Titus began railway work at Cleveland, Ohio, where for three years he was in the car department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. From 1893 to 1895 he was with a mining company in Mexico, in the latter year returning to the Lake Shore at Cleveland. Mr. Titus went with the Wheeling & Lake Erie in May, 1900, and he has been with that road ever since. He was first car distributor and chief clerk to the superintendent of car service, and in November, 1905, was promoted to superintendent of car service, with office at Pittsburgh. In May, 1907, he was made assistant superintendent in charge of transportation at Canton, Ohio, from which position he was promoted on July 1, 1912, to superintendent of the Toledo division.

J. E. Fairhead, who has been appointed superintendent of car service of the Kansas City Southern, with office at Kansas City, Mo., as has been announced in these columns, was born August 4, 1879, at Urbana, Ill. He received a public school education at Covington, Ky., and began railway work November 1, 1900, as clerk to the trainmaster of the Chesapeake & Ohio at Huntington, W. Va. Later he was transferred to Covington, Ky., and from October, 1902, to December, 1903, he was stenographer in the office of the general manager of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was appointed secretary to the president of the Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railway at Pittsburgh, Pa., in December, 1903, and from July of the following year until January, 1905, he was chief clerk to the superintendent of that road. He then became secretary to the general manager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at Cincinnati, and from December, 1905, to February, 1907, he was secretary to the president of the Kansas City Southern. From 1907 until August 1, 1912, the date of his recent promotion to superintendent of car service at Kansas City, he was chief clerk to the general manager and vice-president and general manager.

J. Grant Code, whose appointment as general superintendent of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, with office at Cleveland, Ohio, has been announced in these columns, was born December 27,

Traffic Officers.

M. O. Culton has been appointed traveling freight and passenger agent of the Erie, with office at Denver, Colo.

H. B. Dyer has been appointed commercial agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, with office at Cheyenne, Wyo.

J. H. Donnell has been appointed soliciting freight agent of the Georgia Southern & Florida, with office at Atlanta, Ga., succeeding T. N. Bradshaw, resigned.

E. B. Wood, soliciting freight agent of the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico at New Orleans, La., has been appointed traveling freight agent of the Minneapolis & St. Louis, with headquarters at St. Louis, Mo.

O. F. Spindler has been appointed assistant general freight agent of the Chicago Great Western, with office at St. Paul, Minn., effective August 10, succeeding Oscar Townsend, who was promoted to general freight agent in May.

1863, at Warren, Ill. He received a public school education in Illinois. Mr. Code began railway work in 1882 on the Chicago & Iowa, now part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, at Rochelle, Ill., and was with that road until 1887, having been at various stations as clerk in the auditor's office. telegraph operator and agent. During the next two years he was with the Chicago, Burlington & Northern, now also part of the Burlington, at La Crosse, Wis., where he was operator, car distributor and train despatcher. From 1889 to 1907 he was train despatcher consecutively with the Union Pacific at Green River, Wyo.; the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company at La Grande, Ore.; the Northern Pacific at Livingston, Mont.; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at La Crosse, Wis., the Northern Pacific at Staples, Minn., and again with the Burlington first at La On Crosse and later as chief despatcher at Galesburg, Ill. January 1, 1907, Mr. Code was appointed assistant superintendent in charge of transportation of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal and the West Side Belt Railroad at Canton, Ohio. Five months later he was made superintendent of the Toledo and Pittsburgh division of those roads at Canton, and in June, 1908, when the properties were separated by receivership, he was made superintendent of the Toledo division of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, which position he held at the time of his appointment on July 1, 1912, as general superintendent, with office at Cleveland.

J. G. Code.

R. J. Daniels, commercial agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound at Aberdeen, Wash., has been appointed commercial agent, with office at Tacoma, Wash., succeeding H. J. Manny, who has been made traveling freight and passenger agent at Tacoma.

