The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-17


cent 10 Chicago, where they are sold NJ
reduction OF dollar and u half from III,
regular rate. Joint Agent Moore was in
s'ruoted to notify the lines between Chica
20 aud 81, Paul the practice must bI
stopped,
Railway cars drawn by camels would
nveIluIn even the equanimity OF al
EngIshman, trained 70 show surprise a.
nothing. Yet such are soon 10 hn ia use IN
! Crl,Tal Asia. IL Is proposed by the Rus
! sian government 20 build limo OF rails from
| Khivn, which IL south OF the Sea OF Aral, IL
! Tufkcstan, 10 Tasc kend, plaza OF 1000
inhabitants, nearly GOD miles further east
! The road Is to DE built on the II echer 81 =
Iem-a kind OF raised railway resting on
ptcullat!y plCCed sleepeTl, aud will iDl,OW
the course now taken by caravans. Prob
| ably the number OF clmoll thrown out Of
employment as carriers will be large
enough 10 supply the force required as loco
~ tives.
Senator Plumb believes that the discus.
sion OF the Mississippi improvement vii.
finally result In bu lding levsps, aud il the
ltvees are built tina, they Gun only be main.
tanned In one way. namely: BY traverslug
them og railroads.. i. Is caps bic OF demon.
sraiion shat q railroad can be built along
the bank OF the river, aud he believed that
this method would prove the only practical
The railroad would at the same time IN.
crease transportation facilities in the Mis-
sissippi valley.
The Central Iowa rairoadhas made ar.
rangements for billing freight through from
Chicago, via the Rock Island and Wabash.
Frank NJ. Guthrie has been appointed
general a, ent of the Grand Rapids and In
diana road at Cincinnati, vice w. II. Hall
resigned.
A japanese official paper OF lac date re-
views the railway building operations in
that country from 1871 10 1888 The Toxic
YoEahama line, begun in 1872, Yves he first
road completed. It's length is probably. all
sdings included, about forty miles. The
next road was begun in 1874. 1t was from
Kobe 0tsu, by way OF Osaka to Kioto, aud
is fiuy:eieht miles long. 1t was completed
alma roud, recently finished, is forly-one
miles, but is not yet all in operation. Sew
ersl other roads are in course OF constrnc-
ton. Tho Tokio-Y kihama road
cost 3,036, 672 yen, which equa. to 81, 03S,.
672. All Japanese roads cost total OF Sli. :
9l2 0i0. The japanese newspapers ssy this
great sum has actually been betrayed by
our treasury, yet in spite of those lines be-
ing short and not connected, the traffic re-
ceipis for The year ending June last we're
81, 1872, 55l." The operating expenses are
placed at s75s, 1882, an astonishing low figure
by comparison with operating expenses
in this county. The net re-
ceipts were sl,O33, 1859, or some.
thing over 8 LIZ per cent. on the
capital invested. The Inference from all this
10 that Japan has adopted the policy of
government construction and ownership of
the railroads and that it is paying policy,
notwithstanding their want of experience
in the business.
The Vaudalia. which has Just completed
It's Logansport division to Plymouth, Ind,
ell route to South Bend, has decided TO car
ry the road up into Michigan, along the
eastern shore OF the lake, possibly as far
north as Mackinaw.
A.. Slreeter, OF Mercer county, H., com.
planned against the Chicago, Burlington d.
Qlincy railroad company for charging him
ten per cent more for thirty foot car OF
live stock than the rate established by the
railroad commissioners. The road claims
TWEEN Weight feet as the standard car upon
which the rate is estimated and that the
ten per cent dItferen nee is for the difference
In length Of car. The decision Of the com.
missioBers is that the rae Is established
upon carloads, irrespective OF the length of
car.
The Burlington g. Missouri river railroad
did not change to the new standard time
until last Sunday. The reason Tor the de.
ay was hat the new standard requires the
company TO rua its trains on central Or90 b
meridian time, which is tweDty-fonr min
ltes faster than Omaha time, bstween
Omaha and McCook, aud on mountain of
lO5th meridian time, between McCook and
D, nver. Heretofore the company used |
Omaha time all the way through.
Commissioner Midgely and several gen.
'ral freight agents of roads in the South
western railway association will 60 to
Louisville next Friday to meet with the
general freight agents of southern roads in
crested in the Kansas City business be-
ween Kansas City aud southern points.
Since the completion Of direct line to
Memphis from Kansas City there has been
considerable trouble about the mainte-
'ance of rates. and the Intention now is to
fleet an arrangement by which uniform
ates can be maintained oy all the lines in.
crested in the business.