The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-24

liver its freight it takes in good condit;o,
and TO pay for il if lost or damaged in tren'
sit. The company had decided TO put ra re-,
OF passage for immigrants at $40 from New
Orleans 10 San Francisco, il nothing short
OF that figure will secure the immigrants
resident Huntington said that he did moi
think t. Southern Pacific would ininre ~
business Or depreciate the value of the Cen
tral and Union Pacific Railroads.
An exchange says Laredo, on tho Pi,
Grande, as the crossing point of the TeyaS
and Mexican system OF railroads. is destinsd
to become great town of the future 4,
was laid out by the Mexicans over one HIM
dred years ago, when it was thought tbat 4
was, spot where the foot of an Ameri".n
could never tread. Now the whistIa !.
hears from the iron horse of the Interna-
tlohal * Great Northern Road, and the nlaca
IS to-day enjoying q well-merited hoo,
The two Laredes of Texas and MeyicCoV cnii
tam population of about 10000, of wbon,
1000 are English-speaking people III
town is laid otfin the old Spanish stvlo ,ri,S
Its plaza and harrow streets. Tho baaJ
quarters of the Texas Mexican Not Eau,
Railroad Company was moved up from ia.
pus Christi last week, and the div;sioNnoaii Ut
machine and repair shops of the Interm nal
tional x Great Northern Railroad will aIsc
be established at that point. Every bonso
Il q
hotels. ol
On the 10th the Speaker laid before A..
House message from the President tro ,,,e
uniting a communication from the Seer
tary OF the Interior in relation to 10 the ON
plication of the Chicago, Texas 4 Meridc
| Central Railroad Company and tLe G.
Louis San Francisco Railroad Comnon,,
for the right-oi-way across the Choctaw no.
seryation in Indian Territory. 'e'
The Missouri Kansas & Texas Railroad
reached waco on the Goth. Track.lavinS
is being extended toward TAYLOR, on ths
international and Great Northern Road
mus giving waco southwestern connection
toward Laredo and q new rsute IN ~
Louis and the East o.
Passenger express train No 6. on tba
Nandalla line, composed ofnine cars Iobn
Irlndle conductor, left Tcrre Hau,e on
Monday at 800 p. M, and arrived in 81
LOUIS at $40 p. m, making the regular
| stops and covering distance of lGS Mills
in hours and ~ minutes. This is certanIv
rapid transit, and shows that the "Von,
dalia" is true to its record of being tbe
Fast Line. At the same average speed this
would put train in New York from 81,
Louis III about 26 hours. Think ofitl,
Railroad men are already preparing in
swear Off smoking, chewing drinking and
using profanity. The latter is not an eosv
task when it is considered how many bores
are always after passes and other iavors
passenger train OH the Rock Island
Road, which left Council Bluffs for CHICAGO
threehours and five minutes late. made
the run across the State of Iowa. 3l7 miles
in eleven hours and fifteen minutes in,
Guiding several stops.
Mr.. G. F. Stephens, Chief Engineer Of
the Southern portion of the Paramore Rail
Road, will make Pine Bluff his headounrt-
ers until the completion of the road
The stockholders of the Fort Worth G,
Denver Railroad company have Just filed a
resolution in the office of the Secretary of
of State of Texas, at Austin, AUTHORIZING
mortgage on the road for a sum not to ey-
coed $4,000 per mile, f r the purpose of
building and equipping the same.
| The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
will open its line from Louisville on Jan.
uary 1. The fixed charges on IA miles of
road will be S3lS, 900 per annum.
Boston advices say that the demand for
railroad bonds is not large, but is daily in
creasing.
1t is reported at Columbus. Nebraska.
that the Union Pacific IL likely 10 secure
control of the railroad running from Norfolk
TO Sioux City.
OMAHA, December 20.-The first train
through to Butte, Montana, on the Utah
~ Northern Railway left Ogden this
evening and will make the run in 2i hours.