Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-05

ment and production in interior Ne.
braska, and rapid immigration was stimu.
lated by the efforts put forth by those
companies in the sale of their large land
grants. Until recently the railroads OF
northern Nebraska were confined to the
eastern border. Their and and trans.
portation interests beyond the border
counties were not immediate or impor-
tant enough to Justify the extension Of
their lines to the interior, and the subse.
quont liberality of advertising which dis.
tinguished the large land grant roads.
The completion of the Sioux City q
Pacific westward to the present limits of
agricultural production and to the great
grazing regions of the plains affords a
combination OF advantages scarcely open
to Immigration elsewhere in the west.
The lands along this line of railway are
free government lands, ready for entry
by the homestcadcr and preemptor.
Two million acres of excellent farming
and grazing lands on this line of trans.
portation will now be speedily occupied.
Il has been said that the railway is the
essential pioneer of settlement and pro-
duction in the great outlying countries
of the west. On the other hand, the in
terests of railway transportation are in-
separately bound up in production. The
cost of transportation is a necessary bur
den on the exchanges of products be
tween communities and countries. 1t
follows that transportation is best and
most perfect when it provides for the
movement of these exchanges of com
mcrce at the lowest possible charge and
with the greatest possible expedition.
Increased production onlarges traffic and
swolls the evenue and the aggregate
profits of the transporter. Low cost of
transportation promotes production.
Transportation and production are thus
i'll the nature of things harmonious.
They cannot be antagonizod in interest.
The export markets of the country still
where, i'll the first settlement of
the United States, they were originally
With the exception Of New
Orleans and San Francisco they arc all
situated in the narrow belt Of territory
bordering OH the Atlantic from Baltimore
to Boston, and there they are permanent
ly and unalterably fixed. The problem
which is presented at the outset to the
which enters and traverses the
new country of the distant west, is how to
transport the exports of those countries
their surplus grain and live stock-at
rates which enable them to compete with
products, wherever grown, in the
markets of the world. The price of wheat
for example, at Odessa and the ports of
India, rules the price at New York, and
thus necessarily controls the rate from
fields to the Atlantic sea board. The
operation of intlexible trade laws-the
forces of oompetition-of competition of
railways with each other and with water
and that other prime factor, the
competition of product with product in
world 8 markets, are everywhere, on all
lines of railway, enforcing the more per-
feet development of the means of trans
portation, ~striuter economy of manage
ment, and cheaper traffic rates.
Senator Sewall has introduced q bill for the
relief of Fit2 John Porter.
Secretary Teller has decided that the Choc.
law and Chtcasaw Indian nations have no
against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
road for material furnished for its constrnc-