The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-25
RAILROAD ITEMS.

The Southern Puciic road is completed with
the exception of sixty miles
This Cincinnati, New Orleans 4 Texas Pacinc
road, with a net balance of S23,6yl on the past
six months business, has passed Its dividend,
Huntington is quoted rs saying through trains
Will be run from Newport News TO San Francisco
WITHIN TWO years, arrangements having been
made for filling the gap between Memphis and
the Southern Pacific route.
The Northern Pacific syndicate has sold So.
gee 700 of It's per cent bonds TO two OF the lead
Ing banks In Germany, after an inspection of tho
road by their representatives.
San Francisco disps tChes state that the South.
ern Pacific route TO New Orleans will be com.
pletcd about october |. Steamers will soon be
ready 10 run from New orleans TO European
ports, and It is stated tho emgrOnt rate from
Liverpool TO San Francisco will be put down TO
80.
After completing some twenty miles of its
track northward from Reno, the Nevada d Ore
gon company has had To suspend operations for
want OF iron. AS soon as u cargo Of this mate
rial arrives tho work will be puzzled forward.
Capitalists Of Milwaukee aud Chicago have
purchased from the ST Paul road 3D. 40 acres of
fine farming lands in Martin and jackson coun.
ties, southern Minnesota, aud will estnblsh a
colony OF Germans and Scand,navians.
The Lodi (Cal.l Sentinel says The Narrow.
| guage railroad company has chartered the
stockton steamer Herald, and Will run this YES.
sci regularly after the 10Th inst between the
| landing OF the South Fork and san Francisco
Postmaster General Howe is having hard
time In his attempt to establish new iast mail
between New YORK and San Francisco VIA Chi
cago and Omaha, Tho roads west of Chicago
do not want tho contract at the only price he can
| afford 10 pay The roads east of Chicago are
trammeled by the pool rates OF the trunk lines,
and for Me time being the negotiations are at u
staudsull.
! The Pennsylvania company are now building
| all their passenger coaches one foot narrower
| than the ordinary pattern, reducing the width
| by making the alley more narrow. The object
is 10 make the car lighter aud lessen the resist.
unce, The pattern adopted reduces the weight
0 per cent and the resistance fully ~ per cent =,
| yet the coach Is Just as convenient and rides
easier than the ordinary wide coach.
The Northern Pacific and 81, Paul, Minneapo.
lis Manitoba railroad companies have come 10
an ainicable arrangement IN view OF the growth
| Of the business and the inadcquacy OF existing
| facilities for handling H. under which the
Northern Pacific railway Is TO build u second
truck along the right'oLway OF the Minneapolis
4 Manitoba road from Minneapolis W sauk
Rapids. This track will be used IN common by
| both companies. Tho Manitoba company will
own one track, the Northern Pacific company
the other. u IL expected that II win be- finished
IN time for the fall business, as the work Is TO bs
pushed vigorously.
senator Grover, from tho committee on milf.
tary Affairs. to-day reported back favorably the
bill granting rightofway through the Presidlo
reservation 70 the San Francisco N Ocean Shore
railroad. This bill was once before reported
| favorably W the senate and recommitted, bs-
cause It was alleged tho company was myth.
cal concern. attempting TO secure valuable privi-
lsges for purposes other than the construction OF
4 railroad The committee has amended tho
bill considerably, rsserving the right OF congress
to REGAL the concession. II is also provided
ths, any other railroad company shall have the
right W run cars over the tracks of the Ocean
Shore line through the reservation by paying
reasonable and fair compensation therefor, the
same to be regulated by the secretary Of war,
II IL announced that tho Atlantic 4 Pacific
railroad company will begin the construction Of
their southern line this fall The secretary oi
the interior having ruled that the location Of
the southern line MAS enormously located along
the northern bank Of the Canadian under the
charters, they have decided W ran ME line along
the south shore OF the river. There 10 another
company which 10 known - the AlbuQuei que
company, which has bill In congress asking {
grant bat IL cannot run across the wrritory
ssst and wsst sou,h 81 the Canadian nader sx
isuag charters. sinee the Atlantis d PAries has
nsvsd IL location, % WAS intended In the ohGi
nh aet Ills believed hat the new COMPANY
merely vAatsd W taks advantage of us silus
uon aud get charter fer purposes Of nsgsuA
ton.
Dmvn. Coz July a. The Denver 4 Iev
Orleans railroad ysetsrday nlsd motion for On
hjunstion against Vie Aahissn Topeka 4 SAINT
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