The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-27
RUSHING WORK
0ND0UBL.ET TRACK Ct
J. & o 4 Expects to Finish Pc z t,3
rinsular Work for James
town Exposition. W
.soUTHERN's BIG EARNINGS
Passenger Cars 81 tic Future
Will BE Made Of Pressed
H. Steel. al

AZ Double tracking work on the 1'cntn--!
sula division OF tho Chesapeake and Ohio
III progressing rapidly It Is confidently
expected that tho double rnck road VIII.
5be completed iii time for the jamestown
Exposition next year, ilsg's!3
Tho tloublo-trnck on the Iichmond,i
H1tredercksburg and Potomac ls prnctl-
3cally completed, there being only two
points where tho old single track rack. y II
used. IS 4l 81 Al I'll 4{ts tx IA s33 s4s
IT The N Norfolk ana western /. Railway
Company has announced cut In freight
Charges on coal for manufacturing ptir-
poses from the PcGntontns iledds to Nor
folk, effective ,JulyJ1s The present rate
2iss si.CO d ton and the new rate will be
9S1.45 % ton, vi III jl3 H " "a:
Mr.. AZ II. Plant comptroller OF the
Southern Railway, has ANNOUNCED the
/ following estimated earnings for the road
y for the third week In juno:
Southern Railway Company. excluding
4 st. Louis Louisville Lines: This year,
$So4, Gas; las yenr, $500, Oh; increases e,-
600. AZ 35 ~ II ~
A southern Railway Company, ST. Louis
I
year, ssi9, 3SS7 increase. $40, GS2 5
AZ Ut Is understood that tho now steel
passenger cars designed by the Pressed
Steel Car Company have turned out u
SUCCESS. # he II railway TINT has tested
them is weS satisfied with A the results
attained. It is believed in advanced rail-
road circles that the day Of the steel
passenger chr has come. Recently the
1r Ltf<-,. tr,t,,
was IN collision with nother@train near
Buffalo. B. 7. Il Yonkuin, prominent IN
,tlln% Rock Island 1'rlsco 81 system, who
awns on tho vcsttbuled train. said that u
was tho best train wreck he ever saw Or
heard & Of. SF Not d " passenger was hurt
and Il the train was brought into New
York only three hours late. Tho steel
passenger car will Y among other things
reduce damages from collisions to o min
imunl. The demand for freight equip
5ment continues tive All II OF the cor
building companies are now booked
ahead lip to u 007 @ s5 # 81 n ~
Tho General Electric Company proposes
to construct an American canal bet Ween
Lakes Erie and Ontario, commencing
above Niagara Falls md ending at Lew
iiston,5 distance Of about nine miles
AZ. proposed, the canal Will be twenty-five
feet deep and 200 feet de, having q tall
OF $50 feet, and carrying 1880 cubic feet
OF water per- second. e The proje tors
argue that tho entire volume Of water Mt
the falls on both sides Is 224, 900 cubic feet
per second, |of which 81 per cent now
goes over the Canadian side; but they
propose to change this sby y, blasting out
a shelf OF rock near the head OF Coat
Island, whereby they claim 20 per cent.
ofstho water now flowing on the Canadian
side Will be diverted to the Ame ric g. y
side, and without any material injury 70
the appearance Of the Canadian falls.
w. e. Ningea. president and general
mana ger 4 Of the Virginia Carolina and
Southern, Abingd on, 70. writes that t'lis
road is under construc ton from mayors
Valley, Va, along White Top Creek to
tAzen II. c. Y where the Hassnger Lumber
Company Is building large plant. The
line from Azen along Green Cove Greek
and over the divide to Horse Creek Is
being surveyed. It is the intention ultl-3
siiIlately to extend this line down orhe
Creek INTO Ashe county, N G., but wren 1Ne
this will be done cannot be definitely
stated at present. $l5 "
Mr.. c. & c. Woodworth has been up $
pointed soliciting agent Of the Southern,
a & Nashville. Tenn. vice Mr.. G. II. san
ders, transferred A1r...C .. 8. ,s sourlue
hns been appointed travelling freight agent
at Cairo, III, vice Mr. ]. A. DoWlirs,
resigned to accept service with another
company. Z Mr.. j. Nv. n Thomas has Eeen.
appointed collecting agent at Chicago n.
place OF Mr.. c.. s. l3ourque. a, "a
Mr.. G. u. Harris, assistant super'!iten-
dent Of the birmingham diyls!on OF the
Southern at Birmingham, Ala has been
appointed assistant superin tendent 81
the Knoxville division, with headqu ;s
at KNOXVILLE. Tenn. 9-
Norfolk * estern has contracted With
the Pullman Company for nine 0o-foot
mail cars, N AZ. "A HI, 3s 55.
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