El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-26

| The Chicago & Alton have announced
in a circular that the new Sunset ser
vice to the Pacific coast is such a sue
cess tina. it will be made permanea1
hereafter.
The railroads are now making NOR ey.
| The Rock Island is said to have $1,000,
600 loaned out in the east. The Bur
| l;neton and the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST Paul are also lOaning about as
much. The New York Central is also a
heavy money lOaner.
There is, and has been for the past
day or so, we'll defined rumor on the
streets that the Rock Island railros d
hiss taken hold of the Ell Paso North
eastern and the .Pecos Valley and North
eastern railroad projects and will push
them to al early completion. This
means the exteniion OF the Rock Island
from Liberal, Kan to Roswell, via
Aramillo, thence of Fort Stanton and
on to Eli Paso by way of Mescalero, Tu-
larosa and La Luz. We say that this
is rumor aud it looks plausi 5le.-Ros-
we'll Register.
The business of the Texas & Pacific
has not been as heavy since the road
began opera ions many years ago as it
is now. The train dispatchers' force of
the Rio Graude division, which was
abolished in 1896, has been reestab-
lished with a full force of operators,
who have been removed from Big
Springs 10 Fort Worth Within the pa ST
y eek the Texas & Pacific ras ircreas-
ed the train crews until there are now
sixteen crews on the Western division
rhe yellow fever quarantine having
been raised through lrAin service to
New Orle ans has been resumed.
Ady.c5S have rea he'd San AntCniO
that the railroad contractors VINO are
Dui lding the Mexican Central branch
from j lmenez, 10 the main line, 300 miles
south of the RiO Grande river, 10 Parral.
d large producing mining camp in the
sou ,herp portion Of he state of CnIhua-
nua, Mex, are rushing Things along,
and expect TO turn 1t over to the COM
pany ready for operation by July, 1898.
The branch Will be sixty miles 10
length and when completed Will prove
boon to that part Of The country, and
especially to Jne poor miners, who
have been holding on to their lower
grade ore Propositions for years, some
Of them expecting railroad to be
built into The camp. Now that the
railroad is an assured fact, there is al
ready talk of a smelter being put up at
Jlmenez or Parrel, aud in Consequence
properly of all kids has advanced
lully % per cent in value in the past
few months.
There is no question that the cheaper
slt epipg car mu. t soon be u fact. Tney
amount to about % per cent of the rail-
road fare, and IN many cases they are
more. The same is true of the chair
cars. There are exceptions to The rule of
course, but they are few 10 comparison
with the heavy rates over most of tie
railroads, says Leslie's Weekly. While
travelling, the pa>sense r Is pay ing for a
seat and ad0iog % per cel At to mis- fare
in order to get other accOmmOO ations:
the total is TOO large. Toe companies
would lose nothing by reducing the
prices. They would have more patrons,
and in the end The returns would be
Increased sn1 their patrons would
have kindlier feel fOr.lhe corporations.
The enormous income of the sleeping
car magnates shows very indi> putaoly
that the reduct on saOuld be mad. AS
it has been, the company L as been
growing wealthy beyond the dreams of
q war ice, while toe railroad companies
" hO have been hauling the cars have
grown poorer.