H. M. Cobb, agent, at Augusta, Ga., succeeds Mr. Caldwell. commercial agent at Charleston, S. C., succeeds Mr. Smith, with office at Augusta. William Darius Skinner, who has been appointed assistant traffic manager of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, with office at Portland, Ore., as has been announced in these columns, was born April 10, 1873, at Coldwater, Mich. He received a high school education at Cedar Springs, Mich. Mr. Skinner began railway work July 2, 1890, with the Iowa Central at Marshalltown, Iowa, where he occupied various positions in the accounting department until September, 1894, his last position having been that of chief revising clerk. He then went with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company at Portland, Ore., where he was consecutively revising clerk in the accounting department, chief clerk in the freight accounting department, and chief clerk in the general freight office. In September, 1904, Mr. Skinner was promoted to assistant general freight agent of the O. R. & N. and the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon, and on January 1, 1910, he was made general freight and passenger agent of the Oregon & Washington at Seattle, Wash. When the Oregon & Washington and the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company were merged in the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company in January, 1911, he was given the same title with the latter company, and from December 15, 1911, until July 22, 1912, the date of his recent promotion to assistant traffic manager, he was general freight agent in charge of rates and tariffs. Engineering and Rolling Stock Officers. William O'Connell has been appointed roadmaster of the Kansas City Southern, with headquarters at Pittsburg, Kan., succeeding J. W. Ross, transferred to Neosho, Mo. J. O. Enockson, roundhouse foreman of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, at Altoona, Wis., has been appointed master mechanic, with headquarters at Sioux City, Iowa. F. Lavis has been appointed chief engineer of the Argentine Railway Company, with office at Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic. He retains his office as a consulting engineer at 50 Church street, New York. umns. Joseph Ury Crawford, consulting engineer of the Pennsyl- of Pennsylvania, in the J. U. Crawford. he returned to this country he was employed by the late Jay Gould to make transcontinental examinations and surveys between the Pacific coast and Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as in Wyoming and Nebraska. In the fall of 1882 he returned to the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad as chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, and in 1886 and 1887 built the Piedmont & Cumberland. He was appointed assistant to J. N. Du Barry, second vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad in August, 1889, and on the death of that officer was appointed engineer of branch lines. In addition to that position he was a director of various branch railways associated with the Pennsylvania system. On July 28, 1897, he was appointed chief engineer in charge of the construction of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line, which connects with the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk. From October, 1898, to May, 1899, he was consulting engineer for the United States government to examine into and report upon the transportation facilities in Cuba. On April 8, 1902, he was appointed engineer of the New York Connecting Railroad, and has continued in that position. In the fall of 1910 Mr. Crawford was again decorated by the Emperor of Japan for faithful service as consulting engineer and inspector of the Imperial Government Railways, this time with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Insignia of the Third Class, Rising Sun. Since January 5, 1911, he has been consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Robert Robertson, who has been for some time in the mechanical department of the Guayaquil & Quito, at La Tacunga, Ecuador, has been appointed superintendent of motive power and floating equipment, with headquarters at Huigra, succeeding C. O. Bertsch, resigned. A. J. Baumbush has been appointed general foreman of the New York Central & Hudson River, at the Grand Central Terminal, New York. He will be in charge of inspection, repairs and cleaning of all equipment entering the terminal, whether owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford on the New York Central. For the purpose of investigation and consideration by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern of special engineering subjects the position of consulting