The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-27
RAILROADS,

Track laying on the Oregon Short Line
reached Boise river last week.
An elevated railway company has been
Incorporated in Chicago with capital Of
| So 600 coo.
A belt roilwsy Is TO be buit round Oina.
ha. Nebraska. Manager Clark, Of the I'm.
ion Pacihc, is The leader OF the enterprise,
which has capital OF $500 0O0
The earnings OF II railroads for the month
Of August, 1888, aggregate 500 45l .63j; 1882,
S27 1888 30T; Increase, 81 lis 2G7. Prom Jan.
uarv 10 August 81, 1888, 800 100 40l; 1882;
| $lS3 267 SOL; net increase, SIS 90l 06D.
Mileage, 1883. SIS 759, 1882. 5l,lS5; Increase.
1851 miles.
Henry Willard, in a letter to the Astoria
chamber. Of commerce regrets TO say that
the estimated cost OF line from Portland
to Astoria is so large that it will be impossi.
BILE for the Oregon Transcontinental CON.
pany TO undertake It's construction" As
4 toria people are greatly disappointed.
Superintendent Sleeper, OF the Northern
Pacific refrigerator Car service, has gone 10
Little Missouri 10 make arrangements for
the first shipments OF the season Of dressed
beef. IL is understood that bis business IL
principally with the Marquis de Mores.
A despatch from Panama says that ID has
been deterPiDed TO bui.d a railway 20 the
Atlantic. The cost Ia estimated at 81, 600,
90. Ii IL proposed 10 raise the sum By q
tar OF 81 per head premium on all adult
male inhabitants Of the republic for ten
years. Voluntary subscriptions are also in
vited, and over 500 COO has been raised
ahead. A committee ofo .gineers IL abouf
20 assemble at OrurOt decide as 70 the
route to be adopted for the railroad which
Is TO cannect the interior with the Atlantic
coast.
The indianapolis Journal SAYS that q gen
tleman OF that city ten years ago purchased
$50 worth Of stock Of the Westinghouse
Air B axe company. The first year be held
il he received 10 per cent. dividend. the
second year 10 per cent. dividend in cash,
and a 30 per cent. dividend in stock. From
1875 to 1881 be received a 10 per cent. divi-
dend on his stock annually. In 1852 be re-
ceiv 80 per cent. dividend. and be this
week Teceivsd motto, that an 90 per cent.
cash dividend had been declared. His divi-
dend this year viii be over al coo IN ercess
Of the original cost Of bis stock. While the
Westinghouse company has constantly been
ments % the brake. the divIden1s have
been surprising the stockholders.
The generai verdictof psssesesr men from
eli paris of the country BE- that passenger
business was never heavier. On the Penn
syirauia proper the express trains are ufsr-
ly Ell run 10 tuosfc,i0ns. hsuling more c0sch
- than ever before, and ell The trunk lines
FfrluIt lraNtl NtNtT LtrNitI- he TIA-- -
the northwest are doing an immense busi-
Iess. frst- clsss travel g. vel as immigrant
bfinF besvy beyond parallel Irav-l ever
JaF GUuld's suuthwfstern system = heavy
beyond prFc.deut. eud ras-ef fer agents Of
ihe Ohio Irfiars sri Iilirrls ruzds ffll tie
same story. IL seems e u ever DOdy d On
tbf move.
The Indisrapolis Journni s.Ys The ruuor
fbaf Jay G1ulf hss SECURED cortrul Of The
Louisville and NEsiTriIIe srs'eu creafes q
good deal cftaIk i1 reirosd ard tusress
circles. nrf err prints IN the Mister I'll
b. r-ef uift irfe~es-. Iestrr1aT ite rEi-
r1sd rsucrler ri - Iuurral rs n IRE
-or1ranF D. = Lon friIit ma. an I'd raIi-
Frs1ef. urc le CT rs1rf IN frf arsIrt
1f ne LcuisViiIs A q astri'ls c1rnrary. arf
rhr hss uI1tir 80 laat .T r~tu1. ne q
rirt of1cisi ri ttt LrrisTlIie a Nastrie
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