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Colonization of lands in the Southwest
is to receive from the railroads reach
ing that section the greatest attention
ever accorded the subject.
The western railroads have agreed to
make very low rates for laborers on the
irrigation projects in the West and
Southwest of the government and private
interests.
Railways in the United States employ
an army Of 1000 men. The income of
the railway companies last year totaled
81, 000,0 100000 and their total assets for
this year are valued at four times that
sum.
With the conclusion of peace negotia-
tions at Portsmouth the Chicago and
Northwestern ordered rushed to compile
ton a large order for new equipment for
the Overland Limited their crack every
day-in-the-year train between Chicago
and San Francisco. This in expectation
of large volume of traffic to and from
the Pacific coast, due to the immediate
commercial expansion that is anticipated
A satisfactory device for discharging
mails from high-speed trains, for which
postoffice officials have been searching
for more than seven years, has at last
been discovered and following repeated
tests, is now in daily use on one of the
Rock Islands fast mail trains in Iowa.
Postofice officials who have witnessed
the workings of the new device, are en-
thusiastic over the results accomplished.
Equally good performance is shown on
trains running at from fifteen to as high
as seventy-two miles per hour.
The Southern Pacific has issued ST.
135,OOo additional collateral trust bonds.
These bonds are a part of the authorized
issue of $30,0o0000 five to two year AZ
per cent GOLD bonds of 1900. of which
there are now outstanding So, 315, 900,
including the new issue.
With the opening of the new Chicago
q Northwestern line across Southern
Utah and Southwest Nevada, known as
the San Pedro route, new country has
been opened, which in area is large
enough for a good sized empire, the nat
ural resources of which are practically
untouched.
The Chicago and Alton railroad has
abandoned the project TO equip its lin
tied trains with the wireless telegraph
system. The experiments during the
past two months have demonstrated that
the results hoped for cannot be attained
by wireless telegraphy in its present de-
velopment.
When the latest statistics were taken
a few years ago. Germany had 10000
miles of railroad; Great Britain, q 900:
France, 25,000; Russia, 26,000 and Aus
tria-Hungary, 1000. No other country
had a mileage Of FIVE fgures-except the
United States, with the modest figure
Of $4,000, nearly 10000 more than all
of Europe.
1t is reported that orders have been
issued on certain divisions of the Union
Pacific to dispense with the negro porters
on sleeping and parlor cars, and replace
them with white men at an advance Of
$3.50 a month in wages.
Land renters and men of small means
will be delighted to hear that the In
terror Department Of the United States
has at last decided to open up to lease
for agricultural purposes. the Indian Re
serve pasture lands of Oklahoma. More
than 100000 acres of land is offered for
lease and consists of some of the best
agricultural land in Oklahoma. These
reserve pastures are located in Caddo,
Kiowa and Comanche counties.