engineer has been created, Samuel Rockwell, with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. heretofore chief engineer, has been appointed consulting engineer, reporting to the general manager. P. H. Dudley remains consulting engineer of the New York Central Lines, with office at New York. Mr. Frank Ringer, whose appointment as engineer maintenance of way of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with office at Parsons, Kan., has been announced in these columns, was born August 17, 1869, at Paola, Kan. He is a graduate of the school of engineering of the University of Kansas. Ringer began railway work in June, 1894, with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and has been in continuous service on that road. He was levelman on location for six months; was rodman and instrumentman on maintenance of way from November, 1894, to May, 1895, and from the latter date until June, He was 1902, was draftsman in the chief engineer's office. then appointed assistant engineer in the chief engineer's office, in charge of location and construction of extensions in Oklahoma, and in April, 1905, was made resident engineer in charge of maintenance of way at Sedalia, Mo., where he remained until February of the following year. He was principal assistant engineer, at Parsons, in charge of maintenance of way and extension improvements in Oklahoma, from February, 1906, to August, 1911. He was then appointed assistant chief engineer, with office at St. Louis, Mo., which position he held until August 1, 1912, the date of his recent promotion to engi neer maintenance of way. OBITUARY. Wesley C. Beach, engineer in charge of construction of the Des Moines-Allerton cut-off of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, died, following an operation, in Chicago on August 23. Mr. Beach was 48 years of age. AUGUST 30, 1912. Equipment and Supplies. LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. THE GRAND TRUNK is in the market for 25 locomotives. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC is figuring on 50 mikado locomotives. SUSSDORF, ZALDO & COMPANY, New York, are in the market for 1 locomotive. THE LEHIGH VALLEY is in the market for 7 mikado locomotives and 5 Pacific type locomotives. THE KEYSTONE MILLS COMPANY has ordered 1 mogul locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE CANADIAN PACIFIC is in the market for 25 ten-wheel locomotives and 25 consolidation locomotives. THE PENNSYLVANIA LINES WEST have ordered 50 locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. THE SAN ANTONIO & ARANSAS PASS has ordered 10 consolidation locomotives from the Lima Locomotive Corporation. THE NEW JERSEY ZINC COMPANY has ordered 1 six-wheel switching locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE PALMETTO PHOSPHATE COMPANY has ordered 1 sixcoupled double-ender locomotive from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD is in the market for 6 ten-wheel locomotives and 4 six-wheel switching locomotives. This company is also in the market for 10 underframes for six-wheel switching locomotives. THE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, San Francisco, Cal., has ordered 1 four-wheel switching locomotive from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 11 in. x 16 in.; diameter of driving wheels will be 33 in., and the total weight in working order will be 39,000 lbs. THE LA BELLE IRON WORKS, Steubenville, Ohio, has ordered 1 four-wheel switching locomotive from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 17 in. x 24 in.; the diameter of the driving wheels will be 50 in., and the total weight in working order will be 98,000 lbs. THE BUCKEYE STEEL CASTINGS COMPANY, Columbus, Ohio, has ordered 1 six-wheel switching locomotive from the American Locomotive Company. The dimensions of the cylinders will be 20 in. x 26 in.; the diameter of the driving wheels will be 50 in., and the total weight in working order will be 129,000 lbs. THE BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH has ordered 1 Pacific type locomotive and 9 mikado locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. The Pacific type locomotive will have 241⁄2 in. x 26 in. cylinders; 73 in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 258,000 lbs. The mikado locomotives will have 262-in. x 30-in. cylinders; 63-in. driving wheels, and in working order will weigh 275,000 lbs. CAR BUILDING. THE WABASH is making inquiries for 500 hopper cars. THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD is in the market for 65 coaches. THE MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS is in the market for 2,000 box cars. