Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

The Chicago and Alton company has arranged to establish a passenger agency in Pittsburg. The California limited passenger train of the Santa Fe is now operate?! daily between Chicago and San Francisco. The Grand Trunk Railroad will soon put in service on its Western and Middle divisions thirty-six "mogul” fr?*ight engines. General Passenger Agent Daniels ot the New York Central officially announ<*es the lease by bis road of the Boston nnd Albany. The Union Pacific fast mail made a record of little more than a mile a minute for 150 miles from Grand Island to Omaha the other day. Projcrts are now under way to extend th?* Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf road in two directions, and in each ease, if the liii?»s are built, connection will be mad?* with th?* Santa Fe. Employes of the lowa division of the Northwestern system have Ikm-ti requested to Im* vaccinate?! to protect themselves nn?l patrons of tin* road against smallpox, which is prevalent in several lowa towns. Vice-President Morton of the Snnta Fe Railroad system believes that the Nicaragua canal will prove injurious to the mercantile and manufacturing Interests of the interior portion of the United States, even though it should greatly benefit the extreme eastern nnd w??Btern sect ions. On?* of the interesting little of the year is one issued by the passenger department of the Eastern UMnois. It Is entitl?Bl ‘ The Riviera of America.” It is descriptive of Florida ami its coast rw sorts. This road hns through connections between Chicago and Florida. Not earnings of the Rock Island Railroad system for Noveniber nm?>unt?*d to $718,650, an incrcas?* of s<’>,o37 over Nor?Tnb? rof last year. Net enrnings of the system for the eight months ending Nov. 30 were $6,174,171), an increase of $284,314 over the corresp?)nding period of ths yreewding year. w