The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-26
THE GREAT HIGHWAYS
Movements Among the Grao+
Railroads of the Land.
San Antonio Working for a Ran.
road to Llano-Progress of
the Survey from Burnet.

money to secure it.
The Austin and Northwestern railroad
surveying party is progressing well with
the survey of the extension from Burnet
to Llano.
No one defends the paying of ticket
commissions on principle.
Is not the average mileage per day of
freight cars upon foreign roads altogether
too low?
Investors look with most favor upon
the railway companies that give out in
telligble reports as often as once in three
months.
W. A. Drake, assistant chief engineer of
the Atchison, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the western division, at Pueblo,
to succeed Mr.. Scott.
Stockholders are entitled to lucid quar-
terly statements as to the condition of the
railway properties in which they have in
vested their money.
Tae dressed beef rate war having been
run into the ground, the trunk lines seem
to be meditating WHEEL her it will be better
to suspend hostiiities or to begiA the
fight in new quarter.
The demands for shipping facilities,
both south aad west, are already large and
will increase. Are the railways ready to
promptly accommodate all who wish
to ship over their lines
The Rock port branch of the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass railway is now com
pleted and in operation to Rockport on
Arkansas bay, a distance of twenty-five
miles south of Gregory and 160 miles
south of San Antonio.
IA. V. Lucas, who for some time has
been travelling passenger agent of the
st. Paul and Kansas City, has resigned and
accepted the position of assistant city
passenger and ticket agent for the Wis
consin Central at st. Paul.
The Bowling Green and Northern Rail
road company has organized with Proctor
Knott, of Bowling Green, KY, and Others
as directors.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
contem plates establishing a short line
from Baltimore to Cape May, to accomo-
date the southern seashore traffic.
Thomas B. Lee will make the surveys
for the South Bound railroad, projected
to extend from Savannah, Ga, to Column
bia, S. c., 1876 miles. John L. Hammond
is president of the company.
The Roanoke and Southern Con struction
company, of Winston, N. o., holding
contract to build the Roanoke and South
ern railroad, will receive proposals for
grading sixty miles of road
The Baltimore and Harrisburg railroad
is to be extended from its southern
terminus, Organa, to Blue Ridge Summit,
on the Western Maryland railroad, eighty
miles west of Gettysburg.
The appointment of G. A. Merriam to
be general superintendent of the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass railway is officially
announced in a circular signed by Presi-
dent Lott and G neral Manager Yoakum.
Secretary Gregory, of San Antonio, of
the Southwestern Texas Immigration as
ISOLATION, says that he has written to the
secretary of the General Passenger asso-
citation, which meets in New York on the
oath inst, in res ard to low rates for
parties wishing to come to Texas. He
has also written to Messrs. Yoakum,
Waldo, Clark, Mccullough and Townsend
on the same subject, urging them to use
their IL tluence to secure the desired rates,
with at least ninety days privilege,
tickets to be on sale every day. At their
meeting this evening the Citizens asso-
citation and board of trade adopted reso-
luton insisting that the state roads grant
the rates asked for. This is the outcome
of movement in this part of the state
for cheaper railway rates to Texas. 1t is
the general impression of residents that
while newspaper writeups and flaming
posters may be all right in their way, the
only way to get immigration is to secure
low pass enger rates, and they propose to
have them.
Mr.. j. o. Phillippi of Topeka, Kan, for
several years the assistant general freight
agent of the Santa Fe Railway company,
has been notified of his appointment as
assistant general freight and passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific railway, with
headquarters at Omaha. He will have
charge of all freight and passenger bust
ness north of Atchison. The appointment
takes effect August l.
There were plenty of rumors in Chicago
the other day of further reductiors in
east bound rates, but they were not to be
verified, and the fact remained that there
were no changes. The freight war is not
over aid is expected to drag for little
while at least, when, it is expected, it will
be ended after some discussion by arbi-
tration.
Mr.. o. g. Murray, freight traffic mana
ger of the Missouri Pacific, left Saturday
night for New York, to attend the sessions
of the Texas Traffic association, which
met there yesterday. Anticipating an
adverse decisionlof the supreme court of
Texas on the injunction asked for by the
attorney general to prevent the associa-
ton from meeting, it has been decided to
reorganize. and to remove the headquarters
to some point not in the state. AS a
majority of the lines in the association
center at St. Louis, this city should
naturally be chosen as the permanent
quarters of the associations officers. If
Commissioner Waldo intends to resign he
will announce it at the present meeting,
probably. The Office is worth $4,000
year, and candidates will be numerous
enough. The question of Ell Psso rates
will be taken up.
General Passenger Agent A. V. d.
Carpenter, of st. Paul, has called a meet
ing of the general passenger agents of the
roads interested in the passen-
ger business of the west, northwest and
southwest, to be held at Chairman Abbott's
Office, to-day, July %. The object is to
consider the present Generalization in
passenger rates. The Western States
Passenger association, owing to the with