The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-25

tons q sad rails for he Canton, Aberdeen s
Nashville RAILROAD.
The laying Of the track on the New Orleans 4
Northeastern railroad Is progressing rapidly.
/ LIST Neek Il vas aid beyond heiislogrg
The is1as fscnc Increased IL earnings In the
I second week IN March over StOle tes lplcru9.
uonsl nearly $1,000
The Nandsla cOmpauF, Is fat a. they can.
are replacing The itoa wheels with q inch pa
ler wheel o. coaches r4n villa through express
| trains.
I rwo railroads are o. De opeuei Tor uaalc In
I lucst2n next April one Is nom Merida o.
/ | man. un the way 10 CaikiuE the ether is from
Merida 10 CoRkal, and forms part OF The lue q
I frogreSn
/ lac Er,e maaagement which 1, noted for the
in,ercst II takes IN It's emplOyts. has converted 4
slarge nom In one 81 is buildings az uotuells.
ylllc into dOrmitOry, where It's engineers and
/ nrsmen may mss while waiting at thai place.
! IL is reported that MI. Manning. OF MisIS.
sppL member OF the Judiciary committee oi
/ the late house, has gone 10 New NOrk o. CO.
opetalc with some capitalists 10 reOrganlEe a
company 10 complete The Gull 4 ship Island
railroat, This Is Oae OF the land grant railroads
whose land grants the judiciary committee
recommended should revert 10 the general gov
| erumcnL but no action was taken
The Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pa
enc railroad has commenced running "a light
mug height on passenger time, f1r the purpose
/ OF carrying truit nom aS far south as the guilt
ports 10 CINCINNATI. The payroll Of this rail.
way 10 employees wages aud salaries In Cmciu.
uAu aloAe' Tor last year Just aggregates sid6'
,Vn. The stores purchased In Cincinnati In the
| same period amounted 10 s9S6OO
The Ohio Meteorological bureau held a very
important meeting Saturday, and came 10 def
mite conclusions IN reference to the weather
signal system on trains. twill be iuaugurated
on the Cleveland, Akron 4 Columbus road
Wlthln the next two weeks. The figures asei
viii De the circle, star and crescent IN blue and
rcd colOtS. Red will always refer 20 the tenn.
| pefa,ure and blue to the rain and clouds II
haS oot yet been fully determined just what the
utitrsnl hgures VIII designate, but II viii bt
/ published IN few days
] The people Of Houston, Texas. are worried
/ over the news that the offices OF the Texas Cen
trail and Sunset routes are 70 be established IN
this city. They deny that any such event vii
/ occur, but the indications are that they viii
soon find that they have been labOring under
II huge mistake, The report that an unheArd
| OF spot on the coast of Texas Is 10 he made d
/ port for the Huntington steamship lines is toe
| absurd 10 meet with any attention IA railroad
circles. II Times Democrat
| IT'S stated more or less authOritn.lyely thai
| Jay Gould, the Western Union Telegraph com,
pany and the Bell Telephone company are en-.
| gagged in a movement to got control OF tho tcle
phone business OF the country. The Western
| Union company is beginning To realize that the
tine Is, perhaps, not far distant when the tele-
phone viii largely supccede the tcle
/ graph, ana Il Is arranging 10 save itself
]
pany propose that the local compenes which
own the exchanges shall water their stock t
! the amount of II third OF It's present value ant
| give this stock to them. In return they propose
| first that the Western Union wires shall be uset
| by the telephone companies, aud seuoad, tina
The Bell Telephone company shall sell their Ia
stIuments TO the local companies instead of rent
| ing them, as now. The scheme Is grand one
When the Western Union stock beg MS 10 de
crease in value the telephone stock viii ~. In
creasing all the while.
/ Lot me overwhelm you with mass rs.A As
teal information, implored gcntleut.uIu. lie
CANT leisure, and the Avenue man Sc "a 1t I'm
1t stated many times" he began, tina
railway companies are keeping lS3 coo 90
acres of unearned land out OF the mar
keL Do you know much land tina
Isl OfCOurse You don't II is as far beyond lu
man comprehension as the statement 0i an MS
uonomer that one OF those stars is IL 000,UOJ, 90
miles distant II will put those acres ina shap
rltory they represent The state of MARYLAND
for instance, would 80 into these 1873 COO 900 acre
seNenteeon times, with q, 600 100 acres to spare,
tract equal 70 SIX Rhoie Islands or four Della
wares, The l3S,0,O,0lO acres would make fou
states as large as New York, with enough beside
20 duplicate New Hampshire. Massachusetts an,
New Jersey. You could set Pennsylvania witt
her Is OOO.UO acres, down in one corner of thi
enormous territory, aud have lnnd enough lef
u cut up into states the size OF Ohio Illinois I'm
diana and Maine. The unearned land is thre
ana hall times greater in area than the 81,
New England states IL embraces iOur times n
many acres as Iowa contains, considerably NOR
than four IimOs as many as OHIO and 1t Is onl
a Little more in extent than ths whole OF Texas
Can you wonder when Won come To study IN
subject that the railroads object to letting 70 a
property so extensive as thutg'