The Phoenix herald. (Phoenix, Maricopa County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1879-1882, 1880-11-12
RAILROADS ~ aEExdCo.
Terms CT the Concession Re
Gently Granted by the
Government.

DENVER, (Col), Oct. 16th.-An Of
fetal copy Of the railway concession
| recently granted by the Mexican
Government, authorized to be formed
by Palmer and Sullivan, has been re-
| ceived. and the Mexican National
Construction company organized
here under the laws OF Colorado to
| work the concession. The contract
! Is for the construction in eight years
of 300 miles Of narrOw-gauge rail
road, with telegraph from the City Of
Mexico 10 the frontier of the United
States and to the Pacific Ocean, in
consideration of a money subsidy
averaging $4,000 per mile. The
total subsidy, payable in railroad
| construction certificates issued on
the completion of the first ninety-two
miles, and thereafter as each twelve
are built, amounts to upwards Of
$14, 100000. The absolute bonus
payment assured by the provision
applicable to all custom houses, ma
Rhine and frontier, that NO payments
in coin or otherwise than in these
railroad construction certificate
four dollars in every hundred of
duties due under penalty of second
payments. The obligation of the Gov
eminent is limited to four per cent
of import duties in any year. Certi-
ficates can only be bought of the
Company, which is compelled to
keep agencies for their sale in each
port, and is prohibited from exacting
more than par for them.
The Government binds itself for
the whole contact period of Binety-
nine years not 10 grant any subsidy
to parallel lines within sixty-fve
miles on either side, and permits the
company to accept additional subsi-
dies from State Governments
exempts for fifty years after the road
is completed, from Ma ional, State,
or municipal duties or taxes all ma
terial for the construction, operation
and maintenance excepting only |
stamp dues; requires mails and mes
sengers carried free, and Federal |
troops and immigrants arriving |
under Government assignment be |
carried go per cent. less than |
regular tariff: stipulates that tar
ifs shall not, without company's |
consents, be changed for 90
years: Classics passenger t4riffs
first class, 3 6-10c.; second, size;
third class, 2 6-10c. per mile; mer-
chandise, first class, SIC. per ton;
second, 9-10c.; third, Sic. per
ton per mile. The right OF way OF
900 feet is granted through all pub
lie lands and use OF timber, stone,
water, etc, thereon free right of con-
demnatlon of private lands under the
same regulations as govern the tax
ing of private property fer public
service Vessels laden with railway
and telegraph Supplies are exempted
from all dues for fifteen years after
the lines are completed, except pilot
age. Passengers. mails, and merchan-
disc for tTansist across Mexico are
exempt for twenty-five years after the
completion from all dues except
transit duty not excepting 81 per |
passenger or per ton. The interna-
tional line must be completed from
the city of Mexico to the Texas
border at Laredo, or other point be-
tween Laredo and Eagle Pass. within
eight years. The Pacific line must
be completed to Manzanillo, or any
point between that and Navadad,
within five years. Two hundred and
miles, divided in any
desired proportion between the two
Ii es, must be completed every two
ye RS; but there is prohibition
against beginning the construction
at the United States frontier until
the last.
1t Is announced the company ex-
2ect to finish the international line
10 the Rio Grande border, 800 miles,
and to effect an unbroken communi-
cation with the railway system of
the United States within three years
The first section of the line is already
accepted, and a thousand men and |
i've thousand tons OF steel rails or
lered for the work. The company
has one of its officers at Colorado
Springs, and one at the City of Mexi-
20; but the I'rincipal Office will be in
New York, It's subscription of four
dollars, made up last Sum
ner by General Palmer, upon con-
litiOn of securing concession, will !
low-he called up by the Union Con
'tTuction Company in installments
to do the work.
Put away their little lances;
They will never need them more.