Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-23

| Line 800 ROAD Will not nave to fgnt IN
the courts to get into Superior. The
other roads have agreed to abide by the
decision of the Wisconsin commission.
The headquarters of the Wabash rail
road has been removed from Pittsburg to
| Cleveland, and the new million-dollar de-
| pot and Office building in Pittsburg will
be rented.
The federal grand jury at Richmond,
Va, has indicted the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway and its general freight agent,
together with Richmond grain dealer,
on the charge of rebating.
The Burlington road attempted to file
with the Secretary of State at st. Paul
mortgage for $300,OO0,000 covering all
of it's property. The Secretary of State
| has refused to accept the filing until a
registry fee of 100000 is paid into the
State treasury. Another thing that will
| be required of the road is that it give a
detailed statement of its real estate hold
ings, together with values. This covers
| trackage, terminals and depots.s This
statement must cover the entire system.
Upon the petition of the National Car
Wheel Company of New York, the Dis
trict Court at Toledo, Ohio, has appoint
| ed Vice President Worthington of the
| Wheeling and Lake Erie receiver for the
road, which is the fourth Gould property
to go into the hands of a receiver. The
proceeding was a friendly one. The pc
! tition says that the road is in debt to
| the extent of over 2S,0O0,0O0 This move
| is understood, however, to be a prelimi-
nary step to the reorganization of the
Gould system.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Com
! pany has undertaken to plant pine trees
along both sides of the track, from Win
nipeg to Vancouver. The company will
| plant various kinds of pine trees and ev
| cry few years younger trees will be added
| to the plantation, which will be some
100 miles long. These trees are to be
| planted for a double purpose, the younger
| ones to keep the track clear of snow and
as they grow up the larger ones will be
used for bridge timber, telegraph poles,
! etc, while the smaller trees will be util-
| lied for fence posts and ties.
Chairman Knapp of the interstate COM
merce commission has decided the case of
the Rhinelander Paper Company against
| Tie 1NOElueTu L dCluC anu SIICdSo
| Northwestern railway companies. The
complaint challenged the reasonableness of
an Scent rate on pulp wood from Duluth,
Mimi, to Rhinelander, Wis. During the
| proceedings the Scent rate on pulp wood
| was reduced to 6.95 cents. The commits
| sion held that the reduced rate on pulp
| wood is not shown to be excessive, and
! that. upon all facts disclosed, the rate
| adjustment on paper is not shown to be
| unlawful.
Engineers have taken the field to begin
| the actual survey of the contemplated
| short line of the Pennsylvania railroad
between Chicago and Cincinnati, via Nun
| Gle, Ind. 1t will connect with the Penn
| sylvania at Hagerstown.
Chicago hears that the leading railroad
mana gers have agreed to defer the ques-
| ton of a general wage cut for three
months in the hope that by that time
| either conditions will be improved so that
| a cut Will not be necessary or that labor
| organizations will recognize the necessity
| of a reduction. The feeling prevails in
some companies that wages ought not to
| be cut so long as dividends are paid.
| Rather than hold up its S30G,O0OOOO
bond issue, the Chicago, Burlington and
| Quincy Railway Company paid the mort
gage registry tax on the mortgage issued
to cover the bonds and had it recorded
| with Secretary of State Schmahl Of Min
nesota. The tax amounted to S2,S67.77.
| The last steam locomotive has passed
| from the big terminal yards of the New
| York Central railroad at New York. All
| trains of the New Haven system, as well
as of the Central, are now pulled in and
| put of the heart of the city by the Cen
trails powerful new electric locomotives.
| The work on the excavation for the new
terminal at subway level goes on and the
old station is being torn down.