The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-11-18

important stations along the line Of the
Chicago. Plttsburs & ST. Louis railroad
Bnso CITY, Idaho Territory, is making mp
$4,000 subscription 10 induce branch o.
the Snort iiIe railroad 10 hud Its way 10
that place.
An agent Of = railway projected from la
Crosse to Kansas CITY, is now recording in
the counties along the route ia Iowa
moityage for $llU0O COO
C1'namen spies are said TO be employed
poo tAe Oregon Short line to spot" con.
.Halors who tail U give an account of pas
'o"gers' fares paid 70 then.
IL is temiotcally given out
that the expert sent 10
.a'1 country by Fog lsh capitalists 70 |
examine the razng lands cilafed Tor sale /
by the Atlantic aud Pacific railway has
made favorable report, aud that eale OF
100000 acres has been Hgreed upon,
one hundred and fifty pounds OF baggage !
will he carried free over the Atchls0G, To- .
g peka & Santa re railroad for all p1ssen gers
n travelling over that line on either llrsf,
= second or thrd.class tickets hereafter, The
limit formerly was 100 pouuts
r Ifrailway construction IL to continue in
% this country until . mileage Of 3Oo,OOO miles
. IS rescued, as Mr. Poor, in bis manual, con-
10 tidently pfedica il viii and il the rolling
l. stock shall continue 10 bear the same pro
II portion TO mileage that 10 does now. We
r.. shall then have 900 engines and 0iO,'
600 cars.
Some progress has been made in Vienna
/ with the c.sCtiC railway, and great energy
ar IL said 90 characterize the management,
ar Already have the working plans Of the
er first section been lodged with the govern.
I'd nient, and they are now receiving the ex'
H. animation prescribed by law as a necessary
4. step before further work is begun. Mean
Nv while similar plans for the remaining SIC
" tons of the railway are bung proceeded
IN with.
re The Indicator says that the work of con
rs stfucti y the Panama canal Is being pushed
be wi,u eJrrey. More than 10 900 men, ~
stcem rxaayAtors, 40 locomotives ami 800
mt Uip.cars are employed and the force viii
MS soon be au gmentel to IS 600 men. The TO-
$50 tai length OF the canal is lG miles Meat
OF time Captain Elds Is actually Mt work on
% his ship railway 2Cross the islhmus, much
80 farther to the north, and 1t begins to be Il
'ls- question which will first sflord a highway
by tor shipping between the Atlantic and pa
cillc oceans, and thus furnish u competition
nd TO the tran, continental railways.
he Only in Boston could the project OF re
&c. lieious railroad have originated uch {
zen com bination of business and pey wOult
her be out of place in any other city M thu
rs. known world, bu there is something
ge which strikes US as having q touch OF tn
lag eternal fitness Otthings, when we read that
haL Palestine Railroad company was started II
rec. Boston TO build railroad from Cairo /,
rad Jerusalem not for the purpose Of maxim.
rict money, but to atl1Td an easy and que
a means OF access for pilgrims /
The the Holy Land. We regret to sa
ich bat the promoter, the Rev. j. a
re-. Smith having recently d cd, the c0mp0n
uld has been dissolved aud the scneme abaI
md doned. Boston should not have let thl
ars, die 1T should have been preserved as on
for OF lts peculiar CuriCsties.
nim Tha latest attempt 30 construct succc
the iul electric railway is the one now nearl
,ud. finished between PjrrOush, Ireland, on
aud the Giants CAuseway, This railroad Ina
aver been built bv u company OF share holder
n at who raised Gi5,OO0 to construct six miles
cool rail. The gnage is only three feet. tn
eral rolls ARE laid level with gravel surface
and The grades are very heavy; IN parts us stee
Kers as In 50, aud the curves are very sharp
o to has been proposed to connect 1t with u
ON. electric railway from Derrick, and thus
ldg- have a narrow Rusge road from Ballemet
No to Lama and Custerdall. The power Is o
lace tanned from n water fall aud the current
-one conducted over seperate rail parallel
tical the railway, being taken oil rs wanted
raw. brushes attached to the train, in contr
OF train employees.