The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-08
RAILROADS.

HE damage TO the Memphis Il Little
Gock road by the floods is estimated at
S. 0000.
In one form or another the railroad
capital in the united kingdom amounts to
about f730,000,000; that is to say, a total
not far short of the national debt, funded
and unfunded.
The Austin & Southeastern railway COM
pany will send out an engineer corps in a
few days to make surveys to La Grange
there to connect with the Grant road.
Seine ten miles of the road from Pensacola
eastward is finished. 1t is splendidly built
and the track runs along the bays OF Pensa,
cola and Escambia almost at the water.
edge.
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor
gia, and the Memphis Il Charleston compa
mics have agreed upon the terms by which
the latter company will either be sold 10 OF
consolidated with the former. The con
tract will probably be signed this week
The Portland Oregonian announces on
the authority of Mr.. Thielson that th,
western end of the Northern Pacific rail.
road will reach Missoula by January LIST,
1888. At present snow lies five feet deep on
the ground but the 3, coo laborers continu,
their work, the snow being up to their arm.
pits.
The Southern Pacific railroad com pany
have nearly completed their extensive loco
motive repair and blacksmith shop now
being erected in the rear of their larg,
round-house in the eastern part of III Paso
The Rio Grande & Pecos railway com
pany capital $4,000 have filed charter il
the office of the secretary of state. The line
commences At Brownsville, thence up the
valley of the Rio Grande through fields in
Webb county to PecOs river, a distance o.
five hundred miles. ii. Waddington, o
New York, Alex &. Hunt and b. Chaiie,
of Colorado,an Hon. J. w. Throckmorton
of Texas, are among the incorporators.
Advices from Indian Territory say that
the railroad extension beyond Vinita i.
likely to become the theater of strife be
tween the Indian authorities and the rail.
way contractors. Several hundred men are
empioyedfh grading the road, aud the In.
dams complain that the timber along the
Verdigris river is being stolen to fur.
nish ties. The Indians also claim that
although the interior department has
not decided whether the Atlantic &
Pacific has right to build beyond Vinita,
and no contracts have as yet been re-
ceived, the railway officers are pushing for.
ward the work, and the destruction OF tim.
Der continues. Chief ID. w. Busheyhead
has been appealed to, and it is said will
shortly issue proclamation ordering the
parties oil the reservation until Secretary
kirkwood renders a decision respecting The
rights of the road and of the Indians. The
Cherokee delegation now in Washington
have been instructed TO urge immediate nc.
ton on the interior department ia order
that trouble may be averted
Tie latest railroad scheme is single.rail
track, and according TO western papor
railroad men are giving the plan serious ut.
tention. The new road Is 10 consist of one
large, fiat iron rail, resting ON pillars of iron
fourteen feet high, planted In single hlc,
and four feet below Is another rail, running
parallel, on both sides of which run the
wheels of the car. grooycd ON the tire
so MS to tit the angles of the rail, while on
the upper one the wheels turn horizontally,
and prevent all motion of the ear sidewisc.
The trucks of solid iron, without bolt or
rivet, come down over the upper rail In
such a way that n broken wheel or rail can.
not throw the cars from the track. The
advantages claimed for such u road are free
dom from snow or other distractions.
clouds OF dust, accidents at crossings, TOR
che road will be above theml and the minor
annoyances which make travel by rail IN.
The cars on the proposed
road are to run, according TO the enthusins.
tic inventor, one hundred miles an hour.
making Chicago and Detroit three hours,
and New York and Detroit seven hours
apart.
The III PaSo Times says: The Southern
Pacific railroad has obtained from the Mex.
lean government concession for a rond
crossing tho republic from Piedras Negras,
on the Rio Grande, to point on the Pacific
coast, probably Masatlan; also from point
on this road, In Coahuila, TO the CITY of
Mexico. The road Is 10 be n broad. guagc
The company will also build line skirtine
the Pacific coast from the frontier OF Sonor1
70 Acapulco, connecting Guoymas will
San Bias aud Manaanlllo.
fRElGHTs