agent. On June 1, 1910, he was appointed division freight agent of the Atlantic Coast Line, which position he held at the time of his recent appointment as assistant general freight agent.

Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers.

C. C. Elmes has been appointed master mechanic of the Texas & New Orleans, with office at Houston, Tex., succeeding F. Galvin.

C. H. Osborn, assistant superintendent of the car department of the Chicago & North Western, with office at Chicago, has resigned to engage in other business.

W. E. Bohl has been appointed acting roadmaster of the Western division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with office at Dodge City, Kan., succeeding Edward Marshall.

Frank Zeleny, whose appointment as engineer of tests of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, with headquarters at Aurora,

F. Zeleny.

Ill., has been announced in these columns, was born December 5, 1876, at Hutchinson, Minn. He attended the University of Minnesota from 1894 to 1898, graduating with the degree of mechanical engineer. In September, 1898, he began railway work with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, where he was a special apprentice until January 17, 1902. On the latter date he was appointed assistant to superintendent of shops at Aurora, which position he held until July 3, 1912, the date of his appointment as engineer of tests of the same company, with headquarters at Aurora.

to engineer of tests; L. A. Stoll, general foreman locomotive repairs at Aurora, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Aurora shops in charge of the locomotive department, and William Queenan, general foreman of car repairs, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Aurora shops in charge of the car department.

F. D. Ritter has been appointed assistant engineer maintenance of way of the Great Northern division of the National Railways of Mexico, and R. Fabela has been appointed assistant engineer maintenance of way of the Great Southern division, including the Pan-American Railroad and the Vera Cruz & Isthmus, with office at Colonia Station, Mexico City, Mex. These appointments have been made following the death of D. D. Colvin, engineer maintenance of way.

J. R. Sexton, who has been appointed mechanical superintendent of the Northern district of the Western lines of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with office at La Junta, Colo.,

as has been announced in these columns, was born in New England on April 5, 1863, and graduated from the public schools of Plattsmouth, Neb., in 1879. He began railway work in April of the same year as machinist apprentice for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. After completing his apprenticeship he was a machinist in various shops for three years from 1883, and from November, 1886, to January, 1890, he was erecting and roundhouse foreman of the Burlington at Plattsmouth. He was then promoted to general foreman at Alliance, Neb., and he went to the Great Northern as district foreman at Devils Lake, N. D., in April, 1901. He was with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, Wyo., from November, 1902, to June, 1904, first as roundhouse foreman and then as general foreOn June 24, 1904, Mr. Sexton went with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with which road he has been consecutively general foreman at Cleburne, Tex., until November 15, 1910; master mechanic of the Missouri division at Shopton, Iowa, from the latter date until June 1, 1912, and since June 1 he has been mechanical superintendent at La Junta, as above noted.

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OBITUARY.

H. G. Prescott, general superintendent of the Panama Railroad from May, 1904, to November, 1905, died recently at Panama. Mr. Prescott was born in 1863 at Hudson, N. Y., and entered the service of the Panama Railroad in January, 1889, as an operator at Colon, Panama. He served as a despatcher, then in the signal department, and then as trainmaster and electrician, until August, 1901, when he was appointed assistant superintendent of the same company. He was promoted to general superintendent in May, 1904, from which position he resigned in November, 1905.

William D. Washburn, who was one of the promoters of the Minneapolis & St. Louis, of which he was president for many years, and who also projected and built the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, of which he was president until his election as United States senator in 1889, died on July 29. Mr. Washburn was born on January 14, 1831, at Livermore, Maine, and was educated at Farmington Academy, and Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1850. He was a member of the Minnesota legislature from 1859 to 1871, and a member of Congress from 1879 to 1885. He was largely interested in flour manufacturing and lumber enterprises, and was a political and business leader in Minneapolis, Minn., for about 50 years.

Equipment and Supplies.

LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING.

THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY has ordered 30 mikado locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC has ordered 25 ten-wheel locomotives from the Montreal Locomotive Works.

