Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1904 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

Orders for 50,000 tons of steel rails have been placed by the Harriman lines, at the schedule price of S2B per ton. The Southern Pacific has been granted a concession by the Mexican government to build a lino through the peninsula of Lower California.

The Grand Trunk shareholders, at ■ meeting, in Loudon, ratified the agreement with the Canadian government for the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific. The Railroad Commission of Louisiana has adopted a uniform bill of lading for all freight on all roads in Louisiana and ordered the railroads to adopt the same.

The New York Central Railroad has opened negotiations with the American Locomotive Works for the purchase of 112 locomotives for use on the Central and the Lake Shore. The work of double-tracking the line of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway, the only line between Richmond, Va., and Washington, D. 0., Is progressing rapidly. V Between 12,000 and 15,000 home-seek-ers, bound for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, started from Chicago • few days ago over the Santa Fe, making th* trip in special train*.