The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-04
RAIL VA Us.
Their PROGRESS Throughont the Cnnntr,

Their Progress Throughout the Country.
The vermont and Massachusetts Railroad
mas mas surveyed route to Turner's Falls, which
VIII probably be adopted, beginning about two
hundred feet east OF the Connecticut River
Bridge and running north through Montague
City. The New London Road is surveying a
route IRON the same point south, through the
centre OF Montague town and connecting with
their roaa near Locks Pond, which, probably,
Will also be built if the Vermont and Massachu-
setts connection north 10 the Falls is thus giving
Montague Centre and the New London Road n
direct connection with the Falls.
ON the Morris and Essex Railroad the
double track has been laid to within a short
distance east OF Morristown, and the remain
ing space-not more than mile-will soon be
completed. The road at various places is being
firmly balasted with broken stones, which not
only gives smoother motion to the cars, but
prevents in "a great measure the most disa-
greeabe objec ion to summer travel-the dust.
several new stations and stopping places have
been CONSTRUCTED and provided for during the
past year.
The projected rail way to connect Buffalo
with the Pennsylvania c0al-heds is called the
Buffalo and Southern Railroad. This road will
commence with the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway, at or near Levant, where the Duukirk,
Warren, and Pittsburg Railway intersects the
same, and in connection Herewith will make
direct route from Buffalo to Warren, Pa dis
tanCe about rs miles.
"A movement Is on foot for the PURPOSE of
connecting the Adirondack Railroad with
steamboat navigation on the Sacandaga river at
ConkllngYille. The capital stock for the enter
prise is estimated at $l25,0OO. A meeting to
complete the organization of the Company, and
TO further the movement, is to be held in
Hadley, Saratoga county, on Saturday next.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company on
the Let day of october next will pay its Z per
cent. construction bonds for $1,000 each, num-
bering from 5000 to 1000 inclusive, with 20 per
cent. added TO the principal thereof; and after
the lst OF October interest on these bonds will
cease.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad in
its last fiscal year earned S1,l79,924, u decrease
OF 496, 698 from the preceding year. The net
earnings were S3ll, SOC. The funded debt is
S3,sS8, $50, and the floating debt is nominally
1926, ,582. OF this sum SlS2,1S6 is Immediately
payable, and the cash resources are Sl343
The Providence Journal is paying its atten-
tion TO the New York and New Haven Railroad
for its many shortcomings, and while doing so
does not forget the Shore Line hole in the
ground which they call depot, in New Haven
and where no decent railroad would carry a
passenger.
1t is reported that the Portland and Oxford
(Me.) Central Railroad Company, which some
time ago, stopped running trains, has been
restralne ed by al injunction from the Supreme
Court from taking up the rails.
"A large number OF workmen are employed
in grading the track Tor the Belfast and Moose
head Lake Railroad and the work is going for
ward as rapidly as could be desired.