El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-25

from DOX cars IN Tue rdliTOdu yaruS ID
Galveston several nights ago by the
police. Twenty of them were given
hours aud escorted out of town and the
others were discharged.
The Southern Pacific is handling
an immense freight traffic. The Tue
son Star reports that 100 new Employees
were added to it's train force last
month. Many freight tra'n are with
out cabooses, their crews being COM
PEELED to use box cars in line of the
same.
The annual meeting of the Texas
and Pacific Railway company has just
been held in New York. The annual
report showed an increase in gross
earnings of 1853, 5O4, and in net earn
ings an increase of 1902, 974. The compa
ny closed it's fiscal year entirely free
from floating debt.
If direct promotion results, Cen
eral Pa seneer Agent W. j. Black
will succeed Mr.. White. The general
officials of The Santa Fee have plenty of
faith in Mr.. Blacks ability. and it
m be that he will be called upon to
take a step higher in the official
service Of the road.
Grand Junction dispatch says-The
Rio Grsnde yard force here has been
in hurriedly preparing 200 coal cars
lrased by the Rio Grande to haul coal.
It is understood that these cars would
be used especially for transportation
of coal for the government in case OF
war.
An improvement is under way in the
Santa Fee shops at Temple, Texas,
whereby the management expects to
economic considt rably. 1t is the
construction Of system of water works
where the water used in washing en-
eiDes and from engine tanks l. carried
to cistern, and from there filtered
back into the main reservoir, to be
used over again.
The following reports of gross earn
ings for the first week of March, as
com pared with the corresponding pc
Rod or last vear are announced: Tex
as Pacific, $l34, 439, an increase of $685.
597: Missouri Pacific, 1852, 900, an in
crease of $50 OOO; Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf S62, 155 an increase OF
S31 ,6S4: In ernRtiopal and Great North
ern, S67, SOB, an increase of S154o.
The Louisville and Nashville rail-
road will shortly restore the wages Of
the employees to the scale il effect in
1898 This involves an extra outlay of
rot less than $780, per annum, but
DQS increased 0BfulngS tgi Uut Cptu JdDy
for several months past jpstifies the
management in taking this course.
The present volume of business and
the future outlook speak well for i'm
proved general conditions in the south
and southeast.
The Pecos & Northern Texas Rail
way company has filed its charter with
the secretary of state. Capital stock
$1,000 600. Line of operation, from
poiut of Farmer county at the state
line, near the southeast corner OF said
county, to point on the railroad
IF the Fort Worth & Denver City
Potter county, passing through Farmer,
Castro, Deaf Smith. Randall and
Potter counties. Principal place of
business Amarillo"
Inasmuch as the new Union Pacific
bonds will bee come active on the
market this week, it will be OF inter-
est to know exactly what they cover.
According to the statement m .de by
the New York Stock Exchange, when
list ing privileges were requested by
the reorganization committee, the total
issue is to be S1On 100000. Of which
$40. OO0, O0Ois intended, upon the final
winding up of the reorganization, to
partly replenish the company's
treasury and partly for new construc
ton aud Improvements in the proper
ty.
mo one has any idea of the ruinous
passenger rates now in effect in the
west The slashing is worse in the
traffic to Colorado and the Pacific
coast" says Lake Shore and Michi-
pan Southern official. ''tor instance
YOU can go from Kansas G tv to Pue-
bio, Col, for 35 cents; and from Kan
sss City to Denver between 600 and
700 miles, for SO cents Something
like $500 or SO Isl don't remember the
exact amount, will take passenger
1000 miles, tn Portland, Ore The rate
war has already begun to spread east
ward. The traffic business in the
west is today worse than it has ever
BEEN"