The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-15
RAILROAD. FINANCIAL AND
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
The Illinois Central and Southern
railways have combined for the estab-
lishment of a new freight route be-
tween st. Louis and Knoxville, Tenn.
The new arrangement will increase
the railroad facilities through western
Kentucky and central Tennessee, and
it will also give St Louis a more di-
rect route to North and South Caro-
lima.
Colorado now has $4,000 acres under
beet sugar cultivation, and the value
of the production in that state last
year amounted to more than $7,0O0,00
There are over a thousand paper
mills in the United State, and their
total product amounts TO about $780,
900 tons annually; valued at over
S150,OOO,OOO.
During the year 1905 the Baldwin
Locomotive works OF Philadelphia,
built and shipped $3.50 locomotives.
OF this number the greater part were
built for railroads in the United States,
but nearly 20 per cent were shipped
to foreign ports. To build these To-
were employed each week, working
day and night.
The extensive railway development
in Canada the last few years is hav.
ing its natural effect upon the inds-
trial enterprises of the country. This
is especially true of the iron and steel
industry, which has received a remark
able impetus since the introduction of
the bounty system and the imposition
OF new duties on steel rails.
The Southern railway has recently
placed orders for 1923 freight cars, in
volving an outlay of more than $5,OOO,-
600. The delivery is to begin in March
in 500 car lots, and will be increased
each month until all shall have been
received.
Forty million dollars worth of cop
per was produced in 1905 by the mines
and shelters of Arizona the top notch
OF the territory's output. During the
year the bullion product closely APP
proximated 241 100000 pounds.
The Grand Trunk railway has plac-
ed an order for 81 locomotives, to cost,
$1,S9S,O00. All but ten are to be built
by Canadian firms.
The Carnegie Steel company plans
to build during the present year two
additional blast furnaces, ten open
hearth furnaces and to improve the
plants at an aggregate cost oft$7,0OO,-
900.
1t is estimated that MOntana's out
put of precious materials during 1905
approximated $75,00O,OOO, an increase
of rs per cent over the preceding
year, when the figures reached $780,
100000. the largest previous produc-
ton. The operations in the Butte dis
trict are largely responsible for the
splendid showing the past year.
The opening up of the Houston, Sa-
bine and Red River railroad into the
forests of East Texas, which will take
place before the end of the present
year, will add very much to Houston's
Importance as lumber market.
During the year 1905 the Camp Bird
mine at Ouray, Colo, yielded it's own
ers a profit of $1,75O,O0O. Thomas f.
Walsh received in royalties during the
year $36S,475. IL z 4
During the year just begun 600 miles
of Rock Island track on various diyi-
sions will be reballasted with rock,
and 300 miles renewed with S5-pound
steel rails. 1t Is planned to spend
nearly 100000 In improvements dur y
ing the year, exclusive Of new equip /
ment. 8: X
There are now In progress of con-
struction by the Great Northern road
1000 miles Of extensions in addition to
500 miles of spurs and short lines Just,
completed or nearing completion. The
most important of the extensIons In
clude 800 miles from Pasco to Port \
land. The Northern Pacific is Jointly
Interested IN the construction Of this
line II 4, a Il s h /;