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Show RAILWAY BREVITIES. iJl ib Texas lines bars agreed, ez-tae ez-tae international and Great Northern, North-ern, to go into a joint cor inspectors' lyitein, It is ail tbo Canadian Pacific nnd the Pennsylvania will unite in building a now line between Toledo and Detroit within n rear. The average earnings of the passengei trains of the Big Four lines the last Cscal year were $1.01 per mile rnu, and the freight trains averaged $1.37 pet mile. Noarly all the great railroad systems kave hospitals for the benefit of their employes, which are partly supported by monthly deductions from the pay of employes. The canyon of the Colorado river has been surveyed for a railroad by which it is proposed to couuoct the coal fields of Colorado with the Paciflo coast via the Gulf of California. Tha bisgest day's work ever done on tho Wabash system was accomplished one day recently. During tha twenty-four twenty-four hours 4,091 carloads of paying freight were handled. The president of Mexico has appointed Sonar Don Leandro Fernandez to represent repre-sent the government of Mexico in the . international railway commission. Seuor Fernandez is an eminent civil engiueer of that country, Boston capitalists have subscribed flCO.000 toward locating car works at Beaiuont, Tex., to supply tho rapidly increasing in-creasing demand of southwestern lines for cars. The new works will have s cabh capital of $o00,000. . Tho Boston Journal says that President Presi-dent Bliss, of the Boston and Albany railway, was recently offerod an increase cf salary from $12,000 to $20,000, but he declined it on the ground that he did not think his services were worth 60 much money. . The total nnmber of street railways in the United States and Canada, accord-injj accord-injj to Tho Railway Age, is now estimat-. estimat-. ed at about 1,000, with a total length of 8,050 miles, and it is asserted of these roads 264, or about 25 per cent., with a mileage of 1,753 miles, or about 20 per cent, of the total mileage, are operated by electricity. Canadian capitalists have given notice that an application will be made to parliament par-liament next session for an act to incorporate incor-porate a railway company to construct a railway from a point on the Canadian Pacific railway between Dog Lake and Sudbury, thence by way of the valleys of Moose river and of its tributaries to James bay and Hudson bay. |