, 1881-01-08
Railroad Ties

T.. Freurl.p.a1 las invented clHth car
xhe Is
The ra.l-uad i'ridge At St Luis earns
ga, 600 pr month.
rsr Denver & South Park railroad
,.ssJ ,a,a tie hands Il the tnion Pacific
on the Ist inst.
The saath sad North Alabama railroad
ar, u;,;ng % acres oi land to every one
vho viii settle on it, improve ami agree
+. liz. on the land iour years
,...,.tsnf tn. Atch sop, Topeka 4 Santa
F.. In. have instructions 10 learn the
Mexican language as tickets printed IN
,l.t tongue viii lie printed on its 'S'eS-
si,ns into Mexico.
III: MA:...,,. division .. ,aa Danrsc &
Rio Gra'1 ). rocd Is open To Enbreda. nd
me San Jnan division u t'ta The Eagle
River extension IS Completed to pniut
10 nII.. from L-advi.le. Twenty ave mics
II RAJ u8 the Silver Gi.if branch have
/ been graded. The entire system viii ne
e.mn!.tegi by In Is: Of next March.
: The Am .rjcan Union Telegraph enuc
nauy recently ordered l5,03o .,,i,es oi
new telegraph r're, 2-iid now the ESeon-
tive -4E.mlttee and committee on rates OF
the Western Union are strongly in favor
( Of reducing the rates very largely On all
competing points. We wish the educ
ZION w"uld extend rhns lar,
Tie eircnlar OF a prominent New EoIk
commission horse says: The spirit OF
ganE!ing is abroad, and with easy money
NAV find vent in wild rush for securities.
The Raltimare & Ohio road has secured
a fleet Of vessels IL handle its New York
and Baltimore freight.
Eastern railroads do not put the letters
"R. r. on their new cars, as they think
that If a man don't know a railroad car
when h sA-s it, it wont he worth while
to inform; him,
There was constructed last Year more
than 500 miles OF mex railr rads, against
:3445 miles reported for the same period
in 1877: 2201 miles III 1873, 1877 miles
in 1877, 2I111 miles IN 1876, l241 miles in
1879, I767 miles in 1874, 3501 niles in
1873 and $3.50 miles in 1872
3Iost Of the W, stern roads begn 10 show
a falling If in the way of increases over
corresponding periods II last wear. This
IS accounted for On the ground that at this
season of last year the earnings We're very
heavy, and the coDlpanIes turt!.cr state
that 1t !s due IN = measure u freight
blockadcs on thc eastern roads. The fact
seems to h that there Is n1t 81 much
fre:sl; III the interior as there "as year
ago, and fears are entertained lhat for
the remainder Of the season traiiie viii
be light Som. Of the western journals
comment desPrndentIy uppn the exir-I.e
cold feather and limited snowfall as la
hle to affect the next years crops.
An immense business Is being trans
acted 10y brokers III eastern money markets
10y purchasing railsoai bonds fas Eaellsh
account In fact not only our railroad
bonds but shares of allkinds Are attract.
ing Il avy investments from England,
where capital does not appear TO be any
too safely hous d just nor. Tie success
# .he European subscription To the Pan
anna canal is case III poirt which illus
trates the enormous accumu!atious Of cap
irai seeking investment at the financial
centres Of the Old World. Thirty million.
dollars wc,c recently subscribed in Two
days Ia build 4 railroad between Hail and
Barnslcy, IL Ehsltni, and only SO, 900, :
900 were asked for American securities
If all kinds are now anxiously looked for
and readily taken up in the London market
BY the way, We acknowledge the receipt
Of the Railroa1er, a journal for railroad
employees, published at Toledo, Ohio,
and Jointly edited hy G. F. Reed, son of
Alex. K ed, Esq, of this city, and NJ l"r
Left I, al old wheeler in journalism The
publication is uEiaue in that 1t is without a
rival in lis specially, and is plum full
Of railroad news from all parts Of the com
pass w look upon the Rd,LOn.'rr rs a
valuable addition TO ON exchange list and
earnestly advise all interested in railroad
building or railroad naWs To subscribe for