Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1875, Page 2

T . toad raealia BT ey e sthhe, 1 fatareaty atere tona, B e Lo eenaing ol g LAk, an IR et [REN A 1 tha ey to G s the e Intaes ot et eyl This Lot wliae el by bt outn. ol tuo § berg et ound At Aeddi, BURERTEN % ary and the vy to Jdaife dmewittd - Laciiis Yinw, oy in Wi e RRTR v teo ma tho prico: R ate Veky- ! ‘ . THE CHICAGO TRIDUNE: SAT eara for Grafeat, Pullman eary from Grafton to Cirviapati, The it ovprens™ han Puthuan etna frone Baitienare aad Wishin ston to Cinein- natt. M traln haw no connections weet of 1 o S nddavs ‘Lhrae trains retnen omly to Now York, ong the *rast emanti Ay with Pollinaucars, 1 Baltimore avl Washington, <arn Al Fun o Columboa aud tho 21 thteo daily from Columbin to wnd tho Iast. Theso traing bave Datiunn or patlor ears & portion uf thoe distance, Threo traws fvave Sandusky dally for Now Yok, pith Maliman or partor ears, and but onn ehinpge to Vénshington and Baltimare, 1o denat or fesfeht-house of its own in Chivizo, R prosent froight bemg received aml It ' Tuo trai sleliver ot oo opel platform near tha Expusi- L tiow Badding, i THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL. Tho Miehigan Ceutral Raiirond, which econ- nects Chioago and tho great Northweat with tho Last, direetly with Now York aud tho South At- + lantic States, Englaud, aud Canata, iy ono which is deservedly po,wlar with tha mases Ay Dwill a8 with eapitabiare, T histogy hnw been i an intereating one, even thonglt it has 1.on une | oveniy compared with mme modern enes, It ar orfiaally Bult by tha Stts of Michigan, in ti. Too Lot 30 milen of its tesck wero Taidk by tho Stalo. ut the burdy politie. runming & n fetnd to he a difiieult avd un- «me, ‘Tho iiata was glad to sell sy 1 volhingg wtoek, and its track nyany, with sevornl provieions all ol which bhave boco by tha corpotation, West not o very well y understond countey, bat iately instatlod in public cone Itr pteck is hetd ot ta ane 1o tho prce canlee: oned the an ol hat remianesl no. R W ERTIFICATER h as mueh veveration and itaten honde. sud the term g ago ' apphied to the Its poliey wines tinse tho desort of un ntbonde] ettiel’y to ity owi W may ho detined ‘as makin [ ia a )gluuate businesa-like itge with il who weia ntercst- patinz tha pablie with every 1 iderntion. It fus kept ont 6f v avorded wpecaintions in raged with o dignitied con- which i the mora il sarity In basiaoss anitars, 4 10 enlightened Fron no hestation ' adapt- slroad, sonba 15 TuOYED, “nu_ Contral ir-t o adopt navoltion 210 0rt And recwLIte of pauge aleacy been foremort in devel- LIV an were snguested, 1t thie ieanf ¢teal vailn ot onee, and hay ro- ol gron with rieel eteadily, Jeavine only ok of itk eatho traek of fron, By mext ling tim wilt have been replaced, awo, It wii tmong tho first to uso the patont * o wrebralo BafaLy tform. awmen tho tirst Lo pt Pullman naches on ity linn, R “w i Quilue, 2 6 i wiily i rt, sty ent Lo a5 0f 1he Tead. ilunat the conchy 4 ngo 1y SO TTRW IR AL TN [ X SV THVES L Uit 1 A ndngn: S0 i i 2 moved v Lo anbirof CX A Ungieand doe ta » et s dlicr ne! fuiliz: b K cadenvors wieh of Abe on- wiay uiowmled the o) er.- et e dgo, Tioy are favorite road o Lianiat nuaviled amung a0 Laso seomed forsba e mwreaoed uutll the o d sianoug the rulroads © & OHIO. ar s Ligtonore & Ohio cda boaseh ol thew road 2 and noy e o the Kast, Plhe it Sundays o sy ool watl ordiuey any cunetboy, 3 twave honrs' o e, and Pull- At Gruilun in s socoml wp Lo Failwan esid ©o 1epluced by 2wy leaven Clleago duilv ag 3 to Wazbiugton and Lalu- € i oty WAt 03 oning expross leavos Balti. Yoan G b v wyton Jdaily Lwo vhauges ure tisa Uiy, with pmlor csrw from Waslingou to trafton, and Foll- v Gralion to Chiesa Juuctiou, Jure tlud Wi auus Lo Bellaiie onlv. . M lewven Bultngora oluily, with o Aleotrh witieus chiugo, The an® bives Infmore daiy at 8.0 L houra' ride east of Chis heh dud Cotes bo fue- teer Waw Yorks (0 FL. Louis Jiga by baitliavie vl paler 1 loclee 0ot hae done a9 na as_any one toad cunhl pasably yo to ierds the dovolopmont of shin e amd nt that umeit was abaut the Iy aud tho worthwert hwl, It is now oue uf S Rt ~| and Lest-rim railroads in tho ) tho past yenr it las extonded cihities immensoly, and is ready for To emergeney in the way of .an un- aone 6f eriny e or livesstock such asis " ninyoar, Fho stendiness of the man- et 15 recn Ju tho fow changes made In its t oot Mp Jov, ats Presidsut, hee oceupied 1 Abat importent yositen sbout ton years, and v ontemls nuch longar timo, and fo tho e fime thero bave Leeu but two General SAnporfutondenta—Mr, Sargent, and the prescnt nearabent, e, Btrong. ‘Chese facta spealk + Ity foz thewmselves, and iudicato the voliev of STOUCKIIOLDERS ARE: SATISTIFD, 4 that tho road i jnonitablo. With wity, sreedy trvel, und oy rates, 1 but o katistled with this ad- Liaution of results—what more can itory which is traversed by tho Michi- 1 gan Central Railioad 18 among the mok impor- ! Lt sections of the country.” Conuecting tho Nurthwess with Canada, New Englani, aund Now %, and running througls ono of the most ful States in {ho Wout, the rord cannot porsers an inportance second (o nove, ropresents an enormons capital in 862 wmilos ©of men wrack nod 195 miles of oido-tinck, mak- wee g totad of L.0GT miles of trach; 41 parsanger oo, 2 vecond-claws cars, 36 bacyaze and mafl 134 large and 137 smaller stock cars, 1,823 werclisndivg hox-cars, 187 double-dock cwrs, 03 platiorm cars, 474 Bluo Liue cars, besiden ny - othors tenarately enamozated aud neod Zar vpeclal purposas, with tho nocessary nnmvar A paniongor, freight. und yard locomotives, It Ligp an army of meebanies, conductors, wrakemen, and talirond puople of ol finds. Thic rond conzints of suven divisions, which aro -the lain Line, the Air-Lina Diviston, both of which run eass and woat ; the Jackeon, Lansiig Bazinmw 1nvision, the Grand Hivor Division, the Kelamazoo & South Haven Divimon, the ! Joliet bivikion, and thoe Ntles & South Bend Di- £ vinion. TAZ AIR LINE, ' « which setveey Chivago snd Detroit, yans throngh tho sunthern part of hu Btate, taking into 118 em- hraes 100 of the largret towns in the papin. sun, utid ¢ouvoying the passongors and freight ol tho Northwent dircetly to wneet 1ty Eastern rouuietionn in o truly iy lino. Its dircctness, ully for passengers, gives it o groat advan- 0. Whoro thiero 1w competition, the quickost suato want wiu, 1he distanco Letween Clucspro nd Detroit, whora tho Michigan Central eon- wet: with the Fastern ronds is short, and the oven in proportion, the day express- iog Chicago at 9 a, m.