The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-28
Miscellaneous Notes.


The Union Pacific has recently ordered TWEEN
ty-fve first-class freight and fifteen switch en-
gines
Upon its $40 miles of road, covering some of
the best territory in the United States the Chi
| cago & Atoms bonded debt is but $l4 664 per
mile, and its stock but 800 700.
| The Southern Pacific company's officials state
that while it is the intention of their corpora
ton to construct the proposed line into eastern
Oregon, there will be no change in the original
plan of extending the California e Oregon to a
connection with the Oregon & California at Ash
land, the present southern terminus Of the latter
line.
Considerable discussion is occurring in regard
to the Atchlson's plan of building into Chicago,
as compared with the alternative proposition of
acquiring the Chicago q Alton road. The dis
lance from Chicago to Kansas City, via the
Chicago e. Alton, IS 489 miles, while by the
Atchison's proposed new line, via Keokuk. it
would be but 400 miles.
The heaviest grade which freight train upon
the Chicago, Burlington & Northern road is sub
jected to is sixteen feet to the mile A train of
70 loaded cars. with 1000 tons of freight. is
hauled over the c., B, & n and yields 81 900
revenue for the train over 430 miles of road
where only 400 to 500 tons can be hauled in a
single train over the competing lines.
The merchants of San Francisco are got likely
to succeed in their agitation of the question of
abolishng all terminal common points in that
State, except San Francisco, Oakland and Los
Angeles. Thus far the Southern Pacific Com
| PAW has refused to grant any request of this
kind and there being no intermediate ground
for concessions it is likely that the present sys-
tenn will remain in practice.
The Portland Oregonian is very sanguine that
the Oregon Pacific will again be pushed toward
eastern Oregon, and says that John I. Blair of
New Jersey, large stakeholder in the Chicago
& Northwestern, and P r. Pyne. the manager
of the Moses Taylor estate, have taken a warm
interest in it, aud have in view new TRANSPORT til
mental line by extending the Northwestern to
Boise City, Idaho, to be met there by the Ore
gon Pacific
Four hundred freight cars recently built for
the Southern Pacific company In the East have
arrived and will be put into service on it's lines
as fast as they are required. From the fact of
this immense increase in rolling stock as well as
the intimation that several hundred more freight
cars are also to be built for this company it is
believed that the grain shipping Strade is to be
carried on TO an unusual extent over the lines
of the company via New Orleans.
Ten passenger locomotives of the fifteen re-
Gently built by the Reading railroad at the COM
pany's shops in Reading are now in use. 1t is
believed that The new engines can run a mile
with loaded train under forty seconds, if neces-
sary, and they are designed to drag eighteen
cars instead of the old maximum of six or
eight. Two OF them are now working on the
Philadelphia & Atlantic City road and others
are assigned to the main line of the Lebanon
Valley and other divisions.
There is renewed talk about per cent lease
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation property
to Union Pacific But why should an independ-
ent and able bodied property, paying per cent
with a handsome surplus, lease itself to a beggar
for per cent, when the beggar has no power to
harm and little to profit the lessor. There would
be some sense in a Navigation lease to the
Northern Pacific, for the latter corporation will
become a competitor to some extent when it's
Cascade division is done, and it will always be in
the power of the Northern Pacific to give far
greater traffic to the Oregon line than the Union
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