Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Col. Johr. S. Hamilton, lessee of the Mis-.
sissippi State peuitentiary, and who has the
contract for building the Holly Springs and
Memphis road, informs The Racket that
80 miles Of grading have been completed
q miles OF ties ut in place and miles
Of rack laid. Col. Hamilton states that
the work lie being pushed as rapidly 20
possible.
At last reports the track layers on the two
ends Of the Galveston, Harrisburg aud San
Antonio extension were only miles apart
and 1t is probable that by this time The track
has been connected, giving another untroken
line across Texas from the Rio Grsnde at
FL Paso, 70 miog an extension oil the South.
ern Pacific, which has line from San
Francisco through 70 New Orleans.
Chattanooga il about 10 be depopulatsd,
judging from the following paragraph from
the Times, of Wednesday: "There is
Likelihood thatsome of the officers and clerks
engaged in the A absma Great Southern
depot ,ou the southern lines of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific system, will
be transferred 10 Cincinnati. We trust this
may prove otherwise, for our city could iii
afford to lose such worthy gentlemen"
According to the report OF the railroad
commissioner Of Ohio, there are $685. 40
miles OF railroad within Ohio, the io1si
capital stock OF which is $l85 926 OPS, an in
crease OF so per cent, and the total debt is
$l66, 302,5lO, an Increase of 8 96 per cent.
The gross earnings OF the Ohio portion OF
the lines reported amount to GAS, S22, 9S4, ap
increase OF 10 81 per cent and he net earn
ings amount to Sl6,756 iO7, an Increase O.
IA per cent.
The earningscf the Missouri Pacific, South.
western roads, Tor he fourth week of No
vember were a. follows: Missouri Pacific,
SIS, 2S4; increase, Ss5,392. Kansas and
Texas, S209,684 ipcrssse, s50153 InlernS-
tional and Great Northern, S1O6, A 8; in
crease, SlI, 3. Iron Mountsiu, $3.50 800;
increase, SAL 063 Texas Pacific, $l92,637;
increase SO, le0. Central Branch, S43, 547;
increase, SABA Total, s., 053, 947; total
increase, S2S7 $50.
At the meeting of the newiy -ele cied Beard
OF Directors of the New Orleans and North.
eastern Railroad Company, held in New Or.
leans on the b instant, for he ensuing year,
there were present Messrs Carrier, Mott.
Abraham, Scott and OSlesby. Fred Wolff,
of New Orleans, Was reelected to the pres-
dency OF the road John Scott, vice presiden'
aud general manager; F. Hahn, treasurer;
w. DinnistoD, secretary. After the election
was over M. Calm, private secretary of Mr.
Wolfe, and former tecretary and treasurer
of the company, who was present at the
meeting on behalf Of Mr.. Wolfe (Mr. Wolff
being sick in New York; presented Mr..
Wolffe's resignatiop, both as president and
the company any longer on account of his
vast amount OF business with other roads
Mr.. Wolfe Is the founder of what is called
the ErlaDger Syndicate, having acquired for
the indicate all the lines constii uting il
now, and no m IN is more familiar with the
New Orleans and Mort heastern railroad tn an
he lie.
The Houston TEX Pot prints the follow
Jog correspondence relative 10 railway de-
velopment in that State: "The Sunset route
is open to Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grauds,
bat the unfinished part in the mountains |
will not be completed 20 connect with Z |
Paso for few weeks TO come. The writer
was informed last night that the Texas and |
Pacific is now engaged in removing their |
rails and ties (which, il appear, were laid |
from Sierra Bsnco to e. Peso, IS |
miles, on the roAd-bed Of the Southern Pa |
ci6c) from the Southern Pacific road bed 10 |
their own, so as 10 give the Texas and |
Pacific track OF IT'S own into Ell PAso. and |
necessitate the Southern PscIic's laying |
IS miles of new track, or using the |
Texas and Pacific to connect the Sunset and |
Southern Pacific. The Huntington and |
Morgan roads viii not receive freight for or |
from the Gould roads unless the same ia pre- |
paid, and advise shipmsnts from s.. Louis |
ria Texas and ST. Louis Nsrrow-gauge. Col. |
PAramoreis son in s.. Louis told the wri- |
ter that the contract was for that |
" OpcntO W tc4ds dDOub Tue 1aSt VI /
this month. C)l. Faramore is president OF ]
the narrow-gauge rad, also of large ST. |
Louis cotton compress compsnv. The Gould |
roads are giving a rebate OF 25c per bale Oh |
cotton carried over their lines 10 S.. LOUIS |
and to another compress. G. p. Huntington |
is vice-president Of the Southern Pacific and |
president of the Chesapeake aud Ohio and |
its Western extension, now open from Rich |
mond aud the ssacozst to Memphis, Tenn |
He needs, and will probably soon have, a |
connection between his two roads through |
Texas and Arkansas, and is now building |
from VermilliouVile to West B ,ton Rouge, |
aud has thence a river route to Memphis.
The road from Shreveport TO Monroe is in
course of rapid construction. The distance
IL short, and there will soon be an Eastern
outlet by way Of Vicksburg. Your outlet TO
New Orleans is complete, and yoar Gull