Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

Freight officers of the Pennsylvania Road, at a recent conference, agreed that the company would be benefited by the operations oft he interstate commerce law, although six hundred contracts will be daily copied and sent to the commission. California has been flooded with visitors from the East, during the past three mouths, most of whom have taken advantage of the liberal excursion rates offered by the various railroads which reach the Pacific coast. Over ten thousand of these excursionists who are now seeing the sights in the Golden State will return home within the next sixty days via the Denver and Rio Grande and C.. B. it Q. railways; This route is selected for the return trip on account of the beautiful Colorado mountaiu scenery that it offers to the traveling public, an attraction which seems to be irresistible during the spring and summer seasons. The Northern Pacific Road is building a car to supply light, heat, and pure water to passenger trains. It is to l>e placed immediately behind the locomotive. .. .It is reported that the Denver and liio Grande Road is negotiating in I*(jpdon for fnnds to extend its track from Green River to Santa Cruz, 800 miles.