The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-08

EXPORTS.
This Year. Last Year
RAILROADS,

THE Glendivc montana territory Times saws
the Northern Pacific lanus IN that section are IL
be thrown open 10 settlement IN the spring.
The Southern Pacific railroad is now putting
down fifty carloads OF steel rails ON The Santa
Ana branch.
A railroad to be called the Matches & North.
WESTERN Is being surveyed from NGud0lia 10
Little Rock
The double track on the Baltimore & Potomac
railroad viii be Comple'ed in April from BaAi.
more all the way 10 Washington.
SIX thousand men ARE now AZ work on the
Panama canal, Inc engineers estimate the
canal will be completed in seven years.
Inc Union PAClhC aud Tie Burlington Mis-.
souri, kiYer companies propose 10 build con.
siderable new road Ia Nebrd' ka this year
The opening up OF the NOrtOern Pacific rail-
ioad into Montana Is attracting oinigluujs "a
northern Dakota, the Yellowstone valley and
beyond, and an immense growth In the pupua-
ton OF those districts VIII be witnessed this
year.
The raj 'rOads guarantee Chattanooga such
rates Tor carrying fruits and vegetables rs will
enable them TO compete with any other points
IN the STATE.
A new road Is projected from Birmingham to
Mobile, Alabama which will tap the coal Cen-
terS OF that state, and make Mobile u great coal.
ING station. Engineers are already IN the field
locating the ruujc
The new $ hedule on the Georgia Pacific gives
another connecting line tiom Atlanta 10 ont
-Omcfy, Mobile and New Orleans. Through
rates VIII put once TO these points, and the
trains nj AnniStou make close connection with
Though Pullman sleepers 10 all The points
named,
The Railroad Gazette reports the completion
last week of l21 miles Of new road, making 59l
miles thus far reported Tor 1883 against l,lSO
miles o; the CORRESPONDING time in 1882, al
miles Ia ISL 9Ij miles In loSO, 2Us niles ia 1873
246 miles In 1875, and los miles in 1877. The
mileage reported thus far ia less than in any
year SINCE 1879.
The Illinois Central railroad has agreed To
make tree gin Ot4 900 10 the Centennial Cot.
ton Exposition, provided III held In New Or.
i,aus The cha zee that the Crescent CITY will
be aOlo 10 raise the funds necessary to hold the
exposition, grow brighter every day
Al one OF the railroad stations IN the north Of
Ireland the following notice vas posted Here.
Altef, when Trains moving Ia an opposite dlTec.
uon,are approaching each other on separate
hnes, conductors and engineers viii briug
their rains 10 = dead hslt before the point OF
meeting ana he very careful not TO pro ced un-
III ca h Train has passed the other
The Iron Mountain branch from Little Rock
To Hot springs, AK rs now believed 10 h, q
certainty. y double track viii he COnstrt uicu
ron Little Rock 10 pOntnrar Benton, which
Will save the company grades, bridges, aud
great expense, From thnt plScU 1t VIII run OF.
rect - the valley The work OF locating the
liue has been commenced, tue preliminary sur.
Nyy having beeu compile cd some weeks since
Z he construction will follow The location.
There has heCnA disposition IN Europe on the
part of several governments "a obtain COntru, OF
the railways by the state. lt has Uctn urged in
kugMnd; IN Bels ium the ,tttc il n great railway
proprietor, as out oii Isl klom tiers 10 Om,lusl,
iSoN kilOmeiers belong 10 the government aud
form one of the largest SOurc - Of rs revenue
Ia Russia all the railways have been built or
largely aided bs the state, gud Is s-lJ ,uearly
hahn Ut the roads or shares, Ne owned or held
by the government
The Napa Register says ~ survey Is being
made for continuance OF the San Frdaclsto x
North Ptciho railroad via llcAld,butg 10 the
MeudoViuo redwood county. Engineers VINO
were Surveying the route last week stated tina.
they were acting under orders from English
capitalists, who owned the road R1d who had
given insiruc ions 10 extent the ROAD auywh, 10
mat would pa Il ~ considered not iuipiubt.
pie lhal We road viii be oxtended from the nm.
bct tclt to tue sacramento valley reversing u
country ~ yet wilhout railroad facilities"
The S.cillsd Gould roads are the wabash,
Manhattan Euvatsd Missouri Pacific Missouri,
Kansas Y I,Nns, isNas n Pacific Hannibal &
- Joseph, International & Grea, Northern, ST
Louis q lien Mountain. g. Louis 4 san Fru .
cisco, The Vanderbilt runds IRE New York Cen.
ital, New York Il Harlem. Lake shore. New
lOtk, Chicago & 81 Louis, Michigan Central,
CAna1a southern, Chi ,agu 4 Northwestern Cal.
cagh :. Paul, Miunrsut, Il Om.hh phiiad !.
phia & Reading. Cleve aud, Columbus Cinciu.
natl \ indianapolis, aud las iepor,ldl the Con.
trail New Jcgsev.
The Railway Age publishes n s,st mcnt 4
railway Con,t ruCtiUn Tor the first qusfler VI the
year ISIS which shows the lauo' part OF IN.
winter was extremely unfayoraolc 20 load bu ID.
neary snow.s,oims. floods and Hurry In the ron
trade causi v the nn!u to nun -. The a
s'rnction of m ain track iOr that tim was it6
milcs, when the weather was very mild aud all
conditions favorable The mileage for the year
IL estimated Of $500 miles Among The ltading