Lake Providence, Hamburg and Eudora districts and Warren and Arkansas City branches; the Louisiana division, with headquarters at Monroe, La., comprises the Monroe, Lake Charles, Gurdon and Felsenthal districts, the Huttig, Farmerville and Black River branches and the Monroe terminal; and the Natchez division, with headquarters at Ferriday, La., has been abolished. A. A. Abell, superintendent of the Valley division at Monroe, La., has been appointed superintendent of the Louisiana division, with headquarters at Monroe. C. M. Andrews, superintendent of the Natchez division, has been appointed superintendent of the Valley division, with office at McGehee, Ark. W. E. Brooks, superintendent of the Colorado division at Pueblo, Col., has been appointed superintendent of the Illinois division, with office at Chester, Ill., succeeding W. E. Merrifield, transferred, and T. A. Shea, superintendent of the White River division at Aurora, Mo., succeeds Mr. Brooks at Pueblo. D. W. Hickey, trainmaster at Poplar Bluff, Mo., has been appointed acting superintendent of the White River division, in place of Mr. Shea. John W. Eber, whose appointment as general superintendent of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo, with headquarters at Hamilton, Ont., has been announced in these columns, was born on July 14, 1871, at Jersey Shore, Pa. He began railway work on February 28, 1890, as a rodman on the West Shore, now a part of the New York Central & Hudson River, and for the ten years following was in the engineering department of that road. From 1900 to 1904 he was supervisor of track of the New York Central, and then for one year was division engineer of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg division. Mr. Eber was engineer of track from 1905 to 1909, and in April, 1909, was appointed assistant superintendent of the New York Central stockyards at Buffalo, N. Y. In March, 1910, he was appointed superintendent of the Adirondack division of the same road, which position he held at the time of his appointment on May 15, as general superintendent of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo, as above noted. John W. Eber. Traffic Officers. Charles A. Redden has been appointed general agent of the Frisco Refrigerator Line, with office at St. Louis, Mo., succeeding E. P. Lannan, resigned to engage in other business. Paul J. Fischer, traveling freight agent of the Wabash at Memphis, Tenn, has been appointed commercial agent, with office at New Orleans, La., where an agency of the road was established, effective July 1. E. K. Voorhees, first assistant general freight agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco, has been appointed a member of the Uniform Classification Committee, succeeding H. A. Poveleite, general freight agent of the Queen & Crescent. W. M. Powers, chief clerk in the general freight office of the St. Louis & San Francisco, at St. Louis, Mo., has been appointed assistant general freight agent, with office at St. Louis, succeeding E. K. Voorhees, who has been appointed a member of the Uniform Classification Committee. John T. Johnston, division freight agent of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, at Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed assistant general freight agent, with office at Pittsburgh. E. F. Austin, commercial agent at Columbus, Ohio, succeeds Mr. Johnston, and H. H. Gray, division freight agent of the Northwestern system of the Pennsylvania at Cambridge, Ohio, succeeds Mr. Austin. Gilbert K. Mitchell has been appointed traveling freight solicitor of the Star Union Line of the Pennsylvania Lines West in connection with the Ironton, Ohio, agency, succeeding Lester Howard, transferred. E. L. Mountfort has been appointed traveling freight solicitor in connection with the Birmingham, Ala., agency; James G. Parnell in connection with the Atlanta, Ga., agency, and Louis J. Reinhardt in connection with the New Orleans, La., agency. Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers. Gerald B. Howard has been appointed chief engineer of the Middle Tennessee and the Nashville Interurban, with office at Nashville, Tenn. H. T. Douglas, Jr., chief engineer of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, at Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed chief engineer of the Chicago & Alton, with office at Chicago. The following officers of the Rock Island Lines have had their jurisdiction extended over the St. Paul & Kansas City Short Line: T. Rumney, assistant vice-president in charge of mechanical matters, with office at Chicago; W. H. Peterson, engineer maintenance of way, with office at Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Peterson succeeding H. L. Jackson, engineer, assigned to other duties; J. B. Kilpatrick, mechanical