New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-12

New Freight CarE-Earnsngs sOr the Past
Month Proposed Connection with
Na,hvtse. etc. Without Change OF
Ra.k-Elrse Twenty &iiss CT Exseo =
.ion south from Pilot Knob to- be
Built.
from the ST. Louis Republican,
The Iron Mountain Railroad Company
has contracted with the Union Car Works
Of this city for one hundred new freight
cars, to be ready for delivery this month.
The earnings Of the road for the past
month was over 100000 and the freight
and passenger business is constantly IL
creasing.
MIR. Allen, president of the road, had an
interview with the managers of the Nash
vile and Chattaooogs Railroad with view
of forming a connection on the Kentucky
side, between Columbus and Hickman, and
with a prospect of having q connection
made ct Columbus, i'll which case there is
an expectation OF running cars through.
without breaking bulk, TO Nashville and
Georgia. The result OF the negotiation has
been the ordering or survey for the pur-
pose.
We understand at the railroad Office that
immense quantities OF iron ore, averaging
from one hundred TO one hundred and fifty
Car loads per day, are being hauled on the
Iron Mountaing railroad,
We learn also that steps have been taken
by the Iron Mountain railroad company to
build the first twenty miles of the extension
OF that road from Pilot Knob south towards
Memphis, with O viaw OF ultimately connect
ing with Little Rock. According to the
present law the company Is required 10
build the first twenty miles by the twenty
third Of March, 1911. On account OF the
heavy grading and rock work, the first
twenty miles will be the most expensive on
the whole, and is estimated TO cost half a
mil ion of dollars. The late session of the
Legislature refused to grant Mr.. Allen any
aid il the prosecution of this great public
work, but under the act of 1868, a subsidy
was granted Of $4,000 per mile.
By the act Of July 4, 1860, Congress grant
ed alternate sections, and bill has just
been introduced in Congress giving the
company the privilege Of selecting the
quantity they are entitled to receive from
any public lands the nearest to the road
open tor entry, on the ground that many Of
the alternate sections have been already
taken up. The bill is pending before the
House Committee on Public Lands. Mr..
Allen received q dispatch yesterday from
Messrs. Wells, Finkienburg and Mccormick.
III answer to q request that the lands en-
breCing 9 strip twenty miles wide on both
sides of the Contemplated road be with
drawn. These gentlemen, after making the
necessary inquiry. inform Mr.. Allen that
these lands VIII not be withdrawn. es he de-
sires, from the market, until the map show
ing the actual survey is filed with the Secre-
tary OF the Iaterior.
One of the great objects of this extension
of the Iron Mountain railroad south to
Arkansas is to tap the St. Francis, the
Black and Arkansas river valleys, and 20
reach Memphis, but the precise route is
lot yet definitely located. Half s. dozen
lines have been surveyed. The object is to
put it through on the straghtest line. The
first twenty miles of the extension will
strike in the direction of Bruno, Wayne
county, south OF Pilot Knob.