Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-31

TO the stockholders Of the East Pennsyl.
vania company.
The New York, Susquehanna and West.
ern railroad nave paid over $3.50, 900 in
cash and $500, 90 In preferred bonds for
the conjunction Of the branch line to their
new depot in Patterson.
Engines and cars arsconstantly arriving
at New Orleans for the New Orleans and
Mississip pi Valley road. Seven engines
and forty cara have already been received
and forwarded up the line.
The Tama City extension Of the Chicago
and Northwestern r q is completed. 1t
stsrts from Tama City, 270 miles west OF
Chicag". and runs to the Missouri state
line ut L more, q di lance OF l36 mi es.
The recent purchase, by American capt.
t%alists, # the Uaut' malA rail- DAD is under
stood e. have been IN de almost entirely by
Charles Crocker, President Cf the South
ern f8cih,.
The Salt Lake and Western Is o railroad
which IS assuming some importance in
u oh. IL runs t ON L:h, Junction, on
he Utah Central, to rintic, a distance If
50 miles.
The time for she organization of tho
Vermont anil Canada raj road c mplnies
has teen extend until February lst.
Nearly 81, coo, 90 IN bonds have approved
the plan, about $4,000 having bseA sub
scrib.d
Charter have been granted Ia Psnnsyl.
vabl, to the Pniiadelphis, Gsrmsntrwn
aud Chestnut Hill company, %capitsl 81.
600 900, and to the NszarPth ard Phila-
delphia company, capital 500, 600.
Trati on the completed portion Of the
Natchez, Rcd RIVER and Texas railroad is
large and growing. Toe track laying on
the unfnishe I p~)rtion Of the road is pro-
gressing rapidly.
Cincinnati hopes that the headquarters
Of the Alabama Great Southern, the
Vicksburg and Meridi IN, the Vick,burg,
Shreveport aud Pacific, and the New Or
leans and Northwestern will soon be
located in that city.
The come gtion hos been made between
the eastern and wes'ern divi ions Of the
G Ilveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railr ad, thus completing the system of
the Southern Pacific road.
Articles consolidating the Anderson,
Lebanon and s.. Louis road with the
pari-, Ruckvi lie aud Northwestern com.
papy have been filed with the Indiana
secretary of state. The joint capital will
lie 50 500, 900.
Vanderbilt has beon sending forward
800 new coal cars to the Jersey Shore and
Pine Creek railroad to be used in the car.
rying Of coal from the Clear6eld Mn
when the road is open for business in the
spring.
A bill has been introduced in congress
for the Incorporation of the Arkansas,
New Mexico aud Pacific Railroad com
plny. The company proposes to build a
railroad from Fort smith, Ark, to Albu.
querque, N. M.
Tne Illinois Central line from Chi 'ngo
| by way of Gilman TO Springfield, ILL.,, is to
he extended to q connection with the st.
LOUIS, AIT n an , Terra Haute at Litch.
field, which, with the latter road, will m Ike
o line to st. Loui'.
The FL Paso and White Oaks railroad
compluy has given way to the newly in.
corp Ir ised Texas and New Mexico SOM
pauy, which proposes to build u line in the
interest OF the coa', silver, gold and copper
districts of the Oregon, San Andres and
other range.
A company has been formed for the
purpose of extending tie Cincinnati and
Westwood and narrow gauge railroad,
The name will be changed to Clncinnsti
and Western, and the work of building as
far as the Big Miami river is to be com.
merced at once.