superintendent, with office at Des Moines, the position of superintendent of motive power of the latter road having been abolished, and J. R. Ruxton having been assigned to other duties. (See item under Operating Officers.) OBITUARY. C. W. Smith, formerly general manager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, died at Pasadena, Cal., on July 1. Mr. Smith was born on September 5, 1831, at Austerlitz, Columbia county, N. Y., and began railway work in 1855 as a local agent on the Columbus, Piqua & Indiana. From 1857 to 1862 he was general freight agent of that road, and was later general freight agent on the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central, and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis. From 1872 to 1875 he was general manager of the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western. He was then general freight agent of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy. and from May, 1878, to April, 1880, was traffic manager of that road. He was then for one year traffic manager of the New York, Lake Erie & Western, and from May, 1881, to December, 1885, was general manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio. From December, 1885, to June, 1889, he was vice-president, and from February, 1886, to May, 1887, was also general manager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, including its coast lines. From June, 1889, to November, 1895 he was engaged in railway expert work. He was receiver of the Atlantic & Pacific (now part of the Santa Fe) from February, 1896, to July, 1897, and from that time until 1903 was president of the Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric. The British government has accepted, as completely satisfactory, the proposals now made for the international control of the projected Trans-Persian line for linking up the Russian and Indian railway systems. The British government has throughout strongly upheld the necessity of absolute equality of British, Russian and French control in the undertaking, and when, some weeks ago, the arrangements proposed were thought not to meet this view, certain modifications were suggested, and some members of the Russian group came to this country last week in connection with this phase of the situation. A formal memorandum has now been drafted and submitted to the British government, and has been accepted as being completely satisfactory. The business of completing the survey of the Trans-Persian line, and of obtaining the necessary concession from Persia, will soon be taken in hand, and it is hoped that this may be completed within a few months, as a great portion of the route has already been surveyed. The question of the break of the gage between Russian and Indian systems, on which the Indian government has already expressed its views, is one of the many questions to be settled, but no difficulty is likely to arise over this matter, as Russia is quite prepared to meet the views of India. Equipment and Supplies. LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. THE GRAND TRUNK has ordered 15 switching locomotives from the Canadian Locomotive Works. THE LIGONIER VALLEY has ordered 1 consolidation locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC has ordered 10 switching locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. THE MICHIGAN ALKALI has ordered 1 six-wheel switching locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE EAST BROAD TOP RAILROAD & COAL COMPANY has ordered 1 mikado locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS OF JAPAN have ordered 24 Mallet locomotives (0-6-6-0) from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 151⁄2 in. and 241⁄2 in. x 24 in.; the dimension of the driving wheels will be 49 in.. and the total weight in working order will be 141,000 lbs. CAR BUILDING. THE LITCHFIELD & MADISON is said to be in the market for 200 steel gondolas. THE LEHIGH VALLEY & NAVIGATION COMPANY is in the market for 175 mine cars. THE GRAND TRUNK is in the market for 2,000 thirty-ton box cars and 50 tank cars. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD has ordered 26 passenger cars from the Pullman Company. THE OREGON ELECTRIC RAILWAY is in the market for 25 60-ft. electric passenger coaches and six 60-ft. electric combination passenger and baggage cars. THE BALTIMORE & ОнIо has ordered 1,000 steel underframes from the Ralston Steel Car Company and 400 steel underframes from the Pressed Steel Car Company. THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY, mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of June 21 as being in the market for 200 box cars, 150 automobile cars and 100 flat cars, is now in the market for 650 box cars and 150 flat cars. IRON AND STEEL. THE CANADIAN NORTHERN is said to be in