The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-03
RAILROAD NEWS

RAILROAD NEWS.
The Austin & Northwestern railroad has
now on the ground four locomotives, fifty
nat cars, twenty-five box cars, four passen-
ger cars and iron for sixty-three miles of
the main line and sidings.
railroad company has been organized
in Arizona to build a road from Tucson to
the Gulf of California, 80 miles.
Inc pennsylvania railroad company, in
order to curtail the number of free passes
over their road, will hereafter charge en-
ployes at the rate of one-half cent a mile.
Travel by rail over the Memphis & Little
Rock railroad has been temporarily sus-
pended on account OF high water
The Carson " Colorado railroad will soon
reach Candelaria, lS6 miles southeast OF
Carson. Before the close OF the year it is
expected to connect with the Southern Pa.
enc railroad at or near Mojave station,
| passing down Owens river, through Monro,
lnyo and Kern counties, California.
1t IS reported that an important combina.
ton has been formed between the Missouri
Pacltc, Kansas Il Texas, Texas Pacific and
Wabash roads 1t is believed that the bus
mess of the southwestern roads is to be
turned over to the Wabash line. The Ches.
apealle d Ohio and the St.,Loms d San
Francisco roads may also be included in the
combination.
The Portland Oregonian says: Twenty.
I'VE hundred men are at work on Clark's
Fork division of the Northern Pacific, be.
tween Lake Pen d'Oreile and Pack rivers
thirteen miles east of the head of the lake
The weather thus far has not been severe
and work proceeds we'll. The two-mile
bridge across the lake is ready for the draw.
At Pack river there will be another bridge
G,S00 feet long.
Once in every two or three months, on an
average, rumor is started that Jay Gould
has bought half interest in the stock of
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. Such a
report was circulated in New York on Fri,
day. SO far as could be learned, there was
no foundation whatever for the report. G.
7. Huntington, the president of the compa.
NY, who is known to hold controlling in.
tercst, said that the report was the first in.
timation that he had had of the transaction
A director of the company, who has been
prominently identified with it, said that he
had no knowledge that Mr., Gould had
bought even a single share, and the imme
date friends of Mr.. Gould expressed the
opinion that the report was without rea
foundation.
Cairo Bulletin, Friday: High water ha,
finally also cut Oft the Iron Mountain rail
road from direct communication with New
Orleans, Passengers coming from the south
by the Iron Mountain and Mobile & Ohio
routes must be taken from Columbus, Ken
lucky, by the Duncan, and brought tC
Birds Point, from whence they continue or
their way over the Iron Mountain by way o
Charleston, Missouri. Passengers for IN
south on the Iron Mountain road ONE Il
Birds Point by way of Charleston, and are
taken from there by the Duncan to Column
bus, from whence they go further south
The Illinois Central railroad has abandoned
its outside Ohio levee track for general use
because the river has, in places, so fal
washed away the bed from under II as L
make the running of trains upon it danger
Gus. AT present no one but the Illinois
Central railroad company suffers from In,
washing process which has been going OF
now for several years"
The Vesuvius railway having been sue
cessfully accomplished, it is now proposed I,
make the ascent to the crater of Noun
Etna in Sicily equally easy by a simia
plan. A company has been formed a
Palremo for carrying out this project. The
railway will reach almost the summit filth,
mountain. whence a fine view may be hat
OF Sicily, Malta and portion of the south
ern end of the Italian peninsula.
According to the annual rerort of tn,
Massachusetts, state commissioners of rail
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the state is BIAS, an increase Of 1903 mile,
over last year, The aggregate capital stoch
is $l22, l95,6li, an increase of S3,il6,742; ne
debt OF all companies. }G, $50, 800, an in
crease of S5,6lS,370; gross income, $37, 76i,
30. an increase of s., GA ,02l; net income
$40, 1Ol ,15l, a decrease of S490, 900; freight
earnings, s per cent. more than last year
passenger earnings, Sper cent, increase.
IL is estimated that there are l27 ,24I ,05l
acres of land which are forfeited to the gov
eminent Tor non-completion of railroad.
within the times specified In the acts OF
congress, which nj $3.50 per acre, the pric,
charged by the companies, amounts to IN,
enormous sum of 1918, ll7,627. The old
companies now want this land along IN,
lines OF the new company forfeited, but
there is slight danger oft.
The secretary of the Panama canal com
pany says one thousand men are at prcscn,
employed on the work and eight cxcayator,
are In use. A vast quantity of matcrin
and machinery is on the way from France
dump and platform cars costing $1,000
were recently shipped from Massachusetts
aud two steam fire engines have been sent
from New York.
Vanderbilt is going to make the Readinr
through line to the west from New Yorl
and Philadelphia to spite the Lackawan,
new extension TO Buffalo and spoil Il,
coal-carrying trade. He can carr,
more coal from monopolizcd fell
than all the other roads To
gethcr that run west from the anthracite re-
gion. In the mean time he Is lighting Pull
man Tor being the most formidable invade,
OF Now England and New York by mean,
of the new Hudson River railroad, new
Lake Shore line aud New England line
That is why the Pullman cars are attempted
to be taken Oft In the southwest.
The Indiana bureau Of statistics has pre-
pared n table showing that in lSs0 thirteen
counties and townships voted aid to rail
roads IN the sum of $3g2 0a3, aud clever
counties and townships took railroad stocl
TO the amount Of si1i $50. In iSsi twelve
counties voted aid In the sum of siS33I0
aud eight counties took t2iS,h3 worth o
stock.
fREiaHrs.
On cotton. from Dallas are as follows,
Fer 100 Pounds Per 100 pnnnds
81 Louis ,u.,uus S New York n. ;. '. 81 II
boston .."",,,s. ~ New orlcans...... 1,
Houston. ,u4.... ~ Galveston. ..... A
ON local, freigh,s are as follows, second.