The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-10
RAILROAD NOTES.
Short Paragraphs That Will he Of Interest
to the Railroad Boys.

/ 1t is reported in railroad circles
that several prominent Lehigh capital
lists and officials will get places in the
Readings board of managers, to be
elected next month.
/ Lehigh Valley earnings for Octo-
Der, just made public, show nice in
crease, while Jersey returns represent
decrease; the same showing is made
for the year thus far.
THE Schuylldn Haven car shop em-
ployees have had 119 cars condemed on
them and returned for repairing, the
stenciling not holding This is un-
fortunate, as the men must do their
work over again at their own cost.
/ The Reading Saturday morning
started to run Lehigh Valley coal trains
through to Port Richmond, by way of
the North Penn Railroad. Central
coal trains have been running to Port
Richmond for the past month. Ship
ments to that point are very heavy.
They have been SO large that the main
line through Reading and the Schuyl-
kill Valley has been overcrowded. The
trains that are made up at Packerton
consist of about forty-fiYe gondolas.
At Bethlehem the Lehigh Valley engine
takes about twenty of these and hauls
them to the port. The rest are dis
tributed along the line by the regular
Reading service. North Penn pilots
must board the Lehi9h Valley engines
to conduct the new trains to their des-
tination. The North PENIS coal
traffic has been enormously increased
since the Lehigh Valley and Central
trains are running down. For thirty
days the Central has sent 1000 tons a
day to Port Richmond. The Lehigh
Valley shipments are expected to be
about as heavy.
tThe c. r. r. of N. j., telegraphers
have asked for shorter hours, extra pay
for overtime, minimum salary OF $40
a month, promotions according to
merit and seniority, and hearing in
case of suspension or dismissal. The
company has agreed to all demands, eX-
cept shorter hours and pay for over
work.
! mortgage amounting TO 100000
was placed on record at the Carbon
County Court House Wednesday to Sc
cure the payment of the principal and
interest on bonds issued by the Tama-
qua, Hazleton and Northern Railroad
Company, owing lands in Schuylkill,
Luzerne and Carbon counties, to the
Pennsylvania Company for Insurance
on Liyes and Granting Annuities of
the city of Philadelphia, trustees.
I On Saturday night and Sunday last
the Philadelphia d Reading moved
sixty-ilv coal trains from the mines in
the Schuylkill region down their main
line TO tide.water. Each of the trains
averaged sixty gondola cars, or in all
1900. Each car carried an average of
twenty-elght tons, making total of
l09,2 200 tons, for each ton Of which the
company gets Sl90 main line tolls, OF
in all s2O7, ,4s0, which the purchaser
pays. In addition, there is a charge of
30 cents per ton for lateral tolls, or in
all s37, 200, which the operator pays.
The railroad, therefore, earned a grand
total for the days coal traffic of nearly
a quarter of a million of dollars
I tEAsToN, December 3.-The Central
Railroad of New Jerseys new iron
bridge across the Delaware river here
was tested this noon. IL is a double
track structure l,02O feet long. -Four
big WOoten engines, weighing about
eighty tons each, were used in the test
They moved slowly over the bridge
close together. The bridge was built
by the Phoenix Bridge Company. 1t
was formally accepted by the company
to-day. 1t contains seven spans, and
its erection was begun Sept. last
I IL is interesting to note the aston
ishing growth of the railway mileage
Of the United States from 1880, when
there we're less than 40 miles of rail
way, up 10 1880. In 1910 the figures
we're 2,755 miles, in 1850 they had risen
to S,571 miles, in 1860 the total had
swelled to 28,9l9 miles; the census of
1860 showed the mileage TO be 49l6s
miles; that of 1880 placed the figures
at S7,724 miles, while the eleventh cen
sus figures give l63,597 miles. Out of
total mileage for the world of 800, ,2sl
miles, the United States has 442s per
cent of the whole; and exceeds by 3,49e
the entire mileage of the Old World
as Europe's 1866 miles, Asia's 1878
miles and Africa's 1892 miles make an
aggregate of but 1869 miles.