The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-20
nv, d STATES RAILWAYS.

Tho railways for the first week in May
n show very large gains in their earnings
over the corresponding period last year
n The Louisville Il Nashville Railroad com.
ID many has cancelled its contract with the I'M
II ion Express company, and will hencesorth
n do the express business ever its line on its
II own account,
n The Indicator; 1t is an encouraging sign
#of the lines that application has been made
n Al Castle Gardea for the services of 1000 i'm.
N migrants to work on the Denver II Rio
n Grande railway which is to run from Denver
&City to III Paso. Texas. Fair wages were
& offered and the fresh arrivals will get steady
n employment.
n The ST. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway company has decided that commence
Eing June next it will do its own express bus
Illness and for that purpose has organized an
express department with Mr. K. G. Kerens us
manager and Mr. James Aiken rs supern-
Ftendent. The reason for this is the railway
company believes it can serve the public bet
/ ter and at cheaper rates and with more ia
cilities and be enabled by doing its own bus
mess to increase materially the receipts on &C.
count OF the express business.
The FL Paso & Guaymas road will run
through magnificent country which be-
longs to Old Mexico. Guaymas is on the
Pacific coast with nothing but q fathomless
bed of sind in and around it, but
Immediately after leaving the coast the coun-
try becomes rich. fertile and beautiful, with
a climate more soft, balmly and salubrious
than California, and more nearly approx
mating Italy, As we progress this way,
magnificent agricultural and grazing lands
are found, whilst the mountains abound in
gold, silver, copper, lead, coal and othe de-
postp, which for want Of race of men have
lain dormant since the stars first sang to-
gether in the morning. The road will quick
/ " lead to American towns, villages, schools,
mills, mining companies, and every other
\ Ell ment of civilization, along it, as well as
throughout all other portions of old North
ern Mexico and Lower California. GuaymaS
/ has finer harbor than San Francisco. And
+ from FL Paso another trunk-line
will strike south toward the city of Mexico.
The Mexicans vehemently deny that they are
Opposed to Americans building roads
through t0eir country, and say they are ready
Ito grant liberal charters and give subsidies
|besides. 1t is not possible for their country
/ to much longer remain in its present unde-
yeloped state.
San Francisco Chronicle: Z Estado de
Mexico contains an interesting article on the
subject of railroads and telegraph enterprises
h now being pushed forward in Mexico. We
n translate the substance of the facts given,
+ which will be of interest TO American readers.
\ The American steamship, City of Mexico,
arrived at Vera Cruz with great quantity
+ of material destined for the construction of
the Tehuantepec lnteroceanic railroad, while
at the same time two American sailing vessels
had arrived at the isthmus loaded with mate.
rial for the new line. Rails have already
been laid down for a distance of u few miles,
and the first locomotive is running over the
+ track carrying supplies. The Governor of the
state of ONxaca, great advocate Of railroads,
has gone to Tehusntepoc to visit that region
4 and aid in the enterprise. An important
+ railroad t. connect the city OF Meril4, the
/ capital of the State of Yn"atsn, with the
port of Progreso, the principal seaport Of
i the State, is almost completed
4 The Inc from Pachuca to
Talancingo, two important cities
\ of the sat: of Hidalgo, one being in the
h midstof rich agricultural region and the
Otntr III mineral Uell. Is uelhS C"hlplelel
( rapidly. When finished it will complete d.
h rect communication with the capital Ometus
co, on the Vera Cruz railroad. Another
Z line from Puebloto San Martin Texmelucan
is being built rapidly and will pass through
n an agricultural region famous for its grea
"A productveness. There are other new enter
a prises under way of like character. New
telegraph lines are rapidly being CONSTRUCTED
in various parts of the country, and the jour
nal named gives long list of new office
that have opened recently. Mazatlan anC
n Culiacan, to the south, and Guaymas an(
q Ures to the north, are being linked by tele
n graph. These places are well-known to Cal
Fl ifornia miners and specu ators rs importan
IA centres Of trade 1t is motto able that tn
n United States is now furnishing Mexico witt
II vast quantities of material for railroad am
telegraph building, and there are grca
h many American engineers and TELEGRAPH
men employed. In former times Englan
81 shipped the larger share Of material, but nuN
h has to be r. d sec ond on the lit The cord 8
n feeling existing between the United ST. t.
n and Mexico for some time pat has Zone
r great deal toward dyerting trade to the Uni
n ted States. W tn amity existing bctwee
Fl both nations, both viii be mutual sharers II
Il vast and N .otitable reciprocal commerce.