Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-10
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Neal
and Affair."

Bright Flashes of Intelligence FROM Near
and Afar.
1t was rumOred in Atlanta, Friday, that
the Piedmont Airline was Offering to ship
freight from New York to Atlanta at 81 10.
The pool rate is 81 %.
A rival corporation has sprung up to
compete with the company already in the
field for building an air line from Macon
to Florida. The proposed routes of both
companies are the same.
The Georgia division of the East and
West Railroad of Alabama is a three
feet gauge railway, extending thirty
seven and half miles through Barlow
and Polk counties, between CedartowK
and Gainesville. 1t is now being eX-
tended east and west to Birmingham and
Gainesville, and when completed win be
300 miles long. The earnings of that por-
tiOn of the line in operation last year
were $79,716 81, and the operating ex-
penses $46,609 OF.
Ten years ago the Florida Transit and
Peninsular Railroad had only two mixed
trains, five engines, four coaches and
fifty-tive boxes. Two conductors were
all that were needed then to keep up with
the business of the road. There are now
sixteen daily trains on the two divisions,
twenty engines, twenty-five coaches, five
hundred boxes, two hundred and fifty flats
and fifteen cabOoses. About twentv-eight
conductors are now required to manage
the various trains, and the business of
the road is steadily increasing.
Last Monday public meeting was held
at DahlOnega, and committee appointed
to solicit subscriptions for the Gainesville
and DahlOnega Railroad. Col. W. p.
Price presided, and informed the meeting
that the Richmond and Danville Railroad
proposes to furnish good secOnd-class
rails at reduced price and take in pay
ment the bonds of the Gainesville and
DahlOnega Road, provided that Lumpkin
county shall raise $4,000 to complete the
grading and trestling of the road from
LeathersfOrd to Dahlonega, about ten
miles.
The earnings of thirty-four railroads for
the third week of January make a very
favorable showing as compared with the
corresponding week last year, gain be-
ing reported of $111, ,703. The aggregate
earnings are 81, ,S0l $50, against 81. .689. .S87
in 1888. There has been a steady i'm
provement since the first week ofs the
year, which is very encouraging. The
earnings of thirty railroads for the first
week in January showed loss of $685.
S91. For the second week thirty-one
roads reported decrease of $34, 4,944, and
the third week shows gain, justifying
our prediction, made nearly a month
ago, that February would find the
railroads in a better position than
that occupied at the beginning e the
year. Only twelve of the thirty -four roads
reporting show loss for the third week
compared with year ago. These are the
Manitoba, Louisville and Nashville, Lake
Erie and Western, Illinois Central, Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois, Chicago and
Grand Trunk, Cincinnati, Washington
and Baltimore, Cleveland, Akron and Co.
lumbus, Detroit, Lansing and Northern,
Grand Trunk, Indiana, Bloomington and
Western, and st. Louis, Alton and Terre
Haute. Most of these roads, however, are
showing an increase in earnings as COM
pared with previous weeks, and the losses
from year ago are likely soon to be made