Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-28
SOUTHERN RAILWAY IS
MOVING 10000 HORSES
Shipment for French Army to BE
Made by Way Of Primers
Point.
MANY MULES GOING ABROAD
Heavy Movement of Georgia Peach
Crop-Convictions for Trespassing
on Chesapeake and Ohio-South-
crn Railway Earnings.

Arrangements have been made by the
Southern Railway TO handle 10000
horses. purchased for the French gov
eminent, for delivery at Primers Point.
Norfolk, a. which port the animals will
be loaded on ocean steamers for trans
portation TO French ports These horses
will come from Western concentration
points
The movement has already started,
but the bulk of the shipments are yet
! 70 come The southern has just com
pleted the erection OF new stock pens,
chutes. and other facilities at Primers
| Point for loading the animals on the
steamers. Heretofore, the greater part
OF the shipments Of horses over the
southern have been turned over TO the
Chesapeake and Ohio at Richmond. but
| the movement of purchases for the
French government will give the
/ Southern the advantage of a long haul,
the route being by way of Selma. Ala,
and Spencer
The animals are principally artillery
horses and mounts for the French
cavalry. and the average purchase price
is estimated at $3.50.
While the shipments OF horses over
the Chesapeake and Ohio to Newport
News has dropped off 10 some extent,
the difference has been fully made up
by increases in the number of mules
handled. From a revenue standpoint,
the handling of mules is more re-
munerative.
The heavy movement of the Georgia
peach crop over the Southern Railway
continues. At midnight Monday. 1853
carloads had been handled since the
season opened. approximately half of
the crop. Sunday seven sections OF
peach trains were handled. The trains
average thirty cars each
More than 800 convictions for tres
passing on Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way trains between Richmond and
Norfolk have been secured within the
last six weeks. The force OF special
agents has been increased in order to
cope with the augmented number OF
trespassers. which have appeared this
summer. There have been numerous
accidents, several of them resulting
fatally, in which the trespassers have
figured. and the company is making
special efforts 10 break up. or at least
reduce the number of offenders.
l. l.. Scherer. general claim agent OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio in comment
ing on the increase in the number OF
trespassers, says that many boys make
a practice of riding freight trains for
short distances and it frequently re-
suits that they get hurt and sometimes
lose their lives. The company urges
the cooperation of parents and the
public generally in enforcing the law
against trcSpasscrs.
The earnings of the Chesapeake and
Ohio for the second week in July show
an increase of ST2.3o7 over the same
period last year and for the two weeks
ending July u gain of S125.7io.
Convicts are being used in railway
construction work on two roads in
North Carolina, on which the State had
promised aid. There are $50 at work.on
the Ellin and Allegheny, which is
building up the eastern slope OF the
Blue Ridge and will cross the noun
tain through n gap $500 feet above sea
level. On Watauga River and Yadkin
Valley Railroad. which will run to
Boone. y. c., and cross the Blue Ridge
at n pass 1000 feet above sea level,
there are IT'S convicts working Boone
is the highest county seat east of Dem
YER.
Comptroller a. Fl. Plant, of the South
ern Railway. reports the earnings of
the system for the third week in July
as sl,140,a49; last year. s1,2SG,1o3, a de-
crease OF s145.174.