Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

There is"little doubt that the lyde Road is about to lease the Chicago and Atlantic, Tn accordance with the purpose of its een--1 struetion, and guarantee interest on its firstmortgage bonds.... The Illinois Central has decided to build an air line between Chicago and Freeport, 111., and is considering an extension north of that town to the Lake Superior regions.... Howard City < Mich.). special: “A large force of workmen has been transported from near Lake View to the cut on "the north side of the creek at this place. This is the last of the: grading on the extension of the railroad from. Lake View to Howard City, giving a new rail route from Grand Rapids to the Saginaws. via the Grand Rapids and Indiana. the Detroit, Lansing and Northern, and Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroads. The distance is shortened to 117 miles.” A dispatch from Beatrice, Neb., says “it is now assured that the Northwestern branch of the Rock Island from St. Joseph will be built this fall. It is the intention that trains shall be nmuing [to Hebron, the county 6eat of Thayer, by Jan. 1, if the proposition for aid now pending shall carry.” A nt mber of important railroad extensions are in progress in Northern and Central Dakota. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul is building three extensions as offshoots of its Hastings and Dakota divisions, while its rival, the Chicago and Northwestern, has also found its way into the fertile sections of the northern portion of the Territory. The graders are in the field in strong force, and the ties and

rails are closely following them. The countryts becoming thickly settled between the .lames ami Missouri Rivera....By on agreement with the Northern Pacific-the Northwestern will extend its operations to • Jamestown this season... The Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company has secured the right of wav with few exceptions from Sycamore, 111., to Chicago. Work has begun in several place on the lino of therailroid. The route is over the old Air Line Road which was graded some thirty years ago front Bt. Charles to Chicago* The earnings of the lines members of the Southwestern Railway Association, embracing the roads running betweqh Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, show for the first half pf the year a net decrease of $331,4)(t0, as compared with a corresponding period of ,1885. The loss was entirely on enst-l»ound business; ns the earnings on merchandise west-bound increased, s2lo,(Mbaud ©n lumber about $300,000. The failure Of last year’s wheat crop, the falling off iu the live-stock traffic, and the diversion of freight to routes south of Kansas City and St, Louis, caused the large decrease. The total business of the popl amounts to $10,000,000 per annum.