The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-01
RAILROADS.

IT is now believed that In twelve months cars
WI run through from New York To tho city of
the MOntCZumas, ' "
The Atlantic 4 Pacific will be complsted to n
connection with the southern Pacific about
hay I, making another trsnscontlnental line.
inc END OF the Deming Il Silver City railroad
Track " hVe miles from Deming, The telegraph
llnH between the two places is completed
Iherc are 39i miles Of new railroads thus far
reported built in this country In 1883, against
i,OOl miles reported ut the corresponding time
IN 49, ool miles in ISL 1888 in 1850 and 2il in
1879, 80 90
All the passenger cars building for the Penn.
sylyania railroad in the Altoona shops are six
ihehos narrower than usual. II has been found
that ms change makes the cars run easier
nno Sothetn Pacific railway lacks but $50
miles OF completion and the gap Is lessening at
the rats OF Va miles q day. Probably IL will be
closed about the time the BROOKLYN bridge is
opened Tor traffic, when 1t is finished.
., locomotive burning eoal.dirt was attached
10 me last express ON the Bound Brook road. md
toSk the train in on schedule time The cost of
prepared coal'ulrt Tor round trip OF 100 miles is
el,V'' or one'seventh the usual expense for
II costs rs much to travel 200 miles westward
from Denver as from New York TO Kansas Tho
railway iarcs on the mountain roads arc pyres
sNely hlsh. A car load of freight was brough,
, ,r0"l a'vtpoos Ensinad, to Denver for i0J
Wh' uut tyS an exchange, Colorado faiiroad
| charged sla0 for carrying 1t 100 miles further
me stockholders of the Cincinnati ( baltimore
railway voted to ratiiy the contract II thp 10 ~
,neir rVsu 70 me cincinnati Washington a bal.
timote Railroad company. Twenty.thrcc thou.
SAND seven hundred aud fifty shares of s,ock
voted IN iavor ot the sale: none against Twelve
hundred shares did not vote
says the Colusa sun: Every man I'm ib.
country who does not know how TO run his own
business, and every man who has no business
10 run, is fully competent 10 master the transnor
latlon question In three.quartets OF A minnie,
MN u. long ~ this is the case, the railroad Issue
mil IL La
banquo's ghost does In the play
4, my superintendent OF the Port Huron 4
nMortnWe'tetn, ro0d OF three feet rnuge IN
MiStn,gaia throws down challenge to his
wMeI gauge brethren, by showing that his
niue engines make u daily run of nlnely.one
nille, III the actual running time OF two hours
nm INV "t v minutes, or nearly forty miles an
nu, I, Eor snort local road with new track
anu hghi equipment this is certainly very good
ume shd " may DO safely compared with Tho
i, mvuuie OIL any standard gauge road similarly
ao, most remarkable electrical phenomenon
railway lately, between North Platte and sid.
ney The influence however, wis feit nercan.
dioy beyond those points. The rails were sur.
nSrSea Wl'n current OF electricity, moving
from west 70 east, 10 so high n degree that hanh
,ats standing on the track were lmpellea A. a
ialr rae % speed by H. ono hand car AT rirnle
GOV away from toe section meu next ppst The
,n.uvnce o' ,hs current wss felt by many nor.
sons along the track, and no llttlo eyrli,rnon,
prevailed dutiug It's continuage
Last Thursday. says the Montana AVIAN,
FOURIER The rails were laid on the summit, n, ,ha
boseman Pass The attitude IN a 5l5 feet Tho
hlghcst point reached by the Norther, p.riae |
railroad survey In thu entre cou SO of The mad
tCr the distance Of eight milts before tho .nm.
mi. Is reached, an engine or car will moi rc.,ai
smuonsty unless brakes are applied. When iha
sumniit wac reached aud the engine found N
nsnns'pl.c On level ground, the whistle
sWvte Tue echoes OF the mountains triumph |
anty announcing the event The grading ami |
Iaek engineers were present. aud the ceremony
OF dr,vins the spike In tho rail which matkei |
wy nighest point was appropriately Observed |
YIN letters psen, taken out by Messfs James All. |