The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-16

per mile, 10 cents lrstclass fare, 4 cents second
class fare, cents workmen's fare.
pward OF -, Oo5 have been subscribed To tho
Conway railroad The sSsh6ri;ed capital psfG IS
ST 90 O.
lttakes about two weeks to turn out an orll.
nary palace car, which costs from $1,000 To
slLOO9 An ordinary passenger coach costs
about $500 an ordinary mail aud baggage car
s7O0
c. G; Patterson a Boston capitalist. has con.
uaeted "a build the Topeka, Salina K Western
railroad westward from Topeka a distance of $50
niles Inc Inc is practically an extension of
road.
The Northern Pacific railroad has l. tl9 miles
OF track laid aud lose to come. Ii has sold
ABOUT $40 VQOt0t worth OF its lAud and Will have
an told, territory worth g0,t0OOO moro when
the line is completed.
The railroads west Of the Missouri river have
agreSi TO make rate ofs15, rOund-trip, for in.
lending delegates 10 the rieunial conclaye of
hnhghts Templar in San Francisco, In lSS3 For
| gong via one route and returning via another
the rate win he 81 o.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has II long article as.
sorting that the Mobile * Ohio road Is soon to
De bought 10y Mr.. Gould, and made part OF the
Wabash system.
Hawthorne, on the Carson ii Colorado railroad
Is lhe hottest place in that section Of Nevada
The thermometer shows from 100 to 10 degrees
OF heat in the shade right along in that town. II
Is SAID that the lizards cannot get over the rocks
without wearing moCCaSius.
In atew days the top OF u mountain at Tai
lulah, Georgia will DO blown over into the
Grand ChaSm To make room for the railroad
Already LOO pounds Of powder have been
placed celow the rocky cone. twill be u fear.
I ful explosion aud grand sight
Iho Florida southern Railroad company has
sold to the Live Oak, ROwlsudS Bun y Char
lotte harhor railroad, the route from Gainesville
horthWara, an act not contemplated by the
= fal afa.ll
pany under charter from Lake City to Char
lOtte llarhor.
The gross mileage of passenger cars on tho
lines OF the Chicago & Northwestern railway
curing the last year amounted TO 1851, Gt2
miles, against Il, 22l,257 in the preceding year;
| total miles run by passenger trains, 500, h7j;
number of trains run, 636!g average number OF
trains each working day, .03, average miles run
! by each train, 3D. average number eff passenger
| equipment cars in each train, s; average num-
Der OF passengers In each train per mile run 81.
and average distance that each passenger was
transported, SJmiles.
Little Rock Democrat Friday: ARTICLES of
association Tor the Van Buren, Arkansas 4 South.
ern railroad were filed i'll the Office of the secre.
tary of state to-day. This road will be $50 miles
! long, extending from Van Buren,, through
Crawford, Sebastian, scott Polk, Howard, Sewer,
Little River and Miller counties, in u direction
almost due south to TeNarkana. Capital stock,
sl,5OOWO Dreetors-J II. lluckleberry, J. J.
warren j. f. Simpson, l. A, stanwood and j,
Il. Johnson.
! 1t is understood that u syndicate of New York
and London capitalists has purchased or is 10
purchase 10000 acres OF the finest grazing land
| on the Northern Pacific railroad in Montana at
! q an acre, and that Rufus Hatch. Judge Van
derpoOl and other capitalists now in this city are
OIL. their way to inspect the land. The Hatch
! party left New York about week ago, and are
travelling in palatial style I'LL their expenses be-
ing paid by the Northern Pacific railroad COM
| pany, They are accompanied by Mr.. Hermann
| lrptt tlp lanI simmer nF tbn rnul md
intend to visit and thoroughly inspect the terri
tory which they are said to have purchased and
which lies between the Little Missouri and
Powder Rivers. This is section of the finest
grazing country In the world, and has sustained
the largest herds of buffalo ever known from
time imnemorial. 1t has been the favorte
hunting ground of the Sioux Indians. and TO save
II from The aggressiyeness of civilization Sitting
| Bull fought so long 1t is nearer market than
any other large range now existing unoccupied
and can support hundreds Of thousands Of
cattle
1t is said to be the plan of the syndicate To pur
chase The land on seven years time At 81 al
acre, and place upon i this fall 5000 head o.
young cattle, which will render them so large
pront within the next seven years that the COS
OF the land will be mere bagatelle.
, General Passenger Agent Gallop, of the Boston
! " Albany Ill his --latest pocket time table of hii
ROAD New YORK expresses, gives the following
records of fast time ON English roads and IN,
Boston y Albany, showing the latter 10 be vel
up with the fastest
Flying nutchman on Great Western ralroqd
London To Exeter, lN miles, I h II min viii
| four stops, almost iorty-siN miles per hour.
express on Great Northern. The Leeds EY
press makes the distance from London TO Leeds
lS7 miles, in four hours, almost forty-seven mile
pr hour, with four stops
The Irish Mail London & Northwestern
once called the Flying lrishman, Il little les
than forty miles.
Morning Express on Great Northern railroad
I London IN EIinlurp 'itb fuilpgs in nina hpnrs
An average of almost forty -four miles per hour
The Midland Line. Scotch Express, Londol
10 Glasgow, 45 miles, forty and II half miles pc
hour.
These are the I've fastest trains in England
The Leeds Express, with its forty seven mile
per hour, being the fastest.
THE train leaving Boston at $50 p m, Wit
Boston " Albany, for New York, makes the rui
OF 9Si miles in si1 hours making twelve stops
averaging three minutes each, which makes III,
actual speed Of this train iorty.fye miles &c
hour"
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