The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-24
Miscellaneous Notes.

This season S39 cars of oranges have been
shipped by Sacramento to the East.
1t is thought that the formal separation of the
Reading aud New Jersey Central will take place
on June l.
The through passenger traffic of Pacific coast
roads last month embraced 1892 arrivals and
10. 225 departures.
The government has accepted forty miles of
newly-hnished line on the Cascade division of
the Northern Pacific, which gives the company
the right to issue 1000, 900 Of first mortgage
bonds.
The Black Hills people are juhilating over the
near approach of the North western railway.
and the rails are expected to reach Rapid City
by June Is.
The Wisconsin Central road will probably not
get into Chicago early as was the original in
tentlon of the company June ID was the time
set, but unexp ected legal obstacles have been en-
couptered which will make this impossible.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe earnings for
April are understood TO have held up pretty well
with last year. The May returns thus far show
a fair gain over 1885. Sonora earnings thus far
In 1886 have run about the same as last year.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company mott
fies all connections that it will not protect any
bill of lading issued for less than So which, as
consequence, will be adopted as minimum
charge on any single shipment to California ter
minal points
The Baltimore & Ohio, Reading and Whining
ton q Northern roads have made a tripartite
agreement whereby the Baltimore g. Ohio is to
ship anthracite coal to the South for the Read
ing. This contract will add materially to the
revenues of the Baltimore g. Ohio.
The Chicago Times says that with the break
ing loose of the Rock Island from the Western
Freight Association will disappear the last
vestige of the Western Trunk-line l''tripartite")
Association, which in its day furnished many a
sensational railroad item, but which has latterly
gone into obseurity
General Manager Roswell Miller of the Chi
cago Milwaukee & St Paul, intimated that the
Kansas City extension will enter Kansas City
over the Bedtime tracks. bridging the Missouri
river below the city. The new line is being
pushed rapidly, with the expectation of com
pleting it from Ottumwa to Chlcothe, No., be-
fore the close OF the season
The Canadian Pacific railroad has, owing to
the inadeouacy of the harbor and the unfavora-
BILE topography of the surrounding lands dis
carded Port Moody, which was originally select ed
as the terminus of the road, in favor of Coal
Harbor and English bay, at the entrance to
Buzzard inlet This will necessitate the extern
sion of the main line to the new town of Van
couver.
When you hear of q mile or two of standing
loaded cars of coal, 1t does not mean so much as
seems at first thought The Pittsburg Dispatch
says: A 5ton car or coal jimmy is ii feet 6
inches in length from bumper to bumper. An
II-ton car is % feet inch. A car holding from
IA to 16 tons of anthracite is "a feet inches. A
gondola of 20 tons capacity Is put at 81 feet
inches. large eond0la with % tons capacity
is 80 feet in length There will be AGO of the
jimmies to the mile, and that means 1900 tons
of coal perhaps. There will be 240 of the double
jimmies and that means 2,640 tons. There will
be 2l8 of the large cars and that may mean
3270 tons. OF the gondolas there will be 1913
cars, and this may mean 3840 tons Then of
the larger ones there are, say, l60 cars, which
will equal in capacity 1000 tons.