The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-13
This Year. Last Year,
Fhis Year, Last Year
RAILROAD ITEMS.

Tho Lake George & Muskegon River railroad
has again been seized for taxes by the state.
This timo the amount Is sli00.
The Western Railway Weighing association
weighed 5sgi6 cars in August, being an In.
crease OF 8, 055 over July and the largest num-
Der weighed in one month since the organiza.
ton OF the association,
Officers OF the Wabash system say they are
now earning half a million dollars a week
They have just got back ten engines they have
loaned the Iron mountain and have use for
moro.
The stockholders OF the Texas & Ct Louis
Pine Blutf, October 18th, TO consider PROPOSE.
ton to raise the capital stock from sl,s5OVOO to
SIS, 900.
The Mexican national railway reached the
ninety'third mile post from the city. OF Mexico
today emitting the company TO subsidy on go
miles of the main limo completed, amounting 70
SSC0O,000. Tho company have finished In all
about 400 miles In Mexico.
The gross earnings OF the Denver and Rio
Grande railway Construction material being
deductcd) for the years 1881 and 1850, 40 far us
reported, present The following comparisons
The gross earnings for the month of July 1852,
declined 4 per cent. on the same earnings for
July, lssl. Tho gross earnings for the month o.
August 1882, declined per cent. from those OF
August lssl. The gross earnings for the first
seven months OF lSS? gained over is per cent
over tho same earnnS,for the ir.t seven months
OF 1881. -
hclnhrkNOly iWN uWo Wus iuuuc W .hv lne'
train In running from syracuse to Buffalo. Tho
train left Albany ono hour and one-half behind
time. IL pulled out OF Syracuse at it2 p M,
and reached Buffalo AZ 40. only six minutes
behind schedule time. The distance Is lb0milcs,
and the run was made In three hours and -four
minutes. Three stops were made-one at Pal
myra for water. another In this city for passon.
gers. and tho third In Bat via for water Oh
course, from the sand cut TO tho western line o,
Rochester comparatively slow time was made
owing TO the condition OF tho tracks over thai
distance Tho time made Is the fastest eyei
| made on tho western division OF the road.
All the various lines OF the East Tennessee
Virginia & Georgia railroad have been consoli
/ dated into four divisions. ~, East Tennessee,
| division, extending from Bristol 70 Chattanooga
| Including all the branches along the line Head
quarters at Knoxville, Tennessee. GU Georgii
| division, extending from Chattanooga and uleye
| land To Brunswick, Georgia, including all tht
| branches on this line, with headquarters at ht
lan,a, Georgia, CS Alabama division extend
ing from Rome Georgia TO Meridian, Mis,is
| III, Memphis and Charleston division, extend
| ing from Chattanooga Tennessee, TO Memphis
| including branches ON the line, with hcadquar
| tcrs nj Memphis, Tennessee
| The Aberdeen (MisslssippD Examiner Is In
formed that the railroad from homphis TO New
Orleans when completed, Will have ne,
aggrcgating $50 miles In length. The mai
trunk line will be about tho miles long, ana IN
branch lines about no, The following construc
tion contracts have been let New Orleans
Baton Rouge 20 miles, TO be completed Januar
1, 1857; vicksburg 10 Port Gibson 30 miles, TO ,
completed October Is. 1883; vicksburg TO north
ern boundary Sharkey, To be completed Decen
Der IS iss,. Tho contract for an iron bridg
will be LEI very soon.S Work on the bridge wi