The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-28
RAILROAD NEWS.

the uutIes on the cargo OF steel rails re-
ceived by steamer Deepalc at Galveston for
TO $S3,999.l2.
The total valuation of railways in Maine
Is 50, 225, 900, on which the taxes are $780,
90 The total valuation of telegraph COM
panles is S235,0O0 and the tax is 1886.
The name Of st. Louis is to be changed
to- Gouldyllle, according to the Kansas City
Times. He owns the big bridge, the tun-
mel, the Vulcan Iron and Steel Works, and
nearly all the railroads which enter the city.
While there has been negotiations for the
consolidation of the Pullman and Wagner
Sleeplng-Car Companies, the death of Sem
ator Wagner has closed the proceedings for
the present. The Pullman Company is
about to increase its capital stock $500
600.
China is at last building railroads and
constructing telegraph lines The tele-
graph lines between Pekin, Tientsin, and
Shanghai will be completed this year. The
Emperor has granted permission for rail-
| road from Pekin to the port of Tientsin,
seventy miles long, and thence to the
langtsekiang river a distance of five hun
dred miles further south.
The approximate earnings of the North
ern Pacific Railroad for the week ending
January II, amounted to S55,076, against
I
crease of $780, From July |, 1851 to
January II, 1889, they amounted to S293G,-
400, against 81 1868 for the corresponding
period last year, an increase Of 81 ,lS9, 762.
| The mileage increased from 10 TO 972, an
increase of $50 miles.
| There are eight excavators now at work
on the French Panama canal, the earth
from the cuttings being heaped up for the
banks OF the canal in the swampy regions
near the coast. Two large steam dredges
are cleaning out the mouth of the future ca
nal mt Coon. About 600 men are at
work.
Kansas parties are now in Houston en-
deavoring to raise money by the sale of
stocks and bonds for the building ofa road
| from Leayenworth west and southwest 10
Topeka, to be known ms the Lcavenworth
| Topeka Southwestern. We do not know
anything OF this enterprise, but Boston
people ought to understand in this instance
that the new company will have to fight
the Union Pacific and the Arkansas, TeXas
" san Francisco Railroad Companies iol
its business Both these companies have
lines from Topeka to Leavenworth, and
they have now jointly organized the To-
peka Western to build branches between
their Kansas lines west of Topeka in adj
vance ofany other company
Boston gentlemen subscribed heavily Il
the capital of the Denver, Western Il Pa
chic Road, which spent 100000 in laying
twenty-eight miles of track and grading
that much more. Now that the company
have become embarrassed, the stockholders
are selling their secureties TO the Union Pa
ciiic at 10 per cent. of their face.
The resolution recently introduced in thu
House by Robeson, which declsres for
lelted and open for settlement all railroad
land grants which have not been earned
was introduced III the Senate by Senator
Teller, but before presenting it he struck
from the accompanying list of railroads, L
which it is intended to apply, the New Or
leans Pacific Road.
An order just issued by the Lake Shor,
~ Michigan Southern Road should be imi
tated by other lines. IL is TO the effect tina
hereafter all engineers and tiremen aitel
making their run will be oil duty ten hours
and then take the first engine in readiness
The reason for this is that many accidents
have been caused by loss of sleep, and tn,
company hope by this means to haye thei
employees take sufficient rest.
The Minnesota State Railroad Commits
sioners report for 1851 may be summarized
rs follows: Increase of the mileage of rail.
road operated, about 10 per cent. lnCrcas,
in the gross earnings, about 80 per cent.
and OF net earnings about II per cent; in
crease IN tons Of freight carried about 3.
per cent The sale OF land is the only item
OF the business which showed decrease
| Total number of miles in operation at the
beginning of this year, 3,27S The State rev
enue derived from State railway taxes fol
1881 will approach 100000.
Following is comparative statement of
earnings OF the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company, operated and leased lines, and
the Texas e Pacific Railway for the weel
ending January T. 1889: