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Show HI PACIFIC . ABSORBS LUES I TakesinVard's Plumas ! Railroads, i yard States That Big Road I will Positively Be Con- ; stnieted at Once. i IecuIa Over the Sierras Will Be on J tov Grade, With a Few Curves, IS j WithoutAny Snowslieds. j i . J in II Tard says that tlio Western Pn-l"; Pn-l"; "W-ay will surely bulkl Its road In C Dear future. The Butte & Tlumaa ft Lir aad the Indian Valley railway, of I ycb Mr. Yard Js president, hayc been 4 w-rbid by tho Western PacMc with that I '"waging, He says: "Jho Butte & f fr'xii railway surveys, which have been 4 durlnff the past two years demon-f demon-f Uritri beyond a doubt that a railroad I 'jj-jj be built from the Sacramento valley ft fitte plains of Nevada through tho ipms with no portion having a grado I.r na than ono foot In a hundred-ln A livjl vord!, on a 'maximum of 1 per id !iL' Clco aurvoys wero completed dur- l( Sl"4 on the routo up the North fork M tfcs Feather river on profiles, chang- arfro 1 to 1 So per cent on sections of 2a ttn to twenty miles In length. From fTi surveys was dcc!opcd the poBsIbll-Jl poBsIbll-Jl trof making a through line, with ono HJ Srtion of probably eighty miles of 1 per -t grade and a forty-mile section of i to ttan per cent grade. This grade Bi t(3 rtoulre motive power of only about fj-tblrd that now required on other rall- ( rcidi eroding the Sierras. Another featuro value on this route Is the cross-Ti cross-Ti tr ef the range at the low elevation of sf fi) ft and the consequent nvoldanco of 111 ill iHp snows which fnll on the moun-W moun-W itifcj atove the KOO-foot line. This will 1'2s:sate the snowshed entirely on the TVttra Pacific route. Another material fitter 13 that all curves aro less than 10 , ;Jtrrrt! This means that the curves aro 'Ji 'hW that the fastest time can bo mado tj pasicnpcr trains without discomfort 5 ' iinjer. These three elements 1 por 4 ;ct trade, low summit and easy curva-f curva-f !fcw-we considered absolute Imposslbil- !h!rt for a crossing of the Sierras until itiifi Investigations and surveys of the i SA'a& Dumas railway were completed." |