THE MARYLAND & PENNSYLVANIA has ordered 1 consolidation locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE WALSH-KAHL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY has ordered 3 sixwheel switching locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

THE PAULISTA RAILWAY, Brazil, has ordered 3 ten-wheel locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 23 in. x 26 in., the diameter of the driving wheels will be 66 in., and the total weight in working order will be 180,000 lbs.

THE CENTRAL RAILWAY OF BRAZIL has ordered 10 consolidation locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 17 in. x 20 in., the diameter of the driving wheels will be 37 in., and the total weight in working order will be 93,000 lbs.

THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL, mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of July 19 as having ordered 50 mikado locomotives from the American Locomotive Company, has increased this order to 65 mikado locomotives, and has also ordered 35 consolidation locomotives from the same company.

CAR BUILDING.

THE VIRGINIAN is in the market for 4 passenger cars.

THE PENNSYLVANIA LINES WEST are in the market for 1,000 box cars.

THE DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC is in the market for 100 freight cars.

THE ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO is in the market for 10 allsteel baggage cars.

THE VIRGINIAN RAILWAY has ordered 700 all-steel hopper cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company.

THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL is asking for bids on 500 gondola cars and 500 refrigerator cars.

THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY has ordered 450 box cars, 100 automobile cars and 100 flat cars from the Lenoir Car Works.

THE PITTSBURGH & LAKE ERIE, mentioned in an unconfirmed item in the Railway Age Gazette of July 26 as being in the market for 1,000 hoper cars, is in the market for 1,000 gondola cars.

IRON AND STEEL.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC has ordered 8,000 tons of rails from the Illinois Steel Company.

BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT is in the market for approximately 15,000 tons of rail for subway construction.

THE MANILA RAILWAY, Philippine Islands, has ordered 5,000 tons of rails from the Lackawanna Steel Company.

GENERAL CONDITIONS IN STEEL.-There has been a general advance of $1 per ton on steel bars. Other increases in prices are anticipated. There is still a slight shortage of labor in some of the mills, and during the past week a scarcity of crude steel has developed; these conditions have kept active operations from 10 to 15 per cent. below specifications, and if they are not remedied at once shipments will show a decrease. It is reported that on small shipments premiums as high as $5 and $10 a ton have been paid. Western steel manufacturers report new business above expectations, and it is claimed in some quarters that a large volume of orders for early delivery has been refused.

Supply Trade News.

The Grip Nut Company, Chicago, is enlarging its plant at South Whitely, Ind., and is installing 10 additional, 6 spindle, nut tapping machines.

The McKeen Motor Company, Omaha, Neb., has received an order from the Texas City Terminal Company, Texas City, Tex., for a 55-ft. all-steel gasolene motor car.

H. F. Wardwell has resigned as assistant manager of the Central Locomotive & Car Works, Chicago, to engage in the railway equipment business on his own account, and has opened an office at 302 Railway Exchange building, Chicago.

The George M. Newhall Engineering Company, Philadelphia, Pa., has received an order from the Pennsylvania Railroad for 10 wrecking cranes of 120 tons' capacity each. These cranes will be made by the Industrial Works of Bay City, Bay City, Mich.

The Griffin Car Wheel Company, Chicago, will enlarge its plant at Boston, Mass., by building an addition to the foundry, a new machine shop and auxiliary buildings. It is estimated that these additions will increase the present capacity by more than 200 wheels a day. This company will also enlarge its plant at St. Paul, Minn., thereby increasing the capacity of that plant by more than 150 wheels a day.

C. H. Osborn has resigned as assistant superintendent of the car department of the Chicago & North Western to associate himself with the Mid-Western Car Supply Company,

C. H. Osborn.

Chicago, as vice-president. Mr. Osborn was born at Westfield, Mass., March 31, 1875, and graduated from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, in the class of 1895. He entered the employ of the Chicago & North Western in the same year, and after serving as a special apprentice in the mechanical department filled successively the positions. of roundhouse foreman, division foreman, master mechanic, and, for the past four years, assistant superintendent of the car department. In going with the Mid-Western Car Supply Company Mr. Osborn will have charge of the mechani

cal department and will devote special attention to the development and sale of the one-piece combination body and truck bolster, which was exhibited at the M. C. B. and M. M. conventions at Atlantic City in June.

