The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-15
RAILRO I'D ITEMS.

THERE are 400 Cinnamon employed on the
canada Pacific railroad work in British Column.
oia, and that number will be increased TO GO 0
in August ~ ''
The railroad bridge of the Atlantic & Pacific
company over Canyon Dablo A II was COM
pleted on the 2'th of June. The work of build.
ing the road across the western portion of north.
ern Arizona will be theoretically prosecuted
The tunnel at Montreal, under contract, will
be 10 600 feet In length, and be laid with dou.
PIE track, The center will be about 16 feet be-
low the level of the bank on either side of the
~ Lawrence, The cost is estimated at 81.
From data derived from the number and ca
paclty OF locomotive shops in the country and
the number OF men employed in each five men
can make locomotive In one year, complete
lies, methods and facilities
=, grading camp of the Texas, Santa Fc &
Northern railroad Is to be established near santa
i o IN Few weeks, and work at that end of The
proposed road commenced.
luCOmotiN q on the Erie road was ycstardnv
run IRON Paterson 10 Jersey City by hydrogen
gas produced by the decomposition of water
Under me action of ignltcd naphlha The trip
was made one minIto ahead of time the engine
having no pounds of steam on reaching It's DIES.
tinatiOn. " '
In a short time the Atlantic 4 Pacific will he
completed TO point Sixty-fvc miles north of
Prescott .os, pl a, r There is good wagon road
from Prescott TO this junction with the railroad
but this will be insufficient for the great troIlic
that will flow in that channel A railroad i. n
necessity, and the Prescott Courier is urging its
| immediate construction.
compared with previous months, tn. repotts
o. railroad earnings for June us published in
the Financial Chronicle, make n door exhibit
ana, for The FIRST time IN several years the NO
grcgate OF lhe companies reporting show n de.
crease. A lew lines present II satisfactory in
crease, hut several of the larger roads show n
decline, and Others arcduCton of the large gains
they nave lately been reporting. This change
may be entirely attributed 10 the small grain
movement In June. During that month. snvs
the Chronicle, the total receipts Of wheat md
corn at the eight principal lake and river morris
were less than 1850, 0QO bu, compared win ~ !.
700 bu for the same period In lsSi-n rnduc
ton ofneafly two.thirds, while the shinmcnts
Of wheat and corn from the same morris
at the Same time were less than IOOnp .
20 bu against about 600 900 n ycnr nr,o--n
FALLING oil OF over 81 per cent Under those DIV
eumstAnccs therefore, IL is surprising Thai Tho
loss was not greater than 81 really proved and
leaves 1t to he Inferred that the ,nerrnnIis So
movement must have been large The ~ roads
gwen below report gross earnings IN June
amounting TO SlS,& l67i in 1887 and slSqiS 5GT in
lsSl--a decrease. of sl3S9sa or 7.l0 Der cent
Those suffering the most no lccahlr declines urr
rs would he eNpe ted, the western and north
western grain carriers, though some of these
show liberal gains With an carly renewal of
the grain movement n continuance of di,nin
ished earnings can scarcely be looked for nnd
July reports will, In all probability be more IA
vorablc. 'N :"