Comraoni'-atLj. SARKOW GACtK. Since the advent of railroads, nothing noth-ing has contributed more to the development devel-opment and progress of the country A new era is now dawning for a rapid development by the introduction of radroads of narrow gauge, of which we shall soon have a number for the general gen-eral transportation of minerals, freight and passengers. Several roads are now in contemplation. One is being built this winter to connect the Iron Hill mines with the railroad in eastern Kentucky. A company has been toimed, having for its object the building build-ing of those roads, by contract, under the name of the U. S. Narrow Gauge It. K. Co.,wiih an office in New York. A similar company is organized in San Francisco. These companies contemplate contem-plate building branches, or feeders, to main tracks; the completion of which will only be the instigation of through roads of the same gauge. "The economy of construction and equipment of a narrow gauge road, two feet six inches, is immense when compared com-pared with the cost of a road four feet eight and a half inches. For a single track it is fifty per cent, cost over an ordinary fiat country; but in mountainous moun-tainous or mining district, the proportion propor-tion increases to seventy-five per cent, and more. In fact a narrow gauge road can be established and will prove a paying concern in countries so rough that no attempts would be made to construct a road of the usual four feet eiht and three-quarter inch gauge. I am aware that many arguments are now brought against the narrow gauge roads by people accustomed to a certain cer-tain routine in railroading. But a very short time will elapse before the narrow gauge roads will revolutionize the railroad system of the United States. By this system of railroads, ores from the mouth of either of the Cottonwood Cot-tonwood or Bingham canons, could be transported to the railroad depot t where it now is), for 75 cents per ton, and yield a larger dividend on the amount invested than any road now iu u.-,e is paying on the Pacific coast. And when the smelting and running works shall be completed, that arc now in contemplation, it will be a necessity ne-cessity of those works to have them supplied with ores over their own roads. One of the most successful mining enterprises in England is that of a company whose mine is in southern Africa. eventy-five miles from a seaport. sea-port. To transport the ore to the coa.it, a narrow gauge road was built over and through a very rough country, coun-try, at a coit of nearly irST'f ,(J J. The company allowing 70 ccnls per ton for transporting the ore to the sea coast, lind the reduced charge of freight is a larirc interest on tlio outlay. And so it will prove in this country, when the zreat int'Ti 'l m rapidly developing on I lie t'ucilie rlu:. nnd especially in . I 'tab, .-.hull fully comprehend and in-vstiiratc in-vstiiratc this Hubiecl. A.,.