—muking it m uug o halt. The Detroit & Bay City H ruLning noctuwards to Bay City, takes i 1o un orsant cities nawmod, together: with East saginaw, and thare couneets with tno Jaokson, ang & Hagivaw Division, which latter furms with it & triangle, ab vwhose augles are Do- il Jackson, und Bay City, From this last Boint tho duvkson & Lunsing Railroad runs up nor-hyad to Chsbovgau, - A Jueksou tho nain line Iy iutersected by the Girend Liver Valloy Invision, taking io Grand sfavea, Grand Dapide, wul olber large cities on 1ho cartern shoro of Luke dichiguu. ‘1be road #ith it tewnicdtions covers Lha entire Sta sud ribntary Lo it i some of the bent agricul- tural country in the world; the wlholo of TUE GREAT LUMBER INTEKESD centred in thu piuorivs of Michigan; the rich it regiong which koew tho Loy ero warket ticd, sud from the Laet, in returo, the prod- 4 of tho salt and other ivterosts which on- b tho country throusy which it passes, Liolng idea of tho busners of its freight interest ey Do derived frow the followiog ligures, ropre- Lit carried during the year cud- Wiv,~a yeur by the way not ro- thibls for tho prospority” of wny branch of babiow, ‘Tho wimeipal wreicles, with - L 1 s follows s Anples, 265,437 barrols ; 1w rye, 261,900 Durliels'; corn, 4,952,001 (R 32 barrels ¢ Jumber, 79,- 7,963 Lusbols; hous, $10,263 ; sheap, tois of reight. ‘T “into wbiort rain—4 SUUTEOL whount of [roight, and is, 83 wight be whow euin upon that of the preceding e Bguien for (Lo past ive yoara show u in 1870, toas g 1,418,703; 611,280 tous, tae cteady gam, 'Lhey wero: tous: in 187y, ’1,1n5,|:15 HET T T 45 snd in 1675, 1,631 {al numbir of ruse wan e81,45 5 1 nusnbur earriod through, 164 6495 tho total numlor earried l‘fnnnr:’v&‘%"l,gzu.- 047, Whe earnings from prsseugers lust Yyear wiss @2,38.U00,06 3 tow lroghe, ¥4, 447,838.00 3 from uiucolluieons eourcus, 7595,449.60, That 0 oad sy boen ceonouncally msukgod 18 showvn by ghe fuct Gt o raving of §455,044.6) s been enooted lu tho o) eralmg expenscs of thie road. - Consideriug YUY INVONTANT vacy that tho couutry was e.ill sutlering from the of- fucts of the psulo 0f 1674, tho abovs showing is 824,770 in in <no which tol!s a story of eficiont wunagouert, of entorprise, aud of Woalth lyiug in the Lurvest- ficlds of Michigan which support this ruilroad. ‘Iho udvaatages of the Sliohikan Ceniral Rajl- ruad {o punsonpoiy (0 the Last, cspocilly 1o Canada, ‘Centrnl New York, aud Now Englaud, aru obvious, At Dutroit it counects with three d -ull-w]ulpnad rosds,—1he Grand oad of Csnads, which takes i tho ituportunt cilios of Loudon, Btratford, Terouto, Port Hope, Kingeton, Moutreal, aud Quobeo; tho Grewb Westorn Railroud, wblch takes the ' Ansepper by Nwgars Falis, and the ada ot ery, ulong the uordh shore of Lake Erie tu Buidslo: wiil throukn them all, by the fumous Naww Yok Contral Balpoad sud ity connectiony Apa st duet ling tp Boston, with conues, tiols With tho Iludson ‘River Road st Albany. ‘L lsg three touds ulso fort, with the Eno Ruad and the Stehigan Contral, diroot sommunication | with Now Yors, ‘Cho Micbigan Ceutral, thorus Thia road” vago to Canada it New Lngland, is moraover A NEGUNIALY LINE In thoshain of railroada hotwean thn Atlantie and Pacifle connts, As beforo ptated, durits the past vear proparations bave been mado tostil furihior fncreaso tho cariving eapact:y of the rond. ‘This found to b necensary after tho gralo, froit, Inmver, and livo stock awaiting shipment to the Fast had ontgrown thy facilitios of the1oad, and threatened to hlock i3 far a tino, | Energy aud wkill ovoreamo tho dillicully thou ; extonded uperating puwor han buen employed to offuot it the futu, P'asengers who like cany traveling In new palago cars on a smoott road-bed, amd da-hive ra idly thiongh a beane will find tho Mielugan Cential o to the Hest a plessant journoy,” ‘Tho con- nociuns wl it mked with Kastern roads aro equnlly g od. Glimpsos of beautiful scenery, and thio larke, thriving eitich alony; tho roate nin anfiicicnt in themyuives to rocommand it Yore than alt, ou tho ol refialds ™ winl it branchy4, enny traveliang is enple nented with good meals, whieh insnre comfortablo dgestton. Indeed, this s an essontial, and the maagors fully no- 9 251 iiles of almost straight rosd | dorstand its importauce i robbing a long Jour- noy of itn terrors. e THE CHICAGO & PACIFIC. 'Ttis road, which is tho last railroad to obtain accers into tho City of Chieato on ils own right of way, f+ ono of tho moet importunt ratlwey en- torprites to this city,aa well as to tho country thtough which it passes, which has beou waug- urated in the Norilinoet sineo tho Groat Fire, Ita franchises within the city limits of Chicogo are catimated to bo worth moro than tho entire cost of the road between Chicago and tive Rock Tivor (87 milea). These franchieds consint of tho righs of way for "a donble- track rallrond through more than G miles of atrozts sithy tha eity-limits, running os it doos acro#s the Nurth Dranch of the Clucrgo River, juat abose the rolbng-mitls, and dswn on the east vido of tho North Eiaveh to Chicagon o- nue, through o section of Lho eity not travorsed Ly suy other sailr ad, and undor the prervnt Linfient Damain not of tim State it a#ll bo jm- rosmbla for any eompany over to obtain such rights fn tho future, TUE DOCKAUE, FAGILITIRS of the Chirago & Pacitle aro infer.or to only two o threw of th- oidest ronds I 4ho city, an‘l far enparior to those of auy now rosds coutering bere. Alter thoe rosd croswos tho Nosth Dranen it 1nne 50 near tho rives us to give it vearly I wila of dockao, bouth o tho river aad Nerth Dranch Cazal, thu reuderlng; availablo for mannfuctir- ing purposes ths lzcgo property of the Chicaro iand Company on the North Sule. alfording am- ple 100 tar elovators, lmaber-yards, stoue- yara#t, coal-yards, sult and lime doeks, and for banding tha freight busluern of & il twany timea tho lenatl of the Chieazo & 'acifle. L'uin largo vxient of doexazy and thoe superior right of wav iuto the beare of the city fa por- tivn of the [raachise of this road, which, when complotod to the Assissippt Tivor, witl ba Lut 135 nfles Jonp—wlite ruads ovaiutme over n tiousand nides have not half theve Lacilifea. Loaving the aity by BDlomuinedule ayenne, tho Toad rund wmust dioctly wust—mure pearly W o1 an 4ir lino thav auy ofha: vond u Iinoiy, Ho diceut i the tino that tho dintauce betwoeen Chicago and Ligin is mdo 7 nwles shorter by the Chiea 0 & 1% c thau by the Freepory Lino of the Uhivago & Northwastern Kailway. VST OF ELGIS ‘tho.road runs midway Letweon the Freoport and Dixon’ lines of thn Northwaetera Ruilway, Forroiton, at the junctisn of tho Iltinoias Coi- tral and Chicaio & Towa Railroada, 19 120 miley from Clicago vin the Chleago, Burlington & Quiney and 'Chicagd & ~ Town * Radroals, whotens, by the Chicago & DPactflo, it will be ouly 105 mites. ‘Tho distunre from Chicago to Lanark via tho C, B. & Q, C. & L., Illlnuis Central, and West- arn Uniou Railroady, 1» 164 mules, Via the Pa- citic it will be only 118 miles,—a eaving -of 35 wiles, I'ho country throuzh which the road passes, ombrucing the Countiss of Cook, Dulage, Kane, Deiialb, Oglo, snd Carroll, in tha ricliest and most vroductive in the Siate, aud in known a4 the groat dairy-rexion of Northern Ilinois. ‘Tho peoplo living aloug tho hino of this road are un industrioua and enterprining clasy, msin- ly from tho Lastero States, owolog tho farws tuey ceoupy, aud oporating thom with the mout npproved machinery, thus producing the very best puadiblo rosnlts from & oil which is