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The directors of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford are said to have
voted for a reduction in passenger rates
from 215 cents to , cents a mile on rec
ommendation of President Mellen.
An official of the Wisconsin Central
railroad is reported as saying that the
Standard Oil has acquired a controlling
interest in that property and is financing
the extension to Superior and Duluth.
The growth of the American railroads
has been phenomenal. Between 1860 and
1875 the mileage in the United States
more than doubled. This was repeated
during the next decade, and in the last
five years $4,000 miles have been added
to the trackage of the country.
The agricultural and horticultural re-
sources of the Grand Valley, Colorado,
are most entertainingly set forth in an
attractive booklet, 1.-The Little Empire
of the Western Slope" now being dis
tributed by the passenger department OF
the Denver and Rio Grande railroad.
PENNSYLVANIA railroad officials are now
testing the Strang gas-electric motor We
bicle designed to run upon any standard
track at the speed of the fastest passen-
ger train. In general appearance 1t Is
much like the ordinary parlOr car, but
in 12-foot space at one end there is
7S-horse power, fve-cyllnder gas engine
that operates an electric generator giving
n 5O-kilowatt electric current The car
will take any grade that the heaviest To-
connective can climb.
The Altoona shops Of the Pennsylvania
railroad have been ordered to turn out
100 snecial box cars designed for the
sbinment of automobiles, in anticipation
of a big boom in this trade next spring.
report issued by the interstate com
MERGE commission shows that railway
Capitalization in this country has increas-
cd at an enormous rate in the last few
wears. From S9,S94, 605, 239, or $59.G3 a
mile in 1898. it had increased in 1904 to
S13.2131 24,679, or $6426 a mile. The
increase in freight rates augmented the
receipts and made possible an increase Of
$3.50. 100000 in dividends last year.
The New York City board of Alder
men is considering the advisability of in
vestigating the InteTborough Metropoli-
tan traction merger as proposed by Bor-
L
the opponents of the Belmont-Ryan deal
that SOS, 100000 in watered stock and
bonds has been injected into the citys
street car interests without the purchase
of a single car or new rail.
Gross earnings of $67,500 mile are
shown by the anpual statement OF the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie, a subsidiary
line of the New York Central, which gets
its revenue mostly from the bituminous
coal traffic out of Pittsburg. The divi-
bends have been 10 per cent since 1902.
Bv the transfer of 100000 of the
stock of the Pacific Coast Company E.
II Hartman is said to have got control,
ca as to secure terminal facilities at Sc
attle bv means Of the Columbia and Pu-
.pet Sound railroad. This, if true, puts
Harriman's system on an equal footing
witb Hill and the Great Northern.
In order to make closer connection
with the Burlington, and get transcon-
tinental mails into New York several
hours earlier, the New York Central lines
have installed a new fast mail train over
the Lake Shore. Although it will not be
the fastest train carrying mail TO the
East. yet it will make the gait Of some
of the "fyers" look like snail's pace.