The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-25
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Between the Illinois Central,
Cairo Short Line and Texas
and st. Louis Roads
FORMING A THROUGH LINE BE-
TWEEN ST. LOUIS, CAIRO .
AND TEXAS POINTS.

some time ago that the Texas narrow
gauge road would connect at this point for
| st. Louis with the "Cairo Short Line"
Very extensive transfer works and sheds
will probably be constructed, or else ar
engagements will be made for using the
Illinois Central company's machinery and
sheds, which can be done at smaller cost.
Here is what the Republican says
ut is learned upon the best authority
that the Texas and st. Louis railway COM
psny has made traffic contract with the
Illinois Central and the St. Louis, Alton
and Terre Haute railway companies-the
latter more commonly known as the "Cairo
Short Linen which the companies men
toned agree to form through line Of road
from st. Louis and Chicago into Texas and
Arkansas. Under the agreement, each
company is to put in sufficient number
of cars, with transfer able trucks to accom-
modate the through. business between the
cities mentioned and the states of Arkansas
and Texas. The St. Louis, Alton and Terre
Haute company ratified the contract last
Thursday and the other companies had pre-
yiously ratified it, Under the new arrange
ments it is contemplated to run the trains
of the Texas and St. Louis railway into the
Union depot in St. Louis and also through
sleeprs to Chicago.
The traffic contract, by which the new
through route is established, will 60 into
effect June /. Each road is to furnish 800
cars, and as two of the lines are of the
standard gauge, and the T. and st. l.. is OF
the narrow gauge, it will be necessary to
TRANSFER the CARS
From the trucks at Cairo, AT that place
the live stock coming over the route will
be transferred, and there also the stock
will be fed. On regular freight there will
be no delay to amount to anything, as 1t
will only take three minutes to lift
freight car from one track to the other and
five minutes for q sleeper. The compan.
les have Just purchased one OF the patent
steam Shutters, so successfuS used in all
parts of the country.
1t is also learned that the contract has
been made for period of so years. The
alliance just formed is for the purpose OF
checkmating the Gould system. The
readers of the Republican are well aware
| that the Texas and St. Louis line has en-
countered a great deal OF opposition since
the determination to extend its line through
the state of Arkansas. When it was oper-
ated only from Texarkana to Tyler, in the
state of Texas, the narrow gauge was re-
garded as q valuable feeder by the Iron
Mountain officials In fact Mr.. Marquand,
when president Of the Iron Mountain COULD
not refrain from making the most praise
worthy mention Of the line in his annual
report year ago, but since that time there
| has been war'between the roads, dating
| from the period OF the survey for the Ar
kansas extension of the narrow gauge. An
order was issued by the Iron Mountain last
year instructing its agents to charge full
local rates on all business between that
line and the narrow gauge, which pracd-
cally shut the latter out from St. Louis
business. AS retaliation, Col. j. W. Par.
amore the president of the T. and st. L.,
Immediately cut down rates, putting pas
senger fares at three cents per mile. Mean
while the
| EXTENSION OF THE NARROW GAUGE
was pushed ahead in both Arkansas and
Texas, and the work has progressed 80
rapidly that within the time alluded to the
through line will be formed. Within sixty
days the narrow gauge will be completed
to Clarendon, Ark, thus giving about 200
miles ready for operation in Arkansas
alone. AS soon as the bridges are COM
peted over the Arkansas, White and Red
rivers, the road will be opened to Gates
vile, Waco and Houston, in Texas, and
branches will be built to Helena and Little
Rock in the fall. There will be one OF
two important branches in Texas, and the
business men of Fort Worth are construct
ing narrow gauge line to intersect the T.
and st. L., the road to take southwestward
direction in order to reach some driving
business points in the Lone Star state.
| Col Paramore, in speaking of the ALI
ance formed, said Yesterday that he consid'
cred it Of vital Importance to the cities
named above,as we'll as tho states OF Arkan
sas and Texas, as it would secure an inde'
dependent line beyond the Gould control
for the period Of fifty years; and that il
could not fail also to be of great import
ance to the Texas and st. Louis railway
company, as 1t would strengthen its &C.
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