Show Is a Crabli hllcJdSD New York 23Tbo Tribune thinks a financiil crisis similar to that of 1873 is pending M Ii result of railroad speculation specu-lation Take for example lha several propositions to built roads acres that thouand milo bolt separating the Missit r sippi nliuviil basin from the narrow fringe of fertile foil and scanty population popula-tion of the Pacifies pe besides the original origi-nal Pacific road which after ten years experience finds it impossible to get return I re-turn loads f > r its cars and which is more than equal to all that can be put on it I Another is so rearly completed that the junction of the eastern and western portion por-tion at the Rio Grando is expected early in the new year The census shows tho populations of California to be a oui 850 lOU and los thin a million for the whole Pacific watershed Ono would supwe S that with a free ocean way tbo isthmu route and two railroads in operation all the traffic wou tI I be accommodated to aid from the Iic lie Tho mndnes born of cbe p money proposes to build at lea t five morn railroads one on Canadian two on Mexican territory and two at least on our own The Northern S Pacific for which there may be some excuse in the next cent ration hi jet to encounter its most formiJable difficulties cf lone snowy winters iu otinjj tho bickbone ridge of the conti ncn thirtyfifth parallel route hHS even lets excuse as there art tee utile mounttin chains with scarcely a ve tig of p pulation or any hiog on which 10 uppcirt it That pan which is not raountait ous is i either deep ravines or dv I desert and it is closely flanked throughout by the thirtys con l parallel or Texas route now approaching completion com-pletion What rational inducement can be found fr embarking in such colossal EchomPE unless it ba tho facility with which tho projectors can borrow from crndulou cajntilists money enough to build tbo railroads and leave a balance to pocket as profit 7 |