Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — TRAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRAILROADS

It is said that in the '7os the total number of passengers carried on all roads from New York to Chicago was between sixty and seventy a day. A meeting was held in St. Louis for the purpose of arranging the details of the colonization schemes of the southwestern lines in the States and territories of that section.

James J. Hill, president Northern Securities Company, comprising Burlington, Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, says the combination will earn 1150,000,000 for year from July 1. It has been announced that a close alliance has been entered into between the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and the Missouri Pacific system. By the merger the two systems control 12,103 miles. As an illustration of the increase in the passenger travel between Chicago and New- York the Lackawanna line announces that it is now carrying about seventy passengers eastward each day. This is an increase of about 200 per cent over the business of the line three years ago. The Southern Railway Company is negotiating for the purchase of the Queen and Crescent system. President Spencer of the Southern is in England, and it is reliably asserted that the object of hia visit is to effect the purchase of the line, which will give the system entrance into New Orleans over its own rails. The Queen and Crescent is an English-owned road. Articles of incorporation for the Springfield and Central Illinois Electric Railway Company, with capital stock of (200,000 and principal office at Springfield, have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The new road is to be constructed from Springfield through the counties of Sangamon, Logan and to Blopmington and through ths counties of Sangamon and Macon to Decatur. The Una will also have a southern branch extending from Springfield to Carlinville and west from Springfield to Jacksonville.