The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
Miscellaneous Notes.

fAisCoidhcouS NotoSs
The Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe, which pur-
chased 10000 tons of steel rails last week, pays
$34 per ton on board cars at Scranton, Pa
The Atlantic & Pacific and California South
ern have put another sleeper on the line to Kan
sas City in order to accommodate the heavy South
ern travel
Freight rates from the Pacific coast to New
York are again in an unsettled condition, and
the Pacific Mail is making good deal of trouble
for the transcontlnentall lines.
The highest bridge in existence at the present
day is the Garabic viaduct. the railway con
Meeting Marseilles with Neussasaues, France
the height from the water level being 400 feet
Its total length is 1852 feet
San Francisco passenger agents have organ
ized an association having for Its chief aim the
abolition OF the practice OF paying commissions
to passengers, and retaining the amount thus
gained among the receipts of the different Offices
The United States Supreme Court has decided
that the law of South Carolina requiring rail-
roads to pay the expenses Of the Railroad Com
mission is in the nature of a police regulation,
the right to impose which Is inherent in the
State. The railroads must now pay up
Ths Beech Creek, Clearfeld & Southwestern
Railroad Company will be sold under foreclosure
on June T. and reorganized within thirty days
thereafter. The new company will be called the
Beach Greek Railroad Company. w. K and
Cornelius Vanderbilt, it is said. will be in the
new directory.
The Northern Pacific railroad directors have
decided to assume the express business over the
road, the United States courts having recently
sustained the right of railroad to do so. At
present the Wells, Fargo q Co. express does
the business over that road having procured an
injunction against the roads doing it. The
contract for the last seventy five miles of the
Cascade division has been awarded
The Pacific Coast railroad. which runs from
San Luis Obispo to Las Alamos, with branch
to Port Hartford is about to resume construc-
ton. The Oregon Improvement Company.
which owns the road, is credited with desire
to head off the Southern Pacific by building a
line into Santa Barbara via Gaviota pass. Sur
veyors are said to be in the field for this pur-
pose.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Company is
now receiving tenders for the construction of
that portion of the Ontario & Quebec line which
Is to shorten the distance between Montreal
and Toronto by about Ihirty-six miles. The
new line is popularity called the Smiths Falls
road At Smiths Falls it merges into that por-
ton of the Ontario e. Quebec road built some
three years ago, and when completed will con-
stitute the shortest possible route between the
commercial metropolis of the two great provinces
of the Dominion.
The Wall Street News says: isThs volume of
grain transported by the railroads through the
winter has only been e-third of what it was
last year, and the roads cas-. of Buffalo are now
sharing the other two-thirds with the canal The
Lake Shore, Michigan Central and other roads
between Buffalo and Chicago are left on the
whole business, and it will hardly console their
stockholders to be told that it is all right because
the New York Central and other roads east of
Buffalo are getting the business Tor part of it,
and the profits"