The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-05
RAILROAD NOTES,

West-VRri0us Items Of Interest.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have de-
termined to build the railroad from Hollidaysburg
to the Gap The engineers are now locating the
May and have the road completed some time in Sep
tember next The payment OF $4,000 OF the sub
scriptons OF citizens is to be made the 1st of
May and the balance OF 500 900 to be paid In install
ments Of $4,000 on the first Of each month there
after
Among the important projected lines in Pennsyl-
vania is that from Mount Morris, N. Y, through
Munda, to the Erie Railway and the coal mines of
Northwestern Pennsylvania. This will be q con-
tnuation of the Genesee Valley Road and called
the Rochester, Munda, and Pennsylvania Rail-
through Warsaw to the Erie Railroad, at saia,
manca, and thence southerly to Warren, Pa, is in
The Sharpsville, Wheatland, Sharon, and Green
field Railroad OF Mercer county Pa, has been in
corporated, with number OF gentlemen from the
western part Of Mercer county as corporators. The
capital stock is fixed at $be 600 at $50 share with
power to increase as much as may be deemed neces-
sary to carry out the full intent OF the charter On
the subscription OF 800 shares an organization OF the
company is authorized The proposed road runs
land Furnaces crossing State street in Sharon at
its intersection with Sharpsyille street any more
suitable point. The Greenfield branch commences
in Sharon and runs up Pine Run to Keel Ridge, and
thence to Greenfield.
The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company
is issuing s3 000 Of third mortgage bonds to raise
the funds to put its road into first class condition
for first class road-cempleting the bridge over the
Ohio at Parkersburg, shortening the line thence to
the Big Hooking Strengthening the line through the
tunnel on the north side OF Athens etc. ThS Bati-
more and Ohio win make its main line by the way OF
ParkeTsburg, instead OF Wheeling
The Board Of Directors OF the Cleveland, Colum.
bus and Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway at
their last meeting raised the wages OF their passen-
ger conductors to Sl25 per month, and have done
away with all the patent 'checks" upon con-
ductors receipts The object is to place a man in
circumstances beyond the necessity OF being a
rogue-thus cultivatng, by the removal OF suspi-
cious checks, high sense OF honor and honesty.
Illinois has now 5000 miles OF railroad (of which
5000 are open for business costing with the equip
ment s120, O0,0OO
The work Of grading the Marietta and Pttsburg
Railroad is being pushed forward rapidly since
spring opened, and the prospect now is that the road
bed Will be completed and ready for the superstruc-
ture by the 1st Of June. General Warner when at
Baltimore, made arrangements for locomotives and
cars, to be delivered by the LIST Of August The
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad will also lay q
track on the bridge which crosses the Muskingum,
between Marietta and Harmar, to connect with the
Duck Creek Road
"A mortgage of the Indianapolis and Illinois
Railroad Company has been filed in Indianapolis
for the Union Trust Company OF New York, To
secure 900 Of the first mortgage bonds OF the
road.