The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-24
Miscellaneous Notes.


The Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe is said to
be trying to buy a controlling interest in the
Chicago e. Alton
The reports that the directors of the New
Jersey Central railroad would take back the
road from the Reading on the LIST of August are
pronounced by good authority to be premature
The Chicago & Rock Island has secured pos
session Of the Des Moines 6 Fort Dodge road in
Iowa, which covers territory heretofore occupied
by the St Paul and the Chicago g North western
roads.
The survey for the new line of railway for the
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia company is
nearly completed from Memphis to Kansas CITY,
The contract to build will be let early in July
This will give the East Tennessee single line
under management from Norfolk, Va, to
Kansas City
A special car, hauled by locomotive Massachu-
| sets, No. 9, left Boston at eight minutes past
o'clock, Saturday afternoon, on the Boston &
Maine road, and arrived at North Berwick at ESQ
| P. M; distance, eighty miles. The trip was
made to see how much speed express trains
could attain on the road.
Union Pacific people are said to be buoyant on
the expectation of the passage of it's sixty-year
funding bill by Congress, in which it expects a
more kindly attitude in that body than any other
land grant road enjoys. In order to get the bill
passed. that corporation should kick vigorously
against it, and then it would 60 through with a
whoop.
The San Francisco Chronicle says: 1.-THE
Office room Of the Transcontinental Association
has been very materially contracted Of late.
| Nearly all of the back business of the pool has
been transacted and the oficials are only await
| ing its reorganization It is believed that when
| the present plans are all consummated and the
| lines are ready for peace it will come in short
| order"
| The San Francisco Chronicle says: Heavy
| shipments of Oregon lumber are now being made
al nd mi paci fir linn frnpo
! Elmyra n. Y. Several carloads have been for
| warded recently Among the pieces of lumber
were number ninety feet in length and AKA in
width and thickness. A few of these long pieces
were without knot or blemish. Only four
sticks were allowed for load, and each piece
ran the full length of three cars"
| The Northwestern flour shipments continue to
1 go oy lake to an extent unprecedented of late
years. In the last five weeks reported lending
June IL, out of total of 1,046, $50 barrels
shipped SOL 947 barrels or 56s per cent, went by
lake, and only 403, 1888 barrels 1884, per cent by
rail, the other per cent going down the Missis-
| sippi. During the same five weeks the lake
| shipments OF grain were not quite 60 per cert
| of the total, and ordinarily the vessels have
taken much larger proportion Of the grain than
| of the -four.
| 1t is believed that the Atchison, Topeka e.
| Santa Fe Railroad Company's schemes for the
construction of new lines will have the effect of
arousing the st. Louis s. San Francisco line to
renewed ACTIVITY on us extension toward the
eastern terminus of the Atlantic and Pacific In
Kansas the Atchson is supposed to be friend
of the St. Louis 81 San Francisco, and yet it can
not be expected to give it traffic that can be TAX
en- to Kansas City on the 'slong haul" Some
extension in southern Kansas will doubtless be-
made by the San Francisco line at an early date
The present month closes the fiscal year of a
large number of corporations, the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company being of the number
The directors of the company held their last
meeting for the year last week, and made a sat
isfactory review of the situation of the company
penses and fixed charges will be about 800 600,
not far from the corresponding balance of last
years accounts. The company has cash re-
on the Cascade division, and to build the tenn
porary overhead road across the mountains.
N b. Haugen. Railroad Commissioner for Wis
consin, speaking of prospective railroad building
in the Badger State, said fully $50 miles would
be built this year and within the next two years
fully six or seven hundred A number of COM
panies have been incorporated during the past
few months but whether they will be more than
paper roads remains to be seen. The building
to be done, and already done this year, includes
miles of the Sault Ste. Marie, sixty miles
OF the Wisconsin Central, from Schlsis-
singerville south to the State line, and twenty
miles of the Milwaukee e. Northern. In addi-
ton TO this, the Wisconsin Central has surveyed
a line from Abbottsford to Wausau distance of
fifty miles, and talks OF building it in the very
near future.
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