George C. Ransom, division freight agent of the Michigan Central, at Buffalo, N. Y., has been appointed chairman of the Canadian Freight Association, with headquarters at Montreal, Que., succeeding Thomas Marshall, who is now in charge of the traffic department of the Toronto Board of Trade.

E S. Vincent, traveling freight and passenger agent of Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Company at Little Rock, Ark., has been appointed commercial agent of the Texas & Pacific, with office at Little Rock. H. R. Courtice has been appointed soliciting freight agent, with office at Chicago. J. M. Cousins has been appointed commerial agent of the Wabash Railroad, with office at New Orleans, La., succeeding Paul J. Fisher, granted leave of absence on account of illness. E. H. George, eastbound agent at Chicago, has been appointed commercial agent in charge of the solicitation of all traffic in the Chicago district.

C. D. Turner, division freight agent of the Erie Railroad at Chicago, will hereafter have jurisdiction over the commercial agency of the Erie Despatch, assuming the duties of W. A. Nelson, resigned. G. C. Cormany, general agent of the Erie Despatch at Dayton, Ohio, has been appointed general agent of the Erie Despatch at Cincinnati, and M. H. Hardy succeeds Mr. Cormany.

George P. Wilson, chief of the tariff bureau of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Philadelphia, Pa., has been promoted to special agent of the freight department, with headquarters at Philadelphia. Mr. Wilson entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1892 as a rate clerk in the office of the general freight agent. He was promoted to chief rate clerk on March 1, 1898, and eight years later he was made chief of the tariff

bureau.

The following officers of the Seaboard Air Line have had their authority extended over the Tampa Northern: E. D. Kyle, freight traffic manager; R. I. Cheatham, assistant freight traffic manager; L. E. Chaloner, general freight agent; G. S. Rains, assistant general freight agent; J. A. Pride, general industrial agent, and W. W. Safford, general mail and express agent, all with offices at Norfolk, Va.; C. B. Ryan, general passenger agent, Portsmouth, Va., and B. C. Prince, assistant general freight agent, Jacksonville, Fla.

Alfred Hunt Rising, whose appointment as general freight agent of the Southern Pacific, with office at San Francisco, has been announced in these columns, was born January 19, 1871, at San Francisco. He was educated in the public schools and at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Rising began railway work in 1883 with the Southern Pacific Company, and he has been in the continuous service of that company. He was clerk in the freight department until October 1, 1905, on which date he was made chief clerk in the general freight department. He was promoted to assistant general freight agent on May 24, 1910, and since July 15, 1912, he has been general freight agent, as noted above.

Frank C. Lathrop, who has been appointed assistant general
passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, with office at San Fran-
cisco, Cal., as has been announced in these columns, was born
April 26, 1872, at Michigan City, Ind., and received a public
school education in Wisconsin. He went to California in 1894
and was with the Wilmington Transportation Company for a
number of years, having been consecutively purser, city ticket
agent and traveling passenger agent. Subsequently he was with
the Mexican Central for two years as paymaster on construction
work. Mr. Lathrop began work with the Southern Pacific in
February, 1903 with which company he has been ever since. He
was successively city passenger agent at Los Angeles until May,
1905; traveling passenger agent at the same place to October,
1909, and then commercial agent at Pasadena.
He was ap-
pointed district passenger agent at Los Angeles on May 1, 1911,
and since July 15, 1912, he has been assistant general passenger
agent, with office at San Francisco, as noted above.

Under the revised organization of the traffic department of
the Western Maryland, made necessary by the extension of the
lines of the Western Maryland from Cumberland, Md., to
Connellsville, Pa., and the formation of the Pittsburgh Dispatch
and Pittsburgh-Erie Dispatch and the extension of the Southern
States Dispatch via this route into Pittsburgh and Buffalo terri-
tory, T. G. Smiley, general freight agent at Baltimore, Md., is
now in charge of all freight traffic of the company (including
coal and coke), originating at or destined to Connellsville, Pa.,
and points east thereof and east of Buffalo, N. Y.; W. A. Cox,
assistant general freight agent, at Baltimore, has been appointed
general freight agent, with office at Pittsburgh, Pa., in charge of
all through freight traffic handled in Pittsburgh Dispatch, Pitts-
burgh-Erie Dispatch and Southern States Dispatch trade, and
all agencies established for the handling of such traffic will re-
port direct to him; T. H. Fee, freight tariff agent at Baltimore,
is now in charge of the issuance of all freight tariffs and rate and
division matters pertaining thereto; T. H. McKoy is now divi-
sion freight agent, with office at Hagerstown, Md., in charge of
freight traffic on the Maryland division, and J. F. Getty is now
division freight agent, with office at Cumberland, in charge of
freight traffic on the West Virginia division.

