The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-02-06
Railroad Notes.

track will be laid in Nebraska this yea
by the various railroad companies.
The Northern Pacific has announced
that the agency at Relknap, Oh the Rock.
mountain division has been discontinued
Until further orders shipments to tina
point must be prepaid.
In the Milwaukee & St. Paul North
western squabble over a crossing in Yank
ton, Dakota, Judge Tripp has modified th'
injunction granted so that the latter com
pany can institute condemnation proceed
ings, and February 10 has been set for th'
appraisement of damages.
A movement is SAID to be on foot to erec
union depot in Minneapolis, to be use(
by the Minneapolis & st. Louis, Minnesota
& Northwestern, Wisconsin Central, St
Paul & Northern Pacific, and whatever
other road may hereafter be In want OF
depot facilities in that city.
The jackson Southern is the name of a
new Minnesota road organized to build a
line from jackson, Mimi, to some point
on the Iowa state line in Jackson county
The capital stock is $5OO,OOO. The off
GERS are: President, j. X. Brown; vice
president, 7. J. Knox; secretary, Alex
Flddcs; treasurer, J. w. Cowing.
General Manager Oakes, of the North
ern Pacific railroad, states that at the New
York meeting of the board OF directors
the following franchises were considered
but not decided upon: From Spokane
Falls up the valley of Hangman's creek
to the Palouse country, and thence to
Lewiston, at the junction of the Snake and
Clearwater rivers This line would be
built by the Eastern Washington Railway
company, organized for that purpose also
a line from Drummond to Phillipsburg for
mining business; a southern branch from
Ten Mile creek, Helena and Benton were
talked Of. In regard to the Butte road he
says: "If arrangements are not made in
the immediate future whereby the North
ern Pacific can run It's own cars into Butte,
we will build or line there, and that at no
distant day He thought that the sale
of the company's land east of the Missouri
would be completed, and stated that the
Northern Pacific express would continue
as an independent line.
The Railway Telegraph and Telephone
company gave an exhibition on the Staten
Island railway on the End inst. of the new
method of sending and receiving telegraph
ic messages on a railway train under full
headway. Among those on the train were
Gov. Leland Stanford of California, Vice
President Sykes of the Chicago d North
western railway, David Downs of the Rock
Island road, Stuyvesant Fish, vice presi-
dent of the Illinois Central. and Thos A.
Edison. The battery was in one of the
passenger cars with ground wire con-
Meeting with the axle, wheel and track :;
the other wire was connected with the tin
roof of the car. The car roofs were con-
nected by an insulated wire. The COM
mon electric wire magnet, worked by a
Morse key, was used. From the car roofs
were transmitted by induction to
permanent wires on poles along the line of
the railroad. distance of from 25 to 35
feet. Messages were sent to ard from New
York and other points with perfect facility
with the train running at 30 miles an hour.
Mr.. Edison said the new wonder in teleg-
raphy would be introduced at once on the
Illinois Central railroad.