Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-10-31

The voluntary relief department of the
| Burlington system is in a fourishing con-
| dition.
About 81 csc, 900 has been expended in
/ improving the road bed OF the Texas
line of the Santa Fe system.
All short, heavy grades on the Ale
ghany divisions Of the Erie have been
reduced to twenty-six feet to the mile.
The Association of Railway Superin-
tendents of Bridges and Buildings held
its eleventh national convention at St.
Louis.
Earnings of 1.-THE Milwaukee and st.
Paul system for the third week in 0c-
tober. decreased $4,000, compared with
year ago.
Chesapeake and Ohio earnings for the
fourth week in September Increased
S15S, 265. For the month the increase
was S226,9l3.
Officers Of the Illinois Central have
started in on fall booming of this roads
new line between Chicago and Hot
Springs, Ark.
Executive officers Of between forty and
fifty western roads met in st. Louis to
consider an agreement for the restriction
of passes during 1891.
Seven new passenger engines have
been received by the Ill aois Central road
The locomotives delivered are the first
Of a recent order for thirty.
The annual report of the Wisconsin
Central Railway shows: Gross earnings,
$5,63T, 416; operating expenses, So, $780,
$780, net earnings, S2,0JG,4S0.
The Atlantic freight service arranged
10y the Norfolk and Western. the Chesa-
peake and Ohio and the Southern Rail
way will soon be put in operation.
The Texas and Pacific officials an
nounee that that road has re-entered the
southwestern passenger bul eau, from
which it withdrew several weeks ago.
The formal opening of the magnificent
new terminal station in Nashville, Tenn,
took place the other day. The new sta
ton. together with necessary improve
ments, cost s., 100000
The Lake Shore Company has award
Ell to a Chicago construction company a
contract to build large elevator In Buff
falo to cost 100000. II will have a ca
paeity of 10000 bushels of grain.
Gross earnings Of the Chicago. Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road for the first week
in October were 1856, 723, compared with
S991 sos for the corresponding period Of
last year, a decrease Of S125,OS2.
The first annual report OF the Hooking
Valley Railway. for the year ending
June 80 1900, shows gross earnings Of
S441T ,2GG operating expenses and taxes.
S2,G41 POI; net earnings, Sl,S6,059.
Another big contract for freight en-
gines has been awarded by the Burling-
ton road for thirty locomotives to be
known as the prairie type. The cost Of
each engine will be SD. 900, or S42C. 600
for the thirty.
The Mississippi Railroad Commission
declined 10 recede from its original sched-
ule Of rates on cotton cd. which is 4
cents minimum to II cents maximum,
with p per cent added for joint hauls.
The courts will have 70 settle the mat
ter.
Railroads operating in the territory
west Of Chicago are in the throes Of
car famine which threatens TO result in
a general blockade. Notwithstanding
the pessimisfic crop reports from certain
districts during the past two or three
months, the movement Of grain In the
total promises to be extraordinarily
heavy.
The special campaign trains which
have been run by the railroad 20 the cen
tFai States have not proved very prohta-
bic TO the transportation companies; IN
fact, officers Of many Of the lines that
hsve engaged extensively ia operating
these political trains say that they have
been run in a majority Of instAloe, =:
large net fsses