The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-06-27

"He'ef inii'sda 'rs".to Eng tee.
.he i-y.s ~ ~i'x nh e. ln,st,.- a, ,.s.,ss,.
me- ttie Gui;i.!sh,d DIVISION ui LIE "a =.
compared win a bread gusse road. conti r.
eclit Tor about 10 per ecnl. d Ike o,st a:
bn.idins broad rrage -oaH
Vi. Greenwood preferred ,hs lsssergsr
c1schss o. The rcrTuT-gr1ce % those Of
toe o-ea;.:s,1css. lis r,cr RS . -7-c a
r. O cs2s-s - ss,t= CT r.Tct-, OF esch
side Of The coach.
Mr.. G.eensooI REGARDED ., % a significant
fat that while the Union Psciiic vas broad.
susge road, We! II vas either building ar had
Prejee,ed some twenty different, n;snctes,
ard all OF them three Zee, guage.
REIaREs CO NR. wR.ccr
Nj Wragge OF Toronto. CHE: epein..- O.,
tie Toronto, Grey and Bruc, ,;:rrSg cn,se
read vas next called up. So. -
MF. "r4sse commenced b so ing thai
there we're two roads Of tsis class. o. ,,,r,e
eel AK inch susge. Tie Toronto, Gr,y
rnd B-':c- roa: runs northwes, from To-
ronio 10 SyGenham. on O~en sound, shout
NV miles. vi this msin lice section OF
~ miles from ToroEto is in Operation to
O-angevil!e and On branch frau. O.arge.
Vile IS mi!rs, TO MI. Fore,-naking SIS
ni!e- nov opcrsiet. The remaining 40
miles OF The branch. extending 10 Kncar-
Cine, on the eastern shore o. Lake Huron,
IS Under Construction. The Turon,o end
NipiSS!ns railway IDS northea-. frog, To.
run'o To Cobec, ~, Oh B;l-aui creek, e;oh,v-
eight miles; and Of tits, Elk v-ive miles are
an operation 20 Midland.
MIR. Wrsggc proceeded 1, give N detail
the engineering CHARACTERISTICS uf the road.
chsracisri- ics o: the Country, and peculiar
inechsnicii features of the cars and engines.
dweiiin' al some length IN the different
styles ofengihes
lhe sharIesi curve On the Clnada read
vas II degrees. and the maximum grade
| for the hesrtrst .rats was IS isst 10 the
mile There was, however, one grade of los
lee, 10 the miie; and over this grade, on the
2it'' day OF May last, one engine drew al
excursion train containing Goo passengers.
In. erc;5c VS., however, heavier than the
.,:d'nary narruw-yuage enyirsa Il weighed
20 tons.
iheeau.e cars oa The read are maize to
| carry eight head OF the largest Cattle In the
| county The gre Ile-t load tLey PUT upo:,
single canvas eight tons.
COMPARATIVE COST OF TIE TWO CCAuEs,
Mr.. MiiiIngiun U: Tennessee submitted a
| report OF an engineer showing the Compare
| tive Coz, OF the NO systems IN rough a heavily
numbered. roliin.: Country in Wes; Tennes-
| zee, from Memphis tn Austin, n distance of
thirty miles. from which it appears tina, tn.
Cast "i building and .q.ipplng Il na.row-
gauge 70 I'd was about 60 pr cent Of the cos,
OF broatgargc.
THE FACTS WANTED.
| u. IL. Waller moved tina, ,ersons Mere,
who represent railroad Interests, furnish the
committee appointed TO make a report with
ahhl statement Of the number Of miles OF
narrow-sauge roads; oil such actually com
p!e'ed, and average COS. OF the same per
mile; nnmbe- Of miles graded; the number
ii miles projected, and the authorized Cap
nal OF each company. which motion was
adopted.
| REMARKS a COL. f. RCGLpuE-.
