The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-18
RAILROAD ITEMS.

WILLIAM II. Vanderbilt will sail for London
| by the White Star steamer about the LIST OF NAV
The Union Pacific recently sold 1000 acres o
SIS per acre.
The French senate, by a large vote, passed n
bill In favor of railroad communication tickets fol
| themselves.
| The Memphis & Little Rock railroad will M
damaged from 500 900 TO $3.50, OOO BY tho flood
| The committee on mmerce have agreed "a
| report iavorably the bill authorizing the con
stiuction of Il bridge across the Missouri river
near St Charles, Missouri
| The United States house has passed n bill Ia
authorize railway bridge across the Ms.is.
sippi, between Wabash aud point below the
mouth of the Chippewa river. Wisconsin.
President Baldwin, of the Louisville Il Nash.
vile railroad states that 1000 900 forty.y year
six per cent gold trust bonds of that company
have all been subscribed for and the subscrip.
tons have been closed.
The cost OF grading the Natchitochcs tap rail
road, ten miles and thrce-Quartcrs In length,
will be sL0tl, nearly all Of which has been paid.
The cost of track, rolling stock etc, Is estimated
bonds.
The Las Vegas IN. ny Optic slys The hill
reducing railroad fare in New Mexico TO six
cents per mile passed both houses of the leg.
iSlature; however, tho company will make no
reduction ut present A test case will be carried
| 10 the supreme court of the United States.
The gross earnings OF the Central Pacific rail.
road company for the month ui February were
81, 5O2 Co., against 81. i5i2lS for tle same month
last year. an increase of saiI5sA From Jan.
aary ! :, TO a. February q they were $4,000,
The Wisconsin Central railway company has
issued confidential circular nSs,ug lis s,ncL.
holders u subscribe si,i00tOU 10 build a truck
for sixty.tye miles from Neenah, through Osh.
the ST. Paul road
Tho great fan, which has been In process Of
construction for some time past for clearing the
railroad tunnel between tho bridge and the I'm.
trains, Is now In operation and works with great
! satisfaction The entire tunnel can be clearaj
OF smoke from the heaviest freight train In three
minutes, aud when no trains arc In 1t the air Il
ms clear aud fresh as that outside
The Cairo Short Line IL now running through
Ia Cairo Memphis, NicksDurg and New Orleans
without any interruption or detention what.
! ever
At Victoria the first Spikceon the New Yorl
Texas n Mexican railroad was driven on the iSth
with appropriate ceremonies by two of the old.
est Inhabitants Colonel John ]. Lynn, aged 81
and Judge J A. Cunningham, aged So A speech
was made by Colonel Lynn aud three cheers
! given with gtsto by large crowd assembled to
witness the imposing ceremony.
Stories have been circulated lately that Jay
Gould had been required 10 sell u large amount
OF his securities. He was told Of these reports
aud invited several prominent ilnanclurs 10 meet
him In his Office, where he showed them In his
| own name StiUOl0OO In securities Including
s.LoltQlo OF Western Union and sl?0oW0 Of
Missouri Pacific
Mr. A. w. soper general manager OF tho
Wagner Sleeping Car company, stated the rea.
son why the Wagner cars were removed from
the Texas roads, II was because OF the deci,
| sion Of the Texas courts, which compelled thu
Wagner To run over lines using the Pullman
The business was notlargc enough TO be divided,
and this Is the only reason for the withdrawal.
The cases in the United States courts are still
| pending.
AT a meeting OF the stockholders of the 81.
Louis \ san francisco railway company the fol.
lowing board OF directors was elected unani.
mously e. T. Huntington. Leland stamford,
jay ycnli. Russell sage, Jesse seligman,
Edward 7. Winsow, James ID. Fish, William
| U Enokley, A. \. Hatch, A ". Nlckcr.
son, Walter l.. Frost. Charles W. Rodgers. II. ).
Hayes The dirciors viii meet next week IN
New York to. organise the boarIi They ratified
the action Of the board. Of directors Ia leasing
the ST Louis, Wichita & Western raiirpai ior
ninety years, and IN the purchase OF the 81.
Louis, Arkansas 4 Texas railway consolidated.
About e2l 90 % OF stock was represented,
The following gentlemen were elected direc.
tprs OF the Wabash 4 o. Louis road 10 serve
three year, Scion Humphreys, Charles Rldrcly.
George L. Dunlap James y. Joy and sidney pil.