The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-27
THE IRON HORSE.
An Interesting Budget OF tho Latest
DOlngs
II Railway Circles - Changes and
Improvements.
sundry RumbIes Of Many Lines.

The Northern Pacific road reports gros
earnings OF $7,855, 459 for the year and ex
nenses of So 1886. 500.
sout 1000 miles OF new track has beef
raid thus far in 1888, against 6.6O0 mile
divine the samc time in 1882.
Thr1ys are at present 6.722 cars running
all, =, / oston, ard g. T03 men mployet
! by the SAM corporations.
~ cnordin- to the Democrat, the railroad
h1,ness ~ Winchester has increased II
the past two ears from So goo to S25 0o'
per appum. os.ocoo ,,as oonoo;,,
has now become 50 common tnac sey i Iaad y
the roads have given o5aeTs anas n toaus
should be weighed ~ aii oase' VI oVei
loading promptly report 70.
The fastest traiu in Ar erica Is tne aIter'
noon express on the CansoA Iacinc railway
which runs from Coteau sseh IN 10 OttaWa,a
distance of 1874 miles. in oae L our anu tnlr
ty one minutes, making nsa,lS MY lhiies
an hour.
Refrigerator cars for butter ana cheese
only, on the Illinois Central. WIZ be started
from Chicago on Tuesday. septi1lbel 20 LOT
Memphis, and on Thursday, Septemb sr y,
for Galveston, and will leave on The sme
day of each week thereafter. The Cess Will
leave at $50 D. m, and freight will be re
ceived until O'Clock the same evening.
Track-laying on the Vicks burg, Shreve
port Il Pacific railroad is completed eighteen
miles west of Monroe. All tbs grading Will
be finished by the middle of October. The
track-layIng will be pushed through at once.
The road to Shreveport will be completed
The Mobile & Ohio passenger department
issues note circular, announcing that on
and after October next the existing pas
senger rate of 4 cents per mile will be re-
duced to 3 cents per mile. and passenger
agents of outside lines are requested to
change their rate sneetS III accoruauce
thereto.
A California court has decided in suits for
taxes brought against the Central Pacific,
hat under the new state constitution rail-
roads can only be taxed on the value OF
their property after deducting the amount
for which they are mortgs cd. Taxes
ought to be light on the Central PACING.
The savings Will make many per cent. OF
dividend money.
Alonzo Robbins, conductor on the Wanda
liza, has been offered and will probably ac-
cept the position of assistant superintend.
ent of the eastern division OF the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas road. Mr.. Robbins has
Deen on the Vandalia twenty-five years.and
is highly esteemed by President McKeen
and ali officers of the road. who will doubt
less regret his retiring from their service.
Spain is to have the luxury OF dining
cars on her railways, under the manage
ment Of special company, which has OBJ
tanned a concession of the right OF running
them for twenty years. =
The story about the Northern Pacific is
that the estimates for completing t he road
are lar under the actual cost, and that it
will take great deal of money to equip the
road, necessitating new loan OF $l2 Co.,
600.
it is reported that the Atchisonn, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad will extend its branch,
already built to the coal fields, near Socor-
70, New Mexico, on TO White Oaks, thus
Getting ahead of both Gould and Hunting
ton. and making White Oaks and Lincoln
county, New Mexico, tributary to Socorro.
The Mexican Central railway runs
through twenty-one cities, with an aggre.
gate population of 500 600, and
Ell sht of them are state capitals. In these
cities are seven minis. whose annual coin
age is not less than $35, 900 900, and the ag'
ricultural valuation of the twelve states
through which it passes is something like
$l10, 1000, 900.
The third city tramway in the state OF
Chihuahua will be in Huejuquilla, connect
ing the center of the town with the Mexi-
can Central station. The other two tram
ways in the state are the one now running
between Ell Paso and Paso del Norte, cross
ing the Rio Grande, and the one building
in the state capital. for which the Inter-
national Lumber company OF that city is
building three cars.
The double-track railway tunnel under
the river Morsey, (which is to connect Liv-
erpool and Birkenhead, Is expected to be
completed within six months. Its Length
will be one mile and its approaches three
miles. 1t will be lighted by electricity.
The Matamoras aud Monterey line OF the
Mexican National is now graded for some
distance beyond Reynosa, aud at last &C