Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-11
Hr. Hnniington,s PIans.

NIT. [. r. Huntington, 1reSlUeNt or the Chesapeake and Ohio, who was in Louis vile day or two ago, was interviewed by Courier-Jourual reporter regarding his plans, and the following interesting facts were elicited:
 "I have come" said he, "to see what facilities for doing business l can obtain here. My original intention was to strike the Ohio at Louisville. Just how much business we will do here will depend on how much 1t will cost Co do that busi- ness. If 1t costs tWOog three cents more to do business here than elsewhere, We will be forced to do what we can else where. We will within few days be running through cars from Louisville and from Cincinnati to Newport News. The Means Tunnel Is finished, and the last rail will ba laid within a short time. By April 1st We will be running ears from Memphis to Newport News, as the lease of the Cecilia Branch has been agreed on. and we will change the gauge from here to Memphis within the next four weeks to four feet eight inches. We vii! have free use of the line from here to Lexington. We hope to build line 70 fore long. Within twelve months the transcontinental line from San Francis co to Newport News will be finished.
 "The tendency of ratesis continuously to lower level; every obstacle that en- hances the cost of transportation is misfortune. and every means will be used t9 avoid it. At Cincinnati We have made arrangements with the Louisville A.. e T, use. paving our portion of the rental. Between New York and San Francisco last year We carried thousands of tons of grapes at the rate of four-tenths of cent a mile; We expect to carry grain from California to New Orleans, and will b-'~-'-A sO get half-a-cent a iIifie- If '~fuauaruI's- IIss+5 m these figures how nec- essary it is that terminal charges should be reduced to the lowest possible point. I am told the bridge toll here is some where between S3 and g a car, while grain has been carried from Chicago to New York for Sl3. Such terminal charges mean bankruptcy. Commerce cannot pay such tax permanently, and flourish; to add to this another 'arbI- trary' by giving exclusive privileges to a belt road on the wharf would be the night of folly. The Chesapeake S Ohio wants to get Co the wharf either above or below, and 1t does not wish to be cut of from the other end. I saw Mr. J. G. Barrett in New York and asked him what his company intended to GO with their franchise You lou'tiEtend,' said l. to build any road but for these few squares? No, said he. You do not intend to spend yOUr money in rolling stockY No Then you only intend to stand there levying tribute on every carload of freight that passes through gates: Yes said he, but we will treat every one alike No doubt of that said I, do not suppose you will allow a single pound to pass on which tLis extra -aritf has not been paid This is an equality against which l protest. 1t is equal privileges, not equal disabil- ities which we ask
 Mir Huntington further said he would soon begin the laying of the road in Texas, as he was certain he had the best grant m that country. As to the profits of railroad building in that country, he was not saDguIne: he would willingly agree to take three per cent. for the next ten years Cn the money invested in Mex icO, looking tO the future for their profits. When asked if he had secured a connection with St. Louis, he said he had not yet, but he thought to secure one before long. His business for New Orleans from the east, would for the present, he done over tue Jackson route; but be expected Co build and secure line from Meup...s, perhaps in the di- rcction of Shreveport