the market for 10,000 tons of rails. THE PERE MARQUETTE will soon be in the market for 5,000 tons of 90-lb. rails. THE PEORIA & EASTERN has ordered 6,000 tons of rails from the Illinois Steel Company. THE LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE has ordered 12,000 tons of rails from the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. SIGNALING. New Installations of Block Signals, Interlocking, Telephones for Train The Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric has just put in service (at 4 a. m., June 24) 13.2 miles of single track automatic block signaling, the apparatus for which was installed in 30 days. The line equipped is the division between Naval Academy Junction and Annapolis. There are nine a. c. track circuits, seventeen semaphore signals, sixteen light signals, and two switch indicators. Desiring to have this signaling in service for the traffic incident to the Democratic Convention, which opened June 25, the company awarded the contract to the Union Switch & Signal Company on May 6; the first shipment of material arrived on the ground May 23, and the signals were in operation on June 21, a highly creditable record. Supply Trade News. Frank M. Gilmore, president of the E. D. E. Company, Chicago, has been made agent for C. H. Whall & Co., Boston, Mass., with office in Chicago. The Brownell Company, Dayton, Ohio, maker of automatic and throttling engines, boilers, feed water heaters, etc., has opened a branch office in the Oliver building, Pittsburgh, Pa., in charge of B. S. Rederer. The Scullin-Gallagher Iron & Steel Company, St. Louis, Mo., has let contracts for the construction of its No. 3 chipping shop and building, which will be 100 ft. x 600 ft. The three 10-ton cranes for this building were recently ordered from the Alliance Machine Company, Alliance, Ohio. Gilbert H. Pearsall, secretary of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Chicago, has been made a vice-president of the Jacobs-Shupert United States Firebox Company, Coatesville, Pa., and Charles G. H. Pearsall. Brearley Moore, vicepresident of the American Arch Company, New York, has resigned that position to become a vice-president of the Jacob-Shupert company. Mr. Pearsall will be in charge of the New York office of the JacobShupert company. He still retains his position as secretary of the Ryerson company, with which concern he has been connected since May, 1901. Since January 1, 1905, he has been in general charge of the sales of that company. In 1887 Mr. Pearsall entered the service of the Erie, with office at Owego, N. Y. From 1891 to 1897 he was chief rate clerk of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and from 1897 to 1899 he was chief clerk in the traffic manager's office of the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa, now a part of the New York Central Lines. From 1899 and 1901 he was city freight agent and freight agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. In May, 1901, he resigned his position with that road to go to the Ryerson company. Mr. Moore will have charge of the western sales department of the Jacob-Shupert company, with office in Chicago. He was born in McComb, Ill., in 1874, and received his primary education in the public schools, graduating in 1891 from the Kewanee, Ill., high school. In 1895 he graduated from the Lake Forest University and then went to the Northwestern University law school, from which he graduated in 1898. In 1900 he organized the Columbia Boiler Company to make house heating apparatus and boilers. In 1902 he organized the American Locomotive Equipment Company, of which he was general manager and a director until 1911, when he was made president of the company. Mr. Moore shared in the organization of the American C. B. Moore. Arch Company in 1910 and was made vice-president and a director of that company. In 1911 he organized the Boss Nut Company, Chicago, of which he is now a director. Mr. Moore has invented and developed a number of locomotive devices, of which his brick arch is the best known. The Strauss bascule bridge design has recently been adopted by the Canadian Northern for a 101 ft. single-leaf, double-track bridge over the Assiniboine river at Winnipeg, Man.; also for a 96 ft. single-leaf, double-track bridge over Rainy lake; and by the San Antonio & Aransas Pass for a 39 ft. 9 in. single-leaf, single-track bridge over Corpus Christi bay. W. L. Allison, of the Franklin Railway Supply Company, Detroit, Mich., has been made general sales manager of the American Arch Company, New York, with office in Chicago. Mr. Allison will hereafter represent both companies. F. T. Heffelfinger, of Minneapolis, has been elected vice-president of the American Arch Company, succeeding C. B. Moore, resigned, to go to the Jacobs-Shupert United