The morning call., 1890-11-22
ALONG THE RAIL.
Annual Report of the visalia aud Tulnre
COmOanv.


Annual Report of the visalia aud Tulare
Company.
The annual report of the Visalia and
Tulare Railroad Company has been filed
with the Railroad Commission. The COM
pany was organized in September, 1887, and
Jasper Harrell is President Joseph Gold
man, Vice-rrasident; Il. II. Francisco. Sec
reiars, al the Bank of Visalia Treasurer.
The line is eleven and half miles in length
aud operated between Tulare and Visalia.
and is doing an excellent local business.
The rolling stock consists of two locomo-
tives, one fiat and three passenger cars. AS
to the financial status of the company the
following details are afforded in the report:
The capital stock is $4,000, funded debt
$4,000, and floating debt $1933C. total OF
$iO9. 800. The outlay for construction has
been S93656. for equipment S2l,1 making
a completed cost of S1l4,S16. The revenue
during the year was: From passenger
traffic S16.764, and from freight carrying
S1607. making the gross earnings S1S,500.
Chief Commissary Trout Of the Pullman
Palace Car Company arrived here yesterday
from New York for the purpose of making
arrangements for the new dining-car ser
vice about to be introduced by the Southern
Pacific Company on the line between
TrucEee and Ogden. This arrangement VIII
be effected not later than December 1oth.
Traffic Manager White of the Atlantic ana
Pacific has telegraphed General Agent Bis
sell of this city that hereafter the passenger
agency in this city will observe the recent
order of the Southern Pacific Company pro-
hibiting agents to sell tickets over lines
other than those represented by the agents
making the sale.
The Transcontinental Association is now
in session at (1nIPaoO. and If OF pllp
most important sessions ever held. Yet
none of the local agents have received
any word of what is being done, and no
press dispatches from Chicago give any ac-
count If the meeting.
Work on the line from Knights Landing
to Marysville has been completed with the
exception of ballasting. The line will be In
operation within two months, and 800 men
are employed on the reconstruction work at
Cow Creek Canyon, Oregon.
The Atchison has issued orders that freight
for Northern California points be shipped
hereafter from Denver via the Colorado
Midland and Ogden. This relieves i. OF
heavy strain On its great middle route.
w. b. Davenport of the Denver and Rio
Grande is in the city, and it is said that he
came for the purpose Of opening an office In
the interest of the aforementioned line.
Now again denial has been made that
the California and Nevada road Will be
changed to a broad-gauge line. Surveys on
this route have been extended to Walnut
Creek.
California on Wheels" arrived at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, yesterday. The exhibit will
reach this city in about two months.
James Patterson, Freight and Passenger
Agent Of the Northwestern at Los Angeles,
is here.
II. Il. Stern. Passenger and Freight Agent
of the Atlantic and Pacific, came up from
San Jose yesterday.
James Reed, General Travelling Agent of
the Union Pacific, is here from Chicago.
ii. III. Francisco. Agent Of the Atlantic
and Pacific at Tulare. is In the city.