Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

There is good authority for the statement that the Rock Island Road has decided to extend to Denver in an air-line from Horton, Kas., passing through the county seat of each county in the northern tier of Kansas.

The Pacific Railway Commission, sitting at Washington, has been investigating the workings of the Union and Central Pacific roads during the past week. C. P. Huntington gave some interesting testimony. Among other things he said that the company's lawyer in Washington was paid $20,000 a year salary, and was allowed $30,000 to $40,000 to “explain” the advantages to thee public to be derived from the approval of the Central Pacific schemes in Washington. Charles Francis Adams testified in regard to the management of the Union Pacific Company for the past three years. He expressed the belief, from careful scrutiny, that Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon had always been more than fair to the company. He reported the taxes annually paid bv the road at $1,100,000. The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange of Detroit requested the Michigan Central Road to issue thousand-mile tickets to commercial travelers at the Old rate of S2O, at which price they are now sold by the Grand Trunk. One member suggested the sale of five thousand-mile tickets at SIOO, which would only be taken by commercial houses. President Ledyard offered to make a test case at the expense of the road, and ascertain if traveling salesmen can be favored.

A railroad war is predicted from the refusal of the Pennsylvania Road to sell tickets to the accredited agents of the Western lines. It is said that the latter will retaliate by legal proceedings to compel the trunk lines to show cause why they should not furnish tickets. .. .Jay Gould has purchased 166 acres of land just south of Carondelet Park, St. Louis, on which to flace the machine-shops of the Missouri acitic and Iron Mountain Roads.