Show AN OLD SUBJECT Tho Record of Philadelphia has thee following on railroad earnings and prosiincts APf1rodmattly the Pennsylvania load rail Increased Us gross i1rl1ll1S In Jan nary Ocr tin oJQI month In BaD I OOlOOO In gross and iuC0Oeo In net rate ot or at th vflf shoWlllh Z1Ild 4CioOOOO 12 h1 OOOOO likely per In year to net In rbit gross unit 11 whc1i bituminous COlanUI and coal tcs I l urn ndvancld l It ought to be Increased All railroads are ranking a great deal oVid of tho Pennsylvania money nnd of course lends iS all In the Improvement them I Promises The year iflCO jirorulBea to bo the most favorable for hold r8 or railroad lif hL1lory securities III recent It Is wonderful that on such a show 1 Ing1 and with the great abundance of j money now awaiting Investment In the East no road can be built west of this city It must be through Ignorance on I the part of capitalists for though It Is I pV ftscrt to the It stnr country t1e west It would J Btill pay a railroad better than any I road In Pennsylvania except the great trunk lines Ono sliverlead mine Is I vwojthtinore to a railroad than a vast I tract oC land under cultivation The j reason Is plain enough thee farmer 1 Phlps away merely big surplus while I Jceiy thing has to be carried to and I from a mine And this with a mine Is carried on even day In tho year Well a road only two hundred and fifty miles long running a little south of west from this city would pass through or near fifteen or more mining districts in each of which there would be found from three to fifteen mines All sup olles for the miners would have lo be carried out the ores would have to be I I I shipped In to the reduction works In this valley and the trafllc would be unchecked un-checked for many years Then there I would be much business outside of the mining business There IN a good deal of farming out that way and endless I locks and herds Then the cheapness of building the 1 road would be a factor Not a dollar for right of way not a bridge and scarcely a culvert after crossing the Jordan and grading not to exceed an average of Sicpo probably not to exceed ex-ceed 51000 per mile for the whole distance dis-tance Some rich men are losing the best opportunity for investment either East or Vest l |