Our Growth and Prosperity.
FROM an article on this subject in the N. Y. Independent of April 11, we take the following paragraph:— “The rapid growth and prosperity of this country has no parallel in the world’s history, and yet very many of our resources have not yet been developed. To enable this tide of development and prosperity to be pushed forward, expanding as it moves, until it covers the vast area of our wide domain, and unlocks its hidden resources, we need, most of all things, more railway facilities. One of the many indications of our advancing prosperity is recognized in the vastly increased amount of railway freights in every direction. Notwithstanding the wonderful increase of railways all through the North and West, it is said that not a single leading line is enabled to do the business offering, not one but what is literally gorged with freight, and that not a single one of the great East and West lines have the facilities to do the business offering. Car and locomotive builders everywhere are surfeited with orders to construct equipment for roads which are unable to do the business offering, and which it will require months to fill. Single-track roads are compelled, in many instances, to build a double track, to provide for the great increase of freights, the growth of which is simply wonderful.”