The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-28

train consisting of 1853 cars left Indian.
Opolis in sections recently. Its length was
Two and four-tenths miles.
The contract for building the Iron Noun.
tain railroad branch from Gurdon station to
Camden, Ark, in the direction of Monroe,
La, has been let to Vaudeville, Bowling &
"a. Work has been commenced. The rosd
is to be completed by the end of the year.
In the state of Kansas there are at this
time SO railway corporations possessing q
total mileage of 3,l042l of main track and
24704 of side track-an aggregate within the
state Of 3,S5l,25 miles. The assessed value
ofal railway property in the state sgGre,
gates $50, 547 1902, or an average of S6,6l9.'
30 per mile.
The track OF the South Pacific railroad is
laid seventeen miles east Of Benson, Arizona.
The grading is complete beyond Dragon
Summit. An average Of eighty.tve cars of
riilroad ma erial goes &c the front daily. 1t
l. estimated that the tTsck-lsyng will 90 on
at the rate of two miles day after reaching
Dragon Summit.
It's thought by many that the earnings Of
the Atkinson, Topeka u Santa Fe road for
the present year will be nearer ten million
than eight, the estimates of the company ac-
cording to the recent circular. This is based
on q comparison of the earnings for the past
ak years, and the fact that the mileage
Of the road has of late been largely in
creased.
Missouri Pacifc.-A dispatch Of Angus
18th from jefferson, City, Missouri, says
Papers showing the consolidation of he
following roads with the Missouri Pacific
we're fled in the secretary of states Office to-
day ST. Louis Il Lexington; Kansas City
4 Eastern; st. Louis, Kansas t. Arizona;
Mississippi aud Leavenworth; Atchison &
Northwestern. The capital of the consoli-
dated company is fixed NJ S5O,O01,OO0.
The Northern Pacific railroad will its gen.
eral manager reports, certainly complete the
eastern cad of the road to the Yellowstone
before winter sets in, making 30 miles from
the Missouri river west. On the Pacific side
468 will be complete at the same time, leav-
ing 800 miles between the two sections; and
il is said that no obstacles exist to the con-
struction of this remaining section, which fol-
lows the valley of the Yellowstone until il
strikes the headwaters of Clark's fork of the
Columbia.
The present extension of the Santa Fe
road through New Mexico into old Mexico
is looked upon as one OF the great fests of
modern railway building, concerning which
the Albuquerque Golden Gate says: The
eastern terminus of the Atlantic & Pacific
railroad will be at the south end Of the
Union depot at Albuquerque. The passen-
ger trains will run on the Atlantic 81 Pacific
track nearly two miles out, there entering
the New Mexico & Southern Pacific main
track. Several miles Of side track have al
ready been laid in the Atlantic u Pacific
yards here, and freight depot, round house
and machine shops will be erected with all
possible celebrity. Several temporary struc'
lures are already on the grounds. The At
lantic & Pacific company use thirteen miles
of the New Mexico " Southern
Pacific track, crossing the Rio Grande
on the same bridg, near the Pueblo
village of Isle!a, about 10 miles below here.
Three miles below Isleta the Atlantic Il
Pacific track leaves the valley and turns
westward. Thirty. FIVE miles of iron are now
in the Albuquerque yards, and material for
100 miles more is on the cars between here
and st. Louis. Twenty-Five miles of grading
as far as Fort Wingate will be let in o few
days. Leaving the ruins of old Fort Win
gate and the town of San Rafael on the left,
and Mount Taylor or San Mateo on the right,
the RAILROAD continues onward and upward
past Aqua Azul (Blue Water, Bacon Spring
and the present Fort Wingate, finding an
easy grade through Campbelis Pass over the
Continental Divide of forty feet to the mile.
Thence past Sinking Springs and through
Quirino Canon, the line in Arizona follows
the Rio Pherco of the west to its junction with
the Colorado Chiquito.
An Englishmsn who is proud OF his coun-
try and the achievements of its people sends
the following letter to the London Times:
THE train which brought down the lord
Mayor and his suite to Scarborough on Sat
urday made such remarkable run that you
may think few details relative to it worthy
Of record. 1t consisted of six Great North
ern coaches, and the engine was one Of the
new series, with eight-foot driving wheels.
Leaving Kings Gross at lao we passed Hat
field platform at 2:29, and Temsford at
?;5233 these stations are exactly thirty miles
apart. AT 1853, exactly one hour from start
ing, we passed the mile stone 53!. Abbots,
Ripton and Holme stations. just six miles
apart, were run through at 3:l0f and 3:l5s,
respectively. Slowing down to ten miles al
hour we passed Peterborough at 5:23a, or
GOa minutes after Hatfield, the distance being
5Sl miles. We reached Stoke Box, one hum
bred miles from London, at 3:52t, having
come up the incline of 23f miles from
Peterborough in PSI minutes, speed othtty
miles an hour. The train stopped at Gran
lham at 1854, having run the 100 miles
from London at an average of 523 miles per
hour. Leaving Grantham at 4:l0, Newark,
l44 miles farther on, was passed at 4:25; Ret
lord, SO miles, at 4:4S4; Donca.ter, 5O9 miles,
at SOP; Selby, SO miles, at 5:2l!, and York,
W miles, was entered at 5:96!, hours and
w minutes after the departure from Lon
don. The speed from Grantham to Newark
averaged SO miles an hour, from Granthsm
. Retferd $50 miles, from Grlntham to
Doneaster 5Sl miles, from Grantham 10 Sell
BY %, and from Grantham to York 81 miles
an hour. Such an average speed as this last,
over S22 successive miles, with three slowings
down at Retford, Doncaster and Selby, has
Probably never been seen before. The 80
miles from Claypole (near Newark), to Selby
were run in 609 minutes. The 'Scotchman'
Of the Great Northern railway runs to Yorl;
in hours and 80 minutes, with minutes to
stop at Grantham. The lord MAYORS train
ran to York in 8 hours and 373 minutes and
stopped 10A minutes at Grantham. Inclul-
Ing stoppages it got over the ground to York
at an average speed OF 50 miles an hour"