George William Luce, who has been appointed freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, with office at San Francisco, Cal., was born at Brownsville, El Dorado county, California.

and he received a high school education. From 1875 to 1888 Mr. Luce held various positions with the Southern Pacific, and from October, 1888, to September, 1891, he was general agent in the freight and passenger departments of the Texas & Pacific and the Missouri Pacific at San Francisco. He then went with the Union Pacific at San Francisco, where he general agent in the freight department until October, 1894. For over three years from October, 1894, he was sistant freight agent of the Southern Pacific at San Francisco, and in February, 1898, was made assistant general freight and passenger agent of the same company at Los Angeles, where he remained until October 15, 1901. On the latter date he was promoted to general freight agent at San Francisco, on March 1 1911, he was made assistant to the vice-president, and since July 15, 1912, he has been freight traffic manager.

G. W. Luce.

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Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers.
F. L. Carson has been appointed master mechanic of the San
Antonio & Aransas Pass, with office at Yoakum, Tex., succeed-
ing T. F. Sullivan, resigned.

C. J. Rist, supervisor of the Erie Railroad, at Akron, Ohio, has

been appointed division engineer, with office at Huntington, Ind., succeeding A. Swartz, resigned.

H. G. Burnham, chemist and engineer of tests of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, at Du Bois, Pa., has been appointed engineer of tests of the Northern Pacific, with headquarters at St. Paul, Minn.

J. A. Heaman, division engineer of the Grand Trunk Pacific, with office at Fitzhugh, Alta., has been appointed assistant to chief engincer, with headquarters at Winnipeg, Man., and F. J. George succeeds Mr. Heaman, with headquarters at Fitzhugh.

E. G. Chenoweth, mechanical engineer of the Erie Railroad at Meadville, Pa., has been appointed assistant superintendent of the car department of the Chicago Terminal division of the Rock Island Lines, with office at the 124th street shops, Blue Island, Ill.

T. H. Goodnow, general superintendent of the Armour Car Lines at Chicago, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the car department of the Chicago & North Western, with office at Chicago, succeeding C. H. Osborn, resigned to engage in other business.

G. E. Buckley, for six years assistant engineer of the Southern Railway at Charlotte, N. C., has been appointed engineer maintenance of way of the Western district of that road, with office at St. Louis, Mo., succeeding Edward Gray, resigned to engage in other business.

C. A. Steele, division engineer of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, at Canton, Ohio, has been appointed division engineer of the Northern and Southern divisions. of the Chicago & Alton, with office at Bloomington, Ill. M. Donahue, general supervisor of roadway and structures of the Alton, has been appointed roadmaster of the Northern and Southern divisions, with office at Bloomington, and his former office has been abolished.

Purchasing Officers.

Elliott S. Wortham, assistant to the vice-president and purchasing agent of the Chicago & Alton at Chicago, has been appointed manager of purchases and supplies, with office at Chicago, and the office of purchasing agent has been abolished.

OBITUARY.

Frank Irish, traveling agent of the Chicago & Northwestern at Philadelphia, Pa., died on August 5, at his summer home in Montgomery county, Pa., at the age of 61.

Abraham Harrison Swanson, until 1888 general transportation manager of the Houston & Texas Central, and for many years identified with railway construction and management in Texas, died at Pass Christian, Miss., on August 7, aged 82.

