Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-21
railroad intelligence.

Railroad Intelligence.
RuMoREp LEAsE.-It is reported that the
Atlantic 4 Great Western Railroad Company
has leased the Pittsburgh & Erie Railroad.
ExrEysroN OF OIL CREEK RA1LRoAD.-The
Oil Creek Railroad is to be extended to the
Lake Shore, at or near Westfeld, New York.
RuMoRs OF ANOTHER LINE.-It is stated
that a company contemplate taking hold of
the uncompleted North Western Railroad
line, running from Blairsville, Pa, to New
Castle, with a view of making a connection
with the Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh Railroad at
| Ravenna, the new line to run via Warren
and Newton Falls.
SETrLEMENTs.-The N. Y. Tribune says
"The settlement with the guaranteed stock
holders of the Michigan Southern Road are
reported to reach 81, 200, zoo. No statement
was made of the affairs of this Company by
its Treasurer in the annual report distri-
buted to the stockholders. That document
does not contain any financial statements
showing its net condition.
CLINTON AIR LINE.-It is rumored that
the Clinton Air Line R. R., which passes
through Trumbull county, from Kinsman
to Pennington, en- route to the great West,
is to be revived under the auspices of an
other company, and completed. A large
amount of money and labor has been ex-
pended on the Clinton Line.
RAILROAD EARNINGs,-The Michigan Cen
trail earned the first week in November
$t04, l3O-an increase of S16,651.
The Michigan Southern Road has earned
the first week in November!
1865 r..l.. Sis, III
"a 1885
Increase S2S,S42
JACKSON, LANSING & sAsISAw.-The Ma
son (Mich.) Netos, of Tuesday, notes the pro-
gress of the work on this road, as follows.
"The grading IS now all completed between
Jackson and Mason, and the iron laid down
to within four or five miles of this village.
Men are now at work on the new depot,
which will be located across the creek on
the Lansing Road, about 100 rods north of
the business portion of the place. The loco
motive whistle can be plainly heard, and if
the good weather continues a few days
longer, trains will be running regular be-
tween Jackson and Mason"
PROPosED SURvEYS.-There is a movement
in the northwestern part of Chester county
| and in Tanoacf.r ,,.-F,, Do,r =, l,uo n
survey made Tor a railroad to connect the
Wsynesburg Railroad With She Columbia
and Reading Railroad, 1t is thought there
will be little difficulty in raising the amount
to build the road. Such a railroad would
vastly improve the Waynesburg road. This
is not a rival though a different route from
the proposed route to Bitdsb0Fo, not quite
so direct to the coal mines as the latter,
which is understood to be making fair pro-
gress, but will run into a rich agricultural
district and connect with the Reading and
Harrisburg Railroad, and the Cornwall iron
and Pine Grove cosl regions.
RUSSIAN RAILROAD Cause.-The Nord con-
tains a description of the railway carriages
running on the Moscow and st: Peters
burgh line. 1t appears that the trihing adj
Gtion of two roubles to the usual fare,
traveleia ale received in brilliantly lighted
saloons, around which luxurious sofas and
arm chairs invite the weary to repose,
While perusing the latest periodicals and
newest novels, WHICH are scattered on the
tables. When the hour of retiring arrives,
the valet de chambre conducts the gentle
men passengers to their sleeping apart
ments, while smart chamber maids point
out to the lady Passehgers their bed rooms
and boudOirs, fitted up, as the advertisement
says, with every modern luxury, including
baths" &c. The smoking room has perfect
contrivances for ventilation, and the thor
ough enjoymentof the cigar, pipe or hookah.
ANOTHER RAILROAD TO THE MISSISSIPPI
We learn from the Chicago Journal that the
American Central Railway Company"
which was organized %in'1S56, to build a road
from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to New Boston,
Illinois, on the Mississippi River, about
sixty miles below Rock Island, has recently
been consolidated with the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad. About a
hundred miles of the road is now graded,
from New Boston eastward to this side of
Lacon, in Marshal county, but the work
was interrupted by the financial crash of
81, but is now certain to go ahead. I'm
der the consolidation recently effected,
Hon. JOIN s. Thompson, Judge of the
Tenth Judicial District of Illinois, who
is President of the original corporation, left
for England a few days since, to negotiate
for the purchase of the iron for the entire
road, from the Mississippi to the Indiana
State Line, and it is anticipated hat work
will be vigorously resumed early next
spring, and that it will be SO far completed
eastward, from New Boston, as to i~ntersect
with the chicago, Burlington and Quincy |
Railroad, at Galva, some time next year.
The road will also cross the Chicago, Alton
and ST. Louis Railroad, twenty miles east of
Lacon, to which point it is already graded.
LEASE OF THE CATAwIssA RALROAD.-At
a meeting of the stockholders of the Cata-
wissa Railroad in Philadelphia, on Mon
day, a motion to confirm the contract and
lease entered into between the officers Of
the Atlantic and Great Western Railway
and the Catawissa Railroad, was unani-
mOusly adopted. The Great Western road
is to take possession of the Catawissa road
on the LIST of December next for a period of
999 years. The lessees agree TO pay to the
Catawissa company $1,000 per annum in
monthly instalments. This is poual Ia /
eight per cent. upon the capital of the
company after maintaining its organization.
This action is of great interest to Western
Pennsylvania. This company have also
bought the Morris and Essex roads, and
will open an independent route to New
York. They will build one hundred and
eighty miles of new road, from a point on
their road to the terminus OF the Catawissa
road. This route will mako n difference in