The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-17
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GEORGE ALLEN cashier of the Savannah
Florida ~ Western railway, has fled He Is
q detauter for about $4,000.
There is three feet of snow along the line
OF the Atlantic IL Pacific road in northern
| Arizona.
The Illinois and Chicago divisions of the
| Wabash road are TO be consolidated under
charge of IL. +. Clark.
The people of the Black Hills interd to
give bonds for $4,000 to the first railroad
which makes its advent at Deadwood.
The January reports of thirty-nine roads
aggregate gross earnings for the month Mt
! SlI ,iS0, against Sl40G6, 545 for January
of 1880, gain of $3,529,9ii. This is upon
an increased mileage of only II per cent.
The Michigan Central railroad is laying
new steel rails from Jackson one hundred
miles west. The steel which is taken up
has been down about three years, and will
be laid on the divisions, principally the
| MaCkinaw.
J. y. Latcha, chief engineer of the New
/ York, Chicago Il St. Louis railway, saws
| that 500 miles of the line has been located
and graded in 300 days, and 800 miles of
track have been laid in 200 days.
Mr.. Scott states that all the contracts are
let for the completion of the road from
! New Orleans to Meridian, and that large
/ force OF laborers are at work all along the
line. The work will be pushed forward as
rapidly IS possible, in order to complete the
road without delay.
The railways of the New England states
employ 81 $50 hands.
| Texas has 800 miles OF narrow-gauge rail.
road and is building as many more.
Gould houses intimate something of i'm
portancc Is about to take place in Wabash.
one report is that an important traffic
agreement has been made with New York
] "a tAs an Il lAN.
is that closer relations are soon to exist be-
tween Wabash and the southwestern sys.
tenn! There is some talk OF establishing a
line from Chicago TO the southwest by
building u iiity-mile link to connect Al
division of the Wabash rond with the Peoria,
! pcliin Il Jacksonville branch, which con.
meets with the Missouri, Kansas Il Texas at
Quincy aud at Hannibal.
The suit between the Adams and Southern
express companies and several western
railway companies il being heard i'm 81.
Louis this week. The suit involves the
rights of express companies on railway
lines, aud as that question has been virtn-
ally settled by recent decision, the only
matter to be judicially determined Is the
compensation which shall be allowed for
express facilities. Several of the ablest
lawyers in the country are engaged in the
suit.
The State Line railroad, in Connecticut,
has set an excellent example. After the
Spuyten Duyvil disaster orders were issued
that whenever a train was stopped out of
the regular order for any cause, man must
be sent back with u red flag TO warn any
train that might be approaching The
other day train was stopped between two
stations, nut rs all hands knew that IL
would start again almost Immediately aud
there was no reason to suppose any other
train was close on its track, no red flag was
sent back. The train started on within a
minute, and no harm was done by the neg
loct, but the company has very properly
suspended the derolict conductor and
brakeman, although ono Of them had been
in its employ twenty-eight years.
The bill authorship Laramie county,
Wyoming to issue SlO0,U0O bonds TO the
Union Pacific railroad for the construction
aud equipment OF loo miles of road in the
direction of the Yellowstone, within one
year, was considered In committee OF
the whole of the territorial council,
and convention was called, ex.Delegate
COrlett vigorously opposing the measure,
although II was understood he would
warmly support 1t. The committee of the
whole recommended its passage by one ma.
iority, one member being absent. The bill
will come up for final action, and will prob.
ably he defeated, as II Is understood the ab
sent iacmbcr opposes II. The residents ia.
yor lie bill aud the railroad company tights
II ON account of the time for construction oi