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA RAILWAYS.-Earnings from April 1, 1912, the beginning of the fiscal year, to June 15 were $12,659,514 This exceeds the earnings for the same period of 1911 by $479,759. The proportion of the total earned by the Natal lines during the period was $2,725,746, compared with $2,558,440 in 1911. Action is being taken by the city of Durban, and the other towns of Natal along the main line of railway and by those of northwestern Orange Free State and southwestern Transvaal to induce the government to construct a railway from Kroonstad to Vierfontein, in Orange River Colony, to connect the present direct line from Durban to Kroonstad with the section already built from Klerksdorp, in the Transvaal, to Vierfontein. Should this section be built it would give Durban a much closer connection with a considerable portion of Orange River Colony and the Transvaal than would be possible from any other port in South Africa, and this province hopes that within a short time a final section from Klerksdorp to Mafeking may also be built, giving the shortest possible route from any port in the Union of South Africa to Rhodesia and the north. The people of Natal have always felt that the territory that would be connected with them by the proposed new section belongs to them commercially, and in order to get possession of it in this way the province completed, in December, 1903, a 65-mile section from Harrismith to Bethlehem, and in June, 1906, another section, of 88 miles, from Bethlehem to Kroonstad.-Consular Report.

Railway Construction,

New Incorporations, Surveys, Etc.

ARTESIAN BELT.-This road is now open for passenger and freight traffic between Macdona, Tex., and Christine, 43 miles. J. P. Jackson, chief engineer, Macdona.

ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE.-Walter H. Denison, Wagoner, Okla., who has the general contract for building the remaining 90-mile section of the Texico-Coleman cut-off between Lubbock, Tex., and Texico, N. M., has sublet the work in 25 sections, and construction work will be pushed to completion. It is expected that the line will be ready for operation by January next. C. A. Morse, chief engineer of the system, Topeka, Kan. (July 26, p. 184.)

BIG CREEK LCGGING COMPANY.-A contract has been given to C. L. Houston, Astoria, Ore., and work is now under way building a five-mile logging line from a point near Knappa, Ore., to timberlands. E. C. Crossett, president.

BIRMINGHAM & SOUTHEASTERN.-An officer writes that grading contracts have been given to J. M. Sullivan and O. J. Priuett, to build an extension between Electric, Ala., and Equality. Contracts will be let during the next 30 days for track laying and bridge work. The plans call for putting up some stations and warehouses. W. M. Blount, president, Union Springs. (June 7, p. 1262.)

CAMBRIDGE, INDIAN VALLEY & EASTERN.-An officer writes that the proposed route from Cambridge, Idaho, east to Mesa Junction, 10 miles, thence southeasterly to Indian Valley, five miles. The entire line will be through Indian Valley and Salubria Valley. Contracts for building the line will be let as soon as bonds are sold. There will be two small bridges over the Little Weiser river, and some station and terminal buildings will be put up next year. The company expects to develop a traffic in fruit, grain, vegetables, dairy products and merchandise. C. K. Macay, president, Mesa; Lee Heighly, chief engineer, New Meadows.

FLEMINGTON, HINESVILLE & WESTERN.-An officer writes that contracts have been let to Hugins, Gaudy & Easterling, to build from McIntosh, Ga., on the Atlantic Coast Line, west via Flemington, to Hinesville, about 10 miles. Work is now under way, and track has been laid on three miles. There will be four trestles. The company expects to extend the line to Glennville, Tattnall county, 25 miles. J. B. Way, Hinesville, may be addressed.

GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC.-An officer writes that the Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company's line, being built from Regina, Sask., west via Moose Jaw, thence northwesterly is about all graded from Regina west to a point about 50 miles northwest of Moose Jaw. The grading was the general average for prairie construction, excepting four miles, which averaged 50,000 cu. yds. to the mile near Moose Jaw Creek crossing. The Cottonwood Creek valley trestle, which is to be 50 ft. high and 1,290 ft. long, is the only important trestle. The line passes through the northerly section of Moose Jaw, and no grading has yet been done within the city limits. Track has been laid from Regina west on 31 miles, and it is expected to have the line completed and in operation this coming fall. Rigby, Hyland & Plummer, Moose Jaw, has the grading Traffic tributary to this branch will be grain, farm machinery and supplies, and general package freight. B. B. Kelliher, chief engineer, Winnipeg, Man. (August 9, p. 271.)

contract.

