The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-09
RAIL AND CRossTIE.

A force of hands passed through the city
yesterday on their way TO Engineer Thorp's
residency to work on the grading of the
South Bound railway.
The interstate commerce commission has
decided that there must be no discrimina-
ton between shippers of oil in tanks and
shippers of oil in barrels, and that the
charges upon like quantities, no matter
how carried, must be the same.
President Inman, of the West Point
Terminal company, says that there is abso-
lutely no truth in the reported scoop of the
Monon by the East Tennessee, though the
report that such a deal had been perfected
grew out or statement by an East Tenne-
see official.
If the East Tennessee, Virginia and Gergia
road succeeds in purchasing the minority
interest IN the Memphis and Charleston it
is said that number of small feeders will
be constructed. The chief feeder to be built
is the link in the Rome and Decatur rail
road between Attella and Decatur.
Gen. E. P. Alexander, receiver of the
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama rail
way, will offer the road, rolling stock and
all its franchises for sale at Griffin, Tuesday,
Nov. 4. This road is sixty miles in length,
| and runs through the counties of Spalding,
Fayette Coweta and Carrollton~ The road
is to be sold for not less than $500, 900,
celver at the time of the sale, and the
balance when the Spalding superior court
has confirmed the sale. The road runs from
| Griffin to Carr clifton.
The Locomotive Firemen'S Mdqnzine
estimates the membership of the various
| railway orders as follows Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, 10000; Brotherhood
| Of Locomotive Firemen, $4,000; Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, Is. 600; Switch
| ynar M,,A,,.. II n
| Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, 2, 0O0
OF these all but the first named are mem
bers of the Federation, thus giving that
body a membership of $4,000. The Order of
Railway Conductors, before the Rochester
| convention, estimated their membership at
| 10000.
Railroad earnings continue favorable, but
as was intimated some weeks ago, the pro-
| portlonate gain over last year is steadily
diminished, not because the earnings com
| pare unfavorably with the earnings of pre-
vious months, but because the earnings
showed very large increase at the begin
| ming OF fall last year. For the third week
| OF August the increase is only "a per cent
| on eighty Eight roads, while the fourth week
Of August hiss very incomplete returns, and
there appears Co be no gain whatever For
the month Of August the gain is only about
per cent. as far as reported. The returns
1 N'CS y.
Wal Street NeVs
Mr.. L. Schofeld of Chattanooga has in
vented tie of iron or steel of deep inverted
| trough section with horizontal fl4nges on the
| bottom edges. Each rail is fastened by two
clamps three. eighths inch by two and one
fourth inches, and fastened by two FIVE
| eighth inch bolts each. The tie is We feet
six inches long, one-fourth inch thick and
| weighs fifty pounds. 1t is estimated to
l ha Of nd ha
cents as old metal when worn ont 1t is
proposed to use about three of these ties to
| a thirty-foot rail, to be used on curves,
bridges and such places on railroad tracks
| as are dangerous from spreading of rails
They hold the rail very rigid and there is
| no possible chance for a track to spread
where they are used. These ties are in use
by the Lookout Mountain railroad, Lookout
| Mountain Incline railway, and the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad.
A piece of railroad tunneling of more
than common interest, it is said, is about to
be undertaken by the Colorado Midland
Railway Company. After leaving Lead
vile, which is at an elevation of Il, OPS feet,
| the road runs round the mountains dis
lance of twelve miles, reaching Busk at a
| hight of 10000 feet. From this point he
road zigzags up the face of the mountains
for a distance of five miles to reach point
| 500 feet above Busk. On this part of the
trip long lines of snow sheds are erected 10
protect the track, and in these drifted snow
| lies the year round. TIE old tunnel here
pierces the continental divide at an eleva-
ton of 11,52S feet, which is within thirty
feet of the hight Of the Alpine pass, on the
Union Pacific road, the highest in Colorado.
This tunnel is about 5000 feet long. The
section of the tunnel is fifteen feet wide and
twenty-one and half feet high. Work
was to have been commenced on Aug. 1,
and it is expected that twenty months will
be needed to finish the contract
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