The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Union Pacific Railroad is now completed
460 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska, and the
Kansas branch 278 miles west of the Missouri
River. The gross earnings of the Kansas branch
for August were $236,000, and the Government
business for some time was popo.

The following is from the New York Daily Tribune
of 21st September, 1867 :—" The Saint Louis and
Iron Mountain Railway is under contract for an
extension to connect with the Mobile and Ohio Road
at Columbus, Kentucky. By adopting the same
gauge a line of transit will be open at all seasons
for the vast commerce of the Mississippi Valley.
The line passes through the great iron and tin
mountains of Missouri, a region remarkable for its
rich and varied mineral deposits, and which already
afford a unique, permanent, and profitable traffic.
A n enormous trade also concentrates at or near the
mouth of the Ohio, employing numbers of large
steamers, and giving heavy traffic to the Illinois
Central and the Mobile and Ohio Railroads. St.
Louis has now a population of 220,000, and is the
principal point of trade west of New York for the
Southern States.

The Brown Brothers, of New York, and other
capitalists, propose to connect Springfield by rail
with the Erie Railroad, by means of a road to run
from Springfield to or near Collinsville, Connecti-
cut, thence through New Hartford, Winsted, Nor-
folk, and Canaan, Connecticut, and through
Dutcheas county, New York, to Newburg, which is
on a branch of the Erie Road. A corps of engineers
are already surveying the route, which is believed to
be a perfectly feasible one. They call it in Con-
necticut the Connecticut Western Railroad, and
the people of Winsted and vicinity are enthusiastic
on the subject.
The negotiations which have been some time in
progress with a view to a line of railway between
St. Louis and Indianapolis, under one management,
are at length bearing fruit. The Terre Haute and
Indianapolis Railroad having refused to come into
the arrangement desired by the eastern companies,
the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad company
has been formed to construct another line of road
between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, there to
connect with the St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute
Railroad.

The following items are from the Wall-Street
Journal, of September 21 :
The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is rapidly
approaching completion. The track at Bethlehem
is now connected with the North Pennsylvania
Railroad, and also with the Bath Railroad, and in
a very few weeks the rails will be down and the
road opened to Mauch Chunk, there to connect
with the upper division extending thence to Wilkes-
Barre and Scranton. The Lehigh and Susquehanna
Railroad (which is the property of the Lehigh
Navigation Company) will have steel rails on the
48 miles of the lower division, and is throughout a
well-built line, everything about it having a look of
strength, solidity, and permanence.
It is reported that Mr. Oakes Ames has the con-
tract to build the mountain section of the Union
Pacific Railroad, some six hundred miles, receiving
therefor over $47,000,000. This is the largest
single railroad contract ever made in this country.
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, EAST DIVISION.
—The Omaha Republican has authority for stating
that the great Pennsylvania Central Railroad Com-
pany, which was heavily interested in the Kansas
branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, has with-
drawn all its interest from it, and transferred it to
the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Ccmpany,
through which to make connections with the Union
Pacific proper. Such immense changes show how
things are going.
All the railroads between Pittsburgh and Keokuk,
via Steubenville, Columbus, Piqua, Logansport, and
Peoria, are to be consolidated of ter the Ist January,
1868, under the name of the Pittsburgh, Indiana,
and Mississippi Railroad, forming a continuous line
of 673 miles. The link between Logansport and
Union City, Ind., will be completed on Dec. 1.
The Black River Railroad stockholders, who
recently held a meeting in Utica, to decide upon the
extension of their road, have already entered vigor-
ously upon the work. Mr. Phelps, the contractor
for building the railroad from Lyon's Falls to Low-
ville, began work lately, with a force of fifty men, at
Snugboro, in the town of Turin, and intends to begin
at the Lowville end of the route in a few days.
The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad
has been completed to Des Moines, the capital of
lowa. Four miles of the track were laid in forty-
eight hours. This is the first railroad completed to
Des Moines, and the people of that city are rejoicing
with exceeding great joy. _ _

The bridge which the Hartford and New Haven
Railroad Company is building over the Farming.
ton River, at Windsor, is rapidly approaching com-
pletion, and will be the finest structure of the kind
in New England. It will be 460 feet long and 35
feet above the water.

The Erie Railroad Company has sent 25 tons of
iron to the Syracuse Steel Works, to be made into
steel rails, by the Bessemer process, which makes
steel ductile and tenacious without impairing its
durability.

The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Com-
pany have expended on buildings and other im-
provements in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the sum of
$712,000. It has 600 employes living in Mead-

ville, to whom it pays $10,0t9 per month. The
disbursements of the company for repairs and sup-
plies at Meadville amount to $150,000 per annum.
Railroads are projected from Jackson, Tennessee,
to Paducah, and from Memphis by the river route
to Cairo.

The Pacific Railroad is now receiving hemlock
railroad tics from Chicago, 500 miles, and then up
the road 400 miles-900 miles by rail—at a cost,
delivered at the Missouri River, of not over 8 cents
per tie.

A railroad is grading from Corinth to Pittsburg
Landing, and a route is further projected from
Pittsburg Landing to Nashville, Tennessee.

The Winona and St. Peter's Railroad is open to
Waseca, one hundred and five miles west of the
Mississippi River.

THE HARTFORD AND NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
COMPANY,--The annual meeting of this company