Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
WESTERN RAILROAD ExTEN.
SION IN NEBRASKA.

Railroad building throughout tn
west this year promises to exceed tn
mileage of any year since the panic o
1873. Nebraska will obtain her full
share of roads, and the northern ant
southern portions of our state viii
reap the benefit of the opening up o
a large amount of undeveloped, bu
fertile country to settlement and direc
connections with the eastern markets
The Missouri Pacific in Nebraska
Jay Gould's down the river line, which
is to connect Omaha and Atchison
will be of incalculable bene
fit to the entire eastern
portion of the state if the
management consult their own best
interests by a liberal and impartia.
policy to all shippers. The want of Q
north and south line has been the
most serious drawback to the develop.
ment of our river counties and has
built up other portions of the state al
their expense. With a well-equipped
river line traversing the state, eastern
Nebraska is assured of a stimulus to
production which will be the begin
ming of a new era in her history.
Indirectly the invasion of the ter
ritory of the B. & M. Railroad will
be of great benefit to other portions of
the state. 1t is well understood that q
tacit understanding was entered into
some time since by representatives of
the Union Pacific and Burlington and
Missouri roads not to encroach upon
those portions of the states of Nebras-
ka and Kansas and Colorado which
were then covered by the others. In
accordance with the, agreement work
was suspended upon the Denver ex-
tension of the Republican Valley rail-
road by the B & NJ, and although ac-
tive surveys of the most available
routes we're continued no movement
vas made looking to the extension of
the line towards its terminus. 1t is
now announced, semi-oficially, that
the Burlington combination will push
the line at once towards Denver, and
that dirt will be flying in the valley of
the Republican before the end of the
present summer. At the same time
in retaliation for the invasion of its
Kansas business by the new Gould
line, connection will at once be made
between the Burlington system of
roads and Leavenworth.
In Northern Nebraska the work of
railroad extension is also progressing.
The opening of the new branch of the
Union Pacific from Columbus, will
doubtless prove of benefit, not only to
one of the most thriving cities of our
state, but also to the entire country
adjoining. The st. Paul and Sioux
City roads are also stretching out
their lines in the extreme northern
portion of our state and along the
headwaters of the Elkhorn and the
rapid development of the country may
be expected to follow.
Nebraska Is heartily in favor of rail
roads built with their own money and
managed with due regard to the best
interests of the people. Her citizens
welcome capital to be used in the do
velopment of the of the
state to the common profit of inves-
tors and the people at large. If the
producers of Nebraska demand the
enactment of laws to protect them
against extortion and discrimination
at the hands of corporations, it is
because they have learned by bitter
experience that Legislative regulation
is their only hope against monopoly
oppression and not on account of hos.
tility to railroads as means of trans.
portation. Experience has shown
hal railroads with the most liberia
policy towards the people fare also
most liberal in their dividends tc
stockholders.