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC is in the market for 2,500 center sills for 40-ton box cars. THE ARMOUR CAR LINES, Chicago, will build 500 refrigerator cars at the company's shops. THE WELLS FARGO EXPRESS COMPANY, New York, is in the market for from 40 to 75 express cars. THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN is in the market for 1,000 coal cars, 200 automobile cars and 100 ballast cars. THE CANADIAN PACIFIC is in the market for 1,000 box cars, 20 baggage cars, 15 tourist cars and 10 first-class coaches. IRON AND STEEL. THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE is making inquiries for 40,000 tons of rails. THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY is making inquiries for 50,000 tons of rails. Supply Trade News. 407 The American Locomotive Company, New York, has received an order from the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company for one 12-ft. cut, scoop-wheel, rotary snow plow, with 9,000-gal. tender, and with 18-in. x 26-in. cylinders. The Pennsylvania Railroad has ordered four car floats for use in the New York harbor. Two of the floats will be built by the American Car & Foundry Company, New York; one by the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company, Perth Amboy, N. J., and the other by Ira Bushley, Brooklyn, N. Y. W. M. Davidson, associated with J. W. Forsinger, Chicago, in charge of railway time inspection service, has resigned to enter partnership with R. S. Church, chief watch inspector for several large western roads. The new firm will be Church, Davidson & Company, with headquarters in Chicago. E. L. Burdick, whose resignation as assistant engineer of tests of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with headquarters in Topeka, Kan., effective on September 1, was announced last week, has been appointed mechanical engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa., with office in that city. K. F. Nystrom has been appointed mechanical engineer of the Acme Supply Company, Chicago, with office in that city. Mr. Nystrom was formerly connected with the Southern Pacific as designing engineer for its electric motor cars, and later was assistant mechanical engineer at the St, Charles, Ill., plant of the American Car & Foundry Company, New York. The Isthmian Canal Commission will receive bids until September 4 on miscellaneous supplies, including galvanized sheet iron and steel, Babbitt metal, brass tubing, chain, iron and steel washers, steam and water gages, hose, packing, gaskets, magnesia pipe covering, etc. (Circular 726); and until September 10, on iron and steel castings, steel reinforcing bars, cross ties, etc. (Circular 727). The Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., has received a contract to equip the Duluth, Minn., plant of the Minnesota Steel Company. The equipment includes one 40-in. reversing blooming mill, one 28-in. finishing mill, one 18-in. roughing mill, a 40-in. and 60-in. x 60-in. twin tandem reversing engine, and a 28-in. rail mill with manipulator and gear. The contract is for delivery within from eight months to a year. Henry W. Jacobs, as was mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of August 23, has been made president of the Oxweld Railroad Service Company, Chicago. This company was organ re ized to install oxyacetylene welding plants on railways. G. H. Pearsall and C. B. Moore, who were cently made vice-presidents of the Jacobs-Shupert U. S. Firebox Company, New York, as mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of July 5, page 35, have also been made vice-president and vice-president and treasurer, respectively, of the Oxweld company. Mr. Jacobs was born in Atchison, Kan., September 28, 1874. At the age of 13 he began his apprenticeship as machinist, moulder and structural iron worker in the Seaton Foundry & Machine Company, Atchison. After serving five years with that company, he went to the United States Gun Shop, Washington, D. C., as machinist. He familiarized himself with the design, construction and performance of marine engines, as for several years he was engaged in testing marine machinery on ves Henry W. Jacobs. sels. He then went to the Sprague Electric Company, New York, and later to the Crocker-Wheeler Company, Ampere, N. J. He then went to R. Hoe & Company, makers of printing presses and newspaper machinery, as tool designer. In 1899 he was made superintendent of the Vulcan Engineering Company, New York, engaged in general repair work and building stationary and marine machinery. He then entered railway service as tool foreman of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. He held this position at various shops of that road until 1903, when he was made shop demonstrator of the Omaha, Neb., shops of the Union