States Fire Box Company, Coatesville, Pa., as vice-president. John Gill, who was superintendent of motive power of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville from 1901 to 1910, has been made manager of the Permanent Manufacturers' Exhibit of Railway Supplies and Equipment in the karpen building, Chicago. Mr. Gill served as machinist apprentice, machinist, gang boss, locomotive fireman and locomotive engineer on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at St. Louis, and was later employed on the Rock Island as locomotive engineer, roundhouse foreman, machine shop foreman, general foreman and master mechanic. The Imperial Car Company, Hamilton, Ont., has been organized with $6,000,000 capital to erect a car building plant on a 50-acre site on the water front east of Hamilton. The company will make wooden and steel freight cars. The contract for the construction of the plant and equipment will be let at once. The capacity of the plant will at first be 30 cars a day, and later will be increased. Among the directors are W. G. Rose, director of the Dominion Steel & Iron Company, Montreal, Que.; G. H. Cohan, president of the Western Canada Power Company, Montreal; Sir Henry Pellatt, Toronto, Ont., and Basil Magor, president of the Magor Car Company, Passaic, N. J. The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., the Equitable Trust Company, New York, the Stone & Webster Corporation, Boston, Mass., and William Morris Imbrie & Company, New York, have formed a syndicate and have bought the controlling interest in the Electric Properties Company, New York, from the Westinghouse Machine Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. This purchase was made to put the Electric Properties Company on a better paying basis and to make it more active in the development of the electrical properties and in the acquisition of new properties. This would enlarge the market of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. No new financing will be done immediately, and the officers and directors will remain unchanged for the present. The annual report of the American Car & Foundry Company, New York, for the year ended April 30, 1912, shows that the net earnings were $2,839,231, as compared with $4,234,789 in the preceding year, a decrease of $1,395,558, after the deduction of $1,354,519 for renewals, replacements, repairs, new patterns, flasks, etc. President F. H. Eaton says that while the net earnings are smaller than in 1911, nevertheless they are gratifyingly large when there is taken into consideration the conditions with which all industries dependent in any degree upon the operations of the railways have had to contend. The railways remained out of the market for new equipment for a very considerable part of the year, and when buying was actively resumed it was on a keenly competitive basis with a narrow margin of profit. The company begins the fiscal year 1912-1913 with all its plants, including the four steel passenger car plants, operating with a comfortable volume of orders. The company has taken advantage of the general slackness existing during a part of the year to make a thorough overhauling of various plants, the expenditure for which has been charged in part against the reserve for that purpose and in part to current earnings. From the reserve for the construction of and additions to steel car plants there has been expended during the year $478,386, for additions to the Berwick, St. Charles, St. Louis, Madison, Wilmington and Chicago plants, leaving at the close of the fiscal year in this account the sum of $799,408. The regular 7 per cent. dividend was paid on the preferred stock and 2 per cent. on the common stock, and $139,231 was added to the surplus as compared with $784,789 added in 1911. The total surplus as of April 30, 1912, was $24,876,576. At the annual meeting in Jersey City on June 27 the officers of the company were all re-elected. Charles F. Uebelacker, Charles N. Black and William von Phul have been made partners of Ford, Bacon & Davis, New York, engineers. Charles F. Uebelacker graduated from Princeton University in 1899 as electrical engineer. During the next few years he was chief engineer of the Short Electric Railway and the Brush Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio; electrical engineer of the Consolidated Traction Company, Newark, N. J., and chief engineer and manager of the Peckham Truck Company, Kingston, N. Y. In 1899 he went to Ford, Bacon & Davis as vice-president and general manager of the Elmira Water Light & Railroad Company, Elmira, N. Y. In 1901 Mr. Uebelacker went to the New York office of Ford, Bacon & Davis, where he has been chief engineer since 1902. Charles N. Black graduated from Princeton University as electrical engineer in 1890. During