The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-18
United STATES RAILWAYS.

than $4,000 or $4,000 Of the shares are s1oat
in this market. A great block of the stock is
in Amsterdam.
There is large speculation for q rise in
the stocks of British railroads, buying having
been materially encouraged by the prospect
of improving trade, and the favorable COB
ditions of the money market.
Twenty-Five locomotives were shipped by
the Patterson shops during the month Of
April which shows the remarkable enterprise
of the proprietors of the works, the greater
part of which were recently consumed by
fire.
Gould was credited by the street gossips
on Tuesday last with the pIrchase Of about
10000 shares of NJ, X. and I. and large
blocks of Iron Mountain X Wabash. In all,
the street estimated that he had bought ut
least 100000 shares,
The newest thing in the way Of railroad
advertising is paper Of pins in pocket
wallet. .TheN0bash claims the invention. The
Travellers Accident company have gotten
out wallet VITA sheet Of sticlng-plaster
in it, ITO be ready in case of accident"
The Pennsylvania Railroad company seem
determined to keep up with their competitors
and are building Mt their shops in Altoona,
Pa, fast passenger engine TO run between
Philadelphia and New York, with five feet
eight-inch drivers. If it works satisfactorily
nine more of them will be built,
Material for the Texas & Pacific extension
continues to pour through the city in larger
volume than ever. All freight trains gong
west are more or less, and some exclusively
loaded with it. Yesterday ten or twelve
o,, 1,n1a ,e irNr ,ra,,t hy fnbarn IL NO lnDht
the road will be opened to Weatherford by
the LIST of June.
New York, May H.-A special express
train of four cars, pulled by a new locomo
tive which has but one six-and-a-half driving
wheels at each side, was run on a trial trip to-
day between Philadelphia and Jersey City;
and accomplished the distance, 80 mile, in 81
minutes. On the return trip to Philadelphia
the run was made in 9Ol minutes
Private advice received by j. NJ. Eddy
general agent Of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad, are to the affect that the
Denver and Rio Grand railroad is now open
{ business to South Arkansas, sixty miles
west of Carson City. This leaves only forty
miles of wagon haul between the end of the
tract; and LeadvilIe. The road will be COM
pleted to Leadville before June |.
The earning of the Central Pacific Rail-
road company for the month of April, 1880,
were 81 374, 900; do, 1879, 81 406 600 earn
ings first tour months, 1880 S4,995, l0l do.
1879, S4,9}2,7SO. The earnings for March,
1880, which are reported Through clerical
error rs 100000, should have been ST.
100000.
The Grand Trunk railway management
influenced by humane desire to promote the,
lives of brakemen in their employ are taking
steps to place ratings on the tops of the
cars, about two feet high, between which the
brakemen will walk By this means he will
run no risk in slipping or being swept of the
train, as is often the case during the preva-
lonce ola storm.
The St. Louis & Iron Mountain rail
road company has bought the steamboat
Shields ut Memphis, to replace the Rose
City, which was sunk on the 26th of March,
in the Red river, by running into a suag.
The Shields is to ply on the Red river above
the "raft," to bring cotton to the railroad at
Fulton. She left Memphis for the Red river
on Thursday, in command of Captain L. 7.
Bardley.
Several important extensions Of the Den
yer x Rio Grande are now rapidly progress
. Ing. One leads up the Arkansas valley
4 toward Leadvlle, with which point railway
connection over this route will probable be
established about or before July |. Another
line extends southwark from Aamosa, in
a San Luis valley toward New Mexico, and
3 the portion of this extension already COM
8 pleted is about thirty miles in length, the
4 point now reached being Conejos, and the
z road is graded for about forty miles further
3 south. The San Juan extension proceeds
s. westward from Alamosa to Silverton, dis
lance of 234 miles. 1t is expected that this
4 entire line will be completed before the close
s of another year.
" One hundred and twenty-five miles of the
N Canada &; Pacific railroad have been let in
British Columbia from New Westminster
east. The estimated cost of the road bed for
8 this distance is S9,00O000. The contractors
v have advertised for 5000 Chinese laborers.
y This demand for this sort of labor, with
"a that of the Oregon navigation and railway
"A company, who are building on a race with
the next harvest l29 miles down and around
the distractions of the Columbia, has put
&up the wages of Chinese workmen fifteen
cents day. The Northern Pacific, on its
Pend dOriclle division, has had to advance
the pay of its celestial graders from SIS to
Sl.00 per day.
IN The railroad earnings continue to show
& Every decided gains on the business of last
s year, and, as these earnings are accepted in
n some degree rs guage of the general bust
.8nes' of the couutry, the fact is one for con-
Y graduation, especially at time when there
Ia more or less complaints of reaction from
X the extraordinary activity of trade and traffic
last fall and winter. Thirty six roads repor-
(. ting for April, last year. and this, too, with
Is out any special influence it work to mike
the month an acceptional one, the whole
" list participates in the increase, with but two
AZ exceptions, the Central Pacific Il Toledo.
% Peoria & Warsaw. The March earning
X showed larger percentage of gain, which
B was due chiefly to the free movement in
" eastward-bound grain.
M Washington, May 13,-Representative L.
* John Ellis, of Louisiana, has prepared the
Subcommittee report Of the bill to extend
the Texas Pacific land grant. The report is
adverse to the bill, snd is j,ined in by Ellis
and Harmer (of Pennsylvania while Well
born, of Texas, the other member of the
Subcommittee, will prepare minority
\ report. The report of the majority finds
that the land grant should not be extended
because, first, the company has not built any
part of its road in California or Ari
iona, in which the land grant /;
situated. although the charter provided that
lt4COnstrOction should h,x;r H.