Pacific. Later he was given supervision of shop practices and methods in all the repair shops of that company. In 1904 he was made engineer of shop methods for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and in December, 1906, assistant superintendent of motive power, with jurisdiction over the entire system, which position he held until July 1, 1912, when he resigned to go to the Oxweld company. TRADE PUBLICATIONS. DENVER & RIO GRANDE. The passenger department has issued a handsome folder in the interest of the forty-sixth National Encampment of the G. A. R., to be held in Los Angeles, Cal., September 9-14. The folder is illustrated with views in and around Los Angeles and along the route. PUMPING BY COMPRESSED AIR.-The Ingersoll-Rand Company, New York, has devoted catalog No. 75 to Water Lifted by Compressed Air. This catalog is well illustrated and explains thoroughly the different methods employed, and includes figures showing the actual cost of operating the installations. HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENT.-The General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has published bulletin No. 4966 on Hydro-Electric Power Development, illustrating and describing in considerable detail a number of important developments of this nature. The bulletin includes a long list of large transformers built by this company. WHITE RIVER DEVELOPMENT.-The Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, Mass., has published an unusually attractive booklet entitled White River Development, in which the work done by this corporation in the Puget Sound district of Washington is illustrated and described. The booklet is an excellent example of how attractive an industrial publication may be made. The photographs are clear and well chosen, and the typography and paper are of the best. It is bound in heavy green paper and on the cover is a tastefully colored bird's-eye view of the region described. GRAIN ELEVATORS IN RUSSIA.-It is reported that a group of American capitalists have approached the Russian government with a request for permission to form a company, the object of which would be to equip Russia with a system of grim elevators. The government, however, is also considering the construction of a number of such granaries. NEW BRIDGE FOR THE VOGAL RIVER, RUSSIA.-The Russian government has consented to the construction of a bridge across the Volga river near Simbirsk. This will be the fifth bridge and the longest of all. It will have a length of 6,300 ft. The bridge will provide an outlet for grain from the province of Ufa. The construction of the bridge is intrusted to the VolgaBougoulma railway. NEW LINES IN RUSSIA.-The Tumen-Omsk railway will be completed before the end of the year. The ministry of ways of communication proposes to divide this Siberian line into two separate railways-the Tomsk railway and the Omsk railway with the Omsk-Tumen branch. A group of Moscow financiers has applied to the ministry of finance for permission to construct the Kazan-Ekaterinburg railway, with a branch from Nizhni-Novgorod to Kotelnitch. The Moscow railway had previously applied for the concession, and in view of the fact that there are now other competitors, the ministry's decision of the question has been postponed until autumn. The head office of the newly formed East Ural railway will be located in St. Petersburg and the management of the line at Ekaterinburg. Besides this line, several others in the east of Russia are to have their official headquarters in St. Petersburg. Railway Construction. New Incorporations, Surveys, Etc. ALBUQUERQUE EASTERN.-See New Mexico Central. ARKANSAS ROADS.-Residents of Texarkana, Ark., are organizing a company to build from Texarkana northeast via Nashville, New Boston and DeKalb to Clarksville, about 140 miles. Rollin W. Rodgers, Texarkana, may be addressed. BINGHAM & GARFIELD.-An officer writes that this company, which operates a line from Garfield Junction, Utah, south to Bingham, 191⁄2 miles, has given a contract to the Utah Construction Company to build an extension from the southern terminus north, thence south into the Bingham mining district. The extension is located on steep mountain sides, working from a level of 6,340 ft. above sea level to an elevation of 6,687 ft. It will be a switchback railway on 4 per cent. maximum grades, compensated, and with 16 deg. maximum curves. There will be two wooden frame trestles on pile foundations, one 428 ft. long with a maximum height of 30 ft., and one 590 ft. long with a maximum height of 91 ft. The company is building a five-stall engine house, car repair shop, and coaling station at Magna, also the necessary hotel accommodations, sleeping quarters, etc., for the employees. The Bingham & Garfield was originally built to carry ore from the Bingham mining district to the mills and smelters at Garfield. H. C. Goodrich, chief engineer, Salt Lake City. CANADIAN PACIFIC.