The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-04

the work Is beng prosecuted by the usual
mining process
The chief stoo holders-in the Philadel.
phia city railways have started 10 Chicago.
to give the cable system a..thoroush in.
| pection.
The Detroit, Maokinac & Marquette rail
road company receutly sold to lower Michi.
gan parties tae standing pine Of G0OO0 acres
9i land, m the vicinity of Grand Marias.
The consideration was based ON 50 per
thousand stumpage,
The steamship Colorado, which arrived at
| Houston on the 9th ultimo, brought the
first installment of steel rails, 500 tons, for
the Texas Western railroad.
The st. Louis railroad is receiving large
shipments OF iron from Wales. II is carried
up the Central 90 CorSicana. The custom
duty SO far is $4,000.
AT the dinner of the Boston Merchants
association Saturday, Charles Francis
| Adams, j., made a speech in favor Of ma
tional railroad commission, and submitted
the draft OF bill therefor. lie also uomi.
mated Tor the board Judge Cooley, Robert
! llarrlS and General Francis A. Walker,
The Chicago, Milwaukee Il St Paul
railway company recently issued tariff of
reduced rates on emigrant m0yables shipped
! from Chicago, Milwaukee and Racine to all
way points ON the St. Paul, Miuneapolis
4 Manitoba, Northern Pacific, aud Canada
Pacific railways
Two heavy locomotives, Nos. 80 and 10
arrived in FL Paso for the Mexican Central.
| They are designed for passenger use.
Whitney is in New York in conference
with Huntington, in regard To the running
arrangements from Nermlionyille into
New Orleans. Other important results in
connection with the Houston Il Texas
Central may follow, Huntington comes to
Texas this week.
The house commerce committee is still
hearing arguments ON the Reagan bill. f.
Il. Thurber, of New York insisted upon a
law defining public rights, and its strict
enforcement by the executive power. G.
W Loring spoke for the milling interests
of Minneapolis and d. b. Henderson fer
the Dubuque Board of Trade,
| The Houston Il Texas Central railroad
company in connection with the Cromwell
line of steamships, and the Star & Crescent
railroad, has opened a new route for immi-
grants to Texas from Europe.
1t is reported on good authority that
| Whitney went to New York to
sell the Houston & Texas Central railroad
to Huntington, but his price being re-
garded as too high, running arrangement,
as announced yesterday, from Ncrmillon,
I NAAAN W WV VllNullS 10 llbN NilNtT tOtlSlltl=
alton. The latter, it is considered, would
be n good thing for Huntington, but bad
Tor Whitney, rs it would tie his hands
The pile-driver used for the building OF
the Morgan'S Texas railroad bridge may b,
considered the largest in the world, as il
has hammer which weighs 10000 pounds
The leaders are ninety feet high and con
structed on hinges which admit of the lead
err and hammers being inclined so as tc
! drive pile at any angle. The barge OF
| which tue pile-drvcr rests is forty feet wide
eighty feet long, and five feet deep. There
are two engines, with II seconds by II see
Onds cylindet. The hammer was made Of
extra weight because it would drive the
| piles farther with less eXertiOn of force and
less injury to the top OF the pile.
There are now 1926 locomotives in the
/ country, of which New England has 100
| the middle states COCO, the western states
| 1850, the southern states 800, the Pacific
states 40. Pennsy lyania has 200, New
| (ork 1000, Illinois 1900, MassaChusclt.
9GS, Georgia 303, Virginia 800 and Florida
IS. The shops in the country now turn out
| 300 locomotives a year
The Mexican papers express confidence in
the railway future and say the excursion
OF cabinet ministers over the section of the
National railway produces confidence in
| American enterprises in Mexico.
! The report of the Chicago e Alton roat
for 1881 shows 90 miles Of track, S26 523,
S22 in stock and bonds, SG531 40 in eros,
earnings, ana a net revenue of II Il. pel
cent. on all the capital stock The compan,
owns 2l3 locomotives, 1T coaches, and G,0i,
freight cars.
FRElGHTs
On cotton, from Dallas, are ms follows,