The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-15

crease NJ l06 cars OVER NE hufohef received
in fta week ending Oothf0 m
1bo FIRST failf0ad apitf oHVfn Nv NfW
York state vas on me Npnt k X Hudson
railroad In 1881, IN tbni grff seventeen
miles NJ railroad we're bu'lt. NOV there
are G,722 miles 10 the state.
President Niokefson ~ ihe N'f can Gem
trail railroad writes " NJ SHpfstlnb lhmh.
cho. saying that road will rr cumpiried 10
the United States ~ the fist " March
next. The formal ur Ulllcinl rpohinB VIII
not. however. take rlrr until May
BRAfaERD, MfRR Nrt The cnns'ruc.
ton department 81 tie Northern Idchj "
advised that the tr4Ck Nus e8teTday rcin'
pleted through 'ho ytai ~ ll'pn tunnel, IN
Montana. Trai., began fUnnipH inr'n'h
TO-DAY. abanduuug the temporary over
head lines.
building ~ u.. ppud"uf through iiur %
the Pacific eve Z ard Ssn Frar cisco 10 n
orally Co'cs. ga Tho lite VIII 30 c1n-
siruciel Witniu The upy 40 years. y not
sooner The liUs 81, m'r likely 10 be hhllJ
from Tintic than from Frisco, 90 sull d
| line Sould be- sllor,er 400 more nrect,
From the frs uiJauunrY 20 ihs BON OF
September the nuieaE1 y Alton ra'H'ad
earned SG3oi 2o1; dnnn!hal ~ ~. Jos,,y a.
| 81 500, S34 lu"i1 tsnirG., 81 80 'J) MIS-
souri, PdciG' O ~ dl3; s.. Lon Icon
| Mountaiu & southern, So S3,lul; St. Louis
d Cairo = .,rrur- lture. &gI7 IA; ST Lven
& san Frsr.c.-rn, - 100 Oss; WabG,h, y q,
Louis Il Poetic, sl3 ll7,O2, bur3g tHg
San period the aggregate FraSS c"'hlN:a -
G2 roads amounted TO sos, 6J3 Els. hsdthst
500 SOL .637 last year.
The Mexican National railway bave Ell.
Iected ninety-nine year lease OF the Tex
an 6S Mexican railway, running rom Cor
pus Christi, on the Gulf OF Mexico, to
Laredo. on the RIO Grapde. 1t VIII be
known as tue Eastern division OF the trst
named road. The transfer takes place as
soon So the books and accounts can be
Strengthened.
me report of the superintendent of the
railway mail service shows that there were
093 railway postoffice lines in operation on
the 3Oth of last June; that the number OF
miles of route for which railroads were paid
was 100 S27; that the number OF miles OF
railroad travelled by clerks was 81, loO, 43O'
and that the number of pieces OF mall mat
ter handled was 3 9Sl ole, 2S5.
The marine statistics OF 1853 VIII snow
a marked advance in Connecticut ship
building. Since January l, thirteen YES
sells with an aggregate tonnage OF about ten
thousand, have been built in the Connecti-
cut dock-yards. All but one OF these are
terms designed for the coasting trade, ana
nearly ali of these have received the high
est rates in the American Shipmasters' as
ISOLATION,
Japanese "tsunoki," or camphor. is col
lected throughout tine year, but the hlghest
results are obtained in winter. When the
camphor collectors find a spot having sew
eral tsunoGi trees in the vicinity thu mi.
crate thither, build 8 hut to live IN and
Construct furnace for making the crude
camphor. When that place Is exhausted
the nut is torn down and carried 10 an
other place.
of Colonel George Youpgs,- inspector ana
general manager OF the st. Joseph ana MO
Ora 1de railway, q line to run from ~. 10
seph to FL Paso, 925 miles. He reports sur
connty. Kansas, in southwes terly direc'
ton through the county OF DAVIS. the
northern portion of Morris county, thence
through corner OF Dickinson to McPher-
son county, crossing the Marion and NC
Pherson branch road at the town OF Canton.
Continuing in a southwesterly direction the
party made their way to Hutchinson, Keno
county $50 miles west OF the Arkansas
river, where they disbande.d from
Hutchinson Colonel Youngs continued IN
southwesterly direction to Saratoga, Pratt
county, thence through the southeastern
corner of Comanche county, through CLARK
county. following the divide till the Cimar-
ron Rcd Fork) river was struck at Salt
Plains, Indian Territory, where the opera
tiops ceased. He was at present negotia-
ting with four different railway comua-
MES, but preferred to have the. Milwaukee
and st. Paul take hold of the enterprise,
making a trunk line from Chicago 10 III
Paso. 1,4l5 If the route were an open one
he would complete the grading from st.
Joe to Troy, Kansas. before spring.