The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-08
RAILWAY ITEMS.

NANDFRBILT has secured control oil the IN
d,snapolis d b. Louis line ior lhe PuiPoee VI
| making western connections.
| The 81, Louis & San Francisco railway com,
many has closed the sale of 100 600 acres OF laho
! to Scotch syndicate at about ~ per acre
| In the southwestern partof ChlcKashW county
Nississinpi there is great excitement over inc
discovery OF a supposed silver mine.
Over 600 miles of rails will be lalu IN noIul
Dakota and the Red RIVER valley duilHR Tue
About 800 miles of new railroad were pu'
into operation III the southern states last yea,
The gross earnings of the southern; rod ;na
reached s63, 90 co., AVID the net earnings IN,
creased from SIS OOO coo in 1881 to more than
e.. 900 600. - as,,,,;ro i,os
more of track built III iSs@ ma Ssn totsI Of
l3 making 36jl miles thus far reported Ior 1903,
against 80 miles reported at the corresponding
time in 1882, and AZ miles in 1881,
The Fargo Republican says: Yesterday morn
ing the west. bound passenger tram over tle
Northern Pacific was supplied for the hrst ul ne
this winter'with grub box, 70 pe 9seu ~
to get showed in on its journey. The boz con,
tanned bread, crackers, canned peel aho oos'oi
baked beans. -, ,,..oo,. II,
paso TeSas which is the halfway house on the
great southern system of railroads connectih
Inc Pacific coast with the southern seaboard, is
i. l63 miles from New Orleans. 1,2S6 from San
francisco and 1850 from the CITY OF Mexico. -,
paso Texas to the City of Mexico. via Chihua::
hua, is completed to the last-named point ap0ut
225 miles. with nearly nG aaaiu1 tba ciu ,ie 81
Mexico north via Leon. about Us miles; WIN
its thirty odd miles on the Tampico division,
the company have completed over 20 mlles VI
railway in less than two years. besldes the
Guanaiuat, branch, recently finished into that
| great mineral city. A., c.,-
ada Pacific railway prairie seet9n a. thaI aife sh
s;dy have been earned. Owing to the TACT that
the dominion lands survey mas Deeh unauIe "
keep pace with them the dominion government
has been forced to grant them au me unoccu,
MED odd-nulnbered sections in the Old province
of Manitoba. .x5os T., co;ro
Thursday to secure bonds q rhe Ssi1 Psrsmore
and John c. Black, trustees, for the construction
of the Toledo, Texas & Rio Grande railway
This is the largest mortgage ever recordeo III
' II Is reporied in Kew York that syndicate is
being formed 10 build road from wichita rails
10 Pueblo to connect with the Fort Worm ~
Denver City and Denver II New orleans rsll-
roads ,..ea 100 II, "A
Track.laying on the Atlantic 4 Pacific reached
a point 1863 S 10 miles west OF Albuquerque sat.
urday night making 6-l0 miles the W9rsoi tHe
week before Snow has been interfering with
the work. The Albuquerque Journal makSs
this prophecy: within one year from ttlts Tune,
the transportation TO Albuquerque OF the ores
and coal mines along luG pl(tlto sthuhtiS ~
Pacific will furnish traffic sufficient to pay the
nneratipg expenses of the road" Regarding
the suit on beh2lf. ot-the Pacific OF missouri
stockholders against the Atlantic & PACING, Mr.
Jobn i. BurriiI, counsel for the company, writes
10 the New York Evening Post that the lease OF
the Pacific of Missouri to the Atlantic Y Pacific
provided that, on the termination OF the lease,
Whenever Il should happen, all hapllity
of the lessee under 1t should cease, and also
that the lessor should pay the lessee any BAL
ance OF the account due 1t arising out OF the
making of permanent Improvements on the
pToperty Two foreclosure suits were Drought
In tho United States circuit court ID MISSOURI 70
forcIose a mortgage on the Atlante& PACING,
and a mortgage on the Pacific Railroad. In
these suits the court took the leased properly
ont of the hands of the Atlantic Pacinc, and
appointed receivers of II and operated i until
ii was finally sold, and by its decree adJudged
that the lease has been cancelled and surrender-
a, In addition to this, the Pacific Railroad, py
us directors and with the assent OF It's stock
holders, accepted the surrender OF the lease by
the Atlantic & Pacific. The Atlantic " PGchc
claim large amount under the lease agar
the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, but as the IA
Ter has no road, and has mere paper eAlstep G.
il would be useless to attempt to enforce It or u
use IL, except as defense to any claims OF mat
company.