The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-27
sippi road was in attendance, and in order to
regulate the st. Louis pool on the same basis as
the Chicago pool adjournment was taken to Gin
cinnatl March 80
Miscellaneous Notes.

Miscellaneous Notes.
There are 2,640 ties in the average American
road and ], 76O to the average English road per
mile.
Three years ago the Austrian government be-
gan the investigation of complaints against rail-
roads, and is still at it.
The Boston Journal SAYS the Boston g. Albany
upon road when he has paid for ten-mile ride
don't hold water, in the courts at least
The Denver & New Orleans road, recently sold,
will be reorganized under the name of Denver,
Texas d Gulf, and is intended to connect with the
Fort w orth q Denver. making a through line
from Denver to New Orleans and Galveston.
The Pullman palacocar run over the Maine
Central between Bangor and Boston is said to
make the most profitable one night run for the
company in the country. This statement, al
though rather broad, is verified by well-informed
officials
California frst-class freight rates from New
York to San Francisco via the Union Pacific are
down to ST.. % per hundred. The Union Pacific
local rate from Chicago is down to 80 cents. and
the Atchison road has Is cent rate. These
rates, however, are only good for week.
The st. Joseph & St Louis Railroad Company
propose to assist the Chicago, Burlington g.
Quincy, in building bridge across the Missouri
river, at Lexington, Mo. Mr.. Nesbit, the presi
dent of the former company. will call a meeting
OF the stockholders of his road in New York. to
obtain their consent to the proposed scheme
The Nebraska State Journal says: The average
Kansas railroad project these days remind us Of
the Iowa saw-mll 1t having changed hands, the
new proprietor complained that he couldn't make
it cut lumber "Oh," responded one of the old
hands, "that mill was never intended to cut lum-
Der: 1t was got up to cut eye-teeth." The Kan
sas railroad is not intended to be built, but to
show people how hard it Is to do without them.
The big tunnel on the Cascade branch of the
Gc raj nad will ho fha 1apO in
America except the Hoosac. It will be 1850 feet
long, bored through solid rock. The summit of
the mountain is $50 feet above the tunnel, go
that there has been no possible chance to make
an air shaft. and the work is prosecuted from
both ends. The tunnel will enable the Northern
Pacific to cross the same range of mountains at
an elevation Of 1850 feet that the Central Pacif
ic crosses at an elevation of 1900 feet.
The Philadelphia Record says of the Philadel-
phia & Reading syndicates plan that it fell very
fiat. Few persons are to be found who are will
ing to adopt its provisions. All eyes are now
turned on Mr.. Gowen, and his plan, which is ex-
pected daily, is awaited with great interest.
There are many persons who, in the past, have
exhausted the dictionary stock Of expletives in
condemning Mr. Gowen and his actions, who are
now beginning to hedge and if his plan is more
satisfactory than that of the syndicate, will give
him their support
A new company, composed of George Boulton,
Il. b. Brown, George Troutnan, j. w. Double
uay. w. II. AlQrod AND 3 NUMBER or gentlemen
who are interested in other steel works have
purchased ground. and will build steel rail.
mill at Germantown near Pittsburg The plans
for the plant were prepared by Mcintosh Hemp
hill g. Co., and bids for part of the work
were received Wednesday, 1t is the intention
of the company to begin at once upon the cree
ton. 1t will be of the latest model, and ma
chinery of recent improvements will be put in
for turning out blooms and billets.
The attempt to rearrange the Colorado and
Utah pool has been successful The parties to
it are the Burlington & Missouri. Union Pacific,
Denver e. Rio Grande, Atchson, Topeka &
Santa Fe and Rio Grade Western, all of which
were represented by the chief officials of the
roads. It was settled that the agreement should
be resigned the only change being an increase
of percentage to the Central Pacific. Hereto
fore it has been allowed 10 per cent on all out
going business and q per cent on incoming
vance the allowances per cent on shipments
each way.
The Poughkeepsie, Hartford & Boston railroad,
which has been operated two years by George p.
Pelton as trustee for the second mortgage bond
holders will be sold at some time not fardistant A
party representing mainly Eastern capital has
been for some time buying up the second mort
gage bonds at low figure, and the road will
probably pass into their hands, in which case q
new company will be at formed. The
der, and the road will be extended eastward into
line from Poughkeepsie to the Connecticut river,
and thence by the Massachusetts, Central or
Boston g. Albany to Boston.