uusur. passed in ang land, Whea completed to Lanark, the Oileago & Pacifie will oarry more grain o Chicago than any other road of ita loogth in the Htate, The road will also do A YEAY LANGE RTOCK NURINESS, n8 the #eoiion botwaeon Elzin and the Missisrippl 18 justly colobrated for its fino stock. Tho cac- ryiug of tho farm prodncta of this rich rezion— combinod withs the migcallansons businosy which will bo the natural -outgrowts of tho towns which ara epringing np all aloug the line, to- gother with tho business which such mannfuc- turing towna as Elgin give to the road—insures boyend sl quostion a local tratllo which cannot iclp but make tho 1oad pay, independeutly of any *throngh ™ bus‘uess, Dut a4 the E:)dncla of tho country genorely reok the rhortest and most divect route to mar- ket, wo may supposo that tho through bumines of tha Chicago & Paciflo will tuke care of itsolf. Tise entiro longth of the road to Savaans, the westorn termipus betng 187 miles, the probabil- tios a1 0 that tho nnfinished distanee will ba com- ploted the coming ses-on, Tho )]m’uclpnl polnts of ntorest along tho complated line ara located au the following distances from Chicago : Hum- boldt, 4.4 milea; Almira, 4.1; Pacific Junction, 4.7; Pucifle, 5.1; Galewood, 7.9; Mont Clare, 8.8 QOrison, 9.9; "Tnrabr Park, 10.7; River Patk, 11.5; Donsanville, 16.4 ; Balt Crock, 18.6 : Ttaaea. 20,2; eacham, 22, Rosello, 23.6; Omariosillo, .53 Bartlote, 2 Hammonaw, 83.4; Elgio, 8t Uincreo, 443 Humpulire, 805 Genos, ): Kirkiaud, 66.6; Mietsing, 70.8: Monros, 7435 Duvis 'Junction, 70.5; Billuan " Valloy, 3.6: DByron, 8., The terminal facilities of the Uhicago & Pa- citie for bumnens at Chicago aro excellont. TUR NEW PABYENGER HTATION i4 located coruer Chicaro avenus and Larraboo stroct, pavsen;zors being conveved by street cars, which pass the dopot every five minutes, down Cingazo avenue to Clark street, and down Clark to Madison street, passiog by the Conrt Huuse Egunre and through the very contre of tho city, uffording pessongers & congoction at Randolph sireot with the West Side aud Milwaukeo avenne card, and at Madison ktreet with West Madison and croes-town enrs for Twenty-socoud wireet, passing within $wo blocke of Field & Loitor's, &nd ail tho Iatge retail bouses of Btats utroet, Tho fieight depot 8 mtusted cornor North Halated and North Branch ntreots,—ouly 1 mile fram tho Counrt-I{ouso,—whero tho Company own largo dock room and i ANPLE GROUND ¥OR DEFOTS, engino-houses, repair shops, atz., having a more central and advantageous locatiou than many other lines, Yo show the extraordinary growth of trafio, on this road, wa mive che followiug figires taken from the booLs of the Company—oarniney from hie 1nt of Jaauary tu tho 50th ot June: 1874, Freight, $17, Tweusun SA4T Milk trax . 5,050 $13,660.41 $37,460.20 It sbiould ho borne in mijud that thess are the earnings of the 36 miles comprisiug tho Flrst Diviewn, betwesn Ligin and Chicago, as the ?;;-gud Division was uot opened uutil July 1, 1834, 20,008, 57 17 PRIVATE CHARACTER O TIIE ENTERPISE, ‘The Chicairo & Pacitie Roilroad 18 & private culurprise; the canstruction and equipmont de- pouding from the boginuing on the pivate sup- {:un of Chucago capitalista, ‘Tho roud was first uile from Clilesgoto Ligln in tho yoar enc- coading tho geuorzl contlagration of the city, the unimpeded and uninterruvted progress which charncterized tho juitial euterprive snd tho subseiuent couseoutive extousions, having beon sustained througlhout in dellauce of pamics and dopressions, the vexation and discourape- meut of unjust Granger legislation, and 8 handred all-winda that, " during the past three years, havo ssemed to blow no raile road company any good, ‘Tho road i strictly a Chicago eutororiss, and the progressive and de~ ta-uned spirlt which has thus charactonved its duveluptuent 18 smimply {4 acconlance with thad native trmit of onr “capitaliste and business oy which hay given empire and renown to the oomtnercs of the oity. The foliowiny is a llet of tho oflicors of {ha Company: ‘Thowms 8. Dobbius, Prosident George 8. Bowen, Vico-F'resident aud Trensurer; W. 1. Hughes, Becrotsry ; Johu B, Wilovx, Giene oral Bolicitor j J. M, Whstman, Chiof Luginecr and Superitendent | 1, G. Oyden, Jr., Paymag. ter ; Ueorgo IL Daolels, Geueral Kreight aud Tickot Agent, 3 — A THE MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL Company {5 one of the moet extonsivo and wealthy corporations Iy the United Biates. As 8t present coustituted it 18 & cousolidation of the Miwaukes & St. Paul Rosd with sha Milwnuces & Pralrio du Chion, the MoGregor & Fioux City, the lastivgs & Dakota, tha Hibuls, Ackloy & Dakota, the Bt. Paul & Clicago, snd the Chicago, Mlilwaukes & B3, fore, benidos boing tha whortest routa from Chie | Paul Raulway Companien. In addivion ta thls flnmenyy ex.ant avtiack, tho roal oporaten, wi- dof 0 twenty vears' lease, tha Oshkoah & Alsslostppl " Rivor Raflwar from Ripoa, Wis.. to Qahkonh, & distavco of 0 mles, It has a controlhng dutercse m tho Want. ern Umon Itajlwav Company. embracing 414 wiles_of track, waking the agategato length ownod and operated of 1,639 mites, Within a fow yoarn thia rodd has bacomo onn of tho tinesy hightrayn of trasel fu the conntry, Tts eoaches nro clernnt, and itn rond.bed firm, rmnottr. and well ballastod. minking it safo and comfortablo. 1t is operate by gontfomon who have lowg been oopaged in the baeinesa of roilroading, ‘The Presadont i Mr. Aloxatdor Mitehell, of Mil! keo, and ity Directors aro Linssell Sage, Youk: Selaly Chinmberlain, Minesot Wadsworti, New York ; Walter 8. Gurnac, Now Juhus o Ie; Frod 1", Jazies, Now York: dames Doll, ow York s 8, B, Mor 0w Y 1, Miwaukeo; Elias 17, Grant, oris s E. A, uclier, Votterdam, Tinhand A. Cowdry, New York: Jamos (4 (\_;HI‘IN'F. Now York; aud Levt 1. Mortou, New OVER THE KANSAS PACIFIC, t Aug 19.—AL Inst wo bhave mado our long-antivipated trip over that wondrous siretch of prairio, oxtending from the baso of the “Rockiea" to tha brink of the **Mighty Mte- wonri.” What Lo boon added “to our stock of knowledgo? lnya wo studied tho linbits of prairio dog, bLafalo, and Indian, and gazed sadly aver tho barren wastes of the * Cireat American Desert"? Nay. vay. Theso objocts, #o futereating: to our forofathers, aro rapidly trot- ting after ** the years beyond tho flood.” Evon now thoy havoe breomo anhnost fnvisivioy and thelr tlaces aro filled by falr cities and waving cornflolds, Thuw bas o snort of the steam ongluo seared sway the wild man and bis come pautons, and plouchstare of crvilization turned tho dexert imto a blvomlug gariden. y 1oro in Donver-— HEAUTIFUL DENVER | with her charuilug ruiiroads, hor unsironesod hatels, her woudvouns atwmos;hiers, her moutitain i + m short, with noarly a!l that naturo and 1 beatow nupon A city to ronder lifo delight- ful--we sit down in oar cosy quarters at tho “girand Contral,” and bothink us of what wa hiavo econ. We stopped on bomrd the Keisus Dweitie at Kansaw City. Bat in our haste we must ot forget Dex KANSAS 1Ty, — tho very tvpa of Western towu lifo, Withits nino or tou different railroads, daily depasiting fheir miscellancony hnman fraight, how could it Lo otherwiso that & melley of roughnoss, and wildness, and refinemont, aud enterpriso, aud euergy? llore tha Kansas Paciflo has one of ils eastern tevmini, the othor being at Leavonwor:l, 29 miles northwest. Thls rairoal sonds out dally through teams for Denver, I'neblo, Santa To, Halt Lake, aud San Franciaco, At Kansas City, too, ths Kauasas Paclile Rai'road Company hay ita geueral villees, whero wo cal'od aud gathe ared up items of information fram 0. 