the following few years he was superintendent of the shops of the Brush Manufacturing Company and manager of the New Haven, Conn., factory of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1899 he went to Ford, Bacon & Davis as chief engineer, which position he held until 1902. Mr. Black was in charge of the conversion of the Kansas City cable system into an electric railway. When this work was completed in 1902 he was made vice-president and general manager of the Kansas City Railway & Light Company, which position he held until 1907, when he was made vice-president and general manager of the United Railroads of San Francisco, which position he now holds. William von Phul graduated from Tulane University in 1891 as mechanical engineer. During the next ten years he was general superintendent of the Louisiana Electric Light Company and of the Edison Electric Light Company, New Orleans, La., and also of the New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad, Light & Power Company. He was then made general superintendent of the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company. In 1905 he went to Ford, Bacon & Davis, with office in New Orleans. Mr. von Phul is also president of the American Cities Company. TRADE PUBLICATIONS. CHICAGO & ALTON.-The passenger department has issued an attractive folder describing the summer resorts reached by the Alton and its principal connections. STEEL VALVES.-The Nelson Valve Company, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., has published a very full booklet on Nelson steel valves, giving illustrations, diagrams, descriptions and prices. These valves are made in a large variety of designs for different purposes. VANADIUM STEELS.-The American Vanadium Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., has published an 80-page booklet on Vanadium Steels, giving information on the experience with these steels up to date. This booklet describes the various compositions and heat treatments, and includes tables of tests. SNOW PLOWS AND CARS.-The Russell Car & Snow Plow Company, Ridgway, Pa., has published a catalog of its snow plows, crane cars, gondola cars, combination baggage and express cars, etc. This catalog includes illustrations, brief descriptions and the principal dimensions of these cars. SOUTHERN RAILWAY.-The industrial department of the Southern Railway has just published a 32-page illustrated booklet on Fruit Growing in the Southeast. Naturally, in the space devoted to the subject, details of land cost and the adaptability of particular localities to particular fruits can only be suggested. The booklet, however, sketches a quite alluring situation in regard to the possibilities of profitable fruit raising in the territory reached by the Southern Railway and its affiliated lines. The booklet is well illustrated by actual photographic views, some of which show orchards of a size which suggests Oregon or California rather than Virginia or North Carolina. It is a booklet that is well worth looking over by anyone who is interested in the agricultural development of the United States. Railway Construction. New Incorporations, Surveys, Etc. AMERICUS, TIFTON & ATLANTIC.-Incorporated in Georgia with $100,000 capital, to build from Americus, Ga., south to the Georgia-Florida state line, about 100 miles. The line may eventually be extended to Jacksonville, Fla. The incorporators include J. S. Shingler, Ashburn, Ga., and H. H. Tift, Tifton. ATLANTA & MACON (Electric).-A contract has been given to the South Atlantic Contracting & Construction Company, Atlanta, Ga., it is said, to build from Atlanta, Ga., southeast to Macon, 88 miles. H. N. Randolph, secretary, Atlanta. (June 21, p. 1589.) CANADIAN NORTHERN.-This company has under construction 853 miles of new lines, as follows: Montreal, Que., to Hawkesbury, 58 miles; Ottawa, Ont., to the Ottawa river, 32 miles; west from Ruel, Ont., 100 miles; east from Port Arthur, 108 miles; branch lines and extensions in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 400 miles; British Columbia, 75 miles; Sydenham, Ont., to Ottawa, 80 miles, and is also relaying track on the main line west, 200 miles. Extensive harbor and terminal improvements are being carried out at Port Mann, B. C.; the plans have been approved and work is to be started soon on large terminal shops and yards. The Montreal, Que., terminals and tunnel are to be completed in 1914. The route of this company's entrance into North Toronto has been approved subject to one slight change. The route follows the line of the Canadian Pacific from a point east of Yonge street to Eglinton avenue, thence southeast to a connection with the Canadian Northern Ontario. CENTRAL IDAHO.-See Oregon Short Line. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.