Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-09
BUENos AYREs.
Am Effort to Sell the Great Western
Railway.

Am Effort to Sell the Great Western
Railway.
WASHINGTON, May 8ih-The Depart
| ment of State is officially informed that
the Province of Buenos Ayres has rejected
| the bid of S35, 600, 900 made by Samuel B.
Sale d Co. for the Great Western Railway,
and has extended the time for further bids
until August 14th next. The line runs
from Buenos Ayres for 96l kilometers in a
! nortLwesterly direction through the most
populous and fertile part of the Republic.
An official inventory fixes the value of
its lines and lands at S27 .970.027 IS. and of
| It's rolling stock. etc, at s., 81, 262 rs. To-
tai, S35 49,, 800 SO, gold. Ten per cent. on
this amount is added by way of right of
working, making total valuation OF S46,-
643 Al ,e43, gold. The tenders are to be
accompanied with certificate of deposit of
81, 200, GOO in gold in the provincial bank,
| and the lines will not be delivered till so
per cent. of the price is paid
On the part of the Government it is
agreed that there shall be no competition
against the lines for fifteen years, and that
exemption from taxation and importation
dues shall be granted to them
The Norfolk Dock.
WASHINGTON, May sth.-The Navy De-
partmeni is going TO find out what it was
that caused the new cruiser Baltimore to
spring leak in the Norfolk dry
dock recently; whether it was the settle.
ment of the dock itself or the detective
manner in which the keel blocks were laid
| for the ship.
AS was stated last week the civil engi.
neer OF the Norfolk yard made a report
not long ago to the department to the effect
that he bad discovered evidence to show
that the bottom of the new dock had SUNK
when the Baltimore was put into it, the
straining of some of the ships seams call.
ing attention TO the fact that something
was the matter.
Toe Secretary has, at the request of the
Simpson Company, which built the dock.
ordered a Board of Officers to meet at Nor
folk on the Goth inst. and give the structure
a thorough test. The receiving-ship
Franklin, which lies off the navy-yard,
will be put into the dock, if it is possible to
get her out Of the mud in which she has
lain for years.
Subject tn the Law.
WASHINGTON. May eth.-The Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee has favor
ably reported the bill to amend Section
of the Interstate Commerce Act. making
international railroads subject to the pro.
visions Of the interstate law They must
conform to the same rule as if the road was
wholly within the United States, must pro-
cure license from the Commission and
officers and must appear before it when
wanted. II is also provided that the Com
mission can suspend license to the road
for violation of the interstate commerce
rules. and pending such suspension the
customs officers may stop trains from en-.
tering into or departing from the United
States.
The Heliograph.
WASHINGTON, May Sth-An official dis.
patch received at the Signal Office to-day
from General Greedy, at Fort Bayard, N.
M, was transmitted from Fort Bayard to
Prescott, A. T., the distance of 600 miles,
by the photograph system of flashes and
sunlight. This system was used success
fully by General Miles in the Apache cam.
paign, and is now in operation over a line
of 1000 miles in Arizona and New Mexico.
1t is used quite extensively In the British
Army and by some other foreign powers.
Besides filling a long want in the army
movements on the plains, il will probably
be adopted for transmitting election returns
from the back communities
Railway Mail Service.
WASHINGTON, May Sth.-The following
order was issued Today by General SUI
perintendent OF the Railway Mail Service
Bell.