-According to press reports, the Canadian Pacific has under consideration the question of building an extension north via Chatham, Ont., and Petrolia to Sarnia. J. M. R. Fairbairn, Montreal, Que., is assistant chief engineer of the eastern lines. CHERRYVALE, OKLAHOMA & TEXAS.-This company was incorporated in Oklahoma in 1902 to build from Kansas City, Mo., southwest to El Paso, Tex. In June last it was said that grading had been finished on about 30 miles from Caney, Kan., south to Nowata, Okla. The company gave notice in Paris some weeks ago of its intention to exchange some of its outstanding bonds for a new issue, so that all of the $2,000,000 bonds outstanding shall have the same par value. Last May the company filed an application in Oklahoma to change its name to the Kansas, Oklahoma & Southwestern. It is the intention, it is said, to complete the line from Caney, southwest to Siloam Springs, Ark., 100 miles, and from Caney to Pawhuska, Okla., 40 miles. The directors include R. E. Wade, G. A. Masters, S. M. Porter, Caney. (May 31, p. 1220.) CLARKSBURG NORTHERN.-An officer writes that the general contract has been given to Joseph Fuccy, New Martinsville, W. Va., to build from New Martinsville, south via Middlebourne, Centerville, Shirley, Center Point, Sedalia and Pittsburgh Landing to Salem, 49 miles. Grading on the first 14 miles has been finished to Middlebourne, and track has been laid on 1⁄2 mile. The maximum grade will be 2 per cent., and maximum curvature 12 deg. There will be a 110-ft. steel bridge and a 46-ft. steel bridge. The following trestles will be put up: 20 ft. high and 1,155 ft. long; 45 ft. high and 300 ft. long; 40 ft. high and 600 ft. long; 76 ft. high and 315 ft. long; and 17 trestles having an average height of 12 ft., and an average length of 78 ft. The company expects to develop a traffic in coal and farm produce. Joseph Fuccy, president; H. M. Fry, chief engineer, New Martinsville. DALLAS SOUTHERN TRACTION.-The Stone & Webster Management Association, Boston, Mass., has finished work on the Dallas Southern Traction from Dallas, Tex., south to Waxahachie, about 30 miles, and the line is ready for operation. [See Texas Roads (Electric)], July 12, p. 81. GRAND TRUNK.-The Southern New England is surveying a line from the Central Vermont westward to Holyoke, Mass., about 15 miles. Surveyors for the line from New Hampshire southward to Boston, Mass., are now engaged under the direction of George M. Thompson in running a line through the towns of Dunstable, Tyngsboro, Lowell, Billerica, Bedford, Lexington and Arlington. (June 14, p. 1364.) GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC.-The Pacific Great Eastern recently started a fifth surveying party out of Vancouver, B. C., to the section southwest of Lillooet, B. C., which is said to be the roughest district through which the line is to be built. Surveys are also being made west of West Vancouver and northeast of Newport, at the head of Howe sound. The plans call for building from Vancouver north to the Grand Trunk Pacific at Fort George, about 350 miles. J. W. Stewart, of Foley, Welch & Stewart, St. Paul, Minn., may be addressed. (August 2, p. 229.) According to press reports, work has been started on a 22mile line from a connection with the Great Northern, at Niobe, N. Dak., to a point on the Canadian boundary 12 miles west of North Portal, Sask., where connection is to be made with the Grand Trunk Pacific. HUDSON BAY RAILWAY.-Bids are being received until September 12, by L. K. Jones, assistant deputy minister and secretary, Department of Railways & Canals, Ottawa, Ont., for building the Hudson Bay Railway from Split Lake Junction, Keewatin, to the Hudson Bay terminus. Separate bids are wanted for work from Split Lake Junction northeast to Port Nelson, on Hudson bay, about 165 miles, and from Split Lake Junction northeast to Fort Churchill, about 245 miles. J. D. McArthur, Winnipeg, Man., has the contract to build the first section of 185 miles from LePas, Keewatin, northeast, and has recently been given a contract for an additional 68-mile section from Thicket Portage to Split Lake Junction. (July 19, p. 143.) KANSAS CITY, MEXICO & ORIENT-According to press reports, a contract has been given to M. A. Wogan, for grading work on the section between Fort Stockton, Tex., and Alpine. The track laying is to be carried out by the company's men. W. W. Colpitts, chief engineer, Kansas City, Mo. (July 12, p. 81.) KANSAS, OKLAHOMA & SOUTHWESTERN.