San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-07
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.

weeks.
The Southern Pacific has jus
completed five new trestle bridge
treated timber from their creosot,
works at Houston.
| Joe Mcmillan, of the Southern
Pacific local freight and passenger
department has gone to Orange
Texas, on business.
George Norcross has returned
from Galveston, where he had been
with his patent car-coupler, testing
it on the Santa Fe.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
announces that on June % it will
| put on the lowest rates ever offer
ed from Texas to points in Kansas
and Missouri.
General Passenger Agent G. P.
Atmore of the Ellen, is deliver
ing lectures through the south, adj
vising southern people to encour-
age immigration.
The trouble with the employees
of the Queen and Crescent has been
settled and the men will accept
the 10 per cent cut in salaries I'M
til business picks up.
Frank Riley, a popular conductor
of the Mexican International, rum
ming out of G. p. Diaz, Mex, is in
the city to spend few days. He
is stopping at the Maverick.
A. J. Taylor, general baggage
agent for the International and
Great Northern, arrived in San An
tonic from Palestine last night and
is quartered at the Maverick.
Owing to the decrease of freight
business on the Big Four, twenty
two of it's engines, all in first class
condition, have been white-leaded
and housed until business i'm
proves.
T. A. Kearns, travelling auditor
Of the international and Great
Northern arrived in the city yes
terday afternoon from trip south,
and left on the Inbound this
morning.
All reports of the progress of the
International and Great Southern
are favorable. Starr county will
give $4,000 worth of land, and
100000 is expected to he raised in
San Antonio.
j. P. Maloney, the popular and
efficient commercial freight agent
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
arrived in town from a trip to
North and Central Texas this
morning. He says the general out
look is fine.
II the matrimonial proceedings
keep up at the present rate the San
Antonio girls will have to hump
themselves if they want to catch a
railroad boy for hubby. They are
going fast and there are only a few
of them left.
General Manager Yoakum of the
Santa Fe says that if the present
condition is maintained, the Texas
cotton crop will approach 100000
bales this season. He says pros
poets were never better for cotton,
wheat and staple crops.
The fourth quarterly and annual
meeting Of the Texas Car Service
association will be held at Hous-
ton next Monday. The reports of
Manager Charles B. Peck and the
executive committee for the past
year will be read and there will be
an election Of officers.
Homer Eads, the genial COM
mercial freight agent for the Iron
Mountain and Missouri Pacific,
returned from a trip to Central
and North Texas this morning.
He reports crops looking better
than ever and says everybody is
entertaining great hopes for a |
prosperous year.
The Monterey and Mineral Belt,
the latest proposed railway at
Monterey, Mex, is to take in the
great smelters and a number of
mines in the Sierra Madre ranges.
The survey has already been be-
gun and the work Of constructing
the road will cost close on to $780, |
600 in gold.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass has decided to withdraw the
cheap rate to Kerrvillle next Sun
day on account of the Comfort ex-
cursion. The Sap expects to haul
800 people from San Antonio for
the event. A special train will
leave the local depot at s o'clock
Sunday morning.
C. NJ. McAmis, chief clerk for
Roadmaster Thomas, of the Inter-
national and Great Northern, has
gone tO Tvle. tn pat married He