New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-17


OF the gross earnings 81 llOO per cent have been used
Tor operating expenses and taxes, against "a C0lOO per
isCsan increase OF 5ll0O per cent The gross
earnings Gncludng those Of the Jacksonville Division.
seven months in the Report for 1853 exceed those OF
she previous year s7299 ss3 slO per cent OF this in
crease ?T n (about clio per cent was from passeH
gers Tie locomotive equipment 7 last yeor has been
increased by H. but one Of which built by the Com
paDy The car equipment numbers 211G-Pullman 10 q
sleeping dinInsl 81 passenger; 81 mail aud express
zoos freight &c.
The Union Pacific Railway Company have received
tSOOOO in stock OF the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company 10 consideration OF the of its lines for com
mercia purposes. Besides getting large part Of Its
telegraph service free, handsome increase is anci-
pated from the abOve.named large amount Of stock
Fiftytwo miles Of the Galveston Texas Railway snow
in operation from Lawrence 10 Garnet. The remain.
ing 81 miles 10 the State line. under contract TO be
completed 20 miles April ], Il miles more Oct. l-Hum-
bOldt being due June J.
The bridge over the Kansas at Lawrence will be com
peted within few months at cost Of about $4,000
The depots neat and substantial those Lawrence
and Garnet being large and expensive The rolling
stock consists OF eight engines; five passenger
press and two baggage cars 60 freight TO which 100
box TO be at once added The Laurence RepUb
can thus speaks OF this important road being pushed
forward by Mr. James f. JOY President. and Mr. Sturges
OF Chicago:
IL connects the Lakes with the Gulf. and brings the
North and South together The trans Mississippi States
can import their sugars lcofees spices and tropical
Ifts 0reet through the port OF Galveston. The humid
reds OF thousands OF cattle that grown upon the
lands OF Texas at mere nominal cost, VIII be shipped
20 and through State this road At Lawrence
and Lavenworth should be established packeries and
our business multiplied 60 fold. Here factories
established ior working cotton. and Kansas apples and
wheat VIII mud ready market In Galveston. The road
does not run through coo miles burning sands bnt
through 60 miles OF country uneQualed for the general
purposes or agriculture stock raising and fru growing
Every mile is rich I'm agricultural resources thus nsur
ing beyond peradyentnre one OF the best paying local
roads IN the Country to BAY nothing Of its immense
through business -
The Company have 900 men at work on the extension
." foia-32 miles furtherat which place another OPEN
ing" VIII be celebrated in June.
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
company has declared aiQuartery dividend OF u per
cent, free, payable April s. Of the Office of Winslow
Ianier & Co.
The semiannual interest the third mortgage income
bonds Of the above Company will be paid at the same
time and place.
The receipts Of the Northern Railway Company of
tAnsda for the year 1862 were t 7e against S55o07O
Tor 1905 The working expenses were 5O7 per cent as
against oiS In 1863 This Company expended during the
year *'o Tor elevators wharfage, other extension
WorHs al Toronto The Directors expect that the new
feonto Elevator Will be finished ready for service
H"msoately On the opening OF the ensuing season OF
Navigation and they are already engaged in prepare.
Mons Tor the construction during the coming GUNNER OF
s"ar structure but of less capacity, at Colingwood
NO COPY from the Official report, In The Economis Of
"e 'sa s The Total amount " gold and silver imported