8. Lyford, Genotal Superintendant ; ', F. Oakos, Genoral Freight Agent; dovorley T. Kilm, Gonoral Pas- senser Agent; and . R. Biedathobmor, Gonoral Land-Azout ot the Kanwas Civy Branch of the Land Dapartmans of this Company, Tho next piaca worthy of nole waa f LAWRENCG, Tore the rpirit of entarp isa wnroly fa abroad, Wilhin the lust yoar tho citizens have built a dam acrous {hoir boautiful rivor (tho Xaw, or Kuusas), and look to atimo not fax distaat whou Lawteuce shall bo tho Lowell of the West. In this city tho Kaneas Pacific has tho main oflice of its Lavd Dopartmont, under the managomont of tho Hon. Joho I, Doveraux, who will mail tho -Wansas Pacific Homestead Lo all desiring infor- mution abous the lunda, This Enm‘sumn I+ also Lound Commlseioner of the Denver F'acitio in Celorado, Or tho IMMENNE AGRICULTURAL WEALTI OF THE COUNTRY on eitbor sido our roule, wo saw and hentd abusdunt svudenco. For 200 or 500 ‘nules wont of Kausas City wo constantly paswad through tracts of land Which liad atrendy yielded Losvy crop.# of whent, or wera ri) ening other cereuls to the hiarvest, Tao this rospoct Balwe and Dickin- .son Counties aro marvelously rich, Here, of a suroty, Ceres pours forth lor choicest gifts. Suebs, at least, is the opiuion of the j.oorla of the moany villages seattorod ovor these counties, 2 ABILLYE, tho county uont of Dickinucn, is nlso a railwny wtallon; and while waiing thore woe piched un tho fuliowing itemus: Only & fow yoars ago this way tho leading town for the shipment of Toxns cattlo, but the rapid sottiement of the country pusbed thac business farther weet, lewving Dickinson County chiofly to the agelcultyrisg. That gontloman exeried lumself. A herd Inw was eutorcod, Now the tiller of the soil finds hinneolf aliwost ovorwhelmed by his enormous o:ops. The wheat yield hero {s atatod tobe immonyo, firat roturns from the praiio oiten running from tweuty to forty bushels per acro. Tus sumamer tho 1,800-acro wheat-tlold of Ar. [, C. iloory, at Auilone, tiag buen tho wonder and admiration of all passors-by, Otber evidonces of agticultaral sucoees ara frequently met with, in thashapo of slevators at the variuua depote, and reapiug and threshing machines Iving ut the sta- tivus along tho line, until thay can be conveyed to their places of dostiation in the adjacent conntry. 3 Hevo it may he woll to mention THE BKYXRAL COLONIES (OOATED DY THE KANSAS 'ACIEA0 GOBIANY, At falina, o hively towa 185 miles west of Kan- say City, we hoatd of the vory lirst colony snlo. It cousstod of 13,000 acres lying in tho bend of the Bmoky Hill Itiver, 14 miles south of Balina, purchiased Boptembot, 1868, by the Firat Swodlsh Agricultural Compsuy, of Mcl'horson County; evory acre long #:nce puid for, and another pr- cliawg_contempluted. = Thou, u Novembor, 1669, tho Bwedish Ewigration Society of Gslesburg, [IL, Lought 2,000 acros sbout 16 miles south of the pumio pince, Lhero two comuunities have cstablished tho towns of Bwooadate aud Finds- burg. Homo GO mtles csst of thess and 15 north- wast of Nsnlnttan, around the Village of Bala, nortlen the iittle Wolsh colony which bought us 4,970 scres oud settled in 1870, ‘I'hon, 10 mlen northeast of Junotion City, the traveler on the Junctlon City & Fort Kearvoy itallrosd (& branch of the Kanses Pacific) will come upon Wakefleld, tho Lesdquartors of ‘the Lnglish colonv; pur- vhaso of 48,000 acres made in Auguat, 1869, snd town Inid out loug bofora tbis branch of railroad was bullt, Uut wo must leave the *colonies," with a bare mention of Bavaris, tho Gorman sat- tlement, iu sight of tho rond, Y miles weat of Sa- liua; und the farous Lonmoyer sottlomoat, 7 milos eust of Baliwa, whence innifty Uermans from Pouusylvam soud forth large shipments of grain, potatoas, buiter, and hLogs, from a *‘purcol of ground” on which four yesrs ago not a sod hind ovor bean turnad. B Ouoof tho most unotoworthy euterprines of Westeru Kausas in TUE * VIOTORIA ESTATE" of George Girant, Esg. Bala few years since Mr. Grant . brought with him from Eugland hin mouey, his pluck, and bis persoverauco; fuvosts od them 1n Jieneas Pacitio lauds ; and what has boau tho resull? Houscs aud berus, corrals and cattlo shiods, hundreds of cattls and thousands ot ehoep! All ionor to Mr. Urant, and hoyor too to Kansns soil aond climato, Hear the teati~ mony of W, A. Fullor, o promiueut gattler at Walkor's Biation, a fow milos vast of Victoria, m the St. Lous m;puhlimu of tho 2Gth of Iast Juno. o suyss © Western Kanses cau now boaxt ot as o cropd as over wore raisod n any Yastorn Htato. . . . A8 for stook, it costs nothing tu keop, except herders' wazos. . . . Wo aio happy and coutented, and oxpect to ba rlch rom oF these days." And the very appear- ancu of tho unbroken lands corraborates this tostimony. Take Kiluworth and Russol Coun- tiod, watered Ly the Bmoky Hill and Haline fl:‘von,‘nnd many small streams aud creoks. Is s no . A VERITATLE LAND OF GOSHEN —a paradive of (or rathor for) flocks and herds 2 o place s strougly suggestive of uccans of milk, wountaion of butter, and no- kuowu quantitics of wool, We dofy snv critical Rrazer to paes through this tract of country snd withhold lus sdmiration. Acod 80 on past llays aud Ellis, and the new town of Kelm,—only sar- voyed and laid out, but “designed as the county seat of the uow County of Urego,—and the 10,000-ucre **1as" lately purohased by r. A. B, Eliot, of Troy, N. Y., sud out over the pising pazt Wulluco, to Kit Cargon, whore tho Arksa- #ag Valley Iinilrond (a branchof tho Kauxas Daciflo) strikes off to faa Animas. This road will probably soon be extended sonth aud west to Trioadad and Pueblo tn Colorada. On skain into the wilds, past such places sy Enf;la Tail, sd Wild Horso, sud Deer-Tral, Kiows, unttl at last we wre utopped by the. mouutuny thut riso from the plains apd stretch themselves toward the hesvens. What s wondrous land lies behlud us! tow long until, &t the magio touel of Judustry, it will yield up its tressurce ? - ONE PECULTARITY of this route, pleasaut to the tourist, at least, is that it lics, to w great extont, along the high lands and ridgos Lotween the Bmuky Hill and Bulive livers, Buk, to form sy just esumsio 1 “travoling publio, tho A., T of tho Losuty and fertilily of the couutry throagh which lio Is pasaing, tho travaler must Atop At intervala of 10 nnlad and tido nway up its mnny valleys, nnd nlong tho httlo crecks inter- necting it. " Tho soil ednsinta chiofly of a rich, Blmow moki, witn n slighs admixture of sand, ovor n subanil which