The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-29
RAILROADS.

The Atlantic Il Pacific have com pleted
90 miles OF track, westward from Albn
auerque, New Mexico.
Mr.: L. u. Ely, formerly chief generator Of
the Missouri Pacific telegraph lines. has
been appointed assistant superintendent of
an the lines on the Iron Mountain. Texas
racine and International & Great North
ern roads.
=, JEFFERSON Cry, May 24.-The St. Louis
oah FRANCISCO railway company to. day
notlfed the railroad commissioners that on
and after the first day of June next. nassen.
ger rates would be reduced on that road
IRON iour TO three cents per mile.
me masonry is completed on the railroad
nrldge handing the Ro Grande fr,m
Eagle Pass to P,edras Negras, and work
men nave commeu ed on f,lse work. Anon,
wo months Will be REQUIRED TO comnlete
the permanent bridge.
Messrs, Peter Gouree, W. r. Scott. Jr
j. T. Scott and II. II. Gouree promise to
oulld narrow-gauHe road from Sbreve.
poi tto lntersect til Paramore road in La.
iayefte county, Ark. The Times saws the
Shreveport. w
Some trouble is reported on the MEXICAN
extention of the Sunset IN account of the
contractor paying the Mexicans in Mexican
money ana the Americans in American
money, which caused the Mexicans TO nro.
test. This trouble will probably be ad
Justed by officers of the road adop,inc
some rule governing the same.
Inc lirst division of the Guatemala Cen.
tral railroad, from the port of San Jose f.
the eity OF Escunilta, has been turned over
10 the American company, which is repre.
sehte9 by General Daniel Butterfield, resi-
uenI director OF said company. Work on
L Lne me from Escunilta to the capital has
peeh commenced. Work on the cbamnre.
rico railroad TO the capital is propressing
iavorably. F'h'e''i"s
go Rogers, G. +. A. of the Missouri Pa.
c.liG railway, issues the following circular
An agent having been appointed at An.
meta, Texas, on the Texas & Pacific railway
(Rlo Grande diyision), freight for that sta.
tlon may now be received and forwarded
without requiring prepayment. Weather.
lord rates and divisions will apply on all
business to Anneta, from points north of
Denison or Texarkana,
- Inc agency at Forest, Texas on the
Iexas y Pacific railway eastern divisiop),
iniuvins oeen closed, all freight destined to
that point must be prepaid.
An agent having been appointed at
Sprlngdale, Texas, on the Texas & Pacific
railway eastern division), freight destined
10 That point may now be received and for
warded without requiring prepayment.
Marshall rates and divisions will apply
on all business to Springdale from points
of Denison and Texarkana.
Speaking OF the Gould system now oper-
ated by Captain X. s. Hayes and Col II
NJ. Hoxie writer in the American Investor
says: ''''o'
The combined system under the manage.
lhent OF THESE gentlemen has q length OF
JOSS miles, which is the largest rumber of
miles owned, worked and managed by any
two men in the world. | know whereof
speak when / say that he two men manap.
ing TINS vast system of railways are more
than ordinary men in point OF business
capacity. Six years ago, / remember, your
your paper predicted that Captain Il. Som.
eis Hayes would be recognized as the rail.
road man of the world. He was then "the
boy" Chief engineer of the International
railroad in Texas, and was known as the
most pleasant, atlable, heightened and hon.
orab!e gentleman in the business, or with
whom men were Obliged to transact large
business dealings.
U Colonel Hoxie can speak in terms
nearly as strong. The memory and intui-
u IN OF THIS gentleman are simply wonder
fil. lie is the bestintormed man in regard
to the properties which he manages | ever
knew, and those who know him best are
willing to make wager that there is not a
hall-keg OF nails or crow-bar stored or left
along his route OF Q, 5SS miles, but that he
can fully describe its.location and tell why it
was LETT there-anywhere on the route from
Toledo, Ohio, to Monterey, Mexico. Our in.
dormant regards him as the most remarka-
BILE man IL was ever his fortune to know,
and the thought has suggested itself that he