The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-24
RAILROAD NEWS,

The Gulf, Colorado Il Santa Fe Railroad
intends to run tap from either Brennan
or Caldwell to Austin.
An effort is being made to consolidate the
Texas Trunk, Chicago, Texas & Mexican
and the Gulf IL Pacific Roads.
The completion of the Austin & North
western Railroad to Burnett is expected by
the LIST OF March.
Grading on the Sabine Pass q Texas
Northern Railway is said to be progressing
satisfactorily on the Marshall end of the
road.
1t is reported that Mr.. Gould has obtained
control of enough Denver & Rio Grande
stock to harmonic his Mexican lines with
the Denver and the Atchison, Topeka d
Santa Fe Companies.
All preliminaries are said to be settled,
and in few days the Union Depot in st.
Louis will come into the possession of Jay
Gould, who is purchasing stock from the
Cincinnati stockholders. 1t is reported
Gould intends erecting handsome new de-
pot on a new location. The capital stock
of the depot is $4,000.
Large quantities of iron have been re
ceived for the Austin e Northwestern Rail.
road, and track-laying will commence soon.
The company expect to have fifty miles in
running order by March /. To-day the
q
he road was awarded to X. j. Brecken-
dge, proprietor Of the Texas l. Frontier
Iele graph Line.
The train on the Cairo 6 st. Louis Rail
rad, last Monday evening, was prevented
f.om entering Cairo by high water. Ii was
compelled to stop outside of the levee and
unload its passengers, who had to max o
their way into the city rs best they could
Unless the river falls considerably soon the
Narrow-gaugo will probably be compelled
to stop operations entirely, at least so fur
as Cairo is concerned.
A new scheme of capitalists is to put be II
railroads around the big cities, so as to con-
meet the different railroads running into
them. The Junction Railroad around
Philadelphia was one of the first OF these,
and has for years prevented nm opposition
line between Baltimore and New York
NoXt Baltimore was belted At expense of
over 100000. Washington, is to have
the same kind of belt IJilro..i, and Dir.
Gould is thought to have started one in
Chicago.
The Butte on. IT, Inter.Mountain saws:
There is good chance for u railroad war
between the Utah Il Northern and the
Northern Pacific Railroad Companies in
the Silver Bow Canyon, The Northern
Pacific Company, after allowing the mar
row-gauge company to obtain possession of
the canyon, and after beginning work
themselves on the Hump, have finally de-
cided to build in the canyon. IL is under
stood the Utah & Northern Company have
sent for two hundred men with whom to
hold the fort.
The III Paso Link says the Southern Pa
ciiic enters promptly upon the field Il
competition for transcontinental freight
and travel. Our California corresl oldent
reports that the programme isto run stcam-
ers from the New Orleans and Galveston
termini of the road to Europe to carry the
heavy lrcightage of California wheat, ami TO
hnng back emigrants, who will be carried
from Liverpool to San Francisco for $50.
To do this the Southern Pacific company Is
having steamships. built, The cars which
bring the wheat from the Pacisc to the
Gull will be SO constructed that
they can be fitted with brr,hs on the
return trip. The completion of the short
line to San Diego, on tho Pacific, will
greatly shorten the distance from sea to sea-
and the completion of the line IRON Calves.
ton will make II still shorcr-only 800
miles in length, and that too, far below the
snow line, the neighborhood of when so
much interteres with the winter business
OF the other transcontinental railways.
The Accommodation Car Company has
begun operations at Chicago with n capital
stock of 81 100000, The object of the com
pany is to build and equip thousand cars
and put them upon the streets of Chicago,
which cars will run without tracks, or rather
on tracks whit they carry with them. and
are designed to traverse any and all
streets. The car, which Is OF
the =. ordinary kind Is mounted
In tho middle upon truck which sits on
four wheels, each about one foot In diane.
ter. These wheels run around the inside
OF two steel tires, each ten feet In diameter
and which rest upon the ground, and nrr
held only TO the car by a set of wheel.
clamps. The wheels win run on the inside
Of these tires, which will roll around as the
car Il pulled by the horses. thus furnishing
q c. ntlnuous level track for the wheels 10
run on. The car Ii designed TO hold fifty