The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-14

try. Idaho. distance OF s2l miles ftou Granger
Junction. on the Union Pacific. Regular passen-
ger xai height Though business viii begin
Tbs indianapolis Journal says: The newspa.
pers on the llae OF tie Wabash roai hsye been
very abusive OF the system and greatly exag-
g0rated accidents, ana the mGnaeement In
retaliation. has issued orders that bsggagemen
shal, nc. carry newspapers as heretofore, thus
ieaNing NE work 10 the eXprSs ccmparieS
Withln three months It Is expeeIea that an
other uansconunental lac OF railroad will be
open for IN !. The Arizona newspapers state
that the Atlantic 4 Pacific RAilr al COMPANY il
laying gaek AZ the nate Of "a miles per day, and
expect to reach the Colorado river before the
LIST OF April. The Southern Pacific company
expect 70 reach there within few weeks.
The Vleksourg, Shreveport & Pacific has re-
ceived and stored Al oaaehita 696 90 pounds of
track spikes, enough Tor the track arthat point
to shreveport las kegs of track tolls, sufficient
for twenty-ono miles OF track, with others soon
TO arEiye 260lo fish plates. sufficient for thirty.
seven miles
The Kansas City Times SAYS The conductors
of the Missouri Pacific are having hard times
with their uniforms, no two of which are alike
ana no standard for which can be found. The
caps. particularly, are an aoomination, being so
sun that II is almost impossible 10 wear them.
They were furnished from ST. Louis at $3.50 TO
30 each, and the contractor evidently has bo-
nanza and IS would be high price for them
In ISL, the railroads Of the United States car
moro than nine-tenths was made up
OF iuei. food and materials for
shelter. Among various other com.
modlues carried were $50, 2l9 sl9 worth of sgri.
cultural products, sls3 lSs, ISL manufactured
products, SS6,2S7,S1s mining tools aud oils, 81 :
l5S,9Si timber products, aud s6,a7l, $50 from
2s9,7S2
The new Central house in Rochester has facil.
tiles for unloading forty -six cars at once, and
| contains space sufficient for the storage OF $40
cars Tbs Offices ON the second floor are fin.
| ished in old golt and ebony and the superinlend.
ents private Office is connected with the various
departments by series OF electric bells The
Merchants Dispatch Transportation company
Office Is also located on the second floor
| "A milwaukee special says: Superintendent
Clarke, oil the St Paul railyosd, is In an embar.
rss y predicsment Ho has been showed In
al fulda, 200 miles west OF La Crosse, for q week
| past ana there is no telling when he will gel
out ~ is reported to-day that l. 200 miles of the
81 raul western divisions are hopelessly block
AIDED train over the Prairie du Chen diyis-
| ION, from Minneapolis. reached Milwaukee yes
terday that had been on the road six days.
The Reno. Nevada Journal says: RAILROAD
men on the Humboldt division of the Central
faeliic rai.road say that duriag:the recent cold
| speli IL tram was permitted TO stand ON the
track for twenty minutes 1t was almost impos.
sible to start itagaln. The journals froze In the
| boxes, and II frequently took two or three loco.
motives 60 move the emigrant train, which ar.
rived at Wrnemueea about $40 in tho morning,
as the wheels could not reyolye This occurs
only when the mercury Is away below zero.
=. According to the official statement of the
Mexican department of public works, there
had been built in Mexico up to the close
Q, 1881, about 1905 miles Of railway. STht
length Of track now operated is giye,t a,
follows: Mexican railroad Vera CRUZ, $3.50 miles
Mexican National, 4S2, Mexican Central, 596
Sonora road, SlS lnteroceanic road ls6; Yucatar
| railways, GO; Tehuantepec road, l6
| A report comes from tho Civ IF Mavioo bs
| application has been made for concessions for
railroad from point on the boundary line a
Colorado riyey near Yuma, to point on the Pa
cue coast az Encinado bay. The latter point Il
about 30 miles south of San Diego, and its harbo
Is said to be superior 10 that and nearly equal L
mat OF San Francisco. The line il described a
SoO kilometers in length, and wholly within
the Mexican state of lower California. The cor
cession is probably In favor of Atchison, Topeka
santa Fe parties who are interested in tn
road to San Diego.