-This company has let contracts for second-track work from Hopkins, Minn., to Cologne, 23 miles, to A. B. Cook & Co., St. Paul; and from Twin Brooks S. Dak., to Summit, 15 miles, to John Marsch, Chicago. CHICAGO, SPRINGFIELD & CAIRO.-Incorporated in Illinois with $10,000 capital and headquarters at Chicago to build from Chicago, south to Springfield and Cairo. The incorporators include D. P. Phelps, M. C. Myers, C. G. Fox, J. T. Darling and W. C. Gregory, all of Chicago. COLORADO & SOUTHERN.-An officer writes that the improvements to be carried out on the line from Orin Junction, Wyo., south includes replacing 56 lb. rail with 85 lb. rail on 35 miles. and constructing a four-stall temporary engine house and a 50 ton coal chute at Hartville Junction. H. W. Cowan, chief engineer, Denver, Colo. (May 17, p. 1139.) GEORGIA COAST & PIEDMONT.-This company has made a mortgage and plans to build an extension from Darien, Ga., to Brunswick, 15 miles. The work is to be started about July 15. GEORGIA ROADS.-Plans are being made, it is said, to build from Macon, Ga., west to Waverly Hall, about 70 miles. Trackage rights may be secured for a section of about 15 miles over the Macon & Birmingham. The Macon Chamber of Commerce, and S. W. Hatcher, are interested. GULF, TEXAS & WESTERN-An officer writes that a contract has been given to the Texas Building Company, Fort Worth, Tex., to build an extension from Jacksboro, Tex., south to Saleville, 23 miles, where connection is to be made with the Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern. The contract provides for the completion of the line ready for operation, with the exception of the rails and fastenings, which have already been bought. (June 14, p. 1364.) HUNTINGTON, RICHMOND & HAMILTON.-Incorporated in Indiana with $100,000 capital to build from Huntington, Ind., south via Bluffton, Portland and Union City to Richmond, 98 miles. The directors include S. H. Bracey, L. Brandenburg, F. A. Dolph and F. Bimmel. IRON COUNTY CENTRAL.-Incorporated in Missouri, with $60,000 capital, to build a six-mile line from Bixby, Mo., to timberlands. The incorporators include L. T. Carroll, D. A. Bixby and A. B. Brigham, St. Louis, Mo. MEXICAN PACIFIC.-Financial arrangements are said to be made to build between Balsas, Guerrero, Mex., and the Pacific ports of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, with a branch to Urupan, Michoacan, in all about 580 miles. Preliminary surveys have been made and sections of the line have been located. Several miles of grade has been constructed from Acapulco. The plans call for building two large cement docks, one at Acapulco and the other at Zihuatanejo. The concession from the Mexican government requires that the work shall be finished within seven years from the signing of the contract, and the company plans to finish all the work within five years. A large force of men are to be put at work within the next few months. Connection is to be made at Balsas with the Cuernavaca division of the National Railways of Mexico, and the branch line will connect at Urupan with the Morelia division of the National Railways of Mexico. The route is through a mountainous section. M. Thomson, president, Seattle, Wash.; Joseph Castlelot, vicepresident, and Henry Weiss, general manager, Mexico City. (April 5, page 824.) MISSOURI PACIFIC.-An officer writes regarding the reports that St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern from St. Louis, Mo., south to Texarkana, Ark., 494 miles, is to be double tracked that the company does not contemplate at present carrying out this work, but will double track the part of the line where the traffic is the heaviest. Double track is being put in between Bald Knob, Ark., and McAlmond, nine miles; 100-lb. rail is being used. When the work now under way is completed, the Iron Mountain will have 1911⁄2 miles of double track. The company does not contemplate at the present time the construction of an extension to New Orleans, La. Work on the extension from West Memphis, Ark., southwest to Marianna, is partly completed. This work has been seriously interfered with by high water from the Mississippi and the St. Francis rivers. That entire division has been under water for about two months past, and the company was only recently able to resume work on the track. The line will probably be completed and put in operation in three or four months. E. F. Mitchell, chief engineer, St. Louis, Mo. NATIONAL RAILWAYS OF MEXICO.-See an item on New Construction in Mexico under General News. NORFOLK & WESTERN.-An officer writes that there is no truth in the report that second track is to be laid near Farmville, Va. The only double-tracking work under way is being carried out on the eastern end between Gilmerton, Va., and Suffolk, also between Nottoway and Burkeville, and between Evergreen and Phoebe. C. S. Churchill, chief engineer, Roanoke, Va. OREGON EASTERN.