Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-10

systems of railway. 1t will be found to repay
perusal: ..
The following is comparative cost of the
five foot and three foot gauges after graded
and prepared for the track. No definite tg-
ures can be made in reference to the grading,
as it would vary in different localities. Ora
ding per mile will average between 1000
and $4,000, according to the locality and the
amount of bridging and masonry to be put up.
FIVE FOOT aAUGE-RA1L FIFTY-F1vE POUNDS TO
THE YARD.
81 tons of rail at SO 90 per ton."..".$6,o90 ,o90 90
400 rail sPlices at oo.......':'"'. a9e a9e w w
2,64O crossties at .................. ,320 90
Laying mile track. $40 w
Seooo w
THREE FOOT aUAaE-RAIL THIRTY POUNDS TO
THE YARD.
All tons rails at $75 00.~............$ =, 562 %
$50 rail splices at 50.."...............". l65 %
352 pounds spikes at 6.".... ...... ....... ~! ~
1000 crossties at H5..... 10Y "
Laying mile track. ...... 5OO w
Total. ....... .......... ............. s4gss 70
Difference in favor narrow gauge ,59s 80
Cost of rolling stock-engines halfless than
the broader gauge: Coaches, cars, etc., over
half less, according to style and finish.
From this estimate fair statement can be
made that three-foot narrow gauge can be
built for one-half less than the wider gauge.
Comparative weights and capacity of cars
FULL aAUaE-E1eHT WHEELED CAR.
Weight of car empty, pounds 10000
Weight of car loaded, pounds 10000
Paying freight, pounds........."
NARROW eAuaE-FouR WHEELED CAR.
Weight of car empty, pounds $500
Weight Of car loaded, pounds 1900
Paying freight, pounds. "......s,OOO
Here the narrow gauge has the advantage
in paying freight giving larger profit per
car than the broader gauge.
First-class narrow gauge locomotives can
be built for between 1000 and $4,000. Pas
senger cars, according to finish, will cost from
$1,000 to $4,000. Freight cars from 5000 to
$500. Passenger cars used will seat 30 per-
sons, and from all the information to be had
the passenger rides with as much ease and
comfort as on the wide gauge.
The NARROW GAueE-The St. Louis Mar
row Gauge Convention Committee have re-
ported the following advantages of that sys'
tenn:
81. Costing only about one-half as much as
the broad gauge, it is within the means of all
sections to build them; hence it will enable
them to avail themselves of railway facilities
where otherwise they might be compelled to
dispense with them.
"2. From their small cost, light operation
expenses and small interest account, they will
prove to be paying investments.
"3. They will supply the great want Of the
age, cheap transportation.
~. Cheapening transportation, they will
develop dormant interests more rapidly than
our present costly structures, with their high
rates, can possibly do. =,
IS. Their general adoption in sections with
out railway facilities will enhance the value
of properties largely in excess Of their cost
"6. Penetrating those sections, and rapidly
developing their resources by low rates they
will bring large new business to the broad
gauge roads, enabling them to reduce their
rates and thereby stimulate old and develop
new interests.
"7. A failure to adopt the narrow gauge in
the sections referred to will necessarily defer
the construction of railways until such time as
their means will admit of the more costly
broad gauge, with its consequent high rates."
ANNUAL CoNrERENcE-The minutes of
the Annual Conference of the M. E. Church
South, held at Anderson, s. c., in December,
have been received. They are printed very
neatly in pamphlet form, by Walker, Evans
& Cogswell, of Charleston. The statistics of
the Church are as follows: White members,
36041, increase, 1904; colored, 658, decrease,
$40; white preachers, 122, decrease, 13; COL
ored, 2, decrease, 4. Baptisms-wbite infants,
1888, increase, 200; colored, 80, decrease, 20;
white adults, 1910, decrease, 1874; colored,
26, decrease, 70. Number of schools, AL,
increase IA; officers and teachers, 28l6, in
crease, SO; white pupils, 17,2O5, decrease,
491; colored pupils, A, decrease, u; vol
umes in library, %, ,211, increase, 5O2. Num-
ber of churches, 526, increase, H; parson-
ages, 81, increase, /; value of church proper
ty, S597 sos, increase, S64,330. Paid pastor
and assistants, s61, 1929, increase, $4 1884,
46; paid presiding elders, $8,966.25, increase,
$S76.5S. Conference collection, $4717.20, in
crease, s76532 For missions, $4,172.02, in
crease, s,501.32. For education, $,031.10,
decrease, s16645. For bishops, sS61.70, in
crease, $2355. For educating candidates for
ministry, s151, decrease, s295.S5. For Sun
day.schools, S4,S5103. increase, $63O.2l.
For building, repairing churches, parsonages,
etc., S25,1S005, decrease, s15. 1887. For
other benevolent purposes, 81, 1852, increase,
$3,134.29.-Columbia Union.
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