Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-21
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a telegram from Ogden announces
the breaking Of ground near thai point,
on the Utah Central, which will be conf
pleted to Salt Lake this year.
A car factory has been established
in Galveston, Texas. u makes box-cars
for 500, and it costs nearly half that for
freight on q ear from the North.
Three thousand tons Of steel rails
are being distributed along the New Haven
Railroad, and two thousand tons ON the
Harlem, in place Of the old iron ones.
The travel west from Omaha is very
heavy. On Saturday last the first through
passenger train from Sacramento, with
tive hundred passengers, arrived in chat
city.
A corps Of engineers of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company have surveyed
tho line for the road from Stockton,
through Tulare Valley, 10 Nisalia, and re-
port the route favorable.
The magnificent locomotive Amer
lea. built at Patterson, y. J.. ana awarded
the first prize at the Paris Exposition, has
arrived in Chicago, for use between there
and Omaha. Ii cost 500, 900. Its boiler is
silver-plated, and the tender is eNpen-
sively inlaid. .dr
G. p. Oakley, Esq, General Ticket
I Agent MtSSlSSlDNl diu ICIllle~Stt INdAlFpdf,
j. q. Hill. Travelling Agent Missouri Pa
eific Railroad, and Sell Howell. Passenger
Agent Memphis and Louisville and Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee Railroads, were in
Louisville IN Tuesday. 4
At meeting of AuditaSsof Counties
in Ohio through which hePittsburg. Gins
! cinnati and st. Louis Railroad passes, The
! aggregate yame of the property of said
road was assessed nj a little over 2,0O0,-
900: the rolling stock of the. company was
increased $500 per mile on ne assessment
of last year. The value of the Central
Ohio is fixed at 81, COO, zoo. III.
We are authorized, says the Tslf-
! graph of Washington, Ark, by a number
of the most extensive land owners of
Hampstead county. to cali u railroad meets
ing at Washington on Saturday, the I'D
day of Nav inst, for the purpose of aid
ing in tho building of railroads through
the county. All persons interested in the
subject, or ina the roads now projected
through Hampstead county. are respect
fully invited and urged to attend.
We are still without the official pro-
ceedings Of the late railroad meeting NJ.
Pine Bluff. The Little Rock Gd-ette says
Of il: The Railroad Convention M Pine
Bluff on Monday last was well attended,
very enthusiastic and spirited. Stirring
addresses were delivered by Hon. \. 4. C.
Rogers, Col. ". L. Bell. Col. B. D. VII
liams, 5. w. Mallory and others. The
proceedings were quite harmonious, not
~withstanding sensational reports to the
contrary, OF curse there We're ON diff
~ferences of opinion as to the most practi-
cal method to be adopted, but taken as a
whole, the proceedings were marked with
deliberation and clear judgment, evincing
determination in the great work of rail-
roads. The line heretofore spoken Of as
the Little Rock, Pine Bluff md New Or
leans Railroad received the hearty en-
dorsement of the meeting, and the people
all along the route expressed a willingness
to contribute to its success. y branch of
The Memphis road, from Devall's Bluff to
Pine Bluff. was also decided on, and it
will be rapidly pushed forward IN the com
pletiOn Of the Memphis road.