The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-08
RAILROAD RACKET.
what tho Different Lines are Doing
In fexas.

so
Starr S Jones, the great ticket
agent of Texas, passed through the
city yesterday.
Mr.. ID. Il. Ruudle, formerly road
master of the Missouri Pacific, stopped
over in the city yesterday.
The Narrow Gauge bosses are hir-
ing all the men they can get TO work
ON repairing the line. Now there
need not be an idle man in this city, II
he vans to work.
Messrs. II, Flanders, division super
intendent, A. 5. Dodge, general freight
agent and j. b. Wadleigh, CONNER
oial agent of the Texas Il st. Louis,
passed through the city yesterday, go
ing east. They had been as far west
rs Gainesville, making tour of in
spection to see what was needed along
the line.
The Philadelphia Record says:
"Thcre have been several orders for
steel rails recently given, which have
mad the effect to improve the condi-
ton of the steel trade, and apart from
these indications of the railroads be-
ing about to largely renew their
tracks, both the steel and iron trades
are more active than they have been
for a long time"
Shreveport, La, August 3. In view
of the probability of obtaining an or
der of the United States court to COM
plete the Shreveport and Houston
Gauge to Sabine river, Cap
tain Simon Levy, receiver, to-day con-
tracted with Mr.. Neil Mcdonald, of
New York, who will advance all the
money necessary to do the work at 6
per cent, aud take receivers certili-
Gates at par. Mr.. Mcdonald is one of
the largest bondholders of the road,
aud is anxious to have il speedily COM
pleted and connection made with the
Houston, East and West Texas. The
road can be completed in forty days,
rs all to be done is the laying OF tracks
sixteen miles.
Austin, Tex, August 3.-rhe SUR.
veying party locating the Capitol
Syndicate railway, from Burnet to
Granite Mountain, has almost COM
pleted its labors. Colonel A. Z Bah
cock SAYS he thinks the road will b,
ready Tor business early in September
by which time the penltentiary au
thoritics will have the convict guar
tiers located, aud active work on tn
| Capitol will be resumed about Octo
Der |, il not sooner. The change o
management in the Austin aud North
western railway took place yesterday
when Colonel Bomberg retired iron
the general management and Captain
Lcitnakcr was made general supcrin
tendent.
Dallas, Tex August 3 Local rail
way officials were plentiful around til
Merchants Exchange to-day. Tn
directors of both the Dallas an
Northwestern and Texas trunk raj
ways had sort of informal meetin
and communcd together US to tn
proper steps to take III the interest q
the commercial prosperity of Dalla
1t WAS rumored that the fornc
would submit proposition To I'll
Missouri Pacific to lease their trac
for ali unlimited time us far as DentO
and branch oil from that point in
northwesterly direction. The 1run
directors discussed the ACCESSIBILITY,
is stated, of at once extending the Lin
TO Athens and onward to the pin
regions of Eastern Texas. Bot
being local enterprises, the two con
panies will work in harmony wit
each other. 1t is an assured fact tn
, the projectors are not only in earnes
but are moneyed men and mean bus
ness