The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-21
RAILROADS..

THIS Pennsylvania railroad has 81, 10000
iXested in oil cars.
Forty-one miles of new track was reported
laid last week, q total for the present year
of 26l miles, rs 600 miles last year.
The New York Central railroad company
owns 6SS passenger coaches and 22,465
freight cars. The Erie has AL coaches and
80, 26S freight cars.
Surveyors are in the field surveying the
line Of the Coos Bay Il Coquille railroad.
The line will pass through q line timber
country.
Railroad hands are working in sections
aleng the Mississippi Valley road from
Bayou Grasse to distance of ten miles
above Baton Rouge. 1t is predicted that
New Orleans and Baton Rouge will be con
nected by this road by the 4th of July this
year.
Chief Engineer Munroe, with his assist
ants, will soon commence the survey of
railroad line from San Antonio, Texas to
Fredericksburg, Virginia. 1t is stated that
this road will positively be built.
A 50-mile road is to be built from Fort
Smith, Arkansas. Another road is to be
built from Little Rock TO the Indian Terri
tory.
The Northern Pacific advertises for pro
posals to build the extension of ninety
miles from Superior City to Ashland, where
it will connect with the Wisconsin Central,
giving it another route to Milwaukee and
Chicago.
The Mexican National Railroad company
promise that the great national festival on
May next will witness the completion of
the road to Morelia, the capital of Michoa-
cal.
The Silver City, Deming & Pacific rail
road has on hand 10000 ties and 5000 tons
of iron, and is receiving IS carloads of ma
terial at Deming, New Mexico, daily. A
| large force of men is pushing the track
ahead rapidly towards Silver City, New
Mexico.
The total number OF employees on the %.
1874 miles of railway belonging to roads ter.
minating in Chicago, as reported to the
state railroad commissioners, is Ill ,023
| This is almost five men to the mile.
| General Pachero, minister of public
works, has ordered the Mexican Central
railroad to place their chihuahua depot
close to that city. The company had pro.
posed to build the station at some distance
thus necessitating tramway to that city
as has been done in many other places.
The officers appointed by the government
officially report that they have received
from the agent of the Tehuantepec railroao
company the full line with all its appurte.
| iAiaNSiluAoi W.T. uhh Nllhb thNoN iihNt
formally passed into the possession OF the
nation.
The Northern Pacific railway has mad,
an application to the secretary of the iple
rior TO examine seventy-fiye miles more o
the completed railway. The construction
now being among the spurs of tha Rocky
mountains, is necessarily slow, but the com
plction OF the entire line by the latter par
OF next summon is promised,
An ingenious mechanic of Jamestown
New York, has completed a perfect locomo
tive, said to be the smallest in the world
being only 81 inches long. The pump
throw drop of water per stroke. The en-
CINE weighs one and half pounds, and tn,
tender two pounds and one-haf ounce 3Si
screws were required to nut the part
together, and the mechanic was ut work oil
it at intervals for eight years.
1t IS stated that the president has &C
copied 32S miles OF the New Orleans Pa
cihc railway in Louisiana. The attorne,
Of the Vicksburg d Shreveport railway
which now belongs to the Erlanger syndi
cate, has filed n protest against granting
any lands in that particular part OF Louisi
ana to the New Orleans Pacific R,ilwa
company, where the land grants of the wv
corporations come in conflict. The NickS
burg & Shreveport company claims tina
their grant is the prior one.
On the river Niger, at q place called BAN
akou, French gunboat arrived last month
: and at Senegambia the first locomotive ha
: lust made its appearance. The first mil
: and half Of the French railway betwee
! Senegal and the Niger was opened in DE-
Gem Der last, in the presence of an amaze
, crowd of negroes, who slapped their hand
and tried to keep pace with the train. Or
position was made to the road by Latdlol
the king of Cayar, who had formerly mad
treaty permitting the line to pass throug
his territory, but the authorities, with
body Of troops, marched to his residenc
and burned II without opposition. Latdlo
: then took refuge with a neighboring chic
in concert with whom he is expected to b'
gin hos tilites