Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-19


During March the gross earnings of the
Iowa Central amounted to S196,523, an
increase of $19,733 over March Of last
year.
1t is said negotiations are in progress
for the merging of the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg road with the New York
Central system.
Railway men from Arkansas report
that railroad building is on boom, in
Marion County, where extensive zinc
fields are located.
1t is stated unofIicially in railroad cir
cles that the Louisville and Nashville will
become owner of the Monon, and secure
its own line into Chicago.
Extensive new freight yards and docks
are to be built by the Illinois Central in
New Orleans. 1t will be one Of the larg-
est terminal yards in the world.
Decentralization is said to exist in pas
senger rates east-bound from Kansas
City. Brokers are said to be loaded with
tickets to New York via Chicago.
The Santa Fe has purchased property
in Kansas City for which it paid $685.
coo. A new freight depot to cost $780,
600 will soon be erected on the site.
A joint meeting of Eastern and West
ern passenger representatives was held
in Chicago in an effort to adjust the diff1-
culties surrounding the handling Of west
ern immigrant travel.
The columns Of Eastern exchanges bris-
tie with information concerning a new
$20,000,00O trunk line system between
Chicago and New York and Boston, with
an annual earning capacity Of $1,000
600 net
General Passenger Agent Stone of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois is in Texas
arranging details necessary to the
through passenger business which the
road has established by its connection
with the cotton belt route.
Central Passenger Association rebate
payments for the month Of March were
$14S, ,342, an increase Of $14, ,404 as com
pared with the payments made in March,
1859. The heaviest payments in any pre-
ceding month aggregated S13S, 75O.
Already officials Of Eastern lines are
talking PanAmerican exposition. If pre-
dictions prove true the exposition at Buff
falo will do more toward promoting trade
and travel between this country and Cen
tral America than anything else could.
With one exception, east-bound ship
ments from Chicago last week Of grain,
-four and provisions were the heaviest
on record. They amounted to 204 900
tons, divided as follows: Grain, 1914
tons; -four, 40,459 tons; provisions, 49,
626 tons.
During the month of March 15,47 in
terchangeable 1,000-mile tickets good on
all Central Passenger Association lines
were sold, an increase Of 1857 over the
number sold in March of last year and
an increase Of 4,30S over the sales in
March, 1898.
The Rock Island soon will begin the
work Of building 2S5 new steel bridges
along it's line, and it expects to have all
of the structures ready for use by the
beginning of the new century. Between
$3.50, 900 and 100000 will be spent in
replacing the present wooden bridges
with the more durable structures.
Omcers of the Chicago Kansas City
lines have practically withdrawn their
protest against the date of the Demo
cratic national convention in Kansas
City. When July was set by the ma
tional committee the railroads protested
the crowds by reason Of the fact that all
available equipment Of the different lines
would be in use at that time.
Control of the Reading Railroad has
been acquired by the Vanderbilts. In the
variety Of it's important bearings no 9TH
er railroad deal announced in years ap-
preached this. Not only is the vast mile
age, with the extraordinary coal land
holdings of the Reading company, taken
over by the Vanderbilts, but the Lehigh
Valley and the Erie systems are to be
absorbed.
The Department of the Interior has
given permission to the Burlington road
to build line through the Big Grow res
ervation in Montana. The line which has
been projected for some time past will
run from Toluca, near Billings, to Cody,
Wyo., about 150 miles.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad Com
pany Is no more, and its place in the rail-
way world is taken by the Chicago and
Alton Railway Company, recently incor
porated. The new company has an au-
thorized capital of S20,OO0,0OO Of nom
cumulative preferred stock and . like
amount Of common stock.