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Show THE C. P. AND V. P. RAIL-' RAIL-' . ROADS. ! It can hardly be olheiwisc than the fact that the rcaon why tho C L road has been kept IVeo from a snow blockade while the II. l has been blockaded almost continuously for the last three weeks, is because the former took the precaution and incurred the expense of yinirditiR more effectually against the contingency of heavy storms than the latter has done. The snow falU to a greater depth on the lino of the Central in the Sierras, than it does anywhere on the lino of the road through the llocky Mountains. Without snow sheds it would simply be impossible to keep the road open through tho Sierras lor at Ie:it four months in the year; but with them and wooden barricades on the borders of deep cuts in the road, the Centra! company com-pany are enabled to run trains en time, despite the heaviest storms, h appears to us that the Union company, by adopting the moans made use of by the Central to prevent snow blockades, might at least keep open their road except tinder mi.-Ii adverse circumstances circum-stances as only happen at Ion;; periods of time. The company have some sheds aud barricades, but not enough. True the suow hell alon. the line of their road is much broader than it is on the line of the Central, aud the cost of protection aaiut storms would be much greater than it is on the latter road, but still we think that tho company com-pany would be greatly the gainer if it would shed and barricade their road at every seriously exposed point. The cost iu tho lirst instance of such im provements Would be very heavy, but ' would be repaid fourfold in tho time that tho improvements would last, in tho saving of tho immense annual cost of keeping tho road open by the slow process of shoveling the snow away, in the enhanced business which the road would command and could do, in protection pro-tection from losses to rolling stock, and in the enhanced prices of the stock of the company. Soaiethiug of this kind must be done to save tho company's stock from a ruinous depreciation. |
