Show Railroad Racket St Louia 25H M Hoxie general manager of the Iron Mountain International Interna-tional and Great Northern and Texas and Pacific Railroad accompanied by Seth Fink general passenger agent and several other officials left here today for ElPaso and Laredo Texas where they will make a preliminary arrangement arrange-ment for running trains from St Louis to San Francisco via the Southern Pacific Pa-cific from ElPaso and the Mexican bor der at Loredo It is expected that through cars will be run from St Louis to San Francisco and the Texas and Pacific Pa-cific be completed and in operation by January 1st sad the International and Great Northern reach Loredo by the middle of December The San Francisco Fran-cisco line route will be called the Triple Line and be formed by the Iron Mountain Moun-tain Texas and Pacific and Southern Pacific Philadelphia 25 Worcester of the New Nork Central knows nothing of the conference to adjust the difference with the Pennsylvania Railroad Cincinnati 25An 18000000 mortgage mort-gage was filed today on the Baltimore Cincinnati Western Railroad running to the Mercantile trust company New York signed by E A Hoyt president of the new company Chicago 25An official of the Illinois Central says no arrangement has been made by the New York Chicago St Louis railway by which to enter the city ever tko Illinois Central tracks j that an offer has been made them by the Central butit is now pending New York 25The Worlds Laredo Mexico correspondent has the following The railway construction of the Texas Pacific extension hereabouts is steadily progressing In a short time at this point there will be a bridge across the Rio Grande 800 feet long The track will very soon reach Laredo It is only twentyfive miles distant and is going down at a mile per day and then as the surveys are well advanced work will heat he-at once opened for another hundred miles Thus far the enterprise has had no friction with the Mexican government govern-ment Another conference was held yesterday between representatives of the Union Pacific Pa-cific and Pacific Mail but nothing important im-portant was accomplished The earnings of the St Louis and San Francisco road for the third week in November No-vember increased 3100 It is reported that the railroads interested inter-ested in Colorado business have formed a Colorado pool with the Rock Island Burlington Quincy and Northwestern roads in the northern division and the Chicago and Alton Missouri Pacific Wabash Wa-bash and St Louis and San Francisco in the southern London was a large buyer of Denver and Wabash yesterday Amsterdam bought Southern Pacific and Missouri Pacific bonds The Atlantic and Pacific company voted yesterday to prosecute work vigorously until the line from the Rio Grande to the Pacific is in operation |