The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-30
RAILWAY NOTES.


San Marcus Nutshell: The railroad ex-
tension is now running across York's creek
and is making things hum about fifteen miles
: further on. 1t will only be a day or two
before they reach the Guadalupe.
Galveston News The east levee is the
scene Of busy life in forwarding railroad
iron. Yesterday the five schooners Caroline,
o, Jennings, Reliable No. l, Stonybrook
and Gill, loaded with the iron which was
brought here some time ago by the British
steamship Hsllsmshire and they will sail as
soon as they get fair wind. This iron is for
the Corpus Christi and San Diego Narrow
Gauge railroad, and is destined to the former
place.
The annual report of the Georgia Central
railroad shows that the total earnings for
the fiscal year Just closed were So, 100, 4S9,
expenditures ST, $50 254, leaving net reve-
nue. of ST. ,537 1884. The gross earnings were
$685. 43 more than during the previous
year, while the expenditure only increased
$36 ,253, leaving the net income S329,6S9
more than the previous year The presi-
dent of the company says the increased earn
ings of the road last year were in the main
due to the general prosperity Of the entire
country and the universal revival of business.
A very important line of railroad is now
approaching completion in Russia, connect
ing the Caspian sea and the Caucasls with
Moscow. The gap of All miles between
TiAs, the capital of Caucasus, and Baku,
en- the Caspian, is being rapidly filled up;
but in the smaller gap between T'his and
range, engineering difficulties of formula
Ia R,, thn al
ton of this road Moscow will be brought
within tour days journey of the Caspian.
Branch lines are to be built to Kars, Erivan
and the Persian frontier.
The lines of rail ways ia the FIVE divisions
of the earth cost, in round numbers SIG,
GOO 100000, and would, according to Baron
Kolb, reach eight times around the globe,
although it is but little over half a century
since the first railway worked by steam was
opened between Darlington and Stockton,
September 81, 1925, and between Msnches-
ter and Liverpool September TO- 1880. 1t
is shown that in France, previous to the ex-
istence Of railways, there was one passenger
in every $4,000 killed, and one out Of every
10000 wounded, whereas between 1885 and
1876 there was but one in 5, 1880 killed,
and one in $50, $50 wounded so that we may
infer that the tendency to accidents is yearly
diminishing.
General s. B. Maxey, writing of Texas
wheat, in the Galveston Oily News, says its
quality is excelled by that of no state in the
union, and unequaled by any produced east
of the Rocky mountains II ripens from
two to six weeks earlier than the wheat of
other states which should enable Texas,
with proper facilities Of transportation, to
place new -four in South American ports in
advance of all competitors. AS the balance
of trade against the United States, and in
favor of Brazil, is about S35, 900, 900, a large
share of this ought to be captured by Texas
developing her wheat production for that
market. General Msxey says Texas is caps-
BILE of producing for expectation "a 100000
bushels of wheat without interfering with
other crops.
The well-known Liebeg extract Of meat is
prepared at Fray Benton, in Bueuos Ayres,
on the banks of the Uruguay river, 100 miles
above its junction with the Parana. The
establishment is owned by an English CON-
paDy, with capital of 100000 From
December to May 1000 to 100 bullocks
aud COWS are daily disposed Of, at the rate
of eighty an hour $50 men being employed
by the company. The extract is prepared
by boiling down the choicest parts Of the
meat. The remainder of the beef is sailed
and dried. The hides, horns bones, tails
and fat are turned to the best uses and ma q
into valuable articles of trade. The estab.
lishment yields says, the London Times, e8l,
COCA year, burns 5000 tons of coal, and
consumes 100 quintals of salt.
The Pennsylvania railroad company i, in
a condition of marvellous prosperity, and
this year will expsnd over six millions fol
permanent Improvements The estimated
surplus over expenses, out Of which the cos
of the improvements is to be paid, is sbou
ten millions; made up of eight millions, est
mated net earnings; 81, 6OO0 900 received FOL
damages from the Pittsburg riots
and $l200,000 for its stock il
the Richmond & Danvills snC
connecting lines. There will bs paid ,
dividend TO stockholders of six per cent.
and the balance expended in the permanent
improvement OF the company's property
The greatest undertaking ia the extension il
Philadelphia from Thirty.second and Mar
ket streets to Fifteenth and Market, dis
tsncs of seventeen squares, which will brinl
the depot into the heart of the city. The
estimated cost of this work is between thre,
and four millions, and all of it is To be don't
in the NEST substantial manner.
The Russian railways are owned by the
government. They have been built for the
most part for stragetie purposes, and with
out any regard to their use by the CONNER
cial or travelling public. Hence it happens
according to a late report by the British
consul-general, Stanley, that 10 Russia thu
railways are so many through lines, with NJ
branch lines connecting with them. As al
illustration he instances two lines which rur
parallel to each other for nearly five hundre.
miles, and have not single transverse lin,
connecting with them for the whole Of tina
distance. The result is, that to get from
one town to another, almost in the anne lat
itude, the traveller has to take long jour
ney north by the one line and then return
south by the other so that to get to tw,
towns only three hundred and fifty mile
apart, it is necessary to make a railway jour
ney up one line and down another of sevel
hundred and fifty miles.
In the Brazilian empire, in 1857, Their
were only six limos of railway running owe
427 kilometers. In 1872, the lines had in
creased to fifteen, with 1925 Kilometres il
1876, twenty-five lines, with 1850 kilometers
and there are now, 1880, thirty.one line:
with 8,059 kilometers q 1856 miles, in trafC
and 1910 kilometers (l,l46 miles) in pro
gress of construction, altogether 1860 kilo
meters (27Sl miles, The most Conspicuou