Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS

The contract for the construction of the first twenty-five miles of the Alaska Central Railroad lias been let. The 1,. E. & W. will lay seventy-five miles of heavy steel on the main line and the Indianapolis division. Half of the line which the Louisville and Nashville is building from Jellico to Knoxville has been completed. About Oct. 1 the headquarters of the westerti district of the Southern are to be removed from Chattanooga to Birmingham. Ail air-line electric traction line from Cincinnati to Louisville is projected by Easterners. It will be ninety-three miles long. . The Illinois Central Railroad Company has issued a preliminary report for the fiscal year ended June 30: Gross earnings, $45,145,400; increase, $4,324,370; operating expenses and taxes, $31,731,000; increase, $3,716.tki0; net earnings, $13,414,400; increase. $007,010; surplus, after payment of dividends and fixed charges, $4,587,000; decrease, $450,502. President Yoakum of the St. Louis and San Francisco has announced that hereafter the Orark and Cherokee Central Railroad will be operated by the Frisco and will be known as the Muskogee district of the Frisco system. One of the interesting exhibits at the St. Ixmis exposition will be a locomotive of the old red-wheel type, which used to run between Hannibal and St. Joseph, My*., before the war, connecting at the latter town with Buffalo Bill's famous pony express. Side by side with this will be one of the great Burlington 1* co motives. .