retains tho raina al smtabla depthe for the nonrishmaut of vagotasion, Just here limited spaco admonisuos us, Wo must stop. 3 RUEFICE IT TO AAY that n trip over this road; ana A'anfonm ol a few waoka or monthn "m"f the beautiful and romnntic scouen of the liocky Alountaine,— Insen, parks, aml canoun—seems to us - tho 16 plits nlira of pleasure, Tho various pointe of intwient aro vastly aceossible by tha Denver, Pacific' & Bouldor Valioy, and other rallronds. or the henalit of any who might wish to oxtond tavir travels mio Catiforaia, wa may hero atato that the Donver Pacitle connects with the Union I'neitic at Choyenne, thun foineng an all-rail route to Salt Lake aud Ban Francisco, J. UL W 5 ST e : THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE. Amony tho mont notahle of Weatorn raliroads fn tho long lino known ns the Atchison, Topoka & Banta Fn. Drojected nmong tho vevy first of the enierprisex of tho kind n Kansas, it was moant to heudgo tho tmmenso gap otiniiug ho- tween Lho Rio Grando Yalley and the Miesourt River. It may ressonably ‘bo doubted whethor its origtual profectors, atwn vory enrly dato in the history of ciwlization wost of the Migsouri, had auy adoqunto ileaof thoactual re- sult of tho entorprige. 1t is partly bocause thoso wha Iabored 'first for Its conotruction buildod-bettor than thoy kuow, nod wers laving tho foundutions of w respretably-sized cmpiro in tho Southwest, that tho histary of this lino, with what it las accomplished ut this date, 4 ono of pecubinr wtorest, Io roxl wny origis mally . CHARTERED A8 LONG A0 A8 1863, . tho time. of construction bolng lmitod to ten years, Dut no work wan done until 1864, when 28 mitea wero built, bogiuning at Topaka muid monjug south, In 1870, tho romaining. 3¢ nifles woro built, which complotod 1t to Em; orin, atown which was thon Wost of tho centrs of population iu Kansas, From thonce the toad way purhed wostward not very rapidly, though steadily advavcing, In 1874, 74 miles wero bnilt to Newton, in the Coltunwoud Vaiiey, on tho westiro,0dgo of & large body orf very rich coanlry. This il left 333 wiles to be comploted in lesn than txo jonrs, on penuity of loaug what in point of qualiy and climato s now known tu be iho fineue Jaud-grant the Uovetnmont ovor made to a railroad, axcopt” that to the Illluol Contral many years ngo. Five millluus hind then Lo bo ralsrd, whilo tho rates for monoy and the cost of Iubor and ma- teiinl wero at the r maxinium, BUT IT WAS DONE, and in nina mouths, from Mav, 1872, to Jnunary, 1573, 360 nnles wero constructed, buwug 114 ke per day, and the cars wore muning ints Colorudo three monthy bofoto the Nmit of timo had ex- pired. Included in the 60 miles wna s Lranch ruuning southwest from Nowtou to Wicluta (37 wmiles) to moot tho requiremants of _tho vattle trede, nud to fill tho an Lotweon Tip ks and Atchivon. Nomuch of tho Jine was fitmaed prior to tho panie of 1573, an avent gencraily utdut - #tood to baye paralyzod ratlway consiruction il the Weet from that date. Dut the 594 milen then coustructed, with 8 tenninus at Gitenada on the Aukousas in Colorndo, not being regarded as aaflicient by tho Company, It 14 NOW ENGAUED IN THE CONKTULGTION of 138 MILES + OX THE WENTERN £XD, , making a termiuus o tho Upior Arkapsas from whicis 2l freighis for Now Maxico, inclading tho Rio UGrande_ Valley, and all urmy freignia tor Avizoua nnd Wostcrn Toxay, must diverge As o wmattor of considoiablo importaunce aleo to the & 8. F. Company bave acquired by purchase the railwey from Topoka to Lousas City koown us tho Kag- sas Mldland, which thoy havo incorporatad with tha maun line, and lioreafter paesongers may go abourd of a tram ot the Union Dopot in Kansas Gity, by which they may traverse the best-seitled EU' ‘tion of Sauthorn Kausas and puss for somo undrads of miles through the fiucst valioy of its oxtont west of tho Misstesippi, and, without, any chaugo of cars for tho outire distauce, resoh somp of tho most famous localities of tho Rocky-Mountsin reglon, with direot railway communication to all. ‘Flie cheuges aud complotions of unstruction which hisve mado it poemble to tuke n train we either Atchison or Kausas City for Colorado, thoroughly m};flppud with Millor's platforms, Westiughouro binxes, and ull modern improvemonts, sud through u region in which the bald moaotony of 400 miles of high plains is avoldad, and a now sud rich, and p rapidiy:growing aud farm-making valloy country is substituted, aroof Iato dnte. Lint the cbange 18 an important one, and its ad- yautpgos will bs gonerally testod in tho comudg sozson by tha travellog publio, Notwithstaud- ing tho rapidity with which so much of this line wiw constoucted, it is ot a Just inforsaco that it in of basty coratraction or nusubstautial. Forn portion of the hue it Is P § BTONE DALLASTED. It .has stons culverts, and the stroams.aro apanued “by Howe tross’ bridges, Tho tios aro of ' hufl "wood, and tho rails of modorn fish-bar constroction, The grados aro ‘very light, only-.in ono- place baving au azcent of 62 feot to the mile far a short dis- tance, 300 mi'es of tho Lno being a valloy ny lovel as a floor, Frolght-hauling over n rond- bed like this ¢an bo 60 choaply dona as almott to defy competition. Not long aince eloven lcaded possencor oy, With two engiucs, sometimes runnitg at o spocd of 45 milos 8u hour and vever loss thau 80, were run o distance of 1.100 miles upon it, withont so much au nuxlmlng fora **hot hox.” It inay bo a maltor of intereat to noto AONE OF TIIE CLABSES OF FEEIGUT carried by this line in 1874—tho groat grass- hopper yosrof Kausas, For fustauce: 101,000 hioall of “cattlo; 24,000 hogs; 1,000,000 buabols of ‘coul, sll of which was mined on’ the lino of tuo-rond ; buffalo bides, 1,874,000 pounds ; domeatic.. Dlides, 1,073,500 pounds: base bullion (ore), 1,060,000 pounds ; wool, 1,670,000 pounds ; .. buffulo’ _bonen, . 6,916,000 pouuds ; prairia sy (balod), 2,030,000 pounds; furs, 436,000 pounds. Thus thia line has - already mado o fair bepinoing at o losal traille, which la the rosult - of tho coustruction of the road, and will incicaso indofluitely. it will be meon from {lo character of thoso articles that they came from the lino.of thoroad, aud most of them (rom tts wontern - end. As sinted nhove, the A., T. & 8, F, Road has been endowed by A LAND-GRANT ¥FUOM TIE UNITCD BTATES. As thin was tho lnst gift of the kind by the Gov- cratuent, ot vorv noaily tho last, to aoy rulroad, o {t s tho most romuarkable (n the gxtent, tho location, and tho quality of the lands, Tho grant comprised about 8,000,000 acres, tore tan one-third of which s river valley land, or what is gonerally . demiguated gs *“bottom.” Tho graut was mado to the road of allernale scctions of this tand for <0 milea on elther sldo, and for ahont - 300 miles tho road followy the north side of the Arkaneas Rivor. ‘This valloy ts pooalisr in its formation. It s uearly treoloss, end, with itu groat longth, from four to fificen miles wido. Fiva years sinoo, whoro now extend tho towns and farms to the weatorn line of [Kansas, it way nothlog mora