-See Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texas. LAKE ERIE & NORTHERN (Electric).-An officer writes that contracts are to be let about September 15. The plans call for building from Brantford, Ont., to Port Dover, and to Galt. The cut and fill work will average 20,000 cu. yds. a mile. The maximum grades will be 1 per cent., maximum curvature 6 deg. There will be one steel bridge 450 ft. long, and another 438 ft. long. The company expects to develop traffic in coal, metals, agricultural machinery and agricultural products. John Muir, president; W. P. Kellett, chief engineer, Brantford. (June 14, p. 1365.) a MANISTEE & REPTON.-An officer of this company, which operates a line from Manistee Junction, Ala., west to Manistee, 19 miles, writes that the company has finished work on 42-mile line north to Monroeville, and the line is now open for freight business. J. A. Kauffman, vice-president and general manager, Manistee. MASSACHUSETTS ROADS (ELECTRIC).-According to press reports, work is to be pushed on the line building from a connection with the Berkshire Street Railway at Lee, Mass., southeast to a connection with the Springfield Street Railway Company at Huntington, 27 miles. The Western Massachusetts Construction Company has the contract, and has sublet some of the work to Carter & Company. It is planned to finish the work by January 1, 1913. MOUNT IDA, OUACHITA VALLEY & HOT SPRINGS.-According to press reports, construction work is to be started at once on a line to connect Mount Ida, Ark., with Womble, 12 miles. Dr. G. Cox is president, and C. C. Godman, Forth Smith, Ark., is interested. NEW MEXICO CENTRAL.-Regarding the reports that the branch to be built under the name of the Albuquerque Eastern is to be completed at an early date from Moriarty, N. Mex., west to Albuquerque, about 45 miles; an officer writes that the New Mexico Central being still in the hands of a receiver, it has not been decided when action will be taken to carry out this work. H. A. Coomer, general manager, Santa Fe, N. Mex. NEW YORK SUBWAYS.-Bids for the construction of four additional sections of the new rapid transit system have been asked by the New York Public Service Commission. First dis trict, bids to be opened on September 10, 11, 12 and 13. The cost of these sections will probably be about $10,000,000. The four sections include one section in Manhattan, one in the Bronx and two in Brooklyn. The Manhattan section is in the southern part of Manhattan, and will connect the proposed East river tunnel with the Broadway subway, to be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The Bronx section is in 138th street and Southern Boulevard, and forms the first part of the Pelham bay branch of the Lexington avenue subway, which will be operated by the Interborough. The two Brooklyn sections are an extension of the Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn from Forty-third street down Fourth avenue to Eighty-ninth street. These will be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. (August 9, p. 271.) OREGON ROADS.-The Silver Falls Lumber Company, Portland, Ore., has given a contract to Flagg & Standifer, Portland, to build a 25-mile logging line from Silverton, Ore., southeasterly. PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN.-See Grand Trunk Pacific. SHELBYVILLE & FRANKFORT (Electric).-An officer writes that the prospects of building are good. The projected route is from Shelbyville, Ky., east via Clay Village, Graefenburg and Bridgeport to Frankfort, about 25 miles. There will be two 200-ft. steel bridges. E. H. Taylor, Jr., president, Frankfort, and Rowland Cox, chief engineer, Taylorville. SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.-See Grand Trunk. TENNESSEE NORTHEASTERN.-This company, which was incorporated several years ago to build 80 miles of line in Tennessee, is planning to sell $750,000 of bonds. The original plans call for building from Winfield, Tenn., on the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, southwest through Scott, Fentress, Cumberland and White counties, to a point on the Nashville, Chattanooga, & St. Louis, near Ravenscroft, about 80 miles. The line will open up coal and timber sections. D. L. Fickes, president, Scranton, Pa.; W. R. Case, secretary, Jamestown, Tenn. (See an item under Railway Financial News.) RAILWAY STRUCTURES. BRANTFORD, ONT.-See Lake Erie & Northern (Electric) under Railway Construction. CUMBERLAND, MD.