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Show AN AIE UNE EOAJ). . j T'nret.' years ago the Continent. J Railroad Company was ineorp-j ratal in New York for the purpfc of e-tabl hihing an air-line roite from that city to Council BIulls. Airlines, Air-lines, .so called, exist in multifarious numbers throughout the country. We j may pick up airy railway map and will fmd fancifully tntcd out this air-j air-j line, that air-hue, and the other ; iiir-line( whon, at Ulh name time, every petvjii who luw travclotl over the various niatk know that then; irt :arcely one of tliem but Con- I tains more mrvr, nd turns, and , wanderings than characterized the i journeying.- of tho Children ot Isaael from the time they escaped the Um-dage Um-dage of Egypt until they lauded upon up-on the shores of the PromUed Land. Leavine New York, for the wet by present routes, we find none of them approximating to an air-line. They zig-zag in many eases as badly as a miner's trail over a steep mountain. The Continental Company purpose correcting all this. Their utmost deviation de-viation to the north or to the south, is not to exceed fifteen miles in any part of the road. Such a route may with propriety he termed an air-line. Between New York and tlie western boundary of Pennsylvania it is estimated two hundred miles in distance can be saved, and between the terminal points the saving will be not less than eight hundred miles. Then again, while other routes place their lowest average grade at one hundred hun-dred feet, this one, as far as surveyed, will not exceed forty feet, giving in ; this way also a gain of many miles upon the whole line. This will reduce re-duce tho time occupied between Council Blu f Is and New York between one and two days, an item in these fast times that can scarcely be overestimated; over-estimated; while at the same time freight can be moved at a reduction of tariffs corresponding with the greatly great-ly decreased expense in building and operating tho line. At present, wc not only lose this day or two in .traveling .trav-eling between the Atlantic and the Pacific, or vice Versa, but the shipper is required to pay high tarifls for. ascending as-cending grades that are entirely unnecessary, un-necessary, and in pursuing serpentine windings that are marvelous in their . multiplicity. " .Until balloon-traveling becomes an established estab-lished fact, or some undreamed of novelty in modes of transit is discov--ered, we may expect to depeud upon the Continental railroad to save this time, and the prospect of any other way of reducing freight , expenses is much more remote. Two years, it is claimed, will see the route in active operation. The various Suites through which it passes have already granted charters authorizing its construction; . and one hundred miles is graded. Indeed In-deed every prospect is now so favorable favor-able that many of us will, perhaps, make our next trip to New York over a true air-dine, route. The advantages advan-tages already enumerated ensure the success of the road as soon as it is completed. Its benefits ;to the Great West this side of the Missouri river cannot but be immense. For its speedy completion vvc shall look with greatest hope. |