Horace E. Horton, president and sole promoter of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works, died at his residence in Chicago, on July 28, after a long illness. Mr. Horton was born in Norway, N. Y., in 1843 and was for several years a bridge contractor at Rochester, Minn. He moved to Chicago in 1889 and was one of the organizers of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, of which he was president until 1897, when he purchased the entire property and stock and reorganized the company as the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works.

The Roberts & Schaefer Company, Chicago, has received the following orders: one large reinforced concrete Holmen coaling station, and a separate reinforced concrete cinder pocket and cinder handling machinery for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, at Dickerson Run, Pa., to cost $20,000; one 300-ton structural steel Holmen coaling station for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern at Rossville. Ill; coal handling equipment for a new station for the Baltimore & Ohio, at Cumberland, Md.; one 600-ton

reinforced concrete Holmen coaling station for the Atlanta & West Point, at Newnan, Ga., to cost $25.000; one 600-ton reinforced concrete Holmen coaling station for the Western Railway of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala., to cost $25,000.

The Vulcan Engineering Sales Company, Chicago, has taken the selling agency for the line of structural and plate working machinery, punches, shears, rolls, bulldozers, etc., made by the Rock River Machine Company, Janesville, Wis. This is in addition to the lines now controlled by the Vulcan company, which include molding machines and foundry equipment, made by the Hanna Molding Machine Company, and metal sawing machinery and shop equipment made by the Q. M. S. Company.

The General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has declared a 30 per cent. stock dividend in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent. A special meeting of the stockholders will be held August 29 to vote on the question of increasing the capital stock from $80,000,000 to $105,000,000. After this increase, a dividend of $30 per share, payable in stock of the company at par, will be paid out of the surplus earnings to stockholders of record, December 31, 1912. It is proposed to issue debenture bonds from time to time for the future financial needs of the company, and for this purpose the directors have authorized $60,000,000 debenture bonds to bear not over 5 per cent. interest. On December 31, 1911, the company had $77,335,200 capital stock outstanding. As the plan provides for an authorized capitalization of $105,000,000, there will remain unissued about $4,500,000 stock. The additional stock will necessitate dividend payments of about $1,850.000 more a year than under the present capitalization. The company's earnings in 1911 were 13.6 per cent. on capital stock, and in 1910, 16.6 per cent.

TRADE PUBLICATIONS.

STOKERS. The American Stoker Company, New York, has published bulletin B-1 on its Class E stoker for stationary boilers. This bulletin is well illustrated, includes detailed descriptions and enumerates many points in favor of these stokers. Some useful tables are also given.

POWER TRANSFORMERS.-The General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has published bulletin 4953, on power transformers. This bulletin is illustrated and gives the more important points regarding the relative merits of the different types of transformers. This bulletin supersedes the company's previous bulletin on the subject.

DENVER & RIO GRANDE.-The passenger department has issued a handsomely illustrated folder on Salt Lake City, describing the scenic points along its lines between Denver and Salt Lake City, and giving a list of hotels, cafes, theaters, clubs and points of interest in and around this city which will entertain many national conventions this year.

ELECTRICAL OPERATION OF SHOPS.-The General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has devoted bulletin No. 4,959 to the electrical operation of railway shops. This booklet points out the advantages of individual drive over group drive, and illustrates and describes the electrical installations in some of the more important railway shops of the country. This bulletin supersedes the company's previous bulletin on this subject.

MOTOR CARS.-The McKeen Motor Car Company, Omaha, Neb., has issued an illustrated booklet describing the various types of its gasolene motor cars for steam branch line and interurban service, of which 124 have been constructed and are now in daily service in the United States, Mexico and Australia and which are being operated or have been ordered by 49 railways. The booklet contains illustrations and plans of the different types, and of their principal working parts, together with several illustrations of the cars in service handling trailers, etc., and a number of testimonial letters from railway officers who have had experience with the car.

The Argentine chamber of deputies has granted a concession for the construction of a branch line from Concepcion del Uruguay to Concordia, and for one from Concordia to Villa Federal.

Railway Construction.

New Incorporations, Surveys, Etc.

