The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-21
UNITED STATES RAILWAYS.
xumber OF Miles Buiit this Week
Progress, Facts, Figures aud Items
ofIniersst Asout New And old
Lines-And they are All Fay
ing Coed Dividends,

has lot contract Tor mo extension pI 10
road nom Sulphur Springs, Texas, westward
10 FarmeFylle, AZ miles, A mortgage "a 70
be put upon the new road NJ the rate Of
$1,000 per mile
Leadylle a Great Eastern, This company
has been organized ~ build n railroad from
Leadylle Colorado, 10 Pueblo, and thence
eastward 10 the Kansas line, II all tho com
NAMES organized build their roads, Leadylle
will have more railroad lines than Chicago
81. Louis a. San Fmncsco,-A 81, Louis
dispatph says that this company haa ordered
survey of branch line irom Pierce City,
Missouri, southwark 10 Fayetteville, Arkan'
sas, with the intention Of continuing the sur,
,ey through Western Arkansas 10 Tokark'
ANA,
SNow them" said tho professor Of color
blindness 10 tho engineer, "plck out MI the
red. that YOU fee," The engineer looked
wildly around ana grabbed tho professors
nosc, "That will do, said tho other men,
beers Of the examining board "fouF GER
tfcate Is ready
Des Moines & Kansas City. This compa-
nv has filed articles of incorporation In Iowa
for railroad from Des Mones south by west
In MS direct line US possible TO Kansas City,
Mo-. nearly 900 miles. Tho capital stock II
10 be ~, 100000, and s., 500, 900 Is fixed NJ
limit for the debt
Atlantic Il North Oarollna.-Mr, W. j.
Best, representative Of tho syndicate which
Is n purchase the Western North Carolina
road, has made an Oti0r 10 Tense this road Tor
term OF years. The Board has decided 10
submit tho proposal 10 the stockholders, and
has called special meeting for April 20
The Wason Car and Foundry company, ~
chattanooga, Tenn, has nearly filled liz con
tract for cars for tho Cincinnati Southern,
and has begun on ono hundred box cars for
the Western " Atlantic, aud on another or
der Tor twenty flat cars for the Marietta u
North Georgia road. The foundry has re'
Gently filed a large order for car castings to
80 to Texas.
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe.-Tho track
on this company's main line ia now reported
laid to Albuquerque, N. NJ, 30 miles south
by west down the Rio Grando from the late
terminus nj Wallace, 1913 miles beyond Las
Vegas, and 904 miles from Atchison. Albu-
qurque is to be the junction with the Allan
tic Il Pacific line 10 California. Work is be-
ing pushed on the line down the Rio Grando
TO III Paso
Union PaciRc.-Tho canal department re-
ports that in March there were sold 33 ,0O6,.
q acres for Sl57G07 80, an average of Si772
per acre. The number of purchasers was
$40, making an average or 9l.l3 acres to
each. During the month 100 cars of emil
grant movables and ZIG emgrant teams were
carried West over the Omaha bridge. There
were 900 single and l6i round-trip emigrant
and land tickets taken up on trains between
Omaha and North Platte, and Ala single and
III round-trip tickets sold nj the Council
Bluffs and Omaha land offices.
Illinois Central. For the month Of March
the traffic on this company's lines was ms
follows:
In Illinois. ............ Si75, 32i 90 S4O0, 100 Al
In Iowa, leased lines. lli, 67l % S,OOl %
Total SOl0,905 90 s5l2, 100 %
Increase. Pc
In an sscd lnss, saSt 81 80
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. sS1,S3i 90 l65
During March, 1880, the land sales were
4274 % acres for $26,2l4 81, and the cash
collected on land contracts WAS Sl5,l73 ~.
This weeks Railroad Gazette contains in
formation of the laying of the track on new
railroads rs follows. Texas u st. Louis
Extended from Mt. Pleasant, Texas, south
west to Pittsburgh, u miles. Gauge, 8 feet.
Gulf, Colorado Il Santa Fe- from
Belleyille, Texas, northwest to Brenham, II
miles. Atchison, Topeka " Santa Fe.-Ex-
tended from Wallace, n. NJ, south by west
to Albuquerque, 35 miles. Barnwell "
Blsckvilie Completed from Blackville ;.
c., southwest to Barnwell, 13 miles. This is
total of II miles of new railroad, making
964 miles thus far this year, against S26mlles
reported for the corresponding period in
1879, 258 in 1878, and 232 in 1877.
Texas 81 st. Louis. Track on this road is
now Ibid to Pttsburg, Texas, 70 miles south
west of Texarkans, and. II miles beyond the
late terminus at Mount Pleasant Regular
trains will soon run to Pittsburg, which is
the crossing of the East Line & Red River
road. Work is in progress on the "a miles
from Pittsburg to Ferguson, whence the
company has q miles completed to Tyler.
The company is considering the question OF
building a branch from Bedon to Danger
Geld. II miles. 1t will probably be done if
local aid is offered The line west of Tyler
will be let as fast ms located, and the addi-
tional iron needed $4,000 tons) has been pur-
chased to carry the track to Texarkana Ar
ranpements have been made to complete the
line to Waco at once.
Atlantic & French Broad Valley Work
has begun on this road, which is to run from
Bolton, S. c., on the Greenvlle u Columbia
road, northward to Asheville, n. C., dis
lance of 96 miles. The line will cross the
Blue Ridge al Eastate Gap, and exceptional
advantage, are claimed forit. The maximum
grade will be 65 feet to the mile, and much
of the work being light, the only heavy
work being II miles through Eastern Gap
and across the mountains, while even there
much cheaper line can be made than by the
Blue Ridge survey. By this reute also, the
distance from Bolton TO Knoxville, Tenn,
will be seven miles less than by the Blue
Ridge line, while the building of the 40 miles
from Asheville to Wolf Creek is provided
for. and the 70 miles from Wolf Greek to
Knoxville are already in operation.
The Carolina Central road is to be sod
under foreclosure in Wilmington, North
Carolina, May 81. 1t extends from Will
mington through Charlotte. to Shelby, 242
miles: its bonded debt consists of S3,OOO,OOO
first and 100000 second mortgage bonds,
and there are also 100000 Wilmington
Bridge company bonds guaranteed, on which
interest has been regularly paid. The stock
is $40 1000. The road was originally the
Wilmington, Charlotte u Rutherford, and