The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-14
NIisce,laneous Notes.


and Mr.. Smith since 1880"
Miscellaneous Notes.
1t is announced that during 1886 Nebraska is
to be the banner State in railroad building.
Upward of seventy miles Of the Savannah.
Dublin & Western (Ga.) railroad are graded
ready for the cross-ties. q
The Railroader says: sTo denounce spoilers
and those who employ the detestible creatures.
like motion to adjourn, is always in order"
A contract was made couple of days ago by
one of the Council Bluffs roads to haul 300 tons
of coal to the Missouri river at 81. 60 per ton,
against the old tariff rate of $500
Track has now been laid from Ocala, Fla,
southwest to Leroy, fourteen miles, three miles
beyond Cotton Plant, the last reported terminus
of the Silver Springs, Ocala Sc Gulf railroad.
The steel railmls of this country. especially
the Edgar Thomson steel works, are busy and
have enough orders in hand to keep them run
ming during the balance of the year, it is stated.
The Colorado division OF the Northern Pacific
is being pushed forward with great vigor, and
will be nearly completed to Stampede Pass be-
fore the FORGETTING enactment can become a law.
The Scientific American asserts that there is
one economy in railway management at the
present day that promises results equal to that
Of stopping the rushing leaks resulting from
senseless waste of fuel in locomotive firing.
The Pttsburg Dispatch says: Steel rails are
very stiff at $50 and $36 3d. were it not for fear
of threatened inundaton of cheap English
rails, the price would jump to $38. The demand
is strong, and the mills straining capacities;
but all requirements can be met without re-
course to foreign aid.
The Pittsburg pa Dispatch, says 1.-THE
iron and steel needed for the rails locomotives
and rolling to finish 5000 miles of railroad
must revive the coal and iron industries of
Pennsylvania to wonderful extent, and must
provide all the roads of this State with vast
increase of net earnings
The Pana 81 Roodhouse Railroad Company, at
Pana, H., filed articles of incorporation 10 the
Office of the Secretary of State of Illinois on
Monday, to construct railroad froIa Fana in
the county of Christian. westward through said
county, and through the counties of Montgom-
cry. Macoupin and through the county of Green
to Roodhouse in the State of Illinois.
The two Central Pacific locomotives fitted up
with oil-consuming apparatus are now idle.
They have made several trips, but the engineers
complain of the difficulty in Distributing the
quantity of oil carried and used. as the change
of grade which is constantly recurring causes
concentration. Then. too. there must be live
ly draught, and this is not easily obtained when
a locomotive is at standstill.
For the benefit of those desiring to visit Da-
kota, the Chicago, Milwaukee g. ST. Paul rail
way has arranged to run during August and
September three cheap excursions from Chicago
and Milwaukee to all points on its lines in Da.
kota. The rates the lowest ever offered,
and this is the best chance our people will ever
have to travel at reasonable expense and see for
themselves what inducements Dakota offers for
farms and new homes.
Tho Springfield Republican says: 1.-THE Bos-
ton stock brokers working the old gag
again in New York e. New England stock by en-
couraging the idea that the money for an extern
sion of the Housatonic road from Danbury to
New York is all subscribed by strong parties
As long as there is no prospect of lease to the
Consolidated road they threaten rival line.
Holders of preferred stock at 129 are getting
very impatient for their dividend"
A member writing to the Locomotive En-
gineers' Journal about economy of fuel in firing
locomotives. insists that travelling fireman is
needed on nearly all roads, who could show the
fremen how TO do their work properly. This
writer. who appears to know what he is talking
about, holds that the average travelling engineer
is no use as promoter of economical firing, be-
cause he does not generally know how to in
struct fireman who fails to do his work prop
erly.
At the Sacramento railroad shops four new
locomotives are being built for the Southern Pa
cifc company Three hundred fruit-cars for
fast trains are also being constructed, which will
increase the number of regular fruitcars of all
kinds owned by the company to 450. The new
cars will be completed during the summer.
Each car will be thirty feet long, and will have
double doors, double walls and ventilators.
About twenty of the old ''Silyer Palace sleep
ing cars are being converted into regular coaches
The New York Times says that since it be-
came known that the Commissioners of New
York were interested in saving the lives and
limbs of railroad employees by securing the ap-
plcatiou OF automatic couplers, the inventors
have forwarded them models of every conceiva-
BILE kind of mechanical appliances for car coup
ling Some of them are decidedly ingenious
others are cumbersome, while few are con
structed upon the principle that freight cars
should be locked together tightly as the jaws
OF a steel vice.
The Chicago & Rock Island has, this week,
awarded contracts for the equipment of the new
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska road. The Brecks
locomotive works. of Providence, R. l., received
the contract for the delivery of twenty locomo-
tives. to be ready on or about Jan. l, 1887 Con
tracts were also let for the immediate construc-
ton of 500 box cars, 300 stock-cars and 200 fiat
cars. 1t is understood that the Pullman COM
pany received the contract for these cars. Moth
ing has been done in regard to the building of
passenger coaches.
The Philadelphia Record which is an enemy
of railroad managers general principles says
the railroad reports indicate that the natural
laws of trade are gradually asserting themselves
by forcing into bankruptcy many of those enter
prlses whose capital well watered. The
record for the first six months of 1856 shows that
roads with capitalization of $3.50, 500, 900 have
been foreclosed This. exhibit would give
shock to trade if the public were not already
aware of the fact that 60 per cent. of the rail
roads of the country have been forced st various
times to undergo financial rehabilitation because
of the deceptive and fraudulent methods en-
ployed by speculative managers.
The San Francisco Chronicle says: 'eThe evil
dent determination of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe to establish another sunset route by
means of its new acquisition, the Gulf, Colorado
d Santa Fe, and to very materially reduce the
Southern Pacifcs percentage of freight traffic
between New York and San Francisco by making
a bold Did for the business as soon as the neces-
sary track can be laid, will, it is thought hasten
the time whom the Great American Transeonti-
mental railroad, as it has already been dubbed.
shall be opened for through traffic Another
fact which supports the belief that the Hunting
ton line is soon to be opened, is that John Muir
ton on the line. Dir. Muir is thoroughly
acquainted with the workings of the Pacific rail
roads, and in giving him the general manage
ment of the traffic affairs OF the road Mr. Hunt