The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-22
MiscelIaneous Notes,

The Wheeling & Lake Erie road was the
twenty-fourth road to tumble into the hands of
a receiver in 1884.
All passenger locomotives on the Boston &
Albany road are being equipped with a straight
stack and patent spark arfesteE.
Boston & Albany locomotive 1877 has run 375
successive trips of 200 miles each-75, 900 miles
in al-before requiring any but slight repairs.
The Mann boudoir or state-room cars, now
running ON the Boston & Albany's New York
night trains, were built at Wilmington, Del, at
a cost of nearly 500, 900 each.
During the month of June 6,665 loaded freight
cars passed through the Hoosae tunnel bound
eastward, against 6,35 for the corresponding
months in 1883, an increase of 1l2O.
President Rutter, of the New York Central, is
reported to have said that the earnings of the
road are satisfactory, and promise to be very
large during the remainder Of the year.
A chattel mortgage for $3.50, 5O9 given by the
Lake Erie & Western railway to Potts, Martin
& Co. of New York, is being fled at county
seats on the line. The debt was incurred in the
purchase Of 500 freight ears.
The grading Of the California & Oregon di-
vision of the Central Pacific road has been com
pleted to a point forty miles north OF Reading,
Cal. No more will be done on the line until
work is resumed on the Oregon end.
The passenger statistics of San Francisco for
the last six months show that there were 2. 700
uiOE6 arr1VdlS from EMMA ana Japan imam Q6pdr-
lures to those countries, being about double.
The arrivals by rail We're 10000 in excess of the
departures ,
The Vieksburg, Shreveport & Pacific road
was completed on Saturday to a connection
with the Texas Pacific Trains are 10 be run
regularly in connection with the Texas Pacific,
making the time between Shreveport and Vicks-
burg six hours.
The new Mexican revenue law is particularly
oppressive to the railroads. making the tax on
the passenger traffic 40 times what it has been.
The tax was formerly one cent on all tickets
of the value Of 81. 90 to $4,000; il is now two
cents for every dollar.
The Boston Advertiser says that the order to
cease publishing earnings of the Union Pacific
was given mainly because they are estimates,
as must necessarily be on q great system like
that when made up fortnightlY, or even monthly.
More accurate data are what stockholders and
the public desire
There is still overproduction of steel rails.
Nine out of sixteen mills have stopped and more
will follow A good many of the railroads are
not in a condition to pay for their rails. The
Pennsylvania Steel Company has offered rails at
Chicago at $3Q.75 per ton. Twelve thousand
tons were taken for August work. This would
net $27.75 per ton at Harrisburg.
General Manager E. L, Bradbury, in 4 recent
letter regarding harvests along the line of
the Peoria, Decatur g Evansville, tells the New
York directors: ''The cut is larger than ex-
pected. There is an immense hay crop; oats
are turning out very large, and corn bids to be
the largest crop in years. do not care to be
sanguine, but believe we shall see a large in
crease in earnings during the winter