The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-22
Miscellaneous Notes.

1t is expected the gauge of the Texas Pacific
will be changed to the standard width.
The Taylor committee has issued a circular
giving up the West Shore ghost and so has
William NJ. Lent, the chairman of the Windsor
Hotel committee.
The new Texas railroad pool goes into effect
Sept l. The benefit to the roads interested is
thought to be worth about So 0G0 600 per annum.
NO rates have yet been agreed upon.
Minnesota and Dakota are now harvesting
wheat. and report results varying at different
localities, but on the whole favorable. The rail
roads IN that section are preparing for lively
traffic.
The Pittsbure Telegraph says eff cessa-
ton of the railroad war means better times all
round 1T is a contamination devoutly to he
wished. Perhaps prosperity will follow. but
the connection between pocket and the
other is not entirely clear"
The Northern Pacific is going to attempt to
market to the eastward the wheat Of the Walla
Walla country, in WASHINGTON Territory. This
region is l. 700 miles from St Paul and Duluth,
which would give the road the longest haul for
wheat enjoyed by any American railroad.
Robert Garrett says: mo settlement of trunk
line difficulties is possible without the concur
renee and co operation Of the Baltimore q Ohio.
which long since determined to agree to no
settlement restoration of rates without abso
lutte protection is secured to Baltimore d Ohio
interests
The Susquehanna Coal Company one of the
most important mining corporations Of Pennsvl-
vania, which is part of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, is coming to the front as a
powerful organization. and its operations at no
distant period will cause a revolution in the
anthracite world 1t is stated the company have
Just completed the largest breaker ever erected in
Pennsylvania. 1t will have capacity of $500
tons per day.
Thursday the contract for stretching the wires
of the Baltimore q Ohio company along the
railways in Arkansas to Little Rock and Hot
Springs was entered into. For corporation
which the veracious Gould declares is losing
$4,000 a month, the Baltimore & Ohio Tele-
graph Company displays exceeding hardihood
and temerity. 1T is extending its system as
rapidly as possible. probably with the intention
of increasing it's losses.
The executive committee of the Master Car
builders Association will have a competitive test
of automatic car-couplers at Buffalo, Sep 10.
They require the presence of box cars equipped
with the coupler at each end, and they should
reach Buffalo by Aug. II. This test will be
watched with great interest, because the master
car builders can do more than the laws of any
State, or half dozen States, towards securing
uniformity, safety and economy in this impor-
tant particular
In commenting upon the howings Of the Phil
adelphia Record regarding the Vanderbilt
Pennsylvania deal the Pittsburg Telegram says:
''There is not much prospect that the State
officials will interfere with the Vanderbilt
Pennsylvania railroad deal of their own motion.
If they interfere at ALL it will only be at the
instance of those who have been injured by the
crushing out of what promised to be a successful
enterprise, and perhaps it will be difficult to get
them to do so even in that interest,"
SO high an authority as Mr. Henry V. Poor
confirms the opinion that the falling off
of railroad earnings is attributable to low
rates rather than to loss of business,
and after reviewing the situation comes
to the conclusion that the earnings of
railroads for 1885 will not be much below those
of 1884. He says, also: There is1every reason
to believe that in 1885 railway earnings vii
reach their lowest ebb, and that in 1856 they
will show decided increase over those for the
current year, or even those for 1884"