The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-24
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Wis if Hinton noaaa Helmf
aell keavn af th haihs 3 ,he rs.
f'sndina Crisis hs, been identified fot
some yeats eifh Plan ili : railroad u
connect al tire Americas North. Cen.
tfai aui saih "a one commercial eou.
federalg Through sseursi,u trains
oould D. fan ilon New York T. summer
resorts in ths Andes and RE Janeifo
could ge, .ii genuine Paris aonnets and
authentic French ebampaenss direct from
the maker, 10 Division street aud the
Bewsry A bill On the sublse. has been
introduced 10 the llorss d Representa-.
tisei by Mr. Bsliori, whose disposition
sn sanguine a, the color Of hii hair.
But Il does not seem that he has been
hopeful ia this matter. The task prob.
ably presents no greater diiiiaulties OF
engineering than the construction of the
Pacific railroads, aud 90 good an author.
ity as Ne Eyarti suggests in letter
to Mr.. Helper that the only defect in
his plans Is that it is not comprehensive
enough. Mr.. Eyarts says;
But why not conGne the ENTERPRISE
OF railroad connection to the two Amer.
lean continents, when Asia and Enrope
may also be embraced within colossal
system of worldwide improvement:
1T is only thirty miles across Bshr-
ing Strait 1t is 5000 miles across the
Atlantic Ocean. The inevitable monot.
ony and increasing peril of long voyages,
IN ships OF questionable staunchness,
are becoming quite insuferable. Were
! now as young as my own children, l
should expect to live to enjoy the pleas
ure of visiting and running over Europe
by way OF Alaska, Siberia and Russia.
Thenceforth, most travellers from the
Uuited States, whether for business or
pleasure, would contemplate journeying
to Europe, Asia and South America, or
to any one OF those grand divisions OF
our globe, by land.
That the incomparably greater in
struction and delight in iatercontiuental
travel thus anticipated are in reserve for
countless nj nbers of those among us
who as yet hive attained only to the
period Of what is commonly called mid
die life do not deem an extravagant ex-
pectation. The railway age, an age of
unparalleled national and international
progress, is now upon US, and Is likely
to remain with us indefinitely. It's
progress will not cease until Buenos
Ayres and Bombay, Santiago and ST.
Petersburg, Panama and Vienna. Mex
leo and Madrid, San francisco and Ber-
lin, New Orleans and Paris, New York
and London, and all the other great
cities of the great continents, shall have
been firmly and forever bound together
in bands Of steel. l sincerely hope you
may have, as you deserve, early and CON-
plete success in your transcendentaIly
grand and meritorious enterprise.
We hope Mr.. Helper will feel sure
that Mr.. Evarts is entirely serious. We
confess to having some misgivings our
selves. But why shouldn't he be serious:
1t was long ago proposed that the Rus
sian Government should build railroad
through Siberia, and a transcontinental
railroad in Africa is an old idea of the
French. Think Of going to Europe
without seasickness. 1t is curious that |
with all the prescriptions against that
annoying ailmeut no one ever thought OF
subscribing Behring Strait The dose
could be easily taken, and would be
efectual. And from that point on to |
the Bay OF Biscay it would be easy trav-
cling in parlor cars, with an occasional |
change OF conductors when the train |
struck stratum of new languages. In
fact, the only real obstacle TO belt rail.
road around the world is the Atlantic
Ocean, and, with some boring done
under the British Channel, he would be |
a rash man who would predict that there
will never be submarine railway be. |