The Mountain division has been extended from Hinton, Alta., west to Fitzhugh, 50 miles.

GAINESVILLE, OKLAHOMA & WESTERN.-An officer writes that contracts are to be let within the next three weeks to build from Gainesville, in Cooke county, Tex., southwest through the northwestern part of Denton county, thence west through Wise county, crossing the Fort Worth & Denver City above Decatur, to Bridgeport, about 50 miles. The maximum grades will be 1 per cent., and maximum curvature 4 deg. The cut and fill work will average handling 15,821 cu. yds. to the mile. There will be 6,414 lineal ft. of trestles, also some station buildings, shops, etc. The company expects to develop a traffic in grain,

cotton and products, manufacturing products, and mineral products. H. M. Aubrey, president, and T. N. Picnot, vice-president in charge of construction, San Antonio. (August 2, p. 228.)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE.-Work has been finished on the Tuscaloosa Mineral, which has been under construction for some time from Tuscaloosa, Ala., east to a connection with the Louisville & Nashvilie at Brookwood, about 20 miles. The line was opened for business August 8, and it is being operated by the Louisville & Nashville. At the celebration in Tuscaloosa on Thursday, the opening day, Miss Annie Wallace Hays, assisted by five "maids of honor" drove a silver spike, completing the railway. Addresses were made by H. R. Foster, president of the Tuscaloosa Board of Trade, and by F. G. Blair, president of the Tuscaloosa Mineral Railroad Company.

LOUISIANA ROADS.-Residents of Cottonport, La., and neighboring towns are organizing a company to build from Plaucheville, La., northwest via Cottonport, thence north to a connection with the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company at Mansura, or at Hessmer. The company is to have a capital of $50,000. T. Lemoine, president; L. A. Ducote, first vicepresident; C. J. Calligari, second vice-president, and F. H. Hanley, secretary. It is expected that the line will be completed this coming fall.

LOUISIANA SOUTHERN.-An officer writes that this company, which is leased by the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico, one of the Frisco lines, has track laying completed on 20 miles from Belair, La., southeast to Bohemia, and all the work is about finished. No further extensions are contemplated at this time. The company expects to develop a traffic in rice, sugar cane, vegetables and oranges. (July 19, p. 144.)

MIDDLE TENNESSEE.-This road is now in operation from Franklin, Tenn., to Mount Pleasant, 411⁄2 miles. G. B. Howard, chief engineer, Mt. Pleasant.

MINNESOTA, DAKOTA & WESTERN.-An officer writes that grading work south of International Falls, Minn., has been finished on 20 miles, and track-laying is just being started by the company's forces, with a Roberts track-laying machine. The grading work was carried out by M. W. Barnard, Minneapolis, Minn. It is expected that the line will be open for operation this coming winter. The principal commodities to be carried will be logs and pulp wood. C. S. Giles, chief engineer, International Falls.

OREGON ELECTRIC.-This road has been extended from Salem, Ore., west to Albany, 27 miles. L. B. Wickersham, chief engineer, Portland. (April 5, p. 824.)

PECOS VALLEY SOUTHERN.-An officer writes that the only contracts to be let on the branch from Saragosa, Tex., southeast to Fort Stockton, about 50 miles, will be for the grading work. The company is not yet ready to let the contracts. The maximum grades will be 0.8 per cent., and maximum curvature 4 leg. There will be two steel bridges and some trestles. The company expects to develop a traffic in alfalfa, fruit and lumber. W. L. Carwile, president, Dallas; L. W. Anderson, chief engineer, Pecos. (May 31, p. 1221.)

