The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-25
THE BOOM IN RAILROADS.

THE BOOM IN RAILROADS.
There is no better test of the business
of the country than the condition of the
railroads. 1t is by them that it is done
in transporting manufactures and pro.
ducts from one part of the country tc
the other. Just now the various rail
roads are placing orders for engines
and cars that they may be able to han
die their business. They are not doing
this as venture but on a certainty
We give a list of some orders that
have been placed, they being taken
from the New York Commercial Adj
vertiser of the 18th inst, paper that
no one will accuse of having any Dem
ocratic proclivities or any desire to
give the credit for the return of pros
perity ITO the Democratic party. The
contracts for these engines and cars
were let within the last month or six
weeks:
The Houston & Texas Central rail-
road company has placed an order for
nine locomotives with the Schenectady
Locomotive works.
The Junction railroad company has
placed an order with the Pittsburg
Locomotive and Car works, of Pitts
burg, Pa, for two heavy road engines.
The company has also ordered two i'm
mense eighty-ton freight engines.
The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
railroad company has ordered six
heavy locomotives, and, it is said, is in
the market for some thirty-ton coal
cars.
The Pittsburg Locomotive works, of
Allegheny, Pa, have received an order
from the Lake Shore railroad for ten
ten-wheel road locomotives.
The Rhode Island Locomotive works,
of Providence, r. l., are building five
locomotives for the Boston & Maine
railroad company and six for the New
England railroad company.
The Brooks Locomotive works, of
Dunkirk. N. Y, are building ten loco
motives for the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern railroad com
pany.
The Richmond Locomotive works
have an order from the Southern rail-
way for eight locomotives, and from
the Augusta Southern company for
two
The Burlington is building twenty
seven mogul engines at its shops. They
will cost about $780, 900.
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
railroad company has placed an order
with the Richmond Locomotive works,
Of Richmond, Va, for one engine.
The Baltimore e. Ohio railroad com
pany IS rebuilding at its various shops
forty-f1ve locomotives, which have been
partially disabled for some time, but
a re worth rab11ifdiup
H. K. Porter & Co, of Pittsburg,
are going extensively into the construc-
ton of motors and locomotives operat-
ed by compressed air.
The Schenectady Locomotive works
have orders for three locomotives for
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad
1t is understood that the
company will soon order ten more
locomotives.
The Florida Central G Peninsular
railroad company has ordered three
eig'htwheel locomotives from the
Rogers Locomotive works, of Paterson,
n. j.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
company has ordered four locomotives
from the Brooks Locomotive works, of
Dunkirk, n. Y, and the Mexican Cen
trail railroad company has ordered five
locomotives from the same concern.
The Siemens-Halske Electric com
oany, which recently bought the plant
IF the Grant Locomotive works, of Pat
erson, N. J., is building the twenty
our locomotives which We're In con-
struction when the Grant works failed.
The Baldwin Locomotive works, Of
Philadelphia, have orders for three
locomotives from the Guatemala Gem
raj railway company, one from the |
CENTRAL Railway Company of Georgia |
IND two from the Mobile & Birmine |
lam railroad company.
The Buffalo &S Susquehanna railroad |
company has in use seven locomotives |
# the Shay type, manufactured by |
he Lima Locomotive and Machine |
company, and has placed orders for
wo more.
The Illinois Central railroad company
laS given an order for thirty engines |
Wenty-four of which are moguis, two
uburban and four switchers. The
Rogers Locomotive company, of Pat
rson. n. j., will supply ten mogul and
wo suburban, and the Brooks Locomo-
i've works fourteen Tnoguls and four
w1tchers. The company will soon or
er twenty additional locomotives.
The Richmond Locomotive works are
uildiug five consolidation compound
locomotives for the Chesapeake & Ohio
duIOdQ company
The Baldwin Locomotive works, of
have sold altogether sew
nty-three American style locomotives
0 japanese railways. During the re-
ent war with China the American To-
omotfves in use in Japan proved SUI
erlor to those received from other
ountries. While the troops and mu-
ttions of war were being sent to the
nont, it is said, the American locomo-
ives were always used in heavy work
yer the mountains in preference to
theirs.
The Calumet & Blue Island railroad
has just ordered from the
'nited States Car company 200 box
ars to be used in coke traffic. 1t is
aported that the company will soon
lace orders for $50 more cars.
The Michigan-Penins Car com
any, Of Detroit, Mich, is to build 600
bal cars for the Cleveland, Lorain &
Wheeling railroad company. The com
any viii order altogether about $50
ars of this type. T.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
'orthern railroad company has placed
n order for 100 box cars with the
1ells and French company. of Chi
ago, Ill. +
The Ohio Falls Car. Manufacturing +