The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-30
RAILROAD ITEMS.

THE Southern Pacific railroad has been con.
struGted TO point $50 miles east of FL Paso. 1t
IL still advancing eastward
II is announced that ID. W. Caldwell, general
manager of the Pennsylvania lines west OF
pittsburg, intends to resign his position at an
early date.
The st. Louis Il Texas Narrow Gauge rail
way we are informed, Will be completed By the
first OF October next Five different construc.
| ton forces are ut work, and some of them are
making one and half miles per day.
X. X. Dow, representing the trustees of tho
Memphis Il Little Rock Railroad company, paid
To the state treasurer $40 900 to satisfy luds.
ment recently obtained by the state against the
road, for money loaned In 1861. This stops the
proposed sale of the road under the decree
The Wabash road reports for 1881 gross earn.
ings OF sli, ,79S, operating expenses of $40
7g.gi3, and deficiency for the year of s.! Az
0SS In meeting all claims.
A gentleman lust in from northern Arizona
| states that the distance from Prescott TO Wins.
low, the present terminus of the Atlantic x Pa.
ciic railroad, Is III miles.
The iron bridge over Dlablo canyon being
| built by the Atlantic & Pacific railroad Is over
500 Setlong, and is 227 feet above the bottom OF
| the canyon.
A dispatch from New York broker this morn.
ing says; IT is alleged that Garrett cannot get
| the 0hio& Mississippi out OF the receivers
hands without the concurrence of Gould. Gar.
rett Is understood 10 own twothirds of the stocks
and bonds, but not two.thirds of the stock,
which is required to control the road. Well.in.
! formed people believe n compromise has been
made by which Gould will act with Garrett IN
this matter, and will assent to. the Jersey Cen.
trail scheme while Garrett will restore harmony
between the Baltimore 4 Ohio and Western
| Union Telegraph companies
The executive committeeman OF the trunk
line railroads met In Chicago ut the office IT
| Commissioner Fink and ratified the agreements
for division OF freight and passenger traffic.
II was agreed that s525, 600 be deposited Ms
guarantee fund on the freight contract aud sos
! 900 on the passenger compact, each OF which IL
| 10 run five years.
Tho sherman Courier says: There Is n rumor
In railroad circles that the Texas & Pacific train
will shortly be Observation-Disclosures Whitessoro
and Fort Worth and run through TO Gains.
VILE instead The train is.to make close connoc.
ton at Whitcsboro with the Missouri Pacific
worth.
The house committee on commerce heard
! further arguments In opposition To the Reagan
Interstate commerce bill on the 2bth. Ex.Gov.
crnor Brown, of Tennessee, representing the
southwestern interests of Gould, maintained
| that the passage OF the Reagan bill would be dis.
nstrous TO the southwestern part OF the country,
and absolutely destructive to the revenues OF
railroads, The Reagan bill really bill TO not
regulate, but TO control inter.sta, commerce
aud To discriminate us well He reviewed the
disastrous effects In numerous ways OF the en-.
actment of such bill into law, among which
he maintained was that 1t would entirely break
up through carriage. He held that while con.
gress may have power TO regulate interstate
commerce, II has no right to attempt TO regulate,
much less TO control, common carriers
! A Grcenyillc paper says the first station west
OF Greenville on the East Line extension has
been located on one Of Henry Jones farms,
about eight miles from town. The end OF the
track Is now about one mile this side of Farm .
ersyillc aud II Is expected that the construction
train will rl~ into that place ON Saturday
| There was q delay of a'day or two In the work
OF track-laying ON account of the grade being
unfinished about ten miles from 6rccnylne.
| N A, "a, Far II.
| sixteen miles,
A remarkable bridge IL now IN course OF con.
structlon over kinkina creek, near Bradford, IA,
on the line Of the New York, Lake Erie & West.
crn railway, The structure has q fetal length
OF 2,oSi feet from nbutment to abutment, and
the height Of the rail above the bed OF the creek
Is sol feet II consists Of one span 62 feet long,
twenty spans q feet each, and twenty spans 3,
the whole length. are sfcet high and " feet
apart made similar TO those Of the elevated
railroads, aud are known as the lattice girdcr
The spread OF the posts at The highest point Il
which gives base and stability 70 the structure
and prevents any vibration or lateral motion.
The bridge will be, IL Is said the highest rail-
road bridge In the world. IL Is sixty feet higher
| than Niagara suspension bridge, l10 feet higher
than the great bridge across the Ohio At Cincin
natl. lso feet above High bridge and forty.ilye
feet higher than Portage railroad bridge over the
| tennessee river. The bridge will consume 10,
vVVlO pounds OF Iron, and VIII require 800,
| &ys,uQ
on the I'D, the senate committee on railroad,
considofed the question OF the expired land
grants OF yafiousrsilroads throughout the coun.
NY, The following Is liscof The land grant.
that are subject 10 possible reclamation by the
SSi:sd shIp l, .sca n
sie.sS acres. Cooss 4 Tennessee, In Gisbsms
H.. 40 acre. Mobile a 0irard, IN Alabama SEQ