The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-31
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RAILROADS.

Inc Kansas city ~ Southern railroad is
pushing its track-laying. The southeast
track IS lald about three miles out from Gin.
ton, Missouri.
There is u force of mon at work on the
Coos Bay IL Coquille railroad, near Sum
ner, Or. There will be spent about $50 0OO
this summer in preliminary work.
A telegram received at the ID. ar. G,
railway office in Salt Lake City, states that
the track on that road from the east was
laid to Green River on Friday night, and
the bridge over the river will be finished TO.
morrow.
1t is stated that the Bremond Narrow.
Gauge has been completed from Houston to
Angelina river, a distance OF 40 miles. and
The management promises its extension 10
Nacogdocnes in The direction of Marshall
by the ist OF May. The design appears 10
be to connect with the Marshall, Jefferson
IL Northwestern, and thus complete mar.
row-gauge all rail route to st. Louis.
The conservative gentlemen who opposed
the introduction OF railways in Stephen.
son, time, on the ground that they would
irlghten the cows, have their counterpart
in Mexico. The Two Republics. an enter.
prising paper published in the City of Mex.
leo, says; 1.-THE Monitor Republican, has
more railroad grievances 1t appears that
the locomotives burn great deal OF wood
and that railroad building takes away
workmen from held labor. In eXtenustion,
1t may be urgAl hat the railroads will soon
save the tores.s from destruction by bring.
ing in cheap coal, and that labor is over.
abundant III too many parts of the country
at present.
j. White Spong, secretary of the Della
ware Hudson Canal Company's railroad,
has established, under the direction of the
company, railway signal service or
weather bureau. The station agents at
Dnghampton, Nineveh. Onconta Cobble-
skill, Albany, Schenectady, Mechanicsyille,
Ballston spa, Saratoga Springs, Fort Ed.
ward, Whitehall, Lake George, Rutland
Port Henry, Plattsburg and Rouse's Point
have been instructed to make reports by
telegraph at intervals during the day of un-
usual changes IN the meteorological condi-
tons OF their localities. This record will
enable the division superintendent to an
ticipate and guard against disarrangements
OF train-time schedules by floods, snow
blockades, etc.
Superintendent Il. G.. Allen, of the Mas.
sachusetts Central, has Just completed a
train chart of his own invention, designed
to simplify his duties in supervising the
running OF trains and to familiarize train.
men with the features of the road and their
respective duties. In the centre OF the chart
running across 1t, is u plan of the roads,
showing III ITS proper place each station,
tank, freight shed, siding, turnout, turn
table, bridge, railway and highway cross.
ing and whether at grade, overhead or un-
derneath, enabling one to understand at a
glance every physical feature Of the road.
Above aud below the plan are spaces,
properly DIVIDED for the details of opera.
ton OF each train, outward trains below
and inward trains above the plan. These
| SHOW the composition and per
sonnet of each train, its time of arriving
and departing from each station, the place
and time OF meeting or passing each other
train, etc.
A so-called Gulf & Ship Island railroad
grant of public lands was made by an act
OF August, 1856 in aid OF the construction
ofabout 10 miles ofrailroad in Mississippi,
from Canton to Mississippi City. The grant
is estimated to cover 652, 800 acres. Not a
mile OF road was ever built, and no existing
corporation to build the road is known TO
the general land-ottice. After being for
many years withdrawn from sale, the land
covered by the grant was recently thrown
upon the market by Older OF the secret ,ry
OF the interior. Mr.. Teller refused last fail TO
rescind this order and withdraw the land,
Much OF the land, 1t is said, Is worth S25 an
acre for the timber that is ON It,, or would
be were the railroad built through. This has
led several enterprsing gentlemen TO
attempt the arduous task OF personatinp
the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad com.
pany, or its legal heir, and get possession
OF the land grant. Chief among these Is
Jones Hamilton, the prison-labor con.
tractor OF the state. 1.-The could get an OPP
portunity to construct that road he would
do 1t at figures that would leave the invest
ors n wide margin for profit, for he would
set all the convict labor OF the state ut this
work. Representative Morey aud ex-Rep.
reeentative Manning are interested with
Mr., Hamil ton. II is said that New York
capitalists have promised all the money
needed II the land grant can be secured
Mr., Teller has been applied TO recently to
withdraw the land from sale, but has given
no indication of u determination TO do so
He says that he has not given the matter u
moments thought since last fall, and IA
wholly undecided Us to any reversal of the
decision then made. IL is estimated that
! the land grant liz worth more than the con-
struction of the road would cost, so that #
Mr.. Hamilton and his associates succeed
in their efforts they would get road Tor
nothing and something of bonus. The
proposition is TO carry the railroad OF 4.
trestle from the mainland to Ship islpnd,
aud construct here great gulf port that
would threaten the supremacy OF New Or
leans.