The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-12-07
RAILROAD ITEMS.

THERE is a movement to organize company
to construct narrow gauge road from shreye-
port to point in Arkansas, connecting with the
Paramore system.
The draw span of the Paramore bridge across
the Arkansas river, will be $50 feet in length. =,
MEXICO Nov. 30.-The Mexican Central rail-
road is completed TO Lagos, .! miles north OF
railroad will be completed to Narayatio' l3j
miles from here, Gu December 5.
During the last thirty years the United States
lions not less than 1871 653 40l acres of the public
land, 81 554 201 acres more than comprise the
great state of Texas,
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad is now
completed tot OFT Worth, Dallas and Lampasas
and operates 59J miles of road. Our informant
who has lust returned from Texas, says ii the
best built road in the southwest beng
thoroughly ballasted with SHE'LL gravel and
stone well equipped iron bridges, with stone
abutments, station. houses, tanks, ETC., all new
aud substantially built The company also owns
the Telegraph system along the me
This road runs =, through me .i ItSt tbc
most direct route from the interior of the state
to the coast The Gulf. Colorado d Santa re
refused to go into the Gould southwestern pool
having to earn interest on only sl2, 900 OF bonds
tn the mile, while the other standard gauge
roads are bonded for $4,000 and upwards per
mile. These bonds having twenty seven years
to run, at per cent to the investor and sold
The Texas & Pacific officials claim that their
line is about ll5 miles shorter to Ell Paso than
Hunting toms route from New Orleans, Houston
and San Antonio. They also say that running
arrangements have been made which gives
them the right 10 use the Southern Pacific road
from FL Paso 10 San Francisco, and that the con-
tract is for 80 years, and that the southern Pa
ciic Is practically the same line as the Iexas d
Pacific.
The Two Republics: The northern division
has been open since September last from
Laredo, on the Texan frontier, to the city OF
Ret ~ mi A I.QrnN0
branch of the Mexican National extends TO Cor
pus Christi, the seaboard, whence there is now
regular steamship communication with Liver
pool The Mexican National also connects at
Laredo with the entire railroad system of the
United States and Canada.
II follows from these combinations that IL is
now practicable 10 send American and European
goods from the great cities Of the United states
or European ports to- Monterey, whence they
may be distributed readily throughout the
northern and central states.
The company has in addition to the Monterey
division, the line from this city to Toluca Qorty-
five miles, also In active operation: IL has
also open for passenger traffic the line from
here 10 FL SAlto lforty-One and half miles
These two lines carry l07S passengers per
On the Ell salto division the number of pas
sengers carried in October was % 42O. The traffic
each way was north, l2,0il; south, ll,319. The
average per train, per day, was north, l1S south,
On the Toiuca division the number of pas
sengcrs carried in october was 10, ~ The uainc
each way was, west 9,77l; east, 1851. The
averape per train per day was, west l5S east,
16i. These figures show that the railroads
Riye great impulse to the intercourse between
the places through which they pass. When
diligences were the only mode OF conveyance,
the traffic was very small.
When the National railroad (southern d.
visiOn) reaches COlaya in March next 1t viii
meet there the track Of the Mexican Central.
thereby afording facilities for freight and pas
senger traffic 70 ali points on that line. The
track Of the Mexican National will then be ad-
vanced toward San Luis Potosi, whence IL viii
be constructed to meet the track Of the northern
division, which win be built southwark
from Monterey. The distance from
COlaya 70 san Luis Potosi Is 15s
miles. and thence 10 Monterey 80 miles. AZ
San Louis POiOsi the National viii connect with
the line Of the seaboard At Tampico. and will
have a branch line OF its own TO zacatecas
which IA I'm the heart Of the great mining re-
giOn Part Of the branch Is already In operation
from Zaoaieeas 10 Guadalupe, and Is paying
well