The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-20
RAILROADS.

Uruapan Is finished, thus uniting the states
OF Colima and Michoacan and opening the
rich coffee districts OF Uruapan.
The Evening Post says that the bonds is
sued by the Northern Pacific Terminal
company for the purpose otbuilding depots
and elevators at Portland Oregon, have all
been sold.
The legislature of Queretarohas approved
of the contract between the governor and
company formed to build a railway, with
telegraph or telephone lines from Pueblto
to Canada.
The Memphis, Selma & Brunswick COM
pany has borrowed 100000 on its TO
mile road from Memphis TO the Alabama
line, from the Trust and Safe Deposit COM
pany, of Philadelphia.
Five engineers located u new line for the
Mexican Central railroad from Aguascal-
ientes San Luis Potosi, running by Charo,
Tule, San Marcos and San Diego. The new
plan will, as soon as complete, be forwarded
to the department OF public works for
approval. The Boston "a Albany COM
pany has just completed at Boston a milk
depot, $50 by 2Sl feet, and stories high.
A track enters in the first story, from which
trains can be unloaded into eighty ice
chests, each chest holding eighty cans
Ten elevators lift the milk to tho second
story, which is level with the streets,
whence thirty wagons can receive their sup
ply at once through as many doors, Sur
plus milk and cream will be made into
cheese and butter in the upper stories.
! In regard to rumOr that appeared In the
| Times Democrat concerning the appoint
ment OF General Il. Z. Alexander, Of
| Georgia, to the position of yice-president
and general manager of the Houston Is
Texas Central railroad, that paper is au-
thoriEed to state that no such appointment
has been made, and that General Alexan.
der's name has simply been mentioned in
connection with the resignation OF Colonel
G.. Jordan, of the Texas Central he having
accepted the position OF general manager OF
the Mobile e Ohio railroad, in place of
Colonel Allied G. Rives, who goes to take
charge OF the Richmond Il Danville
system.
The Mexican Central Railway company
is making rapid progress in the building OF
its road south OF chihuahua. 1t is now
averaging one mile and half per day,
and has already reached Pablo river, fifty
miles south of Chihuahua, and on the LIST
of April will be completed and have trains
running to Santa Rosaia, which is 100
miles south of Chihuahua, There are 100
miles of all kinds of railroad material on
hand at present, except bridge timber, and
work will now be prosecuted with uneI-
ampled rapidity. Arrangements, it Is said,
are being made for the construction of the
branch railroad from I'll Paso to White
Oaks, where it will tap the extensive coal
beds. 1t is desired to continue this line to
connect with the proposed southern extern
a thorough line from Denver to Mexico and
the gulf.
"The unsold lands belonging to the
Union Pacific company amount" said an
officer of that company, ITO 900
acres The average price OF lands sold last
year was 81 .45 per acre. If the remainder
OF the land can be sold at this average price
the lands will fetch $6i, 10000. This
amount would pay the liability TO the gov
ernment, amounting to SB,775OO,, to-
gether with the sinking fund bonds, which
are second lien of these lands, amounting
to ST., SOL 900, and leave surplus OF ~, ~.
$50.
"0f course, II is not certain that the lands
will fetch the average price of last year, o.
there Is good deal OF waste land, and, nat.
urally, the best portions would be selected
first; but this is offset to some degree by
the fact that the price OF land invariably
advances ~ the country is settled. The IL
lnois Central road is q case in point, aud l
think an average of S4,45 for unsold lands
low rather than high. A large portion is
underlaid with coal. The coal lands
extend along the line OF road n distance
OF 400 miles, and amount to several hun
dred thousand acres, AT Rock Springs the
company mined last year 276,000 tons Of
coal. The vein there Is sixty feet thick.
The vein at Albany is twenty.eight feet
Thick
The Railway Ago says majority OF the
committee appointed by the Illinois legiS-
lature TO investigate the question ofpassing
= law reducing slseping-car charges, have
made thorough investigation OF the bust.
ness OF Pullman's Palace Car company, and
reported that they consider the present
charges reasonable aud think that reduc-
ton thereof would materially impair the
capacity of the company to up6uild ana
extend its business and improve its service
and secure the capital to sub,crve the con-
venience and necessities OF the puoiic.
They find that the average cost OF sAoh
berth made up during the year Is SloS,
which fact, we may add alone ought to sat
isfy every legislator possessing common
sense OF the absurdity Of tho granger prop
os,tions In this aud other states to reduce
sleepng-car fares to $50, and even
rs cents, Taking the returns from three o.
the most important lines-tho Chicago u
Alton, Wabash and Illinois Central-ths
committee found the following results
Gross earnings per passenger, Sis grosl
expenses per passenger, $780, net earnings
per passenger, az cents. The other sleeping
car companies would probably mako still
smaller showing Of profit.
There were returned recently 10 the gen
eral passenger agency OF the New forl
Central road bundle Of tickets which
we're found In the overnauling OF one Of th,
stations ON the line the road. They wer,
lssued In 1852, and have tho signature Of Q
II. Ksndriok, ticket agent. They were FOL
passage over the Hudson River railroad
from Albany to New York, and bore thi,
vay,, a ~ AHA audorseunont. UIfsusod on Ac