Show from san francisco Fravi cisco to salt lake by rail prom from tho the S F bulletin 1 i abo new york a po of th the e last of b ld sidy adver flo aiom ch flu ancial trie pir pr greas grels aad prospects of tile pacific rai railroad gauer oily ally and he file central pa pacific c railroad in from which we glean a few statements probably ved bcd r relative v dative to the ella cud of the i od load the union pacific from omaha west and the central I 1 pa 3 acine from east cast constitute the mui 11 ti unk line of the national pacific railroad the former is expected to each tile the castein base of tile the rocky mountains miles from the massou 11 i 1 1 this fall the latter will la in ceist ct it in the of salt lake about 1870 a boic thau three years hence the spam 1 already made and the fact that the fhe extrusion extension of the two roads increases their value and profits all and lia bi beings ings moi boic c aud and more of if land into inai ket wanona tile the b these anticipations will be realized the meeting point of tile two com banies building the alic mail line wo we at ai e told as 18 not yet been officially debei mined though it is understood by tile government officials and by the officers ceis of the ret compa nira that it will b be e east cast of suit like lake the see sec retain of the interior intel bior I 1 in ill an all official r communication addressed to congress last spring said the point of junction has hern been assumed to be 78 1000 miles indes cast or of salt lake city or at a point which will entitle each of tile named to an equal amount of bunds he estimated the distance di ilance to bis be built by the union pacific company at miles and the amount of bonds to be bt issued d sub sequent by the contral pacific company ji h ali tin 0 lorte lc st it and mo most st r I 1 line loe tween to and tin the met tit of salt 1 L ike at A in les lea which aich would give div lit aih tile amount of ir bonds to iv in ia issued it to that company I 1 rite colip iny make theia s 6 r tb as fai ag a fort bridgit bridger 74 miles bea beyond ond salt 1 L ke ike ind and SOU anih miars s from sacramento expecting to I 1 leach each that point in di cember 1870 it is probably ably there will be si a lively rivalry between betwee ii the two companies however and it is no wic cei t ain which will first reach salt lake lity city the t late ate af progress as of the ci agential biltl al pacific is thus stated the work was begun at sacramento in february Febi uary 1863 by JaIl january IlAry 1865 the first 31 miles were completed to newcastle feet above sea level the quant a and U d is gi given acu in this table jader rw juno junold 10 IF to cupper gap 42 1 coo Sop september 1 aw to toCoi cifax fax S 23 may 8 to secret town 0 july 10 isac to AH alta 73 72 november 2 aj to cisco 91 july to ile 17 1867 to adly 1668 to fco humboldt Huia bolAt wo dec 1669 to toll estima est imd 1 july U to wt falt lalie city 7 aa Deci iiii bor I 1 a 0 1 0 fort bridger Bri ilger the road is not yet dono so far as the point named virginia Stati station oo miles cast of sacramento but the work beyond tile summit is 5 a edg very vei y rapidly men and 1300 teams being employed tha company hopes to increase hi crease its force of men to dining the llie pie sent season when progress over the plains will be vary rapid the last ladt announcement from the scone scene of operations was that the nevada line had been passed and that we believe is hi miles frog from sacramento east of the alio summit the descent is much easier and the engineering and constructing ting difficulties difficult ieR much lighter in fourteen miles abero is a jesment descent of 1100 feet after which there is a gentle slope no where exceeding 45 feet to the mile there are 15 tunnels in all on the coition already graded aggregation a length of feet and wide enough for a future double track our readers know that the great summit tunnel is com completed plated and being cleared up for a truck concerning concern in the mountain gradients we are told tile alic highest grade is is feet per mile of f which there will bo be but 31 miles milca on the whole line the average rate being 75 fuel feet to the mile for the mountain division the bulk of the heavy grade is at feet to the mile with the numerous level intervals interspersed sper sed thirty per cent only of the distance is occupied by curves none of which lave have a ladius of less than feet or 10 degrees the baltimore and ohio Kaili oid liaa has 17 miles in two stretches of feet grade with curves of feet iad ladius itts and nd tho the vieginia Vi iginia central for many years worked with the unaided locomotive grades of 96 feet feel to tile the mile and ruling curves whose radii were feet ahr cost of tho the rod the last saya bayn thu tho original estimated cost coat of build aig uig Toad acroca llie sierras sierrita Sie rrita was but slightly above the moat anost eapen alre railroad in tiie the country where the rig right ht of way had to be at 01 boht up to ta tho ilo or of c ja january rayj 1 last the central pacia cn hwd eapen imbt milc flin sin operation together with about a third af the preparation upon 25 miles additional and for a liberal equipment ct rolling stock nearly 53 miles additional adit ional 0 or r about in all will it is confided be running by october next abich ibich hico the road to the comparatively smooth ground the total construction cost coat of this mountain section will beabout ba about or at tile the rate of per ruile mile the rest of bf the distance to salt lake city miles can be constructed for about per mile the differ difference enGe in the prices of