Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Railroad men are making ready to do a very important a i well as a very sensible thing—namely: to prepare a series of railroad signals which will be understood on any road in the country. Under the auspices of the Illinois Central Road, the Chicago, Madison and Northern Company lias been incorporated at Springfield, 111., and Madison, Wis. Grading has been comme icod at a point neai Freeport. An unofficial estimate of the business of the Northern Pacific for the last fiscal year has been mad'. It shows: GroES earnin ;s $11,730,527 Injon.e fr m otter souicjs z'lß,ooo T t 1 income .• $12,00 ,52 Op-e a in* expenses 92j,cOJ Net i coin" ,182,52' All fixed Caarges 5,974,6)9 Surplus for the year $ 07.53/ The July earnings of the Northern Pac.fic Road were $1,290,805, an increase of $120,854 over the same month last yoar. The Railway Commissioners of Massachusetts are warm in their recommendation of a section of Meigs Elevated Road, at Cambridge, built with one rail and passing around sharp curves. The statement of the Indiana,Bloom-

ington and Western Railroad shows the earnings for the week ending July 31, 1886, to be 165,252.67; 1885, #43,519162. Increase, #21,733.05.