El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-12

Inc greatest Ieat OF sanitary eng
neering in the world, the canal 160 feet
wide and twenty-eight miles long
from the south branch of the Chicago
river to Lockport on the Desplaines,
will be completed this year. Expen.
ditures, damages, the building OF
swinging bridges for railroads and
highways, the requirement OF right OF
way, and unexpected litlgatlOns Will
bring the cost up to nearly thirty-one
millions of dollars.
Messrs. Hogg and Robertson, attor-
neys for the Southern Pacific lines.
have paid into court at Austin 1000
in settlement of the fifty compromised
rebate suits instituted against the COM
papy by the state. The suits which were
| thus compromised on payment OF the
! lowest penalty for violations of the
railroad commission law were instltut-
ed for $4,000 penalty in each case, so
| that the compromise is a big advau-
| tage to the railroad.
The Gulf road ran a special train
from Colorado Springs to Denver in
| record breaking time in order to bring
up the railroad men of Colorado
| Springs to see the parade OF the Silver
Serpent. The total distance was
covered in two hours and fifteen min
| utes. From the top OF the divide
down the train ran for some dis ance
| at the rate of sixty -five miles en- hour.
Railroad men claim that, the climb
over the divide considered, it was the
| fastest run ever made in Colorado for
the distance.
1t is stated that sixty locomotives and
crews from the Southern Pacific S
southern route have been transferred
| to the Central Pacific and will be scat
| tered along the road between Sacra-
mentO and Ogden. The change Is
caused by the big business that is be-
| ing done and the closing of the south
ern route on account of quarantine at
| New Orleans. The Utah freights are
still coming via Galveston. The chang
| viii be of great help to Ogden, as 1t
| will greatly increase train crews and
shop forces on both the Union and
Southern Pacific.
All of the division superintendent
of the Santa Fe railway proper are now
| in Topeka working on the new winter
| time card, which will go into effect on
October 20. On that date, the Califor-
MIA limited trains running between
Chicago and Los Angeles semi weekly,
| Will be re-es tablishad, and this necessi-
| tates considerable work on the main
| line card. But few changes will be
mads in the running time OF the trains
| IN ana out OF Topeka aIGSr y dHudTy
| /, the California limited trains will run
| tri-weskly instead of semi-weekly. The
heaviest travel to California is after
| the Christmas holidays.
Report is published in Los Angeles,
California, to the effect that the nego-
| .iations between the Vanderbilt rail-
| road system and the Los Angeles Ter
miual railroad Tor an extension of the
formers railroad from Utah to San
Pedro harbor, California, have been
settled, and the route selected in a
lsouthwesterIy direction from Milford,
| through the southern portion of New
| ada, passing through Las Vegas Valley,
across the Moi ave desert, crossing the
Atlantic 81 Pacific few miles from
Ludlow, thence to MOrengO Pass,
thence from San GeOrgeonlo Pass to
Redlands and Riverside to Chino, to
Los Angeles and San Pedro Bay. The
building of this road has been talked OF
In Los Angeles for years past. The
line has been surveyed and is said to De
through a country rich in minerals,
iron and coal. The people of Los An
geles and Southern California have
waited patiently, and sometimes it
may be said hopelessly, for the build
ing of this road. With the improve
ment of the San Pedro harbOr it now
appears that their hopes will be realiz-
ed Elk