Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — RAILROADS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS.

The earnings of the .New York Central for October were the largest in the history of that system. The Inst rail completing the change of the National Railroad of Mexico from narrow to standard gauge has been laid. The Missouri Tncific’s new line from Carthage to the Arkansas Slate line, a distance of seventy-eight miles, is almost finished. The totnl mileage of roads operated in Louisiana up to June SO of this year was 2,912.73. net increase over the preceding year of 56.94 miles. The Texas Railroad, commission has canceled its emergency rates on rice and put nil rice milling points on a parity, including Galveston and Port Arthur. Debenture bonds of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad to the extent of $50,000,000 have been taken under contract by Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. It is reported from Montreal that the Grand Trunk ims entered into a traffic alliance with the Burlington and the Northern Pacific whereby transcontinental freight may be routed direct from Atlantic coast ports to Tacoma and the Orient via the newly established Canadian, Australian nnd Puget Sound steamship lines. It is announced id Chicago that on the tcurist sleeping cars which are run by the Pullman Company, mostly west of Chicago, that rates are to be advanced so that the prices for accommodations in these cars will be uniformly onehalf those in standard sleeping cars. The Trunk Line import committee baa decided to discontinue issuing through tariffs by lines that ara members of the committee to any point beyond those embraced in the trunk line revised percentage basis for through west-bound freight rate*, except aa may be properly authorised by the association's action.