The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-01
RAILROAD ITEMS.

Captain nahney, chief engineer of the Nicks-
burg, Shreveport 4 Pacific railroad, reports
Bayou LaChute rising so rapidly that he is mp
preher fe that work on the road will have 10
be suspended, and the convict camps will have
10 be removed
The Prescott Courier says work will be com
meuCed In q short time on the branch road from
the main line of the Atlantic K Pacific ~ Pres
colt. This is good news and we congratulate
the gem city of Arizona on its future prosperity.
Tho Allen paper cur-whecl made at Pullman
Is used on nj the Pullman ears made for the use
of the company. These wheels cost from $50 To
BOO each, and are much more durable and safe
than the ordinary wheel. An ordinary Pullman
palace car costs about SIC 600, and passenger
coach from S. COO to $500
McxiCans complain that the employees Of the
Mexican Central road who are brought directly
! in contact with passengers are not able 10 speak
| Spanish and, consequently. that travellers ARE
often deprived of very necessary information
which they could otherwise obtain.
| The construction OF the government telegraph
| line between PHso del Nortc aud chihuahua was
commenced on the 10Th inst, and ny the 2ith
thirty miles had been placed under wire. At
| this rate OF speed the line win be finished to
chihuahua in very short period.
| New ORLEANS Picayune: The most important
to us of all the railroad building new in progress
Is that in Mexico, which will soon bring us into
commercial relations with her nine millions of
people.
connect the Pacific part of Altata in the state Of
Sinnoa with the city Of Durango on the main
line of the Mexican entrnl. will be completed
to Culiacon about July l. The grading is III
ready finished to that point.
The road from Mexida to Valladolid is ad-
vancing rapidly. This appears to be recent
project 1t Is not denoted on the maps which
we have seen, Yucstan Is a very promising
state, lying directly south Of the jctdes.
The Rio Grande Valley Il paper published at
Brownsville, Texas says that the Mata.
moras road is now completed nine
miles. This Is one OF the spurs of
the Mexican National. and runs up the river to
Mier, whence 1t strikes southwest into the hill
country TO Monterey to the main line.
Rails are now laid from Guaymas toward
Nogales On the American frontier, at least l!O
miles.
From Tampico on the gulf to a point called
Buena Vista, the road toward San Luis Potos Is
running; II is thirty.two k;lometers from Mora
lilo 10 Buena Vista. The completed track IL,
therefore, above twenty miles
The main line Of the National was 106S mile,
beyond LAREDO yesterday, May 26, and viii ar
: rive ut VillaldGma, l9 miles, Monday, The
National has done splendidly lately
The PucbA " lzlcnr de Matanoros road II
progressing, twenty-five kilometers about l.
niles being laid.
More than thrty.two kilomcters about q
niles OF track is now ready OH the San Martin
Texmelucan road
1 The extension OF the Morclos road from Gu
anita TO Acapulco has to be commenced within
4 four months.
/ The sum Of all the subsidies, state and Fed
Cral, on all the lines Of the Mexican Central, Il
: $50 g23,4 0. The concessions aggregate 3,2H xii
! ometers Tor 1909 miles, This does not include
I the sonora line, from Gusyamas 10 Nogales
1 which IL now consolidated with tho Atchison
Topeka IL Santa re
the subsidies of the National aggregate abov,
s20O00,CO0,
i The subscriptions recently invited by the Ma
. lonal and Central have both been taken, Sli,
600 cash for the first and above S6OOO,0l0 70
the other. The Central subscriptions were NOR
than 80 OOcOln excess of the amount required
The financial condition OF both roads now war
! rants the hope of steady and rapid work Tn
, Nationals bonds are advancing In the market
A report being current In the Cit
: of Mexico that General Graut had no
y succeeded In raising the necessary capt
|, tai for commencing tho construction OF III
IS Mexican southern railway she Two Republic
states that GcHcral Grant said recently that h
did not intend TO push the const uctien of tn
a road until the City of Mexico Is connected witt
=, the United States by rail.
u The City of Mexico Is the most nOrtherly poln
II on the Mexican southern. II is not state
whether the beginning OF work await, the NJ
rival of the Gould'DeGrGss road from Jared
via Victoria, or will proceed rs soon rs II ca,
obtain transportation by the Central or Nations
4 line. The Mexican government has approves
the plans and protilts of the second hundrc
kilometers of the Sould-DeGress line south iron
Laredo.