that
the discovery Of their efficiency
will do more for the south and
southeast than could hare been done
by arg other human means | re-
gard the successlul agitation of the
matter at this time as EQUAL to the
discovery and introduction of the
cotton gin, to the whole Southern
section of the country.
Mr.. Huff visited this road in
company with other distinguished
scientists from the Atlantic States
during the late snow storms in
December, and witnessed the pro-
gress of train of fifteen cars on
a small engine of ten and one.
half tons He says:
81 found the heaviest grades six
fy-five feet per mile and the shar-
pest curves nine degrees. The
length to Colorado city is twenty
six miles; total cost, S13,5 per
mile.
The Kansas. Pacific Railway.
built by the same engineer, Gener-
al Greenwood, cost $4,000 per
mile, and the difference in grading
is in favor OF the latter road.
The largest locomotive weighs |
twenty and one half tons. The !
passenger cars seat thirty.four pas.
sengers as comfortably as any cars
in this territory, and, with two
closets and stove, weigh only
$4,000 pounds. Their freight
cars weigh $500 pounds, and car
ry load Of 10000 pounds when
full, or nearly three pounds Of
load to one car. One ton of coal
runs a train Of seventy-fve tons
eighty miles in four hours. Their
books show that the round trip OF
one. hundred and fifty,two miles
cost about fifty dollars: or two
and one third tons one mile for
DDe cent. The trains went
through the deep snow, beating
all the othrr roads this winter.
The divide over which the
train runs is 1000 feet above tide
water, and while the U. P. and
K. P roads in the Same territory
have been blockaded for weeks at
a time, this little Rad had nev-
er lost trip up to the middle of
December, and was never more
than two hours behind time on
any trip during the winter"
This road will greatly benefit
other roads with which it may
This will be increasing !
he general business aud produc.
ions OF the country. AS Colum-
oia grows in importance and in
,reases in business it will furnish
more and more business to the
L uisyille, Nashville s. Great ,
Southern road. Although, it may
,ause reduction in freights, yet
he in ,reased business will more
han compensate for the reduction
n freishts. New railroads always
lelp those already in operation as I
he history Of railroads in Tenn :
'ssee clearly show. The Nash,
lille & Chattanooga andLouisville, '
Nashville & Great Southern road
will both be immensely benefited
~ this road opening as it will I
lew sources of business and in
reasing those they now have.
l have said very little about '
he direct profits of this road. hav- E
ng preferred to rely upon its ma.
erial advantages, but it must be
profitable road to stockholders
N account of its small cost, light
unnlng expenses and heavy bus C
ness. The Festiniog road yielded g
3 per cent. per aunuIn. The I
)enver & Rio Grande made b
5000 a week on seventy-six O
niles of road, which cost 81, ,OO0,- P
100. This would have been II
'3l2. 900 a year; take half for run !!
ng expenses, it would leave as t
et earnings Sl56, 900 year, or
yer fifteen per cent. upon its cost.
This road when completed to E
from Columbia will 9