The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
Miscellaneous Notes.


A complaint has been filed with the Railroad
Commissioner of Iowa that the Union Pacific in
Iowa is discriminating against Council Bluffs in
favor OF Omaha, and that the piers of the rail
road bridge at Omaha. are being set to obstruct
navigation.
1t is stated that when the Chicago, Burlington
q Northern road Ia completed to st. Paul through
trains will be run from Chicago to Winnipeg, and
that the latter's business coming east from st.
Paul will, as far as practicable, come over the
Burlington.
In Missouri the survey of the proposed De Soto
Pacific cutoff is now in progress. and it is ex-
pected that it will be in the interest of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, and will shorten its line to De
Soto by forty eight miles The present line is
now seventy five miles long, and the cutoff will
be twenty seven miles.
The Wall Street News says: snow that the
steel rail combination has broken in England,
unless prices are reduced we shall be flooded
at 81 per ton less than our own manufacturers
are now charging. This. will take gold away,
and large amounts of it, if our railroad ex-
tensions pushed as rapidly as pro-
iected."
The Railroad Gazette says: "The rail ship
ments Of flour, grain and provision from Chicago
to the East are no longer reported weekly.
which seems very unwise. The effect of sus
pending reports at such time is to make people
suspect that the condition of business is bad
that the railroad managers are afraid to let it be
known"
A new railroad has been projected Ia West
Virginia from Piedmont to Cumberland. and is
already under construction. There will be no
tunnels on the line. and the grades will be light.
The road is being built an the interest of neither
the Baltimore g. Ohio nor the Pennsylvania rail-
road, but is to develop the country through
which it will run, although maialy in the inter-
est of the West Virginia Central.
The belief-prevails that the Transcontinental
lines will meet probably at Chicago, about June
TO- to Teorganze. The superstition now is that
they are waiting to learn definitely the per-
sonnet of the directory of the Pacific Mail,
which is to he decided at the meeting in New
York on next Wednesday. The belief is that
the Pacific Mail will withdraw from its present
attitude, and consent to renew the relations
which formerly existed with. the association.
The engineers of the Minnesota & Northwest
ern were sent, short time since. to Northern
Pacific junction with sealed instructions, and
are now locating line between that point and
Oneota, on the St. Paul g. Duluth railroad. As
a line from ST. Paul to Northern Pacific junction
has been surveyed already it is evident that a
line from St. Paul to Duluth. paralleling the ST.
Paul & Duluth road. is in serious contemplation.
If not already determined upon, as the result OF
the recent visit of the foreign hackers of the Min
nesota 81 Northwestern to Minnesota.
An official of the Northwestern road reports
that the work on the Black Hills extension is
progressing rapidly: The grading has been COM
pleted to Rapid City. and track is now being
laid at the rate of a mile day. The distance
from Chadr0n TO Buffalo Gap, to which point the
line is now operated, is fifty miles, and from
Buffalo Gap to Rapid City forty-two miles
Thirty miles of this are yet to be ironed. The
company is also building line west from Chad
ron to Fort Fetterman thirty miles of which
have been built. One hundred and thirty miles
are yet to be built
AS was to Unexpected, the reports of earnings
of Chicago railroads for the third week in May
show marked increase over the earnings of the
previous week. Chicago g. Northwest which
showed decrease of $4,000 from the earnings
of the second week in May, 1885, showed for the
third week AN increase of $27. 200. The Chicago
& Alton earned 1885, 464 last week. against $l49.-
200 the week before. st. Paul's earnings last
week were s404 900, against 1870 900 the previous
week. These statements show a favorable con-
dition of business, and a recovery from the dam
age caused by the strikes.