The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-02-15
VOLUME 24-NUMBER Is

the eXlSIlng trunk line, anu this car
be done without materially affectiDl
c. the annual earnings of these trunl
lines, for statistics show that the in
Grease OF transit between the East and
7 West every five years is nearly equa
to supporting q new line of Railway
: See table of distances hereuntO an.
; nexed.)
o The yearly earnings of the Railways
: running from New York to the Penn
d sylvania Coal Mines and Oil regions
are over SS0,O0O,OOO
: The yearly earnings of the trunk
. line now running from New York 20
: Chicago and Council Bluffs are over
SlOO, 100000.
From these facts and other adVan-
tages enumerated, it is safe to esti-
= mate the yearly earnings OF the Con-
: tinenaal Railway will be. upo0 COM
pletiOn, not less than $50 OO0. 900. and
within five years after completion.
81, 100000 will benO exaggerated esti-
: mate.
ITS OPERATING EXPENSES.
: The entire line of road being under
: one management, can be operated
much cheaper, for Office charges, sala-
ries, incidental and kindred expenses.
than any of its competing trunk
lines Its easv grades and curves.
and shOTtness of line, will give maxi
mum efficiency to minimum wear
and tear of superstructure, rolling
stock and motive power. And its adj.
vantages in possessing its own miner
al lands, will give it fuel at minimum
cost. All these advantages it is safe
TO estimate will enable the COmpanv
to operate the road from so per cent.
of its gross earnings-while its COM
peting lines absorb from so to 80 Der
cent. of their gross earnings in operat-
ing expenses.
TERMINAL FACILITIES AT NEW YORK.
The Passenger and Freight pepOts.
Elevators, Warehouses and Docks Of
the Company, will be on the Bav con-
tiguOus to New York City, and con-
nected Herewith by Ferry. The plans
therefor, when carried out, are very
comprehensive, and such as will bring
Railway, Shipping, storage and dray-
age facilities into contact as they are
nowhere else in new York HarbOr.
the object of the Company being to
furnish ample and complete terminal
| facilities, and accommodate their
large business at the least cost.
1t will construct its docks to accom-
mOdate the largest class of vessels
that enteF New York HarbOr, and
provide for handling and discharging
cargOes, and loading vessels in bulk.
1t will provide such facilities for
handling coal that steamship can
be cOaled in a few hours, and that
coal can be delivered to consumers in
New York City at greatly reduced
rates.
The chartered rights from the State
of New Jersey to make such improve
ments have been secured, and this
Will enable the Company to construct
an elevator and warehouse system
vastly superior to anything now in
or around New York City-and it is
manifest that such facilities are great
ly needed.
THE ADVANTAGE OF THE CONSTRUC- /
TION OF THIS RAILWAY TO NEW
YORK CITY.
There is no city on the Atlantic |
seabOard with superior or Vqual ad- |
vantages with New York, in pfOvid- !
ing for and retaining the commerce Of /
the world. Yet the capitalists Of |
Philadelphia, Portland, Boston, Bal |
timOre, Norfolk, aided too often by /
the capitalists of New York, have !
made and are still making extraor- /
dinary efforts, to divert your foreign /
commerce, by building railroads to /
draw away from you the great trade |
of the Great West, and by giving su-
periOr facilities in storage and trans |
pOrtatiOn. How we'll they are sue
.ceeding you have only to consult the
statistics showing shipments Ofgrain, |
flour, provisions, and other products |
from the great cities Of the West and |
Northwest, to these ports for expOrta-
tiOn.
The construction of this airline |
Railway, gives the shortest route pos
sible to the great cities named in the
annexed table of distances, and the
harbOr Improvements secured under |
the New Jersey charter giving cheap |
er handling facilities, so long needed, |
at New York, and such as cannot be /
exceeded if equaled by any railway /
terminating at New York or else ]
where-tOgether with all the advan- /
tages already enumerated, and that I
can be named, will enable the COnti- /
mental Railway, when built, to main
tain for New York City its supremacy I
as the commercial metropolis of this
nation, if not the greatest CONNER
cial city Of the world.
WILL AN INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL IN
THIS ENTERPRISE BE SAFE AND
PROFITABLE.
Tne Board of Directors of the Con-
tinental Railway Company believe
that the capital invested i'm the con-
strIIctiOn of this road will be entirely .
auf aWh rNrpff hfa aud N1rsN
tiles will be the best and most attrae-
tive ever offered to the American peo-
pie as an investment.
IL will have greater facilities at less
cost.
1t will have facilities to command
the thorough passenger business be-
tween the East and West.
1t will command the through mail
and express business.
It will command q large portion
Of the live stock trade Of the West.
It can carry au enormous grain
trade with profit from the prairies Of
the West 70 this city.
1t will do a heavy coal and iron bus
iness.
1t can carry the merchandise Of
New York merchants to their eustO-
mers at reduced rates.
1t can carry the wares from the
manufactures Of New York City and /
distribute them over three-fOurths Of /
the geographical area Of the United /
States and its territories at saving /
over present prices
All this can it do and more, and still 4
earn large profits on its capital. This
is the only line of Railway ever pro-
jected as an airline from New York .
to the West All others were first /
built as local roads, connecting points
departing widely from an airline
and afterward by consolidation, made
into what is known as thetrunk lines
Of the country, all Of which pay large
ly on their immense capital indebted
ness, notwithstanding their tOrtuOus
windings from one point to another,
and their heavy grades and difficult
be IL remembered, the
Continental is an airline stretched
out toward its western terminus with
all the saving Of distance possible to
accomplish. II the other lines pay on
their Indebtedness, how much more
likely is the Continental 10 pay-and
what advantages have any Of the eX-
isting lines, that the Continental
will not only possess but prominently
excel?
The strietest scrutiny Of investors
and capitalists il solicited in regard to
all the details Of this great enterprise,
and any desifing further Information
are cordially invited to call at the
Office Of this Company No. 20 Broad
way, where all particular relative
thereto will be cheerfully commune
Gated.
EDWARD DODGE, President.
OF DISTANCES
nts. by existing lines with those By the Con-
RAILwAT-