The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-20
RAILROAD IrEliS.

THE portion Of the Northern raclfcl yet to |
build is officially stated 10 he i0Gj miles,
S. Fink, general freight agen, OF the Missouri !
Pacific, has rendered his resignation, and IL is |
rumored that he viii be succeeded by Mr.
George Odds, OF the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 ST.
PAM road.
The Boston Il Albany railroads property at
BOSTON is valued at sLO1AGO1, and the corpora
TONS tax Is the largest single tax paid into the
Boston city treasury.
The recent decision Of the Florida surremo
court, taxing all railroad property will add over
5000 go to the revenue OF the state,
The Louisville " Nashville announce that
they have q, SiS miles of road in operation In
1850 this road carried SOS Ia passengers andSlg
go 1877 tons OF freight The business of the
current year far exceeds those figures. the in
crease of ireightcaIs alone Seing over seven
thousand.
The snaoa 4 Durango railroad extending on
the west coast of Mexico from Altain, near the
mouth OF the Gulf of California To the interior
is about completed to Culiacan Alfalfa ha. Tor
many years been the chief source Of the dye
woods of the world 1t also ranks among the
/ first ports on the west coast of Mexico
The Missouri river bridge of the Northern
Pac. hc at Bismarck will be tested October 10th.
! Trains of heavy locomotives will be run across,
| and il Is expected that a large number of
engineers and experts will be present. Two
! spans of the bridge are now completed, ana the
| third will be finished within ten days. This
| bridge Is said to be one of the finest specimens
of engineering nnd mechanical SKIN in this
country, and its Opcning for buSiacSs will be
awaited with great interest
/ The Louisville ~ Nashville company has
leased tho Pensacola y Atlantic, now nearly
completed Under the contract entered into by
the former company II VIII complete the road
aud Will guarantee principal and interest on
sS ODLOOO OF per cent. urSt-Cluss mortgage
bonds. The road, when completed, will connect
the Louisville & Nashville with the railroads OF
Florida and Georgia, which will prove impoT-
tant feeders TO the projected Chicago branch.
The Pensacola ~ Atlantic own Il land grant III
Florida of 100000 acres
D. Wishart, general passenger agent of the
. St Louis u San Francisco railroad, announces
the extension Of this G1mpanys line ARKANSAS
division, and the opening OF The same Tor bust
ness 80 MOUNTAINEERING, Crawford county, Arkan'
sas fifteen miles south from NinslOw, Arkansas
with new stations In the Older, viz Porter
Chester, and Mountainburg. further eNten
sion OF this line south ilom Mountainburg vii
be announced at an early date,
The silver City pemlng and Pacific i'nilroaC
company has recently been Incorporated undo
= the laws OF New Mexico It's designed TO con
meet At Deming with the AtChiS0n, Topeka AM
- Santa Fc, Southern Pacific and Texas PAcitl
railroads. The road was organized by proml
= ucut bankers ana merchants OF Grant county
- who have raised all necessary und', and Ill
' road Is now being graded 10 silver city, forty
five miles west OF Demiug. The road is broad
gauge, hut II Is the intention 10 connect the ioa
D.. ut Silver City with narrow gauge branches Z
! santa Rita fort Bayard, Georgetown and III
10 Mogalon Lake valley mines and the Clitio
3. mines
A notice signed by the Wabash, the St Lou
and Pacific, the ohio and Mississippi, the II
y. annapolis and 81 Louis the Chicago and Altol
- and the NRndalia roads To the elect that o
and after Friday, September 10, the iuloWiu
advanced rates On cotton per 100 pounds, will Z
into effect To Boston from Fast 81 Louis
cents New York, o., Philadelphia VI bAlum0r
- Albany. Troy and schenectady, 10 BuNa
and Pittsburg So The rates from -. Louis
each instance are ~ cents additional NEE
ing of the exchange has been called and pr
tpst will probably DO sent 20 the general man
gers OF the various companies.
The Denver 4 Rio Grando announces that Z
- September 10 this Companys Utah eNtensu
wa, eompleted and opened fOt traffic to Mo
- trose IL miles west of Gunuisou, aud @al mil
" from Denver The unlimited local rate irt
- pueblo 20 Mouuose is sll 49, aud the same VI
portion Will he accepted rom uehyot on W.
limited 10 three days from that point MouIt
isan important distributing centre Tor Nehte
Colorado. ON September y the Same cIten,l
will be finished to Delta, - miles west OF Nc
trosc, at which time sal miles only Wll tylh'
10 he built to complete the connection Win
Utah system, Traek-laying I, now progfcssl
~, at the rate " three miles per day
Mr. ], N, Curtan, who has q opuua.t
grading on the Mexican Central railroad,
rived In ST. Louis from tho state Of Chihuah'
D.. Mexico. To n reporter Of the lobc-nemocr
- Who met him last nirht NJ the Planters hon
- he said that rs miles oi iron had been iNd
I. the road south 81 Fl l's' 20 tho city oi Ihihu
y huA Tho road fora distance OF 90 miles sot
- on That city Is rrad,d and ready TO rCo i've I
o" rails which were In New orleans Few 81
ago, and are now on their way 10 Chlhuah
When this part of the track Is lnli the tcrmli
for awhile win be the town OF santa kosal
' The road is completed from the City OF hcN
uorthwari 10 u point distant from the capi
- about SOl miles. Mr Cu1nn thinks INC Ft
will he completed within eighteen months
a. During the past week the construction force
w tho Atlantic & Pacific laid the side track an1
al Williams for a junction with the Prcscouto
kand d.iO miles VI the main line track, which
now Sdi 2.l0 miles FROM Albuquetlue' inc
gincer telcgtaphs that there will ho no delay
''' The johnson bridges. The uaek Is now
.'' miles from the colorado river but the grad
80. is completed " within Is miles " u. Tue
- tension from NolsyO cast was completed
49, miles August II, OF 20 Within W. miles OF
car Colorado liver where tho rails NIL be loino'
Il Travellers Magazine; ON some OF the west
" roads they attach passenger car 10 ttel
y train and call Il mixed timt IN thc OF
..t ofethings that such trains should uayel
900. rapidly, aud sometimes there j. conhuor'
..- growing among the traffic
--- Wen get there On TINE, replied ins cou'
-. tor slolidly,
var liaif an hour later tile nervous msn
f' w rnes, shes dead now, said DO, mouni,
l0 "hutTd give you little something oItra II
~ eouid manage ~ catch UP with The tunt
o" Maybe she won't be 40 docompos,d but WI
.'.' could recognize her
-. The conductor gtowlcd nj him, and The
subsidized. -. III,
"Conductot'" said he sflet an hour .lei
",nnductot n the wind Isn't dead ahead
Won would mt on some steam "a Ike 70
where my Wife Il buried before the tomhs
day, ctumbles to pieces Put yourself an my
Lave for n monout'
No. The conductor shook him OF, AND the ma
nee lapsed Into profound melancholy
NcwI II say conductor" said he aiief
4 - pause; "rvc go, note coming dus IN !,