The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-05
RAILROAD ITEMS.

The Union Pacific report will be issued next
week The gross earnings of the company for
twenty-five days in March Were Sl,1SS,0O0
against 81, 2j6, 900 last year, gain of sj32,,00
Twenty miles of the Texas IL Colorado road
was turned over to the company April !. The
construction company will receive for il 500 900
in stock, and bonds The first division OF one
hundred miles Is graded.
The directors of the Alton Il Terrc Haute COM
pany postponed the declaration of dividend
on preferred stock until next week. The divi-
dend will be payable in May.
| Mr.. Cockrcll introduced substitute for the
! Garland bill, authorizing the Texas 4 ST. Louis
railroad company to build bridges In Arkansas.
! The new locomotives for the Denver & New
| Orleans railroad are beauties. They have six
drivers on each side, and are expected to go up
! high grades with ease.
II costs the Philadelphia & Reading railroad
company more 10 carry passenger than 1t does
! 10 haul ton of pig iron.
! Mr.. Lord reported back bill for the cOnstruc.
! ton of II ship-canal across Michigan. Referred
to the committee of the whole.
! An engine weighing 100 tons and Of S0'-horso
power has just been completed ut New Castle
| for shipment 10 Chicago.
The largest engine In the world Is now
used in pulling trains over Glorieto mount.
aims
gross earnings of S2l S2L l50 and net In
come of $40, 257 GS5. The funded debt Is $50 l22.
| 725, and the miles of track 2,g2l
New railroad construction reported last week
! amounted 10 llS mics, making l,UVl miles tnuh
far reported for lsS2, against SOL miles reported
at the corresponding time last year, 153 miles IN
| 1880 and I'll miles IN 1879.
| | Irhe executive committee of the trunk line
| roads has decided to pool the the east bound
livestock business md it is probable that the
rates will next month be advanced 10 10 cents
per hundred pounds.
Two large British steamships, loaded with
Cinnamon, have left Hong Kong for Victoria,
Il. C., and four thousand more Celestials are 10
come this season, for railway work.
Two hundred passenger trains arrive and de-
part from the Broad street depot of the Pennsyl
yania railroad, Philadelphia, every twenty
hours.
One hundred thousand dollars mas already
been subscribed for the erection of n Car-whGel
foundry ut Fargo, Dakota territory. X. H. Mul.
cahy of Elkhart Indiana Is the leading stock
holder Orders have been received for work
and 1t is expected that operations viii commence
by June l.
Within the present month the Chicago. Nil.
waukee Il ST. Paul road has absorbed the Hast
nss Il saltwater the Illinois 4 Wisconsin, the
GAINESVILLE, Rockford u lieloit and the Iowa u
Eastern These four lines represent about
g., 900, and each had received advances 10.
ward It's construction.
The work of widening the Galena, pla,tevillc,
Lancaster Nooiman narrow gauge branch Of
the Chicago Northwestern railroad will begin
on Monday, and trains will be running ut n
staudard.gaugo track to those points early In
July The steel rails 10 be used In pcrfccting
the change arrived 1T Nontiort Wisconsin. The
contract Tor widening the tunnel north oil Ghlola
was completed on the 30th
Mr., W, II, knight has accepted the appoint.
mcnt of general agent of tho Missouri Pacific
and St. Louis, Iron Mountain X Southern rail.
ways with hssdquarters in Chicago. The ~.
pointmcnt will BE- In effect from April |. Mr..
knight has for six ycnrs past held an important
connection with the Chicago Il Eastern Illinois
railroad and the Southern Dispatch line
nl oS is nearly finished. After April trains AIM
will run through from the former pace TO Nj.
Ian. The entire line will be In possession OF the
company IN May, and be opened 10 the public
on Junel. ThcpreSident of the Swiss confcder.
alton and the representatives of Italy and Ger.
many will probably take part In the ceremony
of opening some time IN May,
ISpIASAPoLIs Inn. March al.-ln the United
States court to-day Charles oConor OF New
+ York. filed petition for the appointment of a
. receiver for the indianapolis Il St Louis rail-
road, alleging that the company Is insolyent It's
Indebtedness is rapidly Increasing, the tndiyid.
ual interests OF the stockholders are allowed 10
suffer. aud that It's condition is generally bad
oConot has claim against the road amounting
to sSt,0Oo.
SAN Francisco, March SO.-Reports from
, points on the Central Pacific railroad between
lIallock and Wells station are TO the effect that
: the track Is under water for many miles. The
! snow has been heavy In the mountains. and
with the setting In ofwarm weather every m
vino brings down torrents each afternoon, Many
, wnshouts have occurred, and all trains ART
/ stopped A large force of men are at work. hui,
owing 10 the rush OF water during the day, the
, labor has TO be done mostly ut night and early
Q In the morning
The Bastrop Advertiser says our prospects
for railroad IN the near future arc Frightening
. The contract with the Austin a Southeastern
narrow gauge company, IN accordance with IN,
I basis proposed Is now drawn up, and N,
subscription committee are busy
/. getting an am unit subscribed sufi.
Client to purchase depot grounds and rightof
way TO Justify the contracting committee IN com
{ peting the contract. The route will be sur
7 veyed at once, and construction company Ia,
already been contracted with 70 begin work Al
! soon NJ tho survey Is located. Grading will
begin as soon a. the survey Is located.
has considered The senate bill granting 70 he 81