The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-27
RAILROAD ITEMS.

The railroad shops In Sacramento, California,
employ over 1900 men, and IN a short time this
number will be increased to 1000
The Leavcnworth, Topeka K Southwestern
railway, recently acquired by the AtchisOn, To-
peka X santa Fe has issued a mortgage of 81.
so 20 to the American Loan & Trust company,
of Boston.
The locomotives now in use in Kansas II
track, and the passenger cars would cover about
four niles
The contract for building new railroad along
the east bank OF the Genesee river, from Roches-
ter to Lake Ontario. has been awarded, and
work will be commenced In a few days.
The general strike OF the employees Of the rail
roads at the warehouses, docks and piers atNow
York ami vicinity for an increase OF wages
some three thousand In number-is seriously
interfering with trade and transportation at that
city.
The Commercial says We may safely report
| from the present outlook that by December
l trains will run through from Pensacola TO
Chauahoochec, the eastern terminus-the dis.
| lance is 167 miles-snd that the crossing at Els.
Gambia bay will be finished in about thirty
| days
TIE house committee on Pacific railroads and
urged the passage of Representative Lynch's
bill TO authorize the construction of railroad
and levee from Memphis to New Orleans the
| government 10 guarantee interest on $50 600 900
bonds to be issued by the company.
| The West Shore road. now being constructed
along the Hudson river, is expanding 100000
per day. There are q locomotives, Go steam
drills, 500 civil engineers and 5000 laborers at
work, and all contracts are ordered 10 be finished
by November l..
The house Judiciary committee has adopted a
resolution TO submit to the managers OF the
Northern Pacific road series Of interrogatories
as 10 the amount of lands received, earned and
sold and the length and cost OF railway com.
pleted. The company is privileged TO respond
In writing or by Its attorney.
DENVER, CoL June 2.--In the United States
court to-day, Judge Haett rendered a decision
everything the demurrer which the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railway company filed In an
sver to the bill of the Denver Il New Orlean,
railway company. praying the court TO compe
the Santa Fe road TO connect and pro rate Will
them on Pueblo and Denver business, bott
freight and passenger Under the laws OF tn,
state, which compel all railroads TO connect on,
with another, the Denver 4 New Orleans rail
road claims the Santa Fe road was discriminat
; ing in favor OF the Denver & Rio Grandc, which
like the New Orleans, runs between Denver an,
: Pueblo. The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fl
will file an answer, after which the case will b.
called for hearing
The London Engineer says III our railroa,
! companies would employ u forester and garden
er or two, they might employ their thousand
of acres Of waste lands for crops, grass, frui
,Tss; and so So on y, with n.pe profit 50 tn"
! longer In the position of the poor shopkeeper o
barber who fills his shop and pastes his wall
over with advertisements and placards becaus
he cannot make two ends meet without tn
r small sums obtained by this Disagreement. A
( present our railway companies allow their sta
lions and bridges TO be so hideously pasted am
Q papered over that the property has the appear
. ance of the last stages of struggling poverty
/, In many parts OF Belgium the land has bee
/. planted with fruit trees and other things man
years, and In Wurtemburg for about twelv
years past forester has had charge OF the lands
i He pays particular attention to planting tn
!. vent washing and slipping, grows quick fence,
+. and whore practicable. fruit and timber tree,
n The gardens at the stations are largely devote
D 10 fruit and so made useful and ornamental q
!. once, A profit Of about Ids an acre has, II
Q said, been made for the past FIVE years on III
Q ground so utilized"