or loss thau a silout aud nn- kmown wildetness, Tho raplduy of its rottlomont, and the goueral prosperity of tha farm-mukbrs npon an untried soll, probably has no paratlel in the history of othor States, Within two yoears 5,000 3leononites, farmors for gou- eratious back, hove isft Russis and found them- solves homon horo. As '© A BINGLR HFECIMEN OF GROWTIH, Reuo County, in whioh s eitnated tho Town ot Hutelinkon, 220 miles from sho Missouri, in 1871 bad no inhabitants; in 1672 bad 3003 in IR74 8,000, Tho Towns of Peace, Great llond, aud Larned, with thelr reapective countios, aud the countios vxtending still farther west, pro- #ont similar iustonces of increase, Larned fa 300 miles west of the Missouri, The:United Hiatos Land-Office was located shere Feb, 15, 1875, and has mado rocord of the entry of 10,000 scres |y the first ivo monihs, for it must be underaiood that one-half of willaude in the railroad limite, or each alternate section of Gin wores, hiss been resorved by the Uovernmout for homesteads sud pre-omption eutry by sotual sotslery only,~in other woids, is given to who- ever will tako it and make 1 biv home. 1t will bo woen that tho Govorument land 18 belug rap- idly tukon up, and In u-very shart thue all tho maost dosirablo tracts will ‘be occupied. This civihization by steam hassome * ° ° - .. RKMANKAULE BTATISTIOAL FEATURES, To Dec. 31, 1874, tho Railroad Company had suld nesrly 500,000 sores of shis 1and at about €5 per acte, and 11 1874 alone wore thau 200,000 acres, the greater part of the emigration at the same litie going upon homastead and not rail- rosd lands. Of the settlors 1n tlus regiou fili- nois has furnished the Emm" nuwber, the Uompany haviug wold to Ler cltizous, in 1874, nanrr 80,000 ncres, and of the wholslist Goorgis fallg fiwm baving bought-28 acres. Tho coun- ry, too, 1a larely oocupied by men who do noe farin and bave pu 0 lands, for outside of tho valloy, sud away frow tbo lands which men desire own for thoir ‘richness, lie the Hoost graziug rogions of th world. It wus tho chosen and favorite howe of the buffalo, ang tho cutto which are fattened bere each sumwor | branches, IRDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1875.—BIXTELEN PAGES. for tho Eastern marketa number tons of thou- Rands, s Wo do not holievo that tho termns tn which wo have thus briotly apokon of tum long line, which constitutes the third and most mmlllcrlf‘ ol (ho rowtos acroes tho continont, are too high, It will bo ganu that with regard to it eastern con- unotionn it is peouliarly situated, having two termini—ono with ol tho ronds baving connoc. t10na at Atchinon, or whore & bridgo_serbsy the Miseourt _haa Just been complofad, and wodond _fn - (ho Unlon Dopot at Kanrae Oity.—and ° that It connoets at ita woetorn end, at Puablo, in Bonthoru Colo- rado, with the snountain syatom of ronds, and with the Rio Grando Valloy, and ail Now Moxico, Tt Is thoronghls anquipped s a through line, and in_Just now eniering npon s now orn of its busi- nowa s and, finally, thut it is tho outlet of tho finest and most raputly developlug farmiug re- glon whicl lios in ono body wewt of {ho Minals- Hippl, with, nt the same time, natural nnd ustive grazing” facilition capablo of supplying boef to 1inlf n coutinent, s BURLINGTON & MISSOUR! RIVER RAIL- ROAD IN NEBRASKA. Thials ono of the railroads of the midwenst which originated in a land grant. Poor's Rajl- road Manunl. for 1875-°G, given thototal mlleage of tho road at 241 mllen. Tho main line ia 192 nulos long. Ita fnitinl point {8 at Plattsmouth, on tho diusoun River, and ita weatern torminus Is at Kearnoy City, whoro a junction la effected | with the Union DPacifio Road. There aro two Ono starts from Omahs, to which city tho Londquartora of tho road have recent- Iy been removed. -Ibis Omaha branch rons south under tho shadow of the Missour: Bluify, to Orcopolis on the -south bank of the Platte, whero {t jolns the maia line. The eecoml branoh - orlginatos at Croto in tho Big Blue’ Valloy, and it runs along this magnificent valloy for. 30 miloa to Doatrico, n ploasunt and busy town, the centre and capital of o comparatively long-yottled and highly-cnlti- vated country. The Eestern connoclions of * the . & M."—tho popular name of tho road in Ne- bravka—sre with the Ohiesgo, Barlington & Quiney Rmlroad at Omaha and Plattkmoutls, and -with tho otber railroads which run to Omaba, ‘The Weatern connecyion, an already uaid, is witts the Union Pacilic nt Kentnoy City, The Man- agor of the road ls Mr. O. E. Petkins, Vies- Presidont ; and the Land-Commissioaer iu Mr, A, E, Towzaln, whore head oftice is at Lincoln, the Capitul of Nebraskn. BOfl, CLIMATE, AND PIYSICAL GEOGBAYHY OF NEBRASKA, The Nebraslian prairie, espectally Nebraska south of the Platta River, is fertile, healthy, temyperalo in climato, aud every way adapted to sustan n largo iuduetrial population. 'Lho soil i o rich, thick vegoiable muld, underisid by alluvion washod, during the geological ngev, from tiso Nocky Mountaine, Ihis alluvion itselt i fort lo, and capable of bigh cultivarion ; aud, chemiéally it is wo constructed that it holds water Jiko 8 spouge, The result 18 that the sur- fnca is porfectly underdrsined durtng soasons ot abundant rain : and, duting the dryer times, tiro wuter held by the mubsoil-sponge ia drawn by capillary attraction into tho 1oots of the planty. llenco, accordingto Dr. Aughov, of tho Nebraska Stato Umiversity, Nebraskin farms aro noither dried out nor drowned out. ‘Liio surucoe fs dry s end within s few bours after & hoavy rainfall {Eo lnud bears no teaco of it, excot in tho bright- or aspooct of vogetation. Aud Nobraska is notn plain. From the Missouri there is o gradual aud regular aecent, wost by north, and uveraging about 10 foct Lo tho mile—an ascent whiol makea Nebrasitn thio lowost castern slopo of tho Rocky Mountafus, The olevation of tio land ou tho wostorn bank of tho Missourl at Plattsmouth ig about Y00 fcet above tho Jow- water lovel of tho (ulf of Mozico, and tho cleva- tior on the e of the 160th mertdian about 2,200 foot Nz= does tlug toll tho full story of tho physical geograpby of Nobraskn. Tho wooded Platto—wide, shaliow, and dottid w.th Islands—awoeys through tho centra ot the tato from tho monntaivs to the Miksoari Miver, Within a fow mileg of ils southern bauk, cant of Kearney Cily, streamlots begin to arise, These do not houd towards thoe Platte, but boud to tho southoubt. They break tho contours of the land into rolling forma; ltke soa-waves whou 8 storm has enbsided. Tho stroums gather vol- ume us thoy run. ’.I'lm{ becoms rivore. Ahout 80 miles wost of the Missouri thero is the Big Blun, flowing north to south into tho Kansus Rivor; tho West Blue, neing fn Adams County and entaring the Big¢ Blus north of Crote ; the Littlo Blue, which cuta tho conntry disgunally south of the West Blue; and the Republican, thut Lina its clrnnol vear the border-live ou tho nouth. In the distinctly rolling conntry botween the Big Bluo and tho Missonri thers are uumer- ousctecks. - Thero are Hait Creok (ou wlich Lincoln is