ALABAMA & NORTHWESTERN.-According to press reports, this company, which operates a 21-mile line from Pine Hill, Ala., to Sweetwater, will build a five-mile extension. William Toxey, chief engineer, Pine Hill, Ala.

ALBANY & NORTHERN.-See Georgia Southwestern & Gulf. ATLANTIC, WAYCROSS & NORTHERN. It is expected that work will be started soon on the extension projected for some time from St. Mary's, Ga., northwest via Waycross and Fort Valley, to Atlanta, about 220 miles. The company now operates a 11mile line from St. Mary's to Kingsland. L. Johnson, president and general manager, St. Mary's.

BIRMINGHAM & SOUTHEASTERN.-According to press reports, this company will let contracts to build between Electric, Ala., and Equality. Work is now under way on an extension from Fort Davis northwest to Milstead, 40 miles. W. M. Blount, president, Union Springs. (June 7, p. 1262.)

CHILLICOTHE, TRENTON & CAINESVILLE.-Bids will be asked for in September, it is said, to build a line to connect Chillicothe, Mo., with Trenton and Cainesville, about 75 miles. Some of the right of way has been secured. T. C. Beasley, Chillicothe, may be addressed.

DURHAM & SOUTH CAROLINA.-An officer writes that grading has been finished on about six miles and track laid on two miles of the 11-mile extension building from Bonsal, N. C., to a connection with the Raleigh, Charlotte & Southern. The company expects to have all the work finished by October. R. A. Honeygeneral superintendent and chief engineer, Durham. (April 12, p. 871)

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FLORIDA ROADS.-The Henderson-Waits Lumber Company has grading work under way for a logging line from the company's mill near Caryville, Fla., southeast towards Vernon. G. O. Waits, general manager.

GAINESVILLE, OKLAHOMA & WESTERN-This company has begun work, it is said, on the line projected for some time from Gainesville, Tex.. southwest via Era, Slidell, Greenwood and Cowan, to Bridgeport, about 56 miles. H. M. Aubrey, president, T. M. Tienot, vice-president, San Antonio.

GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN & GULF-An officer of this company, which operates the old Albany & Northern from Cordele, Ga., southwest to Albany, 35 miles, writes that the company expects to begin work on an extension next fall from Albany southwest to St. Andrews, Fla.. and that contracts are tentatively let for the work. There will be one steel bridge, 400 ft. long, and two 60-ft. spans. The company will also put up wharves and docks at St. Andrews Bay. W. M. Legg, president and general manager, Albany.

GRAND TRUNK.- It is planned to begin work at once on a line from Port Burwell. Ont., northwest via Calton, Aylmer, Mapleton and Belmont, to London, about 40 miles. Surveys for the line have been made. It is expected that the Grand Trunk will use car ferries for carrying coal cars across Lake Erie.

HASTINGS & NORTHWESTERN.-See Union Pacific.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.-An officer writes regarding the reports that surveys are being made for a line from Jackson, Miss., northeast to Birmingham, Ala., about 200 miles, that the company has been making some preliminary surveys, but nothing definite has yet been decided. If the line should be built, it will probably be some time before the construction work will be carried out. A. S. Baldwin, chief engineer, Chicago.

KETTLE VALLEY.-According to press reports, this company will let contracts soon to build a 12-mile section from Coldwater Junction, B. C., west to the summit of Hope mountains. A. McCulloch, chief engineer, Penticton, B. C. (May 3, p. 1027.).

NATCHEZ, COLUMBIA & MOBILE.-This company, which operates a line from Norfield, Miss., east to Log Switch, 20 miles, is said to have given a contract to Boyd & Bradshaw, Columbia, Miss., to build a 12-mile extension to connect with the New Orleans Great Northern at Tilton. R. B. Butterfield, secretary, treasurer and general manager, Norfield.

