Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-22
sMOIlE CONSrNIERs.

j. ID. Read, assistant city passenger
aud ticket agent of the Santa Fe. yes
terday resigned his position to take SER
vice elsewhere. Mr.. Read has been q
faithful worker AMI has acquitted him-
self of the duties doyOlying upon him in
a manner entirely satisfactory To the
company. He will have the best wishes
of the railroad men for his success in Lis
new Held.
w. A. Lee, travelling auditor of the
Cotton Belt is in the city.
J. H. White. division superintendent
of the Cotton Belt was in the city yes
terday
1t was reported yesterday that the
extension of the Fort Worth and Rio
Gunde from Brentwood to Sponord
Junction had been decided upon and that
work would soon begin, but 40 definite
Information could be obtained regarding
the report.
II. H. Nyc stock claim agent of the
Denver Went MP tie line yesterday on
q claim settling expedition.
Col. Morgan Jones, president of the
Fort Worth and Denver left for the
north last night
w. A. Ross, auditor of the Fort Worth
ana Denver, went over TO Dallas yester-
day.
The Texas and Pacific railway viii
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depot aud will ship all It's stock to the
new Union stochyHrds.
George Dice. general agent of the New
England Cattle Car company, Is Ia the
city.
). X, Fly, commercial agent of the
Missouri, Kansas aud Texas, came In
from Houston yesterday. He says it
can rain harder in that city than in any
place hc knows oi,
Fred Jones, travelling passenger agent
OF the Cotton Belt, went ont ON trip
yesterday
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
| has purchased the entire plant aud roll
ing stock of the Ruritun River railroad.
Officials of the Northern PaGdc rail
road company are discussing scheme
| for the adjustment of the floating debt
| of the company by the issue Of collateral
| trust notes such as were issued by the
| Union Pacific railway,
At meeting of the ST Louis General
| Passenger Agents association it was
| unanimously resolved that for the pro-
! lection of ~, Louis during the Worlds
| fair, the basis of passenger rates 10 and
from st, Louis should bee the same
as 20 and from Chicago.
The contractors will commence next
| week ON the extensions Of the Toledo
| Columbus and Cincinnati into Columbus
lhe CONSOLIDATION al the Baltimore ant
Ohio and the Ohio aud Mississippi Is
fast coming 10 q successful issue. m,
Baltimore aud Ohio proper Is the prig
cipal hacker of the whole scheme. IN,
Ohio and Mississippi win get little IN,
hest of the deal. but In reality the Balti
more aud Ohio IL the chief gainer. a,
IL gets full control or good line from
the eastern seaboard 10, ST. Louis
Messrs George Gould and Alexande
r. Orr have been elected directors, %
the Utah Northern and Oregon Shor
Line Railway company TO hll vacancie
caused BY the deaths of Jay Gould an,
Sidney Dillon,
Francis H. Bohlen OF Philadelphia ha
been appointed master 10 take testmonl
in the suit brought by the Southern Cen
tral Railroad company against the I.ehigl
Valley and Philadelphia ald Reading
Railroad companies aud the pennsyl
yania and New York Canal and Railroa,
company.
At q meeting Of representatives O
tho Ohio and Pittsburg railroad
yesterday, the coal rate 20 lake point
was Increased 8 cents ton.