The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-09
RAILWAY NOTES.

The officials of all the principal lines OF
railroad in Texas have agreed not to cut
rates on the movement of the cotton crop.
1t has been decided by the authorities
at Toledo, o., to tax a block of railway
tickets held there as personal proper
ty The sum demanded from the holders
/ is So, 400.
The stockholders of the Pittsburgh,
Youngstown and Chicago railroad on Sat
urday passed resolution transferring all
their rights and franchises in the line be-
tween Akron and New Castle junction to
The Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toledo rail
road.
The estimated earnings of the Illinois
Central railroad for the month ending July
81, were as follows: From freight, $40
400; from passengers, S174, TAI; miscella-
neous, $104. 020; total, 1852, 251. The
total actual earnings for the same period
in 1881, were 1920, 003.76
The Union Pacific Railroad company
recently unloaded at Kansas City one of
its immense experimental freight cars con-
tanning l, 200 bushels of wheat, transport
ed from Solomon City. The car is fur
nished with the new truck, by which or
binary freight cars are enabled to carry
from so TO 100 per cent additional weight.
On Saturday the Ouachita Division of
the Little Rock, Mississippi and Texas
Railroad was opened for business to War
rem, Bradley county, Ark, and the first
passenger train went through. Regular
freight and passenger trains will be put
on Monday, and the road will be complct-
ed to Texarkana
The fastest train between Montreal and
Boston makes the run of 1873 miles in ten
hours, which is up TO the highest speed
yet attained in New England, and attests
the Improvement which has been made in
the road-bed and equipment of the Central
Vermont, single track road, within a few
years
1t is stated that Colonel A w. Soper,
formerly General Superintendent of the
Iron Mountain railroad, has resigned the
general managership of the Wagner Sleep
ing Car Company to take general charge
of the Texas and St. Louis Narrow Gauge
railroad, which will soon have through
line from st. Louis to the Rio Grande.
]. r. Buchanan, general passenger agent
of the Sioux City and Pacific railroad, an
nounces that the line is now completed and
open for business to Thatcher, Neb.. fifty
miles west of Long Pine, opening up the
intermediate stations of AinswOrth, Johns
town, Wood Lake, and Arabia Thatcher,
the present terminus, is 800 miles west of
the Missouri valley. The line crossing the
Missouri river at Blair intersects the Union
Pacific at Fremont, cutting off thirty three
miles between Chicago and Fremont.
An officer Of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
and Western Road states that recently the
tried to negotiate a purchase of
8 900 tons of steel rails from the Chicago
steel mills. They were told that the order
could not be filled before fall, as the de-
mand was greatly in excess of the capacity
to supply. The company has closed a |
contract with the Joliet works Con- |
strqction of track on the company's exten |
sion in Wisconsin is progressing with dis
patch.
The stock of the Cincinnati and Balti-
more Railroad Company, represented by
the minority pool. was formally trans
ferred to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company last week The exact amount
of shares was II, 772, which, at $50 per
share, amounting to $647 AGO. The trans
fer expenses to each shareholder were Al
cents per share, or S., 179.6S in all. This
transfer places all of the stock of the Gin
einnati and Baltimore in the hands of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with the ex-
,eption of a few hundred shares. The
Cincinnati and Baltimore is a short piece
IF road, but forms an important link be
ween the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
on, and Baltimore and Ohio systems.