The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-10
THE IRON HORSE.
PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BUILDINGS.
Number OF Miles Built This Year
Price OF Rates-Fact, scraps,
Construction Notes, aud
Items of General Interest.


Information of the laying of track on the
new railroads as follows: Gulf Colorado s.
Santa Fe.-Extended from Rogers, Texas,
west by north to the Leon river, Is miles
Keokuk s. North estern.-Extended from
Salem. Iowa, north to Fairfield miles.
This ISIS total Of "a miles of new railroad,
making II miles reported for 1881. The
weather thus far this year has been OK.
tremey unfavorable for track-laying.
Mexican Soutbern.-A bill has been in
troduced in the New York legislature to in
corporate company by this name. The cor.
porators named are. u. s Grant, Il. d. Nor.
gan. Matthias Romero; Porllrio Diaz, Mi
guel Castro, Edward ID. Adams, Jay Gould,
Thomas Nickerson ard Others Apparently
tits intended as union of the different COM
panies projecting lines in Mexico.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe.-Track on
this road is now land to the Leon river, 81
miles beyond the late terminus at Rogers,
Texas, and 2l9 miles from Galveston Only
the bridge over the river and about five miles
OF track remain TO carry the road to Bolton.
Cincinnati Central.--This company opened
books for subscription in Cincinnati, Japu-
AIRY 70, and the whole amount of stock ST.,
00O 0O0-wps taken at once The company
purposes building o belt line around Cincio-
ntti with surface or elevated spurs into the
city, and also rapid transit lue betweea the
city and It's suburbs
International q Great Norlhern-The re-
port of General Baggage Agent William X
B!xby Tor 1880 shows the following figures
Total number Of pieces of checked baggage
carried between points on line of Inter
natlonal d Great Northern railroad during
the year 1880 rs ,253; during the year 1879,
6l9o9; increase during the past year, H.,
z94; number OF pieces of baggage lost, none;
plumber of claims for pieces LOST, none; mum
her OF claims for damage, G; number Of
claims for delay, L number of claims paid,
none. Nor does tho report show any loss
since May, 1879, although the company has
carried llo,2OS pieces Of baggage without
loss and without suit.
A New Hampshire paper gives in recent
issue summary of the contents of the an
nual report of the Concord railroad for 1851
The report filled 81 pages and contained
list of all the tools owned by the road, of all
the furniture IN the stations on its line ana
every other article, however small, that went
to- make up its assets; and besides these, a
complete roll of all tho employees of the road
from the superintendent down to the wood
sawyeEs, with the wSges paid to each. Isaac
Spaldlng was president, with salary of
$1,000; the Hon. N. G. Uphlm was super
intendent and got for his services 81 900
year; the chief clerk got $500, and the as
sislant S3lO, the latter being Henry McFar-
land, now treasurer of the Uuion Pacific.
wi b salary of $1,000; George Cough was
q passenger conductor and got $50 month
which was the pay of tho station agent ut
Nashua; engineers on passenger trains had
~ 70 per day, and those on freight trains 50;
bnkemen and fremen, Sl.25, and wood
sawyers and section men 81; the ticket agents
at Concord and Manchester had $500 year,
and exGov. james A. Weston, who WAS tho
road engineer, $1,000; thu wood shop at
Concord was in charge of the Hon. John
Kimball, who had $319l per day, and one
of his workmen WAS his brother, BENJAMIN
A., who got but So a week. These two last
mentioned are two of the wealtheat mea in
Concord, and one is director of the 10 d.
At that Tins the road did but third a.
much business as now, but ii paid 10 per
cent. dividends, as it still continues to do.
The rail market-Steel rails are active,
with one sale of 900 tons reported, and
number OF smaller transactions. Quotations
continue about $50 per ton at mill. Iron
rails are also active. with many sales chiefly
sof small lots. Quotations are from Si7 per
ton at mill for heavy rails, up TO 500 for
light sections. Some sales Of English rails
are reported at $44 to $45 ut tidewater. Old
iron rails are still held at S2S so to $3l, ne.
cordlug to qual,y, Spikes are somewhat
pound; spike-bara, 1886 TO $40
4 v,riv,tn ,a. Tba,n 49,, -.
few days ago in Chicago, a new private car.
conpructed by the Ohio Falls Oar company.
at Jetfersonvile, Indiana for President w.
ID. Washburn, of he Minneapolis & 81.
Louis railroad, which is beyond doubt one of
the finest railroad coaches ever built. In
fact, there is but one car in existence that is
superior 10 II, and this is the celebrated Pail
man car. The principal feature of President
Washburu's car Is the woodwork which en-
bellishes the interior, aud in this respect II IL
even superior to the Pullman car. The
walls OF the observatory in tho rear and the
drawing-room in the front end Of the car are
OF the choicest bul.ernu. veneerng, carved In
beaulifnl designs on white holly. The ceilings
are OF oak veneering, very finely frescoed,
and Illuminated In the most pleasing oolors.
The presidents apartment Is adorned with
ebony, carved in besutiiul designs on snow
white holly, which gives n very rich effect
The ceiling In this room is nlaid in various
colored woods embellished with god The
bed when folded away resembles a richly
carved wardrobe attached to the wall. a
similar arrangement provides two beds in
the observatory. There are sleeping accom-
modations for four more persons placed in a
section after the manner of the Pullman
sleepers. The drawing room is furni. hei