-The Baltimore & Ohio will build a freight house and team track at Cumberland. The freight house will be 37 ft. wide x 150 ft. long, with platform extensions at both ends. The building will have concrete foundations, steel or concrete frame with rolling steel frame doors and slate roof. A contract for this improvement has been given to P. Farrell, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The cost of the work will be about $50,000. New engine terminals will also be built at Cumberland, to include a new 31-stall engine house. In addition there will be a power house 65 ft. x 65 ft., with a radial brick stack 150 ft. high, and a machine shop 70 ft. wide x 142 ft. long. These three buildings will be constructed of brick and steel. A cinder pit 150 ft. long will be built to accommodate engines on two tracks. There will be a reinforced concrete mechanical coaling station, with a storage capacity of 600 tons of coal and serving four tracks, also a frame sand house with a capacity of 300 tons of wet sand and 100 tons of dry sand, and two concrete inspection pits, 30 ft. long, as well as a new tank sewer with numerous branches furnishing a new water supply system. The total cost of the engine terminals will be about $500,000. ELLWOOD CITY, PA.-The new union station which is nearing completion at Ellwood City, will be used jointly by the Balumore & Ohio and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. The building is 100 ft. long x 26 ft. wide, constructed of pressed brick with red tile roof, with concrete foundations. It was necessary to change the grade of Fifth street, which formerly crossed the tracks at grade. This street will now run beneath the tracks. The improvements will cost about $75,000. GRAND FORKS, B. C.-The Canadian Pacific and the Kettle Valley are preparing plans for a joint passenger terminal. machine shops and 10-stall roundhouse. HARLINGEN, TEX.-The St. Louis & San Francisco is preparing to erect a new passenger depot and freight station and to make several improvements to its freight yard facilities. JERSEY CITY, N. J.-The Central of New Jersey has given a contract to G. B. Spearin. New York, for putting up a creosoted pile pier, 65 ft. x 800 ft., at Jersey City, to cost about $100,000. KALAMAZOO, MICH.-The Grand Rapids & Indiana will build a new roundhouse and an addition to its freight house. MAGNA, UTAH.-See Bingham & Garfield, under Railway Construction. MEMPHIS, TENN.-The Illinois Central is conducting negotiations with the city officials at Memphis regarding plans for the new union station to be built by the Illinois Central and to be used also by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific and St. Louis & San Francisco. NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va.-See Clarksburg Northern under Railway Construction. NEW ORLEANS, LA.-According to press reports, the St. Louis & San Francisco has given a contract to W. M. Wren, New Orleans, for some of the work on slips, piers, etc., at Chalmette. PEMBROKE, ONT.-A by-law has been passed at Pembroke granting to the Canadian Northern a bonus of $25,000, exemption from taxation, and free water for a period of 25 years. The railway company has agreed to make Pembroke a divisional point and to put up shops at that place. PENSACOLA, FLA.-An officer of the Georgia, Florida & Alabama writes that bids will be opened in about 30 days to put up a freight house in Pensacola. The building is to be of brick and concrete construction, one story high, 40 ft. wide x 110 ft. long. PITTSBURGH, PA.-The Baltimore & Ohio has given a contract to W. F. Trimble & Son, Pittsburgh, Pa., to extend its railway sheds at Pittsburgh. Three sheds will be built, 300 ft. long x 18 ft. wide. The cost of this improvement will be $10,000. RICHMOND, VA.-Bids are wanted by Nolan & Baskerville, architects, Richmond, for a brick station and office building 38 ft. x 115 ft., to be two stories high. The building is to be built at Twenty-ninth and P streets, Richmond, for the Richmond & Rappahannock River. The improvements will cost about $20,000. SHELBYVILLE, KY.-See Shelbyville & Frankfort (Electric) under Railway Construction. TUSCALOOSA, ALA.-An officer of the Tuscaloosa Mineral writes that a contract has been given to A. M. Walkup, Richmond, Va., for putting up a passenger station at Tuscaloosa street and 24th avenue, Tuscaloosa. The building is to be 40 ft. high, 30 ft. wide x 168 ft. long. It will be built of pressed brick with tile roof. TWENTY-FOUR O'CLOCK SYSTEM ON THE CONTINENT.-At present the time tables of the Belgian, Italian, Spanish and French railways show times from 1 to 24 o'clock. CHILEAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAY STATISTICS.-In 1901 the Chilean government railways had in use 292 locomotives, 4,057 freight cars, and 323 passenger coaches, while in 1911 the numbers were 633 locomotives, 7.194 freight cars, and 452 passenger coaches. The receipts of the lines increased in the decade from $5,360,520, to $11,513.040, while the operating expenses increased from $6,177,270 to $14,132,078. COAL SHORTAGE IN CHILE.