The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-10
UNITED STATES RAILWAYS.
Progress 81 Giant works Ia Hand
New Lines 90 Texas Number or
Miles HuiIt This Year Price OF
Rails Leases, Etc, Ele,

JrflaroLIS Easlern-This company IN
bsea organized 10 build u railroad from jet
Mrson, Texas, eastward tO Carolina liluils
La, on Red river, about 80 miles,
Monarch Pass, Gunnlson n Dolores-Tbl
company hns been incorporated In Colorado
10 build railroad from the Arkansas rive
At Cleora, near the mouth Of the South Ar
kansas, through Monarch Pass and by tho
Tumichi, Gunuisen and uncompnhgre rly-
ers TO Rico and Dolores,
Western North Carolina This road
owned by the StAte Of North Carolina, /
now completed from Salisbury, N, o., I,
Gudger's Ford, 1873 miles, The main line I,
extend seven miles further 10 Ashoylle, an(
thence i6 miles 10 Paint Rock on the Tenn
essee line, and branch Is 10 DO built 4
Ducktown, In the southwest corner Of th'
Stat,
Steel rails Orc little easier and quotation,
are $50 u $500 per ton nj mill, The mill
aro full Of work, but II Is thought that leal
OF foreign competition will keep prices down
Iron rails also are u little lower, Qulttlonl
vary from $50 per ton VI mill, for heavy
sections up TO So for light rails, md ever
S75 ON SIN il orders Old rails ARE very dull
and quotations nominal NJ $40 10 $40 pei
ton in Philadelphia.
Ls}rOnge tp-Armngements are being
m ,de 10 build this road from LaGrangc
Texas, ea't by south down the Colorado
river 10 Alleytown, on the Galveston, llar.
risburg Il san Antonio. The distance IL
about 30 miles through wcll-seltled coun,
try, Part of the proposed line was graded
,ao,a o.,n Ia, tho old InM.1n RaVnp
Brazos n Colorado company Ms part of a
road to Austin.
Nicksburg Shreveport Il Pacihc.-Work
is to be begun on the extension of this road
from Monroe, LN,, 70 Shreveport rs soon Ms
arrangements can be completed. 1t is the
intcntlon to begin nj both ends of the line ut
the same time. The company also intends
this season TO begin the work OF raising the
whole of the track from Delta Opposite
Vicksburg) TO Monroe, to avoid damage and
delay from high water
Atlanta Il Richmond Air Line,--lt is re-
ported that this company has bought the
knoxville Il Charleston road, now in opera.
ton from Knoxville, Tenn, to Marysville, rs
miles, with the purpose of extending 1t south
west to its own line ut Mt. Airy, Ga. The
line would probably follow the canon of the
Tennessee over into North Carolina and
cross into Georgia through Rabun Gap, fol-
lowing for most of the way the line surveyed
for the Blue Ridge road
South Pacific Coast.-Tunnel No. 3 on this
rcad is now through and will be ready for
the passage of trains in few days There is
now no obstacle remaining to the compile
ton of the road throughto Santa Cruz, and
il is expected that the track will be all laid and
trains running before the end Of April. The
tunnel Just flashed is g. 1866 feet long aud
presented many difficulties it has also been
the scene of two fatal explosions by which
nearly fifty Chinese aborers were killed.
Monopoly of the Electric Railway light.
The Union Electric Signal Co., of Bos-
ton, has purchased for $4,000 all the pat
ents of Frank. l.. Pope, 5. Q. Hendrickson,
ind the New York Electric Railroad Signal
Co., and also the patents of John b. Odell,
Elery p Warner an the Electric Improve
ment Co., of Galesburg, Illinois 1t is be-
lieved by the purchasers that these patents,
together with those already owned by the
Union Co.. give it control efthe electric sig
nal business for railroads.
The last number of the Railroad Gazette
contains information of the laying of track
on new railroads as follows:
Morgan's Louisiana Il TeXas-Extended
from New IBERIA Louisiana, north by west
to Vermllionvile, Is miles, completing the
road.
Connotton Valley-Extcnded from Oaei-
da, Ohio, northwest to Canton, II miles
Gauge, feet.
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western-Ex-
tended from Carbonate, Wisconsin, north
ward to Norrie miles
This is n total of AZ miles Of new railr ad,
making 795 miles thus far this year, against
29S miles reported for the CORES ponding
peri I'd in 1879, 226 in 1873, aud l6j in 1871.
Atchison, Topeka IL Santa Fe and the
Denver Il Rio Grande.-The United States
Circuit court has made final decree, ratfy-
ing and approving the compromise sgree-
ment which is to end all litigation between
these companies. 1t will be remembered that
this agreement provides for division of dis
puted territory, the Rio Grande to have the
line through the Arkansas Canon and to
Leadvile, and the right to build to the San
Juan Region, while The Sante F5 Is to have
the New Mexican business: that is, the Rio
Grande is to nave all the territory west and
northwest of Pueblo, and the Santa Fe all
south and southwest of that place. The Rio
Grande is to pay the Santa Fe company
about 81 100000 for work already done in the
Arkansas Canon, and for material bought
for that line. The agreements now finally
fixed and determined, and is to stand for ten
years.
Authority of Company to Lease Rail
road.-In Thomas and others against tho
West Jersey Co., us successor to Millvllle "
Glassborro Co., the United States Supreme
court holds as follows: /. In the absence Of
express authority in its charter, a
company has no right TO transfer its road
and franchises to other parties and thus rem
der itselfu unable 10 perform the duties which
its charter directly or by implication i'm
poses. @ When corporation like a rail
road company has granted to it by chart
intended in large measure to be exercised
for the public good, the due performance OF
this function being the consideration of the
public grant, any contract which disables
that corporation from performing such tunc-
ton. which undertakes without consent OF
the State to transfer to others the rights and
powers conferred by the charter, and relieve
the grantees of the burden which it imposes,
is violation of the contract with the State,
and is void as against public policy. o.