The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-16

The comparative cheapness ofthe con-
struetion and operation Of narrow gauge
railways e0mmends them 10 the people.
1t Only remains to shoS by experiment
that they are practicable, to induce capi-
taiists to invest largely IN them, for short
lines and roaos tributary 30 main lines,
have proven to be adequate 70 ali the ser
vide demanded Of them EIhe experiment
Ell operating a long line upon threefoot
gauge is in progress in Colorado. The
road, which is being constructed rapidly,
and of which seyenty-fige miles are CONS
pleted, ard Starting form Denver City, ID
70 skirt the base of the Rocky Mountains
to Santa Fe, and thence to BE continued
TO Ell I-aso, on the Mexican border, and
finally to be continued TO, and terminate
IN. the City IF Mexico. The total length
OF this lin6 viii be 1850 miles The cost
of construction is but $13, 600 per mile,
or $4,000 less than that of the Kansas
Puc. tc
Mr.. Samuel Bowels, of the Springfield
Republican, has recently been over that
portion of the road which has been com>
pleted, and reports very fayorably con-
eerniDg it. As important results -cepend
upon the success of the enterprise, we
lsubicin asingle passage from his Denver
-. a
letter descriptive of the new undertaking.
''1he road and its trains in the first
place look like a railway play thing, IN
contrast with the broader and heavier
tracks and larger cars of the accustomed
lines; delicate and dainty, they seem al
most TOO faint and feeble TOR the hard,
Quick work to which they are called, and
especially unequal to the great contest
which they have invited Yet SO far,
surely, they are performing their task
with ease, with comfort, with CELEBRITY and
| with success. The track bed OF the par~
| row gauge is 6 feet WIDE, as against -
| the distance be ween the rails feet, as
/ against feet II inches the ties are b TO
| 81 feet, as against s; the rails weigh 81
pounds to The yard, us against 90 the
epgiDes II tc 10 IONS, as against % to 81
/ tons, putting about halt the weight on the
drive wheels that the large locomotives
| do [; the passenger cars, wIth7S wheels,
and carrying 81 passengers, weigh D tons,
as against S.tuns, 8 wheels anu 50 pass
4 sengers and the freight cars so far intro
lldhced weigh , tons. run on 4 wheels, al d
| carry to 5 tons of freight, as against
/ ears weighing tons on 8 wheels and
capable of 10 tons load, Where -four
passengers sit in the ordaEary car, there
/ are seated in tlie marrow ones, two on one
eide, and one on the opposite side
the car being divided in the middle BY a
door, and the seats Tor too and one, re-
| speotively, being reversed in tne tgo sec
lions, 80 as 30 balence the carriage. The
cara at first introduced are { teet WIDE
1 and log feet high from rail 70 top. They
!EIhoye a tritle more compact than Is neces
shTy, ana rot quite generous enough II
Recommendations l-T Passengers out this
keyll is being remedled IN new cars nov
constructing while sleeping cars anC
!. day drawing room CARS can be made FOL
7 the Narrow gaege TOadss " hlch viii ac-
n cOmmodate sun more persons, in proper
4 don TO their size and weIghJ, thaa tn
ordinary cars OF this character now do.