The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-12


regular double.senlb both sides It's cen-
ire ila body IL narrower and of less
height than standard-gauge ears, but
Is In It's build andappointments, stove,
water-tank, closet and lamps, like
Others; Its cost waa three thousand
dollars, delivered In Toledo and II wus
built In I.itchleld, Illinois, Our box
aud flat cars, built at the same place,
cost three hundred and forty dollars for
fiat and three hundred aud ninety dol
lars for box cars capacity, six tons
minimum or eight tons maximum
load. We make six round trips per
day, or twelve times over the rond /;
often make seventh trip for evening
parties, carrying as high as sixty pas
sengers In our single coach. | enclose
you, With other details, our timetable,
Our President Is also superintendent
and Treasurer; salary, 1000 per year !;
Secretary, $500 per year; one conduc.
tor, 500 per month; one engineer, $J5
per month one brakeman, $50 per
month usually three track repairers
at Sl.25 per day. Wood costs three
dollars per cord coal four dollars per
ton. Only one engine IL In use Mt the
same time --onc buring wood and one
burning coal. We tind that three dol
lars in coal runs as long as five dollars
in wood. We began carrying passen-
gers at fifteen cents each and continue,
Laborers, mechanics, &c., going and
returning are carried each way for ten
cents. AS we run past tho Toledo,
Wabash and Western Railroad, we
carry freight and passengers at just
halftheir rates. They havesi made
some change In rates; we have not.
Our entire running expenses per day
are about nineteen dollars and fifty
cents; receipts, $3.50 90 to $500 90.
Not an accident has occurred up
on the road. Our curves are sharper
than standard guage cars can run. II
your people are fearful of narrow
guage-doubtfu of its utility and fit
ness for all kinds OF traffic, assure them
of this--that a narrow-guage railroad
can be built over reasonably level
country and equipped for sixty per
cent of the cost of a standard, and over
u rough, billy or broken country for
fifty per cent. of the cost of standard
guage. While for even u narrow
guage 1t Is desirable to avoid sharp
curves as much as possible, yet through
very hilly surface much heavy work
In grading can be saved by the narrow
guage making curves that cannot be
run by the standard roads. If you
have heavy grades and large traffic, /
advise thirty foot iron, about twelve OF
thirteen ton engines, ten by sixteen
inch cylinder, thirty-siX to forty inch
drivers, and rs to capacity you neet
not limit. 1t will carry cattle, corn oil
cotton as well as q standard. You
box cars weigh, say four tons and carry
six or eight tons as safely and quickly
as the other. The standard guage cal
empty weigh as much as the narrow
guage car and its load. So that II
every train oftwenty or twenty-five ears
the narrow gauge saves over one hun
dred tons dead wei yht, or non-paying
load. | send you circular our Engi
neer has brought out, giving figures
and facts.
take it your people are practical
and will not for the sake of grandeur
employ an elephant with a mammoth
carriage to haul mules load. We
are so well convinced of the capabil
ity of the narrow gauge three foot
railroad that ii we had millions il
money we would never invest it il
the broad or standard four foot eigh
and half inch roads. Some objec
ton is made to the transfer of freight
That is small matter, aud is now
being done from one standard car t.
another. This has been styled aHpro
yressive age" and though the Cen.
tennial is passing will continue Its
progress doubtless toward perfection
suggest to you (what we intend) tC
make your road-bed eight feet wide
at the surface mot more) except on
embellishments, passenger cars eight
feet wide, thirty-six to forty feet long
II lines are reasonably straight, wheels
not over twenty-four inches height, ties
five feet in length and five by seven
in width. If you get in earnest tt
build road write me, and | will give
you some further and more carefully
prepared details. | write this at my
residence, without a figure before me
have recent letters from New York
saying iron Goth rails) is offered a
forty-One dollars per ton at the mills
So, presume, you get them at st
Louis at about forty-five dollars pei
ton $50 ID rails) forty-seven tons pei
mile, including spikes (7-l6x4I) ant
fish plates or spices included will cos
you, say twenty-five hundred dollar,
per mile. When you are, ready
shall be glad to come and hell
work up stock and build your road
lam in communication with many
persons In your State, and receive let.
tiers almost daily with details 1T,
wonderful developments and its swell
ling tide of immigration. congratu
late you in your good fortune in find
ing a home in that favored cline
where the young, energetic and enter
prising of all our northern States ar,
rapidly gathering. Asking to hea
from you often, am truly yours,
H4NE GEO. W. REYNOLDS,
Vice President II. Il NJ. ". q. Il. X. Co
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