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Show A PRACTICAL ELECTRIC ROAD. Modern steam railroads are swfltly falling into the hands of syndicates. A few men now control nearly all the two hundred thousand miles of roads in the country. A dozen men practically control the land transportation of the continent, if a district is not fully developed, these great syndicates will not build to them, but, on the other oth-er hand, they will not permit others to build to them. Railroads are constructed in great part witn money obtained by selling the bonds of the road that is being constructed or contemplated, and the great corporations by a word can prevent the sale of bonds. Thus Deep Creek and surrounding districts have been looking for a railroad" to come and make available mines, the ores of which are too low grade to haul by team. Men have grown old ana died in those mining camps waiting for railroads. rail-roads. When the first through line was constructed between Omaha and Sacramento, the thought of tne world, and, for that matter, of the builders, was that between the foot hills of California and the eastern slope of the Rockies, the road was but a bridge, that the country over which it passed H was practically worthless. But it was not long (H until it was discovered that the local returns were H more than the through returns. Since then four H or five other lines have been constructed with the H same results. The building of the first line es- H tablished as a fact that the locomotive Is the most H effective of pioneers and civilizers. Before it the H savage wilderness and savage man retire, in its H wake flowers spring up, harvests ripen, the des- H ert draws back her robes of serge and reveals the H treasures in her bosom. But still a little way from the line In the desert there may be ample B prom'jes of wealth, but the railroad companies' H will take no chances. Thus Deep Creek, onl( H ninety miles from the old Central Pacific, ha H been a closed book for years. H Still we believe there is hope ahead. The H suburbs of all the cities and large towns in the jH east are encircled by net-works of trolley cables, H until they have greatly reduced the traffic on the H big lines, sometimes forcing them out of com- petition. And they are being steadily extended H and are growing pretentious. The feasibility of H extending them over long distances in competition H with through steam lines is being seriously dis- H cussed. The advantages claimed are that they are H much cheaper of construction; that over a rclling H country the grading does not compare in cost with H roads that have to cling to low grades and long H curves; that the transmitted power is vastly cheaper than the direct power and wasta and H wear of the locomotive. H Well, now to the point. We were promised H a railroad to connect this city 'with Los Angeles. H It was to have been completed before this time. We understood that some fifty miles have been H constructed. There comes in the old problem, and H the demonstration is that if two years and a half are required to build fifty miles or road; to build M seven hundred miles will require thirty-five years M to make the connection. H w a trolley road can be built from here H out through Nevada for $7,000 per mile, built, equipped and set running in perfect form, and M our advice is for the men who own mines in the fifteen districts surrounding Deep Creek to pool M their effects and to mortgage the whole business to some trust that will supply the money to put M in and equip two hundred miles of electric road. That would cost $1,400,000. To pay 4 per cent H profit. 4 per cent operating expenses and 3 per cent for the sinking fund, 15 per cent in all, the road M would have to earn $210,000 per annum. Charging fl $3 per ton, freight on ore, 70,000 tons would have M to be bi ought annually, or working 300 days in the M year it would require 233 1-3 tons daily. Three M or four mines in that region, to say nothing of M fifteen districts, ought to supply that much ore. M The above outlines the quickest way to get a M railroad to Deep Creek. H |