The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-25
RAILROADS.

| The earnings of the Mexican Central for
the n rst three weeks of September were:
Il q, $50 500.G9 1882, 1874. 62S.1O; increase,
S4,es5 80,
The highest point ON the Rocky noun
tsins reached by the Northern Pacific is l :
200 feet below the summit of the Sierras on
the Central Pacific.
The British are rapidly extending a net
work of railways over India. About $780,
600 900 will be spent this year IN the con-
struction of new roads.
The pool in Union Pacific represents a.
600 shares and is divided as follows: Bos-
ton. %. 600; Mr.. Gould, 10000; Mr.. Dillon,
lO, 600; Mr. Beiden. 10000; Mr.. Ames. 1000
and M. Sage, 600. :.
all the hands at work on the Greensboro
end of the line to the fair in that city one
day, paid them months wages and turned
them loose. The payroll footed up So
eco.
The South Carolina railroad commission
has stirred up new color trouble. They
reduced passenger fares so low that the
roads said they could not afford TO make a
second class rate, and the consequence is
that negroes go in all the cars and the
whites don't like il. AZ way out Of the
difficulty it is proposed to have cars run
with seats reserved at trihing charge.
Only half the number Of trains enter and
leave Paris stations that enter and leave
London ones. Two Thousand two hundred
g. aims enter and leave London eacn day.
OF these there are only sixty-elgbt which 40
not carry third-class passengers. In Paris
there are ITO trains which do not carry
third-class.
Il appears that the prevalent notion that
English railroads are safer to travel on than
American railroads ~ erroneous. During
the past year $50, 100 1888 persons were trans
ported over l07 100 miles Of American rail-
r Dads with loss Of life Of 1000 European
3 .tistics for the past two years are not at
naDd. but during 1881 1870 600 900 passengers
were transported over 172 804 miles Of Eu-
ropean road, and $500 of them were
The New Orleans a Northeastern. which
extends from New Orleans 10 Meridian
Mississippi, is completed and open tor
traffic. This road is an extension OF the
Alabama & Great Southern, and Is con.
trolled by the Alabama, New Orleans d
Texa. and Texas Pacific Junction railroad
company, which also holds majority OF
stock in the Cincinnati, New Orleans n
Texas Pacific the lessee Of the Cincinnati
Southern. This same organization controls
the Vicksburg & Meridian aud the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport a. Pacific, which latter lie
dian and Shreveport.
A prominent master mechanic asserts
that locomotive drawing train OF SIX
coaches and burning s)ft coal throws out
from forty to fifty bushels Of sparks In a
run OF a hundred miles. This Indicates the
annoyance and danger arising from the non
use OF spark arresters, and every traveller Is
reminded that there isstill room for inven-
tive genius In the direction OF diminishing
this evil. IL IL claimed by some that the
use Of the extended smoke-box. furnishing
A place Of deposit TOR the sparks, insures
economy in fuel, cones. netting, smoke
stack, eic., while giving more free ana reg
ular stesmiDg qualities, preventing nres
aud avoiding di-t and danger 10 the train
from flying sparks. The saving OF a. much
A. % per cent. n fuel has been claimed Tor |
the extended smoke-box compared 70 the
old diamond stack and LIT pipe.
A Texas paper remarks that there IL l
nothing more wonderful Ia the exhibition |
Of natural genius than the feat Of Count
Joseph Telfener an italian not speaking A |
syllable Of English, 10 constructing one II
the greatest railway lines IN this country,
Tie teE York, TgxsS a AeLicau railway, /
which "a 10 unite New York nrd Mexico IN i
i've DAYS. But the secret % Count fsiien-
er's success IL that he bss stuiied The
ground a. carefully 80 any Amer can engin-
eer could Lave done. Toe man who could
xfiie sfill . youth. build one Of the most
1iffcult railways in The rOrid IN The Arrer-
tine republic. TIE famous Cofdov. / uccmsn
road couid even perform the difficult iask
of contracting for and constructing q long
line In q country q which he does not
Iu~ek the lsnRuaee. The New York. fen
BE- a Mericsn railway vii certainly Be
rrest Success. John ~. Hacksy. Count
relfsuer's brotber-in-lsu has, i = said. &C
ssp' Cd the presidency Of The roed and is
Milling 20 sake his fortune on the success
4 The Of the enterprise Count IelfsDer
rsv vel feel prUud Of his demonstration
4 What fO-eign genius IN Amer1cs can
ring f1rfh-
People In ths vicinity q the deposit oil
be Nv Tork 4 Nsu EnFlsDd rrllrosd 81
rankin sre oiien reminded Of tnt con-
.--irnn b~tresn the daily buslnrfs nov and
4 fbs tine ne Old Eorfolf ccunty road
~ D~dhan 20 BI.cf<tons v.t opened
prns thirty yssrs nro. Only ous o. I've