The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-18
RAILROAD NEWS.

ming preliminary line Tor the st. Louis
& Texas Narrow Gauge from Dallas TO Mt
Pleasant The line has already been To-
Gated through Hopkins county, and good
portion of it is now graded.
Two spurs of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Road have lately been completed
from this road in the Indian territory. One
is from Atoka, west five miles; the other
from Savanna, one mile both lave been
built to reach coal mines.
In France, the railway companies have
received from the Minister of Public
Works circular requesting their assent to
the reduction OF passenger fares fifty per
cent, and OF rates on goods twenty per
cent. IL the companies acquicsce the gov
ernment will consent TO torego the dues
levied on traffic receipts
The Central Pacific Railway Company is
building an extension into the State of
Oregon TO connect with the Oregon Il Cali
iornia Railroad, the length OF the proposed
line being about li2 miles. A portion of
the line was surveyed six years ago, but the
survey has become almost obliteratcd, and
a party of engineers is now rctracing IL.
There will he seven or eight tunnels in the
vicinity of Mount Shasta, whose aggregate
length will he four thousand feet. The
maximum grade for distance of no miles,
to the foot OF Shasta, will be 50 feet TO the
mile; for fifteen miles up the base of Shasta,
ZIG feet TO the mile; down the slope from
Shasta, 30 feet to the mile, followed by an
easy grade the remainder of the distance.
\ comparison of the prices of twenty.
seven leading railroad stocks on the eth of
December, 1850, and the 9TH of December,
ISL, shows an average, value S7l in 1850,
against SSs in 1881. This shows remarka.
BILE steadincss but a gradual downward
tendency. The actual condition Of business
could hardly be better described.
Jay Gould's plan to lay a cable through
the BermudaS 10 ST, Thomas, thence Ia
! parimaribo, in Guiana. and thence To Ceara,
| in Brazil, is said to be in such forward
| state that the cable has been ordered. Priv.
/ iogcs were obtained from the Brazilian
government last summer. Tho present
! Geographic communication between North
/ America and Brazil is by way OF England
and costs about 50 u word The Brazilian,
are not satisfied with the English service,
| which has control of most of the Soutl
| American cables and also the line acros.
the Argentine Rcpublia aud up the west
coast There Is also line across the cont
nent from Valparaiso, and when MIR
Gould's line is completed It will he posshl,
to send dispatches to our Ministers in Chin,
and Peru by two routes.
The ST. Louis Republican of the 10th saw,
at quarter before o'clock yesterday after
noon the tired workmcn IN the varinu,
shops OF the Missouri Pacific Road In ia,
vicinity ol summit aud Choutuau avenue,
laid down their tools, washed up, mn,
made their way TO the offices whore they
were wont TO receive their wages. Tht
prospect of cash in hand and ono long day
Of rest 10 intervene before they should re-
sumo their toll made every one iovia
CHEEKY and good.natured. Ten minutes
later the happy aspect which pervadet
everything had given place to one of gloom
and load of sorrow seemed To have beer
laid upon the tired shoulders. The mets
morphosis was rs sudden and
by the explosion of bombshcl
among picnic party. The exps
nation was a very simple one, When the
inen received their pay, the forcmen In the
respective departments announced that III,
painful duty had been imposed on him o
discharging onc.third Of the force IN his en-
nloy, and that this rule extended to all III
| the mechanical departments OH the road
He assured them that this was not to be
construed as any reflection on the men dis
charged, but was simply m pursuance Of a
retrcnshmont policy determined upon d
short time ago by the officers of the road
The discharged men received the condo.
lcnce of the more fortunate ones, aud amer
standing around a while and discuss.
ing the sudden blow which had
made the coming Sabbath seem no,
| quite 10 bright, they departed fol
their homes to tell the sad news. The en-.
forccment Of this order threw about 29S
nen ont OF situations. who have been en-.
ploycd on the engines and In the yards,
machine shops and car shops Of this city.
The Iron Mountain Road the other day
discharged rs workmen and the Wabash
| Is, which. added TO the 23j IN the Missouri
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