The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-01-13

The Texas % Pacific Tii sell tn9 loWn o.
Abilene on the Goth. The Central will
cross there, it will be- division point on the
Pacific, aud will be great toxin immediately
if not sooner. .,
Tho Atehison, Topeka s. Santa Fe rail-
road company, by its president, I. ). Jeifer-
son Coolidge, has issued a circular 70. its
stockholders formally Offering them Is per
cent. additional stock, as was anticipated IN
the dispatches to the Sunday Times from
this city. The circular assigns as reason
for this increase of wo king capital OF the
road the need of excessive repsirs Of track
and read-bed in order to mset the rapidly in
creasing business. a portion Of the circular
ia AS follows I'm few weeks We shall
probably have, reached Florida pass and
made connection with the Southern Pa
cifc. This will increase our business by
giving us part of the through travel and
freight to and from California, and We an
ticipate a demand from the mining region OF
Arizona for col and eeke, for mining ma
terisls, food and forage. We think, there-
fore, that that portion of our road extending
from Albuquerque down to the southern
mart of New Mexico, which has not been
able to earn anything because not compile
ted, will furnish its share of receipts. The
crops of Kansas are looking better than they
have borne for two years, and we hope to
see our transportation increased in this state.
Rr. the rood is not in a suitable condition TO
:. .ue ...gs ,.-.ness which has already
come upon it. Oar earnings for the past year,
amounting to S8,500.000 have been seri-
ously interferod with by the condition of our
track AID the want of suitable rolling stock,
and cur best customers and friends on the
line in Kausss and New Mckee have not re-
ceiyed the accommodation which We would
have gladly given them ii We had been able
TO-"
Coal is so scarce in Indiana tho railroads
are building now tracks with special reference
to touching beds Of it. The stockholders in
the Indianapolis s. Springfield railroad pro-
iect met and voted to build brtnch from
The main line between Bainbridge aad Book
vile TO Brazil, in Clay county, so as TO tap
the coal fields. Directors were elected, headed
by John L9e, of Montgomery, and Gen. Tom
Morris, of Marion county. The In ;ianspolis
Coal & Southern railway company was form
ally incorporated with capital Of 81, 500, 900.
The couaty was asked 10 appropriate $780,
900, and the county commissioners ordered q
popular vote on the proposition, TO TO held
February IA. The coal fever has also struck
the projectors Of the old Sullivan line, snd q
meeting in its interests has teen called for
the DIST inst. There is plenty of coal in the
rited States. but it is poorly managed OF
gathered. Like Texas the people of the
western states have suffered for ii this winter.
The Railroads.
Jay Gould is expected in Galveston abou,
this lime.
R.T. Wilson says the Macon & Brunswicli
railroad will be completed in the aesr fataro.
Waco has raised enough to secure dept
grounds in the city and the right of WY
through tho county for Gould's NJ, X. y }.
extension, and is happy.
An appraiser is now inspecting the prop
erty of the Railway Express cooi sany, visit
ing tho offices along the line of the company
for the purpose Of fixing the value of the
property, preparatory TO its transfer to the
Adams and southern.
1t Is only two or three years since Mr..
Vanderbilt, during tho scramble among the
railroads for tho Limited amount Of business
then offered, remarked: "Four trunk lines 10
the east and not business enough for on. J"
Now Mr.. Vanderbilt is uns bic TO take care Of
The traffic which i, poured upon his great
your-track line, while all the ether roads are
similarity blocka1ed with business.
The Massachusetts railroad commissioners
have, for the second time, refused to grant
any routes for tho posed.eleyated railroads
In Boston, and seem to consider the proposed
schemes imprsotioablo, on account of the
damage to property if tho roads were built.
Philadelphia dots not consider elsvatod roads
good things either, in consequence ef the
damage to property aAd fesr Of passengers Of
accidents.
A Provid nee citizen on beard of Boston
and Providence railroad train refused to give
10 kis ticket because tho conductor did mel
firnish him with a suitable seat. Upon bis
arrival at Providence no was arrested, and
spent the following night in a cell. Lie
Afterwards brought s9it against the company,
dnd the court awarded him $3.50 damages
aud the supreme court has now affirmed tbs
decision.
Tue Atlanta Constitution wants the Gsor-
A. Tes.erA road, ana Wagis i bad, Sgt Il
q saot believe any Of the corporations new
"foo.iag" with il intend to build 10 The
Constitution s.vs csnhdsntislly: ut rover
will be bull IL We await the action Of corpo-
rstions whose axes are net eur axes. We
have got TO build the road, and we should
build It, becauss we would DO its great bens-
Gciaries. Ard the sooner we get down TO
businefs--ihAt is, the sooner We go down TO
cur own pockets instead OF those Of the pee
pie of Duln.h or Skoghogsn-the better"
Colonel McGhee. vice presiSeEt and masa-
ger Of the Wilson s. McGhee systems, 10 dis
cutsing the condition Of the south, said 81
rever saw such prosperity az we have In East
Tennessee Mt preleat. The whels country
Ia teeming with prodscs Of all sorts, and il
locks as II the msteriRl wealth Of That favored
sectic- were eKhaustless. Our trains arc
lossed TO their capacity all tho time. Ia.
deed, Il would be impossible for our roads to
earn enoi her dollar than they arc nov earn
ing with their present rolling stock. They
are carrying all that the cars. will hold and
tie engines can pull"
The trouble between the Baltimore s
Ohio ana PENNSYLVANIA railroads on the juno.
iion line 70 Philadelphia hss been Gdiudi-
Gated by,both Ike United States and state
supreme courts in PeHnfylvRnis, aHd the Dc.
cisions, taken together, are explicit, TO thg
effect that, whils the PENNSYLVANIA eomptny
is technically and legally the owner Of The
middle section Of tbs junction roae-fer that
section lies in the Pennsylvania yard, VA
construsie1 BIZ is men, and has never beez
oonveYed-yst ifs'cwnership-i subject 70 8
clear snd perm. tight Of the Junesior
csmpany 70 n -aeciiAg lines back and
forth.
A granger member OF the Illinois lsgsla