Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

A committee of three leading shippers of Rockford, 111., has been appointed to urge the location through that city of the Chicago and Madison branch of the Illinois Central Road. The Southern Pacific Road is soon to commence running sleeping-cars direct from Atlanta to Han Francisco, a distance of three thousand miles. At the annual election of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, held at Portland, Elijah Smith was successful in heading the list of Directors. The introduction to “Poor’s Railroad Manual for 1886,” which has just been published, shows that 3,131 miles of road were constructed during the year, the aggregate mileage for the whole country being now 128,973. The capital stocks of all railroads is $3,817,697,832. The earnings of all roads equaled $772,568,833, against #770,684908 for 1884. The introduction says the lasl year undoubtedly marks a point of lower depression in the earnings of railroads in ratio to their cost and mileage than is likely to b witnessed for some years to come. Illinois Central Railroad earnings for the last week ir August, 1886, #229,800; 1885, $197,251.