The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. —The Secretary
of the Interior has submitted to the President the
report of the Government Commissioners on the
additional section of 20 mil. s of the Union Pacific
Railroad, recently forwarded to the Department,
stating that the road is ready for present service,
and recommending the issue of bonds and patents
to the company on account of said section, agree-
able to law. The President has accepted the re-
port and recommendations, and directed the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to carry them into effect. The
company has reduced the passenger and freight
rates 25 per cent. west from Omaha. This will
greatly increase the business of the road, and result
in a general benefit. The road is now in operation
for over 500 miles, and nearly 600 miles in all are
completed. The construction is still going on ra-
pidly, and great progress will be made during the
summer months.

The Cheyenne Leader says that twenty-five car-
loads of railroad iron arrived from Omaha a day or
two ago, and also that the company expect to
average about fifty cars per day, from the first of.
May. Each car carries ninety bars, weighing six
hundred pounds to the bar, making 54,0001b5., or
twenty-seven tons to each load ; 1,080 tons per
day, or for say 200 working days, a total amount
of 216,000 tons. In addition to this, they have a
sufficient amount on hand to lay one hundred and
fifty miles of track, which is about .one-half the
distance which will be built during the summer
and fall. There is some work to be done in all this.
The organization of the South Pacific Railroad
Company—the purchasers of the South West
Pacific Railroad of Missouri—was completed at
their office i❑ New York, on May 19. Francis B.
Hayes, of Boston, is elected President ; General
Clinton, B. Fiske, of St. Louis, Vice-President, and
W. L. Halsey, of New York, Treasurer. The road
is to be extended forthwith.—Wall-Street Journal.

THE ROUTE FROM CHICAGO TO SAN FRANCISCO.—
Another link has been added to the chain of rail-
roads that is steadily lengthening. from Chicago
toward Santa Fe, in New Mexico. This link adds
twenty-five miles to the Kansas division of the
Pacific Railroad—(which, by the way, is an inde-
pendent road, wholly disconnected from the Pacific
Road proper, and ought to be known by some name
more distinctive and involving less confusion in the
popular mind than the unmeaning name of " Eastern
Division." It is not a division of the Pacific Rail-
road at all. Santa Fe being at present a principal
objective point, why not style it, what iu reality it
is, the Chicago and Sane Fe Railroad ?) The road
is now finished to the boundary line between Kansas
and Colorado, at which point the route deflects
towards the South-west, and pursues a nearly di-
rect course to Santa Fe, which is distant from the
present terminal pointless than four hundred miles
Chicago and Santa Fe are expected to shake hands
by rail rather before Chicago and San Francisco
will enjoy that felicity.—Chicago Times.
The Union-Pacific Railroad Company, E.D., are
substituting coal for wood on all their engines run-
ning on the first division of the road, extending
from the State line to Junction City. The coal in
use is brought from Knob Noster, Mo. It can be
'delivered at the State line for four dollars a ton.
The coal from the Stranger was tried, but would not
answer the purpose. West of Junction wood, al-
though costing seven and seven ani a half dollars a
cord, is cheaper than coal. The supply of wood at
these figures, although the country seetni almost
desititute of fuel as one rides through it, is abun-
dant for all present needs—nearly a year's supply
i❑ a lvance being on hand.—Colorado Herald.

A meeting held at New Haven, Thursday, May
21, condemned strongly the proposed consolidation
of the New York and New Haven and Thrtforl
and New Haven railroads as the creation of a mo-
nopoly. President Bishop of the former roa I
thought it needless to oppose it, as the two roads
never could agree on anything.
The purchasers of the South-west Pacific Rail-
road of Missouri have just organized the South
Pacific Railroad Company, with Francis B. Hayes,
of Boston, for president, and will push the road to
the 35th parallel without delay.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD SUIT.—We learn that a
very important suit was decided yesterday in the
Court of Chancery, at Hamilton, Canada, in which
the Erie and Niagara Railway was plaintiff, and
the Great Western Railway of Canada was defend-
ant, when the plaintiff was successful. Last Fall
the Great Western Railway closed the Erie and
Niagara Road, and this action was brought to re-
quire the company to re-open it. A judgment was
rendered yesterday morning, ordering the Great
Western to open the road immediately, and make
connections according to the spirit of their agree-
ment, to run all the year round, and give Mr. W.
Thomson, of Queenstown, Canada, formerly of this
city, his proper place as Joint Comptroller of the
road, and in case the company do not do this, its
contract to be rescinded. Damages were also
awarded the plaintiff for the past delinquencies of
the defendant.— Bufialo Courier, May 6th.
From the combined report of the New Jersey
railways for 1867, it appears that during the year
1867 there were carried to and fro upon the Central
Railway of New Jersey 28,488,523 passengers.
Of these 1,204,130 were carried the entire distance
traversed by the road. The whole number of miles
run by passenger trains during the year was
500,369. The total number of accidents reported
on all the roads is 122. Of these thirty-four hap-
pened to passengers, thirty-four to servants of the
companies, and fifty-four to persons who were
neither employed on the roads nor travelling in the
trains. These last were either lying or walking on
the track, or attempting to cross it, in the way of
a passing train.
The earnings of leading Western railroads for the
first quarter of the present year are in excess of
those of 1867. Dupee, Beck, and Sayles's (Bos-
ton) circular gives the figures of the six named be-
low. It will be understood that the two columns
of figures represent the gross earnings per mile for
the quarter of the roads mentioned, comparing the
present year with last year :
Earnings per mile per
Road. Quarter.
1867. 1868.
Michigan Central 53,379 11,419
Michigan Southern
Illinois Central

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Chicago and North Western
Chicago and Rock Island 1,924 2,053
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago
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The present mileage of these roads is : Michigan
Central, 285 miles; Michigan Southern, 524 ;
Central, 708 ; Chicago and North-Western,
1,152; Chicago and Rock Island, 452 ; Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne, and Chicago, 468 miles.
The capital stock, funded debt and cost per mile
(as represented in stock and funded debt) of these
roads are as follows:

Cap. Funded Cost

stock. dcbt, per mile.
Michigan Oen. It. It $8,070,6613 87,268,989 $53,823
Michigan 4.-7outlieru IL IL 10,646,290 9,638,640 37,566
Illinois Ocutra! 11. 23,393,3t10 10,514,500 47,933
Chicago & North-w'u 11.1L28,021,621 16,251,000 38,431
Chicago anal It. 1. It. It. 9,100,000 8,960,090 37,964
Pit ti., PL W., and Chic. It 11,500,000 12,568,500 1;1,428
—Wall-Street Journal

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