The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-16
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RAILROAD ITEMS.

\ THE ST. Louis 4 San Francisco railroad has
let contracts 10 extend the road from Fort Smith
TO Paris Texas.
Three hundred more miles of track will COM
plete the Northern Pacific, and 5000 Cinnamon
will Immediately commence the work, with the
expectation of finishing il by October ist.
The Illinois Central railroad c0ntemplates the
cancellation of S. 900 900 ofthe Chicago, st Louis
New Orleans railroad bonds owned by it at all
early date.
The January land sales Of the Northern Pa.
oiiC railroad were ST. acres, for $l1i 49, and
town lots for $685. total of &31069, against
S75,sSi In 1892, gain of Sl5l,S3i. The average
price per acre was S3.97 in 1888 and SO "a In 1882
The stockholders of the Western 81 Indiana
railroad intend issuing s1O 500 600 bonds In place
of their old ones, aud pay debts and improve and
extend the company.
In 1881 there had been CONSTRUCTED In the Uni.
tel States about 80 miles of'railroads. From this
beginning there have been constructed in 81
years over 10000 miles Of railroads, al cost of
over s6,509OltOOO-an amount of mileage almost
equal TO the total mileage constructed in all
other countries IN the world.
Through trains are now running between San
Francisco and New Orleans, a distance of over
2,4OO miles. few years ago the prediction that
this would be done would have been laughed at;
now the fact has almost ceased to attract atten.
tiQn.
The secretary OF the Mexican National Con.
struCtOn company has received the following
dispatch; THE track " American National
runway TcuCueu AChln DhrO lO.uuy-llS miles
from the City of MeSico-which is the junction
point of west and north trunk lines of Mexican
National railway. VIII open for freight and
passenger travel February l5'
A Boston dispatch says "A wild scheme for
n narrow.gauge railroad from Boston TO tho Pa
cltlc Is being agitated.by q man who comes here
from Idaho. The Journal says that the map
contains q route which touches the following
points Boston, Worcester, Springfield, the
PQughkeepsie bridge, Pittsburg Chicago, and
then makes u bee line. for the Pacific ocean,
passing some 200 miles north 81 the Union and
Central Pacific railways.
Another railway bridge has been thrown
across the waters Of the Rio Grande on the
Mexican border--this time AT Eagle Pass, aud
from that point the Southern Pacific is vIgor.
ously pushing all extension of the Galveston
Harrisburg & San Antonio system down into
Old Mexico. The Huntington concessions In
Mexico cover 900 miles OF railwNys-an indica-
ton OF the surprising movement of American
enterprise and capital into that now steam.reyo-
luionized land.
The new concession to the Mexican National
has brought about an advance in third.Class
fares and freight rates, Third class fares, for.
mally Clio cents por mile, are NOW fixed al
9 il0 cents. AS the bulk Of travel on Mexican
railways is third-class, the gain to the com
pany is obvious. Flrstclass fares.remaln at i6
cents per mile, and second-class Mt 81. For
merly, frst.olass freights were "a cents per ton
per mile now so cents; second-class,4 9-10 cents
now $40 cents; third.cl ga cents, now ~
cents.
The Frisco railroad company has recently
sold TO u New York syndicate all its lands in the
counties OF Camben, Lacledc, Dallas and Web.
ster (amountlng to somewhere near 500, 900 acres
for the price Of 81 90 per acre. The syndicate
have arrenged in part Tor immediate imnigra-
ton from Europe 10 settle on their purchase.
Large buildings will be put up or procured at
Lebanon, Conway and other towns for the &C.
commodgtion of Immigrants In the interval he.
tween locating lands and building for them.
selves. Mr.. Hanson, Of Conway. Will soon start
for Denmark to convey emgrants from there.
Arrangements of northwestern lines are dread
ING In. breaking up OF winter, fearing that Il
viii bring disaster to them. 1t is stated that the
snowfall In the north and northwest has been
immense, In fact there is now moro snow along
Tho line 81 the Union Pacific railroad In Wyom.
INK territory than has ever been witnessed be-
fore In It's history. Thirty inches fell ON the Isl
dav of the present month. aud the ground had
previously been welt covered In western Ne
braskn, Dakota Iowa, Minnesota and Montana,
the snowfall has been very great and general,
and when tho vast mass m.lS eyeiS ssreain W.ll
overflow, 1t is feared.