El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-31

Quanah, Acme & Pacific Is
Planning to Build To
wards FL Paso.
SCHWAB OPENS A
TEXAS IRON MINE

- h EDDr general -LaLla7EL U INC
4 \ Missouri, Kansas & Texas, has
advised the chamber Of commerce Of
GreenviIIe that the line which row ex-
tends from Greenville to Mckinney will
be extended west from the latter place
to Denton, about 80 miles He said.
however, that this construction VIII
not be started until the suit Of the
state of Texas, which is now pending
against the company involving It's
charter rights, is settled 1t IS also an
nounced that the shops of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas at Greenville viii be
enlarged
New short Line.
The Temple & Northwestern Railway
company has been reOrganlZed under
the name OF the Temple, Northwestern
& Gulf Railway company The new
company has a capital stock OF SlUUUUu-
Its purpose is to extend the old Temple
& Northwestern line from a point four
miles west OF Temple 10 Da1laS5 ABOUT
100 miles The route Of this proposed
extension is through the counties @
Bell. Hamilton, COryeu, COmancne and
Erath touching the towns OF Gates
vile and Dublin and several smaller
places
The Quauah, Acme & Pacific rail-
road has just issued, upon authority Of
the railroad commission $5UU,uuO OF
bonds on its Roaring Springs extension
This road has 50 miles OF track 11n-
ished running west Of Quanah, an eN-
tension OF - l-L4ES rum 7 d-A--lAA ~
Roaring Springs having recently been
finished. Surveys are being made Tor
a further extension that VIII run
across the panhandle Of Texas TO ROs-
well, n ~, thence to FL PasO- This
latter extension VIII be about $50 miles
long Teh road connects at Qua
nah with the line of the Frisco
that runs north into OKLAHOMA AZ
is owned by the same interests as the
Frisco and viii. il is said, be operated
as a part of that system when II is
Railroad to Iron Mine.
The East Texas Iron ore Develop
meut company which is controlled by
Charles n SchWab VIII soon place in
regular service $50 standard ore cars
for transporting iron ore from tire
mines that are being opened Up in
Cass county near Ore City to Port Boil
war The 1lrSL cargo or ore VIII pc
shipped from Port Bolivar consigned
to Is. NOcOu & company, of New TOrl1
by way of the New FORK & Porto Rico
Steamship company on June p ore
docks have been constructed at Port
Bolivar for the purpose Of handling
this traffic. Approximately 800 tons
of ore viii be loaded upon cars daily
Aransus Harbor Terminal.
The AranSaS HarbOr Terminal Rail-
road company has been granted an e2-
tension DE the state railroad commits
sion for two years in which TO make
improvements to its property on Har-
Dor island where a deep water port
bought a tract of land from the state.
conditioned that terminal and harbOr
Improvements be made thereon 1t is
expected that considerable export
and COaStWise traffic viii be handled
through the new port this year. w
A Scrivner- Of FL PasO, has just been
appointed general manager Of this
property
san Antonio and Uvalde Road.
The san Antonio, UValde & Gulf
railroad has been allowed a valuation
Of mi las
as a basis for issuing and registering
bonds. 1t viii issue S2,S63,OO0 Of bonds
and S230,0O0 of stock The line is in
operation between san Antonio and
UTalde by way of PIeasantOn, Fowler
ton, Gardendale and Crystal City and
has a branch line running TO Garlic
from PIeasantOn to Corpus Christi and
Arkansas Pass.
Railroad Valuations.
The state tax board has made up the
schedule Of tangible assets OF the diff
ferenC railroads OF Texas for the pres
ent year. 1t is expected that the fig
ures viii be finally adopted with prob
ably very few changes Compared
with last years figures they are as
follows
Abilene & Southern. s11s.sss, none
last year; Beaumont & Great Northern.
S52,S45, increase S3S15i Burrs Ferry.
BrOWndel & Chester, nothing, last
year, S64.S41, Rock Island, S3,95S,SI5s
increase S465.750- Dallas. Cleburne &
2
DeniSOn, BOnham & New Orleans. moth.
ing. last year, $4,000; Denison & Pa
cific suburban, $4,000, Increase S25.-
400; FL PasO & Northwestern, S516,000.
increase $4I6,00O; FL PasO & Southern
Sl4.l23. same, FL PaSO & Southwestern,
nothing, last year 500, 900; Fort Worth
& Denver, S9,991,0SO, increase S454.-
40, Fort Worth & Rio Grande, S441.-
$40. decrease S452,221; Galveston. Har-
risburE & San Antonio, S26.629, 200.
same; Galveston, Houston and Hender-
$3.50 $40 1aeran 1898 NTL- Santa
Fe and leased lines, S2O,746.33O. same
Hearne & BrazOs valley s2O,S00, moth
ing last year: Houston East & West
Texas. S2,4S2,35O. same; Houston &
Texas Central $12,599.S4O, same; In
ternatiOnal & Great Northern. S14. 4SS-
500. same, Marshall & East Texas. $50
600, same Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
81, ST3,15O, increase S2,244,4O0- Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma & Gulf. $4,000. moth
ing last year Paris & Great Northern.
S64I,200. increase S202,373. Paris &
Mount Pleasant. $50, T5S. nothing last
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