How Railroads Are Built

A Tribune oorrespondftnt v.-ho has recentíy visited a lino of raüroad boing built throuj;h West aya : Living aoiong engineera, sleoping amoug drawing all day with the sound ofpowder '. iuniyears, and aeeing svery piek nd shovel in the hands of the no Kroes, 1, nat unnuturaUy, became.an to know o; tem of ad ■ loug lino of railso.id, far :. . . ey centers, is mauig. : like to know what I learnad. In the first placo the work of th i surveyor most bodono v.-ith saeh uil. m-ike so accurate umi dotailed ;i profilo of the line, that it shallbe possible fov au ablo eagioeer, titting in his ofli out, from tuis gi best line for the Toad, which mi . lino w sy au i . oou. 1 . . i dtttailed loiilas aro to bü iu:ido in su--U r. región lus the New rivuv oañon, thia Labor geoms ïo uc oucllesa ; and, indeed, I was told by engineors of long èxpotience that the wort hero was "no joke." Whou tholine of the i iad isdefa nuined anewandcai . .; survoy. is ui;in. ia I der to get estímate of the probable coa of oonatruotins tl [ [nthisthe' amount ot' rook tobe ron earth to bu moved, cí - .i ñlüng, . ing and tuneling, most j . ïufiy meagured and ita oost It tUo chief enginoar is to savo his credit with the Directors- that thorc shall no-. beanygreat iu the ud.between these estitnates aud the ucta.il cost. i ' The liue is next divided into longths, ; callod seotiona, uu:l oontraotors, mem vho i go up and down the earth with one solé i thouglit, Lo'.v best to pare dowu and tü.1 up ita irregularitiea so ;is to make a suiooth and k'vel way for tho locomotivo - coutraotors ure usked fov bids apon the ■ ti)iü, which, in tolorably easy vrork, uve uuially a luilc in length. Tlu conti . whoae aim it i- tij get aa muoh . . for theit work, now pitthoir experience against tho engineers ; and here cornos th ■ fint practical test of csümatoa. V hen tlie ivorlt has beon begun, división onginoers, having e i - thirty miles of line to ti il, and under these ;u-e younger uien, resident engiiieci-s, yrhoso duty it meaeare tho work that is completed, and kpep an account of it oye of the-ir chicf', as vui as tu lay out work lor tho contraotoie. But oncea moiith each divisipn L ui es to the chief a profile map ui his part of what yet remains; and I engineor in his turn senda to the President and directors a profile of the ti : showing by pr;,: I work has b oh month since tho beginn ing, what was aotually p-iid for it, v.Ii-'.t. waa tho what; ifficulties to be overeóme; and thus n Board oí' Directors in Now York can teil at agïaneein thelr not only how munh of their rood In the f vt off wilda oi' the New BÏTei remsins to bo done, but also what is its character; and in short, all they noed to know, is business tóen, of the precise conditiou oí' their cutí rpríü i. Why oan yon not. havo oae of tho great Railroad Kinga to rule Xuv York tbr a while 'í Or at i'.'Lut to tull yon how to do it r 9fhe i'i esident of tho Chesapeake and Ohio Bailxoad Gompany, who livi.s in New York, knows how to arrange his i so nerfctly th;it lio can at any moment tcll his dirootors just liow muoh of thoir coiapleted, how mach tlio work has cost, how tli'i oost ogrees vith the éstimates ; he has tho whole lino undor his cyo, though it is huudreds of miles away ; and lms su thorough a. system of chcoks that peoulation or i'raud is impossible. But govemment is only a business ; why oau it jpot be sitnplified juat as tho i '! work ot' buildiagp a railroad luis been siniplified r Ono usefnl hint you nouldnot holp gotting froin these reilroad men : èhey do :iíu thoy have political influence ; nor do thoy hesitato to turn out a contraotor v. !ío is Republicana and Deuiocri . rthern and Southern mon, work tögether in buildii Iroad; white and black iir.u puH, and drill, and sliovol togethor, i!i amity, and fin: only man whom your railroad man will not have at any pnce 3 the man v'.u will not or can not do a iuH d - day'a p y. Thai is to say, thoy '.- re ■ ■ ■ lücient civil sorvi':'. - thoae railroad gentlemen.