PIEDMONT & NORTHERN.-An officer writes that contracts. have been let for work between Greenville, S. C., and Spartanburg, to the Parker Brooks Construction Company, Macon, Ga., for 17 miles on sections 58 to 74 inclusive; to Willard Boggs, Spartanburg, for sections 75 to 78 inclusive, and to J. Thomas Bennett, Charlotte, N. C., for sections 79 to 89 inclusive. Thomas B. Lee, chief engineer, Charlotte. (August 2, p. 229.)

QUANAH, ACME & PACIFIC.-An officer is quoted as saying that work was begun early this month on a 40-mile extension from Paducah, Tex., and it is expected that the line will be in operation to a point 15 miles west of Paducah by the middle of November next, and to the new town of Roaring Springs by March of next year. The plans call for building an extension from the present western terminus at Paducah west via Roswell, N. M., to El Paso, Tex., about 425 miles John A. Knox, chief engineer, Quanah.

ST. LOUIS & WESTERN TRACTION.-This company has been organized, it is said, to build a 25-mile line from Forest Park,

Mo., west through St. Louis county to the Missouri river.
James D. Houseman, St. Louis, Mo., may be addressed.

SEABOARD AIR LINE.-The Mulberry branch of the Fifth division has been extended from Mulberry, Fla., to Royster Mine, seven miles. W. L. Seddon, chief engineer, Portsmouth, Va.

TAMPA & GULF COAST.-A new branch has been opened for freight service only from Tarpon Springs, Fla., to Port Richey, eight miles. C. H. Lutz, secretary, treasurer and general manager, Odessa, Fla.

TOINETTE & WESTERN.-An officer writes that this company has track laid on 12 miles from Toinette, Ala., westerly across St. Stephens road via Hawthorn to Fairview. J. W. Hill, Toinette, has the contract for grading. The work yet to be done consists mainly of straightening out curves and strengthening bridges. Plans are being made to build an extension west to a point on the Tombigbee Valley Railroad, at or near Seaboard. The principal commodities to be carried are lumber, naval stores, farming implements and produce. S. R. Cochran, president, 377 Main street, Greenville, Pa. TUSCALOOSA MINERAL.-See Louisville & Nashville.

RAILWAY STRUCTURES.

BRUNSWICK, GA.-The receivers of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic have been given permisison to issue receivers' certificates, a part of the proceeds of which are to be spent for improvements at Brunswick, which include deepening the channel for the Clyde Steamship Line to the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic dock.

BURLINGTON, VT.-The Public Service Commission of Vermont has endorsed the plans of the Central Vermont for a new union station, which calls for track elevation and the separation of grades. The commission has rejected the plans of the Rutland Railroad.

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-An officer of the Seaboard Air Line writes that work has been held up temporarily on the new freight house to be built at Charlotte. The cost of the improvements will be between $50,000 and $75,000.

GASTONIA, N. C.-An officer of the Southern Railway writes that a new station is to be built of white pressed brick, with tile roofing at Gastonia. The main building will be 140 ft. long, with 40-ft. sheds at each end. The tracks of the main line will be moved a few feet north to provide more room between the station and the trains. The building will be electrically lighted and steam heated. The work will probably be started next month, and it is expected that the station will be completed during December.

NEW YORK.-The Baltimore & Ohio has given contracts for building a reinforced concrete warehouse, to have eight stories and basement, on the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue, New York City. The Phoenix Construction Company, New York, has the contract for the foundation work, and the Turner Construction Company, New York, will erect the superstructure of the terminal. The first floor of the warehouse will be used as a freight house. The seven stories above and the basement below will be used for storage. The cost of the warehouse will be between $400,000 and $500,000. Plans and specifications were prepared by M. A. Long, architect for the Baltimore & Ohio.

OSWEGO, N. Y.-The New York Central has let a contract to the Phoenix Bridge Company for a 1,500-ton bridge.

