The morning call., 1894-03-17
A BIG CONTRACT.
Southern PaCifiC'S Coal
Supply.
1t Involves the Building of a New
RaiIroad-Heavy Travel
Last Month.

An important contract was recently en-
tered into by the San Carlos Coal Com
pauy of Pittsburg and the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company. by he terms of which
the former. owning extensive coal lands in
Texas. is to furnish the railway company
with $4,000 tons annually. 3l5 tons per
day. The transaction also embraces the
building OF a railroad twenty-six miles in
length, at a cost OF $500, 600. The prop
erty on which the company is now operat-
ing consists of 1880 acres of land in Pre-
sido County, Tex, acquired by purchase
in fee from the State of Texas, all of
which is undertake with coal. and 1920
acres held by the company under a lease
from private owners in fee for the term OF
thirty years from May 16. 1892. In addi-
ton TO this the company has a lease for
twenty-five years on 2.OG0 0O0 acres # land
situate in the district of lturbide, Repub-
lie of Mexico, on the Rio Grande River.
Prospecting has been carried on in the
Mexican property sufficiently TO determine
that it contains bed of coal about fifty
miles in length and from ten to fifteen
miles in width. The vein is forty-one
inches thick and of good quality and
semi-o ituminous in character. 1t is said
that at the mines now open the San Carlos
Company can get 81 90 per ton for coal on
the car, and the profit will be about 81 per
ton.
The arrivals and departures by the
Southern Paciic's overland trains last
month we're as follows:
LIST Class I'd Glass. Total.
Nasswara i..2S57 B $3.50 s9ss
Totals. 1874 4.70e 1888
In February of 1893 the arrivals were
$685. and the departures eastward were
&c L..
month was 1871.
Members of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors of America are working earnestly
in behalf of the bill introduced In the Sem
ate last week by Senator Wilson of Iowa,
which Is intended 10 deprive the ticket
scalper of his occupation. The bill is
being pushed exclusively by the organiZa-
tion named. of which E. E. Clarke OF
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the grand chief
conductor. 1t will undoubtedly receive
favorable consideration by the Senate and
House of Representatives, and will roba-
bly, become law in the near future. The
conductors claim that the practice of
of many good members of their or
eaniZation. At a meeting held some
months ago they denounced the whole
business and resolved TO use their
influence to secure the passage Of the bill
in question. The bill provides for an
w tDO CUliibcICc dCt
so as to require railroads to supply all
their ticket agents with certificate of
appointment, which is to be EXPOSED to
public view. All tickets sold must have
the name Of the agent and the date
stamped on them. 1t is made unlawful
for any one to sell tickets of road from
which he does not hold such cert ficate.
The pen atty is fine of 5000. Railroads
are required to redeem unused tickets at
the principal Offices or any ticket Office for
the price paid, less the schedule fare for
the portion used, If presented within
ninety days after purchase.
used ticket otherwise than Is indicated is
made violation OF the act. Railroads
which place tickets in the hands of un-
authorized agents are made liable TO a fine
| of $4,000.