Show RAILROAD INFORMATION Tho The Atchison Topeka Santa Santo Fe Fc has bOlS ordered tons tomis of bridge C and aud girder steel from tho the American Bridge com corn Tho The Atlantic Coast Lino Line has ordered tons of raPs lai's from the thc Pennsylvania Pennsyl I vania Steel company I e M The Tho Australian 0 i is said to have havo given on i a contract for tons of rails rail to th the Dominion Iron Iroll Steel company compan It w u L' L said lil that these are arc the first r rails Us ever shipped from rom Canada Australia to H 4 0 V The railroad d commission of kansas At-kansas on Xo cm November Cl 4 1 issued an ll order prohibiting prohibiting the railroads in the state from collecting tho the three cents a mile rate that they put Into effect after the United Stat States s cir uit court issued issue an injunction restraining tho the commission from enforcing the state two cent faro fare law Most ost of tho the rate late cases in Arkan- Arkan Arkansas sas were brought b by stockholders of the roads not anI only v to restrain the coro commission corn com mission from cn enforcing enforcing- the reduced rates but aso tro to restrain the roads from accepting them Tho The commissions commission commis sion sion's s 's order therefore puts the roads in a 1 position where they must either disobey the federal court or disobey tho the new order ordOT of tho the commission commission They will continue continuo to collect tho the three cent fare I 0 I It is said that the sheriff of Bent I county Colo Cob may levy upon tho rolling rolling roll mt ing stock tracks and other property of t the e Atchison Topeka Santa Fe for I bask bash taxes The railroad claims that I in iu 1905 1005 05 the Bent county officials placed place an assessed valuation of on I its forty miles of track in that county or of per mile It is isid said id that on the basis that other property was ns assessed its assessment in in the thc conn county should not have been more than per mile The county demanded 24 1136 in taxes and nna the raP road contended contend contend- ed that it should bo expected to pay pa only ony 10 05 The as assessment le-i le levied d dupon upon jt it it it said was deprivation of property without due process of la law in violation of the federal constitution Tho The United States circuit court issued is a 1 temporary inJunction to restrain the collection of the taxes but on November Novem ber 4 dissolved the injunction saying equity will not Dot relieve c against an I assessment merely because it happens I Ito to be at It a higher rate than that of other property if such inequalities are due to mistake or the fallibility of haman human hu ha- man judgment for it is a J. J matter of common knowle knowledge and understanding that absolute uniformity cannot be main maintained J 4 0 A contributor to the journal of the I Gorman German Railroad union claims for the tho Buenos A Arres TIes Pacific railroad tho the tholon longest lon tangent in the time world world world-no no less than 2 miles beginning nt at a 3 point miles west of Buenos Ayres There were formers formerly two curves on this stretch to got get t around a shallow lake Ilke This lake has been drained and the tho line linc now goes oes through its be bed The rho Thelong lon long tan tangent ent has been heau in in n operation since October 7 7 l 1907 Oi r 0 Canadian Pacific Pacific Pacific-An An officer el writes rites that the double track line between Winnipeg Man an and aud Ft William Ont Oat for a distance of miles has bas been finished an and is is now in operation with tho the exception of seventeen miles a Conner Cooner River Railway According According to reports from Seattle Wash work on ou this line building from Cor Cordova ova Alaska north to Bonanza 1 lD 5 miles mies was ns recently suspended and w will JJ be resumed in in the spring sprin Track has been laid from Cordova Cordo north about sixty miles Early in in March work worle on the cantilever bridge e over the Copper river riveris is to be started It is thou thought ht that it will take tako about two years vears to finish the tho bridge H ii t 0 The Tho Chicago Northwestern will soon be in the market for tons tous of rail lails 9 I 4 M ft 0 4 0 The Chicago Northwestern for its new terminal building in Chicago o will have e tons of structural steel steal fabricated fabricated fabri fabri- I by the American Bridge compan com corn pan pany This with the tho 2 tons recently re re- re- re contI awarded this company for the approaches makes a total of I tons to be supplied by this company ft 0 44 i- i Street railway companies have havo been forbidden by the Pennsylvania 3 state railroad commission to allow passengers to ride on the front platforms of bf closed cars or to allow more passengers to ride on the front platform of open cars than can be given Yen seats |