The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-10

The international and the Jacksonville, Tampa
& Key West railroads are to be consolidated.
The renewing of tracks with steel rails in the
South is very general, ana no new roads or feed
ers are being laid with iron.
The completion of the Nashville & Florence
railroad will give an airline due south across the
Tennessee river to Tuscumbia, Ala.
The trunk-line passenger agents last week re-
ceived an application from the Lehigh Valley
railroad for ticket privileges in Castle Garden,
but the application was not acted upon.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road has
10000 cars of Its own, au1 has arranged TO Dor
row 1000 additional to move the immense grain
crops on their own and connecting lines.
Regular freight traffic on the Pittshurg, Nc
keesport & YoughiOgheny railroad will prooa-
bly, be opened abont Oct. l, and passenger trains
will be started about Nov. l, or the middle or
November. at the latest. Now portions of the
road are beng used for freight traffic, but trans
fers are made with the Baltimore ~ ONO rail-
road.
The contract has at last been signed, and the
work OF constructing q new iron transfer steam
er for the Grand frank railway commenced, and
Will be completed on July next, at a cost OF not
less than $285,0o0. She will lie 312 feet IN
length, Al feet beam, rs feet over the guards,
ana 10 feet 6 inches deep. She will have w
tracks, and will carry abOnt sixteen cars.
The editor of the Railway Register declares in
very pointed terms that every war in rates has
displayed IA violation, on one side or the Other'
of the trust repOsed in the management or Uhe
waIrlng roads by the stockholders. To urge
that the cutting of rates is unavoidable is but to
plead ncompetency and %uutitness for so import
ant duties as those that the officials have volun-
tarily assumed.
On the Cummings q Finn switch, in East
Leadville, at a point where the Union Pacific
expects TO cross the Denver IL Rio Grande, a To-
cOmotlve has been stationed cor a week past.
rendering it impossible for the construction
force to complete the connection. At regular
intervals the stationary locomotive is supplied
with coal and water, and there 1t stands snort
ing defiance to the great railroad.
Work will soon begin on the Canada, La Crosse
& Southwestern railroad. The line Will extend
from La Crosse to a point in Marinette county,
on the Michigan State line, about 275 miles in
Wisconsin. II will continue to Sault ste. Marie,
about 225 miles, making a total of 800 miles.
La Crosse Will be the principal terminus. The
act of incorporation took effect Sept. 5, and con
times 100 years. The capital stock is S12.5O0,-
900, IN shares OF 800 each-80,000 shares COM
mon and 10000 preferred.
The chief engineer of the division of the West
Shore IL Buffalo road now under construction
between Syracuse and Buffalo, reports that the
controlling points Chose places where the work
is most difficulty are so far advanced that the
dates for their completion can be now definitely
stated. In a majority Of instances these points
can be finished before the end of September. 1t
is now thought that the work will be so far adj
vanced as to permit or the passage Of trains
through from New York to Buffalo in November.