The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-08
RAILROADS.

RAILROADS.
The Waco Tap will intersect with !
the Texas and Pacific Railroad ut /
Fort Worth.
The longest tunnel on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad-over a |
mile in lengths completed.
OVER two hundred men are en-
ployed on the North Carolina Rail
road, which will connect tho rail-
roads at Greensboro.
THE Port Royal Railroad has been
completed from Augusta to the Sa-
vannah River. An excursion party
passed over the road on Tuesday
last.
The contract for building fifty
miles on the Texas Pacific Railroad,
west from Longview, has been given
TO Col. VIM. J. Budd. He will set
5000 men at work at once.
FoR the first time in the history of
/ the Nashville & Chattanooga Rail-
road, it is now shipping more
freight North and South. They are
carrying wheat from Middle Tennes-
see and coal from the Sewanee mines
to St. Louis.
The bark Wentworth, from Car
diff, Wales, freighted with nine
! hundred tons of railroad iron for
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
Railroad, is reported at Hog Island,
in James River, below City Point, on
It's way up to that destination.-Pe-
terSb1trg Inder.
HoTsToN & Texas CENTRAL-It is
said that this company will shortly
commence the construction of the
Northeast Branch. This branch viii
begin at point on the main line in
Navarro county, and run through
Kaufman, Hunt, Hopkins and Delta
counties, to Paris, In Lamar county,
a distance of about one hundred and
twenty miles.
MEMPHIS & LITTLE RoCK.-The in
clined plane on the Memphis side Of
the river having been completed, the
: first train of cars from Little RocE
8 was transferred across the Missis
sippi by ferry-boat, October Z
Hereafter all trains will start from
l and run to the new depot on Wash
ington street, Memphis.
The Flyton, Corinth and Tennes
see Company proposes to build
road from Pittsburg Landing, south
; west, about 16U miles to Birming
! ham, Alabama. The line, which
: has been surveyed, passes through
country rich in coal lands, but a
yet almost entirely undeveloped.
r A WRITER of repute has calculated
q that, upon the average, every 50(
= miles of railway adds $l20,O00,0OI
/ yearly to the national wealth, which
$ is enough to pay the interest of tn
! national debt. IF we call the add
/. ton, however, but half of thi
e writer's estimate. or $6O.O0O.000 pc
Il annum, the result would he satIsfaC
e tory enough to all reasonable pee
e pie.
& RAILROAD CoNDUCToR's CoNvENT1or
n The Railroad Conductors Life In
IL gurance Association recently had
1t grand and imposing convention a
IS Louisville. The report of their pre-
he ceedings show q prosperous an
le healthy condition in financial affair,
IS The Grand Secretary reports the II
r ceipts at $147, 321 IA, and an exper
ID diture of $138, 1O415. The differer
II roads and divisions Tepresentet
Is number 214. The members wel
III sustained in a most hospitable maj
ne ner by the city, and had ''a goo
IN time," generally. The following
id the list of officers elected for the 81
I'd suing year:
Id President-James Marshall, of Il
~ Hudson River railroad.
IN First Vice President-J. 6. Co
70, mick, of the Illinois Central.
10 Second Vice President-M. Spai
ID Jay, of the Memphis and Charleston
Id Secretary and Treasurer-Josep
Il: B. CulbertsOn.
of Executive Committee-Jos. '
IN Moore, Edward Moreu and Isaac
er Horner.
Ne To deliver the next annual adore
m j. F. Redmond, of the Southel
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