The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-07
Local Notes.

The Pacific Express, which reaches Indian
apolis over the Wabash road, is building up quite
| a business at this point.
The Vandalia brought in during the month of
August for Indianapolis manufacturers and coal
dealers ,188 carloads of block coal.
| The Cincinnati, Wheeling & New York Railroad
Company yesterday closed a contract with the
Indianapolis Rolling-mil Company for another
| 1000 tons of iron rails.
| The Vandalia people, it is stated, will not
attempt push the LOganspOrU extension
further than Plymouth. Ind, this fan, but in the
early spring will push it on to South Bend.
In the month of August there was handled on
the Vernon Greenburg division OF the Clneln-
matt, Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago road
2,517 cars OF that number ,667 were loaded
| cars.
Last month the Indiana, Bloomington &
| loaded ,040 cars with local business, 2S2 of
which were loaded for points on the Eastern
division.
| The Cincinnati Indianapolis. St. Louis e. Chi
cago road in the month of August delivered at
Cincinnati, off the main line, 1892 loaded cars,
| forwarded from Cincinnati 5,059 loaded cars; to-
| tai, 1891 cars
The Belt road company will this week receive
| $50 tons of steel rails, weighing sixty pounds TO
the yard, from the Edgar Thompson steel mills.
| Laying track the extension will be
menced Monday next.
superintendent Turner, of the Indianapolis
Vlncennes road, yesterday got in the TWEEN
| Ietn mile OF steel rail- lau TINS year, ana there
are nineteen car loads of steel rails now on side
| tracks at Vlncennes, to be distributed this
week.
! When the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg get
| their new entrance into Chicago, crossing Fifty
| ninth street; and then use the Pittsburg. Fort
st. L. d P, will have SIX less railroad crossing
| in getting into Chicago.
Council No. 8 of Mechanical Engineers OF In
| dianapolis, Ind, propose to establish soon
mechanical library and reading-room for the
ilarap Of ifa hhQpG nj
| Skin. This is most cOmmendabe move, and
deserves success. A. C. Ault is secretary Of the
association.
Railway managers are coming over to the be-
nOmical for such service than the lighter ones,
| such as have been in use in many of the yards
| for years past and it is Thought that large per
cent of the Is to 20-ton switching engines Will
| in the next few years he consigned to the scrap
heap and engines weighing 80 to IS tons suDsti-
tuted.
It should not be surprise that freight traffic
over the Chicago ST. LOUIS 4 Pittsburg- is
heavier than over the Pittsburg, Fort WAYNE &
Chicago road. So much lighter are the grades
the c., ST. l.. & p. thirty loaded can he
hauled from Pittsburg 10 Chicago over the G.,
st. L. d p at the same cost TWENTY-FIVE cars are
o oSse' the fF0P F. F''Sp's & Gslf 6CiS
roads are Pennsylvania company interests il is
| immaterial as to over which of the roads the
business is moved, except when business is
| heavy, then the freight Is moved more eXpedi-
| tiously to divide between the two roads.
Freight men report the old corn crop as now
moving hrskly and big demand for cars.
Farmers, knowing the prospects for their corn
crop, take advantage OF the uncertainty existing
| at the great commercial centers and market
! their surplus. IL will be seen that the move
ment in August and September governed by
the prospects for the growing crop OF course,
| the volume of the movement depends on the
| amount of corn back III the country. 1t was not
| until the middle of last week that the corn crop
| was assured rs far north Indianapolis The
season is late and the movement Will not cul-
inmate as early this year as it has in previous
years.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company is
| arranging to extend its telegraph system to
Indianapolis. j. G. Foley, official of the
company, was i'll the city Yesterday looking the
field over. The company will probably stretch
its wire along the Cincinnati, Indianapolis
st. Louis 81 Chicago road from Cincinnati. with
this com peted, the B. d o. Company will he
| well represented at Indianapolis It's express
messengers and sleeping coaches are already
running in here, and its faSt-treight line IS
| well, over the Indiana, Bloomington & Western,
and over the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, ST. Louis
Il Chicago. BY the by, the b. IL o is forward
| ing handsome tonnage of freights west over
| its connection ut Columbus, o., the l., Il. & W.
! While East President Jones, OF the Indianap-
oils S5eel-rail Mill Company made arrangements
| which it is thought will enable the company to
| secure blooms at price which will admit of
their starting the steel-rall mill. Mr. Jones
states that while there VIII be but little margin
| to the company, he thinks it better to have the
mill in operation rather than idle. Several par
ties ready TO contract for rails. and pay more
for them than for those manufactured by East
ern mills but the trouble to get blooms until
| now has prevented their manufacturing rails.
| 1t is hoped that steel rails will command better
prices before many months, and this would en-
! coura ge the rOlingml company to 20 on, erect
| additional bindings, and put In furnaces 10
| manufacture their own blooms.
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