Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-01
THE RAILWAYS

Z Project, to Compete With the North
western and st. Paul s. Omaha Lines
Baltimore g. Ohio Line Into New York,
tho Fourth Trunk Line-Erle sRe-Elec-
tomb. 8 o. Storage Raise, Etc.
The Mtl,yamEee q St. Pamrs Ne,c Scheme.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Nov. 30.-The Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway company has
about finished the survey for line from
Mason City to Council Bluffs, distance of
nearly 200 miles. This road will give the
company direct connection with the Union
Pacific road in this city, thus making Ii 9
competing line for Chicago business and
also placing 1t in position to demand Yecog
milton from the pool roads. One other OBJ
ject in building this line Is to give the Mil
waukea q st. Paul company o better and
stronger weapon to fight the Chicago b
Northwestern road. The building of this
road will also give the Milwaukee q st. Paul
company line between Council Bluffs and
st. Paul, thereby enabling it to compete
with the st. Paul & Sioux City road, which
connects with the Sioux City & Pacific road
at Sioux City, thus forming through line
to Council Bluffs; but as the Milwaukee g.
st. Paul road is to be run diagonally across
the State, the line will be many miles shorter
than the Sioux City route. Beside it will be
conn ection, while the other is but a con-
Meeting line and under two managements.
The Missouri Pac,fc's New acquisition.
ST.. LOUIS, Nov. S0.-The Post Dispatch
publishes circular from A. A. Talmadge.
general manager, dated Dec. l, which says.
'By the direction of the president hereby
assume charge of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway, its leased lines and branches.
This line will hereafter be known as the
Kansas & Texas division of the Kansas Pa
cifc railroad. TIE respective heads of the
Missouri Pacific railroad will extend their
supervision and direction over the same"
The principal officers are as follows: a. w.
Dickinson. assistant general superintendent;
Gen. A. Hill, general freight agent; F. O
Chandler, general passenger agenti T. j.
Porter, general attorney. All the
genera officers of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Taxas railroad are
removed, but 1t is likely some of them will
be offered positions Of some kind under the
new management. The headquartegs of the
A., K. & T., at Sedalia, will be closed and
with all the Offices will be moved to ST.
Louis, and of course all the st. Louis of
fees of that road will be abolished and the
business of the line transferred to the Of
fees of the Missouri Pacific. The matter of
division superintendent and some other of
foes are not yet arranged, but some addi-
tional appointments will probably be made
shortly.
This seems at last to settle the question of
the consolidation of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas road with the Missouri Pacific road.
There will probably be an election of new
board of directors for the consolidated roads
soon and it tis expected Jay Gould will re-
main president. These roads and their
branches embrace 1900 miles of line, the
Missouri Pacific having 1,075 and the Mis-.
souri,. Kansas & Texas 825. The whole sys-
tenn is in charge of Col. o. A. Talmadge,
who, when the extension of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas to Comargo, on the Rio
Grande,is completed, will probably have con-
troll of as many lines and miles of road as
any man in the country.
Among the deposed officers by this con-
solidation are r. Mitchell, general manager
of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas; w. T.
Robinson, traffic manager; u. G.. Sheaf,
superintendent of transportation; j. G. Sears,
general attorney; G. w. Lilley, general
freight agent; and Jas. D. Brown, general
passenger agent. The two last named gen.
tlemen will probably be offered the positions
of assistant freight and passenger agents on
the Missouri Pacific.