The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-01-20

siblilies Of the future. When voting depot
grounds and right-ofwsy thoro may be
printed rs inorganic mAttor on tho ticket
"No railroad no Inger5ol."
The rivalry between tho Missouri Pacific
and Gulf Colorado 81 Santa Fo for the
territory south OF Fort Worth continues.
Tho passenger wor in tho northwest has
not been settled yet, but dispatch from
Kansas Citg, says: ut ia understood mere
among leading railroad men that within o
few DAYS the cruel railroad war which has
boon raging since October is, 1880, will
come 10 on end. Committees selected among
the general passenger and ticket agents TO-
preseutirg tho various eastern lines center
! ing &c the Missouri river have been quietly at
work within the past two weeks to perfect
| arrangements for closing the W1r and devis9
means TO prevent similar occurrences IN flu
| tur6 Everything has now been settled salts
! factorily 10 ali parties in interest, and has
the approval Of the presidents and general
nanagers Of each line. The basis Of the set
Element is pool Of all passenger business
emanatng from Missouri river points, such
IS Kansas City, Loavenworth, Atchison and
st. Joe, and also from all points west of the
river, including all business between the
river and the Pacific coast KaDsas, Colorado.
Texas, Nevada, Wyoming toD1.ory and
California, otc. OF the Chicago bGsiress
proper and through business via Chicago,
/ the Wabash. St. Louis 81 Pacific, Hannibal
81 ST. Joe, aud tho Chicago, Rock Island 81
Pacific take 233 per cent. each, ard the
Chicago 81 Alton 80 per cent; of all business
to and via st. Louis the Missouri Pacific,
Wabash, St. Louis IL Pacific, and Chicago
q Alton 331 per cent. each. OF all business
between ST, Louis and Chicago and vice
versa, the Chicago & Alton take As per
cent, and the Illinois Central ami the Wa
bash. St. Louis 81 Pacific 271 per
cent. each. II is further agreed that
the amonn. received for unlimites tickets
sold during tho war by any Of the roads,
parties 70 this agreement shall be divided
among all the lines interested, in tho came
ratio as the pool prescribes for the division
of future business and that the passenger
fare from Kansas City to st. Louis and vice
veraa shall be So with rebate Of 81 90,
and the Chicago Fate shall be Sl4 80 with q
rebate of Sc so, these rates TO remain IN
force as long IS any unlimited tickets sold N
bulk remain On the market. A new taTlt
for through rates will be established and put
into effect On the 18th of January. The
services OF passengers and travelling agents
will be dispensed with by sill lines interested;
city ticket Offices in all Missouri river towns
will be cloaea except at Kansaa City, where
union ticket office will DO established. A
meeting will be held in this city on the 18th
inst. to elect passenger pool commissioners. |
and to arrange all minor details.
The earnings of the Chicago 81 Alton for
tho fourth week in December were the mos.
unsatisfactory for the year, inasmuch as il |
was the only week during tho whole year |
that there was decrease from the cores
ing period Of the previous year. The gross
earnings from Dec mber 20 to December 81, |
1880, were S110,041 96, against 1928 067 So |
for the corresponding period in 1879, show |
ing a decrease Of S15,0l5 80. The decrease |
on passenger business amounted to Sl,7ll,3l |
and on freight trotiic to SlS J33 II. On mails |
there was an increase of S261,44, 1t will be !
seen ths! nearly the entire decrease is on &C. |
count of freight business, and Can not there
fore, be a,cribed to the existing war on pas
sepger rates. The principal cause for the |
falling off in business is that the earnings for
the corresponding period in the previous
year were unusually heavy.
A monopoly in railway lines in this
country is simply impossible for any great
length Of time. II has been 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 |
"When ha thinks, good, easy man, his |
honors are a-ripenirg, ne trips and falls, as |
do" And these railway officials have often |
hsd occasion to repeat the soliloquy of
Woolsey. Az soon az they have their lines |
all fixed and begin TO put on the !
thumb screws, their customers rebel |
and call for the building Of new
line, and their call is quickly re-
sponded 10. Vanderbilt and GOULD think |
they have the Now York and western busi. |
ness in q sling, but formidable movement |
is ready to take the field with another trunk |
line to Chicago. And the time is coming |
when there will be as many railroads run |
ming through TO Ualifornia, aud through 10 |
Mexico, and through 20 tho G Iif of Mexico
"a are now crossing the state Of Illinois.
Excessive charges will only hasten this build
ing.
Pilot Point Post: A gentleman Just in
from MhittstorO informs US that three miles |
of track have already been laid south of that |
place and that the work is progressing |
rapidly. Also that the road will undoubtedly |
reach Pilot Point within three wcelyg. We
arc sleo informed that tho track has bean |
laid two miles this side of Denton, and that |
this city about the same time. The grading |
will all soon be finished. Work on the huge |
bridge across Elm Is progressing finely |
There arc signs Of much activity all along |
the lire, such as would justify tho conclusion /
that with good weather tie read will be com.
pleted within the time specified and through |
trains running from St. Louis 10 Dallas, via /
Pilot Point BY March next.
Were tho Texas & Pacific now IN opera
tioD IT would get about ali the through |
travel. A dispetch says the sao6
fences between Wallss5 and Denver, on The
Union Pacific, is flied with rnew and sand |
to the depth Of twenty feet This compost
lion is a. hard az rock, and requires q large
force -of men with picksx3s 20 clear the
track. Tho company has done everything
possible FOR the comfort OK their passenger,
supplying them with f0oi and passengers. II
is olso STATED that the snow on the mountains
was the heaviest known 10 fifteen years. On
the plsius nothing like the present storm has
been seen for twenty years. The southern
route will never invite is gusss to Eush
feast ns that
A New York dispatch says:
There is an immense volume Of speculation
going on in railway stocks and bonds here
on orders from Europe, and nearly al he