The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-02
RAILROAD ITEMS

RAILROAD ITEMS
THERE is no truth in the report that the
Morelos road has been sold to General
Grant
It's reported that 500 negroes will arrive
at Iampico to work ON the Central railroad
! toward San Luis Potosi.
a railroad has been chartered to run from
Laredo up the Rio Grande to Eagle Pass.
| Among the directors are John Pratt and
Theo. IL. Friend, of New York.
Track-laying has been commenced on the
Southern Pacific branch from Mohaye to
the Colorado river.
Bills were introduced in the Ohio house
to compel railroad companies to build and
Keep In repair fences along their lines.
1t is reported that poll tax of So per
head has been assessed upon the 5000 EN-.
ployes on the Northern Pacific railroad
company in Montana, which they refuse to
pay.
Four cargoes of steel rails for the Trop-
ical railroad are daily expected at Fer.
nandina from England.
The Illinois Central, Wabash and other
roads are refusing freight for southern
points from Cairo down on account of sub
merged tracks. For the first time in its
history the Illinois Central company is UNI
able to send its trains through to Cairo.
A firm at Rome, Georgia, has sued the
i. T., V. Il G. railroad for $4,000 damages
for discriminating against them in freight
rates on cotton.
1t will be three months before the New
Orleans d Pacific will be in running order
from New Orleans to Alexandria, as the
work of building track and bridges has
been retarded by the high water which fills
the swamps.
The estimated gross earnings ofthe Louis.
vile Il Nashville railroad company for the
second week in February were: 1882,
$243, $50; 1881, $l74300; increase, SOS, 532, or
40 per cent. January to February IA,
1882, .Sl,434029; 1881, $1,iS6,0l7; increase,
: S2lS, 0l6, or 81 per cent.
! The representatives of the Central rail-
road have petitioned the Fomento to take
the necessary steps to open the road to
Queretaro TO go into effect on the 10Th of
this month.
The California & Nevada Railroad COM
pany has given mortgage for 50, coo 900 to
the Central Trust company of New York,
to secure 5000 bonds of $1,000 each, upon
the road being built from Oakland to Bodie,
$50 miles.
Western freight agents met at Cleveland
{ and recommended an advance of . cents per
100 pounds in east-bound rates between
Chicago and New York.
Colonel Gillespie, passenger agent of the
Mobile * Ohio road, says that all passen.
gers by his line for st. Louis are being sent
+; via Louisville and the Ohio & Mississippi
j. road.
4 The new board of directors Of the Phila-
Q delphia & Atlantic City railway is believed
to be ininimical to the Gowen, Garrett anC
Vanderbilt plan to secure the road in the
interest Of the New Jersey Central anc
Reading railroads.
It A decision was rendered in the United
!, States court, at st. Louis, In the case of tn,
q Southern Express company VS.. the IroI
Mountain railroad, to the effect that court.
cali compel railroads to provide facilitie
a for express business at reasonable rates.
The Morgan road has leased the right t
:; run trains from Cheneyville to Alexandria
!. over the New Orleans Il Pacific track an,
regular trains will be put on about the 2Stl
" OF February.
q The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul roa,
is believed TO be the purchaser of 5, 900 acre
5; of coal lands thirty miles northwest O
Deadwood. The veins are eight feet thick
r and of excellent quality.
n A. road locomotive Tor war purposes wa
v lately tried before Count Moltke. |
weighed twenty-eight and three-auarte
guns mounted on their carriages full,
equipped. Its maximum traction power /
80 tons, and its cost Of maintenance
about 30 cents an hour.
= The Sabine 4 East Texas railroad no,
y extends from Beaumont to within fftee
n miles of Woodville, in Tyler county. an
construction is being rapidly pushed.
Mr.. j. i. Flagg, the division engineer a
Colima, Mexico, has written the governo
of the state of Colima letter In which h
o. states rs an excuse for the suspension c
work in that vicinity, that he had receives
orders from James Sullivan to stop wor
for the present on the greater part of tn
Colima division, but to continue the wor
in the Tajo and in the vicinity of Mama
u Milo.
The railway tunnel under the 81. Law
o renee at Montreal, Canada, is to have tn
d following dimensions: Entire length
u about q 200 feet; open cuttings on Hoch.
o. laga side, 900 feet, and on the Longeui
side, 4,220 feet; actual length of tunne
proper, 1880 feet. II is to be 20 feet wild
inside, and % feet high. II will be line
with brick masonry.throughout except I'll
the fronts, which will have facadcs of ston,
The arch will vary from 20 to 30 inches |
o thickness, according to the character of th,
ground to be supported.
Mr.. Pedro Diez Gutierrez, the governor
the state OF San Luis Potosi, has directed
letter to all the influential parties in III
NJ state TO unite with him to hasten the con
ID pletion of the railroad FROM San Luis +,
~ tosi to TampCo. He is convinced that tll
railroad will have, upon the prosperity
a. the state. most beneficial effect, and cal
y, upon the hacendados TO spare all the labo
J." ers they can to assist in the work of col
a. struction.
IS Supervising Engineer Thielsen, of Il
Northern Pacific, says that the superb
or tendcnt of construction Is pushing woi
m with force of 5000 men in five feet
~ snow. Tho grade is completed TO PaC
~ river, twelve miles east Of Lake Pc
. d'0reille, but track-laying cannot proces
until the draw of the bridge over II
lake is finished This will be done In to
DO days. This company has two small steam
20 ers on the lake. which are kept busy tran
~ porting supplies. Mr.. Thiclsen authorize
- the announcement that the western end
" the Northern Pacific will reach Missoula /
January |, 1888,
The Durango, Colorado, Herald hi
Is trustworthy information from neadquartc
es that a large force Of men will at once
employed on the extension of the DENY,
& Rio Grande railway TO Silverton, whic
place II Is expected will be reached by Jur
10 lst II Is estimated that Il will require Il
Tor labor Of 400 men 10 do the work In the r
auired time. This extension Is In accor,
100 nnce with the plans recently made publ
A -. Il.