Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-11
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G. E. Maurice, general agent at Seymour
of the Wichita Valley, was In the city yes
terday.
w. H. Masters, general freight agent of
the Santa F'e Of Galveston, left last night
for home.
w. H. Cogswell travelling freight agent
of the Santa Fe at Dallas, left for home
yesterday.
Bryan Snyder, travelling freight agent of
the Santa F'e at San Antonio, went homo
last evening.
Maj. Lewis, livestock agent Of the Santa
Fe, went to San Antonio last night, his
headquarters.
]. M. Steere assistant general freight
agent of the Santa Fee at Dallas, departed
last evening for home.
S. K. Billiard, superintendent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas telegraph lines,
is in the city to see the crowd.
@. P. Rector, general passenger agent of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas at Par
sons, left for home yesterday.
Traffic Manager Dodge of the Missouri
Kansas and Texas, returned to headquar-
tiers at st. Louis Tuesday from Texas.
Every berth, upper and lower, was en-
gagged on all outgoing trains last night, and
not moro than half the demand was sup
piled.
W. n. H Llewelyn, livestock agent of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe for Arizona
and New Mexico, left for Topeka last
night.
The gross earnings Of the Chicago and
Erie railroad for January, 1892, were $685.
Csc OF; January, 1891, SIS, SIS. Sc; increase,
$40, lS0.l6.
THE Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe has
Just decided to purchase 1872 cars and
thirty engines. When they are received
the system will have total equipment of
Al, 426 cars.
Messrs. Deuel., Tuhey, Manchester and
Canada, who came in on a special from
Denver 10 attend the cattlemen's conven-
ton, departed last evening for their respect
i've headquarters.
The appeal case against the Burlington
for holding Council Bluffs train for the
accommodation of theatrical troupe north
bound from Kansas City will come up
before the arbitrators in Chicago, March 10.
The Richmond Terminal rival reorganiza-
ton committees have come together and
will form a syndicate, with S20,00O, 900, to
carry out their plans. 1t is believed that
under their present plans reorganization
will soon be completed 81
The Chesapeake and Ohio proposes to
double-track its system, and have filed
general mortgage for $40, 600 600 to the Cen
tral trust company Of New York to secure |
the payment of bonds to that amount,
which the company has just placed.
The gross earnings of the New York Cen |
trial aad Hudson River railroad and the |
leased lines for February, 1892, were 49,
sos, ALSO; 1891, 81, 49,, e95.TS; increase, |
S1T2, 4l9.o2, The figures for 1892 include |
1927, lsO.6l earnings of the Rome, Water
town and Ogdensburg railroad.
At the meeting of the commissioners of |
the Western traffic associations to be held /
March 22 the following subjects are sched- |
uled among others for considerations: |
Proposed readjustment Of lumber rates |
from Nashville to Colorado common points, |
salt in the car load from ST. Mary's, Kan,
to Kansas City.
The eleventh annual report of the Mis-
souri, Pacific and Iron Mountain companies
for the year ending December 81, 1891,
states that the average mileage of all lines |
operated during the year was 53S2. 6-l0 |
miles, an increase of 1881 miles over the
previous year The mileage of lines on
December 81, 1891, was 52Ss. IS.
The Trans Missouri passenger association
meets at Hot Springs, Ark, on April 10, |
aud the Western passenger association on
May 3. An effort is already being made to
bring the dates Of the two meetings closer
as number of the passenger men
are members of both associations, and this
will give them an excellent opportunity for
3 long stay at the famous resort.
DR.. II. C. Linn, one of the stockholders of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa re railway,
Is In Washington for the purpose of secur-
Ing charter for the Gulf, Kansas and Da-
kota railroad. The line is TO start at Bis
narck. S. d., thence to go south through
Kansas and the Indian Territory to Browns-I
vile, Tex, with numerous branches to cal
weston and other points in Texas. The sin,% "
corporators are Geo. l. Epps. +. c. QaiaeFI
son and a. c. Linn of Kansas, and VIC.
Nal and George f. Alferd of Fort Worth, =
Tex
The Railroad World says: Many OF the
theorists who declaim most violently
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