Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — A Great Railroad Consolidation. [ARTICLE]

A Great Railroad Consolidation.

The news was published Thursday and confirmed Friday, that the big Rock Island system had gobbled up the almost equally big Frisco system, of railroads. That other greSt-sysTem, the Sinia Ye, is also said to be in the deal, and that a great merger of all three companies will be the result, and that it will be the biggest railroad system in the world. The Frisco system includes, among many others, the C. & E. I. lines, including the old Coal Road and its branch in this county.