The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-28
LIVERPOOL.
RAILROAD ITEMS.

FRHIGHT trains are prohibited from running
on Sunday in Alabama.
The Iron Mountain road has received at Tex.
arkana l2G. OSl bales of cotton during the present
season.
Only four miles of iron has got 10 be laid to
complete the railroad from Pensacola 10 the
Apalachicola river
On the New York. Pittsburgh & Chicago rail.
road work is progressing rapidly. This road,
when completed will form part of the Erie sys-
TEN.
II is asserted positively that the new railroad
so long talked OF from WinnomuCCa Nevada
north to the Columbia river at Walla Walla is
about to become a reality The Central Pacific
include IL IN their new map
The Louisiana Central Railroad company will
shortly commence the construction OF the line
from Vermillionville to West Baton Rouge.
1t is expected that the track OF the Mexican
Central will reach the city of Aguas Ctshentes
IN April. The road is already fifty miles north
The Atchlson, Topeka & Santa 70 Railway
company will commence in the next sixty days
building the road from Guaymas, on the Gulf of
California TO FL Paso.
here are twelve standard and sixteen mar.
row gauge roads building in Mexico. Tho Tor
me- aggregate mileage of l,266, and the latter
SO
The survey Of The Oregon Short Line Is pro.
crossing very favorably The surveyors 70.
port splendid route up Snake river, with no
obstacles.
1t is reported that the Southern Pacific rail.
road company has acquired possession of the
Guatemala railroad, running from San Jose to
the capital.
The fifth installment of 10 per cent. on sub
scription No. 3 of the Mexican Central was called
In Boston JANUARY II sixty per cent. has been
called 10 date aud new subscription is talked
Of,
Negotiations have advanced almost to compe.
ton for the concession of the right.of-way Tor a
railroad through the Euphrates valley from the
Mediterranean sea to the Persian gulf
Fifteen miles of the Vicksburg Shreveport &
Pacific road, so resident engineer says, will be
completed about April l. There are enough
rails on hand to complete the line to Arcadia.
lnGreat Britain the large sum of Si0OU0COO,-
OOO Is invested III railways. Some Of tho engines
weigh forty'fye tons, and Ike a load of ninety
hour
Two more new railroads across Florida arc
now contemplated The actual cash 70, one has
already been subscribed.
>, All Of the section men along the lines OF the
Union PaeinC railway III Kansas, with the eX-
ception OF the foremen, have been discharged
Just what this movement indicates the future
Will alone develop, as the employees themselves
are ut loss for the cause.
Twenty miles of the Nashville & Florence
railload are now completed. and before great
while II will be finished to the state line, about
Sixteen miles north of Florence Tho compile.
tion OF this load TO Florence within two years, IL
said to be certainty.
grant charter for the Rome (Ga) & Decatur
Railroad, say ing 1t was against the policy of the
state to grant charie.s 10 roads leading out OF
the state,
The Louisville & Nashville railroad exten.
sion, known as the Pensacola & Atlantic rail.
road has teen completed to the Chattahoochee
river, where 1t connects with tho system of roads
already In operation III Florida.
Mr., Il r. Murphy, ON January 20, laid three
and one.third miles Of track on the Mexican
National railroad, on The division between Mar.
avatiO anu Acambdro On the same date the
cad Of Tho track was ut kilomeler 2S0i, from
Mexico City, The track will reach Acambaro
January 2S
The Texas & Pacific railway has at the pres.
emit time six bridge pile.driving and construction
trains AT work each having large force OF men,
especially skilled IN that Kind Of work, rebuild.
Ing and strengthening the bridges on the New
orleans division, tiom one end of the line TO the
other
TIE great body Of our people are not in SYN.
pathy with the ur0akers who are At the bottom
4 inns ami. abroad agitation, or the politicians
q no aro laboring under the hallucinaton tina,