The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-01
United STATES RAILWAYS.
a,s53 Miles Built this Year-Progress
of Railway Builders What they
are Doing ana How they are
Linking and RiV ting the
Sections of the &, - Stry
Together.


Texas & Pacific. Track is now laid to u
point in Palo Pinto county, Texas, is miles
west OF the Brazps river and rs miles west Of
Fort Worth. Work is progressing steadily
westward.
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis.-ltis
said that this company will build branch
from Union City, Tenn, to Columbus, KY,
about 25 miles. The object is to secure a
connection with the ST. Louis, Iron Noun
tain & Southern road without using the Mo-
bile Il Ohio track from Union City to
Columbus, as is now ione
New Orleans Pacihc.-The stockholders of
the American Railway Improvement COM
pany at meeting held in New York last
week formally approved the contract made
for the completion of this road. 1t was
stated that the bids for the S2,00J,000 bonds
of the New Orleans Pacific road offered by
the Improvement company, considerably eX-
ceeded the amount offered, The allotment
will be made in about ten days.
Memphis & Charleston.-During the pres
en-, season thirty miles OF track on this road
have been renewed with steel. The road is
being ballasted with gravel, and new force
is at work improving the road'bed. The new
bridg have neen built and others repaired.
The shops in Memphis have recently finished
four passenger cars, and are building four
more passenger and 1870 freight ears. Two
heavy freight engines have been ordered from
the Baldwin works.
Indiana railroad assessments.-The rail.
roads of the state of Indiana, according to
the report of the state board of equalization,
A t,,ila -
GsS "a miles of side track. The total assess.
ment for this Year is 500 85 $50 on main
track; 81, 1882, 1862 on side track; S6,7l9,9 73 on
and graded road-bed of the Chicago &
Canada Southern total of SIS, 442 94l, an
average of 1891 per mile of main track.
Texas Il New Orleans.-This line q
now open and being in daily operation from
end to end. 1t is made up OF three roads,
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas from Algiers,
opposite New Orleans to Vermillionville,
l43 miles; the Louisiana Western, from Yer
millionville, La, to Orange Texas, LOG miles,
and the Texas Il New Orleans, from Orange
TO Houston, l0S miles, making 957 miles in
all. The Texas & New Orleans and so miles
of the Morgan road have been in operation
for several years the new road built TO com.
plete the line being the 63 miles of the NJ r
gan road, from Morgan City 10 Vermillion-
vile, and l06 miles of the Louisiana West
ern. This is the third line connecting the
railroad system of Texas with that Of the
rest of the United States, and the people of
New Orleans have hoped for many advant.
ages to their city from the new connection.
Kansas Railroad Assessments. secre-
tary of state of Kansas reports that there are
now in that state thirty-nine railroad corpo-
rations having total of 3,l04.2l miles Of
main track, and 247.04 miles of side-track,
orsn aggregate of 3,36l.25 miles of track
within the limits of the state. The average
assessed value of main tracks was S5,250 per
mile, and of side tracks $4,000 per mile.
The total assessed value of the main tracks is
1882, $40, and the side tracks S494 $50.
The assessed value per mile of rolling
stock is S90303, and the total value of roll
ing stock S2Sl2525S6. The value of tools
is S379,6SS 50, and of buildings, $533,9O2
The assessed value of all railway property
aggregates 500 547 500, So, or an average Of
S6,6l933 per mile
Prices Of Rails.-Steel rails are tirmer AMI
sales are reported at S6250 to $50 per ton
the latter price for this years delivery. Not
much new business is reported, buyers look
ing for some concession in prices. Iron rails
are OF active, though the mills are generally
pretty well supplied with orders. Sales are
reported to prices varying from SAC per ton
at mill for 56-lbs. section to $40 for l6.lbs.,
and the market is considered firm. Old iron
rails are unchanged and sales of small lots
are reported in Philadelphia at $27 to S2S
per ton. Pittsburgh quotations for spikes
are p cents per pound; track bolts, to 4
cents for hexagon and 81 to 50 for square
nuts; fsh-plates, . to p cents per pound.
Commercial Travellers Car.-This is the
latest agony positively. The car patented
by George S. Jacques combines q sleeper
and hotel car with sample room advantages.
4 car will afford ample accommodation for
six commercial travellers with their sample
trunks and ordinary baggage and will contain
several spacious compartments for the dis
play of their goods. The idea is TO attach
the car to gular trains and side-track it at
such towns as the drummer may desire TO do
business in. An old railroad manageable
of the most experienced in the eountry-pre.
diets that the thing is sure to be success
He thinks the railroads will be glad to CO.
operate in this new mode Of transportation,
and will fix a regular tariff per mile, limiting
each car to certain number of bona tide
commercial travellers. The latter will save
great deal in the way of charges for extra
baggage and in the bother and cost Of trans
ferring their heavy sample trunks from de-
pots to hotels. Under the new arrangement
the traveller will simply invite merchants to
inspect his goods on the car instead of in n
hotel sample-room.
This number of the Railroad Gazette con-
tains information of the laying Of track on
new railroads as follows: Utah & Northern,
Extended from Red Rock, Montana, north
ward Is miles. Guage, feet 5 nth Flor
ida.-Ths road is twenty-five miles long,
from Sanford, Fla, to Orlando, being miles
more than heretofore noted, Guage, 3 feet.
ST. Paul & Duluth.-The Taylor's Falls
Branch is completed from Wyoming, Mimi,
eastward to Centre City, II miles. Chicago
u Northwestern. -The Chicago " Dakota
line is extended from Huron, OAK, west 62
miles. Northern Pacific. Track has been
laid to point one hundred and five miles
west of BsmscE, OAK, an extension of 5
miles Louisiana Western. -Completed by
laying track from the Mermenteau river, La,
eastward 10 miles. New York, Woodhaven
u Roekaway. -Compl from Fresh Pond,
n. T., southeast to Rockaway Beach, u
miles, Richmond e Allegheny. --Track is
laid from Powhatan Furnace, Va, to
Maiden's Adventure, SO miles. This is a
total &C r,;lac nf pau, ro;Irool x,oL;o1