, 1879-03-10

third rail-. They can move It over on to The Az
1hDsic d Great Western, and then run Harrow
gauge trucks ovcr the entire roaA.
Dcvercux mud Jowo.t, BORON friends, aro tho
sr. Louis, Marth o-"1f ral1road wants 10
buy stcel-rails,n said Oliver Garrison. brother
81 81 onoaSTS @ sf %5;en .r n,1d,S en- S e s1s
10 pay Tor tlIctn Aftcr tlllsp'
"Why2" Askctl. -....
iIssaqs:, Iaa fs:,; ~ Tho price Is going up'"
"Why, 10 cents ton pcr week; and. In faet,
you can't buy all you want At any price. We
wnnt 400 tens Of rails now TO lay In Missouri
md to extend tho Missouri Pacific ont tsro,,Rh
Kansas, and we can't !!lln'i them. l'ya written
to half Tho stccf.ra, mills In tho United 8tatcst
an.l they arc no. n be had"
"W'as Causes this scarcity}"
"So tlany new railroads being built. tell
you, AR. Parking. that Tho railroad fcvcf has
rallro1ds arc IN hiGht now-to bo built next
sllnmcr--olmi n,ootI miles OF steclratls will ho
laid on old beds. Hcveil Thousand miles Of new
ssssirelIs s IN one year will exhaust 'i,e supply."
" - What i,ew railroads ara to be builtl''
"Wc'l, We arn going to bulld our Missouri
Pacific out through, kansas south Of md parallel
70 tl!e AtchIson, ropcka T. Santa Fe Kond. We
sh sa, ,sy our l.ask tro' iorty To- stx:y milss
a'nl run It clear through to Albuquerque {pro-
,lnunvrtl Al.be-kctk). IN Now AIextct,. THEN.
w santa Fc people arc building toward Lead.
sIllc, n Coioratl0. and down into Now Mexico:
tnc Southern Pacific people nro building west
n.''l ~ south of Fort lutna, milo day; Albert
Picecu has Gons down TO San Antonio tn COM
tnclce building his Galveston " San Antonio
Ruad from San Antono west to the Rio Gr1li,tle,
whcs. l'c Will meet tic Southern Pacific people;
Inc Northern Pacific people arn pilnE up their
steel rails on the weat bank Of tho Missouri
o. bismarck. ready sn lay tic track to tho Yel-
io"stone with tlIc first grass; the Canauinn
nc., ~ alaultooa, au.l ptllllg up steel rails ut
Fort William atMl Winnipeg tu CONNECT with
Thunder Bay. OIL Lnkc superior, fl tile spring;
'hc 81. Lotis. Kansa. City u Northrrn Road
vii, push through from Cl,licnise aud tlallatn
70 ColHch blu'1st Tie Utah Southern LEO miles
north from Fort Hall, toward Virginia Civ unl
;ielcfia. mnil,lg continuous North and south
I,ts right In tho centre Of the continent over 7o
miles long. Besides these arr dozens Of other
little roads oil aver the country which, you
Kn1N. ms nlwuya 'belng bui1t.'"
the countrsi' -
uhi,out ten tu running or,ler,-ten biz ones"
What are the rest doingf"
"olI, laying still now, uud will lay st,tl TIL
atecl ra!ls adva1Ice to $t5 per tou, and then.
prcstlIne, they will all start IN, il costs sri
per ton to make steel rails"
"WlIat stopped the OTHER ssee1.rall nills1',
"ot, there Ia a atecl-furnacc pool, 1t was
agrced when steel rails got so low that ion
furnaces would run,-do all the worry and di.
xiic the profits with the mills staudIng stIl,
The big eteel-rall furnace belonging 10 Cur.
rison, down On tile Irotl-A'oun.un Ngod, Ina
been starltng still several y.lIrs. We hare been
paia s!U,Wo hcr anIiuni from the pool 10 stand
still Now, when iron advances l presume We
WY start up.-ti1nt IS, wllcn tie ten mills now
making the rais for tho country find they can't
do at tic work.
w. "Tlcn Tie. talroad and Iron interests arc prosper
".Very. Never In ten years has the futuro
o., n,l nrssena looked so bright as nov for theft
'ule'ests'' Eli PERKINS.