The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-01

Missouri Pacific elevator at Csrondelet and
shipping south nom forty to 100 cars Of grain
| PSF day.
! A subscription for S. csc 500 hes been issued
by the Mexican Central railroad company, which
they think will be SUFFICIENT 10 finish the road
besole April /, lsSt
| Ills expected that the Atlantic 4 Pacific rail.
road Will be completed to the Junction with the
| Southern Pacific railroad near the Colorado
| river. shout the middle of March. aud soon
thereafter through trains to the Pacific coast
viii DC nut on.
| The railroads Cnnlng direct from veal 10 east
did an enormous business .Sst year. showing
larger earnings Than any previous yesr. The
monthly averages over 1881 have teeu bstwes n
s5Io,0 aud 10000, The increase for pecep-
Der. lSs2 over Dec mher 1851. was iNp oOa
From October lst % January LIST the increase
over the corresponding period oflSsl, WAS g..
! 1000
Mr.. E. lockwood, general passenger and
ticket agent at Kansas City Informs us by circu-
lar that the Memphis extension of tho Kansas
City, Fort scou & Gulf railway line il now com.
plsted and regular trains running TO West Plains
Howell county, Missouri, Sl5 miles from Kansas
City. The line VIII reseh Augusta, Oregon
county, Missouri about February 10Th, and will
be completed and open for business TO Memphis
about June |. 1888
The New Orleans Times, Democrat saws In
formation has been received from very good
soHrce to the eif,ot that Huntington does not
now want control OF the Morgan road An Offer
was made 10 the Morgan folks, which was re-
fused, and II is said that Huntington At the pres
ent time is glad that they did SO. tis now safe
| to say that the Southern Pacific extension win
be bulk from Nermillionvile To West Baton
Rouge at an early day. Between West Baton
Rouge and Nermilionville Il greater portion of
the Crosse Tete ROAD will be used, aud not more
| new line.
ln reply TO questions the ST. Louis Republican
explains that there are 4 so miles of raiway'in
Missouri, whose capital stock is slSS,ooool ana
bonded debts liS,j0O0 600, II the stock has not
! been watered this sSS50lt 90 ought to represent
pretty nearly the cost OF the roads which would
I he GO 600 mile. The net earnings OF Missouri
railroads, after deduCdng operating expenses,
last year wee lltO000o which is Al mile,
| or less than per cent on the nominal cost OF
6S, coo mile. The railroads in the state are
assessed for taxation u Ss7SOCU, which is an
average valuation of about 400 mils.
LoUIsvllLs, Ky, Jan 3,-lt is umored
around town that syndicate headed by Could
and Newcoxlb has recently obtained oltion, on
large quantities of Louisville, Evansville 4 st
Louis air line stock through the aid OF certain
parties in louisville and lloston, but that, fail
ing 10 secure entire control it Is now intended
10 buy some stock II II can be had cheap enough.
Just what Gould and Newcomb want with the
air line does not appear very clear, unless tho
latter gentleman should be acting for G. r.
Huntington, their ultimate design being to con.
meet the Missouri Pacific aud other Gould roads
with the Chesapeake X Ohio road at Louisville
The option price of the stock given In ST. Louis
Is stated To be SIS per share and II Mr. New.
comb obtains 1t at so low figure there Is an
evident intention TO sell higher or place Il on
the New York list where, when Mr.. Gould first
took Missouri Pacific four years ago. it sold for
IS per share while II now brings 500
Financier of the City of Mexico: The work OF
construction on the line between ManEanillc
aud Couma advances, Certain notifications
have been allowed the representatives Of the
Texas Topolovampo Il Pacific railroad, by
which the company is authorized To build from
Iopolovampo, on the Gulf of California, to Pre-
sisio del Rio Grande. on the frontier and /,
run branch from TopOlovampo TO Alamos Il
the state OF Sonora, and TO MRsAtlau, In tn,
state OF Sinaloa II Is announced that Genera
Diaz, governor of OaXaca will visit the 18th
mus OF Ter uantepec and personally inspect tn,
WORK OF conStrucnon on the Tehuantepeo rail
road The track Of the Mexican National railroa,
has reached Maravatio In Michoacan Tn,
division will be opened to the public MS soon q,
. approved by the government inspector. Thu
: time given the executive 70 a.. .ond railroad con
A cessions already granted has been extended ST,
4 months The cars in use on the recent,
opened Toluca tramway We're made by tn,
= John stephenson company, OF New York Thu
Mexican Central railroad, on Its division from
PasO del Norte south, a distance of 22s miles
showed the following returns for last month";
" %haln' class passenger. .........y 70Sq Q
mily dozen u-clnsS passengers .......,. $3.50 !
hncke ct and freight 80. .:..,,,.,, 99is 8
.pI'to' ,'nn n teegraphic services. iSl S
n, NJ The Lss''''''''" ''''.'''r''''---- i.ssl =
Ma. WV ,..,..,..... ..,.a.- " :
Tna /. aiding on the Central is completed TO
over seventy live miles to the south OF the cit
of chihuahua.