The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-10
RAILWAY ITEMS,


RAILWAY ITEMS,
/ The Cult Colorado & Santa Fe railroad
will soon begin the extension nom Fort
| " orth aud frol Dallas Northwestwa'd.
The Fort Worth extension In To meet either
the Leayenworth, Lawrence and Southern
/ or the Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe. The
Dallas extension viii strike the 81. Louis
md San Francisco road ~ Paris, TtXaF, aud
Fort Smith, Arkansas,
Mr.. T. !. MoDole, Tor the past three yenrs
city passenger agent az the chicago Bur
/ iingion and Quincy railroad In this city
has been promoted o. travelling passenger
agent OF the ~. Louis, hoosuk aud North
| western.
/ The Reading Railroad company will fore.
close the mortgage on the Union canal, er'
: tending FROM Middetown TO ReaTlns, Ia n
/ few days. The mortgage rs for 5000 coo,
and fell due ON November lst, last
ID. W. q. Rowland, late general super y.
/ teudont of the Louisville & Nash vile
road IL spoken OF as the coming man tor
I tho position OF general manager OF tho
/ Louisville, New Albauy x Chicago.
| j. g. Laying formerly Manager OF the
| T., Ft. w. & O. road, moTa recently OF tho
| q. & n. W., has accepted the position OF
general manager OF the New York Buffalo
/ q West Shore road. and i7 this week max
I ing an inspection Of the road aud It's equip
meut9,
judge Dundy, ofthe United States court
+, appointed William ID. Smyth OF herkuk,
receiver ot the Hastings IL Grand Island
road. lie also granted q Temporary ~
junction restraining the Burlington & Mis-
souri, aud Republican Valley roads from
crossing tho Union Pacific ut Grand Island
until the right of way has been obtained
aud the damages nsCerta'ned
The l., b. e ". earnings lat year, in
Guiding an estimate ot s23) CJ9 Tor Dscem-
Der, were 81 0lS 740. The earnings Tor 1889
were 81, 140. 22i, a gain for 1883 Of SIS, 2,.
The net earnings of the Philadelphis q
Reading railroad and the coal and ron
companies for the year ondsd Novemee r
50th are SIS iG9, 25l.
Tho Chicago d Alton earnings for the
wear just closed were sS,77S GOO against SIS
2l5,OJJ in 1882.
Mir. George A. sandsrson, general ire ght
and passenger agent oil the Toledo Cincin.
natl & st. Louis railroad by circular dated
January Isl, 1851, announces the appoint
meut oil MIR. Albert IL. SHider as si,,-
ant general freight agent OF that road.
w. G. Agnew, late OF the Pennsylvania
railroad will be the general SUPERINTENDENT,
Il. s. Thomas, auditor, and w. l.. HOileck
err master mechanic OF the Pi''sburE, Uieve.
lana & Toledo railroad company. IL Is eX-
y, ICED that trains will be running by the
10th prox.
Negotiations Tor the lease OF the Pitts.
burg q Western to the Erie are reported
off, President Jewett declining 10 do any
thing unit the lawsuits OF tae company
were settled. 1t is thought that the Balt-
more Il Ohio will succeed IN securing con-
troll of the road, and will then be in bet.
ter condition to- oppose both the PenDsyl-
Yania Rnd the Vanderbilt roads.
fhel pier of the Northern Pacific rail-
road bridge across Snake river at this point
is practically done. Half OF the false work
is done, and there is no doubt that the
structure will be completed before the next
high water and probably within two
months.
The railway age will publish a summary
of rail way foreclosures in 1893, showing
rather favoraby than otherwise, taking
into cor sidcration the fact that all the roads
iorecosed had been in shaky or mort
ound condition tor several years. The fore
closures covered eighteen lines, with 7 )tal
OF 1854 miles Of track, $lS,S25,CoO capital
stock and an approximate OF S2S,S6OCJ in
bonds and debt The total CAPT al invested
In stock. bonds and debt was S47 ,30O,CCJ
against S65 1926, 600 in foreclosed roads in
1882 $l27 ,923 900 in 1881 and $263, $751;, 900 in
1880.
The extension OF the Terre Haute e In
danapolis is completed to Plymouth, lndi-
ana on the Pitisburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago road, IL miles from the late terminus
at MarmoDt, on Lake Maxinkuckee, 46
miles from Logansport and l52 miles from
ferre Haute The extension Was opened
last week. WORK is in progress on the
grading from Plymouth northward 10 South
Bend, "A miles.
The Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul has
completed its line from Sigourney, and |
through Ottumwa. Trains are running on |
this part of the line between Ot,umwa and |
Sgourney, and by May 1st next, the en- |
tire line from Cedar Rapids to Ottumwa |
will be completed and in operation, a
distance of about ninety miles. This Is |
intended to give to the Chicago, Mllvau.
kee & st. Paul southwestern c0nnec-
ton Tor its two roads entering at Cedar |
RAPIDS.
Engineers are now at work on the pro.
posed extension OF the Lake Erie and West
ern, forty .thrle miles, 10 Peoria. Work !
will be pushed in the spring, and when |
com pletud will give the Erie and Western |
share of the pool business, estimated at |
over $500,0 per annum. This extension |
will he made for cash without issue OF any |
.oad will show net earnings over all fixed |
charges OF $4,000 The net profit for Sep |
TENDER was about $4,000.
The Mount Vernon, Coshocton and |
Wheeling railroad, the new road, will be |
constructed In the near future from Ma |
riou to Wheeling, and probably there cen |
meet with Vanderbilt's new South Pennsyl- |
vania railroad now under construction As
Newcome istown is on bee line between |
Mount Vernon and Wheeling, the route
will without doubt run through Newcom- |
erstown, aud the line surveyed makes the |
new road cross both the Panhandle and |
the Wheeling and Lake Erie roads within
q few feet of their respective stations.