NEW ORLEANS & WESTERN (Electric).-An officer writes that the proposed route is from a connection with the Algiers Railway & Lighting Company's line west of Gretna, La., on the Mississippi river, through the suburbs of Harvey, Barataria and Westwego to Waggaman, about 12 miles. Material has been ordered for the immediate construction of the line to Barataria, and construction by day labor will be started within two weeks. Track has been laid on a steel lift-bridge over Harvey's canal. C. E. A. Carr, general manager, New Orleans. NEW YORK CONNECTING.-Bids are in for building a 14-mile section from a connection with the Pennsylvania Tunnel & Terminal at Woodside avenue, Long Island City, to Stemler street. J. U. Crawford, engineer, Broad street station, Philadelphia, Pa. NORTHWESTERN OHIO RAILWAY & POWER COMPANY.-This company is said to have bought the rights and property of the Toledo, Port Clinton & Lake Side, operating an electric line from Toledo, Ohio, east to Marblehead. The new owners will build extensions and make improvements to the line at a cost of $200,000.

PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN.-An issue of bonds for the Pacific Great Eastern has been guaranteed by the British Columbia government. This line is to be built from Vancouver, B. C., north to the Grand Trunk Pacific at Fort George, about 350 miles, and the company expects to have all the work finished within two years. J. W. Stewart, of Foley, Welch & Stewart, St. Paul, Minn., may be addressed. (June 14, p. 1365.)

PENNSYLVANIA & SOUTHWESTERN.-Incorporated in Pennsylvania to build through Bradford, Tioga and Lycoming counties. It is understood that the New York Central interests are back of the project.

PIEDMONT & NORTHERN (Electric).-An officer writes that this company has track laid on 23 miles in North Carolina and 33 miles in South Carolina on the line between Greenwood, S. C., and Durham, N. C. Contracts were recently let for work on 33 miles of the section between Greenville, S. C., and Spartanburg, and work is now under way. Maximum grades will be one per cent. compensated, and maximum curvature will be six deg. Contracts will shortly be let for putting up five steel viaducts, each to be from 200 ft. to 900 ft. long, and from 60 ft. to 90 ft. high. The work will be heavy. Thomas B. Lee, chief engineer, Charlotte, N. C. (April 5, p. 824.)

PROVO & EASTERN UTAH.-Incorporated in Utah with $10,000,000 capital, to build from Springville, Utah, east to Jensen, about 120 miles. The line is later to be extended east to Steamboat Springs, Colo., the present terminus of the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific. The names of the incorporators are not given.

TOLEDO, PORT CLINTON & LAKE SIDE.-See Northwestern Ohio Railway & Power Company.

UNION PACIFIC.-The Hastings & Northwestern has been incorporated to build from Hastings, Neb., northwest to Gibbon, 30 miles. It is understood that construction work will be started at

EDMONTON, ALBERTA.-The Grand Trunk Pacific is planning the erection of a new passenger station at an estimated cost of $400,000.

GREENVILLE, S. C.-See Piedmont & Northern (Electric) under Railway Construction.

MONTREAL, QUE.-In connection with the elevation of five miles of track approaching the Bonaventure station, the Grand Trunk will erect a $3,500,000 passenger station, which will also be used by the Intercolonial, and two freight sheds. The entire improvement will include 140,000 cu. yds. of foundation excavation, 1,500,000 cu. yds. of fill, 65,000 cu. yds. of concrete, 6,000 tons of steel, and 50,000 cu. yds. of paving.

MCKEESPORT, PA.-The Baltimore & Ohio will make terminal improvements at McKeesport, to include a new passenger station. Contracts for the work have not yet been let.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.-The Transmississippi Terminal Company has been organized as a subsidiary of the Texas & Pacific to own and operate extensive freight terminals which the company proposes to build at New Orleans.

The New Orleans Terminal Company has announced that work will be started at once on a series of new team tracks and freight sheds, to cost approximately $250,000.

