The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-29
RAILROADS..


0he plan for connecting Fort Smith and
/, Springs by rail is being agitated. 1t
a the hands of enterprising men from
., ON results are expected
The Globe Democrat says Colonel George
y HE. late general Manager OF the Texas
:, Pacific and now president of the proposed
. Paso g. White Oaks road, was visitor at
l..,uitable headquarters yesterday. Mhen
.xed what he had done with the III Paso
Il White Oaks, he promptly. responded IL
nd been put on the shelf till sprlpg. Inc
hoe from Ell Paso to White Oiks had, how
crr. been surveyed and located and work
,V.uId be begun in good time. The line was
some 100 miles long, tapping the Wnlte
.O,ks coal field and running in places
through timber land The company was
daily chartered and organized and there
IVES no fear of any lapse.
The New Orleans Picayune Gays every
effort is being made to place the Texas q
Pacific railroad in frst-class order. The
country traversed by this road from Baton
Rouge and West Melville presents many
difficulties, and was last summer subjected
to overflow from the Morganza crevasse.
A trestlework ten miles long crosses the
Choctaw swamp, where the SOIL IS SO yleid-
ing that it is with great dllhculty tnat the
road is kept in good order; but somehoW OF
other they do it, despite the unhealthlness
OF that region.
With the completion OF the bridge across
the Aychafalaya and the solidifying OF the
road bed, fast time will be made. Inc local
travel on the road is large, and the trains
are usually we'll filled with passengers, and
the road is doing good freig-t business.
In Germany, at the end of 1881, there
were 3 SOC miles OF railroad Constructor
with iron sleepers instead of wooden cross
tjes. OF this road 1894 miles had longitu-
dinal and ,242 miles transverse sleepers.
During the year 1881 there was an increase
$3.50 miles laid with longitudinal and oil AZ
miles laid with transverse iron seepers.
Germany has used iron as substitute ior
cross.ties much more extensively IMAM any
other country, and apparently with satls-
factory results, as renewals are iargeiy hiaue
with IRON, the whole length OF the new
road constructed in 1881 being much less
than the increase in road with iron sleep
ers. and the statistics show that there was
a decrease of the ordinary with L raiis on
wooden cross-ties amounting to l9o miles,
and also decrease Of SO miles in rail LAID
with chairs on wooden cross-ties. Inere Is
still 26S miles of road in Germany laid on
stone supporters, ana 10 miles vi sucn io"u
we're laid in 1851.
iron does not seem to be used to any ex-
tent for this purpose elsewhere, except IN
Holland. Experiments were made IN BEL
GUM several years ago with some OF the
German systems, especially with view to
giving work to the suffering iron manufac-
ture Of that country; but they seem not 10
/ have been satisfactory, and we near noun
| ing more OF the use OF iron for that pur.
pose there; though as iron is perhaps cheap
or in Belgium than anywhere else in the
! world. and it imports its ties 1t would seem
that il was one of the most promising fields
| for the use Of iron. Timber is not costly
there. however. as it is brought from baitlc
and North Sea ports at little cost for freight;
| IL is somewhat remarkable that England
shonld have been preceded by Germany in
the extensive application Of iron for this
purpose.