Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Pacific Eailroad Commission has organized, with Gov. Pattison fo>r Chairman. A month will probably be spent in preliminary work in Washington. Boston and New York will next be visited, and then work will commenc.o in the West The St. Paul Road has made special arrangements with tho Signal Service Department for frost warnings from May 1 to Oct 1 each year for tho special benefit of tobacco and cranberry raisers along its lino 3. The Illinois Central Eoad has let a contract for a st.-ol bridge at Ca.ro, to $8,5:0,000. The Kentucky Central Eoad has been sold for $1,505,500 to part e s believed lo represent C. P. Huntington. Eobert Garrett, after stating that his negotiations with the Ives syndicate are almost completed, remarked that the combination of the Jersey Central, Reading, Lehigh, and Pennsylvania Itoads rendered it necessary for the Baltimore and Ohio to build from Philadelphia to New York, with Staten Island as the terminus, for.which purpose he had boon tendered ample capital.