NEW YORK CITY.-The general contract for the Biltmore Hotel, to occupy the plot between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, Vanderbilt and Madison avenues, has been awarded to the George A. Fuller Company, the cost being about $5,500,000. The work is to be completed by October 1, 1913. The hotel is an integral part of the New York Central's Grand Central. terminal development, as explained in the Railway Age Gazette of, March 15, 1912, p. 462.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-An officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad writes that plans have been prepared and contracts let for the extension of the present bridge on the New York division, over the Schuylkill river, and the reconstruction and extension of the bridges over Girard avenue, Lansdowne drive (Fairmount Park) and the Philadelphia & Reading in Philadelphia. The present bridge, a double-track structure, spans Girard avenue, with steel girders and Landsdowne drive with five 21-ft. span arches. The bridge over the river and East and West Park drives consists of seven 60-ft. span masonry arches, with a 241-ft. truss span over the river channel. The plans provide for rebuilding the bridge over Girard avenue and Lansdowne drive for five tracks, using steel girders incased in concrete; the abutments and column foundations to be built of concrete. The present 21-ft. span arches over Lansdowne drive will be taken down and replaced with two 45-ft. spans, reinforced concrete arches. The bridge over the river and the East and West Park drives will be widened by extending the present 60-ft. span arches to the north to provide for two additional tracks, and, in place of building a truss span to carry the new tracks over the river channel, two 103-ft. span arches will be built, making a continuous arch bridge over the Schuylkill river. These arches will be built of sandstone masonry to correspond with the present bridge; the foundation and backing to be of concrete.

PITTSBURGH, PA.-The Baltimore & Ohio proposes to erect new passenger and freight stations at Pittsburgh, but the plans have not yet been jointly agreed upon by the city officials and the

company.

ST. ANDREWS, FLA.-See Georgia Southwestern & Gulf under Railway Construction.

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, PA.-An officer of the Philadelphia & Reading writes that improvements are being carried out to the concrete bridge over the west branch of the Schuylkill river, lining the present concrete arches, and completing an extension for one track. The bridge consists of three spans each 33 ft. long.

TORONTO, ONT.-The Canadian Pacific, it is said, will apply to the Dominion Railway Board to set aside and rescind the order directing the immediate construction of the new union station and viaduct. This action is to be taken by the railway company, as the original plans were changed without notice to the company.

Work is to be started in August by the Grand Trunk on a new station at Sunnyside, a suburb of Toronto.

Railway Financial News.

BALTIMORE & OHIO.-The stockholders of the Ohio River Railroad and the Parkersburg Branch Railroad will vote October 19 on the question of selling their property to the Baltimore & Ohio. The B. & O. now owns nearly all of the stock of these two subsidiaries.

CANADIAN PACIFIC.-It is rumored that when the Canadian Parliament meets again in the fall, the Canadian Pacific will ask for authority to increase its capital stock. The company is not at present in need of cash; but it is said that its policy is to provide for its needs for at least two years in advance. See also Kingston & Pembroke.

CENTRAL RAILWAY OF CANADA.-President Archibald Campbell and E. Goff Penny have resigned as directors, and W. D. Hogg and E. Willson Smith, of Montreal, have been elected directors to succeed them.

CINCINNATI, BLUFFTON & CHICAGO.-See Huntington, Richmond & Hamilton.

ERIE. The New York Public Service Commission, Second district, has authorized the Erie to sell at 97.7167 $2,160,000 equipment trust certificates.

GRAND TRUNK.-A press dispatch says that there was lost through the sinking of the Titanic a signed contract, which Charles M. Hayes was bringing back with him from England, providing for the acquisition of 30,000 acres of coal lands in Belmont County, Ohio, by the Grand Trunk. The report that the Grand Trunk was to acquire coal lands in the United States was mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of April 26, p. 984. It is said that since the death of President Hayes, the Grand Trunk officers have not been anxious to take the matter up again immediately.

HUNTINGTON, RICHMOND & HAMILTON.-This is the name of the company which has been incorporated as the successor to the Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago, which went into the hands of a receiver in March, 1908. The Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago operates 52 miles of road.

MEXICO NORTH WESTERN.-The London stock exchange has listed £600,000 ($3,000,000) first mortgage 5 per cent. 50-year bonds to pay for an extension. See this company under Construction News.

MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS.-See Minneapolis, St. Louis & Canadian.

MINNEAPOLIS, ST. LOUIS & CANADIAN.-This road has been incorporated with $7,000,000 stock to build an extension of the Minneapolis & St. Louis to the Canadian border. MISSISSIPPI RIVER & BONNE TERRE.-This company has bought the St. Francois County Electric, which runs from De Lassus, Mo., to Federal. The M. R. & B. T. is a steam road running from Riverside, Mo., to the southeastern lead district, about 65 miles.

NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER.-See an item in regard to trackage agreements in Traffic News.

OHIO RIVER RAILROAD.-See Baltimore & Ohio.

ONEIDA RAILWAY.-See an item in regard to trackage agreements in Traffic News.

PARKERSBURG BRANCH RAILROAD.-See Baltimore & Ohio. PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE & CHICAGO. The New York Stock Exchange has listed $1,993,400 additional guaranteed special stock which was issued to pay for various improvements and additional rolling stock.

SEABOARD AIR LINE.-See Tampa Northern.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC.-The Salem, Falls City and Western, now operated as a steam road, has been bought by the Southern Pacific, and is to be electrified and operated as a part of the Southern Pacific's electric properties, of which the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, which was bought about three years ago, is the nucleus.

TAMPA NORTHERN. An officer of the Seaboard Air Line has confirmed the report that the Seaboard Air Line has bought all of the stock of the Tampa Northern. WABASH.-The receivers have applied to the court for permission to sell $2,500,000 additional receivers' certificates. This will bring the total amount of receivers' certificates issued up to $14,000,000. For purposes for which the money is to be used, see Railway Construction News.

See also Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal. WABASH-PITTSBURGH TERMINAL.-The Commercial & Financial Chronicle says that conferences, which have been held between the two committees representing the first mortgage bondholders, and also with other interests, have so far progressed as to warrant the expectation that a re-organization plan will be announced within the next thirty days. The plan, it is understood, will not be brought out until its success is assured. A settlement is proposed with the Wabash interests which will eliminate the Wabash from the plan. WESTERN & ATLANTIC.-The lower branch of the Georgia legislature has failed to pass, by the necessary majority, a bill providing for a constitutional amendment which carries with it state aid for an extension of the Western & Atlantic to the Atlantic coast.

WEST SHORE.-See an item in regard to trackage agreements in Traffic News.

A company has received a concession for the construction of a railway from Rosario, Argentina, to Mendozy, with a branch line to Firmat. From Rosario a line will also be built to San Lorenzo, where harbors will be built. The gage will be 3 ft. 3 in.

The lines Dchoulfa-Akjikabul and Astara-Adjikabul will be built in Russia to establish a better connection with Baku, and the line of Tzaritzyn-Uralsk, with Tzaritzyn. The lines of Tula-Ryazan and Tula-Soukhinichy are to improve the communication with Tula, the line of Ermolino-Nizhni, that with Nizhni.

A commission selected by the Russian government to devise a plan for covering many sections of Russia with a network of railways during, the next five years has reported, and the project, worked out by its members, will be presented soon to the council of ministers for its inspection and possible ratification. According to the scheme suggested by the commission, about 20,000 miles will be added to the railways of the country, the building of which is to be carried out by a definite and carefully conceived program in order to satisfy the demands of the many regions now in great need of railways, and to prevent the useless construction of lines in sections where they are not required. It is the opinion of the commission that their proposition will satisfy all the requirements of the country, both economic and political, and that real practical results will be obtained.

The administration report on the railways in India shows that 755 miles of line were opened to traffic during the calendar year 1911, bringing the total mileage up to 32,839. Of the 841 miles of line sanctioned at the end of the year, 263 were under construction. The gross earnings during the year were $179,343,818, and the net earnings $53,336,510. During the year 222 locomotives, 1,039 coaches and 3,485 freight cars were added to the rolling stock, while 253 engines, 1,245 coaches and 8,250 freight cars are now under construction. The average rate charged to passengers of all classes was just over two-fifths of one cent per mile, and the average distance traveled was about 38 miles. The total number in railway employ at the close of the year was 563,030, of whom 7,699 were Europeans, 9,877 Anglo-Indians and 545,454 Indians. The average rate for all descriptions of freight carried was just under one cent per ton-mile. The total number of passengers carried was 389,860,000, as compared with 371,580.000 in the previous year, giving an increase of $4,446,000 in earnings from this source. It is said that this increase is largely due to the Delhi Durbar.