The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-09
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Boston & Lowell road is being relaid
with steel rails weighing seventy-two pounds to
the yard.
West bound rates from Boston are upon par
with east bound. A l5-cent rate upon sugar
to Chicago and all rail at that, is made openly.
This is usually the briskest season with the
iron and steel mills yet the complaint is general
with the manufacturers that they never expe-
rienced such depression as they are now under
going
1t is suggested by the executive committee Of
the trunk lines that railroads should interfere to
stop cuts on railroad rates by refusing to honor
the orders of the steamship companies and let
them buy cash tickets at Castle Garden.
In the election in Clark and Oil townships
Perry county, on q proposition for per cent
tax to aid in the construction of the New Albany,
Leavenworth & Cannelton narrow gauge railroad,
Clark township gave 81 majority IN favor Of it
and Oil township 40 majority.
The extreme care taken by railroad compa.
MES in the transportation of dangerous explosives
is so great that the danger is reduced to the min
imum The cars must be tight, the floor COW
cred with sawdust and the explosive absorbed in
charcoal, magnesia wood fiber, etc.
The Boston Advertiser aptly says 'What rail
road managers have to contend with perhaps no
one can appreciate as well as they themselves,
but there seems to be good reason for the belief
that, if personal feeling were not so largely en-
| listed in the struggle for business, the roads
would all gain greater advantages from it.
1t has been decided to remove the principal
| Office of the Richmond & Danville railroad to
New York Colonel A. S. Buford of Richmond,
Va, who has been president of that road unin-
terruptedly for the past eighteen years, has re-
signed, and George S, Scott, the Broad-street
banker, has been elected to take his place.
The order to reduce wages on the Union Pa
eific road, says the Springfield Republican, at
once and upon all hands was certainly not very
diplomatic or iudicious, and quite likely is
sued from the parlor of the companys office
without much consultation with The superin-
! tendents on the ground, and perhaps without
warning. Pacific railroad directors sometimes
do that
immigration is pouring into the Western
| States to a greater extent almost than ever be-
fore, and the land-grant railroads are disposing
of enormous quantities of land to actual settlers
This is strikingly illustrated in the case of the
Union Pacific Company, which in the period
from Jan. l to April % sold nearly half as many
acres as it did in the whole year 1888, and re-
eeived therefor half as much money.
The people of the city of Santa Fe are building
a railroad of twenty-five miles, to connect their
city with the Denver Il Rio Grande railway at
Espanola which will be completed in about six
weeks. The connection secures to the Denver &,
Rio Grande the bulk of the business between
Denver and Pueblo and its entire system and
Santa Fe and New Mexico, most of which has
heretofore gone by other lines 1t is estimated to
add to the earnings of the Denver & Rio Grande
railway $500, 900 the first year