The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-18
~RUMBLINGS.

1hry give the iron horse switches in
stead of spurs.
Twenty-seven thousand men are en-
ployed on the Vanderbilt railroads.
When a road is wrecked nowadays
they Gays it has been Sammy Tilden-
lied.
The most hazardous an d self sacri-
ficing vocation is that of the locomo-
tive engineer.
Engineer Beckett of the Baltimore
and Ohio, has followed railroading for
thirty-two consecutive years.
The North British railway company
has decided to rebuild the Tay bridge
twenty feet lower down than before.
At Platte station. Saturday, Edward
Mervin, an employe of the Denver and
South Park, had his arm broken at the
wrist.
On the authority of a San Francisco
paper the railroad fare between that
city and New York is to be reduced
ten per cent from next May.
Two hundred tons of new rail COM
menced ARRIVING yesterday for the Col
orado Central, to be used for making
repairs and putting in side tracks.
Jay Gould recovered from his slight
in%disposition toward the close of last
week and made his appearance On the
street. Railroad stocks advanced.
New cars are being manufactured in
Omaha for the Colorado Central road.
The order embraces passenger coaches
as well as baggage and freight cars.
The FIRST ten days of this month gave
the Denver and South Park the largest
passenger business in the history OF
that road. 1t averaged 81, 200 per day.
The Atchison, Topeka Sc Santa Fe
railroad company has made a requisi
ton upon the Pullman company fol
four forty-two inch paper-wheel palace
cars.
The Denver extension bonds of the
Kansas Pacific are quoted in New York
at three-fourths Of a cent above par,
equal to S1.10 with the certificates at.
tached.
The total receipts of cattle at Kansas
City, over the Kansas Pacific and At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe roads fol
1879, were 100, 1908, against 123,4OO re.
ceived at Omaha during the same
period over the Union Pacific road
alone.
The lines west of Kansas City and
Omaha will accept the pro rate pei
mile upon any rate which the Central
Pacific makes, to meet rates made
by the Pacific Mail to New York, pro.
vided tickets are limited to one day be.
You'd the actual schedule time, and te
be sold ut actual tariff rates, with q
drawback on New York to the amount
of the reduction.
1t is rather a curious item in the line
of railroad likes and dislikes, that pas
sengers at Cheyenne, with the option
of two lines to Denver, prefer the Col
orado Central route through the foot
hill country, while the Denver Pacific
is known to be the shortest. Fort Col
Inns, Boulder and Golden doubles.
offer charms in the way of hot coffee
ETC., that Greeley cannot discount witt
the satisfaction of Evans.
Capt. E. L. Berthoud, chief engineer
of the Colorado Central, was in thu
city yesterday. During the winter Of
1S77-S, when the construction of &
railroad line from Cheyenne toward:
Deadwood was pending, in the carefully
adjusted balances of the Union Pacific
directory, the captain took the field
with his Colorado Central corps and
made the final survey from Cheyenne tc
Fort Laramie, and ran a preliminary
line from the fort to Deadwood. The
direction to the fort is almost north,
and the total cost of constructing, esti-
mating iron and rolling stock at the
present rates, is placed by the captain
at $3.50, 900. The road will be narrow.
guage, as this will enable it to turn >
in military parlance, a great many foot
hill obstacles that would add largely to
the cost of a b~road-gauge line. The
distance from Cheyenne to Fort Lara
mic is elghty-seven miles. = Denver
Nelrs.
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