The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-31

Is required to certify to the completion OF
the work before the bonds can be delivered.
Governor Sheldon has been requested to
make trip over the Silver City, Deming 4
faclnc road for this purpose, in order that
the company may make proper demands
upon Grant county tor $4,000 in bonds
voted as bonus Tor constructing this road
aud he will shortly depart on this mission,
taking with him an experienced railroad
builder, who will examine and report upon
the property.
Passengers who have travelled over this
new line allege that il is yet sadly in need
of improvement before it can be properly
termed finished. 1t requires from three TO
four hours to make tine trip either way
from Deming TO Silver City or wise versa.
They have no passenger coaches and with
the rough box cars and the road unballasted
the trip is described as one by 10 means
pleasant
The Chicago Tribune has the following
from its Washington correspondents
On the east Kentucky road the survey of
the Kentucky division has just been COM
pleted. In the l04 miles from Willard,
Carter county, to the Virginia line there
are eight tunnels, with an aggregate length
of one mile. At one point the line is with.
in seven miles OF the Chattarol road.
rule of the railway companies provides
that dogs shall not ride in passenger car
rlages, but big and ferocous looking bull
dog walked into carriage the other day,
appropriated whole seat, and rode 200
miles unmolested. "He had such mean.
ing smile" was the guards apology for not
ejecting him
The New York Indicator thinks that "the
movement to break the lease between the
Memphis d Charles; on and the East Ten.
nessee, Virginia Il Georgia railroads is con-
sldered to be the first step toward aban.
doning the Memphis & Charleston and
using the Erlanger system as a connecting
link between the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia and the Southwestern system.
The Dardanelle Post says: Work pro.
crosses on the Dardanelle & Russelvlle
road at both ends of the line. Probably
half of the way is already cleared OF timber
and at tbs Russellville end perhaps hal
mie graded. We have only to keep still
and the road will steal upon us before we
know it. A survey of the road from Little
Rock to Wald-on and the west was begun
week before last at title Rock under En-.
gineer Syburg.
THE status of the attempt OF the South.
ern Pacific company to obtain the land
grant of the Texas Pacific, on the ground
mat 1t IS the assignee OF the latter road, is
this: The Southern Pacific company, by
It's attorney, has filed In the interior de-
partment claim to the land grant. rights,
and franchises of the Texas Pacific by
virtue of the assignment from the Texas
Pacific to the Southern Pacific, and the
paper making the assignment accompanies
and is made part of this claim. This APP
plication was tileo with Secretary Teller,
who Endorsed upon it that he considered
that it was not within the province OF the
department to take any action, but it was
tor congress- to determine the matter. The
Southern Pac tic relies upon the precedent
in The New Orleans Pacific to secure the
grant. The Interior department lawyers
claim that there are marked differences in
the two cases, but they do not point out, at
least to private persons who make inquiry
OF then, in what these differences consist.
There does not seem to be any probability
that Secretary Teller will act favorably
upon this application