The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-10-13
Industrial Items.
RAILWAY, ART AND MANUFACTURE
ING NEWS.

ING NEWS.
Seven hundred Portuguese are 10Y
on the way to work Louisiana sugar
plantations.
The Boston and Maine Railroad is to
have a double track the entire distance
from Portland to Boston.
The New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio Railroad has contracted for 1000
new box and 1000 stock cars.
North Carolina has now sixty-four
cotton mills, having added ten the past
year, making a total of III, 75s spindIes.
The Westinghouse automatic brake
has been applied to 1927 engines and
1892 cars, and the non-automatic to
2,472 engines and S,Sl2 cars.
The Miami Valley marrow gauge
road is emerging from its troubles, and
under the name of the Cincinnati
Northern is to be built at once.
The railroad boom has struck Missis-
sippi. Seven lines are projected, and
steps will be taken to put the projects
into practical execution at ono
The track of the Texas-Pacific is now
laid to a point in Stephens county III
miles west of Dallas. Iron is being
laid at the rate of mile per day.
The New Orleans, st. Louis and Chi
cago Railroad shows a movement of
303, 74S tons for the year, a gain of over
SO, 1000 tons. The cotton receipts ex-
ceeded 4OO, GOO bales.
The surveys for a tunnel under the
St. Lawrence River, near Montreal,
are being thoroughly made by Walter
Stanley. The project is generally
considered visionary.
The Chicago, st. Louis and New Or
leans Railroad Company has broken
ground at Cairo for the construction of
its large elevator, whose capacity will
be / 900, 900 bushels.
The st, Louis and Southeastern Rail-
road is to be sold October q to satisfy
judgments, by order of the United
States Court. The total debts are be-
tween $l2, 600, 900 and Sl3, ZOO 1000.
Newfoundland is to have a railway
narrow gauge from st. Johns to
Green Bay, 300 miles, with branches
to Harbor Grace and Brigas. 1t is ex-
pected to developed the miningandag-
ricultural interests of the island. The
surveys are being made.
In August, 1856, the Mississippi and
Missouri Railroad, now part ofthe Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific, ran the
first train west of t.e Mssi- ippi in
Iowa. Now the Sla.c as nearly 5000
miles of ouerated :a.l-rotu, and only
four Sta;-s exceed il IN mileage.
Some thirty or forty purchasers of
land in Western Iowa from the Chica-
20, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
aboutthree years agostopped payments,
claiming that the company's title was
invalid The cast has just been tried,
and the Judge directed the jury to find
for the railway con pany.
The total tonnage movement over the
New Orleans, st. Louis and Chicago
Railroad for the year ending August l
shows shipments of 1Oo, Up tons, and
receipts, 2O3, 7l2-a total of 303, 743 tons,
against 252, $50 for the preceding twelve
months. The cotton receipts by this
route exceeded 400, 1000 bales, by far the
largest on record.
The Connecticut River Railroad Com
pany, which is already operating the
Vermont Valley from Brattleboro to
Bellows Falls, VT and the Ashuelot
(from South Vernon, VT, to Keene
\. H., is to operate the Manchester
and keene Railroad, under the trus-
tees. 1t connects keene with the Pc
terboro Railroad at Greenfield, n. H.
In Russia the railroads are so many
separate thread-lines, no network being
formed. Thus two lines are il'stanced
which run parallel to each other for
nearly 800 miles and have no connec-
ton. The result is that to get from
one town to another, almost in the same
latitude, a long journey north has to be
made and then a return to the south.
John T. Raymond is playing in st.
Louis