built, haviug in ita vicinity ono- ealt aprivg which i properiy utilized would give $00 xkim-mln ol salt &mr day) and ity tributaries fowing orth to tho Ilatte; ‘and other rivors tronding sonthen«t to the Miusourk, AN thedo rivers huve wide, alluvial bottoms, bordered hy rising uulands,—tho former best for corn, aud tho lat- tor for wheat. In their natural stats, tho banks of tho nvers ava thickly wooded. In somo places tho settlers have had to cat the timbor nway: but Naturo restores, and to-dey it in only in apots that tho stroams aro uot tree-rugod na {rom tho thncs 1mmeworial, . TUE PLAING WITH AND WITHOUS RAILROADS, ‘This land Ia rich io oil, genial in climuto, woll watered ou the surface, and huving inoxhausti- bl fountsins boueath the surfaco. With more thoo sufticiont wood for ‘all the roods of oarly sottloment, and with promisa of abundance of ib whouover farmery slall plant—this land has been called a dosert. It ia1n the live, of mivra: tion from East to Wost, ond fu the line of ‘tha countantly westward-touding centro of popula- tion; tut, had 1t uot boen for the railronys, a dasort in iho popular ostimation for mony a Joug yoar 1t would have romamned. Tho ensliast rocord of rottlemont in Nebrawka ' dates back about: tweuty yoars, Hoattoring farms wore openod in.tho Missourl Valloy, but settlors did not conmder it posmble $0- 4l the grouud to llroflt more than ten miles west of tho nver. As the Mormous jour- noyed to Utsh sud the miners to California and Pike’s Pouk, they had to penetrate ** tha dos- ort.” ‘Iravel sud traflic became constant, and tho frontier. Vort Koarney had to be removed from the Missouri lo the 100th mendiau, Gradually tho truth about Nebrasks becsme kuown, ‘Thostrenm of travol left a raurduum of not- tiements, and horo and thore in therivor valleys farms waro established, Yot in 1460 thore wero not 80,000 sould tu the whole Territory, and nt that time tho Torrtory of Nobraska had for. ity westorn boundary the summit of tho Roaky Mountalos, while ita nortbern line ran far away north, In 1865, the Terzitory romatuing larger than the present Stato, which waud constituted in 1867, tho population was but 60,000, while nowr, tho State limits bolug &nt down to about 400 milea from oast to west and about 200 from south to nortn, the {mopl number from 250,000 to 800,000, the great bk dwalling enst of the 100th moridian, aud tho Isrge majority south of the Platte River. Land-granta’ to railroada have been nharrly criticieed; yeb they have beou necful. A« this «iny no more grants uoed bo made, But without the land-grant,—tha only md the Government afforded,—tho D. & Bf. in Nebrauka would prob- ubly nover have been constractod, Bubsequent facts have fustitied the Govern- ment {n confernny the lani -rnul, &ud tho Oom- rmny In constructing tho line, Alanitho e ha Government retainod s moloty of tho laud, giving to the Compauy tbe pther, All the Gov- ernmunt half (though doubled {n price) along tho line of the road is disposed of } und thus thls land-grant bas involved no money-loes to the nation, The Company, tn its turn, bas not treated 1ta graut as a monopoly. We areiu- formad that {\ has already had B,000 parchasers —a proof that the country is attractive’ and the terms of aalo ressonablo, and that the pumber of buyers is beiug continually Incroased. ‘The entorprise which built a railroad in s Jand oomparatively unpenpled ‘ia Justifled; and, on broad grouuds of - publio polioy, the land-grant 8 justiied also, TUE B, & M, A TUROUGH BOUTE TO THE FACIYID, This Bouth Platte Nebraska raitroad fs part of tho lutor-oceanit vystenl, by virtue of ity conneo- tion withethe O., B, & Q. and Weas with the 7, b, ‘¥be Burlington route—tho C., B, & Q.— is & favorite route from this oty \Weat, through Iliinois and Iowa, and, by the 13, & M. i Ne- brasks, the ** Burlington routs " is continued to Kearuey; and at Kearnoy the West-bound trav- eler can tako the cara of ‘the Unton Pacifio, etill {oumny over tho piain saud throngh the moun- ains to the coast. NENRANKA—FRESENT AND FUTURE. . The traveller on the B, & M. will percelve that though thore 1a unocoupied space onougn in Ne- braskw's broad domalu, yot that settlomont la rapidly procesdiug. For 8o young s country, the onltivitod ares iu large, sud st this season stacks of small grain crown the felds, aud the r?xmm[; coru {s everywhers uhoudant. Thotowass, though small, have a quick, business-like aspeot, andin thoso adjoining the road, the etock-chute and grain-olovator are famiilar objeots, At Kearncy tbiro are the ramatuy of tho fort, It marks an ora in history, 1t is the final token that from tho river to cousidorsbly west of Kesrney, Ne- benaka 18 the white man's land. What the whito sottler will make uf th le prairie bo i showiug,—thls year in eomo of the Houtl Platte canntien reapine 20 hushels of wheat (0 thy acra, anid baving a promise ¢f flon 60 to 90 busheta to the acro of corn. 1o nas lad the broad baein of n prosjorons fulnre by snccews. fub ngriewlture, Tho flocka and howls of tho Htato sro fucronsing, and etpanding outorptire in founding nuch manfactiures ny moro immedintely dopand upon farmng, Thiy year the Chicago mariet wiil rocoivo wheat in Abundanca from Nobrasks; and fof yonim tn como tho bulk of the oxtra produce of the Btatg will he Dandled by our morchants. But the Gime will bo whon the mountains will shara witl un, In_tho mountaina west of Nobraska thg conl-beds arn inexhauntiblo, aud tho precious metals nbindant. 'Tho population oftho monn- tuins wuse largely increaso, and tho brincipal . dustry will bo mining, Agricultural Nobiayls muet fecd this peopls, and so the Stato will hava & warket Weat, a8 well pa Inst—for bLeoves, hinga, shoep, and cercals Inst: for cetanls aud frutt’ Wesl, Thoreforo, thoro 18 no doubt of tha prospesity of Nobruska, noither a8 to thoen. terprives—rmlrosd and otherwiso—nssociated with tha Stato. ——— THE CHICAGO, DANVILLE & VINCENNES, Among the many intor-Stato railway lines pro« jected from Chicago, perbaps there is not one #o promising of profitable rcaults, when all its connections aro completod, as s that of tho Chi- cago, Danvilio & Vincennca Railtoad. It hos tho ndvantage of belng n Mok of n groat direct through lino of railroads, 440 milos in longth, now just being porfocted between Chicago and Neshvlilo, Teonn., connecting thoro with the Soutliern ayatem of railroads, and having on ita route, nmong many othor fast-growing towns, Watgeliz aud Dauville, 111, Yorre Haute, Vin- cennes, and Fvanevillo, Ind, avd Hendorson and Hopldnavile, Ky, At Danville, another promising link 4 in procera of complotion, By tlio 1st of Octobor the Par & Daavillo Railroad Lina will bo finished to Lawroncovilie. ou the Ohlo & Misslwsippl Railfond, only 0 wilos from Viucennes, Tho completion of this gap gives the Chicago, Danvillo & Vincennon accesy to the tichent and wonlthiost portion of Southern Itli. noli—the great corn and hog producing saction of the Houthwest; us al:0 nanothor indepondent Jino south Ly way of the Cairo & Vinconnes Raile road to Calro aud Jackson aud