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from its passenger business than ever be-
fore and that II will exceed Sl.OO0.VO.

from its passenger business than ever be-
fore and that it will exceed sl.OOOWO.
J. \. Barnard. general manager. Ford
Woods, general freight agent, and j. "A:
Cavanagh. car service superintendent OF
the Peoria * Eastern. were in Peoria on
Thursday in conference with traf1c offi-
Gals of the Iowa Central in relation 10
were perfected by which cars of the Iowa
Central loaded with through freight and
of the Peoria & Eastern Will run through
without transferring the freight.
The Pullman Company has delivered to
the Cincinnati Northern. operated by the
Big Four. the last of 1000 new freight cars
contracted few months ago. RMS road
is an exceptionally good road for local
traffic, grain products. cooperage, 1--we
stock. and in fact nearly everything raised
in Ohio is among the articles this ROAD
ships; and now that IL is properly equipped
General Freight Agent ingalls, expects TO
make it a much larger revenue-earner than
heretofore.
mechanical inspection of the track OF
the Baltimore & Ohio system from end to
end. including all the main lines and i'm
portant branches, is being made. The In
spection apparatus used gives record OF
the number of joints on each rail that are
three-eighths of an inch low and the num-
Der OF bad car swings per mile tnat are
caused by the track. The graphical dla-
gram is made with pencil and gives a
record of alignment showing degree, length
of curves. weight of rail. date when IL was
Since the c.. r. & NJ. Railroad reached
Peru, just year ago, il has been using
the shops of the Lake Erie Western ROAD
for all needs and purposes. Yesterday the
Lake Erie refused the road further accom-
moda tons because it's bills for services had
not been settled for eight months. The c,
X. & Nj. has gone to the Wabash Tor It's
engine turning, and Ii is expected IL VIII
make arrangements with the Wabash shops
or will renew its contract with the Lake
Erie in few days to continue until its new
100000 shops in Peru are built.
The railroads in the Western immigra ton
bureau have settled the trouble over the
withdrawal of the Rock Island from CO.
operation as to California, New Mexico,
Arizona and Southwestern business III has
been decided that the road may retain its
connection with the bureau and participate
in business through other Western gate
ways and that at FL Paso also. Some COM
petitors of the Rock Island were in favor
of declaring that the road should not par
ticipate in the business through FL Paso
and other gateways, but the probability OF a
rate war negatived this proposition.
The ST. Louis & San Francisco has an
nounced that it will. apply to the Texas Leg
| 1slature for authority to purchase or tease
| for term of years not exceeding y99 al
other railroads, or railroads to be construct
| ed, and all rights, franchises and privileges
/ pertaining thereto, and to consolidate us
own line, and TO own and operate under It's
charter as part of its own line: ana &c
| assume the indebtedness of the following
companies: The Red River, Texas & South
ern, the Fort Worth & Rio Grande. the
Paris & Great Northern, the Blackwell
Enid Texas and the Oklahoma City q
Texas.
In conversation as to what the Goulds are
| endeayoring TO do in West Virginia, Presl
| dent Ramsey says their primary object is tt
establish lines east which will drain a ter
! ritory that will make each individual roao
self-supporting; the system of new lines, a:
whole, when completed will compare IA
vorably with the Baltimore & Ohio as &
trunk line In that section. Some allowance
will have to be made when 1t is remembered
| that the present proportions OF the Balti
| more & Ohio have taken years to acquire
| AS to the talk about the Goulds forming
| security company Mr.. Ramsey pronounce:
| it a Wall-street game deal.