The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-21
RAILROAD NEWS,


THE contractors on the st. Louis & San
Francisco Railroad have advertised for
five hundred men to go to work on the road
between Vinita and the Arkansas River.
There are over | AGO laborers employed on
the railroad work from Manzanilo, Mexico.
All receive more than SIS per month.
The Texas & St. Louis Railroad is graded
to Gatesyille, and the surveying corps, I'M
der Major Courtney, are at Lampasas.
Five new coaches designed for use on the
Sunset route arrived at Houston Two of
these are regular coaches, two combination
sleeping and drawing, and one a sleeper.
They were all built in the shops of the
Pullman Company, and are as handsome
specimens of their kind as one would wish
to see.
The Texas e St. Louis Railway Company
are at work on their Dallas branch, leaving
the main line at Mt. Pleasant. The grading
is finished through two counties via Mt.
Vernon and Sulphur Springs.
There were 395, $50 pieces of immigrants
baggage which passed through the baggage
room ut Castle Garden in 1881. This does
not include the small pieces of baggage,
bedding, ETC., carried in the hands of i'm
migrants.
The Southern Pacific Railroad, on its way
from New Orleans to the golden shore, runs
more than 800 miles through Arizona Ter
ritory, of which little is known except that
it has 1895 squire miles Of area, and 40, AL
population.
Eastern capitalists are investigating the
feasibility ola prospective railroad from
JacksOnport, or some point on the Iron
Mountain Road near there to Vinita. These
| letters breathe q spirit OF earnestness. The
road if built will pass through Independ-
ence, Stone, Searcy, Newton, Boone, Car
roll, Madison, Washington and Benton
| This route penetrates one Of the best
timbered regions in the State. The noun
tain tops and benches are covered with
pine, oak, cherry and walnut. 1t would
also cross the extensive marble field of New
ton. Besides the timber and marble, the
country is rich in agricultural productions.
The Allen Paper Car.Wheel Company re-
ceived honorable mention and a gold medal
for its exhibit ofpaper car-wheels at the In
ternational Cotton Exposition at Atlanta.
| The award was given for the following char
actcristcs of the wheel: finish, quality,
durability, safety and ultimate economy.
The enormous influence excrted in the
financial world by railroads may he briefly
| inferred from the statement (made by the
Indicator that the interest paid on railway
/ bonds during the twelve months ending
with December was SlI3 100, $40, and the
dividends paid in the same period amounted
to S92, Si7 $50.
! The new tunnel through the Palisades at
| Weehawken, for the New York, Ontario 4
| Western Railroad, will be open in few
months, though work on the shafts was be-
gun only two weeks ago. There are five
shafts from which tunnelling will be carried
on, both east and west, simultaneously.
The deepest shaft is l65 feet. The total
length of tunnel excavation will be 1000
feet,
THE RAILROADS OF FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Fifty years ago the list of roads then be-
ing constructed in this country, some of
which were in part built and being oper.
ated, were about the following;
"Of the proposed $50 miles of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, sixty miles were
completed and in operation January !,
, 1882, the Albany IL Schenectady had twelve
of It's fourteen miles in operation. The
road next in importance to the Baltimore &
Ohio ut that time, the old Charleston &
I Hamburg, which was TO be l35 miles in
J length, had twenty miles in operation and
was carrying the United States mail,
! IL being one of the first, II
not the very first railroad
TO have contract with the
/ government for carrying the mail. The
MauCh Chunk had nine miles completed
/ oAN ~ uoN' ulih Nii' u
road near Boston, generally known us the
| first railroad IN the country, had nine miles
| in use, Work was begun upon the Ithaca
Il oswego, twenty-nino miles; the Licking.
| ton 4 Ohio, seventy.iiye miles; the Camden
! Il Amboy, fifty miles, and the Lackawaxen,
sixteen miles. Among other railroad en-
! terprises about being undertaken were the
! Boston 4 Albany, the Boston & Providence,
and the Philadelphia 4 Norristown.n
| In 1882 applications were made TO
/ the Legislature Of New York for
charters for twenty-five railroads
in the different parts Of the State,
with an aggregate capital of $40 200 600.
The most important ofthese projects were
the Lake Erie and the Hudson River Roads,
| the former being described us from Lake
Eric through thu southern tier of counties
TO the Hudson River, crossing ferry aud
then down on, tho east side to the city OF
New York. There was considerable oppo-
sition TO the construction OF railroads IN
this State, and of this road IN particular,
the opposition coming largely, of course,
from those who looked upon the railroad
rs the destroyer of the canal, then one Of
the chief prides of the State. The bill in
corporatinc.thc New York & Erie Railroad
was passed April -, 1882.
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