Col. Hn-ihur: .ild that tie first narrow.
gauge ever buli in the South was six mile
road in Alabima. There are nov two mar.
row-gaHge roads in Georgia, the frs, 90
miles in length and the Iss; eigh, miles long.
The first cost 50 300 per ale ana tie las,
81 300 per mile.
Col. Huri6urt said be had been up to visi,
| The mot perfect illustration he h: 4 seen Of a
successful narro~-gauge road. lie gave
so.De sccuuE: OF lis operations. As to the
width OF gauge, Col. ii. remarked that while
he was a strong advocate oi the s feet gsuye,
he WINS also ;.n advocate Of the feet gauge
A feet gauge Is much better than going
aioo:. la the South The people sIe driven
to the Necessity Of building narrow gauge. or
none al all, AMI he was glad If it, Tor with i,
they gel cheap tTeigli;s. There the people
have no diversity OF pursuits. We have only
one pursuit, and Il at but partially developed
Within sight o! Chii;snot "a We have as rich
deposits Of coal and iron as can he found IN
the known world. Our broad gauge ROAD,
would have cO't Us on an average $4,000
per mile: IN thos. mountainous regions iuii
$40. 600 per nile. live mad :. narrow gauge
wi,h cneap ireigL,s We could develop those
laicerai resourcss. In some places, il We
could not build road OF 8 feet gauge, We
could build 2 Zee, gauge. lie said tina,
Col. Wilder OF Ohio is row producing IA
good an article OF pig iron at Sl4 to SIS per
ton as Pi;l.bIrg is furnishing for S2S 10 $50
per tor. The reason j. tina, We have FIRE
clay, Limestone, iron and coal, all in mex
hai.stibie Quantities, and, lying side by side,
We have the richest mineral deposits OF iron
AMI coal on the iaca of the globe, but the
broad gauge -oada say, therS let the coal
and i,on remain, aud there they have re-
NAMED.
We can never develop those resources
until We get cheap railroads and cheap
srsighis. The lTcai government Of Georgia
has totally des;Tcyed tie c.edi, OF the State,
and the people ar too Pocr to build expen-
siye railroads. Right there in The midst of
this rich field of mineral weal,h, We buy all
the iron u-ei in''he various industrial arts,
We buy Cur horsa shoes and Our naiis--every-
thing IN fact manufactured from iron; even
the meiaic coffin in which We are buried,
and the spade md the shovel with which, our
graves are dug.
He said the Sps,n needed marrow: gauge
roads, because they were cheap r, and be-
cause they would meet all the demands oi
the South. He Was, however, opposed 10
buildin. narrow gauge roads "a broad gauge
primo pies. He ,hoagh, there was some dan.
ger in this matter.
VIEWS or Mr.. k0RwEIssE.
Mr.. Korweisee of Kansas City ,Lousht
two-fee, gauge was sufficient f.. branch roads. |
Mr.. K. showed an estimate Of two-ieet |
gauge read, which couid be hnilt through hi. |
section Of the eonntry for 1850 per mile. |
Such a rnad wan'd En, require rail Of OYER |
90 roTnds 10 the yard.
EEsIaEks OF COL EALEsER
Col. Faulkner OF Ripley, Miss, was the
isst speaker. lie had built road Tvs eniy-
I've mil,s long since the lst Of September
On thres-ieei gauge; had it all ready for
the rails, and the iron ell really 10 commence
laying lie track. IL had Goa. hip.onIy So.
OoO per mile, where Ii the estimate OF broad
gauge road some years ago OF tie same
aiignmen, was S2o 900 per mile. He spoke
Of a little roai in Europe OF 23!-inch gauge
which declared an annnai dividend on ffst
cost Of 70 per cent. and The stock was worth
four or tive hundred per cent. He (Coi. FL
thought. Ahe only roads which cuuid pay on
he original investment in this country were
owgauge roads
TIE Convention then sdj1usnsd ill this
morning at 10 o'ciocs.