Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-09-30


Progress Of the work-The LAne
Soon 10 be Completed.
A dispatch from the West to the Winnie
peg Sun that the track Was
completed to the Bow River Crossing on
Thursday last. This connects the line
with Calgary. and completes the contract
entered into by Langdon. Sheppard & Go.
one year ago the 7th day Of March to
build 674 miles Of road. Langdon, Shep-
pard & Co. built during the contract over
As miles OF side track, 80 that over 700
miles Of track we're built by them. They
started at Oak Lake when they first be-
gan, and the rapidity with which the work
was built was acknowledged by railroad
men to be marvellous. Messrs, Lsngdon,
Sheppard d Co. received for their work
$4,000, 600. The total cost to the
O. p. R. Of constructing the line
to Calgary from Oak Lake includ-
ing rails, ties. etc., wa over $40, 0O0,-
600. Mr.. Langdon was interviewed this
morning about the work.. He said IL had
been done rapidly, but with the experience
in construction the firm now had, he be-
lieved it could be done much faster. All
the men employed by his firm and al the
outfits used in construction have been
taken over by the North American Railway
Contracting Company, which, under the
superintendence OF James Ross, will
carry on the work to completion. Speak
ing Of the construction of the road west Of
Calgary through the Rocky Mountains,
Mr.. Langdon said he would stake his pro-
f~essional reputation that no man ever saw
such . fine location for any road through
. mountain range. The gradients were not
high, and the road could be built through
the mountains with great facility.
Mr.. Barclay, the acting chief engineer,
added that the gradient in the mountains
are very light. The grading work is very
light and rapid progress is being made.
The road, which they drove up, is cut
within Is miles Of the summit Of the noun
tains, and is being pushed forward 1t the
rate Of one mile . day. The line, he says,
is located now about 80 miles beyond the
summit Of the mountains. When the work
this year is completed there will be only
286 miles Of road to be built in order to
make connection with the line ct Ksm-
loops, on the Columbia River.
Gambling Licensed and Unlicensed.
They have been having lots of news
paper talk over in Stockton on the ques-
ton OF gambling. The local papers there
are bitter in their continuous attacks upon
the sporting fraternity, and oppose any
license Of gambling Whatever. The Grass
Valley News takes . more conservative
view, and discusses the proposition thus:
"Nevada State licenses gambling games.
and the revenue from them is quite an
item 10 the way Of replenishing the treas
ury, and the sports themselves use every
p~recaution over there to see that no games
are conducted that do not pay the regular
license. We do not wish it to be under
stood that we uphold gambling Of any
kind in the State, and yet it is ; question
whether there would not be less OF it going
on il it were licensed than there is at
present. II gambling were licensed, e.
pecially banking games, those paying such
license would be wide awake to see that
none but those entitled by Law INDUCED in
the practice. As 1t ia now, gambling
games are in full blast, and the State re-
ceives nothing from them, whereas under
the license law the revenue would be
greatly increased. We say again that 1t is
aquestion whether there would not be less
gambling under 3 license Law than there
10 at present."