Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1903 — Pere Marquette Expansion. [ARTICLE]

Pere Marquette Expansion.

The changes made io the officials in the Pere Marquette line ebow that the new syndicate which hae bought the property intends to organize a most comprehensive railroad system. The plan ie to create an international- system reaching from the Pacific coast to Mexico through Canada, with Buffalo as its eastern terminal. The new president of the company who has elected at the meeting in Boston recently, is also president of the Mexican Central Railroad, which is owned by the H. Clay Pierce syndicate, which practically controls the St. Louis & San Francisco and the Pere Marquette. The election of H. Pierce as well as that of M. J. Carpenter as directors removes all doubt that the Pere Marquette was bought in the interest of the St. Louis & San Francisco. By means of the re* cent transation the Pere Marquette reaches Buffalo through Canada; at Chicago connection ie made for St. Louis and from there for San Francisco. This means that the Pere Marquette will be completed into Chicago. Another proposition is to extend the road to Brownwood, Tex. Another road under process of construction will connect with the Mexican International, going down into Mexico to th© Pacific coast. A glance at the map will convince one that if the plane, which are said to have ample capital behind them, are carried out, it will result in the organization of one of the largest systems in the country ,-lud anapolis Journal, J The St. Louis & San Francisco line above mentioned, usually called the Frisco line, is the one that gobbled up the Eastern Illinois, some time ago, including its Coal Road branch which rune through this county, from Fair Oaks, northeastward to the Kankakee river. This branch may therefore possibly become part of a great trunk line from northern Michigan and Canada clear to Mexico and California.