Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-23
Railroad News.

The semi-annual meeting of the
National Association of General Pas
senger and Ticket Agents will be held
at the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, Tues
day, September 10.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
paDy now has 327, 900 miles Of wire and
l0,7H Offices. Ninety five per cent of
their wire is stretched along the rail-
ways Of the United States.
The English railroads have 1875
miles of road, the American 100000;
the cost of the English system is. in
round numbers, So, $50, 600, 900; and of
American, s., 900, 600, 900. The earn
ings of the English system is $50, 0OO,-
600 per annum.-[Courie Journal.
The Cincinnati Commercial is anx.
ious to know what is to become oil the
Memphis and Charleston when the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
loses. If the Commercial will care
fully study the names of the Directors
Of the NJ. & O., it will be evident the
h. & N. is at least to have a voice in
deciding its destiny. The plan to take
the NJ. q .. from the h. T., Va. & Ca,
is credited to Jere Baxter, Esq, Of
Nashville.
Cincinnati Commercial: The Chi
cago, st. Louis and New Orleans, now
running from New Orleans to Cairo,
ILL.,, and there connecting with tho
Illinois Central, the two roads forming
an entire system, bids fair to branch
out and become one of the great
Nerth and South systems Of the coun-
try. The first improvement that was
made since the tide Of railroad blooms
struck the country was to change the
gauge from five feet to four feet eight
inches, or standard gauge, making it
about the only standard gauge road
south of the Ohio river. The system
now contemplates the construction of
a broad road from KosciuskO, Miss,
in a northeasterly direction to Deca-
tur, Ala, a distance of nearly ia
miles. The survey was made some
years ago, but on account Of the de.
preston Of business at that time the
construction of the road was for the
time postponed. Within the past year
and a half the right of way has been
secured, and now the construction of
the road is an assured fact. The road
will pass through some of the most
fertile lands in Mississippi, and also
reach a good cotton growing Sec
ton Of the country in Alabama.
At Decatur it will connect with the
Louisville & Nashville and the Mem
phis & Charleston roads, which would
shorten the distance from that point
to New Orleans several miles, as COM
pared with the route traVersed by the
Louisville S Nashville system.
President Clarke is credited with
having made the statement that in all
probability the branch will be extend
ed north Of Decatur Gume miles into
the mineral aud coal lands of Tennes.
see, which in many places are I'M.
touched by railroads at all. AT Aber
deem, Mississippi, it will also cross the
Mobile Il Ohio road, thereby having
the effect to concentrate the trade
direct from the North on that line 10
the Southern metropolis, that now goes
to Mobile or to the Southeastern
coast, 10 such points as Savannah or
Brunswick.
President Clarke is of the opinion
that the new road will be constructed
and ready for use within the next year.
The fact that the FIRST tunnel ever
built in Texas has just been completed
ron tho Galveston, Harrisburg & San
Antonio road--indicates the tOpo
graphical adoption of the State to the
building OF railways, Of which It al.
ready has nearly 5000 miles.
The Southern Pacifc's through line
from California to New Orleans is 90
nearly completed that the journey be.
tween the two ends is now made in a
twelve hours ride from Soto CITY.
Texas, the end Of the Galveston, Har.
risburg " San Antonio track. to the
western end Of the Southern Pacific
track ia a few days cars can run from
New Orleans to San Francisco direct,