San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-11
RAILROAD NEWS.

The Arkansas Pass railroad is daily
handling from ten TO twenty car loads or
| sand from the Calaveras sand pits. All Of
this sand, and more, is consumed in NOR
tar and cement for San Antonio improve
ments, public and private.
Five car loads of machinery for Braden
4 Son have arrived from Vermont, over
the l. & &. n. These five car loads COM
pose part of a great rock saving plant,
which the firm will erect and put to work
in their soft rock Quarries at Van Raub,
this labor at present being performed by
hand.
The waShout on the Southern Pacific,
at tombstone Siding, caused by the water
spout on Wednesday morning, and by
| which the east-bOund morning passenger
train was ditched, was not repaired until
late today, and traffic of all kinds sus-
tanned a complete interruption. The
weSt-bound passenger train, which left
here at 4:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
turned around and came back east on
| reaching Spofford Junction, and went to
Houston on time this morning.
The Houston division of the Southern
Pacific, lying between San Antonio and
Houston, has loaded % ,S24 bales of the
| tieecy staple for market since the opening
of the season.
Material for the long delayed new Of
ceS and store house for the Southern Pa
cific machine shops, has been received
and deposited on the site and work will
shortly commence.
Draughtsman Schilling, of the South
ern Pacific machine shops. is engaged on
model for huge deep well pump for
the road which will be taken out west for
use in the deep wells in tAat region.
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railway is still arriving. Several cars of
steel rails were brought in over the In
ternational and Great Northern yeSter-
day.
Receiver Mcnamara, of the Arkansas
Pass, speaks very tlatteringly of the bust
ness of the road. During the last month
the passenger traffic exceeded that of any
other San Antonio line. Up to the Sth of
this month the road had handled 17,207
bales of cotton.
The rate made by the International and
Great Northern railroad for the San An
tonic Fair. is announced at one fare for
the round trip, with a maximum of s.,
the sale of tickets to commence Septem-
Der % and continue up to October IL, and
made good for return until October 18th.
The tickets sold on the last two days will
be restricted to points within 100 miles of
San Antonio.
A great many people are going to Rock
port from all parts of the country to attend
the great auction sale of lots in that COM
ing deep water city. The Arkansas Pass
train was yesterday delayed for half an
hour to receive from the delayed |. & G..
n. train party of northern capitalists,
who were on their way down to attend the
sales. A number of San Antonio people
went down today.
Mr.. E. NJ WinStead, acting general
passenger agent of the Arkansas Pass, is
actively at work trying to secure the
most favorable rates possible for
the Fair, and with this object
in view has written TO every road in
Texas. The replies are not all in as yet
| out indicates that the Fair will be well
| favored by all the Texas roads except one,
the Houston and Texas Central, which
has Stingly granted a rate of four cents
| per mile for the round trip.