The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-15
UNITED STATES RAILWAYS.

,,,,Ght Mexican Central railroad.-The
'st,Gmer City of Merida, which sailed on May
10. from New York for Havana and Vera
Cruz, carried out 400 tons Of rails and tools
for 1000 men. These, with ten fiat cars and
a locomotive, which will 30 by the next
steamer, are for the Mexican Central railr nd
company, limited, which is about TO build a
railroad from tn Mexican capital to the
American frontier. 1t is intended to build
the first section of this line from Mexico to
eon-in Is months. The distance is 252
miles. The Sonora railroad has begun work
and had 500 men employed at q uaymas on
May s., 1t is expected that the road will be
built to Hermosilio (S6 miles, by February
next, Both these roads are being built with
American capital.
The Baltimore & Ohio will in October
take charge of all the sleeping cars run over
its line. AT that date the contract with the
Pullman company expires and it has ordered
twenty sleeping cars built at its shops to be
ready October |. This is in accordance with
the present tendency of railroad Develop
ment. 1t may be possible that the Pullman
company will seek to Ike advantage of the
recent decisions in the case Of the Adams Elk
press company, but this is not likely, The
middle men must disappear in time, even ut
the risk of being succeeded by giant nonop-
olies. The wisdom of any generation may
be trusted to deal satisfactorily with any
monopoly which its necessities have created.
We now have nearly 100000 miles of
railroads. The annual consumption for ties
alone is probably 50000,0OO, or thirty years
growth Of 80, 900 acres of timber. To fence
these roads would require $4,000 miles Of
fence. We have, perhaps, about the same
number of miles of telegraph, which would
require 100000 trees, while the annual
repairs must take 100000 or 100000 more.
The little lucifer match consumes annually,
in its manufacture, over 100000 cubic feet of
the best pine. The brick that are annually
burned require more than 100000 cords of
wood, which would take the entire timber
from $4,000 acres Shoe pegs are important
articles, and, to make the requisite annual
supply, O. nsumes 10000 cords o fine timber,
while the manufacture of lasts and boot trees
takes 100000 cords o maple, beech and
birch, and about the same amount Is
REQUIRED for plane-sticks and tool handles.
The packing boxes manufactured in the
United States, six years ago, amounted TO
sSl2.000000, while the timber manu- actured
into agricultural implements, wagons, ETC.,
was more than 500, 100000 Our consump-
ton of timber is not only constantly on the
increase, but our expectations OF 1t Is also
rspi ly increasing. Oar saves so by the
million TO France annually; Walnut
oak, maple and pine in large quantities to
England, and docking timber to China and
Japan.
From the Chicago Times, June s: A bill
in chsncery was filed in this court on last
Saturday by George NJ. Pullman and the
Pullman Palace Car company against the
New York Central Sleeping Car company
and Webster Wagner, charging the latter
with an Infringement upon the Pullman
sleeping car patents. 1t is shown that in
1859 George NJ. Pullman and Ben Field in
vented certain improvements in sleeping cars,
which were afterward patented. Prior to
that time, but few sleeping cars had been
used upon American railroads, and these of
dissimilar patterns, and atlording slight con-
yenienCe to travellers, but since tie improve
ments mentioned were made a corporation
has been organized for the purpose Of build
ing improved coaches, and nearly Sl0eOO,OO0
has been invested in the business. The com
pany has at present about 800 cars in opera
tons. In 1869 Pullman made contract
with Wagner and his associates, who then
had the exclusive right to run sleeping
cars on the New York Central rail
road, by which they were allowed to use his
cars and patents on certain terms upon that,
road, and afterwards upon the Boston ~ Al
banv and "Snore Line railroads. Contracts
were also made in 1865 with the Michigan
Crntral and in 1866 with the Great Western
roads to run these sleepers on those lines of
road, and after these contracts had expired, in
1875 and 1876 respectively, the last two
roads made similar contracts with Wagner
The patents owned by the compainants are
one issued September 10, 1865, to Pullman
and Ben Field, and reissued in 1875; one to
T. f. Woodruff, dated December2, 1866, re.
issued 1871; another to Woodruff, issued
May 81, 1859, reissued 1878; one to Eli
Wheeler, dated September 20, 1859, reissued
1875, and one TO Zenas Cobb on July 6, 1858,
reissued 1872 1t is charged that Wagner
has, since the reissue of the patents, been
manufacturing cars under them without Ii
cense and contrary to his contract and for
the last five years has seriously intertered
with the complainants' business. They thare-
fore ask for an accounting, and claim dam
ages to the extent of Sl,000,O0O. An in
junction is also asked for to prevent the de-
PENDANTS from further infringing the rights of
the compliments.