-Owing to a shortage of coal, many of the Chilean government railway trains have been temporarily suspended. This comes as a result of the late coal strike in England. from which country about 500,000 tons of coal are imported into Chile annually. In 1904 the Chilean government railways consumed 241,629 tons of Chilean coal, against 12,707 tons of imported coal, while during 1911 they consumed 403,050 tons of Chilean coal, against 116,209 tons of imported coal. During 1910 they consumed 222,725 tons of Chilean coal, against 267,,211 tons of imported coal. Railway Financial News. CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS.-The Ohio Public Service Commission has authorized the company to issue $1,578,000 of its own bonds and to have its subsidiary, the Cincinnati Northern, issue $144,000 bonds. The bonds are to be sold at not less than 92 for the C. C. C. & St. L., and 90 for the C. N. COLUMBUS CONNECTING & TERMINAL.-See Norfolk & Western. KANSAS CITY OUTER BELT & ELEVATED.-This company, whose property was to form the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient's Kansas City terminal, has outstanding $1,788,000 bonds, which the bondholders' protective committee, John W. Platten, chairman, asks the deposit of with the United States Mortgage & Trust Company, New York. KANSAS CITY, MEXICO & ORIENT.-See Kansas City Outer Belt & Elevated. NORFOLK SOUTHERN.-Suit has been brought in the superior court of Wake county, N. C., to enjoin the making of a mortgage for $6,000,000 to secure bonds or notes to be issued to retire the 3-year 6 per cent. notes, of which $5,425,000 were issued to acquire the Raleigh, Charlotte & Southern, and to make certain extensions. NORFOLK & WESTERN.-At the annual meeting of the stockholders, to be held October 10, the proposal will be submitted to buy the property of the Columbus Connecting & Terminal, which corporation the Norfolk & Western controls. PERE MARQUETTE.-Newman Erb has resigned as a receiver, as mentioned last week, and Samuel M. Felton, president of the Chicago Great Western, has been appointed a receiver to succeed Mr. Erb; he retains his position on the C. G. W. The three receivers are now S. M. Felton, Frank W. Blair and Dudley E. Waters. TENNESSEE NORTHEASTERN.-This company, mentioned in Railway Construction, is making preparations to offer in France $750,000 first mortgage 5 per cent. bonds of 1909-1949. SECURING RAILWAY CONCESSIONS IN RUSSIA.-In order to secure a concession for the construction of a railway in Russia it is required: To apply to the minister of railways and means of communication with a request to obtain the imperial order for the making of investigations and surveys of the proposed railway line. Upon completion of investigations and surveys, to apply to the minister of railways with a petition requesting the granting of the concession. To this petition are to be attached detailed technical, economical, and financial investigations and surveys, drawings, statements of freight traffic, and the cost of the railway. In the same petition request is made for sanction to submit a bond, the size of which is left to the discretion of the minister. The whole is then turned over to the commission on new railways If the construction of such road be recognized by the commission as necessary and feasible, then the commission on new railways will transmit the whole case to the council of ministers, which reviews the case anew both as to the findings of the commission and as to the documents submitted by the concessionaires. It is necessary to have one's own special representative present before the commission on new railways to give information upon the proposition submitted and to defend the practicability of the same. From the council of ministers the whole case is then turned over to the second department of the imperial council, which ratifies and confirms the concession for the given person or group of persons. When the concession is received and the second department of the imperial council permitted to form and organize a new association or company for the construction of the railway, it is then the proper time to apply to the minister of finance, with whom negotiations are conducted about the issue of stock, the guarantees of the gov ernment, and when the capital shall be collected and deposited. Ordinarily the capital must be deposited in the government bank, at specified periods, and from there it is received, in portions, by the association or company. If there arise differences of opinion in the council of ministers an interdepartmental commission is formed to review the whole matter.-Consular Report. |