The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-20
RAILROAD ITEMS.


railroad from MutamoraS TO Monterey,
Passenger trains nom Kansas CITY TO Denver.
over the santa Fe and the hiO Grando roads, are
now running.
Work wilfcommence In few days ON the
branch of the Missouri Pacific RAILROAD from
Nevada TO littsburg The road will pass through
very rich farming country,
Regular trains have commenced running on
the Georgia Pacific road to DuuglaSSyille.
The lowest bid for the new Central depot in
Rochester, n. \ D., having been $500 o, the pro-
ject is delayed. The Cent al engineers estiina-
ted that sic, 900 would build it.
Two hundred men laid 500 feet of railroad
track in thirteen minutes at Burlington, Iowa.
They worked at this rapid rate TO avoid an in
junction
The saloons on the line of the Mexican Cen
trat road through Chihuahua where pulque is
sold have been suppressed as there was SO
much drunkenness among the railroad la
boreGS.
The Central Vermont began running fast ex-
press between Boston aud Montreal doing the
the distance, 3A miles, In ten hours which is
two hours better than heretofore. The actual
running is forty miles per hour
The government engineer has accepted 10
more kilometres of the sinalOa Il Durango
railroad, thus making Is kilometres Of road con-
structed 10y that company and accepted by the
government
rhe railway owned by the national govern.
mentf from Pueblo to san Martin Texmelucan,
was completed and inaugurated on May g.
MUCH JOY NuS llllllcSlcu DN lIle people.
DENyER OIL, May l5.-1h he first Though pas.
ssuger train from Kansas city TO Denver by the
! AtchisUn, Topeka X Rio Graudc roads, arrived
yesterday. This gives Denver another through
standard gauge TO the Missouri river without
change
The progreso & Merida railway company has
just received from the United States an elegant
palace ear, arranged in compartments for the
especial accommodation of families.
| Articles OF incorporation OF the Chicago, It.
! lpuis AZ Western rpuu have been filed nj Suriup
field by j. Irving PearGi Andrew Crawford and
Others. The capital Is to be $50 900 and the
track is to be bull from that city TO the western
/ boundary of WIN county, passing over the
/ BraidwoOd coal fields
There are fifty-one places whose standard
time are used to regulate the running of trains
upon the railways of the United States
and seven IN Canada: The number OF
roads affected by each vary from one To forty two,
New Orleans is and Chicago Is ~ the latter be.
ing the greatest railway centre of the country.
sets the time for the greatest number Of roads,
and consequently. more roads adopt the Chicago
time than those of any other standard"
! 1t Is announced from Burlington and Missouri
headquarters that the Denver extension will be
completed about the 18th of this month and
ready TO carry freight business without fail
on June LIST. Passenger trains will not run until
July LIST, when an entire new lot Of day coaches
and sleepers will be finished and put on between
Chicago and Denver. This extension started Al
the west line of Red Willow county, Nebraska
the distance to Denver from that point being al
miles Work was begun in August last and
when completed will have occupied 3D. working
days averaging over mile per day.
Between Malvern and Hot Springs four bridges
had been swept away. On the little Red Rivel
bottoms not only bridges and fences were cairieC
away by the fresheis, but the soil itself for sew
eral miles was swept away, causing much dam
age to farmers.
Information from leading Union Pacific OIL
cial Is received TO the effect that II will short!
take charge of the Central Branch railway, nov
operated in connection with the Missouri Pacific
system; also, that the Union Pacific, on June !
would put on a fast train from Leavenworth an,
Kansas City TO Denver which will make the Ell
tire distance $50 niles in twenty hours, g
twenty-one miles an hour including stops, whcl
, will be but few and far between. the local bust
ness being attended to by II slower train. Thi
il six II urs shorter time than by any other line
The Union Pacific is also building 20 new car
to get In readiness for the immense crop whiol
, the favora lie W ather has well.nigh assured.
The Denver & New Orleans railroad, of whCl
: Ex-Governor John Evans Is president, will con
4 sist of three divisions. The first, eonuectn
} Denver and Pueblo is now in operation, Tn
second division, extending from the RATIO
mountains, is partly graded, and will be undo
, rail by the end Of the year, The third division
extending from the Ration mountains TO III
Canadian river, is under contract, and will b
, completed by the end of 1883. At the Canada
! river, connection will lie made with the allie
! road called the Fort Worth & Denver The frs
division connecting the two chief valley cities @
Colorado has been built since last fall In the fac
of energetic opposition by the Denver X ri
Grande railway, which is parclleed by the ne,
enterprise, 1t is quite probable that with til
, first good opportunity the Denver x New Oh
leans will inaugurate war OF rates in retallG
! ton for the abusive opposition OF iIs'ueighbC
and rival.