The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-25

The earnings of the st. Paul Railroad for
the second week in January were 1854 $50;
increase, $l00,0Si.
The earnings of the st. Paul & Omaha
Railroad for the second week in January
were Sl2,934 increase, $lS,466.
The Pullmans have ordered, at great ex-
pense, an aid for the protection of that nor.
tion of the public using their sleeping,ca-s,
which is of peculiar interest. II consists OF
a rogueS gallery, comprising first-class
photographs of distinguished citizens who
secure much wealth by the profession of
working sleeping-cars
Il, X. Ganson, conductor ON The Little
Miami Road for thirty years, and Secretary
OF the Railroad Conductors Life Insurance
Association OF the United States and Can
ada, died at the age of fifty-seven.
During the year of 1851 the Chicago, Mil
Naukee s.. Paul Railway sold l59,025
acres OF land in Northern Iowa, at an aver
age of - an acre. The sales averaged 1856
acres TO each purchaser, each of whom,
With few exceptions, is an actual settler.
Inc company has related nearly SO, 900 to
settlers for cultivation of these lands.
Vice President Huntington. of the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad, is negotiating with
the Union Pacific Company for the Joint
construction of a line from Mohave, on the
Southern Pacific Railroad, in California,
northeast to q junction with the Utah
Southern branch of the Union Pacific in
southwestern Utah. This would give the
Union Pacific system direct outlet to
Southern California, and, by way of the
California Southern Railroad to the port of
San Diego
A concession has been granted to the
Mexican Southern Railway for colonization
along its route. The government pays $35
per individual and SS0per family. Not less
than five hundred families must be settled
during the first five and two thousand the
first ten years. Three-ffths of those colo
nlzed must be Europeans. The company
Is negotiating for the purchase ofthe Tehua-
cana Railroad General Grants former
offer for the Morelos Road is now accepted,
but the purchase is not concluded.
Rumors have been current that the Union
Pacific Railway was about to arrange for
running palace cars or its lines, wholly
under Its own management, superseding
that OF the Pullman, whose contract was
about to expire. The Omaha Herald learns
that the contract of the Pullman company
with the Union Pacific Railway Company
has about eight months yet to run. The
railway company, it is stated, is undecided
as to what arrangements it will make for
sleeping cars after the expiration of the
contract
The Jefferson City 6 Little Rock is al.
ready Completed for distance of twenty
five miles and the cars are running. The
grading is nearly finished to the Usage river
and force of men have been employed
constantly They will cross the Frisco
Road either Mt Springfield or some place
not far east of there, thence running through
Douglas and Ozark counties and on through
Baxter county to Little Rock.
jay Gould arrived in New York from tho
western trip on the Goth and was down
town during the day at his various offices
He reports that he made new arrangements
for coal for the Missouri Pacific and the
Wabash Pacific which result in a saving tc
each ofat least $l50,000 annually. The Oh
Grating expenses Of the Wabash have beer
reduced by about 100000 per month
| largely by the dismissal OF the employees,
especially upon lines recently acquired. Mr.
| Gould expresses himself as confident of nc
| complishing a farther reduction IN the Oh
Grating expenses of the road. Trains re
stunned running over the st. Charles brdg,
to-day, a temporary structure having bee,
| put up in place of the broken span.
The Globe-Democrat says: lmmediatel,
after the General Manager, Hoxie, anC
! Chief Engineer Washburn had driven tht
last two spikes which completed the con
nection OF the Texas Il Pacific with tn,
| Southern Pacific at Sierra Blanca, and MIR
Hoxie's special" had passed over the fro,
on its way from Deming to st. Louis Mr.
Stoll, manager Of NJ. S. Coleman a. Co.'S
! extensive contracts in the Southwest, ha(
the two spikes drawn. They went to NJ
| NJ. Buck II Co., of this city, to have then
silyer-plated and an inscription put upol
| them.
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