San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-08
RAILROAD LOCALITIES.

received the contract 10 build the
Two train loads of cattle were
loaded at Psarsall Saturday for the
Chicago market.
Roadmaster d, Sullivan, of the Mex
lean National, was in town vest erday,
calling on the boys.
The Texas Pacific, the Southern Pa
cific, and the Santa Fe roads have
made one fare rate for Asheville, n.
G., during the immigration conven-
December 14th and 18th, good to re-
turn December 25th.
The Lilly Clay company arrived
over the L. &. q. n. yesterday after
noon.
The Mexican Nationals earnings
for the first week in November were
S6S,660 and for the second week
SIS, 7SS.
The Mexican Central's earnings for
the second quarter of November
were $l45,4T 40 and for the third
quarter Sl36. 75s %.
The s. A. p. has made a one-rats
fare to Rockport December q, "a aud
%, for the ball at the Arkansas hotel
on Christmas eve.
The Big Four management are
anxious to buy the Indianapolis Car
company's works. III it secures the
new plant all of the cars for the road
will be built there.
The earnings of the Toledo, st.
Louis and Kansas City road in No
vember were $4S, $50, against $50, SIS
for the corresponding month last year,
an increase of Sl2 ,SS2.
road from Arkansas Pass to Rockport.
Work will begin Immediately on this
road which is twelve miles long and
is to be completes In six months.
1t Is stated that the management
Of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company will take charge
OF the Denison and Wichita Valley
road, now completed to Colgate. ]. r.
on January next.
AS result of the retrenchment
policy of the Pennsylvania company
the net earnings of the Western lines
i'm October exceeded those of the same
month last year by $49T 1854, the
largest net gain ever shown In one
month.
The I. and CT. n. passenger trains
were very irregular In their arrival
and departure yesterday. Owing to
this irregularity the HELD by the
Enemy" company came in on spec
ial in order to fill their engagement
here.
General Passenger Agent Mccoy, Of
the Plant Steamship Company, gives
notice that quarantine restrictions in
reference to passenger business be-
tween the United States and the West
Indies and South America are now
withdrawn.
NJ. +. Ingalls,, president of the Big
Four lines, and Grand Chief Sargent
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, have accepted the invitation
of the Official Railway and Conduc-
tors Accident Association to be pres
ent at the banquet on the evening OF
December 30.
The Pullman car works last week
shipped to austin Corbin, President
of the Long Island road, an elegant
new private car. 1t cost completes
$50, 900. It is splendidly equipped in
every particular, and has handsome
library, drawing room, dining room,
smoking room and bath room.
The quarantine which the smallpox
scare towns along the s. A. p. had
put against the world in general, has
been raised mostly by request of the
quarau timers themselves, and now
Yoakum is the only place that is still
shut off from the balance of the world.
A Buffalo special says the Canadian
Pacific will use the Niagara Central
to reach the Falls, and that the re-
Gently Incorporated River Bridge Com
pany will build a new bridge for the
road, thus making complete connec-
tions from New York to the Pacific by
way of Buffalo, st. Paul and Winni-
peg.
Manager Chappell, of the Alton,
Gays there is little prospect of Mr..
Gould or any one else getting West
ern rates appreciably higher than at
present, but if some arrangements can
be reached that will secure the main
tenance of the present tariff rates q
great deal will have been accomplish.
ed.