The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-25
RAILROAD ITEMS.

p!eted, besides eighty seven miles OF street rail
ways A'''
The bulk of Illinois Central stock is owned NV
the English branch of the famous Rothsshild
family ''-'''
The Northern Pacific railroad is now running
regular trains to torsythe, forty mine miles west
Oh Miles Illy, anu accommodation trains 90 IN
Pompey's Pillar, 100 miles east of Bozeman,
Track is being laid at the rate OF two miles per
| day.
There has, been built thus far this year. &c.
| cordihg TO the Railroad Gazette, Dab miles of
new railroad, against 3, ll5 miles reported at the
CORRESPONDENTS time in 1851 1851 miles In 1850
20 miles in 1879 ~ miles in 1878, SIS miles II,
| 1871, ll4b miles In 1876, 59i miles II 1875, 9lS
| i'll 1872.
We learn that the Louisiana Western railroad
company have abolished Communication tickets
ana require everybody travelling over their road
10 pay iull fare, cents per mile, This action Is
ON account OF the law in Texas recurring nil
roads TO carry passengers at cents per mile
they want to make up in Louisiana what they
| lose in Texas. 10y
It's worthy ofrecord that fires were kent nm IN
the passenger coaches of the Chicago d North
western railway while passing through Iowa
iast Ihursuay, SO cool was the temperature The
brakemen oi.the daily express, who found fires in
all the stoves on the arrival of the train from Chi
cago at o'clock, kept the cars warmed in a like
manner until they reached Boone, oven In the
middle of the day
Only 800 miles of the Northern Pacific road re.
| II
least 400 miles will be completed this wear leay
ing but 40 miles TO be constructed in iSss. Iris
also intended to build from Superior Civ east
! ward so us to give direct connection with the
| Canadian system of railroads. Thus probably
| in less than two years Il new line of railway viii
| be IN operation from the Gulf of st. Lawrence
to Puget sound, and to Portland. Oregon
The Courler-Journal says; William b Wood.
OF bowling Green, has obtained patent on
what lie calls n safety bridge for locomotives"
| 1t consists of an arrangement by which in case
of an accident in which the tender is broken
loose from the engine las nearly always hap.
pens, the hremans life is saved There is set of
rods forming the safety bridge" and extending
under the tender, being fastened to the engine
| by chain; When the engine breaks away from
tender II draws these rods out to their full
| length, the chain is snapped and they remain
with the tender, extended SO as to form n kind OF
basket by which the fireman is prevented from
falling to the ground. The arrangement is eX
ceedlngly simple, and will add only about $40 To
| the cost of the locomotive.
Commodore Garrison's new road, the Wheel.
ing X Lake Erie, is rapidly approaching com .
pletlon It's lines will be from Toledo southeast
10 Massilon, nearly half way across the state,
ana nom there one branch TO Marietta and one
to Wheeling, giving 1t two termini on the Ohio
| rlyer. each about $50 miles from Toledo. The
line from Toledo TO Marietta is pretty well
finished up by the completion of the track from
| inc west END OF the Maumee bridge by way of
the old Miami and Erie canal bed, II is aniici
pated that the freight traffic of the road will AT
once reach large proportions, us II runs
tniough some OF the best coal regions of eastern
and receiving lake freights.
In return made TO the parliament of all the
railroads In the United Kingdom for the wear
ending December slst 1881, the total capital
PAID up and raised by loans and dcbentures ii
set down at f7i5, 1913 iGl, In addition 10 which
there is sum of coz 900, i5S set down as sub
sciiptions to other companies" The total
length Of line open on December Slst last was
IL l7o miles, OF which $500 miles were OF single
line. The number of passengers conveyed was
O23VH,1Sl, exclusive of season ana periodical
ucket-hOderS, and consisted OF 81 qiS gij first.
| class, ,Ifl17 second.class, and $40, 57g, 1876
tnird,elass PASSENGERS. The holders OF season
or periodical tickets numbered 53Si5a The
number OF miles Travelled by passenger, mixed
| goods, and mineral trains was us iG5 ga From
passenger traffic the receipts amounted 10 fg5,
aoi, olSi from goods traffic, fl,l7Gl0S, and from
miscellaneous sources C., Go 205-a total revenue
OF EGG 6l7, ii2 The total amount of the working
expenditure was Ii l,6l6 leaving the net re-
ceipts ut f3l,95i,S SIG the proportion of the eN.
pendi'nre 70 receipts being 81 per cent. There
were lS7G locomotives and lil, g5S carriages
and trucks in use on the several railways.
New Orleans has discovered a railroad scheme
which threatens her commercial supremacy
The Arkansas Louisiana railroad company,
which has been for four years operating "A tan
line from Hope station, on the St Lonis X Iron
Mountain railroad, TO Washington Arkansas, A
distance OF ten miles, has commenced the con.
siucuon OF ROAD from point seventeen miles
north OF Washington to Magnolia, Arkansas
forty miles south Of Hope, or n total distance OF
| sixty-seven miles. The iron for the road, Il Is
claimed. is furnished by ] Gould, us Is also the
money for grading and It is announced the road
will be completed In three months The people
| of Homer, Claiborne parish, Louisiana, forty
| miles south OF Magnolia, are negotiating 10 have
the road extended at once TO that town, and, az.
cording TO New Orleans adyices, they will un.
doubtedly succeed This scheme, II Is said, win
I'm nla
which has hitherto gone 10 New Orleans. New
orleans merchants are now moving to have tho
road built through 10 Alexandria, Louisiana,
where II would connect with the New Orleans &
Pacific railroad, and thereby become a feeder TO
the Crescent City" The COMPANY has made a
proposal TO build the road through TO Aleran.
dria u New Orleans will subscribe s.oo,O0 To.
ward Its construction.