-See Oregon Short Line. OREGON SHORT LINE.-Work is now under way on the Teuton Basin branch from Ashton, Idaho, southeast to Driggs, 371⁄2 miles. The Central Idaho is building from Richfield, Idaho, west to Taft, 58 miles; the Salt Lake & Idaho is building from Burley, Idaho, southeast to Kelton Summit at the Utah-Idaho state line, 601⁄2 miles. The line has been graded and is ready for track laying, but construction work has been suspended, due to an injunction of the United States government. This line will eventually be extended southwest, it is said, to a connection with the Southern Pacific at Saline on the Ogden-Lucin cutoff. Work is also under way on the Southside line from Nyssa, Ore., south to Homedale, Idaho, 26 miles. This line is eventually to be extended, it is said, to Buhl, the present terminus of the Twin City Falls branch. The Oregon Eastern is building from Vale, Ore., southwest to Dog Mountain, 139 miles. This is to be the first section of a line through central Oregon, and there will be several tunnels and numerous bridges on the line. Double-tracking work is also being carried out from Ogden south to Farmington on the last 201⁄2 miles. This work completes the double-tracking from Salt Lake City, Utah, north to Ogden. Plans are now being made for building several other new lines on which construction work has not yet been authorized. QUANAH, SEYMOUR, DUBLIN & ROCKPORT.-An officer writes that a contract has been entered into by this company with E. Cowperthwaite and associates, of London, England, to finance and build this line from Rockport, Tex., on the gulf coast, to Belton. This work is to be finished within two years, and the section from Belton to Quanah, near the Oklahoma state line, is to be finished within three years. L. E. Walker, president, Austin; R. Y. Walker, chief engineer, Belton. (March 29, p. 781.) ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & SOUTHERN.-See Missouri Pacific. SALT LAKE & IDAHO.-See Oregon Short Line. TENNESSEE RAILROAD.-Organized in Tennessee with $10,000 capital to build from Iron City, Lawrence county, Tenn., northwest to Olivehill, Hardin county, about 40 miles. The incorporators include C. N. Brady, R. D. Baker, I. L. Pendleton, W. W. Collin and J. H. De Witt. TEXAS ROADS.-Plans are being made to build from Corsicana, Tex., southeast to Palestine, about 60 miles. G. R. Turner is the promoter. VIRGINIA-CAROLINA.-An officer writes that plans call for building an extension south from the mouth of the Green Cove creek following the course of that creek through Washington and Grayson counties, Va., thence along Horse creek in Ashe county, N. C., up the North Fork of New river and along Buffalo creek via Jefferson, to Elk Cross Roads (Todd) on the county line between Ashe and Watuga counties, thence to Boone. It has not yet been definitely decided when bids will be asked for the work, which will be largely through a mountaincus section. The company expects to develop a traffic in forest products, agricultural products, ore and coal. P. W. Early, chief engineer, Abingdon, Va. (June 28, p. 1627.) WHITE SULPHUR & HUNTERSVILLE.-Incorporated in West Virginia, with $30,000 capital, to build from White Sulphur, W. Va., northeast to Huntersville, about 40 miles. The incorporators include F. A. Hauck, Ronceverte, W. Va., and W. B. Bunting, Baltimore. RAILWAY STRUCTURES. BALLSTON, N. Y.-See Boonville, N. Y. BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.-The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis has approved contracts for improvements to its shops and yards at this point to be made this summer, at an estimated cost of $178,000. BOONVILLE, N. Y.-Applications have been made by the State Highway Commission to the New York Public Service Commission, Second district, asking for the elimination of railway grade crossings as follows: New York Central & Hudson River in Boonville, Oneida county, and in the town of Canton, St. Lawrence county; New York. Ontario & Western in Hastings, Oswego county, and the Delaware & Hudson in Ballston, Saratoga county. The state's proportion of the cost for the removal of these crossings is to be paid from the good roads fund. BREWSTER, N. Y.-The New York Public Service Commission, Second district, has ordered the elimination of the New York Central & Hudson River grade crossing in the town of Southeast, near Brewster, Putnam county. The highway is to be carried under the tracks by means of a subway. The state's proportion of the cost of this improvement will be paid out of the good roads fund. CANTON, N. Y.-See Boonville, N. Y. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.