Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-02-12
SOMETHING FOR OUR CONGRESS-.
MEN TO LOOK AFTER.
How the General Government I'm.
necessarily Expends Hundreds of
ihousands---How II Can Save Hun.
dreds Of Thousands.


Thousands---How II Can Saye Hum.
dreds of Thousands.
AS the General Government is paving
interest on over 100000, 600, we may
count among its expenditures the inter-
est lost on dead capital, the same as we
would in figuring up the receipts and
disbursements of an individual. We
may add, as part of the Governments
current expenses, so per cent. per an
mum on every dollar of capital held in
unnecessary inactivity-that being about
the average of interest she pays her
bond-holders. Then, if seven months
are taken to transport five million dol
lars worth of supplies to certain militia
ry posts, which might be transported in
one month, there is an unnecessary ex-
pense of pa cents on every dollar, or
an aggregate unnecessary expenditure of
Sl37,777.7O. And to this might be add
ed, probably, as much more, for the de-
teriorating effects of time upon the val
ne of the commodities shipped and loss
from more frequent handling and greater
distance travelled.
The direct application of these specu-
lations is this, that it costs the General
Government to ship to the Arizona mill
tary posts five million dollars worth of
supplies, from any Eastern city by way
OF San Francisco and the Gulf of Cali
fornia, admitting freight rates for the
round trip to be just the same as by the
direct overland route, at least $25OOOO
more than there is any necessity of its
paying. Every year that it continues to
ship by the ocean route it just as un-
necessarily throws away S250,000 of the
peoples money, in the items of loss Of
interest on dead capital and deterioration
from delayed transit, as if that amount
had been burnt up in bonfire at the
national capital. But the freight rates
are not the same by the two routes.
Frelghts on the overland route, from
point of shipment to point of discharge,
would be at least one-half less than is
being and has been paid by the ocean
route. BY the latter, the supplies travel
thousands of miles by water carriage a
great part of the way through deterio-
rating tropical climate, and then, before
reaching their final destination, must
| go almost as much further by land as
they would have gone if shipped over
land direct. Every pound of military
| supplies thus delivered to the arizona
military posts-and so they always have
been and continue to be transported
| costs the Government from IS to 25 cents
pound. In just one-seventh the time
they could be delivered from Palisado or
| Todno, by way of Phoebe, Mt an aggre-
| gate cost of not over one-half that. Now,
we will assume the average cost by the
ocean route to be 30 cents pound from
st. Louis to Fort Whipple and the
weight to be moved 100000 pounds
per annum-that freight rate being be-
low rather than above the true figure,
while the quantity cannot be far out of
the way. This gives us an aggregate out
lay for transportation of 100000.
Freights from Palisade here are cents,
and the distance is as great as from here
to Fort Whipple, and worse roads, natu-
rally. Military supplies can be laid
down at the Arizona military posts, by
the Phoebe route, at just half the cost of
ocean transportation. Here, then, the
Government again as unnecessarily
throws away, every year that it continues
| shipping by the ocean route, $1,000,000
of the prople's money, as if treasury
clerk had thrown it onto the bondfre
with the $3.50, coo lost on deterioration
and dead capital. The aggregate loss to
the Government, by continuing the
ocean route, is 81 ,250OOO per annum.
Now, with these indisputable figures
to back the petition, what is to prevent
our representatives in Congress from
getting an immediate appropriation of
| 500, 900 for the construction of a mill
tary wagon road from Phoebe, in South
eastern Nevada, to Fort Whipple, in Ar-
IONA? By granting it Congress would
add, the first year after its completion,
81, $50, 900 to the public treasury, and
save 81, $50, 900 n year afterwards. And
the military road would be the avant
courier of early railroad communication,
which would add millions to the taxable
property Of the nation. We hope to
hear of the introduction of bill asking
for such an appropriation before the
close of the present session.
In the District Court, yesterday, the
counsel of Frank Perry, convicted of
grand larceny, filed u bill OF exceptions
to the entry of judgment in the case;
and on motion of the District Attorney
the entering of judgment and passing of
sentence were postponed until ten o clock
this forenoon Demurrer in the case
of State VS.. John Stein, indicted for per-
jury, was argued and taken under advise
ment by his Honor. j. j. Halpin VS..
P. Edward Conner and p. Edward Con-
nor VS.. j. J. Halpin were continued I'M
til to-day Geo. B. McLane VS.. P. j.
Cullen. Jury empaneled and case being
tried.
MANY new farms are being opened in
the Pahranasat Valley. A great breadth
of ground has been sown ia grain, and a
large yield will undoubtedly be realized.
There is talk of erecting Touring
mill in the lower part Of the valley, so
as to accommodate the farmers Of both