t is stated, the
cost of fuel, oil, attendance and all other charges requisite to the
operations of a Locomotive Engine be only $5 a day, it follows that
when once a Rail Road is completed and all its machinery prepared for
operations 4620 tons may be transported one mile for $5.00, or 100 tons
one mile for 12-3/4 cents. When these results are applied to our own
road it will be seen that estimating ten barrels of flour for a ton,
the transportation of 100 barrels 100 miles would cost 106-1/4 cents.
It is true that no one can suppose that this full result can ever be
reduced to continued practice but the simple fact of its having once
been accomplished will be sufficient to place Rail Roads far above all
other artificial means of transportation. At the same time it should not
be forgotten that the wagons on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road
are of the old construction and are known to require double the power
to draw them that the wagons do on our Rail Road."

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"Our Stockholders" pushed the work on "our Rail Road" with all speed;
the engineer submitted his report, and from the Kentucky Reporter,
September 1st, 1830, we find: "The examinations of the route for the
Rail Road from Lexington to the Ohio River has been made as far as
Frankfort which exhibit the following results:

1. There will be one Inclined Plane at Frankfort about 2200 feet long,
descending one foot in fourteen. All the residue of the road can be
graded to 30 feet or less in a mile which is a fraction over
one-fifteenth of an inch rise in a foot.

2. On that grade there will be no "cut" deeper than 19 feet at the apex
and but one of that depth.

3. There will be no embankment over 20 feet high, no bridge over 30 feet
high.

4. The distance to Frankfort will not be increased two miles in length
over the present travelled road.

5. There will not be as much rock excavation in the grading as will be
required to construct the road.

6. On the thirty feet grade which has been tentatively adopted, a single
horse is capable of travelling with seven tons weight with as much ease
as five horses can draw two tons on our present roads in their best
condition. Hence it follows that one man and two horses can transport on
the Railway as much weight in the same time as 35 horses and seven men
on our present roads."

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That part of the road from Lexington to Villa Grove, s