Momphis, Tonu., Jacksou, Mies., and Mobile and Now Orlcans, and also at Criro with tho Toxay roads, reaching tho extremo Boutliwost, DY REFERENCE TO A MAP of Ittinola it will bo secu that the Chicago, Dan« villo & Vincooues lino fs n Gue north aud south one, whilo accurate eurvoys of both liuos show that tho distanco from Chicago to Cairo via Danville and Vincenuos {s only 18 milea greator than trom Ghicago to Cairo via Bluttoon aud the Olmola Contral Branch, ‘The Cbicago, Danville & Vincennes has a per« foct working arrangoment with the Xvansville, ‘Lorro Iaute & Clucago, and tho Evavaville & Crawfordsvillo Railropds, and also the Cairo & Vincenvos Railrond, by which Boutharn freight is hauled to aud from "Evansville and Chicago and Cuito and Clicago st the same rates 8s via othier roads, snd withont auy percaptiblo differs encoin time. A through eleoping-car s alea run over tho formor hines to and from Evanse ville, which is a g cat convenionco to the Bouth. ernt pavsenwer trafilic, Although comploted and operated as & through lino for. somo time, yat 1t Isonly within the last fow monthn that the Chi- engo, Danvitlo & Vincannos hna begun o fulfill the onds its projeclors had iu view. ‘[ha Company had some nufortunate complications to donl with, wiioh kept ity Direatory from dovote g that attention to tho actital wauts of tue hno ad should bave bocu given. TUE LIBST AND CHIRF OBJECT had in the construction of the road wan to bring to Chicago nud ita vicimty thoir chiof aupplics of conl for fuol nnd the manufacture of iron and other articles, aud to carry in return the orca of Lalke Bupetlor by the chunpeet aud most direct routo to tho fast multiplying furnncos and roll- ing-mills of tho Indiana block-conl togion, To facilitalo this businosy, tho Company countiucted o branch lne from Bismarck to Conl Crook, in Indiaua, o divtauce of 21 miles, Ou tho 1t of Juno last, by iutervontion of its creditics, Judre Drummond, of the United States Court, 3 sppemted Geu. Adua Andoerson Iieceiver..of the lac, clothing Lim witn nocopsary power and nautho:ity to lift the road from its. distrass, and, i nosmdle, put it unon & poying_ basis, Gou, Andereon liad loug boou connceted with railway intoreats iu tho Northwost, and a¢ onco the bite- iness of the Company began to look up. In hiy 1lrst report he says : “Tho main traftic of thorond is the trans. portation of conl. The prosont year, like the proceding, is of almost nnoxampled depression in most branchea of businnay uimu which the consumption of coaldeponds, I'rom the inex. Lausstblo supply of auperior quality for all man. ufucturing and heating purposes, in the rogion tribmtary to the southern tormiunus of tho road, tho comparative 5 EABE AND ECONOMY with which it can be mined, rud tho_facility for transportation to Ohicago, and to all ponts of the Nortlwest, tho Rocolver bollaves it practica~ blo in a yenr of fnir jrosperity to incresso the earniogd from 50 to 80 per cout.” Tor tho year 1874, the oarnin of the road, as “shown by tho books of tho Compony, wero = ©745,063.08, while tho oporating exponses - wors $414,448.18, Trom this oxhibit, and tho deductions of ke Teceiver, it is pluin to bo scon that tha Chicago, Danwville & Vincennes hine ia a good ploce of Property, and, with suything like fair manago went, cught to bo made roturn & handaoma divis dend. OTHER IMPORTANT INTERESTS which ought to have boon wade to contribute to tho vroupoiity of the Compaoy hiave beon over- luoked until fately. Wa refer to’tho dahy, buck. storing, aud gonoral commuters’ mtorosty. . Tho o:mmemnmnn of the counties of Will, Kanks keo, and Iroquoiy, naturally titbutary to Chioss g4, thiehly sottled, sud by woslthv farmers, havo 1 tho Chicago, Danvilla & Vincanneatraina their ouly eommuuioation with the great oomtnorcial metropolis of the Northwest. Portionsof Lake, Nowtou, Bonton, and Warron Countics, Ind., me olso similerly nituated, A largoly-rovulstod dis- trict of Cook County should also seck its cone noctions. with Chieago by tha trains of tho Chi- cago, Dauviilo & Vincennss, Under the new mausgoment all theso jutorents ara being care- fally luoked sftor and. fostered, U'raine aro run to accommodats tho majorily of the peapls along the tme, and commutation tickets aro sold ut a reasonablo diecount, . : y . The Jeunth of tho rond now operated {u as fole lowu: . Intes In Ohfeago (loased of Pen-Handle),. oo ervereeersns Citeugo to Jauctlon lousal of Chicago & Boutliorn) 21 Junction to Danville—its auin live. ., Tatal distzace from Chirapo to Danville, Coal Orok Braneh tuts 1adiDa .ueersvenss THY PABSENGER TRAINS of tho O, D. & V, arrive and dopart from the Pittsburg, Cincinnat & Bt. Louls (Pan-Ilaudie} depot, ot tho oornor of Olinton ud Carcoll streots, on the West Sidc, nud the freight depot 14 nt cornor Carpentor and Caual streots, The gencrwl oflices of the Company are at 77 South Clarl strest. Tho oflice.s. aro us follows: Adun Anderson, Receivor ; L, Picrson, Superine tendent 3 Wo B, Willisms, Goneral I, and T A. ¢ A. fi. Dunhsm, Auditor ; J, L. Yule, Purchanivg Agont 3 W. J. Logun, Train Diayatchior, t iy only-a ruestion of time whou a lurge Jro« portiou of tho cost needod by Chicugo cvn- suwers Will reach Chicago viwthe C., D, & V. Ratiroad, 'fha Indinna block-coal tiolds are come parativoly 1cexboustible, easily minsd, of » wuperior quality, sud can aod will be laid down in Chicago at prices . withtn the remoly of the lfaboror yud mochanie, Io accomplish these desirable rosults will Lo tho afis of the prosent mouagemsut of the O, D, & V. Company, C e — THE LAKE SHOREE%NMICHIGAN BOUTH: evassenasesaded is one of the graud trunk linea betwesn tlLe Esatand tho West. ‘Tho geaat terinlusl pol utsAnl thie main line sre Bufalo and Chicago, but witls conusotions Esst and West the limits on tlus contineat are the oceans, Thio Company operate 1,176 milen of road, 540 of whica are tho main line, tho balanoa bejug in bianches sna seibue taries, - It 13 maguificantly equipped with rolling stock, bavig 407 locomotives, 257 passangur- cars, and 14,185 treights pf all cfsssca, Bath iw freight aud passouger businegs aro fmenso. In 1874 the Cowmpany carried 8,090,208 passene Rera an average of 50 miles at an svoragoe of 4,45 cents per milo, oarning 54,249,022, 1t in & popularrouta wish travelors. Ruoolng ea it does through an enchanting cuuntyy Lavivg the mos) advanisgequs counactions, and ey lr ped with tho easigst coachoy, it could niot but be popular, In Chicarq It hias the ouly firat-olasa depot_ built since the fro, aud s cou- vonieutly sud advantageously locutod at the fuob of Boutls Latalle stoet. Ona foaturo of s erxcAllont wanagemout lo 1o almost absoluto certalnty wath wihch its pas: songer trafus are, pun. Furlupy ng other road in this country sversios traipa ‘as closoly uit time. Its day or parlor conches are tho flug:s 10 tha country,.while tho slas;oru ara equal to auy. ‘The close timo wade is owliy amoug oot tling to tha fack that the bud of the line maked a low grade, and that iu 18 doublo-tracked with steol rmils. These focts contribute nleo to thy