-The Chicago & North Western will build a new freight station at an estimated cost of $42,000, to replace the old building which was burned last winter. HARTVILLE JUNCTION, WYO.-See Colorado & Southern under Railway Construction. HASTINGS, N. Y.-See Boonville, N. Y. HAWKINSVILLE, GA.-The Gulf Line will put up a brick passenger station, it is said, at Hawkinsville. MONTREAL, QUE.-See Canadian Northern under Railway Con struction. PORT MANN, B. C.-See Canadian Northern under Railway Construction. ST. PAUL, MINN.-The Chicago Great Western is preparing plans for a new bridge to be built over the Mississippi river at St. Paul, 742 ft. long. There will be seven plate girder spans and one 190 ft. vertical lift truss span. TEXARKANA, TEX.-The Kansas City Southern has announced that a new passenger station costing from $125,000 to $150,000 will be built immediately. TRENTON, ONT.-Residents of Trenton have voted to grant to the Canadian Pacific a free site for a roundhouse and station on condition that Trenton is made a division point. The station, yard and shops are to be located in the eastern part of the town and in part of Sidney township. Railway Financial News. CENTRAL PACIFIC.-Final arrangements have been made and the last of the 1911 issue of 50,000,000 francs ($10,000,000) have been officially listed on the Paris Bourse. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CF INDIANA.-This company, all of whose stock is owned by the C. & O., has increased its stock from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000. Of the new stock, 132,706 is to be issued for capital expenditures already made. CHICAGO & ALTON.-E. A. Worthington, recently elected president, has been made a director, succeeding J. Steuart MacKie, resigned. CHICAGO, MEMPHIS & GULF.-The United States district court has overruled the demurrer of the C. M. & G., in a proceeding brought by the Illinois Central to enforce an option of the Illinois Central to buy the C. M. & G. One of the grounds on which the demurrer was filed was that the option was against public policy and against the interest of the public. The agreement, as claimed to be by the Illinois Central, was, that should the Chicago, Memphis & Gulf be extended to connect with any other line than the Illinois Central, the I. C. was to have an option purchase. CONNELLSVILLE STATE LINE.-See Western Maryland. FORT DODGE, DES MOINES & SOUTHERN.-The United States district court has authorized the issue of $800,000 receivers certificates. The proceedings of the sale are to be used to pay off $720,000 receivers' certificates now outstanding, and to make improvements costing $80,000. GEORGE'S CREEK & CUMBERLAND.-See Western Maryland. GEORGIA COAST & PIEDMONT.-F. J. Lisman & Co., New York, have bought a block of the company's $3,500,000 authorized 5 per cent. bonds of April 1, 1912-1962. NEW YORK, ONTARIO & WESTERN.-Directors have voted not to pay a dividend for the year ended June 30, 1912. There is $58,113,982 stock outstanding, of which the New York, New Haven & Hartford owns $29,160,000. Since 1906, the N. Y. O. & W. has paid annual dividends of 2 per cent. In a statement issued by the management, it was said that the year's gross carnings were estimated at $8,500,000, or about $800,000 less than in the previous years, and that the final surplus available for dividends would be about $470,000, which is less by $670,000 than the surplus available for dividends at the end of the 1911 fiscal year. NORFOLK SOUTHERN.-Stockholders have authorized a bond issue of $5,456,000 for the acquisition and extension from Raleigh, N. C., to Charlotte, of the Raleigh, Charlotte & Southern properties. PERE MARQUETTE.-No cash has been provided for interest due July 1, on the outstanding $5,000,000 six per cent. debentures. These debentures were the ones issued to preferred and common stockholders in the reorganization of 1907. ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & SOUTHERN.-To facilitate the execution of the new $200,000,000 refunding mortgage. seven New York directors of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern have resigned, and have been succeeded by seven residents of Arkansas. This temporary change has been made to comply with certain requirements of the Arkansas state laws. TOLEDO TERMINAL R. R.-D. C. Moon and E. J. Chamberlin have been elected directors, succeeding C. E. Schaff, resigned, and Charles M. Hayes, deceased. H. B. Ledyard has also been elected a director. WESTERN MARYLAND.-The Cumberland extension, which connects with the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, will be operated under the names of the George's Creek & Cumberland and the Connellsville State Line. The railway from Toledo, Chile, to Vallenar is nearing completion. The total length of the line is 104 miles, 32 miles of which are still to be constructed. |