The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-06
UNITED STATES RAILWAYS.
Number of Miles Built on Old and n ew
Roads-Ana Many Other Items
of Interest.

marck 10 Fort Lincoln, where the rive
channel is better suited for the transfer boat
and better landing can be made than u
Bismarck.
Texas papers state that this company
engineers have begun survey of lin,
from San Antonio to Fl Paso. They are t.
be assisted bv the engineer of the Galveston
Harrisburg & San Antonio road
Southern Arizona. company ha,
been organized to build a railroad from
Tombstone, Arizona, the centre ofthe Tomb
stone mining district, to the Southern Pacific
at the crossing ofthe San Pedroriger. A sur
vey is now being made.
The Canadian minister of railways and ca
mails announces that the enlarged Welland
canal will be opened next season for nayiga.
ton of vessels drawing twelve feet of water
Its expected that a depth Of fourteen feet
will be completed in 1882.
Southern Pacfe.-Track on the Arizona
division is now laid to Tombstone So miles
eastward from Tucson, where station has
been established. This point is near u large
mining district. A considerable traffic is re-
port ID Ms coming to Tucson from the Mex
lean State of Sonora.
Southern Minnesota is Civ, II that
holders of Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany certificates for construction bonds can
exchange them for Chicago Milwaukee II
ST. Paul & per cent bonds at the rate of 81,
80 for each old bond and past-due coupons,
on presentation at the Trust Companys Of
fee in New York.
Little River Valley Il Arkansas.--This
company is making arrangements to extend
its road from Maiden, Missouri, southwest
eighteen miles to st. Francis river. The ex-
tension will enter country very rich in
lumber, and now without any facilities for
transportation. The road is Of three feet
gauge, and now runs from Maiden east of
north to New Madrid, on the Mississippi, g
distance of twenty-seven miles.
Northern Pacific. The new track of the
Missouri division is being lined up and lev
eled, and regular trains will probably be put
on about May /, to run the Y-switch, 5S4
miles from Bismarck. The following sta,
tons have been established River Landing,
8 miles from Bismarck; West Side, Mandan,
81 miles; Comanche, lil miles; Sweet Briar,
2l3 miles; Spur, so miles; Blue Grass, 50
miles: By's Mine, 40f miles; Curlew, 81!
miles; Y, 5Sl miles.
A conductor on one of the Bost horse
cars has been absent from neighhoring town
for over fifteen years Last week, having
been granted a vacation on account of sick
ness, he thought he would revisit the scenes
of his youth. Judge of his surprise when lie
was received as one risen from the dead and
informed that tablet comnemoratrg his
memory rs one Of the volunteers who had
fallen in the late war was about to be placed
in the town Memorial hall.
Steel rails are quoted at S75 per ton Mt
mil, with sales of about $1,000 tons. For
eign rails have been sold MS low as $40 per
ton at mill. For iron rails there is al active
demand, but few transactions are reported.
buyers being inclined to bargain and hold
off for lower prices. Prices are somewhat ir-
regular, $50 per ton at mill being about the
quotation for heavy rails. Old iron rails are
nominal at S3l to S35 per ton, with light de-
mand and weak market, Railroad spikes
are lower, and PittsburG quotations are four
cents per pound.
Lookout Maintain.--At a meeting held At
Chattanooga Tennessee, last week, the Rome
& Summervlle and the Memphis Branch
companies we're consolidated with this com
pany. BY this acton most of the companies
projecting parts of the proposed line from
Chattanooga to Rome Georgia. are brought
into one corporation, and the company fur
ther secures $4,000 in stock subscriptions,
twenty -four miles of graded road-bed and
bridge over the Oostanaula river. The con
tract for the road has been let to G. r Illus
ton Il Co., who have just flashed the Cincin
natl Southern.
The Richmond Gazette of the Both con-
tains information of the laying of track on
new railroads as follows: Cleveland, Tus-
caravans Valley Il Wheeling east
by south to Bridgeport, Ohio, miles.
franklin Il Pittsylvania. -Complete from
Hittsvi!le, Pennsylvania, westward to Rocky
Mount, SO miles. Gauge, feet. Missouri
Pacitic.--rte Ottawa branch of the Kansas
IL Arizona division is completed from Osaw-
atomic, Kansas, west by north to Ottawa, u
miles. Pennsylvana-The Southwest Penn.
sylvana branch is extended from Olphant,
PENNSYLVANIA, southwark to Fairchance,
miles. Southern PaciGc.-Eytended from
Tucson, Arizona, To Tombstone, 30 miles.
This is Il total of 100 miles of new railroad,
making 1886 miles thus far this year, against
3Sl miles reporte AT the same time in 1879,
oG7 miles in 1873, and 269 miles in 1871
Railroad Gazette: Our table has reports
of earnings Tor March Tor no less Vhah %
railroads, which worked in the aggregate this
wear 20 $50 miles of road, which is about 50
per cent ofthe tltal mileage in operation in
the United States Of the whole number
there are only two t,he Central Pacific and
the international 4 Great Northern) whose
total earnings were not larger than in March
of last wear, and only three which have
smaller earnings per mile of road, although
the aggregate mileage Of the 5S roads has IN
creased per cent. in the year. The increase
in aggregate earnings has been more than
$4,000, 600, or 80 per cent, and the average
earnings per mile Of road have increased from
S6l0 to S71s, or about 10 per cent.-the
largest increase yet reported. Many OF the
roads show vast improvement -four an in,
crease of more than 100 per cent. in total
earnings, while thoss which have an increase
of 80 per cent. or more in earnings per mile
of road number no less than eight, including
the Cairo & St. Louis increase SO per cent,
the Canada Southern ISL, Chesapeake II
Ohio (6sJl, Denver, South Park n Pacific
(l73), North Wisconsin (97), Peoria, Deca-
tur 4 Evansville (1o6), the main line of the
ST. Louis, Alton " Terre Haute (55), and the
Wisconsin Valley go per cent?. Most OF
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