The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-16
RAILROAD NOTES.

the Missouri Pacific passing through the
town-tben rendering visit from Bob In
gersoll to Bell county one of the remote pos
sibilihsp of the future When voting depot
grounds aad right-of-wey there may be
printed as inorganic matter on the ticket
"No railroad 10 Ingersoll."
The rivalry between the Missouri Pacific
and Cuff, Colorado Is Santa Re for the
territory south ST Fort Worth continues
This passenger war in the northwest has
not been settled yet, but dispatch from
Kansas City, says: 1T ia understood mere
among ltiding railroad men That within q
few days the cruel railroad war which hiss
been raging since October Is, 1880, will
come 50 an end. Committees selected among
the general passenger aud ticket agents "a
presenting the various eastern lines center
ing st the Missouri river have been quietly Mt
work within the past two weeks 10 perfect
engagements fer closing the war and devise
means 10 prevent similar occurrences in flu
ture, Everything has now be. Il settled eStis-
fsctorily to all parties in interest, and has
the apptaval Of tho presidents and general
Managers Of each line, The basis Of the set
tlemOnt is pool Of I'll passenger business
emaustipg from Missouri river points, such
as Kansas City, Laavenworth, Atchison and
st. Joe, and Sls0 from all points west of tue
river, including all business between the
river and tho Pacific coast, Kansas, Colorado,
Texas, Nevada, Wyoming territory and
proper and through business via Chicago,
H., e. D. 4
g. st. Joe, and the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific take 235 per cent each, ard the
ChicSgo g. Alton 30 per cent; of all business
10 and via st. Louis the Missouri Pacific,
Wabash, ST. Louis & Pacific, and Chicago
& Alton 333 per cent, each. Of all business
between 81. Louis and Chicago and vice
versa. tho Chicago s. Alton take IS per
cent, end the Illinois Central AMI tha Vs.
bash, st. Louis q Pacific 274 per
cent each. 1t is further agreed that
tho smoant received for unlimited tickets
sold during the wsr by any Of the roads,
parties to this agreement shall be divided
among all the lines Interested, in the same
ratio IS the pool prescribes for tho division
Of future business, and that the passenger
fare from Kansas City to st. Louis and vice
versa shall be IS With rebate Of 81 90,
and the Chicago rata shall be Sl4 80 with o
rebate Of So so, these rates to remain in
force as long rs any unlimited tickets sold in
bulk remain or the market. A new tariff
for through raIes will be established and put
into effect on the 18Th of January. The
services Of passengers and travelling agents
will be dispensed with by all lines interested;
city ticket Offices ia all Missouri river towns
will be closed except at Kansas City, where
union ticket CAice will be established. A
meeting will DO held in this city on the 18th
inst. to elect passenger pool commissioners,
and TO arrange all minor dstsiIs.
Tho earnings of Tho Chicago & Alton for
the fourth week in December wero the most
unsatisfactory for the year, inGsnuch az it
was tho only week during the whole year
thai there was q decrease from the corr5g-
ing period Of the previous year. The gross
earuiDgs from Dec mber % TO December 81,
1890, were $ll0 0ll95 against SIPS 057 So
for the corresponding period in 1879, shOW-
ing decrease Of S15,0l5 90. Tho decrease
on passenger business amCustcd TO Sl,7113I
and on freight trofic TO Sl3 533.l7. On nails
there was an increase Of S26l44, 1t will BIO
seen that nearly the entire decrease is on &C.
count Of freight business, and can not, ther3-
fore, be a,crib8d to the existing war on pas
senger rates, Tho principal cause for the
falling f'iu business is that tho earnings for
the corresponding period in the previous
year wore unusually heavy.
4 monopoly in railway lines in this
country is aimply impossible for any grset
length Of time. 1t has boon the dream Of the
managers for forty years to get sections Of
country SO completely under control they
can squeeze money from them with liberty.
"WEen no thinks, good, easy nam, his
do" And these railway officials have often
had occasion TO repeat the solioQuy of
WoolsOy. As Goon IS they have thor lines
all Hzsa and begin to put on the
thumb screws, their customers rebel,
snd call for the building Of new
line, and their call is quickly re-
SpondSa to. Vanderbilt and Gould think
they have the Now York and western buii.
ne's ia sling, but q formidable movement
is ready to take the field with another trunk
line to Chicago. And the time is comias
when there will be IS many railroads rum
ming through TO California, and through 70
Mexico, and through to tho Gulf of Mexico,
as are now crossing tho state of Illinoia
Excessive charges will only hasten this build.
ing.
Pilot Point Post: A gentleman Just in
from Whtos6oro informs us that three miles
of track have already beon laid south of tina,
place and that the work is progressing
rapidly. Also that the road will undoubtedly
reach Pilot Point within three weeks. We
are Nlso informed that the track has been
laid tive miles this side of Denton, and that
probably bots construction forces will reach
this city about the Same time. The grading
will oil QOoa DO finished. Work en- the huge
bridge across Elm is progressing faoly
There are signs of much activity all alsne
the line, such rs would justify tho conclusion
that with good weather the road will be com,
pleted within the time specified and through
trains running from st. Louis 10 Dallas, via
Pilot Poi0t by March next,
Wore ths Texas & PAciic now in opera.
ton il would get about all the through
travel. A. dispatch says the SNOW
fences between Wa,lsca and Denver, on the
Union Pacific, is filed with snow and sand
to the dspth Of twenty feet. This compost.
ton Is "a hard rs rock, and requires . large
force sef msR with piekAxes 10 clear the
track. The company has done everything
possible for the comfort OF their passengers,
supplying them with foo1 snl passengers. 1t
is also stated that the snow on tie mountains
was the heaviest known in fifteen years. On
the plsirs nothing like the present storm hal
bees saeR for twenty years. The southern
route will never invite it's guests to such I
feast as that.
u