Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
THE RAILROADS.
The Consolidation of the Cotton Belt
and Missouri Pacific.
an Interesting and Tenacious Visitor at the
Ticket Ofice-A Very Gaudy Advertise
ment-Notes and Personals.
H0lne NOieS.
NORTH BOUND.

Major Sam Hunt, live stock agent of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, has
gone to st. Louis and Chicago on a bust
ness trip.
street railway to be operated by
electricity will be built at Lynchburg,
Va. 1t is expected to have it in opera
ton by next spring.
The Mexican Central people are flood
ing the country with very gaudy hanger
telling of the beauties of the land of God
and liberty and the ease and comfort OF
reaching it by way of their road.
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The st. Louis Railway Register says:
The people of the North will be given
excellent opportunities for visiting the
South thiSrwinter, and for those who are
seeking Investments the field is an in
vIting one.
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One'of the regular visitors to the Texas
and Pacific. ticket Office in this city is an
lido lady who desires ,or't thinks she doeS to
go to California About once a month
she calls at the Office and engages Jake
Zurn in conversation, asking him all
about the price of tickets, the time of the
trains. how long she could stop at the
various places, and large number of
other equally interesting questions.
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BY the completion of a cutoff road by
the Lehigh Valley Company it is stated
that a coal train of eighteen cars can be
drawn by two engines between certain
points, whereas by the old lines five en-
gines would have been required. This is
an example of the great and costly work
which the older railway companies are
constantly carrying on for the purpose of
increasing the efficiency and economy of
operation of their lines, and it shows how
the capital account of company may
sometimes be iegitimately increased even
where there has been no increase of mile
age Chicago Railway Age.
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The rumor referred to in THE GAZETTE
of the 25th inst. relative to the appoint
ment of general manager for the Cot
ton Belt system is confirmed by advices
received later from St. Louis. Since the
retirement of General Manager Homan,
some months since, The question of his
successor has been discussed in
railroad circles, interest being added
to the subject by the reports
circulated recently TO the effect that Mr..
jay OUulU was lHlOuSh pul ShstSC VI hC-
gotiation, attempting to form an alliance
with the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
Railway. The appointment of Mr.. W.
3 Doddridge, at present in charge of
the Gould lines in Kansas and Nebraska,
as general manager of the Cotton Belt,
tends to confirm the reported relations
of the Missouri Pacific and St.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas roads.
The advantages of such an alliance are
apparent, and appear to be mutual to the
two lines at interest. The Iron Noun
tain road would be provided with en-
trance upon favorable terms TO the rich
territory traversed by the main line and
branches of the Cotton Belt
in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana
4nd Texas, and the Cotton Belt
would obtain through this alliance the
use and benefits of the unrivalled termi-
nal facilities of the Missouri Pacific sys-
tenn ut st. Louis, Memphis, Kansas City,
Omaha and other points of only less i'm