San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-16
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
INSPECTION TOUR WILL
END NEXT WEEK.
Bright Budget of Railroad News
Gathered From Various Sources by
the Rumpler and Prepared for the
Light.

| The inspection party OF the
Southern Pacific was in Cuero yes
terday and arrived in Houston
last night. The party leaves
Houston for the east today, and
according to superintendent Van
Weeks calculations expects to ar
rive at New Orleans next Monday.
ROadmaSter A. p. Blue, who
started with the party from FL
PasO, went as far east as Houston,
and then returned to San An
tonic. He states that the general
manager ana general superinten-
dent are highly pleased with the
condition of the road. Mr.. Blue has
Just completed beautiful design
at FlatOnia, which was highly
commented upon by the officials.
1t is a fine piece Of work, and is To-
Gated on an incline alongside the
track. The design represents a
railway track, with the rising sun
on one end. the noon sun in the
center, and the setting sun on the
other end. Mr.. Blue has completed
a number of similar designs, and
is an artist in that line. The one at
FlatOnia is said to be one of his
best efforts.
BETWEEN STATIONS.
The fast mail service will begin
on September |.
w. V. Futrell & Co. received one
car load of bulk wheat from North
Texas yesterday.
Elmer Marshall, clerk in the
Sunset freight office, has gone to
Houston to spend short vacation.
Homer Eads, of the Iron Noun
tain, has returned from trip over
the state and says business gen.
orally seems to be good.
One car load of oil was shipped
to Maria by the Waters-Pierce Oil
company over the Southern Pacific
yesterday.
l.. HOuseman, the popular rail
readers tailor, will be in the city
from Houston this week to take
several of the boys measures.
G. c. King, conductor on the
Houston division, left for Chicago
today on a visit to the Worlds
fair.
Four car loads of potatoes and
cabbage, which have been refused,
were sold at a bargain on the
Southern Pacific track yesterday
morning. The road just cleared
the freight charges on the sales.
A meeting was recently held at
StOckdale, Tex, at which COM
mittee was appointed to see what
inducements the people would Of
fer to secure a railroad to that
plack. The committee reported that
$4,000 as a bonus will be given to
any corporation that WIFI establish
a depot within One-half a mile of
Stockdale.
The first shipment of new cotton
this season out of San Antonio
over the Southern Pacific was
made yesterday. Three hundred
and fifty bales were shipped from
Lange's mill to Boston, Mass.
IT. Brown & Co. received one
carload of fine Jersey and Durham
cattle from Kentucky over the
Southern Pacific yesterday.
Staacke Bros. received three car
loads of buggies over the Southern
Pacific from Ohio yesterday and
shipped large number of vehicles,
weighing 5000 pounds, toall parts
Of the state over the same road
yesterday.
The Trinity and Sabine branch
Of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
system has cut down it's labor force
to only two men and boss to the
section at COlmesneil, laying off
the work train till further notice.
The st. Louis-Southwestern shops
at Pine Bluff, Ark, are shut down
indefinitely, throwing out abou 300
machinists. The company is en-
deavoring to save expenses. The
property is guarded by deputy
sheriffs, as trouble is expected.
w. F. Jones, the contracting
freight agent for the Santa Fee, ex-
poets the arrival of his family
from Little Rock, Ark, this week,
to locate here for the future.
The Santa Fe will, in the next
few days, enlarge it's local freight
and live stock office, just west OF
Commerce street bridge.
J. l.. Boyle, auditor of the Vic
toria division Of the Sap, spent
Sunday in the Alamo city. His
family was with him.