The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-08-04
Railroad Notes.

Railroad Notes.
W. M. Davidson has been appointed
general passenger agent of the Plan
system of railroads, with headquarters
at Jacksonville, Fla.
The total earnings of the railroads ir
South Carolina for the.month of May il
published by the State railroad commits
sion as $5l3,34308 against 1854. 423 80 fol
the same month of 1891.
| Suit has been filed at West Point
Miss, against the Richmond and Dan
vile as lessee of the Georgia Pacific Rail
road for $73, 900 State and county taxes
for the years 1886 to 1892 inclusive
Southern Railroad Company has COM
menced operating the Camden and Alex
andria Railroad. a 32-mile line lately
purchased. w. T. Kelly is made super
intendent.
The Paris Marshall and Sabine Pass
Railroad was offered for sale by A. r.
Starr, special master in chancery. at
Marshall, Texas, but no bids were made
The court has fixed a minimum price of
$4,000 on the property.
The International and Great Northern
will become a Gould road by passing
from a receivership into the owners
hands. 1t is understood that T. NJ.
Campbell, the receiver. will be made
general manager under the reorganiza-
ton.
b. T. Yoakum Las been appointed
traffic manager of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass Railroad. Mr.. Yoakum
is capable official, and was, pre-
yious to the receivership, general mana
ger of that road and afterwards one of
the receivers.
T. W. Garrett has taken charge of the
Atlanta and Florida Railroad as receiver
and has appointed Robert F., Maddox,
Jr., treasurer; w. E. Algee, auditor; HI.
NJ. Cottingham, general freight and pas
senger agent, and j. H. HUMPHREYS,
master OF Trains.
One mile of the long tunnel being
built under the city of Baltimore for the
Baltimore Belt Railroad has been COM
pleted and 792 feet are yet to be built.
1t is thought that the greater part OF the
work. including open cuts, will be fin
ished by January, 1898.
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Judge Mccormick in the United States
Circuit Court at Dallas, has denied the
application Of s. Sands and others for a
receiver for the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio Railroad and vacated
the order restraining the Southern Pa
cific from voting it's majority of stock in
the road.
Governor Holt has re-appointed the
following as directors of the North Car
DINA Railway on the part of the State:
Aristead Burwell, John l.. Morehead,
Theodore +. Klutz, r. w. Thomas, NJ.
A. Angler, William H. Pace, and Robert
F. Hoke Armistead Jones, Esq, is reap
pointed State proxy.
There is probability that the pro
posed public sale of the Macon & Allan.
tic Railroad will be avoided and the
property taken out Of court. A private
sale is talked Of, and there appears to be
two probable bidders-the Macon, Dub
lin and Savannah Railroad Co., which
wants the Macon and Atlantic as link
in it's system, and the creditors of the
road.
President Ingalls, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, in a recent interview said that
the earnings ofthe Chesapeake and Ohio
were highly satisfactory. The road
earned over 100000 for the year ended
the last of June, OF which $4,000, 900 were
from the passenger department. The
company's work of, double tracking is
going on steadily, and before very long
the road will be double>tracke,i west of
Clifton Forge, Va, to the Ohio River. 4