The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-22
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OFFICE OF
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RAILROAD ITEMS.

The January earnings of the New York
Central are said to be $4,000 greater this
year than for January, 1881.
The gross earnings of the st. Louis & San
Francisco railroad for the week ended Feb
ruary were 1881, $50 800; 1882, $63, 500; in
crease. $l2,60 and from January to Feb
ruary Z 1881, S263 300; 1882, $500, 100; IN
crease, So, 500
| 1t is denied that the project of consolidat-
ing the Union and Central Pacific railroads
is even being considered by the officials of
the latter company.
The gross earnings of the Northern Pa
cifc for the first week in February were
$74 800; increase, $54 600. AT this time last |
year the road was much hampered by snow |
The following is the official report of the |
earnings of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids |
u Northern railway company for the first
week in February: 1882, S62, $50 81 1881,
$50 063 50; increase, 1873, 476.0S.
The Prussian budget is made to show
surplus Of $9,0O0,000. This is chiefly due to
the working of the railroads bought by the
state.
Iowa has $500 miles of railroad which is
more than the entire railroad mileage of
New England, and second only to that of
Illinois.
kilograms from Mexico say that the
Mexican Central to Queretaro, 1853 miles, is
complete and accepted by government en-
gneers, and was opened for business the
18th
With these several trunk line connections,
the Mexican Central will cause an enorm-
Gus amount of business to flow INTO Mexico
from the United States.
1t is reported that very strong combina-
ton has beea formed III Washington to
work against the Northern Pacific land
grant. 1t is believed in some quarters
that the effort to bring about the forfeiture
of the grant will be successful
The state of Pennsylvania has begun suit
against seventeen railroads because OF their
, failure to return to the auditor their an
nual report within thirty days after the ex-
piration of the financial year, The penalty
Tor each road is 5000.
3. Congress is receiving large number of
petitions citing that the railways are public
. highways, built for the benefit of the pub
|, lie, and that the people are entitled to re-
ceive them on equal terms, and praying for
legislation to regulate Interstate commerce
4 and prevent eXtortlon.
Within the past few weeks discoveries
have been made along the northern division
u OF the Wisconsin Central road of Il fine
:, grade of iron ore. Ii is probable that the
y discoveries will be followed up at once, and
the mineral resources, of the places where
the ore was found, developed.
A snow blockade on Nova Scotian rail
road stopped the train fourteen miles from
o. its destination, and the passengers got out
ana walked the balance of the journey.
With reference to the charter of the Mexi
can Central, there is stipulation contained
therein which disallows the owners of tht
road the privilege Of charging passenger
" for transportation until after the road shall
have been completed as far as chihuahua
o. The charter fixes the passenger fare ut
Il maximum rate of five cents mile.
d After the LIST of March the Iron Mountain
o. railroad company will charge all its EN-
ployes working in its shops and yards, II
South st. Louis, six miles below the centr,
of the city, iull fare, 10 cents, for passag
between the two points. Some 800 men arr
concerned in the order. Heretofore the,
have ridden free.
Q The directors of the st. Louis Il San
Francisco railroad will hold their annua
meeting March 18th. At that time some
thing definite will be known as to whethe
Gould or somebody else owns the road
~, The law of the state of Massachusetts, q
IA IA is well known, forbds the running of rail
cy way trains on Sunday. Last week an ultra
Sabbatarian member OF the house from
a. Cambridge introduced an order which wa
Y, passed, calling on the railroad commission
w ers for the number OF unauthorized Sunday
A. trains which are run in the state To-da,
y: the commissioners made answer that thu
number is, in summer, III, and in winte
or 81. Ii the matter is stirred up the result
will quite likely be the repeal of the anti
30 ouated statute. The commissioners las
w year were given authority TO authorize
certain number of Sunday trains, and thi
authority they exercised to n very Unite,
degree.
ao The Tyler Courier says. Captain Georg
do W. Lilly, the live general freight and pms
de senger agent for the Texas & st. Louis raj
Oc; road, is the right man in the right plac,
rs lie understands his business and he attend
to 1t promptly.
CARLIYevILLH, ILL.,, February 16.-[Sp,
:. cial.l-A mass-meeting was held here I,
~ day In the interest of the Litchiield Il Yves
~ ern railroad, new route via Carlingvill,
Carrolton and GAINESVILLE TO Kansas City
The attendance was large. The survey
have been made and the road located III
hic prospects for its being built are good
for Fort Wayne is making an effort to pr
,oo cure the shops of the New York, Chicago
~, nS ST. Louis railroad. The citizens OF Flo
n ns Wayne propose to subscribe $4,000, an
ne the township of Adams will vote upon
rsi proposition TO give $4,000, making u
80 requisite $4,000.
nd; The Pullman palace car company no
us have fifty of their cars, representing $50
20 900 In value, In use on various roads
lite Europe. The English people were slow
z adopt new things, but since Pullman ca
were put on the Midland railway, In 1877
at the solicitation Of the general manage
"A who came 10 this country and made q u
10 California In one Of them, there has BET
an Increasing demand for them. They a
now running ON the Midland, the Gre
ich Northern, the North British the Londo
ing Brighton 4 South Coast, and on the Ea
India mail route between Bologne M
Nc' Brindisi, Cars are being built for the Yves
~. ern railway In France, which will be II
ard first introduced In that country. The ca
are constructed at the shops In Detro
Michigan, shipped In sections, and put I
ak gether at the company's shops In Dcrb
70 England.
The London Times thinks our Americi
railroad presidents are the. real rulers
this country. mo potentatc," says q
Times, "has never welded chairman
soepter here endowed with anything II
A On the amplitude and splendor Of the roy
the prerogatives which appertain to railw
presidents In the United States. A rep
sentative character Is always seen 10 belo
to the rulers at English railroad boar
They are not only elected, but elective.
New the United States railway prcsidel
~ when once chosen, governs by "a sort