labor and iron sufficiently 11 accounts cc aunis for the increase upon the original inal dati estimate mate about m more ord will have been eap exp by mer fur for labor rails ahil i and equipments equipment most ost of which ie 13 cither alier oh bit the other side aide or en route the bulk of the engineering gi difficulties it will be observed h has is already peen overcome and by far the most closely and rugged resistance si left behind rails already being behig laid cast of the cummin ready for the advance id vance when tile the tunnel its is opened tile the rute through nevada and salt lake is thus described the genet ill route of the road after leaving the hig bend of the true river is ia northeast to the llie sink bink of the humboldt river which stream it follows florup for up n at ai ds do 0 of f miles t through brouch a fertile valley abounding in wood und lid water tf tn humboldt wells miles distant from adam nt to this point the route had been officially designated by tile orthe of the interior hit eror pro from 1 11 wells the country has lias bec been ti thoroughly orough ly ined to silt salt bliku liku ci city in it ill two practicable lalit liars we M ne found onu one lunning round the south end of salt lake ind the he other skirt skirting inythe the ain coith th end cud thu former ni er li 11 wever pats s through a rough ill dusett t comit I 1 y it of wood and awat water r wid nd involves bt side a longer di distance tance the necessity of crossing t h L Fa famous moti mud flats of the great salt lake desert which would woul d require piling for 25 miles the more noren northerly 0 ri lierly rou roil u e to lo be very lav lavoia 0 I 1 able bluin in alignment and grades and with plenty of wood and water both for fuel and construction action more afore than half the dis tanco acco auco cun can be built with gr gendes ides var varying Y 0 to 25 feet per mile while no none he of them exceed 75 feet per mile for short dista dit tance tic the following comparative table ff aiom om ther the r port of the chief engineer will bhoj the grades gradei and distances of the two iwo lines the terminal points in ill both cases being humboldt wells wella and weber canyon a rocky duale through the wasatch mountains on oil the bolder of salt lake and the nathnial approach to that city ff aiom om the eastward it will be seen that the coith line is 84 miles milea shorter abort cr with a of deot rise and fall in its itis favor druann total otic total fall tl rite etue R route i of grades gradei andrau and fait north line via ra pass 1969 lw south lanna Lino great salt lako desert 1179 the Tl icline line as surveyed from the eastern base of the sierras to salt lake gives such a favorable locati location un that it is confidently fi believed tho the remainder of the lino line can be built on such euch easy terms as to keep tho the companas Comp anys interest liabilities down to the ratio of the first miles or leas than an 2 per par cent upon the total cost the assistance hom the tha national government for this distance its ia per mile while a great proportion of the distance can be built for per mile as the alic vat variation bation from tile the mean level dues does not exceed five feat deot hermile per mile for continuous stretches or of loo miles and in no im place exceeds exceed 70 feet per mile for short abort distance this will give the company a great trunk line across the continent following thu isothermal belt nearly 80 0 miles in length at a cost for tion and equipment of less than sixt sixty y roi lions or of dollars but worth in curning power a very greater bum a as a the of ita location forbids anything like advantageous competition all AH the facts we have given eo BO far relate of the coash action of the lie contral central pacific cast of f sacramento how tile the connection is to lb 16 made with san francisco which is ia tho the true pacific transcontinental railroad we are arc told in ill the fallu following w ing paragraph ie ferring to the purchase by the central company of the western pacific the charter of the last art named company contemplated a line hoin sacra mento towards san francisco making the circuit of the bay of that name their hr bas recently been as signed to parlors barlit 3 in tb ahr inte interest iest of the Contral Pac nc railroad comp company my and probable that this thin line will be incorporated corp orated with the central pacific fiand tand the road extended f froni rom nto tr to san francisco by l tr most t rout so kimn as the ov erland ferl tind cuthiel cu tion is completed in iii tho meantime my antime the travel is abundantly acra ted by fairst class steam rs ra this is as much as aa to say eay that eliat the route via via san jose and stocal stockton ton is ia to be abandoned and the shortest cut from sacramento across the straits or of and the bay of san francisco to this city adopted in its ite place at ag this to come officially thi ough the new york agent of the contral central pacific railroad company it amounts to a notice to the people of california that the western pacific railroad has been abandoned after being comp completed ted 20 miles beyond san ZT joao lo towards stockton the of bunds bonds t i assue 1 by san franciscu francisco and the other couil counties ties inam stad fa 0 o aidea ii i building a railroad by this route having been misapplied and the company misapplying them having sold bold out it inow now only needs the consent of congress to transfer the government subsidies to another route and thereby delay the opening of railroad communication with sacramento for sonic some years sube subsequent quent to 1870 |