PRESCOTT, ONT.-The Grand Trunk Railway has secured a large tract of land for a terminal site at Prescott, on the St. Lawrence river, opposite Ogdensburg, N. Y., and is to carry out terminal improvements during the next two years at a cost of $150,000. The plans call for building a 25-stall roundhouse with provision for ten extra stalls and building machine repair shops.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has ordered 115 tons of structural steel for a new freight house.

Railway Financial News.

BUFFALO & SUSQUEHANNA.-This company has called $56,000
series A, and $5,500 series B first mortgage 5 per cent. bonds,
dated October 1, 1893, for payment at par and interest on
October 1, at Harvey Fisk & Sons, New York.
BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH.-Application has been
made to the New York Public Service Commission, Second
district, for permission to issue $1,187,079 consolidated
mortgage bonds, bearing interest at 42 per cent., to provide
for extensions and betterments.

CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA.-The directors have authorized
a $200,000,000 mortgage, partly for the purchase of the prop-
erty of the Chicago Union Transfer, including 4,000 acres
of land and 100 miles of track. Of the bond issue author-
ized, it is planned to sell only comparatively small amounts
in the near future. About $50,000,000 bonds are reserved
under the mortgage for refunding the present indebtedness
of the Chicago & Western Indiana. All the bonds will be se-
cured by the property of the Chicago & Western Indiana.
See item in General News.

SELMA, ALA.-An officer of the Southern Railway writes that the freight house at Selma is to be repaired and remodeled. The plans call for a new outbound freight shed, 300 ft. long x 25 ft. wide, with a 60-ft. platform at its east end. The new shed is to be built north of the present station. There will also be a platform 325 ft. long between the present station and the new outbound shed.

CUMBERLAND CORPORATION.-This company, which controls the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, and the Clinchfield Coal Corporation, has recently issued $5,000,000 three-year 5 per cent. notes, dated June 1, 1912, secured by $25,000,000 Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio common stock, and by $5,000,000 of the preferred stock of that company. These notes are convertible at par into preferred stock of the railway company. The $15,000,000 notes of the Cumberland Corporation which matured June 1 have been paid off.

DENVER, NORTHWESTERN & PACIFIC.-After the conference of
the committee representing the note holders, held at the
Bankers' Trust Company, New York, last week, Benjamin
Strong, Jr., vice-president of the Bankers' Trust Company,
and chairman of the note holders' committee, said, "Certain
modifications of the so-called 'Erb plan' were discussed,
and some of them mutually agreed upon. Other points are
still under consideration."

MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS.-This company has taken over
the Wichita Falls & Northwestern and the Wichita Falls &
Southern. The former extends from Wichita Falls, Tex., to
Forgan, Okla., and the latter from Wichita Falls south to
Newcastle, 65 miles.

PARIS & MOUNT PLEASANT.-This company has received per-
mission from the Texas railway commission to issue $300,000
bonds and $75,000 stock on the extension from Bogota, Tex.,
to Mount Pleasant. This line runs from Paris to Bogota,
24 miles, and is under construction from Bogota to Mount
Pleasant, 29 miles.

CUBAN RAILWAY LEASE.-The Jucaro to San Fernando railway, Cuba, has been leased to the Southern Railways for 10 years. A number of improvements are to be made by the lessees.

NEW SOUTH AMERICAN TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY.—A preliminary survey of the transcontinental railway, which will unite the Argentine railway system with the proposed line from Valdivia, Chile, to the Argentine frontier, has been completed. The new railway will be built from San Antonio, in the interior of Argentina, to a connection with a line from Valdivia.

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY, CHINA.-There is renewed activity in building the Canton-Hankow railway, China, northward. This line, which will connect Hongkong with central China, is operating to Lai T'ang, a small village 67 miles from Canton. Grading and bridging up to Mile 79 is almost completed, but grading between there and Mile 85 is delayed because of objections from natives. Bridging and grading up

to Mile 112 is nearly finished. Work between Mile 130 and Mile 140 is in progress and that on the section up to Mile 180 is being rapidly advanced. One of the greatest obstacles to be overcome is the objections raised by natives.