The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-14
United STATES RAILWAYS.
ueetipS of Texas IL Pacific Directors
The New Board and Condition OF
the Road other Rail Aatters-
Facts, Notes and Figures

Ten men are in Little Rock trying to get
railroad lsborers.
Over 2.525 miles of new railroad have been
laid up to the LIST of August this year.
The Grand Trunk railway of Canada now
onerates GOO miles of railroad in the United
States. -,
Earnings of the Loui'ville Il Nashville
uo;Iwav COMPANY for the furth week in July |
we're: 1880, $4,000; 1879, SLEIGH gain,
Sl2G,260. -,
The Southern Pacific CONTINUES to steadily
,,rsb Inc line forward. Fourteen miles were
COMPLETED last week from San Pedro crossing
eastward.
EARNINGS of tho Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Ct T,onis q Chicago railway for July are re-
nortad to be nearly S3S000 in excess of any
rrnonth since the road has been in opera
ton.
The Baldwin Locomotive works recently
sb,rnod six street motors to Aus
trlEa and are in receipt Of al
f,rther order for twenty-thlee more
Far ths same company. In Sydney and
other leading Australian cities, these mo-
TORS have proved entirely successful, and on
some roads will be used exclusively.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad has
lnsaI contracts with the Cambria and Ed
car Thompson rail companies for II, O0Otons
Of steel rails to he delivered to the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad during the year
1881. This is one of The largest rail CON
tracts made by any company IN the United
States this year
The track of the South Pacific railroad is
laid II miles east of Benson, Arizona. Inc
grading is complete beyond Dragon summit.
The railroad round house is complete An
average of IS cars of railroad material goes
T. the front daily. 1t is estimated that the
track laying will go on at the rate OF Two
miles per day after reaching Drag sum
nit
It thought by many that the earnings of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road ior
the present year will be nearer ten million
than eight, the estimate of the COMPANY ac-
cordiug to the recent circular. ms Is
based on comparison OF the earnings Tor
the past six years, and the tact that Inc
mileage of the road has OF late been largely
Increased
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad COM
many has taken most Of the force OF laoorers
in lis employ off the branch running towards
San Juan, aud is now rushing the WORK on
the branch that is to extend INTO the cnn Juan
country. The work on the tunnel through
the mountain near Conejes is nearing compile
ton, daylight on the farther side having Oeeh
struck.
The Black Hills extens on Of the Chicago
ana Northwestern railroad is now completed
from Tracy, Mimi, within eighty miles OF
Fort Pierre, on the Mississippi river and Will
he ready to the latter point by November l..
The distance from Tracy to Fort Pierre is $50
miles. Track is now being laid OF the rate OF
one and half miles a day. The new line
has been constructed in the most substantial
manner, and is laid throughout with steel
rails. With the completion ofthi extension
the company will have CONTINUOUS airline
from Chicago 10 the Upper Missouri river ", OF OF
1888 miles in length. To reach the blaCh
hills the company will have to c4nstruct only m
100 miles more road from Fort Pierre. Inc
company has commenced the CONSTRUCTION VI
q line from milwaukee, to Madison.
The action of the Louisiana and Nashville
comnany in cutting off the connection WIFI
the Chicago, ST. Louis Il New Orleans rail
road at Milan does not Inconvenience the lat
ter road i'm the least 1t has formed connec
tions with the Illinois Central, Ohio y Mis-
sissippi, and its own line, which enables IL t(
transact its freight business between Oihch
natl and New Orleans in much QUICKER tlm'
than when it used the Louisville u NashVlil'
as connection. Formerly 1t used 10 ak
about four days to take freight from oinhln
natl TO New Orleans now 1t takes ouI 'nre
and half days to car y business through
The war between the Louisville " NasnVli!
and the Chicago, st. Louis y New orleans
still confined to the passenger business pll'
as passenger rates have already gone aoou
as low as they can possibly do' IL Is YER
likely that if the war does not soon conlo :, Y
On and the next move will be made on tn
frairht rates The Illinois Central people
who own the Chicago ST. Louis " New VI
Leans saw they are not afraid of trelgh
war rs thew are in the best possible shape I
make an effective fight on that branch,
thew own the entire line from New Orlean
t, Chicago, and can make rates to SUIT them
solves. while the Louisville & Nashville ca
make rates only to Nashville.
Philadelphia August 81 special to tn
Chicago Times: Jay Gould, y. Nj. D9as'
Russell Sage, Frederick H. Ames, Colon,
Thomos A. Scott and other gentlemen al
49, in this city to-day to attend the annua
,nootinr of the Texas Pacific, which take
,iooa ~ morrow at the Office of that CON
p p in this city. These gentlemen eontrC
the Texas and Pacific. the Missouri Pact
.hs Missouri. Kansas s. Texas, the Union Z.
c;sc the Kansas Pacific and number I
SMALLER roads in the west and south; The
also have the contract for building the lexi
Pacific road west to FL Paso, where 1t wi
onnn.ct with the Huntingdon road to 81
Tranci,co and the eastern branch OF the lie,
as Pacific from Shreveport, Louisiana
Nav Orleans The chief business. OF IL
mse.;ng will be to arrange the preliminari,'
TO consolidate all the interests OF these ROAD
and no doubt action will Do take
which will eventually make all u
interests one. The Importance OF TINS NOV
ment will be understood when 1t Is know
that toe union proposed will not only v'rtl
ally put under one management tne In
the Pacific coast, but consolidate SIX tnou
and miles of railway, which grldirons all u
southwest and the states Of COLORADO III
Kansas. These roads will make the wn 1t
field, of Kansas as near New OTleaas as IN
nro, and will mske the former, wh'ch n
increased foreign shipments from TWO 10 u
millions recently, one of the largest era
shjppiug ports in the country. Besides Va
there will be through connection between
Louis and New Orleans effected. Mr. Eou
already controls the barge line between the
Sta md thp combination will get 20