San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-02
MAY ISSUE THE BONDS.
THE GULF SHORE HAS THINGS COM
ING ITS WAY.
The Railway Commission Author
ICES the Issuance of Bonds for
Many Good Reasons Other
Railroad News.

rapidly, and that the road will bt
completed is an assured fact. The
Texas Railway commission has
granted the company authority to
issue bonds to be secured by lien
on the road franchises and other
| property of the company. In its
order the commission states that
"the railroad company is acting in
good faith; that it has acquired
the right of way for a distance of
forty miles from its initial point
at the City of San Antonio, Texas
that it has completed twenty miles
of the grading; that it has acquir-
ed grounds for depot buildings,
shops, yards and other terminal
facilities, including right OF way
through said City of San Antonio
that it has surveyed and definitely
located forty miles of it's said line
of railroad that it has had pre-
limlnary survey made Of eighty
six miles of it's said line of railroad ;
that 100000 of the capital stock
has been subscribed and 5 per cent
of said amount paid to said COM
pany; that the value of the property
acquired and received by said
company is estimated at $3.50, 900,
and that its contract for construc-
tion is reasonable and fair to the
public, and it further appearing to
this commission that the probable
cost of construction of depots and
other buildings and rolling stock
and other appurtenances necessary
to its operation will be $4,000 per
mile of railroad, it is considered
and ordered by the railroad COM
mission of Texas, said San Antonio
and Gulf Shore Railroad company
is hereby authorized to issue its
bonds to be secured by mortgage
or other lien on its railroad, fran
chises and other property appur-
tenant and belonging thereto in an
amount not to exceed $4,000 per
mile of its railroad"
PUFFs FROM THE ENGINE.
Fireman Eugene Noessel, of the
Sap, is taking a ten-days' lay.otf.
Switch engine No. Is is in the
Sap shops for repairs and No Is is
doing her work.
Fireman Pete Buell., OF the Sap
is laying off and is being relieved
by Johnny Murphy.
Henry Koepke, of the Sap, is on
the sick list and John Conlon is
working for him.
Yesterday was pay day in the
general offices Of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass.
The Southern Pacific pay car will
be here tonight and the boys will
be paid off tomorrow.
Dave Burns. freight engineer at
YOakum, is in the city, accom-
panied by his wife.
Henry SteinbOemer, clerk in Su-
! perintendent Butchers office, has
returned from trip to Weimar.
Passenger coach No. 30 was turn
ed out of the Sap shops yesterday
and placed on the Alice branch.
H. II. Clare, livestock agent of
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
is in the city from Beeville.
| No rain reported along the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass last
night.
w. J. Taylor, general baggage
agent of the l. & G. n, headquar
tiers at Palestine, is in the city.
| J. B. Crocker has been appointed
agent at Winchester station, OIL
the Sap, to succeed r. McBain.
Yesterday was the commence
ment of the cotton year on the diff
ferent railroads in Texas.
w. F. Conner, southwestern pas
senger agent of the Wabash route
headquarters at Dallas, is in town
Passenger engine No. s, now il
the Sap shops for a new drivin
wheel, will be out in day or two
An insurance agent visited tn
, Sap depot yesterday and numbe
r of the boys subscribed to acciden
3 policies.
, Tom Simmons, switchman o
the Sap, who recently had a tinge
3 mashed while making coupling
resumed work yesterday.
Engine No. 10, just out of tn
= Sap shops, made her first trip
!, Kerrville yesterday morning on
mixed run.
A number of cars were deraile
on the Sap several miles south {
: here last Tuesday, but no particr
q lar can be obtained,