The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
RAILROADS DBtHlPP1Ne!.a


The Chicago and La Sale Railroad has
recently been admitted into Chicago.
The Erie Railroad Company runs 495 10.
comotives, and WILL lay $4,000 cross-ties
during the summer.
The journey from Boston to San Fran
cisco can be made comfortably in seven
days and seven nights.
New York parties have contracted to
build the Ocmulgee and Georgia Railroad
through from Macon to Knoxville.
The Chicago & Rock Island Road sent
ga, on loaded cars over the Rock Island
bridge during the year ending March 81
1879. A4g.
Buffalo, by majority of 6,849, has vot
ed to take $l,000,000 stock in the Buffalo
and Jamestown Railroad, making connec
ton with the oil regions.
The new bridge at East Saginaw Mich
igan, which is about completed, will be
1872 feet long, a8 feet wide, with q princi
pal span of $50 feet. Cost, $4,000.
The Iron Mountain Railroad, Mo, is
being extended via Little Rock into Tex
az, a distance Of over 200 miles. IT is
progressing rapidly. Over so miles are
completed. s-
The Vermont Central railroad com pany
controls 900 miles of railway, employs
1900 men, and makes use of ITO locomo
tives, ITO passenger cars,and 4, 264 freight
cars. aa E 4I 1900 IN,
The Suez Canal is not fiaaacial sue
cess, and there has been stormy meeting
of the share holders in Paris, where M.
de Lesseps narrowly escaped vote of
condemnation.
The new railroad from Galena to FEM
more Centre, Wis, distance Of 60 miles,
has recently been put under contract, and
will be pushed to completion as rapidly
as possible. ..t,~ \.
The New American Atlantic Telegraph
Company proposes to lay cable from
Wales to New Hampshire, and it is said
has fixed the charge for messages at ONE
third the present rate. me 5aajo ata5
The tunnel on the Readsburgh, Wiscon,
on,extension of the Northwestern Rail-
road will be three fourths of mile in
length, the longest by half of any in Wis
consin Il is to be arched with brick.
The National line steamship "spain,"
which arrived in New York at the end Of
April, made the passage from Queenstown
In days 10 hours apparent time, which is
one Of the fastest trips on record.
The Massachusetts Board of Railway
Commissioners. advised the adoption on
all railroad lines, of safety brakes con-
trolled by the engineer, and a system of
coupling which will prevent telescoping.
Lake frsights from Chicago to Port
Colborne, for corn per schooner, have re-
Gently been taken at 815c To Montreal,
propeller, 18c To Buffalo, schooner, Sc,
Milwaukee to Buffalo, schooner, &C.
The tunnel of the MontcIair railway
through Watching Mountain will be
about 1000 feet ia length and will occupy
three years to complete The workmen
have penetrated about 80 feet at one end
and encounter solid rock.
The Michigan Central Railroad owns
an area over a mile square east of the east
of the city Of Jackson, where shops and
other necessary buildings for the works of
the railroad are being erected. They
will be completed by the fall of the year
The new railroad and wagon bridge
across the Mississippi River. at Rock Is
land has been carefully tested, and is
now in daily uss for ballast and construc-
ton trains. AS soon as the Iowa embank-
meat is completed the bridge will be used
by all trains. ~.
An association has been forlaed in st.
Louis for the purpose of iron ship build
ing. Some of the best known merchants
and capitalists have taken shares IN the
venture. The capital stock is placed at
100000 with power to increase to $40,
100000. tn6 st. 3a
FREAKS OF BEEs-We had a curious
occur last week. A strong
Italian colony was working in thirty two
surplus boxes, and had been left undis-
turbed (the queens wing clipped) to see
what it would accom- plish. 1t was past
the swarming season, and we had ceased
to look out for swarms when an unusual
was noticed about this hive.
We knew they would not go off, of course,
not with the queens wing cut, but went
out looking anxiously lest our wingless
queen should be lost in the grass To